US09522000B2
A surgical suture fixation system includes a delivery guide, an anchor, a movable anchor deployment component and a spring mechanism provided between the delivery guide and the anchor deployment component. The anchor is received in the anchor deployment component. The anchor is attached to a length of suture that passes through a channel in the delivery guide to connect with a fixation device outside the delivery guide. The anchor deployment component is configured to deliver the anchor into a tissue location. The system is adapted to fixing the suture to the tissue location with the anchor for supporting an implantable support material in a patient. A method of fixing the surgical suture to the tissue is also disclosed.
US09521996B2
Systems, devices, and methods capable of retracting organs are disclosed. In one embodiment, a retractor body comprises a deformable resilient frame defining a central opening and a deformable membrane extending across a portion of the central opening wherein the deformable resilient frame is arranged for complete disposal within the body of a patient and for varying the size of the central opening. In some exemplary embodiments, the retractor is arranged to form a helically coiled arrangement for insertion into the body of a patient. Delivery devices for delivering a deformable resilient retractor and methods of delivery are also disclosed.
US09521994B2
In a method for image guided prostate cancer needle biopsy, a first registration is performed to match a first image of a prostate to a second image of the prostate. Third images of the prostate are acquired and compounded into a three-dimensional (3D) image. The prostate in the compounded 3D image is segmented to show its border. A second registration and then a third registration different from the second registration is performed on distance maps generated from the prostate borders of the first image and the compounded 3D image, wherein the first and second registrations are based on a biomechanical property of the prostate. A region of interest in the first image is mapped to the compounded 3D image or a fourth image of the prostate acquired with the second modality.
US09521984B2
Device comprising: a chassis (1) which supports the entire assembly, a telescopic column (2) which comprises a lower fixed portion (5) rotating with respect to a vertical axis, and at least one upper mobile portion (6), a telescopic arm (3) that moves along the vertical column and that supports an x-ray emitter (4) at its end, wherein the telescopic arm-head assembly can be moved from the lower position of the mobile column in its retracted position to the upper position of the mobile column in its extended position, and also in that all the movements of the column are manual and have a mechanical balancing mechanism which comprises a first mechanism consisting of a spring, a block and tackle, and a variable radius pulley all housed in the fixed portion of the column, and a second balancing mechanism consisting of a recovery pulley and a two-radii pulley which balances the weight between the input of the cable and that of the telescopic arm and head assembly.
US09521980B2
A medical image registration method includes performing a first registration by registering first medical images, including a registration image and a display image, the display image being an image to be displayed, performing a second registration by registering a second medical image having a different modality than a modality of the first medical images, with the registration image, and extracting a cross-section of one of the first medical images, corresponding to a cross-section of the second medical image, from the display image, according to the first registration and the second registration.
US09521973B1
A monitoring system embodying a monitoring system embodying a method of this invention for monitoring predetermined patients with mental and/or behavioral disorders by accessing, analyzing and monitoring their measured input through a plurality of sensors inherent in most personal mobile devices is provided. The measured input may represents values attributed to at least one physical behavior of the patient that is representative of a symptom of at least one mental/behavior health condition. The measured input can be used to establish a baseline and thresholds thereof that separates the at least one physical behavior into normative from ab-normative behavior for each predetermined patient.
US09521970B2
The invention provides a monitoring device (1) for attachment to a surface of a subject. The device comprises a data collector (2) and a processor (3) as two separate parts which can be detachably joined such that physiological signals which are detected by the data collector can be transferred to the processor for signal processing and provision of monitoring data. At least one of the data collector and the processor comprises a transducer which can convert the physiological signal to a data signal which can be processed electronically. The data collector is adapted for adhesive contact with a skin surface, and may comprise an adapter (6) for the detachable attachment of the processor.
US09521968B2
Method and apparatus for providing a retention mechanism to retain the sensor in pre-deployment position within the introducer when the sensor insertion mechanism is activated so as to facilitate the sensor insertion process is disclosed.
US09521966B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for locating the parathyroid. In one aspect, temporal variation among a plurality of images is evaluated and at least one image is enhanced according to the temporal variation. The image may be enhanced to one or both of reduce conspicuity of the thyroid gland and enhance conspicuity of the parathyroid gland. Some of the plurality of images may be adjusted in order to align representations of a target portions. Adjustments may be based locations of one or more organs or one or more artificial markers affixed to a living body in the plurality of images. A local positioning system (LPS), GPS, or other locating system may be used to position a living body, align the plurality of images, or to guide the positioning of objects relative to the living body. An elastomeric gel marker for imaging applications is also disclosed.
US09521960B2
Embodiments described herein enable “in situ” sensing, which collects and analyzes physiological responses from a large group of viewers/audiences who watch a same media instance together at a single venue. Each of the group of viewers is fitted with physiological sensors with communication capabilities to communicate with a signal collection device at or near the venue. The signal collection device collects the physiological data of the viewers from the sensors, and transmits the physiological data to a processing module at another location via a network for storage and further analysis.
US09521957B2
The invention relates to a method and device for recording and presentation of physiological parameters, which can include both blood pressure and heart pulse. Information about the heart pulse is derived from a recorded blood pressure signal, whereby the need for e.g. an external ECG measurement device is eliminated. It is likewise a part of the invention that a blood pressure measurement is used for the derivation of data such as Heart Rate Variability (HRV) and/or baroreflex sensitivity (BRS) values.
US09521955B2
A subdural electro-optical sensor system may include a substrate to which is attached an array of electrodes, light emitters, and light detectors. The sensor system may be sufficiently thin, flexible, sterile and biocompatible to be positioned subdurally.
US09521953B2
A measurement device includes: a light source that generates a pump beam and a Stokes beam; a pulse stretch section that stretches the pulse of the pump beam so that the pulse width of the Stokes beam is shorter than the pulse width of the pump beam; an optical splitter that splits the Stokes beam into two beams; an optical scan section that scans a subject with the pulse-stretched pump beam and one of the two beams split by the optical splitter; a first optical detector that detects an anti-Stokes beam from the subject; a second optical detector that detects an interference beam of the other of the two beams and the Stokes beam reflected by the subject; and a signal processing section that performs an image generation process based on a detection signal from the first optical detector and a detection signal from the second optical detector.
US09521951B2
Device and method for determining an objective eye refraction parameter of a subject depending on a plurality of gaze directions, the device includes elements for ophthalmologically measuring an objective eye refraction parameter of a subject, and elements of visual stimulation of variable proximity and intended to stimulate the visual accommodation of the subject for first and second proximity values. The device includes opto-mechanical alignment elements for carrying out a first optical alignment of the optical axis of measurement on an eye axis in a first measuring position corresponding to a first angle of lowered viewing associated with a first proximity value to take a first measurement of an objective eye refraction parameter of the subject, and a second alignment of the optical axis of measurement on the eye axis in another measuring position corresponding to another angle of lowered viewing associated with another proximity value to take a second measurement.
US09521948B2
An endoscope includes a first flat surface formed at a distal end portion of an insertion part to be inserted into a subject, and orthogonal to an axial direction of the insertion part an observation window provided at the distal end portion for allowing image light of the subject to be taken therethrough, with the surface of the observation window as a light incidence plane, an illumination window provided at the distal end portion to irradiate a subject with illumination light, a fluid jetting nozzle arranged at the first flat surface to jet a fluid toward the observation window, and an inclined surface formed around the observation window and arranged at a position that faces the fluid jetting nozzle, wherein the distal end portion is formed with a second flat surface arranged on the distal end side of the first flat surface and parallel to the first flat surface.
US09521939B2
A screen cleaning device including a soft cleaning material mounted on a back material including stiffeners. The stiffener has a first area and a second area, the first area for cleaning and the second area for holding. The second area may include an attachment mechanism that provides for attachment to a key chain or other holder.
US09521934B1
A robotic vacuum wherein the housing of the system is cylindrical in form with two wheels of diameter larger than the diameter of the housing supporting the housing on either end. Larger wheels permit the device to more easily travel over small bumps or obstacles and changes in elevation. Furthermore, the design requires less power to drive the housing, so more energy is available for the primary function of vacuuming.
US09521932B2
A wall mounted body cleaning system includes a perimeter wall and a water outlet mounted on the perimeter wall. A mount is positioned on the perimeter wall and a housing is attached to the mount. An impeller is positioned within the housing and the housing has a drain opening therein. A conduit is fluidly coupled to the housing and to the water outlet. Water flowing through the conduit rotates the impeller and exits the housing through a drain in the housing. An axle is attached to the impeller and extends through the housing. A cleaning member is mounted on the axle and is rotated when the impeller rotates.
US09521930B2
A cooking tool having different features for measuring and mixing, including an elongated shaft having a central handle region, a first mixing portion such as a spoon at one end and a second mixing portion such as a whisk at another end, the first and second mixing portions being different from each other. Preferably, at least one of the first and second mixing portions defines a first measuring feature and the central handle region defines at least one measuring feature which differs from the first measuring feature.
US09521927B2
An oven suitable for roasting chickens is provided. The oven includes an oven chamber having side walls, a floor, at least one door, and a ceiling, and a plurality of heating levels. A method of roasting items in an oven is provided.
US09521925B2
A slow cooker includes a base having a heating element coupled thereto, a cooking vessel removably positioned in a compartment defined in the base, and a removable lid coupled to the cooking vessel. The cooking vessel has a cooking chamber defined therein. The removable lid includes a first panel that pivots between an open position in which access to the cooking chamber is permitted and a closed position in which access to the cooking chamber is prevented. The removable lid includes a second panel that also pivots between an open position in which access to the cooking chamber is permitted and a closed position in which access to the cooking chamber is prevented.
US09521919B1
A self-stabilizing article holder devised to stabilize a container, such as a drink glass, in an upright position to prevent spillage of a substance therefrom. The article holder includes a suction cup base configured to adhere to a mounting surface to maintain the container in an upright position. The container has an annular connection wall on a bottom side thereof that fits inside and against an annular lip on an outer perimeter of an upper surface of the base. An aperture centrally disposed in the base is configured to removably receive a stabilizer member disposed on the container bottom side. A pair of receiver members disposed on the base upper surface is configured to securingly receive respective upper connectors disposed on the container bottom side therein. A spring that surrounds the stabilizer member between the base and the container secures the receiver members and upper connectors together.
US09521908B1
A head rest assembly for a chair includes a head rest that can be adjusted in as many as three manners, such as rotational, horizontal, and/or vertical adjustment, with respect to a chair in a generally upright orientation, to achieve a desired position. The user can adjust the position of the head rest by grasping the head rest and applying force(s) in the desired directions(s), and the head rest remains in the desired position by friction, without needing to actuate any levers, knobs, and the like. Further, the head rest can have an outer surface with variable radii of curvature, and the assembly can be removably mounted to a chair.
US09521903B2
The invention refers to a rack module comprising a first plate on one side of the module and a second plate on the other side of the module. The planes of the plates are parallel to one another, and each of the plates comprises two holes for a fastening device, for fastening of the rack module to a rack cabinet. The holes are arranged such that they make the corners of a quadrangle. The first and second plates each comprise two oblong holes, each of the oblong holes is arranged in connection with one of the other holes such that the oblong holes are parallel with each other.
US09521898B2
A shower brush that includes an elongated handle connected to a brush head and an interchangeable and detachable cleaning attachments. The interchangeable cleaning attachments include a variety of cleaning surfaces, such as bristles, pads, and loofas and nozzles that dispense soap and water from assemblies within the shower brush. The soap dispensing assembly includes a pump mechanism that dispenses liquid soap housed within a reservoir through nozzles. The water dispensing assembly dispenses water from a faucet or showerhead through water dispensing channels and nozzles on the cleaning attachment. The water flow and pressure may be adjusted via a nozzle adjustment assembly that includes a rotatable shutter. In some embodiments, the shower brush additionally includes a wireless sound system assembly that communicates with electronic devices and plays audio through speakers positioned within the shower brush.
US09521895B2
A single action four point harness for a backpack that conforms to the anatomy of the wearer is provided. The backpack includes a storage section and a harness section. The harness section includes a plurality of pliable shoulder arms and a plurality of pliable waist arms that are bendable to conform to the anatomy of the wearer. The harness section also includes a buckle with a plurality of releasable fasteners. At least one fasteners is connected to each of the plurality of pliable shoulder arms and the plurality of pliable waist arms by an adjustable length strap. The buckle comprises a single release button and a plurality of individual release buttons to allow for releasing all of the fasteners from the buckle, using the single release button, or to allow for releasing individual fasteners from the buckle, using the individual release buttons.
US09521880B2
A belt and belt buckle design that opens to the front where the strap enters the belt buckle from below. The buckle is made from a single buckle member that is formed and that uses force and/or guidance from the buckle to hold the belt in place. The buckle has a hook region to support the strap of the belt and has a body passing around the strap from the back region of the strap to the front region of the strap.
US09521879B2
A removable stud or cleat assembly for footwear is provided, particularly for athletic or sports footwear. The stud or cleat assembly includes a stud having a first and second mounting structure and engagement structure located on the sole of the footwear and configured for engaging the first and second mounting structure of the stud. Engagement of the stud is achieved by aligning the first mounting structure relative to the engagement structure, temporarily deforming the second mounting structure and rotating the stud relative to the engagement structure to thereby securely engage the first and second mounting structure with the engagement structure. Disengagement of the stud from the engagement structure is achieved by biasing the second mounting structure to disengage the second mounting structure from the engagement structure and rotating the stud relative to the engagement structure to thereby disengage the first mounting structure.
US09521874B2
Protective gear includes an outer shell layer connected to a middle shell layer through an outer energy and impact transformer layer. The middle shell layer is connected to an inner shell layer through an inner energy and impact transformer layer. The outer and inner energy and impact transformer layers flexibly connect the shell layers to absorb impact forces, rotational forces, shear forces, etc., and allow the various shell layers to move and slide relative to the other shell layers. The outer and inner energy and impact transformer layers may be constructed using gels, fluids, electro-rheological elements, magneto-rheological elements, etc. The protective gear may be formed as helmets or body protection for various activities and protect users from not only impact and penetrative forces, but rotational and shear forces as well.
US09521867B2
The invention discloses an electronic cigarette light cap and an electronic cigarette, wherein the electronic cigarette comprises cigarette holder and a cigarette pipe comprising a tube body and an electronic cigarette light cap, and the electronic cigarette light cap comprises a top cover, and a hollow and bottomless cap column perpendicularly extending along a back side of the top cover, forming an annular stage around the cap column; at least one air inlet hole is defined in a front side of the top cover, and the air inlet hole is communicating with the cap column; the air introduced from the air inlet hole gets into the atomizing passageway via the first gap, forming the airflow path. By implementing the electronic cigarette light cap and the electronic cigarette, the air flow may get retained to be unobstructed, smoking noise caused by obstructed airflow gets reduced, which improves the users' experience.
US09521854B2
In one embodiment, a method of forming frozen ice cream pellets includes supplying an ice cream premix into a loading vessel; loading a loading cylinder with the ice cream premix from the loading vessel, the loading cylinder being connected to the loading vessel; applying a machine-controllable force to expel the ice cream premix from the loading cylinder as ice cream premix pellets; and exposing the ice cream premix pellets to a cryogenic fluid, thereby at least partially freezing the ice cream premix pellets.
US09521838B2
A photovoltaic cell or array is used to power a bird repelling device that emits deterrent sounds from a speaker or other sound emitter, under control of an electronic processor. Repellant sounds can be either a single sound, or a set of sounds, including for example pest species sounds and predator species sounds. One or more sensors, and a user interface, can assist in controlling which sound(s) to use, and when.
US09521836B2
A scent-releasing apparatus is provided. The scent-releasing apparatus includes a scent-releasing material and a housing having a longitudinal axis and an interior space in which the scent-releasing material is contained. The housing includes a base and a cover coupled to the base so as to receive the base. The cover has an air inlet port and is longitudinally movable on the base between a first position at which the cover forms an air-tight seal of the interior space, and a second position at which the cover permits ambient airflow into the interior space via the air inlet port.
US09521832B1
The present invention provides embodiments of a fishing lure having a body member supporting a hook member, the hook member having a hook bite that terminates in a hook point. A flexible snag guard has a first end attached to the body member and extends from the body member at a predetermined angle. A connector flexibly connects a second end of the snag guard to the hook bite so that the snag guard shields the hook point, the snag guard movable to expose the hook point when bitten by a fish.
US09521824B1
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01050628. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01050628. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01050628 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01050628 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US09521822B1
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01051937. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01051937. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01051937 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01051937 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US09521819B2
The invention relates to the sorghum variety designated GSV142316. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the sorghum variety GSV142316. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the sorghum variety GSV142316 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing sorghum plants by crossing the sorghum variety GSV142316 with itself or another sorghum variety and plants produced by such methods.
US09521811B2
The stackable plant container module is adapted such that a plurality of plant container modules will nest together for storage and/or shipping while allowing the plant container modules to be stacked vertically into a multi-level plant tower. The stacked plant tower includes a water bowl, defining a reservoir for receiving water, carried by the upper most plant container module, and a water tray disposed between stacked plant container modules. The stacked plant tower is adapted such that the water bowl is in fluid communication with each water tray, such that the stacked plant tower incorporates structure for managing the flow of water through the stacked plant tower.
US09521810B2
The invention related to a handheld power tool having a linear actuator and a removable member, e.g. a blade, wherein the movable member is directly connected to the actuator via a connecting rod, which pushes the movable member during a work stroke and pulls the movable member to a starting position during a return stroke. One end of the connected rod is connected, via a concentric dual ball-and-socket joint, to the actuator as well as to a guide ring that slides inside the cylindrical body of the tool. Lateral and bending forces are taken up and transmitted to the body of the tool by the guide ring without affecting the actuator. The ring defines a sealed space that houses the actuator. An axial cavity of the connecting rod partially houses the actuator in the retracted position, thus reducing the length of the tool.
US09521806B2
A farm work machine (1) operable in a variety of work modes includes a communications unit (5) that reads farm work information for a selected target farm work sector from a database of a management center storing the farm work information for each farm work sector, a work mode setting unit (46) which sets work modes, a work mode comparison unit (53) that effects comparison between a set work mode set by the work mode setting unit and a registered work mode included in farm work information read from the database, and a display data generation unit (55) that generates display data in order to display, on a display, the read farm work information and a result of the comparison effected by the mode comparison unit.
US09521801B2
An agricultural machine for working soil or for sowing seeds, including a trailed chassis and work elements distributed over a transverse beam including a central section including wheels and two side sections extending on either side of the central section during work, each end of the central section resting on the ground via a wheel. Each side section includes an extension arm and an intermediate arm, the extension arm is connected to the intermediate arm by a horizontal articulation with a substantially horizontal axis and is directed in a direction of advance at work and each intermediate arm is connected to the chassis via a vertical articulation and carries at least one work element.
US09526192B2
A cold chassis and method of making a cold chassis for electronic modules featuring the fabrication of individual brazed cooling ribs each including microchannels along the length thereof and a peripheral flange. A set of adjacent ribs are secured together and assembled onto at least one face of a frame member. The rib flanges are sealed (e.g., friction stir welded) with respect to the frame member.
US09526191B2
A fluid cooled enclosure includes a fluid conduit that provides a fluid coolant path between sides of a housing. Optionally, the fluid conduit can provide bi-directional fluid coolant paths. In another example, an interface block can be provided with a first interface surface engaging an interface surface of a first end portion of the fluid conduit. In another example, a first end portion of the fluid conduit is fabricated with a first material composition and the interface block is fabricated with a second material composition that has a higher thermal conductivity than the first material composition. In further examples, methods of cooling a conduction cooled circuit module comprise the steps of mounting an interface block to a conduction cooled circuit module, mounting the interface block with respect to the fluid conduit, and cooling the electrical circuits of the conduction cooled circuit module by flowing fluid coolant through the fluid conduit.
US09526190B2
An electronic board for avionics equipment, the board comprising a printed circuit, a reinforcing surround and board retention means. In order to improve the vibration resistance of the board, the board further comprises vibration damping means interposed between the reinforcing surround and the retention means.
US09526185B2
A hybrid printed circuit board may include a top layer, a bottom layer, and a plurality of internal layers stacked up between the top layer and the bottom layer. The plurality of internal layers may include a first internal layer below the top layer and a second internal layer above the bottom layer. The hybrid printed circuit board may include first unreinforced laminate placed between the top layer and the first internal layer. The hybrid circuit board may additionally include second unreinforced laminate placed between the second internal layer and the bottom layer. The hybrid printed circuit board may include third laminate placed between adjacent internal layers of the plurality of internal layers.
US09526179B2
A printed circuit board and the method of manufacturing the same are provided. The printed circuit board comprises a supporting plate having a front side and a rear side; a first adhesive layer placed on the front side of the supporting plate; and a front wire layer embedded into the first adhesive layer. The front wire layer includes at least one external contact portion for connecting an electronic component, wherein the surface of the external contact portion is coplanar with the surface of the first adhesive layer surrounding the external contact portion.
US09526173B2
An attachment capable of preventing liquid from adhering to a specific electronic component within an electronic device. An electronic substrate has an attachment which can be attached to and detached from the electronic substrate. The attachment has an attachment part detachably attached to an edge of the electronic substrate; and a shield part connected to or integrally formed with the attachment part. The attachment part is a clip-like member having a certain degree of elasticity, and is configured to grip an edge of the electronic substrate so that the attachment is held at a predetermined place. The shield part has an inclined surface, and is configured to shield the electronic component so that liquid, such as a splash or droplet moving toward the electronic component, does not adhere to the component when the attachment is held at the predetermined place.
US09526171B2
A package structure is provided, which includes: a substrate having opposite first and second surfaces; at least an electronic element disposed on the first surface of the substrate; and an encapsulant formed on the first surface of the substrate for encapsulating the electronic element. The encapsulant has a non-rectangular shape so as to reduce an ineffective space in the encapsulant.
US09526170B2
An electronics module for use at high temperature (up to 225° C.) in onboard aviation equipment, the module having a thick layer hybrid circuit covered in a sealing coating of poly-p-xylylene.
US09526165B2
A multilayer circuit substrate includes: a first signal line and a first ground conductor formed in a first conductive layer; and a second signal line and a second ground conductor formed in a second conductive layer, the second conductive layer facing the first conductive layer via an insulating layer. The first signal line intersects with the second signal line in a plan view of the multilayer circuit substrate, and a space between the first ground conductor and first signal line is smaller in an intersection area of the first and second signal lines than a space in a non-intersection area, and a space between the second ground conductor and second signal line is smaller in the intersection area than a space in the non-intersection area.
US09526164B2
A printed circuit board and a method of manufacturing a printed circuit board are provided. The printed circuit board includes a base, a wiring structure disposed on at least one of a surface and an interior of the base, and a plurality of stitching vias penetrating through the base in a thickness direction along an edge of the base and having side surfaces exposed externally.
US09526156B2
There is provided a system and method for controlling a tracking device to follow a location of a performer on a stage. The tracking device may comprise a lighting fixture such as a high output video projector or an automated mechanical moving light such as a DMX lighting fixture to provide a followspot, or a microphone to record audio from a particular performer. The method comprises capturing a video feed of the stage using a camera, presenting the video feed on a display of a control device, receiving input data indicating a position of the performer in the video feed, translating the input data into the location of the performer on the stage, and adjusting the tracking device to follow the location of the performer on the stage. The control device thereby provides lighting operators with an intuitive interface readily implemented using cost effective commodity hardware.
US09526153B2
A light socket adaptation system and method. A light socket adapter module comprises a female end designed to accept a light bulb, a male end designed to be placed in an existing light socket, Wi-Fi transmit/receive circuitry, Bluetooth LE transmit/receive circuitry, a processor that processes instructions received via one or more of the Wi-Fi transmit/receive circuitry and the Bluetooth LE transmit/receive circuitry, wherein the instructions are received from one or more of a remote server system and a mobile computing device, wherein the processor executes Bluetooth LE instructions to cause the light socket adapter module to detect Bluetooth LE enabled devices within a detection proximity of the light socket adapter module, and power supply control circuitry controllable by the processor, wherein the power supply control circuitry controls power supplied to a light bulb positioned in the female end of the light socket adapter module.
US09526146B2
A mask assembly fabrication apparatus includes a first vibration proof apparatus formed on a base surface, a first surface plate formed on the first vibration proof apparatus, stages formed on the first surface plate, a mask frame placed on the stages, a second vibration proof apparatus formed on the base surface to be separate from the first vibration proof apparatus, a second surface plate formed on the second vibration proof apparatus to be separate from the first surface plate, and a driving unit formed on the second surface plate and configured to move a mask.
US09526140B2
The current invention relates to a driver (10,20) for driving at least one main load and one auxiliary load comprising: a power converter (101) adapted to convert an input voltage (Vin) into at least one main output voltage provided through a main output (1011) for driving said main load, and at least one auxiliary output DC voltage through an auxiliary output (1013) for supplying said auxiliary load, a controller (103) adapted to control the main output based on at least one input set point, wherein the power converter (101) comprises a switched capacitor converter comprising a plurality of switches and a plurality of capacitors, the main output (1011) being connected to at least one internal node of the power converter (101), the auxiliary output (1013) being connected to a DC node of the power converter (101).
US09526134B2
A lighting module includes a compatible part to transform and output an output voltage from a ballast, a transformation part to transform and output an output voltage from the compatible part, and a lighting part to emit light using an output voltage from the transformation part as a driving voltage. In the compatible part, a number of ports to receive the output voltage from the ballast is different form a number of ports to output the transformed output voltage to the transformation part.
US09526122B2
A communication method for a third device that controls a first link established directly between a first device and a second device is provided. The third device allocates a first link identifier for identifying the first link. The third device transmits first information including the first link identifier to the first device and the second device. The third device receives, from the first device and the second device, second information including allocation acceptance information indicating the acceptance or rejection of allocation of the first link identifier.
US09526100B2
One embodiment of the present invention provides a method for determining a radio resource by a terminal. According to the method, information on a second cell can be received from a first cell, wherein a radio resource of the first cell includes a plurality of wireless frames along a time axis, each wireless frame includes a plurality of subframes, and the information on the second cell can include an ID of the second cell. In addition, a radio resource of the second cell can be determined by using the information on the second cell, wherein the radio resource of the second cell can be determined as a partial region in the wireless frames or the subframes of the first cell, which is indicated by the information on the second cell.
US09526096B2
Physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring scheme considering a enhanced physical downlink control channel (ePDCCH) is disclosed. According to the present invention, when a UE receives a first ePDCCH indicating a downlink transmission at subframe ‘n’ from a network, even though processes the received first ePDCCH until subframe ‘n+m’, wherein m is not 0, the UE is configured to monitor a second ePDCCH or a PDCCH from subframe ‘n+Xrtt’, where ‘Xrtt’ corresponds to a value of a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request Retransmission timer (HARQ RTT timer).
US09526095B2
The invention provides a method and apparatus for configuring a plurality of scheduling request triggers for a user equipment in a communication system. First, the base station determines a plurality of scheduling request triggers and a transmission type of each of the plurality of scheduling request triggers for the user equipment, based on the service characteristics of services of the user equipment; and then the base station transmits configuration information of the plurality of scheduling request triggers to the user equipment, the configuration information of the plurality of scheduling request triggers including the allocation way of the plurality of scheduling request triggers with respect to the services of the user equipment and the transmission type of each of the plurality of scheduling request triggers. The user equipment first receives the configuration information from the base station. After that the user equipment selects a scheduling request trigger corresponding to the current service based on the service characteristics of current service to be transmitted and the allocation way, and transmits the triggered scheduling request via the transmission type corresponding to the scheduling request trigger. By applying the technical solution of the invention, the efficient radio resource utilization could be achieved.
US09526093B2
A method and apparatus for requesting and allocating bandwidth in a broadband wireless communication system. The method and apparatus includes a combination of techniques that allow a plurality of CPEs to communicate their bandwidth request messages to respective base stations. One technique includes a “polling” method whereby a base station polls CPEs individually or in groups and allocates bandwidth specifically for the purpose of allowing the CPEs to respond with bandwidth requests. The polling of the CPEs by the base station may be in response to a CPE setting a “poll-me bit” or, alternatively, it may be periodic. Another technique comprises “piggybacking” bandwidth requests on bandwidth already allocated to a CPE. Currently active CPEs request bandwidth using unused portions of uplink bandwidth that is already allocated to the CPE. The CPE is responsible for distributing the allocated uplink bandwidth in a manner that accommodates the services provided by the CPE.
US09526088B2
A wireless communications system including a base station, a relay device, and a terminal device. The terminal device is operable to receive from the base station an allocation of uplink resources for transmitting uplink data to the relay device, and to transmit uplink data to the relay device using the uplink resources allocated to the terminal device. The relay device is operable to receive the transmitted uplink data from the terminal device on the allocated resources, to receive an allocation of uplink data resources for relaying the received uplink data to the base station, and to transmit the received uplink data to the base station using the uplink resources allocated to the relay device.
US09526079B1
A sensor, a time alignment apparatus, a time processing method, and a time alignment method are provided. The sensor begins to sense at least one sensed data at a first local time instant. The sensor transmits a response message at a second local time instant. The response message carries the at least one sensed data, the first local time instant, and the second local time instant. The time alignment apparatus receives the response message at a first global time instant. The time alignment apparatus calculates a second global time instant that the at least one sensed data being sensed according to a required transmission time between the time alignment apparatus and the sensing apparatus, a clock skew rate between the time alignment apparatus and the sensing apparatus, the first global time instant, the first local time instant, and the second local time instant.
US09526074B2
Methods and apparatus for determining a transmit antenna gain and a spatial mode of a wireless device (100) are disclosed. The apparatus (100) includes a main receive antenna (112) associated with a first receive signal strength, a diversity receive antenna (114) associated with a second receive signal strength, and a transmit antenna (116). Each of the antennas (112, 114, and 116) is operatively coupled to a controller (102). The controller (102) determines (i) a difference between the first receive signal strength and the second receive signal strength, (ii) a correction factor based on the difference, and (iii) the transmit antenna gain based on the correction factor. In addition, the difference between the first receive signal strength and the second receive signal strength may be used, along with other sensor data (e.g., accelerometer), to estimate the spatial mode (e.g., orientation and hand grip) of the device (100). This spatial mode estimation may be then be used, among other things, to more accurately determine transmit antenna gain.
US09526071B2
A method of connecting to a network by a terminal in a communication system, the communication system including the terminal, one or more access points, and a network controller controlling the one or more access points is provided. The method includes establishing a connection with a first access point, setting and storing wake-up information, configured to selectively transceive with the first access point, in the first access point and the network controller, performing hand off to a second access point connected to the network controller, and selectively transceiving data with the second access point based on the wake-up information set and stored in the network controller.
US09526069B2
Methods, systems, and devices are described for managing a radio connection between a mobile device and a base station of a radio access network. A determination is made that the mobile device is in a standby state. The radio connection transitions to a high power state while the mobile device is in the standby state. A net number of transport layer connections for the mobile device are identified. The transport layer connections are Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) or User Datagram Protocol (UDP) sockets. A net count of transport layer connections opened and closed while the radio connection is in the high power state is calculated. Dormancy of the radio connection is initiated when the mobile device is in the standby state, based at least in part on the calculated net count of transport layer connections.
US09526061B2
An apparatus and method for a wireless home mesh network with a network topology visualizer is described. In one embodiment, the method may include collecting node topology information by a node of a wireless home mesh network, where the node topology information includes a list of neighbor nodes for the node. Thereafter, a communication socket is opened, and a node topology packet, including a lust of neighbor nodes, is transmitted in order to produce a global network topology map. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09526059B2
A mobility management method of a wireless communication device is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a first signal related to a first cell, determining a size of the first cell based on the first signal, receiving a second signal related to a second cell, and determining a size of the second cell based on the second signal. The method further comprises scaling at least one mobility parameter based on the determined sizes of the first and second cells, and performing mobility management in the second cell based on the scaled mobility parameters. Corresponding computer program product, arrangement and devices are also disclosed.
US09526055B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide an access method and system, a user equipment, and a network side device. The method includes: receiving, by a user equipment, a first message that carries an identifier of a second network access point, where the second network access point can perform air interface offloading on a first network in which a user equipment is currently located; and when the first message carries identifiers of a plurality of second network access points, selecting, by the user equipment, one second network access point from the plurality of second network access points according to first auxiliary information, and accessing the selected second network access point. By adopting the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention, an access delay can be effectively shortened, and access efficiency can improved, thereby effectively implementing offloading.
US09526053B2
An apparatus and a method for providing a packet service (PS) or a Circtui service (CS) in an electronic device. The apparatus determines a number of “ping-pongs” in which an access change between a first modem and a second modem is repeatedly made for a predetermined first time, compares the number of ping-pongs with a predetermined reference number of ping-pongs, and provides the PS through the second modem for a predetermined second time when the determined number of ping-pongs is equal to or greater than the predetermined reference number of ping-pongs.
US09526047B1
An apparatus and method for deciding an offload list for a heavily loaded base station are provided. The heavily loaded base station serves a plurality of user equipments. A part of the user equipments are candidate user equipments, wherein a connection quality parameter of each of the candidate user equipments is smaller than a threshold. Each of the candidate user equipments has an offload utility value and a service level agreement degree. The apparatus selects one of the candidate user equipments as a selected user equipment according to the offload utility values. The apparatus decides to add an identity of the selected user equipment into the offload list according to at least the service level agreement degree of the selected user equipment and a load of a target base station of the selected user equipment.
US09526041B2
The present invention discloses a method for supporting a handover to a closed subscriber group (CSG) cell or a hybrid cell in a mobile communication system, and the method includes: sending, by a radio access network (RAN), information indicating that authorized public land mobile network (PLMN) information changes to a user equipment (UE); sending, by the UE, all PLMN identifiers (IDs) broadcasted by a target CSG cell to a source RAN in a measurement report; and selecting, by the source RAN or a source core network(CN), a target PLMN for the UE.
US09526040B2
A method of employing an encoding scheme for media independent handover, comprising: having at least some data type carry only required information to determine the end of data without a length value.
US09526035B2
A scheme that enables seamless roaming between the WLAN and the cellular carrier network by enabling a user that originates a call in the WLAN and happens to go outside the range of the WLAN to automatically switch over to the cellular carrier network without losing connection with the other party. This solution assumes that the mobile device has the capability to operate in at least two modes that include the WLAN mode and one of the cellular carrier modes, such as the GSM, IS-95 CDMA, IS-136 TDMA, and iDEN.
US09526034B2
The present invention provides a device and a method for logging information. The device implementing the invention is operable to attach to a first node and a second node, at least one of the first node and the second node operates within a WLAN and the other of the first node and the second node operates within a WLAN or a 3rd Generation Partnership Project, 3GPP, network. The device includes a memory and a processor. The memory includes a log, the log configured to receive at least one entry comprising an identifier for the first node and a time stamp indicating the time that the device attached to the first node. The processor acts to cause an entry to be added to the log to indicate whether an attempt by the device to attach to a second node has been successful or unsuccessful.
US09526030B2
For load balancing in a large-scale wireless mesh network, a device, a system and a method are provided for controlling data packet transmissions in the wireless mesh network, wherein answers to more than one received data packet are aggregated in one answer-batch.
US09526026B2
A method for controlling an information processing apparatus including a CPU that executes an application relevant to communication other than baseband processing, the method including controlling a variation in an operating frequency of the CPU, determining, using a processor, whether an amount of traffic per unit time of a wireless link changes after the variation in the operating frequency, and setting an operating frequency of the CPU based on a result of the determining whether an amount of traffic per unit time changes.
US09526021B2
An intelligent network access controller coupled to wireless communication hardware controls wireless communications in a targeted coverage area of a local wireless network overlaying an existing wireless network. The controller controls the hardware to provoke wireless devices within the targeted coverage area of the local wireless network to attempt to register with the intelligent network access controller; receives, through the hardware, registration signals and identification information from the wireless devices; locks the wireless devices to the intelligent network access controller; determines an access category for each of the wireless devices based on the received registration signals and identification information; maintains first access category wireless devices locked to the controller while the first access category wireless devices remain in the targeted coverage area of the local wireless network; and unlocks second category wireless devices by controlling the hardware to signal the second access category wireless devices to attempt access to the existing wireless network.
US09526014B2
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for performing a logged measurement in a wireless communication system. A terminal receives a measurement configuration and a terminal selection parameter from a base station. The terminal determines whether or not to apply the measurement configuration based on the terminal selection parameter. If the measurement configuration is determined to be applied, the terminal logs a measurement based on the measurement configuration.
US09526010B2
A system for controlling key access using a phone and Internet-connected key box device. The key box device comprises a SIM card programmed with a unique phone number associated with the key box. Calling the phone number using any phone will provide access to the key box. A cloud computing software application then interfaces with operations programmed into a circuit board. A user then unlocks a key chamber by calling the number at a scheduled time. The key box device owner monitors and controls access to the box and its key chamber via the software application.
US09526005B2
A telecommunication network comprises an ICS GW configured to receive an access request from a UE; an HSS FE configured to retrieve A3/A8 authentication vectors including an A3/A8 authentication response from an HLR, and further configured to encode the A3/A8 authentication vectors as AKA authentication vectors and send the AKA authentication parameters to an S-CSCF; the ICS GW configured to receive an authentication challenge from the S-CSCF with encoded A3/A8 authentication vectors, and further configured to detect the A3/A8 authentication vectors and issue an A3/A8 authentication challenge to the UE; and the ICS GW configured to receive an A3/A8 authentication response from the UE, and further to encode the A3/A8 authentication response into an AKA authentication response and sending it to the S-CSCF for comparison.
US09526000B1
A method is described of adding a wireless device to a secure wireless local area network (WLAN) that is secured by a wireless network security key. A computer that is independent of the wireless device receives a device key specific to the wireless device, and generates encrypted data by encrypting, using the device key, the wireless network security key. The computer transmits, to the wireless device, a first packet over the WLAN. The first packet includes a multicast address, which includes at least a portion of the encrypted data. The method includes, in response to the wireless device receiving the first packet, decrypting the encrypted data received in the first packet to obtain the wireless network security key. The method includes the wireless device transmitting and receiving encrypted payloads over the WLAN, wherein the encrypted payloads are encrypted using the wireless network security key.
US09525997B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, responsive to a mode of operation being a reseller mode, providing a second international mobile subscriber identity to a mobile communication device to cause the mobile communication device to store the second international mobile subscriber identity in the universal integrated circuit card and to cause the mobile communication device to delete the first international mobile subscriber identity from the universal integrated circuit card. Responsive to the mode of operation being an agency mode, a third international mobile subscriber identity and authentication keys can be provided to the mobile communication device to cause the mobile communication device to store the third international mobile subscriber identity and the authentication keys in the universal integrated circuit card without deleting the first international mobile subscriber identity from the universal integrated circuit card. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09525994B2
A rogue base station detection system that establishes a communication session with a suspected base station, and verifies whether the base station is rogue or innocent by testing which advanced communication features are supported by the base station. The detection system holds a definition of one or more communication features that are supported by innocent base stations and not by rogue base stations. During a communication session with a suspected base station, the detection system requests the base station to activate these communication features. If the base station does not support the features in question, it is likely to be rogue.
US09525992B2
The quality of a wireless data connection is used to identify a suitable radio access network on which a wireless multi-mode device camps.
US09525988B2
A call switching method and a mobile device are provided that rapidly and conveniently switch calls. The method includes establishing, by the mobile device, a first call with a first device; receiving, by the mobile device, a request for a second call from a second device, during the first call; informing a user of the mobile device of the call request; determining, by the mobile device, whether the user moves the mobile device from a first ear to a second ear; and accepting, by the mobile device, the second call with the second device, when the mobile device is moved from the first ear to the second ear.
US09525986B2
An approach is provided for providing triggered-presentation of a participant message associated with a multi-party communication session. The message presentation platform determines an input for specifying at least one message from at least one participant of a multi-party communication session after an initiation of the multi-party communication session. Then, the message presentation platform causes, at least in part, a presentation of the at least one message to at least one other participant of the multi-party communication session based, at least in part, on determining that the at least one other participant has joined or tried to join the multi-party communication session.
US09525977B2
A broadcast/multicast transmission format includes a data portion and a cyclic prefix (CP) coupled to the traffic data portion. A method and system for providing broadcast/multicast transmissions with the application to communication systems that perform broadcast or multicast transmission is also disclosed. The addition of a pilot to the data portion of the transmissions is also disclosed.
US09525972B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for performing location-based authentication using location-aware devices. One method includes: receiving an access request comprising authentication credentials and a first location from a first location-aware device; receiving a second location from a second location-aware device associated with the authentication credentials; and upon determining that the first location and second location are within a pre-determined distance, authenticating the authentication credentials.
US09525962B2
A method for performing connection through Bluetooth by a head unit of a vehicle with a mobile device which is paired with the head unit includes transmitting, by a controller, a first message for checking a link-key to the mobile device. The controller transmits, upon receiving a second message indicating that connection is refused from the mobile device, a third message for starting a new pairing procedure to the mobile device.
US09525958B2
A process and system for generating three dimensional sound conferencing includes generating a virtual map with a plurality of positions, each participant selecting one of the positions, determining a direction from each position to each other position on the map, determining a distance from each position to each other position on the map, receiving sound from each participant, mixing the received sound, transforming the mixed sound into binaural audio, and directing the binaural audio sound to each participant via a speaker associated with the virtual position of the speaking participant. The result is a clarified sound that gives to the listening participant a sense of where the speaking participant is positioned relative to the listening participant.
US09525955B2
A digital speaker system that effectively uses the characteristic of a signal processing circuit is constructed. A digital speaker system 1 having plural speakers has a signal processing circuit 10 for outputting plural right-sound digital signals and plural left-sound digital signals, and at least one of the plural speakers is operated to function as a monaural sound speaker 2 to which any one or plural right-sound digital signals output from the signal processing circuit 10 and any left-sound digital signals whose number corresponds to the number of the signals are input to output monaural sounds.
US09525947B2
The present invention discloses a piezoelectric loudspeaker. The piezoelectric loudspeaker comprises a sound producing plate, a resonant sound-box, a surround and a reflective sound-box. The sound producing plate comprises a piezoelectric ceramic element. The resonant sound-box includes a first opening comprising a first carrying part. The sound producing plate is disposed on the first carrying part. A cavity resonator is formed between the sound producing plate and the resonant sound-box. The surround is disposed between the first carrying part and the sound producing plate. The reflective sound-box includes a second opening and a reflective output opening. The second opening comprises a second carrying part. The resonant sound-box is disposed on the second carrying part. A reflective cavity body is formed between the resonant sound-box and the reflective sound-box, and the reflective cavity body is connected the reflective output opening.
US09525945B2
Methods and systems for thermal protection of a voice coil of a loudspeaker. The method involves driving the loudspeaker based on an input signal received at an input terminal and monitoring both a voltage applied to the voice coil and a current flowing through the voice coil. From the monitored voltage and current, an estimate of temperature of the voice coil and an estimate of power dissipation in the voice coil is determined. The method includes estimating the voice coil resistance based on the monitored voltage and current and at least the estimate of temperature is determined based the estimate of resistance. A gain control signal for modulating a gain applied to the input signal is generated as a function of both the estimate of temperature of the voice coil and the estimate of power dissipation in the voice coil. This means that high power dissipation, which would over long periods lead to overheating, can nevertheless be permitted when the voice coil temperature is low enough, while at high voice coil temperatures any gain modulation applied for thermal protection can be reduced if the power dissipation level drops.
US09525943B2
An electronic device includes an enclosure or housing panel that is used as part of an acoustic system. The panel is divided into several sub-panels. For each sub-panel, the device includes one or more actuators attached to vibrate the sub-panel. The actuator and its attached sub-panel convert an audio signal to acoustic output. Each actuator and sub-panel combination may receive a separate audio signal. The device includes a digital signal processor for controlling each of the sub-panel driving audio signals. The device may further include one or more backing frames that are attached to the panel to provide boundary conditions to the sub-panels. The boundary conditions define a resonance frequency for each sub-panel.
US09525940B1
In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, a processing system may include multiple selectable processing paths for processing an analog signal in order to reduce noise and increase dynamic range. Techniques are employed to transition between processing paths and calibrate operational parameters of the two paths in order to reduce or eliminate artifacts caused by switching between processing paths.
US09525917B2
While a multimedia device is fast-forwarding content, the multimedia device reads “jump back” tags expressed in or derived from a closed-caption stream. When the multimedia device detects the presence of a “jump back” tag while fast-forwarding, the multimedia device enters a special state. While in this special state, if the multimedia device detects that the user has instructed the multimedia device to stop fast-forwarding, the multimedia device locates a specified temporal location in a recorded commercial break. This specified temporal location may be specified by the particular tag, for example. The multimedia device stops performing whatever activity in which the multimedia device was engaged, “jumps back” to the specified temporal location in the recorded commercial break, and resumes playing the recorded content stream at normal speed from the specified temporal location.
US09525916B2
A virtual channel table for broadcasting protocol and a method for broadcasting by using the virtual channel table includes identification information identifying and permitting discrimination of active and inactive channels contained in the virtual channel table. At a receiver, the virtual channel table transmitted from the transmitting side is parsed, thereby determining whether the current received channel is an active or inactive channel.
US09525915B2
A virtual channel table for broadcasting protocol and a method for broadcasting by using the virtual channel table includes identification information identifying and permitting discrimination of active and inactive channels contained in the virtual channel table. At a receiver, the virtual channel table transmitted from the transmitting side is parsed, thereby determining whether the current received channel is an active or inactive channel.
US09525913B2
Systems, methods, and media for inhibiting the presentation of spoiler content based on requested content are provided. In some embodiments, a method for content management is provided, the method comprising: determining a channel that has been selected for presenting content to a user; identifying the content presented on the channel as requested content based on a comparison of first metadata associated with the content and second metadata associated with recorded content on a storage device; determining that the requested content contains spoiler content based on one or more criterion, wherein the one or more criterion include (i) determining that the first metadata associated with the content includes episode data or airing data; (ii) determining that the first metadata associated with the content indicates that the content belongs to a non-excluded content category; or (iii) determining, for the recorded content not viewed to completion, that the second metadata associated with the recorded content indicates an earlier occurrence than the first metadata associated with the requested program; and, in response to determining that a plurality of the one or more criterion have been met, selecting an alternate channel for presentation.
US09525904B2
A display apparatus, a remote controller and a method for controlling applied thereto are provided. The display apparatus receives direction information regarding an orientation of the remote controller from the remote controller, and selects an area to be controlled by the remote controller from among a first area and a second area of a screen according to the direction information received from the remote controller. As a result, user is enabled to control different areas on the screen by appropriately moving the remote controller between different orientations.
US09525896B2
The subject matter discloses an automatic summarizing method the method comprising: receiving from a computerized device a request for summarizing a media content; segmenting the media content into a plurality of segments; wherein an at least one of the plurality of segments is associated with a metadata; wherein said metadata comprising characteristics; ranking a relevancy of each of the plurality of segments; wherein the ranking comprising associating scores to the segments according to the metadata; and selecting an at least one selected segment from said plurality of segments; wherein the at least one selected segment is associated with a highest score from the scores.
US09525895B2
To allow a reception-side to appropriately cope with dynamic change of a distribution content, and perform correct stream reception.In a first transmission mode, a basic video stream including image data in a lowest class and a predetermined number of enhancement video streams each including image data in a class other than the lowest class constituting scalable encoded image data are transmitted. In a second transmission mode, only the basic video stream including basic image data is transmitted. Identification information for identifying the first mode and the second mode is inserted into a video stream. The reception-side can easily find the transmission mode, and the reception-side can appropriately cope with change in a stream configuration, and more specifically, the reception-side can appropriately cope with dynamic change in a distribution content, thus capable of performing correct stream reception.
US09525880B2
Lossless video data compression is performed in real time at the data rate of incoming real time video data in a process employing a minimum number of computational steps for each video pixel. Each pixel 8-bit byte is converted to a difference byte representing the difference between the pixel and its immediate predecessor in a serialized stream of the pixel bytes. This reduces the dynamic range of the data. Any carry bits generated in the subtraction process of two's complement arithmetic are discarded. This reduces the data by a factor of two. Finally, the 8-bit difference pixel bytes thus produced are subject to a maximum entropy encoding process. Such a maximum entropy encoding process may be referred to as a minimum length encoding process.
US09525874B2
If a loss of a RTP packet is detected, a RTT acquisition unit acquires time information corresponding to a period of time needed from transmission of data from a transmitting apparatus to reception of this data at a receiving apparatus. A QoS switching unit determines based on the time information whether moving image data is to be retransmitted that was transmitted from the transmitting apparatus but that has been lost without being received by the receiving apparatus or moving image data located in playback time sequence after the lost moving image data is to be encoded without referring to the lost moving image data and the resultant encoded moving image data is to be transmitted.
US09525869B2
An image processor comprises an image pre-processing block and an encoder processing block for processing and encoding an image. The image pre-processing block receives image data and processes it to provide an image comprising image sections which each comprise pixels. For each of the image sections, the pixels are analyzed to estimate an indication of the complexity of the image section, and metadata is determined based on the estimated complexity indications of the image sections. The metadata is passed to the encoder processing block which uses it to determine a quantization level for use in encoding the image. The encoder processing block can then encode the image using the determined quantization level. Conveniently, the image pre-processing block 106 processes the image data to provide the image, and therefore has access to the image which it can analyze to determine the metadata without requiring a separate read operation of the image.
US09525856B2
An imaging device includes an optics, an image sensor, and a processor including hardware. The optics includes a first pupil and a second pupil. The image sensor includes a first-color filter that has first transmittance characteristics, a second-color filter that has second transmittance characteristics, and a third-color filter that has third transmittance characteristics. The processor is configured to implement a correction process that corrects a pixel value that corresponds to a first color and a pixel value that corresponds to a third color based on a component value that corresponds to the overlapping region of the first transmittance characteristics and the third transmittance characteristics, and a phase difference detection process that detects the phase difference between an image formed by the corrected pixel value that corresponds to the first color and an image formed by the corrected pixel value that corresponds to the third color.
US09525852B2
An embedded imaging system in one embodiment includes an encoding module, an imaging module, and a cable. The encoding module is disposed proximate to a proximal end of the system, and is configured to encode frame synchronizing information into timing information comprising a reference clock. The imaging module is disposed proximate the distal end, and includes an image capture device configured to obtain imaging information and a decoding module. The decoding control module is configured to obtain the timing information, to decode the timing information to obtain recovered frame synchronizing information, and to control the image capture device using the recovered frame synchronizing information. The cable is interposed between the proximal end and the distal end, and is configured for passage therethrough of the timing information and the imaging information.
US09525835B2
A solid-state image pickup device including a pixel unit in which a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements having different sensitivities are arranged; and a pixel reading unit configured to read and add output signals from the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements in the pixel unit, and to obtain an output signal seemingly from one pixel. The pixel unit includes an absorbing unit configured to absorb overflowing electric charge from a photoelectric conversion element with a high sensitivity.
US09525829B2
A video display apparatus includes video output units to output signals representing first videos captured or received, respectively, and when a predetermined signal is input from an outside, only for a predetermined period, to output signals representing second videos having fixed images, instead of the signals representing the first videos, respectively; a display to display a video based on the signal output by one of the video output units; and a control apparatus to output the predetermined signal to the video output units, and after having output the predetermined signal, to execute switching a signal representing a video output to the display among the signals representing the videos output by the video output units, while the video output units having the signals representing the videos output to the display before and after the switching, respectively, output the signals representing the second videos, respectively.
US09525825B1
A camera on a computing device can capture a plurality of images, each with a different exposure setting but having the same subject. The images can be stored, at least temporarily, in a memory device on the computing device. The device can determine a time subsequent to the capturing of the images at which to process the plurality of images. For example, the time can be when the camera is not being used and/or when the computing device has sufficient resources (e.g., processing power, battery life, etc.) to process the plurality of images. At the determined time, the computing device can process the plurality of images to generate at least one high dynamic range (HDR) image. The processing of the plurality of images to generate the at least one HDR image can be based at least in part upon combining at least some portions of the plurality of images.
US09525819B2
A light field imaging system captures different images provide views that are shifted by sub-pixel amounts relative to one another. These views can be combined to produce a higher resolution digital image of the object.
US09525818B2
Automatic techniques to tune images based on metadata are described. In one or more implementations, image data and metadata are received that references a geographic location. Responsive to a user input, the image data is processed using one or more tuning parameters that correspond to the geographic location to change one or more visual characteristics of the image data.
US09525816B2
A display control apparatus for controlling a display of a video image photographed by a camera discriminates a state and controls a display of a dialogue box in accordance with data which shows whether or not the dialogue box is displayed in accordance with a display mode for displaying the video image photographed by the camera and with the determined state.
US09525809B2
A camera device includes: a camera including a lens; a first casing including a light-transmitting cover disposed to oppose the lens; a second casing which supports the camera within the first casing, and which surrounds the camera such that a side of the second casing opposing the light-transmitting cover is spaced from the camera with a gap; and an air flow path which allows air within the second casing to flow out toward the light-transmitting cover via the gap. The air flow path is formed between the second casing and a lens barrel of the lens.
US09525804B2
Image enhancement is achieved by separating image signals, e.g. YCbCr image signals, into a series of frequency bands and performing noise reduction on bands below a given frequency but not on bands above that frequency. The bands are summed to develop the image enhanced signals. The YCbCr, multi-band approach to denoising is able to operate independently—and in an optimized fashion—on both luma and chroma channels. Noise reduction is done based on models developed for both luma and chroma channels by measurements taken for multiple frequency bands, in multiple patches on the ColorChecker chart, and at multiple gain levels, in order to develop a simple yet robust set of models that may be tuned off-line a single time for each camera and then applied to images taken by such cameras in real-time without excessive processing requirements and with satisfactory results across illuminant types and lighting conditions.
US09525801B2
An image reading control apparatus performs processing to achieve adequate execution of image reading processing based on a reading instruction which is provided while the image reading processing is being performed. In a case where the image reading control apparatus detects that the image reading apparatus provides an image reading instruction, it is determined whether processing based on the image reading processing is being performed. In a case where the image reading apparatus is currently in the processing based on the image reading processing, the image reading control apparatus causes the currently detected processing for the image reading instruction to stand by as well as requests the image reading apparatus not to accept the other new job.
US09525789B2
Embodiments are disclosed for randomly and pseudo-randomly presenting images to a user. An exemplary method includes receiving a first set of images from a user, receiving a second set of conditions that an image must satisfy, creating a subset of the first set of images that satisfies the second set of conditions, selecting a random element of said subset, and displaying said random element to a user. The conditions define the breadth or narrowness of the subset of images from which a random element is chosen. The conditions may be system set, user configured, or any combination, and a user may repeat the process, or may choose to view a new image that has one or more affinities to the last randomly chosen image presented. Affinities function in similar manner to the conditions of a pseudo-random selection, but generally serve to narrow the available set of photos to a greater extent. Conditions or affinities may be, for example, time based, location based, event based, based on a relationship of the user to a person appearing in the last displayed photo, or based upon various other defined connections or commonalities.
US09525779B2
A method of managing communications services begins with a communications platform receiving a request for a communications service to be provided to a communications device by a source other than the communications platform. The communications platform determines an authorization of the communications device to receive the communications service. The authorization comprises a permission of the communications device to receive the communications service during a lifetime of a communications session maintained with the communications device. The communications network authorizes delivery of the communications service to the communications device during the lifetime of the communications session, in accordance with the authorization.
US09525775B1
A method and apparatus of applying user profile information to a customized application are disclosed. One example method of operation may include receiving an inquiry message or call from a user device, identifying and authorizing the user from inquiry message information received from the inquiry message, retrieving a user profile comprising at least one user preference, applying the at least one user preference to a user call processing application, and transmitting menu options to the user device based on the applied at least user preference.
US09525769B1
In some implementations, a computer-implemented method of displaying alert information with a mobile communication device includes displaying device status indicators to a user of a mobile device in a status area; receiving information from an application to display an alert in the status area; displaying in the status area a first level of information for the alert and a user-selectable control; and displaying, in response to a selection of the user-selectable control, a second level of information for the alert that provides greater detail than the first level of information.
US09525755B2
A system may be configured to store different versions of a particular item of content, according to a group of content templates; and select a particular content template, of the group of content templates, to use in providing content in response to a request received from a user device. The particular content template may be selected based on bandwidth information regarding the user device. The bandwidth information may indicate a level of service to which a subscriber, associated with the user device, has subscribed. The bandwidth information may be based on a signal strength to a user device in a particular location.
US09525754B1
In one aspect, a method includes receiving, at a computer, a request for a resource over an interface from a client, returning the resource from the computer to the client, receiving, at the computer, an action from the client based on the resource returned, returning a unique task instance that includes information about the action, enabling the client to poll the resource periodically and enabling the client to access affected resources. The affected resources include resources affected by the action.
US09525752B2
Provided are systems and methods for contextually providing services via a portable computer at a selected location. According to some embodiments, the systems and methods include processes for determining location-specific information about the selected location, determining status information about a user of the portable computer interface, and displaying an available service to the user on a display screen of the portable computer, the available service being selected based on the location-specific information and the status information, configuring a portable computer for transient use by a plurality of guests at a selected location.
US09525751B2
A compute program product for collaborative caching of files during a collaboration session includes program instructions for receiving a request from a first electronic device for a first file. The program instructions determine whether the first file is stored in one or more caches, wherein the one or more caches are associated with one or more electronic devices. Responsive to determining the first file is stored in a cache of a second electronic device, the program instructions determine whether the first file stored in the cache of the second electronic device meets a set of guidelines. Responsive to determining the first file stored in the cache of the second electronic device meets the set of guidelines, the program instructions send the first file from the cache of the second electronic device via an internal network to the first electronic device.
US09525747B2
Disclosed is a method for processing content published on-line so as to identify each item in a unique manner. In some implementations, an RSS feed is received from a publisher and a unique identifier is identified for each item in the feed. Each item then has third party content or advertisements associated with the item based on the unique identifier. The feed is then stored and, when appropriate, updated. The augmented feed, which contains the third party content and the items in the feed, is provided to user devices.
US09525737B2
A method for data storage includes, in a system that includes multiple servers and multiple multi-queue storage devices that communicate over a network, accumulating data blocks by a server in a Non-Volatile Random-Access Memory (NVRAM) cache that is accessible to the servers and to the storage devices, by sending the data blocks from the server to the NVRAM cache using remote direct memory access, so as to form one or more stripes. The stripes are transferred from the NVRAM cache to respective server-specific queues on the storage devices. Another server is prevented from causing inconsistency in the data blocks, by querying a data structure, which is shared and modified by the servers using remote direct memory access, and which specifies storage locations of the data blocks.
US09525730B2
For load balancing of a plurality of servers, a server load balancing apparatus selects a hash source from a uniform resource locator (URL) input from a client, and applies a predetermined hash function to the hash source. The server load balancing apparatus selects a server from among the plurality of servers according to a hash value based on the hash result of the hash function application.
US09525719B2
According to one aspect, embodiments of the invention provide a router having a first I/O terminal and a second I/O terminal, wherein the first I/O terminal is configured to be in communication with at least one client via a first network, wherein the second I/O terminal is configured to be in communication with a plurality of remote servers via a second network, and wherein the router is configured to receive, at the first I/O terminal via the first network, a web services request from the at least one client, identify, based on the web services request from the at least one client, a group of the plurality of remote servers that are capable of fulfilling the web services request, and transmit, in parallel via the second I/O terminal and the to second network, the received web services request to each one of the plurality of remote servers within the group.
US09525714B2
A method, wireless communication device, and computer readable medium, are disclosed, for encoding real-time media for wireless transmission from a source to a sink over a wireless transmission channel. The wireless device initiates a peer-to-peer communication session between the sink and the source, then determines based on a time-allocation for the wireless transmission, an available bandwidth for the wireless transmission. The wireless device then encodes the real-time media for the wireless transmission based on the available bandwidth or a throughput constraint.
US09525713B1
Computer-based systems and methods measure saturation of a media server that transmits media content to a plurality of users via data links. The data buffers of the media server are sampled to ascertain whether they contain data to be transmitted to each buffer's associated destination at the time of the sampling. A saturation score is calculated based on the sampling, such as based on the number of non-empty data buffers. This saturation score can be used in routing new connection requests for the media server. The media server's saturation score can be compared to a threshold saturation score for the media server, with the difference between the scores indicating a present available bandwidth of the data links of the media serve. This process can be repeated periodically so that the saturation score of the media server is continuously updated.
US09525704B2
Systems, devices, and methods for traffic management are provided. An example of a method for traffic management includes receiving a number of policies for data traffic redirection 230 in a data network 100 and authorizing a subset of the number of policies based upon matching a plurality of authorization rules 350 saved in the data network 100, for example, in a management tool 120 and/or a network device 123.
US09525703B2
In an embodiment, a method is provided for enabling in-band data exchange between networks. The method can comprise receiving, by a first enveloping proxy located in the first network, at least one regular secure sockets layer (SSL) record for a SSL session established between a client and a server; receiving the data from a network element located in the first network; encoding the data into at least one custom SSL record; and transmitting the at least one regular SSL record and the at least one custom SSL record to an enveloping proxy. In another embodiment, a method can comprise receiving at least one regular secure sockets layer (SSL) record and at least one custom SSL record for a SSL session established between a client and a server; extracting the data from the at least one custom SSL; transmitting the at least one regular SSL record.
US09525699B2
A system and method of analysis. NX domain names are collected from an asset in a real network. The NX domain names are domain names that are not registered. The real network NX domain names are utilized to create testing vectors. The testing vectors are classified as benign vectors or malicious vectors based on training vectors. The asset is then classified as infected if the NX testing vector created from the real network NX domain names is classified as a malicious vector.
US09525689B2
A technique for the detection of an unauthorized wireless communication device includes monitoring of Bluetooth® communications activity by a Bluetooth® capable communication device. Any monitored communication activity is analyzed against parameters that are predefined to detect suspected illegal activity. If illegal activity is suspected by the analysis, an alert is generated for a system administrator. The predefined parameters associate illegal activity with; data that includes credit card numbers and expiration dates, credit card transaction logging information, non-discoverable devices, activity after store hours, exceedingly long activity, etc.
US09525678B2
A server may store one or more accounts. Each account may be associated with an authentication code and a total number of information devices that are allowed to be registered. The authentication codes may be provided to users for registering information devices. The information device may transmit a connection request, including an entered authentication code, to a server. Upon receiving the connection request, the server may determine whether to register the particular information device. The server may determine whether the information device is allowed to be registered based on registerable information, which is associated with an account that is associated with the received authentication code and which represents a remaining number of information devices that are allowed to be registered using the associated authentication code. If the information device is allowed to be registered, the server may send authentication information to the information device, so it may transmit state information.
US09525676B2
A computer program product for processing a message is provided. The computer program product comprises a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith. The program instructions readable by a processing circuit cause the processing circuit to perform a method. The method validates a security token for a user. The method allows the user to compose a message. Based on the security token, the method verifies that the user is authorized to send the message to an intended recipient of the message and that a security level of the message is at or below a security level of the user.
US09525674B2
To improve known encryption methods for communication in non-secured wireless networks, the invention proposes using an active key for encryption, in each instance, and sending along a new key in the messages, in each instance, which key, after it has been received completely, becomes the key used, and, once again, another new key is exchanged. This allows dynamic encryption, which allows an interception-proof connection, starting from a secure initial exchange of keys, for example.
US09525673B1
Embodiments encrypt Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) scripts created by a developer for an initial customer, against unauthorized access and copying. Such protection preserves the economic value of the ETL script for the developer, allowing re-use with other customers (who could otherwise simply copy the ETL script from the initial customer). A new hidden attribute is introduced to indicate ownership and protection of an object used in an ETL utility. A customer will not see this hidden attribute via the ETL utility. The hidden attribute may be assigned programmatically during a protecting process, and its value may be a current keycode (e.g., the signature of the developer's license of the ETL utility). The protected object thus has the attribute signature, and its value does not match any current keycode known to the customer. The signature for internal decryption of the script by the ETL utility, could be supplied by the developer.
US09525663B2
A system includes a communication processor and an application processor communicatively coupled to the communication processor. The communication processor is configured to detect a receipt of an incoming data packet, initially process at least a portion of the incoming data packet in the communication processor to determine if the incoming packet satisfies a first set of pre-determined criteria and automatically enable a transfer of the incoming data packet to the application processor depending upon an outcome of the initial processing of the incoming data packet.
US09525662B2
In one embodiment, a negotiation is performed between each adjacent pair of a plurality of packet switching devices in a ring network to determine an Internet Protocol (IP) subnet to be used for communicating between said packet switching devices of said adjacent pair. Packets are communicated by said packet switching devices of said adjacent pair using a different IP address of said determined IP subnet. In one embodiment, each of the plurality of packet switching devices is initially assigned an IP subnet to use on one of its two interfaces participating in the ring network; and wherein said negotiation determines which of said two interfaces will use said initially assigned IP subnet.
US09525661B2
A method, apparatus, and machine readable storage medium is disclosed for performing network address translation (NAT) on fragments of a Internet Protocol (IP) packet, comprising: receiving a packet fragment of the packet; calculating a hash key based on a subset of header information in the fragment; if the packet fragment is the first fragment of the packet; initiating a NAT session for the packet; storing the NAT session identifier at an entry in the linked list indexed by the hash key; and if the packet fragment is not the first fragment of the packet, then: retrieving a NAT session identifier, if available, at an entry in said linked list indexed by said hash key; and performing NAT on the fragment using the NAT session identified by the NAT session identifier. The hash key is a subset of a CRC32 calculation performed on: IPv4 source address; IPv4 destination address; and IP Identifier of the fragment. If the indexed entry in the linked list is not available, accessing a second dimension of the linked list.
US09525659B1
A system, method and computer-readable medium for request routing based on prioritization and load information are provided. A client request processing a resource identifier for requested content transmits a DNS query to a content delivery network service provider. Based on a content provider identifier included in the DNS query, a receiving DNS nameserver determines a selection from a hierarchical organization of POPs and the relative capacity for a selected POP to process a subsequent request for resources. Based on the processing of the prioritization information and load information, the receiving DNS nameserver resolves the DNS query.
US09525655B1
A mail handler is provided. The mail handler manages a source queue for incoming messages. The source queue has a first count of slots in memory and is associated with a source read pointer and a source write pointer. The mail handler manages the source write pointer and the source read pointer. The mail handler also manages a destination queue for outgoing messages. The destination queue has a second count of slots in memory and is associated with a destination read pointer and a destination write pointer. The mail handler advances the destination write pointer in response to at least one of (i) transferring one or more messages form the source queue to the destination queue and (ii) reserving one or more slots in the destination queue. The at least one processor advances the destination read pointer in response to reading at least one message from the destination queue.
US09525654B2
There is disclosed a method of reformatting an e-mail message having a header and a body having content in a received format, the method comprising: 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; sending, by the at least one server to the client device, at least some of the content of the body of the message; and sending, by the at least one server to the client device, instruction to display, along with the content, a user-selectable graphical element for causing a function to be performed in respect of the one of the e-mail messages, the function being based, at least in part, on the classification of the first one of the e-mail messages.
US09525647B2
A network controller for managing several managed switching elements that forward data in a network that includes the managed switching elements. The network controller is further for creating a logical switching element to be implemented in a set of managed switching elements. The network controller includes a set of modules for receiving input data specifying a logical switching element and for creating, based on the received input data, a set of logical switch constructs for the logical switching element by performing a set of database join operations. At least one of the logical switch constructs is for facilitating non-forwarding behavior of the logical switching element.
US09525641B1
Systems and methods that relate to determination of buffer wait time based on defined parameters are described. A method includes: determining, by a first device including a processor, information associated with one or more defined parameters; and generating a buffer wait time based on the information, wherein the information is associated with at least one of an entity for which buffering of content will be provided or a second device that performs playback of the content. The defined parameters can include, but are not limited to, the type of the second device (e.g., Android operating system 3 or Android operating system 4), the type of connection for the second device (e.g., Long-Term Evolution, 3G) or a geographical location of the second device.
US09525637B1
Systems and methods for interacting with a device based on the location of the device are disclosed. Embodiments of these systems and methods may allow a content delivery system to provide certain content to a device, or restrict certain content from being delivered to the device, based on the location of the device. When a user requests certain content the location of the device may be determined and compared against an access control list defining a set or rules regarding that content to determine if the requested content may be accessed from that location. Similarly, the location of a device may be utilized to tailor the delivery of content to a device.
US09525636B2
Exemplary methods receiving a packet of a virtual interface provisioned with a virtual interface QoS, wherein the virtual interface comprises a hierarchy of sub interfaces. The methods include selecting a virtual adjacency from a plurality of virtual adjacencies, wherein each virtual adjacency is associated with the virtual interface or a sub interface of the virtual interface. The methods include using the selected virtual adjacency to select a queue based on a priority of the packet, and store the packet in the selected queue. The methods include performing hierarchical scheduling based on the virtual interface QoS to select the queue from all sets of virtual interface queues of all virtual adjacencies, and sending the packet from the selected queue and a transport link identifier (ID) to a physical network processing unit.
US09525629B2
A method of transmitting data packets across a network, comprising: at a first server: receiving a first data packet of a message-based connectionless protocol (e.g., a first UDP data packet); identifying a second server for forwarding the first data packet toward a respective destination of the first data packet; adding a respective packet identifier to the first data packet to generate a first augmented data packet of the message-based connectionless protocol; and sending at least two copies of the first augmented data packet to the second server at substantially the same time. The second server receives at least one of the two copies of the first augmented data packet, restores the first data packet from the received copy of the first augmented data packet, and forwards the first data packet toward the respective destination of the first data packet.
US09525628B2
A packet forwarding method and system. A first network device encapsulates a to-be-forwarded packet as a first packet, and sends the first packet to a second network device, where the first packet carries a destination Media Access Control (MAC) address encapsulation instruction, the destination MAC address encapsulation instruction is used to instruct the second network device to encapsulate a destination MAC address for the first packet, the to-be-forwarded packet carries a destination internet protocol (IP) address, and the destination MAC address is a MAC address of a destination host corresponding to the destination IP address; the second network device generates a second packet containing the destination MAC address according to the destination MAC address encapsulation instruction carried by the received first packet, and forwards the second packet to the destination host corresponding to the destination MAC address.
US09525614B2
A communication system includes: a specific node; and a plurality of nodes that are installed at fixed positions and perform ad hoc wireless communication with the specific node. The nodes each include a link quality evaluating unit, an upstream route constructing unit, a communicating unit, and a downstream route constructing unit. The link quality evaluating unit performs route evaluation using a hello frame based only on a track record of reception of the hello frame in order to perform upstream communication toward the specific node to form a network. The upstream route constructing unit constructs an upstream route based on the route evaluation. The communicating unit performs upstream communication toward the specific node on a regular basis with a predetermined frequency. The downstream route constructing unit constructs a downstream route from the specific node based on a route in the upstream communication toward the specific node.
US09525611B2
One embodiment includes a system. The system includes a receiver configured to extract a timestamp from a header of each packet of a data stream received from a network and to de-packetize the data stream to provide a stream of data blocks. The timestamp can correspond to generation of each data block associated with each respective packet of the data stream according to a global timebase. The system also includes a delay controller configured to measure a delay associated with each packet of the data stream based on the timestamp relative to the global timebase and to control converting the data stream to a corresponding analog output signal for transmission based on the measured delay.
US09525610B2
A method and an apparatus for a light active estimation mechanism for backhaul management at a small cell base station are disclosed. For example, the method may include transmitting a first data packet from the small cell base station to a network entity, receiving a second data packet from the network entity in response to the transmission, calculating a time delay between the transmitting of the first data packet and the receiving of the second data packet, and determining whether or not a backhaul of the small cell base station is congested based on the calculated time delay. As such, light active estimation mechanism for backhaul management at a small cell base station may be achieved.
US09525609B2
A first fault monitoring unit monitors presence/absence of fault on a communication path between bridge ports, and a second fault monitoring unit monitors presence/absence of fault on a communication path via a ring network between upper link ports. A third fault monitoring unit monitors presence/absence of fault at a MCLAG port. When a monitoring result by the third fault monitoring unit changes from absence of fault to presence of fault, a MCLAG control unit transmits a fault notification frame. At this time, when a monitoring result by the first fault monitoring unit is absence of fault, the MCLAG control unit transmits the fault notification frame from the bridge port, and when the monitoring result by the first fault monitoring unit is presence of fault and a monitoring result by the second fault monitoring unit is absence of fault, it transmits the fault notification frame from the upper link port.
US09525608B2
A device for out-of-band network port status detection includes a management controller (MC), a network interface controller (NIC) with a PHY and a link indicator, an electrical connection coupling the link indicator to an input pin of the MC, and at least one processor. The MC monitors a status of the link indicator and the at least one processor is configured for reporting the status of the link indicator to a user of the apparatus.
US09525607B2
An example method includes presenting a first notification indicating a potential interruption in connectivity between a server and a remote terminal. If the potential interruption is resolved before the expiration of a restart time interval, the first notification is removed. If the potential interruption is not resolved before the expiration of the restart time interval, a second notification is presented, the second notification indicating a loss of connectivity between the server and the remote terminal.
US09525605B2
The invention discloses a method of collecting network data. This method is applicable to collection of data of network documents, published on a website, related respectively to M subjects, wherein M is a positive integer, the method including: configuring webpage link addresses, of network data to be collected, into queues of corresponding types according to types corresponding to the webpage link addresses of the network data to be collected, wherein the webpage link addresses of the network data to be collected are link addresses of webpages where the data of the network documents related respectively to the M subjects are located; obtaining webpage source codes corresponding to the webpage link addresses, of the network data to be collected, in the queues of the corresponding types; and extracting the data of the network documents corresponding to URLs corresponding to the webpage source codes according to the URL information and collection depth values of the URLs.
US09525603B2
A field selection graphical user interface (GUI) for use with a protocol analyzer. The GUI allows selecting a source presented by the GUI, selecting a field from a plurality of fields presented by the GUI associated with the selected source, defining one or more preconditions associated with the selected field from a plurality of preconditions presented by the GUI relevant to the selected field, and calculating a field layout in accordance with the selected field and defined one or more preconditions. The GUI further allows selecting a second field from the plurality of fields presented by the GUI associated with the selected source, defining one or more preconditions associated with the selected second field from a plurality of preconditions presented by the GUI relevant to the selected second field, and calculating a field layout in accordance with the selected field and the second field.
US09525596B2
An information processing apparatus includes a physical interface, a memory, and a communication controller. The physical interface communicates with any of multiple types of networks. The memory stores network setting information corresponding to each of the multiple types of networks. The communication controller controls, when information unique to a particular type of network, among the multiple types of networks, is obtained via the physical interface, communication of the physical interface on the basis of the network setting information corresponding to the particular type of network.
US09525589B2
A network device may connect to a smart-enabled network. Once connected, the network device may receive a network address for a network management server (NMS). Having the network address for the NMS, the network device may generate a vCard comprising the attributes necessary for registering with the NMS. The network device may then communicate the vCard to the NMS. The NMS may then be configured to identify, register, and add the network device to a directory.
US09525586B2
In one embodiment, Quality of Service (QoS) criteria based server side binary translation and execution of applications is performed on multiple servers utilizing distributed translation and execution in either a virtualized or native execution environment. The translated applications are executed to generate output display data, the output display data is encoded in a media format suitable for video streaming, and the video stream is delivered over a network to a client device. In one embodiment, one or more graphics processors assist the central processors of the servers by accelerating the rendering of the application output, and a media encoder encodes the application output into a media format.
US09525577B2
The present disclosure discloses a communication method performed by a User Equipment (UE) (301) in a mixed cellular and Device-to-Device (D2D) network (300) and the UE. The method comprises the step of communicating in the mixed network according to a radio frame structure, wherein the radio frame structure comprises at least one D2D subframe having a Guard Period (GP) at an end or at a beginning of the D2D subframe.
US09525558B1
Remote devices are classified or identified as devices configured to be powered by power injected onto a transmission medium such as a coaxial cable. From a local position, local classification circuitry applies a first low voltage DC signal to the transmission medium. Energy from the first DC signal is received by remote classification circuitry at the remote position of a remote device, and stored within an energy storage component. Using the stored energy, the remote classification circuitry generates a digital classification signal on the coax cable or transmission medium. Upon receipt of the digital classification signal at the local end, the local classification circuitry responsively applies a second higher voltage DC signal to the transmission medium. The second DC signal is received at the remote end and used in providing power to the remote device.
US09525549B2
Methods, apparatus, and systems for personalizing a software token using a dynamic credential (such as a one-time password or electronic signature) generated by a hardware token are disclosed.
US09525541B2
The present disclosure discloses a method and a communication system for time synchronization. The system includes at least one base station, an optical line terminal OLT, and a fiber for transmitting information between the base station and the OLT. The system further includes a clock synchronization server, configured to transmit synchronization data between the clock synchronization server and the at least one base station, so that time synchronization is implemented between the at least one base station and the clock synchronization server. According to the solutions provided by the present disclosure, the system apparatus is simple, and the cost low.
US09525540B1
When embedding a signal into a selected subcarrier of a multicarrier downlink waveform of regular data/control signaling, a base station modulates the embedded signal with a different modulation scheme than the other data in the downlink waveform. The base station nulls adjacent subcarriers to minimize interference at a low-power wake-up receiver of an IOE device(s). The IOE device wakes up the low-power wake-up receiver at scheduled times to listen for the signal. For synchronization signals, the IOE device corrects a local clock based on a correlation value of the signal to a predetermined sequence. For wake-up signals, the IOE device correlates whatever is detected at the antenna to a predetermined sequence and compares the correlation value to a predetermined threshold. If the threshold is met, the IOE device registers a wake-up signal and wakes the primary transceiver of the device. If not, the receiver goes back to sleep.
US09525532B2
A method of transmitting signals by a transmitting side device having multiple antennas (hereinafter ‘N antennas’) is disclosed. In this method, the transmitting side device transmits reference signals (RSs) via M antenna among the N antennas, where M≦N, where one or more of M and a sequence of antenna numbers used for transmitting RSs informs a receiving side device of first information for data transmission, and where the RSs are used by the receiving side device for identifying second information for channel estimation. Transmitting side device transmits data to the receiving side device according to the first information.
US09525530B2
The present invention relates to a method for a terminal feeding back channel state information in a wireless communication system. More specifically, the method comprises the steps of receiving from a base station setting information on a plurality of pieces of channel state information (CSI); and generating at least one piece of channel state information by applying channel state information of a common subband in accordance with the setting information.
US09525528B2
A transmission apparatus is provided with radio resource assignment means that assigns radio resources to each physical channel according to a type of the physical channel; and transmission means that transmits information to be transmitted by each physical channel using the assigned radio resources.
US09525524B2
A distributed antenna system is provided that frequency shifts the output of one or more microcells to a 60 GHz or higher frequency range for transmission to a set of distributed antennas. The cellular band outputs of these microcell base station devices are used to modulate a 60 GHz (or higher) carrier wave, yielding a group of subcarriers on the 60 GHz carrier wave. This group will then be transmitted in the air via analog microwave RF unit, after which it can be repeated or radiated to the surrounding area. The repeaters amplify the signal and resend it on the air again toward the next repeater. In places where a microcell is required, the 60 GHz signal is shifted in frequency back to its original frequency (e.g., the 1.9 GHz cellular band) and radiated locally to nearby mobile devices.
US09525519B2
Disclosed is a method for communicating service data units/Packet Data Units (PDUs) in a carrier aggregation environment, including receiving a plurality of grants on a plurality of active component carriers from an Evolved Node B, allocating transmission resources associated with the plurality of grants to at least one Radio Link Control (RLC) entity of a user equipment, identifying one of the allocated transmission resources associated with one of the plurality of grants by the at least one RLC entity based on criteria for communicating a status report, and transmitting a status PDU including the status report using the identified one of the allocated transmission resources.
US09525513B2
Resource elements from multiple code blocks are separated into different groups, and decoding the code bits of the resource elements within each group without waiting for a completed reception of a transport block to start decoding. Coded bits from multiple code blocks are separated into different groups, and the code blocks containing coded bits within each group are decoded. A first CRC is attached to the transport block and a second CRC is attached to at least one code block from the transport block. An improved channel interleaver design includes mapping from coded bits of different code blocks to modulation symbols, and mapping from modulation symbols to time, frequency, and spatial resources, to make sure each code block to get roughly the same level of protection.
US09525489B2
A method of RF signal processing comprises receiving an incoming RF signal at each of a plurality of antenna elements that are arranged in a first pattern. The received RF signals from each of the plurality of antenna elements are modulated onto an optical carrier to generate a plurality of modulated signals that each have at least one sideband. The modulated signals are directed along a corresponding plurality of optical channels with outputs arranged in a second pattern corresponding to the first pattern. A composite optical signal is formed using light emanating from the outputs of the plurality of optical channels. Non-spatial information contained in at least one of the received RF signals is extracted from the composite signal.
US09525484B2
In the context of a balloon network, embodiments described herein may help to maintain an optical communications link between two balloons. For example, an illustrative balloon may include auxiliary photodetectors that are arranged around the photodetector in the balloon's optical receiver system. The balloon may detect intensity differences between the auxiliary photodetectors on opposite sides of an optical receiver, and adjust the positioning in an effort to reduce the intensity difference, and by so doing, better align the optical receiver with the optical transmitter of the transmitting balloon.
US09525483B2
An optical fiber panel unit includes multiple fiber input ports, each configured to connect to a different one of multiple optical fibers. Each fiber input port includes a connector port configured to connect to a respective fiber panel optical path, an optical tap and a photo-detector. The optical tap is configured to couple to the respective optical path. The photo-detector couples to the optical tap to detect optical signals carried over the respective optical path, and to produce electrical signals that correspond to the detected optical signals. A telemetry circuit analyzes the electrical signals that correspond to the detected optical signals of each respective optical path, and determines at least one of a loss of signal (LOS) or loss of light (LOL) at each of the fiber input ports based on the analysis of the electrical signals.
US09525476B2
A method for receiving a signal from a base station by a user equipment, using massive antenna array based beamforming of the base station in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes receiving, from the base station, antenna shuffling information corresponding to a preferred antenna port set among a plurality of antenna ports included in the massive antenna array, measuring channel state information according to the antenna shuffling information and reporting the channel state information to the base station, and receiving, from the base station, a beamformed signal using the preferred antenna port set based on the channel state information, wherein the antenna shuffling information includes at least one of information about a start index of antenna ports included in the preferred antenna port set and information about a direction to which antenna port indexes are allocated.
US09525467B2
Disclosed herein are a cooperation MIMO transmitting/receiving method and a terminal for supporting the same. A master terminal forms a slave terminal and a cluster performing cooperation communication. The master terminal transmits some data of data to be transmitted to a slave terminal and shares the some data with the slave terminal, and the slave terminal transparently transmits data transmitted from the master terminal to a target node.
US09525466B2
A method of cancelling interference of a terminal is disclosed. The method includes receiving interference parameter configuration information including a transmission timing of interference parameter information indicating a restricted set of a plurality of interference parameters to be used by one or more interference base stations associated with the terminal and interference parameter release information including a transmission timing of an indicator indicating release of the interference parameter information, receiving the interference parameter information according to the interference parameter configuration information, performing interference cancellation using the received interference parameter information, attempting detection of the indicator according to the interference parameter release information, and performing the interference cancellation without the received interference parameter information or suspending the interference cancellation when the indicator is detected.
US09525465B2
This application relates to a transmitter for a near-field chip-to-chip multichannel transmission system such as the capacitive or inductive links used for vertical signal transmission between the stacked chips of a system-in-package. A transmitter for near-field chip-to-chip multichannel transmission providing 4 transmission channels for digital transmission between two monolithic integrated circuits comprises 4 coupling devices, each of said coupling devices being a planar winding sensitive to magnetic field variations. A multiple-input-port and multiple-output-port amplifier has 4 output ports, each of said output ports being connected to one and only one of said coupling devices. The transmitter also includes 4 signal shaping circuits, each of said signal shaping circuits having an input port connected to the source, each of said signal shaping circuits having an output port connected to one of the input ports of the multiple-input-port and multiple-output-port amplifier.
US09525464B2
The present application relates to a wireless power supply device and wireless power transmission control in an electronic device capable of receiving wireless power. According to an embodiment of the present application, the electronic device capable of receiving wireless power comprises a communication unit which receives power information including at least one piece of electricity bill information and power demand information. Also, the electronic device comprises a wireless power receiving unit which receives wireless power wirelessly supplied from a wireless power supply device, and a power converting unit which converts the wireless power received into power that can be used in the electronic device. By using various embodiments suggested by the present application, use of power wirelessly supplied can be efficiently controlled, and accordingly, electric power can be economically and efficiently used.
US09525462B1
In one or more embodiments, a plurality of PLC endpoints and a data processing circuit are configured to share information, in the form of data blocks over power lines in a power line communication (PLC) network. A first signal representing a transmitted one of the data blocks is received over a first one of the plurality of different communication channels. A second signal representing the transmitted one of the data blocks is received over a second one of the plurality of different communication channels. Information carried by said one of the data blocks is discerned, as a function of a signal versus noise measure associated with the first signal and the second signal, by aligning phases of the first and second signals, combining energy from the first and second signals as aligned, and converting the combined energy and therefrom providing output data representing the transmitted one of the data blocks.
US09525454B2
A method of control of a plurality of end-points by a plurality of base stations, comprises issuing a frame by at least one end-point and sending the frame to at least one base station, sending a response frame from the base station to the end-point upon receiving the frame, the response frame comprising a plurality of downchirps, at least two sequences, each comprising a positive acknowledge and an increase rate and a positive acknowledgement and a decrease rate, and additional control sequences.
US09525451B2
An electronic device may include a dielectric substrate, an electronic circuit supported by the substrate, for processing data, and a communication unit having an antenna. The communication unit may be mounted to the substrate in communication with the electronic circuit for converting between a first EHF electromagnetic signal containing digital information and a data signal conducted by the electronic circuit. The electromagnetic signal may be transmitted or received along a signal path by the antenna. An electromagnetic signal guide assembly may include a dielectric element made of a dielectric material disposed proximate the antenna in the signal path. The electromagnetic signal guide may have sides extending along the signal path. A sleeve element may extend around the dielectric element along sides of the dielectric element. The sleeve element may impede transmission of the electromagnetic signal through the sides of the dielectric element.
US09525441B2
Techniques for noise reduction are described herein. The techniques include an apparatus for noise reduction including a voltage tuner to adjust a voltage swing for a signal line in a differential signal line pair. The apparatus may also include a timing module to adjust a timing skew between the differential signal line pair, wherein the voltage swing and timing skew adjustment introduce a common mode noise in the differential signal line pair to reduce a radio frequency interference (RFI) noise coupling.
US09525440B2
A method includes estimating a temperature change to an integrated circuit, which is associated with a pending transmission from the integrated circuit. The method includes, based on the estimated temperature change, regulating at least one parameter that is associated with the pending transmission to maintain a temperature of the integrated circuit below a temperature threshold.
US09525437B2
A transmitter is provided. The transmitter includes: a low density parity check (LDPC) encoder configured to encode input bits to generate an LDPC codeword including the input bits and parity bits; a repeater configured to select at least a part of bits constituting the LDPC codeword and add the selected bits after the input bits; and a puncturer configured to puncture at least a part of the parity bits.
US09525435B2
A computing device is configured to compute a function of one or more inputs, comprising look-up tables mapping input values to output values, wherein the inputs values have a bit size equal to a first code word bit size of a first error correcting code, such that any two input values that each differ at most by a first error threshold of bits with a same code word of the first error correcting code are mapped to respective output values that each differ at most by a second error threshold number of bits with a same code word of a second error correcting.
US09525421B2
A hybrid input/output pad driver includes an input node in a first voltage supply domain coupled to a p-device driver in the second voltage supply domain and an n-device driver in the second voltage domain. A p-channel pullup transistor is coupled between a voltage potential in a third voltage domain and an input/output pad. Its gate is coupled to the output of the p-device driver. An n-channel pulldown transistor is coupled between ground and the input/output pad. Its gate is coupled to the output of the n-device driver. An n-channel pullup transistor has a source coupled to the input/output pad, a drain coupled to the voltage potential in the third voltage supply domain. An inverter in the second voltage supply domain is programmably connectable between the output of the p-driver circuit and the gate of the n-channel pullup transistor.
US09525414B2
A gate drive circuit may include an output transistor that supplies a constant current to a gate of a switching element and drives the switching element on. A pre-driver may have a CMOS configuration including a p-channel MOS-FET and n-channel MOS-FET. The pre-driver may receive a gate control signal that drives the output transistor on/off. A reference current source may controls the gate voltage of a constant current transistor and provide a constant current from the constant current transistor A buffer amplifier may apply the gate voltage of the constant current transistor as the operating reference voltage of the pre-driver.
US09525413B2
Driver circuitry for switching systems comprising enhancement mode (E-Mode) GaN power transistors with low threshold voltage is disclosed. An E-Mode high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) D3 has a monolithically integrated GaN driver, comprising smaller E-Mode GaN HEMTs D1 and D2, and a discrete dual-voltage pre-driver. In operation, D1 provides the gate drive voltage to the gate of the GaN switch D3, and D2 clamps the gate of the GaN switch D3 to the source, via an internal source-sense connection closely coupling the source of D3 and the source of D2. An additional source-sense connection is provided for the pre-driver. Boosting the drive voltage to the gate of D1 produces firm and rapid pull-up of D1 and D3 for improved switching performance at higher switching speeds. High current handling components of the driver circuitry are integrated with the GaN switch and closely coupled to reduce inductance, while the discrete pre-driver can be thermally separated from the GaN chip.
US09525412B2
In one embodiment, the invention can be a switching circuit, the switching circuit including a passive switch coupled to a first switch terminal; a driving switch coupled in series with the passive switch and a second switch terminal, the driving switch configured to turn the passive switch on and off; a power source configured to provide power to the passive switch and the driving switch; and a monitoring circuit configured to receive an indication that a switching circuit voltage exceeds a predetermined amount and, in response, reduce the power provided to the driving switch; or receive an indication that a switching circuit current exceeds a predetermined amount and, in response, reduce the power provided to the driving switch.
US09525411B2
An embodiment of a power supply circuit to generate a supply voltage for a gate driver circuit can include an isolated power supply circuit to receive a first voltage in a first isolated system and provide power to a cyclic charging power supply circuit, the cyclic charging power supply circuit providing a supply voltage to the gate driver circuit in a second isolated system, the isolated power supply circuit providing the power to the cyclic charging power supply circuit while the gate driver circuit drives a transistor in an on state. The isolated power supply circuit can include a control circuit to regulate the power provided to maintain or increase the supply voltage while the gate driver circuit drives the transistor in an on state. The power supply circuit can also include the cyclic charging power supply circuit to receive a second voltage in the second isolated system and provide the supply voltage to the gate driver circuit. The cyclic charging power supply circuit can include one or more of a bootstrap power supply circuit or a charge pump power supply circuit.
US09525405B2
A method for reducing common-mode disturbances during power-on and power-off modal transitions in a current driver includes providing a programmable current source operative to generate a current having a controllable rise-time and controlling the programmable current source such that a rise-time of the current generated by the current driver is set to a first rise-time value during power-on and power-off modes of operation and is set to a second rise-time value during polarity transitions in a data mode of operation of the current driver, the first rise-time value being greater than the second rise-time value.
US09525400B2
A resonator element has a piezoelectric substrate including a vibration section and a thick section having a thickness which is thicker than that of the vibration section, and a pair of excitation electrodes provided on a surface and a back surface of the vibration section. In addition, the thick section has a second thick section provided along a second outer edge of the vibration section. The second thick section has an outer edge section intersecting with both axes of an X axis and a Z′ axis in an end portion opposite to the fixing section in a plan view of the resonator element.
US09525395B2
RF communications circuitry, which includes a first RF filter structure and control circuitry, is disclosed. The first RF filter structure includes a pair of weakly coupled resonators and a first tunable RF filter. The control circuitry provides a first filter control signal. The first tunable RF filter receives and filters an upstream RF signal to provide a first filtered RF signal, such that a center frequency of the first tunable RF filter is based on the first filter control signal.
US09525393B1
A method of designing an acoustic microwave filter in accordance with frequency response requirements comprises generating a modeled filter circuit design having a plurality of circuit elements comprising an acoustic resonant element defined by an electrical circuit model that comprises a parallel static branch, a parallel motional branch, and one or both of a parallel Bragg Band branch that models an upper Bragg Band discontinuity and a parallel bulk mode function that models an acoustic bulk mode loss. The method further comprises optimizing the modeled filter circuit design to generate an optimized filter circuit design, comparing a frequency response of the optimized filter circuit design to the frequency response requirements, and constructing the acoustic microwave filter from the optimized filter circuit design based on the comparison.
US09525390B2
A switching circuit generates a switching pulse that is pulse modulated according to an input signal. An error amplifier includes a phase compensating filter that generates a feedback signal corresponding to the switching pulse. The error amplifier generates an error signal corresponding to a difference between the input signal and the feedback signal. A pulse modulator includes an oscillator that generates a carrier signal having a variable frequency. The pulse modulator pulse-modulates the carrier signal according to the error signal, so as to generate a pulse modulated signal. The phase compensating filter is configured such that its frequency characteristics can be adjusted according to the frequency of the carrier signal.
US09525383B2
This application provides apparatus and methods for a capacitive digital-to-analog converter (CDAC) based power amplifier. In an example, a transmitter amplifier can include an input inductor, a switch having a first node coupled to the input inductor, and a control node, the amplifier configured to receive a first analog representation of an envelope signal at the first node, to receive a second analog representation of the amplitude signal from the inductor, to receive a phase signal at the control node, and to provide a first modulated signal using the phase signal, the first analog representation of the amplitude signal and the second analog representation of the amplitude signal, and a capacitive digital-to-analog converter (CDAC) configured to receive a digital representation of the amplitude signal and to provide the first analog representation of the amplitude signal.
US09525381B2
An apparatus and a method for testing and/or conditioning photovoltaic modules. The apparatus includes a set of contacts for contacting electrical conductors of the module and a testing and/or conditioning system for testing and/or conditioning of the module and measuring parameters associated therewith.
US09525379B2
A control method for a vibration generator is provided. The vibration generator includes a fixed part around which a coil is wound, a movable part having a magnet, a bridge part movably supporting the movable part, and a power supply unit which applies an alternating current of a predetermined frequency to the coil. The power supply unit starts at the time of startup by the alternating current with a starting frequency which differs from a resonance frequency of the movable part, and the power supply unit changes the frequency of the applied alternating current to the resonance frequency of the movable part when the amount of vibration at the starting frequency reaches a predetermined ratio with respect to a saturation vibration amount of the resonance frequency.
US09525372B2
To establish an initial/resting position of a permanent magnet rotor, all motor stator windings are stimulated (voltage applied thereto) in sequence, the time it takes for current in the stimulated stator winding to rise to a specific current value is measured for each stator winding and these time measurement results processed. From the measured time results rotor position to within 60 degrees is determined and the position sector is known prior to starting/rotating the motor. Once the rotor position is known, the next commutation point in a six step sequence is known before actually starting/rotating the motor. Position measurement winding stimulation may be interleaved with commutation pulses, or the unexcited stator winding may be stimulated between commutation pulses to the other two excited stator, wherein one of the two stator windings remains connected to the power and provides a current return path to the unexcited but stimulated stator winding.
US09525363B2
Disclosed is a method for voltage dip compensation of inverter, the method including reducing an output frequency of an inverter to obtain a regenerative energy when it is determined that power failure has occurred during the inverter operation, adjusting increase/decrease of inverter output frequency in response to size of exceeding current and voltage based on an output current and DC-link voltage of the inverter, increasing the inverter output frequency in order to prevent excessive current flow when power restoration occurs at a power failure state, and returning to a speed prior to the momentary voltage dip by gradually increasing the inverter output frequency in a state where the inverter output frequency does not exceed an over-current limit by monitoring the inverter output frequency.
US09525362B2
A power supply system for a charge is provided. The power supply system includes a converter connected in input to a current source and in output to a charge, the converter being able to deliver a direct current to the charge and allow the circulation of the current in a single direction, from the current source to the charge and a circulation bus for an electric current, including a first end and a second end. The power supply system further includes a device for injecting an additional alternating voltage and at the second end of the circulation bus, the injection device being connected to the second end and a device for recovering the additional injected alternating voltage, the recovery device being connected between the first end of the bus and the charge, so as to supply the charge with electrical current.
US09525355B2
A converter system includes a power converter including a first bridge circuit including at least one first switching device. The power converter also includes a second bridge circuit magnetically coupled to the first bridge circuit. The second bridge circuit includes at least one second switching device. The converter system also includes a plurality of first conductors of opposing polarities coupled to the first bridge circuit. The converter system further includes a plurality of second conductors of opposing polarities. At least one second conductor of the plurality of second conductors is coupled to the second bridge circuit. The converter system also includes a third conductor coupled to one first conductor of the plurality of first conductors and coupled to the second bridge circuit.
US09525354B2
A method of operating a power supply having a transformer, a transistor controlling the current through a primary side of the transformer, and a control unit for controlling the switching of the transistor to generate current pulses in the transformer, is suggested, the method comprising receiving a feedback signal, and exiting a burst mode and entering a normal mode based on the feedback signal in case the feedback signal exceeds a first threshold value or in case the feedback signal exceeds a second threshold value for at least a first amount of time and in case the feedback signal exceeds a third threshold value, wherein the third threshold value is larger than the second threshold value and the first threshold value is larger than the third threshold value.
US09525353B2
A switching power-supply device performs a control of an output voltage by switching operation of a switching element and has an integrated circuit including the switching element and a driving circuit for performing on-and-off control of the switching element. The integrated circuit includes an input terminal connected to the switching element, a voltage detection circuit, which detects a voltage of the input terminal, a timing control circuit, which controls a timing of detecting the voltage by the voltage detection circuit, and a control unit, which performs a control according to the voltage detected by the voltage detection circuit.
US09525350B2
Cascaded buck boost DC to DC conversion systems, controllers and methods are presented, in which a buck converter stage is pulse width modulated in a first mode and a boost converter stage is pulse width modulated in a second mode, with the pulse width modulation using a first one of peak current control in valley current control in the first mode, and using the other of peak current control in valley current control in the second mode, and operation is switched between the first and second modes based on an on-time of a low side driver switch of the buck converter stage or the boost converter stage.
US09525348B1
A converter for connecting a voltage source to a load includes a plurality of ICBT (integrated capacitor blocked transistor) cells configured as switches and connected in series to form a series connection path, a main capacitor connected across the series connection path, and a controller. Each ICBT cell includes a main transistor disposed in the series connection path and a series connected auxiliary transistor and auxiliary capacitor coupled in parallel with the main transistor. The controller is operable to develop a voltage across the main capacitor which exceeds a voltage rating of the ICBT cells, by switching the ICBT cells so as to commutate current within the individual ICBT cells without the ICBT cells providing active power to the load so that power flow is from the voltage source, to the main capacitor, to the load and not through the auxiliary transistors and the auxiliary capacitors.
US09525336B2
In one embodiment, harmonic control method for a flyback switching power supply, can include: (i) generating a sense voltage signal based on an output signal of the flyback switching power supply; (ii) generating a first compensation signal by determining and compensating an error between the sense voltage signal and a reference voltage; (iii) generating a second compensation signal by regulating the first compensation signal based on a duty cycle of a main power switch in the flyback switching power supply; and (iv) generating a control signal based on the second compensation signal and a triangular wave signal, to control the main power switch such that the output signal is substantially constant and an input current follows a waveform variation of an input voltage of the flyback switching power supply.
US09525319B2
An actuator includes a first stator with four first poles and a second stator with four second poles aligned with the four first poles. A permanent magnet is attached to the first stator and the second stator. Four moving armatures are positioned at terminal ends of the four first poles and the four second poles. Coils are wrapped around the first stator and the second stator. A controller selectively applies current to the coils to migrate flux created by the permanent magnet through selective poles of the first stator and the second stator and thereby alter the size of air gaps associated with the four moving armatures.
US09525318B2
Adverse effects of a large assembling step comparable to tolerance of stacking members among constituent parts are prevented. At least two components and, among a voltage regulator, a brush holder and a rectifier, that are fastened with each other are provided with both component-fixing portions and fastening-together portions and for fastening the components together with each other, and an assembling step absorbing portion is provided at least at the fastening-together portion that is not close to the component-fixing portions of the respective components.
US09525317B2
An automotive rotary electric machine according to the present invention includes: a mounting bolt that is inserted through a penetrating aperture that is formed on a bottom portion of a protective cover and that is fixed to a portion at a first axial end of a casing; and a metal mounting device that is fixed to a portion of the mounting bolt that projects out through the penetrating aperture, and a harness clamp is held by the metal mounting device.
US09525315B2
A magnet assembly includes at least one support member, a plurality of magnets, wherein each one of the plurality of magnets is positioned relative to the at least one support member by a male-female interface. For each one of the plurality of magnets, a male portion is engaged into a female portion so that displacements during a step of attachment of each one of the plurality of magnets to the at least one support member are avoided.
US09525314B2
In the rotary electric machine, a cylinder 04a of a ring component 04 is formed in such a way that a fitting outer surface 04c1 of the cylinder 04a of the ring component 04 is fitted to a fitting inner surface 02a of a first housing 02; a clearance value between the fitting outer surface of the cylinder and a fitting inner surface of the first housing is lower than a clearance value between an outer surface, in which the fitting outer surface is excepted, of the cylinder and an inner surface, in which the fitting inner surface is excepted, of the first housing; and a position in a diameter direction of a stator core 3 facing to the first housing is set by above-described fitting process.
US09525312B2
The present disclosure describes a method for optically powering transducers and related transducers with a photovoltaic collector. An optical fiber power delivery method and a free space power delivery method are also provided. A fabrication process for making an optically powered transducer is further described, together with an implantable transducer system based on optical power delivery.
US09525309B2
An automated battery-powered backup AC power supply system for a sump pump installation of the type having a sump pump and a pump controller which connects the sump pump motor to the AC line to operate in response to a rising liquid level in the sump container. The system includes a standby battery and an inverter operable from the battery for supplying AC power to the sump pump installation in the event of AC power failure or during periodic testing of the sump pump installation. A power controller senses whether the sump pump motor is connected to the AC line by the pump controller and connects the AC inverter to the backup battery to supply AC power to the installation only when the pump is connected, thereby minimizing idle current drain on the battery and prolonging the backup availability of the system.
US09525300B2
An electricity storage system includes: an electricity storage unit (10, 11) that is subjected to charging and discharging; a voltage sensor (20, 20a) that detects a voltage value of the electricity storage unit; and a controller (30) that terminates the charging of the electricity storage unit when the detected voltage value reaches a charging termination voltage value. The controller calculates a voltage drop, which is associated with interruption of constant current charging, on the basis of the detected voltage value while the constant current charging is performed in the electricity storage unit, and sets the charging termination voltage value in accordance with the amount of voltage drop.
US09525297B2
A novel automobile charger which comprise a direct current voltage supply, wherein a positive pole of the direct current voltage supply is connected with one end or lead of a DC to DC module, one end of a battery voltage detection module and one end of a load module simultaneously, while a negative pole of the direct current voltage supply is connected with another end of the DC to DC module, one end of a microcontroller, one end of an automobile start control module and another end of the battery voltage detection module simultaneously. A third end of the DC to DC module is connected with another end of the microcontroller. Other three ends of the microcontroller are connected with the third end of the battery voltage detection module, another end of the automobile start control module and one end of a load detection module respectively. Another end of the load detection module is connected with a third end of the automobile start control module and another end of the load module simultaneously.
US09525292B2
A power receiving unit includes: a power receiving section configured to receive electric power from a power transmission unit; and an electromagnet configured to be magnetized based on the electric power received from the power transmission unit.
US09525291B1
Systems and methods for disengaging a battery are disclosed. The systems and methods may be used to disengage a battery from a direct-current (DC) bus of a vehicle when the DC bus is under a load. In one implementation, the system includes one or more contactors between the battery string and the DC bus. The system also includes at least one transistor connected to the one or more contactors in series. The system further includes a controller configured to switch off the transistor and open the one or more contactors.
US09525272B2
Described is a corona ignition device comprising an insulator, a housing that is closed at its front end by the insulator, a center electrode that protrudes out of a front end of the insulator and has at least one ignition tip, wherein the insulator protrudes out of the housing and widens outside of the housing. The insulator curves in a dome-shaped manner over the front end of the housing.
US09525271B2
A spark plug with a center electrode, the center electrode having a small-diameter portion with a noble metal tip joined by laser welding to a front end of the small-diameter portion, a large-diameter portion made larger in diameter than the small-diameter portion and a connection portion connecting the small-diameter portion and the large-diameter portion to each other. In this spark plug, the following conditions (1), (2) and (3) are satisfied: Dg≦2.6 (1) 1.15≦Lc+Ls≦3.0 (2) 0.48≦Ls/(Lc+Ls)≦0.75 (3) where Dg (mm) is a diameter of the large-diameter portion; Lc (mm) is a length of the noble metal tip in an axis direction of the spark plug; and Ls (mm) is a length of the small-diameter portion in the axis direction of the spark plug.
US09525260B2
A production device 100 for a packaged electrode 20, to which a separator welding device is applied, includes joining heads 301 having joining tips 302 and 303 that join a pair of separators 30 to each other and holding units 304 that fasten the pair of separators. After the joining heads 301 are moved closer to each other with respect to the separators, and the separators are fastened by the holding units 304, the pair of separators is joined to each other by the joining tips 301. Meanwhile, after the joining heads 301 are separated from each other with respect to the separators, and the joining tips are separated from the pair of separators, the separators are released from fastening by the holding units 304.
US09525253B2
There is provided a socket for selectively coupling to a plug. The socket comprising a conforming portion adapted to conform to a first configuration complementary to the plug, wherein the first configuration allows the socket to electrically couple to the plug; and a securing member adjustable to releasably engage at least part of the conforming portion to substantially prevent the conforming portion from changing to a second configuration different from the first configuration, wherein the second configuration substantially prevents the socket from electrically coupling to the plug. There are also provided a plug configured to cooperate with the socket, a plug and socket assembly, a method of setting the socket for selectively coupling to the plug, and a method of resetting the socket programmed to selectively coupling to the plug.
US09525252B2
The present invention discloses a socket outlet assembly in which socket outlets that may be inserted into a plurality of electric plugs or USB terminals are continuously connected, and an interval of a plug insertion hole of the socket outlet inserted with the plug and the plug insertion hole of another socket outlet disposed to be adjacent thereto can be adjusted.In a socket outlet assembly according to the present invention including a plurality of unit socket outlets hinge-coupled to each other and having a varied shape, each unit socket outlet includes a body part made as a polyhedron, one or more hinge-coupling part integrally made with the body part and provided at a corner part side of the body part, an insertion hole part inserted with a plug in one surface of the body part, and a first power supply member and a second power supply member provided at the body part and the hinge-coupling part and supplying power from a power source to the insertion hole part.
US09525251B2
An electrical connector comprises a casing configured with a piecing gap and at least one solder adhering cavity. An imaging soldering line occurs in part of the piecing gap and in part of the solder adhering cavity. An insulative base includes a plurality of first terminals, a plurality of second terminals, an upper internal conductive sheet, and a lower internal conductive sheet. Thereafter, an improving electrical connector is provided.
US09525228B2
A battery terminal includes an overlay clad plate material including at least a first metal layer made of Al or Al alloy and a second metal layer made of Cu or Cu alloy, formed by bonding at least the first metal layer and the second metal layer to each other in the thickness direction. Either the first metal layer or the second metal layer of the clad plate material is partially removed to form an exposure surface on which either the second metal layer or the first metal layer is exposed in the clad plate material.
US09525225B1
A card connector includes an insulating housing, electrical terminals and a group of switch terminals which includes a detecting terminal and a grounding terminal fixed to the insulating housing. The detecting terminal has a horizontal first fixed portion and a resisting portion. The grounding terminal has a perpendicular second fixed portion, a flexing portion, a connecting portion and an extending plate. A rear edge of an outside of the extending plate is beyond the connecting portion. The ejector mechanism includes a sliding block with a pushing portion. The card first pushes the pushing portion rearward to press on an outside of the extending plate, then the card pushes the connecting portion and the pushing portion rearward simultaneously to ensure the extending plate always being pressed by the pushing portion, when the card is fully inserted in the card connector, the extending plate is against the resisting portion.
US09525218B2
A conductive wire connection structure of rail-type electrical terminal is able to reduce the yield of waste material in manufacturing, enhance heat dissipation effect and increase operational and motional stability in condition of structural simplification. The conductive wire connection structure includes a conductive support mounted in an insulation case. The conductive support is divided into two parts of a U-shaped support main body and a C-shaped wire connector. The wire connector is assembled with a metal leaf spring and disposed on the support main body together with the metal leaf spring for pivotally connecting with the grounding conductive wire coming from an apparatus. The wire connector and the metal leaf spring are respectively formed with insertion sections for assembling the wire connector with the metal leaf spring to help the support main body to hold the metal leaf spring and prevent the metal leaf spring from deflecting.
US09525213B2
The antenna device includes a signal line that distributes input signals. The signal line includes a substrate, a pair of ground conductors opposite each other such as to sandwich the substrate, a first front side pattern and a second front side pattern formed on a front side of the substrate, and a first back side pattern and a second back side pattern formed on a back side of the substrate. While the first front side pattern is split, the second front side pattern is not split, and while the second back side pattern is split, the first back side pattern is not split. Parts of the split first front side pattern are conductive to each other via the first back side pattern, and parts of the split second back side pattern are conductive to each other via the second front side pattern.
US09525211B2
An antenna and a communication system with the antenna are provided. The antenna may include a first layer including a plurality of folded stubs, a second layer including a pattern of the folded stubs, and a third layer connected to ground is disposed between the first layer and the second layer.
US09525208B2
A multiband antenna for receiving or transmitting wireless signals of a plurality of frequency bands includes a grounding sheet, formed with a hole at a first side, for providing grounding, a first micro-strip line, substantially parallel to the first side of the grounding sheet, a connecting unit, connecting to the first side of the grounding sheet and the first micro-strip line, for forming a resonant cavity with the first side of the grounding sheet and the first micro-strip line, a second micro-strip line, formed in the resonant cavity and substantially parallel to the first micro-strip line, a third micro-strip line, extending from the hole of the grounding sheet to the second micro-strip line, and a feed-in terminal, formed on the third micro-strip line within the hole, for transmitting the wireless signals.
US09525205B2
Provided is a beam forming device. The beam forming device of the present invention may feedback power-amplified signals to perform digital pre-distortion for improving the non-linearity of an analog element in a digital signal process terminal and control a phase for forming a beam. Therefore, the beam forming device that can form an accurate beam may be realized.
US09525204B2
A wireless network element is operably couplable to an antenna array for communicating with at least one remote wireless communication unit. The antenna array comprises a plurality of radiating elements where at least one first radiating element of the plurality of radiating elements is arranged to create a radiation pattern in a sector of a communication cell. The wireless network element comprises a receiver arranged to receive and process at least one signal from the at least one remote wireless communication unit via the at least one first radiating element. The wireless network element also comprises a beam scanning module for stepping/sweeping the radiation pattern through the sector of the communication cell, such that at least one signal from the at least one remote wireless communication unit is processed to identify signal parameters representative of incoming signal power and angle of arrival of the received at least one signal.
US09525201B2
A hinge of a device is provided that serves as a radiator. The hinge includes first and second conductive pin elements. The opposite ends of the first and second conductive pin elements are configured to mechanically engage the device. The hinge also includes an insulator between portions of the first and second conductive pin elements. The end of at least the first conductive pin element is also configured to be in electrical communication with radio frequency circuitry of the device such that the first conductive pin element functions as the radiator.
US09525200B2
The present invention relates to a multi-layer substrate which can be used in a wireless signal transmission/reception apparatus, etc, a through-hole and a first waveguide and a second waveguide which are formed by conductive films enclosing the inner surface of the through-hole are formed on an upper substrate and a lower substrate of the multi-layer substrate, respectively, and an RF signal can be transmitted between an upper surface and a lower surface through the two waveguides. A process of manufacturing a multi-layer substrate by a Surface Mount Technology (SMT) is used, so that a waveguide passing through the multi-layer substrate can be precisely and easily formed.
US09525199B2
In a millimeter waveband filter, electric wave half mirrors are provided in transmission lines of a first waveguide configured to allow electromagnetic waves in a predetermined frequency range of a millimeter waveband to propagate in a TE10 mode and a second waveguide connected to the first waveguide in a state where one end of the second waveguide is inserted into the first waveguide, and the waveguides are relatively moved to vary the interval between the electric wave half mirrors, thereby changing a resonance frequency. The first waveguide is a square waveguide, and the second waveguide is a ridge waveguide in which the outside thereof is a rectangular shape at a predetermined interval with respect to the inside of the first waveguide and a sectional shape of a transmission line has a central portion having a height smaller than both side portions.
US09525196B2
The present invention aims to provide an electrolyte solution for a lithium-air cell, the electrolyte solution having excellent chemical stability and a high withstand voltage and being in a stable liquid state without undergoing precipitation of salts or coagulation over a broad temperature range. The present invention also aims to provide a lithium-air cell which is produced using the electrolyte solution for a lithium-air cell and has excellent long-term reliability and good charge-discharge cycle characteristics. The present invention relates to an electrolyte solution for a lithium-air cell, the electrolyte solution containing: an organic solvent that contains a chain alkyl sulfone compound represented by Formula (1): wherein R1 and R2 independently represent a straight-chain or branched-chain alkyl group containing 1 to 4 carbons and may be the same as or different from each other; and a lithium salt.
US09525187B2
Gas diffusion layers, that is, an anode-side gas diffusion layer and a cathode-side gas diffusion layer that are attached to an MEA have irregularities on fiber surfaces of carbon fibers deposited in a layer thickness direction. These irregularities on the fiber surfaces are formed when the fibers are extruded from an extrusion nozzle to be spun.
US09525186B2
A hydrogen generator (30) and fuel cell system are disclosed. The hydrogen generator (30) includes a housing (32) and a flexible feed member (56) including a flexible carrier (64) and a hydrogen-containing reactant (62) disposed on the carrier. The flexible feed member (56) may include a reactant having a braided carrier on the outside or a flexible strip having a carrier with reactant disposed thereon. The hydrogen-containing reactant (62) will release hydrogen gas when heated. The hydrogen generator further includes a heating system including a heater (48) and a pinch roller system (40) for feeding the flexible feed member (56) to position the flexible feed member in proximity to the heater (48), such that the heater is capable of heating the hydrogen-containing reactant to release hydrogen gas. The fuel cell system includes a fuel cell having a hydrogen gas input port and a hydrogen generator.
US09525179B2
Novel anode materials including various compositions of vanadium-doped strontium titanate (SVT), and various compositions of vanadium- and sodium-doped strontium niobate (SNNV) for low- or intermediate-temperature solid oxide fuel cell (SOFCs). These materials offer high conductivity achievable at intermediate and low temperatures and can be used as the structural support of the SOFC anode and/or as the conductive phase of an anode. A method of making a low- or intermediate-temperature SOFC having an anode layer including SVT or SNNV is also provided.
US09525177B2
An electrical storage device includes high surface area fibers (e.g., shaped fibers and/or microfibers) coated with carbon (graphite, expanded graphite, activated carbon, carbon black, carbon nanofibers, CNT, or graphite coated CNT), electrolyte, and/or electrode active material (e.g., lead oxide) in electrodes. The electrodes are used to form electrical storage devices such as electrochemical batteries, electrochemical double layer capacitors, and asymmetrical capacitors.
US09525166B2
A negative electrode for an alkaline secondary battery includes a current collecting substrate having a substrate containing iron. The current collecting substrate does not have a conductive protecting layer, or has a conductive protecting layer having a thickness of 3 μm or less or having defects, on the substrate. The negative electrode contains magnesium or a magnesium compound and a hydrogen storing alloy.
US09525164B1
A method for producing pure vanadium(III) oxide and a vanadyl sulfate solution comprising contacting vanadium pentoxide with a solid inorganic reducing agent. The resultant mixture containing a mix of vanadium oxides is leached with sulfuric acid to form vanadium(III) oxide and vanadyl sulfate.
US09525160B2
This invention relates to low-cost, electroactive-polymer incorporated fine-fiber composite membranes for use as overcharge and/or overdischarge protection separators in non-aqueous electrochemical cells and the methods for making such membranes.
US09525155B2
A gas and moisture permeation barrier stack deposited by both sputtering and atomic layer deposition techniques. In one embodiment, the barrier stack comprises a bottom barrier layer deposited on a substrate by sputtering and a top barrier layer deposited on the sputtered layer by atomic layer deposition. In one embodiment, the sputtered barrier layer has a water vapor transmission rate of about 10−5 gm/m2·day or lower, and the top barrier layer improves the water vapor transmission rate of the resulting two-layer barrier stack to about 10−6 gm/m2·day or lower.
US09525141B2
Provided is an organic light-emitting device, including a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; an emission layer (EML) disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode; a hole transporting region between the first electrode and the EML; and an electron transporting region between the EML and the second electrode. The hole transporting region includes an amine-based compound represented by one of Formulae 1A and 1C: The EML includes an organic metal complex and a compound represented by one of Formulae formula 2, 10A, 10B, 10C, 10D, and 10E:
US09525137B2
A light emitting diode includes an insulating substrate, an MgO layer, a semiconductor carbon nanotube layer, a functional dielectric layer, a first electrode, and a second electrode. The semiconductor carbon nanotube layer has a first surface and a second surface. The MgO layer coats entire the first surface. The second surface is divided into a first region and a second region. The first region is coated with the functional dielectric layer. The second region is exposed. The first electrode is electrically connected to the first region. The second electrode is electrically connected to the second region.
US09525135B2
A thixotropic conductive composition is disclosed that can be used to form conductive features on an electronic device. The thixotropic composition comprises a conjugated polymer, a solvent, and multi-wall carbon nanotubes. The conjugated polymer and the solvent are capable of forming a thixotropic fluid. This enables excellent stability of the carbon nanotubes in the composition at a very high loading. The composition has a long shelf life.
US09525134B1
There is provided a hole transport compound having Formula I In Formula I: Ar1-Ar3 are selected from the group consisting of aryl groups and deuterated aryl groups; with the proviso that Ar1 is not the same as Ar2, E is the same or different at each occurrence, and n is an integer greater than or equal to 1. There is also a hole transport compound having Formula II In Formula II: Ar4-Ar7 are the same or different and are aryl groups or deuterated aryl groups; E1 is the same or different at each occurrence; R1-R5 are the same or different at each occurrence; a-e are the same or different and are in integer from 0-4; m is an integer from 0-6; o is an integer greater than or equal to 1. There is also provided an organic electronic device.
US09525130B2
A phase change memory (“PCM”) cell is provided in accordance with some embodiments. The PCM includes a spacer defining a reaction area; a phase change material layer disposed within the reaction area; a protection layer disposed over the phase change material layer and within the reaction area defined by the spacer; and a capping layer disposed over the protection layer and the spacer.
US09525128B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device may include forming a material layer on a substrate, performing a selective oxidation process to form a capping oxide layer on a first surface of the material layer, wherein a second surface of the material layer is not oxidized, and etching the material layer through the second surface to form a material pattern. An etch rate of the capping oxide layer is less than an etch rate of the material layer. A semiconductor device may include a lower electrode on a substrate, a data storage part on a top surface of the lower electrode, an upper electrode on the data storage part, and a capping oxide layer arranged on at least a portion of a top surface of the upper electrode. The capping oxide layer may include an oxide formed by oxidation of an upper surface of the upper electrode.
US09525124B2
The present invention generally relates to high frequency piezoelectric crystal composites, devices, and method for manufacturing the same. In adaptive embodiments an improved imaging device, particularly a medical imaging device or a distance imaging device, for high frequency (>20 MHz) applications involving an imaging transducer assembly is coupled to a signal imagery processor. Additionally, the proposed invention presents a system for photolithography based micro-machined piezoelectric crystal composites and their uses resulting in improved performance parameters.
US09525122B2
A power generating element includes a magnetostrictive rod through which lines of magnetic force pass in an axial direction thereof, the magnetostrictive rod formed of a magnetostrictive material; a magnetic rod arranged in parallel with the magnetostrictive rod, the magnetic rod formed of a magnetic material; a first coupling mechanism for coupling one end portion of the magnetostrictive rod and one end of the magnetic rod; a second coupling mechanism for coupling the other end portion of the magnetostrictive rod and the other end portion of the magnetic rod; and a coil provided so that the lines of magnetic force pass inside the coil in an axial direction thereof and in which a voltage is generated on the basis of a variation of density of the lines of magnetic force caused when the magnetostrictive rod is expanded or contracted. Further, at least one of the one end portion and the other end portion of the magnetostrictive rod is formed into a male screw portion.
US09525120B2
There are provided a multi-layer piezoelectric element capable of suppressing the development of a small crack occurring at an interface between a piezoelectric layer and an internal electrode layer or in the internal electrode layer, and a piezoelectric actuator, an injection device and a fuel injection system including the same. A multi-layer piezoelectric element includes a stacked body in which piezoelectric layers and internal electrode layers are laminated, and an external electrode disposed on a side surface of the stacked body and electrically connected to the internal electrode layers through a conductive bonding material, the external electrode including protrusions protruding toward the stacked body.
US09525117B2
Thermoelectric materials based on single crystal AlInN—GaN grown by metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy
The invention is a thermoelectric device fabricated by growing a single crystal AlInN semiconductor material on a substrate, and a method of fabricating same. In a preferred embodiment, the semiconductor material is AlInN grown on and lattice-matched to a GaN template on a sapphire substrate, and the growth is performed using metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy (MOVPE).
US09525114B2
An optical semiconductor device includes a substrate that has a silver plating layer formed on a surface, a light emitting diode that is bonded to the silver plating layer, a light reflecting portion that surrounds the light emitting diode, a transparent sealing portion that is filled into the light reflecting portion and seals the light emitting diode, and a clay film that covers the silver plating layer. The transparent sealing portion and the light reflecting portion are bonded to each other.
US09525113B2
A method of manufacturing a LED package structure for preventing lateral light leakage includes placing a plurality of light-emitting units on a carrier substrate, the light-emitting units being electrically connected to the carrier substrate; forming a plurality of light-transmitting gel bodies on the carrier substrate for respectively enclosing the light-emitting units, the light-transmitting gel bodies being separated from each other to form a gel receiving space among the light-transmitting gel bodies; forming a light-shielding gel body to fill up the gel receiving space; and then cutting the carrier substrate and the light-shielding gel body to form the plurality of LED package structures separated from each other, the carrier substrate being cut to form a plurality of circuit substrates for respectively carrying the light-emitting units.
US09525112B2
The present invention provides a method of manufacturing a phosphor for a light-emitting diode, including filling a phosphor frame in which phosphor models are formed in an engraving form with a fluorescent material solution including a fluorescent material that converts light provided by the light-emitting diode into white light by changing a wavelength of the light provided by the light-emitting diode, polishing a top surface of the phosphor frame filled with the fluorescent material solution, and drying the phosphor frame filled with the fluorescent material solution and polished.
US09525099B2
An arrangement for supporting substrates during processing, having a wafer carrier with a susceptor for supporting the substrate and confining the substrate to predetermined position. An inner mask is configured for placing on top of the substrate, the inner mask having an opening pattern to mask unprocessed parts of the substrate, but expose remaining parts of the substrate for processing. An outer mask is configured for placing on top of the inner mask, the outer mask having an opening that exposes the part of the inner mask having the opening pattern, but cover the periphery of the inner mask.
US09525095B2
A colloidal dispersion of a metal chalcogenide material in divided state in an aqueous liquid phase selected from the group consisting of aqueous solutions and solutions including a mixture of water and at least one solvent that is miscible with water, wherein the carbon element of the material is present in a proportion of less than 2.5 wt. % as determined by elemental analysis, the concentration of the material in the colloidal dispersion is more than 40 g/l, and the colloidal dispersion has a charge potential value which is negative and the absolute value of which is higher than 20 mV.
US09525089B2
A receiver for a solar radiation-based electrical power generation system comprises a plurality of photovoltaic cells, with the cells being arranged in modules, with each module comprising one or more than one cell, and with the modules being arranged in subarrays, with each subarray comprising a plurality of modules. The receiver also comprises a support framework for the subarrays.
US09525080B2
A semiconductor device includes a carrier and semiconductor die having an optically active region. The semiconductor die is mounted to the carrier to form a separation between the carrier and the semiconductor die. The semiconductor device further includes a passivation layer disposed over a surface of the semiconductor die and a glass layer disposed over a surface of the passivation layer. The passivation layer has a clear portion for passage of light to the optically active region of the semiconductor die. The semiconductor device further includes an encapsulant disposed over the carrier within the separation to form an expansion region around a periphery of the semiconductor die, a first via penetrating the expansion region, glass layer, and passivation layer, a second via penetrating the glass layer and passivation layer to expose a contact pad on the semiconductor die, and a conductive material filling the first and second vias.
US09525073B2
A semiconductor device which occupies a small area is provided. A semiconductor device includes a resistor. The resistor includes a transistor. The increase rate of a drain current of the transistor with a 0.1 V change in drain voltage is preferably higher than or equal to 1% when the drain voltage is higher than a difference between a gate voltage and a threshold voltage of the transistor. The semiconductor device has a function of generating a voltage based on the resistance of the resistor.
US09525068B1
An improved FinFET has a gate structure on only a portion of the available surface on a fin, thereby providing a FinFET with a finer granularity width dimension. To form the FinFET, a first etch-resistant sacrificial layer and a second etch-resistant spacer layer are formed on the fin. The spacer layer is etched anisotropically to remove the spacer layer from the top and upper sidewalls of the fin while leaving the spacer layer on the lower sidewalls of the FinFET. A gate dielectric and conducting layer are then deposited and shaped to form a structure that is effective as a gate only on the top and upper sidewalls of the fin.
US09525060B2
An integrated circuit including an isolated device which is isolated with a lower buried layer combined with deep trench isolation. An upper buried layer, with the same conductivity type as the substrate, is disposed over the lower buried layer, so that electrical contact to the lower buried layer is made at a perimeter of the isolated device. The deep trench isolation laterally surrounds the isolated device. Electrical contact to the lower buried layer sufficient to maintain a desired bias to the lower buried layer is made along less than half of the perimeter of the isolated device, between the upper buried layer and the deep trench.
US09525058B2
An integrated circuit includes a power component including a plurality of first trenches in a cell array and a first conductive material in the first trenches electrically coupled to a gate terminal of the power component, and a diode component including a first diode device trench and a second diode device trench disposed adjacent to each other. A second conductive material in the first and the second diode device trenches is electrically coupled to a source terminal of the diode component. The first trenches, the first diode device trench and the second diode device trench are disposed in a first main surface of a semiconductor substrate. The integrated circuit further includes a diode gate contact including a connection structure between the first and the second diode device trenches. The connection structure is in contact with the second conductive material in the first and the second diode device trenches.
US09525053B2
Integrated circuit devices including strained channel regions and methods of forming the same are provided. The integrated circuit devices may include enhancement-mode field effect transistors. The enhancement-mode field effect transistors may include a quantum well channel region having a well thickness Tw sufficient to yield a strain-induced splitting of a plurality of equivalent-type electron conduction states therein to respective unequal energy levels including a lowermost energy level associated with a lowermost surface roughness scattering adjacent a surface of the channel region when, the surface is biased into a state of inversion.
US09525038B2
A method for producing a semiconductor device includes a first step of forming a fin-shaped semiconductor layer on a semiconductor substrate and forming a first insulating film around the fin-shaped semiconductor layer; and a second step following the first step and including forming a second insulating film around the fin-shaped semiconductor layer, depositing a first polysilicon on the second insulating film to conduct planarization, forming a second resist for forming a gate line and a pillar-shaped semiconductor layer so that the second resist extends in a direction perpendicular to a direction in which the fin-shaped semiconductor layer extends, and etching the first polysilicon, the second insulating film, and the fin-shaped semiconductor layer to form a pillar-shaped semiconductor layer and a first dummy gate formed of the first polysilicon.
US09525028B1
A dual-well metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) device includes: a substrate, an epitaxial layer, a first conductive type well, a first conductive type body region, a second conductive type well, a gate, a first conductive type lightly doped diffusion (LDD) region, a second conductive type lightly doped diffusion (LDD) region, a second conductive type source, and a second conductive type drain. The second conductive type well is connected to the first conductive type well in a lateral direction, and an PN junction is formed between the second conductive type well and the first conductive type well. The MOS device includes LDD regions of opposite conductive types, each located in a corresponding well of a corresponding conductive type, to reduce the channel length.
US09525025B2
A semiconductor device including a substrate including an active region and a device isolation region that isolates the active region, and a buried bit line and a buried gate electrode formed in the substrate. The device isolation region includes a first device isolation region extending in a first direction and a second device isolation region extending in a second direction crossing with the first direction and having an formed air gap.
US09525015B2
Disclosed are an organic light emitting diode device, and a method for fabricating the same. The organic light emitting diode device comprises a non-active area formed outside an active area of a substrate; a switching thin film transistor and a driving thin film transistor at each of the pixel regions; a planarization layer on the substrate; a first electrode on the planarization layer; a bank formed in the non-active area outside each pixel region; an organic light emitting layer on the first electrode; a second electrode on an entire surface of the substrate; a first passivation layer on the substrate; an organic layer on the first passivation layer; a second passivation layer on the organic layer and the first passivation layer; a barrier film disposed to face the substrate.
US09525010B2
An organic light-emitting diode display unit, a driving method thereof and a display device are disclosed. At least part of pixel units are pixel units each with a stacked structure; each pixel unit with the stacked structure includes two adjacent subpixel unit stacked groups; and each subpixel unit stacked group includes at least two subpixel units which have different emitting colors and are stacked and insulated from each other. During display of different image frames, each subpixel unit stacked group in each pixel unit with the stacked structure can display gray-scale effect of at least two colors based on applied signals. Compared with an approach that each subpixel unit can only display gray-scale effect of only one color for different image frames, the display effect can be improved.
US09525009B2
The objection of invention is to provide an organic electroluminescent element having an excellent current-voltage property. The organic electroluminescent element of the invention comprises an anode, a light emitting layer and a cathode, in this order, wherein a total number of kinds of an electron transport material and a light emitting material contained in the light emitting layer is five or more. Preferably, a total number of kinds of an electron transport material contained in the light emitting layer is four or more, and at least one of an ionization potential and an electron affinity of three kinds or more of the electron transport materials contained in the light emitting layer is different from each other.
US09525005B2
A CIS structure is provided, including a translucent structure, a reflective structure surrounding the translucent structure, and a micro lens disposed on a side of the translucent structure. The reflective structure includes a first reflective layer surrounding the translucent structure, a second reflective layer surrounding the first reflective layer, and a third reflective layer surrounding the second reflective layer. The first, second, and third reflective layers respectively have refractive indexes N1, N2, and N3, wherein N1>N2>N3.
US09525001B2
A semiconductor device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a plurality of through vias (TVs), and a plurality of conductive caps. The first substrate has at least one electrical component disposed thereon. The second substrate is stacked on the first substrate. The TVs extend through the second substrate to be electrically connected to the at least one electrical component of the first substrate. The conductive caps respectively cover the TVs, and the conductive caps are electrically isolated from each other.
US09524996B2
An image sensor includes: a lens configured to focus light after passing through or reflected by an object to be read and passing through a first transparent plate; a sensor arranged along the X direction and configured to receive the light focused by the lens; a first casing fixing the first transparent plate and containing or retaining the lens and the sensor; and a bracket arranged at the X direction end portion of the first casing and configured to seal the lens contained or retained by the first casing.
US09524991B2
An array substrate and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display apparatus comprising the array substrate are provided. The array substrate comprises a base substrate, and a thin film transistor and a storing capacitor provided on the base substrate, the thin film transistor comprises a gate, a source, a drain and a gate insulation layer provided between the source and drain and the gate, the storing capacitor comprises a first plate, a second plate and a dielectric layer provided between the first plate and the second plate, wherein, both of the first plate and the second plate are formed of metal material, and the dielectric layer is formed of the same material as the gate insulation layer. In the array substrate of the present invention, the charging speed of the storing capacitor can be improved and the display quality of the display apparatus comprising the array substrate is further improved.
US09524984B1
The present disclosure may provide a semiconductor device with a low manufacturing degree of difficulty and an enhanced performance. The device may include conductive layers and insulating layers, alternately stacked, each of the insulating layers being thinner than each of the conductive layers; a channel layer passing through the conductive layers and the insulating layers; a data storage layer surrounding a side-wall of the channel layer; and first charge blocking patterns, each of the first charge blocking patterns interposed between the conductive layers and the insulating layers and between the data storage layer and the conductive layers.
US09524972B2
An apparatus includes a first metal layer coupled to a bit cell. The apparatus also includes a third metal layer including a write word line that is coupled to the bit cell. The apparatus further includes a second metal layer between the first metal layer and the third metal layer. The second metal layer includes two read word lines coupled to the bit cell.
US09524963B2
A semiconductor device comprising: a first, a second and a third conductive layer; the second conductive layer being located between the first and third conductive layers; wherein respective regions of the first and second conductive layers form a first capacitor; and respective regions of the second and third conductive layers form a second capacitor.
US09524956B2
A semiconductor package comprises a top package and a bottom package with fan-out interconnect structures. A plurality of inter-package connectors electrically connect the top package and the bottom package, and are located near a perimeter of the semiconductor package. A first material is located in a space delimited by a lower surface of the top package, an upper surface of the bottom package, and the inner-most inter-package connectors of the semiconductor package, wherein the first material partially fills the space. A second material different from the first material encapsulates the inter-package connectors.
US09524954B2
An LED-based light source for generating light having a selected dominant wavelength λds comprises a package housing a plurality of LEDs consisting of LEDs from first and second wavelength bins. The first wavelength bin comprises LEDs having a dominant wavelength λd1 that is within a first wavelength range and the second wavelength bin comprises LEDs having a dominant wavelength λd2 that is within a second wavelength range. The first wavelength bin can comprise LEDs having a dominant wavelength that is shorter than the selected dominant wavelength while the second wavelength bin comprises LEDs having a dominant wavelength that is longer than the selected dominant wavelength. The wavelength bins and number of LEDs are selected such that in operation the dominant wavelength of the combined light emitted by the source is the selected dominant wavelength. Lighting arrangements and light emitting devices incorporating such light sources are disclosed.
US09524953B2
In a conventional electronic device and a method of manufacturing the same, reduction in cost of the electronic device is hindered because resin used in an interconnect layer on the solder ball side is limited. The electronic device includes an interconnect layer (a first interconnect layer) and an interconnect layer (a second interconnect layer). The second interconnect layer is formed on the undersurface of the first interconnect layer. The second interconnect layer is larger in area seen from the top than the first interconnect layer and is extended to the outside from the first interconnect layer.
US09524934B2
A method of forming an integrated circuit includes forming at least one transistor over a substrate. Forming the at least one transistor includes forming a gate dielectric structure over a substrate. A work-function metallic layer is formed over the gate dielectric structure. A conductive layer is formed over the work-function metallic layer. A source/drain (S/D) region is formed adjacent to each sidewall of the gate dielectric structure. At least one electrical fuse is formed over the substrate. Forming the at least one electrical fuse includes forming a first semiconductor layer over the substrate. A first silicide layer is formed on the first semiconductor layer.
US09524931B2
A wiring substrate includes a block with substrates laid out in an array. The block includes corners and a plan view center. Each substrate includes a substrate body. Pads are formed on the substrate body. Each pad includes a pad surface. The pads of the substrates include first pads, which are the pads of one of the substrates located in at least one of the corners of the block. The pad surface of each of the first pads includes a first axis extending from the first pad toward the plan view center of the block. The pad surface of each of the first pads has a first length along the corresponding first axis and a second length along a second axis, which is orthogonal to the first axis. The first length is longer than the second length.
US09524928B2
According to an exemplary implementation, a power quad flat no-lead (PQFN) package includes a multi-phase power inverter, a control circuit, and a driver circuit. The driver circuit is configured to drive the multi-phase power inverter responsive to a control signal from the control circuit. The multi-phase power inverter, the control circuit, and the driver circuit are each situated on a PQFN leadframe of the PQFN package. The control circuit and the driver circuit can be in a common integrated circuit (IC). Furthermore, the control circuit can be configured to reconstruct at least two phase currents of the multi-phase power inverter from a combined phase current.
US09524922B2
The integrated circuit includes first and second vias, a first buffer configured to receive a signal transmitted from the first via, a second buffer configured to receive a signal transmitted from the second via, a first detour circuit configured to receive a signal transmitted through the second buffer, a second detour circuit configured to receive a signal transmitted through the first buffer, a first selector configured to selectively output one of the signal transmitted from the first via and a signal transmitted through the first detour circuit, and a second selector configured to selectively output one of the signal transmitted from the second via and a signal transmitted through the second detour circuit. Each of the first and second buffers and the first and second detour circuits transmits a signal in only one direction.
US09524914B2
A method of manufacturing an organic EL display apparatus including an organic EL panel having light emitting pixels each of which has an organic EL element (OEL) includes: lighting up lighting target pixels set from among the light emitting pixels; causing an imaging device to photograph the organic EL panel and receiving a photographed image from the imaging device; detecting the lighting target pixels using the photographed image; determining whether an undetectable pixel that cannot be detected is included among the lighting target pixels, using a result obtained in the detecting; increasing an amount of luminescence of the undetectable pixel to a detectable amount of luminescence, when it is determined that the undetectable pixel is included; and aligning a relative position of the organic EL display apparatus and the imaging device, using the result obtained in the detecting.
US09524900B2
Novel methods to fabricate biological sensors and electronics are disclosed. A silicon-on-insulator wafer can be employed by etching a pattern of holes in the silicon layer, then a pattern of cavities in the insulating layer, and then sealing the top of the cavities. Further, n or p doped regions and metallic regions can be defined in the processed wafer, thereby enabling integration of biological sensing and electronic capabilities in the same wafer.
US09524897B2
An end handler and method for processing a device are presented. The end handler includes a mating portion for mating with a tool and a support portion for supporting a film frame on a support surface. The support portion includes a support base section, extension sections extending from the support base section, and vacuum ports on the support surface for facilitating mating of the film frame on the support surface. Each of the vacuum port includes at least one reservoir having at least one vacuum opening in fluid communication with at least one vacuum source. The vacuum ports being configured to principally maintain a slimmest profile with strongest suction force possible.
US09524887B2
An etching apparatus includes a receiving container which receives a substrate, and a first spraying unit which supplies etchant into the receiving container. The receiving container includes a bottom plate, a plurality of bottom through holes defined in the bottom plate and through which the etchant is drained from the receiving container; and a plurality of side walls extended from the bottom plate.
US09524884B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor package includes mounting a plurality of semiconductor devices on a substrate; forming a molding member that covers a top surface of the substrate, top surfaces of the semiconductor devices, and sidewall surfaces of the semiconductor devices; sawing the molding member and the substrate along pre-scribing lines of the substrate; and spraying a metallic epoxy material on the sawn molding members using a sprayer to form an antistatic layer on sidewall surfaces and a top surface of each of the sawn molding members.
US09524878B2
A line layout and a spacer self-aligned quadruple patterning method thereof are provided. The line layout includes a first line, a second line, a third line, and a fourth line. The second line and the third line are disposed between the first line and the fourth line. The first line, the second line, the third line, and the fourth line respectively extend in a first direction. An end segment of the second line and an end segment of the third line respectively include a first protrusion portions that extend in a second direction. The first protrusion portion of the end segment of the second line protrudes toward the first line. The first protrusion portion of the end segment of the third line protrudes toward the fourth line.
US09524874B2
An aqueous polishing composition comprising (A) abrasive ceria particles and (B) amphiphilic nonionic surfactants selected water-soluble and water-dispersible, linear and branched polyoxyalkylene blockcopolymers of the general formula I: R[(B1)m/(B2)nY]p (I), wherein the indices and the variables have the following meaning: m, n, and p integers≧1; R hydrogen atom or monovalent or polyvalent organic residue, except C5-C20 alkyl groups; (B1) block of oxyethylene monomer units; (B2) block of substituted oxyalkylene monomer units wherein the substituents are selected from two methyl groups, alkyl groups of more than two carbon atoms and cycloalkyl, aryl, alkyl-cycloalkyl, alkyl-aryl, cycloalkyl-aryl and alkyl-cycloalkyl-aryl groups; and Y hydrogen atom or monovalent organic residue, except C5-C20 alkyl groups; with the proviso that when (B) contains more than one block (B1) or (B2) two blocks of the same type are separated by a block of the other type.
US09524866B2
A method for making semiconductor devices may include forming a phosphosilicate glass (PSG) layer on a semiconductor wafer, with the PSG layer having a phosphine residual surface portion. The method may further include exposing the phosphine residual surface portion to a reactant plasma to integrate at least some of the phosphine residual surface portion into the PSG layer. The method may additionally include forming a mask layer on the PSG layer after the exposing.
US09524858B2
An analytical apparatus (1) for mass spectrometry comprises an electron impact ioniser including an electron emitter (22) and an ionisation target zone (18). The target zone (18) is arranged to be populated with matter to be ionised for analysis. An electron extracting element (36) is aligned with an electron pathway (34) defined between the electron emitter (22) and the ionisation target zone (18). The electron extracting element (36) is configured to accelerate electrons away from the emitter (22) along the electron pathway (34) between the emitter (22) and the extracting element (36) and to decelerate the electrons along the electron pathway (34) between the extracting element (36) and the ionisation target zone (18) to enable soft ionisation while avoiding the effects of coulombic repulsion at the electron source (22).
US09524855B2
A detector system for a mass spectrometer comprises: a metal channel dynode (MCD) comprising at least one perforated metal plate configured to receive the exiting ions and eject electrons in response; a plurality of electron-to-photon converters arranged in a parallel stacked configuration, each such converter comprising a substrate plate having a phosphor coating on a first face; and an electrode film disposed on the phosphor coating; at least one photocathode, each of the at least one photocathode disposed between a respective pair of the plurality of electron-to-photon converters; an optical detector optically coupled a last one of the electron-to-photon converters; and at least one direct current power supply configured to apply, in operation, a respective bias electrical potential to the MCD and each of the electrode films and photocathodes.
US09524854B2
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and apparatus for capacitively coupling energy into a plasma to ignite and sustain the plasma within a remote plasma source. The power is provided by a first electrode that at least partially surrounds or is surrounded by a second electrode. The second electrode can be grounded or floating. First and second dielectric components can be arranged to separate one or both of the electrodes from the plasma and thereby DC isolate the plasma from one or both of the electrodes.
US09524851B2
A method of performing spectroscopy in a Transmission Charged-Particle Microscope comprising: a specimen holder; a source, for producing a beam of charged particles; an illuminator, for directing said beam so as to irradiate the specimen; an imaging system, for directing a flux of charged particles transmitted through the specimen onto a spectroscopic apparatus comprising a dispersing device for dispersing said flux into an energy-resolved array of spectral sub-beams, the method comprising: using an adjustable aperture device to admit a first portion of said array to a detector, while blocking a second portion of said array; providing; using a radiation sensor in said flux upstream of said aperture device to perform localized radiation sensing in a selected region of said second portion of the array, simultaneous with detection of said first portion by said detector; using a sensing result from said sensor to adjust a detection result from said detector.
US09524848B2
A method of producing field emitters having improved brightness and durability relying on the creation of a liquid Taylor cone from electrically conductive materials having high melting points. The method calls for melting the end of a wire substrate with a focused laser beam, while imposing a high positive potential on the material. The resulting molten Taylor cone is subsequently rapidly quenched by cessation of the laser power. Rapid quenching is facilitated in large part by radiative cooling, resulting in structures having characteristics closely matching that of the original liquid Taylor cone. Frozen Taylor cones thus obtained yield desirable tip end forms for field emission sources in electron beam applications. Regeneration of the frozen Taylor cones in-situ is readily accomplished by repeating the initial formation procedures. The high temperature liquid Taylor cones can also be employed as bright ion sources with chemical elements previously considered impractical to implement.
US09524838B2
A driving battery of a vehicle that can be electrically driven is charged by determining a resistance value that corresponds to the size of the electrical resistance between two contacts of the charging cable, where the size of the electrical resistance specifies the current-carrying capacity of the charging cable. As a function of the determined resistance value, one of a plurality of line protection devices which are disposed on the charging device is switched into the charge current path.
US09524835B2
Input device in which a defect of a control disk is eliminated while making use of an advantage of the control disk and an electronic device using the input device. The input device may include: an operation panel, which may be operated by a user; a board, which may be arranged to be opposed to a surface opposite to an operation surface of the operation panel operated by the user; a conductive elastic body and a pusher, which may be fixed on the operation panel; and a sensor portion and a member to be pressed, which may be placed on the board to be opposed to the conductive elastic body and the pusher, respectively.
US09524832B2
Intelligent safety disconnect switching methods and arrangements for PhotoVoltaic (PV) panels are disclosed. A determination is made as to whether a reconnect condition, for reconnecting a PV panel to a power system from which the PV panel is disconnected, is satisfied. The PV panel is automatically reconnected to the power system responsive to determining that the reconnect condition is satisfied. A determination is then made as to whether a power system operating condition is satisfied on reconnection of the PV panel, and the PV panel is automatically disconnected from the power system responsive to determining that the power system operating condition is not satisfied on reconnection of the PV panel.
US09524831B2
There is provided a method for producing a hybrid negative plate for a lead-acid storage battery which is improved in the production working efficiency and the productivity and enhances the quick charge and discharge characteristics and the discharge characteristics at a low temperature under PSOC of a lead-acid storage battery.A carbon mixture sheet produced by such a way that a carbon mixture prepared by mixing two types of carbon materials consisting of a first carbon material having electroconductivity and a second carbon material having capacitor capacitance and/or pseudocapacitor capacitance, and at least a binder, is adhered by pressure to the surface of a negative plate in a wet state, so that a hybrid negative plate is produced. The lead-acid storage battery provided with the hybrid negative plate is improved in the discharge characteristics.
US09524817B2
Disclosed herein is a metal magnetic powder, and the metal magnetic powder according to the exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a soft magnetic core particle and a multilayer coating film covering the core particle and having a multilayer structure, the multilayer coating film including an oxide film formed by heat treating the core particle and an insulation film formed by coating a coating particle with respect to the core particle.
US09524815B2
A high voltage surge arrester including insulating polymer housing with a protruding shed. The shed has an upper shed surface that forms a blunt angle with the longitudinal axis of the surge arrester and a lower shed surface. The lower shed surface includes an inner portion that forms an essentially right angle with said axis and an outer portion that forms an acute angle with said axis. Further the invention relates to an apparatus for molding an electrically insulating polymer housing.
US09524814B2
A metal-oxide sintered body for a temperature sensor that can be installed in a combustion engine and components connected to the engine in order to sense temperature uses metal oxide. The metal-oxide sintered body has particles with large resistance values and particles with small resistance values mixed therein. The particles with the small resistance values may serve as a main resistance component in the temperature range of 0° C. to 500° C., and the particles with the large resistance values may contribute to the total resistance in proportion to the mixing ratio in the temperature range of 500° C. to 900° C. Thus, the metal-oxide sintered body enables a single sensor to measure all resistances, and can be used in an exhaust device or the like of a motor vehicle that requires temperature measurement over a wide range of temperatures.
US09524810B2
This is directed to a cable structure for use with an electronic device. The cable structure can include one or more conductors around which a sheath is provided. To prevent the cable structure from tangling, the cable structure can include a core placed between the conductors and the sheath, where a stiffness of the core can be varied along different segments of the cable structure to facilitate or hinder bending of the cable structure in different areas. The size and distribution of the stiffer portions can be selected to prevent the cable from forming loops. The resistance of the core to bending can be varied using different approaches including, for example, by varying the materials used in the core, varying a cross-section of portions of the core, or combinations of these.
US09524808B2
The invention relates to an insulation material having paint and a material additive, characterized in that the material additive comprises silicic acid and PE wax. The invention further relates to an insulating tape comprising an insulation core having a layer of insulating material according to the invention on at least one of the two flat sides.
US09524805B2
A protection device for providing protection against ionizing radiation passing through an orifice defined by a wall bushing structure. The device includes a structure for attenuating ionizing radiation passing through the orifice, which structure can cover, or close off, the orifice, and includes a fastener configured to ensure that the structure for attenuating ionizing radiation can be fastened releasably to the wall bushing structure. The structure for attenuating ionizing radiation includes a sleeve that is open at both ends, that is deformable under its own weight, and that is configured to be fastened to the wall bushing structure by the fastener at a first open end of the sleeve.
US09524802B2
Systems and methods establish a magnetically insulated fusion process. An exemplary embodiment establishes a Field Reversed Configuration (FRC) plasma, wherein the FRC plasma is a closed field, magnetically confined plasma; collapses a metal shell about the FRC plasma; and establishes a fusion reaction in response to collapsing the metal shell about the FRC plasma.
US09524800B2
Embodiments relate methods and computer program products for performance testing of a solid state memory devices. The method includes operating a first solid state memory device for a period of time and capturing state information of the first solid state memory device after the period of time. The method also includes storing the state information in a control file and loading the control file onto a second solid state memory device. Once the control file has been loaded into the second solid state memory device the state information can be adapted to fix any issues due to physical variation. Performance testing can then be preformed on the second solid state memory device without preconditioning the second solid state memory device.
US09524791B1
A method for operating a data storage device using, as a storage medium, a nonvolatile memory device including a memory cell array which is constructed by pages including data cells and flag cells for storing whether upper bit (MSB) data is stored in a data cell, includes searching a last programmed page in the case where recovery is made from a power failure to a normal state; determining whether the last programmed page is an upper bit (MSB) page to be accessed to store upper bit (MSB) data; and adjusting a flag cell read voltage for reading flag cells, in the case where the last programmed page is an upper bit (MSB) page.
US09524788B1
A semiconductor memory device according to an embodiment includes a connecting portion having a first region between a memory cell array and a sense amplifier portion and including transistors in the first region, one of the transistors having a first terminal electrically connected to a certain memory cell and a second terminal electrically connected to the sense amplifier portion, the connecting portion including: a first transistor group configured from transistors aligned in a first direction, the first direction being as their channel width direction; and a second transistor group configured from transistors aligned in a second direction intersecting the first direction, the second direction being as their channel width direction, and one of the first terminals of the transistors of the second transistor group being disposed more inside of the first region than one of the second terminals of the transistors of the second transistor group.
US09524783B2
An apparatus, system, and method for controlling data transfer to an output port of a serial data link interface in a semiconductor memory is disclosed. In one example, a flash memory device may have multiple serial data links, multiple memory banks and control input ports that enable the memory device to transfer the serial data to a serial data output port of the memory device. In another example, a flash memory device may have a single serial data link, a single memory bank, a serial data input port, a control input port for receiving output enable signals. The flash memory devices may be cascaded in a daisy-chain configuration using echo signal lines to serially communicate between memory devices.
US09524782B2
A nonvolatile memory device, including a first latch unit and a nonvolatile memory cell, and a method of writing data in a nonvolatile memory device are provided. The method includes receiving a first writing command or a second writing command from outside of the nonvolatile memory device, and writing first data stored in the first latch unit in the nonvolatile memory cell in response to the first or second writing command. The first data is retained in the first latch unit until the writing of the first data stored in the first latch unit in the nonvolatile memory cell is completed.
US09524766B2
The invention relates to methods and systems for reading a memory cell and in particular, an STT MRAM. In one example, a system for reading a memory cell includes a sense path and an inverse path. A reference current is provided through the sense path and is sampled via a first sampling element in the sense path, and a cell current from the memory cell is provided through the inverse sense path and is sampled via a second sampling element in the inverse sense path. Subsequently, the memory cell is disconnected from the inverse sense path, the cell current is provided through the sense path, the reference source is disconnected from the sense path, and the reference current is provided through the inverse sense path. The output levels are then determined by the cell and reference currents working against the sampled reference and sampled cell currents.
US09524765B2
An apparatus includes a first magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) device of a differential MTJ pair. The apparatus further includes a second MTJ device of the differential MTJ pair. The first MTJ device includes a sense layer having a high coercivity portion.
US09524761B2
Provided is a semiconductor device to prevent DC current from flowing between differential input signals. The semiconductor device includes a first input unit configured to buffer a first signal of differential input signals, a second input configured to buffer a second signal of the differential input signals, and a latch coupled between a first repeating node of the first input unit and a second repeating node of the second input unit to prevent duty variation of the first and second signals. The semiconductor device further includes a latch controller configured to selectively switch the operation of the latch based on states of the first and second signals appearing at the first and second repeating nodes during a time interval before preambles of the differential input signals are received.
US09524758B2
A memory device may include a cell array including a plurality of memory cells and a bit line coupled to the plurality of memory cells; a sense amplifier suitable for amplifying a voltage difference between a first line and a second line; and a separation unit suitable for electrically coupling the bit line and the first line, and electrically separating the bit line and the first line during an initial period of an operation of the sense amplifier.
US09524756B2
A system includes memory chips mounted on a memory module each having an alert terminal that notifies that the memory chip has detected a predetermined error. The memory module has a first transmission line connected to alert terminals of memory chips, output terminal being connected to one end of the first transmission line, and a first termination resistor having an end connected to another end of the first transmission line. The system further includes a second transmission line having an end connected to the alert terminal and another end connected to a controller and a third transmission line having an end connected to a first input terminal on the memory module and a second end line and a second end having a voltage different from a voltage of another end of the first termination resistor.
US09524754B2
A system is provided for transmitting a video played back from a video recording medium which stores the video and additional information without loss of an association between the video and the additional information even when a remote pickup unit (RPU) is employed for the transmission A video playback device plays back videos while repeatedly converting the content of an additional information file associated with a video file to be played back or ID information of the video file into a two-dimensional code, and inserting the two-dimensional code over a predetermined length before the video. A video recording device which receives a video from the video playback device detects a two-dimensional code inserted in the video, and stores the content of the two-dimensional code as an additional information file into its own recording medium in association with the video.
US09524750B2
There is provided a fastening aid to be used in the case of incorporating a reel, equipped with a reel hub having recording tape wound around its outer peripheral surface, into a drive device and using screws to fasten the reel hub to a rotating member of the drive device, the fastening aid including: a main body portion; guide tube portions that are disposed projecting from a lower surface of the main body portion in such a way as to be coaxial with plural guide hole portions formed in the main body portion and to guide the screws to screw hole portions formed in the reel hub; and fitting portions that are formed on lower end portions of the guide tube portions and are fitted together with fitting counterpart portions formed around the screw hole portions on an upper surface side of the reel hub.
US09524744B1
A disc drive including a frame, a tray, a movable element and a buffer portion is provided. The tray is slidably disposed in the frame and includes a sliding groove. The movable element includes a protrusion slidably disposed on the sliding groove. The buffer portion is disposed adjacent to an end of the sliding groove. During the disc ejecting process, the protrusion contacts the buffer portion, to reduce the tray ejection speed.
US09524738B1
A flexure tail of a head suspension assembly includes a structural layer, a conductive layer, a dielectric layer between the structural and conductive layers, and an insulative cover layer disposed on the conductive layer. The conductive layer includes a plurality of flexure bond pads in a terminal region of the flexure tail. The insulative cover layer includes a plurality of openings that expose each of the plurality of flexure bond pads. The dielectric layer defines a first thickness between the structural layer and the conductive layer at each of the plurality of flexure bond pads. The dielectric layer also defines a second thickness between the structural layer and the conductive layer adjacent to the plurality of flexure bond pads in the terminal region of the flexure tail. The second thickness is less than the first thickness by a thickness difference that is no less than a cover layer thickness.
US09524737B2
A magnetic read head including a first read element magnetically coupled to a bottom shield; a second read element magnetically coupled to a top shield; a magnetic shielding structure that magnetically shields the first read element from the second read element; and a first electrical contact electrically coupled to the bottom shield, a second electrical contact electrically coupled to the top shield and a third electrical contact electrically coupled to the magnetic shielding structure.
US09524736B2
A gramophone record of the present disclosure includes a recording member and a functional member. The recording member has a main body that is made of a polymeric material and that defines a receiving area in a center thereof, and at least a groove formed on the main body. The functional member is disposed in the receiving area and is made of a material having a density greater than a density of the polymeric material of the main body.
US09524727B2
In a quantization method for quantizing a received excitation signal in a communication system performing the steps of re-shuffling S301 the elements of the received excitation signal to provide a re-shuffled excitation signal; coding S302 the re-shuffled excitation signal with a variable bit-rate algorithm to provide a coded excitation signal; and reassigning S303 codewords of the coded excitation signal if a number of used bits exceeds a predetermined fixed bit rate requirement to provide a quantized excitation signal.
US09524721B2
An apparatus and method for concealing frame erasure and a voice decoding apparatus and method using the same. The frame erasure concealment apparatus includes: a parameter extraction unit determining whether there is an erased frame in a voice packet, and extracting an excitement signal parameter and a line spectrum pair parameter of a previous good frame; and an erasure frame concealment unit, if there is an erased frame, restoring the excitement signal and line spectrum pair parameter of the erased frame by using a regression analysis from the excitement signal and line spectrum pair parameter of the previous good frame. According to the method and apparatus, by predicting and restoring the parameter of the erased frame through the regression analysis, the quality of the restored voice signal can be enhanced and the algorithm can be simplified.
US09524719B2
Systems and methods for bio-phonetic multi-phrase speaker identity verification are disclosed. Generally, a speaker identity verification engine generates a dynamic phrase including at least one dynamically-generated word. The speaker identity verification engine prompts a user to speak the dynamic phrase and receives a dynamic phrase utterance. The speaker identity verification engine extracts at least one voice characteristic from the dynamic phrase utterance and compares the at least one voice characteristic with a voice profile the generate a score. The speaker identity verification engine then determines whether to accept a speaker identity claim based on the score.
US09524711B2
A panel assembly that includes a main panel, a sound-damping patch, a sound-damping adhesive layer, and a structural adhesive joint. The structural adhesive joint may be used in place of spot welds, clinched joints or other metal joining mechanisms that would prohibit the panel assembly from being used in certain applications, such as class A surfaces on a vehicle that can be seen or touched by a customer.
US09524707B2
In one embodiment, a programmable pedalboard for a musical instrument is provided. The pedalboard includes a docking station for receiving a removable portable computer that provides a plurality of instrument effects. The docking station is configured to receive an audio signal from a musical instrument and to modify the audio signal from the musical instrument based on at least one instrument effect from the plurality of instrument effects.
US09524701B2
A display apparatus and an image processing method thereof are provided. The method includes displaying an image on a display screen, acquiring weather information through at least one of a sensor and an external server, and providing an image effect corresponding to the weather information to the displayed image by processing the image based on the acquired weather information.
US09524698B2
An image display system includes a network server. The network server is configured to operate with a plurality of mobile devices and is configured to split a predetermined image into a plurality of sub-images corresponding in quantity to the plurality of mobile devices and respectively transmit each of the sub-images to one of the mobile devices that occupies a predetermined display position of a predetermined display region. Each of the mobile devices is configured to correspondingly display a sub-image transmitted thereto, and the plurality of sub-images displayed by the plurality of mobile devices collectively re-compose the predetermined image. An image display method is also provided.
US09524692B2
A signal correcting method and a signal correcting device. The signal correcting method includes sampling a signal to be corrected at different sampling times, and comparing a signal value at each of the sampling times in one signal period with a preset signal value corresponding to the sampling time. When the signal value at the sampling time is equal to the corresponding preset signal value, the signal value at the sampling time is kept unchanged. When the signal value at the sampling time is not equal to the corresponding preset signal value, the signal value at the sampling time is corrected to be the preset signal value corresponding to the sampling time.
US09524683B2
A display device includes a display panel, a panel driver, panel-side output terminals, image signal lines, and control signal lines. The terminals are disposed in a non-display area of the display device and connected to the panel driver. The image signal lines are routed in the non-display area from the terminals to cross a long edge of the panel driver and spread in a fan-like form toward the display area. The control signal lines including first lines and second lines are routed in the non-display area from the terminals toward a display area of the display device. The first lines are routed from the terminals to cross the long edge and along the image signal lines toward the display area. The second lines each including portions having a width larger than the first lines are routed from the terminals to cross a short edge of the panel driver.
US09524677B2
A display panel driver that includes a compensating value generating part, a compensating lookup table and a compensating part. The compensating value generating part generates an offset and a compensating grayscale based on luminances of pixels of a display panel. The compensating lookup table stores the offset and the compensating grayscale. The compensating part compensates an input grayscale of the pixel to generate a data signal using the compensating lookup table.
US09524671B2
A display apparatus includes: an edge processing section extracting an edge component of a display data signal; a display data signal processing section changing the display data signal according to a level conversion signal and adding the edge component thereto; a level conversion signal generating section changing the level conversion signal according to the display data signal and a signal output from the display data signal processing section; and a display section performing a display operation according to the signal output from the display data processing section.
US09524669B2
A light-emitting element display device includes a light-emitting element display panel that displays an image by light emission of light-emitting regions of a plurality of sub-pixels. Each of the pixels includes a first R sub-pixel, a second R sub-pixel, a first G sub-pixel, a second G sub-pixel, a first B sub-pixel and a second B sub-pixel. The second R sub-pixel, the second G sub-pixel, and the second B sub-pixel include a W electrode as a common electrode that causes the second R sub-pixel, the second G sub-pixel, and the second B sub-pixel to simultaneously emit lights in response to the application of a potential. The driver circuit includes a sub-pixel control unit that calculates a peak luminance in a screen based on the video signal and controls the plurality of sub-pixels based on the peak luminance.
US09524662B2
An apparatus and method for displaying on a portable terminal is provided. The apparatus includes a display unit configured to display information at a display location on a screen, a sensor configured to provide motion information of the portable terminal when the portable terminal is bent, and a controller configured to adjust the display location on the screen based on the motion information. A method comprises displaying information at a display location on a screen, providing motion information of the portable terminal when the portable terminal is bent and adjusting the display location on the screen based on the motion information provided.
US09524661B2
A billboard includes a support structure and first and second lighting assemblies. Each lighting assembly includes a number of circuits boards arranged in a common orientation. Each circuit board of the first lighting assembly is planar and has a number of LEDs and optical elements attached thereto. The LEDs are thermally coupled to a first heat sink. The LEDs are arranged in rows on each circuit board, with each row including a number of LEDs mounted so that all of the LEDs are arranged in a common orientation. Each optical element is disposed over only one associated LED. The optical elements are arranged to direct the light across a portion of the display surface.
US09524658B1
An article comprising a pop-up card is provided. The article comprises a single sheet of paper including a single crease and separating the sheet of paper into a left panel and a right panel, wherein the sheet is in a closed position when folded along the crease, and wherein the sheet is in the open position when not folded along the crease, a pop-up sliceform element coupled to said sheet, wherein the sliceform includes a first plurality of sliceform elements perpendicular to a second plurality of sliceform elements when in the open position, wherein the sliceform element comprises a first and last sliceform element each with a distal tab, and wherein in the open position the pop-up sliceform element is displayed as a three-dimensional configuration, and in the closed position said pop-up sliceform element folds together into a flat configuration.
US09524654B2
A system for managing the food intake of a person comprises means for collecting information about food consumed by the subject, and means for providing feedback to the subject regarding the food consumed. It further comprises a sensor 57 for obtaining a signal related to the person and monitoring means for generating the information by performing a pattern recognition of the obtained signal for detecting whether the person is consuming food. The sensor comprises a camera and the pattern recognition comprises image processing. The image processing comprises the detection of a mouth and of a hand and of food. The system further comprises means for causing an audio/video-rendering device 56 to deliver the feedback. The camera is attached to the rendering device. The system further comprises means for identifying available rendering devices 56 arranged for being caused to deliver feedback.
US09524639B2
A tool for a crossing aid on a mobile device. The tool determines, by a first computer processor, a unique ID associated with a crossing signal. The tool searches, by the first computer processor, for a wireless access point (WAP) having the unique ID. The tool determines, by the first computer processor, whether the WAP having the unique ID is found. Responsive to determining that the WAP having the unique ID is found, the tool determines, by the first computer processor, haptic feedback. The tool initiates, by the first computer processor, the haptic feedback on the mobile device to aid in crossing.
US09524629B2
Automatically adjusting collection parameters for machines on a route in a collection device, based on states of the machines. For each machine on the route, the machine state is read into the collection device. The machine is included or excluded based on the machine state. The collection device is configured with first collection parameters that are configured based on the machine state. Data is collected from the machine based on the first collection parameters. The data is analyzed using parameters that are configured based on the machine, to determine alerts. Based on the alerts, data is selectively immediately collected from the machine based on second collection parameters that are configured based on the machine state and the alerts. Also based on the alerts, the technician is selectively prompted with the collection device to take a predetermined action and collect data from the machine. The action and data are based on third collection parameters that are configured on the machine state and the alerts.
US09524617B2
A gaming system and method which forms, tracks and maintains one or more groups or teams. The gaming system and method also maintains at least one team progressive award. At any designated point in time, each group or team includes one or more players, wherein as a player plays one or more games at one or more gaming devices, the player accumulates or builds up equity in their current team or group. Upon a determination to provide a team progressive award to a player of a designated team, each eligible player actively associated with the designated team (i.e., each player actively belonging to the team) is provided a portion of the team progressive award. Each player's provided portion of the team progressive award is based on that player's relative accumulated equity in the designated team compared to each other eligible player's accumulated equity in the designated team.
US09524611B2
Examples disclosed herein relate to systems and methods, which may receive wagers on one or more paylines. The systems and methods may utilize one or more selectable objects. The systems and methods may determine one or more payouts based on the one or more selectable objects. The systems and methods may display one or more presentations based on the one or more selectable objects.
US09524605B2
In one embodiment there is provided a method for preparing a hair dye mixture. The method includes a scale and control system in communication with each other. The control system provides for a memory and a display, wherein the memory contains a formula that defines instructions for blending a hair dye mixture. The method displays the instructions on the display. The stylist may then view the display of instructions and add colorant(s) and dye blending material(s) to a receptacle on the scale, in accordance with the instructions, using current product packaging, such that specialized packaging requirements are not required.
US09524603B2
An apparatus for conveying money items, which is configured to singulate money items during conveyance, sense characteristics of money items during conveyance and eject money items from a conveyor.
US09524594B2
An apparatus is provided that includes an access door of a secured area, a lock that controls access into the secured area through the door, a controller coupled to the lock, and a portable wireless device proximate the door, wherein the portable wireless device wirelessly retrieves an identifier from the door and wirelessly transfers the identifier of the door and a personal identifier of a person carrying the portable wireless device to the controller, and wherein the controller compares the received personal identifier with a list of identifiers of persons authorized to enter the secured area, determines that the received personal identifier matches an identifier of the list of identifiers, and activates the lock, thereby allowing physical entry by the person into the secured area.
US09524587B2
Technologies for adapting content to augmented reality virtual objects include a content consumption device to render selected content and a mobile computing device to render a virtual object within the physical environment of the mobile computing device. The mobile computing device may transfer the virtual object to the content consumption device. The content consumption device may adapt the content based on the transferred virtual object, and render the adapted content. The adapted content may be selected from a number of pre-defined scenes, or may be generated to include the virtual object. The adapted content may include other characters or objects that react to the transferred virtual object. The virtual object may be transferred back to the mobile computing device with updated attributes. The content may be streamed from a content source over a network. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09524584B2
A user with a cell phone interacts, in a personalized session, with an electronic sign system. In some embodiments, the user's location relative to the sign is discerned from camera imagery—either imagery captured by the cell phone (i.e., of the sign), or captured by the sign system (i.e., of the user). Demographic information about the user can be estimated from imagery captured acquired by the sign system, or can be accessed from stored profile data associated with the user. The sign system can transmit payoffs (e.g., digital coupons or other response data) to viewers—customized per user demographics. In some arrangements, the payoff data is represented by digital watermark data encoded in the signage content. The encoding can take into account the user's location relative to the sign—allowing geometrical targeting of different payoffs to differently-located viewers. Other embodiments allow a user to engage an electronic sign system for interactive game play, using the cell phone as a controller.
US09524582B2
A method and apparatus for generating a 3D personalized mesh of a person from a depth camera image for medical imaging scan planning is disclosed. A depth camera image of a subject is converted to a 3D point cloud. A plurality of anatomical landmarks are detected in the 3D point cloud. A 3D avatar mesh is initialized by aligning a template mesh to the 3D point cloud based on the detected anatomical landmarks. A personalized 3D avatar mesh of the subject is generated by optimizing the 3D avatar mesh using a trained parametric deformable model (PDM). The optimization is subject to constraints that take into account clothing worn by the subject and the presence of a table on which the subject in lying.
US09524562B2
Disclosed is an object tracking method comprising steps of obtaining a grayscale image sequence and a depth image sequence; predicting a candidate target region of a tracking object in a current image; determining a depth weight image of the candidate target region; acquiring a target template which is expressed by a probability density distribution of features; expressing, by a probability density distribution of features, a candidate target whose position moves in the candidate target region; calculating, based on a probability density expression of the target template and a probability density expression of the candidate target, a similarity between the target template and the candidate target, so as to get a confidence level image of the candidate target region; and locating, based on the confidence level image of the candidate target region, a position of the tracking object in the current image.
US09524556B2
In an example embodiment, a method, apparatus and computer program product are provided. The method includes computing a first cost volume for a light-field image. A first depth map comprising depth information of the plurality of sub-images of the light-field image is computed based on the first cost volume. A first view image comprising reconstruction information is reconstructed based on the depth information of the plurality of sub-images. A second cost volume corresponding to the first cost volume is computed based on the reconstruction information. The second cost volume is filtered based on the first view image to generate an aggregated cost volume. A second depth map is generated based on the aggregated cost volume. The second depth map facilitates generation of a second view image that is associated with a resolution higher than a resolution of the first view image.
US09524555B2
A method and software for the simultaneous pose and points-correspondences determination from a planar model are disclosed. The method includes using a coarse pose estimation algorithm to obtain two possible coarse poses, and using each one of the two coarse poses as the initialization of the extended TsPose algorithm to obtain two candidate estimated poses; selecting one from the two candidate estimated poses based on the cost function value. Thus, The method solves the problem of pose redundancy in the simultaneous pose and points-correspondences determination from a planar model, i.e., the problem that the numbers of estimated poses increase exponentially as the iterations go. The disclosed embodiment is based on the coplanar points, and does not place restriction on the shape of a planar model. It performs well in a cluttered and occluded environment, and is noise-resilient in the presence of different levels of noise.
US09524551B2
An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus according to an embodiment includes an extracting unit and a controlling unit. The extracting unit extracts, from a group of volume data, reference image data corresponding to ultrasound image data displayed on a display unit. The controlling unit causes the display unit to display the ultrasound image data and the reference image data. The extracting unit obtains information about an imaging region indicated by the ultrasound image data displayed on the display unit and sets a search region for searching the reference image data from the group of volume data, on a basis of the obtained information.
US09524547B2
A method for artifact-free rendering of metal parts in 3D three-dimensionally reconstructed images of an examination object in a patient, includes recording a 3D scan without metal parts producing a 3D data record, recording n projection images with metal parts from known locations or directions, 2D/3D registering bone in the n projection images with the 3D data record, 2D/3D registering of the metal parts from the n projection images and 3D models of the metal parts, calculating locations of the metal parts in the 3D data record based on the 2D/3D registration thereof, and superposing all current locations of the metal parts in the 3D data record. There is no need for a new 3D scan to check current screw positions. The 3D representation of screw positions in the bone is performed without artifacts, enabling reliable assessment of screw locations, for example in spinal column surgery.
US09524545B2
An apparatus for verifying an inspection result includes an inspection result obtaining unit to obtain inspection result indicating defect amount and defect position in a scanned image, from an inspection result of defect judgment of the scanned image with respect to an inspection reference image, the defect judgment being performed through dividing at least one of the scanned image and the inspection reference image and conducting position matching of the scanned image and inspection reference image; and a verification unit to count defect amount occurring to the scanned image, to determine whether a defect pattern occurring to the scanned image matches a pre-set condition corresponding to a false detection condition causable by failure of the position matching, and to determine that defect occurring to the scanned image is a false detection when the counted defect amount is a threshold or more, and the defect pattern matches the false detection condition.
US09524541B2
Disclosed herein is a method. A set of pre-adjusted images including source images of the pre-adjusted images is provided. The pre-adjusted images include image filter parameters. Histogram information for each of the source images is computed. A learning algorithm is applied to the set. The learning algorithm is configured to map the histogram information to the image filter parameters. A real-time image is processed based on the mapping of the histogram information to the image filter parameters.
US09524526B2
A method, an apparatus and an article of manufacture for mapping authors across multiple forums. The method includes creating a database that contains publicly observable information pertaining to multiple authors from multiple forums, generating a mapping between at least a first one of the authors from one of the forums and at least a second one of the authors from another of the forums in the database based on a comparison of structured information, unstructured user generated content information and network information, and generating a score of mapping between the first and the second authors by considering a weighted sum of the number of times the structured information, the unstructured user generated content information and the network information match between the first and the second authors.
US09524523B2
A fail-safe mechanical switch is provided in a television broadcast environment which bypasses an advertisement insertion server in the event that a failure in the ad insertion server is detected. The broadcast stream from a satellite receiver where the stream originates thus continues uninterrupted to a remultiplexer for further distribution of the broadcast stream. The fail-safe switch cooperates with a processor which is capable of detecting a variety of failure events in the ad insertion server.
US09524519B2
Disclosed herein are methods for providing a buy option to social networking communications. The method includes communicating with a social networking site that posts images from posting entities to receiving entities. The image can have data that points to a product database. The data is processed to determine whether there is a sale-related intent such as a product in a product database. The data is used to access a database of products for sale from the merchant. When the sale-related intent applies, the system transmits the image through the social networking site with a buy button associated with the transmission such that a recipient can easily purchase a product.
US09524515B2
The resent invention relates to a system for gathering and assembling information based on data received from one or several mobile terminals, the system comprising: one or several mobile terminals, and a central processing unit. The data at least relates to a position, environmental information and a tool used by a user of the mobile terminal for carrying out an activity and the central processing unit is configured to: process said data, assemble a unique information based on said data, said unique information comprising optimized data for carrying out said activity.
US09524508B2
A method and processes for a secure real-time processing of purchase validation award requests is described. The method includes processes to submit purchase information on a real-time basis and to check on the status of the processing of the submitted purchase validation award system request also on a real-time basis. The method uses a computer information network to perform the required processes.
US09524498B2
An electronic parking meter mechanism is provided. The electronic meter mechanism includes an inner housing, an electronic display screen and a wireless communication subsystem configured to wirelessly communicate with a parking management system. The electronic meter mechanism includes a first processor configured to control the electronic display screen, and a second processor configured to control communication of data by the wireless communication subsystem.
US09524493B2
Chronologically navigating among time-based entries stored by a physical computing device having a processor configured to execute a time-based application includes displaying, with the computing device, a time-based entry with at least one of a forward control and a backward control; in response to a user selecting the forward control, displaying with the computing device a subsequent time-based entry, the subsequent time-based entry including a shared property with the displayed time-based entry; and in response to the user selecting the backward control, displaying with the computing device a previous time-based entry, the previous time-based entry including a shared property with the displayed time-based entry.
US09524491B2
A conference collaboration system has a server connected to a network and configured to generate a page view requested by a client device over the network and provide dynamic content associated with the requested page view for display on the device; and a database configured to store the dynamic content, update the dynamic content in response to commands from the server, and provide the dynamic content to the server in response to requests from the server, wherein the dynamic content is associated with a plurality of services, each shown in a page view, and the dynamic content and the services are associated with a conference. The server can determine an authorization level of a user interacting with the client device and provide a page view and dynamic content in response to the authorization level, and the dynamic content is updated or created in response to or for actions during the conference.
US09524490B2
User reports concerning inappropriate content are received by a social networking system and are put into a content report management process that routes the reports into other handling processes based upon the reporting user's identification of the report type. Reports concerning content that is related to the reporting user are routed into a social resolution process that resolves the complaint through self-help and social resolution. Other reports are handled by a content review process that resolves complaints through automated methods as well as manual review by human agents.
US09524489B2
A computing system includes: a status module configured to determine a process profile for capturing a pause point in processing a task; a content module, coupled to the status module, configured to identify a process content for capturing the pause point; an upload module, coupled to the content module, configured to store the process profile and the process content; and a trigger synthesis module, coupled to the upload module, configured to generate a resumption-trigger with a control unit when storing the process profile and the process content for resuming the task from the pause point and for displaying on a device.
US09524488B2
Information is shared between processing entities that each have a corresponding private data area by placing data corresponding to information for a first one of the private data areas for a first one of the processing entities directly into a second one of the private data areas for a second one of the processing entities without placing the data in an intervening shared data area and without directly invoking a system administrator-like entity. In addition, these private data areas can be pre-populated with a plurality of directories that each have a one-to-one correspondence to a particular predetermined information recipient and then providing a link to a given one of the recipients as corresponds to a given one of the directories when information is placed in that directory to provide the corresponding predetermined information recipient with at least read access to the information.
US09524484B1
A method for handling water and oil automatically monitors and schedules the trucking of waste water between a disposal site and multiple well sites. In some examples, the method automatically detects the presence of a tanker truck at a well site and/or at the disposal site and records the truck's arrival and departure times. In some examples, the method monitors the changing level of waste fluid collected in a waste fluid storage tank at the well site and thereby determines the volume of waste fluid transferred from the tank to the truck. In some examples, the method also estimates the volume of waste fluid transferred from the well bore into the tank while the truck is withdrawing fluid from the tank. In some examples, the method automatically generates and posts online billing information and regulatory reports associated with waste water trucking, waste water disposal and oil reclaiming.
US09524476B2
Methods and systems for automatically identifying and selecting preferred size classification and regression trees are disclosed. The invention is used to identify a specific decision tree or group of preferred size trees that are consistent across train and test samples in node-specific details that are often important to decision makers. Specifically, for a tree to be identified as preferred by this system, the train and test samples must both agree on key measures for every terminal node of the tree. In addition to this node-by-node criterion, an additional tree selection method may be imposed. Accordingly, the train and test samples rank order the nodes on a relevant measure in the same way. Both consistency criteria may be applied in a fuzzy manner in which agreement must be close but need not be exact.
US09524473B2
Various systems and methods provide an intuitive user interface that enables automatic specification of queries and constraints for analysis by ML component. Various implementations provide methodologies for automatically formulating machine learning (“ML”) and optimization queries. The automatic generation of ML and/or optimization queries can be configured to use examples to facilitate formulation of ML and optimization queries. One example method includes accepting input data specifying variables and data values associated with the variables. Within the input data any unspecified data records are identified, and a relationship between the variables specified in the input data and a variable associated with the at least one unspecified data record is automatically determined. The relationship can be automatically determined based on training data contained within the input data. Once a relationship is established a ML problem can be automatically generated.
US09524471B2
Systems and methods for conflict resolution and stabilizing cut generation in a mixed integer linear program (MILP) solver are disclosed. One disclosed method includes receiving a mixed integer linear problem (MILP), the MILP having a root node and one or more global bounds; pre-processing the MILP, the MILP being associated with nodes; establishing a first threshold for a learning phase branch-and-cut process; performing, by one or more processors, the learning phase branch-and-cut process for nodes associated with the MILP, wherein performing the learning phase branch-and-cut process includes: evaluating the nodes associated with the MILP, collecting conflict information about the MILP, and determining whether the first threshold has been reached; responsive to reaching the first threshold, removing all of the nodes and restoring a root node of the MILP; and solving, with the one or more processors, the MILP using the restored root node and the collected conflict information.
US09524470B1
A technique relates to an assembly for a quantum computing device. A quantum bus plane includes a first set of recesses. A readout plane includes a second set of recesses. A block is positioned to hold the readout plane opposite the quantum bus plane, such that the first set of recesses opposes the second set of recesses. A plurality of qubit chips are included where each has a first end positioned in the first set of recesses and has a second end positioned in the second set of recesses.
US09524463B2
Methods and systems for automating carbon footprinting are disclosed. In some embodiments, the methods include a plurality of steps. In some embodiments, related to predetermined resources associated with an item from predetermined data sources is obtained. Then, estimated emission factors are calculated for each of the resourced. Next, a contributory uncertainty of the data and of the emission factors is determined. Then, a user is guided based on a comparison of the respective contributory uncertainty of data related to the resources or emission factors Next, both data related to the resources and the estimated emission factors of the resources are utilized to determine a carbon footprint of the item.
US09524460B2
Media rolls, support structures for the media rolls, and media processing systems are provided. A media roll may include an identification transponder having retrievable information regarding the media units and associated media unit transponders wound around a core of the media roll. A support structure may include a spindle for supporting a media roll and include an identification coupler for communicating with the identification transponder. In addition to the spindle having the identification coupler, the media processing systems may include a second coupler for encoding the media unit transponders and a printhead for printing indicia onto the media units. The information retrieved from the identification transponder may be used to adjust one or more encoding and/or printing settings of the systems.
US09524459B2
A contact smart card has a smart card contact pad and an IC chip. The smart card contact pad includes a circuit substrate, a card-reader contact element on a first side of the circuit substrate, and a connection element on a second side of the circuit substrate. The card-reader contact element has a noble metal electrically conductive surface, and the connection element has a chip terminal connection surface which is not a noble metal. The IC chip is preferably flip-chip mounted at the second side of the circuit substrate and electrically connected to the chip terminal connection surface. Furthermore, the chip terminal connection surface is preferably an organometallic electrically conductive corrosion protection layer.
US09524442B2
In the environment of executing an image processing for scenes by defining a parameter set for each scene, a configuration is needed capable of reflecting the change by smaller man-hour even when the content of the image processing has been changed. The image processing device includes an operating unit (that selectively executes a plurality of pieces of processing) and a storage that can be accessed from the operating unit. The storage holds: a common flow for executing processing selected out of the plurality of pieces of processing, in a predetermined order; user scene data in which a parameter set including one or a plurality of parameters are defined for each scene; and a command code concerning the parameter set included in the user scene data. The command code includes a first processing rule for causing a corresponding parameter set to reflect a result of a processing following the common flow.
US09524429B2
Technologies are described herein for interpreting character arrangements. An image including an arrangement of characters may be received or captured by a computing device. Techniques described herein generate data representative of the characters. Characteristics and other information interpreted from the image may be processed to determine a data type. The data representative of the characters may be arranged into a data structure based on the data type, an arrangement type and/or other information interpreted from the image. The data type may indicate one or more attributes of the arranged data such as a format, font, date, language, or currency. The data type may also indicate how data is used in a process, equation or calculation. In addition, the data type may identify an anchor that may be used to merge data generated from the image with other data generated from another image.
US09524420B2
A user authentication method includes extracting a facial landmark from each of a first input image and a second input image; generating a first sparse code of the facial landmark extracted from the first input image and a second sparse code of the facial landmark extracted from the second input image; and determining whether a user is to be authenticated based on the first sparse code of the first input image and the second sparse code of the second input image.
US09524409B1
This disclosure relates to a system configured to electronically store dish information on tags coupled with storage containers. The system may include near field communication components that facilitate an improved meal preparation and/or meal storage experience for users. Containers (e.g., cups, bowls, plates, etc.) may be coupled with an individual tag that is configured to electronically store information about the container, the contents of the container, and/or other information. By including such components in the system a given container coupled with a corresponding tag may become “smart.” For example, a sensor included in a scale may recognize a tag and/or determine information related to the contents of the container when the container is placed on and/or near the scale.
US09524406B2
A workstation electro-optically reads targets by image capture, and includes a housing, a generally planar window, an imaging module, and a generally planar fold mirror between the window and the module. The module has an illuminating light assembly for directing illumination light along an illumination path through the window at a target for return therefrom during reading, and an image sensing assembly for detecting return illumination light through the window along an imaging path over an imaging field of view during reading. The fold mirror folds the illumination and the imaging paths. The fold mirror and the window lie in planes that are substantially parallel to each other to prevent reflections of the illumination light off of the fold mirror and the window from entering the imaging field of view as virtual images that degrade target detection by the image sensing assembly.
US09524404B2
A program execution device capable of protecting a program against unauthorized analysis and alteration is provided. The program execution device includes an execution unit, a first protection unit, and a second protection unit. The execution unit executes a first program and a second program, and is connected with an external device that is capable of controlling the execution. The first protection unit disconnects the execution unit from the external device while the execution unit is executing the first program. The second protection unit protects the first program while the execution unit is executing the second program.
US09524403B2
A method, computer program product, and system to implement access control from a master device to a slave device over an inter-integrated circuit (I2C) interface are described. The method includes generating, using a processor, a control block defining the access control to the slave device over the I2C interface. The generating the control block is performed by the trusted code layer and the generating the control block is prohibited by the user-modifiable code layer. The method also includes controlling a command over the I2C interface to the slave device based on a generated command from the trusted code layer and the user-modifiable code layer in accordance with the control block.
US09524401B2
There is provided a method for providing access to data securely stored in memory card. An exemplary method comprises specifying first time information corresponding to a time period and storing the first time information in the memory card. The exemplary method also comprises inserting the memory card into a terminal. The exemplary method additionally comprises determining in a control unit included in the memory card, whether the time period has lapsed. The exemplary method also comprises allowing the terminal to access the data until it is determined that the time period has lapsed.
US09524398B1
Systems and methods for computing a checksum are provided. In some aspects, an online application code module is written in a first programming language. The online application code module is configured to implement an online application. A checksum compute module is written in a second programming language different from the first programming language. The checksum compute module is separate from the online application code module. The checksum compute module configured to receive one or more parameters from the online application code module. The checksum compute module configured to determine a checksum for the online application code module based on the received one or more parameters. The checksum compute module configured to provide the checksum to a memory.
US09524396B2
Systems that maintain objects created and modified within designated directories on a per-client basis in a network filesystem include a file server having a local processor, memory operably connected to the local processor, a filesystem including main directories loaded into the memory, and a list of operations loaded into the memory; at least one client operably connected to the server having a remote processor and memory operably connected to the remote processor; wherein the file server has designated at least one of the main directories as a per-client writable directory; and wherein the file server has exported the filesystem read-only to at least one client.
US09524392B2
Genomic data encryption embodiments are presented which generally maintain the privacy of genomic data via an encryption scheme which allows computations to be performed on the encrypted data without the need for decryption. The genomic data is encrypted using a homomorphic polynomial encryption scheme to produce a vector of ciphertexts, where each ciphertext represents a different sample of the genomic data and takes the form of a polynomial and its associated coefficients. Computations on the encrypted genomic data are then performed on the vector or vectors of ciphertexts without decrypting the data. The results of the computations are then provided to an end user who decrypts them.
US09524385B1
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with using an audio link for authentication services are described. According to one embodiment, an apparatus includes The apparatus includes a processor configured to monitor an audio channel for an authentication signal. The authentication signal is an analog signal provided from a host device over the audio channel to the processor when authenticating the apparatus. The apparatus includes an authentication module configured to generate an authentication response after the authentication signal is detected by the processor. The processor is configured to provide the authentication response as an audio signal on the audio channel to a speaker.
US09524383B2
The present invention is directed toward an RFID device that includes a motion sensing mechanism. The motion sensing mechanism is adapted to sense motion of the RFID device and then selectively allow or restrict the RFID device's ability to transmit messages, which may include sensitive data, when the RFID device is placed in an RF field. Thus, the motion sensing mechanism is utilized to control access to data on the RFID device to only instances when the holder of the RFID device moves the RFID device in a predefined sequence of motion(s).
US09524371B2
Systems and process for performing analytical processes on the health-related data for a person include components and steps for processing system multiple files from multiple sources containing health-related data for numerous individual. Such processing may include: staging health-related data; matching pieces of staged data to a person using one or more matching rules; compressing the matched staged data for the person into a compressed file through assignment of a universal identifier which is associated with the person; providing the compressed file to an analytics engine; and decompressing the at least one analytics results file using universal identifier to access the analytics results for the person. Additionally, the analytics results for the person may be provided to a user for intervention into the health of the person.
US09524355B2
A method for automatically presenting digital content to a user of a computer computes task-related metadata from data which may include i) a most recent event record, ii) a most recent specification received from the user of a task being performed by the user, iii) an automatic prediction of the current task being executed by the user, iii) past event records and associated task identifiers stored in a database and/or iv) content in resources associated with a given task. The task-related metadata is communicated to a digital content service provider. Digital content relevant to the user based on the task-related metadata is then selected, sent to the computer, and presented to the user. Rules and filters control the metadata going out and the content coming in, allowing automatic adaptation based on the current task, characteristics of the content, and other factors.
US09524349B2
A method of identifying one or more particular images from an image collection, includes indexing the image collection to provide image descriptors for each image in the image collection such that each image is described by one or more of the image descriptors; receiving a query from a user specifying at least one keyword for an image search; and using the keyword(s) to search a second collection of tagged images to identify co-occurrence keywords. The method further includes using the identified co-occurrence keywords to provide an expanded list of keywords; using the expanded list of keywords to search the image descriptors to identify a set of candidate images satisfying the keywords; grouping the set of candidate images according to at least one of the image descriptors, and selecting one or more representative images from each grouping; and displaying the representative images to the user.
US09524345B1
Search and discovery enhanced by providing information context. Searchable content might be embedded in contexts, which describe or limit the content's intentionality. For health-care content, contexts might include symptoms, testing, diagnosis, treatment, indicators and contra-indicators, prognosis for recovery, and otherwise. A content publisher might describe the intended context for that content. A content reviewer might specify additional contexts for that content. Content searches are enhanced using those contexts; searches thus return information focused on those intended.
US09524341B2
A retrieval system and a method of searching of information in the Internet are proposed. The algorithm of allocation of information about Web sites in the database of retrieval system and the algorithm of searching of information are based on the Global Classification of Information in the Internet. The retrieval system designed for searching of information in the Internet comprise a interconnected with the Internet server of retrieval system including multi-language Web site of retrieval system with searching programs and database of retrieval system. The retrieval system comprises also plural network servers wherein information, that is belong to information suppliers, is stored. The retrieval system also provides organization of a data transfer for automatic systems, and provides organization of an automatic collection of information. The users of retrieval system, computers of which interconnected with the Internet, can be as suppliers of information as searchers of information. The method of searching of information in the Internet comprise a procedure of registration of Web sites by information suppliers, a procedure of forming database of information about registered in retrieval system Web sites, including procedures of forming database of information of retrieval system and renovate and addendum information to database of retrieval system, a procedure of searching of information and procedure of selecting of required data from results of the search.
US09524334B2
A system and method are disclosed for classifying a message. The method includes receiving the message, identifying in the message a distinguishing property; generating a signature using the distinguishing property; and comparing the signature to a database of signatures generated by previously classified messages.
US09524327B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a data synchronization method, system and apparatuses thereof. The data synchronization method includes the following processes: sending, by a client, a data characteristic verification message carrying one or multiple data characteristics for data in a client database, to a server; comparing, by the server, the one or multiple data characteristics carried in the data characteristic verification message with the data characteristics for the data in a server database; determining, by the server, the data to be synchronized based on a result of the comparing and sending the client a data characteristic verification response carrying information indicating the determined data to be synchronized. The method, system and apparatus thereof provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure can reduce the amount of data to be transmitted in data synchronization, and improve the efficiency of data synchronization.
US09524326B2
An aspect of synchronization of time between simulation models includes receiving a specification request for generating a set of target time-series data using a set of source time-series data, obtaining specification information relating to the set of source time-series data, obtaining specification information relating to the set of target time-series data and obtaining the source time-series data; comparing the source specification information and the target specification information to determine if the set of source time-series data are time-aligned with the set of target time-series data, and converting the set of source time-series data to the set of target time-series data upon determination that time alignment is needed.
US09524324B1
Described are techniques for processing a request to update a globally shared data item. The request is received at a first processor designated as the master processor. Other processors are designated as non-master processors. The first processor sends a synchronization request message to the other processors. The first processor waits a predetermined amount of time for the other processors to signal to the first processor regarding commitment in executing the request. Responsive to the first processor receiving the signal from the other processors first processing is performed that includes the first processor notifying the other processors regarding completion of a first synchronization point, updating the globally shared data item by said first processor, and waiting, by the other processors, for notification from the first processor regarding completion of a second synchronization point thereby indicating that updating of the globally shared data item is completed.
US09524318B2
A method, system, and a computer program product for converting asymmetric requests into symmetric requests are disclosed. In a first aspect, the method comprises a computer partitioning a query into a set of partitions along a dimension of a multi-dimensional data source, wherein each partition of the set of partitions comprises more than one member and the query has a query result count. The method includes the computer creating a candidate query for each partition of the set of partitions, wherein each candidate query has a candidate query result count. Responsive to a determination that the query result count is greater than a sum of the candidate query result counts, the method includes the computer substituting the query with the candidate queries.
US09524317B2
A method, computer program product, and system for optimizing aggregate queries are provided. The method, computer program product, and system provide for receiving an aggregate query comprising a GROUP BY operation and an aggregate function, creating an access plan for executing the aggregate query, the access plan including a join between an outer relation and an inner relation, and designating the join included in the access plan as an early out join.
US09524314B2
Limiting the number of concurrent requests in a database system. Arranging requests to be handled by the database system in at least one queue. Defining a maximum value (SS) of concurrent requests corresponding to the at least one queue. Monitoring at least one queue utilization parameter corresponding to the at least one queue and calculating a performance value based on the at least one queue utilization parameter. Adapting the maximum value (SS) of concurrent requests of the at least one queue dynamically based on the performance value (PF) in order to improve system performance. Limiting the number of concurrent requests of the at least one queue dynamically based on the dynamically adapted maximum value (SS).
US09524312B2
Systems, methods, computer program product embodiments for an active/push notification façade for a passive database are described herein. An embodiment includes an event listener configured to poll (or query) a passive database and selectively retrieve data objects based on the poll results. Such a selective database read operation may be based on the priority of an event occurring in the passive database. If events of a low priority occur, the event listener does not open the passive database immediately to retrieve additional information related to the low priority event but defers reading the passive database by a pre-determined amount of time. If a higher priority event occurs, the passive database is immediately read to retrieve details related to the high priority event from the passive database. In another embodiment, event listener reads the passive database based on event timestamp information in the passive database and stored timestamp information.
US09524296B2
The claimed invention provides a method for managing response time in a database system. The method includes monitoring a plurality of events that impact on the operation of the database system, identifying at least one event that impacts on at least one of the performance and availability of the database, and initiating an action in response to the identified event.
US09524294B2
A commentator or simultaneous translator system is provided with an audio mixing console, a command intercom and an operating unit. The operating unit is provided with a circuitry. The operating unit is implemented in such a way that a simplified operation of the commentator or simultaneous translator system is provided.
US09524293B2
A computer-implemented technique can include receiving a machine translation input specifying (i) a source text, (ii) a source language of the source text, and (iii) a target language for the source text, and obtaining a machine translation of the source text from the source language to the target language to obtain a translated source text. The technique can include determining whether to swap the source and target languages based on (i) the source text and (ii) at least one language model, and in response to determining to swap the source and target languages: swapping the source and target languages to obtain modified source and target languages, utilizing the translated source text as a modified source text, obtaining a machine translation of the modified source text from the modified source language to the modified target language to obtain a translated modified source text, and outputting the translated modified source text.
US09524292B2
A processor-implemented method constructs and utilizes an ontological graph. One or more processor(s) receive a seed term from a user, and then receive a first expansion signal from the user. In response to receiving the first expansion signal, the processor(s) automatically generate an ontological graph. The processor(s) display terms from the ontological graph as string literals in a dictionary, which contains related other terms at a resolution level that is controlled by the first expansion signal from the user and the seed term. The processor(s) then receive a second expansion signal from the user. In response to receiving the second expansion signal, the processor(s) expand the ontological graph to display additional terms that are related to the nodes represented in the ontological graph that was generated by the first expansion signal.
US09524282B2
A system for augmenting a user experience, such as viewing a scene or listening to an audio, is disclosed. The system provides the user with real time annotations for the part of the scene s/he is viewing or the part of the audio s/he is listening to. The scene may include text, objects, human faces or bodies. The audio may include vocal information or musical themes. The annotations include a list of users who are simultaneously viewing similar scenes or simultaneously listening to similar audio.
US09524278B2
A content presentation system in which a set of content items, which may include static stored content documents and/or live content streaming from computing devices, is provided by a web channel engine to a web channel. A rules engine (e.g., of a web channel server or a web channel presenter) is configured to sequentially present some of the contents to a user in a video form in an automated way, based on real-time sensor data of user devices and/or interactions of the users with the web channel, including users who are provided with permissions to edit the content, look and feel of the web channel, and users who watch the web channel without editing privileges.
US09524276B2
A social networking system allows users to bookmark content within the social networking system to view at a later time and/or to share with other users. The content that may be bookmarked may include advertisements, user posted content, user comments on posted content, or any other content viewable within the social networking system, as well as links to content outside of the social networking system. A user may save the content by selecting a bookmark link corresponding to the content. The bookmarked content may be viewed later, such as in a bookmarked content dashboard, and it may also be used to provide additional content to the user that is related to the bookmarked content. Additionally, the user's bookmarking activity may be published to the user's connections in the social networking system to enable others to find and view the content that the user deems worthy of bookmarking.
US09524267B2
A method begins by a processing module generating a payload section of a dispersed storage network (DSN) frame regarding a check request operation by generating one or more slice name fields of the payload section to include one or more slice names corresponding to one or more encoded data slices and generating a transaction number field of the payload section to include a transaction number corresponding to the check request operation. The method continues with the processing module generating a protocol header of the DSN frame by generating a payload length field of the protocol header to include a payload length that represents a length of the payload section and generating remaining fields of the protocol header.
US09524266B2
A latency management apparatus and method are provided. A latency management apparatus for a multiprocessor system having a plurality of processors and shared memory, when the shared memory and each of the processors is configured to generate a delayed signal, includes a delayed signal detector configured to detect the generated delayed signal; and one or more latency managers configured to manage an operation latency of any one of the processors upon detection of the delayed signal.
US09524265B2
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a host controller with transmit logic to prepare data into a packet for communication along an interconnect and to transmit the packet. This packet may include a preamble portion having a first predetermined value, a content portion including the data and having a plurality of symbols each including a start bit separate from the data, an error detection portion including an inverted version of the content portion, and a postamble portion having a second predetermined value. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09524261B2
Systems and methods for preventing excessive buffering of transactions in a coherence point. The coherence point uses a lookahead mechanism to determine if there are enough credits from the memory controller for forwarding the outstanding transactions stored in the IRQ. If there are not enough credits, then the coherence point prevents the switch fabric from forwarding additional transactions to the coherence point. By preventing excessive buffering in the IRQ, the QoS-based ordering of transactions performed by the switch fabric is preserved.
US09524251B2
An information processing apparatus is configured to make access to a storage device via a first path. A virtualization control apparatus is configured to control access to a virtual storage device via a second path, where the virtual storage device is provided by virtualizing the storage device. The virtualization control apparatus sends an identifier of the storage device in response to a query from the information processing apparatus which requests information about a storage space that is accessible via the second path. The information processing apparatus incorporates the second path as an inactive standby path when the identifier received as a response to the query matches with an identifier of the storage device accessible via the first path.
US09524246B2
A system and computer program product for resetting of memory locks in a transactional memory system. The system includes a processor setting at least one new memory lock during execution of a transaction that acquires access to a region of memory. The new memory lock indicates that the transaction and its associated thread have exclusive temporary access to the memory region. The system further includes the processor determining if a first in first out (FIFO) memory lock register is full of memory locks and, in response to the FIFO memory lock register being full, a memory lock is removed from a tail position of the FIFO memory lock register. The removed memory lock is reset to return to a transactional memory state and the new memory lock is added to a head position in the FIFO memory lock register.
US09524245B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and apparatus of cache management for a non-volatile storage device. The method embodiment includes: determining a size relationship between a capacity sum of a clean page subpool and a dirty page subpool and a cache capacity; determining, when the capacity sum is equal to the cache capacity, whether identification information of a to-be-accessed page is in a history list of clean pages or a history list of dirty pages; and when it is determined that the identification information of the to-be-accessed page is in the history list of clean pages, adding a first adjustment value to a clean page subpool capacity threshold; and when the identification information of the to-be-accessed page is in the history list of dirty pages, subtracting a second adjustment value from the clean page subpool capacity threshold.
US09524240B2
Methods, apparatus and systems for memory access obscuration are provided. A first embodiment provides memory access obscuration in conjunction with deadlock avoidance. Such embodiment utilizes processor features including an instruction to enable monitoring of specified cache lines and an instruction that sets a status bit responsive to any foreign access (e.g., write or eviction due to a read) to the specified lines. A second embodiment provides memory access obscuration in conjunction with deadlock detection. Such embodiment utilizes the monitoring feature, as well as handler registration. A user-level handler may be asynchronously invoked responsive to a foreign write to any of the specified lines. Invocation of the handler more frequently than expected indicates that a deadlock may have been encountered. In such case, a deadlock policy may be enforced. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US09524234B2
A method for optimizing memory usage in a device having a universal controlling application includes receiving into the device data for use in configuring the universal controlling application wherein the data is used to identify from within a library of command code sets stored in a memory of the device a command code set that is appropriate for use in commanding functional operations of the appliance and causing a non-identified one or more of the command code sets of the library of command code sets stored in the memory of the device to be discarded to thereby create freed space in the memory of the device.
US09524233B2
A technique for efficient swap space management creates a swap reservation file using thick provisioning to accommodate a maximum amount of memory reclamation from a set of one or more associated virtual machines (VMs). A VM swap file is created for each VM using thin provisioning. When a new block is needed to accommodate page swaps to a given VM swap file, a block is removed from the swap reservation file and a block is added to the VM swap file, thereby maintaining a net zero difference in overall swap storage. The removed block and the added block may be the same storage block if a block move operation is supported by a file system implementing the swap reservation file and VM swap files. The technique also accommodates swap space management of resource pools.
US09524229B2
A system for testing two or more applications associated with a computerized process may include a central repository, a user interface and a testing coordinator. The central repository may be used to store at least one test case each including a test data set and two or more sets of test scripts. The user interface may facilitate a selection of one or more test cases for use by the testing coordinator. The testing coordinator may be configured to test the operation of the computerized process by initiating testing of a first application by a first test tool using the test data set and a first set of scripts and initiating testing of the second application by the second test tool using the test data set and the second set of scripts from the selected test case. In some cases, the first test tool is incompatible with the second test tool.
US09524227B2
Methods and apparatuses for generating a suppressed address trace are described. In some embodiments, a processor includes a trace generator having a trace suppressor that outputs a suppressed address trace for instructions executed by the processor. In some embodiments, a method to generate a suppressed address trace for a processor includes generating a suppressed address trace of executed instructions from a trace suppressor of a trace generator of the processor.
US09524219B2
Durable atomic transactions for non-volatile media are described. A processor includes an interface to a non-volatile storage medium and a functional unit to perform instructions associated with an atomic transaction. The instructions are to update data at a set of addresses in the non-volatile storage medium atomically. The functional unit is operable to perform a first instruction to create the atomic transaction that declares a size of the data to be updated atomically. The functional unit is also operable to perform a second instruction to start execution of the atomic transaction. The functional unit is further operable to perform a third instruction to commit the atomic transaction to the set of addresses in the non-volatile storage medium, wherein the updated data is not visible to other functional units of the processing device until the atomic transaction is complete.
US09524213B2
A storage control apparatus starts, in a group of storage apparatuses that store constituent data that constitute redundant data in a distributed manner in units of a stripe, in regard to respective stripes of a plurality of stripes obtained from a group of target storage apparatuses excluding one of the storage apparatuses, a plurality of rebuilding processes for restoring the constituent data; decides, for each rebuilding process, a stripe for which the rebuilding process is to be performed next, according to access loads on the respective storage apparatuses of the group of target storage apparatuses; and obtains, for each rebuilding process, constituent data corresponding to the decided stripe from the group of target storage apparatuses and executing the rebuilding process, and executes the rebuilding process, to restore constituent data stored in the excluded storage apparatus from the obtained constituent data.
US09524209B2
A computer memory access method includes: receiving external data with a prefetching length; determining that the external data includes a masked data portion; at the time of a write enable signal being triggered, writing an unmasked data portion of the external data into a data storage unit of a computer memory by a writing unit; triggering a read enable signal at the time of the write enable signal being triggered and reading the unmasked data portion from the data storage unit by a reading unit while reading a third data portion corresponding to the masked data portion from the data storage unit; merging the unmasked data portion and the third data portion to a merged data and generating parity bits from the merged data by an error correction code encoding circuit; and writing the parity bits into a parity bit storage unit of the computer memory.
US09524192B2
A workflow is designated for execution across a plurality of autonomous computational entities automatically. Among other things, the cost of computation is balanced with the cost of communication among computational entities to reduce total execution time of a workflow. In other words, a balance is struck between grouping tasks for execution on a single computational entity and segmenting tasks for execution across multiple computational entities.
US09524189B2
According to an embodiment, an information processing device is connectable to a peripheral device and includes a buffer, a first operating system, a second operating system, and a monitor. The monitor is configured to enable the first operating system or the second operating system to execute in a switching manner. The monitor includes a switching controller that, when the second operating system issues an access request to the peripheral device, saves a state of the second operating system and suspends its execution as well as restores a state of the first operating system and restarts its execution. The first operating system includes a request input-output controller that reads the access request from the buffer, that divides the read access request into instructions in receivable units for the peripheral device, and that issues each instruction. The first operating system includes an access controller that accesses the peripheral device according to the instructions.
US09524188B1
Embodiments relate to multithreaded transactions. An aspect includes assigning a same transaction identifier (ID) corresponding to the multithreaded transaction to a plurality of threads of the multithreaded transaction, wherein the plurality of threads execute the multithreaded transaction in parallel. Another aspect includes determining one or more memory areas that are owned by the multithreaded transaction. Another aspect includes receiving a memory access request from a requester that is directed to a memory area that is owned by the transaction. Yet another aspect includes based on determining that the requester has a transaction ID that matches the transaction ID of the multithreaded transaction, performing the memory access request without aborting the multithreaded transaction.
US09524168B2
An apparatus and method are described for shuffling data elements from source registers to a destination register. For example, a method according to one embodiment includes the following operations: reading each mask bit stored in a mask data structure, the mask data structure containing mask bits associated with data elements of a destination register, the values usable for determining whether a masking operation or a shuffle operation should be performed on data elements stored within a first source register and a second source register; for each data element of the destination register, if a mask bit associated with the data element indicates that a shuffle operation should be performed, then shuffling data elements from the first source register and the second source register to the specified data element within the destination register; and if the mask bit indicates that a masking operation should be performed, then performing a specified masking operation with respect to the data element of the destination register.
US09524165B1
Embodiments relate to register comparison for register comparison for operand store compare (OSC) prediction. An aspect includes, for each instruction in an instruction group of a processor pipeline: determining a base register value of the instruction; determining an index register value of the instruction; and determining a displacement of the instruction. Another aspect includes comparing the base register value, index register value, and displacement of each instruction in the instruction group to the base register value, index register value, and displacement of all other instructions in the instruction group. Another aspect includes based on the comparison, determining that a load instruction of the instruction group has a probable OSC conflict with a store instruction of the instruction group. Yet another aspect includes delaying the load instruction based on the determined probable OSC conflict.
US09524162B2
A processor uses a dedicated buffer to reduce the amount of time needed to execute memory copy operations. For each load instruction associated with the memory copy operation, the processor copies the load data from memory to the dedicated buffer. For each store operation associated with the memory copy operation, the processor retrieves the store data from the dedicated buffer and transfers it to memory. The dedicated buffer is separate from a register file and caches of the processor, so that each load operation associated with a memory copy operation does not have to wait for data to be loaded from memory to the register file. Similarly, each store operation associated with a memory copy operation does not have to wait for data to be transferred from the register file to memory.
US09524148B1
Provided is a multi-module compilation system for generating execution codes for each of modules in a module system. The multi-module compilation system may include a module identifier configured to analyze a program code of the module system and to identify target modules that execute the program code, a module code generator configured to divide the program code into module codes for each of the target modules and to generate the module codes, and a compiler configured to compile the module codes and to generate execution codes for each of the target modules.
US09524145B2
A method includes receiving a selection of a predefined implementation variation for a variable service component in at least one computing device configured to implement a service-oriented application; and executing source code associated with the variable service component in response to receiving the selection, wherein the source code performs a predetermined rebuilding of at least a portion of the service-oriented application such that the variable service component is redefined according to the selected implementation variation.
US09524142B2
A 3D gesture based interface for controlling audio information in flight deck applications is provided. The system and method utilize a set of simple, intuitive 3D gestures, and unburden the pilot of searching for specific audio device controls. The system and method are intuitive and enable the pilot to quickly silence or subdue non-essential audio information, before interfering with essential audio information.
US09524140B2
A system is presented for interconnecting a single user console having user interface devices, including a console keyboard, a console video display unit, a console mouse, and speakers, to a plurality of host computers each capable of using user interface devices, including a keyboard, a video display unit, and a mouse, and allowing the user to access one or more of the host computers from the single user console. The video output from each of the host computers is scaled and cropped as appropriate so that the video output of each host may be simultaneously displayed as host computer “windows” on the console video display unit or overlaid with the background suppressed to display application windows from multiple hosts on a single screen. The user may easily navigate between the host computers through a convenient and intuitive user interface that allows control of individual host computers, the transfer of files between computers using familiar a “drag and drop” interface, and copying and pasting of data between applications running on different computers. The audio output from each of the host computers may be mixed or switched for output to the speakers as desired.
US09524137B2
An electronic apparatus includes a frame body, a fixing device, and a functional main section. The fixing device is connected with the frame body and configured to fix the electronic apparatus to a support body, and the frame body and the fixing device form an annular space when the electronic apparatus is fixed to the support body by the fixing device. The functional main section includes a display device provided within the frame body and having a first display area and a second display area, with the first display area being larger than the second display area.
US09524132B2
A method and system for remote servicing of an industrial printer includes obtaining, on a processor, sensor data that indicates values output by a sensors configured to measure physical phenomena related to a plurality of components of the industrial printer. Also obtained, on the processor, is parameter data that indicates values for parameters that indicate user settings for operation of the industrial printer. It is determined, on the processor, a service issue related to the industrial printer based on the sensor data and the parameter data, It is also determined, at least in part on the processor, an action to be performed on the industrial printer in response to the service issue. Furthermore; the action is caused to be initiated. In some embodiments, the action is initiated at one facility different from a facility where the industrial printer is located.
US09524130B2
A control device suppresses modifying a program related to printer control when a connected printer is replaced with a printer having a different structure. A host computer has a print controller that can execute processes based on status data; a virtual second printing device that outputs response data when a control command output from the print controller is input; and a data processing unit that converts the input control command to a control command compatible with an inkjet printer and outputs to the inkjet printer when a control command output from the print controller is input, and when status data from the inkjet printer is input, converts the status data to data compatible with a thermal printer based on the structural differences between the inkjet printer and the thermal printer, and outputs to the print controller.
US09524117B2
The present techniques provide systems and methods of controlling access to more than one open page in a memory component, such as a memory bank. Several components may request access to the memory banks. A controller can receive the requests and open or close the pages in the memory bank in response to the requests. In some embodiments, the controller assigns priority to some components requesting access, and assigns a specific page in a memory bank to the priority component. Further, additional available pages in the same memory bank may also be opened by other priority components, or by components with lower priorities. The controller may conserve power, or may increase the efficiency of processing transactions between components and the memory bank by closing pages after time outs, after transactions are complete, or in response to a number of requests received by masters.
US09524113B2
An apparatus comprising a memory and a controller. The memory may be configured to process a plurality of read/write operations. The memory comprises a plurality of memory modules each having a size less than a total size of the memory. The controller is configured to provide a first redundancy scheme when user data occupies less than a preconfigured limit and a second redundancy scheme that protects less than all of the user data when the user data occupies greater than the preconfigured limit.
US09524109B2
A method includes receiving data objects for storage in at least one or more first storage devices characterized by a first write endurance, and one or more second storage devices characterized by a second write endurance that is lower than the first write endurance. Respective write-activity levels are estimated for the data objects. For each data object, a choice is made whether to store the data object in the first storage devices or in the second storage devices based on an estimated write-activity level of the data object. The data object is stored in the chosen storage devices.
US09524106B1
A memory circuit, such as an embedded DRAM array, stores information as groups of bits or data using information coding in storage and retrieval data, instead of each bit being stored separately. Write data words can be mapped to storage format words that are stored and defined by a Hadamard matrix. The storage format word is stored as charge levels in an addressable memory location. For retrieving stored data, charge levels are read from the storage cells and interpreted to a valid storage format word. Hadamard code maximal likelihood decoding can be used to derive a read data word corresponding to a previously written write data word. The write data word is then output as the result of a read of the selected addressable location, or a portion thereof. The mapping can be two or more Hadamard matrix mappings concatenated for each of a plurality of storage format words.
US09524103B2
A technique quantifies logical storage space trapped in an extent store due to overlapping write requests associated with volume metadata managed by the volume layer. The volume metadata is illustratively organized as a multi-level dense tree metadata structure, wherein each level of the dense tree metadata structure (dense tree) includes volume metadata entries for storing the volume metadata. When a level of the dense tree is full, the volume metadata entries of the level are merged with a next lower level of the dense tree in accordance with a merge operation. Illustratively, the technique may be invoked during the merge operation to examine the volume metadata entries at each level of the dense tree involved in the merge and determine the LBA range overlap of the entries. To that end, the technique may include an algorithm configured to calculate the overlapping space per level and then aggregate the overlapping space of all levels involved in the merge operation to arrive at a result that quantifies the logical storage space trapped in the extent store.
US09524099B2
An apparatus includes an obtaining unit that obtains time-series coordinate data on pointing input; a calculating unit that calculates a distance value from a coordinate position of any one of top, bottom, left, and right ends of an input handwriting to any point of handwriting portions, based on the obtained coordinate data; a display processing unit that performs a displaying process on the input handwriting based on a change in the distance value; and an erasing unit that calculates a stroke distance value between a coordinate position of a stroke of the input handwriting that is input on a time-series basis and a coordinate position of any one of the ends of the input handwriting, and when the stroke distance value is equal to or more than a predetermined value, erases a display of a handwriting that is input before the stroke of the input handwriting on a time-series basis.
US09524091B2
According to an aspect, a device includes a touch screen display and a controller. The touch screen display displays a first screen. The first screen is a lock screen including an object arranged thereon. The controller changes a direction of the object according to an operation to the object. The controller is configured to turn the first screen to a second screen depending on a content of the operation made to the object. The second screen being a screen other than the lock screen.
US09524086B2
A display system for a collage of digital multimedia elements. A display is used to display the collage and a pointing device selects one of the collage elements for activating a multimedia presentation of the selected element.
US09524085B2
A hand-held electronic device, method of operation and computer readable medium are disclosed. The device may include a case having one or more major surfaces. A visual display and a touch interface are disposed on at least one of the major surfaces. A processor is operably coupled to the visual display and touch screen. Instructions executable by the processor may be configured to: a) present an image on the visual display containing one or more active elements; b) correlate one or more active portions of the touch interface to one or more corresponding active elements in the image on the visual display; and c) present a transformed active element corresponding to a particular one of the one or more active elements on the visual display in response to a user interaction with a corresponding one of the one or more active portions.
US09524081B2
A system for generating and displaying holographic visual aids associated with a story to an end user of a head-mounted display device while the end user is reading the story or perceiving the story being read aloud is described. The story may be embodied within a reading object (e.g., a book) in which words of the story may be displayed to the end user. The holographic visual aids may include a predefined character animation that is synchronized to a portion of the story corresponding with the character being animated. A reading pace of a portion of the story may be used to control the playback speed of the predefined character animation in real-time such that the character is perceived to be lip-syncing the story being read aloud. In some cases, an existing book without predetermined AR tags may be augmented with holographic visual aids.
US09524079B2
Disclosed are methods and devices for a gesture-enabled tool that enables a user to assemble a data bundle using a single continuous gesture to select items for the data bundle from a plurality of menus or lists and to deliver the data bundle to a recipient as part of the single continuous gesture.
US09524073B1
A method and computer system for receiving a selection of a first element of one or more elements on a web page via a user interface. A selection of an action to associate with the first element is received via the user interface. The action is associated with the first element on the web page based upon, at least in part, receiving the selection of the action.
US09524069B2
A capacitive touch keypad may receive a touch by a conductive object to one or more keys of the keypad, in which the keys each have a separate capacitive key electrode. The touched locations may be determined by precharging a pseudo-randomly selected set of key electrodes a number (M) of iterations while the keyboard is being touched, producing a sense voltage for each iteration by coupling all of the key electrodes to a reference capacitor, producing a 1-bit sense measurement for each iteration by comparing the sense voltage to a reference voltage to form a set of M 1-bit sense measurement, and by applying a modified binary iterative hard threshold (BIHT) algorithm to the set of M 1-bit sense measurements, in which only the non-zero locations of the solution are monitored in each iteration.
US09524056B2
The present disclosure provides a capacitor voltage information sensing circuit. The capacitor voltage information sensing circuit includes a mixer and an analog filter. The mixer includes a first input terminal for receiving a reference signal, a second input terminal for receiving a voltage signal, the voltage signal includes capacitor voltage information and a noise when a touch occurs, a first output terminal for outputting a first differential signal according to the voltage signal and the reference signal, and a second output terminal for outputting a second differential signal according to the voltage signal and the reference signal. The analog filter is coupled to the mixer for generating a first low-frequency signal and a second low-frequency signal according to the first differential signal and second differential signal.
US09524051B2
The present invention discloses a method and a terminal for inputting multiple events. The methods includes: receiving touch signals produced by a touch screen corresponding to a touch action of a user's finger; ascertaining a touch direction of the user's finger to the touch screen according to the touch signals; and triggering different events corresponding to different touch directions of the user's finger. Using the above method, different events will be triggered when the touch direction of the user's fingers is different and thus the problem of one touch action of the user's finger can only trigger one event is solved.
US09524048B2
A three-dimensional (3D) interactive method between a 3D interactive input device including multiple first nodes and a 3D display device including at least three second nodes is provided. The method includes receiving a start command from a user and controlling signal transmission devices to transmit position detection signals using different channel resources based on the received start command. The method also includes determining 3D spatial position coordinates of the first nodes relative to a specific surface based on a starting time point of the start command, ending time points, and 3D spatial position coordinates of the second nodes relative to the specific surface. Further, the method includes rebuilding 3D contour of the 3D interactive input device to determine gestures of the 3D interactive input device and implement a 3D interactive process based on the 3D spatial position coordinates of at least two first nodes relative to the specific surface.
US09524045B2
A method for operating a digitizer with an autonomous asynchronous stylus includes sampling outputs from a digitizer, detecting from the outputs at least one pulsed signal transmitted from an autonomous asynchronous stylus at a defined rate, determining a location of the stylus interaction with respect to the digitizer, and tracking stylus interaction with the digitizer over subsequent pulsed signals transmitted from the stylus.
US09524040B2
An image editing apparatus and an image editing method for selecting an area of interest, in which a user more accurately selects an area desired to be selected using a finger by setting a position of a touch input as a selection start point for starting image selection if the user performs the touch input on a background image at the time of image editing, sets a trace generated by moving the background image or the selects start point as a selection image area, and selecting the set selection image area from the background image.
US09524038B2
A hand-held device with a sensor for providing a signal indicative of a position of the hand-held device relative to an object surface enables power to the sensor at a first time interval when the hand-held device is indicated to be in a position that is stationary and adjacent relative to the object surface, enables power to the sensor at a second time interval shorter than the first time interval when the hand-held device is indicated to be in a position that is moving and adjacent relative to the object surface, and enables power to the sensor at a third time interval when the hand-held device is determined to be in a position that is removed relative to the object surface.
US09524029B2
The present invention is to appropriately determine a gesture operation detected to perform data processing according thereto. In the present invention, a CPU judges a processing status at the time of the detection of a gesture operation performed on a touch panel, and after determining its gesture operation type according to the processing status, performs data processing according to the operation type. In this case, the CPU determines and evaluates a gesture operation type for each processing status, and updates values (evaluation accumulation values) of a flick priority pointer and a tap priority pointer. Then, based on these values of the flick priority pointer and the tap priority pointer, the CPU determines one of the gesture operation types (flick operation/tap operation).
US09524026B2
A portable apparatus includes a determination unit, a first notification unit, a second notification unit, and a control unit. The determination unit determines whether there occurs an event which is to be notified to a user. The first notification unit notifies the event to the user by a first method that gives a tactile sensation to an operation element via an input surface. The second notification unit notifies the event to the user in accordance with a second method that is different from the first method. The control unit causes a notification unit to give a notification. Where the input surface is in a contact state when the event occurs, the control unit performs control to cause the first notification unit to give a notification. Where the input surface is in a not-touched state when the event occurs, the control unit causes the second notification unit to give a notification.
US09524019B2
It is difficult appropriately to select only a favorite image in a list display screen of small images such as a thumbnail image. An image processing apparatus is provided that has, in various embodiments, one or more of the features of an indicator for indicating a reduced image to be subjected to a specific image processing among displayed reduced images; a display controller for displaying an image in a size larger than the size of the reduced image indicated by the indicator; and an executor for executing the specific image processing on the stored image after the mentioned display controller displays the image in the size larger than the size of the reduced image.
US09524013B2
Interface management techniques provide reduced power consumption along with reducing heat and EMI generation in a computer system having multiple interconnected processing units. Physical link layers of external interfaces that interconnect the processing units have dynamically adjustable bandwidth provided by an adjustable width and adjustable operating frequency. The bandwidths may be dynamically adjusted by predicting interface bandwidth requirements. From a required bandwidth, an active width and an operating frequency for the physical link layers are determined and set. The interface is operated according to the determined width and operating frequency.
US09524006B2
The loading density of canisters fitted to a supporting substrate of a storage enclosure is reduced. A plurality of rail structure bodies are provided in parallel with the Y-axis direction so as to be spaced apart by a first predetermined distance in the X-axis direction. A pair of the rail structure bodies arranged on left and right sides in the Y-axis direction support the canisters. The rail structure body includes first contact parts extended in parallel with the Y-axis direction, second contact parts formed continuously with the first contact parts so as to protrude by a second predetermined distance to one side in the X-axis direction, and coupling parts formed continuously with the first contact parts and the second contact parts. The canister is supported between one side surface of the second contact part of one rail structure body and the other side surface of the contact part.
US09524005B2
An example data center server rack may generally include a cabinet, a mounting fixture, and a trough. The mounting fixture may support one or more server units that are received within the cabinet. The trough may be attached to a sidewall of the cabinet. Openings in a sidewall of the cabinet may correspond to openings in a sidewall of the trough such that cables coupled to the one or more server units may be routed into the trough. The trough may include a bracket disposed between its sidewalls, with the bracket including one or more power strips. By routing the cables into the trough, the serviceability of and airflow through the data center server rack are improved. To prevent the diversion of airflow into the trough, boots may be secured at openings through which cables pass, with the boot covering a portion of the cables.
US09524001B2
An interface card fastening module is provided for assembling an interface card to a housing and electrically connecting the interface card with a main board having an insertion slot corresponding to the interface card, and the opening of the insertion slot is substantially parallel to the main board. The interface card fastening module includes a stopping member and an engaging member rotatably disposed on the housing so as to be movable between a release position and an engage position. Therefore, upon assembling the interface card to the main board, additional riser card would be not required. As a result, the space for installing an adapting member can be saved, and more components may be received in the housing or the size of the housing may become smaller. In addition, since the adapting member is no more needed, the manufacturing cost and assembling hours for the adapting member can be saved.
US09523995B2
Provided is a reference voltage circuit with improved temperature characteristics. A current based on a current flowing through a first depletion transistor whose gate and source are connected to each other is caused to flow through a third depletion transistor having the same threshold, to thereby generate a voltage between a gate and a source of the third depletion transistor. A current based on a current flowing through a second depletion transistor whose gate and source are connected to each other is caused to flow through a fourth depletion transistor having the same threshold, to thereby generate a voltage between a gate and a source of the fourth depletion transistor. A reference voltage is generated based on a difference voltage of the two voltages, to thereby obtain a reference voltage having less voltage fluctuations with respect to a temperature change.
US09523991B2
A controller executes local generation and local consumption pathways of: supplying power from a solar cell to an appliance, and charging a storage cell with power that remains after subtracting power consumed by the appliance from the solar cell power. In the absence of excess power, the storage cell and solar cell supply power. Power supply from a commercial electrical grid covers a power shortage that remains after subtracting solar cell power and storage cell power from the power consumed by the appliance. The controller also executes a second excess power selling mode pathway wherein excess power flows into the commercial electrical grid, and an assist mode wherein all solar cell power flows into the commercial electrical grid, and storage cell power flows to the appliance.
US09523986B1
Disclosed herein is a system for coordinating the delivery of a payload by a drone to a recipient, the system comprising a drone; where the drone is an autonomous vehicle that is operative to perform one or more functions without human intervention; and a facility agent acting on behalf of a facility in which the recipient is located; where the facility agent is autonomous and is operative to act on behalf of either the recipient or the facility in which the recipient is located; and where the facility agent comprises an access option enumerator for computing a set of delivery strategies in accordance with a constraint or a goal; and an access negotiator for reaching an agreement between the drone and the facility agent on the delivery strategy for the payload.
US09523984B1
Methods and systems for determining instructions for pulling over an autonomous vehicle are described. An example method may involve identifying a region of a road ahead of the autonomous vehicle based on lane boundaries of the road, one or more road boundaries indicating an edge of the road, and a size of the autonomous vehicle. The method may also involve determining a braking profile for reducing the speed of the autonomous vehicle based on the region and a speed of the autonomous vehicle. The method may also involve determining, based on the braking profile, a trajectory such that the autonomous vehicle will travel within the region while reducing the speed of the autonomous vehicle. The method may further involve determining instructions for pulling over and stopping the autonomous vehicle in the region in accordance with the determined trajectory and storing the instructions in a memory accessible by a computing device.
US09523982B2
A flight control system for at least one tethered gyroglider along a flight path consistent with at least one flight mission is configured to fly the gyroglider within a portfolio of winds, managing an interaction between portfolios of at least four envelopes including wind, gyroglider performance, flight and base station. Every flight mission corresponds to at least one flight path associated with a set containing at least one first value and at least one second value. The control system is provided with a learning and library manager comprising a repository having stored sets of first values and associated second values for each flight path. The current first values associated with a current mission are corrected based on predicted or experienced flight paths and measurable outputs to attain the desired flight path. The corrected, experienced values, flight path and measurable output are further stored in the repository for further learning.
US09523974B2
An exhaust flow treatment apparatus to treat exhaust flow emitted by a combustion engine is configured to receive unburnt fuel for combustion therein after confirming that conditions are such that the unburnt fuel is likely to combust in the apparatus. A method of controlling operation of an exhaust flow treatment apparatus includes confirming that the temperature of fluid in the apparatus exceeds a threshold temperature before allowing unburnt fuel into the apparatus. The method may confirm a particular mode of operation of the exhaust flow treatment apparatus to determine the appropriate quantity of fuel for burning in the apparatus.
US09523973B2
A household appliance control method sets a number of orientations of a number of household appliances in a particular area. Each orientation corresponds to one of the household appliances. A sliding operation applied to a touch screen of an electronic device is obtained. When a direction of the sliding operation matches the orientation of one of the household appliances, a control signal is sent to a corresponding household appliance to control the household appliance to perform a corresponding function.
US09523972B2
An exemplary method and apparatus are directed to distributed waveform recording for fault monitoring and analysis of a fault condition in a power distribution system. One or more instrument transformers along with merging units and a plurality of Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs) distributed in a plurality of hierarchical levels. The distributed waveform recording corresponds to a fault event at different levels in the power distribution system data is carried out by at least two devices configured to detect an event for recording and perform waveform recording. The data used for waveform recording and the data for detection of the event are based on a single stream of the sampled measured value data and are thereby are time synchronized.
US09523951B2
A fixing apparatus having a tubular shape, a heater, a heat conduction member that contacts a surface of the heater, a support member configured to support the heater via the heat conduction member, a roller that forms a nip portion with the heater via the film, and a connector arranged in any one of end portions of the heater, wherein the heat conduction member includes a restriction portion configured to restrict a movement of the heat conduction member, and wherein the restriction portion is arranged only in a region that is closer to the connector than a position, of the nip portion, to which the maximum pressure is applied.
US09523942B2
A developer accommodating container for accommodating a developer includes: a toner seal member for unsealably sealing an opening of the developer accommodating container; an unsealing member, connected to an end portion of the toner seal member, for unsealing the opening by moving at least a part of the toner seal member; and an auxiliary unsealing member for assisting unsealing by changing a pulling direction of the toner seal member by the unsealing member. The auxiliary unsealing member includes a shaft portion or a projected portion. The shaft portion or the projected portion extends in a longitudinal direction of the developer accommodating container.
US09523940B2
A powder detector to detect an amount of powder in the powder container includes a wall without a through hole, a vibration plate attached to an inner face of the wall, a contact member to vibrate the vibration plate, and a vibration detector to detect a vibration state of the vibration plate. The vibration detector is attached to an outer face of the wall to face the vibration plate via the wall. The powder has flowability, and the vibration state of the vibration plate is affected by the powder in the powder container.
US09523934B2
A part material for printing three-dimensional parts with an electrophotography-based additive manufacturing system, the part material including a composition having an engineering-grade thermoplastic material and a charge control agent. The part material is provided in a powder form having a controlled particle size, and is configured for use in the electrophotography-based additive manufacturing system having a layer transfusion assembly for printing the three-dimensional parts in a layer-by-layer manner.
US09523930B2
A photoconductor, including an electroconductive substrate; an intermediate layer overlying the electroconductive substrate; and a photosensitive layer overlying the intermediate layer. The intermediate layer includes a metal oxide and a binder resin, and has a WRa (LLH) less than 0.12 μm and WRa (LHH) of from 0.03 to 0.2 μm in a curve.
US09523927B2
A detection apparatus, which detects a mark formed on a lower surface of a target object, includes: a first detector which illuminates the mark from an upper surface side of the target object to detect an image of the illuminated mark; a second detector which detects an upper surface position of the target object; and a processor which obtains information indicating a focus position to focus on the mark in the first detector, based on the upper surface position detected by the second detector.
US09523911B2
The present invention provides a radiation-sensitive resin composition that contains a polymer having a structural unit that includes an acid-labile group; and an acid generator, wherein the acid generator includes a compound including a sulfonate anion having SO3−, wherein a hydrogen atom or an electron-donating group bonds to an α carbon atom with respect to SO3−, and an electron-withdrawing group bonds to a β carbon atom with respect to SO3−; and a radiation-degradable onium cation. The compound preferably has a group represented by the following formula (1-1) or (1-2). In the following formulae (1-1) and (1-2), R1 and R2 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a monovalent electron-donating group. R3 represent a monovalent electron-withdrawing group. R4 represents a hydrogen atom or a monovalent hydrocarbon group.
US09523907B2
A zoom optical system includes, in order from an enlargement conjugate side to a reduction conjugate side, a first optical group, and a second optical group having a zoom function. The second optical group includes, in order from the enlargement conjugate side to the reduction conjugate side, a lens unit B21 with positive refractive power, a lens unit B22 with positive refractive power, and a lens unit B23 with positive refractive power. The lens units B21 and B22 move with a distance therebetween changed at the time of zooming. A predetermined relationship between a focal length fR of the second optical group in a wide-angle end and a focal length fB22 of the lens unit B22 is satisfied.
US09523905B2
The present disclosure provides a projection device and manufacturing method, comprising the steps of fixing the positions of a red light source, green light source and blue light source so that the light sources are immovable; providing a mirror which is configured to oscillate such that it can scan light it receives across a display screen; positioning an optical component, which is configured to deflect light, such that it can receive red, green and blue light beams outputted from the red, green and blue light sources respectively; adjusting the optical component such that the optical component compensates for variation between the light sources, in the direction in which the red, green and blue light beams are output from the red, green and blue light sources, so that each of the red, green and blue light beams are directed to the same point on the display screen.
US09523899B2
The present invention provides a pixel structure and a detection method of promoting defect detection rate. The pixel structure of promoting defect detection rate comprises two areas of a main pixel (10) and a sub pixel (20), and the sub pixel (20) comprises a charge sharing thin film transistor (T3) and a charge sharing capacitor (CST3); a gate of the charge sharing thin film transistor (T3) is electrically coupled to a charge sharing scan line (Gate2(m)); the charge sharing capacitor (CST3) is constructed by an ITO layer upper electrode plate (42), a metal lower electrode plate (2) and an insulative layer (3) sandwiched between the ITO layer upper electrode plate (42) and the metal lower electrode plate (2); the ITO layer upper electrode plate (42) and an ITO pixel electrode (41) are in a same layer, and the ITO layer upper electrode plate (42) is employed as a pixel common electrode coupled to a common voltage signal line (Com(m)), and the metal lower electrode plate (2) is coupled to a drain of the charge sharing thin film transistor (T3).
US09523897B2
To take measures against the phenomenon of difficulty for the orientation film material to flow into the through-hole when the diameter of through-holes which connects the pixel electrode and the source electrode becomes small.An interlayer insulating film 109 made of SiN is formed on a counter electrode, and a pixel electrode 110 having a slit 1101 is formed on the interlayer insulating film 109. A through-hole 111 which connects the pixel electrode 110 and the source electrode of a TFT has a large opening on the upper side, a small opening on the lower side, and an inner wall extending between the large opening and the small opening. The pixel electrode 110 covers the through-hole 111 on an inner side of the pixel of the through-hole 111 but does not cover a periphery of the large opening of the through-hole on an outer side of the through-hole 111. Consequently, an orientation film material can easily flow from a starting point given by an end portion of the pixel electrode into the inside of the through-hole.
US09523893B2
In order to increase the transmittance around a pixel and to increase the brightness of the screen in an IPS mode liquid crystal display device, a pixel electrode with a slit is formed on a common electrode through an interlayer insulating film. An opening is formed in the common electrode on the outside of the end portion of the pixel electrode as seen in a plane view. Because of the presence of the opening, the electric field lines from the end portion of the pixel electrode reach the layer above the liquid crystal layer and reach further away from the end portion of the pixel electrode, so that it is possible to increase the control ability to the liquid crystal around the pixel. As a result, the pixel transmittance can be increased as a whole and the brightness of the screen can be increased.
US09523887B2
A display device includes a housing, a backlight module and a heat dissipation assembly. A first hole is defined in the housing. A hook formed on the housing. The backlight module includes a light bar. The heat dissipation assembly includes a main body and a heat dissipation column. The main body is fixed on the housing via the hook. The heat dissipation column is formed on the main body and exposed through the first hole. The heat dissipation assembly configured to absorb heat generated by the backlight module and dissipate the heat external to the housing.
US09523883B2
An LCD module includes a screen, a light diffusion plate, a first lens, a second lens and an LED. The second lens covers the first lens which in turn covers the LED. The first lens has a first fly-eye lens array formed on a light-incident face thereof and a second fly-eye lens array formed on a light-emergent face thereof. Each of the first fly-eye lens array and the second fly-eye lens array includes multiple convex micro-lenses. The second lens is a light diffusion lens. Light emitted from the LED is diffused by the first lens and the second lens to uniformly illuminate the screen through the light diffusion plate.
US09523872B2
[Task] Reduction in crosstalk between signal electrodes.[Means for Resolution] An optical modulator 1 includes a relay substrate 3 including a substrate portion 30, and signal electrodes 31 and 32, and a ground electrode 33 which are provided on the substrate portion 30, and an optical waveguide substrate 4 including an electrode-optical substrate 40, signal electrodes 431 and 432, and an optical waveguide 42 which are provided on the electro-optical substrate 40. Modulation signals are input from ends 31a and 32a on one side of the signal electrodes 31 and 32, the other end 31b of the signal electrode 31 is electrically connected to the signal electrode 431, the other end 32b of the signal electrode 32 is electrically connected to the signal electrode 432, an optical wave, which propagates through the optical waveguide 42, is modulated by the modulation signals which propagate through the signal electrodes 431 and 432, the ground electrode 33 is provided between the signal electrodes 31 and 32, and the relay substrate 3 includes a first adjacent portion 44 at which the signal electrodes 31 and 32 are adjacent to each other, and a through-hole 30g that is provided in the ground electrode 33 at the first adjacent portion 44.
US09523867B2
An integrated optical modulator device. The device can include a driver module coupled to an optical modulator. The optical modulator is characterized by a raised cosine transfer function. This optical modulator can be coupled to a light source and a bias control module, which is configured to apply an off-quadrature bias to the optical modulator. This bias can be accomplished by applying an inverse of the modulator transfer function to the optical modulator in order to minimize a noise variance. This compression function can result in an optimized increased top eye opening for a signal associated with the optical modulator. Furthermore, the optical modulator can be coupled to an EDFA (Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifier) that is coupled to a filter coupled an O/E (Optical-to-Electrical) receiver.
US09523853B1
A head mounted display (“HMD”) includes a display module that displays a primary viewing image at a focus distance. The display module also displays a focusing cue image at the focus distance to aid a user of the HMD in focusing on the primary viewing image at the focus distance.
US09523850B2
Scanning apparatus includes a scanner, which is configured to scan over a field of view falling within a predefined angular range. An interference filter is positioned between the scanner and the field of view and is configured to pass light within a predefined wavelength range that is incident on the interference filter at angles within the predefined angular range, while reflecting the light within the predefined wavelength range that is incident on the interference filter at an angle that is outside the predefined angular range. An ancillary optical element communicates optically with the scanner at a wavelength within the predefined wavelength range via a beam path that reflects from the interference filter at the angle that is outside the predefined angular range.
US09523847B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a terminal device. The terminal device includes a periscope lens. The periscope lens includes a filter, a reflective prism module, a zoom lens, and a sensor, where the filter is configured to filter a light ray transmitted from the outside, and the reflective prism module is configured to reflect twice the light ray into the sensor in combination with the zoom lens, where the light ray is obtained after the filtering by the filter. According to the terminal device in the present invention, a limitation on a thickness of the periscope lens imposed by a width of the sensor can be reduced.
US09523841B1
A photographing optical lens system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element, a seventh lens element and an eighth lens element. The second lens element has positive refractive power. The eighth lens element has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof, wherein the image-side surface of the eighth lens element has at least one convex shape in an off-axis region thereof, and both an object-side surface and the image-side surface thereof are aspheric. The photographing optical lens system has a total of eight lens elements. An air gap in a paraxial region is located between every two lens elements of the photographing optical lens system that are adjacent to each other.
US09523837B2
A lens module includes a driving device, an image sensing device, a lens group frame, and an infrared filter. The driving device has a lens barrel for an optical signal passing through. The image sensing device is on a path of the optical signal to convert the optical signal into an electric signal. The lens group frame is provided in the lens barrel, and has a main body, which is driven by the driving device to be moved between a first position and a second position, and a lens holder, which is pivotally connected on the main body and is swung between a third position and a fourth position when the main body is respectively at the first and the second positions. The infrared filter is provided on the lens holder, and is precisely aligned with the image sensing device when the lens holder is at the fourth position.
US09523835B2
A lens driving device including: a lens holder; a coil mounted on the lens holder; at least one magnet disposed around the coil; a first and second spring members which support the lens holder at the both sides thereof in the optical axis direction so that the lens holder can move freely in the both directions of the optical axis of the lens in an initial state of no electric current to the coil; and an abutment surface to which the lens holder abuts when the lens holder moves toward one spring member against a biasing force of the one spring member; wherein the lens holder is exhorted a biasing force by the other spring member from the side of the other spring member to the side of the one spring member in the optical axis direction when the lens holder abuts against the abutment surface. Thus the lens driving device can support a lens holder in a stable fashion.
US09523834B2
A fiber optic enclosure includes a housing including a base and a cover that cooperatively define an interior region of the housing; and a cable spool assembly rotatably disposed in the interior region of the housing. The cable spool includes a drum portion; and a tray assembly engaged to the drum portion and configured to rotate in unison with the drum portion when the cable spool assembly is rotated relative to the base. The tray assembly includes at least a first tray. Each tray includes optical adapters disposed in a row along a first end of the tray. Certain types of trays are pivotal relative to the drum portion along a pivot axis extending generally parallel to the row of adapters along a second end of the tray opposite the first end. Other types of trays include a second row of optical adapters that pivot relative to the first row.
US09523831B2
An optical cable module is disclosed. The optical cable module comprises a connector and an optical cable, and the optical cable is connected to the connector. The optical cable comprises at least one optical fiber, an outer cladding layer and a power line, and the outer cladding layer surrounds the at least one optical fiber and the power line, and the power line is configured to supply an electrical power.
