US09538693B2
A shield made from aluminum (AL) or an aluminum-based alloy coated with a solderable plating such as nickel or tin provides thermal improvement over existing shielding materials. The shield for circuitry on a circuit board comprising an aluminum material plated with a solderable material, the shield providing electromagnetic interference and radio frequency interference shielding and heat transfer when positioned over a circuit.
US09538684B2
A server device includes a server rack and at least one server unit having a first sliding tray, a second sliding tray, a storage array module and a motherboard module. The server rack includes a first opening and a second opening which are opposite with each other. The first sliding tray is slidably disposed in the server rack. The second sliding tray is slidably disposed in the first sliding tray. The storage array module is disposed on the second sliding tray. The motherboard module is disposed on the first sliding tray and electrically connected to the storage array module.
US09538675B2
Cases or holders for cell phones, personal digital assistants, portable video/music players, electronic books, electronic tablets and other handheld and/or free-standing display devices, as well as the devices themselves are disclosed. In different embodiments, a versatile protective holder that can allow placement on any surface for hands-free viewing, with full adjustment of viewing angle in landscape and/or portrait orientations; directional sound reflecting and baffling; easier cleaning and viewing of the device's screen; easier grasping by the user; wearing of the device using a belt clip or arm or waist band; as well as attachment to an automobile, bicycle, or other vehicle are disclosed.
US09538671B2
A reversible system for housing a battery-operated device includes a first case member and a second case member. The first case member includes a first alignment member and the second case member includes a second alignment member complimenting the first alignment member such that the orientation of the first case member to the second case member can be altered in at least two orientations. In certain embodiments, the reversible system additionally includes a photovoltaic module for powering the battery-operated device.
US09538668B2
A wiring substrate includes an insulating layer and a pad exposed from the insulating layer. An outermost surface of the insulating layer is modified to have a hydrophobic property by being stamped with silicone.
US09538666B2
Provided is a bonding structure of an electronic equipment including first electrodes extended in a first direction and arranged in a second direction on a stretchable display panel having stretchability, second electrodes extended in a first direction and arranged in a second direction on a substrate and facing the first electrodes, and solder bonding parts interposed between the first electrodes and the second electrodes, facing each other in the second direction, and constituting a plurality of rows in the first direction.
US09538662B2
In some designs, getting a flexible circuit (flex) to assume a bent state can be helpful in efficiently routing electrically conductive pathways. One efficient way to implement soldering of flexes in a bent state during a reflow operation is to manipulate paneling that hold batches of the flexes to reliably maintain a suitable bend in those flexes. In some embodiments, a flex can be surface mounted to a portion or the whole of an electric device during a reflow operation during which the bent state is maintained by paneling that is at least partially attached to a periphery of the flex. Another solution is to utilize vacuum or hot glue fixtures to maintain a bend in the flex during surface mounting and reflow operations.
US09538660B2
The present invention discloses an electronic package structure. The body has a top surface with a cavity thereon, the first conductive element is disposed in the cavity, and the second conductive element is disposed in the body. The first external electrode electrically connected to the first conductive element and the second external electrode electrically connected to the second conductive element are both disposed on the top surface of the body or a first surface formed by the top surface of the encapsulation compound and the exposed portions of the top surface of the body which are not covered by the encapsulation compound.
US09538659B2
An embodiment of a solder wettable flange includes a flange body formed from a conductive material. The flange body has a bottom surface, a top surface, sidewalls extending between the top surface and the bottom surface, and one or more depressions extending into the flange body from the bottom surface. Each depression is defined by a depression surface that may or may not be solder wettable. During solder attachment of the flange to a substrate, the depressions may function as reservoirs for excess solder. Embodiments also include devices and systems that include such solder wettable flanges, and methods for forming the solder wettable flanges, devices, and systems.
US09538656B2
The present invention relates to an electric and/or electronic circuit including a printed circuit board (20), at least one separate circuit board (10) and at least one power connector (12) for said printed circuit board (20). The at least one power connector (12) is connected or connectable to a corresponding counterpart. A number of electric and/or electronic components (22) is sold at the separate circuit board (10). The at least one separate circuit board (10) is connected to the printed circuit board (20) by a number of solder joints (16). The solder joints (16) are connected to the separate circuit board (10) by a through-hole-technology. The solder joints (16) are connected to the printed circuit board (20) by SMD (surface mount device) technology. At least one power connector (12) is fastened at the separate circuit board (10) by the through-hole-technology.
US09538649B2
When forming a module 100 having a configuration in which a column-shaped connection terminal 11, which forms an interlayer connection conductor, and an electronic component 102 are mounted on a wiring substrate 101 and sealed with a resin, the column-shaped connection terminal 11 which has a substantially T-shaped cross section and in which a first end portion has a larger diameter than a second end portion is prepared (the preparation step), an electronic component 102 is mounted on one main surface of the wiring substrate 101 and the connection terminal 11 is mounted on the one main surface in such a manner that the second end portion of the connection terminal 11 having a smaller diameter is connected to the wiring substrate 101 (the mounting step), and the electronic component 102 and the connection terminal 11 are sealed with a resin layer 103 (the sealing step).
US09538640B2
A conductive substrate comprises a substrate, a plurality of conductive patterns, and a plurality of optical compensation patterns. The conductive patterns extend along a first direction and are sequentially disposed on the substrate along a second direction. The optical compensation patterns are staggered from the conductive patterns along the second direction on the substrate. An edge of at least one of the conductive patterns extending along the first direction has a plurality of conductive protrusions, and an edge of at least one of the optical compensation patterns extending along the first direction has a plurality of optical compensation protrusions. A touch display device is also disclosed.
US09538638B2
A high-frequency signal transmission line includes a dielectric element assembly including a plurality of dielectric layers laminated on each other, a linear signal line provided at the dielectric element assembly, and a first ground conductor provided on a first side in a direction of lamination relative to the signal line and including a plurality of openings arranged along the signal line. The dielectric layer positioned at an end of the first side in the direction of lamination includes an undulating portion provided on a first principal surface located on the first side in the direction of lamination, such that the undulating portion overlaps with the openings when viewed in a plan view in the direction of lamination.
US09538635B1
Electrical current and/or conductivity in an electrical current channel varies in response to spatiotemporal magnetic flux pattern and/or to variation in electromotive force (EMF). For example, a channel with time-varying electrical conductivity can have induced electrical current variation due to flux pattern resulting from electrical current in another channel or set of channels; the current variation can increase magnetic flux density. The electrical currents can be transient electrical currents, and can cascade to amplify a resulting electromagnetic waveform. A channel can include the channel of a zener or zener-like diode or of a transistor, as well as an extended conductive channel. Channels can be configured in electrical current loops and in various orientations and combinations to obtain current and/or conductivity variation. A transient electrical current can be triggered in a channel, e.g. by an EMF peak, and circuitry with a combination of EMF triggering components can perform logical and timing operation.
US09538627B2
A light source drive device includes a supply unit that supplies a high-frequency first drive signal and a second drive signal whose frequency is lower than a frequency of the first drive signal to a discharge lamp which has a pair of electrodes, and a control unit that controls the supply unit so that the first drive signal and the second drive signal of fixed durations are alternately supplied and that controls the supply unit so that the first drive signal is supplied in a case where a voltage between the pair of electrodes is below a threshold.
US09538623B2
Provided is a lighting device. The lighting device includes a light emitting diode (LED) printed circuit board (PCB) on which LED devices for emitting light are disposed, the LED PCB controlling an operation of each of the LED devices, a converter PCB for supplying power into the LED PCB, a housing having a space in which the LED PCB is accommodated, the housing having a heat dissipation structure, a communication module disposed under the LED PCB, the communication module allowing the lighting device to communicate with an external device, and a signal receiving unit connected to the communication module, the signal receiving unit being disposed on the LED PCB. The LED PCB may have a through hole through which an upper end of the communication module passes, and the signal receiving unit is coupled to the upper end of the communication module passing through the through hole.
US09538621B2
A technique for controlling a luminaire using a controller preprogrammed to cause the luminaire to carry out a predefined action as a response to an occurrence of a predefined triggering condition is provided. The technique comprises storing, into a memory, status indications received in the status indication messages from the other devices, analyzing the stored status indications in an attempt to identify a sequence of one or more status indications that repeatedly precede an occurrence of said predefined triggering condition, and reprogramming, in response to identifying a sequence of status indications that repeatedly precede an occurrence of said predefined triggering condition, the controller to cause the luminaire to initiate or to carry out a preparatory action for carrying out said predefined action as a response to reception of said identified sequence of status indications.
US09538616B2
The present invention defines a HTTP or CoAP request message that combines one or more HTTP or CoAP requests along with timing information (432-1). The message is sent by a control device (132) to a network proxy (i.e. a network router (112)) via a control network (120). The network proxy decodes the message and subsequently controls destination devices, in particular luminaires (L1, L2, L3, L4), in a timed manner using the HTTP or CoAP requests. The network proxy is application-independent and also enables control of third party HTTP-or CoAP-based devices that are not aware of timed requests. Improved timing performance is obtained by choosing the network proxy location “close by”, in terms of network hops and/or latency, to the destination devices to be controlled.
US09538610B2
Circuits to provide phase-cut analog dimming of solid state light sources are presented. Each circuit comprises an anchoring circuit to communicate with a dimming controller circuit, the anchoring circuit having a proportional direct current (DC) voltage input, a biasing voltage input, a connection to a ground reference, and an output in communication with a dimming controller circuit. The anchoring circuit provides a reference voltage to permit phase cut dimming to be operable at a plurality of line voltages.
US09538609B2
An optoelectronic device that radiates mixed light including a first semiconductor light source which radiates light in a first wavelength range at a first intensity, a second semiconductor light source which radiates light in a second wavelength range at a second intensity, a third semiconductor light source which radiates light in a third wavelength range at a third intensity, a resistance element having a temperature-dependent electrical resistance, and a semiconductor light source control element that controls the intensity of the third semiconductor light source.
US09538597B2
Systems and methods for a multichannel power supply are disclosed. The multichannel power supply includes a front end circuit configured to receive an input voltage and to provide a regulated front end direct current (DC) voltage. A multichannel source circuit is coupled to the front-end circuit. The multichannel source circuit includes a controller, a reference voltage circuit, and a plurality of source circuits. Each source circuit in the plurality of source circuits represents a distinct output channel of the multichannel power supply. The multichannel source circuit is configured to generate a constant current output for each source circuit in the plurality of source circuits. Each load in a plurality of loads is connected to a corresponding source circuit in the plurality of source circuits and is configured to receive the corresponding constant current output via the corresponding source circuit.
US09538589B2
An illustrative inventory of vehicle accessory control components includes a plurality of first circuit boards and a plurality of second circuit boards. The first circuit boards each have a substrate with a plurality of circuit elements supported on the substrate. The first circuit board substrates have an overall perimeter shape including an outer edge profile and a plurality of first deviations from the outer edge profile. The second circuit boards each have a substrate with a plurality of circuit elements supported on them. The second circuit board substrates have the overall perimeter shape including the same outer edge profile as the first circuit board substrates. The second circuit board substrates include a plurality of second deviations from the outer edge profile. At least one portion of the second deviations is different than the first deviations of the first circuit boards.
US09538580B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide for an access terminal configured to enable communication with two or more wireless communications networks simultaneously. According to some aspects of the disclosure, an access terminal (e.g., dual-SIM access terminal) can be active simultaneously on both networks with reduced interference between transmission and reception. A number of different techniques for mitigating desense on a victim's Rx are illustrated in this disclosure with a GSM aggressor and an EV-DO victim as non-limiting examples. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.
US09538559B2
A system for facilitating radio communication using targeting devices is disclosed. In one embodiment, the targeting device includes a wireless microphone. The wireless microphone is wirelessly connected to a communication device. Further, the targeting device includes an activation button to activate the communication device. In this embodiment, the wireless microphone transmits an audio signal to the communication device upon activating the communication device.
US09538558B2
The present invention relates generally to managing acknowledgements for multicast data in a wireless network. According to certain aspects, embodiments of the invention allow for adopting appropriate acknowledgement mechanisms to address the particular need of different applications, for example in terms of throughput, latency and delay. According to certain other aspects, embodiments of the invention can, depending on link conditions, vary the frequency of the acknowledgements to sinks, vary the application packet size and/or remove sink devices from the multicast group and reach them instead via unicast transmission or via an access point.
US09538552B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more specifically discloses a method and an apparatus for transceiving a beacon in a wireless LAN system. A method for receiving a beacon from a station (STA) in a wireless communication system according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: receiving a probe response frame from an access point (AP); determining the time at which the next beacon is to be received by means of information regarding the next beacon contained in the probe response frame; and receiving the next beacon at the time determined for receiving the next beacon.
US09538551B2
Network node (110) and method (600) in a network node (110), for admission control of an additional radio access bearer based on load of control channel elements on a control channel, assigned by a scheduler (700) comprised in the network node (110). The method (600) comprises assigning (601), by the scheduler (700), control channel elements on the control channel for already admitted radio access bearers. Further, a first and a second load of the control channel is computed (606, 607) based on the usage of assigned control channel elements subframes on which both downlink assignments and uplink grants are enabled, and on which downlink assignments are enabled, respectively. If any of the first or second loads exceeds a respective threshold value, the radio access bearer to be admitted is rejected (609A).
US09538548B2
Provided is a communication control apparatus including a communication unit configured to receive, from a base station of a first radio communication system, grant information that specifies a resource for secondary use within a frequency resource assigned to the first radio communication system operated with a frequency division duplex scheme, and a communication control unit configured to operate a second radio communication system with a time division duplex scheme on the resource for secondary use during a period that is associated with the grant information.
US09538546B2
A node (100; 300) of a mobile network is responsible for scheduling transmissions of data blocks between the mobile network and a terminal device (200, 200′). The node (100; 300) may for example be a base station (100) or a control node (300) of the mobile network. The node (100; 300) determines a processing time required by the terminal device (200; 200′) for processing signals for transmission of one of the data blocks. The processing time is determined from a plurality of supported processing times. On the basis of the determined processing time, the node (100; 300) schedules the transmission of the data block. The terminal device (200, 200′) may provide control data for determining the processing time to the node (100; 300).
US09538543B2
Methods and apparatuses for indicating an interference distribution in frame between base stations are provided. The method comprises: in response to a mismatch between a first frame allocation used by a first base station and a second frame allocation used by a second base station, transmitting, from the first base station to the second base station, a message for indicating an interference distribution in frame, A new information element, i.e., UL ABS (uplink Almost Blank Subframe) is introduced to indicate the uplink ABS information of the interfering base station. A modified DL ABS with a flag is used to indicate the downlink ABS information of the interfering base station, wherein the flag is to indicate that the DL ABS is used to protect UL transmission in the recipient base station.
US09538537B1
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for blind frequency synchronization. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed, comprising: downconverting a received orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) signal to baseband; identifying, from the downconverted received signal, a series of OFDM symbols in the time domain; performing a fast Fourier transform (FFT) on a block of several time domain samples to turn the time domain OFDM symbols into frequency domain OFDM symbols, one sample per subcarrier in the received OFDM signal; computing a cross-correlation between in-phase and quadrature samples in each subcarrier and for each frequency domain OFDM symbol, wherein the cross-correlation may be computed as a sum of products of either squares or absolute values of the in-phase and quadrature samples; and summing the computed cross-correlation across the series of symbols and across all subcarriers to determine a frequency offset for the received OFDM signal.
US09538536B2
A method for routing and switching operator RF signals includes providing one or more Digital Remote Units (DRUs) and providing at least one Digital Access Unit (DAU) configured to communicate with at least one of the one or more DRUs. A first DRU is operable to communicate using a first set of frequencies characterized by a first frequency band over a first geographic footprint and a second set of frequencies characterized by a second frequency band different from the first frequency band over a second geographic footprint including and surrounding the first geographic footprint. A second DRU is operable to communicate using the first set of frequencies over a third geographical footprint and a third set of frequencies characterized by a third frequency band different from the first frequency band and the second frequency band over a fourth geographic footprint including and surrounding the third geographic footprint.
US09538535B2
A system and method are disclosed that may allow a STA to selectively change frequency bands from an operating band to a candidate band based on operating conditions. In response to determining that a channel condition is within a band switch region associated with a candidate band, the STA may select the candidate band and temporarily switch to it. The STA may select an initial modulation and coding scheme for the candidate band and probe the candidate band with data to determine an estimate of candidate band goodput. If the estimate of candidate band goodput is greater than the operating band goodput, the STA may switch to the candidate band.
US09538531B2
A wireless communication device is provided with a first radio module and a second radio module inside. The first radio module performs wireless transceiving according to a plurality of first traffic patterns which each indicates allocations of a plurality of first slots for a plurality of forthcoming transmitting or receiving operations, respectively. The second radio module determines an indicator indicating at least one of a plurality of second traffic patterns which each indicates allocations of a plurality of second slots for a plurality of forthcoming transmitting or receiving operations, respectively. Particularly, one or more allocations of the second slots are selectively determined according to the first traffic patterns. Also, the second radio module transmits the indicator to a peer communication device, so that the peer communication device performs transmitting or receiving operations according to the indicator.
US09538530B2
The present invention relates to a device and a method for detecting keep-alive, comprising a collecting unit for collecting or capturing a plurality of packets transceiving between a plurality of wireless terminals and a plurality of servers, a preprocessing unit for mapping collecting or capturing time information of the packets which collected or captured by the collecting unit to at least one of identification information of wireless terminal, server identification information and port information, a slot allocation unit for allocating the mapped packets to each time slots on a timeline which generated according to the collecting or capturing time information, an ID(identification) assigning unit for assigning IDs to each sections on the timeline, wherein the assigning unit assigning same IDs to sections having time slots in which the packets are continuously allocated within a predetermined range; and a keep-alive detection unit for setting the sections which assigned same IDs to periodic sections, and for determining the periodic sections to keep-alive sections when ports of the packets allocated to the time slots on the periodic sections are continuously changing.
US09538526B2
Disclosed are a method and device for transmitting a frame. The method for transmitting a frame includes a step of generating A-MPDU (aggregate MAC protocol data unit) and a step of transmitting A-MPDU. The A-MPDU includes a first AMPDU subframe and a second A-MPDU subframe, wherein the first A-MPDU subframe includes a data block, and the second AMPDU subframe includes an FEC (Forward Error Correction) coding block which is additionally used in the decoding of the data block. Thus, the STA is capable of preventing unnecessary power consumption of STA by selectively determining whether FEC information is received according to whether an error occurred in the decoded data.
US09538522B2
A method for transmitting uplink response signals, base station, mobile station and communication system, includes judging whether to use a downlink secondary component carrier to transmit data to a mobile station; if the judging result is positive, allocating resources according to the number of transmission blocks for transmitting the downlink data in the secondary component carrier, accordingly the mobile station is able to use the resources corresponding to a preconfigured primary component carrier and the resources allocated to the secondary component carrier to select uplink resources for transmitting response signals.
US09538517B2
A User Equipment, UE, supporting communication in a multicarrier radio communication system and a method therein for receiving information from a Radio Base Station, RBS, are provided. The method comprises determining 310 a bandwidth by which the UE will receive information, the bandwidth comprising a plurality of sub-carriers. The method also comprises adjusting 320 a bandwidth of the UE to correspond to the determined bandwidth by which the UE will receive information; and fine tuning 330 a local oscillator of the UE such that a centre frequency of a local oscillator does not coincide with a predetermined subcarrier transmitted from the RBS.
US09538516B2
A method is provided for allowing a user equipment to receive data in a wireless communication system. The user equipment performs blind decoding for an enhanced physical downlink channel (EPDCCH) in which a downlink control information (DCI) is transmitted. The user equipment decodes data on a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) by using the DCI. If the DCI does not comprise demodulation reference signal information for decoding of the PDSCH, the PDSCH is decoded by using demodulation reference signal information associated with a resource block among a plurality of resource blocks in which the DCI is transmitted.
US09538511B2
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for transmitting uplink control information (UCI) with user equipment in a wireless communication system. The user equipment performs channel coding on information bits of UCI to generate encoded information bits; modulates the generated encoded information bits to generate complex modulation symbols; spreads the complex modulation symbols blockwise into a plurality of single carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) symbols on the basis of an orthogonal sequence; and transmits the spread complex modulation symbols to a base station.
US09538506B2
Controlling establishment of a connection between an originating subscriber connected via an originating radio network to a communication network and a terminating subscriber connected via a terminating radio network to the communication network. The connection is established between originating payload node and terminating payload node employing a common coding scheme. Coding scheme negotiation comprises establishing, in originating control node (OCN), a list of supported coding schemes of originating subscriber, originating radio network and originating payload node. Determining, by the OCN, a radio channel property of the originating subscriber, oRCP, relaying the list and the radio channel property between the control nodes controlling the connection towards a terminating control node (TCN). Removing, by the control nodes, non-supported coding schemes from the list. Determining, by the TCN, common coding scheme(s) for the connection by selecting a remaining coding scheme considering the oRCP and a radio channel property of the terminating subscriber, tRCP.
US09538505B2
A radio station (1) includes a first part (1A) and at least one second part (1B). The second part (1B) can be arranged so as to be physically separated from the first part (1A) and is connected to the first part (1A) via a transmission line (40) so as to be able to communicate with the first part. The first part (1A) performs dynamic scheduling to allocate a plurality of radio resources to a plurality of mobile stations or user data. The second part (1B) performs signal processing including channel coding for transmitting downlink user data to an air interface and channel decoding for restoring uplink user data from a signal received from the air interface.
US09538504B2
From the network perspective, an uplink resource allocation (PDCCH) is sent that grants an uplink resource to a plurality of user equipments UEs, and the allocation has an indication of a cyclic shift CS for each of the plurality of UEs. The granted uplink resource is mapped to a downlink resource (PHICH) in dependence on the indicated CS for each of the plurality of UEs. The mapping is such that for a predetermined number of UEs being allocated a same uplink resource in a single MU-MIMO uplink resource allocation grant, each pair of said predetermined number of UEs which map to an adjacent downlink resource exhibit an optimized CS relative to one another. The network sends to each of the respective plurality of UEs on the respective mapped downlink resource an indication (ACK/NACK) about data received (on a PUSCH). Apparatus, method, and computer programs for network and UE side implementations are detailed.
US09538501B2
A UE 100 is a UE 100 included in a D2D group (a terminal group) including a plurality of UEs 100 (a UE 100-1 and a UE 100-2) in a mobile communication system that supports D2D communication that is direct inter-terminal communication performed within the D2D group. The UE 100 performs UE-initiated scheduling of deciding allocation radio resources that are radio resources used for the D2D communication from among target radio resources reserved in a serving cell in which the D2D group exists and a neighboring cell adjacent to the serving cell when the D2D group is detected to be in a high-speed moving state.
US09538497B2
A method of handling a location reporting procedure comprises performing, by a first proximity service (ProSe) function entity, a registration procedure for a proximity service with a first communication device; and performing, by the first ProSe function entity, the location reporting procedure for the proximity service between the first communication device and a second communication device; and transmitting, by the first ProSe function entity, a cancel location reporting message to a Secure User Plane Location (SUPL) Location Platform (SLP) server to cancel the location reporting procedure for the first communication device registered to the first ProSe function entity, when a timer of the proximity request message expires.
US09538489B1
A wireless communication system to synchronize data transfer rates. A hard disk drive controller receives a first Long Term Evolution (LTE) Radio Resource Connection message generated by an eNodeB proposing a wireless communication network download data rate. The hard disk drive controller compares the proposed wireless communication network download rate in the first LTE RRC message with a hard disk drive storage data rate. If the proposed wireless communication network download rate is higher than the hard disk drive storage data rate, then the hard disk controller transfers a second LTE RRC message requesting a lower wireless communication network download rate.
US09538469B2
A method and system for enhancing the power efficiency of a first wireless device that includes an energy receiver. In one implementation, the method includes receiving a transmitted signal at the first wireless device, converting the transmitted signal into power through the energy receiver, and providing the power to the first wireless device.
US09538464B2
A method for transmitting load information in a wireless local area network. The method according to one embodiment includes generating, by an access point (AP), basic service set (BSS) load information, the BSS load information including a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) channel underutilization field; and transmitting, by the AP, the BSS load information. The MIMO channel underutilization field indicates a spatial stream underutilization that is defined as a percentage of time that the AP has one or more underutilized spatial domain resources for a given busy time of a wireless medium. The spatial stream underutilization is calculated based on a maximum number of spatial streams supported by the AP and a number of one or more utilized spatial streams transmitted by the AP.
US09538460B2
Network devices are steered to preferred access points using a probability function. A probe request for connection is received from a network device. The probe request can be from a network device attempting to use a wireless network (e.g., a IEEE 802.11-type network or other suitable type of network). A probability function that defines a likelihood of granting the network device a connection is used to determine whether to accept or deny the response. The probe response is then sent to the network device.
US09538458B2
The present invention relates to an active scanning method and apparatus. The method of performing scanning in a wireless local area network (WLAN) includes: a step of a scanning station generating scan request information so as to order active scanning; a step of the scanning station receiving a scanning frame from the station; and a step of the scanning station transmitting a probe request frame in order to perform the active scanning in case the received scanning frame does not include any of the elements that are ordered in the scan request information. Accordingly, scanning procedures can be performed quickly.
US09538453B1
Methods and a corresponding system for conserving inter-MSC trunk capacity when multiple serving systems provide coverage at a particular geographic area. A first determination is made that when a first mobile station and a second mobile station are both at the particular geographic area, the first mobile station and the second mobile station engage in communications with each other. A second determination is made that the first mobile station and the second mobile station are both at the particular geographic area. And responsive to making at least the first and second determinations, the first mobile station is provisioned with preferred roaming list data that causes the first mobile station to be served by a given one of the multiple serving systems that also serves the second mobile station.
US09538435B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for dynamically configuring VoLTE packet delay are provided. In embodiments, the method includes providing an initial packet delay for a connection between mobile devices associated with one or more base stations. The packet delay may be based on historical data, transporting media, and a number of hops between originating and receiving devices. Real-time data associated with the one or more base stations is received. In embodiments, the real-time data includes latency, capacity of the scheduler, and data associated with handoffs. The packet delay is dynamically configured to adjust for the real-time data.
US09538434B2
According to some embodiments of the invention, a method is provided in a radio network node for scheduling data transmission and/or reception. According to the method, the radio network node predicts (530) at least one autonomous gap occurrence in which user equipments served by the radio network node will use autonomously created gaps for acquiring system information from a neighboring base station and during which the UE is not able to receive data from, and/or transmit data to, the radio network node. Furthermore, the radio network node schedules (560) a user equipment for data transmission and/or reception in a time period which does not overlap with any predicted autonomous gap occurrence.
US09538432B2
A wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) is configured to operate in an high speed data packet access (HSDPA) mode in a cell and/or state and to clear HSDPA resources when moving out of the cell and/or state. The WTRU is configured to clear HSDPA resources when conditions to perform high speed downlink shared channel reception are not met.
US09538421B1
A method, an apparatus, and a computer-readable medium for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus may be a first device. The first device operates a ROHC compressor in a first state at a ROHC sublayer to compress a first packet to be transmitted to a second device. The first packet includes information for a ROHC decompressor to establish a ROHC context. The information enables the ROHC decompressor to decompress a second packet compressed by the ROHC compressor when operating in a second state. The first device determines, at a sublayer or a layer lower than the ROHC sublayer, whether the first packet has been successfully received at the second device. The first device continues operating the ROHC compressor in the first state in response to a determination that the first packet has not been successfully received at the second device.
US09538384B2
An approach for implementing a local device management application for deterring misuse, loss, or theft of mobile devices includes determining that a use of a first device at least substantially satisfies one or more use criteria. The approach also includes generating a notification message regarding the use. Further, the approach includes initiating a transmission of the notification message from the first device to a second device.
US09538378B2
A device may receive, from an access network, a mobile device identifier. The mobile device identifier may identify a mobile device that is connected to the access network. The device may receive or determine subscriber information associated with the mobile device identifier. The subscriber information may identify one or more users associated with the mobile device. The device may provide the mobile device identifier and the subscriber information for determination of an action indicator. The action indicator may indicate an action to perform with respect to the mobile device identifier. The device may receive the action indicator based on providing the mobile device identifier and the subscriber information. The device may provide the action indicator for routing toward the mobile device for performance of the action.
US09538372B2
When a first device receives an indication to establish a communication with a second device, a feature character string is generated. The first device is associated with a first public key and a first private key. The second device is associated with a second public key and a second private key. The second public key of the second device is obtained. The second public key is used to encrypt the feature character string. A first identification of the first device is at least partly based on the encrypted feature character string and is published. When the feature character string is obtained after decryption, the first public key of the first device is obtained. The second identification is an identification encrypted by the first public key. In response to a determination that the feature character string is obtained after decryption of the second identification, the communication between the first device and the second device is established.
US09538358B2
The present invention provides a communication matching method, a user equipment and a base station. The communication matching method includes: obtaining, by a second user equipment supporting a D2D function, D2D capability information of a serving base station of a cell to which the second user equipment currently belongs; obtaining, by the second user equipment, information, which is broadcasted by a first user equipment supporting the D2D function, of the first user equipment after determining that the cell to which the second user equipment currently belongs supports the D2D function according to the D2D capability information; performing, by the second user equipment, communication matching with the first user equipment according to the information of the first user equipment and the D2D capability information of the serving base station of the cell to which the second user equipment currently belongs.
US09538354B2
The invention provides a mobile communication system, a mobile station, a call control device, and a mobile communication method that are capable of allowing an emergency call, even to which a prefix indicating how to treat the emergency call is added, to break through access control, and applying priority control to the emergency call, as in the case of a normal emergency call without the addition of the prefix. UE (100) separates acquired calling number information into a prefix and a calling number, and sends an MSC (210) an Emergency Setup which includes the prefix and an Emergency Category linked with the calling number. The MSC (210) determines how to treat the emergency call (such as to block notification of a telephone number of a calling party) based on the prefix included in the Emergency Setup, and connects the emergency call to a PSAP (400) corresponding to the Emergency Category.
US09538352B2
A SIP ancillary data server provides host to auxiliary data for an emergency SIP session (call) uniquely referred to in a transported SIP header. In a manner similar to how location is represented in an emergency call, a SIP header is extended. The extended SIP Header contains one of two possible types of content elements: either (a) a content pointer element to a SIP Message body part (a “cid:”, or content identifier); or (b) an
US09538350B2
A method including, by one or more computing systems, receiving an indication of a communication from a first user to a second user, calculating an implicit urgency score of the communication, calculating a composite urgency score, determining an urgency of the communication and providing an indication of the urgency as determined for presentation to the second user. The implicit urgency score may be based at least in part on information accessible by the computing systems. The composite urgency score may be based at least in part on the implicit urgency score. The urgency of the communication may be based at least in part on the composite urgency score.
US09538344B2
A method and apparatus for automatically sending a data message from a mobile device to at least one recipient during or soon after an emergency voice call, the method having the steps of: determining whether the data message can be sent over the network during the emergency voice call, and if yes, creating and sending the data message; and if no, waiting until either the mobile device connects to a new network, wherein the method proceeds back to said determining step, or until the voice call has ended and then creating and sending the data message.
US09538327B1
A system comprising a plurality of first subsystems respectively operable to manage a plurality of first regions in a geographic space; and a plurality of second subsystems respectively operable to manage a plurality of second regions in the geographic space, wherein the plurality of first regions and the plurality of second regions are arranged such that at least one of the first regions covers a border of one or more of the second regions and at least of the second regions covers a border of one or more of the first regions.
US09538324B2
A method for providing a descriptor of a location to a recipient includes receiving location data of the location from a user and using the location data to identify one or more regions near or including the location. Each region is associated with a descriptor. The recipient's interaction with each of the regions is indicated and it is provided for at least one region to be selected based on the recipient's interaction with the selected region. The descriptor associated with the selected region is provided to the recipient.
US09538320B2
Described herein are methods, systems, apparatuses and products for managing location services in wireless networks. One aspect provides a method of receiving in a mobile device an identifier broadcast from a terrestrial wireless device located at a particular position; and using the identifier broadcast from the terrestrial wireless device to determine a physical location of the mobile device even in absence of a logical connection existing between the mobile device and the terrestrial wireless device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09538309B2
A method for estimating a distance between a first and a second loudspeaker characterized by playing back a first stereo source signal vector s1 on the first loudspeaker, and playing back a second stereo source signal vector s2 on the second loudspeaker, acquiring a first recorded signal vector x1, using a first microphone arranged adjacent to the first loudspeaker, and acquiring a second recorded signal vector x2 from a second microphone arranged adjacent to the second loudspeaker, wherein x1 and x2 are N-dimensional vectors, setting the distance equal to ηv/f, where v is the speed of sound, f is the sampling frequency, and η is an estimated sample delay of a source signal played back on one of the loudspeakers and a recording acquired by a microphone at the other loudspeaker.
US09538300B2
Embodiments are provided for audio synchronization of one or more playback devices using offset information. In an example embodiment, a first device receives, from a second device, data representing a first time, the first time corresponding to first audio data to be played by the first playback device as part of a synchrony group with the second device. The first device determines a second time based on (i) the first time and (ii) a first offset between a clock of the first device and a clock of the second device. The first device plays the first audio data at the second time according to the clock of the first device. After playing the first audio data, the first device determines a second offset between the clock of the first device and the clock of the second device and replaces data representing the first offset with data representing the second offset.
US09538299B2
In at least some embodiments, a computer system includes a processor and a network interface coupled to the processor. The computer system also includes a system memory coupled to the processor, the system memory storing a communication application having a conferencing user interface. The conferencing user interface, when executed, enables a user to set up a conferencing session by selecting one of a plurality of conferencing environment templates (CETs). Each CET is matched to one of a plurality of different sets of acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) parameters to be applied during the conferencing session.
US09538284B2
A method for operating an audio system for transmitting wireless audio streams to a hearing system comprising a hearing device, the audio system comprising a communication unit and a radio system comprising a transmitter unit, the method includes: receiving request data comprising hearing device identification data and a request indicative of an audio track; determining radio system configuration data based on at least a part of the request data; and transmitting an audio stream by the transmitter unit according to the determined radio system configuration data, wherein the audio stream comprises audio stream data and audio identification data for allowing the hearing system to receive the audio stream representative of the requested audio track.
US09538283B2
Disclosed is an ear microphone which includes: a microphone for converting a voice signal provided from the external auditory meatus of a user to an electric signal; a speaker for converting the electric signal provided from an external device to the voice signal; and a soundproof member having a microphone receiving groove for fixing and supporting the microphone to the inside of the housing and a speaker receiving groove for fixing and supporting the speaker to the inside of the housing.
US09538282B2
The invention provides a high-frequency acoustic waveguide for use in coaxial loudspeaker systems. The waveguide is made up of a plurality of walls that define a conduit with an input end and an output end. Each of the walls includes a mask layer and a perforation layer. The mask layer has a plurality of holes sized and shaped to make the mask layer acoustically transparent to sound waves below a crossover frequency. The perforation layer has a plurality of micro-perforations sized and shaped to make the perforation layer acoustically opaque to sound waves above the crossover frequency. The waveguide directs sound waves above the crossover frequency, and is acoustically transparent to sound waves below the crossover frequency.
US09538279B2
A headphone controlling system is used in a portable electronic device to control a playing mode of a headphone connected to the portable electronic device. The headphone controlling system includes a processor, a storage module, a manual controlling module, a positioning module, and a switching module. The storage module stores map data, street traffic data, and automatic control information. The manual controlling module manually switches the playing mode; when it is determined that the portable electronic device is on a heavy traffic street, the positioning module transmits the automatic control information in the storage module to the processor to generate and transmit a control signal according to the automatic control information to the switching module, thereby automatically switching the playing mode. A portable electronic device employing the headphone controlling system is also provided.
US09538274B1
A smart microphone has voice control functions. The smart microphone includes a support plate, a microphone component, at least a sensor, at least an integrated component, a sound pressure conversion component and a plurality of welding pads. The microphone component is arranged on a surface of the support plate. The sensor, the integrated component and the sound pressure conversion component are arranged inside the microphone component. The welding pads are arranged on two sides of the support plate respectively. The sensors with environment volume monitoring, voice control and different functions are integrated into the microphone component to achieve the smart microphone with a small volume and multi-functions.
US09538271B2
An electronic apparatus is disclosed. An electronic apparatus comprises an inner chassis, a microphone that is disposed inside the inner chassis and has a sound collecting surface for obtaining voice, and an outer casing that covers an outside of the inner chassis. The inner chassis includes a sound passing hole penetrating the inner chassis in such a position as to face the sound collecting surface. The outer casing includes an inner surface that faces the inner chassis and an edge that faces the inner chassis with a gap between the inner chassis and the edge. The inner surface includes a sound passing groove that communicates with the sound passing hole. The sound passing groove extends to the edge.
US09538269B2
The object of the present invention is that the surplus vibration involved therewith simultaneously generating a sound wave by the vibration of the vibrating cone of the loudspeaker unit is generated in the loudspeaker system, which has impaired the sound quality of the loudspeaker system. The purpose of the present invention is to provide a technique for improving the sound quality by reducing the this surplus vibration which are the loudspeaker frame vibration and the cabinet vibration like a front baffle vibration. The present invention is characterized in being configured with a viscoelastic material layer upon rear portions such as the frame surface of the loudspeaker unit and inside and outside surfaces of each surface configuring the loudspeaker cabinet, and additionally suppresses vibration by addition of a heavy member or pressurization caused by constraint of a binding member.
US09538262B2
Methods for collecting information regarding a remote connector port that is connected to a patch panel connector port by a communications cable that has at least one data communications channel and a separate control channel are provided in which a first conductor of the separate control channel of the communications cable is biased to power an integrated circuit chip that is associated with the remote connector port. A first signal is transmitted over the separate control channel of the communications cable to the integrated circuit chip associated with the remote connector port. A second signal is received from the integrated circuit chip over the separate control channel of the communications cable in response to the first signal. The second signal includes information regarding the remote connector port.
US09538258B2
A computer implemented method and apparatus for improving viewer engagement in video advertising. The method comprises configuring a plurality of skip options for presentation in advertising content, such that each skip option of the plurality of skip options is presented in series for a limited duration during display of the advertising content until a presented one of the skip options is selected.
US09538256B2
Methods and systems for forced advertising are provided. These methods and systems determine when a forced advertisement is to be presented, determine what forced advertisement is to be presented, and control how the forced advertisement is to be presented. A forced advertisement may be received prior to the time at which the forced advertisement is to be presented or when needed. The forced advertisement may be presented when certain broadcast advertisements are being broadcast, at certain times of the day, or at certain times within a program. The forced advertisements may be selected based upon content of a replaced broadcast advertisement, content of a nearby program, or independently of any broadcast-related factors. Finally, forced advertisements may be presented so that a television viewer cannot escape viewing the advertisement by changing channels or turning off the television.
US09538254B2
Master element for a distributed playback architecture for a media data, having: a payload data source for providing payload data packets; a beacon packet creator for creating beacon packets useable for synchronizing a playback process of the payload data packets at, at least one, slave element in the distributed playback architecture; and a network interface for transmitting an interleaved packet stream to the at least one slave element, the interleaved packet stream having the payload data packets provided by the payload data source and the beacon packets created by the beacon packet creator. A corresponding slave element, the distributed playback architecture, a method, and a computer program product are also disclosed.
US09538239B2
A decoder which decodes input data to generate corresponding decoded output data is operable: (a) to process encoded input data to extract header information indicative of encoded data pertaining to blocks and/or packets included in the encoded input data, the header information including data indicative of transformations employed to encode and compress original block and/or packet data for inclusion as the encoded data pertaining to the blocks and/or packets; (b) to prepare a data field in a data storage arrangement for receiving decoded block and/or packet content; (c) to retrieve information describing the transformations and then applying an inverse of the transformations for decoding the encoded and compressed original block and/or packet data to generate corresponding decoded block and/or packet content for populating the data field; and (d) when the encoded input data has been at least partially decoded, to output data from the data field as the decoded output data.
US09538236B2
Systems, methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to facilitate connection to a multimedia playback network are disclosed. An example method provides content to a local playback network. The example method includes identifying multimedia content from a content provider. The example method includes passing information regarding the multimedia content to a local playback system including one or more multimedia playback devices in response to a trigger. The example method includes facilitating play of the multimedia content via a local playback network associated with the local playback system.
US09538234B2
A media muxer node (10) of a local network (7) is configured to time-shift a live media stream, by storing the stream on a local network storage (3) during a pause, and providing the stored and time-shifted stream to a local network-UE (5) after the pause. The pausing and the resuming of the media stream can be initiated from an external network-connected UE (1) outside the local network, or directly from the local network UE (7). The system also comprises a media aggregating node (2) for authentication of the external network—connected UE (1), which are both connected to a virtual control node (4). If a pause in the replay is discovered, the media muxer node (10) sees to the storage of the media in a local network storage (3) until the discovery of a restart command.
US09538232B2
A method includes sending, by a user device, a request for video content based on a selected video content chapter of the video content. The method also includes receiving video content information that includes a list of video content chapters of the video content. The method includes determining, for each listed video content chapter, whether the video content chapter has been previously stored on the user device. The method further includes downloading particular chapters of the video content in a priority order based on the selected chapter in response to a determination that the particular chapters have not been previously stored on the user device, and playing the video content based on the selected chapter.
US09538225B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method that includes providing, by a server, media content to a set top box; the media content includes an advertisement and a closed captioning line and the set top box is associated with a display device. The method also includes facilitating access to a shopping application for download at a communication device separate from the set top box, and inserting into the closed captioning line an identifier of a commerce event. The method further includes transmitting to the set top box a message for presentation on the closed captioning line on the display device, receiving a request to provide information regarding an advertised product to the communication device, and transmitting to the communication device the information regarding the advertised product. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09538219B2
An interest degree estimating device, which estimates a degree of interest of a user in a video displayed on a screen, includes: an eye gaze detecting unit for detecting an eye gaze direction of the user; a saliency information obtaining unit for obtaining saliency information on a saliency area having salient attractiveness in the video; and a user response analyzing unit for calculating a correlation between the saliency area specified from the obtained saliency information and the detected eye gaze direction, and estimate the degree of interest of the user in the video, the degree of interest being higher as the calculated correlation is higher.
US09538211B2
To enable satisfactory decoding processing corresponding to a decoding capability on a reception side.Image data of pictures constituting moving image data are sorted into multiple hierarchies, image data of pictures of each of the sorted hierarchies are encoded, and video data including the encoded image data of the pictures of each of the hierarchies is generated. A container of a predetermined format including the video data is transmitted. The multiple hierarchies are divided into a predetermined number of hierarchy groups, the predetermined number being two or more, and identification information for identifying a hierarchy group to which encoded image data of each picture included in the video data belongs is inserted into a packet as a container of the video data.
US09538205B2
In order to simplify hardware and improve coding efficiency, an adjacent sub-block coefficient presence/absence context deriving unit 124c derives context indexes as three-stage values according to a position of a process target transform coefficient in a process target sub-block in a case where a sub-block coefficient presence/absence flag is 0 in a right adjacent sub-block or a lower adjacent sub-block.
US09538202B2
Provided are a filtering method and apparatus for removing blocking artifacts and ringing noise. The filtering method includes transforming video data on a block-by-block basis, and detecting the presence of an edge region in the video data by checking the distribution of values obtained by the transformation. Accordingly, it is possible to completely remove blocking artifacts and/or ringing noise by more effectively detecting the presence of an edge region in video data.
US09538201B2
Provided are a filtering method and apparatus for removing blocking artifacts and ringing noise. The filtering method includes transforming video data on a block-by-block basis, and detecting the presence of an edge region in the video data by checking the distribution of values obtained by the transformation. Accordingly, it is possible to completely remove blocking artifacts and/or ringing noise by more effectively detecting the presence of an edge region in video data.
US09538198B2
A coding device and a decoding device are configured to include an estimated prediction mode deciding section (122a) including: a reference block selecting section (1223a) for selecting a reference block for use in estimating an intra-prediction mode for a subject block; an estimating number deciding section (1222a) for deciding an estimating number of estimated values to be estimated for the intra-prediction mode; and an estimated prediction mode deriving section (1221a) for estimating, based on a reference block, the estimating number of estimated values of the prediction mode.
US09538190B2
This disclosure describes techniques for rate control for intra coded frames. In one example of the disclosure, a rate control parameter may be calculated using a target bit rate and a complexity measure. In one example, the complexity measure is calculated with a sum of absolute transformed differences (SATD) calculation of an intra-coded frame.
US09538186B2
A method for decoding a picture on an electronic device is described. The method includes obtaining a bitstream. The method also includes obtaining a current picture. The method further includes obtaining a relative reference picture set (RPS) parameter. The method additionally includes initializing an index value. Furthermore, the method includes processing another RPS parameter based on the index value. The method also includes decoding the current picture.
US09538181B2
According to one embodiment, an image encoding method includes selecting a motion reference block from an already-encoded pixel block. The method includes selecting an available block including different motion information from the motion reference block, and selecting a selection block from the available block. The method includes generating a predicted image of the encoding target block using motion information of the selection block. The method includes encoding a prediction error between the predicted image and an original image. The method includes encoding selection information identifying the selection block by referring to a code table decided according to a number of the available block.
US09538179B2
A method and an apparatus for processing occlusions in motion estimation are described. For processing an occlusion in a forward motion field of a second frame relative to a first frame the forward motion field of the second frame relative to the first frame is determined with a motion estimator. Then an area in the second frame that is occluded in the first frame is identified with an occlusion identifier. Finally, a motion corrector determines a corrected forward motion field by filling the forward motion field in the identified area in the second frame using motion vectors of a previous backward motion field of the second frame relative to a previous third frame.
US09538178B2
An intra prediction encoding apparatus includes: an optimal filter selecting unit for providing a plurality of extrapolation prediction filter candidates for filtering pixels adjacent to a current block to be encoded, with respect to each intra prediction direction or prediction mode of the current block, and selecting a filter having lowest encoding cost among the plurality of extrapolation prediction filter candidates; a residual signal generating unit for generating an extrapolation prediction value of the current block through the filter selected by the optimal filter selecting unit, and generating a residual signal by calculating a difference between a generated extrapolation prediction value of the current block and a pixel value of the current block; a transform and quantization unit for performing transform and quantization on the residual signal generated by the residual signal generating unit; and an entropy encoding unit for performing entropy encoding on a transformed and quantized residual signal.
US09538169B2
A quality test device tests a display device having a plurality of thin film transistors (TFTs). The quality test device includes a color analyzer for determining a color of an image displayed by the display device, and a quality inspection module. The quality inspection module controls a display state of the display device and determines whether the TFTs are adequately disposed within the display device based on a performance threshold. The quality inspection module determines that the display device is defective when a performance data of the display device is outside of the performance threshold, and determines that the display device is normal when the performance data is within the performance threshold.
US09538167B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for shader lamps-based avatars of real and virtual people are disclosed. According to one method, shader lamps-based avatars of real and virtual objects are displayed on physical target objects. The method includes obtaining visual information of a source object and generating at least a first data set of pixels representing a texture image of the source object. At least one of a size, shape, position, and orientation of a 3D physical target object are determined. A set of coordinate data associated with various locations on the surface of the target object are also determined. The visual information is mapped to the physical target object. Mapping includes defining a relationship between the first and second sets of data, wherein each element of the first set is related to each element of the second set. The mapped visual information is displayed on the physical target object using a display module, such as one or more projectors located at various positions around the target object.
US09538159B2
An apparatus and method for capturing a color image and a depth image are utilized as a source of obtaining a three-dimensional (3D) image. The apparatus for capturing the color image and the depth image may include a filtering unit to employ a frame having a polarity which includes an external frame to support a plurality of filters which filter at least one of a visible ray and an infrared (IR) ray from a ray input via a lens, a driving unit to move the filtering unit by pushing or pulling the external frame based on a polarity of an applied signal, and a control unit to control a voltage to be applied to the driving unit based on a distance between the filtering unit and the driving unit.
US09538152B2
A multi-aperture imaging system comprising a first camera with a first sensor that captures a first image and a second camera with a second sensor that captures a second image, the two cameras having either identical or different FOVs. The first sensor may have a standard color filter array (CFA) covering one sensor section and a non-standard color CFA covering another. The second sensor may have either Clear or standard CFA covered sections. Either image may be chosen to be a primary or an auxiliary image, based on a zoom factor. An output image with a point of view determined by the primary image is obtained by registering the auxiliary image to the primary image.
US09538151B2
The video processing apparatus includes: an input portion, which is configured to input a input video signal therein; and a video correcting portion, which is configured to correct the input video signal, wherein the video correcting portion is constructed to conduct a part of a Retinex process and a part of resolution restoration (deconvolution) by a circuit for common use, and further wherein the Retinex process is conducted upon basis of a result of calculation, applying a first output obtained by applying a mirror reflection component (specular) filter onto the input video signal, a second output obtained by applying a diffuse reflection component (diffuse component) filter onto the input video signal, and a third output obtained by applying an ambient light component (ambient component) filter onto the input video signal.
US09538149B2
Method and system to provide users with access to authoritative sets of various collectable items and to permit users create and manage their own sets based on the respective authoritative sets are described. An authoritative set may be a collection of images representing collectable items. Access to an authoritative set may be provided via a web site that facilitates a community space where users can compare their collected sets to the authoritative set and determine what products may be missing for their user's set.
US09538147B2
A method and apparatus for determining an indication of interaction in a direction towards a webcam. The method includes the steps of determining an object in a region of interest, determining a first size of the object in the region of interest and tracking the object in the region of interest. A second size of the object in the region of interest is then determined, and a push interaction is confirmed as having taken place if the ratio of the second size to the first size is greater than a predetermined value.
US09538142B2
A system and method provide server side support for seamless, scalable rewind and playback of a video stream. A video stream is stored and indexed in a network storage place. A video stream can be indexed at frame level where each intra frame of the video stream has an index indicating the file offset and the time stamp of the intra frame in the video stream. A user request for rewinding of a video stream while the video stream is being broadcast is processed by extracting the rewinding time requirement from the user request. The extracted rewinding time value is used to calculate the requested file offset. The video stream starting at the requested time is retrieved and played back according to the user request. The system also provides server side support for seamless rewinding of a video stream and scalable system performance across multiple streaming data centers.
US09538139B2
A method of facilitating a multi-participant communication session with an efficient use of network bandwidth and processing resources is described. The processing resources are made available to the session participants via a switching fabric and composites of less active session participants can be used to minimize the bandwidth utilization between a media server and endpoints.
US09538138B2
A system for providing access to shared multimedia content within a defined room environment includes a hub and a plurality of remote connection devices. The hub, configured to provide a wireless network having a frequency of 60 GHz and compatible with the IEEE 802.11ad protocol, delivers the wireless network via a plurality of radio transceivers and has at least one local device connection. The local device connection includes an interface to an associated wide area network.
US09538137B2
Ways to mitigate loss in inter-operability scenarios for digital video are presented. For example, a bitstream modification tool (such as a bitstream rewriter running on a network node of a videoconferencing system) receives an incoming bitstream of encoded video (e.g., from an encoder that uses a first loss recovery strategy). The bitstream modification tool processes the incoming bitstream of encoded video to produce an outgoing bitstream of encoded video. In doing so, the bitstream modification tool changes at least one syntax element between the incoming bitstream and the outgoing bitstream so as to mitigate picture loss effects during decoding of the outgoing bitstream under lossy delivery conditions. The bitstream modification tool outputs the outgoing bitstream. In this way, the bitstream modification tool can help avoid blank screens, frozen screens, or other failures during decoding under lossy delivery conditions (e.g., with a decoder that uses a different loss recovery strategy).
US09538129B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for improving audio conferencing services. One aspect relates to processing audio content of a conference. A first audio signal is received from a first conference participant, and a start and an end of a first utterance by the first conference participant are detected from the first audio signal. A second audio signal is received from a second conference participant, and a start and an end of a second utterance by the second conference participant is detected from the second audio signal. The second conference participant is provided with at least a portion of the first utterance, wherein at least one of start time, start point, and duration is determined based at least in part on the start, end, or both, of the second utterance.
US09538121B2
A camera control apparatus includes: an input section to which a plurality of cameras controlled by the apparatus are connected, each of the cameras including a first preset information storage section capable of storing up to n preset information on the state of the camera setting; a second preset information storage section capable of storing (n+1)-th to m-th preset information (n
US09538118B2
This display device includes a heat radiation member made of metal, configured to radiate heat generated from a light source portion, a rear housing arranged on the rear side of the heat radiation member, a substrate mounting member made of sheet metal, mounted with a circuit substrate, and a cover member covering the substrate mounting member from the rear side of the substrate mounting member in a state where the rear surface of the rear housing is exposed to the outside, while the heat radiation member is arranged to come into contact with the substrate mounting member.
US09538115B2
Operation controlling apparatus executing equipment operation controlling, including: an equipment management portion configured to manage control commands corresponding to plural number of control items; a video producing portion configured to produce videos corresponding to the plural number of control items; a video display portion configured to display video produced by the video producing portion laying on a control surface; a distance detector portion configured to detect distance from the video producing portion to the control surface; and a controller portion configured to control the video display portion, so that a size of the video to be displayed by the video display portion is within a size of the control surface, depending on the distance detected by the distance detector portion, and to make equipment of a control target execute the control command, which is managed by the equipment management portion, when execution of the control item is determined.
US09538111B2
An image sensor includes a sampling circuit, which is responsive to ramp and input signals provided by a pixel array. The sampling circuit is configured to perform a correlated double sampling (CDS) operation on a reset component of the input signal and an image component of the input signal. A reset circuit is also provided, which is configured to reset an output signal generated by the sampling circuit to a first level in response to a reset control signal. This reset control signal can be active during at least one of a first reset interval and a second reset interval. The first reset interval precedes a first comparison interval during which a first comparison operation is performed on the ramp signal and the reset component. The second reset interval precedes a second comparison interval during which a second comparison operation is performed on the ramp signal and the image component.
US09538108B2
An endoscope system includes: a light source; an image sensor having pixels, each performing photoelectric conversion on received light to output an electric signal, and the image sensor imaging a subject to generate image data of the subject; a difference calculation unit that calculates, for each pixel, difference data between a dark image and a dark reference image, the dark image being output from the image sensor during lights-out time when the light source is turned off, and the dark reference image having been preliminarily obtained by averaging dark images generated by the image sensor; a detection unit that detects in the difference data a pixel whose pixel value is a threshold or more, as a blinking defective pixel in the image sensor; and a correction unit that corrects the electric signal output from the blinking defective pixel, using electric signals output from neighboring pixels of the blinking defective pixel.
US09538095B2
A welding camera (1) is constructed with: a lens (11) for focusing incident light; an optical filter (12) that comprises a neutral density filter for reducing the amount of the incident light, an ultraviolet cut filter for cutting ultraviolet rays, and a green band-pass filter for transmitting green light; a CMOS imaging unit (13) that has a wide dynamic range function, and detects the light which has passed the optical filter (12); a video signal processing unit (14) that has an automatic gain control function and a digital signal processor, and outputs an image signal, which covers a range of a low-intensity dark part to high-intensity arc light, to a display unit on the basis of an electric signal that is input from the CMOS imaging unit (13).
US09538091B2
An imaging apparatus includes an imaging device which is able to individually set two or more types of exposure conditions with respect to arbitrary pixel groups inside an imaging area section and which reads out an imaging signal, which is obtained from pixel groups where the exposure conditions are individually set, in units of one imaging frame, and an imaging signal processing section which performs signal separation for each exposure condition and performs association with the exposure conditions with respect to the imaging signal which is output from the imaging device.
US09538085B2
A method of providing a panoramic image and an imaging device thereof. The method may include: extracting at least one panoramic section, which is to generate a panoramic image, from moving picture data; displaying at least one thumbnail image respectively corresponding to the at least one panoramic section on a display screen; and if one of the at least one thumbnail image is selected, generating a panoramic section corresponding to the selected thumbnail image as a panoramic image. Therefore, even if a user performs capturing without the aim of acquiring a panoramic image at a capturing time, the user can aquire a panoramic image later by using moving picture data.
US09538081B1
Depth information can be used to assist with image processing functionality, such as image stabilization and blur reduction. In at least some embodiments, depth information obtained from stereo imaging or distance sensing, for example, can be used to determine a foreground object and background object(s) for an image or frame of video. The foreground object then can be located in later frames of video or subsequent images. Small offsets of the foreground object can be determined, and the offset accounted for by adjusting the subsequent frames or images. Such an approach provides image stabilization for at least a foreground object, while providing simplified processing and reduce power consumption. Similarly processes can be used to reduce blur for an identified foreground object in a series of images, where the blur of the identified object is analyzed.
US09538079B2
The present disclosure discloses a method and an electronic device enabling panoramic photography. The method includes: obtaining a first operation; determining whether the first operation meets a first predetermined condition, so as to obtain a first determination result; obtaining parameter information of the electronic device by the sensing unit, when the first determination result is used for representing that the first operation meets the first predetermined condition; further determining whether the parameter information meets a second predetermined condition, so as to obtain a second determination result; controlling the electronic device to enter into the panoramic photography mode, when the second determination result represents that the parameter information meets the second predetermined condition. The method may be applied to enabling the panoramic photography.
US09538073B2
A control device for a vehicle camera may include: a wiper relay connected to a multi-function switch to operate a vehicle wiper at a predetermined cycle; a camera controller connected to the wiper relay, and synchronizing the operation cycle of the wiper with an imaging cycle of the vehicle camera such that the vehicle camera images the front of the vehicle according to the operation period of the wiper; and an image filter connected to the camera controller, estimating the position of the wiper from edge information of the images taken by the camera, and searching and removing the wiper in the taken images.
US09538065B2
Systems and methods for multi-focus imaging are disclosed. An imaging system may suggest multiple regions of interest to a user based on a preview mode of a scene of interest. The user may select a plurality of the suggested regions of interest for a multi-focus image. The imaging system calculates the autofocus parameters for each of the multiple regions of interest and captures single images of each of the regions of interest when the shutter button of the camera is pressed. The imaging system then generates a multi-focus image from the multiple images.
US09538064B2
Provided is an image pickup apparatus, including: a lens portion including a focus lens unit and a magnification-varying lens unit; an image pickup element movable in an optical axis direction; a moving unit for moving the image pickup element in the optical axis direction; a memory unit for storing, as a reference position, a position of the image pickup element serving as a reference in the optical axis direction, the position corresponding to a zoom position; an operation unit for operating a defocus amount; and a controller for controlling the moving unit to move the image pickup element based on the reference position and the defocus amount operated by the operation unit.
US09538063B2
Provided is an operation apparatus including a main body section including an operation section including a first operation section for performing a record operation of an image pickup device and a display section that displays an image transmitted from the image pickup device, and a fixation section that fixes the main body section to an attachment object. The first operation section and the display section are both located on a first face of the main body section.
US09538062B2
Systems and methods are provided for restricting and allowing the initiation of operations on an electronic device according to settings of management control functions on the electronic device. In certain instances, operations may be initiated after the electronic device determines, detects, or receives an authorized event. The initiation of operations on the electronic device may also be prevented after the electronic device determines, detects, or receives an unauthorized event. A user of an electronic device consistent with the invention may set settings that identify whether a remote electronic device or user of a remote electronic device may initiate a camera function. Preferred embodiments of the invention are implemented in part or entirely within the operating system of a smartphone, or a cellphone.
US09538060B1
An in-vehicle video system comprising a forward-looking video camera system that includes two independent image sensors and associated digital signal processors for processing imagery received from the respective independent image sensors. The in-vehicle-video system may also comprise a microphone and a transmitter; and a computing system for interfacing with the forward-looking video camera system configured to control the capture, storage and processing of video, still images and audio received from the transmitter and the forward-looking video camera system. The computing system is operable to control image capture including enabling the forward-looking video camera system in a plurality of modes, and to command the forward-looking video camera system to transition to a first mode including commanding a first independent image sensor to capture high-resolution video imagery while a second independent image sensor of the two independent image sensors is capturing still images.
US09538043B2
An image forming system includes a computer and an image forming apparatus. The computer includes a print data generating circuit to generate print data of an image. The image forming apparatus includes a rendering circuit to execute rendering of the image based on the print data. The computer includes an image generating circuit generates an image object to indicate a state where the objects are overlapped in the image with a reduced resolution at least partially. The print data generating circuit generates the print data including the at least one object included in the image and the image object generated by the image generating circuit. When the rendering circuit processes the image object, the rendering circuit enhances the resolution of a part corresponding to the object in the image object based on a shape of the object overlapped at upper side in the image object.
US09538037B2
An image processing apparatus includes: an image data arrangement unit configured to perform the arrangement of print image data of each page on both sides of a sheet, according to multiple-fold printing which assumes a multiple-fold equal to or more than three folds; a preview display unit configured to display on a screen the image data with at least one of fold positions in the multiple-fold being folded and with at least one of the other fold positions being spread, on the basis of the arrangement by the image data arrangement unit; and a print command output unit configured to output a print command based on an arrangement mode displayed on the preview display unit.
US09538033B2
A sheet size determining portion determines, upon start of execution of a print job, whether or not a sheet size corresponding to raster image data to be printed in the print job matches a sheet size of a sheet conveyed in the print job. A size error detecting portion determines, in a case where the sheet size corresponding to the raster image data does not match the sheet size of the sheet, whether or not a print pixel to be printed exists in an excess region of the raster image data that is outside the sheet size of the sheet. A printing portion continues execution of the print job in a case where no print pixel exists in the excess region and stops the print job in a case where the print pixel exists in the excess region.
US09538031B2
An image forming apparatus including a hinge assembly to mutually hinge-connect a main body and a cover unit of the image forming apparatus and the hinge assembly is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a main body, a cover unit configured to be disposed on an upper side of the main body to press a manuscript, and at least one hinge assembly configured to connect the cover unit to the main body, wherein the hinge assembly includes a first body detachably mounted on the main body, a second body of which a part is fastened to the cover unit and another part is hinge-connected with the first body, a pressing unit accommodated in the first body to press the second body upward, and a pressing force adjuster configured to adjust a hinge force between the first body and the second body.
US09538020B2
Providing for workflow and finishing solutions for printing are disclosed herein. By way of example, disclosed workflow provides grouping and managing a stream(s) of digital images across a substrate width, for maximizing print productivity and profitability. Digital images are re-sized according to print instructions and oriented into a print stream. Multiple print streams can be organized onto the substrate width, to improve substrate packing. Moreover, disclosed finishing solutions provide for outputting streams of prints according to an output format, in conjunction with rendering the digital images in physical form.
US09538010B2
In a contact center, a system for processing communication events has an interaction server for managing events waiting to be routed, a routing server for routing the events, a rules engine, and a gateway server executing rules invocation logic and interacting with the rules engine. The interaction server tracks incoming events, initiates and sends a routing request to the routing server, including a special routing object, for each event that requires conformance to business rules, the routing server, executing the routing object, sends an execution request to the gateway server, which upon receipt of the request prepares a business object model (BOM), being a set of facts upon which the rules engine executes rules appropriate to the facts, resulting in routing direction for the routing server to route the event.
US09538003B2
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage devices for streaming data. The method includes presenting a data stream including an interactive communication and detecting feedback from the user in response to the interactive communication. If the feedback indicates a request to receive data associated with the interactive communication, the method includes buffering the data stream from a point in time associated with the feedback to yield a buffered data stream, connecting the user device to a commerce presence associated with the interactive communication temporarily and resuming playback of the buffered data stream to the user device following completion of the temporary communication between the user device and commerce presence.
US09538001B2
A communication terminal accepts a communication start request for starting communication with a counterpart terminal indicated by counterpart information, through one of a first acceptance unit and a second acceptance unit. The communication terminal stores the counterpart information of the counterpart terminal in a first memory as log data, when the communication start request is accepted through the first acceptance unit, and prevents the counterpart information of the counterpart terminal from being stored in the first memory as log data, when the communication start request is accepted through the second acceptance unit.
US09537993B1
A method and apparatus of processing a voice call are disclosed. One example method of operation may include recording at least a portion of a voice call, and storing the portion of the voice call in memory. The method may also include processing the portion of the voice call to identify at least one segment of interest, and forwarding the at least one segment of interest to a new call party responsive to a call transfer action.
US09537992B2
A mobile phone docking device of an inside mirror includes a mirror base having a mirror formed on a front surface thereof. A phone holder includes a holder base and a phone gripper configured to extend from two opposing sides of the holder base to grip the mobile phone. The holder base is configured to hold and support the mobile phone gripped by the phone gripper. A joint unit connects the mirror base and the phone holder and is configured to pivotably support the phone holder on the mirror base, The phone holder is configured to hold the mobile phone at a rear side of the mirror.
US09537978B2
The present invention is directed to a compression device including an identifier determination circuit configured to determine a first identifier value identifying a first communication terminal of a network, and a second identifier value identifying a second communication terminal of the network; a differential determination circuit configured to determine a differential value based on a difference between the first identifier value and the second identifier value; and a compressed string generation circuit configured to insert the differential value into a compressed string. A compression method, a decompression device and a decompression method are also disclosed.
US09537971B2
There are disclosed systems, devices, and methods for distributing pre-fetch data. A parent node obtains pre-fetch data comprising at least one of: i) data expected to be of interest to a particular user, pre-fetched by the parent node from at least one data source; and (ii) at least one identifier identifying data expected to be of interest to the particular user, for pre-fetching the identified data at a child node. The parent node selects first and second subsets of the pre-fetch data for transmission, respectively, to first and second child nodes, the selecting based on at least a predicted future location of the particular user and a respective geographic location of the first and second child nodes; and transmits the first and second subsets of the pre-fetch data, respectively, to the first and second child nodes.
US09537968B1
Data communication includes: in a transmit mode: encapsulating first socket protocol based data into first storage protocol based data; receiving a first storage protocol based read request via a storage protocol based interface; and sending the first storage protocol based data in response to the first storage protocol based read request. In a receive mode: receiving a first storage protocol based write request that includes second storage protocol based data, wherein second socket protocol based data is encapsulated within the second storage protocol based data; and processing the first storage protocol based write request to obtain the second socket protocol based data.
US09537949B2
System and method for distributed computing. Each of multiple server computer systems may include one or more microservers, a network interface, and a network switch, coupled to the one or more microservers and the network interface, the network switch configured to switchably connect any of the microservers to a network via the network interface. Each microserver may be configurable to implement a respective server based on a computer image file, including a pre-execution environment (PXE) boot image. A management server computer may manage the server computer systems, including: providing or designating provision of computer image files to the server computer systems. Each server computer system may receive a computer image file from the management server computer or a designated computer image file store, implement a PXE boot image on a microserver accordingly, connect to one or more client computers over the network, and provide computer services to the client computers.
US09537944B2
A communication system includes a first user device and a group of user devices. A peer-to-peer network is formed from the group of user devices and the first user device. A content request is communicated to the group of user devices through a terrestrial network. At least one of the group of user devices communicates the media content file corresponding to the content request to the first user device through the peer-to-peer network. The media content file communicated to the first user device from at least one of the group of user devices comprises a missing portion of the media content file.
US09537926B1
Network page latency reduction is facilitated by various embodiments. In one embodiment, a first distribution corresponding to a plurality of instances of a network page is estimated. A second distribution corresponding to a subset of the instances is also estimated. The network page is adapted based at least in part on a comparison of the first and second distributions in order to reduce network page latency.
US09537921B2
A content providing device may receive an indication to stream real-time content. The real-time content may include content captured by the content providing device. The content providing device may identify a dynamic content address, associated with the content providing device, to be used by a content receiving device to access the real-time content. The dynamic content address may identify an address of the content providing device from which the real-time content is to be streamed. The content providing device may provide the dynamic content address. The content providing device may receive, from the content receiving device, a request to access the real-time content, via the dynamic content address, based on providing the dynamic content address. The content providing device may stream the real-time content to the content receiving device, using the dynamic content address, based on receiving the request.
US09537917B2
A method and apparatus for streaming media content to a client device includes a server providing, for the client device, a variant playlist file that identifies a plurality of variant streams having different encoded bitrates; tracking sequence numbers of a first set of media segments downloaded by the client device from a first playlist file that corresponds to the first variant stream encoded at a first bitrate; receiving, from the client device, a request for a second playlist file that identifies a second set of media segments from a second variant stream encoded at a second bitrate; determining whether to identify, in the second playlist file, at least one media segment in the second set of media segments that has a same sequence number as any of the media segments, from the first variant stream, downloaded by the client device; and providing, to the client device, the second playlist file.
US09537911B1
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for determining participants for a conference call where the participants may be selected based on similar attributes as well as the descriptions of the conference call. Additionally, the conference call may be split into smaller breakout sessions, further separating the participants based on various attributes. Further, the conference call participants may be shuffled thereby creating different breakout sessions with different participants with like attributes. The conference call including the selected participants is initiated.
US09537901B2
A system and method for delivering information is disclosed. The system and method includes a first computing device that includes information that is displayed on the screen of the first computing device, the first computing device scanning for a connection point and prompting for selection of a plurality of second devices to receive the information, wherein once ones of the plurality of second devices are selected, a user initiates the delivery of the information from the first computing device to the selected ones of the plurality of second devices by interacting with the first computing device. A user initiates with a flick across the screen of the first computing device. The information may be a business card.
US09537895B2
Solution for autonomously securing the use of a portable drive with a computer network. A data store is written and maintained that contains entries corresponding to a plurality of portable drives initialized for use with the computer network, each entry corresponding to at least one identifiable drive. Events are monitored as they occur on the computer network involving use of each of the plurality of portable drives. Predefined security policy determination criteria is applied, which can include drive mobility assessment criteria and drive content sensitivity criteria, to determine a drive-specific security policy for each one of the plurality of portable drives. A set of at least one policy enforcement action is executed that corresponds to a determined drive-specific security policy in response to detected usage activity for each one of the plurality of portable drives.
US09537894B1
A non-transitory machine-readable medium embodying instructions that, when executed by a machine, allow the machine to perform a method are provided. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, at a computing device, user account credentials associated with an online user account. The method includes sending the user account credentials to a server. The method includes receiving, in response to sending the user account credentials to a server, a user profile associated with the user account. The method includes configuring an operating system session on the device based on the user profile. The method includes receiving an indication to terminate the operating system session. The method includes, erasing, upon termination of the operating system session, the received user profile and data stored locally on the computing device during the operating system session. Systems and methods are also provided.
US09537891B1
A policy that includes an address group is received. The policy is compiled into a set of one or more rules. The compiling is performed at least in part by determining members of the address group. The compiling can further include substituting one or more IP addresses of the members for the address group. At least one rule included in the set of rules is enforced.
US09537883B2
Techniques for process security validation are described herein. In one example, a method includes determining, via a processor, that a process is in a first idle state based at least in part on system activity and process activity being below an activity threshold. The method can include detecting, via the processor, that the first idle state of the process transitions to an active state of the process based at least in part on the system activity or the process activity being above the activity threshold, and detecting, via the processor, that the active state of the process transitions to a second idle state based at least in part on the system activity and the process activity being below the activity threshold. Furthermore, the method can include generating, via the processor, the security validation data in response to detecting that the process has executed malicious content during the active state.
US09537879B2
A security monitoring system is disclosed which is adapted for use with a component having a service processor. The system may use a device configured to communicate with the component. A network may be used which is dedicated to communicating with the service processor for routing only data concerning performance or health of the component. The device may also use at least one subsystem for analyzing the data concerning health or performance of the component to determine if a security threat has affected operation of the component.
US09537878B1
Coupling circuitry couples a network to a host. The host operating system is configured for transfer of data between the host and at least one peer via the network using at least one stateful connection to a peer according to a connection-oriented protocol. The coupling circuitry processes received connection attempt indications by attempting to establish a stateful connection to an indicated peer. For a genuine attempt by a peer to establish a stateful connection with the host, the coupling circuitry interoperates with the peer to perform establishment-phase protocol processing of the attempted stateful connection. For each of the established stateful connections, the coupling circuitry operates to cause a state of that established stateful connection to be provided from the coupling circuitry to the host, wherein the operating system of the host handles data transfer phase protocol processing of that established stateful connection.
US09537869B2
Apps are secured or security-wrapped either before they are downloaded onto a device, such as a smart phone or tablet device, or after they are downloaded but before they are allowed to access the device operating system and cause any potential damage to the device. The app is secured before it is allowed to access the operating system of the device, thereby preventing the app from malicious behavior. App object code is substituted with security program object code, thereby creating a security-wrapped app. The app is provisioned with a geo-fencing policy which prevents execution of an app outside a pre-defined geographical area. If the device is within the defined area, the app is allowed to execute. The geographical area, such as a building or company campus, is defined using longitude and latitude coordinates and a location accuracy value. Device location is obtained using location/GPS services on the device.
US09537864B2
In one embodiment of the present invention, a first user—the creator—uses a web browser to encrypt some information. The web browser provides to the creator a URL which contains the key used for encryption, such as in the form of an anchor embedded within a URL. The web browser also provides a hash of the cryptographic key and the encrypted information to a web server. The creator transmits the URL to a second user—the viewer—who provides the URL to a web browser, thereby causing the web browser to navigate to a decryption web page maintained by the web server, but without transmitting the cryptographic key to the web server. The viewer's web browser hashes the cryptographic key and sends the hash to the web server, which uses the hash to identify and return the encrypted information to the viewer's web browser, which in turn uses the encryption key to decrypt the message and display the decrypted message to the viewer.
US09537848B2
According to an aspect, a computing device includes a processor; a computer readable memory; a display screen; a touch sensitive panel overlying the display screen; and computing device application instructions coded in the computer readable memory and executed by the processor to: display a user-selectable photograph on the display screen, the user-selectable photograph including a group of fiducials, generate captured pattern data, the captured pattern data representing coordinate values on the touch sensitive panel where touched by a user, and provide for authentication of the user based on a comparison of the captured pattern data and respective locations of the group of fiducials included in the user-selectable photograph.
US09537846B2
A method, a network element, and a network include determining an authentication mechanism between two nodes in a network path; operating the network path; performing connectivity check between the two nodes in the network path; and authenticating specific frames in the connectivity check between the two nodes with the authentication mechanism responsive to the specific frames affecting a state of the network path. The frames can be Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD), Continuity Check Messages (CCMs), etc. Advantageously, the method, network element, and network reduce the computational load of providing authentication while maintaining secure authentication for important frames, i.e., ones that affect the state of the network path.
US09537840B2
A server information handling system baseboard management controller (BMC) includes an NFC transceiver that communicates NFC signals through an NFC antenna structure. The BMC selectively configures the NFC antenna structure to isolate portions of conductive material for use as an antenna in non-NFC communications, such as wireless local area network communications (WLAN) at 2.4 or 5 GHz or wireless personal area network (WPAN) communications at 2.4 or 60 GHz. In one embodiment, WLAN and WPAN communications are encrypted with a key provided through NFC or other types of wireless communication, such as visible, infrared or ultraviolet light signals.
US09537837B2
A method for ensuring media stream security in an IP Multimedia Subsystem network is disclosed. The method includes: assigning an end-to-end media stream security key for a calling User Equipment (UE) or a called UE, by a network device with which the calling UE or the called UE is registered, respectively, and transmitting the media stream security key to a network device with which the opposite end is registered; encrypting the end-to-end media stream security key using a session key shared with the calling UE or the called UE respectively, and transmitting the encrypted end-to-end media stream security key to the calling UE or the called UE, respectively, via a session message; encrypting or decrypting a media stream, by the calling UE or the called UE, respectively, using the end-to-end media stream security key.
US09537832B2
A method and device for establishing link are provided. The method for establishing link is applied to an Ad-Hoc network includes: generating, by a first electrical device, a first part of a service set identifier according to a user's name and a network-card address; generating a second part of the service set identifier according to the first part of the service set identifier, a private key and a first algorithm; generating the service set identifier according to the first part of the service set identifier and the second part of the service set identifier; generating a link password according to the service set, the private key and a second algorithm; and establishing, by a second electrical device, a link with the first electrical device according to the service set identifier, the private key, the first algorithm and the second algorithm.
US09537831B2
Methods, apparatuses, systems, and computer-readable media for an anonymization service level improvement system (“ALI”) are described. One or more transactions may be generated by a system to be transmitted outside of a secure area. The ALI may anonymize these transactions and anonymization may be measured by reference to one or more anonymization metrics, including, but not limited to, k-anonymity, l-diversity, and t-closeness. The ALI may be configured to determine current values for the metrics and whether current anonymization is sufficient to provide a pre-determined service level. If the service level is not sufficient, then the ALI may generate fake anonymized transactions to be output to satisfy the pre-determined service levels of the one or more anonymization metrics. Results may be received which may include valid and invalid results. The ALI may remove the invalid results before returning the valid results to the system. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US09537826B2
A method for transmitting content data includes receiving content data, and passing at least a portion of the content data based on a size of the received content data. A method for transmitting content data includes receiving content data, and passing at least a portion of the content data based on a prescribed rate. A method for transmitting content data includes receiving content data, and passing at least a portion of the content data before performing policy enforcement on the content data.
US09537822B2
An information handling system (IHS) unambiguously addresses networked devices connected by a local area network (LAN) based network interface controller (NIC) by detecting a device descriptor of LAN-based NIC, determining that the device descriptor indicates a capability for assigning a reserve media access control (MAC) address to the networked device, writing the reserve MAC address in the LAN-based NIC of the networked device, and associating the reserve MAC address with the networked device in an inventory data structure for the IHS.
US09537820B2
Methods and systems for facilitating content accessibility via different communication formats are provided. According to one embodiment, a method is provided for directing content requests to an appropriate server. Information indicative of one or more communication formats via which a client device is capable of communication is caused to be stored on a client device by (i) sending to the client device a web page having embedded therein one or more of IPv4 and IPv6 test content; and (ii) based on a response to the test content, determining communication capabilities of the client device. A result of the determination is stored within a browser cookie, which is sent to the client device. A content request is received from the client device that includes the browser cookie. The request is redirected to a server appropriate for the communication capabilities of the client based at least in part on the cookie.
US09537819B2
Examples are disclosed and described to facilitate resolution of Internet Protocol address conflicts. An example method includes listening, by a first playback device having a first IP address, to a specified server port, receiving, by the first playback device from a second playback device via the specified server port, a message, wherein the message identifies a second IP address, wherein the second IP address has been assigned to the second playback device, determining, by the first playback device, whether the first IP address is the same as the second IP address, and when the first IP address is the same as the second IP address, obtaining, by the first playback device, a new IP address, wherein the new IP address is different from the first IP address and the second IP address.
US09537817B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and an apparatus for obtaining a destination IP address and are related to the field of communications technologies, for improving a data sending success rate in a network. The method includes: receiving a request sent by a terminal device, obtaining a destination IP address from a network-side device according to the request, and sending the destination IP address to the terminal device. The method and the apparatus for obtaining a destination IP address provided by the embodiments of the present invention are applied in an M2M technology.
US09537807B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for automatically transitioning a user from a call to action (CTA) to an enrollment interface. An embodiment operates by receiving a request from a user's device to display web content. The requested web content is displayed along with a CTA. When the CTA is selected by the user, an e-mail client associated with the user's device automatically opens, generates an electronic message based on the selected CTA, and populates a recipient address and a code associated with the CTA within the electronic message. Upon its receipt, the electronic message is processed by enrolling the user in a campaign associated with the CTA based on the code and the user's e-mail address. An electronic message is generated and sent to the user's e-mail address that contains a first hyperlink to the campaign associated with the CTA and a second hyperlink to an associated privacy policy.
US09537805B2
Generation of filtering rules for incoming messages can be activated by a user through a gesture-based input. When the user activates filtering rule generation, the message management service can cause a user device to display a prompt requesting additional data to be used to generate the filtering rule. The gesture can be a swipe and hold gesture, where the swipe is associated with an action (archiving, deleting, deferring, or adding the message to a list), and the swipe and hold action can activate filtering rule generation associated with the action.
US09537804B2
A computer-implemented method for prioritizing an incoming communication directed to a recipient by an originator includes creating a privacy/trust relationship between a recipient and an originator in response to user input, and determining a disposition of an incoming communication by reference to the privacy/trust relationship.
US09537803B2
A multi-function device may be configured to receive a first electronic mail including a first attached file, analyze the first electronic mail, supply an image described by the first attached file to a print performing unit in a case where the multi-function device analyzes that the first electronic mail includes first command information including a first sort of a command and first designation information designating the first attached file, and send the first attached file to an other device in a case where the multi-function device analyzes that the first electronic mail includes second command information including a second sort of a command different from the first sort of the command and the first designation information.
US09537794B2
A system and method of wirelessly communicating in a backplane mesh network is disclosed. A data message received from a first network device is handled at a first antenna system located in a first network device cabinet via a first network interface. The data message is wirelessly transmitted from a first millimeter wave antenna coupled to the first antenna system over a high speed backplane network to a second network device in a second device cabinet using emitted millimeter wave electromagnetic radiation. The data message is wirelessly received at a second millimeter wave antenna over the high speed backplane network using emitted millimeter wave electromagnetic radiation, wherein the received data message is handled by a second antenna system coupled to the second millimeter wave antenna. The received data message is sent, via a second network interface, from the second antenna system to the second network device.
US09537792B2
A master network device determines to transmit data from the master network device to a plurality of client network devices of a network. In one example, the master network device can generate a data frame including a payload with a plurality of symbols. The payload may include at least one symbol allocated for each of the client network devices. The plurality of symbols may be arranged in a predefined pattern in the payload. In another example, the master network device may generate a data frame including a payload with one or more symbols. Each symbol may include a plurality of frequency carriers, and may include at least one frequency carrier allocated for each of the client network devices. The plurality of frequency carriers can be allotted to the client network devices according to a partitioning pattern. The master network device then transmits the data frame to the client network devices.
US09537790B1
A computing environment adapted with a resource allocation policy, the resource allocation policy being configured to evenly distribute application instances to as many servers as possible.
US09537789B2
In one aspect, a method includes receiving, at a first node in a network, a resource reservation request from a second node in the network, determining, at the first node, if there is another node in the network that can be used to reach a destination and meet the resource reservation request and notifying the second node a result of the determining.
US09537788B2
A system for providing automatic resource resizing is provided. The system may be configured to maintain a plurality of virtual machine instances. The system may be further configured to receive a request to execute a program code and allocate computing resources for executing the program code on one of the virtual machine instances. The amount of resources allocated for executing the program code may be specified by the request and adjusted as needed.
US09537786B2
The present application discloses methods, devices, and systems for information processing based on distributed buses. A server may receive processing request packets from one or more client terminals and enter the processing request packets into a single input information queue. After determining a number of idle information processing threads, the server may use the idle information processing threads to process the selected processing request packets to obtain response data packets. Each information processing thread is configured to use a respective output information queue to store response data packets generated by the information processing thread. The server may then transmit the response data packets within a respective output information queue to a corresponding client terminal. The current method, as well as the devices and systems associated with the method, may be used to facilitate information processing, improve efficiency, and prevent excessive burden and data loss.
US09537784B2
A method, system, and/or computer program product downloads a blob of data onto a mobile device. A blob of data that is to be downloaded from a server to a mobile device via a particular network is identified. A first maximum chunk size for the first network for the particular network is identified, as is a timeout value for the mobile device when downloading a chunk of data. An optimal chunk size for chunking the blob of data is determined based on the timeout value of the mobile device and the maximum chunk size for the first network. The blob of data is partitioned into chunks of data based on the first optimal chunk size, and the chunks of data are transmitted from the server to the mobile device.
US09537783B2
A method and system for managing bitrate of network traffic are provided. The method for managing bitrate of network traffic includes: receiving a packet; retrieving metadata from the packet and associating the packet with at least one traffic aggregate; determining a drop rate for the at least one traffic aggregate based on network flow data; and determining, based on the drop rate and the metadata, to forward or drop the packet. The system includes a packet processing module configured to receive a packet; a deep packet inspection module configured to retrieve metadata from the packet and associate at least on traffic aggregate with the packet; a control module configured to determine a drop rate for the at least one traffic aggregate based on network flow data; and a policy decision module configure to determine whether to forward or drop the packet based on the drop rate and the metadata of the packet.
US09537778B2
A traffic shaping drive method and a driver are described. The method includes that: when traffic shaping is executed, timing time is set, and a data packet in a cache queue is sent at a preset constant rate in the timing time; when the timing time is reached, sending the data packet is stopped, and sending an ACK acknowledgement packet in the cache queue is started; and after the ACK acknowledgement packet is sent, returning to execute the traffic shaping. By conducting the traffic shaping on a drive layer, the disclosure enables the data packet to be sent at the constant rate, and reserves a certain bandwidth to send the ACK acknowledgement packet in time, thereby avoiding network congestion caused by delayed sending of the ACK acknowledgement packet, and improving the user experience.
US09537775B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for managing Diameter overload information within a telecommunications network are disclosed. One embodiment of a system for implementing the subject matter described herein includes at a virtualization orchestrator (VO) having a hardware processor and within the telecommunications network, receiving overload information, determining a network virtualization operation to perform based on the received information, and performing the network virtualization operation.
US09537762B2
A process and apparatus to facilitate communication between callers and callees in a system comprising a plurality of nodes with which callers and callees are associated is disclosed. In response to initiation of a call by a calling subscriber, a caller identifier and a callee identifier are received. Call classification criteria associated with the caller identifier are used to classify the call as a public network call or a private network call. A routing message identifying an address, on the private network, associated with the callee is produced when the call is classified as a private network call and a routing message identifying a gateway to the public network is produced when the call is classified as a public network call.
US09537750B2
Network devices, systems, and methods, including executable instructions and/or logic thereon, are provided to discover a multicast router topology. A network device includes a processing resource coupled to a memory. The memory includes program instructions executed by the processing resource to discover a multicast router topology by determining a number of routers are connected to each other via a number of network connections and are running a multicast routing protocol (MRP) on a number of interfaces on the number of routers that are connected.
US09537743B2
A storage area network controlled, part, by performing the following steps: (i) for each host link of a plurality of host links in a storage area network (SAN), determining a maximum possible data transfer rate; (ii) for each host link of a plurality of host links in a storage area network, determining a maximum permitted data transfer rate based on the maximum possible data transfer rate; (iii) making a plurality of data transfers, through SAN fabric of the SAN and between a storage controller module of the SAN and various host links of the plurality of host links; and (iv) for each data transfer, controlling the data transfer so that a data transfer rate for the data transfer does not exceed the maximum permitted data transfer rate.
US09537742B2
The adjustment of a number of application launch endpoint servers that may be used to service incoming connection requests. Application launch endpoints are entities, such as running code, that may be used to launch other applications. Examples of endpoints include virtual machines or sessions in a session management server. The system load associated with the incoming connection rate and number of users is monitored. In response, an add threshold and a perhaps a remove threshold is calculated. If the system load rises above the add threshold, application launch endpoint server(s) are added to the set of endpoints that can handle incoming connection requests. If the system load falls below the remove threshold, application launch endpoint server(s) are removed from to the set of endpoints. The add and remove thresholds may be calculated per tenant, and adjusted based on tenant behavior.
US09537740B2
Estimating a level of concurrency is provided. An estimated level of concurrency of a device is determined. A first average response time, wherein the first average response time is an average of response times of a first set of operations of the device is determined. A second average response time is determined, wherein the second average response time is an average of response times of a second set of operations of the device, wherein each of the second set of operations is initiated under conditions of minimal interference of the device. A threshold based on the estimated level of concurrency is determined. The estimated level of concurrency is updated based, at least in part, on a ratio of the second average response time to the first average response time.
US09537730B2
A controller receives a request for the provision of a slice of a network to a virtual network operator. The controller determines whether the slice can be provided from existing resources, whether the slice can be provided if the existing resources are re-configured, or whether the slice can only be provided if additional resources are obtained. The controller then automatically takes the action required in order to provide the requested slice. The controller can also be used to release resources that are no longer required. Additionally, the controller can be used to re-optimize the network on request.
US09537728B2
A method, computer program product, and system for optimizing service pools supporting resource sharing and enforcing SLAs, to minimize service restart. A computer processor determines a first resource to be idle, wherein a service instance continues to occupy the first resource that is idle. The processor adds the first resource to a resource pool, wherein the service instance continues to occupy the first resource as a global standby service instance on the first resource. The processor receives a request for a resource, wherein the request for the resource includes a global name associated with a service that corresponds to the global standby service instance, and the processor allocates, from the resource pool, the first resource having the global standby service instance, based on the request for the resource that includes the global name associated with the service corresponding to the global standby service instance.
US09537720B1
Embodiments include methods of topology discovery in a virtual environment. Aspects include tracking change events, responsive to a change event, rediscovering dependencies between devices in the virtual environment and maintaining a dependency mapping between the devices. Aspects also include, responsive to a fault event, building a first topology model of the virtual environment and generating a first set of the devices which the first topology model is dependent on. Aspects also include, responsive to a resolution event, building a second topology model and generating a second set of the devices which the second topology model is dependent on. Aspects further include generating a fault device set by combining the first set and the second set, deleting any duplicate devices, and utilizing the generated fault device set to determine which of the devices are more likely to be associated with future fault events.
US09537715B2
A management system including a network device provided in a customer environment, a monitoring apparatus, and a management server provided outside the customer environment is provided. When it is determined that an agreement has been obtained from a customer based on a customer status contained in status information acquired from the management server, the monitoring apparatus acquires setting information necessary for a monitoring operation from the management server to start the monitoring operation according to other content contained in the acquired status information. In one or more embodiments, the monitoring apparatus acquires the setting information only when it is determined that the agreement has been obtained from the customer.
US09537706B2
Information related to apparently successful matches between two entities is collected, and culled based on a later indication that the match failed. Matches between two entities may be generated based on comparative information with other entities who appear to share some characteristics or preferences. Matches may be based on actual actions, in contrast to expressed preferences. Actual actions may be taken into account in addition to expressed preferences. Generation of matches may take into account geographical and/or temporal proximity and/or likelihood of receiving a response, in addition to other attributes of an entity. Matching algorithms may be updated based on entity input. Potential matches may be presented to third party entities for evaluation.
US09537703B2
A method and apparatus for reconfiguring a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) are directed to receiving an active set update message indicating that a mode of operation allowing a certain modulation scheme is enabled or disabled and performing at least one of: performing a MAC reset procedure, updating a set of reference enhanced transport format combination indicators (E-TFCIs) and associated power offsets, determining actions related to E-DPCCH boosting, modifying information related to an enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH), and modifying an index that indicates an E-DCH transport block size table. The update message includes at least one modified information element (IE).
US09537702B2
Methods, apparatuses and systems for identifying a channel bandwidth and channel offset of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal. The OFDM signal is received by a receiver apparatus that may be tuned to RF bandwidth of 20 MHz, 40 MHz or 80 MHz. The method utilized by the apparatus includes identifying the location of the primary channel and subsequently determining a sequence of equalized frequency domain sub-symbols of the signal field in the lower and the upper frequency band. Further, a cross-correlation between the sequence of equalized frequency domain sub-symbols is computed along with the computing energy of the sequence of equalized frequency domain sub-symbols. Finally, the cross-correlation and the computed energy are compared for identifying the channel offset and the channel bandwidth.
US09537696B2
Disclosed herein is a method for sending a broadcast signal. The method includes formatting input streams into multiple data pipes (DPs). Formatting the input streams into the multiple DPs includes splitting the input streams into multiple data streams, deleting a null packet included in a data stream, and forming a baseband frame (BBF) by adding a header to the data stream. The baseband frame includes a deleted null packet (DNP) field indicative of the number of deleted null packets, and the DNP field comprises at least one of a first DNP or a second DNP.
US09537688B2
Systems and methods of clear channel assessment on a wireless network are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes determining a clear channel assessment (CCA) threshold based on a first transmission bandwidth, performing a first back-off procedure based on the determined clear channel assessment threshold; and transmitting a first wireless message in response to a completion of the first back-off procedure.
US09537682B2
Described is an apparatus which comprises: an amplifier; a first set of samplers to sample data output from the amplifier according to a clock signal, the set of samplers to generate an output; and a converter to convert the output of the first set of samplers to 1 -hot encoded data.
US09537675B2
Provided is a method of transmitting and receiving personal broadcasting data in a peer-to-peer (P2P) based network. A terminal (client) that receives a personal broadcast requests a tracker server for a viewing reservation by using electronic program guide (EPG) information or a uniform resource locator (URL) of a personal broadcasting channel, a terminal (broadcaster) that transmits personal broadcasting data receives a list of clients that made a viewing reservation of the personal broadcast from the tracker server and notifies the clients about starting of the personal broadcast when it is time to start the personal broadcast. Accordingly, the client starts streaming when notified of the starting of the personal broadcast by connecting to the personal broadcasting channel after making the viewing reservation, without having to wait for the personal broadcast to start.
US09537673B2
Methods, systems, and devices are described for minimizing mutual interference between networks that implement different protocols. In one embodiment, a first network device of a first network may exchange coexistence information with a second network device of a second network to determine whether to share resources or reduce transmit power based, at least in part, on the interference detected at the first network device from a transmission of the second network device. In one embodiment, both the first and the second network devices may independently and iteratively reduce their respective transmit power to minimize interference between the interfering networks. The first network device may reduce its transmit power based on an interference of the second network device and vice versa. In another embodiment, the network device with a lower priority may minimize its transmit power to reduce interference with the network device with a higher priority.
US09537656B2
The present invention relates to key management in a secure microcontroller, and more particularly, to systems, devices and methods of automatically and transparently employing logic or physical address based keys that may also be transferred using dedicated buses. A cryptographic engine translates a logic address to at least one physical address, and processes a corresponding data word based on at least one target key. The target key is selected from a plurality of keys based on the logic or physical address. A universal memory controller stores each processed data word in the corresponding physical address within a memory. Each key is associated with a memory region within the memory, and therefore, the logic or physical address associated with a memory region may be used to automatically identify the corresponding target key. A dedicated secure link may be used to transport key request commands and the plurality of keys.
US09537654B2
The present invention belongs to the field of Biometry. It discloses useful technology and equipment to make remote processes of fingerprint recognition and identity authentication, based on the processing and validation of biometric data that is captured in a recipient device, controlled by a center that acts like the network controller, linked as well to a process that verifies and ensures the required identity.The referred process enables the application, in a simple and economic way, of Remote Biometric Authentication processes to economic activities currently beyond this technology, in which the physical presence of the person that intends being identifying is usually required. The invention overcomes the referred limitation, and makes this technology applicable to capable of commercial processes, of authorization and validation of banking and compatible payments, and medical care, social security and social services, among others.
US09537653B2
According to an embodiment, an encryption key generating apparatus includes a converting unit to convert input data using a physically unclonable function and outputs output data; a memory to store a plurality of pattern data, each of which is a partial data in the output data indicated by one of a plurality of index data; a generating unit to generates an encryption key on the basis of the plural of index data; and a comparing unit to compare the output data with the plural of pattern data to detect plural of locations in the output data at which partial data similar to the plural of pattern data is present. The generating unit reproduces, as the plural of index data, the plural of locations detected by the comparing unit and reproduces the encryption key on the basis of the plural of index data that have been reproduced.
US09537646B2
A multimedia system for data communications. A source device communicates data over a full duplex control channel of a multimedia communication link. The source device has a first link layer that retries unsuccessful data communications over the full duplex control channel until a first maximum retry limit of the first link layer is reached. A sink device communicates data over the full duplex control channel of the multimedia communication link. The sink device has a second link layer that retries unsuccessful data communications over the full duplex control channel until a second maximum retry limit of the second link layer is reached, where the second maximum retry limit is different than the first maximum retry limit.
US09537644B2
Transmitting a bidirectional, virtual differential signal in addition to other differential signals over physical communication channels. Thus, four signal lines can provide three differential signals, where the virtual differential signal is bidirectional. The virtual differential signal can be provided over one or more of the other physical communication channels. Additional configurations allow for providing a bidirectional DC power supply. Additional configurations allow for providing DC power in addition to data over a reduced number of lines. Selective switching of signal lines can allow backward and forward interoperability with other standard interfaces.
US09537643B2
A method and apparatus are described which perform bandwidth aggregation by simultaneously monitoring and processing a number of simultaneous, non-contiguous or contiguous component carriers in the downlink. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) can be configured by an evolved Node-B (eNodeB) to support additional component carriers. A pre-configured additional component carrier may be used. Various methods for activating and deactivating the additional component carrier are also described.
US09537638B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus for performing coordinated multipoint (CoMP) channel state information (CSI) feedback under multiple channel and interference assumptions. One method generally includes receiving signaling indicating at least one or more interference measurement resources (IMRs) from a network and a configuration with one or more non-zero power reference signal (NZP-RS) resources in which one or more base stations transmit a RS, performing separate interference measurements at least on a per-IMR basis in one or more subframes by forming a baseline interference estimate based on the IMR and forming separate interference estimates based on adding interference from selected NZP-RS resources to the baseline interference estimate, and transmitting one or more CSI feedback reports that correspond to the interference measurements.
US09537626B2
Method and apparatus for determining coordinated multi-point transmission/reception coordination set
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and an apparatus for determining a coordinated multi-point transmission/reception CoMP coordination set, which can increase an interference suppression gain during CoMP. The method includes: receiving, by a first cell, CoMP resource block information of a second cell sent by the second cell, where the CoMP resource block information of the second cell indicates a CoMP resource block of the second cell; obtaining, by the first cell, a CoMP coordination set of each CoMP resource block of the first cell according to CoMP resource blocks of the first cell and the CoMP resource blocks of the second cell; and determining, by the first cell, that a union set of CoMP coordination sets of all the CoMP resource blocks of the first cell is a CoMP coordination set of the first cell.
US09537620B2
The disclosure provides a method and device for allocating a resource location with a frequency hopping function. The method includes: an uplink bandwidth of a Long Term Evolution (LTE) communication system is acquired; it is determined whether frequency hopping information needs to be allocated to uplink continuous frequency-domain resource location information in a multi-antenna port transmission mode, and when the frequency hopping information needs to be allocated, a length of a resource location and frequency hopping bit indicator and a length of frequency-domain resource location information are obtained according to the uplink bandwidth; a difference Value_D between the length of the resource location and frequency hopping bit indicator and the length of the frequency-domain resource location information is calculated; and frequency hopping information is allocated to the frequency-domain resource location information according to the difference Value_D. With the technical solution of the disclosure, allocation of frequency-domain resource location information with a frequency hopping function in a multi-port transmission mode can be supported.
US09537618B2
In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, an information handling system may include a processor, a first information handling resource communicatively coupled to the processor, and a second information handling resource communicatively coupled to the processor and the first information handling resource. The first information handling resource and the second information handling resource may be configured to, in concert determine an optimum delay between opposite polarity signals for differential signals communicated from the first information handling resource to the second information handling resource via a path comprising a differential pair and transmit data from the first information handling resource to the second information handling resource via the path by inserting a delay into one of the opposite polarity signals equal to the optimum delay.
US09537614B2
The disclosure discloses a method for sending a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request Acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) message in a Time Division Duplex (TDD) system and a User Equipment (UE), in order that the UE feeds back the HARQ-ACK message of each downlink serving cell and downlink subframe in Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) format 1b with channel selection in the TDD system. When there are more than 1 downlink subframes in a downlink subframe window corresponding to an uplink subframe, the feedback mode when the UE feeds back the HARQ-ACK message in format 1b with channel selection is determined through the configuration of the high layer or according to the result about whether the UE receives the Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) from a secondary downlink serving cell. In feedback mode 1, the UE adopts the mapping table defined by Long Term Evolution Advanced (LTE-A) (Rel-10), generates the HARQ-ACK message in the mapping table by a time domain bundling method, and determines the corresponding PUCCH resources in the mapping table by a preset new PUCCH resource determining method.
US09537608B2
In a Forward Error Correction (FEC) technique, parity vectors are computed such that: each parity vector spans a set of frames; a subset of bits of each frame is associated with parity bits in each parity vector; and a location of parity bits associated with one frame in one parity vector is different from that of parity bits associated with the frame in another parity vector. Values of decoded bits of a first frame are deduced from known parity bits of a first parity vector having an effective length of one frame. For parity vectors having, an effective length greater than one frame, a Log Likelihood Ratio of each unknown parity bit associated with the first frame is updated based on known and unknown parity bits of each parity vector. The first frame is decoded using the deduced bit values and the updated LLR values.
US09537607B2
A node for a communications network has a converter for digitizing at a receiver clock rate a received optical signal received over an optical link from an optical transmitter at a source node, a framer for detecting frames and a forward error correction part for correcting errors in the payload of the frame. An error rate in the received payload part is monitored and a processor sends, according to the monitored error rate, a request to the optical transmitter to adapt a length of the transmitted forward error correction part and to adapt a clock rate of the transmission of the frame if FEC length is reduced or FEC is disabled. This can enable power saving, when less FEC information is being sent.
US09537604B2
A method for adaptive Radio Frequency (RF) jamming according to one embodiment includes dynamically monitoring a RF spectrum; detecting any undesired signals in real time from the RF spectrum; and sending a directional countermeasure signal to jam the undesired signals. A method for adaptive Radio Frequency (RF) communications according to another embodiment includes transmitting a data pulse in a RF spectrum; and transmitting a reference pulse separated by a predetermined period of time from the data pulse; wherein the data pulse is modulated with data, wherein the reference pulse is unmodulated. A method for adaptive Radio Frequency (RF) communications according to yet another embodiment includes receiving a data pulse in a RF spectrum; and receiving a reference pulse separated in time from the data pulse, wherein the data pulse is modulated with data, wherein the reference pulse is unmodulated; and demodulating the pulses.
US09537603B2
A channel establishment method and device are provided. The method includes: establishing a media channel between a first node and a second node; establishing a signal channel between a third node and a fourth node after the media channel is established, the signal channel passes a frequency slot matrix of one or more intermediate nodes between the third node and the fourth node and a traffic engineering link between any two nodes; and allocating frequency spectrum to the signal channel from available frequency spectrum of the traffic engineering link, wherein the frequency spectrum allocated includes multiple split 50 GHz frequency spectrums which bear one optical channel and each of which only includes single optical carrier. The solution addresses the problem of how to effectively plan and manage frequency spectrum for an introduced flexible grid technology, improves waveband spectrum efficiency and achieves the compatibility to 50 GHz transmission technology of existing DWDM systems.
US09537599B2
An optical transmitter includes an amplifying unit, a monitor, an identifying unit, and a controlling unit. The amplifying unit amplifies an optical signal in which an optical packet signal is mixed in optical path signals. The monitor monitors power of the optical signal on an input stage and an output stage of the optical amplifying unit, respectively. The identifying unit identifies an optical packet signal section on the input stage side based on the monitoring result on the input stage side, and identifies an optical packet signal section on the output stage side based on the monitoring result on the output stage side. The controlling unit compares the power of the identified section on the input stage side with the power of the identified section on the output stage side, and controls an amplification factor of the amplifying unit based on a power difference resulting from the comparison.
US09537598B2
A method of optical label swapping implemented by a switch used in a software defined network system that in one embodiment includes providing a 400-Gbit/s payload having a Nyquist shaped carrier in a 75-Ghz bandwidth spacing using a payload generator module controlling at least one first optical laser, and inserting a first optical label adjacent to the payload flow in a remainder of a 100-Ghz bandwidth with a label generator controlling at least one second optical laser. The label generator and the payload generator are controlled by a software defined network (SDN). A package of the payload and the first optical label is transmitted to a receiving node. The optical label can be swapped at the receiving node with a flex grid wavelength selective switch (WSS) controlled by the software defined network.
US09537595B2
A method for downlink power control for use in a spread spectrum time division communication system having time slots for communication, implemented in a user equipment, includes receiving data in a command per coded composite transport channel (CCTrCH) transmitted over a plurality of time slots. An interference power for each time slot of the plurality of time slots is measured and a single power command for the entire CCTrCH is transmitted in response to a signal to interference ratio of the received CCTrCH and the measured interference power measurement for each time slot. A subsequent data is received in the CCTrCH communication having a transmission power level for each downlink communication time slot set individually in response to the interference power measurement for that time slot and the single power command for the entire CCTrCH.
US09537587B2
Methods and systems for beam forming, implemented in a base station used in a communication system, include measuring channel state information (CSI) for a number of active phased-array antennas less than a full number of phased-array antennas. Analog beam forming weights are determined using the measured CSI. An optimal digital precoder is determined from the analog beam forming weights. The analog beam forming weights and optimal digital precoder are applied to one phased-array antenna.
US09537585B2
A circuit according to an example includes a digital-to-time converter and a signal processing circuit coupled to the digital-to-time converter and configured to generate a processed signal derived from a signal provided to the signal processing circuit, the processed signal including a predetermined phase relation with respect to the signal provided to the signal processing circuit, wherein the circuit is configured to receive a reference signal and to generate an output signal based on the received reference signal. The a measurement circuit is configured to measure a delay between the output signal and the reference signal, wherein the output of the digital-to-time converter is coupled to a memory configured to store calibration data of the digital-to-time converter based on the measured delay.
US09537577B2
A device may insert a set of tones into a transmitter signal at a set of frequency offsets from a set of transmitter channels associated with a set of transmitter channel wavelengths. The set of transmitter channels may include a first channel being associated with a first quantity of bandwidth and a second channel associated with a second quantity of bandwidth. The first quantity of bandwidth may be different from the second quantity of bandwidth. The device may repeatedly adjust the transmitter signal to align the set of transmitter channel wavelengths based on a set of observed responses to the set of tones, generated based on the transmitter signal passing through an optical filter, failing to match a set of expected responses.
US09537573B2
An optical communication system comprises a network interface device (NID) having a media converter coupled to an optical fiber of a passive optical network (PON). The media converter converts optical signals from the PON into electrical signals for communication across at least one non-optical channel, such as a conductive or wireless connection, to customer premises equipment (CPE), such as a residential gateway or other customer premises (CP) device. Rather than implementing an optical media access control (optical MAC) layer in the NID, an optical MAC layer for handling PON protocols and management is implemented by the CPE, thereby effectively extending the customer end of the PON across at least one non-optical connection to the CPE. By implementing the optical MAC layer at the CPE, the complexity of the NID is reduced thereby lowering the cost of the NID. In one embodiment, in an effort to further reduce the complexity of the NID, the optical MAC layer is configured to control a laser-on state of an optical transmitter in the NID.
US09537564B2
A method and an apparatus are provided for performing wireless communication between terminals. An inquiry message is transmitted to a neighboring terminal. An inquiry response message is received from the neighboring terminal. It is determined whether the apparatus overlaps the neighboring terminal. When the apparatus overlaps the neighboring terminal, paging is automatically performed, without intervention of a user of the apparatus, and pairing between the apparatus and the neighboring terminal is established.
US09537562B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a signal processing method and a terminal. The method includes: receiving a control signal. Channel state information between a coordinated base station and the terminal and between the serving base station and the terminal is determined. Information is about determined time difference or information about a phase difference of arrival between signals sent by the coordinated base station and the serving base station at the terminal according to the channel state information. Adjustment information is sent to the serving base station so that the serving base station adjusts the sending time, phase, or pre-coding manner of the signal according to the adjustment information.
US09537561B1
A UAV gateway may be used to assist in the optimization of communications between a UAV and a cellular wireless network. The UAV may include a steerable, multi-faceted antenna array. In one implementation, the UAV may receive, from the cellular wireless network, network description information, describing the physical state of the cellular wireless network. The network description information may include, for example, locations of base stations near the UAV, transmit power associated with the base stations (or with cells provided by the base stations), and/or the transmit antenna patterns associated with the base stations. The UAV may use this information to optimize its communications with the cellular network.
US09537560B2
A method and apparatus for wireless communications is disclosed. Channel state information (CSI) for a plurality of network nodes is transmitted. Grant information is received from at least one network node of the plurality of network nodes. The grant information is based on the transmitted CSI and includes an indication of a cooperative scheme. A plurality of beam-formed signals, including data from each of the plurality of network nodes, is received in response to the received grant information. The same data is received from each of the plurality of network nodes.
US09537555B2
An uplink antenna selection method where a base station transmits first and second control information to a user equipment. The first control information includes instructions for configuring the user equipment with closed-loop transmit antenna selection on one of a plurality of component carriers, and the second control information includes instructions for configuring the UE with open-loop transmit antenna selection on at least one other of the plurality of the component carriers. Also, the UE may transmit an indication of its capability for transmission antenna switching per component carrier. Further, the UE may perform steps to resolve inconsistent antenna selection triggers received from the base station.
US09537551B2
Multiple antennas employed at the transmitter and receiver can significantly increase a MIMO system capacity, especially when channel knowledge is available at the transmitter. Channel state information may be provided to the transmitter by the receiver in a codebook based precoding feedback. In a proposed approach is proposed in which the receiver conducts a search of precoder elements of a codebook to provide the transmitter with rank information and precoder control index that enhances capacity. Unlike the conventional exhaustive search, the proposed approach reduces complexity by reducing the search space of precoder elements for consideration. Performance loss is minimized by reducing the search space of higher rank precoder elements. For some ranks, the complexity is reduced without any performance sacrifice by grouping the precoder elements of the rank into groups of equivalent capacities and including at most one precoder element from each group into the search space.
US09537549B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a multi-user interference suppression method, terminal and base station. The method includes performing layer mapping on and precoding service data of each of paired users to obtain precoded output data, mapping the precoded output data and a common pilot sequence to a port of an antenna array for sending to each user by using the antenna array. Correspondingly, the embodiments of the present invention further provide a data receiving method, base station and terminal. By using a common pilot sequence based on the paired users, the same pilot sequence is used for each user in the paired users of a cell or a collaborative area, which is different from the technical solution in the prior art where a user-specific pilot is used and pilots of different users are orthogonal.
US09537547B1
User Equipment (UE) selects a Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) pattern and transmits orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols according to the selected SRS pattern. The OFDM communication system wirelessly receives data from the UE and processes the data to detect the OFDM symbols. The detected OFDM symbols are processed to identify the selected SRS pattern. An impulse response matrix is generated based on the selected SRS pattern. Additional data based on the impulse response matrix can be transferred to the UE.
US09537546B2
A system and method are provided to increase data rates available in mmWave wireless communication systems by adapting a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) in a next generation mmWave wireless communication system. The system and method advantageously employ the characteristics of mmWave antenna arrays, including multiple antenna elements in each antenna array, to implement the MIMO scheme by establishing multiple beamformed communication links between a mmWave transmitter and receiver. An outgoing signal is divided into multiple signal elements to correspond to the multiple beamformed links and each of the multiple signal elements is transmitted by the transmitter across a different one of the multiple beamformed links to be reassembled at the receiver. An antenna element allocation scheme is incorporated to assign specific numbers and configurations of antenna elements at each of the transmitted and receiver to each of the multiple beamformed communication links.
US09537545B2
A Next Generation Data Network is described. It leverages the “cloud” for data management, frequency data computation and analytics. The wireless network is a single frequency network that permits limited non-line-of-sight operation. The wireless network using packet switched beams, the beams are formed and switched electronically. It utilizes advanced signal processing to compensate for low transmit signal power and multipath reflections that can be frequency or flat fades.
US09537542B2
A method for processing information and an electronic device are provided. The method includes: sending a first instruction to a second electronic device through a radio frequency identification unit to inquire identification information of the second electronic device; acquiring the identification information of the second electronic device; and obtaining position information of the second electronic device according to the identification information of the second electronic device. With the disclosure, a more enriched usage scene for man-machine interaction is provided, and user experience is improved.
US09537540B2
The invention relates to a rotary transmitter (2) for machine tools, having an inductive energy transmission section (31), which is arranged between a stator part (4) fixed to the machine and a rotor part (6) fixed to the tool, and a contactless bidirectional data transmission section (35). A special feature of the invention consists in that, in order to make maximum use of the capacity of the energy transmission section (31), precautions are taken with which the optimal operating frequency (fopt) of the energy transmission operating according to the transformer principle is determined at every system start in a test run with a connected test resister (51) and a variable frequency (fp). Furthermore, for the purpose of interference-free data transmission, buffer storage of the data to be transmitted via the data transmission section (35) is proposed, which data are synchronized in predefined time windows with interference-free periods of the energy transmission.
US09537539B2
A method for managing power in a transmitter to wirelessly transmit the power to a receiver. The method includes transmitting AC power through a resonance frequency band to the receiver using a transmission resonant coil, transmitting a state information of the transmitter including information related to the number of receivers that can be supported by the transmitter through out-of-band communication having a specific frequency band which is different from the resonance frequency band, receiving a state information of the receiver including information related to a rectified DC power detected by the receiver through rectification of the AC power from the receiver through the out-of-band communication and adjusting the AC power to transmit to the receiver based on the information related to the rectified DC power.
US09537537B2
A communication partner appliance is implemented within a near field communication system. The communication partner appliance includes a receiver, a detector, and a processor. The receiver receives a NFC command signal from another communication partner appliance. The detector detects whether a carrier signal from the other communication partner appliance is present at the receiver at a time other than during a transmission of the NFC command signal from the other communication partner appliance to the receiver. The processor controls a power supply element based on a determination by the detector whether the carrier signal from the other communication partner appliance is present at the receiver. The power supply element is configured to establish a connection to either a first power supply or a second power supply. The first power supply is dependent on the carrier signal, and the second power supply is independent of the carrier signal.
US09537531B2
A communication device includes a communication circuit capable of switching a reception or a transmission of a desired frequency signal through an antenna. The circuit includes an oscillator that oscillates a first frequency signal according to the desired frequency signal at a receiving time, a first divider that outputs a second frequency signal obtained by dividing the first frequency signal into two, a second divider that outputs a third frequency signal obtained by dividing the second frequency signal into two, a first mixer that mixes the reception signal received through the antenna and the first frequency signal and outputs an intermediate frequency signal, a second mixer that mixes the intermediate frequency signal and the third frequency signal and outputs a baseband signal, a third mixer capable of mixing the output from the first divider and the output from the second divider, and a filter circuit that eliminates a signal component of the frequency of an output signal from the third mixer from the reception signal at the receiving time.
US09537520B2
An electronic device for and method of determining a calibration code is provided. The electronic device includes a modem configured to receive a transmission signal, determine a calibration code that minimizes distortion of the transmission signal, and calibrate the distortion of the transmission signal using the calibration code.
US09537500B2
An input circuit for processing an analog input signal in the form of an analog measurement signal with a modulated additional signal and for converting the input signal into a serial bit stream having a frequency distribution of high levels which is proportional to the input signal, and a method for operating such an input circuit, the input circuit including a device for comparing an instantaneous voltage value of the input signal with a variable comparison value and a device for adapting the comparison value to an instantaneous value of the generated bit stream, is provided.
US09537488B1
An field programmable gate array (FPGA) includes a circuit implemented using the FPGA fabric. The FPGA further includes another circuit implemented as hardened circuitry. The FPGA also includes a configurable interface circuit that is adapted to couple together the two circuits.
US09537486B2
In a semiconductor device such as a three-phase one-chip gate driver IC, HVNMOSs configuring two set and reset level shift circuits are disposed on non-opposed surfaces, and it is thereby possible to reduce the amount of electrons flowing into drains of HVNMOSs of another phase due to a negative voltage surge. Also, distances from an opposed surface on the opposite side to the respective drains of the HVNMOSs configuring the two set and reset level shift circuits are made equal to or more than 150 μm, and it is thereby possible to prevent a malfunction of a high side driver circuit of another phase to which no negative surge is applied.
US09537483B2
A touch panel including a first insulation substrate, a first conductive film, a first insulation film, first conductive wires, a second insulation substrate, a second conductive film, and second conductive wires is provided. The first conductive film is disposed on the first insulation substrate and the first insulation layer covers a portion of a periphery of the first conductive film so that the first conductive film has an exposed region. The first conductive wires are disposed on the periphery of the first conductive film and each of the first conductive wires includes an electrode segment and an extending segment. The electrode segment is electrically connected with the first conductive film and the extending segment is electrically isolated from the first conductive film. The second conductive film is disposed on the second insulation substrate. The second conductive wires are disposed on the periphery of the second conductive film.
US09537481B2
A semiconductor relay device (1) includes a signal input unit (2) for inputting an alternating current signal for relay driving purpose, a direct current insulation member (3) for blocking a direct current electricity of the alternating current signal, a voltage multiplying circuit (5) for multiplying the signal voltage, after the direct current electricity has been blocked, by an integer number, and a relay circuit (4) including two metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors (6, 7) having respective sources connected with each other and connected in a reverse series with each other and also having respective gates connected with each other. Those metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors (6, 7) are caused to undergo a bidirectional ON-Off operation when the respective gates of those metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors (6, 7) are brought into a conducting state by a signal of which voltage has been multiplied by the voltage multiplying circuit (5).
US09537480B2
An electronic device is provided, which includes a fixing unit, a detection unit and a control unit. The fixing unit is adapted to maintain a position of the electronic device relative to a user when the user uses the electronic device. The detection unit is adapted to detect a spatial parameter of the electronic device being moved in a space. The control unit is adapted to obtain the spatial parameter, determine whether the spatial parameter matches a predetermined parameter condition, and control the electronic device to switch from a first operation mode to a second operation mode when the spatial parameter matches the predetermined parameter condition, wherein the first operation mode is different from the second operation mode.
US09537476B1
A level shifter that shifts a voltage level of an input signal, where the input signal oscillates between a voltage level of a first supply voltage and ground. The level shifter includes a bias circuit, and first and second transistors. The bias circuit provides a bias voltage to the first transistor based on the first supply voltage. The second transistor is connected in series with the first transistor, and the series combination is connected between voltage supplies that provide second and third supply voltages. The second transistor receives the input signal at its gate, and a level-shifted version of the input signal is output at a node between the first and second transistors. The level-shifted signal oscillates between the voltage levels of the second and third supply voltages.
US09537470B2
Provided are a semiconductor device and a method for operating a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a clock generating unit receiving a reference clock and generating first and second clocks that are different from each other from the reference clock; a first latch configured to receive input data based on the first clock and to output the input data as first output data; and a second latch configured to receive the first output data based on the second clock and to output the first output data as second output data, wherein a first edge of the first clock does not overlap a first edge of the second clock, and at least a part of a second edge of the first clock overlaps a second edge of the second clock.
US09537462B2
Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to addressing impedance-matching issues. As may be implemented in connection with one or more embodiments, an apparatus includes an integrated circuit (IC) chip having a signal-connection terminal and processing circuitry that passes signals along a communication path that is within the IC chip and connected to the signal-connection terminal. Impedance-matching circuitry operates to provide impedance-matching for the communication path, therein mitigating signal loss due to impedance-mismatching. A chip-mounting structure secures the IC chip and electrically connects thereto at the signal-connection terminal.
US09537456B2
A radio frequency (RF) amplification system or transmitter includes one or more power amplifiers and a controller that is configured to adjust amplitudes and phases of RF input signals of the one or more power amplifiers and supply voltages applied to the one or more power amplifiers. The system may include a single digital-to-RF modulator and a power divider to drive multiple power amplifiers. A power combiner may also be provided to combine outputs of the power amplifiers. In at least one implementation, amplitude adjustment of the RF input signals of the one or more power amplifiers may be used to provide transmit power control and/or power backoff.
US09537455B2
A signal booster may include a first path that may include a first tap circuit. The first path may be coupled between a first port and a second port and may be configured to amplify a first signal. The signal booster may also include a second path that includes a second tap circuit. The second path may be coupled between the first port and the second port and may be configured to amplify a second signal. The signal booster may also include a radio frequency detector circuit and a switch circuit. The switch circuit may be configured to switch between coupling the radio frequency detector circuit to the first tap circuit and coupling the radio frequency detector circuit to the second tap circuit to provide either a portion of the first signal or a portion of the second signal to the radio frequency detector circuit.
US09537454B2
The electronic device is arranged for generation of an audible alarm or music. It includes a coil or inductor and a buzzer provided with a capacitor connected in series with the coil. When the electronic device is actuated, the buzzer generates the audible alarm or music. The electronic device further includes, in a feedback loop, a derivative circuit connected to a connection node between the coil and the capacitor, to produce a derivative of the signal from the capacitor, and a comparator for comparing a derivative signal from the derivative circuit with a reference voltage. The comparator supplies an output signal to the coil to amplify the signal across the capacitor, so that the buzzer generates at least one audible alarm.
US09537453B2
An amplifier cell apparatus has an RF input node, a first power transistor in communication with the input node through a first input impedance matching network, a second power transistor in communication with the input node through a second input impedance matching network, and an RF output node in communication with the first and second power transistors through a single output impedance matching network so that the first and second input impedance matching networks are disposed on an RF input side of the amplifier cell.
US09537447B2
In accordance with an embodiment, a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) includes a VCO core having a plurality of transistors, a bias resistor coupled between collector terminals of the VCO core and a first supply node, and a varactor circuit coupled to emitter terminals of the VCO core. The bias resistor is configured to limit a self-bias condition of the VCO core.
US09537446B2
System for producing a system clock signal comprising a local oscillator configured to generate a first clock signal; a temperature detector configured to detect a temperature change above a critical value in an area including the local oscillator; an obtaining module configured to obtain a second clock signal; a clock generator configured to generate the system clock signal in a first manner, using the first clock signal, in a normal mode when the temperature detector does not detect a temperature change above the critical value, and in a second manner different from the first manner, using the second clock signal, in a reverse hold-over mode when the temperature detector has detected a temperature change above the critical value.
US09537439B2
A method for controlling a position of an actuating element, to which a restoring force is applied, in an actuator system having an electronically commutated electrical machine, includes controlling the position of the actuating element as a function of a predefined setpoint position specification and an actual position specification. A position control unit provides an actuating variable which is associated with a space vector with which a stator arrangement of the electrical machine can be driven. The method further includes applying a correction variable to the space vector in order to correct a space vector angle of the space vector; providing an auxiliary signal; varying the space vector angle of the space vector, which is defined by the actuating variable, by the auxiliary signal; and integrating a variable to give an integration value.
US09537438B2
A genset includes a generator configured to generate a power signal having a first voltage. A controller is configured to monitor and control at least one operational parameter of the generator. A buss potential isolation module is configured to receive the power signal having the first voltage from the generator, reduce the first voltage to output a second voltage, and communicate the power signal having the second voltage to the controller. The second voltage is suitable for communicating to the controller which can include electronic circuitry configured to meet an NEC Class 2 circuit requirement. The first voltage can be at least 120 volts, and the second voltage can be less than 24 volts.
US09537436B2
Disclosed is an alternator overvoltage protection circuit having a TRIAC and a MOSFET. The TRIAC is electrically connected to the MOSFET and the TRIAC is electrically connected to a magneto. The TRIAC is configured to ground the magneto when triggered by the MOSFET. The MOSFET is electrically connected to an alternator and configured to conduct when the alternator operates in an overvoltage condition. Also disclosed is a method of alternator overvoltage protection for a piece of outdoor power equipment, the method including providing a TRIAC and an alternator rotated by an engine having a magneto, wherein the alternator outputs a voltage when rotated by the engine. The method further includes configuring the TRIAC to ground the magneto when the alternator operates in an overvoltage condition, thereby disabling the magneto, which stops the rotation of the engine and stops the alternator from outputting voltage.
US09537430B2
Holding apparatus (100) for electrostatically holding component (1), (e.g., a silicon wafer), includes base body (10) composed of first and second plates (11A,12), the first plate being arranged on upper side (10A) of base body (10) and second plate (12) carrying first plate (11A), and second plate (12) being an electrically insulating material, a plurality of projecting, upper burls (13A) arranged on upper side (10A) and forming a support surface for component (1), and first electrode device (20A) having first electrodes (21A) arranged on upper side (10A) for receiving a clamping voltage, wherein first plate (11A) is produced from electrically conductive, Si-based ceramic and carries upper plate insulating layer (14A) which covers upper side (10A), having upper burls (13A), and the first electrodes (21A) include electrode layers arranged on upper burls (13A) and each carry upper electrode insulating layer (15A). A method for producing the holding apparatus is also described.
US09537427B2
A system includes a paralleled inverter circuit and a controller. The paralleled inverter circuit includes a first inverter and a second inverter. The controller is configured to control a first plurality of switches of the first inverter and a second plurality of switches of the second inverter based upon a control vector. The controller controls the paralleled inverter circuit using a first unit vector for a first time period and controls the paralleled inverter circuit using a second unit vector for a second time period. The first unit vector and the second unit vector are selected based upon the control vector, and the first time period and the second time period are determined based upon the control vector.
US09537424B2
Systems, methods, and devices for controlling a DC-bus voltage for a power conditioning system. A control system regulates the DC value of the DC-bus voltage. The control system uses an adaptive DC-value estimator/observer to estimate this DC-value. Instead of having to determine the DC-value of a signal with a low frequency ripple without compromising the signal's dynamic response, a suitably precise estimate for that DC-value is used.
US09537423B2
A power conversion system includes a filter unit, a DC/DC converter, a DC link, an inverter, a control unit, and a traction motor. The DC/DC converter is used for boosting DC voltage of a DC source and electrically coupled to the DC source through the filter unit. The DC/DC converter includes multiple SiC MOSFETs configured in a synchronous rectification mode by channel reverse conduction control. The inverter is used for converting the boosted DC voltage from the converter to multi-phase AC voltage through the DC link. The control unit is used for providing PWM commands to the converter and the inverter, to convert the DC voltage to AC voltage configured to drive an AC driven device.
US09537418B2
A power conversion apparatus is provided. The power conversion apparatus receives an AC input power by an input side and includes a capacitor, an AC-to-DC conversion unit and a discharge unit. The capacitor is connected with the input side. The AC-to-DC conversion unit is coupled to the input side, and configured to convert the AC input power after receiving the AC input power to generate a DC output power. The discharge unit is coupled to the capacitor and has at least two switch elements. The discharge unit enables the at least two switch elements when supply of the AC input power is interrupted, such that one of a first discharge path and a second discharge path formed by the at least two switch elements is taken to discharge or drain the energy stored in the capacitor.
US09537416B2
An electrical circuit for a power converter includes a first switching device proximate an AC source. The circuit also includes a voltage measurement device proximate a DC link and extends between the AC source and the DC link. The circuit further includes a DC voltage source and a first capacitive device. The first capacitive device is positioned between the first switching device and the voltage measurement device. The circuit further includes a second switching device positioned between the first capacitive device and the voltage measurement device. The circuit also includes a controller operatively coupled to the DC voltage source, the voltage measurement device, and the switching devices. The controller is configured to open the second switching device when a measured voltage signal generated by the voltage measurement device is substantially representative of a reference voltage value.
US09537408B2
A power conversion method of a power conversion apparatus including plural primary side ports disposed in a primary side circuit and a secondary side port disposed in a secondary side circuit magnetically coupled to the primary side circuit through a transformer, the method adjusting transmission power transmitted between the primary and secondary side circuits by changing a phase difference between switching of the primary and secondary side circuits, and changing a first duty ratio of the switching of the primary side circuit or a second duty ratio of the switching of the secondary side circuit, the method including: determining whether a value obtained by dividing the phase difference by 360° is greater than a third duty ratio; and setting the second duty ratio to be equal to or greater than the value obtained by dividing the phase difference by 360° when the value is greater than the third duty ratio.
US09537406B1
A flyback controller featuring bidirectional power control and parallelly-connected power modules is based on flyback DC-DC converters for allowing bidirectional energy flow and transformation. The flyback controller includes two bidirectional DC-DC converters that are connected in parallel. The bidirectional DC-DC converters are electrically connected with a digital-signal processor. The digital-signal processor controls the bidirectional DC-DC converters and current thereof, so that the current flows evenly across the bidirectional DC-DC converters. Thereby, the flyback controller has advantages about simplified components and increased power output, and is suitable for testing secondary batteries.
US09537394B2
A resonant power converter comprising electrical safety components comprising a combination of a diodes and a zener diodes coupled between DC conductors and an auxiliary switching circuit, the diodes being adapted to hinder the current from flowing from the auxiliary switching circuit to the negative DC conductor, and the zener diodes being adapted to allow current to flow from the negative DC conductor to the auxiliary switching circuit when the potential difference between the negative DC conductor and the phase conductor is above a threshold voltage. The Zener diodes being selected such that the threshold voltage of the Zener diodes is below the maximum blocking voltage of the transistors.
US09537392B1
In one embodiment the present invention includes a circuit comprising a voltage adjust circuit and an input terminal of an electronic system. The voltage adjust circuit is coupled to receive an input voltage. The input terminal of the electronic system is coupled to receive a supply voltage from an output terminal of the voltage adjust circuit. The voltage adjust circuit makes an adjustment to the supply voltage based on a minimum voltage requirement of the electronic system. Accordingly, the leakage current supplied to the electronic system reduces, thereby saving power.
US09537389B2
Provided is an inverter device that can reduce high-frequency noise. The inverter device includes a transformer for converting the voltage of the AC power output from an inverter circuit and outputting the resulting power. Each of first to third coil sections for converting the voltage of the AC power output from the inverter circuit and outputting the resulting power includes an inner coil respectively wound around first to third core sections and an outer coil. The first to third core sections are each column shaped having an axis in the Y direction, and are arranged in the Z direction. Non-magnetic pressing members are provided between the adjacent coil sections and between the adjacent coil sections. The pressing members press against the adjacent coil sections and the adjacent coil sections respectively.
US09537388B2
A hybrid distribution transformer is provided that includes an electromagnetic transformer and a voltage source converter that is operable to reduce fluctuation in the output voltage of the hybrid distribution transformer in the event of an increase or decrease in the input voltage.
US09537384B2
To provide a power supply noise reduction circuit and a power supply noise reduction method that do not require circuit elements to be increased in size and do not cause voltage drop in a power supply voltage. A power supply noise reduction circuit 10 that reduces noise included in a constant voltage output that is output from a power supply 2 to a load includes a first resistor 20 that is inserted into a power supply line L1 extending from the power supply 2 to the load, a filter 31 that is coupled to a load terminal of the first resistor 20 and outputs a first voltage that is obtained by reducing the noise from the constant voltage output, and a unity gain amplifier 32 that drives the first voltage output from the filter 31 and outputs the driven first voltage to the load terminal of the first resistor 20.
US09537383B1
A driver circuit for driving a switching transistor includes a dead time calibration circuit and/or a quick start circuit. The dead time calibration circuit includes a delay comparator to compare a present delay between the low side switch turning off or the high side switch turning off and a voltage at a switch node between the high side switch and the low side switch to a past delay and a controller responsive to the comparison is configured to adjust the delay of an adjustable delay element coupled to a control terminal of a switching transistor. The quick start circuit includes a quick start signal generator having an adjustable delay element to generate a quick start signal having a pulse to turn on the switching transistor for a quick start interval, a quick start comparator configured to monitor the quick start signal, and a control circuit responsive to the comparison by the quick start comparator to adjust the delay of the delay element.
US09537378B2
An audible warning system for a generator system is provided. The generator system includes a surge suppressor and a rectifier assembly. The rectifier assembly rotates along with the rotor of the generator system, and generates airflow. The surge suppressor includes a face portion. The audible warning system includes a mounting plate and an acoustic alarm device. The mounting plate is attached to the rectifier assembly to mount the surge suppressor and the acoustic alarm device. The acoustic alarm device includes an air inlet portion in engagement with a face portion of the surge suppressor. In operation, this arrangement blocks fluid communication of the airflow into the air inlet portion, in an operational state. A failure of the surge suppressor allows the airflow to pass through the air inlet portion to generate an audible alarm for an operator.
US09537376B2
An electric motor arrangement for a medical, especially dental, tool handle, which is extremely compact and resistant to sterilizing temperatures due to a plurality of advantageous embodiments. The electric motor arrangement is characterized by the following properties: the use of a light source based on SMD-LED or LED as a semiconductor chip; the shortening of the INTRAmatic coupling to between 20 mm and 25 mm; a hermetically extruded stator comprising integrated media tubes and molded connection sockets; the stator winding is embodied as a coil segment winding instead of an H winding or triangle; and the winding head has openings for media tubes.
US09537373B2
An alternator fan includes a base member having a central hub, an outer peripheral edge, and a web that extends between the central hub and the outer peripheral edge, and a plurality of openings extending through web. A plurality of fan blade elements is arranged in corresponding ones of each of the plurality of openings.
US09537371B2
The present invention provides a system for a contra rotor wind turbine system comprising of dual aerodynamic rotors composed of plurality of either radially extended blades or axially extended helically contoured blades. The blades on the upwind or the outer rotor are set to spin in the first direction about the outer shaft, while the blades on the downwind or inner rotor are set to spin in a second direction about the co-axially mounted center shaft. Each rotor drives a digitally controllable positive displacement pump unit to convert the kinetic energy of the rotor to the fluidic potential energy. The potential energy of each rotor is compounded to achieve net potential energy. The net potential energy is stored in a fluidic reservoir and used by a hydraulic motor to drive an electrical generator. The hydraulic pump and the motor units are provided to maintain uniform rotational speed and torque.
US09537363B2
An electric motor-driven compressor having an electrical terminal block assembly and corresponding method of assembly are provided. The electrical terminal block assembly includes a base plate that has a staging feature for receiving a lug end of a motor stator cable prior to connection of the motor stator cable with a terminal bar of the terminal block assembly. In this way, once the terminal block assembly is lowered into the enclosure and the motor stator cable is no longer visible to the user, a stator cable fastener may be passed through a stator cable mounting hole in the terminal bar to engage the stator cable lug that is being held in the proper position by the staging feature of the base plate. Upon rotation of the stator cable fastener, the stator cable lug may be drawn into conductive engagement with the terminal bar.
US09537362B2
An electrical machine includes a rotor comprising a rotor core and a plurality of permanent magnets embedded radially within the rotor core to form a plurality of rotor poles. The electrical machine further includes a stator comprising a stator core disposed concentrically outside the rotor and including a plurality of stator teeth defining a plurality of stator slots there between. An arithmetic sum or difference of twice the number of stator teeth and the number of the stator poles equals the number of rotor poles.
US09537354B2
A system and method for smart registration of wireless power receivers within a wireless power network is disclosed. Each wireless power device may include a universally unique identifier (UUID). Each wireless power device bought by a customer may be registered, at the time of purchase or later. The registry may be stored in an energy domain service, where energy domain service may be one or more cloud-based servers. The method for smart registration may include the steps of detecting a customer device; establishing a connection with a wireless power receiver to read its UUID; sending wireless power transmitter manager's UUID and wireless power receiver's UUID to energy domain service; inspecting wireless power transmitter manager registry; verifying wireless power receiver registry; authorizing power transfer to wireless power receiver; and reporting energy consumption for subsequent billing of customer depending on billing policy of wireless power transmitter manager specified within registry.
US09537341B2
A power supply output configuration system/method providing a digitally controlled uninterruptable power supply (UPS) to protected load devices (PLD) configured as power supply units (PSU) serviced by one or more power supply sources (PSS) is disclosed. The system generally includes a number of power supply sources (PSS) that are monitored by power condition sensing (PCS) circuitry that determines individual power source states within the PSS. This physical state information is used by a digitally controlled switching network (DSN) that reconfigures the electrical connections between the PSS and the individual PLD elements to properly route power from the PSS to the PLD in the event of individual PSS failures. The DSN receives phase/voltage state information from the PSS to ensure that current between the PSS and PLD is transferred in a synchronized manner and that PSS resources are properly protected during the switching transition.
US09537338B2
GaN-based half bridge power conversion circuits employ control, support and logic functions that are monolithically integrated on the same devices as the power transistors. In some embodiments a low side GaN device communicates through one or more level shift circuits with a high side GaN device. Both the high side and the low side devices may have one or more integrated control, support and logic functions. Some devices employ electro-static discharge circuits and features formed within the GaN-based devices to improve the reliability and performance of the half bridge power conversion circuits.
US09537335B2
An adapter for a power tool powered by a detachable battery pack which adapter includes a connector configured to detachably connect the adapter directly to the power tool, an adapter controller, at least one memory and/or storage device in communication with the adapter controller and configured to store maintenance information concerning the battery pack or to store maintenance information concerning the battery pack and the power tool, at least one communication port configured to transmit electrical communications, including said maintenance information, from the adapter controller to a controller located in the power tool and vice versa, and a transmitter configured to wirelessly transmit the maintenance information to an external device.
US09537327B2
A battery cell balancing control system and a battery management method thereof are disclosed. The battery cell balancing control system is used for managing a battery apparatus, wherein the battery apparatus has a plurality of battery cells. The battery cell balancing control system comprises a detection module, a battery management module, and an adjusting module. The detection module is used for executing a battery checking procedure on the plurality of battery cells to generate a detection result. The battery management module is used for determining whether the plurality of battery cells has a controlled cell according to the detection result. If the controlled cell has not been found among the plurality of battery cells, the battery management module controls the adjusting module to execute a battery cell balancing procedure until the controlled cell is found.
US09537322B2
A signal generator generates an electrical signal that is sent to an amplifier, which increases the power of the signal using power from a power source. The amplified signal is fed to a sender transducer to generate ultrasonic waves that can be focused and sent to a receiver. The receiver transducer converts the ultrasonic waves back into electrical energy and stores it in an energy storage device, such as a battery, or uses the electrical energy to power a device. In this way, a device can be remotely charged or powered without having to be tethered to an electrical outlet.
US09537319B2
Reconfigurable power systems and converters and operating methods therefor are disclosed. Reconfigurable power systems may include a DC power source, an electrical energy storage device, an AC power grid connection, and a power converter configured to selectively couple two or more of the DC power source, the electrical energy storage device, and the AC power grid connection.
US09537317B2
A power management apparatus includes a storage unit to store power rate levels corresponding to a plurality of power rates, and store display information corresponding to the power rate levels, a communication unit to receive power rates for each hour of each day from a power provider, a controller to confirm power rate levels corresponding to power rates for each hour of each day, and confirm display information for each power rate level, and a control panel unit to display the power rates for each hour of each day according to individual power rate levels, the displayed power rate levels being displayed as different types of display information. The power management apparatus allows the user to intuitively recognize the current power rate and the current power rate level, and predicts the future power rates and the future power rate level, such that it can establish an optimum power use schedule.
US09537310B2
A method of controlling operation of a hybrid continuous current supply, the current supply including a fuel cell stack, a battery, and a DC/DC converter including an input and an output, the converter input being connected to the fuel cell stack output and the output being connected to a variable load in parallel with the battery, the fuel cell stack being formed of a plurality of electrochemical cells configured to produce electricity from a fuel and an oxidizing gas.
US09537296B2
A cable retainer for a downhole tubing string includes a body; a detent extending from the body; a relief between the detent and the body facilitating deflection of the detent to allow passage of a cable; and a detent lip extending from the detent. A method for securing a cable to a tubular.
US09537295B2
An electrical box includes a housing having a mounting plate and a housing body; and a cover rotatably mounted to the housing to cover a central opening in the mounting plate when the cover is in a closed configuration and to allow access to the central opening when the cover is in an open configuration. The housing body includes at least one chamber for receiving an electrical device mounted therein and for receiving a cable for connecting to the electrical device. The housing body is coupled to the mounting plate by a plurality of rib members to form a gap between the housing body and the mounting plate. The cover includes fluid directing elements that project downwardly from the cover and which are received within the gap between the housing body and the mounting plate when the cover is in the closed configuration.
US09537292B2
The present invention relates to a method for placing at least one duct/communication cable below a road surface in an area, said area comprising a first layer (L1 and a second layer (L2), said first layer (L1) being a road layer, such as asphalt or concrete, and said second layer (L2) being a bearing layer for said first layer (L1) and being located below said first layer (L1), said method comprising the steps of: cutting a micro trench in said area through said first layer (L1) into said second layer (L2); placing at least one duct/communication cable in said micro trench so that said at least one duct/communication cable is placed below said first layer (L1); and filling said micro trench so as to restore said road surface.
US09537281B2
A power supply and circuitry system for powering HVPT devices includes a power supply circuit that selectively provides an operating power and a simmer power to multiple HVPT devices. The system also includes a trigger circuit for each respective HVPT device that selectively couples the power supply circuit to one HVPT device to provide the operating power thereto. The system also includes a simmer control circuit for selectively coupling the power supply circuit to the HVPT devices to provide the simmer power thereto, the simmer control circuit further including a simmer switch circuit for each HVPT device, wherein each simmer switch circuit comprises an input coupled to the power supply circuit to receive the simmer power therefrom and an output coupled to one HVPT device. The simmer control circuit also further includes a simmer drive circuit coupled to each simmer switch circuit for selectively enabling the simmer switch circuits.
US09537275B2
An electrified bus bar assembly is provided. The electrified bus bar assembly includes a track and one or more take-away adaptors that each are capable of acting as a power source to one or more display components. Each take away adaptor is mountable to the track via an electrical and mechanical connection.
US09537271B2
The present disclosure relates to an earphone socket, an earphone plug, an earphone and an electronic device. For example, the earphone socket may include a socket body in which an earphone jack is formed. The earphone socket may include multiple ground terminals, which may be arranged in the earphone jack. The ground terminals may contact a ground section disposed on an earphone plug when the earphone plug is inserted into the earphone jack. The technical solutions of the present disclosure reduce earphone crosstalk and improve tone quality.
US09537263B2
Connector systems may include a connector receptacle and connector plug or insert. The connector receptacle may include a tongue. A first plurality of contacts may be formed on a top surface of the tongue. A first ground pad may be located on a top surface of tongue, and a shield may be formed around the tongue. The connector insert may include a housing and a conductive shield around the housing behind a leading edge of the connector insert. A front edge of the shield may be folded into an opening at the leading edge. In other examples, the receptacle shield may include one or more fingers. These fingers may contact the connector insert shield to form a ground path. One or more of these fingers may engage openings in the insert shield to provide a retention force between the connector insert and receptacle.
US09537257B2
An image projection apparatus includes a casing, a light source unit detachably mounted to the casing, a first connector having a first engagement member, disposed on a housing of the light source unit, a second connector having a second engagement member, disposed on the casing, and one or more supporters disposed at least one of the first connector and the second connector. The first connector is detachably engageable with the second connector. At least one of the first connector and the second connector is moveable in a direction substantially perpendicular to a connection direction of the first connector and the second connector. The one or more supporters guides one of the first engagement member and the second engagement member to the other one of the first engagement member and the second engagement member when engaging the first connector and the second connector.
US09537242B2
An electrical power connector and a terminal assembly are disclosed. The electrical power connector includes a base and at least two terminal assemblies being symmetrically mounted in the base. Each terminal assembly includes a conductive terminal and a reinforcing terminal. The conductive terminal has a plate-shaped main body, a flexible engaging portion and a mounting end. The reinforcing terminal has an upright portion, an L-shaped pressing portion and an U-shaped latching portion. The upright portion is attached to one side of the plate-shaped main body of the conductive terminal, the latching portion is located at the other side of the plate-shaped main body, and the pressing portion presses the flexible engaging portion. The electrical power connector of the present invention employs the two terminal assemblies having high conductivity and good elastic to provide a better electrical performance and a long term reliable connection.
US09537241B2
The invention relates to an electrical connector comprising, a female terminal, including a terminal base body; one or more pairs of terminal plates facing each other, protruding in an insertion direction from the edge of the terminal base body, for receiving and connecting to a mating male terminal and the one or more pairs of terminal plates facing each other being adapted to form recesses for receiving the mating male terminal and to provide a clamping compressive force against the mating male terminal; and one or more tilting restriction elements, a connector cavity for building the female terminal in, and an opening of the electrical connector for inserting a mating male terminal for connecting the mating male terminal with the female terminal, wherein the connector cavity includes one or more contacting portions corresponding to the tilting restriction elements.
US09537239B1
This invention discloses an orthogonal type card edge connector and a combination type card-plugged connector. The orthogonal type card edge connector includes a terminal component for transmitting current signal and/or current and a shell component for accommodating the terminal component. The terminal component comprises a first contact part and a second contact part, a spur line of the first contact part is orthogonal or parallel to a spur line of the second contact part. After the terminal component is electrically connected to a first circuit board and a second circuit board, the first contact part and the second connect part are separately connected with the first circuit board and the second circuit board, which are separately orthogonal and parallel to an extend surface of the orthogonal type card edge connector. The combination type card-plugged connector comprises at least two orthogonal type card edge connectors which are assembled together.
US09537215B2
An antenna structure includes a first antenna, a second antenna, a radio frequency (“RF”) circuit, and a controller. The first antenna includes a first radiating portion and a first feeding portion. The second antenna includes a second radiating portion and a second feeding portion. The second radiating portion is positioned in a first plane that is substantially parallel to a second plane in which the first radiating portion is positioned. The RF circuit is configured to output a first current signal to the first feeding portion and a second current signal to the second feeding portion. The controller is configured to control the RF circuit to adjust phases of the first current signal and the second current signal.
US09537195B2
A band-pass filter having a body, a rectangular waveguide, and a dielectric insert, the dielectric insert has a dielectric plate and a high temperature superconductive film in line with a plurality of rectangular windows of the same height. The waveguide has a×b cross-section, a being length of the long side walls and b the length of the short side walls. Each long side wall has a fixing groove at the central portion and a rectangular recess in the fixing groove. The dielectric plate has two ends in the fixing grooves and is symmetric with a perpendicular bisecting plane of the long side wall. The rectangular recess is symmetric to the perpendicular bisecting plane and has the same length as that of the waveguide, with its width w satisfying t
US09537188B2
A temperature control device for heating or cooling a battery has a cooling apparatus (5) and an electric heating apparatus (10). To simplify the temperature control of batteries, in particular of high-voltage batteries or traction batteries, the electric heating apparatus (10) is combined in one component with a highly thermally conductive material (20).
US09537187B2
Disclosed is a battery pack having a plurality of battery cells or unit modules (‘unit cells’), which can be charged and discharged, mounted in a pack case, wherein the unit cells are stacked in a direction (a Z direction) in which the unit cells are sequentially stacked in parallel to a ground in a state in which a spacing distance for coolant flow is provided between the respective unit cells to constitute a battery module, two or more battery modules are arranged in a horizontal direction (an X direction) on the plane with respect to a coolant introduction direction in which a coolant is introduced through a coolant inlet port in a state in which flow of the coolant between the battery modules is restrained to constitute a battery module group.
US09537183B2
An automatic water control system for open ditch drainage includes a drainage control apparatus that is designed to be disposed in a drainage ditch and to control the water level in the drainage ditch, as well as the water table level in the field.
US09537177B2
An electrode assembly and a secondary battery including the same. The electrode assembly includes a plurality of alternately disposed positive electrode plates and negative electrode plates, separators disposed between the positive electrode plates and the negative electrode plates, a plurality of positive electrode tabs formed in the plurality of positive electrode plates, a plurality of negative electrode tabs formed in the plurality of negative electrode plates, a positive electrode lead including a clip accommodating the plurality of positive electrode tabs and a lead line coupled to the clip, and a negative electrode lead including a clip accommodating the plurality of negative electrode tabs and a lead line coupled to the clip.
US09537176B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a material for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery negative electrodes containing a graphitic material and a non-graphitizable carbonaceous material, the material having excellent resistance against deterioration due to moisture absorption and excellent charge/discharge cycle resistance; a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery negative electrode using the same; and a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery using these, that has low resistance and excellent cycle durability.The present invention comprises a carbonaceous material obtained by carbonizing a plant-derived organic material having a potassium content of 0.5% by mass or less, an average particle size Dv50 of 2 μm to 50 μm, an average interlayer spacing of (002) plane determined by powder X-ray diffraction of 0.365 nm to 0.400 nm, an atomic ratio (H/C) of hydrogen atoms to carbon atoms determined by elemental analysis of 0.1 or less, and a true density determined by a pycnometer method using butanol of 1.51 g/cm3 or greater but 1.65 g/cm3 or less; and a graphitic material having an average interlayer spacing determined by powder X-ray diffraction of 0.345 nm or less, and a true density determined by a pycnometer method using butanol of 1.9 g/cm3 or greater.
US09537140B2
Provided is a new 5 V class spinel exhibiting an operating potential of 4.5 V or more (5 V class), which can suppress the amount of gas generation during high temperature cycles. Suggested is a manganese spinel-type lithium transition metal oxide represented by formula: Li[NiyMn2-(a+b)-y-zLiaTibMz]O4 (wherein 0≦z≦0.3, 0.3≦y<0.6, and M=at least one or more metal elements selected from the group consisting of Al, Mg, Fe and Co), in which in the above formula, the following relationships are satisfied: a>0, b>0, and 3≦b/a≦8.
US09537138B2
A method for preparing a mixture of a powder of an electrode active compound and of a powder of an electron conducting compound is disclosed. According to some aspects, the method includes preparing a liquid medium containing the powder of the electrode active compound and the powder of the electron conducting compound, subjecting the liquid medium containing the powder of the electrode active compound and the powder of the electron conducting compound to the action of high energy ultrasonic waves, removing the liquid medium, and collecting the mixture of the powder of the electrode active compound and of the powder of the electron conducting compound. According to some aspects, an electrode including the mixture as an electrochemically active material, a cell including the electrode, and an accumulator or battery including one or more of these cells are disclosed.
US09537133B2
An electric storage device includes: a power generating element; a housing container that houses the power generating element; a connecting body electrically connected to the power generating element; and an insulating member that fits the housing container at a plurality of fitting portions, secures the connecting body, and insulates a conductive path, which includes the power generating element and the connecting body, and the housing container from each other.
US09537129B2
Methods of forming a lithium-ion battery on a vehicle component by spinning and vehicle components with a batteries formed thereon are disclosed. The spinning may include electrospinning. A first electrode layer may be spun, followed by a first separator layer, a second electrode layer, and a second separator layer. Each layer may be spun directly onto the previously spun layer to provide a battery that does not include metal current collectors. The anode and/or cathode layers may include polyacrylonitrile (PAN) fibers. To render the anode and cathode layers conductive, they may be carbonized using a heat source (e.g., a laser). The disclosed method may allow for the formation of batteries directly onto a vehicle component, such as a body panel, thereby using otherwise empty space to increase the battery capacity of the vehicle.
US09537128B2
The purpose of the present invention is to provide an assembled battery including a battery holder capable of holding single battery cells while automatically aligning the cells during assembly. In the assembled battery (100) according to the present invention, a plurality of single battery cells (101) arranged in a row and battery holders (144) disposed between the plurality of single battery cells (101) are held in a state of being mutually pressed in an arranged direction. The battery holders (144) include a positioning means (144f, 144g) that positions the single battery cells (101) by biasing the single battery cells (101), while being pressed in the arranged direction, in a direction intersecting the arranged direction.
US09537121B2
A secondary battery and a secondary battery pack, the secondary battery including a case; an electrode assembly inside the case; a cap plate coupled with the case, the cap plate having an inner side facing an inside of the case and an outer side facing an outside of the case; a flexible collecting tab electrically connected with the electrode assembly and extending through the cap plate from the inner side to the outer side thereof; and, a terminal plate outside of the case and adjacent to the outer side of the cap plate, the flexible collecting tab being electrically connected with the terminal plate.
US09537115B2
An OLED package structure and a display device are provided. The OLED package structure has an OLED substrate including an OLED component; and a package substrate including an active metal film. A sealed chamber is formed by using a sealant to bond the OLED substrate and the package substrate, and the OLED component and the active metal film are positioned in the sealed chamber. The life time of the OLED component and the display device can be increased by absorbing residual oxygen in the package structure and external penetrating oxygen.
US09537112B2
This application discloses a new family of inorganic-organic hybrid semiconductor bulk materials built on periodic nanostructured 2D layers of ZnS that emit bright white light with high quantum efficiency. These ZnS-based crystalline inorganic-organic hybrid semiconductors have well defined and precisely controllable crystal structure and composition. Their optical emission properties, including intensity, quantum yield, and color quality, can be systematically tuned by varying the composition of both inorganic and organic components. Methods for preparing these materials, use of these materials as a new type of single-phased white light emitting phosphors, and their applications in making WLED devices are also disclosed.
US09537097B2
The present invention relates to a substrate for an organic electrode device, a manufacturing method thereof, and an organic electronic device. An exemplary substrate of the invention, if an organic light emitting element is formed on an upper part of the substrate, can obtain luminance with high emission and uniformity by efficiently controlling the surface resistance of an electrode even when the device is configured into larger sizes.
US09537086B1
A technique relates to a linear magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) device. A linear magnetic tunnel junction structure includes a non-magnetic tunnel barrier on top of a reference layer and a free layer on top of the non-magnetic tunnel barrier, where the linear magnetic tunnel junction structure is in a line. Magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) devices are formed of the reference layer, the non-magnetic tunnel barrier, and the free layer, each of the MRAM devices are in the line. Self-aligned contacts are formed on top of the linear magnetic tunnel junction structure, and the self-aligned contacts individually define the MRAM devices. The self-aligned contacts are separated from one another in the line. Bottom conductive vias are underneath the linear magnetic tunnel junction structure. The bottom conductive vias abut the reference layer of the linear magnetic tunnel junction structure.
US09537077B2
A thermoelectric device and method based on creating a structure of nanoclusters in a composite metal and insulator material by co-depositing the metal and insulator material and irradiating the composite material to create nanoclusters of metal within the composite material. In one variation, the composite material may be continuously deposited and concurrently irradiated. A further variation based on a multilayer structure having alternate layers of metal/material mixture. The alternate layers have differing metal content. The layer structure is irradiated with ionizing radiation to produce nanoclusters in the layers. The differing metal content serves to quench the nanoclusters to isolate nanoclusters along the radiation track. The result is a thermoelectric device with a high figure of merit. In one embodiment, the multilayer structure is fabricated and then irradiated with high energy radiation penetrating the entire layer structure. In another embodiment, layers are irradiated sequentially during fabrication using low energy radiation.
US09537076B2
A thermoelectric conversion module has a substrate, a plurality of first electrodes, a plurality of thermoelectric conversion elements 2, a plurality of second electrodes 4, and connectors 42. The plurality of thermoelectric conversion elements 2 are n-type elements, connected in series. The connector 42 is formed as a single unit with the second electrodes 4 and separate from the first electrodes 3. A receptor 33 that accepts the tip of the connector 42 is provided to each of the first electrodes 3. Six element rows 6 of five thermoelectric conversion elements 2 aligned along the X axis are arrayed along the Y axis. The receptors 33 are configured to accept connectors 42 of the same shape whether electrically connecting the thermoelectric conversion elements 2 within the element rows 6 or electrically connecting between adjacent element rows 6. The first electrodes 3 and second electrodes 4 are all the same shape.
US09537070B2
An optoelectronic component contains a semiconductor chip (1) and a carrier body (10), which are provided with a transparent, electrically insulating encapsulation layer (3), the encapsulation layer (3) having two cutouts (11, 12) for uncovering a contact area (6) and a connection region (8) of the carrier body, and an electrically conductive layer (14) being led from the contact area (6) over a partial region of the encapsulation layer (3) to the electrical connection region (8) of the carrier body (10) in order to electrically connect the contact area (6) and the electrical connection region (8) to one another. The radiation emitted in a main radiation direction (13) by the semiconductor chip (1) is coupled out through the encapsulation layer (3), which advantageously contains luminescence conversion substances for the wavelength conversion of the emitted radiation.
US09537065B2
Improves light extraction efficiency. A light emitting device 1 using a white resin molding package 5 integrally molded with lead frames 3, 4 constituting an electrode corresponding to one or a plurality of light emitting element 2 and white resin, wherein an area in a plane view of a white resin surface on a reflective surface that is level with amounting surface of the light emitting element 2 is configured to be larger than total area in a plane view occupied by surfaces of the lead frames 3, 4 and the light emitting element. Further, a step section is formed on the surfaces of lead frames 3, 4, white resin is filled in the step section, and the area of white resin surface on a reflective surface where the light emitting element 2 is mounted is increased.
US09537063B2
A method for producing a plurality of optoelectronic components (100) comprises the steps: providing a semiconductor body (101) that is arranged on a carrier (114); and applying a converter material (105) to the semiconductor body (101) by means of a photoconductive transfer element (120).
US09537058B2
The present invention discloses an embedded white light LED package structure based on a solid-state fluorescence material. In the present invention, the high power blue light chip is directly embedded into and bonded with a groove of the solid-state fluorescence material, and blue light emitted by the chip and yellow and green light obtained by conversion and emitted by the solid-state fluorescence material are blended by using the principle of lenses, to obtain white light. The embedded white light LED package structure based on a solid-state fluorescence material has a simple process, low cost, and high fluorescence efficiency; and blue light does not leak. Heat dissipation can be directly performed by using the solid-state fluorescence material, and heat dissipation performance is desirable. Energy conservation and environmental protection is achieved, and a service life of an LED lighting device is greatly improved.
US09537047B2
A method for fabricating an LED/phosphor structure is described where an array of blue light emitting diode (LED) dies are mounted on a submount wafer. A phosphor powder is mixed with an organic polymer binder, such as an acrylate or nitrocellulose. The liquid or paste mixture is then deposited over the LED dies or other substrate as a substantially uniform layer. The organic binder is then removed by being burned away in air, or being subject to an O2 plasma process, or dissolved, leaving a porous layer of phosphor grains sintered together. The porous phosphor layer is impregnated with a sol-gel (e.g., a sol-gel of TEOS or MTMS) or liquid glass (e.g., sodium silicate or potassium silicate), also known as water glass, which saturates the porous structure. The structure is then heated to cure the inorganic glass binder, leaving a robust glass binder that resists yellowing, among other desirable properties.
US09537045B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming an insulation pattern including a mask region and an open region on a gallium nitride substrate, growing gallium nitride semiconductor layers to cover the insulation pattern, and patterning the semiconductor layers to form a plurality of semiconductor stacks separated from each other, the plurality of semiconductor stacks being electrically isolated from the gallium nitride substrate by the insulation pattern.
US09537044B2
A method for manufacturing an optoelectric device comprising a semiconductor substrate, pads on a surface of the substrate; semiconductor elements, each element being in contact with a pad; and a dielectric region extending in the substrate from the surface and connecting, for each pair of pads, one of the pads in the pair to the other pad in the pair, the method successively comprising the forming of the pads and the forming of the region, wherein the region is formed by nitriding of the substrate, the method comprising the successive steps of: depositing a layer on the substrate; forming portions on the layer; etching the parts of the layer which are not covered with the portions to form the pads; removing the portions; and nitriding the pads and the parts of the substrate which are not covered with the pads, wherein the nitriding step successively comprises: a first step of nitriding of the pads at a first temperature; and a second step of nitriding of the parts of the substrate which are not covered with the pads at a second temperature different from the first temperature.
US09537037B2
A wet etching method for an N-type bifacial cell including: (1) providing an N-type silicon wafer, proceeding with surface structuralization on the N-type silicon wafer, and producing a PN junction on a surface of the N-type silicon wafer by using a boron diffusion technique; (2) proceeding with a first mixed acid washing, etching the PN junction on an edge and a back surface of the N-type silicon wafer; (3) proceeding with a first pure water washing and a first alkaline washing, removing residual acid solution from the surface of the N-type silicon wafer; (4) proceeding with a second pure water washing and a second mixed acid washing, removing residual impurities from the surface of the N-type silicon wafer; (5) proceeding with a third pure water washing and air drying; and (6) after air drying, completing etching on the N-type bifacial cell.
US09537036B2
Interconnects for optoelectronic devices are described. For example, an interconnect for an optoelectronic device includes an interconnect body having an inner surface, an outer surface, a first end, and a second end. A plurality of bond pads is coupled to the inner surface of the interconnect body, between the first and second ends. A stress relief feature is disposed in the interconnect body. The stress relief feature includes a slot disposed entirely within the interconnect body without extending through to the inner surface, without extending through to the outer surface, without extending through to the first end, and without extending through to the second end of the interconnect body.
US09537020B2
A method of manufacturing a solar cell electrode comprising steps of: preparing a semiconductor substrate, applying a conductive paste onto the light receiving side of the semiconductor substrate, wherein the conductive paste comprises (i) a conductive powder, (ii) a glass frit, (iii) an organic polymer comprising an elastomer and (iv) an organic solvent; and firing the applied conductive paste.
US09537001B2
In a general aspect, a high-voltage metal-oxide-semiconductor (HVMOS) device can include comprising a first gate dielectric layer disposed on a channel region of the HVMOS device and a second gate dielectric layer disposed on at least a portion of a drift region of the HVMOS device. The drift region can be disposed laterally adjacent to the channel region. The second gate dielectric layer can have a thickness that is greater than a thickness of the first gate dielectric layer.
US09536987B2
A line-end cutting method for fin structures of FinFETs formed by double patterning technology firstly utilizes the SiN hard mask lines to form fin structures and then performs lithography and etching processes to form line-end cuts. Since the depth of the line-end cuts is large, there is enough time and space to regulate the etching recipe so as to balance the etching rate of multiple layers including the spin-on-carbon layer, the SiN layer, the SiO2 layer and the silicon substrate, thereby forming the fin structures with line-end cuts having flatter bottom topography, preventing the formation of silicon protrusions or silicon cones during the etching process and improving the device electrical performance.
US09536986B2
Embodiments are directed to a method of enriching and electrically isolating a fin of a FinFET. The method includes forming at least one fin. The method further includes forming under a first set of conditions an enriched upper portion of the at least one fin. The method further includes forming under a second set of conditions an electrically isolated region from a lower portion of the at least one fin, wherein forming under the first set of conditions is spaced in time from forming under the second set of conditions. The method further includes controlling the first set of conditions separately from the second set of conditions.
US09536985B2
A method for producing a semiconductor structure, as well as a semiconductor structure, that uses a partial removal of an insulating layer around a semiconductor fin, and subsequently epitaxially growing an additional semiconductor material in the exposed regions, while maintaining the shape of the fin with the insulating layer.
US09536984B2
A multi-layer semiconductor structure is disclosed for use in III-Nitride semiconductor devices, including a channel layer, a band-offset layer having a wider bandgap than the channel layer, a spacer layer having a narrower bandgap than the band-offset layer, and a cap layer comprising at least two sublayers. Each sublayer is selectively etchable with respect to sublayers immediately below and above, each sublayer comprises a III-N material AlxInyGazN in which 0≦x≦1, 0≦y≦1, and 0≦z≦1, at least one sublayer has a non-zero Ga content, and a sublayer immediately above the spacer layer has a wider bandgap than the spacer layer. Also described are methods for fabricating such semiconductor structures, with gate and/or ohmic recesses formed by selectively removing adjacent layers or sublayers. The performance of resulting devices is improved, while providing design flexibility to reduce production cost and circuit footprint.
US09536977B2
A tunneling field-effect transistor (TFET) device is disclosed. A frustoconical protrusion structure is disposed over a substrate and protruding out of the plane of substrate. A source region is disposed as a top portion of the frustoconical protrusion structure. A sidewall spacer is disposed along sidewall of the source region. A source contact with a critical dimension (CD), which is substantially larger than a width of the source region, is formed on the source region and the sidewall spacer together.
US09536974B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device is provided including forming a gate structure comprising a metal-containing layer over a semiconductor layer and doping the metal-containing layer by tilted ion implantation.
US09536970B2
Three-dimensional semiconductor memory devices and methods of fabricating the same. The three-dimensional semiconductor devices include an electrode structure with sequentially-stacked electrodes disposed on a substrate, semiconductor patterns penetrating the electrode structure, and memory elements including a first pattern and a second pattern interposed between the semiconductor patterns and the electrode structure, the first pattern vertically extending to cross the electrodes and the second pattern horizontally extending to cross the semiconductor patterns.
US09536954B2
A substrate with a silicon carbide film includes a silicon substrate, a SiC film, and a mask 4. The SiC film has a film 31 including openings 35 on the silicon substrate and a film 32 provided on the upper side of the film 31. The mask 4 has a mask 41 provided on the upper side of the silicon substrate and including openings 45 and a mask 42 covering at least part of the mask 41 located in the openings 35 and the side surfaces of the openings 35 and including openings 46. The width W1 of the opening 45, the thickness T1 (μm) of the mask 41, and the thickness D (μm) of the film 31 at a position corresponding to the opening 45 satisfy the following relationships: T1
US09536946B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate having an active region, a gate structure intersecting the active region and extending in a first direction parallel to a top surface of the substrate, a first source/drain region and a second source/drain region disposed in the active region at both sides of the gate structure, respectively, and a first modified contact and a second modified contact in contact with the first source/drain region and the second source/drain region, respectively. The distance between the gate structure and the first modified contact is smaller than the distance between the gate structure and the second modified contact.
US09536945B1
A semiconductor device includes a monocrystalline substrate configured to form a channel region between two recesses in the substrate. A gate conductor is formed on a passivation layer over the channel region. Dielectric pads are formed in a bottom of the recesses and configured to prevent leakage to the substrate. Source and drain regions are formed in the recesses on the dielectric pads from a deposited non-crystalline n-type material with the source and drain regions making contact with the channel region.
US09536939B1
A metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor is provided on a surface of an insulator layer that is located on a handle substrate. The MIM capacitor includes a first metal structure extending upwards from a first portion of the insulator layer, a second metal structure extending upwards from a second portion of the insulator layer, and an oxide fin located between the first and second metal structures, wherein the oxide fin directly contacts an entirety of a sidewall surface of the first metal structure and an entirety of a sidewall surface of the second metal structure, the oxide fin having a topmost surface that is coplanar with a topmost surface of both the first and second metal structures.
US09536924B2
A light-emitting diode is provided to include: a transparent substrate having a first surface, a second surface, and a side surface; a first conductive semiconductor layer positioned on the first surface of the transparent substrate; a second conductive semiconductor layer positioned on the first conductive semiconductor layer; an active layer positioned between the first conductive semiconductor layer and the second conductive semiconductor layer; a first pad electrically connected to the first conductive semiconductor layer; and a second pad electrically connected to the second conductive semiconductor layer, wherein the transparent substrate is configured to discharge light generated by the active layer through the second surface of the transparent substrate, and the light-emitting diode has a beam angle of at least 140 degrees or more. Accordingly, a light-emitting diode suitable for a backlight unit or a surface lighting apparatus can be provided.
US09536908B2
A thin-film transistor array panel includes an insulation substrate, a gate line disposed on the insulation substrate, a gate insulating layer disposed on the gate line, a semiconductor layer disposed on the gate insulating layer, a data line disposed on the semiconductor layer and including a source electrode, a drain electrode disposed on the semiconductor layer and facing the source electrode, a first electrode disposed on the gate insulating layer, a first passivation layer disposed on the first electrode and including silicon nitride, a second passivation layer disposed on the first passivation and including silicon nitride, and a second electrode disposed on the passivation layer, in which a first ratio of nitrogen-hydrogen bonds to silicon-hydrogen bonds in the first passivation layer is different from a second ratio of nitrogen-hydrogen bonds to silicon-hydrogen bonds in the second passivation layer.
US09536899B2
A first conductive structure forms gate electrodes of a first transistor of a first transistor type and a first transistor of a second transistor type. A second conductive structure forms a gate electrode of a second transistor of the first transistor type. A third conductive structure forms a gate electrode of a second transistor of the second transistor type. A fourth conductive structure forms a gate electrode of a third transistor of the first transistor type. A fifth conductive structure forms a gate electrode of a third transistor of the second transistor type. A sixth conductive structure forms gate electrodes of a fourth transistor of the first transistor type and a fourth transistor of the second transistor type. The second and third transistors of the first transistor type and the second and third transistors of the second transistor type are electrically connected to form a cross-coupled transistor configuration.
US09536897B2
A three-dimensional semiconductor device may include a substrate including a cell array region, a word line contact region, and a peripheral circuit region, gate electrodes stacked on the substrate to extend from the cell array region to the word line contact region, a channel hole penetrating the gate electrodes on the cell array region and exposing an active region of the substrate, a dummy hole penetrating the gate electrodes on the word line contact region and exposing a device isolation layer provided on the substrate, and a semiconductor pattern provided in the channel hole but not in the dummy hole.
US09536894B2
According to an embodiment, a non-volatile memory device includes first electrodes arranged in a first direction, a second electrode disposed on a side of the first electrodes in the first direction, a semiconductor layer extending in the first direction through the first electrodes and the second electrode, and a memory film provided between the semiconductor layer and each of the first electrodes. The semiconductor layer includes crystal grains and has a first portion and a second portion, the first portion being adjacent to the first electrodes, and the second portion being adjacent to at least a part of the second electrode, wherein the first portion includes a larger crystal grain than a crystal grain in the second portion.
US09536889B2
A split gate memory device, a semiconductor device and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. In the split gate memory device, an erasing gate is further disposed, wherein the easing gate and a control gate are respectively disposed on two sides of a floating gate. Thus, an erase operation is implemented by the erasing gate instead of the control gate. Accordingly, electric potential applied to the control gate is reduced. Therefore, hot-electron effect in channel region may be avoided, and performance degradation of the memory caused by the hot-electron effect may be avoided as well. Furthermore, as electric potential applied to the control gate is reduced, a gate oxide layer underneath the control gate may be thinner. Accordingly, manufacturing processes of the control gate and the gate oxide layer and that of the gate and the gate oxide layer of a logic transistor in a periphery circuit may be compatible.
US09536886B2
A semiconductor device includes a first diode connected transistor of a first conductivity type and a second diode connected transistor of a second conductivity type connected in series, each of the first and second diode connected transistors being configured to exhibit negative differential resistance in response to an applied voltage. The first drain and first source regions of the first diode connected transistor include dopants of the first conductivity type at degenerate dopant concentration levels and a gate of the first diode connected transistor has a work function that corresponds to that of the semiconductor containing dopants of the second conductivity type. The second drain and second source regions of the second diode connected transistor include dopants of the second conductivity type at degenerate dopant concentration levels and a gate of the second diode connected transistor has a work function that corresponds to that of the semiconductor containing dopants of the first conductivity type.
US09536877B2
One example disclosed herein involves forming source/drain conductive contacts to first and second source/drain regions, the first source/drain region being positioned between a first pair of transistor devices having a first gate pitch dimension, the second source/drain region being positioned between a second pair of transistor devices having a second gate pitch dimension that is greater than the first gate pitch dimension, wherein the first and second pairs of transistor devices have a gate structure and sidewall spacers positioned adjacent the gate structure.
US09536874B2
A variable capacitor includes a fixed main capacitor electrode disposed in a first metal layer overlying a substrate, a second main capacitor electrode spaced from the fixed main capacitor electrode, and a movable capacitor electrode disposed in the first metal layer adjacent the fixed main capacitor electrode. The movable capacitor electrode can be caused to be in a first position ohmically electrically connected to the fixed main capacitor electrode such that the variable capacitor has a first capacitance value or in a second position spaced from the fixed main capacitor electrode such that the variable capacitor has a second capacitance value.
US09536873B2
Both a HEMT and a SBD are formed on a nitride semiconductor substrate. The nitride semiconductor substrate comprises a HEMT gate structure region and an anode electrode region. A first laminated structure is formed at least in the HEMT gate structure region, and includes first to third nitride semiconductor layers. A second laminated structure is formed at least in a part of the anode electrode region, and includes first and second nitride semiconductor layers. The anode electrode contacts the front surface of the second nitride semiconductor layer. At least in a contact region in which the front surface of the second nitride semiconductor layer contacts the anode electrode, the front surface of the second nitride semiconductor layer is finished to be a surface by which the second nitride semiconductor layer forms a Schottky junction with the anode electrode.
US09536871B2
Various aspects of the technology include an integrated circuit device comprising a compound semiconductor layer and a plurality of input, switch, and ground ohmic metal fingers fabricated on the compound semiconductor layer in a repeating sequence. A control gate may be disposed between each input finger and adjacent switch finger, and a sync gate may be disposed between each ground finger and adjacent switch finger. A sync gate and a control gate may be disposed adjacent each switch finger. The device further includes a plurality of control gate pads, each control gate pad at an end of two control gates, and a control gate pad at opposite ends of each control gate, and a plurality of sync gate pads, each sync gate pad at an end of two sync gates, and a sync gate pad at opposite ends of each sync gate.
US09536856B2
Provided is a flip chip bonder including: a pickup flipping collet configured to flip a chip; and a bonding tool configured to receive the chip flipped with the pickup flipping collet from the pickup flipping collet and to bond the received chip to a circuit board. The pickup flipping collet includes a cooling channel through which cooling air flows to cool the pickup flipping collet. Thus, bonding time can be reduced without lowering bonding quality.
US09536854B2
Bonding wire for semiconductor device use where both leaning failures and spring failures are suppressed by (1) in a cross-section containing the wire center and parallel to the wire longitudinal direction (wire center cross-section), there are no crystal grains with a ratio a/b of a long axis “a” and a short axis “b” of 10 or more and with an area of 15 μm2 or more (“fiber texture”), (2) when measuring a crystal direction in the wire longitudinal direction in the wire center cross-section, the ratio of crystal direction <100> with an angle difference with respect to the wire longitudinal direction of 15° or less is, by area ratio, 50% to 90%, and (3) when measuring a crystal direction in the wire longitudinal direction at the wire surface, the ratio of crystal direction <100> with an angle difference with respect to the wire longitudinal direction of 15° or less is, by area ratio, 50% to 90%. During the drawing step, a drawing operation with a rate of reduction of area of 15.5% or more is performed at least once. The final heat treatment temperature and the pre-final heat treatment temperature are made predetermined ranges.
US09536847B2
An embodiment is a bump bond pad structure that comprises a substrate comprising a top layer, a reinforcement pad disposed on the top layer, an intermediate layer above the top layer, an intermediate connection pad disposed on the intermediate layer, an outer layer above the intermediate layer, and an under bump metal (UBM) connected to the intermediate connection pad through an opening in the outer layer. Further embodiments may comprise a via mechanically coupling the intermediate connection pad to the reinforcement pad. The via may comprise a feature selected from the group consisting of a solid via, a substantially ring-shaped via, or a five by five array of vias. Yet, a further embodiment may comprise a secondary reinforcement pad, and a second via mechanically coupling the reinforcement pad to the secondary reinforcement pad.
US09536837B2
A TSV via structure comprising an upper part made on the side of the front face of a substrate in which electronic components are located and a lower part with height and cross-section smaller than the height and cross-section the upper part, the arrangement of the connection element in the substrate being such that it releases stresses generated by the different materials of said structure.
US09536835B2
A semiconductor device includes a first gate electrode provided in a jumper region of a substrate and extending in a first direction, first source/drain regions provided at both sides of the first gate electrode, and a connecting contact electrically connecting the first gate electrode and the first source/drain regions to each other. The connecting contact includes first sub-contacts disposed at both sides of the first gate electrode and connected to the first source/drain regions, and a second sub-contact extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction. The second sub-contact is connected to the first sub-contacts and is in contact with a top surface of the first gate electrode. In the first direction, each of the first sub-contacts has a first width and the second sub-contact has a second width smaller than the first width.
US09536833B2
A semiconductor device may include a metal pad and a first specific metal layer routing. The metal pad is positioned on a first metal layer of the semiconductor device and is directly contacting the first metal layer. The first specific metal layer routing is formed on a second metal layer of the semiconductor device and under the metal pad. In addition, the semiconductor device may include at least one via plug for connecting the first specific metal layer routing to at least one metal region in the first metal layer, where the aforementioned at least one via plug is formed directly under the metal pad.
US09536832B1
A method of forming an interconnect structure includes providing a first dielectric layer, patterning a wire opening in a first dielectric layer, lining the wire opening with a metal liner and includes filling the wire opening with a first conductive material. The method also includes depositing a first cap on the first dielectric layer, depositing a second dielectric layer, and patterning a via trench in the second dielectric layer. The method also includes depositing a metal liner, removing the metal liner from a via junction, and enlarging the contact area. The method also includes filling the via trench with a second conductive material to form a via.
US09536825B2
A semiconductor device and a method of fabricating the same are provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate including a first region and a second region, a first transistor and a second transistor formed on the first region and the second region, respectively, a first contact formed on the first transistor, and a second contact formed on the second transistor. The first contact includes a first work function control layer having a first thickness and a first conductive layer formed on the first work function control layer, the second contact includes a second work function control layer having a second thickness different from the first thickness and a second conductive layer formed on the second work function control layer, and the first contact and the second contact have different work functions.
US09536817B2
Disclosed are a foldable and spreadable electronic device and a method of manufacturing the electronic device. The electronic device may include a flexible chip, a protection film and a flexible substrate. The flexible chip may include a first wiring on a first face thereof. The flexible chip may have a foldable and spreadable structure by reducing a thickness from a second face thereof. The protection film may be disposed on the second face of the flexible chip for protecting the flexible chip. The flexible substrate may include a second wiring on one face thereof. The protection film on disposed on the second face of the flexible chip may make contact with the flexible substrate. The first wiring of the flexible chip may be electrically connected to the second wiring of the flexible substrate using a wire.
US09536815B2
A semiconductor socket including a substrate with a plurality of through holes extending from a first surface to a second surface. A conductive structure is disposed within the through holes A plurality of discrete contact members are located in the plurality of the through holes, within the conductive structure. The plurality of contact members each include a proximal end accessible from the second surface, and a distal end extending above the first surface. The conductive structure can be electrically coupled to circuit geometry. At least one dielectric layer is bonded to the second surface of the substrate with recesses corresponding to desired circuit geometry. A conductive material deposited in at least a portion of the recesses to form conductive traces redistributing terminal pitch of the proximal ends of the contact members.
US09536808B1
Semiconductor devices are provided having large vias, such as under bonding pads, to increase the via open area ratio, increase the via etching rate, and avoid inter-metal dielectric cracking and damage to the integrated circuit. The via is defined as a large open area in the inter-metal dielectric layer between an isolated conductive bottom substrate layer and a conductive top layer. Methods of manufacturing semiconductor devices with a large via are also provided.
US09536807B2
A stack package may include a first chip, a second chip, a through silicon via (TSV) and an interface circuit unit. The first chip may include a first internal circuit unit driven by an internal voltage. The second chip may be stacked over the first chip. The second chip may include a second internal circuit unit driven by the internal voltage. The TSV may be electrically coupled between the first chip and the second chip. The interface circuit unit may be arranged in the first chip and the second chip. The interface circuit unit may be coupled to the TSV. A portion of the interface circuit unit may be received a variable voltage different from the internal voltage as a driving voltage.
US09536804B2
Provided is a method of manufacturing a heat conductive sheet that itself is imparted with stickiness and has reduced heat resistance due to improved adhesion to a heat generator and a heat dissipater and that may be fixed provisionally without the need for using an adhesive agent or the like. The method includes the steps of molding a heat conductive resin composition, which includes heat conductive fillers and a binder resin, into a predetermined shape and curing the heat conductive resin composition to obtain a molded product of the heat conductive resin composition, cutting the molded product into sheets to obtain a molded product sheet, and coating an entire surface of a sheet main body (7) with an uncured component (8) of the binder resin oozing from the sheet main body (7).
US09536800B2
In one general aspect, a package can include a semiconductor die having a first terminal on a first side of the semiconductor die and a second terminal on a second side of the semiconductor die, a leadframe portion electrically coupled to the second terminal of the semiconductor die, and a molding compound. The first terminal on the first side of the semiconductor die, a first surface of the leadframe portion, and a first surface of the molding compound can define at least a portion of a first surface of the package. A second surface of the molding compound and a second surface of the leadframe portion can define at least a portion of a second surface of the package parallel to the first surface of the package, and the second surface can be on an opposite side of the package from the first surface of the package.
US09536798B2
The invention discloses a package structure made of the combination of a device carrier and a modifiable substrate. In one embodiment, a recess is formed in the device carrier and a conductive element is disposed on the substrate, wherein the substrate is disposed on the device carrier and the conductive element is located in the recess of the device carrier. The conductive pattern in the substrate is electrically connected to the device carrier and I/O terminals of the first conductive element. The invention also discloses a method for manufacturing a package structure made of the combination of a device carrier and a modifiable substrate. In one embodiment, a portion of the conductive pattern in the substrate can be modified.
US09536794B2
In one aspect, a method of forming a CMOS device includes forming nanowires suspended over a BOX, wherein a first/second one or more of the nanowires are suspended at a first/second suspension height over the BOX, and wherein the first suspension height is greater than the second suspension height; depositing a conformal gate dielectric on the BOX and around the nanowires wherein the conformal gate dielectric deposited on the BOX is i) in a non-contact position with the conformal gate dielectric deposited around the first one or more of the nanowires, and ii) is in direct physical contact with the conformal gate dielectric deposited around the second one or more of the nanowires such that the BOX serves as an oxygen source during growth of a conformal oxide layer at the interface between the conformal gate dielectric and the second one or more of the nanowires.
US09536792B2
A complementary metal oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) includes a substrate, a first MOSFET and a second MOSFET. The first MOSFET is disposed on the substrate within a first transistor region and the second MOSFET is disposed on the substrate within a second transistor region. The first MOSFET includes a first fin structure, two first lightly-doped regions, two first doped regions and a first gate structure. The first fin structure includes a first body portion and two first epitaxial portions, wherein each of the first epitaxial portions is disposed on each side of the first body portion. A first vertical interface is between the first body portion and each of the first epitaxial portions so that the first-lightly doped region is able to be uniformly distributed on an entire surface of each first vertical interface.
US09536787B2
Disclosed herein is a wafer processing method for dividing a wafer into a plurality of individual devices along a plurality of crossing division lines. The wafer is composed of a substrate and a functional layer formed on the front side of the substrate. The division lines are formed on the front side of the functional layer. A laser beam having a transmission wavelength to the substrate is applied to the wafer from the back side thereof to detect the height of an interface between the functional layer and the substrate in an area corresponding to each division line. The depth of cut by a cutting blade for cutting the substrate is next set according to the height detected above. The back side of the substrate is next cut by the cutting blade according to the depth of cut set above to thereby form a cut groove having a depth not reaching the functional layer with a remaining part of the substrate left between the bottom of the cut groove and the functional layer along each division line, the remaining part having a uniform thickness. Thereafter, the remaining part and the functional layer are cut along each division line to thereby divide the wafer.
US09536781B2
Methods of fabricating integrated circuits are disclosed herein. A die having a side is provided. A conductive stud extends from the side in a direction that is substantially normal to the side. A first dielectric layer is affixed to the side of the die. The first dielectric layer has a first side and a second side. The first side of the first dielectric layer is affixed to the side of the die. The conductive stud pierces the first side of the first dielectric layer. A first via is formed through the first dielectric layer between the conductive stud and the second side. The first via is electrically connected to the conductive stud.
US09536777B2
A method comprises bonding a first chip on a second chip, depositing a first hard mask layer over a non-bonding side of the first chip, depositing a second hard mask layer over the first hard mask layer, etching a first substrate of the first semiconductor chip using the second hard mask layer as a first etching mask and etching the IMD layers of the first chip and the second chip using the first hard mask layer as a second etching mask.
US09536773B2
Embodiments of a mechanism for forming a shallow trench isolation (STI) structure filled with a flowable dielectric layer are provided. The mechanism involves using one or more low-temperature thermal anneal processes with oxygen sources and one or more microwave anneals to convert a flowable dielectric material to silicon oxide. The low-temperature thermal anneal processes with oxygen sources and the microwave anneals are performed at temperatures below the ranges that could cause significant dopant diffusion, which help dopant profile control for advanced manufacturing technologies. In some embodiments, an implant to generate passages in the upper portion of the flowable dielectric layer is also used in the mechanism.
US09536746B2
Some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a semiconductor device configured to mitigate against parasitic coupling while maintaining threshold voltage control for comparatively narrow transistors. In some embodiments, a semiconductor device formed on a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor device comprises a channel comprising an epitaxial layer that forms an outgrowth above the surface of the semiconductor substrate, and a gate material formed over the epitaxial layer. In some embodiments, a method of forming a semiconductor device is disclosed. The method comprises etching the surface of a semiconductor substrate to form a recess between first and second isolation structures, forming an epitaxial layer within the recess that forms an outgrowth above the surface of the semiconductor substrate, and forming a gate material over the epitaxial layer. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
US09536745B2
A tungsten film forming method for forming a tungsten film on a surface of a target substrate by an ALD (atomic layer deposition) method comprises adding a reduction gas to allow an ALD reaction to mainly occur when a tungsten chloride gas is supplied. In the ALD method, the tungsten chloride gas as a tungsten source gas and the reduction gas for reducing the tungsten chloride gas are alternately supplied into a chamber which accommodates the target substrate and is maintained under a depressurized atmosphere, with a purge process for purging an inside of the chamber performed between the supply of the tungsten chloride gas and the supply of the reduction gas.
US09536741B2
The method for performing activation of n-type or p-type dopants in a GaN-base semiconductor includes the following steps: providing a substrate including a GaN-base semiconductor material layer, performing the following successive steps at least twice: implanting electric dopant impurities in the semiconductor material layer, performing heat treatment so as to activate the electric dopant impurities in the semiconductor material layer, a cap layer covering the semiconductor material layer when the heat treatment is performed, two implantation steps of electric dopant impurities being separated by a heat treatment step.
US09536740B2
A description is given of a method for doping a semiconductor body, and a semiconductor body produced by such a method. The method comprises irradiating the semiconductor body with protons and irradiating the semiconductor body with electrons. After the process of irradiating with protons and after the process of irradiating with electrons, the semiconductor body is subjected to heat treatment in order to attach the protons to vacancies by means of diffusion.
US09536726B2
MALDI-TOF MS systems have solid state lasers and successive and varied delay times between ionization and acceleration (e.g. extraction) to change focus masses during a single sample signal acquisition without requiring tuning of the MS by a user. The (successive) different delay times can change by 1 ns to about 500 ns, and can be in a range that is between 1-2500 nanoseconds.
US09536717B2
This invention relates to mass spectrometry that includes ion trapping in at least one of the stages of mass analysis. In particular, although not exclusively, this invention relates to tandem mass spectrometry where precursor ions and fragment ions are analyzed. A method of mass spectrometry is provided comprising the sequential steps of: accumulating in an ion store a sample of one type of ions to be analyzed; accumulating in the ion store a sample of another type of ions to be analyzed; and mass analyzing the combined samples of the ions; wherein the method comprises accumulating the sample of the one type of ions and/or the sample of another type of ions to achieve a target number of ions based on the results of a previous measurement of the respective type of ions.
US09536715B2
Recycling method for tantalum coil for sputtering and tantalum coil obtained by the recycling method
The present invention relates to a method for recycling a tantalum coil for sputtering that is disposed between a substrate and a sputtering target. The method for recycling a tantalum coil for sputtering is characterized in that the whole or partial surface of a spent tantalum coil is subject to cutting (cutting is performed until a re-deposited film and knurling traces are eliminated) so as to eliminate the re-deposited film that was formed during sputtering, and knurling is newly performed to the cut portion. While sputtered grains are accumulated (re-deposited) on the surface of the tantalum coil disposed between the substrate and the sputtering target during sputtering, by eliminating the sputtered grains accumulated on the spent coil by way of cutting after the sputtering is complete, the tantalum coil can be efficiently recycled. Thus, provided is technology capable of lean manufacturing of new coils, improving productivity, and stably providing such coils.
US09536714B2
A plate-centering system that has a plate with a holder, in which the plate is centered in the holder both at room temperature and at higher temperatures, independently of the thermal expansion of the plate and the holder, and the plate can freely expand in the holder at higher temperatures. The invention relates in particular to a target having a frame-shaped target mount, which is very well suited for use in a coating source for high power pulsed magnetron sputtering of the target.
US09536710B2
An apparatus for providing processing gases to a process chamber with improved uniformity is disclosed. One embodiment provides a gas delivery assembly. The gas delivery assembly includes a hub, a nozzle, and one or more gas diffusers disposed in the nozzle. The nozzle has a cylindrical body with a side wall and a top surface. A plurality of injection passages are formed inside the nozzle to deliver processing gases into the process chamber via a plurality of outlets disposed in the side wall. The injection passages are configured to direct process gases out of each outlet disposed in the side wall in a direction which is not radially aligned with a centerline of the hub.
US09536709B2
A large-sized plasma generator is suited to various surface shapes and has a longer service life and improved energy conservation. An example of the plasma generator (1-1) has a dielectric layer (3), first and second electrodes (4, 5) that are formed within the dielectric layer, an alternating-current power supply (6), and a first metal layer (7). The dielectric layer (3) is composed of polymer resin layers (31, 32) that are formed of a polyimide resin. The electrodes are arranged side by side within the dielectric layer. The first metal layer is formed of a metal having a sterilization effect, and has a plurality of pores (71) in the surface. The first metal layer spans between supporting parts (33, 34) of the polymer resin layer (32), and faces the whole of the electrodes. A gap (S) is formed between the first metal layer and the polymer resin layer.
US09536705B2
A writing apparatus includes a writing unit to include a deflector for deflecting a charged particle beam and write a pattern on a target object by the charged particle beam, a decision unit to decide a representative position of a deflection result range in which the charged particle beam was deflected with respect to a writing direction by the deflector, and a correction unit to correct drift of the charged particle beam by using a drift amount at the representative position of the deflection result range.
US09536697B2
This invention provides a system and a method for calibrating charge-regulation module in vacuum environment. Means for mounting the charge-regulation module provides motions to the charge-regulation module such that a beam spot, illuminated by the charge-regulation module, on a sample surface can be moved to a pre-determined position which is irradiated by a charged particle beam.
US09536695B2
A driving method includes providing a field emission cathode device. The field emission cathode device includes a cathode electrode, an electron emission layer electrically connected to the cathode electrode, a first gate electrode spaced from the cathode electrode by a first dielectric layer, and a second grid electrode spaced from the first gate electrode by a second dielectric layer. The second dielectric layer has a second opening. A first voltage is supplied to the cathode electrode, a second voltage is supplied to the first gate electrode, and a third voltage is supplied to the second grid electrode, to extract electrons from the electron emission layer to a space formed by the second opening, until the electrons of the space saturate. The third voltage is greater than the second voltage, such that the electrons of the space are emitted through the second grid electrode.
US09536687B2
A push switch includes a switch contact part for carrying out electrical connection by pressing, a case having a wall part on a periphery thereof and accommodating the switch contact part in a concave portion surrounded by the wall part, and a protective sheet covering the concave portion. The protective sheet and at least a part of an upper surface of the wall part of the case are welded together as a first welding place.
US09536680B2
A jumper is for an electrical switching apparatus having a plurality of poles. Each of the poles comprises a terminal. The terminal of a first one of the poles is proximate the terminal of a second one of the poles. The jumper includes a jumper member having an attachment portion and a heat sink portion. The attachment portion is structured to electrically connect the terminal of the first one of the poles to the terminal of the second one of the poles. The heat sink portion includes a plurality of spaced apart heat transfer members that are arranged in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns.
US09536675B2
Provided is a polymerization liquid for electropolymerization, which uses a solvent that is mainly composed of water, which is greatly increased in the amount of a monomer contained therein, and which is capable of quickly forming a conductive polymer layer having high conductivity and heat resistance, A polymerization liquid for electropolymerization of the present invention contains: a solvent that is composed of 100-80% by mass of water and 0-20% by mass of an organic solvent; at least one monomer having a pi-conjugated double bond; at least one supporting electrolyte; and at least two nonionic surfactants. The at least two nonionic surfactants are composed of at least one acetylenol surfactant and at least one water-soluble nonionic surfactant other than the acetylenol surfactant. Due to the combination of the two nonionic surfactants, the amount of the monomer emulsified with the solvent can be greatly increased.
US09536670B2
A capacitor provides a plurality of selectable capacitance values, by selective connection of six capacitor sections of a capacitive element each having a capacitance value. The capacitor sections are provided in a plurality of wound cylindrical capacitive elements. Two vertically stacked wound cylindrical capacitance elements may each provide three capacitor sections. There may be six separately wound cylindrical capacitive elements each providing a capacitor section. The capacitor sections have a common element terminal.
US09536669B2
In a method of forming a plating layer for an external terminal electrode by applying, for example, copper plating to an end surface of a component main body with respective ends of internal electrodes exposed, and then applying a heat treatment at a temperature of about 1000° C. or more in order to improve the adhesion strength and moisture resistance of the external terminal electrode, the plating layer may be partially melted to decrease the bonding strength of the plating layer. In the step of applying a heat treatment at a temperature of about 1000° C. or more to a component main body with plating layers formed thereon, the average rate of temperature increase from room temperature to the temperature of about 1000° C. or more is set to about 100° C./minute or more. This average rate of temperature increase maintains a moderate eutectic state in the plating layer and ensures a sufficient bonding strength of the plating layer.
US09536664B2
In an electronic component, capacitor conductors include linear portions parallel or substantially parallel to a lower surface of a laminate, and lead-out portions led out respectively from the linear portions to the lower surface. Outer electrodes are disposed on the lower surface and cover exposed portions where the lead-out portions are exposed at the lower surface, respectively. At least one of the linear portions includes a groove, which is recessed in a direction away from the lower surface, in a region thereof overlapping with the corresponding outer electrode when looking at the electronic component in a plan view from a z-axis direction.
US09536658B2
A grain oriented electrical steel sheet that is subjected to magnetic domain refining treatment by electron beam irradiation and exhibits excellent low-noise properties when assembled as an actual transformer in which tension exerted on the steel sheet by the forsterite film is 2.0 MPa or higher both in a rolling direction and a direction transverse (perpendicular) to the rolling direction, and a ratio of an irradiation pitch in a thermal strain introduced region (B) to a spot diameter (A) on an electron beam irradiation surface satisfies 0.5≦B/A≦5.0.
US09536645B2
A ferrite composition comprises a main component and a sub component. The main component is comprised of 40.0 to 49.8 mol % iron oxide in terms of Fe2O3, 5.0 to 14.0 mol % copper oxide in terms of CuO, 0 to 32.0 mol % zinc oxide in terms of ZnO, and a remaining part of nickel oxide. The sub component includes 0.5 to 4.0 wt % tin oxide in terms of SnO2, 0.10 to 1.00 wt % bismuth oxide in terms of Bi2O3, and 0.21 to 3.00 wt % cobalt oxide in terms of Co3O4, with respect to the main component.
US09536639B2
A wire harness is provided in which, by merely overlap wrapping a binding tape member around a group of lead wires, intruding water can be guided to the outside. The wire harness includes a group of lead wires and a binding tape-type protection portion that covers the group of lead wires. The binding tape-type protection portion is formed by overlap wrapping a binding tape member around the group of lead wires, the binding tape member having a tape member body made of a synthetic resin and an adhesive layer formed on one surface of the tape member body. The tape member body has a plurality of water drain holes that are provided so as to penetrate the wall of the tape member body in the width direction, and that are provided in the lengthwise direction.
US09536636B2
An insulated wire including a laminated resin-coated insulated wire containing: a thermosetting resin layer (A) directly or via an insulating layer (D) on a conductor having a rectangular cross-section; and at least a thermoplastic resin layer (B) on the outer periphery of the thermosetting resin layer (A), in which the cross-sectional shape of the thermosetting resin layer (A) composed of two pairs of two sides facing each other, and has at least four convex portions each of which has a film thickness in maximum, at least one convex portion of the at least four convex portions is on each of the four sides, or at least two convex portions of the at least four convex portions are at least on each of the two sides facing each other, and in the each side having the convex portion, provided that a minimum film thickness is designated as “a” pm, and an average of maximum film thicknesses of the convex portions is designated as “b” pm, the a/b ratio is 0.60 or more and 0.90 or less; a coil, and electric/electronic equipment.
US09536627B2
The semiconductor device includes a bit line, a transistor, a retention node, and a capacitor. The transistor has a function of charging or discharging the retention node. The capacitor has a function of retaining a potential of the retention node. A voltage greater than the sum of a writing voltage and a threshold voltage is applied to a gate of the transistor. When the transistor is turned on, a first potential is supplied to the bit line with a reference potential in a floating state. A voltage less than the sum of the writing voltage and the threshold voltage is applied to the gate of the transistor. When the transistor is turned on, a second potential is supplied to the bit line with a reference potential in a floating state. With use of the first and second potentials, the threshold voltage of the transistor is calculated without being influenced by parasitic capacitance and variations in the storage capacitance of the capacitor.
US09536623B2
The present invention discloses a gate drive circuit and a shift register. The gate drive circuit comprises a plurality of shift register circuits which are cascade connected, and each of the shift register circuits comprises a clock control transmission circuit and a NOR gate latch circuit, wherein the clock control transmission circuit is triggered by a first clock pulse of a clock signal to transmit a gate drive pulse of a former stage to the NOR gate latch circuit, and the NOR gate latch circuit performs latch, and the NOR gate latch circuit is further triggered by a second clock pulse following the first clock pulse to output the gate drive pulse. With the aforesaid arrangement, the gate drive circuit of the present invention is applicable to CMOS process, and the power consumption is low and the noise margin is wide.
US09536622B2
For programming an antifuse memory, the power consumption of the memory is assessed during programming mode. The power consumption is compared with a threshold. When the threshold is exceeded, indicative of successful programming of the antifuse memory cell, the programming mode is terminated.
US09536621B2
A nonvolatile memory includes a memory area including plural first magnetoresistive elements each serving as a memory element, each first magnetoresistive element including a first storage layer and a first reference layer, with a first insulating film therebetween. A fuse circuit storing correction information of the memory area when a defect exists in the memory area, includes plural second magnetoresistive elements and plural fuse elements, the second magnetoresistive elements each serving as an anti-fuse element. Each second magnetoresistive element includes a second storage layer and a second reference layer, with a second insulating film therebetween. The fuse elements each store at least part of the correction information. A redundancy area includes plural third magnetoresistive elements each serving as a redundancy element, each third magnetoresistive element including a third storage layer and a third reference layer, with a third insulating film therebetween. When an external address signal matches the correction information, one third magnetoresistive element is selected.
US09536616B1
A non-volatile memory device includes a first electrode layer, a second electrode layer adjacent to the first electrode layer, a third electrode layer adjacent to the second electrode layer, a fourth electrode layer adjacent to the third electrode layer, and a channel body extending through the first electrode layer, the second electrode layer, the third electrode layer and the fourth electrode layer in a first direction. The device further includes a circuit electrically connected to the first electrode layer, the second electrode layer, the third electrode layer, the fourth electrode layer, and the channel body. The circuit providing the second electrode layer with a first potential, the third electrode layer with a second potential higher than the first potential, the fourth electrode layer with a third potential between the first potential and the second potential and the channel body with a potential rising in the first direction.
US09536615B2
A nonvolatile semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array having first and second groups of memory strings, each memory string including first and second memory cells connected between select transistors. The nonvolatile semiconductor memory device further includes a first word line connected to the first memory cells of the memory strings, a second word line connected to the second memory cells of the memory strings, and a control unit configured to control application of control voltages to the select transistors and the word lines, such that a select line voltage is applied to the first word line and a non-select line voltage is applied to the second word line and not discharged while select transistors of the first group of memory strings are turned off and select transistors of the second group of memory strings are turned on.
US09536614B2
A memory system has an array of split gate non-volatile NVM cells that are in program sectors and the program sectors make up one or more erase sectors. The control gate of cells in a program sector are physically connected. A program/erase circuit programs a selected program sector by applying a programming signal to the control gates of the split gate memory cells of the selected program sector while applying a non-programming signal to the control gates of program sectors not selected for programming, that erases an erase sector comprising a plurality of the program sectors by contemporaneously applying an erase voltage to the control gates of the split gate NVM cells of the erase sector, wherein during the applying the programming signal, the program/erase circuit applies a source voltage to the sources of each of the split gate NVM cells of the erase sector.
US09536612B1
A method for multilevel programming flash memory cells of a three dimensional array of flash memory cells, the method may include receiving or determining a multiple phase programming scheme that is responsive to coupling between flash memory cells of the three dimensional array; and programming data to multiple flash memory cells of the three dimensional array in response to the multiple phase programming scheme. The multiple phase programming scheme determine a manner in which multiple programming levels are applied. At least two programming levels of the multiple programming levels correspond to bits of different significance.
US09536611B2
A semiconductor device includes a plurality of active strips, where active strips in the plurality are coupled together at one end by a pad and terminated at another end by a conductive line. The device includes memory cells at cross-points between the plurality of active strips and a plurality of word lines. The device includes string select structures arranged in an interlaced configuration as side gates for active strips. The device includes control circuitry, configured to turn on a particular active strip by applying a turn-on voltage to two string select structures arranged as side gates for the particular active strip, and to turn off a second particular active strip by applying a turn-off bias to at least one string select structure arranged as a side gate for the second particular active strip. The turn-off bias includes one of a ground voltage, a non-negative voltage, and a floating condition.
US09536605B2
Provided are a resistive memory device including a plurality of memory cells, and a method of operating the resistive memory device. The resistive memory device includes a sensing circuit connected to a first signal line, to which a memory cell is connected, the sensing circuit sensing data stored in the memory cell based on a first reference current; and a reference time generator for generating a reference time signal that determines a time point when a result of the sensing is to be output, based on the first reference current.
US09536604B1
A memory system is deigned for impedance matching using a network of resistors that are tuned to reduce reflections on a shared bus. Any deviation from the matched state causes a mismatch and results in reflections on the bus. Overall signal reflections are reduced by balancing the back reflections occurring at a connector junction coupled to a pair of resistors and the back reflections occurring at the input of the DIMMs. This balance or tradeoff is achieved by changing the resistance value of the resistor pair to reduce the overall back reflections in the memory system.
US09536598B2
Among other things, techniques and systems are provided for activating a memory cell of a memory arrangement in preparation for at least one of a read operation or write operation. The memory arrangement comprises a word-line driver comprising at least a first input terminal and a second input terminal. The first input terminal is operably coupled to a first decoder and the second input terminal is operably coupled to a second decoder. When the word-line driver senses a first voltage at the first input terminal and a second voltage at the second input terminal, the word-line driver outputs a gate voltage signal which activates the memory cell.
US09536595B2
Methods, devices, arrays and systems for reducing standby power for a floating body memory array. One method includes counting bits of data before data enters the array, wherein the counting includes counting at least one of: a total number of bits at state 1 and a total number of all bits; a total number of bits at state 0 and the total number of all bits; or the total number of bits at state 1 and the total number of bits at state 0. This method further includes detecting whether the total number of bits at state 1 is greater than the total number of bits at state 0; setting an inversion bit when the total number of bits at state 1 is greater than the total number of bits at state 0; and inverting contents of all the bits of data before writing the bits of data to the memory array when the inversion bit has been set.
US09536590B1
Aspects of the disclosure provide an integrated circuit (IC) chip having a memory controller. The memory controller includes a memory interface circuit configured to interface the IC chip with a memory chip having a memory array, and a first control circuit. The memory chip has a configuration circuit for adjusting one or more configurations of the memory chip. The first control circuit is configured to control the memory interface circuit and to communicate with the configuration circuit in the memory chip via the memory interface circuit to adjust the one or more configurations of the memory chip.
US09536589B2
A method of operating a memory controller is disclosed. The method includes transmitting data signals to a memory device over each one of at least two parallel data links. A timing signal is sent to the memory device on a first dedicated link. The timing signal has a fixed phase relationship with the data signals. A data strobe signal is driven to the memory device on a second dedicated link. Phase information is received from the memory device. The phase information being generated internal to the memory device and based on a comparison between the timing signal and a version of the data strobe signal internally distributed within the memory device. A phase of the data strobe signal is adjusted relative to the timing signal based on the received phase information.
US09536587B2
A first semiconductor device equalizes levels of a bit line and a complementary bit line of a high-order bit line pair in a first memory block using a first drive voltage signal whose level is controlled when a power-down mode or a self-refresh mode is activated according to a level combination of high-order command/address signals. A second semiconductor device equalizes levels of a bit line and a complementary bit line of a low-order bit line pair in a second memory block using a second drive voltage signal whose level is controlled when the power-down mode or the self-refresh mode is activated according to a level combination of low-order command/address signals.
US09536572B2
Certain exemplary aspects of the present disclosure are directed towards an apparatus in which a base deck and a forged base deck cover are coupled to one another, via a weld joint, to provide a hermetically sealed cavity within. The base deck includes an outer region, and the base deck cover includes a lip that interfaces with the outer region of the base deck to provide the weld joint. Similarly, the base deck is formed by an outer region of a base deck bottom portion interfacing with a lip of the shroud to form, via welding, the base deck.
US09536568B2
A method of operation of a display system includes: receiving a recap request for a source media; generating source content descriptors for the source media with a control unit; extracting a source recap segment from the source media based on correlation of the source content descriptors with a recap theme associated with the recap request; and generating a custom recap with the source recap segment for displaying on a device.
US09536557B2
A method for content playback and recording may include using a computer to obtain media content from a recorded medium. Concurrently with obtaining the media content, the method may include reencrypting the encrypted media content using a secondary encryption key and storing the reencrypted media content in a storage device.
US09536556B2
A heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) assembly includes a slider, a laser diode and solder connections between the laser diode and the slider. The solder connections mechanically and electrically attach the laser diode to the slider. Each solder connection has a total volume per unit area (i.e., height) of less than or equal to about 15 μm. The solder connections have a first intermetallic zone adjacent to the laser diode, a second intermetallic zone adjacent to the slider, and a eutectic zone of eutectic material between the first and second intermetallic zones. The eutectic zone occupies greater than or equal to about 35% of the total volume per unit area of the solder connection.
US09536550B1
A cross-track profile of a known good test track on a recording medium is read during operation of a data storage device. Two or more center locations of the test track are determined at two or more different amplitude levels via a read transducer. A health condition of the read transducer is determined by comparing the two or more center locations of the test track with one another.
US09536546B2
Systems and techniques are provided for finding differences in nearly-identical audio recordings. A first version of an audio recording may be received. A second version of the audio recording may be received. A difference between the first version of the audio recording and the second version of the audio recording may be determined using time domain analysis and frequency domain analysis. The difference may be stored in a difference set. The difference set may allow the first version of the audio recording to be distinguished from the second version of the audio recording. The audio recording may be a music track. The first version of the audio recording may be an explicit version of the music track. The second version of the audio recording may be an edited version of the music track.
US09536545B2
The invention relates to the analysis of characteristics of audio and/or video signals for the generation of audio-visual content signatures. To determine an audio signature a region of interest for example of high entropy—is identified in audio signature data. This region of interest is then provided as an audio signature with offset information. A video signature is also provided.
US09536535B2
Described herein are systems, methods and apparatus for decoding in-band on-channel signals and extracting audio and data signals. Memory requirements are reduced by selectively filtering a bit stream of data in the signal so that services of interest which are encoded therein are processed. A single pool of memory may be shared between physical layer and data link layer processing. Memory in this pool may be allocated dynamically between processing of data at the physical and data link layers. When the available memory is not sufficient to support the required services, the dynamic allocation allows for graceful degradation.
US09536526B2
According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a display controller and circuitry. The display controller displays a first object indicative of a first speaker, a first object indicative of a second speaker different from the first speaker, a second object indicative of a first speech period identified as a speech of the first speaker, and a second object indicative of a second speech period identified as a speech of the second speaker. The circuitry integrates the first speech period and the second speech period into a speech period of a same speaker when a first operation of associating the first object indicative of the first speaker with the first object indicative of the second speaker is operated.
US09536520B2
In accordance with one aspect of the present invention, a method selects a program from a library of programs. A user selection is determined based upon a voice command, and the program is presented at a display device in accordance with the voice command. In accordance with another aspect of the present invention, a system selects a program from a library of programs. The system includes a processor that determines a user selection based upon a voice command, and also includes a display device that presents the program in accordance with the voice command. In accordance with yet another embodiment of the present invention, a computer-readable medium contains a set of instructions that when executed by a processor cause the processor to determine a user selection based upon a voice command and to command a display device to present the program, in accordance with the voice command.
US09536513B2
Polymer dispersions and sound deadener compositions with emulsion polymer from two-stage preparation
A description is given of an aqueous polymer dispersion comprising a polymer which is obtainable by emulsion polymerization from a monomer mixture comprising as hydrophilic monomers ethoxylated (meth)acrylate monomer, acid monomer, and C1 to C20 hydroxyalkyl(meth)acrylate; and also at least one hydrophobic principal monomer, selected from C1 to C20 alkyl(meth)acrylates and vinylaromatics; and also, optionally, further monomers. This polymer is preparable by at least two-stage emulsion polymerization, where in a first polymerization stage the predominant fraction or the entire amount of the hydrophilic monomers is used, and in a later polymerization stage the predominant fraction or the entire amount of the hydrophobic monomers is used. The polymer dispersion is a suitable binder for aqueous particle dispersions, more particularly of sound deadener compositions, which comprise inorganic and optionally also organic particulate solids. Also described is a method for damping oscillations or vibrations of vehicle components.
US09536512B2
A non-reciprocal acoustic device that accomplishes non-reciprocity via linear or angular-momentum bias. The non-reciprocal acoustic device includes an azimuthally symmetric or planar acoustical cavity (e.g., ring cavity), where the cavity is biased by imposing a circular or linear motion of a gas, a fluid or a solid medium filling the cavity. Acoustic waveguides are connected to the cavity or the cavity is excited from the surrounding medium. A port of this device is excited with an acoustic wave. When the cavity is biased appropriately, the acoustic wave is transmitted to one of the other acoustic waveguides while no transmission of the acoustic wave occurs at the other acoustic waveguides. As a result, linear non-reciprocity is now realized in acoustics without distorting the input signal or requiring high input power or bulky devices.
US09536508B2
An accompaniment data generating apparatus has a storing portion 15 for storing sets of phrase waveform data each related to a chord identified on the basis of a combination of chord type and chord root, and a CPU 9. The CPU 9 carries out a chord information obtaining process for obtaining chord information by which a chord type and a chord root are identified, and a chord note waveform data generating process for generating phrase waveform data indicative of chord notes of the chord root and the chord type identified by the obtained chord information in accordance with the obtained chord information by use of the sets of phrase waveform data stored in the storing portion 15, and outputting the generated data as accompaniment data.
US09536506B1
A lighted drum or other article may have a LED strip light and a wireless receiver/decoder in communication with the LED strip light. The wireless receiver/decoder may be configured to receive wireless control signals from a remote computer and control operation of the LED strip light in response to the control signals. Some embodiments may include a trigger assembly engaged with a drum head; a wireless receiver/decoder in communication with the trigger assembly; and at least one LED strip light in communication with the wireless receiver/decoder. The trigger assembly may be configured to generate a trigger signal in response to movement of the drum head. The wireless receiver/decoder may be configured to receive the trigger signal and wireless control signals and control operation of the at least one LED strip light in response to the trigger signal and the control signals. Related systems and methods are also described.
US09536505B1
A method, computer program product, and system for automatically tuning a stringed instrument. An initial height of a first string of an instrument having a plurality of strings and a floating bridge is determined. The height of the plurality of strings is determined using a bridge sensor. The floating bridge is locked. A frequency of the first string is analyzed. In response to determining the frequency of the first string does not match a predetermined frequency, a tuning peg servo motor to adjust a tuning peg, thereby adjusting a string tension of the first string. The one or more bridge servo motors adjusts a spring tension until the spring tension of the one or more springs equals the string tension of the first string. In response to determining the first string is tuned, the floating bridge is unlocked.
US09536490B2
The present invention provides a display panel and driving method thereof, and display device. The display panel includes an array substrate and a color filter substrate, disposed oppositely; the array substrate comprising a plurality of scan lines, disposed at intervals; a plurality of data line, disposed at intervals, and crossing over and isolated from the scan lines; and a plurality of pixel units, arranged in a matrix form, and driven by the scan lines and data lines; each of the pixel units further divided into at least two active areas; the color filter substrate includes at least two common electrodes, disposed correspondingly to the active areas, the at least two common electrodes applying common voltages independently. The present invention can eliminate the non-uniform luminance problem in display images and improve the display quality.
US09536488B2
The present invention provides a gamma voltage supply circuit capable of stably supplying a gamma voltage in response to the change of external voltage and a power management IC including the same. The gamma voltage supply circuit generates a regulating voltage using an internal voltage which is not influenced by the variation in load of a source driver IC, and generates a gamma voltage using the regulating voltage.
US09536484B2
A liquid crystal array substrate includes a number of pixels, each pixel includes a main region, a first sub-region, and a second sub-region. The main region includes a first thin film transistor (TFT), the first sub-region comprises a second TFT, and the second sub-region comprises a third TFT. Gates of the first TFT, the second TFT, and the third TFT of each pixel are connected to a first scan line, a source of the first TFT is connected to a first data line, a drain of the first TFT is connected to one corresponding pixel electrode; sources of the second TFT and the third TFT are connected to a second data line, drains of the second TFT and the third TFT are respectively connected to corresponding pixel electrodes.
US09536481B2
A liquid crystal display panel includes unit pixels including a first unit pixel and a second unit pixel, each of the first unit pixel and the second unit pixel including a first white area and first to third color areas, gate lines which extend in a first direction, cross the unit pixels and include a first gate line and a second gate line, data lines which extend in a second direction, and pixel electrodes which are electrically connected to the data lines and include first to seventh pixel electrodes, where the first to third pixel electrodes overlap the first to third color areas of the first unit pixel, respectively, the fourth to sixth pixel electrodes overlap the first to third color areas of the second unit pixel, respectively, and the seventh pixel electrode overlaps the first white areas of the first and second unit pixels.
US09536472B2
An organic light emitting device having a repair line connected to an organic light emitting element of a bad pixel. A first capacitor stores a voltage corresponding to a data voltage of the bad pixel, and a driving transistor outputs a current corresponding to the voltage stored in the first capacitor to an output terminal. A first transistor is connected between the output terminal of the driving transistor and the repair line, and is turned on or turned off in response to a first signal. A second transistor is connected between the repair line and a node, and is configured to be turned on or turned off in response to a second signal. A third transistor is connected between a node and a first voltage line for supplying a first voltage, and is turned on or turned off in response to a third signal.
US09536461B2
Some embodiments provide methods of increasing a resolution of multimedia content. Some of those methods comprising: identifying an uprendering matrix, wherein the uprendering matrix is dependent on a resulting resolution of resulting multimedia content having the increased resolution; and for each source image of the multimedia content: defining a reference image of the source image from the multimedia content, wherein the reference image has a resolution that is the same as an original resolution of the source image; defining multiple shifted images of the source image, wherein each of the multiple shifted images corresponds with one of the elements of the uprendering matrix; and coalescing pixels from each of the reference image and the shifted images creating an uprendered image having a higher resolution than the reference image.
US09536454B2
A method is provided for displaying physical objects. The method comprises capturing an input image of physical objects, and matching a three-dimensional model to the physical objects. The method further comprises producing a modified partial image by at least one of modifying a portion of the matched three-dimensional model, or modifying a partial image extracted from the input image using the matched three-dimensional model. The method also comprises displaying an output image including the modified partial image superimposed over the input image.
US09536449B2
This invention is a device and system for monitoring a person's food consumption comprising: a wearable sensor that automatically collects data to detect eating events; a smart food utensil, probe, or dish that collects data concerning the chemical composition of food which the person is prompted to use when an eating event is detected; and a data analysis component that analyzes chemical composition data to estimate the types and amounts of foods, ingredients, nutrients, and/or calories consumed by the person. In an example, the wearable sensor can be part of a smart watch or smart bracelet. In an example, the smart food utensil, probe, or dish can be a smart spoon with a chemical composition sensor. The integrated operation of the wearable sensor and the smart food utensil, probe, or dish disclosed in this invention offers accurate measurement of food consumption with low intrusion into the person's privacy.
US09536442B2
An aspect of the present invention relates to an online test platform adapted to facilitate the development, delivery, and management of educational tests with interactive participation by students, teachers, proctors, and administrators even when some or all of them are remotely located. The platform may include administrator interfaces, test proctor interfaces, and test taker (e.g. student) interfaces to allow each participant to view, navigate, and interact with aspects of the online test platform that are intended to meet their needs.
US09536440B2
A question setting apparatus is disclosed, including a processor and a storage part. The storage part stores a problem database which maintains problem data including a problem and a correct answer and a student answer database which maintains answer data including an answer of a student for the problem and a correct/incorrect answer determination result for each of the students. The processor performs recording the answer data and the correct/incorrect answer determination result by using the problem database based on a correct answer of the problem, the answer data being received during a test from each of student terminals connected through a network; and sending a comment to the student terminals through the network in which during the test, an answer state of the students is determined by using the student answer database and the comment related to the problem is acquired from a teacher based on a determination result.
US09536434B2
A method and apparatus of turning an aircraft for interval management. Interval management information identifying a desired spacing between the aircraft and a target aircraft is received. Turn information is determined using a performance gain factor. The turn information identifies a turn point for the aircraft. The performance gain factor identifies a desired portion of achieving the desired spacing due to turning the aircraft at the turn point and a desired portion of achieving the desired spacing due to changing speed of the aircraft. The turn information is used to turn the aircraft at the turn point.
US09536433B2
A method determines the optimal turn direction of an aircraft among two directions, right and left, following a lateral trajectory to join an arrival straight charted by an angle of arrival, based on a departure point and angle of departure defining a departure straight oriented along movement of the aircraft, the direction defined by a respectively positive or negative optimal turn sign, comprising: determining a conventional departure sign of the departure point; determining a center value of an angle of change of course equal to the difference between the angle of arrival and angle of departure referred back between −180° and +180°, the center value exhibiting a logical sign corresponding to the center value sign of the angle of change of course; determining the sign of the optimal turn based on comparison between the departure sign and the logical sign, the sign of the optimal turn defining optimal turn direction.
US09536422B2
Provided is a remote control system with which leakage current flowing in a switch can be reduced so that power consumption can be reduced. The remote control system includes a portable information terminal, a server, and an electric device. The on/off of the switch included in the electric device is controlled using information transmitted from the portable information terminal to the server. The switch includes a transistor formed using a semiconductor whose band gap is larger than that of single crystal silicon in a channel formation region.
US09536418B2
An industrial field real-time working condition radio alarm system, comprises a transmitting end (11) and a receiving end (12) carried a worker; the transmitting end (11) comprises a detector (101) to detect the current working condition, a transmitting end processor (102) to process an on-off signal sent by the detector (101), and a radio transmitter (103) to transmit an alarm signal to the receiving end (12) under the control of the transmitting end processor (102); the receiving end (12) comprises a radio receiver (105) to receive the alarm signal, a receiving end processor (106) to process the alarm signal sent by the radio receiver (105), and an alarm (107) to send an alarm under the control of the receiving end processor (106); the transmitting end processor (102) is connected to the detector (101) and the radio transmitter (103) respectively; and the receiving end processor (106) is connected to the radio receiver (105) and the alarm (107) respectively. The radio alarm system can send a dangerous working condition alarm to all workers in real time.
US09536414B2
A device for delivering stimuli to a user of a vehicle includes a data generating device that generates signals regarding information regarding a vehicle or surroundings about the vehicle. A human interface device is provided for positioning in contact with a user of the vehicle. The human interface device receives the signals from the data generating device. A control is operable to select the signals from the data generating device for operating the human interface device to deliver stimuli to the user of the vehicle.
US09536406B2
A regional monitoring system in communication with a plurality of locally displaced detectors can implement a fusion of inputs from a variety of additional non-system devices. The monitoring system includes a wireless receiver or transceiver enabling the system to detect local traffic from the non-system devices, such as sensors. Information received from such non-system devices can be combined with information from system detectors to initiate activity on other networks, to energize actuators, or to activate system detectors that normally reside in a low energy inactive state.
US09536404B2
A bottle fraud system and method encapsulates a wireless communication tag into a bottle to ensure the authenticity of the bottle. The tag stores information about the bottle. The tag is physically integrated into a bottle stopper through encapsulation by multiple layers of a polymer film and a wax composition. The physical condition to the bottle stopper or the layers serves as an indication of whether tampering has occurred. The information in the tag is accessible through a reading device. The reading device communicates with a database that stores information about the bottle and analyzes the probability of fraud with an algorithm. The algorithm analyzes the information about the bottle, such as shipping history, contents and location, to predict whether fraud is likely. Thus, both the physical condition of the bottle, and the predictive capacity of the algorithm help detect fraud on the bottle.
US09536386B2
A system for personalizable hybrid games including a gambling game and an entertainment game are provided. A gaming system includes, a real world engine constructed to provide a randomly generated payout of real world credit from a wager of real world credit in a gambling game using a random number generator; an entertainment software engine constructed to provide outcomes based upon a player's skillful execution of an entertainment game; and a game world engine constructed to: collect parameter data indicative of player performance during the player's skillful execution of the entertainment game at each of a plurality of difficulty settings, the parameter data indicative of wagering in the gambling game as triggered by the player's actions during the player's skillful execution of the entertainment game and indicative of a rate of accumulation of game world credit during the player's skillful execution of the entertainment game; select a difficulty setting from the plurality of difficulty settings for the skill based entertainment game based upon the collected parameter data; determine a rate of consumption of an element of the entertainment game based on the difficulty setting for the entertainment game, where the element is a limited resource utilized within the entertainment game to advance gameplay in the entertainment game and trigger a wager in the gambling game; determine an amount of real world credit wagered based on the determined rate of consumption of the element; and generate a perceivable display of the anticipated amount real world credit wagered.
US09536380B2
A system and method for allowing gaming device participants to effect trades of player assets for improved odds of attaining gaming bonus events. A player engages in play of a gaming activity, such as a slot game, which includes a standard mode of play and a bonus mode of play. Player assets are traded for an increased probability of attaining a bonus event associated with the bonus mode. A trade amount is surrendered by the player as part of the trade, and the probability of the player attaining the bonus event increased, thereby allowing the player to engage in bonus activity sooner, more frequently, or when otherwise less available to the player.
US09536375B2
Systems for a networked gaming system are disclosed, including an entertainment game controller connected to a game world controller, and constructed to: communicate game world information; receive a request to aggregate information; aggregate game world information, encode and associate it with a transaction identifier; receive a gambling outcome; display gambling outcome; a real world controller connected to the game world controller, and constructed to: receive a wager request; determine gambling outcome; communicate gambling outcome; the game world controller connected to the entertainment game controller and to the real world controller, and constructed to: receive game world information; determine whether or not to generate an aggregation request; generate an aggregation request; communicate plurality of transaction identifiers; receive game world information and transaction identifier; determine whether the transaction identifier is valid; disaggregate game world information, communicate wager request; receive gambling outcome; and communicate gambling outcome.
US09536364B2
A system and method for employing BLE nodes in a PEPS system to determine whether a FOB is within or outside of a vehicle. The method includes interrogating the FOB using a signal transmitted by a BLE device on the vehicle to determine whether the FOB is in a predetermined vicinity of the vehicle and receiving a Bluetooth signal at the BLE device that is transmitted by the FOB if the FOB is in the vicinity of the vehicle. The method also included determining a transmit power of the Bluetooth signal transmitted by the FOB and determining a receive power of the Bluetooth signal transmitted by the FOB and received by the BLE device. The method uses the transmit power and the receive power in a comparison process to determine whether the FOB is inside or outside of the vehicle.
US09536361B2
Methods and systems for a vehicle system that include determining whether a vehicle action is necessary and providing a notification to predetermined users. Sensors provide signals to a sensing control system to generate the notification.
US09536360B2
A vehicle electronic key system for unlocking a vehicle includes an electronic key and a vehicle controlling device. The electronic key includes a first controller, a signal transmitting module configured to collet and transmit speech signals, and a wireless charging receiving coil configured to transmit electromagnetic signals to the first controller. The vehicle controlling device includes a second controller configured to authenticate the speech signals and unlock the vehicle, a signal receiving module configured to receive speech signals sent by the signal transmitting module and send the speech signals to the second controller, and a wireless charging transmitting coil configured to transmit the electromagnetic signals to the wireless charging receiving coil. The second controller is further configured to drive the wireless charging transmitting coil. The first controller is configured to convert the electromagnetic signals to electric energy and send the electric energy to the signal transmitting module.
US09536356B2
A mailing machine that provides for permanent postage is described. Postage may be purchased at one point of time at a then prevailing rate and used in the future at the same effective purchasing power even if a new more expensive rate schedule is in effect. The mailing machine provides for the accounting of such rate purchased postage using a Postal Security Device and may include multiple rate-table based accounts each associated with a particular postage rate table.
US09536354B2
Methods and devices for initiating a search of an object are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed that includes receiving sensor data from a sensor on a wearable computing device and, based on the sensor data, detecting a movement that defines an outline of an area in the sensor data. The method further includes identifying an object that is located in the area and initiating a search on the object. In another embodiment, a server is disclosed that includes an interface configured to receive sensor data from a sensor on a wearable computing device, at least one processor, and data storage comprising instructions executable by the at least one processor to detect, based on the sensor data, a movement that defines an outline of an area in the sensor data, identify an object that is located in the area, and initiate a search on the object.
US09536343B2
In a three-dimensional image generation apparatus, a CPU concatenates meshes of a plurality of objects which meet a predefined concatenation condition, and performs in advance vertex attribute transformation on the plurality of objects of which the meshes have been concatenated. The CPU regards as a single object, the plurality of objects on which the vertex attribute transformation has been performed, and transfers a rendering command, which instructs rendering of the plurality of objects regarded as the single object, to a GPU. The GPU renders, at a time, the plurality of objects that are regarded as the single object, upon receiving the rendering command from the CPU.
US09536337B1
Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer storage media directed to restoring digital image noise lost in a blur process. In one embodiment, a noise reduction factor is calculated for each pixel of the digital image that has had a blur applied thereto. The noise reduction factor for a respective pixel is indicative of an estimated reduction in noise resulting from an amount of blur applied to the respective pixel. A noise compensation value can then be determined for each of the pixels, based on the noise reduction factor calculated for each of the pixels and a target noise level for the digital image as a whole. Once the noise compensation value is determined, noise can be applied to each of the plurality of pixels in accordance with the determined noise compensation value. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US09536332B2
A computer-implemented method for displaying graphical representation of legends in a data visualization engine is provided. The computer-implemented method includes receiving input to configure a plurality of swatches of the legends of graphical charts, the input comprises at least one of a threshold number of swatches, an identification of graphical area for displaying the swatches, and a size or a data of the swatches for display in the graphical charts of the data visualization engine. The computer-implemented method further includes modifying the legend swatches, based on the received input. The computer-implemented method further includes generating a plurality of graphical charts of the data visualization engine for displaying the swatches, based on the modification, wherein the display is generated randomly, based on at least one user preference for displaying the swatches.
US09536324B1
Systems and techniques are disclosed for dynamically and automatically selecting an appropriate compression technique and/or compression parameters for digital images in order to reduce or prevent loss of significant information that may negatively impact the utility or usefulness of the digital images. For example, based on various image characteristics associated with a digital image, the system may dynamically compress the image using particular compression techniques and/or by adjusting compression parameters, to maintain significant information of the image. The system may select compression techniques and/or compression parameters based on one or more compression rules, which may be associated with image characteristics, patient characteristics, medical history, etc. Further, the system may, based on the one or more compression rules, compress the image to a maximum degree of compression while maintaining the significant information of the image.
US09536323B2
A data storage control apparatus includes a compression part that performs lossless compression for reducing a data amount on image data that is in units of blocks, a determination element for determining whether lossless compression is possible or not, and a storage control part that performs storage control for, if the determination element has determined that lossless compression is possible, causing data obtained through lossless compression to be stored as compressed data in a storage part, and if the determination element has determined that lossless compression is not possible, causing the image data in units of blocks to be stored in the storage part.
US09536322B1
A method and apparatus for tracking a location of an object or target in a 3D space. At least one target including unique sub-targets is attached to a vision object in the 3D space. A camera disposed in a 3D space, and coupled to a computing device captures a 2D image of a target. The camera computing device identifies the sub-targets of the target and transfers the sub-target data to a computing device associated with the camera which accesses a data base of target data to identify target an, using sub-target separation distances in the database to determine 3D location and orientation of the target. Another computing device transforms the 3D locations of the detected target in the camera coordinate system into a single 3D coordinate system for the 3D space. The 3D location of targets detected by multiple cameras of different computing devices maybe daisy chained together to convert the target location in the 3D coordinate systems of each computing device into a single 3D coordinate system.
US09536316B2
An apparatus and method are provided including a first segmenter and a second segmenter. The first segmenter is configured to generate a first segmentation result from a medical image using a first segmentation parameter for a candidate lesion. The second segmenter is configured to determine a target lesion to segment from among the candidate lesion based on the first segmentation result, and generate a second segmentation result using a second segmentation parameter to segment the target lesion.
US09536309B2
A method and computing device for displaying surgical path data are provided. The computing device includes an input device, a display, a memory and a processor. The memory stores (i) an image of a volume of patient tissue having an outer surface, and (ii) anatomical data defining anatomical features of the volume. The processor receives an identifier of a target location within the volume; generates a plurality of paths from the outer surface to the target location, each path having a start point located on the outer surface, and an end point at the target location; for each of the plurality of paths, determines a score based on a comparison between the path and the anatomical data; and controls the display to present the outer surface and, at the locations of the start points, indications of the respective scores of the paths corresponding to the start points.
US09536307B2
The invention relates to a method and an image processing device (50) for the registration of two images (I1, I2) that may for example be provided by a CT scanner (10) and/or an MRI scanner (20). According to one embodiment of the invention, the images are first globally registered (GR) with a given registration algorithm using a first parameter vector (p). A user may then select a region of interest ROI, and a plurality of local registrations (LR1, . . . LRs, . . . LRn) are calculated for this ROI using the same registration algorithm but different parameter vectors (p, p, . . . p). The results of the local registrations (LR1, . . . LRs, . . . LRn) are displayed and the user can select the best local registration(s). In a final step, the selected local registration(s) (LRs) and the global registration (GR) may be merged. Additionally or alternatively, a parameter vector for a local registration in the ROI may be determined by an automatic analysis of the ROI.
US09536304B2
A computer-implemented method of identifying a pathogen likely causing an increased somatic cell count in a sample of fluid is described. An image of the sample of fluid is received. Pixels in the image are parsed to identify pixels representing somatic cells. The identified pixels are analyzed to determine image parameters. The determined images parameters are compared with different sets of predefined pathogen parameters stored in memory to determine a match. Each of the sets of pathogen parameters represents a different one of a plurality of pathogens. The pathogen likely causing an increased somatic cell count is identified by the set of the pathogen parameters that matches the image parameters. A computer readable medium storing instructions to implement the method and a system configure to implement the method are also described.
US09536291B2
To suppress influence of a rounding error and acquire a more highly precise filter processing result, by performing convolution processing in order from a divided filter having a smaller sum of filter coefficient among divided filters, shifting a position of the decimal point of a filter processing result in a fixed-point format to generate an intermediate image, integrating the filter processing result having a larger bit width of a decimal part, and substantially reflecting a processing result of the decimal part.
US09536290B2
Some embodiments provide a novel method for tempering an adjustment of an image to account for prior adjustments to the image. The adjustment in some embodiments is an automatic exposure adjustment. The method performs an operation for a first adjustment on a first set of parameters (e.g., saturation, sharpness, luminance). The method compares the first set of parameters to a second set of parameters to produce a third set of parameters that expresses the difference between the first adjustment and a second adjustment. The method performs a third operation to produce an adjusted image. The first set of parameters quantify a set of prior adjustments to the image by an image capturing device when the image was captured in some embodiments. The second set of parameters is a set of target parameters. The third set of parameters specify the tempered adjustment of the image.
US09536281B2
A method and system are provided for image scaling including low resolution text areas. The method may include: determining one or more areas of text in an image to be scaled; scaling the one or more areas of text using two or more scaling algorithms to a required resolution to acquire two or more scaled versions of the text area; selecting the clearest text in a text area from two or more scaled versions of the text area; scaling the overall image to the required resolution; and merging the scaled overall image with the selected scaled version of each text area.
US09536270B2
Systems and methods for the forming of user device groups are presented. In one example, logical relationship information describing logical relationships among a plurality of users is accessed. Potential membership of a first user in a first group of users is determined based on scores generated for each of a plurality of possible groups of users, the scores based on the logical relationship information. Then the first user is added to the first group of users. Content from an electronic device of the first user is received for broadcast to the first group of users. In response to the receiving of content, the scores for each of the plurality of possible groups of users are regenerated based on the content. Then the first user is added to or removed from a second group of users selected from the plurality of possible groups of users based on the regenerated scores.
US09536269B2
Embodiments of the invention provide techniques that quantize community interactions with social media to understand and influence consumer experiences. Embodiments include a customer predictive experience platform. The platform can include an outcome engine configured for information mining and applying rules and analytics to the information, and an ops module configured for providing agent performance management, average handling time analytics, workflow management, and voice of the customer facilities. The platform can also include a chat module, a social media dialog engine, and a solution client configured for effecting predictive self-service, active auto sentiment management and rapid response to counteract negative sentiment, a customer experience ticker, a pre- and post-launch pulse, enhanced brand ambassadors, integration into corporate messaging and marketing, a social media dashboard, and a live portal configured for social media engagement and feedback.
US09536262B2
A method and apparatus are provided for verifying authenticity of a data acquisition peripheral to be used, which has at least one identifier. The method includes: receiving the identifier by means of an authentication server, verifying, by the authentication server, an association of the identifier with a referenced authentic peripheral, delivering a decision of identification; and transmission, by the server, of the decision of identification.
US09536259B2
Systems and methods for entity-based searching with content selection include receiving a search query and determining that the search query corresponds to a search entity. The search entity may be associated with an online action, thereby forming an entity-action pair. Auction parameters that specify the entity-action pair may be used to select third-party content. A visual layout for the third-party content may be generated based on the relationship between a search query and the entity-action pair and used as part of the presentation of the third-party content on a search result screen.
US09536257B2
Management device for a network of audiovisual information reproduction systems or jukeboxes, including a database with a plurality of sets of arrays, each array containing grouped information either about the composition of a jukebox, or the use of the jukebox, or the payment of fees. The database is managed by a computer server connected with the audiovisual information reproduction systems to receive messages sent by each audiovisual information reproduction device and containing information necessary to update determined sets of arrays in the database, and update data or the program for each audiovisual information reproduction device with information stored in at least one set of arrays in the database and transmitted in this message.
US09536250B2
A method and a system are provided for blending advertiser data with ad network data in order to serve finely targeted ads. In one example, the system receives campaign information from one or more advertisers. The campaign information includes at least one of a budget, criteria, and a creative. The system receives a notification from a user device about an available ad spot on a webpage for display at a browser running on the user device. The system receives data from an advertiser. The data from the advertiser pertains to managing an ad to be sent to the user device to fill the ad spot on the webpage. Then, the system combines the data from the advertiser with data from an ad network to obtain combined data. The ad network is configured for managing at least part of an ad campaign. The advertiser is also configured for managing at least part of the ad campaign.
US09536235B2
A single space electronic parking meter mechanism for inserting into an outer parking meter housing is provided. The mechanism includes an inner housing, a payment receiving structure supported by the inner housing and an electronic display screen supported by the inner housing. The mechanism also includes a wireless communication subsystem supported by the inner housing configured to wirelessly communicate with a parking management system and an electronic meter control system controlling the electronic display and the wireless communications subsystem. The mechanism includes a memory device receiving port externally accessible through the inner housing and a read-write removable memory device physically accessible from outside of the inner housing and configured to be coupled to the memory device receiving port. The removable memory device including operation mode information that is read by the electronic meter control system to select an operation mode of the meter mechanism.
US09536231B2
In one implementation, a computer-implemented method includes receiving information that describes an issue with a building; accessing data that identifies (i) a plurality of components that are included in the building and (ii) features of the plurality of components; identifying one or more candidate components that have at least a threshold likelihood of being a cause of the issue; selecting a candidate service provider from among a plurality of service providers based on a comparison of (i) the one or more candidate components and (ii) information identifying technical qualifications for the plurality of service providers; transmitting a service request for the issue to the candidate service provider; receiving a response from the candidate service provider; and scheduling, based on the response, a service appointment with the candidate service provider to resolve the issue.
US09536224B2
A method, an apparatus, and a recording medium are provided. In the method, a mobile apparatus is positioned to obtain a positioning location and an electronic map around the positioning location is displayed. Then, at least one task stored in the mobile apparatus is accessed and each of the at least one task is marked on the electronic map according to a task location thereof.
US09536220B2
Computer-implemented prospective planning of personnel costs for an enterprise includes conducting planning preparation to plan the personnel costs, electronically collecting data relating to personnel costs, electronically performing a cost planning run, electronically conducting a detailed analysis of the results to revise and modify the collected data to produce updated results, and reporting the results of the cost planning run.
US09536217B2
A method of object association is disclosed. The method includes receiving object location information for a first object, receiving object location information for a second object, determining an existence of a correlation between a varying position of the first object and a varying position of the second object over for a predetermined amount of time and dynamically associating the first object with the second object based on the correlation.
US09536214B2
A method, system, and computer program product for resource management are described. The method includes selecting trouble regions within the service area, generating clustered regions, and training a trouble forecast model for the trouble regions for each type of damage, the training for each trouble region using training data from every trouble region within the clustered region associated with the trouble region. The method also includes applying the trouble forecast model for each trouble region within the service area for each type of damage, determining a trouble forecast for the service area for each type of damage based on the trouble forecast for each of the trouble regions within the service area, and determining a job forecast for the service area based on the trouble forecast for the service area, wherein the managing resources is based on the job forecast for the service area.
US09536209B2
Methods and systems for tracking compliance of personal protection (PP) articles in working environments. Tracking compliance includes providing at least one PP article configured with a smart tag; providing at least one predetermined criterion that governs compliance with respect to the at least one PP article in a particular working environment; tracking the PP article by retrieving smart tag data; and determining whether the smart tag data satisfies at least one predetermined criterion; and storing data relating to results of the determination.
US09536208B1
A computer-readable medium is configured to determine a support vector data description (SVDD). For each of a plurality of values for a kernel parameter, an optimal value of an objective function defined for an SVDD model using a kernel function, a read plurality of data points, and a respective value for the kernel parameter is computed to define a plurality of sets of support vectors. A plurality of first derivative values are computed for the objective function as a difference between the computed optimal values associated with successive values for the kernel parameter. A plurality of second derivative values are computed for the objective function as a difference between the computed plurality of first derivative values associated with successive values for the kernel parameter. A kernel parameter value is selected where the computed plurality of second derivative values first exceeds zero.
US09536207B2
The disclosed embodiments relate to a system that uses data from an online social network to optimize subscription offers. During operation of the online social network, the system gathers data associated with subscription offers that were presented to members of the online social network, including information about which subscription offers were converted. Next, the system uses a machine-learning technique to train a model based on the gathered data. Finally, the system uses the trained model to select subscription offers to present to a member of the online social network.
US09536205B2
A hybrid ultracapacitor-battery energy storage system is integrated with a photovoltaic system to help solve fluctuations. A fuzzy-logic-based adaptive power management system enables optimization of the power/energy distributions and a filter-based power coordination layer serving as a rudimentary step for power coordination among the hybrid storage system and a fuzzy-logic-based control adjustment layer that keeps monitoring the operation status of all the energy storage devices, taking into account their dynamic characteristics, and fine-tuning the control settings adaptively.
US09536195B2
A method comprises the steps of receiving a set of process metrics, evaluating the set of received process metrics to determine a set of process classifications, determining a set of process parameters, and generating one or more processes based at least in part on the set of process parameters and the set of process classifications, each of the one or more processes having respective sets of process metrics similar to the set of received process metrics. The receiving, evaluating, determining and generating steps are performed by at least one processing device.
US09536185B2
An image forming apparatus, and a method of controlling it. The apparatus performs, in a case where at least one function out of a plurality of functions of the apparatus ceases to be usable, degeneracy control for operating to provide functions other than the at least one function, and stores information indicating a degeneracy control state is entered. The apparatus controls so as to activate without initialization operation of an image forming mechanism in a case where it is determined that the activation is due to the return from a power saving mode and the information is stored and so as to activate with the initialization operation when the activation is due to a power of the apparatus being turned on.
US09536176B2
Aspects of the present disclosure are directed towards environmental based location monitoring. Environmental based location monitoring can include collecting, a first set of image data that corresponds to a first set of environmental characteristics existing within a bounded area encompassing a hardware element of the computer and determining an environmental difference based on a difference between a first location corresponding to a geographic position of the hardware element relative to the first set of environmental characteristics and a second location corresponding to an approved geographic position of the hardware element. Environmental based location monitoring can include determining that the environmental difference does not satisfy a threshold and executing a reaction sequence in the computer, in response to determining that the environmental difference does not satisfy the threshold.
US09536167B2
The techniques include an image recognition system to receive a realogram image including a plurality of organized objects and to detect and identify objects in the realogram image of one or more items on a retail shelf, identify shelf fronts and labels on the shelf fronts, identify empty space under shelves, identify areas where unidentified products may be, and identify areas where products are “out of stock”.
US09536165B2
A method (100) is provided for characterizing a functionality of a flash (14) from at least one image (200) captured with a camera (12) using the flash (14). The method (100) includes: analyzing the image (200) by segmenting (106) the image (200) into at least one sub-region (206, 208), and applying a metric (108) to the sub-region (206, 208) to measure an image property within the sub-region (206, 208); and determining (110) the functionality of the flash (14) in response to a result of the applied metric.
US09536164B2
A setting apparatus for making a setting to detect that a moving object in an image has passed a line set in the image accepts designation of one of a position and a partial region in an object region in the image, and makes a setting to detect that the designated position or partial region in the object region of the moving object in the image has passed the line set in the image.
US09536163B2
An object position and orientation detection system and in particular one which is capable of describing observed movement in 3 dimensions. In one example, a spherical patterned marker with concentric rings is imaged using one or more digital cameras, and the resulting images are processed to determine the position and orientation of an object to which the patterned marker is attached. The method of optical tracking employed by the system allows motion to be determined in six degrees of freedom. In conjunction with a suitable display, such as a projector, an interactive white board or similar application can be realized.
US09536161B1
Various embodiments describe systems and methods for utilizing a reduced amount of processing capacity for incoming data over time, and, in response to detecting a scene-change-event, notify one or more data processors that a scene-change-event has occurred, and cause incoming data to be processed as new data. In some embodiments, an incoming frame can be compared with a reference frame to determine a difference between the reference frame and the incoming frame. The reference frame may be correlated to a latest scene-change-event. In response to a determination that the difference does not meet one or more difference criteria, a user interface or at least one processor of the computing device can be notified to reduce processing of incoming data over time. In response to a determination that the difference meets the one or more difference criteria, the user interface or the at least one processor can be notified that a scene-change-event has occurred. Incoming data to the computing device is then treated as new and processed as those under an active condition. The current incoming frame can be selected as a new reference frame for detecting next scene-change-event.
US09536159B2
Smart glasses and a method for recognizing and prompting a face are provided. The smart glasses store a database recording a plurality of profile information and business card information thereof. In the method, an image located in the field of view of the smart glasses is captured by an image capturing unit and at least one face appearing in the image is recognized. Facial features of each of the recognized faces are compared with those of the profile information in the database to find the profile information matching the facial features. In particular, if profile information matching the facial features is found, business card information corresponding to the profile information is displayed on a display unit; if profile information matching the facial features is not found, the business card information of a business card appearing in the image is recognized to associate the business card information with the recognized face.
US09536156B2
Various embodiment include a system and a method for recognizing road signs. An image of a road sign may be captured by least one image sensor. A vehicle computer may receive the image data representing one or more road signs along a route and display one or more images of the road sign based on the image data. The display may be capable of presenting one or more status of the road sign based on one or more travel states for the vehicle. These travel states may include at least one of an amount of elapsed travel time, distance travelled, or speed.
US09536153B2
Disclosed are methods and systems to automatically detect and optionally classify when a recipient receives goods in surveillance video. According to one exemplary embodiment, a computer implemented method determines a customer has received goods which are associated with a retail environment.
US09536152B2
A system and method of providing annotated trajectories by receiving image frames from a video camera and determining a location based on the image frames from the video camera. The system and method can further include the steps of determining that the location is associated with a preexisting annotation and displaying the preexisting annotation. Additionally or alternatively, the system and method can further include the steps of generating a new annotation automatically or based on a user input and associating the new annotation with the current location.
US09536150B2
Embodiments provide a video camera that can be configured to allow tagging of recorded video and/or capture of video segments or sequences of images in response to user actuation of a camera control identifying an event of interest. For example, a user may press a button on the camera when an event of interest occurs, and in response the camera may tag a captured video file at a timestamp corresponding to the event. In another example, the user may initiate capture of video segments or sequences of images at an occurrence of an event of interest by pressing a button. The camera may include an image data buffer that may enable capture of video segments and/or sequences of images occurring before the user initiates capture of the event. User interfaces may enable the user to quickly review the captured video or sequences of images of the events of interest.
US09536148B2
A property assessment system includes image processing logic configured to identify building structure attributes from image data and rate their associated condition. The outputs can include property condition ratings, occupancy predictions and similar scores.
US09536138B2
Technologies are described herein for dynamically remapping components of a virtual skeleton to enhance the control and appearance of an avatar. Embodiments disclosed herein may remap components of the virtual skeleton if a need for an enhancement, replacement or correction is identified. For example, one or more components of a virtual skeleton, e.g., a joint, hand, arm or leg, may be remapped with modeled components if the component is distorted, missing or incomplete. Components of a virtual skeleton may be remapped with modeled components if enhancements, augmentations, corrections or special effects are desired. A remapped skeleton defining one or more modeled components may be generated from model data. The remapped skeleton may be used to drive user-controlled animations having enhanced movement and appearance characteristics. In addition to driving user-controlled animations, the remapped skeleton may be used to drive robotic devices.
US09536137B2
In an object detection apparatus 1, a window definer 11 defines a window relative to the location of a pixel in an input image 20. A classification value calculator 13 calculates a classification value indicative of the likelihood that a detection target is present in the window image contained in the window based on the feature data of the detection target. A classification image generator 14 arranges the classification value calculated from the window image according to the pixel location to generate a classification image. An integrator 15 integrates the classification image and a past classification image 42 generated from a past input image input prior to the input image 20 to generate an integrated image 45. A determiner 16 determines whether the detection target is present in the input image 20 based on the integrated image 45.
US09536131B1
An electronic device and method are provided. The fingerprint recognition method includes: obtaining a verification fingerprint image; transmitting the verification fingerprint image to the second processing unit; generating verification fingerprint data according to the verification fingerprint image by the second processing unit; transmitting the verification fingerprint data to the first processing unit by the second processing unit; comparing the verification fingerprint data with a plurality of registered fingerprint datasets to generate matching information by the first processing unit; transmitting the matching information from the first processing unit to the second processing unit; and verifying the verification fingerprint data according to the matching information by the second processing unit.
US09536130B2
A method for operating an electronic device is provided, in which the device detects contact with a user's finger, scans its fingerprint and sets the orientation of the electronic device based on the fingerprint (e.g., whether is from the user's left hand or right hand) and on an angle of the fingerprint with respect to the device. This allows the electronic device to determine its orientation with respect to the user rather than with respect to the environment.
US09536128B2
There is provided a thin biometric detection module, which is advantageous in being able to detect scattered light from body tissue after the light transmitting in the body tissue without additional optical mechanism placed on the semiconductor optical detection pixel of the detection module for biometric detection.
US09536117B2
Systems and methods for reading Radio Frequency Identified (RFID) tags. In an embodiment, an enclosure having, within it, an antenna and processor is provided. The processor may be configured to record tag observations for tag identifiers received by the antenna from RFID tags. For one or more time intervals, tag observations may be identified which satisfy a tag filter, and a confidence that RFID tags satisfying the tag filter were in the field of view of the antenna during the time interval may be computed based on the identified tag observations. According to an embodiment, reports for tag filters may be then generated using the computed confidences, and these reports may be transmitted to an external system over a network.
US09536114B1
Described is system for secure mobile proactive multi-party computation. The system securely evaluates a circuit in the presence of an adversary. The circuit receives secret inputs comprising secret values from a set of servers. Sharings of random values for the random and input gates are generated. For each input gate, a sharing of a random value associated with the input gate is opened toward a server Pi. A sum of the server Pi's secret values and the random value is broadcast to the set of servers. Each server uses the sum to adjust its sharing of the random value, generating a sharing of server Pi's secret values. The secret values are re-randomized to preserve privacy of the secret values. A sharing of the secret values is determined for each output gate, and each sharing of secret values is revealed to an intended recipient.
US09536108B2
A privacy processing system may use privacy rules to filter sensitive personal information from web session data. The privacy processing system may generate privacy profiles or privacy metadata that identifies how often the privacy rules are called, how often the privacy rules successfully complete actions, and the processing time required to execute the privacy rules. The privacy profiles may be used to detect irregularities in the privacy filtering process that may be associated with a variety of privacy filtering and web session problems.
US09536103B2
Methods and systems for vendor independent and secure cloud storage distribution and aggregation are provided. According to one embodiment, an application programming interface (API) is provided by a cloud storage gateway device logically interposed between third-party cloud storage platforms and users of an enterprise. The API facilitates storing of files, issuing of search requests against the files and retrieval of content of the files. A file storage policy is assigned to each user, which defines access rights, storage diversity requirements and a type of encryption to be applied to files. Responsive to receiving a request to store a file, (i) searchable encrypted data is created relating to content and/or metadata of the file based on the assigned file storage policy; and (ii) the searchable encrypted data is distributed among the third-party cloud storage platforms based on the storage diversity requirements defined by the assigned file storage policy.
US09536102B2
A method receives authentication credentials for a user from a client device and receives a request from the user for content stored on a remote storage system. A portion of the content is encrypted and a corresponding decryption key is available only at the computer system. The remaining portion of the content is unencrypted. The method retrieves the content from the remote storage system and uses the received credentials to determine whether the user is authorized to view the encrypted portion. When the user is not authorized, the method forms alternative content by replacing the encrypted portion with a substitute element and transmits the alternative content to the client device. When the user is authorized, the method decrypts the encrypted portion of the content using the decryption key, and combines the decrypted portion with the unencrypted portion to form updated content. The updated content is transmitted to the client device.
US09536099B2
An information processing apparatus includes an accepting unit that accepts from a user a command relating to security; a setting unit that makes a setting relating to security of the information processing apparatus based upon the command from the user accepted by the accepting unit; a recording unit that performs the following operation in a case where the accepting unit has accepted a command for changing a security-related setting that has already been made by the setting unit: before the setting unit changes the security-related setting, the recording unit records an event, among events that occur in the information processing apparatus, the content of which will be different between a case where the security-related setting is changed and a case where the security-related setting is not changed; and a notification unit that notifies the user based upon the event that has been recorded by the recording unit.
US09536098B2
A retrieving system for retrieving information concealed within a sequence of symbols. The system includes a decoder configurable using rule information and operable when so configured to retrieve the information concealed within the sequence of symbols by applying to the sequence of symbols at least one decoder rule determined by the configuration of the encoder.
US09536089B2
A method for detecting memory modifications includes allocating a contiguous block of a memory of an electronic device, and loading instructions for detecting memory modifications into the contiguous block of memory. The electronic device includes a plurality of processing entities. The method also includes disabling all but one of a plurality of processing entities of the electronic device, scanning the memory of the electronic device for modifications performed by malware, and, if a memory modification is detected, repairing the memory modification. The method also includes enabling the processing entities that were disabled. The remaining processing entity executes the instructions for detecting memory modifications.
US09536084B1
Described systems and methods enable a computer security module to protect a set of guest virtual machines against computer security threats. In some embodiments, the computer security module receives introspection notifications from the protected VM, each such notification indicating that a particular trigger event (e.g., a system call) has occurred during execution of guest software within the respective VM. In some embodiments, delivering a notification comprises suspending execution of guest software and switching the processor to executing a notification handler forming part of the computer security module. In some embodiments, the computer security module may indicate to the processor a selected subset of events which trigger introspection notifications.
US09536083B2
One example method for securing data on untrusted devices includes the steps of identifying, by a first process, a command in a command queue, the command from a second process and comprising an action on secure data; determining whether the command is permitted based on the action and a user credential; and responsive to determining the command is not permitted, removing, by the first process, the command from the command queue.
