US09515529B2
An apparatus and method for the installation and removal of permanent magnets in a permanent magnet electromechanical machine, for example a wind turbine power unit generator. A magnet holder is mounted on a magnet carrying structure such as a rotor. Permanent magnets may be inserted into and removed from the magnet holder after the electromechanical machine is assembled. The magnet holders define passages for airflow between the inside top and magnet surface. In this manner, permanent magnets may be installed on the magnet carrying structure and provided with additional cooling via said passages. Further, the holders may be configured to secure the magnets by an interference fit, without using bolts or adhesives, to facilitate both assembly and removal for maintenance and repair.
US09515522B2
A solar power conversion device has an embedded security module for creating trusted metering data in relation to power generated and for delivering it to a metering data output. The security module might for example be constructed as an integrated circuit card constructed using semiconductor chip fabrication and assembly techniques to be integral with the solar power conversion device. The device might comprise more than one solar cell mounted on a panel to form an array. There may further be provided a panel management module for collating data, for instance from multiple cells, prior to transmission over a network via the metering output. The panel management module might comprise for example a subscriber identity module and the metering data output may provide associated mobile telephone endpoint technology so that the metering data can be transmitted over an air interface.
US09515505B2
A charging method is provided for charging a battery unit. Firstly, a current change amount is set, and a predetermined time interval is determined according to characteristics of the battery unit. When the charging device is enabled, a charging current with a constant current value is provided to charge the battery unit. If a detected parameter of the battery unit reaches the threshold value, a constant charging voltage is provided to the battery unit. Moreover, the current value of the charging current is decreased by the current change amount. The number of times the current change amount is decreased is determined according to a predetermined counting value. That is, the current value of the charging current is stepwise decreased according to a time control mechanism.
US09515503B2
A battery monitoring system includes a clock input terminal, a data input terminal, a communication control circuit receiving the clock signal and the data signal from the clock input terminal and the data input terminal, respectively, a main power regulator controlled by the communication control circuit to supply and stop supplying main power, a charge circuit charged by the clock signal, and a sub power regulator started by a charge voltage of the charge circuit to supply a sub power to the communication control circuit. The communication control circuit controls the main power regulator with the data signal when the sub power is received from the sub power regulator.
US09515496B1
A battery management system for human-machine interaction vehicles includes a battery pack, and an information sampling module. The management module determines whether the cell is abnormal according to the information signal. When the cell is abnormal, the discharge switch is turned off during the cell being discharged and the charge switch is turned off during the cell being charged.
US09515481B2
This printed circuit board (12) comprising: a first portion (20) having first electronic components (22) of which the earth electrode is on a first voltage source (14); a second portion (24) having second electronic components (26) of which the earth electrode is on a second voltage source (16); a third portion (28) inserted between the first portion (20) and the second portion (24); a switched-mode power supply circuit (32) connecting the first portion (20) and the second portion (24); the said second portion (24) also comprising an electronic component (30) powered by the said first voltage source (14), is characterized in that it also comprises detection means (34) for detecting a drop in electrical consumption of the component (30) and switching means for switching the switched-mode power supply circuit (32) when a predetermined drop in electrical consumption of the said component (30) is detected.
US09515478B2
A protection system configured to protect plural DC voltage sources configured to be connected in parallel between first and second input terminals of a voltage inverter. The voltage inverter can convert a DC input voltage into an AC output voltage. Each DC voltage source is connected by a first electrical conductor to the first input terminal and by a second electrical conductor to the second input terminal. The protection system includes: for each DC voltage source, a first cut-off member and first detector of a defect of isolation of the first conductor with respect to an electrical ground, the first detector and associated first cut-off member connected in series between the corresponding DC voltage source and the first input terminal of the inverter; and a mechanism triggering, in event of detection of the isolation defect, the associated first cut-off member to open the electrical link corresponding to the first conductor.
US09515464B2
Method and system for controlling and limiting the damage caused by arcs formed on exposed conductors in electrical distribution equipment involve using the tendency of an arc to move in a direction away from a current source and toward the terminal ends of the conductors. An arc interruption device, or arc interrupter, is placed over the terminal ends of the conductor to capture the arc as it travels toward the terminal ends of the conductors. Within the arc interrupter, the shape of the arc is conformed to geometries designed to stretch and extend the arc to the point where it can no longer be sustained and is extinguished.
US09515462B2
A shutter device is disclosed for an electric switchgear panel, including a base configured to be placed on a bearing surface inside the switchgear panel, the base being adapted to support, positioned thereon, a current switching device movable between a connected position wherein the switching device is electrically connected to an associated electrical circuit and a disconnected position wherein the switching device is electrically separated from the corresponding electrical circuit, a frame having at least a portion which rises up transversally from the base and delimits a through aperture, a movable shutter operatively associated with the base and the frame and an actuating mechanism adapted to move the shutter between a first position where the shutter closes at least partially the through aperture and a second position wherein the shutter is retracted and leaves the through aperture at least partially opened.
US09515460B1
A streetlight mounting system can mount a streetlight pole to a street side surface, such as a slab of concrete or a sidewalk. The system can comprise a base that attaches on one end to the street side surface and on the other end to the streetlight pole. The base can comprise an enclosure having an opening and an associated door for providing access to an interior space of the enclosure. A hinge system can open and shut the door. When the door is shut, the hinge system can be contained within the interior space and thus hidden from view. When the door is open, the hinge system can elevate the door relative to the opening.
US09515455B2
A method of manufacturing a light emitting element includes, sequentially, (a) forming a mask layer for selective growth; (b) forming a layered structure body by layering a first compound semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second compound semiconductor layer; (c) forming, on the second surface of the second compound semiconductor layer, a second electrode and a second light reflecting layer formed from a multilayer film; (d) fixing the second light reflecting layer to a support substrate; (e) removing the substrate for manufacturing a light emitting element, and exposing the first surface of the first compound semiconductor layer and the mask layer; and (f) forming a first light reflecting layer formed from a multilayer film and a first electrode on the first surface of the first compound semiconductor layer.
US09515445B2
A mode-locked fiber MOPA delivers pulses of laser-radiation. A super-continuum generator including a bulk spectral-broadening element and a negative group-delay dispersion (NGDD) device is arranged to receive a pulse from the MOPA and cause the pulse to make a predetermined number of sequential interactions with the broadening element and the NGDD device. After making the predetermined interactions, the pulse is delivered from the super-continuum generator with a very broad spectral-bandwidth and a very short duration.
US09515441B2
The embodiments relate to an apparatus allowing for the insertion and removal of multiple like and/or unlike connectors simultaneously without requiring permanent connector modification. The apparatus includes at least a first housing and a second housing. The first housing receives a first connector and the second housing receives a second connector. The first housing has a first variable aperture and the second housing has a second variable aperture. The first aperture is adjusted by a first retainer to hold the first connector in the first housing. The second aperture is adjusted by a second retainer to hold the second connector in the second housing. The first housing has a first exterior wall sized to receive and secure a second exterior wall of the second housing to form an assembly of the connectors.
US09515439B2
Connector inserts having retention features with good reliability and holding force. These connector inserts may include ground contacts that provide an insertion portion having a reduced length. These connector inserts may be reliable, have an attractive appearance, and be readily manufactured.
US09515432B2
A coaxial cable connector includes, in one embodiment, a body, a post, a coupler and a continuity member. The continuity member has a post contact portion and a coupler contact portion. The post contact portion has an anchored portion. The coupler contact portion has an arcuate portion.
US09515430B2
An angular high-voltage plug that connects to a cable is described for use in high-voltage electrical systems of motor vehicles. The angular high-voltage plug includes an electrically insulating monolithic housing. The plug also includes an outer conductor and an inner conductor. The outer conductor includes a first outer conductor part at the cable that includes a connecting area and a linking area and a second outer conductor part at the plug. The first outer conductor part and the second outer conductor part are interconnected using an interference fit.
US09515429B2
An electrical connector assembly includes a first electrical connector and a second electrical connector. Each electrical connector can include a plurality of electrical ground shields that at least partially surround respective differential signal pairs. The electrical connectors can be constructed so as to reduce cross-talk between adjacent signal pairs. For example, the first electrical connector can include a connector housing defining an end that is configured to be mounted to a substrate. The ground shields can define a body that extends through the connector housing, such that the ground shields extend through the end so as to be disposed between the end and the substrate when the connector is mounted to the substrate.
US09515421B2
A connector is provided with a pair of terminals configured to provide a differential signal pair. A ground terminal is positioned on opposing sides of the differential pair. The body of the differential pair is configured so as to bring the differential pair closer together. In an embodiment, the % coupling on the differential pair is increase at least 10% more than a design where the four terminals are positioned at a constant pitch between the tail and the contact.
US09515419B2
A bidirectional universal serial bus (USB) adapter port that can be integrated into a rechargeable battery operated flashlight or other rechargeable battery operated device. The invention utilizes a micro-controller to convert a single USB adapter port into either an input device or an output device. A high power rechargeable flashlight with bidirectional USB adapter port is capable of recharging external electronic devices, as well as recharging itself through the same port.
US09515413B2
A connector is provided with a first housing including a plurality of cavities and a passage hole, a rubber plug having a plurality of sealing holes through which wires are insertable in a liquid tight manner is mounted in the first housing. A second housing is connected to the first housing and includes a wrench preventing portion configured to regulate the connection of the second housing in an inclined posture to the first housing by being inserted into the passage hole at the time of the connection. The rubber plug includes an insertion hole which is expanded by the insertion of a tip part of the wrench preventing portion inserted through the passage hole at the time of the connection and applies a compression force to the sealing holes in a direction to be in closer contact with the wires when being expanded.
US09515412B1
A card connector includes a first housing, terminals and a second housing. The first housing has a base portion, a front surface of the base portion forms a protruded portion, a rear surface of the base portion forms an extending portion. A front surface of the protruded portion forms an inserting chamber extended to the extending portion. The rear surface of the base portion defines a fixing cavity located below the extending portion. Terminal grooves are defined in a top wall of the fixing cavity and a bottom surface of the extending portion and communicates with the inserting chamber and the fixing cavity. The terminals include first terminals and second terminals integratedly molded in the second housing. The second housing with the first terminals and the second terminals are fixed in the fixing cavity. The first terminals and the second terminals pass through the terminal grooves and extending into the inserting chamber.
US09515405B2
The present invention relates to an electrical connector assembly comprising: an insulative housing; a metallic plate formed in the insulative housing; a first terminal module formed on a top surface of the insulative housing; a second terminal module formed on a bottom surface of the insulative housing; and a metallic shell assembled to and formed around the insulative housing.
US09515402B1
Techniques and mechanisms for coupling a flexible circuit device to another device. In an embodiment, a substrate includes a first side and a second side opposite the first side, where first contacts of a hardware interface are disposed on the first side, and second contacts of the hardware interface are disposed on the second side. First interconnects and second interconnects variously extend in the substrate, where the first contacts are coupled via the first side each to a respective one of the first interconnects, and the second contacts are coupled via the second side each to a respective one of the second interconnects. In another embodiment, the substrate is one of a flexible substrate and a printed circuit board substrate, where the first interface is configured to couple the substrate, in an edge-to-edge configuration, with the other of a flexible substrate and a printed circuit board substrate.
US09515400B2
An electronic card connector comprises a terminal seat and a metal shell. The terminal seat comprises an insulative body having a plurality of receiving recessed portions and a plurality of terminals. The terminals can have a fixed unit, a pair of resilient arms, a contact portion and a soldering portion. The pair of resilient arms extend into the corresponding receiving recessed portion and are spaced apart from each other and are jointed with each other at distal ends, the contact portion is formed at the joint portion of the pair of resilient arms and the soldering portion is positioned between the pair of resilient arms. The metal shell comprises a top plate and resilient press unit. The resilient press unit comprises a resilient piece that includes two protruding portions that each obliquely intersect a card insertion direction.
US09515390B1
An electromagnetic reflector for reflecting an electromagnetic signal is provided based on meta-surface phase control using photo-capacitive materials, varactors or other tuning means. The shape of the metamaterial unit cell enhances the resonance and phase shift. The reflector includes first and second cells having respective first and second phase states, along with a switch for selecting between the first and second cells.
US09515387B2
A MIMO (Multi-Input Multi-Output) antenna includes a system ground plane, an antenna ground plane, an EBG (Electromagnetic Band-Gap) structure, a first antenna element, and a second antenna element. The antenna ground plane overlaps a first portion of the system ground plane. The EBG structure is formed on a second portion of the system ground plane. The first antenna element and the second antenna element are both disposed in proximity to the EBG structure, but substantially extend in different directions.
US09515383B2
An antenna structure for telecommunications is provided. The antenna structure may be particularly for satellite telecommunications. The antenna structure includes an emitting surface including at least one set of a plurality of elementary emitting antennas forming an array, at least one elementary emitting antenna including two generally circular patches that are at least partially superimposed, the at least one elementary emitting antenna being dimensioned to emit at least one electromagnetic wave having a frequency between 27 gigahertz and 31 GHz.
US09515361B2
A battery module of includes a plurality of cells, a cooling plate, and a channel part formed in the cooling plate. The channel part includes a first channel part extending in an arrangement direction of the plurality of cells, a second channel part extending in parallel to the first channel part along the arrangement direction with a first partition part interposed between the first channel part and the second channel part, and a first communication part which brings one end of the first channel part of the arrangement direction and one end of the second channel part of the arrangement direction into communication with each other, and which turns a flowing direction of coolant in the first channel part and the second channel part.
US09515360B2
A battery pack air cooling structure and method having a thermoelectric element are provided. The structure includes a housing having a cooling passageway through which a refrigerant passes and a plurality of cell module assemblies that are disposed inside the housing and each include a pair of unit cells stacked parallel to each other. A heat transfer plate is interposed between the pair of unit cells. A heat pipe has a first portion disposed in the heat transfer plate and protrudes second portion that protrudes out of the heat transfer plate. A heat-exchanging member formed at the second portion of the heat pipe and is configured to perform heat-exchange with air that passes through the cooling passageway; and a thermoelectric element is formed at an upstream side into which air of the cooling passageway is injected.
US09515355B2
Disclosed are a method for adequately sorting used secondary batteries; a rebuilt battery pack that incorporates the used batteries sorted by the sorting method and have identical characteristics; a vehicle and a battery operated device which use the rebuilt battery pack; and a method for manufacturing a rebuilt battery pack which employs used batteries having identical characteristics. The method for sorting used secondary batteries includes a resistance measurement step for measuring the battery resistance of a battery the characteristics of which show a bathtub curve with respect to the period of use. The method further includes a resistance distinguishing step for distinguishing whether the battery resistance of the battery is greater or less than a period threshold value for identifying to which one of the following periods the battery belongs: an initial-stage high-resistance period, and end-stage high-resistance period, and a middle-stage low-resistance period.
US09515349B2
Disclosed is a process for producing an electrolyte for an electrochemical battery cell. In this process, a Lewis acid, a Lewis base and aluminum are mixed. The mixture is heated for a minimum period of six hours to a temperature above a minimum temperature of at least 200° C. and above the melting point of the mixture. An adduct of the Lewis acid and the Lewis base is thereby formed.
US09515348B2
An object of the invention is to provide a nonaqueous electrolytic solution which is capable of bringing about a nonaqueous-electrolyte secondary battery improved in initial charge capacity, input/output characteristics, and impedance characteristics. The invention relates to a nonaqueous electrolytic solution which comprises: a nonaqueous solvent; LiPF6; and a specific fluorosulfonic acid salt, and to a nonaqueous-electrolyte secondary battery containing the nonaqueous electrolytic solution.
US09515345B2
An electricity storage battery is described, including a cathode electrolyte solution that contains a manganese redox material and an amine represented by a general formula (1) below: In the general formula (1), n is one of the integers 0 to 4, and each of R1, R2, R3 and R4 independently represents hydrogen, methyl or ethyl, with the proviso that at least one of R1, R2, R3 and R4 is methyl when n is 0.
US09515329B2
A fuel cell system including a fuel cell; a cathode air heat exchanger configured to perform heat exchange between a cathode exhaust gas and the air to be supplied to the cathode to transfer a part of heat energy of the cathode exhaust gas to the air; a desulfurization unit configured to remove a sulfur component from a raw material supplied to the desulfurization unit; and a reformer configured to generate a reformed gas which is the fuel from steam and the raw material from which the sulfur component has been removed by the desulfurization unit; and the cathode exhaust gas which has lost a part of the heat energy by the heat exchange in at least the cathode air heat exchanger, is supplied to the desulfurization unit, to heat the desulfurization unit by the heat energy of the cathode exhaust gas.
US09515322B2
Disclosed is a durable solid oxide fuel cell that is less likely to have a problem of a conventional solid oxide fuel cell that an air electrode containing a peroviskite oxide, when exposed to a reducing atmosphere, is separated at the stop of operation, especially shutdown. The solid oxide fuel cell includes an air electrode that is obtained by firing a compact containing a perovskite oxide and sulfur element. The content of the sulfur element in the air electrode as fresh after firing or before the start of power generation is in the range of 50 ppm to 3,000 ppm. The separation of the air electrode is effectively suppressed at the shutdown operation.
US09515320B2
A cathode material with oxygen vacancy is provided. The cathode material includes a lithium metal phosphate compound having a general formula LiMPO4−z, wherein M represents at least one of a first-row transition metal, and 0.001≦z≦0.05.
US09515316B2
This method for producing an anode active material for a secondary battery is provided with a step for forming titanium dioxide by means of hydrolysis by adding a titanium-containing compound to an acidic aqueous solution, and furthermore, by means of adding a compound containing an alkaline earth metal and a condensed phosphate, the surface of the titanium dioxide is covered by the condensed phosphate containing the alkaline earth metal in a manner so that the amount of elemental phosphorus atoms and the amount of alkaline earth metal are each in the range of 0.1 to 10 mass % with respect to the mass of titanium dioxide, thus synthesizing the anode active material (12).
US09515313B2
A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes: a positive electrode collector core material; and a sheet body including a plurality of granulation bodies. The sheet body is disposed on the positive electrode collector core material. The granulation bodies each contain a first positive electrode active material particle, a second positive electrode active material particle, and expanded graphite, the first positive electrode active material particle including lithium-nickel composite oxide, the second positive electrode active material particle including lithium iron phosphate.
US09515312B2
A lithium secondary battery (10) includes a positive electrode active material of lithium transition metal oxide which contains at least a nickel element and a manganese element as transition metals and for which, with respect to a diffraction peak A located at a diffraction angle 20 of 17° to 20° and a diffraction peak B located at a diffraction angle 2Θ of 43° to 46° from X-ray diffraction measurements, when the integrated intensity ratio is R1=IA/IB, the peak intensity ratio is RH=HA/HB, and the ratio between the integrated intensity ratio R1 and the peak intensity ratio RH is SF=RH/R1>> the SF satisfies 1.1≦SF≦2.2.
US09515311B2
A nonaqueous electrolyte battery includes a negative electrode including a current collector and a negative electrode active material having a Li ion insertion potential not lower than 0.4V (vs. Li/Li+). The negative electrode has a porous structure. A pore diameter distribution of the negative electrode as determined by a mercury porosimetry, which includes a first peak having a mode diameter of 0.01 to 0.2 μm, and a second peak having a mode diameter of 0.003 to 0.02 μm. A volume of pores having a diameter of 0.01 to 0.2 μm as determined by the mercury porosimetry is 0.05 to 0.5 mL per gram of the negative electrode excluding the weight of the current collector. A volume of pores having a diameter of 0.003 to 0.02 μm as determined by the mercury porosimetry is 0.0001 to 0.02 mL per gram of the negative electrode excluding the weight of the current collector.
US09515307B2
Disclosed is a separator for a battery. The separator includes a porous film, a first roller, and a second roller. The first and second rollers are associated with both ends of a porous film. The first roller is wound with a portion of the porous film and is configured to rotate to unroll the film. The second roller is configured to rotate in an opposite direction to a rotary direction of the first roller to roll up the film.
US09515297B2
A rechargeable battery unit includes an electrode assembly having a first electrode, a second electrode, and a separator between the first electrode and the second electrode. The rechargeable battery unit also includes a case accommodating the electrode assembly. The case includes an opening in a first end of the case and at least one groove in the first end of the case. The rechargeable battery unit also includes a cap plate coupled to the first end of the case. The cap plate includes at least one protrusion received in the at least one groove in the case.
US09515284B2
The organic electroluminescence element of the present invention includes: a first substrate; a second substrate facing the first substrate; an element member between the first and second substrates; first and second extension electrodes on first and second inner surfaces of the first and second substrates facing the element member; and an insulating member having an electrically insulating property. The element member includes: a functional layer including a light-emitting layer and having first and second surfaces in a thickness direction; and first and second electrode layers on the respective first and second surfaces of the functional layer. The element member is between the first and second extension electrodes such that parts of the first and second electrode layers are in contact with the first and second extension electrodes respectively. The insulating member is between the first and second inner surfaces of the respective first and second substrates.
US09515283B2
Optoelectronic devices with enhanced internal outcoupling include a substrate, an anode, a cathode, an electroluminescent layer, and an electron transporting layer comprising inorganic nanoparticles dispersed in an organic matrix.
US09515279B2
A multicolor light-emitting element that utilizes fluorescence and phosphorescence and is advantageous for practical application is provided. The light-emitting element has a stacked-layer structure of a first light-emitting layer containing a host material and a fluorescent substance and a second light-emitting layer containing two kinds of organic compounds and a substance that can convert triplet excitation energy into luminescence. Note that light emitted from the first light-emitting layer has an emission peak on the shorter wavelength side than light emitted from the second light-emitting layer.
US09515277B2
To provide an organic electroluminescent element having a low driving voltage, high current efficiency and high voltage efficiency.An organic electroluminescent element comprising an anode, a cathode and an organic layer disposed between the anode and the cathode, wherein the organic layer comprises a mixed layer containing a light-emitting low molecular compound and/or a charge-transporting low molecular compound in a film containing an insolubilized polymer obtained by insolubilizing an insolubilizing polymer, and, adjacent to the mixed layer, a layer containing a light-emitting low molecular compound and a charge-transporting low molecular compound and not containing an insolubilized polymer.
US09515276B2
An organic x-ray detector is presented. The organic x-ray detector includes a layered structure. The layered structure includes a thin-film transistor (TFT) array disposed on a substrate, an organic photodiode disposed on the TFT array, and a scintillator layer disposed on the organic photodiode. The organic x-ray detector further includes an encapsulation cover at least partially encapsulating the layered structure; and an oxygen getter layer disposed between the organic photodiode and the encapsulation cover, wherein the oxygen getter layer includes an ether-containing material. X-ray system including the organic x-ray detector is also presented.
US09515272B2
A method of manufacturing a display device is provided which uses a sacrificial layer interposed between a carrier and a display device substrate.
US09515271B2
An organic light-emitting device including a first electrode; a second electrode; and an organic layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the organic layer includes an emission layer and an electron transport region, the electron transport region being between the emission layer and the second electrode; the emission layer includes a first compound represented by any one of the following Formulae 1-1 and 1-2, and the electron transport region includes a second compound represented by any one of the following Formulae 2-1 and 2-2:
US09515268B2
The present invention relates to the field of organic electroluminescent technology, particularly relates to an aromatic amine derivative, its preparation method, uses and organic electroluminescent devices. The technical aim of the present invention is to improve the film forming ability and the redox repeatability. The aromatic amine derivative has the structure of formula I, wherein, R1, R2, R3 and R4 each independently represent a hydrogen, a substituted or unsubstituted C1-C40 alkyl, a substituted or unsubstituted C1-C40 alkoxy, a substituted or unsubstituted C3-C40 cycloalkyl, a substituted or unsubstituted C6-C50 aryl group, a substituted or unsubstituted C3-C50 heteroaryl containing one or two heteroatoms selected from N, O and S, or a substituted or unsubstituted C10-C40 fused aryl group formed together with the phenyl group linked therewith; wherein, m, n, p and q each independently represent 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5; the substituents are one or more groups selected from the group consisting of a halogen, a C1-C10 alkyl, a C1-C10 alkoxy, a C3-C20 cycloalkyl, a C6-C20 aryl group or a C4-C20 heteroaryl group. The present invention may be applied in organic electroluminescent devices.
US09515265B2
Provided is an organic light-emitting device, including a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; an emission layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode; a first hole transport layer that is disposed between the emission layer and the first electrode and includes a first compound and a first charge-generation material; a second hole transport layer that is disposed between the emission layer and the first hole transport layer and includes a second compound; a third hole transport layer that is disposed between the emission layer and the second hole transport layer and includes a third compound and a second charge-generation material; and a fourth hole transport layer that is disposed between the emission layer and the third hole transport layer and includes a fourth compound. The first, second, third, and fourth compounds are each represented by Formula 1 or 2:
US09515264B2
A method for manufacturing a display device is provided. The method includes: forming, between a first substrate and a second substrate, a light-emitting element including an electroluminescence layer and a wiring over which a peeling layer formed by using the material of the electroluminescence layer is provided; and peeling whole of the second substrate from the first substrate so that the peeling layer over the wiring is simultaneously exposed.
US09515261B2
Some embodiments include a memory cell having a data storage region between a pair of conductive structures. The data storage region is configured to support a transitory structure which alters resistance through the memory cell. The data storage region includes two or more portions, with one of the portions supporting a higher resistance segment of the transitory structure than another of the portions. Some embodiments include a method of forming a memory cell. First oxide and second oxide regions are formed between a pair of conductive structures. The oxide regions are configured to support a transitory structure which alters resistance through the memory cell. The oxide regions are different from one another so that one of the oxide regions supports a higher resistance segment of the transitory structure than the other.
US09515241B2
A metallic frame of an LED structure includes two conductive frames spaced apart from each other with a gap and a plurality of extending arms respectively and integrally extended from the conductive frames. Each conductive frame includes a top surface, a bottom surface, and a lateral surface connecting the top and bottom surfaces. Each top surface comprises a sealed region and a mounting region surrounded by the sealed region, and the sealed and mounting regions of each conductive frame are defined by an insulating body. Each conductive frame has at least one slot concavely formed on the sealed region, and the lateral surface is formed with two openings and the slot is communicated with the two openings, such that the slot of each of the conductive frames is configured to separate at least one of the extending arms from the mounting region of the conductive frames.
US09515238B2
An integrated LED device is provided. The LED device includes a substrate. The LED device includes a semiconductor material including a light generating layer and positioned on the substrate. The semiconductor material and/or the substrate are configured to control light internally to output quasi-collimated light from a light emitting surface of the LED device. The LED device includes an optical component positioned at the light emitting surface and configured to receive quasi-collimated light exiting the light emitting surface and to alter one or more optical properties of at least some beams of the quasi-collimated light.
US09515237B2
A method for producing a light emitting device includes a first bonding step including disposing a first bonding member a mounting substrate, placing a light emitting element on the mounting substrate such that the first bonding member is located between a mounting face of the light emitting element and the mounting substrate, and hardening the first bonding member thereby bonding the light emitting element and the mounting substrate such that, in a plan view, an entirety of the first bonding member is contained within an area of the mounting face of the light emitting element; and a second bonding step including disposing a second bonding member on the upper face of the mounting substrate such that, in a plan view, the second bonding member is located at at least a portion of an outer edge of the mounting face of the light emitting element, and hardening the second bonding member.
US09515236B2
What is specified is an optoelectronic component comprising a layer sequence having an active layer, which emits primary electromagnetic radiation, and at least one transparent coupling-out element arranged in the beam path of the primary electromagnetic radiation. The at least one transparent coupling-out element comprises a hybrid material or is produced from a hybrid material.
US09515230B2
Provided is chemically and thermally stable phosphor having light-emitting characteristics different from the conventional phosphor and high emission intensity when combined with LED of not exceeding 470 nm. The phosphor comprises inorganic compound having crystal represented by A2(D,E)5X9; crystal represented by Ca2Si5O3N6; or inorganic crystal having the same crystal structure as crystal represented by Ca2Si5O3N6, which includes A, D, E, and X elements (A is one or more kinds selected from Mg, Ca, Sr, and Ba; D is one or more kinds selected from Si, Ge, Sn, Ti, Zr, and Hf; E is one or more kinds selected from B, Al, Ga, In, Sc, Y, and La; and X is one or more kinds selected from O, N, and F), in which M element (M is one or more kinds of elements selected from Mn, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Tb, Dy, and Yb) is solid-solved.
US09515228B2
A face-up-type Group III nitride semiconductor light-emitting device includes a growth substrate, an n-type layer, a light-emitting layer, a p-type layer, an n-electrode including a bonding portion and a wiring portion, a p-electrode including a bonding portion and a wiring portion, and a first insulating film. The n-type layer, the light-emitting layer, and the p-type layer are sequentially stacked on the growth substrate, and the n-electrode and the p-electrode are formed on the first insulating film. A groove having a depth extending from a top surface of the p-type layer to the n-type layer is formed in at least one region selected from a region directly below the wiring portion of the n-electrode and a region directly below the wiring portion of the p-electrode. The wiring portion, which is formed in the groove, is located at a level lower than that of the light-emitting layer.
US09515226B2
A light emitting device comprises a substrate, a semiconductor body, and a transition layer. The semiconductor body is configured to generate light and comprises an n-type layer disposed on the substrate, a p-type layer disposed on the n-type layer, and an active layer disposed between the n-type layer and the p-type layer. The transition layer is disposed on the substrate and located between the n-type layer and the substrate, and comprises a plurality of sub-layers. The plurality of the sub-layers comprise compositions different from each other, and each sub-layer comprise the composition including IIIA metal, transition metal, and nitrogen. The light emitting device further comprises a p-contact layer disposed on the p-type layer of the semiconductor body. A substrate structure and a method for making the light emitting device are also presented.
US09515218B2
A photovoltaic device operable to convert light to electricity, comprising a substrate, a plurality of structures essentially perpendicular to the substrate, one or more recesses between the structures, each recess having a planar mirror on a bottom wall thereof. The structures have p-n or p-i-n junctions for converting light into electricity. The planar mirrors function as an electrode and can reflect light incident thereon back to the structures to be converted into electricity.
US09515216B2
Embodiments relate to the detection of semiconductor tampering with a light-sensitive circuit. A tamper detection device for an integrated circuit includes a light-sensitive circuit disposed within a package of an integrated circuit. The light-sensitive circuit closes in response to an exposure to a light source, indicating a tamper condition.
US09515213B2
A back protective sheet for a solar cell module containing a polyester support that is biaxially stretched and then subjected to a thermal fixation treatment; and a polymer layer arranged to be in contact with at least one surface of the polyester support, wherein the polymer layer contains a binder having at least one functional group selected from a carboxyl group, a hydroxyl group, an amino group, a sulfonic acid group, and a carbonyl group; a pigment; and a crosslinking agent-derived structure, and the polyester support contains a polyester, a pigment, and an terminal blocking agent, has excellent adhesion between the support and the functional layer after wet heat aging.
US09515210B2
Diode barrier infrared detector devices and superlattice barrier structures are disclosed. In one embodiment, a diode barrier infrared detector device includes a first contact layer, an absorber layer adjacent to the first contact layer, and a barrier layer adjacent to the absorber layer, and a second contact layer adjacent to the barrier layer. The barrier layer includes a diode structure formed by a p-n junction formed within the barrier layer. The barrier layer may be such that there is substantially no barrier to minority carrier holes. In another embodiment, a diode barrier infrared detector device includes a first contact layer, an absorber layer adjacent to the first contact layer, a barrier layer adjacent to the absorber layer, and a diode structure adjacent to the barrier layer. The diode structure includes a second contact layer.
US09515208B2
Solid-state imaging devices (1) including: a substrate (12); a photoelectric conversion section (50) comprising a chalcopyrite material formed over the substrate in a light incident side; a transparent electrode (57) in the light incident side of the photoelectric conversion section; and an electron barrier layer (58) formed between the photoelectric conversion section and the transparent electrode; and methods of manufacturing the solid-state imaging devices and electronic apparatuses including the solid-state imaging devices.
US09515207B2
The present invention relates generally to the field of photovoltaic devices and particularly to the organic photovoltaic layer. More specifically, the organic photovoltaic layer comprises at least one organic compound of the general structural formula where Het1 and Het2 are predominantly planar polycyclic molecular systems; A is a bridging group providing a lateral bond of the molecular systems; and X is a counterion from a list comprising H+, Li+, Na+, K+, NH4+, Ba++, Zn++, Sr++, Ca++, Mg++, and any combination thereof. The photovoltaic layer is formed of column-like or planar supramolecules, it has absorption of electromagnetic radiation in at least one predetermined spectral subrange within a wavelength range from 400 to 3000 nm, and the molecular system Het1, the bridging group A, and the molecular system Het2 form a donor-bridge-acceptor system providing dissociation of excited electron-hole pairs.
US09515204B2
A memory controller comprises a command interface to transmit a memory command to a plurality of memory devices associated with the memory controller. The memory controller also comprises an acknowledgement interface to receive an acknowledgment status packet from the plurality of memory devices over a shared acknowledgement link coupled between the memory controller and the plurality of memory devices, the acknowledgement status packet indicating whether the command was received by the plurality of memory devices. In addition, the memory controller comprises a memory controller core to decode the acknowledgment status packet to identify a portion of the acknowledgement status packet corresponding to each of the plurality of memory devices.
US09515203B2
A method of manufacturing a solar cell includes: forming a dopant layer by doping a dopant to a semiconductor substrate; and forming an electrode electrically connected to the dopant layer. The forming of the electrode includes forming a metal layer on the dopant layer; and heat-treating the metal layer to form a first layer and a second layer. In the heat-treating of the metal layer, a portion of the metal layer adjacent to the semiconductor substrate forms the first layer including a compound formed by a reaction of the metal layer and the semiconductor substrate, and a remaining portion of the metal layer forms the second layer that covers the first layer.
US09515202B2
A composition for solar cell electrodes includes a conductive powder, a glass frit, an organic vehicle, and a thixotropic agent, the composition satisfying each of Formulae 1 to 7 described herein. A solar cell electrode is produced from the composition. A method of manufacturing a solar cell includes printing the composition in a predetermined pattern over a front surface of a wafer, and firing the printed composition pattern to form at least electrode.
US09515191B2
The disclosure provides a thin film field effect transistor, a driving method thereof, an array substrate, a display device and an electronic product. The thin film field effect transistor comprises a gate metal layer and a semiconductor layer, and further comprises a guide layer, wherein when an electric field is formed between the gate metal layer and the semiconductor layer, an electric field is also formed between the guide layer and the gate metal layer, the semiconductor layer accumulates electrons or holes to reinforce the electric field between the gate metal layer and the semiconductor layer by utilizing the electric field between the guide layer and the gate metal layer. Through the guide layer, it is able to affect the current characteristics of the thin film field effect transistor by improving its structure, thereby to reduce a threshold voltage and a leakage current.
US09515176B2
A silicon carbide (SiC) bipolar junction transistor (BJT) and a method of manufacturing such a SiC BJT is provided. The SiC BJT can include a collector region having a first conductivity type, a base region having a second conductivity type opposite the first conductivity type, and an emitter region having the first conductivity type, the collector region, the base region and the emitter region being arranged as a stack. The emitter region defining an elevated structure defined at least in part by an outer sidewall on top of the stack. The base region having a portion capped by the emitter region and defining an intrinsic base region where the intrinsic base region includes a portion extending from the emitter region to the collector region. The SiC BJT can include a first shielding region and a second shield region each having the second conductivity type.
US09515167B2
Embodiments include Multiple Gate Field-Effect Transistors (MuGFETs) and methods of forming them. In an embodiment, a structure includes a substrate, a fin, masking dielectric layer portions, and a raised epitaxial lightly doped source/drain (LDD) region. The substrate includes the fin. The masking dielectric layer portions are along sidewalls of the fin. An upper portion of the fin protrudes from the masking dielectric layer portions. A first spacer is along a sidewall of a gate structure over a channel region of the fin. A second spacer is along the first spacer. The raised epitaxial LDD region is on the upper portion of the fin, and the raised epitaxial LDD region adjoins a sidewall of the first spacer and is disposed under the second spacer. The raised epitaxial LDD region extends from the upper portion of the fin in at least two laterally opposed directions and a vertical direction.
US09515163B2
One method disclosed herein includes removing a sacrificial gate structure and forming a replacement gate structure in its place, after forming the replacement gate structure, forming a metal silicide layer on an entire upper surface area of each of a plurality of source/drain regions and, with the replacement gate structure in position, forming at least one source/drain contact structure for each of the plurality of source/drain regions, wherein the at least one source/drain contact structure is conductively coupled to a portion of the metal silicide layer and a dimension of the at least one source/drain contact structure in a gate width direction of the transistor is less than a dimension of the source/drain region in the gate width direction.
US09515162B2
A substrate having a buffer layer and a barrier layer is formed. The buffer and barrier layers have different bandgaps such that an electrically conductive channel comprising a two-dimensional charge carrier gas arises at an interface between the buffer and barrier layers due to piezoelectric effects. The substrate is placed in a fluorine containing gas mixture that includes free radical state fluorine particles and is substantially devoid of ionic state fluorine particles. A first lateral surface section of the substrate is exposed to the gas mixture such that the free radical state fluorine particles contact the first lateral surface section without penetrating the substrate. A semiconductor device that incorporates first lateral surface section in the structure of the device is formed in the substrate.
US09515161B1
Monolithic integration of high-frequency GaN-HEMTs and GaN-Schottky diodes. The integrated HEMTs/Schottky diodes are realized using an epitaxial structure and a fabrication process which reduces fabrication cost. Since the disclosed process preferably uses self-aligned technology, both devices show extremely high-frequency performance by minimizing device parasitic resistances and capacitances. Furthermore, since the Schottky contact of diodes is formed by making a direct contact of an anode metal to the 2DEG channel the resulting structure minimizes an intrinsic junction capacitance due to the very thin contact area size. The low resistance of high-mobility 2DEG channel and a low contact resistance realized by a n+GaN ohmic regrowth layer reduce a series resistance of diodes as well as access resistance of the HEMT.
US09515152B2
Embodiments of a simple and cost-free multi-time programmable (MTP) structure for non-volatile memory cells are presented. The memory cell includes a substrate. A floating gate is disposed over a transistor well. A control gate disposed over a control well is coupled to the floating gate. The control gate includes a control capacitor. A non-self-aligned source/drain (S/D) region is disposed within the transistor well and serves as an erase terminal.
US09515149B2
A semiconductor device includes an active region and a semiconductor substrate layer having a lower part semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type. The active region includes a drift region formed by at least a part of the substrate layer, a body region of the second conductivity type formed on at least a part of the drift region, a source region of a first conductivity type disposed in the body region, and a first doped region of the first conductivity type at least partially disposed under the body region. A groove extends downward from a top of the substrate layer and contains a shielding electrode. A depth of the groove is greater than that of the first doped region. A gate at least partially formed above at least a part of the source region and the body region is electrically insulated from the shielding electrode.
US09515147B2
A semiconductor device includes at least one nanowire that is disposed over a substrate, extends to be spaced apart from the substrate, and includes a channel region, a gate that surrounds at least a part of the channel region, and a gate dielectric film that is disposed between the channel region and the gate. A source/drain region that contacts one end of the at least one nanowire is formed in a semiconductor layer that extends from the substrate to the one end of the at least one nanowire. Insulating spacers are formed between the substrate and the at least one nanowire. The insulating spacers are disposed between the gate and the source/drain region and are formed of a material that is different from a material of the gate dielectric film.
US09515145B2
A semiconductor device capable of reducing ON-resistance changes with temperature, including a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type, a drift layer of the first conductivity type formed on the semiconductor substrate, a first well region of a second conductivity type formed in the front surface of the drift layer, a second well region of the second conductivity type formed in the front surface of the drift layer, and a gate structure that is formed on the front surface of the drift layer and forms a channel in the first well region and a channel in the second well region. A channel resistance of the channel formed in the first well region has a temperature characteristic that the channel resistance decreases with increasing temperature and a channel resistance of the channel formed in the second well region has a temperature characteristic that the channel resistance increases with increasing temperature.
US09515142B2
A method to form a semiconductor structure with an active region and a compatible dielectric layer is described. In one embodiment, a semiconductor structure has a dielectric layer comprised of an oxide of a first semiconductor material, wherein a second (and compositionally different) semiconductor material is formed between the dielectric layer and the first semiconductor material. In another embodiment, a portion of the second semiconductor material is replaced with a third semiconductor material in order to impart uniaxial strain to the lattice structure of the second semiconductor material.
US09515140B2
A method that includes forming a pattern of strained material and relaxed material on a substrate; forming a strained device in the strained material; and forming a non-strained device in the relaxed material is disclosed. In one embodiment, the strained material is silicon (Si) in either a tensile or compressive state, and the relaxed material is Si in a normal state. A buffer layer of silicon germanium (SiGe), silicon carbon (SiC), or similar material is formed on the substrate and has a lattice constant/structure mis-match with the substrate. A relaxed layer of SiGe, SiC, or similar material is formed on the buffer layer and places the strained material in the tensile or compressive state. In another embodiment, carbon-doped silicon or germanium-doped silicon is used to form the strained material. The structure includes a multi-layered substrate having strained and non-strained materials patterned thereon.
US09515138B1
A method of making a semiconductor device includes forming a nanosheet stack including a first layer and a second layer; patterning a gate stack on the nanosheet stack; forming a first spacer along a sidewall of the gate stack; removing an endwall portion of the nanosheet stack that extends beyond the first spacer such that a portion of the second layer is exposed from a sidewall of the first spacer; depositing a second spacer along a sidewall of the first spacer; recessing the substrate beneath the second spacer to form an isolation region; depositing an oxide on the gate stack and within the isolation region and partially recessing the oxide; removing a portion of the second spacer such that the portion of the second layer is exposed; and growing an epitaxial layer on the portion of the second layer that is exposed to form a source/drain over the isolation region.
US09515135B2
An edge termination structure for a silicon carbide semiconductor device includes a plurality of spaced apart concentric floating guard rings in a silicon carbide layer that at least partially surround a silicon carbide-based junction, an insulating layer on the floating guard rings, and a silicon carbide surface charge compensation region between the floating guard rings and adjacent the surface of the silicon carbide layer. A silicon nitride layer is on the silicon carbide layer, and an organic protective layer is on the silicon nitride layer. An oxide layer may be between the silicon nitride layer and the surface of the silicon carbide layer. Methods of forming edge termination structures are also disclosed.
US09515133B2
A semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the semiconductor device are disclosed. The semiconductor device includes an inductor disposed on a surface of an intermetallic dielectric layer at a location below which no virtual interconnect members are present. Thus, parasitic capacitance is reduced or eliminated and the Q value of the inductor is high.
US09515131B2
An electronic device may be provided having an organic light-emitting diode display and control circuitry for operating the display. The display may include one or more display layers interposed between the control circuitry and a display layer having thin-film transistors. The electronic device may include a coupling structure interposed between the layer of thin-film transistors and the control circuitry that electrically couples the layer of thin-film transistors to the control circuitry. The coupling structure may include a dielectric member having a conductive via, a flexible printed circuit having a bent portion, or a conductive via formed in an encapsulation layer of the display. The display may include a layer of opaque masking material. The layer of opaque masking material may be formed on an encapsulation layer, an organic emissive layer, a thin-film transistor layer, or a glass layer of the organic light-emitting diode display.
US09515128B2
A display device includes: a supporting member including a body, and a supporter rotatably coupled to a side surface of the body; a display substrate on the supporting member, the display substrate including a first region, and a second region at an outer periphery of the first region; an emission layer on the first region and the second region of the display substrate; a polarizer on the emission layer and on the first region of the display substrate; a touch panel on the polarizer; and a window on the touch panel. The supporter is configured to support the second region of the display substrate such that the second region of the substrate is in a bent-state in a non-display region of the device.
US09515120B2
An image sensor includes a substrate with a unit pixel defined by a first separation pattern, a photoelectric conversion part in the substrate, a photocharge storage in the substrate, the photocharge storage being adjacent to the photoelectric conversion part, a second separation pattern between the photoelectric conversion part and the photocharge storage, a shielding part on a bottom surface of the substrate to cover the photocharge storage, the shielding part including a first protrusion extending into the substrate and toward the first separation pattern, and an extension extending from the first protrusion to cover the bottom surface of the substrate; and an anti-reflection layer between the shielding part and the substrate, the anti-reflection layer having an overhang structure between the first protrusion and the extension.
US09515119B2
A variable optical filter is disclosed including a bandpass filter and a blocking filter. The bandpass filter includes a stack of alternating first and second layers, and the blocking filter includes a stack of alternating third and fourth layers. The first, second and fourth materials each comprise different materials, so that a refractive index of the first material is smaller than a refractive index of the second material, which is smaller than a refractive index of the fourth material; while an absorption coefficient of the second material is smaller than an absorption coefficient of the fourth material. The materials can be selected to ensure high index contrast in the blocking filter and low optical losses in the bandpass filter. The first to fourth layers can be deposited directly on a photodetector array.
US09515110B2
There is provided a solid-state imaging device including: a semiconductor substrate that is formed with a photodiode for each pixel; a light shielding film that is laminated on the semiconductor substrate on a side of a light irradiated surface which is irradiated with light, and is formed to include an opening corresponding to a spot in which at least the photodiode is arranged; and a photoelectric conversion film that is laminated to cover the light irradiated surface of the semiconductor substrate and the light shielding film, and is configured to generate an electrical charge by absorbing light. The photoelectric conversion film is formed of a material which has higher light absorptivity than light absorptivity of the semiconductor substrate.
US09515102B2
The present disclosure provides an array substrate, a method for producing the same, a display panel and a display apparatus. The array substrate comprises: a glass substrate; a flexible substrate comprising a first region and a second region, the glass substrate being supported on a lower surface of the first region of the flexible substrate and the second region projecting from the first region towards the external of the glass substrate; a display array formed on the first region of the flexible substrate; and a peripheral circuit formed on the second region of the flexible substrate. The array substrate can achieve a display apparatus with super narrow frame, even without frame.
US09515096B2
The present disclosure provides a thin film transistor array. In an exemplary embodiment, the thin film transistor array includes: a substrate; a gate line including a gate pad and disposed on the substrate; a gate insulating layer disposed on the gate line and the gate pad; a data line including a data pad and disposed on the gate insulating layer; a first passivation layer disposed on the data line; a first electrode disposed on the first passivation layer; a second passivation layer disposed on the first electrode; and a second electrode disposed on the second passivation layer. The gate pad is exposed through a first contact hole, and the gate insulating layer, the first passivation layer, and the second passivation layer include at least a portion of the first contact hole.
US09515095B2
The invention belongs to the field of display technology, and particularly provides an array substrate and a method for manufacturing the same, and a display device. The array substrate includes a base substrate, and a thin film transistor and at least one driving electrode provided on the base substrate, and the thin film transistor includes a gate, and a source and a drain provided in the same layer, wherein the gate, the source or the drain is formed with the same material as the at least one driving electrode, and thickness thereof is larger than that of the at least one driving electrode. Regarding the array substrate, the manufacturing procedure of the array substrate is effectively simplified, cost for mask plate and material is reduced, equipment investment is reduced, production cost is saved, productivity is improved, and competitiveness of the display device is increased, while the transmittance requirement is met.
US09515090B2
A method includes providing a structure having a substrate, a first insulating layer on the substrate, a first semiconductor material layer on the first insulating layer, a second insulating layer on the first semiconductor layer in a first portion of the structure and a second semiconductor layer of a second, different semiconductor material on the second insulating layer in the first portion. The method further includes growing additional first semiconductor material on the first semiconductor layer in a second portion of the structure forming a regrown semiconductor layer; forming first fins in the regrown semiconductor layer and second fins in the second semiconductor layer; and forming gate structures upon the first and second fins. A height difference, relative to a surface of the first insulating layer, of the gate structures formed upon the first fins and the gate structures formed upon the second fins is less than a predetermined value.
US09515085B2
A structure includes a three-dimensional semiconductor device including a plurality of unit device structures located over a substrate. Each of the unit device structures includes a semiconductor channel including at least a portion extending vertically along a direction perpendicular to a top surface of the substrate, and a drain region contacting a top end of the semiconductor channel. The structure also includes a combination of a plurality of contact pillars and a contiguous volume that laterally surrounds the plurality of contact pillars. The plurality of contact pillars is in contact with the drain regions, and the contiguous volume has a dielectric constant less than 3.9.
US09515084B2
A 3D nonvolatile memory device including memory cells vertically stacked is disclosed. Word lines are integrally formed to be elongated over adjacent cell regions spaced apart from each other, and portions of the word lines between the cell regions are partially etched in a stepped shape to form word line contact regions.
US09515082B2
A memory gate is formed of a first memory gate including a second gate insulating film made of a second insulating film and a first memory gate electrode, and a second memory gate including a third gate insulating film made of a third insulating film and a second memory gate electrode. In addition, the lower surface of the second memory gate electrode is located lower in level than the lower surface of the first memory gate electrode. As a result, during an erase operation, an electric field is concentrated on the corner portion of the first memory gate electrode which is located closer to a selection gate and a semiconductor substrate and on the corner portion of the second memory gate electrode which is located closer to the first memory gate and the semiconductor substrate. This allows easy injection of holes into each of the second and third insulating films.
US09515073B1
A method for forming a semiconductor device comprises forming an insulator layer on a semiconductor substrate, removing portions of the insulator layer to form a first cavity and a second cavity, the first cavity exposing a first portion of the semiconductor substrate an the second cavity exposing a second portion of the semiconductor substrate, growing a first semiconductor material in the first cavity and the second cavity. Growing a second semiconductor material on the first semiconductor material in the first cavity and the second cavity, growing a third semiconductor material on the second semiconductor material in the first cavity and the second cavity. Forming a mask over the third semiconductor material in the first cavity, removing the third semiconductor material from the second cavity to expose the second semiconductor material in the second cavity, and growing a fourth semiconductor material on the second semiconductor material in the second cavity.
US09515067B2
A semiconductor device includes a switching element having: a drift layer; a base region; an element-side first impurity region in the base region; an element-side gate electrode sandwiched between the first impurity region and the drift layer; a second impurity region contacting the drift layer; an element-side first electrode coupled with the element-side first impurity region and the base region; and an element-side second electrode coupled with the second impurity region, and a FWD having: a first conductive layer; a second conductive layer; a diode-side first electrode coupled to the second conductive layer; a diode-side second electrode coupled to the first conductive layer; a diode-side first impurity region in the second conductive layer; and a diode-side gate electrode in the second conductive layer sandwiched between first impurity region and the first conductive layer and having a first gate electrode as an excess carrier injection suppression gate.
US09515048B2
A method for fabricating an interposer is provided, which includes the steps of: providing a substrate body having a chip mounting side and an opposite external connection side and a plurality of conductive through holes communicating the chip mounting side and the external connection side, wherein the chip mounting side of the substrate body is covered with a protection layer; performing a singulation process on the external connection side of the substrate body; bonding the substrate body to a carrier via the external connection side thereof; removing the protection layer; and removing the carrier to form a plurality of interposers, thereby simplifying the fabrication process and improving the product yield.
US09515033B2
A monolithic microwave integrated circuit included a substrate, a first pad, a first line, a second line, a second pad, a third pad, a first active element, a second active element. The first line includes an input end connected to the first pad. The second line includes an input end connected to the first pad. The second and third pads are connected to the ground. The first active element includes a first gate electrode connected to the output end of the first line. The second active element includes a second gate electrode connected to the output end of the second line. The first pad is provided between the second pad and a third pad. Electrical length of the first line is equal to electrical length of the second line.
US09515021B1
A semiconductor device with metal-doped etch stop layer therein and a method of manufacturing the same is disclosed. The method includes forming an semiconductor device with a interconnect structure that has a dielectric layer and a conductor therein, and an etch stop layer over the dielectric layer; applying a photo resist layer and patterning the photo resist layer to expose a portion of the etch stop layer on a top surface of the conductor over of the dielectric layer; and doping the exposed portion of the etch stop layer with an element to form a metal-doped etch stop layer. The formed metal-doped etch stop layer has a recess structure and functions as a conductive pad over the conductor.
US09515017B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards techniques and configurations for ground via clustering for crosstalk mitigation in integrated circuit (IC) assemblies. In some embodiments, an IC package assembly may include a first package substrate configured to route input/output (I/O) signals and ground between a die and a second package substrate. The first package substrate may include a plurality of contacts disposed on one side of the first package substrate and at least two ground vias of a same layer of vias, and the at least two ground vias may form a cluster of ground vias electrically coupled with an individual contact. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US09515016B2
A semiconductor package is made using a prefabricated post carrier including a base plate and plurality of conductive posts. A film encapsulant is disposed over the base plate of the post carrier and around the conductive posts. A semiconductor die is mounted to a temporary carrier. The post carrier and temporary carrier are pressed together to embed the semiconductor die in the film encapsulant. The semiconductor die is disposed between the conductive posts in the film encapsulant. The temporary carrier and base plate of the post carrier are removed. A first circuit build-up layer is formed over a first side of the film encapsulant. The first circuit build-up layer is electrically connected to the conductive posts. A second circuit build-up layer is formed over a second side of the film encapsulant opposite the first side. The second circuit build-up layer is electrically connected to the conductive posts.
US09515011B2
A transistor package includes a lead frame, a wide band-gap transistor attached to the lead frame, and an over-mold surrounding the lead frame and the wide band-gap transistor. The wide band-gap transistor has a peak output power greater than 150 W when operated at a frequency up to 3.8 GHz. Using an over-mold along with a wide band-gap transistor in the transistor package allows the transistor package to achieve an exceptionally high efficiency, gain, and bandwidth, while keeping the manufacturing cost of the transistor package low.
US09515010B2
The present invention provides a semiconductor package structure, including: a chip, wherein bonding pads and a passivation layer are arranged on the surface of the chip, the passivation layer is provided with first openings for exposing the bonding pads, and a seed layer connected with the bonding pads and columnar salient points stacked on the seed layer are arranged on the bonding pads; lead frames, wherein each lead frame is provided with a plurality of discrete pins, and internal pins and external pins are respectively arranged on two opposite surfaces of the pins; the chip being flipped on the lead frames, and the columnar salient points being connected with the internal pins; a plastic package layer, wherein the plastic package layer is used for sealing the chip, the columnar salient points and the lead frames and exposing the external pins. By adopting the present invention, a transverse area occupied by the package structure is decreased, the volume of the entire package structure is correspondingly decreased, and the integration level of the package structure is improved. The present invention further provides a forming method of the semiconductor package structure.
US09515000B2
The reliability of multipoint contact by a contact pin with an external terminal is improved while achieving an improvement in easiness of manufacture of the contact pin. The contact pin includes first and second contact pins. Further, the first contact pin has a support portion extending in a y direction and a tip portion connected to the support portion. The second contact pin also has a support portion extending in the y direction and a tip portion connected to the support portion. Here, the support portion of the first contact pin and the support portion of the second contact pin are arranged side by side along an x direction in a horizontal plane (xy plane). Further, the tip portion of the second contact pin is shifted from the tip portion of the first contact pin along the y direction in the horizontal plane, crossing (perpendicular to) the x direction.
US09514996B2
A process for fabricating field-effect transistors, including providing a first semiconductor band surmounted with a first semiconductor layer; providing a second semiconductor band surmounted with a second semiconductor layer; providing a buried insulating layer; providing a deep trench isolation passing through the buried insulating layer and isolating the first semiconductor band from the second semiconductor band; etching the first semiconductor band so as to form a first row of semiconductor islands; etching the second semiconductor band so as to form a second row of semiconductor islands; and forming sacrificial gates on the first semiconductor layer and on the second semiconductor layer.
US09514990B2
Methods for manufacturing a semiconductor device including a field effect transistor include forming first fins protruding from a substrate including a first region and a second region, the first fins including silicon-germanium (SiGe), forming a first mask pattern to expose the first fins disposed in the second region, the first mask pattern covering the first fins disposed in the first region, oxidizing the first fins in the second region to form second fins in the second region, and forming germanium (Ge)-rich layers each disposed on a surface of a respective one of the second fins.
US09514966B2
The disclosure is related to pin layouts in a semiconductor package. One embodiment of the disclosure provides a rhombus shaped shared reference pin layout that isolates a set of differential pin pairs. The differential signal pin pairs are configured such that an axis formed by a vertical signal pin pair is orthogonal to and mutually bisecting an axis formed by a lateral signal pin pair.
US09514962B2
The method for performing activation of p-type dopants in a GaN-based semiconductor includes a first step of providing a substrate including (i) a GaN-based semiconductor material layer including p-type electric dopant impurities, (ii) a cap block devoid of any silicon-based compound, in contact with the semiconductor material layer, and (iii) a silicon-based covering layer covering the cap block. The method includes a second heat treatment step at a temperature of more than 900° C. so as to activate the p-type electric dopant impurities in the semiconductor material layer.
US09514957B2
A method that may include of at least partially surrounding with an insulating encapsulation lead frames, an integrated circuit attachment and wire bonding while preventing the insulating encapsulation from contacting at least one area of a base element; and at least partially surrounding an exterior of the insulating encapsulation with a conductive coating that contacts at least one area of the base element.
US09514951B2
A substrate processing method can remove a part of a processing target film formed on a surface of a substrate W under a normal pressure atmosphere while suppressing an influence upon the substrate. A source material of the processing target film, which is decomposed by irradiating an ultraviolet ray thereto under an oxygen-containing atmosphere, is coated on the substrate W, and the processing target film is formed by heating the source material coated on the substrate W. Then, the substrate W having thereon the processing target film is placed within a processing chamber under the oxygen-containing atmosphere where a gas flow velocity is equal to or smaller than 10 cm/sec, and the part of the processing target film is removed by irradiating the ultraviolet ray to the substrate W.
US09514948B2
A stratified gate dielectric stack includes a first high dielectric constant (high-k) gate dielectric comprising a first high-k dielectric material, a band-gap-disrupting dielectric comprising a dielectric material having a different band gap than the first high-k dielectric material, and a second high-k gate dielectric comprising a second high-k dielectric material. The band-gap-disrupting dielectric includes at least one contiguous atomic layer of the dielectric material. Thus, the stratified gate dielectric stack includes a first atomic interface between the first high-k gate dielectric and the band-gap-disrupting dielectric, and a second atomic interface between the second high-k gate dielectric and the band-gap-disrupting dielectric that is spaced from the first atomic interface by at least one continuous atomic layer of the dielectric material of the band-gap-disrupting dielectric. The insertion of the band-gap disrupting dielectric results in lower gate leakage without resulting in any substantial changes in the threshold voltage characteristics and effective oxide thickness.
US09514947B2
A contact to a semiconductor including sequential layers of Cr, Ti, and Al is provided, which can result in a contact with one or more advantages over Ti/Al-based and Cr/Al-based contacts. For example, the contact can: reduce a contact resistance; provide an improved surface morphology; provide a better contact linearity; and/or require a lower annealing temperature, as compared to the prior art Ti/Al-based contacts.
US09514942B1
A method of forming a gate structure over a hybrid substrate structure with topography having a bulk region and an SOI region is disclosed including forming a gate material layer above the SOI and bulk regions, forming a mask layer above the gate material layer, forming a first planarization layer above the mask layer, forming a first gate structure masking pattern above the first planarization layer, patterning the first planarization layer in alignment with the first gate structure masking pattern, and patterning the mask layer in accordance with the patterned first planarization layer, resulting in a gate mask disposed above the gate material layer.
US09514940B2
A method for fabricating field effect transistors using carbon doped silicon layers to substantially reduce the diffusion of a doped screen layer formed below a substantially undoped channel layer includes forming an in-situ epitaxial carbon doped silicon substrate that is doped to form the screen layer in the carbon doped silicon substrate and forming the substantially undoped silicon layer above the carbon doped silicon substrate. The method may include implanting carbon below the screen layer and forming a thin layer of in-situ epitaxial carbon doped silicon above the screen layer. The screen layer may be formed either in a silicon substrate layer or the carbon doped silicon substrate.
US09514934B2
Antimony oxide thin films are deposited by atomic layer deposition using an antimony reactant and an oxygen source. Antimony reactants may include antimony halides, such as SbCl3, antimony alkylamines, and antimony alkoxides, such as Sb(OEt)3. The oxygen source may be, for example, ozone. In some embodiments the antimony oxide thin films are deposited in a batch reactor. The antimony oxide thin films may serve, for example, as etch stop layers or sacrificial layers.
US09514928B2
A selectively repairing process for a barrier layer is provided. A repair layer is formed by chemical vapor deposition using an organosilicon compound as a precursor gas. The precursor gas adsorbed on a low-k dielectric layer exposed by defects in a barrier layer is transformed to a porous silicon oxide layer has a density more than the density of the low-k dielectric layer.
US09514927B2
A method for integrated circuit fabrication can include removing silicon oxide by a pre-clean process. The pre-clean process can include depositing a halogen-containing material on the surface of a substrate in a first reaction chamber, and transferring the substrate having the halogen-containing material to a second reaction chamber. Silicon oxide material can be removed from a surface of the substrate by sublimating the halogen-containing material in the second reaction chamber. A target material, such as a conductive material, may subsequently be deposited on the substrate surface in the second reaction chamber.
US09514920B2
An electron multiplier body including a main body portion, an electron incidence portion, and a channel, in which the channel includes a first inner surface and a second inner surface facing each other, the first inner surface includes a convex first bent portion and a concave second bent portion, and a plurality of first inclined surfaces, the second inner surface includes a convex third bent portion and a concave fourth bent portion, and a plurality of second inclined surfaces, and an interval between a tip of the first bent portion and a tip of the third bent portion, a distance between the first inclined surface and the second inclined surfaces facing each other, an angle between a pair of first inclined surfaces defining the first bent portion, and a length of the channel satisfy predetermined expressions.
US09514919B2
Provided is a substrate treating apparatus, which includes a plasma generating part configured to generate plasma, a housing disposed under the plasma generating part, and having a space therein, a susceptor disposed within the housing and supporting a substrate, and a baffle including injection holes injecting the plasma supplied from the plasma generating part, to the substrate. The baffle includes a base in which the injection holes are formed, and a central portion of the base is thicker than an edge thereof.
US09514887B2
An object of the present invention is to provide an aluminum foil that can make a positive electrode current collector thinner for size reduction and higher energy density of electrical storage devices, be produced easily and has a low surface resistance. An aluminum foil of the present invention as a means for achieving the object is characterized in that carbonaceous particles are dispersed and supported therein. The aluminum foil with carbonaceous particles dispersed and supported therein of the present invention can be produced by electrolysis.
US09514880B2
Embodiments of the invention provide a coil unit for a thin film inductor, a manufacturing method of a coil unit for a thin film inductor, a thin film inductor, and a manufacturing method of a thin film inductor. According to an embodiment, there is provided a coil unit for a thin film inductor. The coil unit includes an insulator having a dual insulating layer of different materials, and coil patterns respectively embedded in upper and lower surfaces of the insulator. The coil patterns include a coil pattern formed of a plurality of plating layers.
US09514870B2
A rare earth magnet production method of the present invention includes a placing step of placing a magnet material including a compact or a sintered body of powder particles having a rare earth magnet alloy, and a diffusing material containing a diffusing element to improve coercivity, in a vicinity of each other; and a diffusing step of diffusing the diffusing element into an inside of the magnet material by exposing the magnet material heated to vapor of the diffusing element evaporated from the diffusing material heated; and wherein the diffusing step is a step of heating the diffusing material independently of the magnet material to diffusing material temperature which is different from heating temperature of the magnet material called magnet material temperature.
US09514869B2
The present invention provides an R-T-B based sintered magnet including R2T14B crystal grains wherein; a grain boundary is formed by two or more adjacent R2T14B crystal grains, an R—O—C concentrated part, in which concentrations of R, O and C are higher than those in the R2T14B crystal grains respectively, is in the grain boundary, and an area of the R—O—C concentrated part occupying in that of the grain boundary on a cut surface of the R-T-B based sintered magnet is within a range of 10% or more to 75% or less.
US09514868B2
A grain oriented electrical steel sheet is subjected to magnetic domain refinement by laser irradiation or electron irradiation and exhibits excellent low noise properties and low iron-loss properties when assembled into a real transformer device, by setting: the total tension (A) in rolling direction imparted to the steel sheet by the forsterite coating and the tension coating to be equal to or higher than 10.0 MPa; setting the total tension (B) in a direction orthogonal to the rolling direction imparted to the steel sheet by the forsterite coating and the tension coating to be equal to or higher than 5.0 MPa; and setting the total tension (A) and the total tension (B) to satisfy a formula shown below. 1.0≦A/B≦5.0
US09514861B2
A self-supporting cable including an outer portion and an inner portion is provided, as well as a combination of a self-supporting cable and a suspension arrangement. The inner portion includes at least one insulated conductor and the outer portion includes a first inner surface and an external surface. The external surface is arranged to engage with a suspension arrangement. The inner portion includes a first outer surface, the first outer surface abutting against the first inner surface. The outer portion includes an outer layer and a metal tape adhered to the outer layer. The outer layer includes the external surface, and the metal tape includes the first inner surface. The first inner surface being of metal and adapted for, during local load, frictional engagement with the material of the first outer surface increases the effectiveness of a functional grip between first outer surface and first inner surface.
US09514860B2
A power transmission cable includes a conductor, an inner semiconductive layer around the conductor, an electrically insulating layer around the inner semiconductive layer, an outer semiconductive layer around the electrically insulating layer, a shielding layer around the outer semiconductive layer, a binder tape layer around the shielding layer, and a sheath layer around the binder tape layer. The power transmission cable having an outer diameter of not smaller than 30 mm and not greater than 60 mm. The sheath layer having a thickness of not smaller than 2 mm and not greater than 4 mm, and is made of a non-halogen flame-retardant resin composition including a total of not lower than 100 parts and not higher than 180 parts of metal hydrate and silica per 100 parts of a base polymer, by mass, including an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer with a vinyl acetate content of not lower than 50 wt. %.
US09514856B2
Disclosed is a copper alloy containing 1.0% to 3.6% of Ni, 0.2% to 1.0% of Si, 0.05% to 3.0% of Sn, 0.05% to 3.0% of Zn, with the remainder including copper and inevitable impurities. The copper alloy has an average grain size of 25 μm or less and has a texture having an average area percentage of cube orientation of 20% to 60% and an average total area percentage of brass orientation, S orientation and copper orientation of 20% to 50%. The copper alloy has a KAM value of 0.8 to 3.0 and does not suffer from cracking even when subjected to U-bending. The copper alloy has excellent balance between strengths (particularly yield strength in a direction perpendicular to the rolling direction) and bending workability.
US09514853B2
A system for storing high level radioactive waste. In one embodiment, the invention can be a system including an overpack body extending along a vertical axis and having a cavity for storing high level radioactive waste, the cavity having an open top end and a floor; an overpack lid positioned atop the overpack body to enclose the open top end of the cavity; an air inlet vent for introducing cool air into the cavity, the air inlet vent extending from an opening in an outer surface of the overpack body to an opening in the floor, the opening in the outer surface of the overpack body extending about an entirety of a circumference of the outer surface of the overpack body; and an air outlet vent in the overpack lid for removing warmed air from the cavity.
US09514851B2
The invention pertains to a nuclear fuel rod for a nuclear reactor. The fuel rod has a cladding. The cladding's external surface has a surface texture that includes a rib. The rib coils around the circumference of the cladding. The rib length forms a sequence of continuous rib loops uniformly spaced along an axial length of the cladding. The ratio of rib height to cladding diameter is greater than or equal to 0.0134 and less than or equal to 0.0268. The ratio of rib height to rib width is greater than or equal to 0.8 and less than or equal to 1.2. A pitch measured between adjacent rib loops is greater than or equal to 9× rib height and less than or equal to 12× rib height. The rib enhances fuel rod heat transfer in a region downstream of grid mixing vanes, where turbulence is dissipated.
US09514849B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a first fuse set block including a fuse array for storing first repair information, and a control block configured to store second repair information in a first mode, and generate an output control signal when input addresses applied from an external source and the second repair information are the same, in a second mode, wherein the first fuse set block enables a first match signal for accessing a first redundancy memory cell when the stored first repair information and the input addresses are the same, and disables the first match signal in response to the output control signal.
US09514847B2
A semiconductor device includes a latch circuit suitable for storing a test result; a non-volatile memory circuit suitable for storing information used for an operation of the semiconductor device; a decoding unit suitable for generating one or more internal program commands by using one or more control signals; and a control unit suitable for programming information in the non-volatile memory circuit in response to the test result stored in the latch circuit when the internal program commands are activated.
US09514837B2
A memory is released for use without pre-verification of its memory blocks as being defect free. Some memory blocks are subjected to a verification process when the computer memory is in use in order to verify a minimum number of memory blocks required for high performance program operation as being defect free. The verification process continues as the computer memory is in use in order to maintain the minimum number of memory blocks required for high performance operation in the verified defect free state. A verification mode of either no verification, delayed verification, or immediate verification is applied to memory blocks used for regular performance program operation. Delayed verification is maintained until an ability to recover the stored data is going to be lost. Immediate verification can be performed using bit error rate analysis. Some verification processes are performed using aggressive programming trim and/or multiple word line sensing for faster programming.
US09514836B2
A memory includes first and second select gate transistors, memory cells, a source line, a bit line, a selected word line which is connected to a selected memory cell as a target of a verify reading, a non-selected word line which is connected to a non-selected memory cell except the selected memory cell, a potential generating circuit for generating a selected read potential which is supplied to the selected word line, and generating a non-selected read potential larger than the selected read potential, which is supplied to the non-selected word line, and a control circuit which classifies a threshold voltage of the selected memory cell to one of three groups by verifying which area among three area which are isolated by two values does a cell current of the selected memory cell belong, when the selected read potential is a first value.
US09514823B2
A method applies a first set of consecutive pulses to flash memory cells in one or more flash memory devices to program the flash memory cells using a first pulse increment, a voltage of each consecutive pulse of the first set being incremented by the first pulse increment. On receiving an indication that the flash memory cells are partially programmed after the first set of consecutive pulses is applied, the first pulse increment is adjusted to an adjusted pulse increment based on a number of program/erase cycles associated with the flash memory cells. A second set of consecutive pulses to the flash memory cells is then applied using the adjusted pulse increment, a voltage of each consecutive pulse of the second set being incremented by the adjusted pulse increment.
US09514807B2
A variable resistance memory device includes upper interconnections on a substrate, first and second word lines provided between the substrate and the upper interconnections and vertically spaced apart from each other, a first bit line disposed between the first and second word lines and intersecting the first and second word lines, memory cells provided in an intersecting region of the first word line and the first bit line and an intersecting region of the second word line and the first bit line, a first word line contact directly connecting the first word line to a corresponding one of the upper interconnections, and a second word line contact directly connecting the second word line to a corresponding one of the upper interconnections.
US09514804B2
A multi-state static RAM cell includes N NOR gates. Each NOR gate has N−1 inputs and one output. The output of each NOR gate is coupled to a different bit line. Each NOR gate has its inputs connected to the outputs of each of the other NOR gates.
US09514798B2
A memory including a plurality of word lines to which one or more memory cells are coupled, an address storage unit suitable for storing an input address corresponding to a first external signal that is inputted at a random time, and a control unit suitable for activating a word line corresponding to the input address of the plurality of word lines in response to an active command and refreshing one or more target word lines selected using an address stored in the address storage unit when performing a refresh operation.
US09514795B1
Reverse complement MTJ bit cells employing shared source lines are disclosed. In one aspect, a 2T2MTJ reverse complement bit cell employing shared source line is provided. Bit cell includes first MTJ and second MTJ. Value of first MTJ is complement of value of second MTJ. First bit line is coupled to top layer of first MTJ, and first electrode of first access transistor is coupled to bottom layer of first MTJ. Second bit line is coupled to bottom layer of second MTJ, and first electrode of second access transistor is coupled to top layer of second MTJ. Word line is coupled to second electrode of first access transistor and second access transistor. Shared source line is coupled to third electrode of first access transistor and second access transistor. Employing shared source line allows the bit cell to be designed with reduced parasitic resistance.
US09514787B2
According to at least one embodiment, a magnetic disk apparatus includes a magnetic disk, a nonvolatile memory, a determination module, a write module, and a read module. The determination module determines whether the off-track write occurs on a first data sector during a write mode. The write module writes first data in the nonvolatile memory if the determination module determines that the off-track write occurs on the first data sector. The read module reads the first data from one of the magnetic disk and the nonvolatile memory based on a determination result of the determination module.
US09514780B2
In a method for detecting free fall, a first acceleration parallel to a first axis, a second acceleration parallel to a second axis perpendicular to the first axis, and a third acceleration parallel to a third axis perpendicular to the first axis and to the second axis are measured. A sum of a first absolute value of the first acceleration, a second absolute value of the second acceleration, and a third absolute value of the third acceleration is calculated, and the free fall is detected as a function of the sum.
US09514779B2
A method for manufacturing a multilayer structure sheet for manufacturing an optical information recording medium having a multilayer structure with a plurality of recording layers comprises: an adhesive layer forming step of forming an adhesive layer on a first release sheet to obtain a first sheet; a recording layer forming step of forming a recording layer containing a polymer on a second release sheet or a release assisting layer formed on the second release sheet to obtain a second sheet; a laminating step of laminating the recording layer of the second sheet on the adhesive layer of the first sheet to obtain a third sheet in which the second sheet is laid on the first sheet; and a heating step of heating the second sheet.
US09514755B2
The present document relates to audio signal processing in general, and to the concealment of artifacts that result from loss of audio packets during audio transmission over a packet-switched network, in particular. A method (200) for concealing one or more consecutive lost packets is described. A lost packet is a packet which is deemed to be lost transform-based audio decoder. Each of the one or more lost packets comprises a set of transform coefficients. A set of transform coefficients is used by the transform-based audio decoder to generate a corresponding frame of a time domain audio signal. The method (200) comprises determining (205) for a current lost packet of the one or more lost packets a number of preceding lost packets from the one or more lost packets; wherein the determined number is referred to as a loss position. Furthermore, the method comprises determining a packet loss concealment, referred to as PLC, scheme based on the loss position of the current packet; and determining (204, 207, 208) an estimate of a current frame of the audio signal using the determined PLC scheme (204, 207, 208); wherein the current frame corresponds to the current lost packet.
US09514752B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for hotword detection on multiple devices are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving, by a first computing device, audio data that corresponds to an utterance. The actions further include determining a first value corresponding to a likelihood that the utterance includes a hotword. The actions further include receiving a second value corresponding to a likelihood that the utterance includes the hotword, the second value being determined by a second computing device. The actions further include comparing the first value and the second value. The actions further include based on comparing the first value to the second value, initiating speech recognition processing on the audio data.
US09514749B2
An electronic device for allowing the user not to terminate audio recording while at the same time checking the content corresponding to a recorded portion in real time during the audio recording, and a method of reproducing the audio signal. An electronic device according to an embodiment disclosed in the present disclosure may include a memory configured to store an audio signal being input; a display unit configured to display at least one of an item indicating a progressive state in which the audio signal is stored therein and an STT-based text for the audio signal; a user interface unit configured to receive the selection of a predetermined portion of the item indicating the progressive state or the selection of a partial character string of the text from the user; and a controller configured to reproduce an audio signal corresponding to the selected portion or the selected character string.
US09514748B2
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are described for implementing a digital personal assistant. The digital personal assistant is capable of determining that a user has asked a question or made a statement that is intended to engage with a persona of the digital personal assistant. In response to determining that the user has asked such a question or made such a statement, the digital personal assistant provides a response thereto by displaying or playing back a multimedia object associated with a popular culture reference within or by a user interface of the digital personal assistant. Additionally or alternatively, in response to determining that the user has asked such a question or made such a statement, the digital personal assistant provides the response thereto by generating or playing back speech that comprises an impersonation of a voice of a person associated with the popular culture reference.
US09514747B1
In an automatic speech recognition (ASR) processing system, ASR processing may be configured to reduce a latency of returning speech results to a user. The latency may be determined by comparing a time stamp of an utterance in process to a current time. Latency may also be estimated based on an endpoint of the utterance or other considerations such as how difficult the utterance may be to process. To improve latency the ASR system may be configured to adjust various processing parameters, such as graph pruning factors, path weights, ASR models, etc. Latency checks and corrections may occur dynamically for a particular utterance while it is being processed, thus allowing the ASR system to adjust to rapidly changing latency conditions.
US09514738B2
A speech is recognized using ACF factors extracted from running autocorrelation functions calculated from the speech. The extracted ACF factors are a Wφ(0) (width of ACF amplitude around zero-delay origin), a Wφ(0)max (maximum value of the Wφ(0)), a τ1 (pitch period), a φ1 (pitch strength), and a Δφ1/Δt (rate of the pitch strength change). Syllables in the speech are identified by comparing the ACF factors with templates stored in a database.
US09514731B2
Disclosed technology allows a whistle to be magnetically detachable from a base portion, such as a finger grip. Some embodiments comprise a whistle component comprising a first magnetic member and a base component comprising a second magnetic member, such that the first and second magnetic members are magnetically attracted to each other. The whistle component can be detachable from the base component by breaking a magnetic bond between the first and second magnetic members. At least one of the first and second magnetic members can be at least partially covered by a non-magnetic material such that the non-magnetic material separates the first and second magnetic members when the whistle component is magnetically coupled to the base component. The first magnetic member can be contained within a cavity of an adaptor that is attached to the whistle, or within the whistle itself.
US09514730B2
Device (1) that can be integrated into a wristwatch case comprising a whistle (7) and a piston (11) for injecting air into the whistle (7) in order to imitate the singing of a bird.
US09514727B2
A musical instrument pickup, having a pickup body, a tone shaping circuit, and at least one integrated control in and/or on the pickup body. Embodiments of the present disclosure may utilize one or more techniques, alone or in combination, to adjust, e.g., the tone of a musical instrument by changing the frequency response of a pickup with the one or more integrated controls. One exemplary technique utilizes a plurality of knobs to selectively control the gain, resonant frequency, and/or circuit Q of the pickup.
US09514723B2
A distributed self-scaling network audio processing system includes end nodes interconnected by packet-switched network and operating as peers on the network. Each of the end nodes supports local input processing, mixing, and output processing. The input processing includes the option of dual input channels for supporting separate front-of-house and monitor workflows. End nodes are added to the system to support specific audio processing applications, based on the number of audio sources, the number of output mixes required, and the number of locations from which users choose to interact with the system.
US09514722B1
Techniques are disclosed for automatic detection of dense ornamentation in music. Input data representing a piece of digitally encoded music in a time domain is converted into a spectrogram representing time-frequency coefficients in a frequency domain. The spectrogram includes column vectors of the time-frequency coefficients that correspond to time periods spanning different portions of the piece of music. A one-dimensional onset detection array is calculated based on a subset of the column vectors. Using the spectrogram and the onset detection array, a two-dimensional self-similarity matrix (SSM) is calculated based on pair-wise comparisons of elements in the onset detection array. As a result, an irregular pattern score representing the presence of dense ornamentation in the piece of music can be calculated based on a magnitude difference between a beat pattern in the music and each column of the slim SSM.
US09514712B2
A display device includes a display panel, a first timing controller, and a second timing controller. The display panel includes a first block and a second block adjacent to the first block, with a data line positioned between the first block and the second block. The first block includes a first column of pixels, and the second block includes a second column of pixels. The first and second columns of pixels are alternately connected to the data line. The first timing controller is configured to receive first image data corresponding to the first block. A second timing controller is configured to receive second image data corresponding to the second block. The first timing controller is configured to transfer at least part of the first mage data to the second timing controller.
US09514709B2
Methods of correcting gamma and a display device employing the same are disclosed. In one aspect, the method includes periodically measuring, at a plurality of predetermined times, a single color measurement luminance related to a single color component that is displayed on the display panel. The method further includes calculating a luminance difference between the single color measurement luminance and a single color target luminance. The single color target luminance is a target luminance of the single color component at each of the predetermined times. The method also includes changing a gamma setting for a plurality of data signals provided to the display panel based on the luminance difference.
US09514705B2
A data processing apparatus has a compressor and an output interface. The compressor receives an input display data, and generates an output display data according to the input display data. The output interface packs the output display data into an output bitstream, and outputs the output bitstream via a display interface. The compressor adaptively adjusts a compression algorithm applied to the input display data according to visibility of compression artifacts. By way of example, the display interface may be a display serial interface (DSI) standardized by a Mobile Industry Processor Interface (MIPI) or an embedded display port (eDP) standardized by a Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA).
US09514696B2
To provide a semiconductor device including a narrowed bezel obtained by designing a gate driver circuit. A gate driver of a display device includes a shift register unit, a demultiplexer circuit, and n signal lines. By connecting the n signal lines for transmitting clock signals to one stage of the shift register unit, (n−3) output signals can be output. The larger n becomes, the smaller the rate of signal lines for transmitting clock signals which do not contribute to output becomes; accordingly, the area of the shift register unit part is small compared to a conventional structure in which one stage of a shift register unit outputs one output signal. Therefore, the gate driver circuit can have a narrow bezel.
US09514693B2
When a first source bus line (SA) or a second source bus line (SB) which is associated with a pixel of one column is electrically connected with a spare wire (AL1), a control circuit (15B) of a liquid crystal display device (100B) according to an embodiment of the present invention is capable of controlling the amplitudes of the oscillation of a first display signal voltage and a second display signal voltage output to the first source bus line (SA) and the second source bus line (SB) so as to be smaller than that achieved when the first source bus line (SA) or the second source bus line (SB) is not electrically connected with the spare wire (AL1).
US09514686B2
Disclosed is an organic light emitting display device which is capable of rapidly sensing a characteristic variation in a pixel including an organic light emitting diode and a driving transistor. The organic light emitting display device may include a display panel including a pixel formed adjacent to each crossing area of gate and data lines, and a sensing line provided in parallel to the data line and connected with the pixel. The device includes a data driver provided with a sensing data generator for sensing a characteristic variation of the pixel through the sensing line and generating sensing data based on the characteristic variation of the pixel for a sensing mode. The sensing data generator generates the sensing data for the pixel by converting current flowing from the pixel to the sensing line into voltage, and converting the voltage to a digital representation using an analog-to-digital conversion method.
US09514684B2
A gradation voltage corresponding to a display data is input to a signal electrode driving circuit. The signal electrode driving circuit includes a voltage output circuit which outputs a drive voltage corresponding to the input gradation voltage, and a slew rate assist circuit which accelerates a transition of an output voltage of the voltage output circuit. The slew rate assist circuit accelerates the transition of the output voltage after a predetermined time from a start of transition of the gradation voltage.
US09514683B2
The gate driving circuit according to the present disclosure may be connected to a row pixel unit which includes a row pixel driving module and a light emitting element connected to each other, the row pixel driving module including a driving transistor, a driving module and a compensation module, the compensation module being connected with a gate scanning signal and the driving module being connected with a driving level. The gate driving circuit may further include a row pixel control unit, which is configured to provide the gate scanning signal to the compensation module and provide the driving level to the driving module, so as to control the compensation module to compensate for a threshold voltage of the driving transistor and control the driving module to drive the light emitting element.
US09514679B2
A display device includes a display unit including luminescence pixels each including a luminescence element and a driving transistor configured to supply a current to the luminescence element to cause the element to emit light, a signal line driving circuit configured to supply a voltage applied between a gate and a source of the driving transistor, and a control circuit configured to apply a certain voltage between the gate and the source of the driving transistor by controlling the signal line driving circuit and the display unit when a power supply to the signal line driving circuit is stopped. The control circuit applies the certain voltage between the gate and the source of the driving transistor so that a recovery of a shift amount of a threshold voltage of the driving transistor is suppressed, the recovery being made when the power supply to the signal line driving circuit is stopped.
US09514678B2
A pixel includes a plurality of organic light emitting diodes, each of which including a cathode electrode coupled to a second power source, a pixel circuit coupled to a scan line and to a data line, the pixel circuit configured to control current supplied from a first power source to the organic light emitting diodes corresponding to a data signal supplied to the data line, and first transistors between the pixel circuit and respective ones of the organic light emitting diodes, the first transistors configured to be turned on or to be turned off when a low emission control signal is supplied to a first emission control line, wherein a scan signal supplied to the scan line is a first voltage, and wherein the low emission control signal is a second voltage that is different than the first voltage.
US09514670B2
There is provided an active matrix EL display device that can display a clear multi gray-scale color display to reduce the shift in the potential caused by the potential drop due to the wiring resistance of a power source supply line, in order to decrease the unevenness in a display region. A plurality of drawing out ports of the power source supply line are arranged. Further, in the wiring resistance between the external input terminal and the pixel portion power source supply line, potential compensation is performed by supplying potential to the power source supply line by a feedback amplifier. Further, in addition to above structure, the power source supply line may be arranged in a matrix.
US09514668B2
A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes: an image input configured to receive an image; a display panel configured to include a plurality of pixels and respectively emit light in the plurality of pixels in order to display the image; a panel driver configured to drive the display panel; and a controller configured to analyze a motion of the image and control the panel driver to drive the display panel by using different driving methods according to a size of the analyzed motion.
US09514663B2
Visual media content on a billboard display surface can be illuminated using a lighting assembly that includes a lighting unit that includes a circuit board, LEDs arranged on the circuit board, and optical elements overlying the LEDs. The method includes directing light from the lighting unit toward a portion of the billboard display surface such that the light from the lighting unit illuminates the visual media content on the portion of the billboard display surface with an illumination level and a uniformity. The optical elements are configured so that failure of one or more LEDs of the lighting assembly will cause the illumination level of light impinging the portion of the billboard display surface to decrease while the uniformity of light impinging the portion of the billboard display surface remains substantially the same.
US09514661B2
A digital display system includes a transparent outer protective panel, a transparent inner protective panel, and a translucent digital video display located between the outer and inner protective panels. An integrated media player is operably connected to the translucent digital video display so that full-motion videos displayed on the translucent digital video display are viewed through the outer protective panel and items can be viewed through the translucent digital video display. The digital display system can be incorporated into any environment where a product is located behind a glass enclosure such as freezers, coolers, security glass, jewelry cases, liquor cases, cosmetic cases, and the like. In retail environments, the digital display systems can also be incorporated into entry doors, windows, drive-thru windows, teller windows, and any other location where there is traditionally glass and you want to focus consumer attention obstructing the customer's line of site.
US09514659B2
A shoulder and upper arm assembly for a crash test dummy includes a shoulder assembly having a spring housing and a shoulder pivot member pivotally connected to the spring housing. The shoulder assembly includes a spring element disposed in the spring housing and an adjustable member to adjust the friction of the spring element. An upper arm assembly includes a bone assembly having one end connected to the shoulder assembly and another end for connection to a lower arm assembly. The bone assembly includes a bone member made of metal and a load cell connected to the bone member to measure a load on the bone member.
US09514658B1
A synthetic tissue model using one or more semi-flexible polymers or resin with at least one embedded mesh material is provided herein. The model provides suitable simulation of animal tissue designed to mimic tissue stiffness through varying the polymerization to simulate tissue stiffness level. Multiple polymers or multiple layers of polymer possessing different polymerization levels can be used to simulate tissues with different layers, such as skin. A mesh incorporated in the model provides durability, and can simulate layers of tissue through selection of the mesh material. A skin model using silicone-like material with a nylon tulle mesh was used to simulate skin for surgical procedures. The nylon tulle mesh increased resistance to tearing over time, due to insertion of surgical tools, thereby increasing usable life of the model and enhancing training as the model simulated skin for longer periods of time.
US09514654B2
A system includes an education module (171) that is operable with, includes, or is operable to control three-dimensional figure generation software (170). The education module (171) is configured to present an educational three-dimensional object (181) on a display (132) upon detecting an educational flash card (150) being disposed before a camera (130) that is operable with the education module (171). The educational three-dimensional object (181) can correspond to a visible graphic (151) disposed on the educational flash card (150) to provide an educational experience to a student.
US09514650B2
A system for warning of potential hazards when a vehicle is turning has a sensor coupled to the vehicle and configured to capture data of objects located around the vehicle. A control unit is coupled to the sensor for processing the data captured by the sensor to generate graphical representations of objects captured by the sensor, graphical representations of projected paths of moving objects captured; and a graphical representation of a projected turning path of the vehicle.
US09514646B2
A method of operating a parking assistance system involves operating a first sensor onboard a parking vehicle to obtain a first distance measurement to a parked vehicle, and transmitting a first wireless signal which activates a second sensor onboard the parked vehicle. The second sensor obtains a second distance measurement to the parking vehicle and transmits the result via a second wireless signal. The second wireless signal is received by the parking vehicle which then determines an inter-vehicle distance based on the first and second distance measurements, and uses the inter-vehicle distance to perform a parking maneuver. The transmission of the second distance measurement by the parked vehicle may be contingent upon existence of a condition (such as a sufficient state-or-charge of a vehicle battery or prior consent of an operator) of the parked vehicle when the parked vehicle receives the first wireless signal.
US09514644B2
A system (8) for implementing at least one action based on a location of a mobile communication device (10). The system (8) comprises a controller (16), storage (18) storing electronic program instructions for controlling the controller (16), and input means (24). The controller (16) is operable, under control of the electronic program instructions, to receive input via the input means (24), the input comprising an indication of a location of the mobile communication device (10), process the indication to determine whether the location of the mobile communication device (10) corresponds to a location of a predefined area, and implement the at least one action based on the determination.
US09514635B2
An interface circuit of a sub-system of a distributed fire detection system having a plurality of sub-systems, wherein the plurality of sub-systems are in communication with each other in a loop configuration to allow data signals to be routed between said sub-systems. The interface circuit connects the internal components of a sub-system to the external bus line connecting all components via at least three input/output ports. It comprises hardware logic components, namely switches and switch controllers listening for incoming data and opening or closing said switches to cause disconnection and connection between said input/output ports accordingly, thereby allowing the routing of data signals to one or more of the other input/output ports. The simpler configurations replaces a routing processor.
US09514633B2
The present invention provides a system and methods for notifying first responders of the general or specific location of a security crisis or threat in a building or public location, and the type of threat or crisis that has occurred, while notifying building occupants or others in the public location of the crisis and how to respond. The crisis notification system alarm system can provide critical information to the first responders, including location of crisis and whether the crisis location is changing, audio and video of the crisis arena, communications with designated occupants in the crisis arena, and other information. The crisis notification system can be scaled to allow the effective use in facilities of differing sizes and layouts. The system is also flexible, enabling the system to integrate with currently existing systems or to operate with new devices.
US09514624B2
Apparatus for detecting a ferromagnetic object to protect, for example, a doorway to an MRI room comprises a passive primary sensor apparatus comprising at least one first magnetic sensor, a secondary non-magnetic sensor apparatus comprising at least two sensors, a detection zone for one of the secondary sensors being distinct from the zone of the other one of the secondary sensors, a signal processing circuit arranged in communication with the primary and secondary sensor apparatus, and a warning device. The signal processing circuit identifies temporal variations in the signal from the primary sensor and correlate them with instances in which both sensors of the secondary, non-magnetic, sensor apparatus detect the presence of an object in their respective zones.
US09514617B2
A medium separating and stacking device is provided. In one embodiment, a medium separating and stacking device comprises a frame, a first shaft rotatably coupled to the frame, a second shaft rotatably coupled to the frame and spaced apart from the first shaft, and a rotation prevention part allowing the second shaft to stop at a set position by using a magnetic force.
US09514615B2
A game controller operable to control play of a game. The game controller includes a configuration module, a wager determination module and a trigger module. The configuration module configures a secondary event trigger having a hit rate which is fixed over a plurality of games. The wager determination module determines an amount wagered for play of one of the games. The trigger module triggers a secondary game event in which a higher value prize and lower value prize are each eligible to be awarded upon determining the trigger in the game, such that a probability of awarding the higher value prize increases with the amount wagered in the game, while the probability of awarding the lower value prize decreases.
US09514602B2
For facilitating re-experience of an event of a gaming device with a player, at least one of an available plurality of data sampled by the gaming device by a gaming system having supervisory hierarchical control over the gaming device, is monitored. The data is compared against a predetermined threshold to determine whether the predetermined threshold is exceeded. If the threshold is exceeded, at least a portion of the sampled data is provided to a data processing device to be processed in re-creating the event at a subsequent time.
US09514597B2
A computer-implemented interactive system and methods allowing for the tracking, management, and reporting of casino smart chips are provided. In an illustrative implementation a casino smart chip environment comprises a casino smart chip management engine, and instruction set comprising at least one instruction to instruct the casino smart chip engine to process data representative of the activation, tracking, monitoring, and/or reporting of one or more casino smart chips. In the illustrative implementation, the one or more casino smart chips can comprise one or more operative components comprising any of a communications component (e.g., radio frequency identification (RFID) component), a display component, a monetary value store, and a unique identifier store. Operatively, the exemplary casino smart chip engine can track, store, and report data representative of the authentication, commissioning, draw down, decommissioning, and use of the smart casino chip in casino and non-casino activities.
US09514593B2
The present invention relates to the automatic removal of value document stacks from a container with the aid of a gripper. For separating different value document stacks, the container is subdivided into several storage regions by separator elements. Since the separator element positions of different value document containers may be different, for the container to be respectively processed it is ascertained at which positions along the container the separator elements are arranged. Ascertaining the separator element positions is effected independently of the gripper at a time before the gripper is moved toward the container. The ascertained information items about the separator element positions belonging to the container are then transferred to a gripper control device of the gripper, which is configured for controlling the motion of the gripper in order to remove value documents from the container.
US09514592B2
The invention relates to a cash box (100, 500) that comprises a housing (106) in which two roll storage systems (102, 104) for storing bank notes are held.
US09514589B2
A secure short-distance-based communication and access control system controls access to a restricted area. A run-time mobile device identifier and keys that may be location-specific, device-specific and time-specific are generated and utilized for secure communication between mobile devices and zone computers. The zone computers can validate users via their mobile devices to allow or deny access to the restricted area.
US09514585B2
A electronic lock system and method including an electronic lock, a mobile device and/or a wireless device. The electronic lock is capable of sending a message to the mobile device via wireless communication and/or to the wireless device based on a triggering event. The mobile device and/or the wireless device may in turn perform an action based on the received message. In one embodiment, the electronic lock, the mobile device the wireless device communicate with one another wirelessly via Bluetooth communication.
US09514584B1
An access management and reporting system includes a keysafe that is located outside of a building and a communication system that is located within the building. The communication system is configured to perform, over a short-range wireless communication protocol, two-way communication with a communication module of the keysafe. The system also includes a server that is located remote from the building and the keysafe. The server is configured to perform, over a long-range communication protocol, two-way communication with the communication system located within the building, is configured to manage access to the keysafe, and is configured to handle reporting related to access of the keysafe.
US09514581B2
A vehicle that includes a chassis, wheels, a drivetrain including an engine and a transmission, and a brake system. The vehicle also has a vehicle control system that includes controllers for the engine, the transmission controller, and the brake system, a vehicle network connected to the controllers to permit communication to and from these components, and a primary vehicle controller connected to the network and configured to communicate with the controllers. The vehicle further includes a vehicle diagnostic system that is connected to the network and configured to communicate with the various controllers. The diagnostic system is configured to operate in a diagnostic mode, in which the diagnostic system is configured to display diagnostic information from one or more of the controllers. The diagnostic system may further be configured to operate in a display mode, where the vehicle diagnostic system is configured to display operating information regarding the vehicle.
US09514572B2
A mixed reality space image providing apparatus configured to provide a user with a mixed reality space image in which a virtual object image is superimposed on a real space image is provided includes a selection unit configured to select simulation processing from among a plurality of types of simulation processing based on an instruction from the user, a simulation processing unit configured to perform the simulation processing selected by the selection unit with respect to the virtual object image, and a providing unit configured to generate a mixed reality space image by superimposing the simulation-processed virtual object image on the real space image and to provide the generated mixed reality space image to the user.
US09514571B2
Methods for generating and displaying images associated with one or more virtual objects within an augmented reality environment at a frame rate that is greater than a rendering frame rate are described. The rendering frame rate may correspond with the minimum time to render images associated with a pose of a head-mounted display device (HMD). In some embodiments, the HMD may determine a predicted pose associated with a future position and orientation of the HMD, generate a pre-rendered image based on the predicted pose, determine an updated pose associated with the HMD subsequent to generating the pre-rendered image, generate an updated image based on the updated pose and the pre-rendered image, and display the updated image on the HMD. The updated image may be generated via a homographic transformation and/or a pixel offset adjustment of the pre-rendered image.
US09514565B2
An image processing apparatus. The image processing apparatus may perform filtering to emphasize a surface lighting of a low frequency band from an input lighting environment image, and may also perform at least one virtual point light (VPL) sampling from the input lighting environment image. The image processing apparatus may perform precomputed radiance transfer (PRT) based rendering using the filtered lighting environment image and VPL based rendering using the sampled VPL.
US09514564B2
For generating ultrasonic projection images in which various kind of ultrasonic projection images have been appropriately combined, the invention is provided with: a storage unit that stores tomographic image volume data and elastic image volume data; a volume rendering unit that generates tomographic projection images by volume rendering on the basis of the tomographic image volume data; a display device that displays the ultrasonic projection images generated by the volume rendering unit; and an operation unit for inputting commands to control the volume rendering unit. For one of the rendering spaces partitioned by a cutting plane set in the rendering space by a command input from the operation unit, the volume rendering unit renders voxels of tomographic image volume data corresponding to the voxels of elastic image volume data that have elasticity values satisfying a set threshold value, and generates and displays the tomographic projection image on the display device.
US09514560B2
Systems and methods for using hierarchical tags to create a computer-generated animation are provided. The hierarchical tags may be used to organize, identify, and select animation assets in order to configure animation parameters used to render a computer-generated image. The hierarchical tags may be used to display representations of animation assets for selection. A hierarchy based on the hierarchical tags may be represented by a tree structure. The hierarchical tags may be used as part of a rule to partition animation assets. In this way, the hierarchical tags may advantageously be used to identify, organize, and select animation assets and perform animation processes.
US09514548B2
A method of presenting higher dimensional data provided from a photon counting CT system includes receiving data from a photon counting CT system corresponding to materials exposed to N number of ranges of photon energy, where N is a number equal to or greater than four and generating N number of images, each image comprising pixel values corresponding to the materials exposed to the N number of ranges of photon energy. The method also includes presenting the pixel values in each of the N number of images within a two dimensional (2D) space by providing N number of axes, each axis linearly representing the pixel values in a corresponding image of the N number of images and representing each pixel value for pixels corresponding to a same location in each of the N number of images via a continuous line comprising a plurality of line segments.
US09514536B2
In accordance with one embodiment, an intelligent video thumbnail selection and generation tool may select a relevant and visually stimulating image from a video file and generate a thumbnail including the image. The image may be selected by computing a relevancy metric for an image in the file based on one or more selected relevant features, and comparing that relevancy metric with the metric of at least one other image in the file. In another embodiment, a series of images in a video file may be divided into shots. One of the shots may be selected based on a shot relevancy metric and a key image from the shot may be selected as a thumbnail based on a key image relevancy metric, where the shot relevancy metric and the key image relevancy metrics may be computed based on one or more relevant content features.
US09514533B2
The invention relates to a method for non-invasive reproducible determination of a corrected surface on a 3D bone surface model constructed from 3D medical image of a bone having a deformation consisting in a bump overgrowth at the head-neck junction; wherein said corrected surface comprises: i) a 3D spherical corrected surface patch on the head portion of said 3D bone surface model, and ii) a 3D smooth transition corrected surface patch on the neck portion of said 3D bone surface model, contiguous to said 3D spherical corrected surface patch; Said corrected surface patches are defined by a set of parameters comprising: iii) at least one first parameter (a*) representing a spherical extent value of said 3D spherical corrected surface patch, iv) and a set of at least one second parameter, said set determining the 3D correction boundary of said corrected surface patches, such that said corrected surface patches are continuous with said 3D bone surface model along said boundary.
US09514530B2
Systems and methods that involve integrating imaging data from multiple sources to create a single, accurate model of a patient's anatomy. One method includes receiving a representation of a target object for modeling; determining one or more first anatomical parameters of the target anatomical object from at least one of one or more first images of the target anatomical object; determining one or more second anatomical parameters of the target anatomical object from at least one of one or more second images of the target anatomical object; updating the one or more first anatomical parameters based at least on the one or more second anatomical parameters; and generating a model of the target anatomical object based on the updated first anatomical parameters.
US09514528B2
Image processing apparatus includes: interpolation process image acquisition means for acquiring an interpolation process image of prescribed size which includes an interpolation point of an inputted image; Fourier transform means for subjecting the interpolation process image which is acquired with the interpolation process image acquisition means to Fourier transform; phase change means for changing, a phase of each value of the transformed interpolation process image which has been subjected to Fourier transform by the Fourier transform means, such that the interpolation point migrates to a desired nearby integer coordinate position; inverse Fourier transform means for subjecting the interpolation process image whose phase has been changed by the phase change means, to inverse Fourier transform; interpolation value determination means for adopting an interpolation point, a value of a pixel at the integer coordinate position, from the transformed interpolation process image subjected to inverse Fourier transform by the inverse Fourier transform means.
US09514523B2
Image filling utilizing image data captured by an array of cameras having different camera viewpoints. Image data, such as a pixel value or gradient value associated with a spatial point in a source region of an image is transferred to the same or another image to fill a target region. Visual artifacts may be reduced by filling portions of the target region visible from other viewpoints with expanded source patches to reduce the size of the target region to be inpainted. In embodiments, a shifted mask corresponding to the target region is determined for each supplementary image based on an estimate of foreground disparity. In further embodiments, partially occluded regions are detected based on an estimate of background disparity. Source patches may be expanded based on a baseline between camera viewpoints into large coherent regions that agree well with the target region boundary may be filled without hallucinating image data from similar patches.
US09514522B2
Techniques for setting depth values for invalid measurement regions of depth images are described herein. A computing device may set the depth values based on evaluations of depth values of neighboring pixels and of corresponding pixels from time-adjacent depth images. Alternately or additionally, the computing device may utilize a texture image corresponding to the depth image to identify objects and may set depth values for pixels based on depth values of other pixels belonging to the same object. After setting the depth values, the computing device may normalize the depth values of the pixels. Further, the computing device may generate reduced representations of the depth images based on a depth reference model or a depth error model and may provide the reduced representations to an encoder.
US09514518B2
An infusion pump includes a housing having a compartment structured to receive a syringe and a drive mechanism supported by the housing. The drive mechanism is structured and arranged to contact a syringe plunger of the syringe and move the syringe plunger within a syringe barrel of the syringe. The infusion pump further includes a syringe plunger position sensor and a syringe barrel size sensor. The sensors each include a magnet positioned on the drive mechanism and a magnetic sensor array supported by the housing.
US09514507B2
The present disclosure is directed towards methods and systems for maintaining state in a virtual machine when disconnected from graphics hardware. The virtual machine is one of a plurality of virtual machines hosted by a hypervisor executing on a computing device. A control virtual machine may be hosted by a hypervisor executing on a computing device. The control virtual machine may store state information of a graphics processing unit (GPU) of the computing device. The GPU may render an image from a first virtual machine. The control virtual machine may remove, from the first virtual machine, access to the GPU. The control virtual machine may redirect the first virtual machine to a GPU emulation program. The GPU emulation program may render the image from the first virtual machine using at least a portion of the stored state information.
US09514497B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for interactions between a consumer and a service provider. In some embodiments, an interaction application may provide a collection of service providers to a consumer, receive a selection of a service provider from the consumer, and establish a two-way video communication between the consumer and the service provider. In some embodiments, the interaction application may charge a fee to the consumer, the service provider, or both, for the providing the interaction.
US09514492B2
Systems and methods are provided for providing financial service extensions. In one implementation, a financial cloud system including a memory storing instructions and a processor configured to execute the instructions is provided. The instructions may be executed to perform a process associated with providing the financial service extensions. The process may include providing a platform application to a client device. The process may also include receiving data associated with a financial service extension to be used in connection with the platform application. The process may further include receiving configuration data associated with the financial service extension. The process may additionally include configuring, by the processor, the financial service extension for use with the platform application. The process may also include providing, by the processor, the financial service extension to the client device.
US09514487B2
A system for measuring dimensions and/or other internal properties of a shoe, garment or other object of interest is described. The system includes a fixture having a measurement tip. When the tip is placed inside of the object of interest, a processor collects positional data from the fixture to develop a three-dimensional model of the interior of the object. If the measurement tip includes one or more pressure sensors, the processor may collect pressure data and use the pressure data to include stretch properties in the three-dimensional model.
US09514483B2
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.
US09514482B2
A system for managing vehicle information displayed on a plurality of vehicles, said system including a central computer system and plurality of electronic display devices (EDD), each being associated with one of said vehicles and each being in electronic communication with the central computer system (CCS). The CCS includes one or more computer processors; computer readable data storage; and a CCS computer program stored on said data storage, the CCS program being executable by the processors to perform the steps of selecting a vehicle from said plurality of vehicles; generating vehicle data representing information about said vehicle; and sending said vehicle data to an associated one of said EDDs. Each one of said EDDs includes one or more computer processors; computer readable data storage; an EDD computer program stored on said data storage; and a visual display unit, the EDD program being executable by the processors to perform the steps of receiving vehicle data from the CCS representing information about an associated vehicle; and displaying said vehicle data representing information about the associated vehicle on the visual display unit.
US09514478B2
An application executing on a mobile device, such as an application associated with a social networking system provides a link to install a third-party application. The link may be presented in an advertisement, and the link is used to retrieve data comprising a client application for execution by the mobile device. To track installations, the client application stores an indication that the client application was installed in a shared memory location on the mobile device, as native applications do not have access to cookies. A social networking application executing on the mobile device retrieves the indication the client application was installed from the shared memory location and communicates it to a social networking system for storing in a user profile.
US09514476B2
A musician discovery system is provided. The musician discovery system includes a first interface for displaying a plurality of musicians organized according to a musical characteristic. The system includes a second interface for presenting multimedia information about a first musician from the plurality of musicians displayed on the first interface. The system includes means for comparing a second plurality of musicians with the first musician using the multimedia information presented on the second interface about the first musician. Furthermore, the system includes a third interface for recommending a second musician from the second plurality of musicians based on the comparing means.
US09514467B2
Systems, methods, and products for described herein. One aspect provides for transmitting a message template comprising at least one template element to at least one receiver device, the at least one template element comprising (i) at least one rule and (ii) content having at least one customized element; receiving at least one instantiation request responsive to the message template being opened by at least one receiver device; instantiating the message template as at least one customized message based on the at least one rule and at least one attribute associated with the receiver device, wherein the at least one customized message comprises a specified value for the at least one customized element; and transmitting the at least one customized message to the at least one receiver device. Other embodiments and aspects are also described herein.
US09514463B2
Systems, apparatus, and computer program products provide for monitoring an area within or proximate to a place of business for digital signatures of mobile communication devices, such as cellular devices or wearable communication devices. The captured digital signatures are then matched to digital signatures associated with existing customers of the business to determine the presence of the existing customer within or proximate to the place of business. Once the presence of the existing customer within or proximate to the business is known, the business can access other relevant information, such as customer profile information, prior transaction/interaction information or the like to enhance the customer's current interaction with the business. Moreover, once the presence of the existing customer is known, location determining mechanisms may implemented to track the location of the known customer within or proximate to the place of business for the purpose of positively identifying the known customer.
US09514458B2
A Chip Authentication Program based on 3-D Secure protocols is provided for authenticating customers' on-line transactions. An issuer, who may be a payment card issuer, operates Access Control and Authentication Request Servers for authenticating transactions by individual customers who are identified by their personal EMV-complaint smart cards. An authentication token is generated at the point of interaction (POI) for each transaction based on information from the customer's smart card and transaction specific information sent directly by the issuer to populate a web page at the POI. Authentication tokens generated at the POI are evaluated by the Authentication Request Server to authenticate individual customer and/or card presence at the transaction POI. Authentication values are transported on-line in designated Universal Cardholder Authentication Fields consistent with 3-D Secure protocols.
US09514441B2
A method and apparatus for conducting at least two concurrent conversation sessions is provided whereby a user may quickly switch between sessions. A graphical user interface may be provided comprising a first portion for conducting a first communication session and a second portion for immediately invoking a switch to a second communication session. In operation, the first portion of the graphical user interface is switched to immediately conduct said second communication session in response to a user input to invoke the switch. The second component can display notifications for concurrent session activities and a particular notification selected by a user to invoke the switch.
US09514435B2
The present invention is directed to provide a method and system for targeting individuals and providing a reference to a discussion in a discussion forum. A method is described herein that allows a user of an integrated discussion forum interface to initiate the generation of a direct, navigable reference to a thread or message in the discussion forum to one or more targeted individuals. By generating a direct, navigable reference to the thread or message, the system may advantageously facilitate the directed solicitation of targeted individuals while leveraging the accessibility, reusability, and available knowledge base of a traditional public forum.
US09514432B2
According to one aspect, a monitoring device for detecting when an object may be subjected to a condition includes a processor, a sensor, and a configuration circuit. The sensor is adapted to detect if the object is subjected to at least a first magnitude of the particular condition. The configuration circuit may be used to specify a second magnitude of the particular condition, wherein the second magnitude is greater than the first magnitude. The processor remains in an inactive state if the object is subjected to a magnitude of the particular condition less than the second magnitude, and the sensor generates a signal in response to detection of object being subjected to at least the second magnitude of the particular condition. In response to the signal, the processor enters an active state to develop an indication of at least the second magnitude of the particular condition.
US09514431B2
A system for monitoring a plurality radio frequency identification tags is described. The system uses at least one set of radio frequency identification tags. Each tag is attached to a container and includes several sensors for detecting physical conditions of said container. The system includes at least one autonomous intermediate reader in wireless communication with the frequency identification tags. The intermediate reader includes external wireless communication system, intermediate reader logic controller, and a self-contained rechargeable power supply. The system uses a central status reporting system in communication the intermediate reader.
US09514427B2
A novel graphical interface and input method is provided. In certain implementations, a touch screen interface is provided with a plurality of icons that each represent seats around a table in a restaurant. Each icon is associated with a unique account. Accounts can be easily merged and split by using touch and swipe interfaces with the icons.
US09514421B2
A motor controller for a motor is described. The motor controller includes a communication device coupled to a memory device. The motor controller is configured to receive, using the communication device, a status query from a client computing device. The motor controller is additionally configured to transmit diagnostic data from the memory device to the client computing device, transmit identification data associated with the motor controller to the client computing device, receive, from the client computing device, a decommission password generated from the identification data, and disable the motor using the decommission password.
US09514420B2
A memory controller includes a differential receiver circuitry to receive a differential data strobe signal pair and to generate a first data strobe signal based on the differential data strobe signal pair. The differential data strobe signal pair comprises a first signal and a second signal. The memory controller also includes a single ended receiver circuitry to receive the first signal of the differential data strobe signal pair and to generate a second data strobe signal based on the first signal of the differential data strobe signal pair. The memory controller further includes circuitry to generate a gating signal for gating the first data strobe signal, the circuitry generating the gating signal based on the second data strobe signal.
US09514414B1
Computer implemented systems and methods are disclosed for identifying and categorizing electronic documents through machine learning. In accordance with some embodiments, a seed set of categorized electronic documents may be used to train a document categorizer based on a machine learning algorithm. The trained document categorizer may categorize electronic documents in a large corpus of electronic documents. Performance metrics associated with performance of the trained document categorizer may be tracked, and additional seed sets of categorized electronic documents may be used to improve the performance of document categorizer by retraining the document categorizer on subsequent seed sets. Additional seed sets may and categorizations may be iterated through until a desired document categorization performance is reached.
US09514410B2
A system and method for identifying and condensing similar and/or analogous information requests and/or responses comprising a computer apparatus having an intelligent global rules engine to facilitate interaction with information requests and/or responses. The computer apparatus comprises machine-readable medium, wherein data is stored, wherein the data comprises a comparison of similar and/or analogous information requests and/or responses, wherein redundancies and/or analogies in information requests and/or responses have been identified and condensed to remove the redundancies and/or analogies thereby creating at least one global rule, rule group and/or single rule. The computer apparatus further comprises both a data processing module, wherein the data processing module comprises a lexical analyzer with contextual awareness, and an intelligent global rules engine, wherein the intelligent global rules engine comprises the at least one global rule, rule group and/or single rules.
US09514408B2
Methods for constructing and maintaining knowledge representation systems are disclosed herein. The knowledge representation system is initially organized and populated using knowledge engineers. After the initial organization, scientific domain experts digest and structure source texts for direct entry into the knowledge representation system using templates created by the knowledge engineers. These templates constrain both the form and content of the digested information, allowing it to be entered directly into the knowledge representation system. Although knowledge engineers are available to evaluate and dispose of those instances when the digested information cannot be entered in the form required by the templates, their role is much reduced from conventional knowledge representation system construction methods. The methods disclosed herein permit the construction and maintenance of a much larger knowledge representation system than could be constructed and maintained using known methods.
US09514398B2
Securely printing a document. Receiving, by a server computer, a request from a client computer to allocate a printer satisfying a set of security requirements. Allocating, by the server computer, a printer that will print document data according to the received set of security requirements and that is accessible by the client computer. Transmitting to the client computer, by the server computer, an identification of the allocated printer. Transmitting to the allocated printer, by the server computer, the received set of security requirements. Receiving from the client computer, by the server computer, a printing instruction including document data for printing to the allocated printer. Transmitting to the allocated printer, by the server computer, the received document data to print.
US09514391B2
In an image classification method, a feature vector representing an input image is generated by unsupervised operations including extracting local descriptors from patches distributed over the input image, and a classification value for the input image is generated by applying a neural network (NN) to the feature vector. Extracting the feature vector may include encoding the local descriptors extracted from each patch using a generative model, such as Fisher vector encoding, aggregating the encoded local descriptors to form a vector, projecting the vector into a space of lower dimensionality, for example using Principal Component Analysis (PCA), and normalizing the feature vector of lower dimensionality to produce the feature vector representing the input image. A set of mid-level features representing the input image may be generated as the output of an intermediate layer of the NN.
US09514386B2
A method, system, and medium are provided for identifying terrestrial objects that have changed in a certain manner. One embodiment of the method includes receiving a query that includes one or more inputs, which are related to 1) a first terrestrial object (“first object”) and 2) source change-detection information that describes change associated with the first object; applying the query to a dataset that includes indexed information that describes the imagery; based on the one or more inputs, receiving a query result by identifying a set of regions in the dataset that are respectively associated with change information that is similar to that of the source change-detection information; and presenting on a presentation device indications of at least a portion of the identified set of regions.
US09514385B2
A key identification system is provided. The key identification system comprises an imaging system to capture an image of a master key, and a logic to analyze the captured image. The imaging system may be capture an image of a groove in the master key from an angle between perpendicular and parallel to the blade of said master key. The logic analyzes the captured image to compare characteristics of the groove with groove characteristics of known key blanks to determine the likelihood of a match between the master key and a known key blank. The key identification system may further compensate for displacement or orientation of the master key with respect to the imaging system when analyzing characteristics of the groove.
US09514381B1
Method of identifying and replacing an object or area in a digital image with another object or area
A system and method for object and area detection and replacement in an image includes identifying an object or area in one or more sequential images that form a moving image sequence and replacing some or all of the identified object or areas with another image such that the image looks to be part of the original composition of the original image including lighting, shadows, placement, occlusion, orientation, position, and deformation.
US09514379B2
Disclosed are a sensing device and method used for a virtual golf simulation apparatus in which an image acquired by an inexpensive camera having a relatively low resolution and velocity is analyzed to relatively accurately extract information on physical properties, such as velocity, direction and altitude angle, of a moving ball, and, particularly, in which the moving trajectory of a golf club is relatively accurately calculated from the acquired image to relatively accurately estimate spin of the ball and to reflect the estimated spin of the ball in golf simulation, thereby constituting a virtual golf simulation apparatus having high accuracy and reliability at low costs and further improving reality of virtual golf.
US09514376B2
A technique for selectively distributing OCR and/or machine language translation tasks between a mobile computing device and server(s) includes receiving, at the mobile computing device, an image of an object comprising a text. The mobile computing device can determine a degree of optical character recognition (OCR) complexity for obtaining the text from the image. Based on this degree of OCR complexity, the mobile computing device and/or the server(s) can perform OCR to obtain an OCR text. The mobile computing device can then determine a degree of translation complexity for translating the OCR text from its source language to a target language. Based on this degree of translation complexity, the mobile computing device and/or the server(s) can perform machine language translation of the OCR text from the source language to a target language to obtain a translated OCR text. The mobile computing device can then output the translated OCR text.
US09514368B2
An analysis master control can be configured to derive contextual information of visual media that includes extracted information and extrapolated information. The analysis master control can receive the extracted information characterizing visual media from a recognizer. An information finder can be configured to query a plurality of information sources for information based on the extracted information. The analysis master control can also be configured to match information received from the information sources with the extracted information to form the extrapolated information that characterizes the visual media.
US09514367B2
A method and apparatus for playing contents are disclosed. The method may include: receiving an encoded content, where the content contains position information for each scene; decoding the encoded content; extracting a scene in which position information is changed, from among the scenes of the decoded content; creating a thumbnail for the extracted scene; and outputting at least one of the thumbnail and the content.
US09514364B2
Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for novel eye tracking methodologies are presented. Specifically, after an initial determination of a person's eyes within a field of view (FOV), methods of the present disclosures may track the person's eyes even with part of the face occluded, and may quickly re-acquire the eyes even if the person's eyes exit the FOV. Each eye may be tracked individually, at a faster rate of eye tracking due to the novel methodology, and successful eye tracking even at low image resolution and/or quality is possible. In some embodiments, the eye tracking methodology of the present disclosures includes a series of sub-tracker techniques, each performing different eye-tracking functions that, when combined, generate a highest-confidence location of where the eye has moved to in the next image frame.
US09514363B2
The disclosure provides an approach for detecting and localizing action in video. In one embodiment, an action detection application receives training video sequences and associated eye gaze fixation data collected from a sample of human viewers. Using the training video sequences and eye gaze data, the action detection application learns a model which includes a latent regions potential term that measures the compatibility of latent spatio-temporal regions with the model, as well as a context potential term that accounts for contextual information that is not directly produced by the appearance and motion of the actor. The action detection application may train this model in, e.g., the latent structural SVM framework by minimizing a cost function which encodes the cost of an incorrect action label prediction and a mislocalization of the eye gaze. During training and thereafter, inferences using the model may be made using an efficient dynamic programming algorithm.
US09514361B2
A method and apparatus are provided for classifying range profiles, generated for example by a radar, lidar or sonar. In the method, each in a set of objects of interest is modeled with a probabilistic model. The probabilistic model represents the probabilities of occurrence of different possible sequences of distances between selected features of the object, in different orientations, that are likely to result in peaks of backscatter in a range profile of the object. The probabilistic model is derived from a first probabilistic representation of each selected feature, generated to represent the uncertainty in locating the feature and the uncertainty in observing the feature in a range profile. Classification is achieved by calculating, for each probabilistic model, the probability that the model would generate a given sequence of distances between observed backscatter events in a given range profile. The model generating the given sequence with the greatest probability identifies the object likely to have produced the given range profile. Preferably, the probabilistic models comprise Hidden Markov Models (HMMs).
US09514355B2
Methods and systems are presented for organizing images. In one aspect, a method can include generating a correlation value indicating a likelihood that a face included in a test image corresponds to a face associated with a base image, determining that a correlation threshold exceeds the correlation value and that the correlation value exceeds a non-correlation threshold, generating a similarity score based on one or more exposure values and one or more color distribution values corresponding to the test image and the base image, combining the similarity score with the correlation value to generate a weighted correlation value, and determining that the test image and the base image are correlated when the weighted correlation value exceeds the correlation threshold.
US09514354B2
One or more processors generate a set of facial appearance parameters that are derived from a first facial image. One or more processors generate a graphics control vector based, at least in part, on the set of facial appearance parameters. One or more processors render a second facial image based on the graphics control vector. One or more processors compare the second facial image to the first image. One or more processors generate an adjusted vector by adjusting one or more parameters of the graphics control vector such that a degree of similarity between the second facial image and the first facial image is increased. The adjusted vector includes a biometric portion. One or more processors generate a first face representation based, at least in part, on the biometric portion of the adjusted vector.
US09514352B2
The present invention relates to a method of enrolling a fingerprint of a user's finger, by means of an electronic device comprising a touch sensor having an active area corresponding to a first surface portion of the electronic device; and a fingerprint sensor having an active area corresponding to a second surface portion of the electronic device. The comprises the steps of acquiring a touch sensor signal indicative of a sub-area of the touch sensor being touched by the finger; acquiring a partial fingerprint image of a portion of the fingerprint; a positional relationship between the portion of the fingerprint and the finger based on the sub-area and a positional relationship between the first and second surface portions of the electronic device; and forming a fingerprint template based on acquired partial fingerprint images and the determined positional relationships.
US09514351B2
Processing a fingerprint can include determining one or more optimal weights based on ridge flow angles or ridge flow angle differences. Determination of the optimal weight(s) can be based on predicting a ridge flow angle for each cell in a ridge flow map using one or more neighboring cells. The optimal weights may be estimated so as to minimize error between the predicted and actual ridge flow angles. Alternatively, the optimal weight(s) may be determined using a predicted ridge flow angle difference for each cell in a difference map that is based on an actual ridge flow angle difference for one or more neighboring cells. The optimal weights can be estimated to minimize the error between predicted and actual angle differences. Additionally, a correlation penalty may be determined based on an extent of spatial correlation in the ridge flow angle differences in the difference map.
US09514346B2
A multi-layer optical barcode with security features is described herein. An example method includes illuminating a first phosphor layer on a substrate with light having a first wavelength, wherein the first phosphor layer has luminescent properties such that when it is illuminated by light having the first wavelength, it emits light having a second wavelength, the first phosphor layer is divided into a first two-dimensional grid of cells arranged in a first spatial pattern, wherein each cell of the first phosphor layer corresponds to one bit of an identification code, a first portion of the first phosphor layer is removed from a first number of cells of the first two-dimensional grid of cells to expose the substrate for the first number of cells, capturing a first image of the light emitted by the first phosphor layer having the second wavelength, determining whether the first phosphor layer is authentic based on the first image, and determining the identification code based on the first image.
US09514332B2
Systems and methods for notification and privacy management of online photos and videos are herein disclosed. According to one embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes detecting a first feature from a first image belonging to an image source. The first image includes a tag. The computer-implemented method further includes determining a first feature location of the first feature, determining a first tag location of the tag, extracting a first feature signature from the first feature based on a relationship between the first feature location and the first tag location, detecting a second feature from a second image belonging to the image source, extracting a second feature signature from the second feature, performing a first comparison between the first feature signature and the second feature signature, and deriving a first similarity score based on a result of the first comparison.
US09514329B2
A computer-implemented system and method for individual record encryption is provided. A plurality of records associated with incoming calls to a call center are maintained. A unique encryption key is randomly generated for each record. The records are each encrypted using the encryption key generated for that record. The keys are stored in a location separate from the encrypted records.
US09514326B1
The various technologies presented herein relate to analyzing a plurality of shares stored at a plurality of repositories to determine whether a secret from which the shares were formed matches a term in a query. A threshold number of shares are formed with a generating polynomial operating on the secret. A process of serially interpolating the threshold number of shares can be conducted whereby a contribution of a first share is determined, a contribution of a second share is determined while seeded with the contribution of the first share, etc. A value of a final share in the threshold number of shares can be determined and compared with the search term. In the event of the value of the final share and the search term matching, the search term matches the secret in the file from which the shares are formed.
US09514324B1
A computer-implemented method includes restricting access to customer data to certain geographic regions authorized by the customer. The restriction can be managed by associating policy information with the customer data that identifies the geographic regions authorized by the customer. Resources attempting to access the customer data can evaluate the policy information associated with the customer data with respect to the geographic location in which the resource is located to determine whether the resource is permitted to access the customer data. The restriction can also be managed by encrypting the customer data with a cryptographic key that corresponds to the customer and/or the authorized geographic regions.
US09514319B2
A method for controlling access to a database is disclosed, as well as a corresponding database system. The method comprises: receiving, from a user, a request for a data post in said database; determining that said user should be allowed access to said requested data post based on a security context associated with said data post and said user; providing said user with access to said data post; and validating, by an external security system, at least one of the user and the data post, said validation being based on a validation field, controlled by the external security system and being associated with said user and/or data post. Hereby, the database can be operated with its native operational procedures, thereby enabling a very fast and efficient performance. At the same time, the validation by the external security system provides a high degree of security.
US09514313B2
Techniques for secure data extraction in a virtual or cloud environment are presented. Desired data from a Virtual Machine (VM) or an entire VM is extracted and encrypted with a key. This key is sealed to a machine or a group of machines. The encrypted data is then migrated and successfully used on startup for instances of the VM by having the ability to access the sealed key (and unsealing it) to decrypt the encrypted data.
US09514311B2
Disclosed are a method for unlocking a screen and a system for installing a screen. It is determined whether to unlock the screen by calculating an angle between a starting position and a current position of a touch point on the screen with the unlocking reference point as a vertex of the angle. With a technical solution of the disclosure, no path or destination position for screen unlocking is defined, with more casual operation, enhanced user experience, and simpler setting, thereby facilitating usage. Moreover, unlocking by mistake can also be prevented by the setting.
US09514308B2
A tamper detection arrangement for use within an integrated circuit (1), the arrangement comprising: at least one input capacitor (4) having a first capacitance value; a feedback capacitor (5) having a second capacitance value; a sensing arrangement comprising an amplifier circuit having the at least one input capacitor as an input and the at least one feedback capacitor in a feedback loop across the amplifier operable to detect a change in the capacitance values between the at least one input capacitor and the feedback capacitor; and a protective shield to protect a sensitive area (2) of the integrated circuit from tampering, the shield being provided by the at least one input capacitor (4).
US09514297B2
A method is described for unlocking a mobile device. The method comprises reorienting, by the mobile device, a pre-defined grid displayed by the mobile device for unlocking the mobile device. The method further comprises displacing the pre-defined grid by an offset and receiving, by the mobile device, a gesture from a user for attempting to unlock the mobile device according to the grid. Based on the gesture for attempting to unlock the mobile device, a verification interface is displayed. The mobile device is unlocked in response to the user successfully tracing the verification pattern.
US09514291B2
An information processing system includes a receiving unit configured to receive from an external device a use initiation request designating user specific information and organization identification information, and an authentication unit configured to issue authentication information indicating that authentication has been completed in a case where the user specific information and the organization identification information designated in the use initiation request are stored in association with each other in a first storage unit that stores one or more sets of user specific information in association with the organization identification information. The authentication unit receives a new authentication information issuance request designating the authentication information and issues new authentication information that can be used even after a user termination request designating the authentication information is made.
US09514284B2
Group coaching system includes at least a first and a second coaching device, the first device being configured to provide respective first user coaching information to a respective user of the first device, and the second device being configured to provide respective second user coaching information to a respective user of the second device, wherein the system is configured to provide a group coaching of the users of the devices utilizing the respective user coaching information provided by the coaching devices.
US09514281B2
The present invention is a method and system for detecting linguistic markers as signs and indicators of mental illness, even prior to onset of symptoms of the mental illness. The linguistic markers may be detected in diachronic analysis of writing or speech samples. In particular, the present invention may identify lexical and syntactic changes in language due to mental illness. To recognize such changes the present invention may utilize complete, fully parsed texts or speech representing a number of measures. The identification of markers may provide a means of detecting mental illness early on based on a person's use of language. The language may be presented as spontaneous speech or writing, and may include samples of speech and/or writing occurring over time.
US09514278B2
A body function analysis and communication system includes a plurality of wireless communication devices each worn or carried by a respective user and in signal communication with an analysis system. Each wireless communication device is in signal communication with at least one sensor worn by the respective user. The analysis system is configured to determine anomalous response of measurements of the at least one sensor worn by at least one user based on measurements from the plurality of sensors.
US09514277B2
A plurality of patient monitors (5, 6) which each monitor medical conditions of a patient and display text and graphs depicting such medical conditions are connected by a network (7) with a central station (4). Each monitor includes a paging unit (8) which communicates via the network with a paging server (3). In response to a monitor determining a critical event in its patient's monitored medical condition, a page event is sent via the network to the paging server (3). The paging server sends page messages to selective ones of the patient monitors, e.g., the monitors which are in closest proximity to a medical care professional associated with the patient, and the paging method is displayed by a display module (10) of the designated patient monitors.
US09514274B2
A layered medical image forming method includes a layered medical image forming step of layering first to n-th value of interest look-up table (VOI LUT)-applied medical images (where n is a natural number), which are obtained by applying first to n-th VOI LUTs included in variation information of the original of a medical image to the original of the medical image so as to allow another system to display the same variation information.
US09514271B2
Motility contrast imaging (MCI) is a depth-resolved holographic technique to extract cellular and subcellular motion inside tissue. The holographic basis of the measurement technique makes it highly susceptible to mechanical motion. The motility contrast application, in particular, preferably includes increased mechanical stability because the signal is based on time-varying changes caused by cellular motion, which should not be confused with mechanical motion of the system. Apparatus for motility contrast imaging that provides increased mechanical stability is disclosed. It is based on common-path configurations, in which the signal and reference beams share optical elements in their paths to the detector. The two beams share mechanical motions in common, and hence these motions do not contribute to the signal.
US09514264B1
Layouts of transmission gates and related techniques and systems are described. An integrated circuit may include first and second transmission gates disposed in a column, and metal wires. The first transmission gate includes first and second control terminals, and the second transmission gate includes first and second control terminals. The metal wires extend between the first and second transmission gates in a direction substantially orthogonal to the column, and include a first control wire coupled to the first control terminals of the first and second transmission gates.
US09514262B2
A programmable analog tile integrated circuit is configured over a standardized bus by communicating tile configuration information from a first integrated circuit tile, through a second integrated circuit tile, to a third integrated circuit tile. Each of the three integrated circuit tiles is part of an integrated circuit. The standardized bus is formed when the tiles are placed adjacent one another. Data bus and control signal conductors of the adjacent tiles line up and interconnect such that each signal conductor is electrically connected to every tile. Tile configuration information may be written to a selected register identified by an address in any selected one of the tiles using the data bus and control lines, regardless of the relative physical locations of the tile sending and the tile receiving the information. Thus, tile configuration information may pass from one tile to another tile, through any number of intermediate tiles.
US09514261B2
A method comprises: receiving a circuit design comprising networks of first devices fabricated by a first fabrication process; selecting second devices to be fabricated by a second process; substituting the second devices for the first devices in the networks of the circuit design; sorting the second devices within a selected one of the networks by device area from a largest device area to a smallest device area; and assigning each second device in the selected network to be fabricated in a respective tier of a plurality of tiers of a three dimensional integrated circuit (3D IC) for which a total area of second devices previously assigned to said respective tier is the smallest, the second devices being assigned sequentially according to the sorting.
US09514259B2
Provided is a logic configuration method for a semiconductor device having a plurality of memory units provided with a plurality of memory cells; each memory unit is configured to store truth table data in the memory cells thereof, the truth table data being for outputting a logic value in response to an address input, and to operate as a logic circuit; the memory units have n (where n is 2 or a higher integer) times two pairs of an input line and an output line; the n times two output lines from one memory unit among the memory units are connected to the n input lines of two other memory units; and the logic configuration method generates, on the basis of the circuit description describing the circuit configuration, a netlist having circuit connection information, extracts a logic cone from the netlist, and generates truth table data for the plurality of memory units, which constitute the logic cone, in the memory unit stage number corresponding to the number obtained by dividing the number of input lines to the logic cone by n/2.
US09514251B2
A changing method include: generating, by a computer, a movement track of a figure in response to movement of the figure; detecting an overlap between a line segment and the movement track; and changing, when the overlap is detected, the shape of a portion of the line segment that overlaps the movement track to a shape along an outer periphery of the movement track.
US09514240B2
A system to optimize a website for a search of a topic includes a processor, a memory, and instructions to cause the processor to receive at least one term related to the topic, and to receive web objects pertaining to the website to be optimized. The system is to calculate at least one metric pertaining to the at least one term and the web objects.
US09514239B2
The disclosed invention is a system and method (collectively the “system”) for the automated management of content on a network interface. The network interface can be a web site on the World Wide Web, an Internet location, an intranet location, an extranet location, or some other form of network interface (collectively “web site”). The system can automatically create applications and links to those applications without human intervention. Examples of automated applications include newsroom applications, calendar of events, employment opportunities, project portfolio, biographies, frequently asked questions, document library, category management, product catalogs, e-mail broadcasts, surveys, and newsletters. Fully normalized hierarchies of business rules and user profiles can be supported by the system to facilitate automation and configurability. Multiple content providers can manage a single web site in a simultaneous or substantially simultaneous manner. In ASP embodiments, multiple organizations can use the system to manage multiple web sites in a substantially simultaneous manner.
US09514233B2
The invention provides a system and method for analyzing a collection of communication messages. The communication messages may be any one of a collection of electronic mail messages, voicemail messages, instant messaging dialogs and other forms of communications. The collections of communications, such as electronic mail messages, may be selected by a user and then subsequently processed to determine the identity of any of the user's contacts within the communications. The contacts may then be arranged in a relative priority arrangement whereby contacts which have been identified as engaging in prior reciprocal communications with the user are given higher priority. Higher priority may also be given to contacts which engage in more recent communications with the user. Specific contact relationships may be inferred from the communications depending on whether specific contacts are repeatedly mentioned within the communication messages.
US09514214B2
A plurality of data items that are annotated with progress markers may be obtained. The progress markers may indicate progress points associated with atemporal processing progress of the respective data items. Deterministic, massively parallel, progressive processing may be initiated on the plurality of data items on a plurality of devices, the progress markers indicating which of the plurality of data items are to be incorporated into results of the progressive processing, the progress markers further indicating an ordering for incorporation of the respective data items into the results.
US09514213B2
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with clustering using tri-point arbitration are described. In one embodiment, a method includes selecting a data point pair and a set of arbiter points. A tri-point arbitration similarity is calculated for data point pairs based, at least in part, on a distance between the first and second data points and the arbiter points. In one embodiment, similar data points are clustered.
US09514211B2
Update requests that specify updates to a logical page associated with a key-value store are obtained. Updates to the logical page are posted using the obtained plurality of update requests, without accessing the logical page via a read operation.
US09514207B1
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for identifying relevant content in a social media website. A data set is identified using a computer. A plurality of electronic records of the data set are received, wherein the electronic records are a result of the data mining. A plurality of ontologies is generated based on the electronic records and a subset of the plurality of ontologies is displayed on a user device. A user input is recorded as a user record and the set of ontologies that is displayed is modified. A second subset of ontologies for display on the user's device is generated, based on the modified popularity value. A modified display value based on the modified popularity value is determined and the second subset of ontologies is displayed based on the modified display value.
US09514200B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a computer system and interactive user interfaces configured to enable efficient and rapid access to multiple different data sources simultaneously, and by an unskilled user. The unskilled user may provide simple and intuitive search terms to the system, and the system may thereby automatically query multiple related data sources of different types and present results to the user. Data sources in the system may be efficiently interrelated with one another by way of a mathematical graph in which nodes represent data sources and/or portions of data sources (for example, database tables), and edges represent relationships among the data sources and/or portions of data sources. For example, edges may indicate relationships between particular rows and/or columns of various tables. The table graph enables a compact and memory efficient storage of relationships among various disparate data sources.
US09514192B2
A social networking system presents questions to a user on an interface associated with the social networking system to elicit information about the user that is missing from the user's profile or is otherwise outdated. The questions are selected based on a number of factors, such as the need for or value of the information item, probability of a response, or cost of collecting the information item. In presenting the selected question, the social networking system prompts a user for information about the user in a an interface associated with a page from the social networking system, an application external to the social networking system, or using a push notification or prompt. The questions may be formatted in various ways, such as an explicit question, confirmation, a selection of responses, or social context to encourage the user to respond to the question.
US09514185B2
A method providing an answer to an input question containing at least one time-sensitive word or at least one time-sensitive phrase using natural language processing (NLP) is provided. The method may include receiving the input question. The method may also include performing natural language processing (NLP) analysis on the input question to extract a required value phrase. The method may further include forming at least one mathematical equation based on the extracted required value phrase. Additionally, the method may include forming at least one interim question based on the extracted required value phrase. The method may further include solving the at least one formed mathematical equation and the at least one formed interim question. The method may also include narrating the answer to the input question in natural language based on the solved at least one interim question or the solved at least one mathematical equation.
US09514181B2
The invention relates to calculation expression management. In general terms, a calculation expression is a union of variables, constants, operators functions, delimiter characters and other possible elements, which can be used to product a result. A sample calculation expression is as follows: “2*3+A*(2+B+C)”. The uses of calculation expressions include the creation of formulae, the formation of strings and the implementation of searches for databases. The invention facilitates the implementation of sophisticated calculation expressions. For said purpose, the invention consists in constructing and evaluating calculation expressions from graphical structures representing trees. The graphical structure scan be of various different types.
US09514170B1
Methods and apparatus for efficient priority queues using single-index tables are disclosed. In response to a request to generate an instance of a priority queue using a database that permits no more than one index per table, an identifier-indexed table and a priority-indexed table are set up. In response to a request to insert a queue entry with a given identifier and a given priority, one tuple is inserted into each table. In response to a request to remove an entry with a specified identifier, a tuple with the specified identifier is removed from the identifier-indexed table, while the removal of the corresponding tuple from the priority-indexed table may be deferred.
US09514163B2
A method for consolidating a database in a Seibel CRM environment is presented. Bypassing the Business Object Layer (BOL) of the Seibel CRM environment, primary keys in a consolidated table are realigned such that a consolidated child table, created from two distinct databases, is able to point to reference items in a single parent table.
US09514159B2
Methods and systems for storing stream data in a stream application are disclosed. The stream application is composed from a plurality of processing elements executing on one or more compute nodes. The plurality of processing elements is communicatively coupled to a management system. The management system is configured to monitor and control operations of the plurality of processing elements. A trigger rule, which includes a trigger condition, is loaded on a selected processing element in the plurality of process elements. The stream data is then monitored at the first processing element to determine if the trigger condition relative to the stream data has occurred. The stream data is stored in a database when the trigger condition occurs. The stream data is stored in the database according to the trigger rule.
US09514158B1
In an example, an electronic device may be configured to determine whether a selection is received to display a change history corresponding to a value of information. The electronic device may be configured to generate a change history listing of at least one change instance corresponding to the value of the information in response to determining that the selection is received.
US09514155B1
This disclosure describes a system and process for altering the presentation of data items to enable efficient presentation of large sets of data items. For example, if a data set includes 40,000 data items that are to be rendered as points at different geographic locations on a map, such as a map of the United States, rather than trying to render all 40,000 data items, the implementations described herein will process the data set to reduce the amount of data items that will be presented without losing the information that is visually provided.
US09514149B2
According to embodiments of the present invention, machines, systems, methods and computer program products for hierarchical compression of data are presented comprising creating a compression hierarchy of compression nodes, wherein each compression node is associated with a compression operation to produce compressed data. An output of any of the compression nodes may be compressed by another compression node or the same compression node. A path of one or more compression nodes is determined through said compression hierarchy based upon compression statistics to compress data, and the data is compressed by the compression nodes of the path. Various computational techniques are presented herein for manipulating the compression hierarchy to defer or reduce computation during query evaluation.
US09514146B1
Techniques for improving data compression of a storage system in an online manner are described herein. According to one embodiment, in response to a sequence of data to be stored, the sequence of data is partitioned into a plurality of data chunks according to a predetermined chunking algorithm. A sketch for each of the data chunks is generated based on one or more features extracted from the data chunk. Each of the data chunks of the sequence of data is associated with one of a plurality of groups based on the sketch, wherein each group is represented by a sketch. The data chunks of each group are compressed and stored in a compression region of the storage systems, such that similar data chunks are compressed and stored in the same compression region.
US09514143B2
A data management system that is enabled such that the user can select a data source node, a repository and a data path, choose policies for each and distribute the policies to be managed by the management system.
US09514138B1
In one aspect, a method to backup a file includes reading a signature corresponding to a portion of a file stored in a first storage location using a read signature command, searching for the signature in a second storage location, saving the portion of the file as a pointer to the data with the same signature if signature exists and saving the data and the signature in the second storage location if the signature does not exist in the second storage.
US09514130B2
Computer-implemented systems and methods for extracting information during a human-to-human mono-lingual or multi-lingual dialog between two speakers are disclosed. Information from either the recognized speech (or the translation thereof) by the second speaker and/or the recognized speech by the first speaker (or the translation thereof) is extracted. The extracted information is then entered into an electronic form stored in a data store.
US09514127B2
A computer implemented method, a program, and a system for effectively providing versatile non-text information suitable for use in a multi-language environment. The method includes the steps of: receiving search results of a database using a search criterion in a certain language and a search criterion in another language corresponding to the search criterion in which specific language attributes are associated with non-text elements that are included in the search results; scoring the non-text elements included in the search results depending on a similarity to another element with which a different language attribute is associated; and identifying at least one of the non-text elements included in the search results on the basis of the scores.
US09514125B1
A method includes receiving a text and identifying a set of linguistic characteristics contained in the text, where linguistic characteristics include grammatical, syntactic, and idiomatic features of the text. The method also includes determining a plurality of locations of origin in which the text was potentially written based on the set of linguistic characteristics. The method also includes retrieving a set of reference documents for each location of origin in the plurality of locations of origin and producing a set of proximity scores by performing a set of proximity checks using the set of linguistic characteristics, the set of reference documents, and the text, wherein the proximity checks analyze how often and how close linguistic characteristics are to one another. The method also includes ranking the plurality of locations of origin based on the set of proximity scores and returning a set of one or more ranked locations of origin.
US09514119B2
An electronic document is parsed against a plurality of phrases. Each of the plurality of phrases indicates a text effect. It is determined that the electronic document includes a phrase at least similar to a first phrase of the plurality of phrases. A first contributor of the electronic document that is associated with the phrase is determined. A first text effect indicated by the phrase is determined. A mapping is created between the first contributor and the first text effect indicated by the phrase. The mapping is supplied for presenting of the electronic document.
US09514109B2
Systems and methods are provided for scoring a speech sample. Automatic speech recognition is performed on the speech sample using an automatic speech recognition system to generate a transcription of the sample. Words in the transcription are associated with parts of speech, and part of speech sequences are extracted from the parts of speech associations. A grammar metric is generated based on the part of speech sequences, and the speech sample is scored based on the grammar metric.
US09514103B2
A method and system detects and highlights changes in documents and displays those documents in a side-by-side aligned view. Aspects of a source document and a revised document are detected and compared. Similarities and/or differences between the source document and the revised document are identified and visual identifiers are introduced to maintain consistent and accurate alignment between content in the source document and content in the revised document. A merged single file is output containing the aligned side-by-side view of the source document and the revised document, with all differences between the source document and the revised document visually identified.
US09514098B1
Methods and apparatus related to determining coreference resolution using distributed word representations. Distributed word representations, indicative of syntactic and semantic features, may be identified for one or more noun phrases. For each of the one or more noun phrases, a referring feature representation and an antecedent feature representation may be determined, where the referring feature representation includes the distributed word representation, and the antecedent feature representation includes the distributed word representation augmented by one or more antecedent features. In some implementations the referring feature representation may be augmented by one or more referring features. Coreference embeddings of the referring and antecedent feature representations of the one or more noun phrases may be learned. Distance measures between two noun phrases may be determined based on the coreference embeddings.
US09514087B2
An approach is provided that collects data from a multi-function adapter that is used by multiple functions. In the approach, a master function is dynamically selected from the group of functions. The approach further allows the master function to perform a disruptive adapter data collection while inhibiting performance of disruptive adapter data collection processes by the other (non-master) functions.
US09514082B2
Removable memory card type detection systems and methods are disclosed. In one aspect, a removable memory card is inserted into a receptacle of a host. The host determines a type of removable memory card based upon either electrical or physical properties of the removable memory card. In this manner, if the host detects that the removable memory card possesses certain electrical or physical properties associated with a microSD card, the host determines that the removable memory card is a microSD type card. If the host detects that the removable memory card possesses certain electrical or physical properties associated with a UFS card, the host determines that the removable memory card is a UFS type card. By determining the card type based on detection of certain electrical or physical properties, aspects disclosed herein are able to distinguish between UFS and microSD cards without requiring an additional pin or card initialization time.
US09514073B2
In a method for exchanging data in messages between users of a CAN bus system, the users have their own time bases; a first user functioning as timer transmits a reference message having a specifiable identifier via the bus, which includes a first time information with regard to the time base of the first user; the at least second user, using its time base forms its own second time information as a function of the first time information of the first user in such a way that, from the deviation of the first and the second time information a correction value is ascertained, so that from the first time information of the first user as the timer, the global time for the bus system is yielded.
US09514072B1
An input/output (I/O) request is received that indicates a priority for performing the received I/O request by a storage controller. If a base device is not available to handle the received I/O request, whether the received I/O request is eligible for performance throttling is determined. The received I/O request is transmitted to the storage controller indicating whether the received I/O request is eligible for performance throttling. An alias device is allocated to the base device based on the priority for performing the received I/O request. If the throttling information received from the storage controller for the previous I/O request indicates that a request type of the received I/O request is not being throttled, and it is determined that the received I/O request is a new request, then a control block is representing the base device is flagged, indicating that the received I/O request is eligible for performance throttling.
US09514067B2
Various exemplary embodiments relate to an integrated circuit (IC) including: a memory; a radio frequency (RF) interface configured to access the memory; a wired interface connected to a host and configured to access the memory; and an arbitration module configured to prevent concurrent access to the memory by more than one interface. Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method of controlling access in a dual interface tag having a wired interface and a radio frequency (RF) interface operable in an idle state, a wired lock state, and a RF locked state.
US09514064B2
A code protection scheme for controlling access to a memory region in an integrated circuit includes a processor with an instruction pipeline that includes multiple processing stages. A first processing stage receives one or more instructions. A second processing stage receives address information identifying a protected memory region of the memory from the first processing stage and protection information for an identified protected memory region. The protection information indicates a protection state assigned to each protected memory region. Based on the instruction type of the received instruction and the protection information associated with a particular protected memory region, the second processing stage determines whether to enable or disable access to the particular protected memory region by the processor or other external host.
US09514059B2
This invention hides the page miss translation latency for program fetches. In this invention whenever an access is requested by CPU, the L1I cache controller does a-priori lookup of whether the virtual address plus the fetch packet count of expected program fetches crosses a page boundary. If the access crosses a page boundary, the L1I cache controller will request a second page translation along with the first page. This pipelines requests to the μTLB without waiting for L1I cache controller to begin processing the second page requests. This becomes a deterministic prefetch of the second page translation request. The translation information for the second page is stored locally in L1I cache controller and used when the access crosses the page boundary.
US09514054B2
A method and system of persistent cache invalidation ensures cache durability. A storage filter driver of a storage input/output (I/O) stack of a server may be used to capture (i.e., track) write requests made to storage devices prior to the persistent cache becoming operational. Entries in the cache having overlapping address ranges with the tracked write requests may be invalidated before the cache is deemed operational. In this manner, the cache remains consistent with the backing store across the administrative actions or failure event (albeit with less valid entries). Notably, the filter driver tracks (i.e., captures) metadata of the write request (i.e., address range and size of the request) to support invalidation of matching cache entries. As such, the filter driver need not store (record) data associated with the write request.
US09514053B2
A memory system implements a plurality of cache eviction policies, a plurality of virtual address modification policies, or both. One or more application programming interfaces provide access to memory allocation and parameters thereof relating to zero or more cache eviction policies and/or zero or more virtual address modification policies associated with memory received via a memory allocation request. The provided application programming interfaces are usable by various software elements, such as any one or more of basic input/output system, driver, operating system, hypervisor, and application software elements. Memory allocated via the application programming interfaces is optionally managed via one or more heaps, such as one heap per unique combination of values for each of any one or more parameters including eviction policy, virtual address modification policy, structure-size, and element-size parameters.
US09514043B1
Systems and methods for utilizing wear leveling windows with non-volatile memory systems are disclosed. In one implementation, a memory management module of a non-volatile memory system compares a metric reflecting wear of a memory block to a wear leveling window and determines whether a wear leveling indicator associated with the memory block restricts performing a wear leveling operation on the memory block. The memory management module performs a wear leveling operation on the memory block in response to determining that the metric reflecting wear of the memory block falls outside the wear leveling window and determining that the wear leveling indicator does not restrict performing a wear leveling operation on the memory block. After performing the wear leveling operation, the memory management module places the memory block on a free block list.
US09514042B2
A method for managing a memory apparatus and the associated memory apparatus thereof and the associated controller thereof are provided, where the method includes: temporarily storing data received from a host device into a volatile memory in the controller and utilizing the data in the volatile memory as received data, and dynamically monitoring the data amount of the received data to determine whether to immediately write the received data into at least one non-volatile memory element; and when determining to immediately write the received data into the at least one non-volatile memory element, directly writing the received data into a specific block configured to be a Multiple Level Cell memory block within a specific non-volatile memory element, rather than indirectly writing the received data into the specific block by first temporarily writing the received data into any other block configured to be Single Level Cell memory block.
US09514037B1
A computer program product includes a tangible storage medium storing instructions for execution by a processing circuit for performing a method. The method includes receiving a test program configured to including a plurality of test data sets, and analyzing the plurality of test data sets to identify one or more predictable test data sets and one or more dynamic test data sets, the one or more predictable test data sets expected to produce a predictable test result, the one or more dynamic test data sets not expected to produce a predictable test result. The method also includes determining a cost structure associated with executing the test program using a computing resource, setting a test schedule based on identification of the one or more predictable test data sets and the one or more dynamic test data sets, and executing the test program based on the test schedule.
US09514034B1
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for ordered test execution to enable faster feedback are disclosed. A likelihood of failure is estimated for individual tests in a set of tests. Based at least in part on the likelihood of failure, an ordered sequence is determined for the set of tests, such that the tests are ordered in estimated likelihood of failure. The set of tests is initiated in the ordered sequence, such that one or more computer-executable programs are subjected to individual ones of the tests. A failure of one or more of the tests is determined prior to performing one or more remaining tests in the ordered sequence.
US09514032B2
Receive output dynamically generated by a running program and check that output for spelling, grammar, and/or other usage errors, providing notice to a user of any errors found. The dynamically generated output includes an assembly of component parts not statically assigned in a predetermined configuration or with predetermined content, but rather generated and/or configured by the executing program as it runs.
US09514028B2
An embodiment provides a level of assurance regarding correct operation of software. An embodiment creates baseline and real-time measurements of software and compares the measurements to determine whether the software is operating correctly. An application provider may include “tracing elements” in target software application. While producing the application the trace elements are detected and provide trace events, which collectively provide a “baseline trace” indicating proper application execution. The provider supplies the application and the baseline trace to a user. The user operates the application in real-time to produce a “real-time trace” based on the application still having trace elements that produce trace events (which collectively form the “real-time” trace). A comparator compares the baseline and real-time traces. If the traces are within a pre-determined range of each other the user has a level of assurance the software is operating correctly. Other embodiments are included herein.
US09514012B2
In one embodiment of the present description, mirroring is provided for a pair of storage units in bidirectional synchronous mirror relationships, and a tertiary storage unit. The mirroring includes multi-target mirroring to write updates written to the first storage unit to both the second storage unit and to a third storage unit. Similarly, for updates written to the second storage unit, multi-target mirroring is employed to write those to both the first storage unit and to the third storage unit. Other aspects are described.
US09514011B2
A method and apparatus for providing redundancy in an Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) is provided. Application software may be run on top of a virtual environment such as a virtual machine and/or a virtual disk environment. Should a software component fail, the virtual environment will “crash” but the ATM hardware and operating system will remain intact. If the software is fatally flawed—e.g., due to a faulty “upgrade” the older version may be “rolled back” from a previously stored virtual environment.
US09514004B2
In one aspect of the present description, handling multiple backup processes comprises detecting that a defined storage volume is present in a first cascade of storage volumes; detecting that the defined storage volume is present in a second cascade of storage volumes; receiving a data write for a last storage volume in the first cascade of storage volumes; and performing a cleaning data write on the defined storage volume in the second cascade of storage volumes, wherein the cleaning data write corresponds to the received data write. Other aspects may be utilized, depending upon the particular application.
US09513999B2
Methods and systems for tracking information that is transferred from a source to a destination storage system are provided. The source storage system maintains a first data structure for indicating that a storage block has been transferred. The destination storage system receives the storage block and updates a second data structure to indicate that the storage block has been received. The first data structure and the second data structure are compared to determine that the storage block was successfully transferred from the source storage system and received by the destination storage system.
US09513990B2
Technologies are generally described for systems, devices and methods relating to generation of an instruction to store data. Read unit length information are identified for data. The read unit length information includes a read unit length. The data has a data length. The data length implicates a first error correction code of a first size. The read unit length relates to an amount of the data to be read as a unit from a memory. The read unit length is different from the data length. A second error correction code is determined to store the data. The second error correction code is based on the read unit length information. The second error correction code has a second size. The instruction is effective to store the second error correction code in association with the data in the memory.
US09513989B2
A low-density parity-check decoder utilizes information about hard errors in a storage medium to identify bit locations to flip log-likelihood ratios while attempting to decode codewords. The decoder iteratively flips and saturates log-likelihood ratios for bits at hard error locations and re-decodes until a valid codeword is produced. The decoder also identifies variable nodes associated with trapping sets for iterative log-likelihood ratio bit flipping.
US09513979B2
A method and system include a backend mobile development framework. The framework includes a library having a plurality of apps for mobile devices, the apps divided into groups of related apps. A communications module is operable to communicate with multiple mobile devices. A data store provides interconnectivity between apps in each group such that a first app has content information shared with a second app.
US09513972B2
A method of prioritizing processing units in a system for task scheduling includes, for each processing unit of a plurality of processing units in the system, determining a value that represents a thermal condition of a location of the processing unit. It is determined which of the plurality of processing units is not fully loaded and is in a location with a most favorable thermal condition based on the value of the processing unit that represents thermal conditions of the location of the processing unit. A task is scheduled to the processing unit determined to be not fully loaded and in a location with a most favorable thermal condition based on the value of the processing unit that represents thermal conditions of the location of the processing unit.
US09513971B1
Resource provisioning to a process in a distributed computing system, such as a cloud computing system. An instruction to provision a resource is received. Portions of the resource are provisioned to the process as they become available, and prior to all portions becoming available, based on determining that the provisioning speed is greater than or equal to the use speed for the resource. If the use speed is faster, it may be actively slowed down.
US09513962B2
A preempt of a live migratable workload, or job, in a distributed computing environment is performed, allowing it to release its resources for use by a higher priority workload by moving to another place in the distributed computing environment without interruption. A job scheduler receives a request to schedule a higher priority job, wherein resources needed to run the higher priority job are already dedicated for use by a currently running lower priority job. A dummy job is scheduled at a highest priority that is a copy of the lower priority job. Resources required to run the dummy job are reserved. A live migration of the lower priority job to another host is initiated, and its resources are then released. Upon a successful completion of the live migration of the lower priority job, the higher priority job is then dispatched to run using the now released resources.
US09513961B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for determining when an application is sufficiently instantiated to be subject to a crawling operation. In one aspect, a method includes instantiating an instance of a native application that generates environment instances for display on a user device within the native application instance; monitoring requests for content sent from the native application instance to serving entities that are external to the native application instance; determining whether each monitored request has been fulfilled; in response to determining that the requests are fulfilled: determining whether each thread in a set of threads of the native application instance is idle, generating a load signal in response to determining each thread in the set of thread of the native application instance is idle, the load signal indicating the native application instance is sufficiently instantiated to be subject to a crawling operation.
US09513960B1
In a transactional memory environment, a computer-implemented method includes a first processor initiating a first transaction and encountering an abort condition. Responsive to the abort condition, an abort other request is communicated between the first processor and one or more additional processors. The one or more additional processors receive the abort other request, and, responsive to the abort other request, the one or more additional processors selectively abort a current second transaction based on the abort other request and an abort other condition. Optionally, the transactional memory environment supports a transaction category scheme, whereby each transaction has associated therewith a category identifier. In such embodiments, the abort other request includes an abort category identifier, and the abort other condition includes aborting the current second transaction if the abort category identifier matches the category identifier for the current second transaction. A corresponding computer program product and computer system are also disclosed.
US09513958B2
In some embodiments, techniques include identifying a plurality of tasks associated with an identifier corresponding to an electronic device. A task series is generated so as to include the plurality of tasks, where each task in the series is associated with a performance time. When it is determined that the task has not been completed by the performance time, the task series is updated.
US09513945B2
A first computer starts to copy data of a virtual machine running on the first computer from the first computer to a second computer. The first computer monitors an index value related to conditions of running the virtual machine on the second computer. The first computer causes, based on the index value, the second computer to start operation of the virtual machine based on the data copied from the first computer to the second computer and terminating operation of the virtual machine running on the first computer.
US09513938B2
Various embodiments here in provide systems, methods, and software for virtual appliance integration with cloud management software. Some embodiments include a landscape virtualization management application through which software systems in the form of virtual appliances may generated and deployed. Further, metadata included in a data structure of a virtual appliance enable integration with existing cloud management software to allow viewing and searching for available virtual appliances and selecting, deployment, and management thereof.
US09513937B2
The invention discloses a method and client for using an embedded ActiveX plug-in in a browser. The method comprises: detecting that the browser is to load an ActiveX plug-in; judging whether the ActiveX plug-in has already been installed in a computer system where the browser is currently located; if it is determined that the ActiveX plug-in has already been installed in the computer system, intercepting the loading information about the ActiveX plug-in and loading the ActiveX plug-in embedded in the browser; and if it is determined that the ActiveX plug-in has not been installed in the computer system, generating a specific registry key value related to the embedded ActiveX plug-in, and loading the ActiveX plug-in embedded in the browser according to the specific registry key value.
US09513933B2
The invention relates to a computer implemented method of interruption of meta language program code (10) execution on a computer having a micro controller (1) executing a native code (3) execution with a virtual machine (5) executing a meta language program code (10), where an address controller (15) controls the interruption of the meta language program code (10).
US09513921B2
A computer processor including a plurality of storage elements logically organized as a fixed length queue referenced by logical temporal addresses. The fixed length queue operates over multiple cycles to temporarily store operands referenced by at least one instruction utilizing the logical temporal addresses. A plurality of functional units performs operations over the multiple cycles, wherein the operations produce and access operands stored in the logical fixed length queue. Operands can be added to the front of the logical fixed length queue according to the temporal order that operands are produced by the functional units, and operands can drop from the end of the logical fixed length queue as operands are added to the front of the fixed length queue. A plurality of operands produced by the plurality of functional units (possibly with different latencies in producing such operands) can be added to the logical fixed length queue in a single cycle. A plurality of operands operated on by the functional units can be accessed from the logical fixed length queue in a single cycle.
US09513919B2
An apparatus and method for performing parallel decoding of prefix codes such as Huffman codes. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: a first decompression module to perform a non-speculative decompression of a first portion of a prefix code payload comprising a first plurality of symbols; and a second decompression module to perform speculative decompression of a second portion of the prefix code payload comprising a second plurality of symbols concurrently with the non-speculative decompression performed by the first compression module.
US09513911B2
A method of detecting stack overflows includes the following steps: storing in at least one dedicated register at least one data item chosen from: a data item (SPHaut) indicating a maximum permitted value for a stack pointer, and a data item (SPBas) indicating a minimum permitted value for said stack pointer; effecting a comparison between a current value (SP) or past value (SPMin, SPMax) of said stack pointer and said data item or each of said data items; and generating a stack overflow exception if said comparison indicates that said current or past value of said stack pointer is greater than said maximum permitted value or less than said minimum permitted value. A processor for implementing such a method is also provided.
US09513906B2
A Vector Checksum instruction. Elements from a second operand are added together one-by-one to obtain a first result. The adding includes performing one or more end around carry add operations. The first result is placed in an element of a first operand of the instruction. After each addition of an element, a carry out of a chosen position of the sum, if any, is added to a selected position in an element of the first operand.
US09513903B2
A fault-tolerant system including a calculation unit and an output synthesizer is provided. The calculation unit receives a first environmental parameter and input data, wherein the calculation unit further includes a first and a second calculation circuits. The first calculation circuit is arranged to perform a calculation on the input data in response to the first environmental parameter to generate a first calculation result. The second calculation circuit is different from the first calculation circuit, and arranged to perform the calculation on the input data in response to the first environmental parameter to generate a second calculation result. The output synthesizer selects a first and a second set of bits from the first and the second calculation result according to a control signal, and synthesizes the first set of bits and the second set of bits in sequence to generate an adjusted calculation result.
US09513897B2
A portal is established between a software installer and a client to allow on-line management of a software implementation project. The installer of customizable software and the client may communicate through the portal to establish specifications for the software product. The software may be implemented by incorporating preconfigured software components into the software product. A portion of the preconfigured components may be modified based on the specifications of the client. The specifications may be identified by providing the client with a set-up wizard through the portal. The set-up wizard prompts the client for information and the software system may be configured based on logic generated in response to client input.
US09513892B2
Systems and methods of capturing and deploying the operating system of a computing device. The method comprising: creating a file that contains one or more settings of the operating system of a source computer and storing the file in storage on the source computer, copying an image of the operating system and the file containing one or more settings of the operating system, and deploying the image to one or more target computers.
US09513882B2
Architecture that includes a platform independent, configuration driven, presentation composition engine. The composition engine that allows dynamic generation of multiplatform user experience (UX) based on a data contract. By composition, the user can select the parts, interactions, and constraints between the interaction and parts, as well as the placement with respect to each other. The UX is dynamically composed from components that are targeted to particular data classes. At runtime, platform dependent component implementations are automatically selected by the engine based on the execution platform of the composition host. A user can create or customize the UX without writing code by composing from a wide variety of presentation widgets that access a wide variety of data sources that can work on many platforms. Compositions are targeted to both a data class and presentation type and can be either predefined or generated.
US09513877B1
A computer program product includes instructions to identify a primary symbol table associated with a primary source code file and identify a secondary symbol table associated with a secondary source code file. The computer program product includes instructions to receive a source code association indication. The source code association indication includes at least one association relationship between the primary source code file and the secondary source code file. The computer program product includes instructions to create a comprehensive symbol table. The comprehensive symbol table comprises contents of the primary symbol table and contents of the secondary symbol table. A corresponding computer-implemented method and computer system are also disclosed.
US09513876B2
A present invention embodiment includes a system with at least one processor for accessing data. The system creates a rule including one or more conditional expressions to link a first data object of a first data source to a second data object of a second data source. Data of the first data object is retrieved from the first data source in accordance with a request for the first data object. The system processes the rule to retrieve data of the second data object from the second data source that satisfies the one or more conditional expressions of the rule. Results for the request are produced by merging the data retrieved from the first and second data objects. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and computer program product for accessing data in substantially the same manner described above.
US09513868B2
Embodiments described herein relate to a software application that is configured to operate as an add-on software component to audio-playback software on a playback device of a media playback system. One embodiment may involve transmitting, to a computing device, data indicating that a first add-on component installed on a playback device is active; receiving, from the computing device, a command to activate a second add-on component installed on a playback device; in response to receiving the command, activating the second add-on component on the playback device; and causing playback of audio using at least the second add-on component.
US09513853B2
A data processing apparatus that has first to fourth power modes in which power consumption becomes larger in this order, and is capable of changing into a mode selected and set by a user. A receiving unit receives the instruction for bringing the data processing apparatus into the third power mode or the fourth power mode. A first transition unit brings, when the apparatus is working in the second power mode, the apparatus into the first power mode in response to the receiving unit receiving the transition instruction. A determination unit determines which mode the apparatus is to be brought into between the third power mode and the fourth power mode in response to the first transition unit bringing the apparatus into the first power mode. A second transition unit brings the apparatus into a power mode determined by the determination unit.
US09513850B2
A method for loading image receiving material in a printing system, the printing system including a print engine capable of printing on the image receiving material, a control unit for controlling the printing on the image receiving material, at least one input holder for loading the image receiving material, and a user interface for interacting with a user of the printing system, includes the steps of receiving by means of the user interface a setting for a facial orientation of an image receiving material in the at least one input holder, the facial orientation being one out of a face up orientation and a face down orientation, storing the setting of the facial orientation as an attribute of the at least one input holder, and detecting the image receiving material loaded in the at least one input holder. A printing system is configured to execute the method.
US09513831B2
Disclosed herein are several methods and systems for handling atomic write commands that reach scattered address ranges. One embodiment includes a method of performing an operation in a data storage device, the method comprising: receiving an atomic write command; obtaining a plurality of ranges of logical addresses affected by the atomic write command; for each of the plurality of affected ranges, assigning metadata information to track completion of a write operation performed at that range; performing the write operations in the ranges of logical addresses; updating the metadata information upon completion of the write operations in the ranges; and deferring an update to a translation map of the data storage device until the metadata information has been updated.
US09513830B2
The disclosed embodiments are directed to methods and apparatuses for providing efficient and enhanced protection of data stored in a nonvolatile memory system. The methods and apparatuses involve a system controller for a plurality of nonvolatile memory devices in the nonvolatile memory system that is capable of protecting data using two layers of data protection, including inter-card card stripes and intra-card page stripes.
US09513818B2
A tape drive adapted for providing a best access order for files or data sets on a tape loaded into the tape drive. The tape drive includes a processor and memory storing a file location table for the tape. The file location table includes identifiers for a plurality of files on the tape and location information for the plurality of files on the tape. The tape drive includes an order determination module, executed by the processor, processing an order request. The order request, from a host or user, includes a list of the files on the tape from which to generate, based on the location information in the file location table, a reordered list defining an order for accessing the files on the tape. The reordered list or best access order has (or produces via tape drive access) an access time for the files that is minimal or reduced.
US09513811B2
The subject matter disclosed herein provides methods for materializing data from an in-memory array to one or more pages. An in-memory array holding a column of data can be maintained. One or more pages can be maintained. Each of the one or more pages can have one or more rows for storing the column of data. At least one of the one or more pages can be marked for materialization. The column of data can be materialized by copying the data from the in-memory array to the one or more rows of the one or more pages. The materializing can be based on the marking. Related apparatus, systems, techniques, and articles are also described.
US09513807B2
Systems and methods for increasing scalability and reducing latency in relation to managing large numbers of storage arrays of a storage network. Separate, dedicated, communication channels may be established between an array manager running on a server and each of a number of storage arrays for respectively performing reading and writing operations to limit the delays imposed by repeated array connection setup and teardown and improve array communication stability (e.g., as compared to performing read/write operations over the same array connection). The read connection can be used to maintain current state information (e.g., volumes, capacities, and the like) for a plurality of storage arrays in a local cache of the array manager that can be quickly accessed by the array manager, such as for presenting substantially current, summary-type state information of the various storage arrays to a user (e.g., upon the user requesting to configure a particular storage array).
US09513799B2
An electronic device with a display and a touch-sensitive surface displays, on the display, a first visual indicator that corresponds to a virtual touch. The device receives a first input from an adaptive input device. In response to receiving the first input from the adaptive input device, the device displays a first menu on the display. The first menu includes a virtual touches selection icon. In response to detecting selection of the virtual touches selection icon, a menu of virtual multitouch contacts is displayed.
US09513798B2
Indirect multi-touch interaction is described. In an embodiment, a user interface is controlled using a cursor and a touch region comprising a representation of one or more digits of a user. The cursor and the touch region are moved together in the user interface in accordance with data received from a cursor control device, such that the relative location of the touch region and the cursor is maintained. The representations of the digits of the user are moved in the touch region in accordance with data describing movement of the user's digits. In another embodiment, a user interface is controlled in a first mode of operation using an aggregate cursor, and switched to a second mode of operation in which the aggregate cursor is divided into separate portions, each of which can be independently controlled by the user.
US09513779B2
A method is provided for reducing a number of keys that a user is required to depress on a device having a keyboard with a limited number of keys when the user enters a password. The method comprising the following steps. A subset of characters used to define the password is determined. A filter to apply to the keyboard is determined in accordance with the determined subset of characters. The filter is applied when the user depresses the keys. Devices and computer readable medium for implementing the method are also provided.
US09513777B1
A system for supplementing items in an activity stream provides an item for display in an activity stream on a client device. The system also generates an interactive element based on a type of the client device, where the interactive element includes context information about the item. The system also arranges a user selectable control within the interactive element based on a type of the item, where the user selectable control is configured to initiate a response to the item. The system also provides the interactive element for display in association with the item in the activity stream on the client device.
US09513767B2
Sequentially displaying posts apart from each other on a computer screen, including prompting a user to input a dimension element including one or more of a character, graphic, or symbol on the computer screen; identifying posts containing one or more dimension elements; sequentially displaying the identified posts apart from each other along a first axis; displaying a moveable cursor along the first axis across one or more displayed posts and that indicates only one or more particular posts; moving the cursor according to the user's operation; identifying one or more posts at a position currently indicated by the cursor; identifying one or more additional posts containing one or more dimension elements related to the elements contained in the posts currently indicated by the cursor; and sequentially displaying posts of the one or more additionally identified posts along a second axis.
US09513766B2
Embodiments relate to a graphical user interface to be displayed on a display apparatus, the graphical user interface comprising an addressable window which is assigned to a selectable object, where the window has a list with a plurality of buttons, where there is assigned to each button an action of a particular type in relation to the object assigned to the window, where there is assigned to one button a formation action which can be performed with elements from a plurality of element types, where the performance of the formation action requires the selection of the number of elements to be used for the formation action from a maximum number of elements for at least one element type. A further formation action can be assigned to a further button, where the element types and the number of elements to be used for the further formation action are determined by the element types and elements used in the last performed formation action.
US09513765B2
An information display terminal includes a first operation information acquiring unit that acquires first operation information including first location information on a display screen via a touch panel including a contact detection surface and the display screen. A three-dimensional coordinate space is projected onto the display screen. An object is arranged within the three-dimensional coordinate space on the basis of three-dimensional coordinate information of the object. The information display terminal also includes a second operation information acquiring unit that acquires second operation information including second location information on the display screen via a contact detection surface provided on a surface on a side opposite to the display screen. In addition, the information display terminal includes a display controlling unit that controls a display of the object in the three-dimensional coordinate space on the display screen on the basis of the acquired first operation information and second operation information.
US09513764B2
A computer processor determines a first span of a communication, wherein a span includes content associated with one or more dialog statements. If the content of the first span contains one or more topic change indicators which are identified by at least one detector of a learning model, the computer processor, in response, generates scores for each of the one or more indicators. The computer processor aggregates scores of the one or more indicators of the first span, which may be weighted, to produce an aggregate score. The computer processor compares the aggregate score to a threshold value, wherein the threshold value is determined during training of the learning model, and the computer processor, in response to the aggregate score crossing the threshold value, determines a topic change has occurred within the first span.
US09513762B1
Disclosed are various embodiments for an updatable package application. Updated static content elements of the packaged application are obtained from a content delivery service. The content update is verified as a function of the component static content elements and a manifest file. The application is reconfigured to execute as a function of the updated static content elements.
US09513761B2
A system for controlling a treatment device generates a graphical interface that visually prompts a user in a step-wise fashion to use the treatment device to perform a process of forming a pattern of lesions that extends both circumferentially and axially in different levels in a body region. The graphical interface displays for the user a visual record of the progress of the process from start to finish and guides the user so that so that individual lesions desired within a given level are all formed, and that a given level of lesions is not skipped.
US09513754B2
A display device with a touch detecting function includes wiring for touch arranged in a peripheral area positioned on the outside of a display area, and a selection switch that selects one of drive electrodes to be coupled to the wiring for touch. A drive electrode scanning unit selects one of drive electrodes and includes a plurality of transfer circuits in the peripheral area. Part of the transfer circuits is a transfer circuit that performs output to the selection switch.
US09513753B2
There is provided a touch-sensor-embedded display panel with reduced decrease in aperture ratio and reduced increase in frame area, with lowered power consumption and improved operation performance.A driving pixel (21) is constituted by: a thin film transistor (T1); a pixel electrode (Epix1); a driving common electrode (COM1); and a liquid crystal capacitance (Clc1) which is formed between the pixel electrode (Epix1) and the driving common electrode (COM1). A sensing pixel (22) is constituted by a thin film transistor (T2), a pixel electrode (Epix2), a sensing common electrode (COM2), and a liquid crystal capacitance (Clc2) which is formed between the pixel electrode (Epix2) and the sensing common electrode (COM2). Neither the driving pixel (21) nor the sensing pixel (22) include an auxiliary capacitance. The thin film transistors (T1, T2) have their channel layers formed of IGZO.
US09513749B2
In relation to touch sensors, technique capable of shortening total touch drive time and a touch detection period or suppressing increase thereof are provided. In a panel unit of a touch-sensor device, a touch drive unit generates a first pulse to an M-th pulses which are pulses of a plurality of types having mutually different cycles in accordance with differences in time constants with respect to paths including wirings of a peripheral area, touch drive electrodes, units of touch detection, touch detection electrodes, and wirings of the peripheral area through which pulses of touch drive signals to the plurality of touch drive electrodes are transmitted in a touch detection area in which the plurality of units of touch detection formed by pairs of the plurality of touch drive electrodes and the plurality of touch detection electrodes are formed like a matrix, and the touch drive unit applies the pulses.
US09513742B2
A touch sensing system includes a charge distributor, a pre-amplifier, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), and a temperature compensating device. The temperature compensating device varies one or more of a first reference voltage supplied to the charge distributor, a second reference voltage supplied to the pre-amplifier, and the capacitance of the charge distributor, in response to temperature data from a temperature sensor.
US09513718B2
The present invention supports the control of a plurality of controlled devices. With three dimensional accelerometer components, detection of a user action on a remote controller and the orientation of the remote controller are viable through small electronic devices. Aspects of the invention are based on the three dimensional accelerometer components to provide a remote controller that can detect the user action. Based on the user action, the remote controller transmits a signal to the controlled device which conveys the corresponding command. A selected controlled device may be matched to the remote controller. The remote controller and controlled device may also support a learning mode, in which the controlled device sends a list of supported commands to the remote controller. The remote controller then matches an associated action with each command in the command list.
US09513715B2
An information processing apparatus configured to recognize a touch of a recognition object onto an operation surface based on a proximity state between the operation surface and the recognition object, includes a position detection unit configured to detect an instruction position indicated by the recognition object, and an identification unit configured to identify a position at which the instruction position detected by the position detection unit is estimated to stop moving while the operation surface and the recognition object are located closer to each other than a predetermined distance, as a position touched by the recognition object.
US09513713B2
In a touch-based device presenting a media content playback, a first increment of a first control is determined. The first control allows a user to move forward or back in the media content in steps of the first increment using a touch-based gesture. A second increment and a size of a second control is computed using the first increment and a factor. The second increment is smaller than the first increment. The second control is constructed and presented according to the second increment and the size of the second control, the second control allowing the user to move forward or back in the media content in steps of the second increment. Responsive to the user using the second control, a forward or back movement in the media content by a multiple of the second increment is performed.
US09513706B2
A haptically enabled system receives a haptic effect primitive comprising a plurality of input parameters and receives an input from a sensor. The system generates a haptic effect signal from the haptic effect primitive, the haptic effect signal comprising a plurality of output parameters where at least one of the output parameters is varied based on the sensor input. The system then applies the haptic effect signal to an actuator.
US09513704B2
A device has a user interface that generates a haptic effect in response to user inputs or gestures. In one embodiment, the device receives an indication that the user is scrolling through a list of elements and an indication that an element is selected. The device determines the scroll rate and generates a haptic effect that has a magnitude that is based on the scroll rate.
US09513702B2
A mobile terminal including a terminal body; a display unit; a wireless communication unit configured to be wirelessly connected to an in-vehicle video display apparatus; and a controller configured to detect a directional change of a driver's eyes from a first display to a second display included in the in-vehicle video display apparatus, and control the second display to display at least a portion of a first screen displayed on the first display, in response to the detected directional change of the driver's eyes from the first display to the second display.
US09513698B2
An apparatus, system, and method for controlling functions of a vehicular alarm. The method includes receiving one or more signals including location information, determining a location of the vehicle using the location information, setting one or more functions based on the location information, determining whether an alarm function is activated, and activating the one or more functions according to the setting upon determining that an alarm has been activated. The method may further include using GPS data or signals transmitted from one or more base stations (e.g., from cellular telephone base stations, computer networks, proprietary transmitters, etc.) to determine the position of the apparatus (e.g., installed in the vehicle). The apparatus may also inform a user of regulations relating to an area dependent upon its location.
US09513695B2
In one embodiment of the invention, a memory apparatus is disclosed. The memory apparatus includes a memory array, a block read/write controller, and a random access read memory controller. The memory array is block read/write accessible and random read accessible. The block read/write controller is coupled between the memory array and an external interconnect. The block read/write controller performs block read/write operations upon the memory array to access blocks of consecutive memory locations therein. The random access read memory controller is coupled between the memory array and the external interconnect in parallel with the block read/write access controller. The random access read memory controller performs random read memory operations upon the memory array to access random memory locations therein.
US09513687B2
A microprocessor includes a plurality of semiconductor dies, a bus coupling the plurality of semiconductor dies, and a plurality of processing cores. A distinct subset of the processing cores is located on each of the semiconductor dies. Each die comprises a control unit configured to selectively control a respective clock signal to each of the subset of cores of the die. For each core of the subset, in response to the core writing a value to the control unit, the control unit is configured to turn off the respective clock signal to the core and to write the value over the bus to the control unit of the other die. Collectively all of the control units are configured to simultaneously turn on the clock signals to all of the processing cores after the clock signals have been turned off to all of the processing cores.
US09513686B2
One aspect provides a method, including: displaying, on a display device, display data; implementing, using a processor, a first power setting for the display device; accessing, using a processor, context data associated with the display data during use of the first power setting; mapping, using a processor, the context data to a predetermined display context, the predetermined display context being associated with a display setting; and switching, using the processor, the first power setting to the display setting of the display context. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US09513685B2
A method of measuring a processing load of a processor in executing a thread. When the load is above a threshold, measuring repeatedly at a first time interval, and when lower than the threshold, measuring repeatedly at a second, longer time interval.
US09513684B2
A power supply system for maintaining the efficiency of an AC/DC power conversion unit in relation to a load is disclosed. The load varies in response to power usage during operation of the power supply system. An AC power input and a DC power output of the power conversion unit direct DC power to attached components. A master controller disposed in the power supply system detects the load of an attached computer system through a DC meter and executes an algorithm to determine the values of circuit parameters of conversion circuits in the AC/DC power conversion unit. The master controller sends the values to a mode controller through a digital signal interface. The mode controller adjusts the operating mode of the conversion circuits and thus changes the efficiency of the AC/DC power conversion unit.
US09513681B2
Systems and methods for controlling inrush electrical currents (e.g., resulting from power-on event, etc.) using a virtual Miller capacitor and a metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET). In an illustrative, non-limiting embodiment, a method may include receiving alternating current (AC) power and providing the AC power to an electronic circuit, at least in part, via a bulk capacitor coupled to a field-effect transistor (FET), wherein the FET is coupled to a virtual Miller capacitor circuit configured to limit an amount of AC inrush current provided to the bulk capacitor.
US09513679B2
An electronic control unit includes a microcomputer and a monitoring section. The monitoring section monitors an operation of the microcomputer and outputs a reset signal to the microcomputer when determining that an abnormality occurs in the microcomputer. The microcomputer includes an acquisition section, a determination section, and a time calculation section. The acquisition section acquires time information from outside the microcomputer. When the microcomputer starts up, the determination section determines whether the microcomputer stopped the operation due to unknown cause. When the determination section determines that the microcomputer stopped the operation due to unknown cause, the time calculation section calculates stop time information based on the time information acquired by the acquisition section before the microcomputer stopped the operation and the time information acquired by the acquisition section after the microcomputer starts up, and stores the stop time information in a time storage portion.
US09513672B2
An electronic device may be provided with upper and lower housing portions that are separated by a gap. Hinge structures may allow the upper housing portion to rotate between a closed position and an open position. A flexible printed circuit in the electronic device may be coupled between components in the upper housing portion such as the display and components in the lower housing portion and may span the gap. A hinge gap cover may cover the gap and may overlap the flexible printed circuit to block the flexible printed circuit from view when the upper housing portion is in the closed position. The hinge gap cover may be formed from a layer of radio-transparent material that is rotatably coupled to the upper housing portion and that is biased towards the lower housing with a spring structure.
US09513669B2
A display device includes: a display substrate configured to be folded along a folding line; a driver detachably coupled to the display substrate; and a pad on at least one surface of the display substrate, the pad being configured to transmit a plurality of signals received from the driver to the display substrate, wherein the driver comprises an integrated circuit configured to supply the signals, a coupling portion configured to couple the driver to the display substrate, and a connector configured to couple the pad and the integrated circuit to each other.
US09513665B2
Particular embodiments described herein provide for a wearable electronic device, such as a bracelet, watch, wristband or armband that includes a circuit board coupled to a plurality of electronic components (which may include any type of components, elements, circuitry, etc.). One particular example implementation of a wearable electronic device may include a strap portion and a display portion that is secured to the strap portion. The display portion can include a formable display unit that comprises a formable material layer configured to be manipulated in one or more directions. The formable material layer can be configured to be manipulated in a first direction from a default position to a deformed position, which can be held until the formable material layer is manipulated in a second direction back to the default position.
US09513663B2
An electronic device may be provided with a touch screen display. The touch screen display may have an array of display pixels that are used to display images for a user. Touch input to the touch screen display may be provided by a user's finger or other external object. A touch sensor in the display may have vertical and horizontal position sensors that are based on distinct touch sensor technologies. The position sensors may be based on strain gauge sensors or other force sensors, capacitive sensors having multiple elongated transparent capacitive electrodes that span the display, acoustic sensors, light-based sensors, and other types of sensors. An opaque masking layer in an inactive area of the display may hide some of the position sensor structures from view such as vertical position sensor structures. The horizontal position sensor structures may have minimal inactive regions along their edges.
US09513662B2
Particular embodiments described herein can offer a method for managing power for at least one processor that includes evaluating a plurality of ports associated with an electronic device; determining that a particular pin associated with at least one of the ports is not receiving a signal; disabling a squelch function associated with the electronic device; and gating power associated with a physical layer (PHY) of the electronic device.
US09513658B2
A process utilized in an integrated circuit design methodology may be used to assess and organize individual bits (e.g., flip-flops) within multi-bit clocked storage devices (e.g., multi-bit flip-flops) for use in the integrated circuit design. The process may include assessing timing slacks of the bits, sorting and/or assigning the bits based on the assessed timing slacks, and remapping the multi-bit clocked storage devices using the sorted and/or assigned bits. One or more timing corrections may be applied to the remapped multi-bit clocked storage devices. The timing corrections may include useful clock skewing or resizing (e.g., upsizing or downsizing) of the remapped multi-bit clocked storage devices.
US09513657B2
In one aspect, a device includes a first portion having a length substantially the same as a length of a gap of a slot of a free link of a reel feeder. The device is configured to be placed in the gap to limit movement of a take-up arm along the slot. In another aspect, a method includes placing a device in a gap of a slot of a free link of a reel feeder to limit movement of a take-up arm along the slot.
US09513654B2
The invention relates to a method for performing a switching process in an on-load tap changer between winding taps of a tapped transformer. The switching process for an on-load tap changer is subdivided into a plurality of phases according to the reactor switching principle. In these phases, the switching contacts in use are monitored during the actuation and are completely opened or closed by capacitors in the controller in the event of failure of the energy supply. Thereby critical switching states are prevented.
US09513650B2
The invention relates to a method in an electric power system including one or more power generation source(s) and a dynamic power compensator having a battery energy storage. The method includes the steps of: detecting a frequency disturbance within the electricity power system requiring an additional power generation source to be connected to the electricity power system in order to meet a power demand; and controlling the power output from the battery energy storage of the dynamic power compensator during start-up of the additional power generation source thereby limiting the frequency disturbance within the electric power system. The invention also relates to a controller, computer program, computer program products and electric power system.
US09513646B2
A low dropout regulator and system for supplying power to a card are provided. A low dropout regulator includes a reference voltage supply circuit configured to output a reference voltage based on an input supply voltage. An error amplifier has a first input, a second input, and a single-ended output. The first input is coupled to the reference voltage, and the second input is coupled to an output node of the low dropout regulator via a first feedback resistor. A pass transistor includes a control electrode connected to the single-ended output of the error amplifier, a first electrode connected to a ground node, and a second electrode connected to the output node of the low dropout regulator. A first power supply terminal of the error amplifier is connected to the output node, and the output node provides an output voltage of the low dropout regulator that powers the error amplifier.
US09513643B2
A system and method for display of multiple data sets related to building systems is provided. A first building system includes a first sensor that generates first operating data corresponding to the first building system. A second building system includes a second sensor that generates second operating data corresponding to the second building system. A data server stores the first operating data and the second operating data. A user terminal accesses the first operating data and the second operating data, receives user input selecting the first operating data and the second operating data for display, and displays the first operating data and the second operating data together in a graphical display.
US09513639B2
To derive a feasible solution for an operation plan problem for storage tanks for storing liquefied natural gas, which is a complicated mixed-integer non-linear problem, given tank initial state information, reception plan information, and feed plan information, two solving processes are executed alternately two or more times, respectively: a first solving process that replaces a mixed-integer non-linear programming problem with a mixed-integer linear programming problem by linear approximation of a non-linear expression in non-linear constraints containing the non-linear expression, and solves the problem to derive provisional solutions or final solutions for a reception pattern that prescribes a storage tank that is to receive liquefied natural gas, and a discharge pattern that prescribes a storage tank that is to discharge liquefied natural gas, and a second solving process that replaces a mixed-integer non-linear programming problem with a continuous non-linear programming problem by provisionally fixing a discrete variable in discrete form constraints containing the discrete variable, and solves the problem to derive provisional solutions or final solutions for transitions of storage quantity and storage heat quantity of liquefied natural gas in each storage tank.
US09513638B2
A water level detection system in a pool, spa, fountain or water feature forming a body of water within, the water level detection system is provided with a tap line coupled to a plumbing line on a suction or supply side of a filtration system and admitting water from the pool, spa, fountain or water feature such that the change in level of the water in the tap line corresponds to a change in level of the water in the pool, spa, fountain or water feature. A sensing module is mounted to the tap line and has at least one sensor for detecting the height of a column of water or the pressure of a column of air in the water tap line. A controller is coupled to the sensing module and adapted to collect the data from the sensors that detect changes in the level of the water level of the body of water, communicate the detection of such a change, and report such a change to initiate addition or removal of water from the body of water to adjust the water level in the body of water to a set point.
US09513623B2
A method for generating a trajectory based on an input trajectory formed by points representing spatial coordinates for a numerically controlled (NC) process determines a plurality of sequences of the points and determines, for each sequence, local costs of each point in the input trajectory. Each sequence is formed by removing a unique combination of points from the input trajectory and the local cost of a point for a sequence is determined based on a spatial arrangement of the point with respect to at least some of points in the sequence. For each sequence, a sum of corresponding local costs of each point in the input trajectory is determines and the trajectory is determined based on an optimal sequence with an optimal value of the sum of the local costs.
US09513616B2
A system and method are provided that adapt or configure an electronic device to be capable of detecting movement of the plug of a headset relative to a socket therefore (i.e. be capable of detecting relative movement of the coupling between the headset and the device). The plug can then be used to control functions on the electronic device, including those associated with audio programming. The resultant auxiliary controls can also be used for other applications, even those where the device is actively being used, e.g. a video game, to provide further control inputs for the electronic device.
US09513615B2
In one embodiment, a technique is provided to configure a home multimedia system. Software executing on a controller or other device access component profiles describing attributes of components, one or more zone configurations that indicate components that are present in one or more zones, and one or more connection configurations that indicates how components that are present in the one or more zones are interconnected. The software applies a set of predefined service rules to the data structures to generate workflows for possible services, wherein each service rule defines one or more components and one or more interactions required for providing a corresponding service, and each workflow indicates how one or more of the components that are present in the one or more zones interact to provide a service. Executable forms of the workflows are generated, and executed to provide services to a user.
US09513608B2
A device and a method for operating an electromechanical adjustment device having an electric drive device, include a control unit that detects the reaching of a mechanical end stop of the adjustment device and controls and/or regulates the electric drive device. After a mechanical end stop of the adjustment device is reached, a change in the direction of rotation is automatically actuated in the electric drive device for a predefinable period of time or a predefinable traveling distance.
US09513606B1
Safety systems and methods for production environments are disclosed. Safety systems include at least one sensing device configured to detect presence of an unauthorized human and/or an authorized human at least partially within a defined safety zone, and a controller configured to automatically alter at least one aspect of the production environment responsive to the presence of the unauthorized human and/or the authorized human. Safety methods include detecting presence of an unauthorized human and/or an authorized human at least partially within a defined safety zone, and automatically altering at least one aspect of the production environment responsive to the detecting.
US09513596B2
There is provided an image forming apparatus including a main body, a drum cartridge attachable to and detachable from the main body and including a photosensitive drum, a developing agent cartridge attachable to and detachable from the main body and containing a developing agent to be supplied to the photosensitive drum, and an exposure unit configured to expose a surface of the photosensitive drum. The main body includes a drum cartridge guide which is configured to guide the drum cartridge such that the drum cartridge passes above the exposure unit, when the drum cartridge is attached to or detached from the main body, and a developing cartridge guide which is configured to guide the developing agent cartridge such that the developing agent cartridge passes below the exposure unit, when the developing agent cartridge is attached to or detached from the main body.
US09513594B2
A protective layer forming device, including: a powdery image bearer protecting agent formed of a granulated product containing a fatty acid metal salt and an inorganic lubricant; and a roller-shaped protecting agent supplying member configured to supply the powdery image bearer protecting agent to a surface of an image bearer.
US09513593B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image holding member; a charging unit; an electrostatic charge image forming unit; a developing unit that accommodates an electrostatic charge image developer that contains toner particles having a shape factor SF1 of 120 to 145 and hydrophobic inorganic oxide particles having a number average particle diameter of 30 nm to 80 nm and satisfies the Formula (1), and develops the electrostatic charge image formed on the surface of the image holding member to form a toner image, by the electrostatic charge image developer; a transfer unit; and a cleaning unit that includes a cleaning blade which contacts with the surface of the image holding member at contact pressure of 9.8 mN/mm to 21.6 mN/mm, and removes toner remaining on the surface of the image holding member after transferring the toner image by the cleaning blade: Q≧160−12R (1).
US09513591B2
An improved overcoat layer for an organic photoconductor drum of an electrophotographic image forming device is provided. The overcoat layer is prepared from a curable composition including a triphenylamine charge transport containing two ethyl acrylate functional groups and a urethane resin containing six radical polymerizable functional groups. The amount of the triphenylamine charge transport containing two ethyl acrylate functional groups in the curable composition is about 20 to about 80 percent by weight. The amount of the urethane resin containing six radical polymerizable functional groups in the curable composition is about 20 to about 80 percent by weight. This overcoat layer improves wear resistance of the organic photoconductor drum without negatively altering the electrophotographic properties, thus protecting the organic photoconductor drum from damage and ultimately providing a photoconductor with a longer useful life when compared to other organic photoconductors commercially available.
US09513589B2
A support unit is provided at a downstream side of a tray surface tilted upward in a sheet discharge direction so as to be movable in the sheet discharge direction and a reverse direction of the sheet discharge direction. The support unit has a support plate that supports a discharge sheet from below. The support plate is tilted in a vertical direction by being supported at an upstream end of the support plate in as a fulcrum and is raised and downed with respect to the tray surface so as to change an angle.
US09513580B2
An image forming apparatus includes: a displacement member supported so as to be displaceable; and a drive mechanism. The drive mechanism is a mechanism configured to displace the displacement member between a first position away from a fall path of a movement path for a powdery developer and a second position at which at least a part of the displacement member enters the fall path.
US09513564B2
Provided is an exposure method that includes setting a first exposure condition so as to calculate a coefficient for predicting the fluctuation in the imaging characteristics of the projection optical system under a certain exposure condition; determining the coefficient and a permissible value calculated from aberration measurement reproducibility based on a fluctuation characteristic model; calculating a predicted amount of the fluctuation in the imaging characteristics under the first exposure condition based on the coefficient; determining whether or not the predicted amount is less than the permissible value for each time instant; and starting calculation of the predicted amount of the fluctuation in the imaging characteristics under a second exposure condition at the time at which it is determined by the determining that the predicted amount is less than the permissible value.
US09513559B2
An objective lens system having a high numerical aperture, a large working distance, and low optical aberrations over a wide spectral band of wavelengths is disclosed. The objective lens system includes a first lens group, a second lens group, and a third lens group. The first lens group includes first and second positive meniscus lenses that are positioned at a distance from each other along an optical axis of the objective lens system. The distance may be dependent on a focal length of the objective lens system. The second lens group includes first and second meniscus lenses and a bi-convex lens. The third lens group includes a bi-concave lens and a doublet lens.
US09513558B2
An exposure apparatus irradiates a substrate with light via a projection system and liquid, and includes a stage that moves below the projection system, and a light-receiving element having a light-receiving surface. An optical member provided on the stage has a first surface contacting the liquid when moved to face the projection system, and a second surface contacting a gas and transmitting light having come from the projection system via the liquid and the first surface. The optical member is configured such that at least a large-angle ray of the light, which has an angle with an optical axis of the projection system sufficiently large to undergo total reflection at an end surface of the projection system when the liquid is absent, travels from the projection system to the second surface without passing through gas. The second surface transmits the large-angle ray, which is received by the light-receiving surface.
US09513555B2
The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a suspended single carbon nanowire and piled nano-electrode pairs, and a suspended single carbon nanowire and piled nano-electrode pairs manufactured using said method. A suspended single carbon nanowire, which is manufactured at a high yield by the method for manufacturing a suspended single carbon nanowire according to the present invention, has a minimized dimension, and a suspended carbon nanomesh, which is manufactured at a high yield by the method for manufacturing piled nano-electrode pairs according to the present invention, is thin and dense. The present invention also provides a gas sensor or an electrochemical sensor, to which a suspended single carbon nanowire and piled nano-electrode pairs manufactured by the method according to the present invention are applied.
US09513554B1
A microporous carbon scaffold is produced by lithographically patterning a carbon-containing photoresist, followed by pyrolysis of the developed resist structure. Prior to exposure, the photoresist is loaded with a nanoparticulate material. After pyrolysis, the nanonparticulate material is dispersed in, and intimately mixed with, the carbonaceous material of the scaffold, thereby yielding a carbon composite structure.
US09513551B2
A process is provided for printing a high resolution pattern on a photopolymeric surface.
US09513546B2
Disclosed are a monomer for a hardmask composition represented by the Chemical Formula 1, a hardmask composition including the monomer, and a method of forming a pattern using the same.
US09513545B2
A compound represented by the following formula (I), wherein R1 is a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a methyl group or a trifluoromethyl group.
US09513544B2
Provided is a colored photo-sensitive composition having a high sensitivity and a good developablity, even if the ratio of content of a pigment, relative to the total solids of the colored photo-sensitive composition, is 20% by mass or more. The colored photo-sensitive composition includes (A) a resin which is increased, by action of an acid, in solubility into an alkali developing solution; (B) a pigment; (C) a compound which produces an acid upon irradiated by active light or radial ray; and (D) a solvent, wherein the ratio of content of the (B) pigment, relative to the total solids of the colored photo-sensitive composition, is 20% by mass or more.
US09513537B2
A portable studio unit includes a first main body portion configured to define any one plane among three axes planes constructing a three dimensional figure, a second main body portion connected to the first main body portion, a third main body portion located at an opposite side of the second main body portion with the first main body portion interposed therebetween, and pairs of side surface finishing portions arranged at side surfaces of the three dimensional figure corresponding to open regions defined by the first main body portion, the second main body portion and the third main body portion except for a front surface.
US09513534B2
An optical imaging lens for a mobile device comprising four lens elements positioned sequentially from an object side to an image side. By controlling the convex or concave shape of the surfaces of the lens elements, the optical imaging lens may exhibit better optical characteristics. Furthermore, the total length of the optical imaging lens may be shortened.
US09513526B2
The present invention provides uniformly electrified electret fine particles having excellent electrophoretic properties. Specifically, the present invention provides a core-shell electret fine particle comprising a core part and a shell part, the core part containing a material that has an ability to disperse a pigment therein, the shell part containing an electret resin, and the electret resin being a fluorine-containing resin and being electretized by electron ray irradiation, radial ray irradiation, or corona discharge treatment.
US09513525B2
Methods of manufacturing electrochromic windows are described. An electrochromic device is fabricated to substantially cover a glass sheet, for example float glass, and a cutting pattern is defined based on one or more low-defectivity areas in the device from which one or more electrochromic panes are cut. Laser scribes and/or bus bars may be added prior to cutting the panes or after. Edge deletion can also be performed prior to or after cutting the electrochromic panes from the glass sheet. Insulated glass units (IGUs) are fabricated from the electrochromic panes and optionally one or more of the panes of the IGU are strengthened.
US09513521B2
A display device including: a substrate including a display area in which pixels are positioned and a peripheral area around the display area; a common electrode and a pixel electrode that are positioned on the display area and overlapping with each other, with a first insulating layer disposed therebetween; a common voltage line positioned on or below the common electrode and contacting the common electrode; an edge common voltage line connected with the common voltage line and formed along an edge of the display area; and a first common voltage transfer line contacting the edge common voltage line in the peripheral area and configured to transfer a common voltage to the common voltage line.
US09513517B2
A liquid crystal panel, a display device, and a manufacturing method and a driving method thereof are provided. The liquid crystal panel comprises an array substrate (20), a color filter substrate (10), and a liquid crystal layer (30) disposed between two substrates; the array substrate (20) is provided with a first electrode (21) and a second electrode (22) thereon in different layers, the color filter substrate (10) is provided with a third electrode (12) and a fourth electrode (11) thereon in different layers, the first electrode (21) and the third electrode (22) are disposed opposite to each other, the first electrode (21) and the third electrode (12) are slit-like electrodes, the second electrode (22) and the fourth electrode (11) are plate-like electrodes, the first electrode (21) and the third electrode (12) are respectively located on sides close to the liquid crystal layer of the second electrode (22) and the fourth electrode (11). The driving method of a display device comprises: with regard to each frame of image, calculating and acquiring an average value of pixel voltages applied to pixel electrodes when the frame of image is shown, and applying the average value to the third electrode (12) or the fourth electrode (11) of the color filter substrate (10); or, in any one pixel region, the third electrode (12) is applied with a same signal as the first electrode (11), and the fourth electrode (11) is applied with a same signal as the second electrode (22).
US09513507B2
The present invention relates to a three-dimensional liquid crystal display device, and shutter glasses and a control method for the shutter glasses. In the case, the three-dimensional liquid crystal display device comprises: a backlight controller, for controlling turn-on of a backlight, and keeping the backlight normally on while left and right eye images are alternately output by the panel; and a transmitting module, for outputting a picture refresh signal with a fixed frequency, and outputting a backlight enabling signal when the backlight are turned on. The shutter glasses include a controller. Under the function of the controller, the shutter glasses receive the picture refresh signal with a fixed frequency and the backlight enabling signal, and start timing once the picture refresh signal triggered by a positive source is detected, with the time point when the backlight enabling signal is received by the receiving module as a starting point. When counted time reaches a set time count, the shutter glasses control a left eye glass or a right eye glass to open for a set open time Topen in a continuous manner, wherein a sum of the time count and the open time is shorter than inverse of the fixed frequency, and opening sequence of the left and the right eye glass is consistent with the sequence of the left and right eye image signals.
US09513504B2
A liquid crystal display includes: a first substrate and a second substrate facing the first substrate; a column spacer disposed on the first substrate; a light blocking member disposed on the second substrate; and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The light blocking member includes a dome shaped portion having a concave surface.
US09513501B2
An exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure provides a touch screen structure used in a touch panel. The touch screen structure comprises a protection cover and at least one color changeable decoration layer. The color changeable decoration layer is made of thermochromic material or photochromic material, located at a side region of the lower surface of the protection cover, and the region at which the color changeable decoration layer is located defines a non-visible region of the touch panel.
US09513500B2
A fixing device for an LCD module and a faceplate includes a frame having one side fixing an LCD module and another side provided with plural fixing plates respectively bored with an elongated insert hole. A circuit board is secured at a rear side of a faceplate and provided with plural locking plates corresponding with the fixing plates so that the fixing plates of the frame can be respectively secured with the locking plates. Thus, relative positions of an LCD module and a faceplate can be adjusted and hence LCD modules different in thickness can be firmly fixed with a faceplate and the surface of the LCD module can be stably kept flush with the surface of the faceplate.
US09513497B2
Described herein are methods, systems, and apparatuses to utilize an electro-optic modulator including one or more heating elements. The modulator can utilize one or more heating elements to control an absorption or phase shift of the modulated optical signal. At least the active region of the modulator and the one or more heating elements of the modulator are included in a thermal isolation region comprising a low thermal conductivity to thermally isolate the active region and the one or more heating elements from a substrate of the PIC.
US09513495B2
There is provided illuminated eyewear having one or more light sources mounted thereto to project light forwardly thereof. The illuminated eyewear includes a cross-frame member or portion and temple arm members or portions extending rearwardly therefrom in a use configuration. The illuminated eyewear may include a pass-through portion of the cross-frame member that is oriented to be forwardly of the light source to allow light projected from the light source to pass therethrough to an area forwardly of the cross-frame member.
US09513491B2
A 3D image display device includes an image projection unit for projecting a first image; a first polarization unit disposed on a projection path of the first image for linearly polarizing the first image to have a first linear polarization direction; a lens array disposed on the projection path of the first image for refracting an image having a second linear polarization direction, the second linear polarization direction being different from the first linear polarization direction; a first quarter-wave plate disposed on the projection path of the first image for converting polarization direction of an image between a linear polarization direction and a circular polarization direction; and a reflection unit disposed on the projection path of the first image for reflecting the first image transmitted from the first quarter-wave plate back to the first quarter-wave plate.
US09513483B2
Proposed is a beam shaper for beams emitted from at least one laser-diode bar and consisting of a fast-axis collimator composed of a common cylindrical lens with an aspherical profile, an array of spherical/aspherical telescope units formed from a pair of microlenses, where each individual telescope unit is shifted in accordance with a predetermined law to a certain distance relative to a neighboring individual telescope unit, an array of cylindrical lenses shifted relative to each other in accordance with another predetermined law, and a system of collimation lenses that collimate the beams of the predetermined spatial pattern into a two-dimensional pattern having a less discrete and more uniform distribution of light intensity and a shape more convenient for subsequent coupling, e.g., for focusing into the end face of an optical fiber of a light transmission system.
US09513476B2
A micro-electromechanical component includes: an electrically conductive substrate having an upper side and an underside; a structured electrically conductive first functional layer fashioned on the upper side of the substrate; an elastically deflectable actuator device suspended via a spring device fashioned in the first functional layer; a movable first electrode device extending vertically through the substrate and connected to the actuator device; and a stationary second electrode device extending vertically through the substrate, at a distance from the first electrode device, the actuator device being configured to be deflected through the application of an electrical voltage between the first and the second electrode device.
US09513467B2
An imaging lens consists of five lenses, including: a fist lens having a biconvex shape with the surface having the radius of curvature with the smaller absolute value toward the object side, a second lens having a negative refractive power and a concave surface toward the image side, a third lens having a meniscus shape with a convex surface toward the object side, a fourth lens having a negative refractive power and a meniscus shape with a convex surface toward the image side, and a fifth lens having a negative refractive power and a meniscus shape with a concave surface toward the image side, the image-side surface thereof having at least one inflection point, disposed in this order from the object side.
US09513463B2
Provided are a photographic lens and an electronic apparatus including the photographic lens. The photographic lens includes a first lens that has a positive refractive power and includes a biconvex lens, a second lens that has a negative refractive power, a third lens that has a positive refractive power, and a fourth lens that has a negative refractive power. The first, second, third, and fourth lenses are arranged sequentially from an object-side to an image-side.
US09513461B2
A lens barrel includes a cam frame, a zoom motor unit driving the cam frame to rotate, and a fifth group unit engaging with the cam frame through a fifth cam follower. The cam frame is provided with an internal gear engaging with the zoom motor unit, and a fifth cam groove engaging with the fifth cam follower. The fifth cam groove is continuous with a tooth space formed between two adjacent teeth of the internal gear. The fifth cam follower is smaller than the tooth space to pass through the tooth space.
US09513459B2
A driving apparatus includes a first axial member that is arranged so as to extend in a predetermined direction, where the predetermined direction is the axial direction of the first axial member, and a driving unit that is configured to generate a first driving force in the axial direction and a second driving force in a direction intersecting the axial direction, where the first and second driving forces are to be applied to the first axial member.
US09513455B2
A lens driving device and the lens holder cannot tilt when the lens holder moves up due to the coil energized. The inside holding portion (14a) of the front spring member (14A) is connected to the surface of the +Z side of the front connection portion (13b) of the lens holder (13), the inside holding portion (14a) of the rear spring member (14B) is connected to the surface of the +Z side of the rear connection portion (13c), the outside diameter of which is larger than the outside diameter of the front connection portion (13b), the outside holding portion (14b) is connected with the base (12) in the manner of shifting the inside holding portion (14a) towards the −Z side, so as to apply the pressure of the −Z-axis direction to the lens holder (13).
US09513434B2
The optical waveguide includes: a lower clad layer, a core layer, an upper clad layer, a substrate, and a mirror, the lower clad layer, the core layer, and the upper clad layer being sequentially laminated to the substrate, the mirror being formed on the core layer, in which the substrate has an opening, the maximum diameter of the opening is larger than that of luminous flux reflected by the mirror, and the maximum diameter of the opening is 240 μm or less. The optical waveguide is capable of transmitting a light signal regardless of the type of the substrate, suppressing the spread of a light signal reflected from the mirror, and transmitting a light signal with a low optical transmission loss.
US09513428B2
A lighting assembly includes a light engine and a light guide. The light engine edge lights the light guide and includes a control assembly that controls light output according to one or more parameters to produce light output from the lighting assembly with a desired characteristic. Lighting assemblies are combined to form a modular lighting assembly.
US09513422B2
An optical-compensation film, an optical-compensation polarizing sheet and a liquid crystal display are disclosed. The liquid crystal display comprises: a liquid crystal unit as well as a first polarizing sheet and a second polarizing sheet each provided at either side of the liquid crystal unit, in which absorption axes of the first and second polarizing sheets are perpendicular to each other; the liquid crystal unit comprises: a counter substrate and an array substrate as well as a liquid crystal layer lying between the two substrates, in which, the array substrate comprises a pixel electrode and a common electrode; the first polarizing sheet comprises: a first optical-compensation film, which is provided facing the liquid crystal unit; an absorption axis of the first polarizing sheet and an initial alignment direction of the liquid crystal in the liquid crystal layer are both perpendicular to a slow axis of the first optical-compensation film; the second polarizing sheet comprises: an isotropic protective film, which is provided proximate to a side of the liquid crystal unit where the array substrate is located. The liquid crystal display has improved contrast in an oblique plane and expanded viewing angles.
US09513415B2
An optical filter configured to transmit light of a predetermined wavelength includes a substrate; a first conductive thin film that is disposed on the substrate and has apertures extending through the first conductive thin film and arranged with a period of less than the predetermined wavelength; and a second conductive thin film at least a portion of which faces the apertures so as to be separated from the apertures.
US09513414B2
A method for repairing a display substrate, comprising steps of: forming a black matrix pattern on a substrate, wherein there is a first pattern missing region in the black matrix pattern; forming a color filter layer pattern on the substrate on which the black matrix pattern is formed; removing all patterns from the substrate within the first pattern missing region by laser processing the first pattern missing region of the substrate based on a position of the first pattern missing region; and filling a first repair material into the first pattern missing region of the substrate processed by laser so as to repair the first pattern missing region. The present invention also discloses a display substrate and a display apparatus.
US09513411B2
A double-lens structure and a method for fabricating the same are provided. The double-lens structure includes a first lens structure formed of a color filter layer having a first refractive index and a second lens structure formed of a micro-lens material layer having a second refractive index and disposed on the first lens structure. The first refractive index of the color filter layer is different from the second refractive index of the micro-lens material layer. An incident light enters the second lens structure and then passes through the first lens structure. Further, a method for fabricating the double-lens structure is also provided.
US09513400B2
An apparatus includes a radiation source to output radiation after power is supplied. The apparatus also includes a power source to supply power. The apparatus includes an ambient-activated switch electrically coupled between the radiation source and the power source. The ambient-activated switch is to switch to an open position while a value for an ambient characteristic for the ambient-activated switch is at an ambient level for a surface of the Earth. The ambient-activated switch is to switch to a closed position while the value for the ambient characteristic for the ambient-activated switch is at a downhole ambient level, wherein the ambient-activated switch is to electrically couple the power source to the radiation source while in the closed position.
US09513397B2
A tone detection arrangement and method decodes an incoming data stream that is received in sequential bit times and which contains at least one tone that is selectively present for the duration each bit time. Each one of a plurality of digital filters is tuned for detecting the tone over a filter interval. The filters are operable in timed relation to one another.
US09513391B2
To acquire near-zero offset survey data, a survey source and a first streamer attached to the survey source are provided, where the first streamer has at least one survey receiver. A second streamer separate from the survey source and the first streamer includes survey receivers. Near-zero offset data is measured using the at least one survey receiver of the first streamer.
US09513387B2
A system and method is provided for determining depth of interaction (DOI) information. The system and method includes a detector configured to generate DOI information as a result of radiation emitted from a radiation source. The system and method further includes a plurality of scintillator pixels forming a block, wherein the plurality of scintillator pixels have a first portion and a second portion. A first medium distributed in an alternating pattern of coupling and separation between each of the scintillator pixels in a first portion or second portion of the block is also provided. A plurality of sensors for detecting scintillation events across the plurality of scintillators based on the alternating pattern of coupling and separation between each of the scintillator pixels, wherein DOI information is provided by a position profile of the block, and an image processor for generating a 3 dimensional image from the DOI information are also included.
US09513386B2
This invention is about a readout apparatus and method for time-of-flight and energy measurements with silicon photomultipliers (SIPM) coupled to a scintillator. The timing measurement can be as accurate as 50 ps or below, after calibration. The energy is measured using a time-over-threshold technique, and the energy resolution is only constrained by the scintillation statistics. In order to achieve low power of 10 mW per channel, a low impedance input amplifier and analog time-to-digital converters (TDCs) based on time interpolation are used. The readout circuit can be triggered by a single photoelectron (p.e.) with a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) above 20 dB. The said readout circuit operates with SiPMs of different gain, polarity and matrix size. The preferred embodiment of the readout apparatus is a multi-channel application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) with 64 channels.
US09513385B2
An x-ray scanner includes an x-ray source producing a fan beam of x-rays, an x-ray detector array, a collimator, a second motor moving TDI detector arrays, and an x-ray processing unit. The detector array has the TDI arrays and detects x-rays from the source. The collimator disposed between the source and detector array defines slits to collimate the fan beam of x-rays into lateral beams with a height dimension the same as a height dimension of the TDI detector arrays. Either the collimator is fixed to the x-ray source or moves thereto. A first motor moves the collimator or the collimator and source together. The processing unit controls the motors, processes detection of the x-rays, and forms an image of an entity between the collimator and the detector array to have an intensity and contrast of the scanned image be maximized while an exposure dose for the entity is minimized.
US09513382B2
To improve a temporal resolution.An image-capturing device includes a pixel array unit and a control unit. The pixel array unit includes a plurality of pixels classified into two or more groups, wherein pixels which belong to a same group are driven at a same timing. The control unit controls driving of the pixel array unit so that a number of groups in a period of time of read-out of electrical charge is a same number in any given timing in image-capturing operation, and that a number of groups in a period of time of exposure and accumulation of electrical charge is a same number in any given timing in the image-capturing operation.
US09513381B2
In a scintillator panel, a glass substrate with the thickness of not more than 150 μm serves as a support body, thereby achieving excellent radiotransparency and flexibility and also relieving a problem of thermal expansion coefficient. Furthermore, in this scintillator panel, an organic resin layer is formed so as to cover a one face side and a side face side of the glass substrate. This reinforces the glass substrate, whereby the edge part thereof can be prevented from chipping or cracking. Furthermore, stray light can be prevented from entering the side face of the glass substrate, while transparency is ensured for light incident to the other face side of the glass substrate because the organic resin layer is not formed on the other face side of the glass substrate.
US09513375B2
Embodiments of an improved assisted global positioning system (GPS) method and system are described. Wireless access points send assistance data to GPS receivers that are integrated into cellular chipsets and other chipsets. The access points may also act as fixed location references for differential GPS (DGPS) mobile stations. Errors caused by multipath travel of the GPS signals are reduced by using fixed location reference receivers.
US09513367B2
System for detecting objects protruding from the surface of a body of water in a marine environment under low illumination conditions, the system comprising a gated light source, generating light pulses toward the body of water illuminating substantially an entire field of view, a gated camera, sensitive at least to wavelengths of the light generated by the gated light source, the gated camera receiving light reflected from at least one object, within the field of view, protruding from the surface of the body of water and acquiring a gated image of the reflected light, and a processor coupled with the gated light source and with the gated camera, the processor gating the gated camera to be set ‘OFF’ for at least the duration of time it takes the gated light source to produce a light pulse in its substantial entirety in addition to the time it takes the end of the light pulse to complete traversing a determined distance from the system and back to the gated camera, the processor further setting, for each pulse, the gated camera to be ‘ON’ for an ‘ON’ time duration until the light pulse, reflecting back from the object, is received by the gated camera.
US09513360B2
A method for testing mainframe performance of different types of PD detectors based on analog voltage signal injection, the method comprises: using a function generator (19) with an adjustable output frequency of 0 to 3.5 GHz and an adjustable output amplitude of 0 to 10V, directly injecting or injecting via a DC blocking element (28) with a frequency band of 10 kHz to 10 MHz equivalent analog voltage signals generated by said function generator (19) based on PD waveforms actually tested by a pulse current PD detection sensor (6), an ultrasound PD detection sensor (12,13) and a UHF PD detection sensor (9) into mainframes of a pulse current PD detector, an ultrasound PD detector and a UHF PD detector respectively. The advantages are that the test method is universalized and standardized, the test result is reproducible and measurable, the application scope of the test object is wide, and the test content is comprehensive.
US09513353B2
A method of determining a magnet arrangement for use in magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, the method including, determining a function representing current densities required within a magnet region to generate a field, determining a current density distribution required to generate a desired field, using the function and determining the magnet arrangement using the current density distribution, the magnet arrangement including a number of current carrying coils arranged within the magnet region.
US09513349B2
A scissor type magnetic sensor having a magnetic bias structure extending from the back edge of first and second magnetic free layers. The magnetic bias structure is constructed of a magnetic material having a high magnetic moment, such as NiFe with a high Fe content or CoFe. The high magnetic moment bias structure reduces magnetic signal asymmetry while also maintaining high signal amplitude.
US09513339B2
Embodiments of the present invention may provide a battery monitor for a battery system that avoids current loops. A battery monitor may be provisioned as an integrated circuit and may include a pair of supply pins for reception of power to the integrated circuit, a third high impedance pin, and a voltage regulation circuit. When the circuits are deployed, the supply pins of several battery monitors may be connected to each other to form a stack. The high impedance inputs of each battery monitor may be coupled to low voltage terminals of an associated battery cell. A voltage reference circuit within the battery monitor may maintain the voltage at a low voltage supply of the monitors at a level that matches the voltage present on the high impedance input. Thus, the voltages on the monitors' low voltage supplies may be regulated. As a result, no current should flow through the high impedance pins of the battery monitor. All current flow should occur through a single loop that extends through the entire stack of battery monitors.
US09513331B2
The present disclosure relates to a test head for electrical testing of a test specimen, in particular a wafer, having at least two guide plates, which are spaced apart by means of at least one spacer and have guide holes distributed over the surfaces thereof, in which test contact pins for physical contact with the test specimen are guided in a sliding manner. Provision is made for the spacer to be formed by a multiplicity of point supports arranged in a manner distributed over the surfaces of the guide plates and secured on the guide plates.
US09513330B2
In accordance with one aspect of the present description, an integrated circuit die has a plurality of through-body-vias and a testing circuit on board the die which allows charges on a first and second through-body-via to redistribute between them to provide an indication whether one or both of the first and second through-body-vias has a defect. Other aspects are described.
US09513329B2
Embodiments for aging-based usage metering of components of an IC are described herein. In various embodiments, the IC may include various components and an aging-based usage metering circuit for metering usage of the components. The components may include respective associated usage vectors that are different from one another, whereas the usage metering circuit may include circuit elements coupled to each other, forming different processing paths for processing the different usage vectors. Additionally, the components may be configured to respectively transmit their different associated usage vectors to the usage metering circuit whenever the respectively components are used. And the usage metering circuit may be configured to process the usage vectors. Further, the circuit elements of the usage metering circuit may age over time as a result of the processing, enabling usage of the components be determined based on their aging. Other embodiments may be described or claimed.
US09513328B2
A pulsed voltage bias method and/or pulsed light bias method may be used to reduce, minimize, and/or eliminate external quantum efficiency measurement artifacts of multi-junction solar cells, for example artifacts caused by the shunt effect. In this manner, multi-junction solar cells may be designed and constructed with improved performance, efficiency, and the like.
US09513321B2
A sensor system for monitoring surroundings on a mechanical component, includes at least one capacitive sensor element that is attachable to the surface of machines or machine parts, the at least one sensor element being constructed from a layered structure of flexible electrically conductive and electrically insulating plies, electrically conductive potential surfaces of one ply being disposed, laterally spaced apart via insulating plies located therebetween, in such a way that electric field lines form between the conductive potential surfaces and change measurably upon proximity and/or contact of a body or an object. The layered structure of a sensor element has at least two measuring elements operating separately from one another.
US09513320B2
An electrical test device may include a power supply, a conductive probe element, and a spectral analysis block. The power supply may be connected to an external power source. The conductive probe element may be connected to the power supply and may be configured to be energized by the power supply. The probe element may be configured to be placed in contact with an electrical system under test and apply an input signal containing current for measuring at least one parameter of the electrical system. The spectral analysis block may be connected to the probe element and may be configured to receive an output signal from the electrical system in response to the application of the current to the electrical system. The spectral analysis block may be configured to analyze frequency spectra of the output signal and detect a broadband increase in energy of the frequency spectra above a predetermined energy threshold. The broadband increase in energy may be representative of the occurrence of arcing in the electrical system.
US09513319B1
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and devices for power and energy metering. Devices may include first processing logic coupled to an isolator and configured to receive a first bit stream from a first modulator via the isolator. The first bit stream may be generated by the first modulator based on a first analog signal. The first processing logic may be further configured to receive a second bit stream from a second modulator via the isolator. The second bit stream may be generated by the second modulator based on a second analog signal. The processing logic may be further configured to generate a third bit stream based on a combination of the first bit stream with the second bit stream. The devices may also include second processing logic configured to generate an output signal based on one or more values of the third bit stream. The output signal may characterize a measurement of electrical power associated with an electrical circuit.
US09513313B2
A method for inspecting an electronic device, in which inspection of electrical characteristics is carried out, uses conduction to pass a current to an electronic device while the electronic device is being continuously conveyed.
US09513307B2
A device for measuring the speed of movement of a wheeled terrestrial vehicle. A magnetometer takes measurements of an ambient terrestrial magnetic field and is positioned so as to be sensitive to the magnetic field variations caused by the rotation of at least one partially metallic wheel of the vehicle. The magnetometer delivers a corresponding signal. The signal is processed to establish a frequency spectrum thereof. From the frequency spectrum, a frequency of rotation of the wheel is determined, and deducing therefrom, on the basis of information representative of the radius of the wheel, the speed of movement of the vehicle.
US09513302B2
The automatic analyzer includes: a first reagent container storage section storing a plurality of reagent containers; a regent dispensing mechanism for dispensing a reagent from a reagent container stored in the first reagent container storage section; a second reagent container storage section storing a plurality of reagent containers; a reagent container transfer mechanism for transferring a reagent container selected from among reagent containers stored in the second reagent container storage section to the first reagent container storage section; and a controller configured to control the reagent container transfer mechanism to transfer a reagent container from the second reagent container storage section to the first reagent container storage section on the basis of a predetermined priority condition. The predetermined priority condition is one of a reagent provided with an effective calibration curve result, a number of remaining tests, and an expiration date of a reagent.
US09513297B2
Provided herein are methods for evaluating the effect of 2-(tert-butylamino)-4-((1R,3R,4R)-3-hydroxy-4-methylcyclohexylamino)-pyrimidine-5-carboxamide or a pharmaceutically acceptable stereoisomer, tautomer, solid form, polymorph, salt, hydrate, clathrate, or solvate thereof in a patient with an assay based on UVB-irradiation and phosphorylated c-Jun expression. The analyzes allow for evaluation of dose-response and identification of patient populations who are sensitive to 2-(tert-butylamino)-4-((1R,3R,4R)-3-hydroxy-4-methylcyclohexylamino)-pyrimidine-5-carboxamide or a pharmaceutically acceptable stereoisomer, tautomer, solid form, polymorph, salt, hydrate, clathrate, or solvate thereof.
US09513296B2
The present invention relates to a method for the production of a library comprising recombinant derivatives of the SH3 domain of the Fyn kinase of SEQ ID NO: 1 as well as a method for selecting from a library comprising recombinant derivatives of the SH3 domain of the Fyn kinase of SEQ ID NO: 1 one or more of said derivatives having a specific binding affinity to a protein or peptide.
US09513295B2
The present invention provides a method for detecting an interaction, which method can solve not only the problem of false negatives but also the problem of false positives. This method is a method for detecting a protein(s) that interact(s) with a target substance(s), the method comprising repeating a (1) transcription step, (2) assignment step, (3) selection step, and (4) amplification step, wherein: (a) in each of a plurality of times of preparation of a cDNA library among the initial preparation of a cDNA library and the round(s) of preparation of a cDNA library in the later amplification step(s), the cDNA library is prepared using a primer(s) having a sequence(s) specific to the time of preparation; (b) the cDNA libraries prepared using the primers having sequences specific to the times of preparation are mixed, and sequences in the cDNA library mixture are determined; (c) the determined sequences are subjected to measurement of the number(s) of molecules encoding the same candidate protein(s) for each time of preparation based on the sequence(s) specific to the time of preparation; and (d) a candidate protein(s) encoded by a molecule(s) that significantly increase(s) as the preparation rounds proceed is/are detected as the protein(s) that interact(s) with the target substance(s).
US09513291B2
This disclosure is directed to an apparatus, system and method for retrieving a target material from a sample. A density-altering agent may be added to a vessel that contains the sample to change the density of a non-target material.
US09513286B2
The subject invention concerns gene sequences and the use thereof as markers for large granular lymphocyte (LGL) leukemia. The gene sequences of the invention are differentially expressed in LGL. Another aspect of the invention pertains to therapeutic compositions directed to gene expression and gene products of differentially expressed genes in LGL. The invention also concerns methods for screening and identifying compositions that may be of therapeutic benefit to patients having LGL leukemia and/or autoimmune disorders. In addition, because a large fraction of patients with T-LGL leukemia also have rheumatoid arthritis, these differentially expressed genes also represent novel targets for the diagnosis, prevention or treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases.
US09513282B2
Provided are a sample analyzer and sample analyzing method capable of performing proper and efficient analysis by fitting measurement items of a sample to the patient. A sample analyzer 1 obtains a patient ID and measurement order from a laboratory host 10 based on the sample ID read from a barcode label T1 of a sample container T via a barcode reader B1, and the measurement items of the obtained measurement order are recorded in a work list. The sample analyzer 1 also prepares revised measurement items based on past measurement results corresponding to the obtained patient ID. The sample analyzer 1 replaces the measurement items of the work list with the revised measurement items when the revised measurement items satisfy predetermined conditions, and measures and analyzes the sample according to the replacement measurement items.
US09513275B2
A system and a process for detecting early stage electrical components problems with an analysis system is disclosed. The system process includes determining an oil quality of the oil of an electrical component using the analysis system. The system the process further including determining dissolved gases in the oil of the electrical component using the analysis system, processing and analyzing the oil quality and the dissolved gases using the analysis system, and determining whether there are problems in the electrical component using the analysis system.
US09513270B2
An egg identification system for determining viability of an avian egg is provided. Such a system includes an emitter assembly configured to emit electromagnetic radiation toward an egg. A detector assembly is axially aligned with the emitter assembly to detect electromagnetic radiation transmitted through the egg. The detector assembly is spaced-apart from the egg during operation thereof such that the detector assembly does not contact the egg. The detected electromagnetic radiation is processed using transmission spectroscopy analysis to determine whether the egg is viable. An associated method is also provided.
US09513262B2
An object information acquiring apparatus comprises a receiver receiving an acoustic wave propagating inside an object and convert the acoustic wave into an electric signal; a scanning unit configured to causing the receiver to scan the object; a control unit configured to controlling operation of the scanning unit; a detection unit configured to detecting a status of the acoustic wave reception; and a processing unit for acquiring characteristic information on the inside of the object on the basis of the electric signal, wherein the control unit decides whether or not the operation of the scanning unit is changed, on the basis of a result of detection by the detection unit.
US09513252B2
In a gas sensor (100), a base end portion (175b) of a second outer wall (175) of an outer protector (171) is connected airtightly to a forward end portion (164c) of a first inner wall (164) of an inner protector (161), and relations of A≦B
US09513247B2
An electrochemical sensor for sensing a target substance is disclosed. In one example, the sensor discloses an electrolyte matrix, wherein the matrix reposits an electrolyte; a working electrode coupled to the electrolyte matrix at a first location; a counter electrode coupled to the electrolyte matrix at a second location; an electrical circuit, coupled to the working electrode and the counter electrode, and capable of generating an output signal in response to an electrical current which flows between the working electrode and the counter electrode in response to a presence of the target substance.
US09513244B2
An electrical device includes at least one graphene quantum capacitance varactor. In some examples, the graphene quantum capacitance varactor includes an insulator layer, a graphene layer disposed on the insulator layer, a dielectric layer disposed on the graphene layer, a gate electrode formed on the dielectric layer, and at least one contact electrode disposed on the graphene layer and making electrical contact with the graphene layer. In other examples, the graphene quantum capacitance varactor includes an insulator layer, a gate electrode recessed in the insulator layer, a dielectric layer formed on the gate electrode, a graphene layer formed on the dielectric layer, wherein the graphene layer comprises an exposed surface opposite the dielectric layer, and at least one contact electrode formed on the graphene layer and making electrical contact with the graphene layer.
US09513239B2
Various embodiments include apparatus and methods to conduct testing related to the disposition of measuring tools downhole in a borehole, where the measuring tools are deployed to perform testing to evaluate properties of regions in the borehole. A plurality of test analyses on data collected from operating a measuring device of a measuring tool in the borehole can be used to determine whether the measuring device is in casing or out of casing. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
US09513236B2
A radiation detecting apparatus is provided. The radiation detecting apparatus includes a plurality of detector modules arranged in a channel direction, each detector module including a plurality of detecting elements arranged in matrix form in the channel direction and a slice direction, and a heat radiating unit thermally coupled to the detecting elements and provided on an X-ray outgoing side of the detecting elements, a wind blowing unit configured to send wind to the heat radiating units of the detector modules in the slice direction, first wind shielding portions provided on a radiation outgoing side of the heat radiating units and configured to shield the wind in a radiation irradiating direction, and second wind shielding portions provided on a radiation incoming side of the heat radiating units and configured to shield the wind in the radiation irradiating direction.
US09513234B2
An X-ray image capturing device of bone-in meat for capturing an X-ray image of the bone-in meat that is from an arm part or a thigh part of a livestock carcass in a state where the bone-in meat is suspended, comprises: an X-ray source for irradiating the bone-in meat with an X-ray; a shielding box for covering the bone-in meat while the X-ray image is captured; a sensor which is disposed in the shielding box and which detects the X-ray which passes through the bone-in meat; and a filter which is disposed between the bone-in meat and the X-ray source and which adjusts an intensity distribution of the X-ray with which the bone-in meat is irradiated.
US09513231B2
A multi-axis tool may include, in some embodiments, a gimbal adapted to be positioned adjacent an opening in a wall; an extended-reach device having first and second ends and an end effector adjacent the first end, the extended-reach device engaging the gimbal for relative rotational movement and relative slidable movement through the opening such that the end effector is positioned on a side of the wall opposite the second end; a sensor system configured to measure a linear position of the extended-reach device relative to the gimbal, and a position and spatial orientation of the end effector relative to the opening; and a computer control connected to receive signals from the sensor system to determine at least one of a position and an orientation of the end effector relative to the opening.
US09513229B1
According to one embodiment, a particle measurement mask includes a first mask substrate, a support member, and a particle measurement unit. The support member is arranged at a peripheral edge portion of a second main face of the first mask substrate, which is opposite to a first main face of the first mask substrate to come into contact with a mask stage. The particle measurement unit is arranged on a side surface of the support member, and configured to measure presence and absence of particles near the second main face.
US09513228B2
To increase the illumination efficiency by facilitating the change of the incident angle of illumination light with a narrow illumination width according to an inspection object and enabling an illumination region to be effectively irradiated with light, provided is a defect inspection method for obliquely irradiating a sample mounted on a table that is moving continuously in one direction with illumination light, collecting scattered light from the sample obliquely irradiated with the illumination light, detecting an image of the surface of the sample formed by the scattered light, processing a signal obtained by detecting the image formed by the scattered light, and extracting a defect candidate, wherein the oblique irradiation of the light is implemented by linearly collecting light emitted from a light source, and obliquely projecting the collected light onto the surface of the sample, thereby illuminating a linear region on the surface of the sample.
US09513222B2
A method comprising the following steps: (a) contacting a topographically structured stamp to an array of spots comprising lipid ink on a palette to force the lipid ink of each of the spots into recesses of the topographically structured stamp, (b) removing the palette from the topographically structured stamp so that at least some the lipid ink from each of the spots is retained in the recesses of the topographically structured stamp, and (c) printing the lipid ink in each of the recesses on a substrate as an array of stamped spots using the topographically structured stamp to thereby form a patterned substrate, wherein the recesses have one or more recess patterns, wherein each stamped spot of the array of stamped spots comprises lipid multilayer structure, and wherein the patterned array is based on the one or more recess patterns.
US09513221B2
Observation is performed at a more appropriate sensitivity without causing deterioration of the image quality. Provided is a fluorescence observation apparatus including an excitation light source that emits excitation light to be radiated onto an imaging subject; a fluorescence-image acquisition portion that is provided with an imaging device that acquires fluorescence images by capturing fluorescence generated at the imaging subject due to the irradiation with the excitation light emitted from the excitation light source; and a sensitivity adjusting portion that adjusts an number of pixels for binning summing and/or an exposure time for the imaging device on the basis of luminance information of the fluorescence image acquired by the imaging device of the fluorescence-image acquisition portion so that an SN ratio of the fluorescence image becomes equal to or higher than a predetermined threshold.
US09513216B2
In an optical sensor, a light emission system emits an irradiated light of a linear polarization in a first polarization direction toward a surface of a target object having a sheet shape from an incident direction which is inclined with respect to a normal direction of the surface. A first light detection system includes a first light detector arranged on a first light path of a specular reflected light, which is emitted from the light emission system and is specularly reflected from the target object. A second light detection system includes a second light detector arranged on a second light path of a diffuse reflected light which is diffusely reflected from an incident plane on the target object. The second light detector receives second light passed by an optical element which passes a linear polarization component of a second polarization direction perpendicular to the first polarization direction.
US09513215B2
Provided herein is an apparatus, including a photon emitter configured to emit photons onto a surface of an article at a number of azimuthal angles; and a processing element configured to process photon-detector-array signals corresponding to photons scattered from surface features of the article and generate one or more surface features maps for the article from the photon-detector-array signals corresponding to the photons scattered from the surface features of the article.
US09513210B2
A method for measuring saturate, aromatic, and resin fractions of a hydrocarbon fluid includes separating maltenes from the hydrocarbon fluid and separating saturate, aromatic, and resin fractions from the maltenes. The method further includes determining an optical density of each of the saturate, aromatic, and resin fractions at a predetermined wavelength and correlating the optical density of each of the saturate, aromatic, and resin fractions to predetermined data to determine each of the saturate, aromatic, and resin fractions.
US09513207B2
The present invention provides an emulsion for sorting droplets in a microfluidic device, the emulsion comprising: a discontinuous aqueous phase; and a continuous oil phase; wherein said aqueous phase comprises at least one analyte, said oil phase comprises a fluorous oil and a refractive index modifying compound comprising at least one aromatic ring, and the refractive index of said aqueous phase and the refractive index of said oil phase are substantially matched.
US09513205B2
Devices for sorting components (e.g., cells) contained in a liquid sample are provided. In certain aspects, the devices include a magnetic separation device and an acoustic concentrator device fluidically coupled to magnetic separation device. Aspects of the invention further include methods for sorting cells in a liquid sample, and systems, and kits for practicing the subject methods.
US09513204B2
A monitoring device for determining the concentration of a dielectric insulation fluid such as a perfluoroketones in a room housing at least one high-voltage electrical apparatus and being accessible by humans essentially without modifying the room conditions, for example the room being a part of an air-insulated substation, with the monitoring system including one or more sensors for determining an emission and/or absorption of the dielectric insulation fluid molecules at at least one wavelength or wavelength band of the electromagnetic wave spectrum.
US09513197B2
Improved methods, devices, and systems for mixing fluids, including small volumes of fluid, are provided. Pressing a pipette tip against an inner surface of a mixing vessel allows pressure to be applied within the tip. Greater pressure may be built-up than would be possible without engaging the tip with the mixing vessel. Disengaging the tip allows fluid flow through the tip, providing improved fluid mixing as compared to methods lacking engagement of a pipette tip with an inner surface of a mixing vessel while applying pressure within the pipette tip.Mixing vessels having features on an inner surface that are configured to engage a pipette tip, and to occlude an orifice of a pipette tip, are provided. Sample analysis devices and systems including pipette tips and mixing vessels configured to engage each other for pressure application within the tip are provided.
US09513196B2
The present invention relates to methods and systems for microfluidic DNA sample preparation. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention relate to methods and systems for the isolation of DNA from patient samples on a microfluidic device and use of the DNA for downstream processing, such as performing amplification reactions and thermal melt analysis on the microfluidic device.
US09513195B2
A cell capture system including an array, an inlet manifold, and an outlet manifold. The array includes a plurality of parallel pores, each pore including a chamber and a pore channel, an inlet channel fluidly connected to the chambers of the pores; an outlet channel fluidly connected to the pore channels of the pores. The inlet manifold is fluidly connected to the inlet channel, and the outlet channel is fluidly connected to the outlet channel. A cell removal tool is also disclosed, wherein the cell removal tool is configured to remove a captured cell from a pore chamber.
US09513184B2
One example discloses a MEMS device, including: a cavity having an internal environment; a seal isolating the internal environment from an external environment outside the MEMS device; wherein the seal is susceptible to damage in response to a calibration unsealing energy; wherein upon damage to the seal, a pathway forms which couples the internal environment to the external environment; and a calibration circuit capable of measuring the internal environment before and after damage to the seal.
US09513181B2
This disclosure provides example methods, devices and systems associated with flat covered leadless pressure sensor assemblies suitable for operation in extreme environments. In one embodiment, a system may comprise a semiconductor substrate having a first side and a second side; a diaphragm disposed on the first side of the semiconductor substrate; a first cover coupled to the first side of the semiconductor substrate such that it overlays at least the diaphragm, wherein a pressure applied at the first cover is transferred to the diaphragm; and a sensing element disposed on the second side of the semiconductor substrate, wherein the sensing element is used to measure the pressure.
US09513179B2
A force moment sensor for sensing forces and moments in a system through which forces and moments are transferred from an input member to an output member is disclosed. It includes a housing, an inner tube, a load plate, a plurality of elongate connectors and a plurality of dynamic deflection measuring devices. The housing has a base portion and an outer tube portion generally orthogonal to the base portion. The inner tube, a poled piezoceramic element, is operably connected to the base portion and spaced inwardly of the outer tube. The load plate is attached to the inner tube, spaced from the base portion and spaced from the outer tube. The plurality of elongate connectors are connected between the load plate and the outer tube portion. The plurality of dynamic deflection measuring devices are attached to the load plate for measuring dynamic flexible deflections of the load plate.
US09513177B2
A system and method for the management of data collection from a pressure sensing apparatus. The system allows rapid measurement of pressure exerted upon a surface and may be useful in preventing bed sore development in a bed bound subject.
US09513175B2
An apparatus for spatially correcting an image frame is disclosed. In some embodiments, the apparatus stores a frame of pixel values and scans a multi-pixel correction window across the frame. Spatial correction is performed on pixels within the window at correction positions during the scan. The spatial correction comprises estimating pixel values at value estimation positions based on one or more pixel values within the window for pixels satisfying a logical condition. The value estimation positions correspond to pixel values which do not fall within the window again during the scan. Further disclosed is an apparatus for detecting high-energy radiation, in which integration circuitry is used for integrating charge responsive to radiation photon interaction events. The circuits are controllable in accordance with an exposure control signal to vary an exposure window duration according to an operating parameter of the apparatus.
US09513162B2
Methods and apparatus for remote, passive detection of underwater objects using combined spectral and polarimetric imaging. In one example, a tunable multi-band spectro-polarimeter includes an imaging detector array that receives electromagnetic radiation from a viewed scene, a plurality of tunable spectral filters configured to filter the electromagnetic radiation into at least first and second spectral bands, and a plurality of polarization filters configured to filter each of the first and second spectral bands into at least two different polarization states, a first region of the detector array receiving the first spectral band and producing first polarimetric image data, and a second region of the detector array simultaneously receiving the second spectral band and producing second polarimetric image data, and a controller that receives and processes the first and second polarimetric image data to detect a target object in the viewed scene.
US09513147B2
The present invention is directed to a flowmeter comprising a piezoelectric sensor. The flowmeter is configured so that fluid flow through a channel, typically either a fluid conduit or a housing in which the sensor is oriented, produces oscillating stresses in a piezoelectric material. The oscillating stresses produce an electric signal. Characteristics of the electric signal, such as the magnitude of the signal at particular frequencies, can be measured and used to determine the rate of fluid flow through the channel.
US09513144B2
A non-contact sensing module includes a coil printed circuit board in which a reference pattern coil may be formed at an upper surface and in which a sensing pattern coil may be formed at a lower surface and that has a mounting hole at the center, and a main printed circuit board that may be coupled to the mounting hole and that may be vertically disposed at an upper surface of the coil printed circuit board and that may be electrically connected to the reference pattern coil and the sensing pattern coil.
US09513143B2
A sensor assembly includes an annular target body disposed about a rotatable member outer surface and an annular angular position indicator with at least one angular position index corresponding to an angular position of the member. Radial displacement sensors are spaced circumferentially about the axis and radially outwardly from the target body outer surface. A reference sensor is disposed circumferentially between two of the radial displacement sensors, has an inner end spaced outwardly from the target body surface by a first spacing distance, and is configured to detect the target body. An angular displacement sensor is spaced axially from the reference sensor and has an inner end spaced outwardly from the position indicator surface by a second spacing distance. The angular sensor is located such that the second spacing distance is generally equal to the first spacing distance and such that the position index passes the sensor inner end.
US09513139B2
Verifying surveying instrument's external orientation during a measurement process, comprising directing the imaging means onto a reference object and detecting a first photographing direction of the imaging means, taking a first image of the reference object in the first photographing direction, memorizing the first image and the first photographing direction as being indicative of the surveying instrument's external orientation, re-directing the imaging means onto the reference object and detecting a second photographing direction of the imaging means, taking a second image of the reference object in the second photographing direction, and comparing a first with a second imaged position of the reference object in the first respectively the second image by image processing as well as the first with the second photographing direction and verifying the surveying instrument's external orientation based on disparities between the first and the second imaged position and/or between the first and the second photographing direction.
US09513130B1
A registration solution between two or more sets of point cloud data is provided to register a first target set of point cloud data with a second source set of point cloud data. Through error propagation, degrees of freedom masking and transformation filtering, a system may provide an intelligent method of enabling and disabling degrees of freedom in a real-time registration application. A system may adapt to varying environments (feature-rich and featureless) ensuring a high-integrity registration estimate through providing estimates of the observable parameters. By optionally and iteratively masking zero or more degrees of freedom from the registration estimate, a system may locate desirable data to use in a registration estimate. Then, the system may blend updates from the registration estimates to achieve the best available registration solution applied to the original second source set as well as additional sets of point cloud data.
US09513125B2
This description provides tools and techniques for computing a route or flight plans for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or any vehicle while routing around obstacles having spatial and temporal dimensions. Methods provided by these tools may receive data representing destinations to be visited by the UAVs, and may receive data representing obstacles having spatial and temporal dimensions. These methods may also calculate trajectories spatial and temporal dimensions, by which the UAV may travel from one destination to another, and may at least attempt to compute flight plans for the UAVs that incorporate these trajectories. The methods may also determine whether these trajectories intersect any obstacles, and at least attempt to reroute the trajectories around the obstacles. These tools may also provide systems and computer-readable media containing software for performing any of the foregoing methods.
US09513115B2
In order to be able to test completely transparent surfaces (22) as well as mirror surfaces (22) with optical testing methods in which light (3) is radiated onto the surface (22) to be tested and the light reflected by the surface (22) is checked by an optical test unit (6a, b) a precipitation of moisture is generated on the surface before optical testing, wherein the precipitation is generated in the form of plural small liquid droplets (8) on the surface (22) which causes a diffuse reflection of the irradiated light.
US09513109B2
A lithographic mask has a substrate substantially transmissive for radiation of a certain wavelength, the substrate having a radiation absorbing material in an arrangement, the arrangement configured to apply a pattern to a cross-section of a radiation beam of the certain wavelength, wherein the absorbing material has a thickness which is substantially equal to the certain wavelength divided by a refractive index of the absorbing material.
US09513108B2
A distance measurement method determines the distance of a sensor system to a physical object. The method includes obtaining at least a pair of stereoscopic images including the physical object, and applying to each element of at least a portion of a first image of the pair of stereoscopic images and to each element of at least a portion of a second image of the pair of stereoscopic images at least two differently shaped or sized filters, respectively. Correlation values for each filter applied to the first and second image are determined, and, combined correlation values are determined for the applied filters by combining the determined correlation values for each applied filter. The combined correlation values are evaluated for different disparities for an extremum value of the combined correlation values. A distance value to the physical object is calculated and output based on a disparity value at which the extremum occurs.
US09513105B2
Systems and methods are described herein for a self-referencing interferometer. The interferometer can comprise an improved spatial phase shifter that reduces the number of components, size and complexity of the spatial phase shifter and maintains a common path for a combined reference beam and signal beam. The self-referencing interferometer further comprises a single mode fiber shunt for filtering the reference beam and further reducing the size of the interferometer. The angle of the reference beam can be tilted before being recombined with the single beam which further simplifies the spatial phase shifting component of the interferometer.
US09513101B2
A distance measurement device includes a transceiving unit that, in a distance measurement process between the distance measurement device and nodes, transmits a command to the nodes, and receives a response as a response to the command; and a distance measurement control unit that instructs the transceiving unit to transmit the command when the distance measurement process starts, measures a period of time until the response is received after the command is transmitted, and calculates a distances between the distance measurement device and the nodes on the basis of the measured period of time. The distance measurement control unit determines the number of repetitions for the distance measurement process until the distance is calculated after the command is transmitted on the basis of the calculated distance.
US09513094B2
An ammunition is proposed with an explosive-free missile that releases, upon dismantling at the target a fuel or fuel mixture as flammable air-fuel mixture, being caused to spontaneously react by at least one, by impact dismantling triggered, explosive-free, spark-generating ignition mechanism. The thus produced optical and thermal target signature can be detected with the naked eye, as well as with rifle scopes or other optical target detection systems, as well as with night-vision and thermal imaging devices.
US09513093B1
An animal tracking device comprising a housing, a controller, a battery, an antenna, a sleeve, an elastic ring, and a prong. The housing encloses the controller and the battery and includes a flexible clip having a flexible neck, a latch on an inner side of the flexible clip, an elastic ring groove on an outer side of the flexible clip for receiving the elastic ring, and a latch release member extending from the outer side between the flexible neck and the elastic ring groove. The elastic ring retains the housing over the sleeve to retain the animal tracking device on an arrow shaft. The latch release member catches on an animal's hide and flexes the flexible clip out of engagement with the sleeve to release the animal tracking device from the arrow shaft. The prong embeds in the animal's hide and retains the animal tracking device on the animal.
US09513090B2
A bullet resistant garment is provided for in the current invention having a pliable protective insert contained within a concealed carrier shell that is integrated into an outer-garment. In certain embodiments, interconnecting seams and or darts may be incorporated into the pliable protective insert and/or carrier shell to provide a comfortable and protective three-dimensional shape to bullet resistant garment, especially for women.
US09513088B2
An insert for a protective garment, the insert having a fabric having at least 45 percent by weight of expanded polytetrafluoroethylene fibers, the fabric having a 2-Grain V-50 Fragmentation Resistance of at least 700 feet per second and a FAST-2 Bending Rigidity of less than 40 microNewtonmeters.
US09513086B2
A system includes a boresight insert configured to be partially inserted into a barrel of a weapon. The boresight insert includes an optics section configured to generate light that identifies an impact point for a projectile from the weapon. The boresight insert includes a mechanical section coupled to the optics section. The mechanical section is configured to engage an inner surface of the barrel to secure the boresight insert in place and to disengage the inner surface of the barrel to allow insertion and removal of the boresight insert.
US09513081B2
A paintball ejecting apparatus includes a current control mechanism to control current flow to a motor, the current control mechanism including a switch activator having at least a first state and a second state. The switch activator in the first state is physically forced by a paintball to occupy a first position to cause the switch to not permit a current to flow to the motor when the switch activator is in the first state. The switch activator in the second state is not physically forced by any paintball, thereby occupying a second position that results in the switch permitting current to flow to the motor when the switch activator is in the second state.
