US09537101B2
An embodiment of the present invention relates to a composition containing a polymer oroligomer (A) having a repeating unit with hole transport properties and also having a thienylgroup which may have a substituent, and an initiator (B), wherein the solubility of the composition is capable of being changed by applying heat, light, or both heat and light.
US09537100B2
A process of polymerizing f with wherein the stoichiometric ratio of f≈(g+h) and f, g and h are not equal to 0. This process can also have R1 selected from the group consisting of alkyl group, alkoxy group, aryl groups and combinations thereof. Additionally, x and y can be different from each other and can be independently selected from the group consisting of: alkyl group, alkoxy group, aryl groups, where y=1-3, where y=0-12, where R2 is selected from the group consisting of H, alkyl group, alkoxy group, aryl groups, where R3 is selected from the group consisting of H, alkyl group, alkoxy group, aryl groups, where R4 and R5 are independently selected from the group consisting of H, alkyl group, alkoxy group, aryl groups, —NR6R7 where R6 and R7 are independently selected from the group consisting of H, alkyl group, alkoxy group, aryl groups.
US09537087B2
A nanoscale tunnel magneto-resistance (TMR) sensor comprising an in-plane-magnetized reference layer and a free layer comprising interfacial perpendicular anisotropy, wherein the free layer comprises a sensing layer for sensing resistance as a function of applied magnetic field and is tunable to vary the direction of the sensing layer magnetization to be in-plane, canted, or out-of-plane.
US09537085B2
A method of fabricating an electromechanical transducer film includes applying a precursor solution on a support substrate, heating the substrate at a first temperature to form a ceramic thin-film in amorphous state, applying a sol-gel solution onto the ceramic thin-film, and heating the ceramic thin-film at a second temperature to form an electromechanical transducer thin-film in amorphous state. The method further includes heating the ceramic and transducer thin-films at a third temperature to thermally decompose an organic substance in the sol-gel solution and form a unitary thin-film, processing the unitary thin-film to form a patterned unitary thin-film, modifying an area on which the patterned film is not formed, discharging the sol-gel solution onto a surface of the patterned film by a liquid discharge head to apply the sol-gel solution to the surface of the patterned film, and heating the patterned film at a fourth temperature to crystallize the patterned film.
US09537080B2
A system for driving a piezoelectric load includes a direct current (DC) voltage source and a bi-directional DC-to-DC converter having a primary side coupled to the DC voltage source and a secondary side and comprising a control input configured to receive a first control signal configured to control conversion of a first voltage on the primary side of the bi-directional DC-to-DC converter to a second voltage on the secondary side of the bi-directional DC-to-DC converter. The driver system also includes a capacitor coupled to the secondary side of the bi-directional DC-to-DC converter and configured to remove a DC offset of the second voltage and includes a reactive load having a first terminal coupled to the capacitor and a second terminal coupled to the secondary side of the bi-directional DC-to-DC converter.
US09537078B2
A manufacturing process of the thermoelectric conversion element is provided, wherein the system using semiconductor process technology to the construction of the thermoelectric conversion element nanoscale thermoelectric effect to increase, and the use of different type and surface state of the sample to increase the thermoelectric conversion element thermoelectric figure of merit. Through the use of a specific thickness of deposition of nanostructures on a nanoscale roughening of the substrate cannot affect the conductivity of thermoelectric materials under, and also can improve the Seebeck coefficient and lower thermal conductivity in order to significantly enhance the thermoelectric figure of merit.
US09537074B2
An optical device substrate includes metal plates and insulating layers formed between the metal plates. Each insulating layer includes a cured insulating layer formed by curing insulating material and an anodized layer merged with each metal plate, the anodized layer formed by anodizing a first metal and a second metal of each metal plate. The first metal and the second metal include a first anodized layer and a second anodized layer, respectively, and are electrically insulated by interfaces including a first interface formed between the first metal and the first anodized layer, a second interface formed between the first anodized layer and the cured insulating layer, a third interface formed between the cured insulating layer and the second metal and a fourth interface formed between the second anodized layer and the second metal.
US09537073B2
A method for fabricating a light emitting diode (LED) die includes the steps of forming an epitaxial stack on a substrate having an n-type semiconductor layer, multiple quantum well (MQW) layers, and a p-type semiconductor layer. The method also includes the steps of forming a plurality of trenches in the n-type semiconductor layer, and forming a strap layer having conductive straps and contact areas in the trenches, forming an electrical insulator layer on the strap layer, forming an n-pad on the n-type semiconductor layer, and forming a p-pad on the p-type semiconductor layer.
US09537072B2
Pkg resin crack is suppressed after dicing.A light emitting device 1 where a light emitting device 2 that emits light is mounted on a lead frame 3 and that uses a resin cavity molding package 5 having an integrally molded lead frames 3, 4 constituting electrodes that correspond to the light emitting element 2 and resin, wherein roundness is given to a part or all of a cutting plane corner part of a retention section (hanger lead 3a, 4a) that become a cause of crack generation due to the retention sections (hanger leads 3a, 4a) of the lead frames giving stress concentration to resin at the time of cutting by a blade 7.
US09537068B2
A light emitting device package includes a substrate, a light emitting device disposed on the substrate, a reflector surrounding the light emitting device, and an encapsulant encapsulating the light emitting device. The reflector includes a silicon-based polymer which is a main body portion, and a silicon oxide layer disposed at least on a portion of a surface of the silicon-based polymer.
US09537067B2
An embodiment of the present invention relates to a radiation emitting device comprising: a radiation emitter for generating radiation; a waveguide; a lens placed between the radiation emitter and the waveguide and directing a first portion of the radiation towards the waveguide; a sleeve that comprises a reflective inner surface and is placed between the radiation emitter and the waveguide, said inner reflective surface coupling a second portion of the radiation into the waveguide; wherein the lens and the sleeve are separate components that can be positioned relative to each other during fabrication of the radiation emitting device.
US09537060B2
A semiconductor light emitting device package includes: a light emitting device; a wavelength conversion unit formed in a path of light emitted from the light emitting device and including a mixture of a wavelength conversion material and a glass material; and a reflective film disposed on an upper surface of the wavelength conversion unit and reflecting a partial amount of light emitted from the light emitting device and allowing a partial amount of light emitted from the light emitting device to be transmitted therethrough.
US09537056B2
Provided is a light emitting device. In one embodiment, a light emitting device including: a support member; a light emitting structure on the support member, the light emitting structure comprising a first conductive type semiconductor layer, a second conductive type semiconductor layer, and an active layer between the first conductive type semiconductor layer and the second conductive type semiconductor layer; a protective member at a peripheral region of an upper surface of the support member; an electrode including an upper portion being on the first conductive type semiconductor layer, a side portion extended from the upper portion and being on a side surface of the light emitting structure, and an extended portion extended from the side portion and being on the protective member; and an insulation layer between the side surface of the light emitting structure and the electrode.
US09537052B2
Provided according to embodiments of the invention are method of coating a phosphor that include contacting the phosphor with a sol comprising at least one of silica, alumina, borate and a precursor thereof, to form a coating on the phosphor; and heating the phosphor. Also provided are phosphors that are coated with alumina, silica and/or borate, and light emitting devices that include such phosphors.
US09537043B2
It is an object to reduce the region of a photoelectric conversion element which light does not reach, to suppress deterioration of power generation efficiency, and to suppress manufacturing cost of a voltage conversion element. The present invention relates to a transmissive photoelectric conversion device which includes a photoelectric conversion element including an n-type semiconductor layer, an intrinsic semiconductor layer, and a p-type semiconductor layer; a voltage conversion element which is overlapped with the photoelectric conversion element and which includes an oxide semiconductor film for a channel formation region; and a conductive element which electrically connects the photoelectric conversion element and the voltage conversion element. The photoelectric conversion element is a solar cell. The voltage conversion element includes a transistor having a channel formation region including an oxide semiconductor film. The voltage conversion element is a DC-DC converter.
US09537042B2
A method for processing a transparent substrate includes generating at least one laser pulse having laser parameters selected for non-ablatively changing a conductive layer disposed on the transparent substrate into a non-conductive feature, and directing the pulse to said conductive layer. A protective film may be affixed to a surface of the transparent substrate and need not be removed during the processing of the substrate. After processing, processed areas can be visually indistinguishable from unprocessed areas.
US09537039B2
A photovoltaic cell can include a dopant in contact with a semiconductor layer. The photovoltaic cell can include a transparent conductive layer and a first semiconductor layer in contact with the transparent conductive layer, the first semiconductor layer including magnesium. In certain circumstances, a substrate can be a glass substrate. In other circumstances, a substrate can be a metal layer. The first semiconductor layer can include CdS. The first semiconductor layer can have a thickness of between about 200 or 3000 Angstroms. The first semiconductor layer can include 1-20% magnesium. A method of manufacturing a photovoltaic cell can include providing a transparent conductive layer and depositing a first semiconductor layer in contact with the transparent conductive layer, the first semiconductor layer treated with magnesium.
US09537035B2
A back-face protection sheet for a solar cell module exhibits excellent adhesion strength and tensile strength even under a high-temperature and high-humidity environment, by using a plastic film that has excellent characteristics such as electrical insulation characteristic, heat resistance, dimension stability, mechanical strength, weatherability, and water resistance, and using a two-part type lamination adhesive having excellent weatherability. The back-face protection sheet is made to have excellent adhesion strength and tensile strength for a long period of time, even under a high-temperature and high-humidity environment, by improving weatherability (hydrolysis resistance) as base material films, and giving weatherability (hydrolysis resistance) to the two-part type lamination adhesive to be used in pasting together the base material films.
US09537028B2
Described herein is a pinned photodiode pixel architecture having a p-type substrate that is independently biased with respect to a pixel area to provide an avalanche region between an n-type region and a p-type region formed on the substrate. Such a pinned photodiode pixel can be used in imaging sensors that are used in low light level conditions.
US09537017B2
A planar diode and method of making the same employing only one mask. The diode is formed by coating a substrate with an oxide, removing a central portion of the oxide to define a window through which dopants are diffused. The substrate is given a Ni/Au plating to provide ohmic contact surfaces, and the oxide on the periphery of the window is coated with a polyimide passivating agent overlying the P/N junction.
US09537015B2
Transistors including one or more semiconductor fins formed on a substrate. The one or more semiconductor fins are thinner in a channel region than in source and drain regions and have rounded corners formed by an anneal in a gaseous environment. A gate dielectric layer is on the channel region of the one or more semiconductor fins, conforming to the contours of the one or more semiconductor fins. A gate structure is on the gate dielectric layer.
US09537014B2
Threshold voltage adjustment method of a semiconductor device is provided. In a semiconductor device in which at least one of transistors included in an inverter includes a semiconductor, a source electrode or a drain electrode electrically connected to the semiconductor, a gate electrode, and a charge trap layer provided between the gate electrode and the semiconductor, the potential of the gate electrode of the transistor that is higher than those of the source electrode and the drain electrode is held for a short time of 5 s or shorter, whereby electrons are trapped in the charge trap layer and the threshold voltage is increased. At this time, when the potential differences between the gate electrode and the source electrode, and the gate electrode and the drain electrode are different from each other, the threshold voltage of the transistor of the semiconductor device becomes appropriate.
US09537013B2
A display device is provided including a first substrate comprising a resin material provided with a plurality region provided with a plurality of pixels including a display device, and a second substrate provided facing the first substrate and installed with the pixel region, wherein an outer periphery side surface of the first substrate having a taper shape and including a barrier layer covering an upper layer, lower layer and the outer periphery side surface of the first substrate.
US09537010B2
A semiconductor device structure is provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a substrate having a doped region in an upper portion of the substrate. The doped region is doped with first dopants of a first conduction type. The semiconductor device structure includes one fin structure over the substrate. A first dopant concentration of the doped region exposed by the fin structure is greater than a second dopant concentration of the doped region covered by the fin structure. The semiconductor device structure includes an isolation layer over the substrate and at two opposite sides of the fin structure. The semiconductor device structure includes a gate over the isolation layer and the fin structure.
US09537009B2
Semiconductor devices including a stressor in a recess and methods of forming the semiconductor devices are provided. The methods may include forming a fast etching region comprising phosphorous in an active region and forming a first trench in the active region by recessing the fast etching region. The methods may also include forming a second trench in the active region by enlarging the first trench using a directional etch process and forming a stressor in the second trench. The second trench may include a notched portion of the active region.
US09537008B2
The disclosure relates to a semiconductor device. An exemplary structure for a semiconductor device comprises an isolation structure comprising a top surface over a substrate major surface; a cavity having a convex bottom surface below the top surface; a strained material in the cavity and extending above the top surface, wherein the strained material comprises an upper portion having a rhombus shape and a lower portion having substantially vertical sidewalls; and a pair of tapered spacers adjoining a portion of the substantially vertical sidewalls above the top surface.
US09537005B2
Disclosed is a semiconductor device having a radio frequency switch. Also disclosed are an antenna switch module and a method of manufacturing the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a metal wiring insulating film bonded to a silicon substrate. In the semiconductor device, a crystal defect layer extends into the silicon substrate from a surface of the silicon substrate. Crystal defects are throughout the crystal defect layer. The semiconductor device and an integrated circuit are in the antenna switch module. The integrated circuit in the antenna switch module is mounted with the radio-frequency switch device and the silicon substrate. The method of manufacturing the semiconductor device includes a step of forming crystal defects throughout a silicon substrate. Radiation or a diffusion is used to form the crystal defects. After the step of forming the crystal defects, the method includes a step of implanting ions into a surface of the silicon substrate to form a crystal defect layer.
US09536999B2
A semiconductor device includes transistor cells with source zones of a first conductivity type and body zones of a second conductivity type. The source and body zones are formed in a semiconductor mesa formed from a portion of a semiconductor body. Control structures include first portions extending into the semiconductor body on at least two opposing sides of the semiconductor mesa, second portions in a distance to the first surface between the first portions, and third portions in a distance to the first surface and connecting the first and the second portions, wherein constricted sections of the semiconductor mesa are formed between neighboring third portions.
US09536989B1
Device structures and fabrication methods for a fin-type field-effect transistor. A first fin and a second fin are formed that are comprised of a semiconductor material that is single crystal. The first fin has a sidewall facing a sidewall of the second fin. A portion of a source/drain region of the first fin is damaged to form a damage region in the portion of the first fin. After the damage region is formed, a section of a semiconductor layer is epitaxially grown from the sidewall of the first fin in the source/drain region. The semiconductor material in the damage region has a level of crystalline disorder that is greater than a level of crystalline disorder of the semiconductor material in a portion of the first fin that is not damaged.
US09536981B1
A method for fabricating a field effect transistor device comprises forming a fin on a substrate, forming a first dummy gate stack and a second dummy gate stack over the fin, forming spacers adjacent to the fin, the first dummy gate stack, and the second dummy gate stack, etching to remove portions of the fin and form a first cavity partially defined by the spacers, depositing an insulator material in the first cavity, patterning a mask over the first dummy gate stack and portions of the fin, etching to remove exposed portions of the insulator material, and epitaxially growing a first semiconductor material on exposed portions of the fin.
US09536978B2
To improve performance of a semiconductor device. For example, on the assumption that a superlattice layer is inserted between a buffer layer and a channel layer, a concentration of acceptors introduced into nitride semiconductor layers forming a part of the superlattice layer is higher than a concentration of acceptors introduced into nitride semiconductor layers forming the other part of the superlattice layer. That is, the concentration of acceptors introduced into the nitride semiconductor layers having a small band gap is higher than the concentration of acceptors introduced into the nitride semiconductor layers having a large band gap.
US09536976B2
A method for fabricating a trench Schottky rectifier device is provided. At first, a plurality of trenched are formed in a substrate of a first conductivity type. An insulating layer is formed on sidewalls of the trenches. Then, an ion implantation procedure is performed through the trenches to form a plurality of doped regions of a second conductivity type under the trenches. Subsequently, the trenches are filled with conductive structure such as poly-silicon structure or tungsten structure. At last, an electrode overlying the conductive structure and the substrate is formed. Thus, a Schottky contact appears between the electrode and the substrate. Each doped region and the substrate will form a PN junction to pinch off current flowing toward the Schottky contact to suppress the current leakage in a reverse bias mode.
US09536951B2
FinFET transistor comprising at least: one fin that forms a channel, a source and a drain, comprising an alternating stack of first portions of silicon-rich SiGe and of second portions of a dielectric or semiconductor material, and third portions of germanium-rich SiGe arranged at least against lateral faces of the first portions, one gate that covers the channel, and wherein each one of the third portions comprises faces with a crystal orientation [111] covered by the gate.
US09536947B1
There is provided an electronic device and a method for its manufacture. The device comprises an elongate silicon nanowire less than 0.5 μm in cross-sectional dimensions and having a hexagonal cross-sectional shape due to annealing-induced energy relaxation.
US09536942B2
A semiconductor device includes an active region formed in an upper layer portion of a semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type, and a plurality of electric field relaxation layers disposed from an edge of the active region toward the outside so as to surround the active region. The plurality of electric field relaxation layers include a plurality of first electric field relaxation layers and a plurality of second electric field relaxation layers alternately disposed adjacent to each other, the first electric field relaxation layer and the second electric field relaxation layer adjacent to each other forming a set. Impurities of a second conductivity type are implanted to the first electric field relaxation layers at a first surface density, widths of which becoming smaller as apart from the active region. Impurities of the second conductivity type are implanted to the second electric field relaxation layers at a second surface density lower than the first surface density, widths of which becoming larger as apart from the active region.
US09536940B2
A method of forming a semiconductor structure. The method comprises forming a high-k dielectric material, forming a continuous interfacial material over the high-k dielectric material, and forming a conductive material over the continuous interfacial material. Additional methods and semiconductor structures are also disclosed.
US09536935B2
A novel light-emitting device includes an organic thin-film structure that is merged with an organic light-emitting diode structure by utilizing a part of the electron accumulation layer in the organic thin-film transistor as a common electrode for each structure. The organic thin-film structure and the organic light-emitting diode structure each include an organic semiconductor that comprises a material in which hole mobility is greater in a bulk region of the material than electron mobility in the bulk region. The advantages of such a light-emitting device include less complex processing and a simpler pixel circuit structure in comparison to separately fabricating OTFT and OLED structures and subsequently interconnecting them to form a pixel. Furthermore, relative to a light-emitting transistor, some embodiments offer the advantage of a broader light emission area more suitable for use in display devices.
US09536926B1
Magnetic tunnel junction antifuse devices are protected from degradation caused by programming voltage drop across the gates of unselected magnetic tunnel junction antifuses by connecting said magnetic tunnel junction serially with a first field effect transistor and a second field effect transistor, the first field effect transistor having its gate connected to a positive supply voltage while the gate of the second field effect transistor is switchably connected to a programming voltage.
US09536921B2
A radiation image-pickup device includes: a plurality of pixels each configured to generate signal charge based on radiation; and a field effect transistor used to read the signal charge from each of the plurality of pixels, wherein the field effect transistor includes a semiconductor layer including an active layer and a low concentration impurity layer formed to be adjacent to the active layer, and a first and a second gate electrode disposed to face each other with the active layer interposed therebetween, and one or both of the first and the second gate electrodes are provided in a region not facing the low concentration impurity layer.
US09536920B2
An image sensor includes a sensor portion and an ASIC portion bonded to the sensor portion. The sensor portion includes a first substrate having radiation-sensing pixels, a first interconnect structure, a first isolation layer, and a first dielectric layer. The ASIC portion includes a second substrate, a second isolation layer, and a second dielectric layer. The material compositions of the first and second isolation layers and the first and second dielectric layers are configured such that the first and second isolation layers may serve as barrier layers to prevent copper diffusion into oxide. The first and second isolation layers may also serve as etching-stop layers in the formation of the image sensor.
US09536919B2
A solid-state imaging device includes: a semiconductor substrate provided with an effective pixel region including a light receiving section that photoelectrically converts incident light; an interconnection layer that is provided at a plane side opposite to the light receiving plane of the semiconductor substrate; a first groove portion that is provided between adjacent light receiving sections and is formed at a predetermined depth from the light receiving plane side of the semiconductor substrate; and an insulating material that is embedded in at least a part of the first groove portion.
US09536911B2
The present invention discloses an assembling method for array substrate and color filter substrate of liquid crystal display, which comprises: coating a seal on a color filter substrate; forming multiple sealing points at the predetermined position between an array substrate with liquid crystal and the color filter substrate; rotating the color filter substrate to fit the array substrate; irradiating the sealing points using a light source to cure the sealing points, so that the array substrate and the color filter substrate are bonded. According to the embodiment of the present invention, it can be aligned precisely during assembling process of the array substrate and the color filter substrate, which avoids the poor substrate alignment caused by handling or flip and then improves the product yield.
US09536907B2
According to one embodiment, provided is a thin film transistor with which it is possible to reduce the leakage current and thereby, for a liquid crystal display device, to ensure a good display quality. The thin film transistor includes a semiconductor layer, gate electrodes, first light-blocking electrodes, and second light-blocking electrodes. The first light-blocking electrodes are disposed opposite to the gate electrodes with respect to the semiconductor layer and opposed to channel regions to block light incident into the channel regions. The second light-blocking electrodes are disposed opposite to the semiconductor layer with respect to the gate electrodes, arranged to block light incident into the channel regions, and electrically connected with one of a signal line and a pixel electrode.
US09536906B2
A pixel structure is disclosed. The pixel structure includes a plurality of data lines arranged in a first direction, and a plurality of gate lines arranged in a second direction. The plurality of data lines intersect with the plurality of gate lines near a plurality of sub-pixels. In addition, each of the plurality of sub-pixels includes a thin film transistor, and a pixel electrode. The plurality of sub-pixels includes a plurality of first rows of sub-pixels, and a plurality of second rows of sub-pixels, where the first rows of sub-pixels and the second rows of sub-pixels are interleaved, each sub-pixel in the first rows of sub-pixels is provided with a signal over a second-closest data line, and each sub-pixel in the second rows of sub-pixels is provided with a signal over a first-closest data line.
US09536903B2
To suppress fluctuation in the threshold voltage of a transistor, to reduce the number of connections of a display panel and a driver IC, to achieve reduction in power consumption of a display device, and to achieve increase in size and high definition of the display device. A gate electrode of a transistor which easily deteriorates is connected to a wiring to which a high potential is supplied through a first switching transistor and a wiring to which a low potential is supplied through a second switching transistor; a clock signal is input to a gate electrode of the first switching transistor; and an inverted clock signal is input to a gate electrode of the second switching transistor. Thus, the high potential and the low potential are alternately applied to the gate electrode of the transistor which easily deteriorates.
US09536892B2
A pillar-shaped semiconductor memory device includes an i-layer substrate, a silicon pillar, a tunnel insulating layer, a data charge storage insulating layer, a first interlayer insulating layer, a second interlayer insulating layer, and word-line conductor layers separated by third interlayer insulating layers. The tunnel insulating layer, the data charge storage insulating layer, the first interlayer insulating layer, and the second interlayer insulating layer are formed so as to surround an outer peripheral portion of a side surface of the silicon pillar. The word-line conductor layers and the third interlayer insulating layers are formed so as to surround an outer peripheral portion of a side surface of the second interlayer insulating layer in a direction perpendicular to a surface of the i-layer substrate.
US09536888B2
The present disclosure relates a method of forming an integrated circuit. In some embodiments, the method is performed by patterning a first masking layer over a substrate to have a first plurality of openings at a memory cell region and a second plurality of openings at a boundary region. A first plurality of dielectric bodies are formed within the first plurality of openings and a second plurality of dielectric bodies are formed within the second plurality of openings. A second masking layer is formed over the first masking layer and the first and second plurality of dielectric bodies. The first and second masking layers are removed at the memory cell region, and a first conductive layer is formed to fill recesses between the first plurality of dielectric bodies. A planarization process reduces a height of the first conductive layer and removes the first conductive layer from over the boundary region.
US09536884B2
A semiconductor device can include a substrate including a plurality of active regions having a long axis in a first direction and a short axis in a second direction, the plurality of active regions being repeatedly and separately positioned along the first and second directions, an isolation film defining the plurality of active regions, a plurality of word lines extending across the plurality of active regions and the isolation film, and a positive fixed charge containing layer covering at least a portion of the plurality of word lines, respectively.
US09536881B2
Semiconductor devices are provided. The semiconductor devices include a first fin; a first gate electrode intersecting the first fin; a first elevated source and/or drain on respective sides of the first gate electrode on the first fin; and a first field dielectric film adjacent the first fin. The first field dielectric film includes a first part below a top surface of the first fin and a second part protruding from the first part and above a top surface of the first fin that makes contact with the first elevated source and/or drain.
US09536876B2
A circuit with a temperature detector includes a first FET and a second FET. Each of the first and second FETs has a channel structure having a non-planar structure. The second FET is in close proximity to the first FET. A gate of the second FET is separated from the first FET, and a source and drain of the second FET are shorted together. A resistance of the gate of the second FET between two terminals on the gate of the second FET varies with a temperature local to the first FET.
US09536870B2
An electrostatic discharge protection circuit is disclosed. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor structure includes forming a semiconductor controlled rectifier including a first plurality of fingers between an n-well body contact and an anode in an n-well, and a second plurality of fingers between a p-well body contact and a cathode in a p-well.
US09536860B2
A stretchable display is disclosed. In one aspect, the stretchable display includes a plurality of pixel substrates arranged in a matrix having row and column directions. Each of the pixel substrates includes an island and a flexible hinge connecting the island to at least one of the adjacent pixel substrates. The island of each of the pixel substrates includes a plurality of first sides and a plurality of second sides. The flexible hinge of each of the pixel substrates includes a plurality of first flexible sub-hinges respectively extending from the first sides in the row direction and a plurality of second flexible sub-hinges respectively extending from the second sides in the column direction.
US09536859B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor element, a lead, and a wire including a first bonding portion bonded to the semiconductor element and a second bonding portion bonded to the lead. The semiconductor element includes a first bonding surface which faces to a first side in a first direction and to which the first bonding portion is bonded. The lead includes a second bonding surface and a third bonding surface both facing to the first side in the first direction and forming an angle larger than 180° on the first side in the first direction. The semiconductor device further includes a ball bump extending onto both the second bonding surface and the third bonding surface. The second bonding portion is bonded to the lead via the ball bump.
US09536852B2
Embodiments described herein relate to a packaged circuit including a lead frame having at least one recess pattern on an internal surface thereof. The at least one recess pattern includes a perimeter recess that defines a perimeter around one or more raised surfaces. The packaged circuit also includes a component having one or more terminals. One of the terminals is mounted to the one or more raised surfaces such that the terminal covers the perimeter recess, wherein the perimeter recess has a size and shape such that the recess is proximate a perimeter of the terminal. The packaged circuit also includes component attach adhesive between the single terminal of the component and the one or more raised surfaces of the lead frame.
US09536851B2
A preform structure for soldering a semiconductor chip arrangement includes a carbon fiber composite sheet and a solder layer formed over the carbon fiber composite sheet.
US09536844B1
The disclosed antenna structures and electronic microsystems are capable of physically disappearing in a controlled, triggerable manner. Some variations provide an on-chip transient antenna comprising a semiconductor substrate containing ion-implanted hydrogen atoms and a conductor network comprising metals bridged by low-melting-temperature metals. Some variations provide an off-chip transient antenna comprising a flexible substrate containing a polymer, nanoporous silicon particles, and an oxidant for silicon, and a conductor network comprising metals bridged by low-melting-temperature metals. Other variations provide a method of introducing physical transience to a semiconductor integrated circuit, comprising thinning a substrate from the back side, implanting hydrogen ions into the thinned substrate to introduce latent structural flaws, depositing a semiconductor integrated circuit or sensor chip, and providing a controllable heating source capable of activating the latent structural flaws. These novel approaches are compatible with existing integrated circuits processing, preserve antenna performance, and use foundry-compatible techniques.
US09536839B2
To provide a technique capable of positioning of a semiconductor chip and a mounting substrate with high precision by improving visibility of an alignment mark. In a semiconductor chip constituting an LCD driver, a mark is formed in an alignment mark formation region over a semiconductor substrate. The mark is formed in the same layer as that of an uppermost layer wiring (third layer wiring) in an integrated circuit formation region. Then, in the lower layer of the mark and a background region surrounding the mark, patterns are formed. At this time, the pattern P1a is formed in the same layer as that of a second layer wiring and the pattern P1b is formed in the same layer as that of a first layer wiring. Further, the pattern P2 is formed in the same layer as that of a gate electrode, and the pattern P3 is formed in the same layer as that of an element isolation region.
US09536838B1
An embodiment of a method of manufacturing semiconductor wafers comprises forming a notch or a flat in a semiconductor ingot extending along an axial direction. A plurality of markings are formed in the semiconductor ingot. At least some of the plurality of markings at different positions along the axial direction are distinguishable from each other by a characteristic feature. The semiconductor ingot is then sliced into semiconductor wafers.
US09536834B2
The present disclosure relates to a method of forming a back-end-of-the-line metallization layer. The method is performed by forming a plurality of freestanding metal layer structures (i.e., metal layer structures not surrounded by a dielectric material) on a semiconductor substrate within an area defined by a patterned photoresist layer. A diffusion barrier layer is deposited onto the metal layer structure in a manner such that the diffusion barrier layer conforms to the top and sides of the metal layer structure. A dielectric material is formed on the surface of the substrate to fill areas between metal layer structures. The substrate is planarized to remove excess metal and dielectric material and to expose the top of the metal layer structure.
US09536831B2
A semiconductor device is disclosed. The semiconductor device includes: a substrate having a die region and a scribe line region defined thereon; and a bonding pad on the die region of the substrate and overlapping the scribe line region.
US09536826B1
A semiconductor device structure is provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a first metal layer formed over a substrate and an interconnect structure formed over the first metal layer. The interconnect structure includes an upper portion, a middle portion and a lower portion, the middle portion is connected between the upper portion and the lower portion. The upper portion and the lower portion each have a constant width, and the middle portion has a tapered width which is gradually tapered from the upper portion to the lower portion.
US09536823B2
Conductive structures include a plurality of conductive steps and a contact extending at least partially therethrough in communication with at least one of the plurality of conductive steps and insulated from at least another one of the conductive steps. Devices may include such conductive structures. Systems may include a semiconductor device and a stair step conductive structure having a plurality of contacts extending through a step of the stair step conductive structure. Methods of forming conductive structures include forming contacts in contact holes formed through at least one conductive step of a conductive structure. Methods of forming electrical connections in stair step conductive structures include forming contacts in contact holes formed through each step of the stair step conductive structure.
US09536795B2
A method of forming a multiple threshold voltage p-channel silicon germanium trigate device using (3D) condensation. The method may include forming a first and second fin in a single semiconductor layer, where the first and second fin have similar initial widths; thinning the second fin; performing a (3D) condensation process to condense the germanium within the first and second fin; and thinning the first fin to a similar width as the second fin.
US09536780B1
The disclosure relates to using a single chamber for multiple treatments resulting in a semiconductor chip having an interconnect. An exemplary process many include forming a via to expose several layers of a microchip. The layers may include, pattered dielectric layer, a capping layer, a first metal layer and an insulator. A surface modification step is then implemented to modify and/or densify the treated surfaces of the dielectric surface. A metal compound removal step is then implemented to remove metal compounds from the bottom of the via. Finally, the via is filled with a conductive material. The surface modification and the metal compound removal steps are implemented in one chamber.
US09536778B2
Self-aligned double patterning processes to produce metal route between and connecting conductive lines are disclosed. Embodiments include forming a hard mask over a dielectric layer; forming a patterning template including plural parallel linear elements on the hard mask, wherein said hard mask is exposed between adjacent parallel linear elements; forming a block mask covering a portion of said adjacent parallel linear elements and spaces therebetween; etching exposed portions of said hard mask through said block mask and said patterning template defining plural parallel lines; removing said block mask and said patterning template; forming a cut mask above said hard mask to define an opening perpendicular to and connecting two adjacent parallel lines; etching said hard mask through said cut mask and removing the cut mask; etching recesses in the dielectric layer through said hard mask; removing the hard mask; and filling said recesses with a conductive material.
US09536771B2
The present disclosure relates to an integrated chip IC having transistors with structures separated by a flowable dielectric material, and a related method of formation. In some embodiments, an integrated chip has a semiconductor substrate and an embedded silicon germanium (SiGe) region extending as a positive relief from a location within the semiconductor substrate to a position above the semiconductor substrate. A first gate structure is located at a position that is separated from the embedded SiGe region by a first gap. A flowable dielectric material is disposed between the gate structure and the embedded SiGe region and a pre-metal dielectric (PMD) layer disposed above the flowable dielectric material. The flowable dielectric material provides for good gap fill capabilities that mitigate void formation during gap fill between the adjacent gate structures.
US09536769B1
Implementations described herein provide a chucking circuit for a pixilated electrostatic chuck which enables both lateral and azimuthal tuning of the RF coupling between an electrostatic chuck and a substrate placed thereon. In one embodiment, a chucking circuit for an electrostatic chuck (ESC) has one or more chucking electrodes disposed in a dielectric body of the ESC, a plurality of pixel electrodes disposed in the dielectric body, and a chucking circuit having the one or more chucking electrodes and the plurality of pixel electrodes, the chucking circuit operable to electrostatically chuck a substrate to a workpiece support surface of the ESC, the chucking circuit having a plurality of secondary circuits, wherein each secondary circuit includes at least one capacitor of a plurality of capacitors, each secondary circuit is configured to independently control an impedance between one of the pixel electrodes and a ground.
US09536767B1
The present disclosure relates to a material handling method of performing by means of an automatic mechanical material handling equipment controlled by a control system at least a first and a second access task for accessing respectively at least a first and at least a second article stored in a material handling storage system, the first and second access tasks having been assigned a first and a second execution priority respectively. The method comprises a) controlling the automatic mechanical material handling equipment to perform the first access task having the highest priority; and in parallel to performing the first access task a1) evaluating data indicative of the material handling storage system for determining that a first intermediate task is to be performed, wherein the first intermediate task is required in order to perform by the automatic mechanical material handling equipment the second access task; and a2) assigning an execution priority to the first intermediate task higher than the second execution priority; b) controlling the automatic mechanical material handling equipment to perform at least the first intermediate task and the second access task according to the order of execution priorities.
US09536766B2
An article transport carriage includes a carriage main body configured to travel along a travel path, a support portion configured to support a bottom surface of an article from below, a projecting and retracting actuator for projecting and retracting the support portion between a projected position and a retracted position, a pressure applying portion located directly above the article supported by the support portion in the retracted position, and a distance changing actuator for changing the distance in the vertical direction between the support portion and the pressure applying portion between a pressure applying distance and a spaced apart distance.
US09536764B2
An end effector of a wafer transfer system includes synchronously movable blades operable to hold and release wafers. The end effector comprises an end effector housing including a first blade mount coupled to a first blade, a second blade mount coupled to a second blade, and an actuator operable to move the blade mounts on respective linear rails. The actuator includes a longitudinally movable piston coupled to the respective blade mounts by respective actuator links. The actuator links are pivotally coupled to the longitudinally movable piston at respective first ends thereof and to the first and second blade mounts at respective second ends thereof wherein moving the piston towards a retracted position causes the blades to synchronously move laterally towards each other and moving the piston towards the retracted position causes the blades to synchronously move laterally away from each other so as to hold or release a wafer.
US09536762B2
A thermal processing apparatus is provided in accordance with some embodiments. The thermal processing apparatus includes a heating source for transmitting incident radiation to a work piece having a circuit pattern formed on a front surface; a radiation sensor configured to receive light radiated from the front surface of the work piece; and a controller coupled to the radiation sensor, the controller being designed to control the heating source to reduce temperature variation of the work piece.
US09536744B1
In an embodiment, this disclosure relates to a method of creating an alignment feature within a sidewall image transfer process by the addition of a block mask. The presence of the alignment feature would enable better overlay and alignment for subsequent lithographic stacks.
US09536739B2
A plurality of mandrels is formed on a silicon substrate. The mandrels are spaced apart at a given pitch, wherein at least one of the plurality of mandrels is formed having a first width, and at least another one of the plurality of mandrels is formed having a second width, and wherein the first width is greater than the second width. At least one structure is formed by removing at least a portion of the plurality of mandrels in a sidewall image transfer process without using a cut mask.
US09536736B2
The present invention relates generally to semiconductor devices and more particularly, to a structure and method for reducing substrate bowing resulting from the formation of strained SiGe layers having a high percentage of germanium (“high concentration SiGe”) on silicon substrates. During the epitaxial growth of the high concentration SiGe layer, carbon dopant atoms may be introduced to the crystalline lattice structure of the SiGe, forming a SiGe:C layer. The carbon dopant atoms may reduce tensile strain in the SiGe:C layer during annealing, thereby reducing substrate bowing.
US09536734B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device is disclosed. The method includes forming a film on a substrate by performing a cycle a predetermined number of times, wherein the cycle includes non-simultaneously performing: supplying a precursor gas to the substrate in a process chamber; exhausting the precursor gas in the process chamber through an exhaust system; confining a reaction gas, which differs in chemical structure from the precursor gas, in the process chamber by supplying the reaction gas to the substrate in the process chamber while the exhaust system is closed; and exhausting the reaction gas in the process chamber through the exhaust system while the exhaust system is opened.
US09536725B2
A liquid sampling, atmospheric pressure, glow discharge (LS-APGD) device as well as systems that incorporate the device and methods for using the device and systems are described. The LS-APGD includes a hollow capillary for delivering an electrolyte solution to a glow discharge space. The device also includes a counter electrode in the form of a second hollow capillary that can deliver the analyte into the glow discharge space. A voltage across the electrolyte solution and the counter electrode creates the microplasma within the glow discharge space that interacts with the analyte to move it to a higher energy state (vaporization, excitation, and/or ionization of the analyte).
US09536713B2
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and apparatus for ensuring desirable ignition of plasma in a plasma processing chamber via providing increased instantaneous power during an ignition period for both continuous wave (CW) and pulsed power delivery. The systems, methods, and apparatus can be applied to both initial ignition of a plasma and reignition of a plasma where pulsed power delivery leads to periodic extinction of the plasma.
US09536711B2
In a plasma processing chamber, a method for processing a substrate is provided. The method includes supporting the substrate in the plasma processing chamber configured with an upper electrode (UE) and a lower electrode (LE), configuring at least one radio frequency power source to ignite plasma between the UE and the LE, and providing a conductive coupling ring, the conductive coupling ring is coupled to the LE to provide a conductive path. The method further includes providing a plasma-facing-substrate-periphery (PFSP) ring, the PFSP ring being disposed above the conductive coupling ring. The method yet further includes coupling the PFSP ring to at least one of a direct current (DC) ground through an RF filter, the DC ground through the RF filter and a variable resistor, a positive DC power source through the RF filter, and a negative DC power source through the RF filter to control plasma processing parameters.
US09536707B2
An etching method of etching a multilayered film includes etching a multilayered film by generating plasma within a processing vessel of a plasma processing apparatus. In the etching of the multilayered film, a first processing gas containing a hydrogen gas, a hydrogen bromide gas, a fluorine-containing gas, a hydrocarbon gas, a hydrofluorocarbon gas and a fluorocarbon gas is supplied from a first supply unit configured to supply a gas toward a central region of the processing target object and a second supply unit configured to supply a gas toward outer region than the central region; a second processing gas containing a hydrocarbon gas and a fluorocarbon gas is supplied from either one of the first supply unit and the second supply unit; and the first processing gas and the second processing gas are excited.
US09536693B2
A trip assembly is for an electrical switching apparatus. The electrical switching apparatus includes a housing, separable contacts enclosed by the housing, and an operating mechanism for opening and closing the separable contacts. The operating mechanism includes a poleshaft and a trip D-shaft. The trip assembly comprises: a yoke assembly comprising a yoke member and a trip pin coupled to the yoke member, the yoke member being structured to be coupled to the poleshaft; and a link assembly comprising a linking member, the linking member being structured to cooperate with each of the trip pin and the trip D-shaft. When the yoke member moves in response to a trip condition, the linking member is structured to transmit movement of the yoke member into movement of the trip D-shaft.
US09536690B2
Synchronized mechanical switches are configured to support electrical switching circuits operating at frequencies equal to or higher than the frequency of the primary AC power supply. Due to near perfect impedances of mechanical switches as well as accurate timing control mechanisms, the mechanical switching circuits provide timely electrical connections to the terminals of the primary AC power supply to generate proper waveforms suitable to power next stage electrical circuits without the need to use semiconductor devices.
US09536681B2
A multi-pole switching device (1) for a busbar system includes a movable front cover (3), which is movably attached to the housing of the switching device and which locks at least one receiving unit (4) for receiving a component when the multi-pole switching device (1) is switched on.
US09536678B2
Embodiments described herein relate generally to electric double layer capacitors having an electrolyte formulation that includes a quantity of a stabilizing additive such that the electrochemical double layer capacitors retain cell capacitance for longer periods of time, generate less gas during operation, and experience less long term ESR. In some embodiments, an electrolyte formulation includes an ionic species, a solvent, and a stabilizer. In some embodiments the stabilizer contains a moiety that promotes adsorption to a surface, such as a carbon surface, and a moiety that promotes polarity of the stabilizer. In some embodiments, the solvent can be a nitrile compound and the stabilizer can be a compound of the formula I: Such that R is H, saturated or unsaturated, linear or branched, acyclic carbon group, OH, halogen NH2, NO2, S(O)2CF3, or monocyclic or polycyclic aryl, and n is an integer from 0 to 5.
US09536677B2
A dye-sensitized solar cell includes a first electrode; a second electrode that faces the first electrode; an electrolyte that is disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode; and an annular encapsulation unit that surrounds the electrolyte together with the first electrode and the second electrode, and connects the first electrode and the second electrode. In the dye-sensitized solar cell, the sealing portion has a resin sealing section formed of a resin. At least one interface of a first interface between the first electrode and the sealing portion, and a second interface between the second electrode and the sealing portion, constitutes a wide width section having the broadest sealing width among the sealing widths of the sealing portion, and the sealing portion has a narrow width section having a narrower sealing width than the wide width section.
US09536666B2
A multi-layer ceramic capacitor has a laminate of dielectric layers and internal electrode layers laminated alternately with one another, as well as cover layers formed as the outermost layers at the top and bottom of the laminate in the laminating direction, wherein the dielectric layers are constituted by a sintered compact containing a barium titanate and a silicon compound, and a fresnoite phase having an average grain size of 1 μm or less is present in the dielectric layers.
US09536663B2
A metallized film capacitor includes an element formed by cutting a laminate made of a pair of metallized films to a predetermined length, and the element includes metallized contact electrodes disposed on both end faces in a width direction of the element. On each dielectric film, there are formed a protection mechanism portion including a plurality of segmented electrodes that are coupled with each other via a fuse, a solid electrode connecting with the metallized contact electrode of a corresponding polarity, and a vertical pattern extending across the dielectric film in the length direction between the protection mechanism portion and the solid electrode. The position and the width of the vertical pattern are set such that the range of the vertical pattern in the width direction overlaps the vertical pattern of a metallized film which forms a pair.
US09536662B2
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes: a ceramic body including a plurality of dielectric layers and a plurality of first and second internal electrodes stacked in a width direction; a pair of first external electrodes disposed on a mounting surface of the ceramic body to be spaced apart from one another and connected to the plurality of first internal electrodes; a second external electrode disposed between the pair of first external electrodes on the mounting surface of the ceramic body and connected to the plurality of second internal electrodes; and a dummy electrode disposed on a surface of the ceramic body opposing the mounting surface of the ceramic body.
US09536661B2
A method of producing a transformer module by placing at least one transformer which includes a core, a primary winding, and a secondary winding at a bottom surface of a case at which a plurality of external terminals are provided. The method comprising placing two support columns on the bottom surface, placing the bottom surfaces of cores near the lead-out points of the leads of the windings at the two sides of the cores on core support parts of the two support columns to support them, stringing leads at the two sides of the cores to the external terminals and electrically joining them, removing the two support columns so that the bottom surfaces of the cores are placed on the bottom surface of the case, then fastening the cores to the bottom surface of the case to produce a transformer module where the leads from the cores are given excess length.
US09536650B2
Magnetic structure production may relate, by way of example but not limitation, to methods, systems, etc. for producing magnetic structures by printing magnetic pixels (aka maxels) into a magnetizable material. Disclosed herein is production of magnetic structures having, for example: maxels of varying shapes, maxels with different positioning, individual maxels with different properties, maxel patterns having different magnetic field characteristics, combinations thereof, and so forth. In certain example implementations disclosed herein, a second maxel may be printed such that it partially overwrites a first maxel to produce a magnetic structure having overlapping maxels. In certain example implementations disclosed herein, a magnetic printer may include a print head comprising multiple parts and having various properties. In certain example implementations disclosed herein, various techniques for using a magnetic printer may be employed to produce different magnetic structures. Furthermore, description of additional magnet-related technology and example implementations thereof is included herein.
US09536649B2
In order to prevent quenching caused accidentally in a superconducting magnet, an MRI apparatus vibrates the superconducting magnet in order to prevent quenching of the superconducting magnet in a time period for which a predetermined imaging sequence is not executed (step 210). As a specific method, a gradient magnetic field may be generated by a gradient magnetic field coil for an imaging sequence of the MRI apparatus, or a gradient magnetic field may be generated using a gradient magnetic field coil for vibration provided apart from the gradient magnetic field coil for an imaging sequence. In addition, in a period for which the predetermined imaging sequence is not executed, a phantom may be imaged to prevent the quenching of the superconducting magnet.
US09536637B2
A multilayered heat-recoverable article 1 includes a base material layer 10 and an adhesive layer 11 disposed on the inner side of the base material layer 10. The adhesive layer 11 includes [A] a thermoplastic resin having a melt flow rate of 15 g/10 min to 1,000 g/10 min at 190° C. and a load of 2.16 kg, [B] an organically treated layered silicate, and [C] a deterioration inhibitor. The shear viscosity at 150° C. of the adhesive layer 11 is 300 Pa·s or more at a shear rate of 0.1 s−1 and 200 Pa·s or less at a shear rate of 100s−1.
US09536625B1
User data or constantly toggling functional critical path timing sensors measure delays in actual critical paths that include a RAM. Variable resistors or variable capacitors are added to RAM bit lines for redundant cells to delay bit-line sensing by sense amplifiers. The sense amplifiers' delayed data is compared to non-delayed data from normal selected RAM cells to detect timing failures. Variable resistors or capacitors may also be added between the write drivers and bit lines to delay writing data into the redundant cells. A margin delay adjustment controller sweeps margin delays for constantly toggling paths until failures. A margin delay is then adjusted and added to functional critical paths that carry user data. Functional critical path timing sensors test setup time with the added margin delay. Timing failures cause VDD to increase, while a controller reduces VDD when no failures occur. Actual delays through the RAM adjust VDD.
US09536619B2
Data are refreshed in a nonvolatile solid-state device to significantly reduce the likelihood of data retention errors. Test data are written in a region of the nonvolatile solid-state device when user data are stored in the nonvolatile solid-state device, and are subsequently read to detect the possibility of data retention errors occurring when the associated user data are read. The test data may be a portion of the user data or a predetermined test pattern. To increase sensitivity to incipient charge leakage that may compromise the user data, the test data may be written using a modified write process and/or read with a modified read operation. The nonvolatile solid-state device may be employed as part of a solid-state drive or as the flash-memory portion of a hybrid hard disk drive.
US09536608B1
Disclosed aspects include a content addressable memory device comprising at least two memory banks connectable to a global search line. Each memory bank comprises at least two content addressable memory cells. Each content addressable memory cell can store one bit. Each content addressable memory cell is coupled to a respective local search line. Aspects include a bank connection circuitry configured for coupling the global search line to the local search lines in dependence of a bank prediction signal line. The bank connection circuitry of the content addressable memory device may comprise bank hold circuitry for storing a search value transmitted by the global search line.
US09536606B2
A seasoned phase change memory has been subjected to a longer pulse to adjust resistance levels prior to use of the phase change memory.
US09536603B2
Apparatuses and methods for determining threshold voltage shift are described. A number of methods for determining threshold voltage shift in memory cells include determining changes in threshold voltage for memory cells at each data state of a first number of data states by searching threshold voltage data of memory cells programmed to the first number of data states and determining changes in threshold voltage for memory cells at each data state of a second number of data states by searching threshold voltage data of memory cells programmed to the second number of data states within a range of threshold voltages, wherein the range is shifted from a previous range based on the changes in threshold voltage for memory cells programmed to the first number of data states.
US09536601B2
A memory cell undergoing programming is determined as belonging to a particular one of a plurality of second threshold voltage ranges that divide a present threshold voltage range of the particular memory cell. Programming pulses are applied to program the particular memory cell to within the target threshold voltage range. At least one of a program voltage and a total duration of the programming pulses applied to the particular memory cell is varied, depending on the particular second threshold voltage range of the memory cell.
US09536597B2
The present invention provides a memory unit (4) comprising: a storage element (6) comprising a pair of back to back inverters (12a, 12b and 14a, 14b) having respective first and second storage access nodes (24, 26); first and second voltage lines (VSS, VDD 16a, 6b) across which said pair of back to back inverters (12a, 12b and 14a, 14b) are connected; a first access transistor (18a), connected to said first storage node (24); a second access transistor (18b), connected to said second storage node (26); a write word line (22) connected to a gate (18g1) on said first access transistor (18a) and a gate (18g2) on said second access transistor (18b); a first bit line (28) operably connected for controlling 10 said node (24); a second bit line (30) operably connected for controlling said node (26); in which there is provided a data dependent conductive path (46) between the first and second bit lines (28, 30).
US09536593B1
An input receiver is provided with a pass transistor that is controlled to pass an input signal to an inverter only while a first binary state for the input signal equals a low voltage. The input receiver also includes a source follower transistor configured to pass a threshold-voltage-reduced version of the input signal while the first binary state of the input signal equals a high voltage greater than the low voltage.
US09536581B2
A non-volatile memory device includes a memory cell array including memory cells, each having a resistance value reversibly transitioning among resistance value ranges in a variable state in accordance with application of different electrical signals, a control circuit that, in operation, receives a control signal, a read circuit that, in operation, obtains pieces of resistance value information each relating to the resistance value of one of the memory cells in accordance with the control signal, and an arithmetic circuit that, in operation, calculates a binary reference value based on at least a part of the pieces of resistance value information. In operation, the read circuit selectively assigns, based on the binary reference value, one of two values to each of the pieces of resistance value information.
US09536578B2
A write driver for a memory circuit includes a control circuit configured to: operate a first push-pull driver to generate a first drive signal in a first voltage domain at a first node based on an input signal in a second domain and in response to a mode select signal being in a first mode, wherein the first drive signal is at a same logic level as the input signal; operate a second push-pull driver to generate a second drive signal in the first voltage domain at a second node based on the input signal and in response to the mode select signal being in the first mode, wherein the second drive signal is at a complement logic level with respect to the input signal; and operate the first and second push-pull drivers to float the first and second nodes in response to the mode select signal being in a second mode.
US09536560B2
Systems, devices, apparatuses, components, methods, and techniques for cadence determination and media content selection are provided. An example media-playback device comprises a media-output device that plays media content items, a cadence-acquiring device, and a cadence-based media content selection engine. The cadence-acquiring device includes an accelerometer and a cadence-determination engine configured to determine a cadence based on acceleration data captured by the accelerometer. The cadence-based media content selection engine is configured to identify a media content item based on the cadence determined by the cadence-determining engine and cause the media-output device to playback the identified media content item.
US09536549B1
A multi-sensor reader that includes a first sensor that has a sensor stack, which includes a free layer (FL) that has a magnetization that changes according to an external magnetic field. The first sensor also includes a shielding structure that is positioned over the sensor stack. The multi-sensor reader also includes a second sensor stacked over the first sensor. The second sensor includes a sensor stack, which includes a FL that has a magnetization that changes according to the external magnetic field. The multi-sensor reader further includes an isolation layer between the first sensor and the second sensor. A FL-to-FL spacing reduction feature is included in at least one of the isolation layer or the shielding structure.
US09536548B1
Disclosed herein is a magnetic write head comprising a main pole, a write gap over the main pole, a first hot seed layer over the main pole, wherein the first hot seed layer comprises a first hot seed material having a first anisotropy value, and a second hot seed layer comprising a second hot seed material having a second anisotropy value, the second anisotropy value being greater than the first anisotropy value, wherein at least a portion of the second hot seed layer is adjacent to the first hot seed layer to mitigate adjacent track interference. Also disclosed are methods to fabricate magnetic write heads having first and second hot seed layers.
US09536542B2
The present invention relates to an encoding device and method, and a decoding device and method, and a program which enable music signals to be played with higher sound quality by expanding a frequency band.A band pass filter divides an input signal into multiple subband signals, a feature amount calculating circuit calculates feature amount using at least any one of the divided multiple subband signals and the input signal, a high-frequency subband power estimating circuit calculates an estimated value of high-frequency subband power based on the calculated feature amount, and a high-frequency signal generating circuit generates a high-frequency signal component based on the multiple subband signals divided by the band pass filter and the estimated value of the high-frequency subband power calculated by the high-frequency subband power estimating circuit. A frequency band expanding device expands the frequency band of the input signal using the high-frequency signal component generated by the high-frequency signal generating circuit. The present invention may be applied to a frequency band expanding device, encoding device, decoding device, and so forth, for example.
US09536540B2
Provided are systems and methods for generating clean speech from a speech signal representing a mixture of a noise and speech. The clean speech may be generated from synthetic speech parameters. The synthetic speech parameters are derived based on the speech signal components and a model of speech using auditory and speech production principles. The modeling may utilize a source-filter structure of the speech signal. One or more spectral analyzes on the speech signal are performed to generate spectral representations. The feature data is derived based on a spectral representation. The features corresponding to the target speech according to a model of speech are grouped and separated from the feature data. The synthetic speech parameters, including spectral envelope, pitch data and voice classification data are generated based on features corresponding to the target speech.
US09536537B2
A method for speech restoration by an electronic device is described. The method includes obtaining a noisy speech signal. The method also includes suppressing noise in the noisy speech signal to produce a noise-suppressed speech signal. The noise-suppressed speech signal has a bandwidth that includes at least three subbands. The method further includes iteratively restoring each of the at least three subbands. Each of the at least three subbands is restored based on all previously restored subbands of the at least three subbands.
US09536532B2
Provided are, among other things, systems, methods and techniques for detecting whether a transient exists within an audio signal. According to one representative embodiment, a segment of a digital audio signal is divided into blocks, and a norm value is calculated for each of a number of the blocks, resulting in a set of norm values for such blocks, each such norm value representing a measure of signal strength within a corresponding block. A maximum norm value is then identified across such blocks, and a test criterion is applied to the norm values. If the test criterion is not satisfied, a first signal indicating that the segment does not include any transient is output, and if the test criterion is satisfied, a second signal indicating that the segment includes a transient is output. According to this embodiment, the test criterion involves a comparison of the maximum norm value to a different second maximum norm value, subject to a specified constraint, within the segment.
US09536530B2
An information signal reconstructor is configured to reconstruct, using aliasing cancellation, an information signal from a lapped transform representation of the information signal including, for each of consecutive, overlapping regions of the information signal, a transform of a windowed version of the respective region, wherein the information signal reconstructor is configured to reconstruct the information signal at a sample rate which changes at a border between a preceding region and a succeeding region of the information signal.
US09536521B2
A voice recognition method and system. A voice command can be received from a speech recognition unit associated with a device by a language switching module configured in association with the device. The voice command is recognized and processed into particular content to identify via a language database, a language associated with the device. The language can then be changed based on a detected language so that the language can be altered without reference to an instruction manual. In one scenario, a user walks toward the machine or device associated with the user device and speaks the desired/known language. The device “listens” to the voice, detects the language, and changes the user interface accordingly.
US09536517B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage devices for crowd-sourced data labeling. The system requests a respective response from each of a set of entities. The set of entities includes crowd workers. Next, the system incrementally receives a number of responses from the set of entities until one of an accuracy threshold is reached and m responses are received, wherein the accuracy threshold is based on characteristics of the number of responses. Finally, the system generates an output response based on the number of responses.
US09536504B1
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.
US09536499B2
A compositing screen includes a partially or fully transparent front screen that displays one image or video and a back screen displaying another image or video. The two images can be seen simultaneously, providing a composite image.
US09536496B2
An image processing apparatus, a display apparatus, and an image processing system and method, for displaying image data, are provided. The image processing apparatus includes a color gamut converter configured to convert a color gamut of at least a portion of an image received from the display apparatus, a controller configured to control the color gamut converter to convert color gamut of at least the portion of the image data based on region division information of a display image received from the display apparatus through the communicator and profile information for converting color gamut of a plurality of divided regions based on the region division information. Thus, the display apparatus displays image data converted into multiple-color gamut without an additional component for converting image quality and color gamut of the image data.
US09536493B2
A display apparatus and a method of controlling the display apparatus are provided. The method includes detecting a user when the display apparatus keeps a standby mode, in response to the detecting of the user, activating an area of a display unit to display at least one object, and in response to selection of one of the at least one object, controlling the display apparatus according to the selected object.
US09536476B2
The gate driver circuit is connected to a row of pixel unit, each includes a pixel driving module and a light-emitting device connected to each other, the pixel driving module including a driving transistor, a driving module and a compensating module, the compensating module is connected to a first row scanning signal, and the driving module is connected to a second row scanning signal and a driving voltage. The gate driver circuit further includes a row pixel controlling unit configured to provide the first row scanning signal to the compensating module and provide the second row scanning signal and the driving voltage to the driving module, so as to control the compensating module to compensate for a threshold voltage of the driving transistor and control the driving module to drive the light-emitting device.
US09536475B2
A display device includes first pixels emitting light in a first field and second pixels emitting light in a second field. The first field includes a first compensation period during which threshold voltages of driving transistors of the first pixels are concurrently compensated, a first scan period during which scan signals corresponding to the first pixels are sequentially transmitted and corresponding data signals are programmed, and first light emission periods during which the first pixels concurrently emit light according to the data signals. The second field includes a second compensation period during which threshold voltages of driving transistors of the second pixels are concurrently compensated, a second scan period during which scan signals corresponding to the second pixels are sequentially transmitted and corresponding data signals are programmed, and second light emission periods during which the second pixels concurrently emit light according to the data signals.
US09536470B2
An organic electroluminescence display device is provided in which circuit components can be installed at a high density and which can reduce power consumption. The organic electroluminescence display device of the present invention comprises a display part including a first display area including a plurality of first pixels and a second display area including a plurality of second pixels, and a switch unit formed from a plurality of transistors and switching between display in the first display area and display in the second display area. The switch unit does not drive the plurality of second pixels during a frame time period for driving the plurality of first pixels in the display part and drives the plurality of second pixels during a vertical retrace time period in which the plurality of first pixels are not driven in the display part.
US09536467B2
A circuit block of a driving circuit of a display device includes a first transistor that has a gate being connected to a first node having an active potential during an output period, and controls electrical conduction between a first clock signal line being applied with a first clock signal and the scanning signal line, a second transistor that has a gate being connected to a second node having an active potential during a non-output period, and controls electrical conduction between the first node and an inactive potential line, and a third transistor that has a gate being connected to the first node, and controls electrical conduction between the second node and a first cyclic signal line applied with a first period signal having an active potential at the time of termination of the output period.
US09536459B2
The present invention provides a testing device and a testing method. The testing method comprises: providing a testing device; bonding at least one connecting terminal of the testing device to signal lines of the display panel; and inputting test signals to the signal lines of the display panel through at least one test contact of the testing device. In the present invention, it is not required to arrange shorting bars on the display panel.
US09536458B2
A wearable display apparatus comprises a support structure for supporting a display (6), in use, above a wearer's (2) head; and a weight-bearing torso support for supporting the support structure, the torso support being arranged to extend, in use, around the wearer's torso below the level of the wearer's arms. The support structure comprises a yoke (12) arranged to sit on the wearer's shoulders; and at least one support member extending from the display to the wearer's shoulders and from there to the torso support. Where it extends over the wearer's shoulders, the support member bears on the yoke to distribute the weight of the apparatus between the yoke and the torso support.
US09536457B2
A method of converting an existing signage mounting structure to an electronic sign comprises using an installation kit for providing and installing at least one section sign assembly, loaded with a plurality of display modules and having a power routing system with a plurality of individual power extensions extending from a single node to a plurality of display module receiving bays node receptacles, wherein passageway openings at a rear portion of the at least one sectional sign assembly facilitate replacement of individual ones of said plurality of display modules from a rear side of the sign construction, and coupling said single node to a source of power for completing the conversion.
US09536456B2
An image display device includes a flexible display unit bendable by an external force between a first state and a second state having different radii of curvature from each other, a pressing member disposed to face the flexible display unit and configured to apply the external force to the flexible display unit in a bending manner, and a drive part configured to pull both ends of the pressing member such that the pressing member is bent.
US09536453B2
Computing systems are provided for facilitating communication to the hearing-impaired. The computing systems obtain and modify a video that includes a signer performing sign language about a topic. The video is then modified and presented to a viewer in such a way that the viewer can simultaneously view the sign language and the one or more objects corresponding to the topic. In some instances, the modified video is blended with another video corresponding to the same topic so as to enable a user to view the sign language at the same time as the corresponding video presentation. This can be done in real-time or with a time delay. In other instances, the modified video is rendered on a display through which the user is also viewing the one or more related items associated with the sign language.
US09536452B2
A lighting device obtains data related to objects and boundaries in an area in the vicinity of the lighting device, and a user wearable device provides a display (e.g. an augmented reality display based on the data related to the objects and the area boundaries) for a user/wearer. The lighting device includes a mapping sensor that collects data related to the objects and boundaries in the area. The user wearable device includes a camera or other optical sensor and wireless communication capability. The user wearable device is provided with mapping data that is presented on a display of the user wearable device. The communications and display capabilities allow the user wearable device to obtain room mapping information related to area in the vicinity of the lighting device in order to provide navigational assistance to a visually impaired person in the area.
US09536447B2
A playing aid for a stringed instrument comprises an alignment means arranged in use to be located on the neck of the instrument. The alignment means comprises a linear alignment element arranged in use to extend substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the neck of the instrument. The aid further comprises a glider comprising having a collar arranged to receive a part of the player's hand. The aid further comprises a coupling means arranged to couple the glider slid-ably to the linear alignment element of the alignment means.
US09536443B2
An approach is provided for evaluating subject matter experts (SMEs) in a question and answering (QA) system. In the approach, a number of responses are received at the QA system with each of the responses being a response to a common question and each of the responses being received from a SME. One of the responses is selected with the selected response being from one of the SMEs that is being evaluated. The approach evaluates the selected response by comparing the selected response to the responses received from the other SMEs. Based on the evaluation, the approach updates a SME confidence score that corresponds to the selected SME.
US09536439B1
A service for conveying questions with an item of content is disclosed. The content question service may analyze a portion of an item of content, select a question task, and then generate a question about the portion of the item of content using the selected question task. The content question service may receive a user's response to the conveyed question, analyze the response, and track the user's skill level for the selected question task.
US09536431B2
A driving support apparatus is provided that supports driving of a vehicle that is traveling on a road. In the apparatus, a cruising lane on the road is detected. When the cruising lane cannot be detected, an extrapolation cruising lane formed by extrapolating a previously detected cruising lane is set. A length of time over which the extrapolation cruising lane is set is decided based on the distance between the previously detected cruising lane and the vehicle and/or a lateral speed of the vehicle. Furthermore, whether or not the vehicle will deviate from the detected cruising lane or the set extrapolation cruising lane within a reference time that is set in advance is determined. Driving support is performed based on the determination result.
US09536427B2
Methods and software for managing vehicle priority proximate to a potential travel-priority conflict zone, such as a roadway intersection, where travel conflicts, such as crossing traffic, can arise. Coordination involves forming an ad-hoc network in a region containing the conflict zone using, for example, vehicle-to-vehicle communications and developing a dynamic traffic control plan based on information about vehicles approaching the conflict zone. Instructions based on the dynamic traffic control plan are communicated to devices aboard vehicles in the ad-hoc network, which display one or more virtual traffic signals to the operators of the vehicles and/or control the vehicles (for example, in autonomous vehicles) in accordance with the dynamic traffic control plan, which may account for a priority level associated with one or more of the vehicles.
US09536421B2
A user equipment (UE) device pointed at an appliance to be controlled, or at an object that is to be accessed or about which information needs to retrieved, determines its position and orientation within an environment with respect to a fixed frame of reference. The appliance to be controlled is identified based on a determined position and orientation of the UE device and a known position of the appliance. The UE device controls the identified appliance by establishing a wireless communication link between the identified appliance and UE device based on a wireless technology that is compliant with both the appliance and the UE device. The UE device may control another appliance via a central control computer server to which the other appliance is interfaced, when the other appliance is not configured for wireless communication.
US09536408B2
A programmable proximity alert system for providing a sensory reminder to a parent when the exit the vicinity of a vehicle possibly containing their child. The programmable proximity alert system comprises a remote receiver adapted to sense the presence of a seat transmitter that it has been paired with and provide plural sensor alerts upon exiting from within a predetermined proximity of the seat transmitter, as well as a coding remote for initiating a bonding request that pairs a remote receiver and a seat transmitter.
US09536407B2
There are provided systems and methods for remote monitoring of tagged physical objects in an emergency. A user may set up a series of beacons at a facility of the user, such as an office or hospital. The beacons may connect to tag devices as the devices enter a coverage area for the wireless beacons or upon request by a service provider server in an emergency situation. The beacons communicate distance information regarding the tag devices and associated physical objects to a service provider server. The service provider server may determine the location of a physical object and provides the location to the user or to emergency personnel. In an emergency, the service provider server may provide a notification to a specific subset of users, in which the notification includes the location of a physical object of interest to the subset of users because of the emergency condition.
US09536403B2
An electronic shelf label system is provided. There is provided a method in which an electronic shelf label periodically transmits its remaining battery capacity to a server in a electronic shelf label system according to the present invention, and the server converts the battery level into a remaining battery life (time) and provides the same, so that a manager can check the remaining battery life in a management mode of the server and a terminal, and easily manage an electronic shelf label using a battery.
US09536400B2
By detecting the specific frequency component included in an alarm sound by a frequency analysis and a period analysis, even under a noisy and echo environment, a reliable, almost-no-false-detecting and small-sized abnormality detection device, which can detect the alarm sound, can be realized and then an integrated security system can be realized.
US09536396B2
Methods for providing gaming advice are provided. For example, regarding a blackjack game, one or more first player cards are identified for a first player and one or more second player cards are identified for a second player. The first and second player cards are displayed to the first player. A probability associated with a first one of the plurality of playing options is determined based at least on a set of predetermined statistical blackjack data, the one or more first player cards, and the one or more second player cards. It is then determined, based at least on the determined probability associated with the first playing option, whether to display a first indication corresponding with first advice regarding the first playing option, a second indication corresponding with second advice regarding the first playing option, or a third indication corresponding with third advice regarding the first playing option.
US09536391B2
A system and method obtains random award-content information on an economic entity associated with a gaming establishment. The system has an award identifier selected from the group consisting of an article or purchase receipt intimately associated with an electromagnetically functional such as a hand-held information receiving and transmission device that can interrogate the award identifier. The award identifier contains communicable information relating to a random value that can be used for wagering credit in the gaming establishment. A distal server is in wireless two-way communication with the intermediate system entry device, the distal server capable of receiving, storing and transmitting information from the award identifier transmitted through the intermediate system entry device. Information specific to at least available gaming value available through the intermediate system entry device is identified only after communication has been first established between the intermediate system entry device and the server.
US09536390B2
Systems and methods for serving patrons in a wagering game environment are described herein. In some embodiments, a method includes receiving patron service information, wherein the patron service information indicates activities of a patron in a casino. The method can also include selecting, based on the patron service information, a service for the patron, wherein the patron has not requested the service. Additionally, the method can include presenting a service order instructing a service attendant to deliver the service.
US09536389B2
A gaming table apparatus has a gaming table with a gaming table support surface. A token sensor assembly includes a container having a height and side walls that define an inside and outside perimeter of the container, and a top surface and bottom surface, a translucent cover disposed on the top surface of the side walls, a circuit board secured to the inside perimeter of the container, a plurality of lights disposed on a top side of the circuit board, and a passive ambient light sensor disposed on the top side of the circuit board. The passive ambient light sensor and the translucent cover may operate within predetermined wavelength ranges for receiving and passing light, respectively. A condition of the passive ambient light sensor may not be polled if the plurality of lights is emitting light.
US09536384B2
In accordance with some embodiments, a plurality of outcomes are generated and used to create a video presentation of representative outcomes. The video presentation is recorded onto a tangible medium (e.g., DVD or CD-ROM) or otherwise provided to a player (e.g., player may access the video presentation online). This allows a player to purchase a video presentation of (e.g., predetermined) outcomes in a jurisdiction in which gambling is legal yet view the presentation at the player's convenience (e.g., from any jurisdiction and at any time). A player who purchases such a video presentation may subsequently redeem it for a redemption value associated therewith.
US09536382B2
A gaming system where in one embodiment, as players play the primary games of the gaming devices, players are enabled to join one of a plurality of teams associated with a secondary team game. Each of the teams includes a plurality of players. The gaming system periodically monitors at least one factor or parameter of each player's gaming activity to determine a score for that player. In one embodiment, the scores for each of the players on each team are accumulated to determine that team's cumulative score. If a team's cumulative score reaches a winning value, the gaming system provides a prize to one or more of the players on that team. The gaming system enables players to switch from one team to another in attempt to be on a particular team when that team's cumulative score reaches a winning value.
US09536381B2
A gaming system is disclosed which comprises a game implementer arranged to implement a game and to produce a game outcome, an outcome evaluator arranged to determine whether the game outcome corresponds to a winning outcome, and a win modification selector. The win modification selector is arranged to select a win modification identifier when a winning outcome exists from a plurality of win modification identifiers including a plurality of win multiply identifiers and at least one win reduce identifier. The gaming system also comprises a prize allocator arranged to allocate a prize to a player when a winning outcome exists and to modify the allocated prize using the selected win modification identifier. A corresponding method is also disclosed.
US09536379B2
A bet sensor for determining the value of a wager includes an at least partially transparent cover having a bet placement surface configured and oriented to support a stack of gaming tokens thereon. The bet sensor includes a mirror arrangement disposed on an opposing side of the at least partially transparent cover from the bet placement surface. The mirror arrangement is located and configured to provide a view greater than 180 degrees of a lateral side surface of the stack of gaming tokens when supported on the bet placement surface. Another bet sensor may include an at least partially transparent cover having a bet placement surface and an image sensor located substantially directly below the bet placement surface, the image sensor configured to capture a view greater than 180 degrees of a lateral side surface of the stack of gaming tokens when supported on the bet placement surface.
US09536374B2
A wagering game system and its operations can include presenting wagering game content for a casino wagering game to have a two-dimensional appearance via an autostereoscopic display device. The operations can further include detecting an indication to change a presentation of the two-dimensional appearance without stereoscopic depth to have a stereoscopic three-dimensional appearance having stereoscopic depth. The operations can further include detecting a game condition for the casino wagering game, determining a degree of stereoscopic three-dimensional depth to use for the wagering game content based on a value for the game condition, and changing the presentation of the two-dimensional appearance to the stereoscopic three-dimensional appearance in response to determining the degree of the stereoscopic three-dimensional depth to use. The operations can further include presenting, via the autostereoscopic display device, the wagering game content with the degree of stereoscopic three-dimensional depth proportional to the value for the game condition.
US09536366B2
Various embodiments are directed to systems and methods for facilitating voting. A first computer system may select a voter data pack for a first voter. The first computer system may also store an indication of the voter data pack and encrypt the voter data pack. A second computer system may receive the encrypted voter data pack and consolidate the encrypted voter data pack with checkable data. The second computer system may also store an association between the encrypted voter data pack and the checkable data, and encrypt the consolidated encrypted voter data pack and checkable data to generate a consolidated voter authorization for the first voter.
US09536358B2
A method of determining parameters that are characteristics of the operation of a vehicle having a power plant with at least one engine and mechanical transmission means, sensors, and display means. During the method, various items of information about the aircraft, its state and/or its operation and/or its environment are measured, and then, for at least one parameter Pi relating to the state and the operation of the aircraft there are determined a first limit value Pi_lim for the parameter Pi, a second value Pi_X for each parameter Pi to enable the aircraft to perform a predetermined maneuver X, and an instantaneous third value Pi_inst for each parameter Pi. Thereafter, each first, second, and third values Pi_lim, Pi_X, Pi_inst is displayed simultaneously in order to show up the relative position of second and third values Pi_X and Pi_inst relative to a first value Pi_lim for each parameter Pi.
US09536357B2
A door assembly includes a first door skin and a second door skin spaced apart from the first door skin. The assembly also includes an energy sensor generating an energy signature signal and a memory storing a door component operating signature. A controller is coupled to the accelerometer and forms a comparison of the energy signature signal to the door component operating signature and generates a door component operation status signal in response to the comparison.
US09536355B1
An augmented reality (AR) device comprises a transparent display, a thermal sensor, a depth sensor, and a processor. The thermal sensor generates thermal data related to physical objects detected by the AR device. A thermal baseline identification engine forms a thermal baseline using data from infrared imaging and depth profiling sensors, thermal data of the physical objects in a mapped 3D space, thermal context of the objects both spatially and based on their operating status, and their thermal parameters. A thermal anomaly identification engine identifies a thermal anomaly based on the established thermal baseline and the real time measurements, and generates a warning notification in response to the identified thermal anomaly.
US09536352B2
Technologies for rendering augmented reality virtual objects include an augmented reality device to capture an image and recognize subjects within the image. Subjects may include persons or objects, such as accessories. The augmented reality device determines a context associated with the subjects of the image and selects one or more virtual objects based on the context. The identified context may include an activity or theme associated with the subject or accessories included in the image. Virtual objects may include accessories and clothing for virtual characters. The augmented reality device may select virtual objects that are similar to identified subjects and accessories, or that are associated with an identified activity or theme of the subject. The augmented reality device applies the virtual objects to a virtual character and renders an augmented reality scene based on the captured image that includes the virtual character. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09536349B2
It is proposed a computer-implemented method for compressing a three-dimensional modeled object. The method comprises: providing a mesh of the three-dimensional modeled object; parameterizing (u,v) the mesh in a two-dimensional plane, the parameterization of the mesh resulting in a set of vertices having two-dimensional coordinates; providing a grid on the two-dimensional plane; and modifying the two-dimensional coordinates of each vertex by assigning one vertex to one intersection of the grid. Such compression method is lossless, completely reversible, suitable to efficiently reduce the storage size of a CAD file.
US09536347B2
An apparatus and method for forming a light field image includes projecting vertices of a graphic object to a far plane corresponding to a first distance directed to a screen reproducing a light field, and forming the light field image with respect to the graphic object using the vertices projected to the far plane.
US09536345B2
An apparatus for enhancing a 3-D image illuminated by a light source and having associated depth and texture information includes generating from the depth information a surface mesh having surface mesh sections. Texture sections corresponding to the surface mesh sections are determined from the texture information. The texture sections are ranked based upon their color intensity, and the characteristics of one or more light sources are adjusted to alter the color intensity of the ranked texture sections to thereby produce an enhanced image.
US09536340B2
Design software in accordance with an implementation of the present invention is configured to provide believable three-dimensional representations of user selections in real-time. Design elements that would otherwise be difficult to efficiently render three-dimensionally in real-time are prerendered for realistic visual effects, such as realistic shading, which correspond to various positions of the elements in a design space. Blanks of the visual effects for each position are then stored in a data store for visual effects. At run time, data associated with user design choices, as well as the blanks for any corresponding design elements are fed in one implementation to peripheral processing hardware, such as a GPU, which sends the processed data to a display device. The user is therefore able to view complex visual data of certain design choices efficiently with added realism.
US09536335B2
A method and apparatus for synthesis of homogeneous regions when infilling a missing region, such as for inpainting removed (or moved) objects from the image is presented. A color interpolation process is performed across opposing boundaries of the missing region for directing the color selection in the patch matching process. Patch matching is performed based on using a detail layer modified by information from color interpolation for each target patch which fills from the extremity of the missing region in towards its center.
US09536334B2
A well log is obtained that includes log data gathered along a trajectory of a wellbore. An orientation parameter defining a perspective for displaying the log data along the trajectory is also obtained. Following a path of the trajectory, an image strip is rendered from the log data based on the orientation parameter, where the image strip is a pictorial representation of the log data. The image strip is displayed along the trajectory.
US09536330B2
A system according to an embodiment may include: a generation unit that acquires axis information in a coordinate system drawing execution status of a program, and generates an axis object representing the coordinate system based on the axis information; a display event information generation unit that acquires event information related to each of the two or more events and program structure information related to a section of the program generating the two or more events, and generates display event information related to one or more display events representing the two or more events; and an object generation unit that acquires the display event information and display event unit information indicating a display unit of the display event, and generates one or more event objects based on the display event information and the display event unit information.
US09536329B2
A computer implemented method and apparatus for acquiring sentiment analysis information based on user reactions to displayable content. The method comprises receiving reaction data of at least one individual user viewing portions of displayable content, wherein the reaction data of each user includes indications representative of at least one of a time-varying emotional state of the user and a time-varying level of interest of the user captured during viewing of the displayable content; and performing sentiment analysis on the reaction data by at least one of: categorizing portions of the displayable content based on one of the reaction of one user or aggregated reactions of a plurality of users, and identifying at least one portion of the displayable content having one of a more favorable and a less favorable reaction by the at least one user, by comparison to one of a baseline and reactions to other portions of the displayable content.
US09536321B2
Embodiments of apparatus and methods for foreground object segmentation are described. In embodiments, an apparatus may include a color modeler to build a color model based at least in part on a boundary of a foreground object in an image frame. The apparatus may further include a segmentation processor to segment the foreground object from a background of the image frame, based at least in part on the color model. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US09536314B2
A method for reconstructing a three-dimension image includes receiving a plurality of two-dimensional images and projection information of the two-dimensional images, projecting a plurality of rays onto the plurality of two-dimensional images, determining correspondence information between pixels of different ones of the plurality of two-dimensional images, determining a value of each of the pixels, and reconstructing a three-dimension image by integrating the plurality of rays, wherein a position on each ray can be associated to one pixel of the plurality of two-dimensional images.
US09536312B2
A depth construction module is described that receives depth images provided by two or more depth capture units. Each depth capture unit generates its depth image using a structured light technique, that is, by projecting a pattern onto an object and receiving a captured image in response thereto. The depth construction module then identifies at least one deficient portion in at least one depth image that has been received, which may be attributed to overlapping projected patterns that impinge the object. The depth construction module then uses a multi-view reconstruction technique, such as a plane sweeping technique, to supply depth information for the deficient portion. In another mode, a multi-view reconstruction technique can be used to produce an entire depth scene based on captured images received from the depth capture units, that is, without first identifying deficient portions in the depth images.
US09536306B2
In order to determine extrinsic parameters of a vehicle vision system or an aspect of a vehicle vision system, road lane markings may be identified in an image captured by a camera and provided to the vehicle vision system. For one or more of the identified road lane markings, a first set of parameters defining an orientation and a position of a line along which a road lane marking extends in an image plane may be determined. Also, a second set of parameters defining an orientation and a position of a line along which a road lane marking extends in a road plane may be determined. A linear transformation that defines a mapping between the first set of parameters and the second set of parameters may be identified. The extrinsic parameters may be established based on the identified linear transformation.
US09536300B2
An image processing method in an observation system 1A includes a step of acquiring a measured image G1 measured from a semiconductor device S and a first pattern image G2 showing a pattern of the semiconductor device S corresponding to the measured image G1, a step of acquiring a second pattern image G3 showing a pattern of the semiconductor device S, a step of acquiring matching information indicating a correlation of the first pattern image G2 and the second pattern image G3 based on the first pattern image G2 and the second pattern image G3, and a step of superimposing the second pattern image G3 and the measured image G1 based on the matching information to acquire a superimposed image G4.
US09536297B2
An image inspection apparatus for inspecting an image output on a recording medium. The image inspection apparatus includes processing circuitry that obtains data of an output-target image used by an image forming apparatus to conduct an image forming operation, generates read data from the data of the output-target image, and generates an inspection reference image from the data of the output-target image. The apparatus also performs position alignment between the read image and the inspection reference image, conducts an inspection which determines a defect in the read image based on the difference of the aligned read image and the inspection reference image, and determines whether a position alignment defect exists in the read image based on the defect detected during inspection.
US09536294B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein to a package essence analysis method comprising receiving, by a computer, first and second video files; indexing, by a computer, the first and second video files; decoding, by a computer, a selected frame of the first video file by referencing a first frame image using the index of the first video file; decoding, by a computer, a selected frame of the second video file by referencing a second frame image using the index of the second video file; and performing, by a computer, video quality analysis by comparing the decoded selected frame of the first video file to the decoded selected frame of the second video file.
US09536279B2
A processor is operable to generate a graphics data representation (GDR) for a graphic created at a first resolution and including two or more separated objects. The processor decomposes the objects into contours and determines features and control points along the contours. Additionally, the processor determines constraints for imposition upon the features and control points during scaling, where the constraints include spatial relationships between the control points. The processor stores the constraints, identifications of the features and control points, contour descriptions, and information identifying the first resolution to produce the GDR. Upon acquiring the GDR, a displaying device's processor determines a scaling value based on the first resolution and a second resolution at which the graphic will be displayed, adjusts features and control points of the contours based on the scaling value and the GDR constraints to produce a scaled graphic, and displays the scaled graphic at the second resolution.
US09536278B2
Methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture for graphics processing of a vertex buffer using a relative index buffer are disclosed. Example methods to process a vertex buffer disclosed herein include accessing a first relative index stored in a relative index buffer, the first relative index specifying an offset from a current index selecting a first entry of the vertex buffer. Such disclosed example methods also include, in response to the first relative index being a nonzero value, processing data associated with a second entry of the vertex buffer to determine a rasterizer output associated with the first entry of the vertex buffer, the second entry of the vertex buffer being selected using the current index offset by the first relative index.
US09536276B2
Described herein are technologies related to performing of a preemption operation in graphics hardware. Particularly, the preemption operation includes tracking of unreported or dropped workload independent of workloads submitted to the graphics hardware.
US09536275B1
A system and method uses the capabilities of a geometry shader unit within the multi-threaded graphics processor to implement algorithms with variable input and output.
US09536274B2
Disclosed herein is a drawing processing apparatus including: a drawing library section adapted to transmit a drawing command via a network; and a data transmission management section adapted to transmit reusable data, used to execute the drawing command, via the network at a time different from when the drawing command is transmitted. Also disclosed herein is a drawing processing apparatus including: a data reception management section adapted to receive reusable data, used to execute a drawing command, via a network at a time different from when the drawing command is received; and a drawing library section adapted to set the reusable data, received by the data reception management section, in a graphics processor as a resource and adapted to receive the drawing command via the network and supply the drawing command to the graphics processor.
US09536273B2
The present invention relates to a method for simulating image quality improvement of an image display device, in which the image display device to be tested is made to display an optimized picture quality with a simplified process by applying simplified simulation program and device; and a device therefor. The method for simulating picture quality improvement of an image display device includes the steps of selecting at least one input image data from a list of plurality of test image data by using a file input/output interface unit of a simulation tool, selecting at least one image processing algorithm from a list of a plurality of image processing algorithms by using an image control interface unit, applying the at least one image processing algorithm selected thus to the at least one input image data to convert the at least one input image data by using an algorithm application control unit, comparing and determining at least one output image data converted and forwarded thus to the input image data, and analyzing characteristics of the output image data by using a resultant image analysis and control unit.
US09536271B2
A system and method for configuring an indication device is described. An on-demand service system arranges a transport service for a user to be provided by a driver. The system determines whether the user has specified an output configuration for an indication device in an account of the user. In response to determining that the user has specified an output configuration for the indication device, the system identifies data corresponding to the output configuration and transmits the data to a driver device of the driver to enable the driver device to control the indication device of the driver based on the data.
US09536264B2
Sending or receiving messages in a host agnostic way in a continuation based runtime. A method includes defining a contract between a continuation based runtime and host for sending or receiving a message. The contract defines one or more of: details about what should be included in the messages, operations for sending the message; operations for receiving the message, parameters for cancellation of inflight operations, or notifications about correlation information lifetime. The method further includes identifying a correlation handle. The correlation handle uniquely identifies an executing instance of an activity. The method further comprises identifying a bookmark. The bookmark defines where the continuation based runtime should resume after sending or receiving the message. The method further comprises calling the contract using the correlation handle and the bookmark to allow the message to be correctly routed by the host and for the continuation based runtime to be correctly resumed.
US09536261B2
Disclosed are various embodiments for synchronizing application state information across devices. More specifically, embodiments of the disclosure are related to resolving conflicts between application state information. A synchronization rule, an event name and/or event value are embedded within application state information obtained from devices associated with a user, from which conflicts can be resolved by an application synchronization service.
US09536249B2
A method, apparatus, and computer program product for measuring inline internet ad performance for third-party ad serving. The method comprises receiving an original third-party internet ad and recoding the original third-party internet ad for producing a recoded third-party internet ad where the recoded third-party internet ad comprises ad instrumentation code. In real-time, as the internet ad is composited and rendered, the instrumentation code measures the response latency of the server or servers in the third-party network using the ad instrumentation code. In some cases, the original third-party internet ad comprises ad code using a markup language such as HTML language, and/or JavaScript language (e.g. in ad code segments). The recoding comprises recoding an ad code segment of the ad by transforming the ad code segment into a JavaScript literal, which in exemplary embodiments includes emitting a specialized document.write( ) call. Response latency measurements are collected and included in a latency table.
US09536248B2
A predictive model generator that enhances customer experience, reduces the cost of servicing a customer, and prevents customer attrition by predicting the appropriate interaction channel through analysis of different types of data and filtering of irrelevant data. The model includes a customer interaction data engine for transforming data into a proper format for storage, data warehouse for receiving data from a variety of sources, and a predictive engine for analyzing the data and building models.
US09536246B2
A content recommendation system includes: a client terminal operated by a user; and a content recommendation server that recommends content to the terminal through a network and includes a preference discrimination information storage section accumulating and storing preference discrimination information in which information related to evaluation of content input to the terminal by a user and identification information of the user are associated with each other, a content feature information storage section storing content feature information in which data indicating features of content are associated with identification information of content, a preference information creation section creating preference information of each user by integrating evaluation for content with the feature of the content for each user based on the preference discrimination information and the content feature information, and a recommended content list providing section transmitting a list of recommended content, extracted by evaluating the degree of similarity of features with the preference information based on the content feature information, to the terminal.
US09536245B2
A system for providing an individual user with customized information is described. The user provides the system with the user's preferences. The system compares each user's preferences to a database to provide the user with notification via an e-mail newsletter sent over a computer network. The newsletter is individually prepared for each user by dynamically populating the newsletter with the necessary information as the newsletter is being sent to the individual. Thus, there is no need to first prepare the newsletter, store it, send it, and delete it. This approach reduces the need for more equipment as the number of needed newsletters increases.
US09536229B2
A method for an out-of-office message notification system to notify at least one sender who has sent an email in a pre-defined time span prior to a start time associated with an out-of-office notification being set by a user is provided. The method may include identifying an unresponded email within a plurality of unresponded emails in an inbox received within the pre-defined time span prior to the start time associated with the out-of-office notification being set by a user. The method may also include sending an out-of-office message notification to the sender associated with the unresponded email.
US09536227B2
Deleted property information relating to deleting an item, such as an electronic message, is used for restoring the deleted item. The deleted property information is stored in response to deleting the item. The stored deleted property information identifies a location of where the item was deleted from and may include other information. The location information may be a specific location such as a folder (e.g. inbox, sent, folder 1, . . . ), a calendar, a network location, and the like. In response to a request to restore a deleted item, the deleted property information is used to restore the deleted item to the location where the item was when deleted. A graphical user interface may be used to assist a user in restoring deleted items. The user interface may display a user friendly name (e.g. “Inbox”, “Folder 1”, . . . ) of where the deleted item(s) will be/have been restored.
US09536226B2
Methods and systems for leveraging one's social network in the context of an opportunities marketplace are described. One aspect of the invention involves integrating social networking features into an online marketplace, or exchange. Accordingly, one aspect of the invention involves facilitating an opportunity search in a manner that provides social networking information with the results of the search.
US09536222B2
A system may include reception of an instruction to execute a business process from a client application, execution of the business process in a first software work process, and storage, during execution of the business process, of progress information associated with the business process within a memory. A system may further include reception, at a second software work process, of a request from the client application for progress information, retrieval, in the second software work process, of the progress information from the shared memory, reception, at the second software work process, of the progress information from the memory, and provision of the progress information to the client application from the second software work process.
US09536211B2
A service system includes at least one administration computer having a display device and a user interface for administering machines having components. A respective configuration of components of delivered machines is stored in the administration computer. When a component in one of the machines in the administration computer is exchanged, a spare part that has been installed is stored in the administration computer instead of an original component. A current configuration of the components can be displayed on the display device by operating the user interface, for each of the machines stored in the administration computer. A servicing method is also provided.
US09536206B2
An apparatus and a method are provided for learning a program with a large number of parameters. In one embodiment, a method not only distorts the input values, but also distorts some of the parameters in the program model. Such an approach not only forces the learned program to acquire parameter values to predict missing or desired data, but also to correct errors in the input data and the program parameters themselves, thereby rendering the learned program more resilient to overfitting and falling into local optima.
US09536203B2
The invention provides for a computer-implemented method for solving a linear program (LP), the method comprising the steps of: receiving (100) the linear program; determining (101) a kernel K and determining a kernel matrix G of the kernel K, wherein the kernel matrix is a non-singular submatrix of the original matrix; determining (102) a set of non-basic variable indices and a set of extra constraint indices; computing (103) a primal kernel vector (xK) from the determined kernel; computing (104) a dual kernel vector (yK) from the determined kernel; and evaluating (105) the feasibility of the primal kernel vector and of the dual kernel vector.
US09536201B2
A method to identify a relationship between at least pairs of variables in a dataset generates a novel measure of dependence, referred to as a Maximal Information Coefficient (MIC), that captures a wide range of interesting associations (not limited to specific function types such as linear, exponential or periodic, or to all functional relationships), and that gives similar scores to equally noisy relationships of different types. MIC is based on the idea that if a relationship exists between two variables, then a grid can be drawn on a scatterplot of the two variables that partitions the data to encapsulate that relationship.
US09536198B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a system, method, and computer program product to detect and localize non-technical losses in an energy distribution system. A computing device determines the energy consumption of a link and/or node that is associated with an energy grid. The computing device determines the mismatch between the determined energy consumption of the link and/or node and the predicted energy consumption of the link and/or node. The computing device also determines the location of unauthorized energy consumption within the energy that is associated with the mismatch.
US09536196B2
An apparatus comprises a memory and a processor device operatively coupled to the memory. The processor device is configured to receive a set of process metrics, evaluate the set of received process metrics to determine a set of process classifications, determine a set of process parameters, and generate 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.
US09536193B1
An approach is provided to identify important paths in a biological relationship graph for exploration by researchers. In the approach, a biological meaningfulness analysis is performed on the biological relationship graph that has a number of paths through the graph formed by a number of connected nodes. The biological meaningfulness analysis is based on a process similarity calculation of gene ontologies of the nodes in the paths and a contextual similarity calculation of word occurrences from documents in a corpus where a reference to the respective nodes are found. A biological interestingness analysis is also performed on the biological relationship graph. The paths are screened based on the meaningfulness analysis and the interestingness analysis. The screened data is displayed to the user.
US09536189B2
A method for coordinate transformation in a spiking neural network includes encoding a first positional representation as phase information in the spiking neural network. The method also includes shifting the phase information to modify the first positional representation into a second positional representation.
US09536187B2
An attachment assembly on a cylindrical protuberance of an article comprising a flexible cap configured for fitting an outer shape of the cylindrical protuberance, the flexible cap comprising an central recess part, a RFID tag fixedly mounted in the central recess part, the RFID tag comprising identification data relative to the article, and a magnet having two opposite flat faces, the magnet generating a magnetic field perpendicular to the flat faces being fixedly mounted by one of the two flat faces on the RFID tag and configured to be affixed by the opposite one of the two flat faces onto the cylindrical protuberance.
US09536183B2
An image forming device includes: a rasterizing section, a resolution converting section and a thinning section. The rasterizing section generates, by rasterization, image data having any one of standard resolution, resolution higher than the standard resolution and resolution lower than the standard resolution. The resolution converting section converts the resolution upon rasterization for the generated image data having the higher or lower resolution than the standard resolution into the standard resolution. The thinning section thins the image data having the standard resolution. When thinning the image data of which the resolution is converted higher than upon rasterization in the resolution converting section, the thinning section adjusts thinning strength to become larger upon thinning than when thinning the image data of which the resolution upon rasterization is kept as it is.
US09536174B2
In one embodiment, a fault-aware matched filter augments the output of a component matched filter to provide both fault-aware matched filter output and a measure of confidence in the accuracy of the fault-aware matched filter output. In another embodiment, an optical flow engine derives, from a plurality of images, both optical flow output and a measure of confidence in the optical flow output. The measure of confidence may be derived using a fault-aware matched filter.
US09536171B2
To detect the presence of a logo in a search image, the positions of edges, in an image of the logo and in the search image, are represented by ratios of distances between the respective edge and a plurality of preceding edges. This can be carried out both horizontally and vertically. A sequence of edges at a selected position in the logo image is then compared with sequences of edges from a plurality of positions in the search image, and the position of the logo in the search image is determined from the position of a match between the respective sequences of edges.
US09536169B2
A detection apparatus that detects a feature point of an image, comprising: a conversion unit configured to convert a first image into a second image; a setting unit configured to set a first target number indicating the number of feature points to be detected from the first image and to set a second target number indicating the number of feature points to be detected from the second image based on the first target number and the number of feature points that are detected from the first image; and a processing unit configured to perform processing for detecting a feature point from the first image based on the first target number and processing for detecting a feature point from the second image based on the second target number.
US09536158B2
Systems and methods to determine demographic attributes of pedestrians in a retail environment are presented. In some examples, media content is selected for presentation to one or more pedestrians based on the determined demographic attributes. In a further example, the media content is interactive, and a response is received from the pedestrian indicating recognition of the interactive media content and an identity of the pedestrian. In some examples, the demographic attributes of a group of pedestrians passing a particular location are aggregated to determine a demographic profile of a pedestrian traffic flow. In some other examples, demographic attributes of pedestrians are derived from biometric responses to a media presentation. Based on the location and duration of visual attention to the media presentation, a demographic attribute of the pedestrian is determined.
US09536142B2
A method for automated user information provision using an image includes requesting at least one user information image in response to receiving a user information form from a requesting entity over a network. The at least one user information image is received from a camera. The at least one user information image is analyzed using a processor to determine that the at least one user information image includes requested user information in at least one request section of the user information form. The requested user information is automatically provided into the at least one request section of the user information form. The user information form including the requested user information in the at least one request section is displayed on a display. The user information form may then be sent over the network to provide the requested user information to the requesting entity.
US09536123B2
A data application method and system of radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags are provided. The method includes: when a first-type RFID tag is within a readable range of a first-type RFID reader, acquiring, by the first-type RFID reader, data of the first-type RFID tag; obtaining, by an RFID emulator, the data of the first-type RFID tag, converting the data of the first-type RFID tag to data of a second-type RFID tag according to a predetermined data conversion protocol, and providing the data of the second-type RFID tag for a second-type RFID reader; and forming, by the second-type RFID reader, a second-type RFID signal according to the data of the second-type RFID tag and sending the second-type RFID signal. The data application method and system expand applications of RFID tags.
US09536121B2
A semiconductor chip transmits a request signal which requests notification of the setting state of a chip identifier to another semiconductor chip connected to one of the upstream and downstream, receives a response signal indicating the setting state of the chip identifier and the value of the chip identifier, as a response to the request signal, and performs a chip identifier setting process based on the response signal. When receiving a request signal from another semiconductor chip connected to the other of the upstream and downstream, the semiconductor chip transmits a response signal indicating the setting state of the chip identifier and the value of the chip identifier, as a response to the request signal.
US09536120B2
The invention discloses a method for enhancing stability of communication between a contactless card and a card reader, relating to communication field. In the method, the card reader initiates time-out timing and a receiver, waits for receiving data, when the time-out does not happen and sub-carrier wave is detected, the card reader stops time-out timing, receives data and determines whether there is frame error in the received data frame, if yes, discards the data frame and goes on time-out timing; otherwise, determines whether CRC check and/or parity check of the data frame is correct, if the CRC check and/or the parity check of the data frame are correct, determines whether there is other error in the data frame, if there is other error in the data frame, discards the data frame and goes on time-out timing; if there is not other error in the data frame, shuts down the receiver and sends the received data to a host; or if the CRC check and/or the parity check of the data frame are not correct, determines whether length of the data frame is smaller than preset byte, if length of the data frame is smaller than preset byte, discards the data frame and goes on time-out timing; if length of the data frame is not smaller than preset byte, determines whether the data frame is integrate, if the data frame is integrate, shuts down the receiver; if the data frame is not integrate, discards the data frame and goes on time-out timing.
US09536116B2
Examples disclose a cable to secure data transmission. Examples of the cable include a connector to connect to a computing device for data transmission. Further, the examples of the cable include an active component coupled to the connector and embedded in the cable. The active component is to at least perform one of encrypt and decrypt the data transmitted on the cable.
US09536113B2
According to an embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a main processor, a secure operating system (OS) module, a non-secure OS module, a secure monitor memory setting module, a timer, and an address space controller. When receiving a notification of an interrupt from the timer, a secure monitor instructs the secure OS module to execute certain processing. The secure OS module is configured to execute certain processing instructed by the secure monitor and store data of a result of the processing in a first memory area.
US09536106B2
The present invention is directed to a system and method for restricting data, or portions thereof, to specific display devices when accessed by a user. Furthermore, the system and method of the invention are directed, in part, to evaluating in real time, the access level of a device and restricting the availability of sensitive information on the device according to the access level as determined by device location and hardware configuration.
US09536104B2
Various embodiments are provided for managing a global cache coherency in a distributed shared caching for a clustered file system (CFS). The CFS manages access permissions to an entire space of data segments by using the DSM module. In response to receiving a request to access one of the data segments, a calculation operation is performed for obtaining most recent contents of one of the data segments. Most recent contents are determined if ownership of the one of the data segments is possessed by a remote DSM module and the request to access one of the data segments is for shared permission and exists in the local external cache. The most recent contents are transported within the response if the response is in a remote external cache and has a valid permission for the one of the data segments otherwise reading from the one of the data segments.
US09536100B2
In one embodiment a controller comprises logic configured to establish a pairing with a remote processor in a second electronic device, create a first secure communication channel with the remote processor, transmit a first portion of a processing task to the remote processor via the first secure channel, receive, via a second communication channel, an input from the first portion of the processing task, and complete at least a second portion of the processing task using the input. Other embodiments may be described.
US09536095B1
A computer system for booting a confidential image on a trusted computer system. A trusted computer system loads an encrypted client image key onto a protected area on the trusted computer system. The trusted computer system loads an encrypted boot image onto a secure logical partition on the trusted computer system. The trusted computer system decrypts the encrypted client image key to obtain a client image key in the protected area. The trusted computer system decrypts, with the client image key, the encrypted boot image to obtain a boot image and a client data key. The trusted computer system starts the boot image, and the boot image mounts the encrypted client data onto the secure logical partition. The client data key is used by the boot image to decrypt data read from the encrypted client data and to encrypt data written to the encrypted client data.
US09536094B2
A system and methods are disclosed for securely booting a processing system using a three step secure booting process. Several embodiments are presented, wherein upon power-on-reset, the first boot step uses a secure boot device comprising of a programmable device or an FPGA which boots up first, validates its configuration file and then validates the processor(s) configuration data before presenting the configuration data to the processor(s). This enables validation of ‘pre-boot’ information, such as the Reset Control Word and pre-boot processor configuration data. The second and third boot steps validate the internal secure boot code and external boot code respectively using one or more of secure validation techniques, such as encryption/decryption, Key mechanisms, privilege checking, pointer hashing or signature correlation schemes. This results in an end-to-end secure boot process for a variety of architectures, such as single processor systems, synchronous and asynchronous multiprocessing systems, single core systems and multi-core processing systems.
US09536085B2
In a data management system, examination of first data for malicious content by a malicious content scanner is initiated in response to a request to write first data to a data storage device. In response to the examination revealing no malicious content in the first data, the first data, a first signature representative of a version of the malicious content scanner at a time of the examination of the first data, and second data linking the first signature to the first data as read-only data are written to the data storage device.
US09536082B2
Embodiments relate to an isolated program execution environment. An aspect includes receiving, by the isolated program execution environment on a computer comprising a processor and a memory, a request to run a program. Another aspect includes wrapping program code corresponding to the program as a function. Another aspect includes cloning a real global object of the isolated program execution environment to create a fake global object. Another aspect includes passing the fake global object to the function. Another aspect includes executing the function, such that the function executes the program.
US09536074B2
An approach is provided for providing single sign-on for computation closures. A single sign-on management platform determines to create a single sign-on computation closure in response to an initiation of a single sign-on authentication session. The single sign-on management platform also determines one or more computation entities that are to execute at least one other computation closure under the single sign-on authentication session. The single sign-on management platform further causes, at least in part, a transfer of the single sign-on computation closure to the one or more computation entities.
US09536071B2
Devices, systems, and methods of detecting user identity, differentiating between users of a computerized service, and detecting a cyber-attacker. An end-user device interacts and communicates with a server of a computerized server (a banking website, an electronic commerce website, or the like). The interactions are monitored, tracked and logged. User Interface (UI) interferences or irregularities are introduced; and the server tracks the response or the reaction of the end-user to such interferences. The system determines whether the user is a legitimate user, or a cyber-attacker or automated script posing as the legitimate user. The system utilizes classification of users into classes or groups, to deduce or predict how a group-member would behave when accessing the service through a different type of device. The system identifies user-specific traits that are platform-independent and thus can be further monitored when the user switches from a first platform to a second platform.
US09536068B2
A software widget running on a user device may be designed to operate in a locked or an unlocked mode. In unlocked mode, the user has full interactivity with the widget. In locked mode, however, at least some of the interactivity with the widget is restricted, despite the fact that the widget still operates normally otherwise while in the locked mode. While in locked mode, user input may be compared against a predefined unlocking sequence to determine if the widget should be unlocked.
US09536067B1
A computer system may have a password entry form with a text field for a user to enter a password. The computer may receive text input from the user and display the text input in the text field. In response to the text input of the user, and without additional input from the user besides the text input, the computer may submit the password for verification of correctness. In some embodiments, submission of the password for verification occurs after a trigger event, where trigger events include without limitation a threshold time elapsing from the most recent text input of the user, a threshold time elapsing from the most recent password submission, entry of a threshold number of text characters, “immediate” submission after entry or deletion of a text character, and so forth.
US09536064B2
An operation method of an electronic apparatus is provided, wherein a setting procedure of safety mechanism is executed first. The procedure includes: receiving a setting operation through a setting interface so as to select plural sensing units from a sensing unit group; creating a unlocking information according to the setting operation, wherein the unlocking information includes an enabling sequence of the selected sensing units; making the unlocking information associated with the operation function. After finishing the setting procedure of safety mechanism, when a trigger event conforming to the unlocking information is received, the operation corresponding to the unlocking information is executed.
US09536049B2
A conversation user interface enables patients to better understand their healthcare by integrating diagnosis, treatment, medication management, and payment, through a system that uses a virtual assistant to engage in conversation with the patient. The conversation user interface conveys a visual representation of a conversation between the virtual assistant and the patient. An identity of the patient, including preferences and medical records, is maintained throughout all interactions so that each aspect of this integrated system has access to the same information. The conversation user interface presents allows the patient to interact with the virtual assistant using natural language commands to receive information and complete task related to his or her healthcare.
US09536040B2
A method of designing an exhaust assembly that includes the steps: developing an initial exhaust assembly design; evaluating the initial design based on a design guide; developing an interim exhaust assembly design, or a plurality of interim exhaust assembly designs, based on the initial design and a parametric model; evaluating the interim design or designs using a computational fluid dynamics model; and developing a final exhaust assembly design based on the parametric and the fluid dynamics models.
US09536038B1
CAD software examines delays of paths in a design from design engineers and first selects the longest paths. Then all paths that converge with these longest paths are examined for delays, and a fastest converging path is selected for each of the longest paths. The longest paths are again sorted by the fastest converging delay, and paths with slower converging paths are selected to be Functional Critical Paths (FCP's). Functional critical path timing sensors are added to each FCP to test setup time with an added margin delay. When the margined path delays fail to meet setup requirements, the functional critical path timing sensors signal a controller to increase VDD. When no failures occur over a period of time, the controller decreases VDD. The CAD software can replicate some of the FCP's and add toggle pattern generators and timing sensors and a margin controller to adjust the margin delay.
US09536033B2
Provided are an EMI characteristic derivation unit which derives an EMI characteristic radiated from a cable based on design information of a circuit board connected with the cable; a determination standard database which stores an EMI tolerance condition which is a tolerance condition for the EMI characteristic; an EMI condition determination unit which determines whether the EMI characteristic satisfies the EMI tolerance condition; an improvement effect database which stores a modification guideline to modify a configuration of the circuit board necessary to satisfy the EMI tolerance condition when the EMI characteristic does not satisfy the EMI tolerance condition and an improvement effect corresponding to the modification guideline; a restriction item database which stores a restriction item applied when the configuration of the board is modified; and a configuration modification unit which performs the configuration modification of the board in accordance with the modification guideline and the restriction item.
US09536032B2
A method of forming a layout design for fabricating an integrated circuit is disclosed. The method includes identifying a line pattern of a first set of grid lines with respect to a second set of grid lines within a region of the layout design; and placing a k-th standard cell layout of the K standard cell layouts at the region of the layout design if the line pattern is determined to match a k-th predetermined line pattern of K predetermined line patterns. K is an integer equal to or greater than two, and k is an order index ranging from 1 to K. The region of the layout design is sized to fit one of K different standard cell layouts corresponding to a same standard cell functionality.
US09536026B2
A method for calculating leakage of a circuit including a plurality of transistors includes simulating a three-dimensional model of the circuit, wherein the simulating accounts for a subset of the plurality of the transistors that includes less than all of the plurality of transistors, and calculating the leakage in accordance with the three-dimensional model.
US09536022B1
A method, apparatus and system for modeling a fault surface in a subsurface region. A direction may be determined in which a first portion of the subsurface region being on one side of the fault surface has moved relative to a second portion of the subsurface region being on the other side of the fault surface. A model of the fault surface may be generated having substantially no protrusions in the determined direction. A visualization of the model of the generated fault surface may be displayed.
US09536015B1
Techniques for using social networking information may include making a determination that content authored by a first party references a second party more than a specified number of times. An adjustment in affinity may be made between the first party and the second party in the social network in response to the determination. Making the adjustment in affinity may include modifying a social graph of at least the first party that is referenced by the social network in order to reflect the adjustment in affinity. Modifying the social graph includes creating a closer connection between the first party and the second party than had existed prior to the determination. In response to the adjustment in the affinity, promotion is adjusted, to the first party, of content in the social network that has a connection to the second party.
US09536012B2
A system, computer-implemented method and computer-readable medium for generating a magazine edition menu, is provided. Dimensions of a display screen on a mobile device are determined. Based on the dimensions, the size of an edition preview pane is determined, where the edition preview pane displays multiple images from the magazine editions. Based on the dimensions the size of a thumbnail section is determined, the thumbnail section displays a plurality of thumbnail editions associated with each magazine edition. Based on the size of the thumbnail section and a number of magazine editions, a layout of the plurality of thumbnail editions on a display screen is determined.
US09536006B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for enhancing search results. In one aspect, a method includes identifying a plurality of registered publishers for enriched search results and, for each registered publisher, obtaining enrichment information from the registered publisher and associating the enrichment information with a resource provided by the publisher. A query is received. A plurality of responsive resources that are responsive to the query are identified. A first responsive resource is determined to be associated with enrichment information. An enriched search result is provided, the enriched search result identifying the first responsive resource and including the first responsive resource's associated enrichment information.
US09535989B2
Systems, methods and computer-readable media process a series of media files into a searchable format. The method includes generating a media database by processing each of a plurality of programs. The steps of the method include extracting a subtitle track from each of the programs, retrieving at least one frame associated with the subtitle track, adding metadata to the extracted subtitle track and at least one frame, processing the subtitle track, program statistics and at least one frame in a media database. Another aspect includes receiving a user query associated with dialog in a program, searching the media database and presenting a listing of results, receiving a user selection or program from their listing and transmitting at least one frame, a portion of associated subtitle track and prompts for ordering the program.
US09535979B2
A query is received that includes two or more facets of a multidimensional inverted index for a collection of documents. Each document is associated with at least one facet. Generation of the multidimensional inverted index includes creating one or more entries. Each entry includes a combination of two or more facets and a posting list of indications for the documents associated with respective facets of each entry. Each indication identifies a document. Generation of the index also includes determining documents associated with respective facets of the combination of each entry. The multidimensional inverted index is searched for an entry having the combination of two or more facets included in the query and a search result is returned. An indication for a document may be included in a posting list if it is determined that the document is associated with each facet of the combination of facets of the entry.
US09535975B2
An execution framework allows developers to write sequential computational logic, constrained for the runtime system to efficiently parallelize execution of custom business logic. The framework can be leveraged to overcome limitations in executing low level procedural code, by empowering the system runtime environment to parallelize this code. Embodiments employ algorithmic skeletons in the realm of optimizing/executing data flow graphs of database management systems. By providing an extensible set of algorithmic skeletons the developer of custom logic can select the skeleton appropriate for new custom logic, and then fill in the corresponding computation logic according to the structural template of the skeleton. The skeleton provides a set of constraints known to the execution environment, that can be leveraged by the optimizer and the execution environment to generate parallel optimized execution plans containing custom logic, without the developer having to explicitly describe parallelization of the logic.
US09535973B2
Methods are provided for clustering events. Data is received at an extraction engine from managed infrastructure. Events are converted into alerts and the alerts mapped to a matrix M. One or more common steps are determined from the events and clusters of events are produced relating to the alerts and or events.
US09535954B2
Provided is a join processing device that performs a similarity join process to plural tuples using an edit distance threshold value τ (positive integer). The join processing device includes a join processing unit that excludes, from a target of edit distance calculation, a pair of tuples that do not have any common character in an end portion ranging from a head character or a tail character to a (τ+1)th character in a join key string in each of the tuples.
US09535948B1
Techniques are described for dynamic translation of data access statements. A first set of statements is sent by an executing process to access a first data storage that supports a first query language. The first set of statements is intercepted and translated into a second set of statements configured to access a second data storage that supports a second query language. The second set of statements may be executed on the second data storage, and the result data set may be sent to the executing process that generated the first set of statements. The first and second storages may employ different data storage formats, such as relational and non-relational storage formats. The behavior of the executing process may be monitored to determine the feasibility of modifying the source code of the process to employ a different query language.
US09535947B2
In some embodiments, a query recipient is configured to determine that a database query warrants a first projection operation to project a plurality of input rows to a plurality of projected rows. Each of the input rows has one or more variable-length columns. A projection controller is configured to construct a first projection control block to describe the first projection operation. For this construction, the projection controller is configured to construct a plurality of projection control elements, each one corresponding to a corresponding column in the input rows, and a header to specify the order of the projection control elements. The projection controller is further configured to offload the first projection operation to a hardware accelerator, and to provide the first projection control block to the hardware accelerator, where the first projection control block enables the hardware accelerator to perform the first projection operation at streaming rate.
US09535946B2
A system, a method, and a computer readable media for identifying a user-initiated log file record in a log file are provided. The log file has a user-initiated log file record and a repeating pattern of log file records automatically generated by a software program. The system allows a user to identify first and second timestamp values corresponding to first and second times which identify a time interval of interest in the log file. The system further analyzes the log file to identify the user-initiated log file record having a timestamp value between the first and second timestamp values. The system further identifies the repeating pattern of log file records in the log file.
US09535945B2
A modular search object framework provides modular search results including entity search results reflecting the intent of a searcher. Also, an interface (such as a graphical user interface provided by the framework), aids in organizing results (such as links, titles, and description) according to the intent of the user as manifest in the search query and interactions with the interface. Circuitry of the framework also predicts user intent from historical information corresponding to the searcher (or to a group with which the searcher is associated).
US09535939B2
A method for storing database information includes storing a table having data values in a column major order. The data values are stored in a list of blocks. The method also includes assigning a tuple sequence number (TSN) to each data value in each column of the table according to a sequence order in the table. The data values that correspond to each other across a plurality of columns of the table have equivalent TSNs. The method also includes assigning each data value to a partition based on a representation of the data value. The method also includes assigning a tuple map value to each data value. The tuple map value identifies the partition in which each data value is located.
US09535938B2
A method for estimating model parameters. The method comprises receiving a data set related to a plurality of users and associated content, partitioning the data set into a plurality of sub data sets in accordance with the users so that data associated with each user are not partitioned into more than one sub data set, storing each of the sub data sets in a separate one of a plurality of user data storages, each of said data storages being coupled with a separate one of a plurality of estimators, storing content associated with the plurality of users in a content storage, where the content storage is coupled to the plurality of estimators so that the content in the content storage is shared by the estimators, and estimating, asynchronously by each estimator, one or more parameters associated with a model based on data from one of the sub data sets.
US09535932B1
A logical backup of a database is performed that allows physical properties of the database to be preserved upon restore. The physical properties of the database include properties related to storage of the data on the hard disk. Preserving the physical properties of a database allows performance debugging of the source database by performing performance tests on the target database rather than a production system. Incremental backup of metadata of a database is performed to minimize execution of statements that provide the final configuration of the database. Incremental backup is performed by restoring a database using a full backup and applying incremental backups to reach a particular state. The user can inspect the restored database after applying each incremental backup to determine whether the database has reached a desired state.
US09535931B2
Streaming database replication is provided by merging a stream of user transactions with a stream of copy transactions comprising copy data into a combined stream on a source. A target receives a single stream that includes copy transaction and concurrent user transactions in an order that enables conflicts between data being copied and user transactions to be handled correctly. Furthermore, locks applied to data subject to a copy transaction or user transaction can be released once the copy transaction or user transaction is added to the combined stream.
US09535929B2
A Method for retrieving at least one image from a database (DB) of images based on at least two input images (image i, image j), comprises the steps of determining (120) first low level feature correspondences (LC1) between said at least two input images (image i, image j), searching (200) within said database (DB) for at least two sets (Mi, Mj) of images respectively matching said at least to images (image i, image j), determining (120) second low level features correspondences (LC2) between respective images from said at least two sets of images (Mi, Mj), determining (130) a first set of relationships (RLC1) between entities of said at least two input images (image i, image j) based on said first low level feature correspondences (LC1), determining (130) a second set of relationships (RLC2) between respective entities of said respective images from said at least two sets of images (Mi, Mj) based on said second low level feature correspondences (LC2), identifying (300) matching relationships between said first set of relationships (RLC1) and said second set of relationships (RLC2), checking (400) the quality of the matching relationships, and, if matching relationships of sufficient quality are found, retrieving (500) the at least one image corresponding to the matching relationships of said second set from said database, and providing said at least one image of said second set as output.
US09535909B2
Scalable architectures, systems, and services are provided herein for generating jobs by applying user-specified rules to events in an action log framework (ALF) stream is disclosed. More specifically, collaboration environments can include features or mechanisms that allow end-users or collaborators to perform a variety of actions such as, for example, file uploads and previews, or collaboration operations such as, for example, task assignment and comments. These actions can be captured or logged by an action log framework and, as described herein, automatically translated into one or more jobs by applying customizable user-specified rules.
US09535901B2
Deep semantic analysis is performed on an electronic literary work in order to detect plot elements and optional other storyline elements such as characters within the work. Multiple levels of abstract are generated into a model representing the literary work, wherein each element in each abstraction level may be independently rated for preference by a user. Through comparison of multiple abstraction models and one or more user rating preferences, one or more alternative literary works may be automatically recommended to the user.
US09535889B2
A technique is provided to determine whether a region within a web page is viewable to a user through a browser window. Often, browsers will only show part of a web page at given time, creating a difficulty in establishing whether a region of the web page, which may be an advertisement for example, is in view. This is addressed by providing one or more test features within the region, rendering the web page, monitoring a behavioral characteristic of the test features and determining whether the region is in view based on the monitored behavioral characteristic, wherein the behavioral characteristic varies according to whether the test feature is currently being displayed. One example of a behavioral characteristic is a frame progression rate. Browsers will typically redraw elements of a web page at a higher rate if they are currently in view through the browser window, and this characteristic can therefore be used to determine whether the test feature, and thus the region, is in view. The present invention finds particular utility where the region contains an advertisement, as it allows an advertiser to discover whether the advertisement has been seen by users.
US09535886B2
In a method for dynamically highlighting repetitive text in electronic documents, obtaining one or more user preferences related to a user reading an electronic document. The method further includes determining whether the electronic document contains one or more repetitive text associations, wherein a repetitive text association is data that provides one or more indications of repetitive text segments interspersed within a document. In response to determining that the electronic document contains one or more repetitive text associations, the method further includes identifying one or more repetitive text segments in the electronic document corresponding to the one or more repetitive text associations and determining a time duration expended by the user reading an instance of the identified one or more repetitive text segments within the electronic document. The method further includes highlighting the identified one or more repetitive text segments within the electronic document based one or more obtained user preferences.
US09535884B1
Digital content such as eBook may have several sections such as front matter, body matter, back matter, and so forth. To aid in the use of the content, it is worthwhile to find an end-of-body matter or other section breaks. As described herein, these sections may be determined by looking for keywords, specific formatting, manual intervention, last position read, and so forth. Once determined, tags may be generated which designate boundaries of these sections. These tags may then be used during consumption of the content.
US09535878B1
A driving analysis server may be configured to receive vehicle operation data from vehicle sensors, and may use the data to identify a potentially high-risk or unsafe driving event by the vehicle. The driving analysis server also may receive corresponding image data, video, or object proximity data from the vehicle or one or more other data sources, and may use the image, video, or proximity data to analyze the potentially high-risk or unsafe driving event. A driver score for the vehicle or driver may be calculated or adjusted based on the analysis of the data and the determination of one or more causes of the driving event.
US09535877B2
A processing system includes processors and dynamically configurable communication elements (DCCs) coupled together in an interspersed arrangement. A source device may transfer a data item through an intermediate subset of the DCCs to a destination device. The source and destination devices may each correspond to different processors, DCCs, or input/output devices, or mixed combinations of these. In response to detecting a stall after the source device begins transfer of the data item to the destination device and prior to receipt of all of the data item at the destination device, a stalling device is operable to propagate stalling information through one or more of the intermediate subset towards the source device. In response to receiving the stalling information, at least one of the intermediate subset is operable to buffer all or part of the data item.
US09535866B2
A wide link communicates information between a storage enclosure having plural storage devices and an information handling system by selectively configuring upstream and downstream paths of narrow links to communicate in the same direction. A link load analyzer detects predetermined conditions, such as over utilization or under utilization of narrow link capacity, which initiates a re-configuration of the direction of information through a path of a narrow link. A master link manager configures a narrow link path to manage communication of configuration information for one or more narrow link paths configured to communicate in a direction.
US09535863B2
A system and method can support message pre-processing in a distributed data grid. The system can associate a message bus with a service thread on a cluster member in the distributed data grid. Furthermore, the system can receive one or more incoming messages at the message bus using an input/output (I/O) thread, and pre-process said one or more incoming messages on the I/O thread before each said incoming message is delivered to a service thread in the distributed data grid. Additionally, the system can take advantage of a pool of input/output (I/O) threads to deserialize inbound messages before they are delivered to the addressed service, and can relieve the bottleneck that is caused by performing all message deserialization in a single threaded fashion before the message type can be identified and offloaded to the thread-pool within the distributed data grid.
US09535854B2
Provided are techniques for building an undo log for in-memory blocks of data. Permission on a block of data in memory is set to prevent updates to that block of data using a memory protection function. In response to an update operation attempting to update the block of data in the memory, an interrupt with a location of the block of data is received, the block of data is copied to an undo log entry in an undo log, and the permission on the block of data in the memory is set to allow the update to that block of data to proceed using the memory protection function.
US09535852B2
Slave device circuitry, including processing circuitry which is configured to determine a new session identification value; determine a seed value using a secure hash algorithm on a previously determined seed value; determine a slave number from using the secure hash algorithm on the new session identification value, the determined seed value, and a serial number of the slave device associated with the slave device circuitry; receive a host number from the host imaging apparatus and calculate a session key using a hash-based algorithm computation on the host number, the slave number, the new session identification value, and a stored encryption key. The session key has a first portion for performing encryption and decryption operations on data to be transmitted and data received by the slave device, respectively, and a second portion for generating a new address value of the slave device for communicating with the host.
US09535850B1
A method and apparatus are provided in which a host device and a peripheral device are adapted to perform efficient data transfers. The host receives one or more bytes in a memory transfer from the peripheral device, and determines an operation for modifying the memory transfer without reading the one or more bytes. Rather, the modification may be performed based on information in a header accompanying the transferred bytes. The host device modifies the memory transfer based on the determination, and writes the modified memory transfer to memory.
US09535842B2
Each computing node of a distributed computing system may implement a hardware mechanism at the network interface for message driven prefetching of application data. For example, a parallel data-intensive application that employs function shipping may distribute respective portions of a large data set to main memory on multiple computing nodes. The application may send messages to one of the computing nodes referencing data that is stored locally on the node. For each received message, the network interface on the recipient node may extract the reference, initiate the prefetching of referenced data into a local cache (e.g., an LLC), and then store the message for subsequent interpretation and processing by a local processor core. When the processor core retrieves a stored message for processing, the referenced data may already be in the LLC, avoiding a CPU stall while retrieving it from memory. The hardware mechanism may be configured via software.
US09535841B2
Data transfer between processors is efficiently performed in a multiprocessor including a shared cache memory. Each entry in a tag storage section 220 of a cache memory holds a reference number field 224 in addition to a tag address field 221, a valid field 222, and a dirty field 223. The reference number field 224 is set in a data write, and the value thereof is decremented after each read access. When the value of the reference number field 224 is changed from “1” to “0”, the entry is invalidated without performing a write-back operation. When the cache memory is used for communication between processors in the multiprocessor system, the cache memory functions as a shared FIFO, and used data is automatically deleted.
US09535839B2
An arithmetic processing device has a first arithmetic processing unit including a first instruction controller that controls a write instruction to a memory and a first cache unit, and a second arithmetic processing unit including a second instruction controller and a second cache unit. The first arithmetic processing unit transmits an invalidation request to the second arithmetic processing unit when a write request to the memory is issued within a first transaction, and in response to the invalidation request, the second cache unit determines whether a second transaction is to be aborted based on information in the invalidation request when the second transaction conflicts with the first transaction for a cache block corresponding to a destination of the write request, and sends a determination result to the first arithmetic processing unit.
US09535837B2
A first cache is provided to cache a first portion of a first block of digital content received over a network connection shared between a first user associated with the first cache and at least one second user. The first cache caches the first portion in response to the first user or the second user(s) requesting the first block. The first cache selects the first portion based on a fullness of the first cache, a number of blocks cached in the first cache, or a cache eviction rule associated with the first cache.
US09535836B2
A technique includes performing an update to a location of a non-volatile memory. The update is created by execution of at least one machine executable instruction of a plurality of machine executable instructions. The technique includes using a processor-based machine to selectively track the update to allow recovery of the execution to a given consistency point based at least in part on whether the machine executable instruction(s) creating the update are located within a synchronized section of the plurality of machine executable instructions.
US09535835B2
A method for managing a storage device including determining whether the storage device includes a non-volatile cache, scanning for a clear cache instruction received from a computing machine, and clearing the non-volatile cache on the storage device in response to authenticating the clear cache instruction.
US09535834B2
An electronic device includes a semiconductor device, wherein the semiconductor device includes: a word line driving unit for driving a plurality of word lines; a first cell array arranged at one side of the word line driving unit; a second cell array arranged at the other side of the word line driving unit; a bias voltage generation unit, arranged between the first cell array and the second cell array, for generating a bias voltage based on currents flowing through the first reference resistance element included in the first cell array and the second reference resistance element included in the second cell array; a first read control unit; and a second read control unit.
US09535830B2
A device, memory, method and system directed to fast data storage on a block storage device. New data is written to an empty write block. A location of the new data is tracked. Meta data associated with the new data is written. A lookup table may be updated based in part on the meta data. The new data may be read based the lookup table configured to map a logical address to a physical address.
US09535828B1
Data temporarily stored in volatile memory (e.g., RAM) on a host machine can be protected using a component such as an NV-DIMM, which includes components such as an ASIC, non-volatile memory, and a battery. If power is lost to the host, the battery provides the ASIC with the power needed to determine data in the volatile memory that is protected. This protected data then can be transferred to the non-volatile memory on the NV-DIMM. When power is restored, an application or other entity can contact the NV-DIMM to recover the data, which can be transferred over a sideband channel to be restored as appropriate for a prior operation. In at least some embodiments, the NV-DIMM can receive a key over the sideband channel that can be used to encrypt and decrypt the data for further security.
US09535823B2
A computer-implemented method and apparatus for unit testing, the method comprising: intercepting user interactions when a user is testing a function implemented by user code; recording execution data for the function execution; generating one or more tests based on the execution data, wherein each test is generated in accordance with a heuristic applicable for the function; detecting a code change in the function; and automatically executing the tests function to test the user code as changed.
US09535822B1
A method for user interface (UI) automation area coverage is presented. The method extracts document information from a unit test class, the unit test class being code used to test a user interface (UI). The method searches for a keyword within the extracted document information to find a keyword match. The method receives a weight factor from a user the weight factor giving more importance to certain keywords over the other keywords. The method weights specified keywords based on a weight factor, the weight factor increasing or decreasing an importance to the specified keywords. The method assigns a weight score to each keyword match based on the number of keyword matches and the weight factor. Furthermore the method generates a user interface report, the UI report comprising the weight score.
US09535807B2
A method for recovering from uncorrected memory errors may include receiving, at an operating system, a correctable error (CE) associated with a first memory page. The correctable error is marked in a page table entry describing the first memory page. The first memory page is then migrated, by the operating system, to a second memory page based on the received correctable error.
US09535802B2
A method of data replica recovery that is based on separate storage drives connected to a network where each storage drive has a storage space divided to contiguous storage segments and is electronically connected to a memory support component via a connection. Pairs of replicas, each of one of a plurality of data units, are stored in a manner that allows, in response to detection of a storage failure in one storage drive, to create replacement replicas in the memory support components of the other storage drives to assure that two replicas of each data unit can be found in the storage system.
US09535795B2
If the number of task attempts has not exceeded the maximum number of attempts, a server system transmits a regular job to cause tasks to execute a particular process, and if the number of task attempts has exceeded the maximum number of attempts, the server system transmits a failed job to cause the tasks to execute post-processing corresponding to the particular process.
US09535792B2
An information handling system includes a communication device and a service processor. The communication device includes a first terminal, and a second terminal to communicate with a network storage array. The service processor includes a first terminal to receive persistence policy for the communication device. The service processor is configured to detect a reset of the information handling system, to determine a type of reset performed in an information handling system, to evaluate the persistence policy with respect to the type of reset during a power-on self test executed in the information handling system after the information handling system, and to configure, via the first terminal of the communication device, the attributes of the communication device based on the persistence policy and the type of reset.
US09535791B2
There is provided a storage control device that is communicably connected to a plurality of storage devices and a plurality of spare storage devices through a plurality of paths. The storage control device includes: a memory configured to store path information associating the plurality of spare storage devices and the plurality of paths with each other; and a selection unit configured to select a spare storage device that is a replacing apparatus from among the plurality of spare storage devices based on a path connection condition determined in accordance with a path in which the storage device that is a replacement target among the plurality of storage devices is connected and the path information.
US09535786B2
A storage device may include a controller and a plurality of memory devices logically divided into a plurality of pages. Each page in the plurality of pages may include a plurality of bits. The controller may be configured to: apply a read level to a control gate of a transistor for each respective bit in the plurality of bits; determine, based on an amount of current that flows through the transistor, a respective value for each bit from the respective plurality of bits; determine, based on the respective values for the respective plurality of bits, an error ratio that indicates a number of bits from the plurality of bits that are written as a first bit value but are incorrectly read as a second bit value relative to a number of bits from the plurality of bits that are written as the second bit value but are incorrectly read as the first bit value; and adjust, based on the error ratio, the read level.
US09535783B2
A method of firmware dump collection from a primary dump adapter is provided. The method includes identifying a primary system dump device and a secondary system dump device. An operating system (OS) dump coordinator writes non-disruptive state data to the primary system dump device, and writes disruptive state data to the secondary system dump device. Non-disruptive state data is requested from a hardware device adapter that is connected to the non-primary system dump device. Disruptive state data is requested from the hardware device adapter that is connected to the primary system dump device. The non-disruptive state data is written to the primary system dump device. Disruptive state data is written to the secondary system dump device.
US09535777B2
Systems and methods of managing defects in nonvolatile storage systems that can be used to avoid an inadvertent loss of data, while maintaining as much useful memory in the nonvolatile storage systems as possible. The disclosed systems and methods can monitor a plurality of trigger events for detecting possible defects in one or more nonvolatile memory (NVM) devices included in the nonvolatile storage systems, and apply one or more defect management policies to the respective NVM devices based on the types of trigger events that resulted in detection of the possible defects. Such defect management policies can be used proactively to retire memory in the nonvolatile storage systems with increased granularity, focusing the retirement of memory on regions of nonvolatile memory that are likely to contain a defect.
US09535775B2
A session-based remote management system and a load balance controlling method are provided. The session-based remote management system includes a plurality of client servers, a load balancing server, a plurality of local databases, a shared database and a monitor server. The session-based remote management system is adapted for a plurality of clients coupling to a plurality of local databases and a shared database through a plurality of client servers. The load balance controlling method includes following steps. A computing performance of the clients and the client servers are analyzed. The clients are dispatched to the client servers based on the computing performance of the clients and the client servers. A crash probability of the client servers are dynamically predicted to obtain a health value.
US09535774B2
A method for providing notification of a predictable memory failure includes the steps of: obtaining information regarding at least one condition associated with a memory; calculating a memory failure probability as a function of the obtained information; calculating a failure probability threshold; and generating a signal when the memory failure probability exceeds the failure probability threshold, the signal being indicative of a predicted future memory failure.
US09535771B2
A method and an apparatus for determining a usage level of a memory device to notify a running application to perform memory reduction operations selected based on the memory usage level are described. An application calls APIs (Application Programming Interface) integrated with the application codes in the system to perform memory reduction operations. A memory usage level is determined according to a memory usage status received from the kernel of a system. A running application is associated with application priorities ranking multiple running applications statically or dynamically. Selecting memory reduction operations and notifying a running application are based on application priorities. Alternatively, a running application may determine a mode of operation to directly reduce memory usage in response to a notification for reducing memory usage without using API calls to other software.
US09535768B2
Managing multi-threaded computer processing, including: processing a main thread for an object in background of the multi-threaded computer processing without locking the object during its process in the background, wherein processing a main thread includes: monitoring the state of the object, wherein the object is deemed ready for processing after it satisfies a set of rules to check for its completeness, and the object has not been modified for a pre-determined period of time; creating and adding tasks to a queue for processing once the object is ready; and packaging required information for the tasks into a single data structure that is passed to a task thread and returned to the main thread upon completion.
US09535761B2
Techniques for tracking large numbers of moving objects in an event processing system are provided. An input event stream can be received, where the events in the input event stream represent the movement of a plurality of geometries or objects. The input event stream can then be partitioned among a number of processing nodes of the event processing system, thereby enabling parallel processing of one or more continuous queries for tracking the objects. The partitioning can be performed such that each processing node is configured to track objects in a predefined spatial region, and the spatial regions for at least two nodes overlap. This overlapping window enables a single node to find, e.g., all of the objects within a particular distance of a target object, even if the target object is in the process of moving from the region of that node to the overlapping region of another node.
US09535760B2
Improving the performance of multitasking processors are provided. For example, a subset of M processors within a system with N processors is dedicated for a desired task. The M (where M>0) of the N processors are dedicate to a task, thus, leaving N−M (N minus M) processors for running normal operating system (OS). The processors dedicated to the task may have their interrupt mechanism disabled to avoid interrupt handler switching overhead. Therefore, these processors run in an independent context and can communicate with the normal OS and cooperation with the normal OS to achieve higher performance.
US09535759B2
Various embodiments are directed to systems and methods for work queue thread balancing. A global thread pool manager may be configured to receive a request to add a work item to a constituent work queue. The constituent work queue may be described by a work queue thread property. The global thread pool manager may add the work item to the constituent work queue and match the work item to a global thread selected from a global thread pool. The global thread may be configured according to the work queue thread property to generate a configured global thread. The configured global thread may execute the work item.
US09535757B2
Provided is a task allocation optimizing system that, for a development target system which has a plurality of states and which is provided with multi-cores, makes an allocation of tasks to the cores such that a performance of the target system does not significantly degrade in a specific one of the states.The task allocation optimizing system according to the present invention performs optimization by calculating, for each of the states, a state-evaluating-function value, which represents the preferability of an allocation to the cores, through using a task set operating in the state, and further calculating a consolidated evaluating-function value as a whole of operation of the target system, through consolidating the state-evaluating-function values for all states targeted for an evaluation.
US09535754B1
Dynamic provisioning of computing resources may be implemented to provision computing resources for a data center or other collection of computing resources. Computing resources for provisioning may be detected. A build manifest describing configuration operations to provision the computing resources to perform respective tasks may be identified. The build manifest may be evaluated to direct the computing resources to perform the configuration operations according to the build manifest. In some embodiments, the provisioning of the computing resources may be paused or undone according to the build manifest. Upon completion of the configuration operations, the computing resources may be made available to perform the respective tasks.
US09535744B2
A processor, system, and method are described for continued retirement of operations during a commit of a speculative region of program code. For example, one embodiment of a method comprises the operations of identifying a plurality of transactional memory regions in program code, including a first transactional memory region; and retiring one or more of a plurality of operations which follow the first transactional memory region even when a commit operation associated with the first transactional memory region is waiting to complete.
US09535743B2
A data processing control device performs a MapReduce process. When the data processing control device assigns input data to first Reduce tasks and a second Reduce task performed by using a result of Map processes, the data processing control device assigns input data with smaller amount than any of amounts of the input data which is assigned to the first Reduce tasks to the second Reduce task. The data processing control device assigns the first Reduce tasks and the second Reduce task, to which input data is assigned, to a server that performs Reduce processes in the MapReduce process such that the second Reduce task is started after the assignment of all of the first Reduce tasks.
US09535741B1
One or more services for enhancing guest utilization of a virtual machine and other VDC resources may be provided at the intermediary manager. In an embodiment, the intermediary manager intercepts a hypercall from a guest operating system that is separate from the intermediary manager. The intermediary manager determines that a particular intermediary service is associated with the hypercall and causes execution of service instructions associated with the particular intermediary service. The intermediary manager and guest operating systems may operate within a virtual machine hosted by a host machine and managed by a hypervisor. Embodiments may be useful in any of a virtualized enterprise computer system; a virtual machine infrastructure in a private data center; computing, storage or networking resources in a private cloud; computing, storage or networking resources of cloud service provider; and a hybrid cloud computing environment.
US09535736B2
In this disclosure, a resource scheduler is described that allows virtual machine instances to earn resource credits during the low activity levels. Virtual machine instances that spend a predominant amount of time operating at low activity levels are able to quickly gain resource credits. Once these virtual machine instances acquire enough resource credits to surpass a threshold level, the resource scheduler can assign a high priority level to the virtual machine instances that provide them with priority access to CPU resources. The next time that the virtual machine instances enter a high activity level, they have a high priority level that allows them to preempt other, lower priority virtual machine instances. Thus, these virtual machine instances are able to process operations and/or respond to user requests with low latency.
US09535735B2
An adaptive request handler (ARH) receives a virtual machine (VM) request from a user and determines whether to automatically approve the VM request using a tolerance that defines an allowable amount of deviation from preset resource specifications. In some embodiments, the ARH adaptively varies the tolerance based on one or more monitored factors, such as an aggregate system resource utilization by and/or a billing history of the user or a group that includes the user. In some embodiments, the VM request is based on a template selected by the user from among a plurality of templates eligible for automatic approval, wherein a plurality of tolerances each defines an allowable amount of deviation from preset resource specifications of a respective one of the eligible templates. The ARH may, in some embodiments, vary each of the plurality of tolerances independently based on one or more monitored factors.
US09535734B2
Embodiments of the disclosure include a method, a system, and a computer program product for modifying a stream operator based on the virtual resources. The method includes receiving a first resource allocation and a second resource allocation of a virtual resource for a virtual machine supporting a stream computing application. The method also includes determining whether the second resource allocation changed within a tolerance relative to the first resource allocation. The method also includes identifying a stream operator in the stream computing application using the virtual resource of the virtual machine. The method also includes modifying the stream operator to accommodate the second resource allocation in response to the second resource allocation changing relative to the first resource allocation.
US09535731B2
A method of security sandboxing which may include detecting an illicit intrusion to a computer on a first computer system; cloning the intruded computer; directing all traffic from the illicit intrusion to the cloned computer; observing activities of the illicit intrusion interacting with the cloned computer; and dynamically adapting the cloned computer to perform activities of predicted interest to the illicit intrusion based on the observed activities of the illicit intrusion. The steps of the method may be performed by one or more computing devices.
US09535725B1
Operation of a device may be enabled or disabled by an instruction that may be given in a variety of ways. For example, a device (e.g., a car) may be equipped with a mechanism that disables (“kills”) and/or enables (“unkills”) some or all of the functionality of the car upon receipt of an appropriate instruction. The instruction could be given remotely. For example, the instruction could be given remotely from a wireless telephone by sending appropriate messages through a network. An instruction to re-enable operation of the device could also be given remotely. The honoring of kill and/or unkill instructions could be predicated on some type of authentication, such as the identity of the device from which the instruction is issued, a password, a biometric identification, the location from which the instruction is issued, or some other factor.
US09535720B2
A capture system may capture client events for an application session. Some client events may contain display information associated with screen gestures. The screen gestures may be associated with any user input that changes how images are displayed during the application session. For example, the screen gestures may comprise one or more of a scroll gesture, a touch start gesture, a touch move gesture, a touch end gesture, and/or a pinch gesture. In another example the screen gesture may comprise a reorientation of a device operating in the application session. A replay system may replay the application session based on the captured client events to recreate images displayed during the application session in response to the screen gestures.
US09535717B2
An apparatus, system, and computer readable medium are disclosed for booting a server from a shared storage system. The present invention teaches at least one server having at least one processor, a storage system having a plurality of storage drives and at least one boot volume corresponding to the at least one server, and a switch fabric having at least one switch; the switch fabric isolates boot traffic from storage traffic and enables communication between the server and the boot volume of the storage system. In some embodiments the switch fabric includes one or more partitionable switches that isolate boot traffic from storage traffic. The boot volumes may be a redundant array of storage devices. In certain embodiments, the present invention also includes devices external to the server, switch fabric, and storage system.
US09535716B2
Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method of configuring a device in a network, the method including loading one or more system configuration commands into an active memory; processing the one or more system configuration commands; loading one or more blocks of customer commands into an active memory; and processing each of the one or more blocks of customer commands, wherein each block is processed as soon as it is loaded into the active memory.
US09535715B2
The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for booting from a trusted network image. The image can be executed from a trusted source on a Wide Area Network (“WAN”) to perform a maintenance operation, such as, for example, malware scanning, operating system repair, factory reset, etc. at the computer system. Trust can be established using a Certificate Authority or an out of band communication channel (e.g., voice communication, text message, electronic mail, etc.) to retrieve a one-time pad (“OTP”). Using the OTP the computer can validate that it is connected to the trusted source. The trusted source can chain to additional images hosted on a third-party server. The additional images can provide a user with options for various different maintenance operations or various different implementations of the same maintenance operation. For example, the trusted source can link to multiple different malware scanners.
US09535713B2
An exemplary system may allow new devices to be added. In one embodiment, upon receiving information associated with a device event, the system generates a first rule for a device based on the information and a system state. The system determines determine an updated system state based on the first rule. The system determines whether a second rule is required for the updated system state. Upon determining that the second rule is required for the updated system state, the system generates the second rule.
US09535711B2
In some embodiments, a PPM interface for a computing platform may be provided with functionality to facilitate, to an OS through the PPM interface, firmware performance data.
US09535703B2
A predictor data structure is used for pipelined processing by a pipelined processor. The predictor data structure includes a predicted address to be used in return from execution of a selected instruction, and a predicted operating state associated with the predicted address. Based on determining a selected return instruction is to be executed, the predicted address to which processing is to be returned is obtained from the predictor data structure. Further, based on determining the selected return instruction is to be executed, a transitional operating state to be entered based on the predicted operating state stored in the predictor data structure is predicted, wherein at least one of the predicted address and the predicted transitional operating state are to be used to validate execution of the selected return instruction.
US09535702B2
An asset management method implemented on an integrated circuit uses a keys memory storing keys, each key being associated with an asset identifier, and a data memory storing asset information. The method comprises: receiving an input command for an asset comprising an asset identifier and asset information, computing addresses to Keys memory from the asset identifier, the computing addresses comprising calculating hashes from the asset identifier, finding or allocating an entry in keys memory for the asset, based on the computed set of addresses, depending on the input command, computing a data address to the data memory for the asset from the address and position in the keys memory at which an entry has been found or allocated for the asset; reading data in the data memory at the computed data address; and executing the input command based on the data read in the data memory at the data address.
US09535699B2
A processor includes: a first instruction processing unit that, in a first mode, receives a first input including instructions included in a first instruction set; a second instruction processing unit that, in a second mode, receives the first input, the second instruction processing unit having a simpler configuration than the first instruction processing unit; a third instruction processing unit that, in a third mode, receives a second input including instructions included in a second instruction set, the second instruction set including part of the instructions included in the first instruction set, the third instruction processing unit having a simpler configuration than the first instruction processing unit and the second instruction processing unit; a selection unit that selects, according to a mode, a result of decoding by one of the instruction processing units; and an instruction execution unit that executes an instruction according to the selected result of decoding.
US09535698B2
A clock-less asynchronous processing circuit or system having a plurality of pipelined processing stages utilizes self-clocked generators to tune the delay needed in each of the processing stages to complete the processing cycle. Because different processing stages may require different amounts of time to complete processing or may require different delays depending on the processing required in a particular stage, the self-clocked generators may be tuned to each stage's necessary delay(s) or may be programmably configured.
US09535696B1
Techniques relate to handling outstanding cache miss prefetches. A processor pipeline recognizes that a prefetch canceling instruction is being executed. In response to recognizing that the prefetch canceling instruction is being executed, all outstanding prefetches are evaluated according to a criterion as set forth by the prefetch canceling instruction in order to select qualified prefetches. In response to evaluating, a cache subsystem is communicated with to cause canceling of the qualified prefetches that fit the criterion. In response to successful canceling of the qualified prefetches, a local cache is prevented from being updated from the qualified prefetches.
US09535695B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to completion of load and store instructions in a weakly-ordered memory model. In one embodiment, a processor includes a load queue and a store queue and is configured to associate queue information with a load instruction in an instruction stream. In this embodiment, the queue information indicates a location of the load instruction in the load queue and one or more locations in the store queue that are associated with one or more store instructions that are older than the load instruction. The processor may determine, using the queue information, that the load instruction does not conflict with a store instruction in the store queue that is older than the load instruction. The processor may remove the load instruction from the load queue while the store instruction remains in the store queue. The queue information may include a wrap value for the load queue.
US09535693B2
Provided is a signal processing circuit occupying a small circuit area. A common arithmetic operation element is shared between a plurality of arithmetic operation sequence control units. An arbitration circuit selects, when the plurality of arithmetic operation sequence control units simultaneously generate requests for arithmetic operations to use the common arithmetic operation element, the predetermined sequence control unit based on priority information about the plurality of arithmetic operation sequence control units, causes the common arithmetic operation element to execute the arithmetic operation requested from the selected arithmetic operation sequence control unit, and returns the result of the arithmetic operation to the selected arithmetic operation sequence control unit.
US09535679B2
A deployment server can include a profile data store, a generic application data store, and an optimizer. The profile data store can contain a plurality of attributes for devices and associate different optimization parameters or optimization routines to each of the stored attributes. The generic application data store can contain at least one generic application written in a device independent fashion. The optimizer can receive application requests from an assortment of different requesting devices and can dynamically generate device-specific applications responsive to received requests. For each requesting device, the optimizer can determine attributes of a requesting device, utilize the profile data store to identify optimization parameters or optimization routines for the requesting device, and generate a device-specific application based upon data from the profile data store and based upon a generic application retrieved from the generic application data store.
US09535678B2
Object serialization is used to communicate references regarding shim objects. Shim objects are instantiated on one or more ranks of a distributed software application. The shim objects store a registration object in a distributed object cache for each rank. The registration object includes a unique identifier for a distributed array object and a reference to a local portion of the distributed array. The shim objects are serialized for communication of the stored references from a master rank of the distributed application to one or more worker ranks of the distributed application. Upon serializing the shim objects, the shim object's stored references are communicated from the distributed object cache for that rank to the one or more worker ranks of the distributed application. The shim objects are subsequently removed so that references to the underlying distributed array object are also removed, and memory previously allocated to the unique identifier is recoverable.
US09535661B2
The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for removing biasing due to a signal source during random number generation. At least one embodiment includes a method, performed by a random number generation apparatus, for generating a random number having a signal source biasing removed, including: generating a raw bit string by sampling, at a predetermined cycle, a physical signal input from a signal source; and generating the random number by performing block partial sum or sequential partial sum on the generated raw bit string.
US09535654B2
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided to facilitate the association of a selected portion of an audio soundtrack with one or more video clips. In the context of a method, a visual representation of an audio soundtrack is caused to be displayed. The audio soundtrack is to be associated with one or more video clips to facilitate concurrent playback of at least a portion of the audio soundtrack and one or more video clips. The method also receives user input with respect to the audio soundtrack and, in response to the user input, adjusts a starting point of the audio soundtrack relative to the one or more video clips. The starting point may be adjusted by defining the starting point of the audio soundtrack based on the user input and also in a manner so as to coincide with a predefined feature of the audio soundtrack.
US09535653B2
A multiple media module receives data indicating a status of a tab of a graphical user interface (GUI) presented on a user device. The multiple media module determines, based on the data indicating the status of the tab, whether the tab is active, the tab comprising a streaming media player. If the tab of the web browser is not active, the multiple media module mutes an audio component of a streaming media file playing in the streaming media player.
US09535649B2
A mobile personsize display system and method of use; in general, a platform, a support frame, a module display frame, an LED panel display formed of a plurality of LED display modules having a plurality of pixels, four or more casters, a battery powered supply, a media player (electrically communicating with the plurality of display modules for controlling the display of an image(s) on the LED panel display, and a removable content storage device and; thus, functions as a rugged person size mobile, light weight, battery powered display to inform customers and passers-by about product and service offerings via a rugged person size mobile light weight battery powered display.
US09535630B1
A technique for managing data storage operations in a data storage system having a file-based front end system and a block-based back end array includes provisioning a set of storage resources on the array for use exclusively with one or more virtualized storage processors (VSPs), where each VSP identifies multiple file systems. In response to a management command to perform a data storage operation on a VSP, the back-end array performs the specified operation on the provisioned set of storage resources. Thus, the back-end array performs the data operation exclusively on the VSP (or on multiple VSPs) and therefore on all of its constituent file systems as one.
US09535624B1
A method of managing duplicate segments from a segmented file storage system is disclosed. The method comprises indexing a segment according to a key for the segments wherein the index includes an identification of a first data location where the segment is stored and identifying a duplicate segment having the same key that is stored in a second location. The method further comprises determining that the duplicate segment is an undesired duplicate segment and eliminating the undesired duplicate segment.
US09535606B2
Apparatus, systems, and methods to implement a virtual serial presence detect operation for pooled memory are described. In one embodiment, a controller comprises logic to receive a request to establish a composed computing device, define a plurality of virtual memory devices to be associated with a composed computing device, allocate memory from a shared pool of physical memory to the plurality of virtual memory devices, create a plurality of virtual serial detects (vSPDs) for the plurality of virtual memory devices, and store the plurality of vSPDs in a linked list in an operational memory device. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
US09535600B2
A touch-sensitive device has a touch-based input interface and includes a touch-based folder control for creating, moving or arranging folders in response to an input of a touch-based user interaction. The touch-sensitive device receives an input from a touch-based user interaction on a home screen of the touch sensitive device and creates a new folder in response to at least one object selected by the user interaction. The touch based folder control visually disposes the new folder at a specific place on the home screen.
US09535591B2
A method, system and/or computer program product for information browsing comprises: obtaining screen partition information of an electronic device; obtaining a position of a user's current input on the screen; obtaining file segmentation information describing a mapping relationship between file segments and screen partitions; determining a file segment corresponding to the user's current input based on the screen partition information, the position of the user's current input on the screen, and the file segmentation information; and displaying a preview of the determined file segment that corresponds to the user's current input.
US09535590B2
A two-dimensional canvas displays objects of various types. The canvas may be displayed in miniaturized form with a view box superimposed upon the canvas. As the view box is moved relative to the miniaturized canvas, the enlarged portion of the corresponding canvas is displayed in another view.
US09535576B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a touchscreen apparatus user interface processing method. The method includes obtaining touch information; arranging a first user interface of an application program according to the touch information, where the arrangement is adjusting an element position of the user interface; and presenting a second user interface that is of the application program and is obtained after the arrangement. A touchscreen apparatus and a graphical user interface are also provided.
US09535575B1
Techniques are directed to a method of displaying data storage system widgets to a user within a graphical user interface of a data storage system management application running on a computing device. The method includes (a) during operation of the data storage system management application, repeatedly calculating, by the computing device, relevancy scores for a plurality of available data storage system widgets based on expected needs of the user, (b) during operation of the data storage system management application, repeatedly selecting, by the computing device, a set of widgets having the highest calculated relevancy scores from the plurality of available widgets, and (c) during operation of the data storage system management application, repeatedly displaying the selected set of widgets to the user on a display screen, the displayed widgets each presenting data storage system management data to the user. A computer program product and apparatus are also provided.
US09535573B2
Systems and methods are provided for dynamic list views and detail pages. A database system can update a subscribed field in a data record when the field is updated and when a user interface is displaying the field in a list view. The system can provide a notification of an update for a subscribed field in a data record when the field is updated and when a user interface is displaying the field in a list view.
US09535571B2
A method for controlling display of an icon on a terminal includes displaying a first graphical object corresponding to an application, detecting a data update for the application, generating a second graphical object based on the data update, displaying the second graphical object on at least a portion of the first graphical object, in which the second graphical object corresponds to a content of the data update. An apparatus to control display of an icon includes a storage unit to store a first graphical object corresponding to an application, a detection unit to detect a data update for the application, a processing unit to generate a second graphical object based on the data update, a control unit to display the second graphical object on at least a portion of the first graphical object, in which the second graphical object corresponds to a content of the data update.
US09535569B2
A system and method for a home multimedia container. The method includes accessing, within mobile device, a portion of an operating system corresponding to the mobile device and accessing a datastore corresponding to a home multimedia container. In one embodiment, the home multimedia container comprises a first object and a second object. The first object may be a first portion of content and the second object may be an application. The datastore may comprise information about the first object and the second object. The method further includes determining a first image based on the information about the first object and determining a second image based on an application icon corresponding to the application. The method further includes displaying the first image and the second image. In one embodiment, selection of the first image is operable to launch a first application operable to render the first portion of content.
US09535568B2
A method of controlling a mobile terminal includes displaying, on a display module of the mobile terminal, an operation screen on which a plurality of icons including a first icon and a second icon are arranged, displaying at least one pocket area on one side of the operation screen, receiving, on the display module, a dragging input for dragging the first icon into the at least one pocket area, wherein the first icon disappears into the pocket area as a result of the dragging input, and displaying the second icon at a location where the disappeared first icon was originally displayed.
US09535566B2
A device, method and system of displaying a file on a mobile communication device may comprise duplicating at least a leftmost part of a file to obtain a duplicated leftmost part of the file, and displaying a frame through moving a display window along the frame, the frame comprising a rightmost part of the file and the duplicated leftmost part of the file, wherein the duplicated leftmost part of the file is placed on right of the rightmost part of the file. In some embodiments, the mobile communication device may control the display window to automatically move to a leftmost side of the frame, if the display window moves to a rightmost side of the frame, and further in response to a user instruction of continuing viewing the file.
US09535564B2
A service policy visualization interface is provided that is capable of selection and filtering of policy resources associated with a service managed using service policies. In response to detecting a selection of a policy resource within the service policy visualization interface, the selected policy resource is introspected to identify service policies. The service policies are attached to the selected policy resource within a resource hierarchy associated with the selected policy resource. Based upon results of the introspection of the selected policy resource, an effective applied policy configuration associated with the selected policy resource is created, including correlated and combined effects of the attached service policies. The effective applied policy configuration associated with the selected policy resource, including the correlated and combined effects of the attached service policies, is displayed within the service policy visualization interface.
US09535559B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for stream-based media management. A device may be configured to receive information streams including displayable content and to at least display the displayable content. For example, a stream manager in the device may be configured to control how the displayable content is displayed on a display in the device based on activity detected in the information streams. The activity may be defined by user preferences as trigger activities. For example, upon detecting a trigger activity in an information stream, the stream manager may cause the displayable content to be displayed or hidden, may cause the manner in which the displayable content is displayed (e.g., size, shape, order, etc.) to be altered, or may cause a visible or audible alert to be generated.
US09535553B2
Transmitting devices and transmission methods are provided. The transmitting device includes a touch panel, a touch link module, a processing module and a transceiver module. The touch link module establishes a touch link with a receiving device through the touch panel. The processing module determines an instruction according to the link duration of the transmitting device and the receiving device after the touch link has been established. The transceiver module transmits the instruction to the receiving device.
US09535552B2
An apparatus, method and computer program product provide a simplified method for unlocking an electronic device that uses soft keys, such as capacitive touch keys, or proximity detection areas and patterns. The keys may be implemented in the form of areas of a sensor, and a processing circuit observes a touch pattern (or proximity pattern, or characteristic pattern such as a capacitance pattern of a user's finger) and compares the same with the registered pattern to determine if there is a likeness. In doing so, the electronic device is operated at a low power state, and in that low power state observes whether a predetermined pattern is observed and when it is, unlocks the electronic device for interaction with a user at a fully operational state. By operating in the low power state while waiting to observe a predetermined pattern before unlocking the user interface, the device does not waste power on false positive detections, and allows for convenient wakeup and accessibility by a user.
US09535551B2
The present invention provides a mutual capacitance touch sensitive sensing method, including: sequentially charging multiple driving electrode sets and detecting the electrical change of multiple sensing electrodes; sequentially charging multiple driving electrodes in a driving electrode set and detecting the electrical change of the sensing electrodes when the electrical change of at least one of the sensing electrodes is detected while driving the driving electrode set; and determining the touch location according to the detected electrical change.
US09535543B2
A touch panel according to the embodiment includes a substrate; a first electrode formed on the substrate in a first direction and including a plurality of sensor parts and connection parts connecting the sensor parts with each other; and a second electrode formed in a second direction crossing the first direction while being insulated from the first electrode and including a plurality of sensor parts and connection parts connecting the sensor parts with each other. The sensor parts and the connection parts include transparent conductive materials, and the connection parts have resistance lower than resistance of the sensor parts in at least one of the first and second electrodes.
US09535536B2
A touch panel controller of the invention is provided with a driving unit which drives drive lines and causes a linear sum signal based on charges accumulated in respective electrostatic capacitances to be output from a sense line, and a correction processing unit which corrects influence on a change in the electrostatic capacitances by a parasitic capacitance which exists in the sense line. Thereby, it is possible to provide the touch panel controller and an electronic device capable of performing estimation of an electrostatic capacitance value more correctly by correcting the influence of the parasitic capacitance which exists in the sense line.
US09535531B2
The present invention provides an Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode (AMOLED) pixel unit circuit, a display panel and an electronic product for integrating a touch screen circuit into the AMOLED pixel unit circuit and producing an AMOLED display panel having the functionality of a touch screen. The AMOLED pixel unit circuit comprises a driving module, configured to amplify a sensing signal generated by a touch sensing module, output the sensing signal through a sensing signal output module, and drive a light emitting module; the light emitting control module, configured to control the light emitting module to emit light; a threshold compensation module, configured to compensate a threshold voltage of the driving module; the touch sensing module, configured to generate the sensing signal and output the sensing signal to the driving module; and the sensing signal output module, configured to output the sensing signal amplified by the driving module.
US09535527B2
A method of selecting information on a touch-sensitive display includes displaying the information on the touch-sensitive display, detecting a first touch at a first location on the touch-sensitive display, and identifying delimiters in the information displayed on the touch-sensitive display and displaying a graphical selection element including control delimiters that correspond to the delimiters identified in the information displayed. The method also includes, in response to detecting a second touch that begins at a second location associated with the graphical selection element and moves generally along the graphical selection element, identifying a nearest one of the control delimiters displayed in the graphical selection element to the second touch, and selecting information from the first location to one of the delimiters identified in the information displayed that corresponds to the identified nearest one of the control delimiters displayed in the graphical selection element.
US09535522B2
There is provided a flexible display having a plurality of innovations configured to allow bending of a portion or portions to reduce apparent border size and/or utilize the side surface of an assembled flexible display.
US09535512B2
An accurate determination of an operation is possible. Data photographed by a video camera is read by an image reading unit, and an image of an operator is extracted from the data by an image extracting unit. As a result of such preparation, a virtual operation screen and an operation region are created based upon the extracted image of the operator. In a case of an adult operator, an operation region can be created in consideration with a length (position of sight line) or a length of an arm, and in a case of a child, since a length is lower and a length of an arm is shorter, an operation region can be set to match it.
US09535510B2
A method of correcting an error in user input is described. The method includes monitoring for an occurrence of a shake in a user equipment, detecting a shake, comparing the detected shake with a threshold value, evaluating characters within a pre-determined distance of a character entered by the user during the shake, selecting a replacement character from the evaluated characters and replacing the entered character with the replacement character.
US09535505B2
This document discloses a portable system comprising a physical activity monitoring device comprising: a wireless proximity detection module configured to detect a proximity of an input control entity with respect to the physical activity monitoring device and output a control signal as a response to the detection, wherein the proximity is a non-zero distance between the input control entity and the training computer; and a user interface controller configured to generate, as a response to the control signal from the wireless proximity detection module, at least one of an audio control function and a display control function.
US09535501B1
An electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device includes a mechanical input configured to move in a first direction in response to an input at the mechanical input. A mechanical input sensor is coupled to the mechanical input and configured to sense the input at the mechanical input based on the movement of the mechanical input in the first direction. A mechanical input actuator is coupled to the mechanical input and configured to displace the mechanical input in a second direction, different from the first direction. In some examples, the second direction is orthogonal to the first direction. In some examples, the mechanical input comprises a rotary input configured to rotate in the first direction in response to the input. In some examples, the mechanical input actuator is configured to displace the mechanical input in the second direction while the mechanical input is moving in the first direction.
US09535492B2
An information processing apparatus includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to: determine whether or not a difference between a total of power consumption values of physical or virtual computers and a preset upper-limit value satisfies a certain condition; select, in ascending order of priorities stored in a first storage and set based on details of processing executed by the computers, any of the computers as a target whose power consumption is to be reduced, when the difference satisfies the certain condition; and switch the computer selected to a state in which the power consumption is reduced.
US09535489B2
A data processing system has a first data processing apparatus and a second data processing apparatus. The first data processing apparatus has at least a camera sensor, a compressor and an output interface. The camera sensor generates first input multimedia data. The compressor compresses the first input multimedia data into compressed multimedia data. The output interface packs compressed multimedia data into a bitstream. The second data processing apparatus has at least an input interface, a data access circuit, and a de-compressor. The input interface un-packs the bitstream into second input multimedia data. The data access circuit stores second input multimedia data into a multimedia buffer and reads buffered multimedia data from the multimedia buffer. The de-compressor de-compresses buffered multimedia data. Alternatively, one of the compressor and the decompressor may be implemented in a third data processing apparatus coupled between the first data processing apparatus and the second data processing apparatus.
US09535488B2
A microprocessor includes an indicator and a plurality of processing cores. Each of the plurality of processing cores is configured to sample the indicator. When the indicator indicates a first predetermined value, the plurality of processing cores are configured to collectively designate a default one of the plurality of processing cores to be a bootstrap processor. When the indicator indicates a second predetermined value distinct from the first predetermined value, the plurality of processing cores are configured to collectively designate one of the plurality of processing cores other than the default processing core to be the bootstrap processor.
US09535485B2
An image processing apparatus of one aspect of the present invention determines, upon receipt of a packet in a power saving state at a second communication rate slower than a first communication rate, whether or not to change the communication rate, on the basis of a communication protocol type and a port number, and an attribute of the packet represented by a data section of the packet. If the communication protocol type, the port number, and the attribute of the received packet indicate a request for a service predetermined as a network service that corresponds to the first communication rate, the image processing apparatus changes the communication rate from the second communication rate to the first communication rate at the time of shifting from the power saving state to the normal power state so as to provide the service.
US09535476B2
In an embodiment, a processor includes a first domain to operate according to a first clock. The first domain includes a write source, a payload bubble generator first in first out buffer (payload BGF) to store data packets, and write credit logic to maintain a count of write credits. The processor also includes a second domain to operate according to a second clock. When the write source has a data packet to be stored while the second clock is shut down, the write source is to write the data packet to the payload BGF responsive to the count of write credits being at least one, and after the second clock is restarted the second domain is to read the data packet from the payload BGF. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09535474B2
According to one embodiment, energy manager includes first estimator, second estimator, creator and controller. First estimator estimates power amount of power generator. Second estimator estimates energy demand. Creator creates schedule of devices based on estimated power amount and energy demand. Controller controls the devices based on the schedule. Second estimator includes storage, extractor and calculator. Storage accumulates load data. Extractor extracts load patterns including different load data. Calculator calculates weight for each of extracted patterns. Creator includes simulator and scheduler. Simulator simulates evaluated value of each schedule based on the pattern and weight. Scheduler creates schedule based on evaluated value.
US09535473B2
An age compensation method and apparatus for an integrated circuit (IC). An IC may be configured to operate at an initial operating voltage at the beginning of its operational life. Various circuits may be used to detect aging of the IC, and indications of aging may be stored to determine the aging of the IC. The information indicative of the determined aging of the IC may be compared to an aging threshold. If the information indicates that the aging is greater than or equal to the determined aging threshold, the operating voltage of the IC may be increased. This process may be repeated over the life of the IC, increasing the operating voltage as the IC ages. Raising the operating voltage in response to aging may compensate for various age related degradation mechanisms that can occur over the operational life of the IC.
US09535460B2
An electronic device with easy assembly function is disclosed in the present invention. The electronic device includes a bezel, a display panel and a fixing component. The bezel includes a first engaging portion and a first wedging portion, respectively disposed on different sides of the bezel. The display panel is disposed on the bezel and adjacent to the first engaging portion and the first wedging portion. The fixing component includes a body, a second engaging portion and a second wedging portion. The body presses the display panel. The second engaging portion protrudes from the body and is detachably engaged with the first engaging portion. The second wedging portion protrudes from a position of the body different from the second engaging portion, and is detachably wedged with the first wedging portion.
US09535458B2
Particular embodiments described herein provide for an electronic device, such as a notebook computer, laptop, or tablet that includes a circuit board coupled to a plurality of electronic components (which may include any type of components, elements, circuitry, etc.). One particular example implementation of an electronic device may include a housing, a first leg portion having a first hinge portion coupled to the housing, a second leg portion having a second hinge portion coupled to the housing, and a gear mechanism configured to couple the first hinge portion to the second hinge portion. Rotation of the first hinge portion about a first axis to move the first leg portion in a first arc causes a corresponding rotation of the second hinge portion about a second axis to move the second leg portion in a second arc.
US09535456B2
An aesthetically pleasing universal dock may support a variety of electronic devices of different shapes and designs while appearing to be customized to individually support each electronic device. The universal dock may support an electronic device using a support layer that may include any suitable material, including, for example, an array of vertical members, an elastic sponge-like substance, or any other suitable material. The compression of the support layer may be retained for future use with the electronic device, or the compression may be relieved, once the electronic device is removed from the universal dock.
US09535447B2
A rotary/push operating device (10) for a man-machine interface, in particular for an operating unit of a vehicle, comprises a manually operable rotary/push element (12) which can be rotated about a rotational axis (15) and which can be pushed down in the direction of the rotational axis (15), and a rolling-body bearing (14) which defines the rotational axis (15) and which comprises a immobile bearing ring (18), a movable bearing ring (20), and a rolling-body cage (22) arranged between said bearing rings. The rotary/push element (12) is coupled to the movable bearing ring (20) in such a manner that the rotary/push element (12) will move together with the movable bearing ring (20) when, during rotation of the rotary/push element (12), the movable bearing ring (20) rotates or is axially moved in the direction of the rotational axis (15).The rolling-body cage (22) comprises a plurality of rolling bodies (24) arranged in at least one radial plane of the rolling-body cage (22). The immobile bearing ring (18) and the movable bearing ring (20) form at least one circular moving channel (27,28) in which the rolling bodies (24), during rotation of the rotary/push element (12) in the circumferential direction of the two bearing rings (18,20), are movable with rolling movements on opposite moving tracks (29,30,31,32) of the two bearing rings (18,20), and, when the rotary/push element (12) is being pushed down in the direction of the rotational axis (15), can move on the moving tracks (29,30,31,32) at a right angle relative to said circumferential direction.For limiting the movement of the rotary/push element (12) in the direction of the rotational axis (15) between a base position and a push-down position, the rotary/push operating device (10) further comprises end abutment elements (45).
US09535445B2
Systems and methods are provided for generating accurate current ratios from a current mirror including an array of output transistor and a corresponding array of switches. Each switch couples in series with its corresponding output transistor. A control logic circuit controls the switches to cancel mismatches for the output transistors.
US09535444B2
A differential operational amplifier, which comprises: a voltage adjusting module, coupled between a first predetermined voltage source and a second predetermined voltage source, for adjusting a first voltage via a first voltage adjusting value to generate a first adjusted voltage, and for adjusting a second voltage via a second voltage adjusting value to generate a second adjusted voltage, wherein the first voltage adjusting value and the second voltage adjusting value change corresponding to a temperature; and a differential signal computing module, coupled between the first predetermined voltage source and the second predetermined voltage source, for generating an output voltage according the first adjusted voltage and the second adjusted voltage.
US09535442B2
A method, performed in an apparatus for energy control in an energy storage, for determining a composition of energy in the energy storage using a data storage holding information of a determined composition of the energy in the energy storage. The composition of energy comprises one or more energy types and a proportion of each energy type. The method includes measuring a quantity of energy provided in the energy storage, obtaining from the energy provider data indicative of a property of the energy, calculating a proportion of each energy type in the energy based on the obtained data, determining the composition of energy based on the calculated proportion of each energy type in the energy in the energy storage and the measured quantity of energy, and storing the determined composition in the data storage.
US09535438B2
A switching rectifier circuit includes a pulse width modulation controller, a voltage switching circuit, a pulse width modulation comparator, an error amplifier, a voltage reference, a high threshold voltage comparator and a low threshold voltage comparator. A varying output voltage of the voltage regulator is sampled and compared to a high threshold voltage reference and a low threshold voltage reference. When the sampled output voltage is equal to or greater than the high threshold voltage reference the output voltage is decreased. When the sampled output voltage is equal to or less than the low threshold voltage reference the output voltage is increased.
US09535427B2
Temperature-controlled pressure regulators are described. An example temperature-controlled pressure regulator described herein includes a regulator body having a process fluid inlet fluidly coupled to a process fluid outlet via a first passageway and a heat transfer medium inlet to be fluidly coupled to a heat transfer medium outlet via a second passageway, where the heat transfer medium inlet is integrally formed with the regulator body. A heat chamber body is removably coupled to the regulator body to form a chamber between the heat transfer medium inlet and the heat transfer medium outlet. At least a portion of the first passageway is disposed within the chamber, and the chamber is to receive a heat transfer medium via the heat transfer medium inlet to provide heat to the process fluid as the process fluid flows through the chamber via the first passageway, which separates the process fluid from the heat transfer medium.
US09535422B2
A method for controlling the position and speed of a vehicle having steered wheels includes, determining an overall path comprising a plurality of points and defining the course of the vehicle between a starting point and an endpoint; determining the current position of the vehicle; if the current position does not correspond to a point on the overall path, generating a local path connecting the current position of the vehicle to a point on the overall path; and generating control signals in order to steer the steered wheels and control the speed of the vehicle so that the vehicle moves along the local path. The control signals are generated by convex optimization of linear matrix inequalities.
US09535415B2
Systems, methods, and software for operating a mobile device to control industrial automation equipment are provided herein. In a first example, a mobile device application comprising program instructions executable by a mobile device is provided. When executed by the mobile device, the program instructions direct the mobile device to obtain industrial device information corresponding to an industrial device within an automation environment, and display the industrial device information on a display of the mobile device.
US09535405B2
A chronograph mechanism including an energy accumulator, a regulating system, a chronograph counter train including a minute-counter having a minute wheel set and at least one minute indicator member, and a seconds-counter having a seconds wheel set and a seconds indicator member, a chronograph zero-reset mechanism including a minute zero-reset mechanism. The minute zero-reset mechanism is arranged to cooperate with the minute wheel set, the minute indicator member being permanently integral with the minute wheel set, and the chronograph counter train includes an uncoupling device between the minute-counter and the seconds-counter, arranged to kinematically connect the minute wheel set and the seconds wheel set during the counting and to uncouple the seconds wheel set from the minute wheel set when the chronograph mechanism is reset to zero.
US09535402B2
A timepiece indicates the sunrise and sunset taking into account seasonal variations. The timepiece includes a sphere representing the Earth, a shell arranged concentrically to the sphere and arranged to delimit a part of the globe where it is night time from another part where it is daytime by indicating the position of the Earth's terminator. The shell can pivot around the globe along two perpendicular axes. The shell is driven by the movement in order to revolve at the rate of one revolution every 24 hours around the polar axis. A differential mechanism is controlled by a year cam that has a profile representing the inclination of the sun in relation to the equatorial plane. The differential mechanism controls the inclination of the shell around the axis by a drive shaft concentric to the polar axis.
US09535398B2
A developer container includes: a developer accommodating container for accommodating developer; a feeding member for feeding the developer, the feeding member being rotatable about an axis of a feeding shaft inside the developer accommodating container; and a drive transmission member rotatably mounted to the developer accommodating portion. The feeding shaft and the drive transmission member are bonded to each other at an engaging portion.
US09535396B2
A developer cartridge includes: a first rotary body having at least one detected part; and a second rotary body. The first rotary body is configured to rotate between a first position, in which a transmission part is disposed opposite the second rotary body, and a second position, in which a non-transmission part is disposed opposite the second rotary body. The first rotary body includes a contacted part. A photosensitive body cartridge includes a moving member. When the moving member is in a third position, the moving member contacts the contacted part of the first rotary body disposed in the second position, causing the first rotary body to rotate to the first position. Thereafter, in association with rotation of the first rotary body, the moving member moves to a fourth position, in which the moving member is unable to contact the contacted part.
US09535394B2
An image forming apparatus includes: a main body having an opening; a photoconductor unit including a photoconductor and removably mountable to the main body through the opening by moving the photoconductor unit in a first direction; an exposure member; and a moving mechanism configured to move the exposure member closer to and further from the photoconductor. The moving mechanism includes: a fixed shaft having an axial line thereof fixed relative to the main body; a first arm including one end portion thereof which is supported rotatably around the axial line of the fixed shaft; a movable shaft having an axial line thereof which is movable relative to the main body; and a second arm including: one end portion supporting the exposure member; and another end portion connected to the first arm via the movable shaft, and the second arm being swingable around the axial line of the movable shaft.
US09535392B2
An image forming apparatus includes a casing, a cover configured to pivot between a covering position and an exposing position, a shaft portion provided to one of the casing and the cover, a bearing portion provided to the other one, and a retaining mechanism configured to retain the cover at the exposing position. The cover includes a contactable portion configured to, when the cover pivots between the covering position and the exposing position, contact the retaining mechanism. The retaining mechanism includes a retaining member configured to restrict the cover from pivoting from the exposing position to the covering position, and an urging member urging the retaining member toward the contactable portion. The casing includes a frame, the frame including a guide section configured to guide a sheet. The frame of the casing includes one of the shaft portion and the bearing portion and supports the retaining mechanism.
US09535388B2
Provided is a recording material transporting apparatus including a transport member that transports a recording material in a transport direction, a linkage portion that moves in an intersection direction in connection with movement of the transport member in the direction intersecting the transport direction, and a rotating member that rotates about a rotating shaft disposed along the intersection direction, that includes a helical cam on a circumference of the rotating shaft, and that presses the linkage portion via the cam to move the linkage portion and the transport member in the intersection direction, wherein a common driving source supplies a driving force that the transport member uses to transport the recording material, and a driving force for rotating the rotating member.
US09535370B2
A developing device includes a developer storage chamber configured to store developer to be supplied to the development chamber, a partition configured to separate a development chamber and the developer storage chamber and having an opening allowing communication between the developer storage chamber and the development chamber, and a protruding portion configured to protrude toward the inside of the developer storage chamber from the partition on a downstream side of the opening in the rotation direction of a rotating shaft, and within one turn of rotation of the rotating shaft, a receiving member moves while contacting the protruding portion according to the rotation of the rotating shaft.
US09535360B2
An image forming apparatus comprises: a plurality of exposure units, each of the exposure units including a plurality of light emitting elements that are arranged in a main scanning direction; a calculating unit that, with respect to each of the exposure units, calculates a pre-charge period that is a period during which a pre-charge is performed on at least any of the light emitting elements included in a corresponding exposure unit; and an emission control unit that, with respect to each of the exposure units, causes the light emitting elements included in a corresponding exposure unit to emit light such that a pre-charge period of at least any of the exposure units is shifted with respect to pre-charge periods of remaining ones of the exposure units.
US09535358B2
In a corona charger including a housing that encloses a discharge electrode and has an open portion on a charging-object side and a shutter that opens and closes the open portion, if discharge products dropped from ends of the shutter adhere to a photosensitive member and absorbs moisture, an image defect called “image deletion” may occur. A charging device includes a corona charger including a discharge electrode and shields provided on two respective sides of the discharge electrode. The corona charger has an open portion on a charging-object side thereof. The open portion is opened and closed by a sheet-type shutter in a longitudinal direction of the charger. The sheet-type shutter is curled in a transverse direction such that a central portion bulges, with respect to two ends, in a thickness direction of the shutter from a front surface that is nearer to the discharge electrode toward a back surface.
US09535352B2
An electrostatic latent image developing toner includes toner particles that each include a toner mother particle. The toner mother particle includes a toner core, a shell layer disposed over a surface of the toner core, and inorganic particles. The inorganic particles are located at an interface between the toner core and the shell layer, or within the shell layer. The shell layer contains a thermosetting component. The toner mother particle has a BET specific surface area of at least 0.95 m2/g.
US09535349B2
An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes a toner particles containing a binder resin and a metallic pigment and aliphatic acid metal salt particles as an external additive in an amount of from 0.1 parts by weight to 2.0 parts by weight with respect to 100 parts by weight of the toner particles, wherein the toner particles have an average circle equivalent diameter D longer than an average C of a maximum thickness of the toner particles.
US09535348B1
A continuous coalescence process for preparing a sustainable toner is described which features toner with lowered melt properties and higher toner surface carbon to oxygen (C/O) ratios than previously described sustainable resins coalesced in a batch reactor.
US09535336B2
A microlithographic projection exposure apparatus has a mirror array having a base body and a plurality of mirror units. Each mirror unit includes a mirror and a solid-state articulation, which has at least one articulation part that connects the mirror to the base body. A control device makes it possible to modify the alignment of the respective mirror relative to the base body. Mutually opposing surfaces of the mirror and of the base body, or of a mirror support body connected to it, are designed as corresponding glide surfaces of a sliding bearing.
US09535333B2
A maskless exposure device includes a plurality of exposure heads, each exposure head including a digital micro-mirror device configured to scan an exposure beam to a substrate, the exposure heads being disposed in staggered first and second rows, a plurality of reflecting members disposed on side surfaces of the exposure heads and having reflecting surfaces parallel with each other, a light emitting part configured to light to the reflecting members, and a light receiving part configured to receive light via the reflecting members.
US09535332B2
A mask (105) for EUV lithography includes a substrate (107), a multi-layer coating (108) applied to the substrate (107) and a mask structure (109) which is applied to the multi-layer coating (108) and which has an absorber material, the mask structure (109) having a maximum thickness of less than 100 nm, preferably not exceeding a maximum thickness of 30 nm, particularly preferably 20 nm, in particular 10 nm. Also disclosed is an EUV lithography system having such a mask (105) and a method for optimizing the imaging of such a mask (105).
US09535327B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device, includes dividing a pattern region of a desired pattern that is to be formed on a semiconductor substrate into a plurality of sub-regions; calculating combination condition including a shape of illumination light for transferring and a mask pattern obtained by correcting a partial pattern in the sub-region of the desired pattern formed on a mask used during transferring for each of the plurality of sub-regions, to make a dimension error of the partial pattern of each of the plurality of sub-regions smaller when transferred to the semiconductor substrate; and forming the desired pattern by making multiple exposures on the semiconductor substrate in such a way that the partial patterns of the sub-regions divided are sequentially transferred by transferring a pattern to the semiconductor substrate using the combination conditions calculated for each of the sub-regions.
US09535325B2
The present invention provides the onium salt comprises the material represented by the following general formula (0-1), wherein Rf represents a fluorine atom or a trifluoromethyl group; Y represents a cyclic hydrocarbon group having 3 to 30 carbon atoms, the hydrogen atom in the cyclic hydrocarbon group may be substituted by a hetero atom itself or a monovalent hydrocarbon group which may be substituted by a hetero atom(s), and the hetero atom(s) may be interposed into the cyclic structure of the cyclic hydrocarbon group and the monovalent hydrocarbon group; and M+ represents a monovalent cation. There can be provided an onium salt which can improve resolution at the time of forming a pattern and give a pattern with less line edge roughness (LER) when it is used in a chemically amplified positive resist composition.
US09535320B2
Provided is a method of manufacturing a mask blank that is improved in cleaning resistance to ozone cleaning or the like, thus capable of preventing degradation of the mask performance due to the cleaning. The method is for manufacturing a mask blank having, on a substrate, a thin film which is formed at its surface with an antireflection layer made of a material containing a transition metal, and carries out a treatment of causing a highly concentrated ozone gas with a concentration of 50 to 100 vol % to act on the antireflection layer to thereby form a surface modified layer comprising a strong oxide film containing an oxide of the transition metal at a surface of the antireflection layer.
US09535317B2
A method for forming a lithography mask includes forming a capping layer on a reflective multilayer layer, the capping layer comprising a first material, forming a patterned patterning layer on the capping layer, and introducing a secondary material into the capping layer, the secondary material having an atomic number that is smaller than 15.
US09535308B2
A photonic integrated circuit (PIC) is described. This PIC includes a semiconductor-barrier layer-semiconductor diode in an optical waveguide that conveys an optical signal, where the barrier layer is an oxide or a high-k material. Moreover, semiconductor layers in the semiconductor-barrier layer-semiconductor diode may include geometric features (such as a periodic pattern of holes or trenches) that create a lattice-shifted photonic crystal optical waveguide having a group velocity of light that is lower than the group velocity of light in the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer without the geometric features. The optical waveguide is included in an optical modulator, such as a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI).
US09535306B2
An electrochromic device includes a stack successively including: a first current collector, an electrochromic electrode made of a material capable of reversibly inserting metal ions, an electrolyte, a second current collector, a reflective substrate contacting the first current collector or with the second current collector. It includes a single electrochromic electrode and has at least the two following functional states: a first absorbing functional state, induced by the application of a first electric voltage between the two current collectors, wherein the device includes metal ions reversibly inserted into the material of the electrochromic electrode; and a second reflective functional state subsequent to the application of a second electric voltage between the two current collectors, wherein a metal layer is formed between the electrolyte and the second current collector, this metal layer including at least part of the metal ions initially reversibly inserted into the material of the electrochromic electrode.
US09535305B1
An electrochromic device includes upper and lower substrate units, and an electrochromic laminate sandwiched between an upper electrode of the upper substrate unit and a lower electrode of the lower substrate unit. The electrochromic laminate includes en ion storage layer formed on the upper electrode, an active layer formed on the lower electrode, and a polymer electrolyte sandwiched between inner surfaces of the ion storage layer and the active layer. At least one of the inner surfaces has a roughened peripheral region such that an adhesion force generated between the roughened peripheral region and the polymer electrolyte is effective to minimize thermal shrinkage of the polymer electrolyte.
US09535300B2
A pixel structure includes a substrate, a plurality of gate lines and data lines, and at least one first pixel. The gate lines and the data lines are disposed on the substrate. The first pixel is disposed on the substrate and electrically connected to corresponding gate line and data line. The first pixel includes a first electrode, a first dielectric layer and a second electrode. The first electrode is disposed on the substrate. The first dielectric layer is disposed on the first electrode, and the first dielectric layer has at least one first island structure. The second electrode is disposed on a top surface of the first island structure, and the second electrode partially exposes the top surface of the first island structure.
US09535287B2
The present invention provides a liquid crystal panel compensation structure comprising two second compensation film disposed at two sides of a liquid crystal panel and a first compensation film disposed above one of the second compensation film; a liquid crystal layer comprising a plurality of liquid crystal molecules being disposed in the liquid crystal panel, a refractive index anisotropy of the liquid crystal layer being Δn, a depth of the liquid crystal layer being d, and a pretilt angle of the liquid crystal molecules being θ; the first compensation film being a biaxial compensation film, an in-plane compensation value thereof being Ro1, and a depth compensation value thereof being Rth1; each of the second compensation film being an uniaxial compensation film, and the depth compensation value thereof being Rth2, wherein 342.8 nm≦Δn·d≦361.4 nm, 85°≦θ<90°, 52 nm≦Ro1≦78 nm, 196 nm≦Rth1≦293 nm, Y1 nm≦Rth2≦Y2 nm, Y1=−0.50645·Rth1+164.1, and Y2=−0.003085·(Rth1)2+0.932·Rth1+23.7. The present invention further provides a liquid crystal display apparatus comprising the compensation structure described above.
US09535283B2
Provided is a display device and a method of manufacturing the same. The display device includes a reflective display part including a first cathode electrode and a first anode electrode and a liquid crystal layer, a light emitting display part including a second cathode electrode and a second anode electrode and a light emission film, and a thin film transistor part being electrically connected to the first and second anode electrodes. The light emitting display part further includes a bank disposed on one side of the second anode electrode between the second anode electrode and the light emission film.
US09535267B2
Control of an electronic device integrated with eyewear is facilitated by the use of anatomical reference points. Palpable alignment features, such as protrusions, notches etc. on the eyewear are aligned with anatomic reference points to put a user's fingers into a desired spatial relationship with a control for the device.
US09535263B2
The present disclosure is directed to lenses, devices, methods and/or systems for addressing refractive error. Certain embodiments are directed to changing or controlling the wavefront of the light entering a human eye. The lenses, devices, methods and/or systems can be used for correcting, addressing, mitigating or treating refractive errors and provide excellent vision at distances encompassing far to near without significant ghosting. The refractive error may for example arise from myopia, hyperopia, or presbyopia with or without astigmatism. Certain disclosed embodiments of lenses, devices and/or methods include embodiments that address foveal and/or peripheral vision. Exemplary of lenses in the fields of certain embodiments include contact lenses, corneal onlays, corneal inlays, and lenses for intraocular devices both anterior and posterior chamber, accommodating intraocular lenses, electro-active spectacle lenses and/or refractive surgery.
US09535262B2
To provide an optical member, formed without generating cracks in a hard coat layer of desired film thickness, and a method of manufacturing an optical member that permits the manufacturing of the above optical member.The optical member of the present invention is characterized by comprising a lens substrate having a curved surface, a porous intermediate layer formed so as to cover an edge portion of the lens substrate in a planar view along an optical axis of the optical member, and a hard coat layer formed so as to cover the lens substrate and the intermediate layer in the planar view; as well as characterized in that the hard coat layer comprises a thick film portion, formed on the edge portion of the hard coat layer and thicker than a center portion of the hard coat layer in the planar view, and when a maximum film thickness of the intermediate layer is denoted as A (μm) and a maximum film thickness of the thick film portion is denoted as B (μm), a relation of A/B being equal to or greater than 3% but equal to or less than 20% is satisfied.
US09535260B2
A camera system includes an interchangeable lens including an image-pickup optical system, a camera body including an image sensor, and an adapter attached between the interchangeable lens and the camera body. The adapter includes a lens side mount to which the interchangeable lens is detachably attached, a camera side mount detachably attached to the camera body, and a tilt-shift unit configured to provide at least one of a tilt operation and a shift operation. A flange focal length of the interchangeable lens is longer than a flange focal length of the camera body. A length of the adapter from the lens side mount to the camera side mount in an optical axis direction is equal to or smaller than a difference between the flange focal length of the interchangeable lens and the flange focal length of the camera body.
US09535256B2
Polarizing beam splitters providing high resolution images and systems utilizing such beam splitters
Polarizing beam splitters and systems incorporating such beam splitters are described. More specifically, polarizing beam splitters and systems with such beam splitters that incorporate multilayer optical films and reflect imaged light towards a viewer or viewing screen with high effective resolution are described.
US09535245B1
In one example a method of deceiving an optical augmentation device includes receiving an interrogation beam at an optical system from the optical augmentation device, encoding the interrogation beam with a false signature mis-identifying the optical system, and retro-reflecting the encoded interrogation beam to the optical augmentation device, without retro-reflecting the original interrogation beam.
US09535241B2
In order to realize a high-speed switching of structured pattern, a structured illuminating microscopy includes a driving unit generating a sonic standing wave in a sonic wave propagation path by giving a driving signal for vibrating a medium of the sonic wave propagation path to a light modulator, an illuminating optical system making at least three diffracted components of the exit light flux passed through the sonic wave propagation path to be interfered with one another, and forming interference fringes on an observational object, an image-forming optical system forming an image by an observational light flux from the observational object on a detector, and a controlling unit controlling a contrast of an image by modulating at least one of an intensity of the exit light flux, an intensity of the observational light flux, and the detector with a modulating signal of 1/N frequency of the driving signal.
US09535234B2
An optical imaging lens includes: a first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth lens element, the first lens element has an object-side surface with a convex part in a vicinity of the optical axis, and a convex part in a vicinity of its periphery, the second lens element has an image-side surface with a concave part in a vicinity of its periphery, the third lens element has an image-side surface with a convex part in a vicinity of its periphery, the fourth lens has an object-side surface with a concave part in a vicinity of its periphery, the fifth lens element has an object-side surface with a concave part in a vicinity of the optical axis, the sixth lens element has an image-side surface with a concave part in a vicinity of the optical axis, and a convex part in a vicinity of its periphery.
US09535232B2
A method for determining the depth of field for a specific distance by means of measuring optics comprises manual optical focussing of the measuring optics by means of the human eye without projection onto a focussing screen or intermediate projection surface, monitoring of the movement of the measuring optics mechanism during focussing, determining and indicating the adjusted distance from the movement, wherein, with consideration of focal distance, aperture, hyperfocal distance and circle of confusion, the range of the depth of field to the adjusted distance is arithmetically determined and indicated.
US09535231B2
An optical fiber assembly of the present invention is configured such that an optical fiber fixing section (i) is fixed to an SUS tube and (ii) sandwiches an optical fiber between a first member and a second member at an end part of the SUS tube, so that the optical fiber is fixed while being spaced from the SUS tube. This makes it possible to provide an optical fiber assembly having a structure that prevents an optical fiber from coming into contact with an edge part of a metal tube on the premise that the optical fiber is covered with the metal tube.
US09535230B2
An integral fan-out connector assembly for fiber optic cables includes a connector housing that provides an integrated fan-out housing and connection adapter. The fan-out connector housing may be configured with a variety of cable adapters, and may be installed as a ‘plug and play’ type solution where it will be ready to accept a feed cable for use when needed.
US09535223B2
An optical alignment system for aligning an optical component is provided. The system includes an alignment component configured to be moveable in a plane and in a fixed relationship with the optical component. Typically the alignment component houses an optical fiber MT ferrule. One or more driving components are further provided typically in the form of a ball headed adjustment screw. The driving components are configured to be moveable, relative to the alignment component, in a first linear direction. At least a component of the first linear direction is parallel with the normal of the plane. The driving component, when forced along the first linear direction and in contact with the alignment component, imparts a force upon the alignment component, in the plane, to move the optical component in the plane. An alignment frame accommodating the driving components may also be provided.
US09535222B2
A plug-side optical connector, including: a plug-side coupling mechanism and a ferrule. The plug-side coupling mechanism is to be coupled to a coupling mechanism of another optical connector, the other optical connector being on receptacle side and being for being coupled with the plug-side optical connector. The plug-side coupling mechanism includes: a reference section to which the coupling mechanism of the other receptacle-side optical connector is to be hooked; and an inserted section that is to be inserted into a cylindrical main body of the coupling mechanism on the receptacle side. The ferrule is accommodated inside the inserted section. When a direction in which the optical connector is attached or detached is defined as a front-rear direction and a side of the receptacle-side optical connector is defined as front, a distance in the front-rear direction from the reference section to a front edge of the inserted section is 7.0 mm or more.
US09535221B2
A pre-terminated distribution module is provided with a set of multicore fiber (MCF) connector adapters at its front end and a set of multifiber MCF connector adapters at a second end. The MCF connector adapters and multifiber MCF connector adapters are connected to each other within the module housing by means of an MCF fanout. The MCF connector adapters are configured to provide core-aligned connection for MCF jumper cables that are plugged into the front end of the module. The MCF jumper cables are configured to provide connectivity to an array of optical devices. The multifiber connector adapters are configured to provide core-aligned connectivity for multifiber MCF cables that are plugged into the back end of the module. The multifiber cables are configured to provide connectivity between the module and a trunk (backbone) cable. Further described are pre-terminated trunk (backbone) cables and pre-terminated fiber optic jumper cables (i.e., patchcords).
US09535199B2
A polarization film including a polarizer polarizing incident light in a polarization direction and having a first polarization groove recessed from an upper surface of the polarizer and extending in a first direction; a first transparent support at the upper surface of the polarizer; and a second transparent support at a lower surface of the polarizer.
US09535198B2
A colored mirror includes a transparent substrate and a reflective layer, including a coloring layer between the substrate and the reflective layer, the coloring layer including a matrix and a colorant. Furthermore, a process for preparing a mirror including a transparent substrate and a reflective layer, a coloring layer between the substrate and the reflective layer, the coloring layer including a matrix and a colorant, includes the production of the coloring layer on the substrate then the deposition of the reflective layer on the coloring layer.
US09535195B2
In the technical field of display, a color filter substrate and a curved display device, which can solve the technical problem of low aperture ratio of the existing curved display device, are provided. The color substrate comprises a plurality of sub pixel regions arranged as an array, and black matrixes for separating the sub pixel regions from each other. Measured along a transverse direction, the transverse width of each of all or some of the black matrixes located in the regions at both sides of the color filter substrate is smaller than that of each of the black matrixes located in the region at the center of the color filter substrate. The present disclosure can be applied to curved display device, such as liquid crystal television and curved liquid crystal display device.
US09535193B2
An image capturing apparatus includes: an imaging element; a main lens that condenses light from a subject toward the imaging element; a micro lens array that is configured by a plurality kinds of micro lenses with different focal lengths that is disposed between the imaging element and the main lens and causes light transmitted through the main lens to form an image on the imaging element; and a CPU that, in response to receiving a designation of a distance to a side of a subject that is photographed, performs weighting for each image that is imaged by the plurality kinds of micro lenses of the imaging element based on the distance so as to constitute one captured image.
US09535191B2
An optical element having an anti-reflection function includes a base having a main surface, and a plurality of projecting or recessed structures arranged on the main surface of the base at a fine pitch equal to or less than the wavelength of visible light, wherein the main surface of the base, the main surface having the structures thereon, has hydrophilicity, and a contact angle of the main surface of the base, the main surface having the structures thereon, to pure water is 30° or less.
US09535182B2
A skeg mounts from the stern of a towing vessel and extends below the waterline. A channel in the skeg protects cables for steamers and a source (e.g., air gun array) of a seismic system deployed from the vessel. Tow points on the skeg lie below the water's surface and connect to towlines to support the steamers and the source. A floatation device supports the source and tows below the water's surface to avoid ice floes or other issues encountered at the water's surface. The floatation device has a depth controlled float and one or more adjustable buoyancy floats. The controlled float has its buoyancy controlled with pressurized gas used for the air gun source and actively controls the depth of air gun source in the water. Each of the adjustable float connects in line with the controlled float with flexible connections. Each adjustable float has its buoyancy preconfigured to counterbalance the weight in water of the air gun or portion of the source that the float supports.
US09535173B2
An organic x-ray detector is presented. The organic x-ray detector includes a layered structure. The layered structure includes a thin-film transistor (TFT) array disposed on a substrate, an organic photodiode disposed on the TFT array, and a scintillator layer disposed on the organic photodiode. The organic x-ray detector includes an encapsulation cover at least partially encapsulating the layered structure. The organic x-ray detector further includes at least one of a moisture getter layer and an oxygen getter layer disposed proximate to the organic photodiode, and in the path of an x-ray radiation incident on the layered structure. X-ray system including the organic x-ray detector is also presented.
US09535168B2
An X-ray detecting apparatus for the detection and localization of ionizing X-ray or gamma radiation in radiography, the apparatus comprising: an X-ray detector including: conversion means for converting incident x-ray photons of an incident x-ray photon beam into detectable electrical charges; and amplification means for amplifying the electrical charges in the detector by an non-linear amplification gain factor the non-linear amplification gain being characterized by a decrease in amplification gain at high fluxes of incident x-ray photons; and amplification gain adjustment means configured to vary the amplification gain of the amplification means according to the emission parameters of an x-ray source providing the incident x-ray photon beam for the radio-graphic examination to be performed and/or the transmitted beam received by the detector from the x-ray source via the subject being imaged. A radiographic imaging device and a method of operating the radiographic imaging device are also presented.
US09535166B2
A detector arrangement for detecting at least one of rays, ions and particles includes a plurality of detectors. Each detector has a respective anode output and the detectors are arranged with the respective anode outputs being in an electrical series. The arrangement includes a plurality of resistive elements interspersed in the electrical series. The arrangement includes a first measurement point at a first end of the electrical series and a second measurement point at a second end of the electrical series. The arrangement includes electrical circuitry, electrically connected to the first and second measurement points for receiving electrical signals/pulses from the first and second measurement points, and for using the electrical signals/pulses from the first and second measurement points to determine which of the plurality of detectors has detected the at least one of rays, ions and particles.
US09535162B2
The disclosure herein provides a golf GPS device with a hole cup location selection mechanism which displays a plurality of selectable hole cup locations for selection by a user. When the user selects one of the plurality of selectable hole cup locations, the golf GPS device provides the user with a number representative of the distance between the user and the selected one of the plurality of selectable hole cup locations.
US09535157B2
A proximity sensor includes a radiation source configured to emit a primary radiation beam and a primary detector configured to pick up a reflected primary radiation beam. The radiation source is further configured to emit stray radiation. The sensor further includes a reference detector arranged to receive the stray radiation. The stray radiation may, for example, be emitted from either a side of the radiation source or a bottom of the radiation source.
US09535145B2
In preparation for acquiring PET image data, subject motion models are built based on physiologic signal monitoring and MR data is collected and used for improved PET imaging. The physiologic signal monitoring is also used during PET imaging, and the acquired MR data is used for prospective or retrospective gating of the PET image acquisition, or in the PET reconstruction for improved correction/imaging.
US09535142B2
An RF volume resonator system is disclosed comprising a multi-port RF volume resonator (40, 50; 60), like e.g. a TEM volume coil or TEM resonator, or a birdcage coil, all of those especially in the form of a local coil like a head coil, or a whole body coil, and a plurality of transmit and/or receive channels (T/RCh1, . . . T/RCh8) for operating the multi-port RF volume resonator for transmitting RF excitation signals and/or for receiving MR relaxation signals into/from an examination object or a part thereof. By the individual selection of each port (P1, . . . P8) and the appropriate amplitude and/or frequency and/or phase and/or pulse shapes of the RF transmit signals according to the physical properties of an examination object, a resonant RF mode within the examination object with an improved homogeneity can be excited by the RF resonator.
US09535131B2
A method for determining response characteristics of a battery includes: pressurizing the battery in a direction to reduce a distance between electrode surfaces of the battery; and applying a voltage or a current to the pressurized battery to determine response characteristics of the battery.
US09535129B2
System and methods for estimating a capacity of a battery are presented. In certain embodiments, charge and discharge current throughput data may be separately accumulated during operation of a battery system (e.g., during a charge sustaining operation of vehicle associated with the battery system). Charge and discharge voltage-based state of charge movement data may be further separately accumulated. Upon accumulating sufficient data, estimated charge and discharge battery capacities may be determined based on the accumulated data.
US09535124B2
In a first embodiment a TAP 318 of IEEE standard 1149.1 is allowed to commandeer control from a WSP 202 of IEEE standard P1500 such that the P1500 architecture, normally controlled by the WSP, is rendered controllable by the TAP. In a second embodiment (1) the TAP and WSP based architectures are merged together such that the sharing of the previously described architectural elements are possible, and (2) the TAP and WSP test interfaces are merged into a single optimized test interface that is operable to perform all operations of each separate test interface.
US09535123B2
A scan chain may be formed throughout an integrated circuit in which the scan chain includes at least a first segment and a second segment. A first portion of a test pattern is scanned into the first segment by clocking a first scan cell of the first segment with an even clock while clocking a remainder of the plurality of scan cells in the first segment with an odd clock, in which the odd clock is out of phase with the even clock, in which the even clock and odd clock have a rate equal to a scan rate of the test pattern divided by an integer N. A second portion of the test pattern is scanned into the second segment by clocking the plurality of scan cells in the second segment with the odd clock, such that the second portion of the test pattern is not scanned into the first segment.
US09535119B2
Testing I/O (input/output) eye width for an interface with an inverted modulated strobe or clock signal. An I/O interface includes multiple signal lines, each with a hardware I/O buffer with timing characteristics. A system generates a strobe signal with a triggering edge that triggers a write, and a trailing edge that is modulated by adjusting the duty cycle of the strobe signal. The system inverts the modulated strobe signal to generate an inverted strobe signal, wherein the inverted strobe signal has a modulated triggering edge generated from inverting the modulated trailing edge. The device under test writes test data based on the triggering edge of the original strobe signal and reads test data based on the triggering edge of the inverted strobe signal.
US09535110B2
An apparatus for detecting an operating characteristic mismatch at an output of an amplifier by using a replica circuit is presented. In one exemplary case, a detected voltage difference at the output of the two circuits is used to drive a tuning control loop to minimize an impedance mismatch at the output of the amplifier. In another exemplary case, the replica circuit is used to detect a fault in operation in a corresponding main circuit. A method for detecting a load mismatch in a main RF circuit using the replica circuit is also presented.
US09535105B2
An apparatus and method for accurately detecting and monitoring leakage currents on porcelain and glass insulator disc strings is disclosed. The sensor apparatus includes a sensor unit configured to attach to a cap of an insulator disc string. The sensor unit includes a sensor disc configured to surround the cap and a housing connected to the sensor disc. The sensor disc includes a conducting lower disc set, a conducting upper disc set, an insulating disc set sandwiched between the upper and lower conducting disc sets, and a conducting mesh connected to a bottom of the lower disc set. The housing including electronics configured to measure and communicate leakage currents on an insulator disc. Leakage currents on a surface of the insulator disc are intercepted by the sensor disc and transferred to the housing for processing and communication by the electronics.
US09535099B2
A sensor system with performance compensation testing capability includes a sensor device, a resistance bridge, a signal conditioning circuit, a first test connector, and a second test connector. The resistance bridge circuit is disposed on the sensor device and includes an excitation terminal, a circuit common terminal, and two output terminals, and is configured, upon being energized, to supply a bridge output voltage across the two output terminals. The signal conditioning circuit is electrically coupled to the excitation terminal, the circuit common terminal, and the two output terminals, and is configured to supply a sensor output signal representative of bridge output voltage. The first test connector is electrically coupled to one of the two output terminals and is configured to be coupled to an impedance test device. The second test connector is electrically coupled to the circuit common terminal and is configured to be coupled to the impedance test device.
US09535097B2
An optical sensor that senses current by directing polarized light across an airgap that is orthogonal to a direction of current running through a conductor. The sensor includes a prism having a high Verdet constant for high sensitivity to magnetic fields, which cause an angle of polarization of the polarized light to be rotated as an indication of the magnitude of current. A polarizing beamsplitter having a low Verdet constant is mounted to the prism so that incoming light that is traveling in a direction orthogonal to the magnetic field being sensed across the airgap is insensitive to unwanted magnetic fields produced by nearby conductors. The distance the light travels in this orthogonal direction is minimized, reducing the overall volume of the sensor, making a compact sensor highly sensitive to magnetic fields of interest, largely insensitive to unwanted magnetic fields, and having a very high dynamic range for sensing current.
US09535095B2
Wire probes are described that resist rotation during assembly into a probe head of a die tester. One example includes probe wires with a protrusion at a pre-determined position along the length of the wire. A probe substrate with pads on one side each to attach to and electrically connect with a probe wire and a pads on the opposite side to connect to test equipment and a probe holder above the substrate with holes. Each hole holds a respective one of the probe wires against the probe substrate. Each hole also has a key to mate with a protrusion of a respective probe wire so that the protrusions engage the keys to prevent rotation of the respective wire.
US09535085B2
An intermittent contact atomic force microscope includes: a cantilever configured to receive a contact resonance modulation; a sample disposed proximate to the cantilever; a contact resonance modulator in communication with the cantilever and configured to provide the contact resonance modulation to the cantilever; and a scan modulator in mechanical communication with the sample to provide a scan modulation to the sample. Also disclosed is a process for performing intermittent contact atomic force microscopy, the process includes: providing a dual modulation microscope including: a cantilever configured to receive a contact resonance modulation; a sample disposed proximate to the cantilever; a contact resonance modulator in communication with the cantilever and configured to provide the contact resonance modulation to the cantilever; and a scan modulator in mechanical communication with the sample to provide a scan modulation to the sample; subjecting the cantilever to the contact resonance modulation; modulating the cantilever at a contact resonance frequency; subjecting the sample to the scan modulation; and modulating the sample at a scan modulation frequency to perform intermittent contact atomic force microscopy.
US09535070B2
A method and related microfluidic chip and kit for high throughput detection of proteins of interest contained in a sample is disclosed. The method comprises of specifically labeling fusion proteins in a complex sample with fusion tag specific fluorophores that specifically bind the fusion tags coupled to the proteins of interest, and subjecting the sample to automated capillary electrophoresis, wherein the presence of the proteins of interest in the sample is detected by fluorescence signals associated with the fusion tag specific fluorophores.
US09535068B2
A point of care diagnostic test, device and disposables for determining a patient risk for oral cancer in the same visit that a sample is collected.
US09535067B2
The present invention relates to compound that bind Histone H3-lysine79 (H3K79) methyl transferase (DOTIL). The disclosed compounds are useful as for assessing the activity of DOTIL and for identifying inhibitors of DOTIL. Described herein are probes useful for both assessing the activity of DOTIL and identifying inhibitors of DOTIL. These probes can be used in various assays, including Amplified Luminescent Proximity Homogeneous Assays (“ALPHA” assays), Differential Scanning Fluorimetry (DFS) Assay, and Fluorescence Polarization (FP) assays used for high-throughput screening (HTS) for small molecule drug discovery. The compounds can also be used as a pull down agent for target identification.
US09535059B2
Described herein are particular embodiments relating to a microfluidic device that may be utilized for cell sensing, counting, and/or sorting. Particular aspects relate to a microfabricated device that is capable of differentiating single cell types from dense cell populations. One particular embodiment relates a device and methods of using the same for sensing, counting, and/or sorting leukocytes from whole, undiluted blood samples.
US09535058B2
A flow chamber and method for detecting the presence of one more cell produced analytes under flow conditions. The flow chamber includes two compartments separated by a permeable membrane on which a plurality of cells may be positioned. The permeable membrane shields one or more analyte sensors positioned one compartment from the convective transport forces of a fluid flow within the other compartment to allow reliable and accurate detection of cell-produced analytes and determination of the concentration of cell-produced analytes.
US09535055B2
There are provided a composition for determining the efficacy of a c-Met antibody including marker genes and a method for determining the efficacy of a c-Met antibody using the marker genes.
US09535052B2
The present invention provides novel apparatuses and methods for isolating or recovering a subset of blood cells such as leukocytes and/or circulating tumor cells from blood samples by filtration without changing the intracellular concentration of a therapeutic agent such as an anticancer drug. Contrary to the art, the apparatuses and methods of the present invention advantageously provide cell lysates from recovered cells such as leukocytes and/or circulating tumor cells without substantial dilution of a therapeutic agent such as an anticancer drug.
US09535048B2
A method for determining the number of drops metered with a drop frequency into a reactor, especially in a high temperature decomposition system for analyzers, wherein a gas stream is flowing through the reactor. There exists in the reactor a temperature, which is greater than the boiling temperature of the liquid, and a drop metered into the reactor transforms at least partially into the gas phase following entry into the reactor, especially due to heat transfer from contact with a surface within the reactor, especially directly after contact with the surface within the reactor. With a sampling rate, which is greater than the drop frequency, a sequence of pressure signals dependent on pressure within the reactor is registered, and, from the sequence of pressure signals or from values derived therefrom, the number of drops metered into the reactor is ascertained.
US09535042B2
Monitoring biomolecule separations by mass spectrometry is described. The mixture to be separated is introduced into a first fluidic stream, which then passes through a chromatography column. Small samples are periodically taken from the first fluidic stream as it leaves the chromatography column and injected into a first branch of a second fluidic stream. Low molecular weight components detrimental to the efficient operation of the mass spectrometer are removed by an in-line dialysis cell. A second fraction of the second fluidic stream acts as the dialysate. In a second and preferred system provided in accordance with the present teaching, the first fraction of the second fluidic stream is further split downstream of the sampling mechanism through the use of a three-way connector. Approximately 0.3 to 5 microliters per minute continues through the dialysis cell and thereafter to the electrospray emitter of the mass spectrometer.
US09535039B2
A multiple frequency ping transmitter which can be carried by a pig which is used in an underwater pipeline. The ping transmitter produces a ping chord which includes a plurality of different tone frequencies which are simultaneously transmitted in the ping chord. Procedures are also provided wherein the multiple frequency ping transmitter is used in a system and method for located a pig which is stuck in the underwater pipeline or for determining the relative velocity of a moving pig.
US09535038B2
A sensor operable to sense a characteristic of a fluid. The sensor includes a sensing area, a filter, and a transducer. The sensing area is configured to contain the fluid. The filter covers the sensing area. The filter is configured to allow a liquid portion of the fluid to enter the sensing area and substantially prohibit a gas portion of the fluid to enter the sensing area. The transducer is operable to output a pulse of sound through the liquid portion of the fluid contained within the sensing area, receive the reflected pulse of sound, and output a characteristic of the fluid based on the received pulse of sound.
US09535034B2
A suppressor is structured by an ion exchange section being structured by an eluate path forming member forming an eluate path and a regenerant path forming member forming a regenerant path being stacked across an ion exchange film, and a heat-conductive heat block covering the outside of the ion exchange section. A separation column, the suppressor, and an electrical conductivity meter are accommodated in a common constant temperature bath. The inside of the constant temperature bath is feedback-controlled by a temperature control section so as to be maintained at constant temperature.
US09535029B2
The invention relates to electrode chip (EChip) cartridge devices which are used in hot electron-induced electro-chemiluminescence (HECL) and electroluminescence (EL) methods and instrumentation based on the electrical excitation of label molecules with subsequent measurement of the luminescence in order to quantitate analyte concentrations in bioaffinity assays, especially outside of central laboratories, but also in rapid screening tests.
US09535028B2
A biosensor strip having a low profile for reducing the volume of liquid sample needed to perform an assay. In one embodiment, the biosensor strip includes an electrode support; an electrode arrangement on the electrode support; a cover; a sample chamber; and an incompressible element placed between the cover and the electrode support, the incompressible element providing an opening in at least one side or in the distal end of the sample chamber to provide at least one vent in the sample chamber. In another embodiment, the biosensor strip has an electrode support; an electrode arrangement on the electrode support; a cover; and a sample chamber, the cover having a plurality of openings formed therein, at least one of the openings in register with the sample chamber. The invention further includes methods for preparing such a biosensor strips in a continuous manner.
US09535027B2
Provided are sensors for determining the concentration of an analyte in a sample fluid. In certain embodiments, the sensors include conductive particles and exhibit improved uniformity of distribution of one or more sensing chemistry components, increased effective working electrode surface area, and/or reduced entry of interfering components into a sample chamber of the sensor. Methods of using and manufacturing the sensors are also provided.
US09535016B2
A volumetric imaging device for constructing a three dimensional image includes a source, and absorbing detector, and an image constructor. The source includes a photon source, and a scatter detector arranged between the object and the photon source. The photon source emits photons towards the scatter detector. The scatter detector scatters at least some of the photons and detects the scattered photons. The object scatters at least some of the photons that were first scattered by the scatter detector. The absorbing detector is arranged to detect scattered photons from the object. The image constructor constructs the three dimensional image based on the scattered photons.
US09535015B2
A pattern inspection method includes acquiring an image of a pattern in a stripe region concerned, regarding each of stripe regions of the first group each not including an adjacent stripe region in plural stripe regions obtained by virtually dividing an inspection region of a target object on which patterns have been formed into the plural stripe regions each partially overlapping an adjacent stripe region, wherein the acquiring is performed using laser lights or electron beams, in a longitudinal direction of the stripe region of the first group, and acquiring an image of a pattern in a stripe region concerned, regarding each of stripe regions of the second group each not including an adjacent stripe region, in remaining stripe regions other than the first group stripe regions, wherein the acquiring is performed using laser lights or electron beams, in the longitudinal direction of the stripe region of the second group.
US09535001B2
To enable accurate counting the number of cultured cells without pulling apart cell clusters even if cells are aggregated densely to form three-dimensional cell clusters. An image of cultured cells is acquired, and from this image, an image of cell clusters and an image of individual cells are separated. Based on each of the image of cell clusters and the image of individual cells, the number of cells in the cell cluster and the number of individual cells are calculated.
US09534999B2
The present invention provides a single cancer direct detection device comprises an electrode having a nanopore biomimetic membrane inducing a bio-communication signal by cancer cells selectively under antibody-free and label-free condition. Methods of detecting cancer cells and monitoring cancer progresses in a contour map format are also discussed. In particular, the cancer cell heat release map comprises multiple variables correlations, a ratio of “Action potential/Resting potential” (RAPRP) as a special biomarker for the variable along with other variables of current or concentration makes visual display cancer progresses possible compared with normal cells which have negligible heat release.
US09534994B1
Methods, systems, and apparatuses for determining a flexibility value K of a fastener. An illustrative system includes a test apparatus including three straps with a strain gauge coupled to each strap. A fastener, such as a bolt, is installed through the straps, with a tensile or compressive force then applied to the test apparatus. Responsively, the strain gauges generate signals indicative of elastic deformation of the straps. The signals are transmitted to a signal processor, which may display deformation values, or alternatively, may process the signals to calculate the value K. The elastic deformation values acquired from the strain gauges, together with cross sectional area and elastic moduli of the straps, are entered into a calculation which applies a predetermined relationship to arrive at the value K. The test apparatus may be a stand-alone device for use in calculating the value K.
US09534987B2
An apparatus with a reduced dead volume associated with sampling, comprising: a sample container configured to store a fluid, a sample line configured to transport the fluid from a first sampling area to a second area in the sample container, at least one valve in the sample line, the valve configured to selectively range from a closed configuration to an open configuration, and a flow restrictor configuration placed in the sample line, the flow restrictor configured to minimize the dead volume for the sample container.
US09534985B2
A learning unit learns a difference between a detected value ECT and a detected value RCT when it is determined that the detected value ECT and detected value RCT are stable while an engine is at a stop. A diagnostic unit performs a fault diagnosis for the engine based on the difference between the detected value ECT and detected value RCT having been corrected through use of a learned value learned by the learning unit. Accordingly, a fault diagnostic system for an internal combustion engine and a fault diagnostic method for an internal combustion engine can be achieved in which accuracy in fault diagnosis for the internal combustion engine can be improved and an erroneous diagnosis can be restrained.
US09534984B2
Methods and systems are provided for inferring spark plug fouling due to accumulation of fuel additives thereon. In one example, an engine controller may infer spark plug fouling due to accumulation of fuel additive based on a combination of engine operating parameters correlated with spark plug health. For example, the engine operating parameters may include a change in an adaptive knock term, an engine pre-ignition rate, and engine exhaust oxygen sensor switching frequency over a vehicle drive cycle, and an engine misfire rate.
US09534982B2
A method, apparatus and system for minimally intrusive fiber identification includes imparting a time-varying modulation onto an optical signal propagating in an optical fiber and subsequently detecting the presence of the time-varying modulation in the optical signal transmitting through the fiber to identify the fiber. In a specific embodiment of the invention, a time-varying curvature is imposed on the fiber to be identified and the presence of the resultant time variation in the transmitted power of a propagating optical signal is subsequently detected for identification of the manipulated fiber.
US09534980B2
A method for testing the integrity of a bioreactor container includes providing a bioreactor container having a fluid-tight, at least locally flexible wall and having at least one container opening and providing a test apparatus having a bioreactor container compartment and a fluid-permeable and/or structured reception sheet arranged replaceably on the bioreactor container compartment. The method continues by arranging the bioreactor container in the bioreactor container compartment so that the bioreactor container wall contacts the reception sheet in the bioreactor container compartment, connecting the container opening of the bioreactor container to a fluid source filling the bioreactor container with a fluid from the fluid source to generate a predetermined positive pressure P1 in the bioreactor container at a first time T1 and determining whether the bioreactor container is sufficiently leaktight.
US09534969B1
A system and method for tactile sensing using thin film optical sensing networks is disclosed. A sensing network includes an array of optical pathways arranged in a flexible material. Each optical pathway has an input at a first end and an output at a second end. A light source is coupled to the input of each respective associated optical pathway. Each light source directs a light signal having a first predetermined frequency and characteristic into the associated optical pathway. A light detector is coupled to the output of each respective associated optical pathway. Each light detector receives a light signal from the associated optical pathway and generates an output signal corresponding to the magnitude of the received light signal at a second predetermined frequency. A processor receives the output signals from each light detector and determines an amount of pressure applied to the sensing network based on the received signals.
US09534966B2
A method of measuring temperature of a fluid using a direct fluid contact temperature sensor by capturing a cooling line between a radius of a clip portion, the clip portion extending longitudinally in parallel with a corresponding portion of the cooling line, and a tip end of the sensor; directly contacting said tip end of said sensor with said cooling line; and measuring temperature of with the sensor. A device is provided for rapidly installing a fluid temperature sensor onto a fluid line for measuring the temperature of the fluid without requiring cutting or disconnection of the fluid line.
US09534962B2
A temperature measurement device is provided to measure an environment temperature and includes a thermistor, a resistor, a determination circuit, and a measurement circuit. The thermistor is coupled to a first node. The thermistor has a specific impedance value at a specific environment temperature point. The resistor has a first terminal coupled to the first node. The determination circuit determines a real impedance value of the resistor. The measurement circuit is coupled to the first node for receiving a measurement value signal generated at the first node and obtains a value of the specific environment temperature point according to the measurement value signal and the real impedance value of the resistor.
US09534956B2
Systems and methods permit use of efficient solid state emitters for broad spectrum continuous spectrum lighting defined by illumination data. The illumination data, which can be sold as a commercial product, can be recorded or authored and include spectral, temporal, and spatial information. Intensities of individual emitters such as LEDs can be controlled through a combination of pulse width modulation (PWM) and amplitude modulation (AM) of drive currents. The combination of PWM and AM permits fine tuning of the spectrum of emissions and creation of free space optical data channels.
US09534954B2
An optical filter device includes a variable wavelength interference filter having a stationary substrate, a movable substrate, a stationary reflecting film, and a movable reflecting film, and a housing adapted to house the variable wavelength interference filter therein. The housing has a base substrate, a lid bonded to the base substrate, and forming an internal space between the base substrate and the lid, and a lid-side glass substrate adapted to block a light passage hole provided to the lid. Further, the lid-side glass substrate has a substrate edge located outside the outer peripheral edge of the light passage hole, and is bonded to the lid in an area extending from the outer peripheral edge of the light passage hole to the substrate edge.
US09534953B2
A laser output measuring apparatus in which an optical separator is disposed in a position that is rotated by a predetermined angle about an optical axis of a laser beam converged by a lens, and further rotated by a predetermined angle about the optical axis of the laser beam and a straight line perpendicular to an incident surface of the laser beam.
US09534949B2
The present invention relates to a pre-collapsed capacitive micro-machined transducer cell (10) comprising a substrate (12), and a membrane (14) disposed above a total membrane area (Atotal), wherein a cavity (20) is formed between the membrane (14) and the substrate (12), the membrane comprising a hole (15) and an edge portion (14a) surrounding the hole (15). The cell (10) further comprises a stress layer (17) on the membrane (14), the stress layer (17) having a predetermined stress value with respect to the membrane (14), the stress layer (17) being adapted to provide a bending moment on the membrane (14) in a direction towards the substrate (12) such that the edge portion (14a) of the membrane (14) is collapsed to the substrate (12). The present invention further relates to a method of manufacturing such pre-collapsed capacitive micro-machined transducer cell (10).
US09534948B2
The invention provides a method and a device for measuring the weight of a load, which is displaced with a load lifting device over the edge of a raised loading surface and thus pulled onto the same or pushed down from the same, wherein during this operating process, in a support of the load lifting device loaded by the load, the force currently acting due to the displacement of the load is measured during the passage through a predetermined weighing window and the weight of the load is determined mathematically from the course thereof. Preferably, the load sensor is constructed as a tube which is equipped with two deformation sensors equipped essentially at right angles to one another.
US09534932B2
An XMR angle sensor arrangement with a safety mechanism comprises an XMR angle sensor having a sensing area for sensing an in-plane magnetic field and for outputting a sensor signal based on the in-plane magnetic field component sensed in the sensing area; a permanent magnet, which is rotatably arranged with respect to the XMR angle sensor to generate a first in-plane magnetic field component in the sensing area of the XMR angle sensor; an excitation current rail path, which is arranged proximate to the sensing area of the XMR angle sensor; and an excitation current provider configured to provide the excitation current rail path with an excitation signal having a excitation signal strength, wherein the excitation signal strength of the excitation signal is chosen to generate a second in-plane magnetic field component in the sensing area of the XMR angle sensor which results, due to a super position of the first and second in-plane magnetic field components, in an expected change of the direction of the resulting in-plane magnetic field component, wherein the XMR angle sensor arrangement is correctly functioning when the sensed change of direction of the resulting in-plane magnetic field component due to the excitation signal corresponds to the expected change of direction of the resulting in-plane magnetic field component.
US09534921B2
Provided is a navi-system or the like capable of improving accuracy of road traffic information that is created based on probe information. A navi-client 2 creates probe information including an identifier that represents a detection result as to whether a communication with a vehicle-mounted device 3 has been established or not. A server communication device 1 discriminates or selects probe information in accordance with a difference of the identifier, and creates road traffic information based on the thus discriminated or selected probe information.
US09534915B2
A set of images that each include a time and a date of image capture, a location of image capture, and a directional bearing of image capture are evaluated. The direction bearing of image capture specifies a direction of image capture relative to the respective location of image capture of each image. Images are correlated among the set of images that include a comparable date, time, and location of image capture. By analysis of image content within the correlated images, a determination is made that the correlated images include different directional representations of a single event, and that the single event is distinct from static fixed-location points of interest. Using the directional bearing of image capture of each correlated image, a location of an intersection region that results from intersecting directional bearings of image capture of the correlated images is identified as a dynamic attraction.
US09534910B2
An automated driving system and methods are disclosed. The automated driving system includes a perception system disposed on an autonomous vehicle. The automated driving system can detect an intersection including a yield scenario and identify a check point between the autonomous vehicle and the yield scenario. Prior to the autonomous vehicle reaching the check point, the automated driving system can send a command to one or more vehicle systems to control the autonomous vehicle to stop at the yield scenario. After the autonomous vehicle reaches the check point, the automated driving system can detect, using the perception system, information for the intersection. If the information indicates clear passage through the intersection for the autonomous vehicle, the automated driving system can send a command to the one or more vehicle systems to drive the autonomous vehicle through the intersection.
US09534905B1
A method and system for delivering a package is provided. The method includes a receiving by a delivery vehicle delivery, rules and a temporary passcode for delivering a package to a secure indoor location of a customer premises. The delivery vehicle, including the package, is directed to the secured indoor location and upon arrival the temporary passcode is transmitted to a control system for the secure indoor location. In response, access to the secure indoor location is enabled and the delivery vehicle is directed into the secure indoor location for delivery of the package within the secure indoor location such that the package is placed within the secure indoor location. After delivery, the delivery vehicle is directed out of the secure indoor location. The passcode is again transmitted to the control system and in response access to the secure indoor location is disabled.
US09534901B2
Methods and apparatuses for generating a route plan for accessing harvestable resources is provided. A processor receives a node layout for a location with harvestable resources, wherein the location includes at least two parcels. A processor determines a first route network for the location at a first time step. A processor determines a second route network for the location at a second time step. A processor generates a first route plan is based, at least in part, on the first route network and the second route network.
US09534894B2
In order to provide a resonator element having high production efficiency and low impedance in a small size, the resonator element includes a base portion, and a driving arm which extends from the base portion and includes a through hole, in which the driving arm vibrates along an in-plane direction, and includes a plurality of broad portions of which a width in the in-plane direction is broad and a plurality of narrow portions of which a width in the in-plane direction is narrow which alternate with each other, and the through hole is disposed in the broad portion.
US09534891B2
A method of angle estimation for use in a vehicle which is travelling on a surface. The vehicle includes a vehicle body having a first axis and being attached to at least two wheels. The method includes the steps of: providing a first height sensor for measuring h1, the height of the vehicle body with respect to the first wheel; providing a second height sensor for measuring h2, the height of the vehicle body with respect to the second wheel; providing a surface angle sensor for measuring θroad, the angle of the surface in relation to a horizontal plane; measuring the values of h1, h2 and θroad; using the values of h1 and h2 to calculate θrel, the angle of the vehicle body relative to the surface; and calculating an estimate of θglob, the angle between the first axis and the horizontal plane, from θroad and θrel.
US09534890B2
A measuring machine comprising at least one member mobile along an axis, a motor, a transmission system driven by the motor for displacing the mobile member along the axis, and a control system for controlling the motor, wherein a flexible coupling is set between said transmission system, and the mobile member is configured so as to filter the vibrations transmitted by the transmission system to the mobile member in the direction of the axis and to decouple the mobile member from the transmission system in a direction transverse to the axis.
US09534887B2
An arrangement and method for measuring a piece of timber in a wood handling machine, wherein the piece is grabbed by a cutting head arranged to a set of booms in the wood handling machine, and the dimensions of the piece are measured by at least one measuring device in the wood handling machine. A measuring signal field formed by one or more measuring beams is also directed to the piece of timber with a monitoring device utilizing contact-free measurement, and a point cloud to be stored is provided by the measuring signal field it produces. The parts to be identified are identified from this point cloud, and a quantity to be measured is defined and formed of the information content of the point cloud. The obtained result is directed to a measuring system in the wood handling machine for further utilization.
US09534881B2
A ring gauge with a maintenance line, which can reliably and quickly let a user know at an early stage the time for replacement during maintenance of a ring gauge, is provided with a ring gauge body which has, on an inner portion, a hole-shaped measuring portion having a circular shape in a planar view and serving as a reference for various types of measuring devices, a predetermined thickness, an upper surface portion, a lower surface portion, and a wear checking gauge line which can have a linear shape formed on an inner diameter portion of the hole-shaped measuring portion.
US09534879B1
A gas powered fluid gun for propelling a stream or slug of a fluid at high velocity toward a target. Recoil mitigation is provided by a cavitating venturi that reduces or eliminates the associated recoil forces, with minimal or no backwash. By launching a quantity of water in the opposite direction, net momentum forces are reduced or eliminated.
US09534875B2
An initiator including a housing adapted to be received in an igniter or rocket motor, at least one charge at a distal end of the housing, an electro-explosive device behind the charge for detonating the charge when subject to a voltage HV, and a pressure bulkhead behind the electro-explosive device. An electronic subsystem in the housing is connected to the electro-explosive device through the bulkhead and includes a lead for providing the voltage HV to the electro-explosive device to initiate it, and a switch in the lead which does not conduct if errant voltages are present on the lead to prevent initiation of the electro-explosive device until the correct voltage HV is present.
US09534867B2
An apparatus for storing a firearm, particularly a long gun, in a secure manner but in which the firearm is readily available to an authorized person. The apparatus may be mounted on a vertical wall. A door assembly is pivotally connected to a main housing and can be locked in a closed position to secure the interior of the housing against unauthorized entry. Adjustable access inhibitor components allow the apparatus to be customized for use with a user-selected model of firearm without compromising security. Movable components within the housing interior hold the selected firearm in a desired position.
US09534864B2
The method of controlling recoil in a disrupter comprises: providing liquid in a liquid chamber of the disrupter, the liquid chamber having a front nozzle for expelling the liquid therethrough; providing combustible propellant in a propellant chamber of the disrupter that communicates with the liquid chamber and that has a rear nozzle for expelling combustion gases therethrough; providing a bather between the liquid and the propellant to avoid admixing both; and igniting the propellant to generate expanding combustion gases that will expel the liquid out of the disrupter through the front nozzle in a first direction, either rupturing or propelling the barrier in the process, the combustion gases exhausting out of the disrupter at least partly through the rear nozzle in a second direction, with the first and second directions being at least partly opposite one another to control the recoil of the disrupter.
US09534858B2
A weapon system includes a cartridge and a fire control apparatus have been developed for generating a projectile with a selectable launch velocity. The cartridge includes multiple primers and propellant chambers which may be individually selected by the fire controller so as to fire the projectile at a selected launch velocity. Additionally after firing the selected primers and propellant charges, the fire controller sends a second firing signal to all remaining primers after a suitable delay. The second firing signal ensures that all remaining propellant is initiated and consumed, thus rendering the cartridge safe to eject. The delay between the first firing signal and the second firing signal is sufficient to allow the projectile to be expelled from the cartridge so that the launch velocity is not affected by the combustion of the remaining propellant.
US09534856B2
There is provided a heat exchanger realizing downsizing, weight saving, and cost reduction in comparison with a conventional heat exchange element or heat exchanger. The heat exchanger is provided with a first fluid flow portion formed of a honeycomb structure having a plurality of cells partitioned by ceramic partition walls and extending from one end face to another end face in an axial direction to allow a heating medium as a first fluid to flow therein, and a second fluid flow portion formed of a casing containing the honeycomb structure therein, the casing having an inlet and an outlet for a second fluid, and the second fluid flowing on an outer peripheral face of the honeycomb structure to receive heat from the first fluid.
US09534855B2
Composite foams are provided including a metal template and a conformal atomic-scale film disposed over such metal template to form a 3-dimensional interconnected structure. The metal template includes a plurality of sintered interconnects, having a plurality of first non-spherical pores, a first non-spherical porosity, and a first surface-area-to-volume ratio. The conformal atomic-scale film has a plurality of second non-spherical pores, a second non-spherical porosity, and a second surface-area-to-volume ratio approximately equal to the first surface-area-to-volume ratio. The plurality of sintered interconnects has a plurality of dendritic particles and the conformal atomic-scale film includes at least one of a layer of graphene and a layer of hexagonal boron nitride.
US09534838B2
An ink curing apparatus (1) comprising a UV lamp (9); at least two reflectors (5, 7); and at least one continuously moveable shutter (11a, 11b), wherein the movement of the or each shutter (11a, 11b), between an open position exposing a substrate to UV radiation from the UV lamp (9) and a closed position wherein the shutter (11a, 11b) shields the substrate from the UV radiation from the UV lamp, is controlled by a crank mechanism (20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26).
US09534837B2
A process for recovery of natural gas liquids is disclosed, the process including: fractionating a gas stream comprising nitrogen, methane, ethane, and propane and other C3+ hydrocarbons into at least two fractions including a light fraction comprising nitrogen, methane, ethane, and propane, and a heavy fraction comprising propane and other C3+ hydrocarbons; separating the light fraction into at least two fractions including a nitrogen-enriched fraction and a nitrogen-depleted fraction in a first separator; separating the nitrogen-depleted fraction into a propane-enriched fraction and a propane-depleted fraction in a second separator; feeding at least a portion of the propane-enriched fraction to the fractionating as a reflux; recycling at least a portion of the propane-depleted fraction to the first separator. In some embodiments, the nitrogen-enriched fraction may be separated in a nitrogen removal unit to produce a nitrogen-depleted natural gas stream and a nitrogen-enriched natural gas stream.
US09534834B1
An elevating shelf system having a shelf assembly with a three-sided frame, a top panel and a bottom panel that fits inside an open-top enclosure. Also included is a lifting assembly. The shelf assembly can be raised or lowered within the enclosure while the lifting assembly imparts an upward vertical force on the shelf assembly to make lifting easier. Attached in the frame are channel shaped brackets which hold extendable shelves. The lifting assembly includes friction adjustable struts which are protected by side walls of the enclosure. The top panel includes a lifting handle as well as a transparent inventory holder for retaining an inventory of items in the elevating shelf system. The elevating shelf system also includes a locking mechanism to look the shelf assembly at a desired height.
US09534833B2
Provided is a basket for a refrigerator. The basket for a refrigerator, which defines a receiving space for a food includes a partition member disposed in the basket to partition an inner space of the basket, a pair of guide slots respectively defined in both side surfaces of the basket and opened along a moving direction of the partition member, the pair of guide slots guiding movement of the partition member, and a guide member disposed outside the basket, the guide member being coupled to the partition member through the guide slots. The partition member partitioning the inside of the basket may smoothly move to improve manipulation feeling and convenience in use.
US09534829B2
A refrigeration appliance includes a body; a door hinged to the body and closing an interior of the refrigeration appliance; a seal disposed between the door and the body; and a control unit for actuating an opening mechanism acting on the door whose control signal, which triggers the opening of the door, is configured to be generated by at least one sensor which cooperates with a plunger and operates based on a piezoelectric effect, wherein the refrigeration appliance has a sensor unit in which the plunger is axially movably supported and indirectly coupled to the sensor by a biased spring element.
US09534827B2
Provided is an air heat exchanger capable of preventing an increase in ventilation resistance and a decrease in heat exchange efficiency due to condensation water generated on surfaces of heat transfer fins, without increasing thermal resistance of flat tubes and the heat transfer fins, and preventing scattering of water droplets downwind from the heat transfer fins. In the air heat exchanger including a plurality of flat tubes 2 and heat transfer fins 5 provided between the flat tubes 2 and on which air is blown, the flat tubes 2 include water draining grooves 4 on side surfaces on which the heat transfer fins 5 are provided and the heat transfer fins 5 include water guiding grooves 6 communicating with the water draining grooves 4. At least a groove wall 40 on the upwind side of an air blowing direction 10 among groove walls forming the water guiding grooves 6 is provided from a position of the upwind side from the water draining grooves 4 to the water draining grooves 4. The water guiding grooves 6 extend toward the water draining grooves 4 along the groove wall 40 on the upwind side and an area of a cross section perpendicular to an extension direction decreases toward the water draining grooves 4.
US09534815B2
In a magnetic heat pump system, in which heat transport medium is heated or cooled by magnetocaloric effect material accommodated in a magnetic heat pump device. A material having a coefficient of thermal conductivity, which is higher than that of the heat transport medium, or a material having a specific heat or a volume specific heat, which is higher than that of the heat transport medium, is mixed in the heat transport medium. A coefficient of thermal conductivity of the heat transport medium is thereby increased so as to increase heating and/or cooling performance of the magnetic heat pump system.
US09534802B2
Ventilation device is mounted on inner wall in wind tunnel communicating between indoor and outdoor sides, having a ventilation louver. The ventilation louver includes a louver frame and a movable louver. Horizontal distance from position of gravity center of the movable louver to the inner wall is greater than horizontal distance from the movable louver shaft to the inner wall. A lever is disposed at a lower part of the louver frame to move in a left-right direction along bottom end face of the lower part of the louver frame. A connection element is provided to connect the movable louver with the lever between the movable louver and the louver frame, which is configured to be a slidable structure in the up-down direction, and transform the movement in the left-right direction of the lever to opening and closing movement of the movable louver around the movable louver shaft.
US09534799B2
A device for air conditioning a casing housing a first conduit taking a first air flow rate from outside, a second conduit taking a second air flow rate from the premise to be conditioned and in fluidic communication with the first conduit for mixing the respective flow rates, an adsorption unit operatively connected with the first conduit upstream of the second conduit for dehumidifying the first air flow rate, the first and second conduits having a common delivery section delivering a third air flow rate to the premise to be conditioned, a heating system delivering a fourth air flow rate to the adsorption unit at a higher temperature than outside for the regeneration thereof. The adsorption unit includes first and second portions adapted to be selectively and alternately crossed by the first and the fourth air flow rates. An air conditioning method using the above device is also disclosed.
US09534796B2
An indoor unit of an air-conditioning apparatus includes a plurality of blower fans provided adjacent to each other in a left-right direction, a heat exchanger, and a plurality of vertical vanes that are provided in an air outlet and that deflect an airflow to be blown out from the air outlet in a left/right direction. Further, when the airflow to be blown out from the air outlet is deflected in at least one direction in the left/right direction, the air volume of the blower fan disposed on the leftmost side or the rightmost side of the vertical vanes corresponding to the deflection direction is reduced relative to the air volume of the other blower fan.
US09534794B2
A circular air flow pattern is created in a small oven cavity having a convection system including a convection cover which is mounted to and defines a duct in combination with a rear wall of the oven cavity. The convection cover includes an intake at one end portion arranged adjacent a first side wall of the oven cavity and a plurality of exhaust openings formed in another end portion arranged adjacent a second side wall of the oven cavity, with the convection cover progressively tapering through multiple sections. The rear wall can include an elongated recess over which the convection cover extends in forming the duct.
US09534784B2
A combustor heat shield assembly comprises a circumferential array of heat shield panels individually mounted to an inner surface of a combustor shell. Each heat shield panel has opposed front and back faces, the back face facing the inner surface of the combustor shell and being spaced therefrom to define an air gap. The front and back faces have a perimeter including opposed lateral edges extending between opposed circumferentially extending edges. The lateral edges of adjacent heat shield panels have complementary non-linear profiles defining an asymmetric heat shield panel interface.
US09534783B2
A combustor of a gas turbine engine includes a heat shield panel mounted to a support shell and an insert at least partially between opposed surfaces of the support shell and the heat shield panel, the insert exposed to a combustion chamber, and the insert being flush with a hot side of the heat shield.
US09534780B2
Described herein are embodiments of systems and methods for oxidizing gases. In some embodiments, a reaction chamber is configured to receive a fuel gas and maintain the gas at a temperature within the reaction chamber that is above an autoignition temperature of the gas. The reaction chamber may also be configured to maintain a reaction temperature within the reaction chamber below a flameout temperature. In some embodiments, heat and product gases from the oxidation process can be used, for example, to drive a turbine, reciprocating engine, and injected back into the reaction chamber.
US09534772B2
An exemplary printable composition of a liquid or gel suspension of diodes comprises a plurality of diodes, a first solvent and/or a viscosity modifier. An exemplary apparatus comprises: a plurality of diodes; at least a trace amount of a first solvent; and a polymeric or resin film at least partially surrounding each diode of the plurality of diodes. Various exemplary diodes have a lateral dimension between about 10 to 50 microns and about 5 to 25 microns in height. Other embodiments may also include a plurality of substantially chemically inert particles having a range of sizes between about 10 to about 50 microns.
US09534770B2
A simple anti-shock lamp socket has a support plate, a damping sheet, and a first locking component. The support plate has a positioning hole and two extending sheets. The extending sheets are respectively formed on and protrude from two ends of the support plate. The damping sheet is mounted under the support plate and has a connection hole. The first locking component is mounted through the positioning hole and the connection hole. The retaining stand has a bearing plate, a flexible plate, and a second locking component. The bearing plate has a locking portion and a fastening portion. The locking portion is mounted between the extending sheets. The fastening portion is formed on the bearing plate. The flexible plate is mounted on the bearing plate and is mounted around the fastening portion. The second locking component is mounted through the extending sheets and the locking portion.
US09534768B2
A light convergence module with a heat dissipation function is revealed. It comprises a substrate, an assembling unit, a light convergence lampshade, and a heat sink, wherein the assembling unit with a first surface assembling to the substrate and a second surface assembling to the light convergence lampshade comprises a locating block and a plurality of position limiting blocks for respectively engaging with a locating slot and a plurality of position limiting slots of the substrate, and two buckles for correspondingly clasping two concave slots of the substrate to limit the substrate in position, and wherein the heat sink comprises a plurality of interspaces formed between every two adjacent heat dissipation fins for securing the buckles of the assembling unit and allowing the heat sink to closely dispose on the substrate.
US09534764B2
An illuminated windshield system includes a trim member with a channel for receiving a windshield, and a windshield mounted in the channel and having an edge. A light source is interposed between the channel of the trim member and the edge of the windshield. The light source is disposed facing the edge of the windshield.
US09534763B2
The disclosure provides a light-enhancing component and a photographic device having the same. The light-enhancing component includes a light reflective unit and a light source. The light reflective unit includes a first reflecting surface and a second reflecting surface. The light source is disposed between the first reflecting surface and the second reflecting surface. An inclination of the first reflecting surface is different from an inclination of the second reflecting surface.
US09534749B2
A slap wrist device includes a bottom strip having top and bottom surfaces with at least the top surface of thermoplastic material, a middle strip having top and bottom surfaces and of or coated with a thermoplastic material, and a top strip having top and bottom surfaces, at least the bottom surface being of thermoplastic material. A bistable spring is disposed between the bottom and middle strips, and a light emitting and elongated flexible light transmitting element is disposed between the top and middle strips. The bottom and middle strips are sealed together by high frequency (HF) welding along substantially their entire peripheries, and the top and middle strips are sealed together by HF welding along at least the majority of their peripheries. A battery casing, with or without an external safety light, or a fabric bag, may be mounted to an end of the device.
US09534738B2
Disclosed is a device, system and methods for tracking conductive composite pressurized gaseous storage tanks. The system including anchoring an RFID device in a non-conductive blind boss. Wherein the anchor material has a low dielectric and has minimal reflection if RF energy.
US09534734B2
An apparatus for the controlled pressurization of gas cylinder actuators connected to a single gas filling line, comprising elements for controlling and recovering a pressurized gas flow originating from pressurized gas supply elements and directed to a gas filling line, at least one sensor for detecting the pressure of the gas that is present in the gas filling line which is adapted to carry pressurized gas to at least one gas cylinder actuator connected thereto, electrically controlled valve elements adapted to allow/interrupt the flow of pressurized gas in the gas filling line, an electronic control and management unit connected to the at least one pressure sensor and to the electrically controlled valve elements to automate the opening/closing of the valve elements in dependence on the signals that arrive from the at least one pressure sensor.
US09534732B2
The invention relates to a sensor mounting bracket comprising a base portion and at least one side wall upstanding from the edge of the at least one base portion; at least one sensor attachment fixture located on the base portion and configured to facilitate attachment of the bracket to a sensor mounting fixture, and at least one mounting element extending outwardly from the side wall configured to facilitate attachment of the bracket to a load bearing plate or a sensor support structure. The invention further relates to a symmetrical mounting bracket comprising a pair of sensor mounting brackets combined one above the other in parallel orientation.
US09534723B2
A brazing method connects an assembly made up of a pipe, a component provided with an opening, and a compensation element. The compensation element includes a support section and an insertion section that is arranged between an end of the pipe and the opening of the component. An inside diameter of the compensation element is smaller than a diameter of the opening in the component. The insertion section is inserted into the end of the pipe, and the support section is located between the pipe and the component and rests on the component at the edge of the opening. The compensation element, the pipe, and the component are heated, preferably inductively, in a region of the compensation element to a temperature above the melting temperature of brazing material that is present in the region of the brazing points.
US09534701B2
A device for opening or closing a fluid flow path comprises: a fluid inlet, wherein the fluid inlet comprises one end of the fluid flow path; an inlet covering, wherein the inlet covering is adjacent to the fluid inlet; and a material, wherein the material is capable of expanding or contracting via a change in temperature; wherein the expansion or contraction of the material causes movement to the inlet covering, and wherein the movement of the inlet covering either opens or closes the fluid flow path. A method for opening or closing a fluid flow path using the device comprises: allowing or causing a change in temperature to the material.
US09534700B2
The valve actuator (1) includes a housing (2), a motor (4) coupled to the valve, wherein rotation of the motor (4) changes the position of the valve from a first position in which fluid flow may occur along at least one path and a second position in which fluid flow is either blocked or may occur along at least one second path, said motor (4) being normally supplied with electrical power from a main source of electrical power, at least one sensor (24,132) configured to detect the position of the valve and/or the valve speed, a switch (16) controlling the delivery of electrical power to the motor (4), and a power circuitry (19) connected to the switch (16). The valve actuator further includes a controller (20) connected to the at least one sensor (24,132) and to the power circuitry (19), said controller (20) collecting in real time data relative to the position and/or the speed of the valve and data relative to the power setting, calculating the position and/or speed correction in pro rata to errors between the collected data relative to the position and/or the speed of the valve and collected data relative to the power setting, and sending a new power setting to the power circuitry (19), wherein the power circuitry (19) amplifies the controller signal.
US09534696B2
The disclosed embodiments include ball valves having integrated seats. The integrated seats are included in a ball body assembly of a valve body. The ball body assembly may rotate with respect to the valve body to open or close the valve. The integrated seats may contact walls of a bore to sealingly close the valve.
US09534691B2
A header ring for use in a stuffing box comprising an annular body portion of an elastomeric material, an annular radially inward projecting sealing lip portion formed on said body portion and an annular, axially facing pedestal portion formed on said body portion, said pedestal portion defining an annularly extending radially inwardly facing pedestal surface, the sealing lip portion defining an annularly extending, radially inward facing sealing surface, the sealing surface and the pedestal surface forming a juncture, at least a portion of the pedestal portion adjacent the juncture and forming the pedestal surface and at least a portion of the sealing lip portion adjacent the juncture and forming a portion of the sealing surface being comprised of a layer of reinforced elastomeric material bonded to the body portion.
US09534687B2
A vehicle control device has a controller configured to control a hydraulic pressure required for shifting of a sub-transmission based on an input torque to the sub-transmission during the coordinated shift, and to execute limitation processing in which, when an instruction to execute specific control causing fluctuation in the input torque to the sub-transmission during the coordinated shift is issued, execution of the specific control is prohibited or the specific control is executed by limiting a control amount.
US09534673B2
A continuously variable transmission device including a guiding cover rotating about a first axis, a guided cover rotating about a second axis, a planet gear including a first belt in contact with an inner surface of the guiding cover and a second belt in contact with an inner surface of the guided cover, contact areas between the belts and the inner surfaces of the covers being defined in a single first radial plane relative to the first axis, wherein the planet gear rotates about a third axis contained in the first radial plane, the angular orientation relative to the first axis defining the transmission ratio of the device, and wherein the planet gear pivots about a fourth axis perpendicular to the first radial plane and nonintersecting with the first axis, and pivots about a fifth axis parallel to the first radial plane and perpendicular to the third axis.
US09534667B1
A transmission for a vehicle includes: a first planetary gear set, a second planetary gear set, a third planetary gear set, and a fourth planetary gear set each including three rotary elements; and a plurality of friction members for controlling rotation of the rotary elements. The transmission improves fuel efficiency by implementing multiple steps of shifting and improves vehicle driving comfort by using operating points in a low RPM range of an engine.
US09534666B2
A planetary gear train of an automatic transmission for a vehicle may include an input shaft into which power of an engine is input, an output shaft that outputs shifted power, a first planetary gear set, a second planetary gear set, a third planetary gear set, a fourth planetary gear set, a first rotational shaft selectively connected to a transmission housing, a second rotational shaft directly connected to the input shaft, a third rotational shaft selectively connected to the transmission housing, a fourth rotational shaft selectively connected to the first rotational shaft and the second rotational shaft, a fifth rotational shaft, a sixth rotational shaft selectively connected to the first rotational shaft, a seventh rotational shaft directly connected to the output shaft, and selectively connected to the fifth rotational shaft, an eighth rotational shaft, and six friction elements.
US09534663B2
A transmission device is comprised of a clutch disconnectably and drivingly coupling a first rotary member with a second rotary member; a motor including a rotor rotatable about an axis; an input member coupled with the rotor and rotatable about the axis, the input member including an eccentric shaft eccentric relative to the axis; a fixed member immovable about the axis; an intermediate member fitting with the eccentric shaft to make an eccentric motion and meshing with the fixed member to make a rotary motion about the eccentric shaft; an output member rotatable about the axis and fitting with and following the intermediate member; and a cam mechanism intervening between the output member and the clutch to convert a rotary motion of the output member into a motion in a direction along the axis to press the clutch.
US09534655B2
A vibration damping device includes: a cylindrical first attachment member and a second attachment member; and an annular first elastic body and an annular second elastic body, wherein, a liquid chamber is formed between the elastic bodies, elastic division walls that divide the liquid chamber into a plurality of pressure receiving liquid chambers are arranged, wherein the elastic division wall is joined to the first elastic body, and is also in abutment with the second elastic body, wherein the second attachment member is divided in the axial direction into: a first divided body to which an inner peripheral edge portion of the first elastic body is joined; and a second divided body to which an inner peripheral edge portion of the second elastic body is joined, and wherein the inner peripheral edge portions of the elastic bodies are located side by side in the axial O direction.
US09534645B2
A touch point correction method includes determining respective temperatures of a first pressure plate, a second pressure plate, and a center plate and measuring an average temperature of the determined temperatures, determining rotational inertia based on the measured average temperature, determining a touch point correction amount based on the rotational inertia and engine speed of a vehicle, and correcting a touch point of a relevant clutch using the determined touch point correction amount.
US09534644B2
In some embodiments, an actuation system includes a plurality of threaded member portions, a plurality of roller nuts, a driving member configured to receive mechanical energy from a power source, a plurality of driven members, and a magnetorheological (MR) fluid disposed between the plurality of driven members and at least one braking surface. An output member may be coupled between the rotor system and either the plurality of threaded member portions or the plurality of roller nuts and configured to translate linearly in response to the threaded member portions advancing or receding within the roller nuts.
