US09521631B2
Embodiments herein relate to a radio network node for scheduling a radio resource within a radio communications network. The radio network node comprises at least two antenna ports over which communication is performed using a respective power amplifier over each antenna port out of the at least two antenna ports. The radio network node determines a utilization factor of power of each power amplifier when a first user equipment is assigned to the radio resource. The radio network node further determines a utilization factor of power of each power amplifier when a second user equipment is assigned to the radio resource. The radio network node then schedules the first user equipment or the second user equipment to the radio resource based on the determined utilization factors.
US09521624B2
Various of the disclosed embodiments concern efficiency improvements in wireless products. For example, some embodiments specify profiles for regional and custom-specified operational constraints. The profiles may be retrieved from across a network or stored locally upon the device. The profiles may specify various configuration adjustments that optimize the system's performance. For example, when possible, some embodiments may allow the system to operate at a lower power level and to thereby save energy. Various factors and conditions may be assessed in some embodiments prior to adjusting the existing power configuration.
US09521621B2
Application proxy support over a wireless link between a mobile device and a wireless node is disclosed. Application proxy support is configured to conserve energy and resources and is configured to mitigate delays in a communication environment. Application proxy support can be associated with a wireless node, such as a femto cell, which can provide a coarse-grain wireless application proxy support that can utilize various criteria to buffer data and determine how long to delay delivery of data. Femto cell can provide a fine-grain wireless application proxy that runs application proxies for each mobile device for one or more applications associated with mobile device. The proxy can determine whether to buffer and forward received data to mobile device. The wireless application proxy can respond to network on behalf of mobile device. The proxy can wake up mobile device upon arrival of a significant event associated with a proxied application.
US09521606B1
A request from a mobile access point that is installed on a vehicle may be received via network interface circuitry of one or more computing devices. Processing circuitry of the one or more computing devices may determine characteristics of a captive portal to present in response to the request based on current location of the vehicle and mobile access point. A captive portal with the determined characteristics is then provided by the processing circuitry, via the network interface circuitry, in response to the request.
US09521605B2
A method and apparatus for handover is provided. In a network environment in which a plurality of beams are provided within a base station, a terminal measures signal strength of a serving beam and signal strength of a target beam and transmits a measurement report message when a first condition or a second condition is satisfied. The base station determines inter-beam coordinated scheduling when the signal strength of the serving beam and target beam satisfy the first condition, and determines handover between beams when the signal strength of the serving beam and target beam satisfy the second condition. The base station transmits a message for commanding handover to the terminal when the handover between beams is determined. The terminal then stops communicating with the serving beam and performs handover to the target beam.
US09521604B2
In order to transmit a paging to a user terminal with high quality, transmit a CSI-RS effectively and perform UL HARQ efficiently in HetNet, the present invention provides a radio communication method having the steps of: a micro base station which is arranged in a macro cell and forms a smaller micro cell than the macro cell, transmitting, to a user terminal, a signal having a CSI-RS subframe including a CSI-RS and a paging subframe including modification notification information indicating modification in system information and a control signal indicating not to measure a CSI-RS when the CSI-RS subframe and the paging subframe collide with each other; and the user terminal determining a CSI-RS subframe to measure the CSI-RS based on the control signal when the CSI-RS subframe and the paging subframe collide with each other.
US09521600B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for a handover procedure in heterogeneous networks are provided. In particular, an intermediate handover (IHO) is introduced. Certain aspects of the disclosure involve, a method, performed at a first base station of a wireless communications network. An indication that a user equipment (UE) is receiving coverage signal from a second base station can be received. A data packet destined for the UE can be transmitted to the second base station. A communications link with the UE can be maintained after transmitting the data packet to the second base station.
US09521594B2
The invention discloses a method for notifying handover failure indication information, comprising: a first base station determines, according to radio link failure (RLF) information in a received radio resource control (RRC) re-establishment request message, the information about a cell in which an RLF happens before a UE initiates an RRC re-establishment, and sends the RLF information to a second base station to which the cell where the RLF happens belongs; and the second base station notifies, according to a notification condition set for the indication information of a too early handover or a handover selecting a wrong target handover cell, the base station initiating a handover of the indication information of a too early handover or a handover selecting a wrong target handover cell, both of which meet the notification condition; or upon determining the handover of the UE to a cell in which an RLF happens is a too early handover or a handover selecting a wrong target handover cell, the second base station notifies the base station initiating the handover of the indication information of the too early handover or the handover selecting a wrong target handover cell. The present invention also discloses a device for realizing the method. The invention increases the success rate of a cell handover.
US09521592B2
A handover of a user equipment (UE) between different radio access networks (RANs). For enhancing voice call continuity (VCC). One method comprises: receiving a request for registering in a first node for mobility management in the target RAN from the UE; if the mobility management for the UE fails to be transferred from a second node for mobility management in the source RAN to the first node, inquiring of a HLR/HSS about a third node for mobility management for the UE in the source RAN, wherein the second node is determined from the request for registering, and the third node is determined based on a correlation between the UE and the third node; and sending to the third node a request for transferring the mobility management for the UE from the third node to the first node.
US09521590B2
The present invention relates to a method of operating a radio access node (10) adapted to handle multiple bearers, a related radio access node (10), a method of operating a network control node (36) adapted to control the radio access node (10) handling multiple bearers, a communication system adapted to control multiple bearers, a computer program and a computer program product. Multiple bearers comprise a first packet switched bearer related to a voice service and at least one second packet switched bearer. Upon change of an operative condition for a first packet switched bearer a transfer of a voice service is initiated (S10) from the first packet switched bearer to a circuit switched bearer. This is followed by a decision (S12) on initiation of a handover for the second packet switched bearer, parallel to the transfer of the voice service, from a first packet switched access to a second packet switched access based on bearer control information indicating possibility of a parallel handover. The bearer control information is either pre-configured at the radio access node (10) or received from the network control node (36).
US09521586B2
A mobile communication system includes an OpenFlow network and CSCFs. A first CSCF comprises a terminal information assigning unit that assigns information of an incoming terminal of a destination of a signal accommodated in a second CSCF to a header part of a signal destined for the second CSCF. The OpenFlow network comprises a storage unit that stores a correspondence relationship between the incoming terminal and a device accommodating the incoming terminal, a terminal information acquisition unit that acquires information of the incoming terminal from the header part of the signal, a transmission destination identification unit that identifies the device that is a transmission destination from the information, and an open flow transmission unit that transmits a signal to the identified device.
US09521585B2
Systems and methods for dynamically adjusting the transmission time interval (TTI) for a communications system are presented. The described aspects provide for dynamically adjusting the TTI in a communication session between a base station or nodeB and a wireless device or user equipment between a shorter TTI, which can provide increased data throughput and lower power consumption, and a longer TTI, which can provide more rugged communication link connections. By dynamically adjusting the TTI, the communications link can be optimized for the given communication channel conditions. Determinations, based on indicia related to the communications system conditions, can be employed in dynamic TTI adjustment. These determinations can be formed centrally at the Radio Network Controller (RNC), at the RNC supplemented with user equipment (UE) available information, or formed in a distributed manner between the RNC and UE across a communications system.
US09521582B2
Methods and apparatuses are provided for transmitting and receiving a Packet Data Unit (PDU) in a mobile communication system. The PDU, including a header and at least one data field, is generated. The PDU is transmitted. The header includes a length indicator (LI) field and an extension bit field. The LI field indicates a length of a corresponding data field. The extension bit field indicates whether a data field follows or a set of an extension bit field and an LI field follows. The extension bit field is placed prior to the LI field in the set of the extension bit field and the LI field. An LI field is present for every data field except a last data field.
US09521580B1
Methods and systems are provided for reducing the potential of interference between a cell tower and a neighboring EMR source. At a base station, such as an eNodeB, it is determined that a sector of the cell tower has the potential for interference with the EMR source based on, for instance, monitoring of network parameters, a computation of the sector's azimuth, and a distance between the sector and the EMR source. Time intervals are computed corresponding to when the EMR source emits EMR in a direction of the sector of the base station, Uplink and downlink transmissions to and from the sector of the cell tower are ceased during the computed time intervals.
US09521574B2
The present invention provides a method of anonymously reporting minimization of drive test (MDT) measurements. According to the method, a mobility management entity (MME) obtains MDT data anonymity configuration which indicates whether MDT measurements are to be reported anonymously at a type allocation code (TAC) level; sends a TAC of a UE to a trace collection entity (TCE) if the MDT data anonymity configuration indicates MDT measurements are to be reported anonymously at the TAC level; sends an international mobile subscriber identification (IMSI) or an international mobile equipment identity and software version (IMEISV) of the UE to the TCE if the MDT data anonymity configuration indicates other information, e.g. Trace, is adopted for anonymously reporting MDT measurements. The present invention enables an MME to send different identities of a UE to the TCE according to different requirements for anonymity to implement anonymous reporting of MDT measurements.
US09521561B2
A UE or mobile entity in a wireless communication may assist network optimization by determining a location uncovered by a wireless network, generate a coverage hole detected message if one or more conditions associated with the uncovered location are satisfied, and determining a time to transmit the coverage hole detected message to a covered wireless network. The covered network may act on the message to add covered in a second network so that the second network covers the UE. In other aspects, a UE or mobile entity may detect cell congestion in a first cell and assist the network in offloading congestion from the congested cell. In other aspects, a UE or mobile entity may detect backhaul congestion on a first cell, and assist in offloading backhaul communication for the first cell via a second cell.
US09521557B2
One aspect disclosed is a method in a wireless communications system including a first primary channel having a first frequency spectrum bandwidth and a second primary channel having a second frequency spectrum bandwidth, wherein the second frequency spectrum bandwidth includes the first frequency spectrum bandwidth. The method includes performing a first and a second back-off procedure at least partially in parallel, the first back-off procedure based on whether the first primary channel is idle, and the second back-off procedure based on whether the second primary channel is idle, and transmitting a wireless message based on whether the first or the second back-off procedure completes first.
US09521555B2
A method for partitioning a communications network includes selecting, by a controller, a starting communications controller for a first region in the communications network according to an interference level. The method also includes including, by the controller, a first neighboring communications controller in the first region if an average inter-cell interference level of the starting communications controller and the first neighboring communications controller exceeds a first threshold and closing the first region if the average inter-cell interference level of the starting communications controller and the first neighboring communications controller fails to exceed the first threshold. The method further includes storing information about the first region in a memory.
US09521547B2
The present invention relates to profile access credentials used for encoding profiles in a system comprising an mobile network operator (MNO), a subscription manager (SM), an embedded UICC (eUICC) and the like, that is, a method for storing/managing an eUICC publication key and a corresponding secret or the like inside the eUICC. In addition, the invention also provides a method for transmitting information on profile access credentials inside the eUICC to external entities for encoding and the like.
US09521528B1
Sending short message service (SMS) messages and receiving a response report based at least in part on the sent SMS message, even if a communicative connection with the mobile communications network had been severed, so that duplication of the SMS message is avoided is disclosed. In this case, a communicative connection may be re-established and used to receive an acknowledgment from the mobile communications network and subsequently send another acknowledgement to the mobile communications network. The UE may also be configured to send an information element to the one or more elements of the mobile communications network to indicate that a communicative connection with the network is to remain established so that acknowledgements may be reconciled between the UE and the network. Additionally, the mobile communications network may be configured to transmit the SMS message only after receiving the acknowledgement from the UE, to avoid sending duplicate SMS messages.
US09521522B2
A mobile apparatus, a computer program for a mobile apparatus, and a method in a mobile apparatus. A string is obtained. A location associated with the string is obtained. Then, a location-based search for location-dependent data is performed on the basis of the location and one or more independent expressions within the string such that the location-dependent data is relevant within a predetermined distance from the location. Finally, at least a part of the location-dependent data is displayed on a map.
US09521520B2
A particular first wireless device having a plurality of antennas and that is part of a group of a plurality of first wireless devices, transmits to a second wireless device (whose location is to be determined) a packet across the plurality of antennas of the particular first wireless device simultaneously with a plurality of packets transmitted by a corresponding one of other first wireless devices in the group. The packet transmitted by the particular first wireless device uses a subset of a set of subcarriers available for use in the packet such that substantially the entire set of subcarriers are used in the aggregate across the plurality of packets simultaneously transmitted by the plurality of first wireless devices in the group to the second wireless device. The simultaneous reception of the plurality of packets at the second wireless device enables the second wireless device to determine its location.
US09521516B2
Disclosed are methods, circuits, systems and associated computer executable code for detecting the presence of a mobile computing device in a specific area. Included are means for receiving a message from the mobile device including a coarse location indicator, determining that the received coarse location indicator is in proximity with one or more local (e.g. retailer) stations, and causing at least one of the one or more local stations to transmit a mobile device specific poling signal to the device.
US09521511B2
A radio communication system capable of, in a case where a base station device is movable, easily estimating the location of a base station device and easily estimating the location of a user equipment device using the estimation results, and also provide a user equipment device, a base station device, and a management device included in the radio communication system. In addition to an E-SMLC for UE for use in location estimation of a target UE, an E-SMLC for eNB for use in location estimation of an eNB is provided. The E-SMLC for eNB estimates location information of an eNB in an E-UTRAN and performs a process, such as the management of moving of a target eNode B_s and a target eNode B_uu based on the estimated location information.
US09521505B2
A control unit for a mobile telephone includes a Web server adapted to connect to a Web browser in the mobile telephone, wherein the Web server receives information and provides the information to the Web browser when connected to the Web browser.
US09521493B2
A hearing aid is disclosed, which, in a test mode, can determine the impedance of the transducer that stimulates the anatomy of the patient. Impedance may be determined by simultaneous determination of the current flowing through the transducer and the voltage across the transducer. In some cases, the output amplifier of the hearing aid includes two outputs, with one being a scaled and/or summed replica of the other. The amplifier is driven with a periodic signal with a particular frequency and a known peak voltage. The periodic signal may be sinusoidal. The primary output of the amplifier is electrically connected to the transducer, with a known current given by the peak input current and a known gain of the amplifier. The voltage from the secondary output of the amplifier is measured. The impedance is calculated by dividing the measured voltage from the secondary output of the amplifier by the known current.
US09521492B2
Provided is a condenser microphone having a plurality of condenser microphone units connected in series to improve output sensitivity, and a simplified circuit configuration. At least one of the preceding condenser microphone units, excepting a last condenser microphone unit, and an adjacent succeeding condenser microphone unit are directly connected to transmit an audio signal obtained from the at least one of the preceding condenser microphone units to the adjacent succeeding condenser microphone unit. An impedance converter using an active element is connected to the last condenser microphone unit, and the audio signals obtained from the condenser microphone units are added and output from the impedance converter using the active element.
US09521483B2
A wearable physiological acoustic sensor has an embedded and stacked acoustic sensing component architecture that inhibits motion-related impulse noise and environmental background noise, and provides good body sound capture, good patient comfort and an unobtrusive presence. The embedded and stacked component architecture also includes an environmental microphone that enables cancellation of background noise for further noise reduction.
US09521474B2
A wavelength selective switch (WSS) apparatus is disclosed, which includes: a plurality of optical ports configured to output light beams at different angles from one another; a wavelength dispersion element configured to disperse the wavelength components of each light beam; a focusing element configured to focus the dispersed wavelength components of the light beams; and a multi-layer reflecting unit configured to reflect the focused light beams to the focusing element, the multi-layer reflecting unit including a multi-layer reflector and a reflection controller operatively connected to the multi-layer reflector, the multi-layer reflector having a main surface for reflecting the light beams on which a plurality of layers are provided, each layer including a plurality of pixels that are individually controllable by the reflection controller.
US09521473B2
An optical device incorporates into the same physical structure the functionality of two or more wavelength selective switches. The wavelength components associated with the first optical switch are isolated from the wavelength components associated with the second optical switch by their spatial displacement along one axis on a programmable optical phase modulator. Remaining crosstalk between the components is reduced by spatially separating the components of the two wavelength switches having the same wavelength along another axis of the programmable optical phase modulator.
US09521467B2
Relating to the field of communications, a method and an apparatus for program information exchange and a communications system provided in embodiments of the present invention can enable a user to, by using a user equipment, make a comment on a program currently being watched without adding an external input device. The method for program information exchange in the embodiment includes: obtaining a program comment instruction; extracting information about a current program from a pre-established database according to the program comment instruction; sending, if the information includes a program comment address, the program comment address to a user equipment.
US09521464B2
System and method to extend the data carrying capacity of a hybrid fiber cable (HFC) network by adding wideband RF signal capability above 1 GHz, and replacing the CATV amplifier devices with an improved type of Coax Domain Amplifier-Repeater (CDAR) device that, in addition to being a smart reconfigurable amplifier and cable signal diagnostic device, also segments the CATV cable portion of the HFC network into a series of smaller domains. The CDAR often alter RF signals from 5-865 MHz, while more freely passing RF signals over 1 GHz. Upstream capability is enhanced because the CDAR intercept 5-42 MHz upstream signals from each domain and convert to 1 GHz+ signals. Downstream capability is also enhanced because the CDAR can take efficiently encoded 1 GHz+ digital data, modulate it, and locally inject into each domain without crosstalk between domains. CDAR can use active cancellation, and active restoration techniques to improve performance.
US09521463B2
A method and system for providing content includes a network having a plurality of receiving units. The system further includes a first receiving unit of the plurality of receiving units that forms a recording request, when the first receiving unit includes unavailable resources and communicates the recording request through the network. A second receiving unit receives the request and stores content in a second memory corresponding to the request and communicates the content to the first receiving unit.
US09521457B2
A terminal, a vehicle having the same, and a method of controlling the same are provided. The terminal includes a display unit, a first communication unit that is configured to receive basic image information, and a second communication unit that configured to receive additional image information. A controller is configured to combine the basic image information and the additional image information, and display an image on the display unit based on the combined image information when resolution supported in the display unit is greater than resolution of the basic image information. A broadcasting image of high resolution is provided to the user since the resolution of the DMB of the terminal is increased by receiving the additional image information to improve the resolution via a wireless communication network of a predetermined band or greater.
US09521444B2
An information providing apparatus includes: an inputter that obtains log information and personal information corresponding thereto; a tentative ID giver that gives each tentative ID to the personal information at each predetermined timing; a first storage that stores correspondence-relationship information indicating a correspondence relationship between the personal information and the each tentative ID; a receiver that receives a request for outputting information including a requested tentative ID identified by a current tentative ID given and the one past timing when the requested ID was given; an information processor that determines, in accordance with the request, link-relationship information indicating a correspondence relationship between the requested tentative ID and the current tentative ID; a second storage that stores the determined link-relationship information; and an outputter that outputs first information including the requested tentative ID or second information indicating that first-information outputting is not permitted, based on the stored link-relationship information.
US09521442B2
One or more computing devices may be configured to identify information corresponding to a program change request associated with a multi-program data transmission. The information may comprise at least a link to a desired program within the multi-program data transmission. The one or more computing devices may communicate the link to the desired program to a client device over a specified time period. After the time period, the one or more computing devices may communicate the desired program to the client device using a single program data transmission. The single program data transmission may be derived from the multi-program data transmission.
US09521441B2
A digital broadcast transmitter includes: a first encoder configured to Forward Error Correction (FEC) encode broadcast service data to add parity data, thereby generating an FEC frame, and divide the FEC frame into a plurality of groups, each of the plurality of groups having a same size; a second encoder configured to encode transmission parameter data; an interleaver configured to interleave data of the plurality of groups; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the interleaved data and the encoded transmission parameter data, wherein the transmission parameter data include information for identifying a number of the parity data.
US09521439B1
User equipments can download a video file by instantiating multiple video requests, each request specifying different parts of the video file. If each video request initiates a separate transmission control protocol (TCP) session, which is the case with an hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) partial get request, then a network device in a communications network would be oblivious of contextual information, which indicates that the TCP sessions download different portions of the same video file. This disclosure provides systems and methods for correlating multiple TCP sessions so that a network device in a communications network can be aware of the contextual information.
US09521438B2
A media processing tool adds custom data to an elementary media bitstream or media container. The custom data indicates nominal range of samples of media content, but the meaning of the custom data is not defined in the codec format or media container format. For example, the custom data indicates the nominal range is full range or limited range. For playback, a media processing tool parses the custom data and determines an indication of media content type. A rendering engine performs color conversion operations whose logic changes based at least in part on the media content type. In this way, a codec format or media container format can in effect be extended to support full nominal range media content as well as limited nominal range media content, and hence preserve full or correct color fidelity, while maintaining backward compatibility and conformance with the codec format or media container format.
US09521435B2
A reader device monitors a content stream which includes a source stream that is received from a content source and modified by adding an additional content segment in response to detection of an insertion message. The reader detects an insertion message and signals a stream processing device. In response, the processing device performs an operation on the portion of the content stream that includes the additional content segment corresponding to the detected insertion message, which may include omitting performance of an operation that would have otherwise been performed. In some implementations, the reader and the processing device may be separate while in other implementations the reader may be integrated into the processing device. In various implementations, the reader and the processing device may be connected via one or more contact closures and the reader may signal the processing device by activating the contact closure.
US09521433B2
Intended is to obtain a video encoding device, a video encoding method, and a video encoding program which enable to prevent reduction in compression efficiency caused by drastic changes in symbol occurrence probabilities in context adaptive coding, and a video decoding device, a video decoding method and a decoding program corresponding thereto.The video data 101 is input into video encoding device on a macroblock basis, and after quantization, the PCM determination unit 139 determines whether the coded data 123 is PCM mode or not. Even when the coded data 123 is PCM mode, the context updating unit 301 executes context updating processing so as to improve efficiency of binary arithmetic coding. According to the determination of PCM mode or non PCM mode, the third switch 148 supplies either binary arithmetic coding output or PCM coding output as its output data.
US09521429B2
There are provided methods and apparatus for multi-view video coding. A video encoder includes an encoder for encoding a block in a picture by choosing between temporal prediction and cross-view prediction to enable a prediction for the block. The picture is one of a set of pictures corresponding to multi-view video content and having different view points with respect to a same or similar scene. The picture represents one of the different view points. A high-level syntax is used to indicate the use of cross-view prediction for the block.
US09521428B2
A method, a device and a system for resizing an original depth frame into a resized depth frame. The method for resizing an original depth frame into a resized depth frame includes the steps of: obtaining two sub-pixel values from at least two pixels of the original depth frame, respectively; and storing the two sub-pixel values into corresponding two sub-pixels of one pixel of the resized depth frame, respectively.
US09521419B2
A handheld imaging device has a data receiver that is configured to receive reference encoded image data. The data includes reference code values, which are encoded by an external coding system. The reference code values represent reference gray levels, which are being selected using a reference grayscale display function that is based on perceptual non-linearity of human vision adapted at different light levels to spatial frequencies. The imaging device also has a data converter that is configured to access a code mapping between the reference code values and device-specific code values of the imaging device. The device-specific code values are configured to produce gray levels that are specific to the imaging device. Based on the code mapping, the data converter is configured to transcode the reference encoded image data into device-specific image data, which is encoded with the device-specific code values.
US09521415B2
A variable length coding method is comprised of: a coefficient value scanning step in which an RL sequence generation unit, a reordering unit, and a binarization unit scan coefficient values within a block in a predetermined scanning order starting at a higher-frequency component toward a lower-frequency component; and an arithmetic coding step in which an arithmetic coding unit and a table storage unit perform arithmetic coding on the absolute values of the coefficient values according to the scanning order used in the coefficient value scanning step, by switching between probability tables for use, wherein, in the arithmetic coding step, a probability table to be used is switched to another probability table in one direction, when the arithmetic-coded absolute values of the coefficient values include an absolute value exceeding a predetermined threshold value.
US09521409B2
A video encoding device uses fractional pixel accuracy motion compensation prediction based on a DCT interpolation filter, and includes: a fractional pixel accuracy motion vector search unit 10 for estimating a fractional pixel accuracy motion vector using an interpolation filter 11 different from a DCT interpolation filter 21; and a fractional pixel accuracy motion compensation prediction signal updating unit 20 for updating a prediction signal of a position of the fractional pixel accuracy motion vector estimated by the fractional pixel accuracy motion vector search unit 10, with a prediction signal based on the DCT interpolation filter 21.
US09521406B1
A video decoding apparatus for predicting a current block to be decoded, includes: a bitstream decoder to extract an index for use in identifying a predicted motion vector of the current block and a differential motion vector from a bitstream; and a predictor to generate a predicted block of the current block based on the predicted motion vector and the extracted differential motion vector, wherein the predicted motion vector of the current block is determined to be a motion vector identified by the extracted index in a motion estimation mode of an inter prediction mode, and wherein the extracted index corresponds to one or more representative blocks determined using neighboring blocks of the current block, in consideration of priorities of block positions.
US09521401B2
Every frame regarding an input video signal is changed into a sequence of subframes. Subframe data is generated from the input video signal while first and second tables are alternately used. The first and second tables are designed so that a number of subframes assigned a pixel activated state increases each time a drive gradation related to the input video signal increases by 1. According to the first table, a subframe newly assigned the pixel activated state is one following the subframe or subframes which have already been assigned the pixel activated state when the drive gradation increases from an odd number to a next even number. According to the second table, a subframe newly assigned the pixel activated state is one preceding the pixel-activated-state subframe or subframes in that case. A display device is driven in response to the generated subframe data.
US09521395B2
An imaging element includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion units that output an image signal for each pixel through a micro lens. An imaging signal processing circuit separates image signals output from the imaging element into a left-eye image signal and a right-eye image signal. An image combining circuit generates combined image data by performing arithmetic average processing for left-eye image data and right-eye image data. A recording medium control I/F unit controls to record left-eye image data and right-eye image data for use in 3D display and combined image data for use in 2D display in different regions in an image file.
US09521391B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for identifying depth refinement image capture instructions for capturing images that may be used to refine existing depth maps. The depth refinement image capture instructions are determined by evaluating, at each image patch in an existing image corresponding to the existing depth map, a range of possible depth values over a set of configuration settings. Each range of possible depth values corresponds to an existing depth estimate of the existing depth map. This evaluation enables selection of one or more configuration settings in a manner such that there will be additional depth information derivable from one or more additional images captured with the selected configuration settings. When a refined depth map is generated using the one or more additional images, this additional depth information is used to increase the depth precision for at least one depth estimate from the existing depth map.
US09521389B2
A video coder stores only one derived disparity vector (DDV) for a slice of a current picture of the video data. The video coder uses the DDV for the slice in a Neighboring Block Based Disparity Vector (NBDV) derivation process to determine a disparity vector for a particular block. Furthermore, the video coder stores, as the DDV for the slice, the disparity vector for the particular block.
US09521381B2
Implementations of a color filter array comprising a plurality of tiled minimal repeating units. Each minimal repeating unit includes at least a first set of filters comprising three or more color filters, the first set including at least one color filter with a first spectral photoresponse, at least one color filter with a second spectral photoresponse, and at least one color filter with a third spectral photoresponse; and a second set of filters comprising one or more broadband filters positioned among the color filters of the first set, wherein each of the one or more broadband filters has a fourth spectral photoresponse with a broader spectrum than any of the first, second, and third spectral photoresponses, and wherein the individual filters of the second set have a smaller area than any of the individual filters in the first set. Other implementations are disclosed and claimed.
US09521377B2
A motion detection method is provided. The method includes steps of: recording an input video having a plurality of windows of interest (WOIs), extracting a reference frame from the input video in every reference updating cycle, extracting a target frame from the input video and determining whether an event occurs in each of the WOIs by comparing the target frame with the reference frame in every checking cycle, and comparing the number of WOIs in which the event occurs in every observation cycle with a threshold to determine whether the input video contains a motion during the observation cycle.
US09521374B1
The present disclosure describes a system for notification, during flight and on ground, of the relative quality between two redundant optical data distribution networks on an aircraft, which are used for remote surveillance of refueling activities where there is no need to disconnect a fiber optic connection to make the quality assessment.
US09521371B2
An approach is provided for establishing a virtual community for remotely participating in an event. A remote camera set is controlled by a user equipment to view an event from a plurality of viewing perspectives. A virtual community is built to share viewing of the event by multiple participants. A subscriber with full capacity to the access of the system can facilitate as a station host to provide services for the duration of the event to a group of remote participants, standby viewers, in the virtual community to share the event.
US09521359B2
An exemplary Mobile High-Definition Link (MHL) data converter includes: a data decoding circuit, arranged for decoding an input data according to an MHL specification, and outputting a decoded data; and a data parsing circuit, coupled to the data decoding circuit, arranged for parsing out a plurality of output data from the decoded data. An MHL data converting method includes: decoding an input data according to an MHL specification, and outputting a decoded data; and parsing out a plurality of output data from the decoded data.
US09521352B2
A television set including: interfaces for receiving peripheral sources; a screen for displaying at least one of said sources; a graphic-indications generator for showing on said screen indications relating to said interfaces; a control unit; control means for issuing commands to said television set; a video memory for storing video images obtained by processing said peripheral sources; and a processing means for reducing the dimensions of said peripheral sources to generate said video images and associating said video images to respective graphic indications relating to said interfaces. The association result is displayed on the screen, as a general video image, to allow user to identify the interface associated with the corresponding video image. A pointing element is used to select one of said video images. In response to a command issued by said control means, the contents of said selected video image are shown on said screen in full-screen form.
US09521347B2
A radiation imaging apparatus includes a plurality of conversion elements configured to convert radiation into an electric signal to obtain a radiation image, a sensor for monitoring radiation, a processing unit configured to process signals output from output electrodes of the plurality of conversion elements and an output electrode of the sensor, and a shield. The signal output from the output electrode of the sensor is supplied to the processing unit via a signal line. The shield is arranged such that capacitive coupling between the output electrodes of the plurality of conversion elements and the signal line is reduced.
US09521345B2
A data transmission circuit includes a data output unit (DOU) connected to a positive data transmission line and a negative data transmission line. The DOU generates a recovered data signal based on data signals communicated via the positive and negative data transmission lines. Data signal driving units are respectively connected at different points along the positive and negative data transmission lines, where each data signal driving unit generates and provides a positive data signal and a negative data signal based on a data input signal and a data transmission distance between the data signal driving unit and the data output unit.
US09521326B2
A method of misregistration correction in a line scanning imaging system includes: generating a model of scan motion over a focal plane of the imaging system, using a coupled system of non-linear scan equations with constant coefficients; estimating programmed motion positions across a plurality of detector junction overlap regions via a state transition matrix solution to the scan equations; at each detector junction overlap region, measuring actual motion positions via image correlation of overlapping detectors; generating differences between the actual motion positions and the estimated programmed motion positions; estimating updates to the constant coefficients based on the generated differences; generating corrections from the estimated updates to remove unwanted motion; and applying the updates to the constant coefficients.
US09521324B2
An electronic apparatus and a method of controlling the same are described. A method of controlling an electronic apparatus having a main processor and an image processor includes: booting the main processor and the image processor according to a power input signal of the photographing apparatus; when the image processor is completely booted, performing a photographing preparation operation; photographing an object, performed by the image processor, in response to a shutter release signal; and generating photographing data of the object, performed by the image processor.
US09521319B2
Systems and methods in accordance with embodiments of the invention implement array cameras and array camera modules that have spectral filters disposed outside of constituent image sensors. In one embodiment, an array camera module includes: a lens stack array including lens elements arranged to form a plurality of optical channels, each optical channel including a field-of-view that is shifted with respect to the fields-of-views of each other optical channel so that each shift includes a sub-pixel shifted view of the scene, a glass substrate located within an optical channel, and a spectral filter disposed within, or else proximate to, a glass substrate within the lens stack array; and an imager array including a plurality of focal planes, where each focal plane includes a plurality of rows of pixels that also form a plurality of columns of pixels, and where each focal plane does not include pixels from another focal plane.
US09521318B2
A pair of cameras having an overlapping field of view is aligned based on images captured by image sensors of the pair of cameras. A pixel shift is identified between the images. Based on the identified pixel shift, a calibration is applied to one or both of the pair of cameras. To determine the pixel shift, the camera applies correlation methods including edge matching. Calibrating the pair of cameras may include adjusting a read window on an image sensor. The pixel shift can also be used to determine a time lag, which can be used to synchronize subsequent image captures.
US09521317B2
Method and apparatus for detecting obstacle based on monocular camera are provided. The method includes: obtaining a target frame image and its adjacent frame image shot by the monocular camera; deleting an unstable feature point from an initial feature point set of the adjacent frame image to obtain a preferred feature point set; dividing a target feature point set to obtain several target feature point subsets; judging whether the target feature point subset corresponds to obstacle based on a change of a distance between points within a ground projection point set of the target feature point subset from adjacent frame time instant to target frame time instant; and determining a union of all the target feature point subsets which are judged as corresponding to obstacles as an obstacle point set of the target frame image.
US09521316B2
An image processing apparatus generates an output image using an input image including object space information, the image processing apparatus includes a region dividing unit configured to divide the input image into a first region and a second region, and a reconstructed image generating unit configured to reconstruct the input image to generate the output image, and the reconstructed image generating unit applies different shooting conditions from each other to the first region and the second region respectively.
US09521314B2
The present invention relates to a method of enrolling a fingerprint of a user's finger, by means of an elongated fingerprint sensor having a sensing area being smaller than the fingerprint. The method comprises the steps of instructing the user to place the finger on the fingerprint sensor with a first finger orientation for achieving a first angle between a longitudinal finger axis and a longitudinal sensor axis; acquiring a partial fingerprint image for the first orientation; instructing the user to place the finger on the fingerprint sensor with a second finger orientation for achieving a second angle; acquiring a partial fingerprint image for the second finger orientation; and forming a fingerprint enrollment representation for the finger based on the partial fingerprint images for the first and second finger orientations and a relation between the first angle and the second angle.
US09521312B2
Signals of pixels are acquired from an image sensor in which a first pixel, a second pixel, and an imaging pixel are arranged, the first pixel receiving light flux that is restricted to light flux passing through a first portion of a pupil area of an imaging optical system, the second pixel receiving light flux that is restricted to light flux passing through a second portion that is different from the first portion of the pupil area, and the imaging pixel being different from the first and second pixels. Based on the acquired signals, estimated signals at a position at which the first and second pixel is not arranged are estimated. A defocus amount of the imaging optical system is calculated based on evaluation values obtained based on the estimated signals and the signals from the first and second pixels.
US09521311B2
A method that includes: detecting, by the image acquisition apparatus, image data of a photographed subject in the case of current photographing parameters, where the photographing parameters include a photographing focal length and a focus, and the image data includes a position of the photographed subject in a formed image and an image size; adjusting the image acquisition apparatus based on the position of the photographed subject in the formed image, so that the position of the photographed subject in the formed image is a first position; determining a target value of the photographing focal length based on a photographing parameter-image data-photographing distance correspondence and according to a current photographing focal length, the image data, and a preset image size; and adjusting a photographing focal length of the image acquisition apparatus to the target value of the photographing focal length.
US09521294B2
Adjusting digital images for parallax includes receiving (401) a digital image of an object on a platform from a camera positioned over the platform and adjusting (402) a magnification of a top surface of the object in the digital image based on a height of the object.
US09521289B2
Techniques are provided to implement line based processing of thermal images and a flexible memory system. In one example, individual lines of a thermal image frame may be provided to an image processing pipeline. Image processing operations may be performed on the individual lines in stages of the image processing pipeline. A memory system may be used to buffer the individual lines in the pipeline stages. In another example, a memory system may be used to send and receive data between various components without relying on a single shared bus. Data transfers may be performed between different components and different memories of the memory system using a switch fabric to route data over different buses. In another example, a memory system may support data transfers using different clocks of various components, without requiring the components and the memory system to all be synchronized to the same clock source.
US09521281B2
An image processing apparatus includes: a segmentation process section which performs a segmentation process on the image data; and a spatial filter section which performs first image processing that varies according to a result of the segmentation process. When a degree of downsampling in the downsampling process is not higher than a predetermined reference level, the spatial filter section performing the first image processing on the image data; and when the degree of downsampling in the downsampling process is higher than the predetermined reference level, the spatial filter section performs second image processing irrelevant to the result of the segmentation process, instead of performing the first image processing, on the image data. This brings about an advantage of making it possible to suppress deterioration in quality of an image whose preview is displayed.
US09521276B2
In one example, a portable projection capture device includes a digital camera and a projector mounted below the camera. The camera defines a capture area on a work surface within which the camera is configured to capture still and video images. The projector defines a display area on the work surface overlapping the capture area. The projector is configured to project into the capture area both images captured by the camera and white light for illuminating real objects in the capture area for camera image capture.
US09521268B2
A wireless communication device communicating with a serving base station in a wireless communication environment may have one or more applications running. When seeking to handover from the serving base station to a target base station, the wireless communication device adjusts the configurations of the applications based on the new communication link properties. Likewise, when an application is loaded that prefers communication link properties that exceeds a current communication link's capabilities, the wireless communication device may seek out and hand over to other communication links. By cooperatively coordinating the functionality of installed applications with communication link properties, the wireless communication device can maintain high levels of device and application functionality.
US09521266B2
A charging method, an authentication method, a charging device, and an authentication device. The charging method includes receiving a service unit request sent by an access device, calculating a granted service unit according to a current tariff, determining a reporting time point according to a tariff switch point and returning a service unit answer to the access device; and receiving a used service unit reported by the access device at the reporting time point, calculating a remaining service unit based on the granted service unit and the used service unit instructing the access device to perform a forcible offline operation. The technical solutions provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure may effectively reduce an occurrence probability of a user account overdraft, thereby reducing a loss caused by the user account overdraft to an operator.
US09521264B2
Echo removal techniques are described. As part of the echo removal, an adaptive model estimate of the echo in a received audio signal is determined using an adaptive model based on an outputted audio signal and the received audio signal. The adaptive model executes an algorithm comprising a convergence parameter to determine filter coefficients and uses said filter coefficients to filter the outputted audio signal to determine the adaptive model estimate of the echo. An accuracy value of the adaptive model is determined according to an echo return loss enhancement metric. The convergence parameter is updated based on the accuracy value. The adaptive model estimate of the echo is used to remove the echo in the received audio signal.
US09521262B2
A method and an apparatus for calling a terminal to join a conference, related to the field of communications technologies, resolving a problem that a process in which a calling terminal calls a called terminal to join the conference or a called terminal requests joining the conference is complicated. The method includes the following steps: receiving first call request information, where the first call request information carries identification information of the called terminal; and calling the called terminal according to the identification information of the called terminal, so that the called terminal receives a message which is published by another terminal in a current conference and that the called terminal publishes a message to another terminal in the current conference. The method may be applied to calling a terminal to join a conference.
US09521244B2
A mobile terminal including a display module; and a controller configured to display information related to a predetermined event and a first application execution icon group including application execution icons respectively corresponding to applications capable of executing functions using the information related to the event on the display module when the event is generated. Further, the first application execution icon group is predetermined according to the event, and a part of the information related to the event is used to execute a function of an application corresponding to a selected application execution icon in the first application execution icon group.
US09521241B2
A mobile terminal including a terminal body; a display unit configured to switch between an activated state in which lighting is turned on and a deactivated state in which lighting is turned off; and a controller configured to sense a plurality of touch inputs applied to the display unit when the display unit is deactivated, release a locked state of the terminal, when the sensed touch inputs are matched to a pre-set pattern, switch the deactivated display unit to an activated state, and selectively display on the activated display unit at least one execution screen based on characteristics of the sensed touch inputs among a plurality of pre-set execution screens.
US09521239B2
An apparatus and method for automatic discovery and suggesting personalized gestures from mobile terminal to control a plurality of devices in smart home system, based on user's habit and context. The method includes recording, via a mobile terminal, a context of the mobile terminal, recoding, via home system, actions taken by the plurality of devices in the home system, recognizing as a gesture command from a correlation of at least a portion of the recorded context of the user's mobile terminal with the recorded actions taken by the plurality of devices in the home system, and controlling at least one of the plurality of devices based a repetition of the gesture command, the controlling repeating the actions taken by the at least one of the plurality of devices in the home system.
US09521238B1
A mobile communication system and a method of establishing a wireless connection between a vehicle and at least one mobile device. The method includes: establishing a first short range wireless communication (SRWC) link between the vehicle and the mobile device; and using the first SRWC link to establish a second SRWC link between the vehicle and the mobile device, wherein the first and second SRWC links use different SRWC protocols.
US09521225B2
A small fold-down optical frame holds a smart phone that is provided with reading software that enables those with vision impairment to be able to hear the written word as audible speech. The frame has a tray and a base and legs connecting them. The tray holds the smart phone and positions it so that its camera is placed directly over a coded symbol containing the content of the printed page. One corner of the base is shaped such that a vision-impaired person can place the frame, by feel or touch, at the proper location for the smart phone to pick up the coded symbol.
US09521224B2
A holding device for a mobile terminal in a vehicle includes: a holder detachably mounted to a front surface of a dashboard, and configured to insertedly retain the mobile terminal therein; a data transceiver configured to receive vehicle information from the vehicle, and to transmit the vehicle information to the mobile terminal, and power connection terminals positioned in the holder for providing power to the mobile terminal, wherein the power connection terminals automatically put the mobile terminal into a vehicle mode when the mobile device and the vehicle are electrically connected to each other.
US09521222B1
A mobile communication device includes a substrate, a frame, a ground plane, and an antenna element. The substrate includes a first surface and a side wall. The frame includes a frame portion adjacent to the side wall. The ground plane is arranged on the first surface and includes a notch. An opening of the notch faces the frame portion. The antenna element includes a first radiation portion having a feeding point, a second radiation portion electrically connected to the ground plane, a third radiation portion electrically connected to the first radiation portion, and a fourth radiation portion electrically connected to the second radiation portion. Orthogonal projections of the first and second radiation portions on the first surface are located in the notch of the ground plane, and the third and fourth radiation portions are located on the frame portion or the side wall of the substrate.
US09521218B1
A method for optimizing migration efficiency of a data file over network is provided. Specifically, a total time of compression time of the data file, transfer time of the data file over the network, and decompression time of the data file, is minimized by adaptively selecting compression methods to compress each data block of the data file. For selecting a compression method for a data block, information entropy of the data block is analyzed, and a real status of computing and system resources is considered. Further, trade-off among the resource usage, compassion speed and compression ratio is made to calculate an optimized transmission solution over the network for each data block of the data file.
US09521213B2
Methods and apparatus for delivering digital goods using an electronic distribution system. Meta-information is generated for a digital product and stored at a fulfillment server. Upon completion of a transaction between a customer and the supplier of a digital product, a download manager installed at the customer's computer communicates with the fulfillment server using a protocol that ensures secure and reliable delivery of the digital product to the customer. In alternative implementations, the customer can be billed before or after successful delivery of the digital product to the customer.
US09521212B2
Examples described herein involve managing two or more user accounts via which a media playback system can access a service provider, and displaying on a graphical display, graphical representations of at least one of the two or more user accounts via which a media playback system can access a service provider.
US09521202B2
The present invention relates to a method for matching multiple devices, and a device and a server system for enabling the matching thereof. According to one aspect of the invention, provided is a matching method comprising the steps of: determining, from a perspective of a first device, characteristic information on a biological state of a user, and independently determining, from a perspective of a second device, characteristic information associated with or generated according to the biological state of the user; and matching the first device and the second device on the basis of the characteristic information determined from the perspective of the first device and the characteristic information determined from the perspective of the second device.
US09521200B1
Locally providing cloud storage array services for a storage array of a data center when the storage array is not connected to a remote cloud-based storage array services provider includes initiating, by a primary storage array, one or more cloud storage array services and locally providing the cloud storage array services. Such local providing of the cloud storage array services also includes generating, by the cloud storage array services, metadata describing one or more real-time storage array characteristics and presenting the metadata to a user through a local area network.
US09521196B2
A computer-implemented method may comprise processing agreements received over a computer network at a first replicated state machine deployed on processes belonging to a first membership in an order defined by a first globally ordered set of agreements associated with the first membership; receiving an agreement to change membership that is configured to cause the first replicated state machine to be deployed on processes belonging to a second membership that is associated with a second globally ordered set of agreements; and processing the agreement to change membership at a point within the first globally ordered set of agreements.
US09521191B2
A method for distributing load among interconnected computing devices, each computing device having a designated position in each dimension of an array of designated positions, the method comprising, individually, at one or more computing devices per position in a series of positions in one dimension of n-dimensions, in which one dimension and one direction is assigned as a load transfer direction, executing a process including: obtaining an indication of current capacity for additional load at each member of a group of computing devices from among the computing devices; transferring load from the executing computing device to a member of the group at which it is indicated that there is capacity for additional load; where membership of the group is restricted to a computing device on the load transfer direction side of the executing computing device in the one dimension.
US09521182B1
Methods and apparatus related to identifying authorship of Internet content. Some implementations are directed to methods and apparatus for identifying a content submission form on a webpage, recognizing submission of content by a user via the content submission form, and transmitting verification data in response to submission of the content by the user. The verification data may include content data indicative of at least some of the content submitted for publication via the content submission form.
US09521174B2
A first device, such as a PC, is enabled to receive messages from a second device, such as an application server, that does not know the address of the first device, by interaction with an intermediate man-in-the-middle (MITM) server. The first device obtains an ID, provides the ID to a human using the first device, and then the human provides the ID to the second device. The second device sends a message to the MITM server addressed to the ID. Meanwhile, the first device long polls the MITM server, and in response to one of the long polls, the MITM server sends the message from the second device to the first device. The first device is operating according to a script that was received from an external device, in response to a request for the script from the first device. The request for the script is embedded in a web page that the first device received; the script request may be launched automatically by the web page or in response to an action by the human. The human perceives an interaction experience co-ordinated across devices.
US09521171B2
Provided herein are systems, methods, and software for facilitating information exchange services. In at least one implementation, an information exchange service processes communications indicative of a plurality of actions taken with respect to a plurality of derivative versions of a service item associated with a source version of the service item to determine which action of the plurality of actions controls. The information exchange service identifies a modification to apply to data associated with the source version of the service item to reflect the action determined to control and initiates communications indicative of the modification with which to update data associated with each of the plurality of derivative versions of the service item.
US09521169B2
The concept of a centralized communication log is provided. Anchor points, and specifically Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) anchor points, serve as a media and call control point that is established on a per-user basis which can then be leveraged by a communication log application. Such a communication log application is able to determine accurate and real-time communicant information for a communication session and populate a centralized communication log with the same. Such a communication log is, therefore, accurate with respect to multiple users in a system, highly available, and scaled horizontally.
US09521143B2
A gateway device may control access to content based, at least in part, on an audience that will consume the content. In relation to a request for content to be delivered to a media output device, the gateway device may obtain biometric data from one or more trait capture devices having a physical relation to the media output device. The gateway can determine the potential audience of the content and enforce content restrictions based on the audience. The content restrictions may be based on one or more content attributes about the content and one or more audience traits about the audience. The gateway may use thresholds associated with the audience trait to determine whether the content attribute is appropriate for the audience. The threshold or a combination of thresholds may provide for granular control of access to content.
US09521142B2
A method and system for automatically generating a new password from user selected characters via key press which are different from the user selected characters. Each key of a keypad can be entered within one or more contexts, manually selected by the user or automatically selected by the described system, such that the same key press within one context provides a unique code different than the same key press within another context. The code corresponding to the proper combination of a key press, the contexts of the selected key press, and the sequence of entry must match the previously stored code set by the user. Context selection is not based on any of the possible key presses selectable on the keypad. Therefore if the password characters are discovered without the context for each character, then it becomes difficult to access the content. The newly generated password can be the same length as the originally entered password, or can be longer or shorter in length than the originally entered password.
US09521141B2
A computer system supports a validation system that enables a business client to validate a business associate who has called the client using a pass phrase. The computer system manages one or more pass phrases that have been previously configured by the business client. The client can then challenge a caller (the purported business associate) with the phrase or keyword to make sure the caller is actually the authorized business associate before providing any sensitive information. Management of phrases and/or keywords may include a computer-executable process where in the client may set up phrases (for example, a challenge question and a corresponding answer) or keyword through an on-line application, telephone, e-mail or any other suitable communication mechanism. The business client may have an option to change, delete or create phrases and/or keywords at any time through appropriate security measures.
US09521138B2
A system and method for domain control validation is presented. At a certificate authority a request is received. The request includes a certificate signing request and a first Internet protocol address. The certificate signing request identifies a domain and a certificate. A second Internet protocol address for the domain is retrieved from a domain name system. When the first Internet protocol address is the same as the second Internet protocol address, the certificate is signed, and the signed certificate is transmitted to a requester of the request. When the first Internet protocol address is not the same as the second Internet protocol address, the certificate signing request is rejected.
US09521131B2
A system and method for controlling distribution and use of digital identity representations (“DIRs”) increases security, usability, and oversight of DIR use. A DIR stored on a first device may be obtained by a second device for use in satisfying the security policy of a relying party. Release of the DIR to the second device requires permission from a device or entity that may be different from the device or entity attempting to access the relying party. Further, the use of the DIR to obtain an identity token may separately require permission of even a different person or entity and may be conditioned upon receiving satisfactory information relating to the intended use of the DIR (e.g., the name of the relying party, type of operation being attempted, etc.). By controlling the distribution and use of DIRs, security of the principal's identity and supervisory control over a principal's activities are enhanced.
US09521126B2
While cloud services can offer processing from personal devices or synthesized data from multiple sources, many users prefer their data to remain private. According to some embodiments, private user data may be processed in the cloud without revealing the user identity to the cloud service provider. Only the user or an authorized agent of the user and the service's hardware platform have access to certain keys. The service application software and operating system only have access to encrypted data.
US09521121B2
An asset management system is presented. The management system includes monitoring devices able to provide asset data across firewalls without requiring reconfiguration of the firewalls. The asset data pass through a forwarding service that instantiates a virtual tunnel comprising a communication channel between the monitoring devices and remote asset management engines. The asset management engines can also be located behind firewalls. As the management engines aggregate asset data, the engines can present one or more alerts via a management interface.
US09521115B1
Methods, systems, and media for producing a firewall rule set are provided herein. Exemplary methods may include: receiving metadata about a deployed container from a container orchestration layer; determining an application or service associated with the container from the received metadata; retrieving at least one model using the determined application or service, the at least one model identifying expected network communications behavior of the container; and generating a high-level declarative security policy associated with the container using the at least one model, the high-level declarative security policy indicating at least an application or service with which the container can communicate.
US09521108B2
An embodiment of the present invention provides a method of accelerating a network connection to a wireless network and avoiding unnecessary wait intervals, comprising synchronizing DHCP discover or request packets with an authentication mechanism utilized by the wireless network. In an embodiment of the present invention the wireless network may conform to Institute for Electrical and Engineers (IEEE) 802.1x standards and specific 802.1x states may trigger a DHCP request to ensure a DHCP process will start in a synchronized way, on-time when needed and capable to provide network access.
US09521107B2
A method of cross-platform messaging including receiving, by a messaging system, at least one initial message having a message format, an initial message layout and data indicative of at least one user associated with the at least one initial message, and before delivery to a destination communication device associated with the at least one user, converting, by the messaging system, an initial message into an adapted message, and facilitating, by the messaging system, delivery of the adapted message to the destination communication device. The adapted message is characterized by, at least, an adapted message layout, and the adapted message layout differs from the initial message layout in a characteristic associated with respective message layout such as number of media objects, a graphical image of a media object, a size of a placeholder related to a media object, and a location of a media object within a respective message layout.
US09521105B2
Sending communications to contacts on a social networking service includes receiving a target geographical location of a computing device, identifying a vicinity based on the target geographical location, using the vicinity to identify a set of contacts associated with an account on a social networking service, where the set of contacts are used to produce a contact list that excludes one or more contacts that are not associated with locations within the vicinity, and sending a communication to members of the contact list, where the communication relates to the target geographical location.
US09521101B2
There is provided a method of reformatting an e-mail message having a header and a body having content in a received format. The method comprises receiving, by at least one server via a communications network, the e-mail message; saving, by the at least one server, the e-mail message in a database in communication with the at least one server; receiving, by the at least one server from a client device, a request to retrieve the e-mail message; retrieving, by the at least one server, the e-mail message from at least one database; determining, by the at least one server, a classification of the e-mail message from the at least one database, the classification including a sender type and at least one message type; and reformatting at least some of the content of the body of the message into a predetermined format associated with the determined classification of the e-mail message; and sending, by the at least one server to the client device, at least some of the reformatted content of the body of the message.
US09521097B2
The present disclosure includes systems and methods for providing instant messaging communication between users via a communication network. Instant messaging clients are executed at user devices of a first and second user. A data message is transmitted from the instant messaging client at the user device of the first user to the instant messaging client at the user device of the second user, the data message having a content portion and at least one associated attribute that is cryptographically generated. The cryptographic attribute plus any additional first user attributes irrefutably binds the ID of the first user to the message information content to form an irrevocable message. The availability of at least one user-selectable function by the instant messaging client at the user device of the second user is controllable, based on the at least one associated attribute.
US09521092B2
A transport system comprises 2 apparatuses. The first transport apparatus notifies, for each of first physical ports, to the second transport apparatus, a valid first lane count and identification information of the first physical port. The second transport apparatus is configured to: obtain, for each of second physical ports, a valid second lane count and identification information of the second physical port; associate, based on the valid second lane count and the identification information of the second physical port, and the valid first lane count and the identification information of the first physical port, the identification information of the first and second physical port; and transmit, when data including identification information of one of the first physical ports is transmitted, the data from the second physical port that is identified by the identification information associated with the identification information of the one of the first physical ports.
US09521072B2
A method and network device for distributing Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) labels are provided by the present invention. The method for distributing the MPLS labels includes: a first device receives a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) protocol message transmitted from a second device, wherein the BGP protocol message carries a service identifier of the second device; the first device establishes, according to the service identifier of the first device and the service identifier of the second device, a corresponding relationship between the first device and the second device; the first device distributes a MPLS label for the corresponding relationship. The present invention realizes that the MPLS labels are distributed for some type of the specific logical relationship between the two nodes in the BGP protocol, so that the network devices running the BGP protocol can efficiently obtain the MPLS label corresponding to the specific logical relationship.
US09521066B2
A network captured traffic distribution device is provided. The network captured traffic distribution device includes a stacking port configured to enable the stacking of the network captured traffic distribution device with at least one additional network captured traffic distribution device in a stacked topology. The network captured traffic distribution device further includes a processor configured to determine a target destination of a received traffic flow of captured data packets. The processor is further configured to determine a plurality of routes through the stacked topology from the network captured traffic distribution device to the target destination. The processor is further configured to determine an amount of available filtering capacity associated with each network captured traffic distribution device along each of the plurality of determined routes. The processor is further configured to select an optimum route from the plurality of determined routes based on the determined amounts of available filtering capacity.
US09521065B1
Providing unique VLAN names in a system containing a plurality of networks includes obtaining, for at least one of the networks, a unique identifier associated with each of the networks, obtaining a VLAN ID for at least one of the VLANs in the at least one of the networks, and forming a unique VLAN name by concatenating the unique identifier to the VLAN ID. The unique identifier may be associated with each of the networks is a root bridge ID for a root bridge associated with each of the networks. In response to a root bridge becoming non-operational, a new root bridge may be determined and the unique VLAN name may be changed to remove the old root bridge ID and to include the new root bridge ID. In response to a change in topology, a new root bridge may be determined.
US09521064B2
A cooperative caching method and apparatus for reducing data access time and data acquisition cost in a mobile communication system are provided. The cooperative caching method of a local base station in a mobile communication system using caches of base stations cooperatively connected with each other includes determining, when a request for data is received from a client, whether the data is stored in the cache of the local base station; sending, to a home base station, upon determining that the data is not stored in the cache, a request for the data; acquiring the data from one of the home base station and a server according to whether the data is stored in the home base station; and serving the data to the client.
US09521063B2
The present invention advantageously provides a method, system and apparatus for aggregating multiple site-specific routes, by determining a first aggregate-aware route that includes a prefix of a site-specific address and a prefix length of an aggregate route address of a first service provider. The method and system can be implemented as an enhancement to existing IP protocols such as BGP and other inter-domain routing protocols. The method and apparatus may further include applying a routing protocol policy in which an aggregate route may serve as a proxy for an aggregate-aware route when the address of the aggregate route matches the address of the aggregate-aware route. The method and system may yet further include determining a second aggregate-aware route that includes the prefix of the aggregate route address of the first service provider and a prefix length of a second aggregate route address of a second service provider. The method and system may yet still further include determining a first aggregate-aware route that includes at least two autonomous system identifiers from a multi-homing zone and a multi-homing zone diameter.
US09521055B2
Network connectivity management includes monitoring a circuit, wherein the circuit is a virtual connection between multiple networks via a provider core network. A device receives a plurality of network management messages associated with the circuit, and a determination is made regarding whether the circuit is experiencing a connectivity issue based on the network management messages. When it is determined that the circuit is experiencing a connectivity issue, then certain actions can be initiated.
US09521054B2
A first terminal 1000 includes: a local terminal transmission rate acquisition unit 100 for acquiring a transmission rate of an application in the first terminal 1000; a search range control unit 110 for deciding an upper limit of a search range of an available bandwidth of a communication line, using the transmission rate; and a probe packet transmission unit 120 for transmitting a probe packet to a second terminal 2000 in a bandwidth less than or equal to the upper limit. The second terminal 2000 includes: a probe packet receiving unit 200 for receiving the probe packet; and an available bandwidth estimation unit 210 for estimating the available bandwidth based on the received probe packet.
US09521053B1
A provider network may collect diagnostic metrics for virtual connections implemented over physical connections to resources in the provider network. Diagnostic metric collection may be enabled via an interface for the provider network. In response to receiving a request to enable diagnostic metric collection for a particular virtual connection, a diagnostic agent within the provider network may begin sending diagnostic request messages to a client-side endpoint via the particular virtual connection. Responses to the request messages may be received back at the diagnostic agent. The diagnostic responses may then be used to generate diagnostic metrics for the particular virtual connection, which may be provided through the provider network interface.
US09521050B2
The invention relates to a method of and device for service monitoring and a method of and device for service monitoring management. In particular the invention relates to a method of and device for service monitoring of at least one service, and of at least one sub-service associated with the service in which values for service monitoring metric and sub-service monitoring metrics derived from the terminal operational information are monitored and recorded. One or more service monitoring reports, containing service monitoring metric values and sub-service monitoring metric values that are relationally organized to reflect the association between the sub-service and the service, are sent. The invention also relates to a method of and device for service monitoring management in which one or more service monitoring reports, having service monitoring metric values and sub-service monitoring metric values that are relationally organized to reflect the association between the sub-service and the service, are received and stored. The received service monitoring metric values and sub-service monitoring metric values are analyzed with reference to the association between the service and the sub-service to perform service monitoring management. The service monitoring of the claimed invention may be carried out in a terminal or in a proxy or agent service monitoring device.
US09521045B1
Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for monitoring decommissioned servers in a shared data environment. Embodiments of the present invention can be used to aggregate information associated with an environment from external resources, and calculate a baseline of server activity from the aggregated information. When new information is received, it is compared to the baseline of server activity in order to determine a possible misuse of the server assets, when inconsistencies are detected between the baseline of activity and the new information.
US09521041B2
Systems and methods for automatic purchasing, reserving and/or provisioning of a wavelength bandwidth block are disclosed. A user may access a web page, such as an interactive web-portal, to provide bandwidth data and corresponding ordering information for reserving a particular amount of bandwidth capacity on a telecommunications network. Subsequently, the customer's may access and the bandwidth blocks to increase/decrease and/or activate/deactivate portions of the reserved bandwidth capacity as needed.
US09521033B2
A network element implements a method to support a plurality of network services between a computing device and the network element over non-channelized media using a single subscriber session. The method includes receiving from a computing device a request for a first network service that includes a Media Access Control (MAC) address of the computing device, retrieving a user record from a database server based on the MAC address of the computing device, determining from the user record whether the computing device supports the first network service and a second network service, and upon determining that the computing device supports the first network service and the second network service, creating a single dual-stack session that combines the first network service and the second network service. The method further includes enabling the computing device to access the first network service and the second network service where the first network service and the second network service are managed by the single dual-stack session.
US09521032B1
In some implementations, a client device includes a client identifier embedded into a firmware of the client device. A server may register a service with a global authentication, authorization, and account (AAA) server. The client device may request permission to access the service. The request may be signed using a client signature that is based on the identifier. The global AAA server may send the request to the server and the server may determine whether to grant the client device permission. If the global AAA server determines that the server has granted the client device permission, the global AAA server may provide server credentials to the client device and client credentials to the server. The client device may sign a request to connect to the service using the client signature. The server may grant the request in response to authenticating the request using the client signature.
US09521028B2
Various embodiments provide a method and apparatus for providing SDN flow distribution without requiring per-connection state in the network. In particular, the SDN flow distribution is realized in network elements within the forwarding path of packets by providing in those network elements with a controller capable of mapping traffic flows onto a set of target servers.
US09521025B1
Systems and methods for detection of a ternary sequence are provided. An example apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive an OFDM signal comprising a plurality of OFDM Resource Elements (REs). A processor is coupled to the receiver and is configured to detect a presence of a known ternary sequence in the received OFDM signal. The processor is configured to detect the ternary sequence by determining a correlation between a first set of the OFDM REs and a first set of symbols of the ternary sequence. A power of each RE of a second set of the OFDM REs is determined. A sum of the powers is determined. A detection value is based on the correlation and the sum. The ternary sequence is determined to be present in the signal based on a comparison of the detection value to a threshold.
US09521024B2
The present disclosure provides a device (300) of crest factor reduction for a multi-carrier signal. The device (300) includes: a peak detector (320) adapted to receive a sampled representation of the multi-carrier signal, detect a peak from the sampled representation and obtain a value and a time domain location of a cancellation peak for cancelling the peak; a plurality of peak cancellation signal generators (330) each corresponding to a carrier of the multi-carrier signal and adapted to generate a peak cancellation signal within a frequency band of its corresponding carrier based on the value and time domain location of the cancellation peak; and a subtractor (350) adapted to subtract the peak cancellation signals from the sampled representation after being delayed. The present disclosure also provides another device of crest factor reduction, a multi-stage crest factor reduction circuit and a peak detector.
US09521022B2
The present invention provides a cycle-slip detection method and apparatus, and a receiver. If an absolute value of a first difference obtained by subtracting a phase of a first symbol in a kth training sequence cycle from a phase of a last symbol in a (k−1)th training sequence cycle in a received signal is greater than a cycle-slip determining threshold, it is determined that a cycle-slip occurs in the kth or (k−1)th training sequence cycle. Further, if a second difference obtained by subtracting a phase of the first symbol in the (k+1)th training sequence cycle from a phase of the last symbol in the kth training sequence cycle is greater than the cycle-slip determining threshold, and signs of the first difference and the second difference are opposite, it is determined that a cycle-slip occurs in all symbols in the kth training cycle.
US09521016B2
Provided are a data transmission apparatus and method for transmitting data in a Delay-Insensitive (DI) data transmission method supporting a handshake protocol. The data transmission apparatus includes a sender which outputs a binary-valued logic signal based on binary-valued logic, and an encoder which encodes the binary-valued logic signal input through input wires into a multi-valued logic signal based on multi-valued logic and transmits the encoded multi-valued logic signal to a decoder through output wires. Here, the encoder includes a mapping table which stores input variables including the number of input wires and the number of output wires smaller than the number of input wires and the multi-valued logic signal corresponding to the input variables, and encodes the binary-valued logic signal into the multi-valued logic signal with reference to the mapping table.
US09521012B2
A virtual network is dynamically created to construct a relay communication system. Between a first relay server and a second relay server, a VLAN device information sharing unit shares VLAN device information including interface information of client terminals capable of functioning as VLAN devices in a relay group. A VLAN group information creation unit edits the VLAN device information, thereby creating VLAN group information formed by grouping the client terminals indicated in the VLAN device information. A VLAN group information sharing unit shares the VLAN group information among the first relay server, the second relay server, the client terminal connected to the first relay server, and the client terminal connected to the second relay server.
US09521004B2
A system and methods are provided for generating a billing feed for a distributed network system and reselling resources of the distributed network system. In one embodiment, a method includes observing a plurality of messages sent and received among components of the distributed network system, generating a call flow graph based on the plurality of messages of the distributed network system, and outputting a billing feed for the distributed network based on the call flow graph, to provide a billing feed including one or more billable events. billable events may be are based on one or more of received requests, underlying resource usage, time of usage, scope of usage. In this regard, the system may provide for one or more models of reselling resources of a distributed network system.
US09520999B2
The present application relates to systems and methods using biometric data of an individual for identifying the individual and/or verifying the identity of an individual. These systems and methods are useful for, amongst many applications, more secure identification of high-risk individuals attempting to gain access to an entity, transport, information, location, security organization, law enforcement organization, transaction, services, authorized status, and/or funds.
US09520996B2
The invention proposes a method for transmitting a message to a plurality of user entities in a network by using a multicast service, comprising the steps of encrypting a multicast message by using ciphering, and sending the encrypted multicast message to the plurality of user entities simultaneously. The invention also proposes a corresponding multicast service control device and a corresponding user entity.
US09520993B2
The present invention provides a method performed on a computer of preventing re-use of compromised keys in a broadcast encryption system. In an exemplary embodiment, the method includes (1) incorporating a particular set of Sequence Keys assigned by a license agency into individual receivers, (2) assigning a Sequence Key Block (SKB) by the license agency to at least one distributed protected file, (3) performing incremental cryptographic testing by the individual receivers to determine if a selected Sequence Key from the set of Sequence Keys is compromised, (4) if the selected Sequence Key is not compromised, decrypting the file, and (5) if the selected Sequence Key is compromised and if a subsequent Sequence Key from the set of Sequence Keys is available, selecting the subsequent Sequence Key.
US09520990B2
The various embodiments of the present invention provide a secure software distribution and execution method. According to the method, a server receives software from service provider for downloading to a client and identifies the sections for encoding. APIs are inserted in the identified sections. A unique ID is created based on the identity of the each client to generate an encryption algorithm, decryption key and decryption algorithm. The identified sections are encrypted with the generated encryption algorithm. The encrypted application along with encryption algorithm, decryption key and decryption algorithm are downloaded to the driver of the client machine. The API makes call to the driver by sending the encrypted segment when the encrypted portion is reached during the execution of software in the client machine so that the driver decrypts the encoded portion using the received key and the decryption algorithm to enable the continuous execution of the downloaded software.
US09520989B2
A phase detector and retimer circuit that includes a retimer circuit, a phase shift circuit coupled to the retimer circuit, and an error signal generation circuit coupled to the retimer circuit and the phase shift circuit. The retimer circuit is configured to receive a data signal and generate a first retimed data signal based on a first phase of a clock signal and a second retimed data signal based on a second phase of the clock signal. The phase shift circuit is configured to receive the data signal and phase shift the data signal to generate first, second, third, and fourth phase shifted data signals. The error signal generation circuit is configured to generate a first error signal and a second error signal based on the first and second retimed data signals and the first, second, third, and fourth phase shifted data signals.
US09520983B2
A system for delay-matched analog self-interference cancellation including a transmit coupler, that samples the analog transmit signal to create a sampled analog transmit signal; a delay matcher that imposes a variable delay on the sampled analog transmit signal to create a delayed analog transmit signal; an analog self-interference canceller that transforms the delayed analog transmit signal to an analog self-interference cancellation signal; and a receive coupler, that combines the analog self-interference cancellation signal with the analog receive signal.
US09520980B1
Disclosed herein is a method carried out by a router. The method includes the router receiving a data packet originated by a wireless communication device (WCD) being served by a base station. The method also includes the router determining an air-interface resource on which the base station is serving the WCD. After receiving the data packet, the router determines a routing prioritization for the data packet based at least in part on the determined air-interface resource. The router may then route the data packet in accordance with the determined routing prioritization.
US09520972B2
Transmission patterns for pilot symbols transmitted from a mobile station or base station are provided. The pattern allows for improved receipt of the pilot symbols transmitted. In addition, schemes for improving the ability to multiplex pilot symbols without interference and/or biasing from different mobile stations over the same frequencies and in the same time slots.
US09520967B2
Systems, methods, and user equipment can involve transmitting Acknowledgement/Negative Acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) bits for carrier aggregation between a first cell and a second cell in a User Equipment (UE). With the UE, for a sub-frame, a first number of ACK/NACK bits for the first cell can be compared with a second number of ACK/NACK bits for the second cell. If a first number of ACK/NACK bits for the first cell is less than a second number of ACK/NACK bits for the second cell, an ACK/NACK bit position from the first cell can be used to transmit an ACK/NACK bit for the second cell. In some implementations, one or more DTX bits can be used to set the number of ACK/NACK bits in the first cell equal to the number of ACK/NACK bits in the second cell.
US09520963B2
There is provided a method of operating a mobile device that is configured to receive multi-antenna downlink transmissions from a network node, the mobile device being configured to perform link adaptation to select a suitable modulation and/or coding scheme, MCS, from a plurality of available modulation and/or coding schemes, MCSs, for the multi-antenna downlink transmission, the method comprising (i) determining whether to use an unrestricted set of MCSs or a restricted set of MCSs when performing link adaptation for the multi-antenna downlink transmission, the unrestricted set of MCSs comprising all of the plurality of available MCSs, the restricted set comprising a subset of the plurality of available MCSs; and (ii) performing the link adaptation to select the MCS for the multi-antenna downlink transmission using the unrestricted or restricted set of MCSs determined in step (i).
US09520950B2
Described are an optical communications system and a method that allow for compensation of chromatic dispersion and polarization mode dispersion imparted to a communications signal propagating through an optical link. The system is based on a cost-effective optical transport architecture that accommodates baud rates exceeding 15 Gbaud and eliminates the need for costly optical dispersion compensators. Compensation for polarization mode dispersion is performed at the receiver using nonlinear processing. Advantageously, direct detection modulation using inexpensive electro-optic system components can be used in place of more costly and complex coherent and differential modulation formats. Digital filtering can be performed at the transmitter and the input signal can be inverted based on the nonlinearity of the transmitter electro-optic components. Consequently, the bandwidth and linearity requirements for the transmitter electro-optic components are relaxed, and cost reductions are realized.
US09520949B2
Various apparatuses, circuits, systems, and methods for optical communication are disclosed. In some implementations an optical transmitter includes an optical data port configured to engage an optical fiber. The optical transmitter also includes a plurality of lasers coupled to the optical data port and configured and arranged to transmit respective optical signals over the optical fiber via the optical data port when selected. A control circuit of the optical transmitter is configured to receive an input data signal and encode the input data signal for transmission over the optical fiber by selecting one or more of the plurality of lasers at a time. The control circuit is configured to select one or more of the plurality of lasers at a time according to one of a frequency modulation encoding algorithm or an amplitude modulation encoding algorithm.
US09520939B2
Methods and apparatus for controlling access to secure areas are described. Time varying values are generated from access device identifiers, e.g., door identifiers. The time varying value, e.g., a hashed door identifier value, is transmitted as a VLC signal by a luminaire near the door to which the hashed identifier corresponds. A mobile detects the transmitted hashed door identifier value and sends an access request via a wireless signal, e.g., a radio signal. The access request includes a value generated from the received hashed door identifier and a mobile device identifier. A control device determines, from information in the access request and stored information indicating which mobile devices have authority to access which doors, if access should be granted to the door corresponding to the hashed access device identifier from which the received information was generated. The received information may be hash of the mobile identifier and hashed door identifier.
US09520929B2
A communication control method is applied to a mobile communication system including a base station that transmits a downlink signal through a plurality of antenna ports, and a user terminal that feeds back precoder matrix information to the base station, the downlink signal being precoded using a precoder matrix, the precoder matrix information indicating a precoder matrix preferred to be used in a downlink. The communication control method comprises: a step A of notifying, by the user terminal, the base station of antenna port information indicating an antenna port with low degree of contribution at a time of transmission from the base station when the precoder matrix information is fed back to the base station.
US09520925B2
A method and apparatus for transmitting a signal in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes: generating R spatial stream each of which is generated on the basis of an information stream and reference signal; generating N transmit streams on the basis of the R spatial streams and a precoding matrix (where R
US09520924B2
The present invention relates to a method for operating a communication system in a network, the system comprising a primary station and at least one secondary station, the primary station comprising a plurality of transmit antennas and the secondary station comprising a plurality of receive antennas, the method comprising the steps of the primary station selecting a first communication scheme among a plurality of communication schemes, the primary station computing a transmission vector on the basis of the first communication scheme, the secondary station computing a reception vector on the basis of a second communication scheme, the second communication scheme being selected among the plurality of communication schemes by the secondary station on the assumption that a predetermined communication scheme is being used by the primary station.
US09520918B2
Methods and devices for NFC tap login with automatically-generated login information are disclosed. A user can launch a browser application and log in a desired website without having to enter the user's username and password. The user can achieve this by tapping a Near Field Communication-enabled computing device with an NFC-enabled wireless device. The wireless device generates and stores the user's usernames and passwords corresponding to a number of websites, and provides the username and password for the desired website to the computing device via an NFC-based communication link. Through a browser application running on the computing device, the user can sign up an account at and log in the desired website.
US09520912B1
A shock absorbing phone case with hidden compartment provides an electrically insulated casing for receiving and securely retaining a communication device. The casing comprises a hidden compartment for storing a battery that charges the communication device. The casing further comprises a charging assembly that serves to charge and align the communication device inside the casing. The charging assembly transmits and converts electricity for charging the communication device. An alignment bar aligns the charging assembly and the attached communication device in the casing. Flexible tabs on the mount of the charging assembly, and springs on the sidewalls of the casing, absorb impact forces that are applied on the phone case and the contained communication device. Thus, the phone case provides dual charging means and a shock absorption. This enables the communication device to float in the x, y, and z axes of the casing, while still maintaining stability therein.
US09520903B2
A radio system comprises a plurality of software defined radio units, and a plurality of digital data switches each in operative communication with at least one of the radio units, with the digital data switches operatively connected to each other. A plurality of antenna units are each in operative communication with at least one of the radio units through at least one of the digital data switches. A plurality of radio resources managers are each operatively coupled to one or more of the digital data switches, with each of the radio resources managers configured to control one or more of the digital data switches to route digital data between the radio units and the antenna units.
US09520895B2
Described is an analog to digital converter (ADC) which comprises: a sigma-delta modulator to receive an analog signal, the sigma-delta modulator operable to perform chopping to cancel common-mode noise; and one or more counters coupled to the sigma-delta modulator to generate a digital code representative of the analog signal.
US09520893B1
A current-mode, digital-to-analog converter (DAC) configured to convert a digital word input having j bits to an analog signal. The DAC has 2j current sources, an output node, a current divider, a first switch, and a second switch. Each of the 2j current sources is configured to produce a current having a value I0. The current divider has a programmable divide ratio, d, where 1/d is between 0 and 1. The first switch is configured to selectively couple 2j−1 of the 2j current sources to the output node. One of the 2j current sources is not coupled to the output node. The second switch is configured to selectively couple each of the 2j current sources to the current divider. This architecture ensures that the fundamental transform of input code to output current always has a slope that does not change from positive to negative or from negative to positive.
US09520880B2
A configurable integrated circuit (IC) includes a substrate having a semiconductor surface that the IC is formed within and thereon. The IC includes a configurable Analog Front End (cAFE) including at least one circuit module or input/output (IO), an analog switch having at least a first substantially gate enclosed Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor (SGEFET) having a gate stack including a gate on a gate dielectric, a source, and a drain. The drain or source is a substantially gate enclosed (SGE) inner electrode relative to the gate, and the other of the source and the drain is outside the gate. The inner electrode of the first SGEFET is directly coupled to an analog bus. A switch control provides control signals to at least the gate of the first SGEFET for controlling a connectivity between the circuit module and/or the IO and the analog bus.
US09520862B2
In an embodiment of the invention, a dual-port negative level sensitive reset preset data retention latch contains a clocked inverter and a dual-port latch. Data is clocked through the clocked inverter when clock signal CKT goes high, CLKZ goes low, preset control signal PRE is low, rest control signal REN is high and retention control signal RET is low. The dual-port latch is configured to receive the output of the clocked inverter, a second data bit D2, the clock signals CKT and CLKZ, the retain control signals RET and RETN, the preset control signal PRE and the control signals SS and SSN. The signals CKT, CLKZ, RET, RETN, PRE, REN, SS and SSN determine whether the output of the clocked inverter or the second data bit D2 is latched in the dual-port latch. Control signals RET and RETN determine when data is stored in the dual-port latch during retention mode.
US09520855B2
A bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonator includes a first electrode; a second electrode; and a piezoelectric layer disposed between the first and second electrodes. The piezoelectric layer includes a piezoelectric material doped with at least one rare earth element. In an embodiment, the BAW resonator includes a recessed frame element disposed over a surface of at least one of the first and second electrodes. In another embodiment, the BAW resonator includes a raised frame element disposed over a surface of at least one of the first and second electrodes. In yet another embodiment, the BAW resonator includes both the raised and recessed frame elements.
US09520852B2
A multilayer chip electronic component may include: a ceramic body including a plurality of dielectric layers; an inductor part disposed within the ceramic body; a capacitor part disposed within the ceramic body; a first dummy electrode disposed within the ceramic body and a second dummy electrode disposed within the ceramic body; and first to sixth external electrodes disposed on first and second main surfaces of the ceramic body, a first connection terminal disposed on the second main surface and first end surface of the ceramic body, and a second connection terminal disposed on the second main surface and second end surface of the ceramic body. The inductor part may include first and second inductor parts, and the inductor part and the capacitor part are connected to each other.
US09520849B2
A primary differential input pair of transistors and a secondary differential input pair of transistors are capable of operating in parallel to provide load current. A level-shifting pre-stage to the secondary differential pair downwardly level-shifts rail-to-rail input signals. Doing so prevents the secondary differential pair from entering cut-off. A tail current shunt device provides tail current to the secondary differential pair as the primary differential pair approaches cut-off when a common-mode component of the input signals approaches the positive voltage rail. Consequently, the sum of currents through first differential input transistors associated with the primary and secondary differential input pairs remains constant to the first load. Likewise, the sum of currents through the second differential input transistors associated with the primary and secondary differential input pairs remains constant to the second load. Both arms of the composite differential input stage present constant transconductances to their respective loads as a result.
US09520845B2
The subject matter described herein relates to supply modulation for power amplification. In one embodiment, the voltage level of the envelope with a tunable threshold voltage. The high level part of the envelope above the threshold voltage is maintained and amplified, for example, by the linear amplification process. On the other hand, the low level part of the envelope is replaced with the constant low voltage level. In amplification, the shaped low level part can be prompted to the predefined low supply voltage which may be directly output to the RFPA. By eliminating complicated amplification process on the lower level part of the envelope, the efficiency and bandwidth of the supply modulation can be improved and the circuitry can be simplified, without introducing any timing mismatch or delays.
US09520830B2
A crystal oscillator has characteristics in that reduction in oscillation margin makes the crystal oscillator less likely to oscillate, with the result that an amplitude of a voltage waveform at an input terminal of a CMOS inverter is reduced. A crystal oscillator of the invention has a detection circuit that outputs an alarm signal when the amplitude of the voltage waveform at the input terminal of the CMOS inverter becomes equal to or less than a predetermined specified value. As a result, it is possible to detect a change in the oscillation margin of the crystal oscillator without switching between circuits even after the crystal oscillator is incorporated in a device.
US09520823B2
In accordance with an embodiment, an actuator control circuit includes a driver circuit connected to a ringing characteristic determination circuit. A signal generator that is configured to generate an output signal having first period that has first and second portions where the first portion longer than the second portion is connected to the ringing characteristic determination circuit. Another embodiment includes a method for controlling an actuator by determining a resonant frequency and a ringing amplitude of an actuator signal; generating a control signal in response to the resonant frequency and the ringing amplitude of the actuator signal; and causing the actuator to move in response to the second drive signal.
US09520820B2
In one example embodiment, a motor control unit includes a processor configured to tune a current regulator regulating a supply of electrical current to an electric motor by determining a plurality of variables, the plurality of variables including a stator resistance value, a first inductance value and a second inductance value, the stator resistance value being a resistance value of a stator of the electric motor, the first inductance value being a d-axis inductance of the electric motor and the second inductance value being a q-axis inductance of the electric motor. The processor is further configured to tune the current regulator by determining a plurality of gains based on the determined plurality of variables and generating current commands for operating the electric motor based on the determined plurality of gains.
US09520798B2
A multi-level DC-DC converter includes an input side to receive a DC power having an input voltage and current, an output side to provide power to a load at a desired output voltage and current, and a plurality of tranformer-isolated DC-DC converters connected between the input and output sides, with the tranformer-isolated DC-DC converters being connected in series on one side and connected in parallel on another side. Each of the tranformer isolated DC-DC converters further includes a power transformer having a primary winding and a secondary winding, and a plurality of switching devices each selectively operable in one of an On state and an Off state. Operating the switching devices in a complementary On state and Off state alternately at a controlled switching frequency provides for engaging the tranformer isolated DC-DC converter and operating the switching devices in a simultaneously On state bypasses the transformer isolated DC-DC converter.
US09520796B2
The present disclosure is directed to a high power factor quasi resonant converter. The converter converts an AC power line input to a DC output to power a load, generally a string of LEDs. The power input is fed into a transformer being controlled by a power switch. The power switch is driven by a controller having a shaping circuit. The shaping circuit uses a current generator, switched resistor and capacitor to produce a sinusoidal reference voltage signal. The controller drives the power switch based on the voltage reference signal, resulting in a sinusoidal input current in a primary winding of the transformer, resulting in high power factor and low total harmonic distortion for the converter.
US09520788B2
An apparatus and method for a multi-phase switch regulator with improved efficiency is disclosed. The device has parallel implementations for the different phases comprising a driver, a current sense variable gain amplifier, a current share circuit, a pulse width modulation (PWM) control circuit, a trim network, and an inductor. A method is disclosed of providing a system with current sharing function comprising a driver circuit, a current sense circuit, a current share circuit, a PWM control circuit and a trim circuit, providing a current sense circuit for each segment of a driver circuit, sensing a signal using a current sense circuit for each segment of a driver circuit, comparing the output of the current sense circuit, providing the current error information to a PWM controller, generating a PWM drive signal of each phase, and finally, equalizing the output of the current sense amplifier. Other methods that utilize dummy output stages and low pass filter feedback is disclosed.
US09520782B2
Audio amplification may be improved by controlling an audio amplifier based on the audio signal being amplified. For example, when the audio signal level increases or decreases, a boost voltage provided to an audio amplifier by a boost converter may also be increased or decreased. In another example, when the audio signal level decrease below a certain level, the audio amplifier may be switched from amplifying the audio signal with a boost converter input to amplifying the audio signal with a low voltage input. Control of the audio amplifier may be implemented in a digital boost converter controller coupled to the boost converter and/or the audio amplifier.
US09520778B2
A control method used in a constant on-time switching converter includes: judging whether the switching converter enters into an ultrasonic mode; turning ON the low-side switch to discharge the output capacitor when the switching converter enters into the ultrasonic mode; generating an additional slope compensation signal during the discharge of the output capacitor; comparing a feedback signal indicative of the output voltage of the switching circuit with the sum of a reference voltage and the additional slope compensation signal; turning OFF the low-side switch and turning ON the high-side switch when the feedback signal decreases to reach the sum of the reference voltage and the additional slope compensation signal.
US09520776B1
Techniques are presented for improving the efficiencies of multi-stage charge pumps by reducing the amount of voltage lost across the inter-stage transfer switches of the pump through use a selective body bias. The voltage level from both branches of one stage is each supplied though a corresponding diode to the bulk connection of the transfer switch after the subsequent stage in both branches. This arrangement results in each stage providing a largely uniform amount of gain, without the usual increase of voltage drop with increasing numbers of stages.
US09520774B2
Representative implementations of devices and techniques minimize hot carrier stress in a switched capacitor dc-dc converter. Multi-switch arrangements may be used in conjunction with a timing scheme to stage power switch operation.
US09520773B2
An anti-leakage supply circuit includes a power supply unit, an output unit, a control unit, and a control circuit. The control unit is configured to output a control signal. The output unit is configured to be switched on after receiving the control signal and to output an output voltage after being switched on and receiving a voltage from the power supply unit. The control circuit is configured to be switched on after an electronic device is in a normal state. The output unit is configured to connect to the interface after the control circuit is switched on, thereby enabling the output unit to output the output voltage to supply to an interface. The control circuit is further configured to be switched off after the electronic device is in a shutdown state, thereby disabling the output voltage supply to the interface.
US09520772B2
A multi-level voltage regulator system/method providing discrete regulation of a DC-DC intermediate bus converter (IBC) output voltage (Vout) is disclosed. The disclosed system/method allows IBC Vout to be regulated in discrete steps during periods where IBC input voltage (Vin) falls below nominal operating values. Rather than shutting down or degrading IBC Vout in an unpredictable non-linear fashion based on IBC input/loading, IBC Vout is regulated in fixed discrete steps, allowing IBC-connected point-of-load (POL) converters to obtain stable power input that is well-defined over IBC Vin. IBC operating parameters may define multi-dimensional operational state spaces of IBC Vout regulation that ensure optimum power flow to attached POLs while maintaining operational stability within the IBC regulator. Instabilities in IBC/POL performance across variations in IBC Vin, load transients, POL loading, and environmental variables may be prevented using Vin voltage step hysteresis.
US09520766B2
A household appliance power supply device and method are disclosed. The power supply device comprises a switching converter having an input filtering stage; and a determining means configured to obtain estimation data indicative of the input current that is adsorbed from the a main power input, on the base of the rate of change of the bus voltage across said bus capacitor respectively, during a second switching period. The switching converter further comprises a bus capacitor, electrically connected with at least one output terminal of a rectifying stage, a resonant tank, electrically connected with said bus capacitor, and a switching device electrically connected with said resonant tank, said switching device being operated with a switching cycle having a first switching period, and a second switching period.
US09520752B1
Certain aspects relate to topologies for an interior permanent magnet (IPM) electrical machine having increased saliency torque, increased flux-linkage, reduced magnet leakage flux, and reduced detrimental slotting effects compared to existing IPM electrical machines. The IPM electrical machine includes a rotor having a number of poles and a flux barrier formed along the edge of the rotor between poles. The flux barrier contains a magnet or set of magnets having a varying thickness, with a central thickest portion located along the d-axis of the rotor. A magnet retention structure, which may be formed integrally with the rotor or provided as a separate structure, surrounds the rotor and magnets. The rotor and magnets combine to form a smooth circular profile having no air gaps.
US09520746B2
In embodiments, a mobile device includes a primary battery as a power source to power components of the mobile device, and includes a secondary battery as an additional power source to power the components of the mobile device. A sensor is implemented to detect moisture proximate a battery connection of the secondary battery, where the detected moisture indicates an impending secondary battery disconnect event due to the secondary battery shorting out. A battery controller is implemented to receive a sensor input of the detected moisture from the sensor. The battery controller can then switch from the secondary battery to the primary battery as the power source based on the detected moisture proximate the battery connection of the secondary battery.
US09520743B2
A remote controlling device (100) is disclosed that includes one or more motion sensors (120, 130, 140) configured to sense a motion of the device. The remote control further includes a capacitive sensor (150) and a power source (405). The capacitive sensor selectively couples the power source to the one or more motion sensors.
US09520740B2
A shielding arrangement for preventing AM radio interference when a wireless charger is used in a vehicle has a plurality of parallel conductors arranged at a distance from one another responsive to a frequency desired to be attenuated. An interconnection arrangement includes a solid conductive junction and connects the conductors to one another without forming loops, and to ground. The conductors are traces disposed on a PCB. Additional parallel conducts are disposed on the other side of the PCB at an orthogonal orientation with respect to the first conductors. The spacing between the conductors is determined in response to the frequency desired to be attenuated, as well as frequencies thereabove that are desired to be propagated therethrough, such as mobile telephone signals. The solid conductive junction that is disposed on the printed circuit board is electrically and thermally conductive, such as copper.
US09520739B2
To satisfy the NFC communication standard in wireless charging with a shared antenna, used for NFC communication. A power supply unit includes a voltage step-down circuit 331, a charge control circuit 332, and a communication controller power supply circuit 333. The voltage step-down circuit includes a switching regulator 200, and a selection circuit 206 and 208 which can select an output path PT1 of the switching regulator and a bypass path PT2 of the switching regulator. The voltage step-down circuit includes a selection control circuit 207. The selection control circuit supplies voltage to the communication controller power supply circuit via the bypass path at the time of activating the communication controller. Since the output voltage of the series regulator stabilizes in a shorter time than the switching regulator, it becomes possible to keep the time from when RF power rises to when initial communication becomes possible, within standards.
US09520731B2
An embodiment of the invention provides a charging station for a cleaning robot. The charging station includes an IR transmitter and a controller. The IR transmitter outputs a first IR light beam, wherein the IR light beam includes a second boundary and a first boundary which is substantially perpendicular or perpendicular to the charging station and the cleaning robot moves to the charging station along the first boundary. The controller controls the IR transmitter to output the first IR light beam or a second IR light beam. When the controller determines that the cleaning robot is near to the charging station, the controller controls the IR transmitter to output the second IR light beam.
US09520730B2
A method and system for charging high voltage battery packs includes connecting a charger to a power source, connecting the charger to a battery pack, connecting a computer to a battery energy control module of the battery pack and charging the battery pack from the power source through the charger by running a software program on the computer and a system for conducting the method.
US09520729B2
A charging connector of a mobile power pack, used for being connected to and charging an electronic product, includes an insulating body, a first connector and a second connector both protruding from and exposed outside the insulating body. The first connector is plugged into a charging slot of the electronic product. The second connector is electrically connected to the first connector and is plugged into a power slot of the mobile power pack. The insulating body extends from one side of the first connector and is connected to the second connector. The first connector and the second connector are respectively plugged into the electronic product and the mobile power pack, via the insulating body. Thereby, the convenience of utilizing the power mobile pack to charge the electronic product is improved.
US09520728B2
A device and method for charging and testing an animal stimulus receiver is provided herein.
US09520724B2
A method for wirelessly powering a load over an inductive link, wherein the inductive link is between a primary side and a secondary side, including transmitting a first power from the primary side to the secondary side; receiving by the primary side a modulated data signal from the secondary side; demodulating the received data signal; determining, based on the demodulated data signal, whether to transmit power to the load; and transmitting, based on the determination, power to the load of the secondary side over the inductive link.
US09520720B2
A system for powering a device is disclosed. The system includes at least one internal battery located in a device, at least one external battery connected to the device, and a master controller configured to connect either the at least one internal battery or the at least one external battery to a power bus to power the device.
US09520716B2
The following are included: a series circuit that is connected between a first node and a second node and includes an impedance element and a capacitor connected to each other by a third node; a first transistor that is connected between the first node and a fourth node and turns on in accordance with an increase in voltage generated in the impedance element; a voltage divider circuit that divides voltage between the fourth node and the second node; a second transistor that turns on in accordance with an increase in the divided voltage and increases current flowing in the impedance element; a detection circuit that activates an output signal upon detection of an on state of the second transistor; and a discharge circuit that allows current to flow from the first node to the second node when the output signal of the detection circuit is activated.
US09520715B2
An ESD protection device for a touch panel is disclosed. The protection device includes an ESD protection circuit, and a protection switch connected in series with the ESD protection circuit. The protection switch is configured to turn on in response to an electrostatic potential of a sensing line or a driving line of the touch panel being equal to or greater than a preset potential, such that static electricity from the sensing line or the driving line is conducted to a peripheral common electrode busbar, or to an ESD discharge busbar, or to a ground busbar. In addition, the protection switch is configured to turn off in response to a panel of the touch panel being normally driven.
US09520710B2
A thermal trip assembly for use with a busbar includes a fastener, an insulating sleeve, a temperature sensor structured to sense a temperature of the busbar, and a thermal trip circuit structured to output a trip signal based on the sensed temperature. A portion of the insulating sleeve is disposed between the temperature sensor and the busbar. The fastener couples the insulating sleeve and the temperature sensor to the busbar with the insulating sleeve being in direct contact with a portion of the busbar.
US09520709B2
A surge protection device comprises a gas-tight container formed by a ceramic housing and ceramic lid surrounding an uncoated MOV device, to contain explosive gases and scattered solids produced during a thermal runaway. There is no coating on the MOV device, such as an organic polymer coating. Instead, the ceramic housing has two gas-tight chambers separated by a ceramic partition. The MOV device is located in a first gas-tight chamber and has an electrode that passes into the second gas-tight chamber and terminates in a fixed contact. A thermal cutoff device of simple construction, is located in the second gas-tight chamber, having a spring connector terminating in a moveable contact that is bonded to the electrode by a low melting point solder. The ceramic partition shields the thermal cutoff device from being fouled by debris scattered from destruction of the MOV device's metal oxide core during a thermal runaway.
US09520708B2
A protection circuit includes a control circuit coupled to a first power-supply wire applied with a first power-supply voltage. The control circuit generates a control voltage in accordance with the first power-supply voltage and an input voltage. A voltage limitation circuit is coupled between a first node applied with the input voltage and a second power-supply wire applied with a second power-supply voltage. The voltage limitation circuit includes a variable resistance unit having a resistance value that changes according to the control voltage. When the first power-supply voltage is not supplied to the protection circuit and the input voltage is larger than a first voltage, the control circuit generates the control voltage such that the resistance value of the variable resistance unit is smaller than that in a case where the input voltage is equal to or less than the first voltage.
US09520704B2
A clamp assembly includes a body member and a keeper. A cable groove is formed in the body member to receive a cable. The keeper has a lower surface to engage the cable received in the cable groove. A threaded fastener connects the keeper to the body member. A recess is formed in the body member to receive a washer on the fastener.
US09520701B2
A cable holding element includes a base body and rows of latching projections that project from the base body to define at least one channel area for holding cable. The latching projections each have a first section and a second section. The first section and the second section form an acute angle towards the base body. A first row of latching projections opposes a second row of latching projections. The opposing latching projections cooperate to interlock without contact, in a comb-like manner to hold cable within the cable holding element and to form guiding structure that guides cable into and out from the channel area.
US09520700B2
Machines and methods for removing screens from cable, wherein screen surrounds at least one electrical or optical conductor (22). The screen may be a braided screen (21) from a cable (19) including at least one conductor (22), screen (21), and outer insulation (20). After baring screen (21) by removing outer insulation (20), a section is deformed and/or unbraided, and then the deformed section of the screen (21) is cut off. The step of deforming and/or unbraiding is accomplished by lifting-off the screen (21) from the inner conductor (22) on at least one end of the section of the screen (21) to be removed, at least over a part of the circumference of the cable. This step additionally includes or may be followed by pressing the parts of the screen (21), that have been lifted off onto an erection surface (28) before cutting them off, whereby preferably the parts of the screen (21) that have been lifted off are bent backwards in the direction of the yet undeformed screen (21).
US09520692B2
A communication system has a support and a communication connector attached to the support wherein the connector assembly has a termination lever. The system can further include a wire cap connected to a plurality of cable conductors. The wire cap can include a cover cap. The cover cap latches to the connector assembly when the wire cap and the plurality of cable conductors is terminated to the communication connector assembly. The support can be one of a faceplate, a patch panel, a surface mount box, or a media distribution unit.
US09520687B2
High bandwith jack with RJ45 backwards compatibility having an improved structure for reducing noise
An electrical connector comprises a housing including a plug-receiving receptacle, a set of mating contacts each having a mating portion extending in the plug-receiving receptacle and a first connecting portion, a set of mounting contacts each having a second connecting portion, an insulative carrier having opposed front and rear walls and a receiving chamber, and a set of magnetic components each having a magnetic core received in the receiving chamber and a number of conductive wires winding therearound. The mating contacts are held by a bottom section of the front wall, and the mounting contacts are held by a bottom section of the rear wall. Each conductive wire has a first end connecting with the first connecting portion of the mating contact and an opposite second end connecting with the second connecting portion of the mounting contact. The electrical distance from the mating contacts to the mother board is reduced.
US09520684B2
A Lightning connector compatible accessory device includes circuitry that is completely enveloped by a mobile device when the accessory device is inserted in a Lightning connector. The accessory device may include a microUSB connector on one end of a printed circuit board. The printed circuit board may be offset in a housing.
US09520677B2
A plug connector includes a connector body defining a front mating cavity with a first inner side and a second inner side opposite to the first inner side, and a rear cable supporting platform with a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first inner side and a plurality of terminals. The terminals include two rows of contacting sections arranged along the first and second inner sides of the mating cavity and soldering legs extending to the platform to be welded to a cable. The soldering legs are arranged in one row and exposing to the first surface of the platform while the second surface of the platform has no soldering legs to be welded to the cable.
US09520676B1
A communication connector is provided which can selectively provide compensation to the electrical circuits thereof. The communication connector includes a housing, a circuit board arrangement, contacts and a switchable device. The circuit board arrangement is disposed in the housing and includes electrical circuits and contact pads electrically connected to each other; the contacts is disposed at the circuit board arrangement and electrically connected to the electrical circuits respectively; the switchable device is movable in relative to the circuit board arrangement and has a compensation circuit board and switching contacts electrically connected to each other. The switchable device can be selectively moved to a predetermined position to enable the switching contacts to make contact with the contact pads respectively and enable the compensation circuit board to electrically connect to the electrical circuits.
US09520665B2
An electrically connecting structure includes a glass plate, a feeding part formed on the glass plate, a terminal having a base part opposing the glass plate, an adhesive adhering the glass plate and the terminal, and a conductive rubber arranged between the feeding part and the base part. The adhesive is a thermosetting adhesive that once softens when heated and thereafter cures, and is arranged to surround a periphery of the conductive rubber. The feeding part and the base part have electrical continuity via the conductive rubber.
US09520664B2
The invention relates to an electrical connector having a connecting sleeve with at least one opening, and at least one fastening element, wherein the connecting sleeve is capable of receiving at least one flexible PCB, and wherein the flexible PCB is secured to the electrical connector when the at least one fastening element is connected to the at least one opening.
US09520649B2
Circuit modules and methods of construction thereof that contain composite meta-material dielectric bodies that have high effective values of real permittivity but which minimize reflective losses, through the use of host dielectric (organic or ceramic), materials having relative permittivities substantially less than ceramic dielectric inclusions embedded therein. The composite meta-material bodies permit reductions in physical lengths of electrically conducting elements such as antenna element(s) without adversely impacting radiation efficiency. The meta-material structure may additionally provide frequency band filtering functions that would normally be provided by other components typically found in an RF front-end.
US09520645B2
A wireless electronic device may be provided with components such as electrical and structural components. During transmission of radio-frequency signals, antennas and wireless communications circuitry of the wireless electronic device may produce associated time-varying magnetic fields. One or more components may be covered with magnetic-resistant shield structures that protect the components from the time-varying magnetic fields by preventing magnetic-induced vibrations. The magnetic-resistant shield structures may include a conductive base layer such a layer of brass. A magnetic-resistant layer may be plated onto the conductive base layer. The magnetic-resistant layer may be formed from an amorphous nickel-phosphorous alloy. The amorphous nickel-phosphorous alloy may be produced by controlling the manufacturing temperature and proportion of phosphorous in the alloy while performing the plating operations within a length of time that ensures non-equilibrium conditions during the plating operations.
US09520643B2
Electronic devices may include radio-frequency transceiver circuitry and antenna structures. The antenna structures may include a dielectric carrier such as a foam carrier. The foam carrier may be formed from a material that can withstand elevated temperatures. Metal traces for antennas can be formed on the foam carrier by selectively activating areas on a powder coating with a laser and plating the laser-activated areas. Metal for the antennas may also be formed by attaching layers such as flexible printed circuit layers and metal foil layers to the foam carrier. Solder may be used to attach a coaxial cable or other transmission line, electrical components, and other electrical structures to the metal antenna structures on the foam carrier. The foam carrier may be formed from open cell or closed cell foam. The surface of the foam may be smoothed to facilitate formation of metal antenna structures.
US09520641B2
An antenna assembly which can be adapted for the metal housing of any wireless device includes a feeding terminal, a first radiator connecting to the feeding terminal, a second radiator positioned parallel and adjacent to the first radiator, and a metal element connecting to the second radiator. The wireless signal fed to the first radiator can be coupled to the second radiator, and flows through the metal element to ground, thus utilizing the metal housing itself in the wireless transmission and reception process. An electronic device using the antenna assembly is also described.
US09520632B2
A band-pass filter is provided that is configured to output a signal with a frequency within a desired frequency range and to attenuate signals with frequencies outside the desired frequency range. The band-pass filter comprises a CMOS resonator that comprises a resonator cavity and a reflector. The band-pass filter also comprises an impedance convertor that is configured to inhibit at least some insertion losses on the band-pass filter. The band-pass filter also comprises a variable capacitor that is connected between the CMOS resonator and the impedance convertor. The desired frequency range of the band-pass filter can be tuned by adjusting the capacitance of the variable capacitor.
US09520624B2
Disclosed herein is a battery module configured to have a structure in which a plurality of battery cells, each of which includes an electrode assembly of a cathode/separator/anode structure mounted in an electrode assembly receiving part, is mounted in a module case in a state in which the battery cells are arranged in a lateral direction such that the electrode assembly receiving parts of the respective battery cells are adjacent to one another, wherein a plurality of cooling members is disposed between the battery cells, and each of the cooling members includes a heat dissipation fin disposed between adjacent electrode assembly receiving parts in a tight contact state and a coolant conduit configured to have a hollow structure in which a coolant flows and mounted to the heat dissipation fin along outer edges of each of the electrode assembly receiving parts.
US09520623B2
A grid-connected power supply system includes a power generation apparatus configured to generate power by using natural energy and connected in parallel to a commercial power grid; a electricity storage device; and a control device configured. The control device predicts an amount of power to be generated on a subsequent day by the power generation apparatus and a power demand of the loads and charges the electricity storage device with power in a time zone in which an electricity rate of the commercial power grid is relatively low if a predicted value of the amount of power to be generated is lower than a predicted value of the power demand, or does not charge the electricity storage device with power during the time zone if the predicted value of the amount of power to be generated is not lower than the predicted value of the power demand.
US09520614B2
A packing device for electrode sheets is provided in the present disclosure. The packing device is used for pasting tapes on a stack structure consisted of the electrode sheets to packing the stack structure. The packing device is included of a tape fetching mechanism, a couple of claws, a carrying mechanism and a positioning mechanism. The tape fetching mechanism is used for moving a tape and putting on the claws. The claws are arranged at interval and a gap is thereby formed between the claws. Each claw is included of a chamfer surface, and the chamfer surfaces are arranged at opposite sides of the gap. The carrying mechanism is used for loading the stack structure. The positioning mechanism is used to drive the claws and the carrying mechanism move related to each other.
US09520604B2
A device and method for ensuring proper fuel cell system warmup or shutdown during freeze conditions. A three-way valve is used in conjunction with a flow-controlling orifice to ensure that the orifice avoids ice blockage during frozen conditions. Dry, warm air is delivered as a slip stream under pressure to a cathode flowpath, where the construction of the orifice is such that it is structurally compliant to promote flexing in response to the pressurized slip stream, thereby helping to break up any small amount of ice that may have formed in or on the orifice.
US09520603B2
A fuel cell system (100) includes: a fuel cell (60); a fuel processor (41) including a reformer (43) and a CO reducer (44, 45); a combustor (42); a first air supply device (46); an electric heater (50); a power supply device (200); a power outage detector (11); and a controller (10). The controller is configured such that, in a power outage state where the power outage detector has detected the power outage before the fuel cell generates electric power, the controller performs at least one of: increasing a supply amount of the combustion air to be greater than in a power supplied state where the power outage detector does not detect the power outage; and decreasing a supply amount of the combustible gas to be less than in the power supplied state, and decreases an amount of heating by the electric heater.
US09520600B2
A flow field plate for fuel cell applications includes a metal with a carbon layer disposed over at least a portion of the metal plate. The carbon layer is overcoated with a titanium oxide layer to form a titanium oxide/carbon bilayer. The titanium oxide/carbon bilayer may be activated to increase hydrophilicity. The flow field plate is included in a fuel cell with a minimal increase in contact resistance. Methods for forming the flow field plates are also provided.
US09520593B2
The present invention relates to a method of preparing a cathode active material precursor for a lithium rechargeable battery, the cathode active material precursor for the lithium rechargeable battery prepared thereby, and a cathode active material formed using the cathode active material precursor.According to the present invention, the method of preparing a cathode active material precursor for a lithium secondary battery controls the concentration of a concentration gradient part and a shell part in a precursor to obtain a desired concentration of a transition metal in the shell part. As a result, a metal composition is distributed in a continuous concentration gradient from the interface between the core part and the shell part to the surface of the cathode active material, thereby a cathode active material with excellent thermal stability.
US09520589B2
Disclosed is a secondary battery of an improved lead structure including an electrode assembly including a cathode plate having a cathode tab, an anode plate having an anode tab, and a separator stacked in an alternate manner, a battery casing to receive the electrode assembly, a cathode lead electrically connected to the cathode tab, and an anode lead electrically connected to the anode tab, wherein at least one electrode tab of the cathode tab and the anode tab is electrically connected to the corresponding electrode lead at a plurality of joints and the number of the electrode leads is smaller than the number of the joints between the electrode tab and the electrode lead.
US09520584B2
A secondary battery including: a battery unit including a battery cell and a lead tab that protrudes from the battery cell; a frame case for supporting the battery unit and including a first support portion for supporting the battery cell and a second support portion for supporting the lead tab; and a connection member for perforating a connection hole formed in the lead tab and extending in a direction of the second support unit, wherein the connection hole of the lead tab includes: a first connection hole that is spaced apart from a first edge of the lead tab by a first width; and a second connection hole that is spaced apart from a second edge of the lead tab by a second width. The secondary battery may reduce electrical resistance of a charge/discharge path and has improved efficiency.
US09520574B2
Disclosed herein are phosphorescent materials comprising a complex of a metal atom M selected from Ir, Pt, Rh, Pd, Ru and Os and at least one ligand L, wherein the ligand L is represented by formula (1). Also disclosed are organic electroluminescent devices including such phosphorescent materials.
US09520563B2
Organic semiconductor material can be patterned from a solution onto a substrate by selectively wetting the substrate with the solution while applying a mechanical disturbance (such as stirring the solution while the substrate is immersed, or wiping the solution on the substrate). The organic semiconductor material can then be precipitated out of the solution, for example to bridge gaps between source and drain electrodes to form transistor devices. In some embodiments, the solution containing the organic semiconductor material can be mixed in an immiscible host liquid. This can allow the use of higher concentration solutions while also using less of the organic semiconductor material.
US09520557B2
The present application describes a crossbar memory array. The memory array includes a first array of parallel nanowires of a first material and a second array of parallel nanowires of a second material. The first and the second array are oriented at an angle with each other. The array further includes a plurality of nanostructures of non-crystalline silicon disposed between a nanowire of the first material and a nanowire of the second material at each intersection of the two arrays. The nanostructures form a resistive memory cell together with the nanowires of the first and second materials.
US09520554B2
Clamp elements, memories, apparatuses, and methods for forming the same are disclosed herein. An example memory may include an array of memory cells and a plurality of clamp elements. A clamp element of the plurality of clamp elements may include a cell structure formed non-orthogonally relative to at least one of a bit line or a word line of the array of memory cells and may be configured to control a voltage of a respective bit line.
US09520531B2
Systems and methods of the present invention may be used to charge a layer (such as a passivation layer and/or antireflective layer) of a solar cell (e.g., wafer) with a positive or negative charge. The layer may retain the charge to improve operation of the solar cell. The charged layer may include any suitable dielectric material capable of retaining either a negative or a positive charge. Systems and methods of the present invention permit in-situ charging of a layer. Charging of a layer may be accomplished during or after deposition of the layer including after completing the whole solar cell process, in other words, on a finished cell.
US09520530B2
A method includes: forming a buffer layer over an absorber layer of a photovoltaic device; and extrinsically doping the buffer layer after the forming step.
US09520526B2
A manufacturing method of an avalanche photodiode includes: forming a p-type field relaxation layer on a substrate; forming a cap layer on the p-type field relaxation layer; and forming a light absorbing layer on the cap layer, wherein a carbon is doped in the p-type field relaxation layer as a p-type dopant, the p-type field relaxation layer contains Al in a crystal composition, and a temperature-rise process from a growth temperature of the cap layer to a growth temperature of the light absorbing layer is performed in an inactive gas atmosphere without introducing a group V raw material.
US09520518B2
Provided is a solar cell module wherein a rear surface protective sheet has excellent long-term durability, and transmissivity of ultraviolet that reaches the solar cell is retained for a long time. This solar cell module is configured by laminating a front surface protective sheet, a light receiving-side sealing sheet, a solar cell element, a rear surface-side sealing sheet, and a rear surface protective sheet in this order. The solar cell module is characterized in that the light receiving-side sealing sheet has a transmissivity of 50% or more with respect to light having a wavelength of 300 nm, and the rear surface-side sealing sheet contains a reactive ultraviolet absorbent.
US09520516B2
In order to provide a photodetection semiconductor device including a light receiving element configured to reduce afterimages, a photodiode is formed by a PN junction into a circular shape so that a uniform distance from an end portion of a light receiving element to an electrode serving as a carrier outlet is realized, to thereby enable carriers to be uniformly taken out from all directions.
US09520514B2
A quantum dot infrared photodetector (QDIP) that can enhance the photocurrent to a greater level than the dark current and/or can be operated at high temperatures is disclosed. The quantum dot infrared photodetector comprises at least one quantum well stack and a plurality of quantum dot layers. The quantum well stack is disposed between the pluralities of quantum dot layers. The quantum well stack comprises two spacer layers and a carrier supplying layer. The carrier supplying layer is disposed between the spacer layers. When the quantum dot infrared photodetector is applied with two bias voltages respectively, the carrier supplying layer supplies carriers to the quantum dot layers.
US09520497B2
Semiconductor devices including a stressor in a recess and methods of forming the semiconductor devices are provided. The methods may include forming a fast etching region comprising phosphorous in an active region and forming a first trench in the active region by recessing the fast etching region. The methods may also include forming a second trench in the active region by enlarging the first trench using a directional etch process and forming a stressor in the second trench. The second trench may include a notched portion of the active region.
US09520496B2
A semiconductor structure and formation thereof. The semiconductor structure has a first semiconductor layer with a first lattice structure and a second epitaxial semiconductor layer that is lattice-matched with the first semiconductor layer. At least two source/drain regions, which have a second lattice structure, penetrate the second semiconductor layer and contact the first semiconductor layer. A portion of the second semiconductor layer is between the source/drain regions and has a degree of uniaxial strain that is based, at least in part, on a difference between the first lattice structure and the second lattice structure.
US09520491B2
A III-N semiconductor HEMT device includes an electrode-defining layer on a III-N material structure. The electrode-defining layer has a recess with a first sidewall proximal to the drain and a second sidewall proximal to the source, each sidewall comprising a plurality of steps. A portion of the recess distal from the III-N material structure has a larger width than a portion of the recess proximal to the III-N material structure. An electrode is in the recess, the electrode including an extending portion over the first sidewall. A portion of the electrode-defining layer is between the extending portion and the III-N material structure. The first sidewall forms a first effective angle relative to the surface of the III-N material structure and the second sidewall forms a second effective angle relative to the surface of the III-N material structure, the second effective angle being larger than the first effective angle.
US09520488B2
Various embodiments provide SCR ESD protection devices and methods for forming the same. An exemplary device includes a semiconductor substrate having a P-type well region, an N-type well region adjacent to the P-type well region, a first P-type doped region and a first N-type doped region in the P-type well region, and a second N-type doped region and a second P-type doped region in the N-type well region. A first center-doped region and a second center-doped region doped with impurity ions of a same type are located between the first N-type doped region and the second P-type doped region and extend across the P-type well region and the N-type well region. The first center-doped region is located within the second center-doped region, has a doping concentration higher than a doping concentration in the second center-doped region, and has a depth smaller than a depth of the second center-doped region.
US09520487B2
A semiconductor layer of a reverse conducting insulated gate bipolar transistor is provided with a barrier region of the first conductive type, wherein the barrier region is disposed in the body region and electrically connects to the emitter electrode via a pillar member which extends from the one of main surfaces of the semiconductor layer. The barrier region includes a first barrier partial region, wherein a distance between the first barrier partial region and the drift region is a first distance, and a second barrier partial region, wherein a distance between the second barrier partial region and the drift region is a second distance which is longer than the first distance. The second barrier partial region is in contact with a side surface of an insulated trench gate.
US09520485B2
A memory device configurable for independent double gate cells, storing multiple bits per cell, includes multilayer stacks of conductive strips configured as word lines. Active pillars are disposed between pairs of first and second stacks, each active pillar comprising a vertical channel structure extending from an underlying bounded conductive layer, a charge storage layer and an insulating layer. The insulating layer in a frustum of an active pillar contacts a first arcuate edge of a first conductive strip in a layer of the first stack and a second arcuate edge of a second conductive strip in a same layer of the second stack. The conductive strips can comprise a metal. The active pillar can be generally elliptical with a major axis parallel with the first and second conductive strips.
US09520483B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device may include forming a cavity between two insulating portions that are positioned on a semiconductor substrate. The cavity may include a first cavity portion and a second cavity portion. The second cavity portion may be positioned between the semiconductor substrate and the first cavity portion. A width of the second cavity portion may be less than a width of the first cavity portion. The method may further include providing a set of gate metal material through the first cavity portion into the second cavity portion for forming a metal gate member of the semiconductor device.
US09520460B2
A semiconductor device includes a MIM capacitor on a substrate. The MIM capacitor includes a dielectric region and first and second electrodes on opposite sides of the dielectric region. At least one of the first and second electrodes, e.g., an upper electrode, includes an oxygen diffusion blocking material, e.g., oxygen atoms, at a concentration that decreases in a direction away from the dielectric region. The at least one of the first and second electrodes may include a first layer having a first concentration of the oxygen diffusion blocking material and a second layer on the first layer and having a second concentration of the oxygen diffusion blocking material less than the first concentration. The at least one of the first and second electrodes may further include a third layer on the second layer and having a concentration of the oxygen diffusion blocking material less than the second concentration.
US09520457B2
A display panel and a repairing method thereof are disclosed. In one aspect, the display panel includes an active area including a plurality of pixels and a plurality of signal lines. The panel also includes a repair line at least partially surrounding the active area and overlapping the signal line in the active area and a plurality of first transistors formed on a side of the active area, wherein one end of each of the first transistors overlaps the repair line. The panel further includes a sealing portion configured to seal the active area, the repair line, and the first transistors. The panel also includes a pad portion formed outside the sealing portion and including a plurality of dummy pads respectively connected to the first transistors and a plurality of driving pads respectively connected to the signal lines.
US09520450B2
A method of manufacturing a flexible display apparatus and a flexible display apparatus, the method including preparing a flexible substrate such that the flexible substrate includes a display area and a peripheral area at an outer portion of the display area; forming an inorganic layer portion on the display area and the peripheral area of the flexible substrate; forming a plurality of organic light emitting devices on the display area of the flexible substrate; detecting a crack of the inorganic layer portion formed on the peripheral area of the flexible substrate; and forming a crack guide hole around the crack.
US09520444B1
A magnetic memory pillar cell and a method for implementing the magnetic memory cell for use in Solid-State Drives (SSDs) are provided. A magnetic memory cell includes a first conductor M1, and a second conductor M2, the second conductor M1 surrounded by the first conductor M1 and a programmable area using unpatterned programmable magnetic media. At least one of the conductors M1, M2 is formed of a magnetic material, and the conductor M2 is more conductive than conductor M1. An oxide barrier extends between the first conductor M1 and a programmable input to the magnetic memory pillar cell; and the oxide barrier is unpatterned.
US09520432B2
Channel stop sections formed by multiple times of impurity ion implanting processes. Four-layer impurity regions are formed across the depth of a semiconductor substrate (across the depth of the bulk), so that a P-type impurity region is formed deep in the semiconductor substrate; thus, incorrect movement of electric charges is prevented. Other four-layer impurity regions of another channel stop section are decreased in width step by step across the depth of the substrate, so that the reduction of a charge storage region of a light receiving section due to the dispersion of P-type impurity in the channel stop section is prevented in the depth of the substrate.
US09520427B1
Provided is an image sensor having improved characteristics. An image sensor in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention may include a photoelectric conversion element formed in a substrate; a transfer gate formed over the photoelectric conversion element, formed over a first surface of the substrate and having at least one through hole, wherein the through hole passes through the transfer gate; a floating diffusion layer formed over the transfer gate; a channel structure formed in the through hole and electrically coupling the photoelectric conversion element to the floating diffusion layer in response to a signal applied to the transfer gate; and a capacitor formed over the floating diffusion layer.
US09520426B2
A vision sensor chip includes a photoelectric conversion element that generates a current based on an incident light, a current-voltage (I-V) converter that converts the current into a voltage, an AC coupling capacitor directly connected to the I-V converter, an open-loop amplifier that includes a reset switch and amplifies a voltage provided by the I-V converter via the AC coupling capacitor. An event detection block detects motion according to a change in the amplified output voltage and generates first and second detection signals. A reset signal generator generates a reset signal controlling operation of the reset switch in response to first and second control signals respectively related to the first and second detection signals.
US09520412B2
A thin film transistor panel includes an insulating substrate, a gate insulating layer disposed on the insulating substrate, an oxide semiconductor layer disposed on the gate insulating layer, an etch stopper disposed on the oxide semiconductor layer, and a source electrode and a drain electrode disposed on the etch stopper.
US09520408B2
A semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The semiconductor device includes a core insulating film, a channel film surrounding the core insulating film and extending to a higher level than an upper surface of the core insulating film to have a first end of the channel film exposed over the core insulating film, a channel pad formed over an inner wall of the first end of the channel film exposed over the core insulating film, and a contact plug coupled to the channel pad.
US09520391B1
Methods form complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) devices that include a first transistor and a complementary second transistor, and an output connected to the first transistor and the second transistor. The first transistor includes a first channel region, a first back gate, a first delay element between the output and the first back gate, and a first back gate insulator separating the first back gate from the first channel region. The second transistor includes a second channel region, a second back gate, a second delay element between the output and the second back gate, and a second back gate insulator separating the second back gate from the second channel region. The first delay element, the first back gate insulator, and the first channel region form a first resistor-capacitor (RC) circuit, and the second delay element, the second back gate insulator, and the second channel region form a second RC circuit.
US09520390B2
An electronic device can include a capacitor structure. In an embodiment, the electronic device can include a buried conductive region, a semiconductor layer having a primary surface, a horizontally-oriented doped region adjacent to the primary surface, an insulating layer overlying the horizontally-oriented doped region, and a conductive electrode overlying the insulating layer. The capacitor structure can include a first capacitor electrode including a vertical conductive region electrically connected to the horizontally-oriented doped region and the buried conductive region. The capacitor structure can further include a capacitor dielectric layer and a second capacitor electrode within a trench. The capacitor structure can be spaced apart from the conductive electrode. In another embodiment, an electronic device can include a first transistor, a trench capacitor structure, and a second transistor, wherein the first transistor is coupled to the trench capacitor structure, and the second transistor does not have a corresponding trench capacitor structure.
US09520389B1
A silicon-controlled rectifier (SCR) includes a first-type field, a second-type first field and a second-type second field disconnectedly formed in a first-type well; an entire first-type doped region formed within the first-type field; a segmented second-type doped region formed within the second-type first field; and a segmented first-type doped region formed within the second-type second field.
US09520382B2
The invention relates to an LED lamp for warm white light having an LED module consisting of at least one color-converted blue or UV LED, and at least one monochromatic LED, preferably a red LED, in the case of which the mixed spectrum produces white light with a color temperature CCT of between 1500K and 2400K, preferably 1700K and 2100K at room temperature, and between 1800K and 2400K, preferably 2100K and 2300K at a stationary operating temperature of, for example, between 70° C. and 80° C. of the LED lamp.
US09520380B2
A wafer process for molded chip scale package (MCSP) comprises: depositing metal bumps on bonding pads of chips on a wafer; forming a first packaging layer at a front surface of the wafer to cover the metal bumps; forming an un-covered ring at an edge of the wafer to expose two ends of each scribe line of a plurality of scribe lines; thinning the first packaging layer to expose metal bumps; forming cutting grooves; grinding a back surface of the wafer to form a recessed space and a support ring at the edge of the wafer; depositing a metal seed layer at a bottom surface of the wafer in the recessed space; cutting off an edge portion of the wafer; flipping and mounting the wafer on a substrate; depositing a metal layer covering the metal seed layer; removing the substrate from the wafer; and separating individual chips from the wafer by cutting through the first packaging layer, the wafer, the metal seed layers and the metal layers along the scribe lines.
US09520378B2
A thermal matched composite material, suitable for use as a die is described. In one example, the material includes a metal plate and a substrate having a coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) lower than the metal plate to carry microelectronic circuits. An adhesive layer between the substrate and the metal plate physically attaches the metal plate to the substrate so that the combined metal plate and substrate have a higher CTE than the substrate alone.
US09520375B2
A method of forming a solder bump on a substrate includes: forming a conductive layer(s) on the substrate having a surface on which an electrode pad is prepared; forming a resist layer on the conductive layer(s) having an opening over the electrode pad; forming a metal pillar in the opening of the resist layer, wherein the metal pillar includes a first conductive material; forming a space between sidewalls of the resist layer and the metal pillar; forming a metal barrier layer in the space and on a top surface of the metal pillar, the metal barrier layer including a second conductive material that is different from the first conductive material of the metal pillar; forming a solder layer on the metal barrier layer over the top surface of the metal pillar; removing the resist layer; removing the conductive layer(s); and forming the solder bump by reflowing the solder layer.
US09520373B2
Provided is a semiconductor package including a semiconductor chip having one surface on which chip pads are formed, and a redistribution structure formed on the one surface of the semiconductor chip. The redistribution structure includes a redistribution layer connected to the chip pads and a redistribution insulating layer interposed between the semiconductor chip and the redistribution layer. The redistribution insulating layer includes a first insulating portion having a first dielectric constant and a second insulating portion having a second dielectric constant that is different from the first dielectric constant. The first insulating portion and the second insulating portion are connected to each other in a horizontal direction.
US09520358B2
An apparatus including a conductive stack structure includes an Mx layer interconnect on an Mx layer and extending in a first direction on a first track, an My layer interconnect on an My layer in which the My layer is a lower layer than the Mx layer, a first via stack coupled between the Mx layer interconnect and the My layer interconnect, a second via stack coupled between the Mx layer interconnect and the My layer interconnect, a second Mx layer interconnect extending in the first direction on a track immediately adjacent to the first track, and a third Mx layer interconnect extending in the first direction on a track immediately adjacent to the first track. The Mx layer interconnect is between the second Mx layer interconnect and the third Mx layer interconnect. The second Mx layer interconnect and the third Mx layer interconnect are uncoupled to each other.
US09520357B1
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a fin extending between first and second pads on a substrate, removing a central portion of the fin to create an opening between a first part of the fin extending from the first pad and a second part of the fin extending from the second pad, growing first and second epitaxial layers in the opening on a side of respective first and second parts of the fin, stopping the growth of the first and second epitaxial layers prior to merging, forming a silicide layer on the first and second pads, first and second parts of the fin and first and second epitaxial layers, wherein there is a gap between portions of the silicide layer on the first and second epitaxial layers in the opening, and depositing a dielectric layer on the silicide layer, filling in the gap.
US09520356B1
A die is packaged by flip-chip mounting the die with the active side facing a low loss substrate. A ground plane is coupled to the active side of the die by vias through the low loss substrate. The ground plane is positioned to concentrate high frequency electromagnetic fields in the low loss substrate. A tuning height can be adjusted to tune the center frequency of a circuit in the die.
US09520348B2
A semiconductor device includes a pair of line patterns disposed on a substrate. A contact plug is disposed between the pair of line patterns and an air gap is disposed between the contact plug and the line patterns. A landing pad extends from a top end of the contact plug to cover a first part of the air gap and an insulating layer is disposed on a second part of the air gap, which is not covered by the landing pad.
US09520346B2
The present invention relates to a power semiconductor module in which heat from the semiconductor chip is radiated not only through the buffer, but also through the lead frame to increase heat radiation efficiency, and the semiconductor chip, the buffer, and the lead frame are simultaneously bonded to increase efficiency of bonding work, and a method for manufacturing the same.
US09520340B2
A system and method for connecting semiconductor dies is provided. An embodiment comprises connecting a first semiconductor die with a first width to a second semiconductor die with a larger second width and that is still connected to a semiconductor wafer. The first semiconductor die is encapsulated after it is connected, and the encapsulant and first semiconductor die are thinned to expose a through substrate via within the first semiconductor die. The second semiconductor die is singulated from the semiconductor wafer, and the combined first semiconductor die and second semiconductor die are then connected to another substrate.
US09520313B2
In a transport system, a track for a local carriage is provided directly below a track for overhead traveling vehicles, and the overhead traveling vehicles and the local carriage both transfer an article to and from the same transfer destination. A buffer is connected to the track for the transport local carriage to deliver and receive the article to and from the local carriage and includes a transport in/out cell below the track for the overhead traveling vehicles to deliver and receive the article to and from the overhead traveling vehicles, the buffer being provided in a location not directly below the track of the local carriage.
US09520311B2
A processing facility is disclosed in which a container side contact surface and a support side contact surface are in contact with each other and a supply hole or a discharge hole, and a communicating hole are allowed to communicate with each other when a container is supported by a container support, and in which the container side contact surface is formed to be flat at least in a periphery of the communicating hole, and the support side contact surface is formed to have a shape that is gradually lower as a distance increases from the supply hole or the discharge hole.
US09520307B2
Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) such as digital micromirror devices (DMD) are manufactured in arrays. Covers, packages, and lids are placed around each device and a liquid such as epoxy resin is dispensed around the packaged device. The epoxy resin acts as a sealant to form a hermetic seal. A nozzle comprises multiple orifices along a sidewall of the nozzle to dispense the epoxy resin horizontally and parallel to the plane of the wafer substrate. The distal ends of the nozzle are enclosed.
US09520301B2
An etching method using plasma includes generating plasma by supplying process gases to at least one remote plasma source (RPS) and applying power to the at least one RPS, and etching an etching object by supplying water (H2O) and the plasma to a process chamber.
US09520300B2
The present disclosure describes semiconductor devices and methods of fabricating the same. The method includes forming an interlayer insulating layer on a substrate and forming conductive patterns in the interlayer insulating layer. A pore density of an upper portion of the interlayer insulating layer is higher than that of a lower portion of the interlayer insulating layer, and a pore density of an intermediate portion of the interlayer insulating layer gradually increases toward the upper portion of the interlayer insulating layer. An air gap is provided between the conductive patterns.
US09520295B2
Metal doping of amorphous carbon and silicon films used as hardmasks in substrate processing systems
Systems and methods for depositing a metal-doped amorphous carbon hardmask film or a metal-doped amorphous silicon hardmask film includes arranging a substrate in a processing chamber; supplying a carrier gas to the processing chamber; supplying a hydrocarbon precursor gas or a silicon precursor gas to the processing chamber, respectively; supplying a metal-based precursor gas to the processing chamber; one of creating or supplying plasma in the processing chamber; and depositing a metal-doped amorphous carbon hardmask film or a metal-doped amorphous silicon hardmask film on the substrate, respectively.
US09520287B2
One embodiment is a method for manufacturing a stacked oxide material, including the steps of forming an oxide component over a base component; forming a first oxide crystal component which grows from a surface toward an inside of the oxide component by heat treatment, and leaving an amorphous component just above a surface of the base component; and stacking a second oxide crystal component over the first oxide crystal component. In particular, the first oxide crystal component and the second oxide crystal component have common c-axes. Same-axis (axial) growth in the case of homo-crystal growth or hetero-crystal growth is caused.
US09520284B1
Approaches herein provide precise areal surface reaction with directional ion beam activation. Exemplary approaches include selectively forming a material within a trench of a semiconductor device using a plurality of successive deposition and activation cycles. Each of the plurality of deposition and activation cycles includes forming a precursor conformally along a set of surfaces of the trench, reacting the precursor with a capping compound to form a capping layer along the set of surfaces of the trench, and performing an ion implant to the semiconductor device to activate just a portion of the capping layer. In one approach, the ion implant activates just a portion of the capping layer along a bottom surface of the trench. In another approach, the ion implant activates just a portion of the capping layer along an upper section of a sidewall of the trench.
US09520279B2
A mass spectrometer is disclosed comprising a first ion trap or ion guide, a single ion mobility spectrometer or separator stage and a second ion trap or ion guide arranged downstream of the ion mobility spectrometer or separator. A mode of operation includes passing ions from said first ion trap or ion guide to said device and onwards to said second ion trap or ion guide and then passing at least some of said ions or at least some fragment, daughter, product or adduct ions derived from said ions from said second ion trap or ion guide onwards to said first ion trap or ion guide.
US09520267B2
The angular ion distribution in plasma processing is controlled using a bias voltage frequency. In one example, a plasma containing gas ions is generated in a plasma chamber. The plasma sheath is modified using an aperture disposed between the plasma sheath and the workpiece so that the plasma sheath takes a shape above the aperture. An oscillating radio frequency bias voltage is generated and applied to a workpiece holder. The workpiece holder applies the bias voltage to the workpiece to generate a workpiece bias voltage with respect to the plasma to attract ions across the plasma sheath toward the workpiece. The aperture and the frequency of the bias voltage control an angle at which the ions are attracted toward the workpiece.
US09520262B2
X-ray sources and production of X-rays, in particular, producing monochromatic x-rays is provided. More specifically, a method for producing X-rays and the use of the X-ray source for x-raying bodies (for example human bodies). An aerogel, for example in the form of a rod, may be provided in a housing as a target. Said target may be bombarded with an electron beam, the aerogel being vaporized due to the extreme low density and the high energy. As a result, the target is guided by means of a roller such that an unused target for producing, in particular, the monochromatic X-rays, is always available.
US09520258B2
A method of forming nanotubes may include applying a photoresist to a metal substrate, selectively exposing a first portion of the photoresist to electromagnetic radiation while not exposing a second portion to the electromagnetic radiation, removing the second portion of the photoresist from the metal substrate exposing a first portion of the metal substrate, exposing the first portion of the metal substrate to an etchant removing the first portion of the photoresist exposing a second portion of the metal substrate, and growing carbon nanotubes on the second portion of the metal substrate.
US09520256B2
An electromagnetic contactor includes a contact device including a pair of fixed contacts and a movable contact contacting to and separating from the pair of fixed contacts. The pair of fixed contacts includes support conductor portions supported with an upper surface of a contact housing case, and C-shaped portions each including an upper plate portion linked to an end portion of the support conductor portion, an intermediate plate portion extending downward from a side of the upper plate portion opposite to that of the other support conductor portion, and a lower plate portion extending from a lower end of the intermediate plate portion toward a side of the other support conductor portion and formed with a contact portion on an upper surface thereof. The contact housing case includes contact bearing portions bearing a side of the lower plate portions of the pair of fixed contacts opposite to the movable contact.
US09520253B2
A button is mounted to a housing of an electronic device, the button includes a pressing body and a sealed body. The pressing body is mounted to the housing. The sealed body is coupled to the pressing body, the sealed body defines a slot around an external peripheral wall and forms two opposite elastic walls, the two elastic walls resist to the pressing body and the housing, respectively. An electronic device and a button arrangement employing the button are also disclosed.
US09520246B2
An electromagnetic contactor includes a contact mechanism having a pair of fixed contacts disposed to maintain a predetermined interval in a longitudinal direction, and a movable contact disposed above the pair of fixed contacts, the movable contact contacting to and detaching from the pair of fixed contacts. Each of the pair of fixed contacts has a fixed contact portion, the movable contact extends in a longitudinal direction thereof and has a pair of movable contact portions contacting the pair of fixed contacts, and the movable contact is disposed so as to move in a vertical direction thereof on a connecting shaft fixed to a movable plunger and is pressed down by a biasing force of a contact spring in a downward direction thereof on a central portion of the movable contact in the longitudinal direction, the movable contact being held on the connecting shaft.
US09520242B2
An electrode binder composition that is used to produce an electrode used for an electrical storage device, includes (A) a polymer, (B) a carboxylic acid or a salt thereof, and (C) a liquid medium, and has a concentration of the carboxylic acid or a salt thereof (B) of 20 to 1000 ppm.
US09520241B2
An method of producing an electronic device, including identifying a graphene sheet, functionalizing the graphene sheet to yield a functionalized sheet, attaching respective vanadium oxide molecules to respective functional groups to define an impregnated graphene sheet, removing organic solvents from the impregnated graphene sheet to define a composite sheet, and positioning the composite sheet onto a metallic substrate to yield a capacitor.
US09520238B2
An array-type multilayer ceramic electronic component includes a ceramic body including a plurality of first dielectric layers and a plurality of second dielectric layers, first and second internal electrodes disposed on the first dielectric layers and facing each other, third and fourth internal electrodes disposed on the second dielectric layers and facing each other, a first external electrode disposed on a first end surface of the ceramic body and connected to the first internal electrode, a second external electrode disposed on a first side surface of the ceramic body and connected to the second internal electrode, a third external electrode disposed on a second end surface of the ceramic body and connected to the third internal electrode, and a fourth external electrode disposed on a second side surface of the ceramic body and connected to the fourth internal electrode.
US09520237B2
Outer electrodes include end-surface outer electrodes arranged on end surfaces of a ceramic multilayer body, and side-surface outer electrodes on side surfaces of the ceramic multilayer body, the side-surface outer electrodes being electrically connected to the end-surface outer electrodes. Sputtered electrode layers of the side-surface outer electrodes in contact with the ceramic multilayer body are composed of a material containing a metal with a standard redox potential of about −2.36 V to about −0.74 V, the proportion of the metal in the material being about 3% by mass or more. Sputtered outermost electrode layers serving as the outermost layers of the side-surface outer electrodes are composed of a metal or an alloy in which the heat of solution of hydrogen is about 23.8 kJ/molH or more.
US09520231B2
A laminated ceramic capacitor that includes a ceramic laminated body of a plurality of stacked ceramic dielectric layers, a plurality of internal electrodes opposed to each other with the ceramic dielectric layers interposed therebetween within the ceramic laminated body, and external electrodes provided on the outer surface of the ceramic laminated body and electrically connected to the internal electrodes. The internal electrodes contain Ni as a main constituent, and the Ni constituting the internal electrodes has a lattice constant in the range of 0.3250 nm to 0.3450 nm.
US09520228B2
A system includes at least one active energy transfer coil and a first passive energy transfer coil. The active energy transfer coil is configured to couple with a power supply. The at least one active energy transfer coil has an active coupling range. The first passive energy transfer coil is magnetically coupled to the active energy transfer coil and is located within the active coupling range. The first passive energy transfer coil has a passive coupling range. The first passive energy transfer coil is configured to provide energy to a first device located within the passive coupling range and based on energy received from the at least one active energy transfer coil.
US09520223B2
The present invention relates to an inductor. An inductor in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: an insulating layer having a hole; a conductive pattern disposed on both surfaces of the insulating layer and having a structure in which portions disposed on the both surfaces are electrically connected to each other through the hole; and a magnetic layer disposed on the insulating layer to cover the conductive pattern, wherein the conductive pattern has a plating pattern formed by performing a plating process.
US09520219B2
A perforating gun includes a charge tube having shaped charges affixed thereto. Each shaped charge includes a radially outward pointing post adapted to receive a detonator cord. A retention member installed on the post provides a compressive force that energetically couples the detonator cord to the post. The radially outermost portion of the retention member is radially flush with or radially recessed relative to the radially outermost portion of each post. In one embodiment, the retention member has a rounded medial portion, a central opening and a pair of locking tabs that point radially inward to the central opening. Each post may include a slot for receiving the detonator cord and a circumferential groove that is adapted to receive the locking tabs.
US09520212B2
An aligned structure of cables includes: a plurality of cables each including a conductive cable core, an insulator covering an outer periphery of the cable core, and a cable core exposed portion, in which the cable core is exposed, on a side of a distal end of the cable; a first cable core aligning insulator including a plurality of grooves into which the cable core exposed portions of the cables are respectively fitted and which align the cable cores; and a cable core fixing insulator which fixes the cable core exposed portions aligned by the first cable core aligning insulator, wherein cross sections of the cable cores are exposed on a surface on a side of distal ends of the cable cores of the cable core fixing insulator, and a pitch of the cross sections is shorter than a pitch of the cables.
US09520208B2
A cable comprising that includes an elongated conductor operable to transmit electrical energy at medium or high AC voltages. The conductor has a core including a first plurality of wires of a first conductive material, and an outer layer surrounding the core including a second plurality of wires of a second conductive material. The first conductive material has a deeper characteristic skin depth than the second conductive material. The total cross sectional area of the first and second plurality of wires is at least about 2500 kcmil.
US09520205B2
The present invention relates to a copper containing particle with a surface layer for preventing oxidation and a method for manufacturing the same, and provides a copper containing particle including: a core containing a copper component; a shell formed on the surface of the core, containing a silver component, and having at least one pore; and a filler part configured to fill the pore of the shell and contain an antioxidant component.
US09520203B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a first address input block which receives first information applied from an exterior as a corresponding normal address in a normal mode and receives the first information as a test clock in a test mode, a second address input block which receives second information applied from an exterior as the corresponding normal address in the normal mode and receives the second information as a test code in the test mode, and a test signal generation block which synchronizes the test code with the test clock in the test mode and generates a test command, a test address and a test data in response to a synchronized test code.
US09520202B1
A programming verification control circuit is disclosed, including: a first decoder circuit for decoding a word line of a memory bit; a first drive circuit for receiving a first voltage and providing the first voltage to the word line of the memory bit based on a decoding result of the first decoder circuit; a second decoder circuit for decoding a control gate of the memory bit; a second drive circuit for receiving a second voltage and providing the second voltage to the control gate of the first memory bit based on a decoding result of the second decoder circuit; and a voltage equalizer for receiving the first voltage, the second voltage and a first enable signal and, in event of the first enable signal being valid, controlling the first voltage and the second voltage to be conducted. A method for controlling the programming verification control circuit is also disclosed.
US09520195B2
A sensing amplifier comprising a clamp circuit is provided. The clamp circuit is coupled between a first node and a second node. The clamp circuit comprises a first P-type transistor having a first terminal, a second terminal and a control terminal receiving a first bias signal, the first terminal and the second terminal of the first P-type transistor are coupled to the first node and the second node, respectively, and a sensing current from the memory cell flows into the second node via the first node during a sensing time period.
US09520189B1
In some aspects, a computer-implemented method for performing a voltage-based measurement of a resistive memory cell includes a plurality m of programmable cell states. The method may include providing, via a processor, a prebiased voltage at a connecting node coupled to the resistive memory cell, coupling, via the processor, a resistor circuit in parallel to the resistive memory cell such that the resistor is configured to reduce an effective resistance at the connecting node of the prebiasing circuit, prebiasing a bitline capacitance of the resistive memory cell by the prebiasing circuit, settling, via the processor, a sensing circuit to a target voltage by connecting the sensing circuit to one of a plurality of settling circuits, wherein the one of the plurality of settling circuits is selected based on a temperature reading of the resistive memory cell, sensing a voltage of the resistive memory cell, and outputting a resultant value based on the sensed voltage.
US09520184B2
The present invention provides a method for writing a data into a flash memory, wherein the flash memory is a Triple-Level Cell flash memory, and each storage unit of the flash memory is implemented by a floating-gate transistor and each storage unit supports eight write voltage levels, and the method includes: adjusting the data bit by bit to generate a pseudo-random bit sequence; and writing the pseudo-random bit sequence into the flash memory with only two specific voltage levels of the eight write voltage levels.
US09520174B2
A method of writing to magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) of a magnetic memory array includes storing in-coming data in a cache register, reading the present logic state of a first one of a set of at least two MTJs, the set of at least two MTJs including the first MTJ and a second MTJ. The in-coming data is to be written into the second MTJ. Further steps are storing the read logic state into a data register, swapping the contents of the data register and the cache register so that the cache register stores the read logic state and the data register stores the in-coming data, applying a first predetermined voltage level to the set of MTJs thereby causing the first MTJ to be over-written, applying a second predetermined voltage level to the set of MTJs, and storing the in-coming data into the second MTJ.
US09520170B2
Apparatuses and methods of operating memory are described. One such method can include receiving a select command at a plurality of memory volumes of a memory device, the select command indicating a targeted memory volume of the plurality of memory volumes. In response to the select command, the method can include selecting the targeted memory volume of the memory volumes and putting at least a portion of a non-selected memory volume of the memory volumes in a particular state based, at least in part, on a previous state of the non-selected memory volume and/or a portion of an address associated with the select command.
US09520163B2
A regulator circuit may include a comparison unit configured to compare a reference voltage with a feedback voltage and generate a first switching signal. The regulator circuit may include a current supply unit configured to receive a pumping voltage, and determine a level of a second switching signal in response to the first switching signal. The regulator circuit may include an output driver configured to control the level of the second switching signal in response to an output voltage, receive the pumping voltage, and generate the output voltage in response to the second switching signal. The regulator circuit may include a feedback signal generation unit configured to detect a level of the output voltage and generate the feedback voltage.
US09520162B2
The various implementations described herein include systems, methods and/or devices used to enable performing supervisory functions for a dual in-line memory module (DIMM), at a controller in the DIMM. The method includes upon power-up, determining a power supply voltage provided to the DIMM. In accordance with a determination that power supply criteria are satisfied, the method includes: (1) performing one or more power-up operations, including initiating a usage counter, (2) monitoring a temperature of the DIMM, (3) monitoring the DIMM for occurrence of one or more of a set of predetermined trigger events, and (4) in response to detecting one of the set of predetermined trigger events, logging information corresponding to the detected predetermined event.
US09520159B2
An apparatus includes a container having a base for receiving a drive, and a clam having a first end that is rotatably coupled to the base, a second end, and a body extending from the first end to the second end, the clam rotatable relative to the base so that the clam can be placed at a first position and a second position, wherein when the clam is at the first position, the container allows the drive to be placed therein, and wherein when the clam is at the second position, the clam secures the drive relative to the container. A frame includes at least sixteen slots to receive respective drive storage devices, which store respective SFF8201 7 mm drives, in EIA RS310D 1U space. A frame includes at least forty-eight slots to receive respective drive storage devices, which store respective SFF8201 7 mm drives, in EIA RS310D 2U space.
US09520153B2
Certain exemplary aspects of the present disclosure are directed towards an apparatus including a base deck, a plurality of storage mediums (e.g., discs) and a plurality of disc separator plates. The base deck includes a sidewall forming a cavity to house the storage medium, with slots in the sidewall in which each disc separator plate extends. The disc separator plates extend into spaces between peripheral ends of adjacent ones of the storage medium. This arrangement can be used to provide rigid coupling of the separator plates, which can mitigate issues relating to vibration or shock. Further, air flow can be mitigated in this regard, such as to reduce effects upon a magnetoresistive transducer that reads data from the storage mediums.
US09520137B2
A method for suppressing the late reverberation of an audio signal. A plurality of prediction vectors are calculated. A plurality of observation vectors from the modulus of the complex time-frequency transform of an input signal is generated. A plurality of synthesis dictionaries from the plurality of observation vectors are constructed. A late reverberation spectrum from the plurality of synthesis dictionaries and the plurality of prediction vectors are estimated. A plurality of observation vectors are filtered to eliminate the late reverberation spectrum and obtain a dereverberated signal modulus.
US09520126B2
A voice recognition system that divides a search space for voice recognition into a general domain search space and a specific domain search space. A mobile terminal receives a voice recognition target word from a user, and a voice recognition server divides a search space for voice recognition into a general domain search space and a specific domain search space and stores the spaces and performs voice recognition for the voice recognition target word through linkage of the general domain search space and the specific domain search space.
US09520123B2
A system and method for concatenative speech synthesis is provided. Embodiments may include accessing, using one or more computing devices, a plurality of speech synthesis units from a speech database and determining a similarity between the plurality of speech synthesis units. Embodiments may further include retrieving two or more speech synthesis units having the similarity and pruning at least one of the two or more speech synthesis units based upon, at least in part, the similarity.
US09520119B2
In one aspect, matching layers for an ultrasonic transducer stack having a matching layer comprising a matrix material loaded with a plurality of micron-sized and nano-sized particles. In another aspect, the matrix material is loaded with a plurality of heavy and light particles. In another aspect, an ultrasound transducer stack comprises a piezoelectric layer and at least one matching layer. In one aspect, the matching layer comprises a composite material comprising a matrix material loaded with a plurality of micron-sized and nano-sized particles. In a further aspect, the composite material can also comprise a matrix material loaded with a plurality of heavy and light particles. In a further aspect, a matching layer can also comprise cyanoacrylate.
US09520111B1
A musical instrument including a tubular body having an internal tube with at least one tone hole disposed in a surface of said internal tube to provide air communication between a region inside the internal tube and a region outside of the internal tube; and a first outer shell member configured for attachment to an outer surface of the internal tube; at least one key member including a tone hole closure portion, an axle portion and a biasing member, the tone hole closure portion being movable relative to the tubular body between at least a closed position in which said tone hole closure portion covers the at least one tone hole disposed in the internal tube, and, an opened position in which said tone hole closure portion does not cover the tone hole disposed in the internal tube; wherein at least one of said axle portion and said biasing member are configured for location in a seating location provided by a seating portion disposed on at least one of the first outer shell member and the outer surface of the internal tube whereby the first outer shell member is configured for attachment to the outer surface of the internal tube so as to secure therebetween at least one of the axle portion and the biasing member in its seating location for operation of the key member.
US09520108B1
A guitar top includes a sound hole, a neck end that is configured for attachment to a guitar neck with a longitudinal axis, a heel end, a transverse axis normal to the longitudinal axis, and a bottom surface. The bottom surface of the guitar top includes a pair of longitudinal braces that are attached to the surface. The pair of longitudinal braces extend primarily along the longitudinal axis from the heel end toward the neck end and terminate at a point beyond the sound hole toward the neck end. Each of the longitudinal braces is positioned on an opposing side of the sound hole such that a distance between the longitudinal braces exceeds the diameter of the sound hole.
US09520107B2
Provided is a keyboard musical instrument such as an acoustic piano or an electronic piano having an appearance and design similar to an acoustic piano, in which a fall board is made of a resin plate-shaped body, and hollow portions are provided inside the plate-shaped body. In addition, the plate-shaped body includes a plate-shaped resin foamed plate portion, and the hollow portions are made of plural air bubbles contained inside the resin foamed plate portion.
US09520106B2
Multi-view autostereoscopic image display and method of controlling optimal viewing distance thereof
A multi-view autostereoscopic image display and a method of controlling an optimal viewing distance thereof are provided. The multi-view autostereoscopic image display includes a display panel displaying multi-view image data, a display panel driver writing the multi-view image data, a 3D optical element separating the optical axes of the multi-view image data, a viewing distance sensing unit sensing the positions of both eyes of a viewer, and a viewing distance extension controller that detects viewing zones where both eyes of the viewer are located by comparing the positions of both eyes of the viewer with positional information of predefined viewing zones, and selectively converts at least some of the multi-view image data according to a change in the positions of the viewing zones where both eyes of the viewer are located.
US09520105B2
In some embodiments one or more areas of interest to a user of a display screen are determined. Portions of the display screen other than the one or more areas of interest are dimmed. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09520104B2
An image display device includes a microcomputer and LUTs which are tables of correction data used to correct color balance of images. The microcomputer sets LUT extensions and calculates the LUTs based on: (1) the normalized values GainLn of the L conforming adjustment values GainL and the normalized values GainHn of the H conforming adjustment values GainH; (2) the normalized values Lin of the input values Liref of the image data of the L adjustment image and the normalized values Hin of the input values Hiref of the image data of the H adjustment image; (3) the correction data of the LUTs; and (4) the correction data of the LUT extension units.
US09520098B2
A gate driving circuit, a display device, and a driving method are disclosed in the present invention. The gate driving circuit comprises: a plurality of cascaded shift register units and a control unit, wherein every two adjacent shift register units constitute a shift register set and are connected to two gate lines through the control unit, and wherein the control unit controls the shift register units of the shift register set to supply drive signals to the two gate lines, respectively. Embodiments of the present invention improve a configuration of the circuit on the basis of original shift registers, thereby achieving compensation of charge rations between different frames and effectively alleviating phenomena of apparent bright/dark lines such as the vertical lines of the existing products.
US09520097B2
In a display control circuit (200) of a display device, an image pattern detection portion (230) detects whether an image is an anti-flicker pattern or not, and when it is an anti-flicker pattern, a backlight source is driven (typically, such that its luminance changes in the opposite phase relative to luminance changes that would occur), on the basis of predicted values, which are predetermined so as to compensate for the luminance changes that would occur. Moreover, the backlight is not turned on during the scanning period. As a result, flicker due to current leakage, etc., can be reduced or eliminated in a display device for which a scanning period and a scan stop period are set.
US09520094B2
According to an aspect, a display device includes: an image display panel; and a planar light source including a light guide plate and an edge-lit light source, the light guide plate illuminating the image display panel from a back side, the edge-lit light source including a plurality of light sources arranged facing a plane of incidence; and a controller that controls luminance of each of the light sources independently. The controller stores therein, as lookup tables for the respective light sources, information on light intensity distributions of light that is incident on the light guide plate from the respective light sources and is emitted to a plane of the image display panel from the light guide plate, and controls a light quantity of each of the light sources based on information on an input signal of an image, and on the lookup tables.
US09520090B2
An electrowetting display apparatus includes an electrowetting pixel configured to display an image. The electrowetting pixel includes a polar liquid and a nonpolar liquid arranged between a common electrode and a pixel electrode; and a driving circuit configured to control operations of the electrowetting pixel. The driving circuit includes a memory circuit configured to store an image to be displayed by the electrowetting pixel. The driving circuit is further configured to periodically provide a reset signal to the electrowetting pixel while the electrowetting pixel is displaying the image and provide an image stored in the memory circuit to the electrowetting pixel after the electrowetting pixel cell resets.
US09520085B2
An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display is disclosed. In one aspect, the OLED display includes a substrate and odd and even-numbered pixels adjacent to each other in a column direction and respectively formed in odd and even-numbered rows. The OLED display also includes a common pixel driver connected to the odd and even-numbered pixels and driving each of the odd and even-numbered pixels. The OLED display further includes a selection unit selecting one of the odd and even-numbered pixels to be driven by the common pixel driver. The common pixel driver is formed in either the odd-numbered row or the even-numbered row.
US09520084B2
An image quality compensation device for an organic light emitting display includes: a memory having first and second update blocks selectively storing first and second period compensation values, which are sequentially updated at regular intervals; and a timing controller that configures the first update block as either the current memory page for data loading or the next memory page for data writing and the second update block as the other one of the two, based on a preset check code, and updates the memory by calculating the second period compensation value with the passage of driving time based on the first period compensation value loaded from the update block configured as the current memory page, writing the second period compensation value to the update block configured as the next memory page, and then erasing the first period compensation value from the update block configured as the current memory page.
US09520077B2
A four color converter includes: a first white balance module configured to effect white balance processing on raw RGB data to thereby obtain white balance processed RGB data, a four color determining module configured to determine RGBW data according to white balance processed RGB data provided by the first white balance module and a white color data extracted from the white balance processed RGB data; and a second white balance module configured to effect white balance processing on the RGBW data provided by the four color determining module to thereby obtain white balance processed RGBW data for display. The present invention further discloses a display apparatus having the four color converter and a method for converting three color data to four color data. The present invention can achieve remaining chromaticity value of each color unchanged as long as a ratio of four color data is not changed.
US09520074B2
Herein we describe fishing gear having a degradable identification component comprising a polyhydroxyalkanoate polymer, as well as methods for ensuring that such identification component degrades quickly after detachment. Aquatic debris has a negative economic and ecological impact, and thus it is advantageous to use implements that will degrade into environmentally benign compounds. Incorporating a degradable identification component into fishing gear provides an effective, economical solution. Suitable degradable identification components are described herein.
US09520068B2
A method and related system, computer program product and device for interactively tracking oral reading of text from a document includes recording audio for a sentence read by a user and determining when the user has reached the last word of the sentence. The method also includes providing visual feedback to the user reading on a sentence by sentence level to indicate a current location in the passage.
US09520061B2
A steering wheel system for a vehicle includes a display and a controller. The controller receives vehicle parameters from one or more vehicle sensors as well as geometric or navigability characteristics of the road. The controller generates a prediction of an effect of the vehicle parameters on the vehicle with respect to the geometric or navigability characteristics of the road. The controller sends a signal to the display based on the prediction. The display is configured to display a representation of the prediction based on the signal received from the controller.
US09520057B2
A method, apparatus, and system are provided for monitoring environment parameters of critical facilities. A Remote Area Modular Monitoring (RAMM) apparatus is provided for monitoring environment parameters of critical facilities. The RAMM apparatus includes a battery power supply and a central processor. The RAMM apparatus includes a plurality of sensors monitoring the associated environment parameters and at least one communication module for transmitting one or more monitored environment parameters. The RAMM apparatus is powered by the battery power supply, controlled by the central processor operating a wireless sensor network (WSN) platform when the facility condition is disrupted. The RAMM apparatus includes a housing prepositioned at a strategic location, for example, where a dangerous build-up of contamination and radiation may preclude subsequent manned entrance and surveillance.
US09520054B2
System for displaying hazard events and adjusting hazard detector settings on a mobile device includes a user interface executed on the mobile device, a hazard detector, and a computer server system communicatively coupled to the mobile device and hazard detector. The hazard detector generates hazard events indicating detection of smoke or carbon monoxide. The hazard events are transmitted to the computer server system and then to the mobile device. User interface displays the hazard events in an event group. User interface receives an adjusted value for a setting of the hazard detector and transmits the adjusted value to the computer server system. The computer server system determines that the adjusted value corresponds to the hazard detector, receives a check-in event from the hazard detector, and transmits the adjusted value to the hazard detector in response to receiving the check-in event. The hazard detector applies the adjusted value to the setting.
US09520053B2
A method and apparatus is described for transmitting event codes from a base station to a remote location. In one embodiment, a method is described, executed by a processor within an event communication module, the method comprising receiving an encoded event code from a base station over an interface connection, selecting a first transmission method from two or more communication methods based on the received event code, encoding the event code based on the first communication method, and transmitting the encoded event code to remote location by a communication module configured to communicate using the first communication method.
US09520051B1
A non-wearable Personal Emergency Response System (PERS) architecture is provided, having a synthetic aperture antenna based RF interferometer followed by two-stage human state classifier and abnormal states pattern recognition. In addition, it contains a communication sub-system to communicate with the remote operator and centralized system for multiple users' data analysis. The system is trained to learn the person's body features as well as the home environment. The decision process is carried out based on the instantaneous human state (Local Decision) followed by abnormal states patterns recognition (Global decision). The system global decision (emergency alert) is communicated to the operator through the communication system and two-ways communication is enabled between the monitored person and the remote operator. In some embodiments, a centralized system (cloud) receives data from distributed PERS systems to perform further analysis and upgrading the systems with updated database (codebooks).
US09520044B2
Apparatus and methods for detecting stray voltage anomalies in electric fields are provided herein. In some embodiments, an apparatus for detecting an electrical field may comprise: at least one sensor probe for generating data corresponding to an electrical field detected by the at least one sensor probe, wherein the at least one sensor probe comprises at least one electrode; a processor, coupled to the at least one sensor probe, for analyzing the data to identify a voltage anomaly in the electric field; and an indicator, coupled to the processor, for alerting a user to a presence of the voltage anomaly in the electric field.
US09520039B2
A method for securing an electronic device comprising a signal output and an input apparatus against removal from a carrying device. The method includes inputting a code with the input apparatus, generating, with the code inputted with the input apparatus, via a data processing program, a signal at the signal output of the electronic device, providing a locking apparatus configured to secure the electronic device, comparing, with the locking apparatus, the signal with a predetermined target signal, and putting the locking apparatus into an unlocked state if a match exists between the signal and the predetermined target signal.
US09520028B2
Provided is a gaming machine that can entertain a player by developing various game results after entering a feature game mode from a base game mode. The gaming machine progresses the games as follows: in base games, if trigger symbols appearing at rearrangement of symbols complete a specific arrangement pattern, the games are changed from base games into roulette games. In roulette games, the maximum number of lotteries is determined based on the arrangement pattern of the trigger symbols.
US09520023B2
Disclosed is a method for enabling a player to use a mobile bonus feature system and a mobile device to become eligible for mobile promotions in addition to prizes or awards offered by a game on an underlying gaming machine. The method includes: enabling selection of a mobile promotion and an associated game on an underlying gaming machine; once the player meets criteria of the mobile promotion on the underlying gaming machine, enabling the player to use a camera of the mobile device to take a photo of a game result that satisfies the mobile promotion; analyzing the photo of the game result to confirm the player has met the criteria of the mobile promotion; and once confirmed, awarding the player a bonus associated with the mobile promotion.
US09520015B2
Systems and methods enable one or more players to play a game of chance. A system includes a processor and a memory device configured to store processor executable instructions to provide a game of chance in which a plurality of house indicia is selected from a pool of house indicia and in which one or more player indicia is provided. The processor is programmed by the instructions to randomly select a predetermined number of house indicia from the pool of house indicia, provide a random chance of selecting a bonus indicia, determine whether a winning number of matching indicia has been achieved by identifying each player indicia that matches one of the selected predetermined number of house indicia, and present a bonus to the player upon a determination that the bonus indicia matches a player indicia and that a winning number of matching indicia has been achieved.
US09520014B1
A wagering game system and its operations are described herein. In embodiments, the operations can include detecting a trigger associated with a first wagering game machine. The trigger can be related to wagering game content or a wagering game event. A soundtrack is associated with the wagering game content or wagering game event. The operations can further include beginning play of the soundtrack in unison on the first wagering game machine at an audible volume level and on the second wagering game machine at an inaudible volume level in response to detecting the trigger.
US09520011B2
A method and a device for detecting and controlling banknote dispensing quality in a self-service terminal are provided. The method includes: detecting an empty box in the self-service terminal, setting a qualified rate of dispensed banknotes of the empty box as 0, and permanently shielding the empty box; detecting a banknote jammed cashbox in the self-service terminal, setting a qualified rate of dispensed banknotes of the banknote-jammed cashbox as 0, and permanently shielding the banknote-jammed cashbox; detecting qualified rates of dispensed banknotes of all non-empty cashboxes and non-banknote-jammed cashboxes, classifying all the non-empty and non-banknote-jammed cashboxes according to nominal values, and sequencing the cashboxes per nominal value in a descending order of the qualified rates of dispensed banknotes; and maintaining cashboxes ranked top M of the qualified rates of dispensed banknotes per nominal value in an open state, and maintaining the other cashboxes in a temporarily shielded state.
US09520005B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a wireless appliance for monitoring a vehicle. The wireless appliance includes a microprocessor configured to select a vehicle-communication protocol of a host vehicle, and then communicate with the host vehicle through the vehicle-communication protocol. The appliance also includes a vehicle-communication circuit, in electrical communication with the microprocessor, which collects diagnostic data from the host vehicle using the vehicle-communication protocol. A GPS module, also in electrical communication with the microprocessor, generates location-based data. For transmitting these data, the appliance includes a first wireless transmitter operating on a terrestrial network and a second wireless transmitter operating on a satellite network. The microprocessor selects the first or second wireless transmitter for transmitting the diagnostic and location-based data.
US09520001B2
One embodiment involves receiving a fine mesh as input, the fine mesh representing a 3-Dimensional (3D) model and comprising fine mesh polygons. The embodiment further involves identifying, based on the fine mesh, near-planar regions represented by a coarse mesh of coarse mesh polygons, at least one of the near-planar regions corresponding to a plurality of the coarse mesh polygons. The embodiment further involves determining a deformation to deform the coarse mesh based on comparing normals between adjacent coarse mesh polygons. The deformation may involve reducing a first angle between coarse mesh polygons adjacent to one another in a same near-planar region. The deformation may additionally or alternatively involve increasing an angle between coarse mesh polygons adjacent to one another in different near-planar regions. The fine mesh can be deformed using the determined deformation.
US09519993B2
A medical image processing apparatus according to an embodiment for visualization of each of plural captured image volume data having time of day information includes a generator configured to generate interpolation volume data for interpolation in the plural captured image volume data, based on the plural captured image volume data, and a display unit configured to visualize and display the plural captured image volume data and the interpolation volume data. The generator extracts a feature region in the captured image volume data, and is configured such that processing for generating the interpolation volume data for the feature region is different from processing for generating the interpolation volume data for other regions, so as to suppress a change in shape of the feature region.
US09519988B2
A method of animation of surface deformation and wrinkling, such as on clothing, uses low-dimensional linear subspaces with temporally adapted bases to reduce computation. Full space simulation training data is used to construct a pool of low-dimensional bases across a pose space. For simulation, sets of basis vectors are selected based on the current pose of the character and the state of its clothing, using an adaptive scheme. Modifying the surface configuration comprises solving reduced system matrices with respect to the subspace of the adapted basis.
US09519986B1
Systems and methods can provide computer animation of animated scenes or interactive graphics sessions. A grid camera separate from the render camera can be created for segments where the configurations (actual or predicted) of the render camera satisfy certain properties, e.g., an amount of change is within a threshold. If a segment is eligible for the use of the separate grid camera, configurations of the grid camera during a segment can be determined, e.g., from the configurations of the render camera. The configurations of the grid camera can then be used to determine grids for rendering objects. If a segment is not eligible for the use of the grid camera, then the configurations of the render camera can be used to determine the grids for rendering.
US09519985B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for generating mobile-friendly animations. In one implementation, a processing device receives a first animation in a first format, the first animation including one or more of graphical components. The processing device processes the first animation to identify, with respect to the first animation, one or more animation instructions. The processing device generates, based on the first animation and the one or more animation instructions, a second animation in a second format, the second animation including (a) one or more components that correspond to the plurality of graphical components and (b) one or more animation instructions.
US09519979B1
Embodiments of the invention employ a LADAR range data stream, a Cartesian coordinate system that is fixed to the Earth, and a Cartesian coordinate system that is fixed to a LADAR sensor. An index is determined and used to select a color from a color map for each range pixel of LADAR data. The color value is electronically-associated with the pixel.
US09519974B2
Plural block images are generated by dividing an input image into blocks each of which has a predetermined size. Clustering of pixels contained in the plural block images is performed based on a representative point associated with each of those block images to apply region segmentation to those block images. The representative point is a part of plural representative points disposed in the input image. The clustering in a target block image of the region segmentation is performed by referring to a representative point in the target block image, a representative point of a processed block image, and a representative point of an unprocessed block image. The processed and unprocessed block images are adjacent to the target block image.
US09519964B2
A system and methods for generating 3D images from 2D bioluminescent images and visualizing tumor locations are provided. A plurality of 2D bioluminescent images of a subject are acquired using any suitable bioluminescent imaging system. The 2D images are registered to align each image and to compensate for differences between adjacent images. After registration, corresponding features are identified between consecutive sets of 2D images. For each corresponding feature identified in each set of 2D images, an orthographic projection model is applied, such that rays are projected through each point in the feature. The intersection points of the rays are plotted in a 3D image space. All of the 2D images are processed in the same manner, such that a resulting 3D image of a tumor is generated.
US09519963B2
A product testing apparatus is described as having one or more imager configured to capture one or more images of a sample having a substrate coating applied to a substrate, a processor in communication with the imager, and a non-transitory processor readable medium, in communication with the processor. The non-transitory processor readable medium stores processor executable instructions that when executed cause the processor to receive the one or more images from the one or more imager. The processor then processes the one or more image by filtering lighting variations in the pixels of the one or more images to identify one or more objects of interest in the one or more images of the cured/uncured substrate coating. The processor quantifies one or more property of the one or more objects of interest. The processor executable instructions then cause the processor to generate one or more signal indicative of the quantification of the one or more objects of interest.
US09519962B1
A method on a computer for facilitating identification of a cigar is provided. The server is configured for: storing cigar records and user records, reading an image of a particular cigar from the user, and calculating a number of cigar bands in the image, a cigar band location for each cigar band and a separate cigar band image for each cigar band in the image. Next, data calculated above from the image of the particular cigar is compared to the data in the cigar records, so as to find a match between data of the particular cigar and data in a matching cigar record, and reading the cigar brand from the matching cigar record, so as to identify a cigar brand of the particular cigar.
US09519955B2
The method comprises the generation of a deteriorated image associated with a first bit rate and of a deteriorated color transform associated with a second bit rate, an evaluation of a first distortion by comparison of the image with a first test image obtained by the application of the color transform to the deteriorated image, and of a second distortion by comparison of the image with a second test image obtained by the application of the deteriorated color transform to the image, and the determination of a final conjoint bit rate associated with a best trade-off between a conjoint bit rate (R=R1+R2) and a global distortion (dE=dE1+DE2). The optimized deteriorated image and the optimized deteriorated color transform are then embedded based on this conjoint bit rate.
US09519951B2
Downsampling based display method and apparatus are provided. An input image including multiple pixels is obtained. At least two pixels neighboring with a to-be-calculated DS pixel on each of at least two directions from the pixels are obtained to get at least four first neighboring pixels. Theoretical values of each first neighboring pixel on the at least two directions are calculated. Errors of the theoretical values of each first neighboring pixel and a corresponding original value are obtained. Weight coefficients for calculating the DS pixel are determined according to the errors. An estimation value of the DS pixel is calculated according to the weight coefficients and the weighted cubic interpolation calculation model. As to the other DS pixels of target image, corresponding estimation values are calculated using the above steps, and then a downsampling processed image is obtained. The color aliasing is avoided and sharp image is obtained.
US09519948B2
A data processing apparatus includes an analyzer and a controller. The analyzer analyzes data in plural regions of target data to thereby determine, for each region, a block size to be applied as a unit of processing of data in the region. The controller configures, for each region, a circuit corresponding to the block size to be applied to the region, in a reconfigurable circuit in a case of processing the data in the plural regions of the target data.
US09519946B2
In accordance with some embodiments, partial rendering of non-changing or slowly changing frame tiles allows the graphics processing unit to spend less time processing non-changing or slowly changing portions of each frame, saving power and creating more room for performance in some embodiments.
US09519938B2
A computer-implemented matching service matches users to other users, and/or to user communities, based at least in part on a computer analysis of event data reflective of user behaviors. The event data may, for example, evidence user affinities for particular items represented in an electronic catalog, such as book titles, music titles, movie titles, and/or other types of items that tend to reflect the traits of users. Event data reflective of other types of user actions, such as item-detail-page viewing events, browse node visits, search query submissions, and/or web browsing patterns may additionally or alternatively be considered. By taking such event data into consideration, the matching service reduces the burden on users to explicitly supply personal profile information, and reduces poor results caused by exaggerations and other inaccuracies in such profile information.
US09519930B2
An order relating to a formulation-based product is received, wherein fulfilling the order requires production of the formulation-based product at a first location, transport of the formulation-based product in a vehicle to a second location different from the first location, and performance of an activity with respect to the formulation-based product at the second location. First information relating to a first change made to the formulation-based product at the first location is received, from the first location, prior to transport of the formulation-based product. Second information relating to a second change made to the formulation-based product during transport of the formulation-based product is received during transport of the formulation-based product. Third information relating to the activity performed with respect to the formulation-based product at the second location is received from the second location.
US09519926B2
Product search results may be presented to a user via a map view, with merchants selling a selected product displayed on a map. A buy now button may be displayed for a merchant within the map view, allowing the user to execute a purchase transaction directly from the map view.
US09519923B2
Embodiments of the invention provide for using video analysis, such as augmented reality or the like to assist a group of users to utilize mobile devices for creating a collective network environment of users that identifies objects in which one or more users in a group of users may be interested, and notifies the one or more users of information associated with the object. A collective network comprises a group of users that each have a mobile device that contains or is otherwise operatively coupled to a data capture device. For example, the mobile device may be a mobile phone that is capable of taking video with a camera device. A user in the collective network may capture video on his mobile device, and an application can identify the object in the video and provide interested users in the collective network with information about the object.
US09519920B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for automated management of campaigns using scripted rules.
US09519919B2
A system or method is provided to detect and check-in a user at a merchant's store. The system may retrieve the user's preferences and may customize advertisements and/or promotions based on the user's preferences. The customized advertisements may then be presented or displayed to the user as the user browses or shops in the merchant's store. In particular, the customized advertisements may be selected or generated based on the user's transaction history, browsing history, purchase history, pre-defined preferences, and the like. In an embodiment, the system may detect and check-in multiple users at a merchant's location. The system may select or generate advertisements based on multiple users who are visiting the merchant.
US09519916B2
The present invention is directed to systems, articles, and computer-implemented methods for assessing effectiveness of communication content and optimizing content distribution to enhance business objectives. Embodiments of the present invention are directed to computer-implemented methods for a computer-implemented method, comprising conducting an experiment using experimental content to determine effectiveness of communication content and executing, while conducting the experiment, a machine learning routine (MLR) using MLR content to enhance an effectiveness metric.
US09519900B2
The invention relates to a method, and an arrangement (A) for identifying a purchaser (1) and a retailer (2) and per-forming an economical transaction between the purchaser (1) and the retailer (2) at a point of sale (21), where the purchaser (1) has a mobile device (11), and where the point of sale (21) communicates with a transaction system (3). The transaction system (3) transfers funds (31) from the purchaser to the retailer according to given information from the purchaser and the retailer. The inventive method, and arrangement comprise the steps of; the mobile device (11) reading an identity of the point of sale (24) by means of a at least one of a camera, and a radio frequency receiver comprised in the mobile device (11), the mobile device (11), and point of sale generates and transmits messages comprising the identity of the point of sale (24) and the identity of the mobile device (14) through different channels of communication. Furthermore, the invention comprises computer program products conducting the software code needed for the invention to be carried out.
US09519899B2
Devices, systems and methods are disclosed which relate to securing payments from a mobile communications device. In exemplary embodiments, a mobile communications device communicates with a payment server via a point-of-sale device to conduct a transaction. The mobile communications device uses a client payment logic to send payment information to the point-of-sale device. The point-of-sale device uses a vendor payment logic to forward the payment information to the payment server. The payment server verifies the payment information and sends confirmation to the point-of-sale device.
US09519896B2
An automated banking machine is operated at least in part to data read from data bearing records. The machine is operative to carry out a financial transfer responsive at least in part to a determination that data read through a card reader of the machine corresponds to a financial account that is authorized to conduct a transaction through operation of the machine. The machine also includes a check acceptor operative to receive checks from machine users. The check acceptor is operative image checks and data resolved from check images is used in operation of the machine to cause financial transfers.
US09519889B2
A system, computer-readable storage medium, and computer-implemented method for automatic discovery of how and when people met is provided. A plurality of signals are analyzed to determine a level of significance of each of the plurality of signals in providing a suggested entry into a data field of a contact management system designated to provide a description of how a user met a contact. In response to at least one signal of the plurality of signals exceeding a threshold level of significance, a suggested entry for the data field of the contact management system is determined. The suggested entry of how a user met a contact is automatically displayed to a user.
US09519882B2
A method and system for piece-picking or piece put-away within a logistics facility. The system includes a central server and at least one mobile manipulation robot. The central server is configured to communicate with the robots to send and receive piece-picking data which includes a unique identification for each piece to be picked, a location within the logistics facility of the pieces to be picked, and a route for the robot to take within the logistics facility. The robots can then autonomously navigate and position themselves within the logistics facility by recognition of landmarks by at least one of a plurality of sensors. The sensors also provide signals related to detection, identification, and location of a piece to be picked or put-away, and processors on the robots analyze the sensor information to generate movements of a unique articulated arm and end effector on the robot to pick or put-away the piece.
US09519878B2
One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for regulating an amount of power on a power grid using a datacenter. This allows demand to be more closely brought into alignment with supply. For example, when supply exceeds demand by a predetermined level, the datacenter may increase consumption, causing demand to increase, and when demand exceeds supply and/or comes within a predetermined threshold of supply, the datacenter may decrease consumption, causing demand to decrease. In this way, the datacenter can be utilized as a regulatory tool on the grid. It may be appreciated that given the technology used by and/or operations performed by datacenters, datacenters are uniquely situated to achieve these ends as compared to other (large) energy consumers, such as manufacturing facilities that cannot shift around and/or shut-down operations swiftly.
US09519870B2
A dictionary used by a spoken language understanding (SLU) system is improved by providing weightings for entities in the dictionary that represent the likelihood each entity belongs to an entity class represented by the dictionary. A classifier model may be trained using a seed list containing sample entities that belong in the entity class and a background entity list containing samples that do not belong in the entity class. Clicked URLs from search logs, search result URLs, and attributes from an entity graph may be used as features of the sample entities to train the classifier model. The classifier model may be used to weight entities from a candidate dictionary. The entity weightings are used to generate an improved dictionary for use in the SLU system.
US09519869B2
A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for monitoring a computer system to predict failed or degraded operational states and respond with an alarm or corrective action. Resource collection and consumption are analyzed to derive velocity and acceleration. A hidden Markov model with the resource collection and consumption data as observation spaces predicts computer system state spaced indicative of a failed or degraded computer system operating state.
US09519861B1
A system for generating digital models of nitrogen availability based on field data, weather forecast data, and models of water flow, temperature, and crop uptake of nitrogen and water is provided. In an embodiment, field data and forecast data are received by an agricultural intelligence computing system. Based on the received data, the agricultural intelligence computing system models changes in temperature of different soil layers, moisture content of different soil layers, and loss of nitrogen and water to the soil through crop uptake, leaching, denitrification, volatilization, and evapotranspiration. The agricultural intelligence computing system creates a digital model of nitrogen availability based on the temperature, moisture content, and loss models. The agricultural intelligence computing system may then send nitrogen availability data to a field manager computing device and/or use the nitrogen availability data to create notifications, recommendations, agronomic models, and/or control parameters for an application controller.
US09519855B2
A non-contact IC label includes a magnetic sheet, a gap retention member including a dielectric material, and a communication section provided between the magnetic sheet and the gap retention member. The communication section includes an IC chip and a first antenna section and a second antenna section which are connected to the IC chip. The magnetic sheet has a first magnetic face facing the gap retention member, and the IC chip, the first antenna section and the second antenna section are provided on the first magnetic face of the magnetic sheet.
US09519844B1
Methods for identifying and quantifying wrinkles in a composite structure by processing infrared imaging data. Temperature versus time profiles for all pixels in the field of view of an infrared camera are calculated, enabling thermal signatures to be produced. By comparing the thermal signature of the part under test with the thermal signature of a reference standard representing a similar part having wrinkles of known size and shape, the presence of wrinkles can be detected. The wrinkle wavelength can be determined by measuring the infrared image and applying a transfer function. If the geometric information acquired using infrared thermography does not reach a certain quality factor (for a quality prediction) or is incomplete, an ultrasonic transducer array probe running wrinkle quantification software can be rotated into position and scanned over the wrinkle area. The ultrasonic imaging data can be combined with the infrared imaging data to enable an improved quantification of the wrinkle geometry.
US09519827B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products for creating a personalized, automated receptionist are provided herein. A method for providing an automated receptionist for a host user includes obtaining one or more images of a work environment of the host user; processing the one or more images to determine if at least one visitor is present in the work environment; and if the at least one visitor is determined to be present in the work environment, notifying the host user that the at least one visitor is present in the work environment, wherein at least one of the steps are performed by at least one hardware device. The method may be initiated, for example, when the host user is not present in the work environment. The automated receptionist can optionally (i) provide a greeting to the at least one visitor; (ii) enable communication between the at least one visitor and the host user; and/or (iii) provide one or more information items to the at least one visitor when the host user is not present.
US09519825B2
An access permission level for a first individual may be calculated by utilizing repositories of social network databases. The facial image of a first individual may be captured and compared with a repository of pre-categorized individuals. In response to the facial image of the first individual being absent from the repository of pre-categorized individuals, the repositories of social network databases may be crawled to collect facial images of non-categorized individuals. The first facial image may be compared with the facial images of non-categorized individuals, and a second individual may be identified. In response to identifying, categorization data associated with the second individual may be collected. Utilizing the categorization data, the second individual may be sorted into one of a plurality of categories. Based upon an image match score and the category which the second individual is sorted into, an access permission level may be determined and provided to a user.
US09519824B2
The invention relates to a method for enabling the authentication or identification of a person (1) using a first electronic device (2) comprising an image-capturing unit and a data-transmission unit, the method including a step of registering said person in a verification system (3). The registration step includes the steps of: capturing, using the image-capturing unit of said electronic device, a first image (h) of at least one object (O) of any kind that is secretly selected by the person; and transmitting said first image to the verification system by means of said data transmission device of said first electronic device.
US09519821B2
A method of capturing biometric data is provided that includes activating a security application in a device. The security application is activated by an operator of the device and is configured to cause the device to display an outline image. Moreover, the method includes displaying the outline image in a stationary position on a display of the device, positioning desired biometric data proximate the device such that the desired biometric data appears as a biometric image on the device display, and monitoring the outline and biometric images shown on the device display. Furthermore, the method includes positioning the device and the desired biometric data to better align the outline and biometric images when the outline and biometric images do not align and capturing the desired biometric data from an individual after approximately aligning the outline image with the biometric image.
US09519819B2
The present invention generally relates to a method for removing disturbances in an image captured by a fingerprint sensor, and specifically to reduction of noise in an acquired fingerprint image by incorporating the sensing principle into the applied method for noise reduction, wherein the noise reduced image is used for determining a representation of a fingerprint pattern. Advantages with the invention include enhanced determination of fingerprint patterns from fingerprint images captured using a fingerprint sensor. The invention also relates to a corresponding electronic device and to a computer program product.
US09519815B2
An optical indicia reading terminal can comprise a microprocessor, a memory, and an image sensor integrated circuit for decoding decodable indicia. The image sensor integrated circuit can be configured to output a plurality of digital signals, each digital signal being representative of light incident on at least one pixel of the two-dimensional image sensor. The optical indicia reading terminal can be configured to selectively acquire a plurality of luminance signals from the plurality of digital signals. Whether the output image data from the sensor is digitally stored as YUV data or YCBCR data, the terminal parses out the luminance signal, Y, in the data matrix to store a monochrome image for decoding. The optical indicia reading terminal can be configured to process the frame of image data for decoding decodable indicia.
US09519811B1
Method and system for reading radio frequency identification (RFID) tags in a portal system comprises performing a first detection and a second detection of the RFID tags in a portal zone. The method further involves performing a first and second sampling of the RFID tags in the portal zone. Thereafter, based on the first detection, second detection, first sampling and second sampling, an occurrence is determined of at least one of the RFID tags transitioning between a first physical space on one side of the portal system and a second physical space on an opposing side of the portal system.
US09519809B2
Systems, apparatuses and methods for associating flexible Internet based information with physical objects is described. An example system includes a database server configured to generate a tag responsive to receiving a request from a requesting device. The tag is encoded with a uniform resource locator. The database server is further configured to associate a tag type of a plurality of tag types with the tag. The tag type indicates an intended use of the tag. The system further includes a memory configured to store data corresponding to the tag. The data may include the uniform resource locator and the tag type.
US09519799B2
A method of dynamically determining the access rights of a client to a record comprises receiving an access request from the client with respect to the record, determining one or more contexts relating to the access request, calculating a score for each determined context, calculating an overall score from the context scores, accessing a rights policy for the record, the rights policy defining a plurality of different rights with respect to the record, each with a respective minimum score, and determining the client's access rights according to a comparison of the overall score to the score for each right in the rights policy.
US09519794B2
Redacting material in a user interface is provided. A monitoring agent waits for a change in input or output of user content. A change comparator identifies the change for sensitive material. A type comparator identifies the type of sensitive material. A redaction engine redacts the change according to the identified type of sensitive material.
US09519784B2
Example embodiments disclosed herein relate to managing basic input/output system (BIOS) access. Example embodiments include communicating with a remote directory server in response to an attempt to access a setting of a BIOS module.
US09519777B2
Techniques for controlling authentication are provided. An enterprise injects a control and/or audit manager into the enterprise environment to control and in some instances audit third-party authentication services. A user attempts to access a resource that uses a third-party authentication service. The attempt is intercepted and third-party authentication handled by the manager. After authentication, a session between the user and the resource is established during which auditing services may be enacted. The user authenticates to the enterprise environment and the manager provides authentication for the user to the resource via the third-party authentication service.
US09519772B2
A method, apparatus, and system related to relevancy improvement through targeting of information based on data gathered from a networked device associated with a security sandbox of a client device are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system may comprise a networked device, a relevancy-matching server, and a client device. The networked device may be configured to generate a preliminary data and/or a primary data associated with a user and automatically announce a sandbox-reachable service of the networked device to a discovery module. The relevancy-matching server may be configured to match a targeted data with the primary data based on a relevancy factor associated with the user. The client device may be configured to automatically process an identification data of the networked device and/or the sandbox-reachable service of the networked device from the discovery module and to automatically associate with the networked device based on the identification data.
US09519771B2
This invention is directed to an electronic device with an embedded authentication system for restricting access to device resources. The authentication system may include one or more sensors operative to detect biometric information of a user. The sensors may be positioned in the device such that the sensors may detect appropriate biometric information as the user operates the device, without requiring the user to perform a step for providing the biometric information (e.g., embedding a fingerprint sensor in an input mechanism instead of providing a fingerprint sensor in a separate part of the device housing). In some embodiments, the authentication system may be operative to detect a visual or temporal pattern of inputs to authenticate a user. In response to authenticating, a user may access restricted files, applications (e.g., applications purchased by the user), or settings (e.g., application settings such as contacts or saved game profile).
US09519768B2
Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, and storage mediums associated with eye movement based knowledge demonstration, having a particular application to authentication, are disclosed. In embodiments, a computing device may determine whether a received input of a pattern of eye movements is consistent with an expected pattern of eye movements of a user when the user attempts to visually locate a piece of information embedded in a display. In embodiments, the expected pattern of eye movements may include patterns related to fixations and/or other statistical patterns, however, may not be limited to such patterns. In applications, determining consistency or correlation with the expected pattern of eye movements may identify the user by simultaneously verifying at least factors of authentication—that of biometric criteria related to a user's pattern of eye movements and a password or other information known to the user.
US09519766B1
The invention relates to a system and method of automatically distinguishing between computers and human based on responses to enhanced Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (“e-captcha”) challenges that do not merely challenge the user to recognize skewed or stylized text. A given e-captcha challenge may be specific to a particular knowledge domain. Accordingly, e-captchas may be used not only to distinguish between computers and humans, but also determine whether a respondent has demonstrated knowledge in the particular knowledge domain. For instance, participants in crowd-sourced tasks, in which unmanaged crowds are asked to perform tasks, may be screened using an e-captcha challenge. This not only validates that a participant is a human (and not a bot, for example, attempting to game the crowd-source task), but also screens the participant based on whether they can successfully respond to the e-captcha challenge.
US09519764B2
A security system and method for authenticating a user's access to a target system is disclosed. The security system receives an authentication request from the user and generates a security matrix which comprises a mapping between each symbol within a symbol set and a code value randomly selected from a distinct code set. The number of elements in the symbol set and in the code set are selected to provide a predetermined level of security against capture of a user-defined keyword by an unauthorized observer. The security system sends the security matrix to the user and awaits a one-time code in response. The user forms the one-time code based on the user keyword and the security matrix. The security system validates the one-time code against the security matrix and the keyword to determine an authentication result, permitting or denying the user access to the target system.
US09519761B2
Systems and methods for authentication using low quality and high quality authentication information
Systems, methods, and devices for authenticating a user are provided. A device includes one or more processors configured to determine if a requested service requires high quality authentication, generate a request for high quality authentication if the requested service requires high quality authentication, and generate a request for low quality authentication if the requested service requires low quality authentication. The device also include a network interface component coupled to a network, the network interface component configured to: receive the request for the service requiring authentication, and a memory, the memory storing high quality authentication information and low quality authentication information for authenticating the user.
US09519759B2
Embodiments for preventing data loss and allowing selective data access are provided. In some embodiments, the system and method are configured to receive task protocols and registration requests; determine an allowed list based on the protocols or requests, the list comprising registered data and codes needed to execute a task; allow a user to establish a connection to a device to execute the task on the device; identify data being transferred to and from the device; compare the data being transferred and the allowable list; and determine that at least some of the data being transferred is allowable.
US09519750B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for determining when an athlete is in possession of a ball by analyzing image data are provided. A camera is worn by an athlete and is turned on when the athlete is in proximity of a ball. The camera is used to generate an image of a ball. The size of the ball is determined and compared to a threshold. The athlete is considered to be in possession of the ball when the size of the image exceeds the threshold.
US09519749B2
A method for preparing a surgical guide for positioning of a dental implementation. The method includes positioning a positioning device relative to a model jawbone, translating the positioning device in a BL direction, adjusting a BL angle of the positioning device about a BL pivot axis corresponding to a desired position of a top of the dental implementation, and fixing the BL position, BL angle, and z-height of the positioning device. A mounting assembly mounts to the positioning device and includes a removable rotation block with a guide hole. The mounting assembly is movable in the MD direction while the BL position is fixed. A template fixes the mounting assembly for transferring the positioning information to a patient's mouth. Various aspects of the design process can be performed on a computer. The guide and a method of using the guide to perform an implant procedure are also disclosed.
US09519743B1
Circuitry may include a substrate with an input and an output circuit coupled in series at an intermediate node. The output circuit may have an output transistor and a stack transistor coupled in series between an output node and a voltage supply terminal. The two circuits may be placed on the substrate such that a single event transient charge injected into a sensitive diffusion of the intermediate node is shared through the substrate with the sensitive diffusion of the stack transistor of the output circuit. The charge sharing may reduce the recovery time at the output node and help to reduce the recovery time at the intermediate node, thereby providing increased single event transient robustness and reducing the probability of a permanent flip of the intermediate node and the output node of the circuitry.
US09519739B1
A method, tangible computer-readable medium and apparatus for concurrently executing subsystems in a graphical model is provided. An embodiment can transform a conventional graphical model supporting single threaded execution into a model supporting multi-threaded execution through the replacement of a single block. The transformed model may support concurrent execution of a plurality of subsystems using a plurality of threads when the graphical model executes. An embodiment provides a user interface that allows a user to intuitively configure a model for current execution of the subsystems.
US09519734B2
Systems and methods presented herein can allow an inspector or other user to sketch a floor plan on a customized graph template. The graph template can be customized by a system based on the property the user is visiting. The user can take a picture of the customized graph template with a mobile computing device. An application executing on the mobile computing device or a server can transform the sketch in the picture into a floor plan.
US09519731B2
Devices, methods, and systems for determining a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) model for a building are described herein. One method includes receiving a description of the building, receiving an HVAC meta-model, wherein the HVAC meta-model is independent of the building, and determining an HVAC model for the building based on the description of the building and the HVAC meta-model.
US09519719B2
Aspects of the present disclosure are directed toward managing resources in a presentation environment. Aspects are directed toward collecting, using a set of monitoring devices, context information with respect to a presentation. Aspects are also directed toward determining, based on the context information for the presentation, a subject matter group and a set of access rules for the set of network devices. Aspects are also directed toward identifying, based on the subject matter group, a first set of resources. Aspects are also directed toward establishing, based on the set of access rules and the first set of resources, a first subset of the first set of resources for the set of network devices of the presentation environment.
US09519709B2
A method comprising determining an ordered set of separate videos that comprises a first video and a second video, identifying a first video segment comprised by the first video, determining an ordered set representation that indicates the ordered set of separate videos, the ordered set representation comprising a first representative image that represents the first video and a second representative image that represents the second video, causing display of the ordered set representation, receiving information indicative a scrub input, causing movement between the ordered set representation and an index point based on the scrub input, determining that the index point is aligned with the first representative image determining a rendering position based the first representative image, identifying a frame of the first video segment, and causing display of a frame image in a video rendering region is disclosed.
US09519707B2
Systems and methods are providing for searching for documents within topically-defined clusters. A search space is defined, starting with one or more source documents, by examining references from one documents to another and following the networks of references to some level of indirection. Depending on the embodiment, references may be followed from a document containing a reference to a referred-to document, or from a referred-to document to a document containing a reference, or both. Once a search space has been defined, a query is executed, and documents within the search space that satisfy the query parameters are identified.In certain embodiments of the invention, the documents primarily relate to legal materials, and one or more source documents are associated with one or more topics within a topic directory. In such embodiments, a search query may be limited to one or more selected topics by executing the search query within a search space defined using the associated document or documents as the source.
US09519701B2
Various embodiments of systems and methods for generating information models in an in-memory database system by importing data foundation from existing Semantic layer files are described herein. The method includes specifying a type of information view to be generated to model content data. Further the method includes invoking the content data from existing semantic layer files using an import option of a content data editor interface. Subsequent to selecting one or more semantic layer files, automatically extracting table objects corresponding to the selected semantic layer files along with data foundation objects from a file source.
US09519698B1
A computer-implemented method includes receiving one or more log files. Each of the one or more log files includes one or more logs. The computer-implemented method further includes extracting one or more event records from said one or more logs. The computer-implemented method further includes, for each event record of the one or more event records, determining one or more attributes and one or more dimensions based on the event record, respectively. The computer-implemented method further includes grouping the one or more event records into one or more attribute groups. The computer-implemented method further includes ordering the one or more event records of each of the one or more attribute groups by the one or more dimensions. The computer-implemented method further includes generating one or more graphical representations of the one or more attribute groups. A corresponding computer system and computer program product are also disclosed.
US09519693B2
An aspect of the invention hereby presented provides a means to display a first set of, for instance, documents in conjunction with a second set of documents when the second set of documents would not necessarily fit in the query used to select the documents of the first set of documents and/or would not necessarily fit the collation of the first set of documents. The second set of documents so located in relationship with the first set of documents having a beneficial effect for the understanding of the first set of documents. A system and a GUI thereof is also hereby presented.
US09519687B2
Elements of a database object are stored among a plurality of different storage regions, each storage region being associated with a first value range indicating upper and lower range values for element values within that storage region. An index is generated and maintained for one or more second value ranges that include range values that comprise subsets of the first value ranges. A query is processed that includes a query value and one or more storage regions to be read is determined by using one of the index and the first value ranges based on the query value relative to a second value range.
US09519686B2
A mechanism is provided, in a data processing system comprising a processor and a memory configured to implement a question and answer system (QA), for providing confidence rankings based on temporal semantics. Responsive to receiving an input question, a set of candidate answers is identified from a knowledge domain based on a correlation between an identified one or more predicates and an identified one or more arguments to the knowledge domain. A confidence score is associated with each of the candidate answers and each confidence score associated with each candidate answer is refined based on a set of temporal characteristics identified in the input question. A set of temporally refined candidate answers is then provided to the user.
US09519679B2
An apparatus includes a renaming component to homogenized query instructions for retrieving data items from a data set organized using index labels by identifying a declaration instruction associating an object thereof with an index label, replacing the name provided to the object the with an archetypal name based on the index label, and generating change data associating the name with the archetypal name; a hashing component to take an instruction hash of the homogenized instructions; a cache control routine to find a matching instruction hash corresponding to results of earlier database queries in a results cache; and a reversal routine to, in response finding a matching instruction hash, retrieve a cached result from the results cache associated with the matching instruction hash, and replace a name of a different object therein based on the change data and the query instructions to generate a new result of the new database query.
US09519675B2
A zero downtime upgrade procedure upgrading a source system to a target system is initiated that prepares software for the target system in parallel to the operation of the source system. As part of the upgrade procedure, source tables of the source system are renamed. Thereafter, the renamed source tables are cloned for the target system. Further, the renamed source tables are equipped with database triggers to transfer data from the renamed source tables to the cloned tables used by the source system according to a source database schema. Next, the target tables are generated that include updated software content for later use by the target system while the source tables are used via a bridge database schema. Tables can then be shared between the source database schema accessed via the bridge database schema and the target system.
US09519672B2
In an embodiment, a computing device determines sensor signals detected by one or more sensors of the computing device. The sensor signals indicate motion of the computing device. The computing device selects one of a plurality of activity categories that corresponds to a portion of the sensor signals, each of the activity categories including one or more activity types. The activity types in each activity category are characterized by a common motion corresponding to the portion of the sensor signals. One of the activity types in the selected activity category is determined by analyzing the sensor signals with respect to each of the activity types in the selected activity category, and calculating a probability of each of the activity types. The determined activity type is displayed on the computing device.
US09519667B2
Method of determining the spatial storage of an object by means of a flexible hierarchical structure containing a set of elements of an n-tree. Method comprises: Obtaining an object for placement in one of the set of elements of the n-tree. Determining if the boundary of the object goes beyond the boundaries of the most suitable element that is intersected by a portion of the object when the object is placed in this most appropriate element. Increasing the size of the most suitable element by adding to it a zone of presence of the object, the boundary of the zone of presence of the object being distant from the boundary of the most suitable element by the maximum value of the projection of the object beyond the boundaries of the most suitable element.
US09519665B2
Method of searching comprising applying a function to individual elements within a digital work to form a set of index elements. Storing the index elements as an index for the digital work. Receiving a search term. Applying the function to one or more individual elements within the search term to convert the search term into one or more converted search term elements. Identifying a digital work having an index containing one or more index elements that match one or more of the converted search term elements. Returning search results of the identified digital work. Searchable index for a digital work formed by applying a function to individual elements within the digital work to form a set of index elements.
US09519664B1
Read-only nodes of a distributed database system may implement index structure navigation using page versions. A read request may be received at a read only node of a distributed database for select data. Data pages linked together to form an index structure for data stored for the distributed database may be navigated according to versions maintained for the data pages in order to identify one or more locations to access for the select data. One or more prior versions of data pages may be selected as part navigating the index structure according to a consistent view of the distributed database associated with the read request. Change notifications may also be received at the read-only node modifying the data pages of the index structure. The index structure modifications may be applied without blocking the index structure navigation for servicing the read request.
US09519660B2
Information processing apparatus, clustering method, and recording medium storing clustering program
An information processing apparatus, a clustering method, and a clustering program stored on a recording medium, each of which determines an initial value of model parameter of an input data set based on a model parameter of a reference data set that is similar to the input data set and is previously clustered, modifies the initial value so as to match the input data set, and to obtain a clustering result of the input data set using the updated initial value of model parameter.
US09519659B2
Disclosed herein are a system, method and architecture for media content enrichment. A visual object detector is trained using a training data set and an existing visual object detector. The newly-adapted visual object detector may be used to detect a visual object belonging to a class of visual object. The existing object detector that is used to train the adapted object detector detects a class of visual objects different from the visual object class detected by the adapted object detector. A media content item depicting a visual object detected using the adapted object detector may be associated with metadata, tag or other information about the detected visual object to enrich the media content item.
US09519656B2
The system and method described herein may provide a virtualized replication and high availability environment. In particular, a virtualized production server may run one or more virtual machines in one or more child partitions and have a replication and high availability engine installed in a parent partition. The replication and high availability engine may automatically discover the virtual machines running in the child partitions and automatically synchronize all files associated with the virtual machines to a virtualized replica server. Furthermore, the replication and high availability engine may continuously replicate subsequent changes to the files associated with the virtual machines running in the child partitions to the virtualized replica server, which may then create on-demand virtual machines from the synchronized and replicated files to handle switchover, failover, switchback, and failback events associated with the virtualized production server or the virtual machines running in the child partitions associated therewith.
US09519655B2
A file synchronization method includes determining whether a terminal apparatus is capable of receiving a file in response to a synchronization request for the file, and converting the file into a format usable by the terminal apparatus, when that the terminal apparatus is capable of receiving the file is determined by the determining.
US09519650B2
Genetic data may be compressed efficiently by selecting for each bi-allelic marker, from among multiple compression algorithms with different associated storage requirements that depend on the minor allele frequency of the respective marker, the algorithm that has the lowest storage requirements. Efficient approaches compress, store, and load pedigree file data. A hybrid method is used that selects between multiple alternative compression algorithms whose performance depends on the frequency of certain observable genetic variations. The hybrid method may achieve higher compression ratios than PLINK or PBAT. Further, it results in a compressed data format that, generally, does not require any overhead memory space and CPU time for decompression, and, consequently, has shorter loading times for compressed files than the binary format in PLINK or PBAT. Moreover, the compressed data fonnat supports parallel loading of genetic information, which decreases the loading time by a factor of the number of parallel jobs.
US09519649B2
A row is inserted in a database table on a page having a first space reserved for inserting rows of the database table. A second space is reserved for adding data to the inserted row, wherein reserving the second space includes reserving the second space on the page responsive to inserting the row.
US09519643B1
Map label translation implementations described herein transliterate and translate map labels in a first language, even those written in a non-Latin script, into a Latin script and into a second language. In some implementations a translation candidate generator process generates possible translation candidate sequences for each n-gram in the map label, for example, an entity's name in Japanese and possibly in native Japanese (non-Latin, non-Roman) script. A candidate sequence selector selects a number of top possible translation candidate sequences. A ranking feature extraction process is used to rank the selected top number of top possible translation candidate sequences by using a trained probabilistic classifier and geospatial and linguistic context information as ranking features. A post ranker then re-ranks the selected ranked translation candidates depending on neighboring proximity information around the location of the entity and outputs the best map label translation in the second language.
US09519637B2
A text processing apparatus includes an environmental information acquisition unit configured to acquire environmental information, a text acquisition unit configured to acquire text, a word extraction unit configured to extract a word from the text, and a joint indication unit configured to convert the word extracted from the text into a converted word using a dictionary that is accessed according to the environmental information acquired by the environmental information acquisition unit and indicate the converted word along with the word extracted from the text.
US09519620B1
A first food ingredient may be received. The first food ingredient may comprise a first plurality of chemical constituents. A plurality of candidate food ingredient substitutes may be received. Each candidate food ingredient substitute may comprise a second plurality of chemical constituents. For each of the plurality of candidate food ingredient substitutes, a quantity of the second plurality of chemical constituents that match the first plurality of chemical constituents may be determined. One or more food ingredient substitutes may be identified based on at least the quantity of the second plurality of chemical constituents that match the first plurality of chemical constituents.
US09519613B2
A method for integrating interactions in an address book application that includes managing a plurality of contacts of an electronic address book, identifying a contact with a relationship to an interaction service, collecting dynamic information corresponding to the identified contact, and facilitating an interaction using the dynamic information.
US09519610B2
A system and method for reminding a user to dock a mobile device in a docking apparatus within a vehicle are provided. A docking apparatus includes: one or more sensors for determining whether an object is present in the docking apparatus; and at least one of speakers, a vibration mechanism, and one or more display indicators for reminding a user to place the mobile device in the docking apparatus when the one or more sensors determine that an object is not present in the docking apparatus. A system includes the docking apparatus and a mobile device. The method includes receiving an indication that the vehicle ignition is turned on; determining whether the mobile device is in a docking apparatus; and reminding the user to dock the mobile device in the docking apparatus.
US09519600B2
Driver shimming techniques are described. In one or more implementations, an identification is made as to which interfaces and callbacks are utilized by a shim obtained for a driver of a computing device. The identified interfaces and callbacks are wrapped by the shim of the computing device such that calls to the wrapped interfaces and callbacks are intercepted by the shim.
US09519592B2
In general, in one aspect, the invention relates to a method for managing virtual memory (VM). The method includes receiving, from an application, a first access request comprising a first VM address identifying a VM location, obtaining a current VM location version value for the VM location, obtaining a first submitted VM location version value from the first VM address, and in response to a determination that the current VM location version value and the first submitted VM location version value match: servicing the first access request using the first VM address.
US09519587B2
Pre-reading file containers storing unread file segments and segments that do not belong to the file
A file reading method, storage device, and reading system, relating to the field of file reading. The method includes receiving, by a storage device, a first read request sent by a client, where to-be-read data requested by the first read request is a part of the file; reading, from a cache, data that is of the to-be-read data and located in the cache, and reading, from a first storage medium, data that is of the to-be-read data and not located in the cache; and pre-reading, from the first storage medium, data in at least one of the containers, and storing the pre-read data into the cache, where the pre-read container includes at least one unread file segment of the file.
US09519586B2
Efficient techniques are described for reducing cache pollution by use of a prefetch logic that recognizes exits from software loops or function returns to cancel any pending prefetch request operations. The prefetch logic includes a loop data address monitor to determine a data access stride based on repeated execution of a memory access instruction in a program loop. Data prefetch logic then speculatively issues prefetch requests according to the data access stride. A stop prefetch circuit is used to cancel pending prefetch requests in response to an identified loop exit. The prefetch logic may also recognize a return from a called function and cancel any pending prefetch request operations associated with the called function. When prefetch requests are canceled, demand requests, such as based on load instructions, are not canceled. This approach to reduce cache pollution uses program flow information to throttle data cache prefetching.
US09519581B2
Techniques for enabling integration between a storage system and a host system that performs write-back caching are provided. In one embodiment, the host system can transmit to the storage system a command indicating that the host system intends to cache, in a write-back cache, writes directed to a range of logical block addresses (LBAs). The host system can further receive from the storage system a response indicating whether the command is accepted or rejected. If the command is accepted, the host system can initiate the caching of writes in the write-back cache.
US09519580B2
An approach is provided in which a storage system includes a first storage controller, a second storage controller, and multiple logical units. The storage system determines that a controller traffic load ratio between the first storage controller and the second storage controller has reached a threshold. In turn, the storage system selects one of the logical units and changes a preferred controller ownership of the selected logical unit from the first storage controller to the second storage controller to balance the controller traffic load ratio.
US09519575B2
Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for conditional iteration. A method includes receiving a request comprising a condition. A method includes checking an address mapping structure for entries satisfying a condition for a request. A method includes providing a result for a request based on one or more entries satisfying a condition for a request.
US09519573B2
A method for creating a software performance testing environment based on a virtual machine, wherein the method comprises: in response to obtaining a hard disk read/write request triggered by a virtual CPU of the virtual machine, notifying a virtual CPU scheduler to record a CPU time quota t1 already consumed by the virtual CPU in a current CPU schedule period; in response to detecting completion of hard disk read/write processing corresponding to the hard disk read/write request, predicting a hard disk read/write latency t corresponding to the hard disk read/write request in a target environment; notifying the virtual CPU scheduler to determine a CPU time quota already consumed by the virtual CPU in the current CPU schedule period based on the recorded CPU time quota t1 and the hard disk read/write latency t; and adjusting a system clock of the virtual machine based on the determined CPU time quota already consumed by the virtual CPU in the current CPU schedule period. The method may obtain, in the created software performance testing environment, a software performance testing result consistent with the result obtained under a highly configured server in the target environment.
US09519572B2
The present invention relates to a virtual machine, and specifically discloses a method and apparatus for creating a software performance testing environment based on a virtual machine, wherein the method comprises: in response to obtaining a hard disk read/write request triggered by a virtual CPU of the virtual machine, notifying a virtual CPU scheduler to record a CPU time quota t1 already consumed by the virtual CPU in a current CPU schedule period; in response to detecting completion of hard disk read/write processing corresponding to the hard disk read/write request, predicting a hard disk read/write latency t corresponding to the hard disk read/write request in a target environment; notifying the virtual CPU scheduler to determine a CPU time quota already consumed by the virtual CPU in the current CPU schedule period based on the recorded CPU time quota t1 and the hard disk read/write latency t; and adjusting a system clock of the virtual machine based on the determined CPU time quota already consumed by the virtual CPU in the current CPU schedule period. The method according to the embodiments of the present invention may obtain, in the created software performance testing environment, a software performance testing result consistent with the result obtained under a highly configured server in the target environment.
US09519567B2
A device for generating a performance evaluation program includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to: analyze a source code of a target program that is subject to performance evaluation, translate the source code into a binary code based on an analysis result of the source code while generating execution binary that has an evaluation area to be used in the performance evaluation at a target location corresponding to a candidate location of the target program, and write an evaluation code in the evaluation area of the execution binary to evaluate performance of the target program based on an evaluation item and the target location of the target program.
US09519566B2
A method includes receiving a program code at a processor. The method also includes generating, via the processor, a heap model corresponding to the program code. The method further includes detecting, via the processor, a linearizable data structure in the program code. The method also further includes modifying, via the processor, the heap model based on the detected linearizable data structure. The method also further includes analyzing, via the processor, the program code using the modified heap model.
US09519564B1
In one embodiment, a method comprises defining a temporal interval. The method further comprises saving a set of selected traces to a memory. The set of selected traces may be generated during the defined temporal interval. A starting point of the temporal interval may be defined upon a generated trace and an ending point of the temporal interval may be a length of time after the starting point. The set of selected traces may include at least one of a first trace, a highest priority trace, and a last trace. The set of selected traces may include a set of first traces, a set of high priority traces, and a set of last traces. The set of selected traces may include a set of traces over a priority threshold.
US09519562B2
Methods and systems for allocating resources in a virtual desktop resource environment are provided. A method includes making a prediction on the future demand for processes running on a distributed environment with several hosts. The prediction is based on the process demand history and includes the removal of historic process demand glitches. Further, the prediction is used to perform a cost and benefit analysis for moving a candidate process from one host to another, and the candidate process is moved to a different host when the cost and benefit analysis recommends such move. In another embodiment, the predictions on future process demand are used for distributed power management by putting hosts in stand-by mode when the overall demand decreases or by adding hosts to the distributed environment when the load increases.
US09519558B2
A method for identifying a device comprising generating, by a control device, an identification identifier of a multimedia device according to device description information of the multimedia device, sending the identification identifier to the multimedia device, so that the multimedia device displays the identification identifier, acquiring, by the control device, the identification identifier displayed by the multimedia device and an appearance image of the multimedia device, and acquiring the device description information according to the identification identifier displayed by the multimedia device, and associating, by the control device, the device description information with the appearance image of the multimedia device, so that a user equipment identifies the multimedia device according to the appearance image.
US09519553B2
A failure resistant distributed computing system includes primary and secondary datacenters each comprising a plurality of computerized servers. A control center selects orchestrations from a predefined list and transmits the orchestrations to the datacenters. Transmitted orchestrations include less than all machine-readable actions necessary to execute the orchestrations. The datacenters execute each received orchestration by referencing a full set of actions corresponding to the received orchestration as previously stored or programmed into the computerized server and executing the referenced full set of actions. At least one of the orchestrations comprises a failover operation from the primary datacenter to the secondary datacenter. Failover shifts performance of task from a set of processing nodes of the primary datacenter to a set of processing nodes of the secondary datacenter, such tasks including managing storage accessible by one or more remote clients and running programs on behalf of remote clients.
US09519551B2
The recovery of one or more transactions in a computing system in which one or more persistent systems are coupled via a bus to one or more processors. As an example, the persistent system may serve as at least part of the main memory of the computing system. The transaction might implement multi-versioning in which a record is not updated in place. Rather, each record is represented as a sequence of one or more record versions, each version having a valid interval during which the record version is considered to properly represent the record.
US09519549B2
Control of the discard of data from cache during backup of the data. In a computer-implemented system comprising primary data storage; cache; backup data storage; and at least one processor, the processor is configured to identify data stored in the primary data storage for backup to the backup data storage, where the identified data is placed in the cache in the form of portions of the data, and where the portions of data are to be backed up from the cache to the backup storage. Upon backup of each portion of the identified data from the cache to the backup storage, the processor marks the backed up portion of the identified data for discard from the cache. Thus, the backed up data is discarded from the cache right away, lessening cache pollution.
US09519548B2
One or more unused bits of a virtual address range are allocated for aliasing so that multiple virtually addressed sub-pages can be mapped to a common memory page. When one bit is allocated for aliasing, dirty bit information can be provided at a granularity that is one-half of a memory page. When M bits are allocated for aliasing, dirty bit information can be provided at a granularity that is 1/(2M)-th of a memory page.
US09519542B2
A storage control apparatus includes a controller to, when more storage devices, among a plurality of storage devices across which a plurality of information areas storing information representing redundant data and one or more spare areas are distributed, than the number of the spare areas fail, perform a rebuild process of information stored in a plurality of information areas of a failed first storage device included in the plurality of combinations of the plurality of information areas and the one or more spare areas, the rebuild process including restoring information corresponding to one information area of the failed first storage device included in one combination among the plurality of combinations, and determining a write destination storage device to which the restored information is to be written in accordance with the number of times information is read from a non-failed second storage device.
US09519541B2
Data checking and correction for a volatile memory of a data storage device, the data storage device further including a non-volatile memory and a controller. The controller operates the non-volatile memory in accordance with requests issued from a host. The controller uses the volatile memory for temporary storage of temporary data required for operations of the non-volatile memory. The controller generates error checking and correction content for the temporary data and writes the temporary data and the error checking and correction content into the volatile memory in at least one burst length for temporary storage of the temporary data. In this manner, it is not necessary to manufacture any additional pin on the volatile memory for data checking and correction.
US09519537B2
The present disclosure relates to a log data processing apparatus and a method for controlling the same. A log data processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a communication unit configured to receive information on log data corresponding to an application from a device for generating the log data, a control unit configured to generate a log message on a basis of the log data information, and a storage unit configured to store the log message and generation history information of the log message generated, wherein the log data information includes a log message parameter, message code information, and identifier information of the application.
US09519532B2
A method, processor, and computer system for handling interrupts within a hierarchical register structure. The method includes receiving at a root-level register an indication of an interrupt occurring at a lower level register in the register structure, using a system interrupt handler to invoke an error handler assigned to a set of registers of the structure that includes the lower level register, and using the invoked error handler to handle the interrupt and return to the system interrupt handler.
US09519519B2
In a system and method for managing mainframe computer usage, preferred values for service class defined performance goals are determined to optimize workload performance in service classes across a logical partition. A method for managing mainframe computer system usage can include receiving a performance optimization goal for workload performance in a service class, the service class having a defined performance goal. Achievement of the performance optimization goal is assessed, and a preferred value for the defined performance goal is determined based on assessing achievement of the performance optimization goal. Workload criticality can be taken into account, and automatic changes to the performance goal authorized.
US09519514B2
Embodiments include a system on chip (SOC) comprising: a cache; a buffer manager configured to manage a plurality of buffer locations; and a processing core configured to issue a buffer allocation request to the buffer manager to request the buffer manager to allocate one or more buffer locations to the processing core, the buffer manager being further configured to, in response to receiving the buffer allocation request, allocate a first buffer location to the processing core by writing a first buffer pointer associated with the first buffer location to the cache, and the processing core being further configured to obtain the allocation of the first buffer location by reading the first buffer pointer from the cache.
US09519510B2
A node of a storage service is selected as a coordinator of a distributed transaction involving multiple page-level modifications. The coordinator identifies other nodes as members of a node chain collectively storing physical data pages at which proposed modifications are to be performed, including a decider node responsible for a decision to commit the transaction. The coordinator generates a transaction preparation message comprising a representation of an order of respective commit decisions associated with the proposed modifications, and transmits the message to a selected node of the chain for a sequential propagation along the chain. Each chain node performs a local commit analysis for its changes and stores a record of its intent to commit. If a decision to commit is reached at the decider, the proposed modifications are completed.
US09519498B2
Briefly, aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to virtual machines. In aspects, when a host is reset or powered on, a measured boot is performed. If the measured boot indicates that the host is in a state that satisfies a policy for gaining access to a cryptographic key, the cryptographic key may be obtained. The cryptographic key may be used, directly or indirectly, to decrypt data of a virtual storage device. This decrypted data may then be used to instantiate a virtual machine.
US09519493B2
A mechanism for populating a client device with graphical images specific to a machine is disclosed. A method includes storing a repository of graphical images associated with virtual machines (VMs), wherein the repository of graphical images is stored at the computing device prior to a connection of the computing device to a virtual machine (VM), connecting with a VM that is hosted by a host machine separate from the computing device and rendered in a graphical user interface (GUI) of the computing device, receiving hints regarding a configuration of the VM, and extracting one or more of the graphical images from the stored repository of graphical images that satisfy the received hints.
US09519478B2
Systems and methods for managing multiple versions of applications executing on servers in a server pool are provided. A request to generate new session data for a transaction requested by a user is received by a first server executing a first version of an application. A determination is made that the first version of the application is unsuitable to process the request. An identity of a second server executing a second version of the application is requested by the first server in a server pool comprising one or more servers, and an appropriate second server is selected. The first server transmits a hypertext transfer protocol proxy request to the selected second server, which generates the new session data.
US09519477B2
A tool for automatic pre-detection of potential software product impact according to a statement placed in a software development system, and for automatically recommending for resolutions which accesses a repository of information containing a history of changes and effects of the changes for a software project; using a received a statement in natural language to perform a natural language search of the repository; according to the findings of the search of the repository, using a machine learning model to compose an impact prediction regarding the received statement relative to the findings; and automatically placing an advisory notice regarding to the impact prediction into the software development system, wherein the advisory notice is associated with the received statement.
US09519475B2
An information processing apparatus which is capable of, when in software updating, a need to perform an additional update arises in addition to regular updates, efficiently performing the updates. First time information indicative of a first time at which update firmware is obtained from an external server is applied is set, and second time information indicative of a second time at which the update firmware obtained from the external server is applied to the information processing apparatus is set. When update firmware is obtained based on the first time information, the update firmware is applied to the information processing apparatus at the second time indicated by the second time information. When a need to perform an additional update of firmware arises, additional update firmware relating to the additional update is applied to the information processing apparatus earlier than the second time indicated by the second time information.
US09519455B2
An image processing apparatus, which includes a voice input receiver configured to receive a voice input of user, a signal processor configured to recognize and process the received voice input received through the voice input receiver, a buffer configured to store the voice input, and a controller configured to determine whether a voice recognition function of the signal processor is activated and control the signal processor to recognize the voice input stored in the buffer in response to the voice recognition function being determined to be activated. The controller is further configured to store the received voice input in the buffer in response to the received voice input being input through the voice input receiver while the voice recognition function is not activated, so that the received voice input is recognized by the signal processor when the voice recognition function is activated.
US09519453B2
A method is carried out by a receiving and playing device (10), for receiving and playing a media stream. The method includes a first playing procedure (s12), a playing mode switching procedure (s14), and a second playing procedure (s16). The first playing procedure (s12) includes receiving a media stream through a communication medium or network (30) and playing the received media stream. The playing mode switching procedure (s14) includes determining (s142) whether a media content about to be received or being received is locally stored and, if so, switching to the second playing procedure (s16). The second playing procedure (s16) includes playing the media content based on at least the locally stored media content. The invention also relates to methods carried out by a transmitting device (20), to receiving and playing devices (10), to transmitting devices (20), and to computer programs.
US09519452B2
A mobile terminal including a first display unit configured to display a first screen image; an interface unit configured to be connected to an external display device having a second display unit; and a controller configured to interface with the external display device to display a monitor window including a second screen image corresponding to the first screen image on the external display device, and to control the monitor window to be enlarged on the second display unit when the first screen image is zoomed in on the first display unit.
US09519437B2
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for selecting first data sets in a first storage group to swap with second data sets in a second storage group. First data sets are stored in a first storage group and second data sets are stored in a second storage group. A determination is made for a value for each of at least one of the first data sets based on at least one priority of at least one job processing I/O activity at the first data set. At least one of the first data sets for which the value was determined is selected to migrate to the second storage group based on the value.
US09519431B1
Collaboration between discrete systems and a shared system to consolidate shared storage-related services. In one example, shared, consolidated storage-related services and high-availability are provided by pairing each of a plurality of discrete block storage virtualization modules residing on each discrete computer system to a shared block storage virtualization module residing on a shared computer system, and maintaining logical volume coherency locally by each of the plurality of discrete block storage virtualization modules, and globally by the shared block storage virtualization module. Additionally, allocation of a set of block storage virtualization functions to be performed by at least one of the plurality of discrete block storage virtualization modules or the shared block storage virtualization module can be made according to the pairing.
US09519430B2
A method, system, and computer program product to verify management of real storage via multi-threaded thrashers in multiple address spaces are described. The method includes dynamically scaling a number of units of work and a number of address spaces based on a number of available processors and dynamically scaling an amount and page size of storage pages representing virtual storage accessed by each of the number of units of work based on a total available memory. The method also includes obtaining, at each of the units of work, different types of storage frame sizes and attributes, accessing the storage pages corresponding with the respective different types of storage frame sizes and attributes and performing a respective function, and verifying, for each of the units of work performing the respective function, a location of the storage pages and content of the storage pages based on the respective function.
US09519429B2
Examples may include techniques to manage multiple sequential write streams to a solid state drive (SSD). Wrap around times for each sequential write stream may be determined. Respective wrap around times for each sequential write stream may be changed for at least some of the sequential write streams to cause the multiple sequential write streams to have matching wrap around times.
US09519417B2
This invention relates to methods and systems for accelerometer-based sensing of motion and orientation of a portable device affixed to or integral with an object, to trigger an audio or visual output based on the motion or orientation of the object the portable device is monitoring. The audio output can be pre-recorded in the device memory or can be user recorded through the “tilt and tell” device voice recording. The invention also employs unique movement and orientation to estimated usage, the person using the device, and other application specific usage information. The unique movement can also be used as user interface to the device.
US09519416B2
A method includes receiving an input at a media display control device and performing a media control function in response to the input, where the media control function causes the media display control device to change a playback parameter of displayed media content. The method further includes determining a control value corresponding to the media control function and, based on the control value satisfying a threshold, displaying a progress bar with the displayed media content.
US09519412B2
A display control apparatus includes: a voice message acceptance block configured to accept a voice message; an option identification block configured to identify, from among a plurality of options related with information indicative of voice messages, in accordance with acceptance of a voice message by the voice message acceptance block, an option of attention that is an option related with information indicative of the accepted voice message and an alternative option other than this option of attention identified on the basis of the information indicative of this voice message or this option of attention; and a display control block configured to display information indicative that the option of attention is in a selected state and information indicative of a voice message by which the option identification block identifies the alternative option as the option of attention in accordance with the acceptance by the voice message acceptance block.
US09519411B2
A method for management of a land base includes interfacing a machine or equipment to a computer running a geographical information system (GIS) application such that the computer is configured to monitor the operations performed by the equipment or machine on the land base and store the operations as map points, lines, or polygons on at least one data layer within the GIS application. The method further includes displaying the GIS application to the operator at the point and time of performing the operations.
US09519401B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a context menu based on predicted commands. One embodiment involves identifying historical commands previously performed in an application. The embodiment also involves determining that each of a subset of commands from the historical commands has a higher correlation with a trigger command than others of the plurality of historical commands. The embodiment also involves generating a context menu including the subset of commands in response to receiving a request for the context menu after performing the trigger command in the application.
US09519396B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for placing an asset on a three-dimensional model. Each asset can be associated with a pivot point and with an asset normal. A contact point on the surface of a model where an asset is to be positioned may be identified, and a surface normal that may be perpendicular to the surface at the contact point may also be identified. Then, the asset can be placed on the model such that the position of the pivot point of the asset may coincide with the position of the identified contact point on the surface of the model, and such that the orientation of the asset normal may match the orientation of the identified surface normal.
US09519394B2
Partition information concerning equipment disposed in a local area is determined. The partition information specifies a division of a local area into a plurality of sub-areas with each of the plurality of sub-areas having equipment. The partition information is uploaded to a user and one or more sub-areas are selected. Operational information concerning a plurality of devices contained in the selected sub-area is uploaded relating to the operation or the interconnection of the devices. The uploaded information is presented to the user in a way that facilitates an understanding of a structure of the network. After the information is analyzed, a network modification is selected, and at least one DTM-compliant software instance that implements the network modification is created.
US09519392B2
A method for fabricating a touch screen panel includes forming a metal layer on a substrate, and patterning the metal layer to form a metal pattern including a pad metal layer, a wiring metal layer, a connection metal layer, and a sensing metal layer including metal lines having a mesh shape. The method also includes forming a first transparent conductive layer on the substrate, forming an insulation layer on the first transparent conductive layer, patterning the insulation layer to form a wiring insulation layer, a connection insulation layer, and a sensing insulation layer, patterning the first transparent conductive layer to form a peripheral wiring, a connector, and a sensing electrode; forming a second transparent conductive layer on the substrate including the peripheral wiring, the connector, and the sensing electrode; and patterning the second transparent conductive layer to form a pad area and a bridge.
US09519378B2
[Object] To provide a pressure detector capable of accurately detecting a pressing force.[Solution] A pressure detector according to the present invention includes a first piezoelectric sheet 3a, a second piezoelectric sheet 3b located so as to be close to or in contact with the first piezoelectric sheet 3a, and a detection electrode 4 that sandwiches the first piezoelectric sheet 3a and the second piezoelectric sheet 3b. The first piezoelectric sheet 3a and the second piezoelectric sheet 3b are composed of materials having identical characteristics and have a thickness of 5 μm to 50 μm. Potential differences respectively generated between surfaces on a support substrate 1 side and surfaces opposite to the support substrate 1 of the first piezoelectric sheet 3a and the second piezoelectric sheet 3b when the first piezoelectric sheet 3a and the second piezoelectric sheet 3b are pulled in an in-plane direction have a relationship expressed by expression 1: V1/V2<0. In expression 1, V1 and V2 represent potential differences respectively generated between the surfaces on the support substrate 1 side and the surfaces opposite to the support substrate 1 of the first piezoelectric sheet 3a and the second piezoelectric sheet 3b.
US09519375B2
An improved portable device has at least one touch-sensitive input surface for operator input and at least one sensor for detecting the input on the input surface. There is at least one sensor for monitoring the input surface which is designed to receive large-area and/or nearly simultaneous inputs, and at least one preset special function on the device which is able to be triggered by large-area input and/or nearly simultaneous inputs.
US09519374B2
An in-cell touch panel and a display device are disclosed. The in-cell touch panel includes: an upper substrate and a lower substrate arranged opposite to each other, a plurality of mutually independent self-capacitance electrodes arranged in the same layer, and a plurality of leads configured to connect the self-capacitance electrodes to a touch detection chip. The self-capacitance electrodes and the plurality of leads are arranged in different layers; an interlayer insulating layer is disposed between the self-capacitance electrodes and the leads; each self-capacitance electrode is electrically connected with the lead via a through hole running through the interlayer insulating layer; and the interlayer insulating layer is provided with recessed portions at overlapped areas of the self-capacitance electrodes and the leads other than the leads electrically connected with the self-capacitance electrodes. Therefore, the uniformity of display images of the touch panel can be improved.
US09519373B2
A coordinate processing unit (23) defines, from a coordinate value of a touched position acquired by a sensor unit (21) and a display mode, a video corresponding to the touched position, and converts the coordinate value into a coordinate value in the defined video, and the coordinate value converted by the coordinate processing unit (23) is transmitted to PC(0) to (2) serving as a supply source of the defined video.
US09519371B2
In a display device which has a transparent display with touch operations being carried out from opposite sides thereof, i.e., a front face and aback face, operability of the touch operations can be improved. In display control of graphics data which is constructed to include a first component which assumes a touch operation from either one of the front face and the back face, and a second component which assumes a touch operation from a side opposite to the side from which the touch operation is assumed by the first component, only the first component is first displayed, and after a touch operation with respect to the first component is carried out, a content of the second component is decided according to an instruction inputted by the touch operation, so that the second component is then displayed.
US09519365B2
A display control apparatus enables a user to perform a touch operation more simply and easily on a screen including a first item permitting a setting change without screen transition and a second item permitting a setting change after transition of the screen to a different display screen. On a display screen with a plurality of items including the first item and the second item, when a touch-down operation is detected in an area of the first item while the first item is selected, the display control apparatus invalidates a move operation for selecting other items. On the other hand, when a touch-down operation is detected in an area of the second item while the second item is selected, the display control apparatus validates a move operation for selecting other items.
US09519361B2
An active stylus is disclosed. The stylus includes an electrode at a tip of the stylus; and powered circuitry coupled to the electrode and configured for capacitively coupling the electrode with a capacitive touch sensor panel. The powered circuitry can further include drive circuitry configured to output a drive voltage at the electrode and/or sense circuitry configured to sense a voltage received at the electrode.
US09519360B2
A processing system for a capacitive sensing device has a sensor module with sensor circuitry coupled to sensor electrodes, the sensor module drives the sensor electrodes for capacitive sensing, and a determination module to detect input objects in a sensing region of the capacitive sensing device, enter a pen mode based on detecting a condition, determine, responsive to entering the pen mode, exclusion data based on at least the one input object. An exclusion region is displayed by a host device, the exclusion region is based on the exclusion data and includes a portion of the sensing region with diminished detectability of an input object.
US09519345B2
In one example, a method includes receiving, by a computing device, an indication of a detected force applied to the computing device. The method further comprises determining, by the computing device, that the detected force matches a corresponding input that the computing device associates with a corresponding function that is executable by the computing device. The method further comprises generating, by the computing device and in response to determining that the detected force matches the corresponding input and, a non-visual output based on the corresponding function.
US09519342B2
An electronic apparatus and a control method thereof are provided, which displays first voice guide information indicating voice commands available to control the electronic apparatus, and if a command to control an external device connected to the electronic apparatus is received, changes the first voice guide information and displays second voice guide information to indicating voice commands available to control the external device.
US09519338B2
The present invention discloses a task processing apparatus and a method, and belongs to the field of radio communications technologies. The method includes: obtaining, by a task processing apparatus, one or more configured tasks, and selecting a task to be scheduled from the one or more tasks; and processing the task to be scheduled according to control parameters of the task to be scheduled to obtain a processing result, outputting the processing result of the task to be scheduled, and, according to the control parameters of the task to be scheduled, scheduling a next-level task processing apparatus to process the task to be scheduled. In the present invention, the task processing apparatus selects the task to be scheduled from the one or more configured tasks, and then processes the task to be scheduled in real time according to the control parameters of the task to be scheduled.
US09519337B2
An electronic control unit of one embodiment includes first and second microcomputers for mutually monitoring operations, an output circuit for outputting a signal that is outputted from at least one of the first and second microcomputers, a power supply circuit for supplying electric power to the output circuit, and a stop unit for stopping supply of the electric power from the power supply circuit to the output circuit. The first microcomputer has operation modes including a normal mode and a low power mode. In the low power mode, the first microcomputer stops monitoring the operation of the second microcomputer and outputs a power supply stop signal that operates the stop unit to stop the supply of the electric power from the power supply circuit to the output circuit.
US09519336B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a control unit that controls power supply to a plurality of power supply domains respectively corresponding to a plurality of functions included in an apparatus. A circuit integrates bus signals between the plurality of power supply domains is included in a specific power supply domain out of the plurality of power supply domains, and the control unit controls the power supply to the specific power supply domain to be performed prior to the other power supply domains connected with the specific power supply domain.
US09519333B2
Methods and articles of manufacture for hosting a safety critical application on an uncontrolled data processing device are provided. Various combinations of installation, functional, host integrity, coexistence, interoperability, power management, and environment checks are performed at various times to determine if the safety critical application operates properly on the device. The operation of the SCA on the UDPD may be controlled accordingly.
US09519329B2
An image forming apparatus includes a volatile memory and System-on-Chip (SoC) part. The SoC part includes an internal memory, a CPU for accessing the volatile memory in the normal mode; an interface part for receiving a external signal, and a control part for, when the interface part has no input during a first preset time, copying information stored to the volatile memory to the internal memory and converting to a first power saving mode to lower an operating frequency of the volatile memory and an operating frequency of the CPU, and when a normal mode switch signal is not input during a second preset time in the first power saving mode, controlling the CPU to access the information copied to the internal memory and converting to a second power saving mode to change the volatile memory to a self-refresh mode.
US09519327B2
There is provided a communication apparatus in which power consumption by wired connection is reduced in a standby state. An acquisition unit acquires information indicating whether a partner apparatus connected to the communication apparatus by wired connection has a function of waiting in a power saving state in the wired connection. Based on the acquired information, a setting unit sets a communication speed with the partner apparatus. The function of waiting in the power saving state in the wired connection is, for example, LPI (Low Power Idle).
US09519324B2
Technologies for local power gate (LPG) interfaces for power-aware operations are described. A processor includes locally-gated circuitry of a core, main core circuitry of the core, the main core, and local power gate (LPG) hardware. The LPG hardware is to power gate the locally-gated circuitry according to local power states of the LPG hardware. The main core decodes a first instruction of a set of instructions to perform a first power-aware operation of a specified length, including computing an execution code path for execution. The main core monitors a current local power state of the LPG hardware, selects one of the code paths based on the current local power state, the specified length, and a specified threshold, and issues a hint to the LPG hardware to power up the locally-gated circuitry and continues execution of the first power-aware operation without waiting for the locally-gated circuitry to be powered up.
US09519318B2
Storage systems, carriers, enclosures and support PCBs connecting to a first storage device of a first form factor such as a hard disc drive (HDD), a dongle within a storage carrier coupled to the first storage device, and a second storage device such as a solid-state drive (SSD) coupled to the dongle having a second form factor different than or smaller than the first form factor.
US09519315B2
An embodiment is a memory card including a rectangular printed circuit card having a first side and a second side, a first length of between 151.35 and 161.5 millimeters, and first and second ends having a second length smaller than the first length. The memory card also includes a first plurality of pins on the first side extending along a first edge of the rectangular printed circuit card that extends along a length of the card, a second plurality of pins on the second side extending on the first edge of the rectangular printed circuit card, and a positioning key having its center positioned on the first edge of the rectangular printed circuit card and located between 94.0 and 95.5 millimeters from the first end of the rectangular printed circuit card. The memory card also includes a memory module, a hub device and pins for boundary scan signals.
US09519312B2
An apparatus comprising: a controller; a first part; a second part; an arrangement configured to add a third part between the first part and the second part to change a configuration of the apparatus from a first configuration in which the first part and the second part are adjacent and there is no third part between the first part and the second part, to a second configuration in which the first part and the second part are separated by the third part and the first part and the third part are adjacent, wherein the controller is configured to pair the first part and the second part as a user interface when the apparatus is in the first configuration, and is configured to pair the first part and the third part as a user interface when the apparatus is in the second configuration.
US09519311B2
An electronic device including a casing, a sound cabinet structure and a magnetic element is provided. The casing has an accommodating recess located inside the casing. The sound cabinet structure is located inside the casing and adjacent to the accommodating recess. The sound cabinet structure includes a resonance cavity and a sound output opening. The resonance cavity is communicated with the accommodating recess. The sound output opening penetrates through the casing and is communicated with the resonance cavity. The magnetic element is disposed inside the accommodating recess and adaptable to move in the accommodating recess, so that the casing is adaptable to be connected with an object or remove from the object. A hitting sound generated by the magnetic element while moving in and contacting the accommodating recess passes through and is effected by the sound cabinet structure.
US09519310B2
A display terminal has a rectangle display screen with a long side and a short side and has two states, a first state in which only the short side is parallel to a horizontal plane and a second state in which only the long side is parallel to the horizontal plane. A display method includes generating a first display command when the terminal is detected to be in the first state and generating a second display command when the terminal is detected to be in the second state.
US09519309B2
Particular embodiments described herein provide for an electronic device, such as a notebook computer or laptop, that includes a circuit board coupled to a plurality of electronic components (which includes any type of components, elements, circuitry, etc.). The electronic device may also include a base portion and a lid portion coupled to the base portion at a hinge configured such that the base portion and the lid portion can rotate between an open configuration of the electronic device and a closed configuration of the electronic device. The lid portion can include at least one segment that is to raise at least a portion of the base portion in response to a rotation toward the open configuration (e.g., opening the lid portion to access a touchpad or a keyboard of the electronic device, or to see a display of the electronic device).
US09519308B2
A printed circuit board and a design method thereof are disclosed. The design method includes: wiring signal lines on an area basis at inner layers adjacent to outer surface layers; arranging the outer surface layers with no wiring or few wirings and interconnecting the outer surface layers through vias, so that the outer surface layers function as a primary ground; and setting parameters of a line width and a layer height to control a target impedance value. The printed circuit board includes outer surface layers and two inner layers therebetween. The inner layers adjacent to the outer surface layers are used for arranging signal lines on an area basis; and the outer surface layers are arranged with no wiring or few wirings and are interconnected as a primary ground through vias. The invention also discloses a mainboard of a terminal product using the printed circuit board.
US09519306B2
Provided is distribution device that distributes time information to at least one sensor device, the distribution device including a storage unit that stores a time adjustment amount to be used for adjusting a local time, a calculation unit that calculates a time difference between a reference time and the local time, an adjustment unit that calculates an adjusted local time by adjusting the local time by an amount equal to or less than the time adjustment amount, when the time difference is greater than the time adjustment amount, and a distribution unit that distributes time information of the adjusted local time to the sensor device.
US09519299B2
A method of controlling a voltage regulator having a nominal input and a nominal output structured to operate in a forward power mode wherein power flows from the input to the output and a reverse power mode wherein power flows from the output to the input. The method includes sensing current flowing through the voltage regulator, determining a direction of power flow through the voltage regulator based on the sensed current, determining a verified direction of power flow through the voltage regulator by altering a voltage between the input and the output and analyzing an effect caused thereby on at least one of a voltage at the input and a voltage at the output, and selecting a voltage regulating scheme for controlling the voltage regulator based on the verified direction of power flow.
US09519296B1
A security code input may be obfuscated from a thermal imaging device by randomly heating a random set of inputs of an input device. The security code is inputted on an input device, which communicates with a security system to grant or deny access to a user based on an entry of the security code. The input device includes a plurality of hearing elements. The input device may receive an input from the user. A random set of heating elements including one or more heating elements, are generated from the plurality of heating elements. A temperature is determined for the one or more heating elements of the random set of heating elements. The temperature is then applied to the one or more heating elements of the random set of heating elements of the input device.
US09519289B2
The present invention provides a mobile robot configured to navigate an operating environment, that includes a controller circuit that directs a drive of the mobile robot to navigate the mobile robot through an environment using camera-based navigation system and a camera including optics defining a camera field of view and a camera optical axis, where the camera is positioned within the recessed structure and is tilted so that the camera optical axis is aligned at an acute angle of above a horizontal plane in line with the top surface and is aimed in a forward drive direction of the robot body, and the camera is configured to capture images of the operating environment of the mobile robot.
US09519287B1
A passenger in an automated vehicle may relinquish control of the vehicle to a control computer when the control computer has determined that it may maneuver the vehicle safely to a destination. The passenger may relinquish or regain control of the vehicle by applying different degrees of pressure, for example, on a steering wheel of the vehicle. The control computer may convey status information to a passenger in a variety of ways including by illuminating elements of the vehicle. The color and location of the illumination may indicate the status of the control computer, for example, whether the control computer has been armed, is ready to take control of the vehicle, or is currently controlling the vehicle.
US09519285B2
The present disclosure provides various methods for tuning process parameters of a process tool, including systems for implementing such tuning. An exemplary method for tuning process parameters of a process tool such that the wafers processed by the process tool exhibit desired process monitor items includes defining behavior constraint criteria and sensitivity adjustment criteria; generating a set of possible tool tuning process parameter combinations using process monitor item data associated with wafers processed by the process tool, sensitivity data associated with a sensitivity of the process monitor items to each process parameter, the behavior constraint criteria, and the sensitivity adjustment criteria; generating a set of optimal tool tuning process parameter combinations from the set of possible tool tuning process parameter combinations; and configuring the process tool according to one of the optimal tool tuning process parameter combinations.
US09519283B2
A control system has a plurality of spatially distributed stations. At least some of the stations have input connectors for connecting sensors or output connectors for connecting actuators. The stations are connected from station to station to form a series of stations. The series has a first station, at least one second station and a last station. The first station and every second station have a successor in the series. Every second station and the last station have a predecessor in the series. In order to transmit data in this control system, the first station generates a number of separate data telegrams which is equal to the number of second stations plus the last station. Each data telegram is addressed to precisely one of the stations. The first station sends the data telegrams on by one at defined time intervals to its successor, wherein the data telegrams are addressed in reverse order of the stations. Every second station receives a data telegram from its respective predecessor and sends the received data telegram to its respective successor in the manner of a bucket brigade until it receives a data telegram which is addressed itself. The second stations and the last station each generate an individual reply telegram which is directed to the first station, and send the individual reply telegrams to their respective predecessors in the manner of a bucket brigade.
US09519261B2
A replaceable unit for an electrophotographic image forming device according to one example embodiment includes an elongated body extending along a lengthwise dimension between a front and a rear of the body. The body has a reservoir for holding toner. The body includes an extension downward from the bottom of the body near the rear of the body. The extension has a downward chute formed therein in fluid communication with the reservoir. A rear face of the extension is unobstructed to receive a bias force in a forward direction toward the front of the body along the lengthwise dimension. An outlet port on the bottom of the extension is in fluid communication with the chute for transferring toner out of the reservoir. The replaceable unit may include a positioning bump on the bottom of the body at a rearmost position on the bottom of the body.
US09519255B2
The provided is an electrographic type label printer to properly supply a roll paper to the printer, having a transfer portion of a toner image, a fixing portion, an unwinder that feeds a roll paper, a rewinder that takes up the roll paper, a conveyance mechanism, and slack detection sensors that detect a slack degree of a medium between the transfer portion and the fixing portion. The conveyance mechanism has a conveyance belt to be rotated while mounting the medium on an upper surface facing the upper side, and an intake mechanism for tightly fitting the medium to the upper surface of the conveyance mechanism. When selecting a mode to convey the roll paper, a paper feed unit controller controls passing speed at which the medium passes through a pass-through portion provided in the fixing portion in accordance with output signals from the slack detection sensors.
US09519241B2
A development device in which there is a lubricant opposite in polarity to a developer in a surface region of a developer bearing member contacting an image bearing member and an end seal when the developer bearing member rotates.
US09519239B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, a developing roller, and a control unit. The image carrier has a surface on which an electrostatic latent image is formed. The developing roller is arranged to face the image carrier to form a development nip between the image carrier and the developing roller. The developing roller supplies toner in a two-component developer carried on a surface of the developing roller to the image carrier in the development nip so as to develop the electrostatic latent image. The control unit drivingly controls the image carrier and the developing roller. The control unit discharges the toner in the development nip to the image carrier in a state where the developing roller is stopped, so as to calculate a toner concentration in the two-component developer based on an amount of discharged toner.
US09519234B2
There is provided a carrier including magnetic core particles; and a coating layer on a surface of each of the magnetic core particles, wherein the coating layer contains electroconductive particles; wherein the electroconductive particles are electroconductive particles in which white inorganic pigments are coated with phosphorus-doped tin or tungsten-doped tin; and wherein a dope ratio of phosphorus or tungsten to tin in the phosphorus-doped tin or tungsten-doped tin is 0.010 to 0.100.
US09519225B2
The present disclosure provides a lithography system comprising a radiation source and an exposure tool including a plurality of exposure columns densely packed in a first direction. Each exposure column includes an exposure area configured to pass the radiation source. The system also includes a wafer carrier configured to secure and move one or more wafers along a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction, so that the one or more wafers are exposed by the exposure tool to form patterns along the second direction. The one or more wafers are covered with resist layer and aligned in the second direction on the wafer carrier.
US09519224B2
A lithographic apparatus comprising a support structure constructed to support a patterning device, the patterning device being capable of imparting an EUV radiation beam with a grating in its cross-section to form a patterned EUV radiation beam, and a projection system configured to project the patterned EUV radiation beam onto a target portion of the substrate, wherein the support structure is provided with a grating comprising a series of first reflective portions which alternates with a series of second reflective portions, the second reflective portions having a reflectivity which is less than the reflectivity of at least part of the first reflective portions and which is greater than zero.
US09519223B2
A surface position detection apparatus capable of highly precisely detecting the surface position of a surface to be detected without substantially being affected by relative positional displacement due to a polarization component occurring in a light flux having passed through a reflective surface. In the apparatus, a projection system has a projection side prism member having first reflective surfaces, and a light receiving system has a light receiving prism member having second reflective surfaces arranged in correspondence with the projection side prism member. The surface position detection apparatus further has a member for compensating relative positional displacement due to a polarization component of a light flux having passed through the first and second reflective surfaces.
US09519197B1
A liquid crystal display substrate includes a gate line, a data line a switching element and a pixel electrode each provided in plural. The pixel electrodes include first to fourth pixel electrodes. The first pixel electrode is connected to a first gate line and a first data line. The second pixel electrode is connected to the first gate line and a second data line adjacent to the first data line. The third pixel electrode is connected to a second gate line adjacent to the first gate line and the first data line. The fourth pixel electrode is connected to the second gate line and the second data line. The first gate line overlaps the first and second pixel electrodes and the second gate line overlaps the third and fourth pixel electrodes. Sizes of the first to fourth pixel electrodes are different from one another.
US09519191B2
A liquid crystal panel and an array substrate are disclosed. The array substrate includes a plurality of pixel cells. Pixel electrodes of each of the pixel cells connect to at least one scanning line and two data lines correspondingly. The two data lines are parallel and spaced apart from each other, and each of the pixel cells is arranged symmetrically along an axis parallel to the two data lines. In this way, the ports corresponding to the intersection of the scanning lines and the adjacent data lines are at the same height to ensure that the pixel cells may be precisely engaged with each other so as to enhance the flexibility of the pixel arrangement.
US09519188B2
A liquid crystal alignment film, a method for preparing the same and use thereof. The method for preparing the alignment film comprises the steps of: coating stearic acid onto a substrate; adding a polyamide acid salt solution to deionized water to allow the polyamide acid salt solution to form a stable film of a monomolecular layer on the surface of the deionized water; contacting the substrate coated with a layer of stearic acid horizontally with the monomolecular layer of the polyamide acid salt on the surface of the deionized water to form a monomolecular polyamide acid salt layer; and imidizing the monomolecular polyamide acid salt layer to form a monomolecular polyimide film.
US09519185B2
Exemplary embodiments provide a lighting system for a transparent LCD having opposing vertical edges, the system having a mullion lighting assembly positioned adjacent to each vertical edge of the transparent LCD, each mullion lighting assembly having sidewalls defining a center channel. A plurality of LEDs are positioned along the sidewall of each mullion assembly and on a side of the sidewall that opposes the center channel. The LEDs are preferably placed in conductive thermal communication with the sidewall and preferably have a quantum dot film positioned over each LED. A fan is preferably positioned to draw cooling air through the center channel.
US09519183B2
A liquid crystal display device which includes a pair of substrates, a pixel including a liquid crystal element between the pair of substrates, a lighting portion provided on the outer side of the pair of substrates, a first polarizing member between the pair of substrates and the lighting portion, a reflective member provided outside the lightning portion, a second polarizing member on a side opposite to the first polarizing member with the pair of substrates provided therebetween, and a first optical sensor and a second optical sensor. The first optical sensor has a function of detecting illuminance of external light, and the second optical sensor has a function of detecting a color tone of polarized light emitted from the pixel portion. The lightning portion can emits light having a predetermined wavelength depending on the color tone of the pixel portion which is detected by the second optical sensor.
US09519182B2
A display panel includes a first substrate comprising a plurality of pixel areas, a second substrate facing the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, a thin film transistor comprising a gate electrode disposed on the first substrate, a semiconductor pattern overlapping with the gate electrode, a source electrode and a drain electrode overlapping with the semiconductor pattern and spaced apart from each other, a plasmonic color filter to which a common voltage is configured to be applied, and comprising a same material as the gate electrode, disposed on a same layer as the gate electrode, and comprising a plurality of holes through which light is configured to be transmitted and a pixel electrode to which a gray scale voltage is configured to be applied, and overlapping with the plasmonic color filter, and electrically connected to the drain electrode.
US09519177B2
Provided is a display unit that includes: a display panel having a pair of substrates that are bonded to each other in a seal region along an outer edge of the display panel; a transparent plate facing the display panel; an optical film provided on a surface of the display panel which faces the transparent plate, and having an outer edge positioned over the seal region; and a resin layer sandwiched between the optical film and the transparent plate.
US09519174B2
A touch screen panel includes a plurality of first touch electrode serials arranged in a first direction, a plurality of second touch electrode serials arranged in a second direction crossing the first direction, and an insulating layer insulating the first touch electrode serials and the second touch electrode serials. Each first touch electrode serial includes a plurality of first mesh patterns formed by an intersection of first metal lines. Each second touch electrode serial includes a plurality of second mesh patterns formed by an intersection of second metal lines. The first mesh patterns are connected to one another, and the second mesh patterns are separated from one another. The separated first mesh patterns are connected to one another through a bridge.
US09519172B2
A backplate assembly is provided. The backplate assembly comprises a backplate and a reinforcing assembly, the reinforcing assembly comprises a peripheral reinforcing member connected to a peripheral portion of the backplate, and a wiring channel is provided at inner side of the peripheral reinforcing member. Preferably, the reinforcing assembly further comprises at least one intermediate reinforcing member connected to the back side of the backplate. The present invention further discloses a backlight module comprising the backplate assembly, and a display device comprising the backlight module.
US09519171B2
An electronic device includes: a backlight holding case 8 accommodating a light guide plate 7; a design frame 3 which includes a flange part 3a protruding inward from a peripheral edge of a frame opening, and a design panel part 3b protruding outward therefrom, and which is attached to an opening of a backlight holding case 8 to sandwich the plate 7 between the flange part 3a and backlight holding case 8; a protective-plate-attached liquid crystal display panel 2 in which a protective plate 2a is mounted on a display surface, and which the outer peripheral part of the protective plate 2a is fixed to the panel part 3b, and the back side is illuminated with light from the light source guided by the plate 7; and a rear side case 4 assembled to the design frame 3 fixed by the panel 2 through the panel part 3b.
US09519166B2
This disclosure provides a circuit substrate, a display panel and a display device for solving the problem of a relatively large electrode pitch of the circuit substrate in the prior art while reducing the production cost. Wherein the circuit substrate comprises a substrate, a plurality of first electrodes arranged on the substrate, and insulating convex structures arranged between the substrate and the first electrodes, the convex structure comprising a top face and a bottom face, wherein the top face contacts with the first electrode, and the bottom face contacts with the substrate.
US09519163B2
A photonic integrated circuit (PIC) is described. This PIC includes a grating coupler for surface-normal coupling that has an alternating pattern of grating teeth and grating trenches, where the grating trenches are filled with an electro-optical material. By applying an electric potential to the grating teeth, the index of refraction of the electro-optical material can be modified.
US09519162B2
An optical modulator apparatus may include a plurality of segment drivers, each segment driver having a unique offset voltage and driving but a portion or a segment of an electro-optical modulator. A modulating electrical signal may be applied to the segment drivers via a plurality of electrical delays. Parameters of the segment drivers may be selected so as to approximate a pre-defined transfer function, which may include a linear or a non-linear transfer function.
US09519153B2
Disclosed is an optical valve or light valve for providing large area collimated illumination from localized light sources, and system and method thereof for 2D, 3D, and/or autosteroscopic displays. An optical valve may include a stepped structure, in which the steps include separated extraction features which may be optically hidden to light propagating in a first direction. Light propagating in a second direction may be refracted, diffracted, or reflected by the features to provide illumination beams exiting from the top surface of the optical valve. Such controlled illumination may provide for efficient, multi-user autostereoscopic displays as well as improved 2D display functionality.
US09519144B2
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for producing images for a near-eye light field display. Defect information for a first pixel of a microdisplay of a near-eye light field display device is received and a second pixel of the microdisplay is identified, where the first pixel and the second pixel contribute to a portion of the retinal image. Based on the defect information, a value of the second pixel within an array of elemental images is modified to produce a corrected array of elemental images for display by the microdisplay. An optical apparatus of the near-eye light field display device may, for example, be a microlens of a microlens array positioned between a viewer and an emissive microdisplay or a pinlight of a pinlight array positioned behind a transmissive microdisplay relative to the viewer.
US09519139B2
A zoom lens barrel assembly includes a first barrel, a second barrel, a lens barrier, and a transparent member. The first barrel supports at least one lens. The second barrel surrounds at least a portion of an outer surface of the first barrel, and supports the first barrel to protrude along an optical axis direction. The lens barrier is disposed on a front side of the first barrel, and is moved in a direction that intersects an optical axis to expose the at least one lens when the first barrel is protruded. The transparent member is disposed on a front side of the lens barrier, and prevents impurities from entering the first barrel.
US09519136B2
In one embodiment, a micro-electro-mechanical-system (MEMS) photonic switch includes a first plurality of collimators including a first collimator configured to receive a first traffic optical beam having a traffic wavelength and a first control optical beam having a control wavelength, where a first focal length of the first collimators at the traffic wavelength is different than a second focal length of the first collimators at the control wavelength. The MEMS photonic switch also includes a first mirror array optically coupled to the first plurality of collimators, where the first mirror array including a first plurality of first MEMS mirrors integrated on a first substrate and a first plurality of first photodiodes integrated on the first substrate, where the photodiodes are disposed in interstitial spaces between the MEMS mirrors.
