US09571135B2
Compensation for one or more effects of impedance mismatch between a power amplifier (PA) and at least one filter is discussed. One example system that compensates for impedance mismatch with at least one filter comprises a PA, a measurement component, and a feedback component. The PA is configured to receive PA stimuli comprising a supply voltage and a radio frequency (RF) signal to be amplified, wherein a PA output is configured to be coupled to the at least one filter. The measurement component is coupled to the PA and configured to measure an output signal from the PA, wherein the output signal comprises a forward signal associated with the PA and a reflected signal associated with the at least one filter. The feedback component is configured to receive the output signal and to adjust one or more of the PA stimuli based at least in part on the output signal.
US09571129B2
A method of decoding a signal that has been encoded by a tail-biting code based on at least one encoding parameter is disclosed. The at least one encoding parameter may be a trellis size or a quantity of aggregated encoding elements or a code rate. The method is suitable for use in a communication device and comprises receiving the signal, performing a first decoding attempt of the signal based on a first set of starting state metrics and a first encoding parameter hypothesis, the first decoding attempt resulting in a first set of ending state metrics. The method further comprises performing, if the first decoding attempt fails, a second decoding attempt of the signal based on a second set of starting state metrics based on the first set of ending state metrics and a second encoding parameter hypothesis different from the first encoding parameter hypothesis.
US09571127B2
The present invention provides a method of transmitting broadcast signals, the method including, encoding service data, building at least one signal frame by mapping the encoded service data, modulating data in the built at least one signal frame by an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing, OFDM, scheme and transmitting the broadcast signals having the modulated data.
US09571126B2
A method, system, and computer program product for performing robust, parallel data transfer by a processor device. Data is segmented into k-bit segments, where k≧1. The k-bit segments are convolution encoded, using m≧1 stages of delay. The n output streams are transmitted in parallel for increased effective data rate, where n>k. The n output streams are received. An XOR (Exclusive OR) logic is applied to the n output streams with pathing allowed by the convolution encoding, in a trellis-decoding diagram.
US09571125B2
System and method embodiments are provided for managing storage systems. In an embodiment, a network component for managing data storage includes a storage interface configured to couple to a plurality of storage devices; and a vector-direct memory access (DMA) cache-exclusive OR (XOR) engine coupled to the storage interface and configured for a multiple parities convolution codes (MPCC) erasure coding to accelerate M parities parallel calculations and the erasures cross-iterations decoding, wherein a single XOR-engine with caches and a vector-DMA address generator is shared by the MPCC erasure coding engine for pipelining external dual data rate (DDR4) memory accesses, where M is a positive integer greater than two.
US09571115B1
An analog-to-digital converter includes a plurality of slave sampler multiplexers responsive to outputs of a master sampler that receives analog signals and whose output ports connect to integrating threshold comparators having capacitive digital-to-analog conversion offset adjustments for forming an analog-to-thermometer code conversion. A calibration state machine receives outputs of each of the integrating threshold comparators to control the capacitive digital-to-analog conversion offset adjustment of every integrating threshold comparator and to control a calibration digital-to analog converter. A thermometer code to binary code logic decoder receives outputs of each of the integrating threshold comparators and outputs digital samples.
US09571114B1
An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) circuit comprises a digital-to-analog (DAC) circuit including at least N+n weighted circuit components, wherein N and n are positive integers greater than zero, and n is a number of repeat bits of the least significant bit (LSB) of the ADC circuit; a sampling circuit configured to sample an input voltage at an input to the ADC circuit and apply a sampled voltage to the weighted circuit components; a comparator circuit configured to compare an output voltage of the DAC to a specified threshold voltage during a bit trial; and logic circuitry configured to perform bit trials for the at least N+n weighted circuit components and adjust one or more parameters for one or more of N bit trials according to values of the n LSB repeat bits.
US09571107B2
Described herein are technologies related to an implementation of a divider-less digital phase-locked loop (DPLL) that includes a loop response matching a higher order sigma delta.
US09571104B1
Methods and apparatus permit body biasing to be controlled for transistors of a logic device. By controlling the body biasing, transistor threshold voltages can be controlled—increased during standby modes of the logic device to reduce leakage current and decreased during active modes and to increase switching speed during the active modes. The change in the body biasing can be made relatively slowly to reduce wasted energy that would otherwise be dissipated as heat. In a method embodiment, the method includes obtaining first and second body bias slope parameters, each slope parameter defining, at least in part, a slope of a body bias voltage signal. The method includes charging a body of a transistor with a bias voltage signal per the first body bias slope parameter to lower a threshold voltage, and discharging the body per the second body bias slope parameter to decrease leakage current of the transistor.
US09571101B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes: a first circuit including a first transistor, a second transistor, the first and second transistors being capable of receiving first and second signals, respectively; a second circuit including a third transistor and a fourth transistor, a gate and one end of the third transistor being connected to one end of the first transistor, the fourth transistor being capable of receiving the first signal, one end of the fourth transistor being connected to the other end of the third transistor; and a third circuit configured to charge or discharge a node being connected to the one end of the first transistor according to the first signal.
US09571099B2
A method for driving a semiconductor device capable of reducing an area of a multiplexer and reducing its power consumption is provided. In a method for operating a semiconductor device including a memory and a multiplexer, a first transistor is connected to a first capacitor, and a second transistor is connected to a second capacitor. In the multiplexer, in a third transistor, a source is connected to a first input terminal and a drain is connected to an output terminal and, in a fourth transistor, a source is connected to a second input terminal and a drain is connected to the output terminal. Further, a step of holding a first potential in a node to which the first transistor, the first capacitor, and a gate of the third transistor are connected and holding a second potential higher than the first potential in the node is included.
US09571093B2
GaN-based half bridge power conversion circuits employ control, support and logic functions that are monolithically integrated on the same devices as the power transistors. In some embodiments, a low side GaN device communicates through one or more level shift circuits with a high side GaN device. Both the high side and the low side devices may have one or more integrated control, support and logic functions.
US09571092B2
Devices and circuits for high voltage switch (HVS) configurations. HVS may pass high voltage without suffering voltage drops. HVS may also guarantee safe operations for p-mos transistors. HVS may not sink current in its steady state. Further, HVS may select between two or more different voltage values to be passed onto the output node even after the high voltage has already been fully developed on the high voltage supply line.
US09571091B2
An emitter switched bipolar transistor circuit includes a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) having a collector coupled to an output terminal, a metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) coupled to an emitter of the BJT, a bias voltage supply coupled to the base of the BJT, a buffer coupled to the base of the BJT, and a comparator. The comparator includes a first input coupled to the collector of the BJT, a second input coupled to a voltage reference, and an output coupled to an input of the buffer. The comparator is configured to receive a collector voltage of the BJT at the first input of the comparator, compare the received collector voltage with the voltage reference, and cause the buffer to inject a current pulse to the base of the BJT until the collector voltage is less than the voltage reference, indicating the BJT is substantially saturated.
US09571089B2
A built-in gate driver includes a shift register provided in a non-display area of a panel, and configured to include first to gth stages outputting a scan signal, a clock supply line part configured to include m number of clock supply lines connected to the shift register, and a power supply line part configured to include n number of power supply lines connected to the shift register. At least one of the lines of the clock supply lines and the power supply lines are in a first side direction of the shift register, and the other at least one or more lines of the clock supply lines and the power supply lines are in a second side direction of the shift register.
US09571086B1
A bi-directional switch that includes a first terminal, a second terminal, and a plurality of ballast circuits is provided. Each ballast circuit includes a first metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) comprising a first input connector, a first output connector, a first body, and a first body diode, and a second MOSFET comprising a second input connector, a second output connector, a second body, and a second body diode. Each first input connector is coupled to the first terminal, each second input connector is coupled to the second terminal, and each first output connector is coupled only to the second output connector of the second MOSFET that is in a same ballast circuit.
US09571082B2
A circuit includes a time delta detector configured to receive an input clock signal and a reference clock signal and generate a delta pulse signal and a reference pulse signal. A comparison circuit is configured to receive the delta pulse signal and the reference pulse signal. The comparison circuit generates an output indicative of a bit of a time difference between the input clock signal and the reference clock signal. A control circuit is configured to receive the output from the comparison circuit. The control circuit maintains a count of the time difference between the input clock signal and the reference clock signal.
US09571071B2
The invention relates to frequency synthesizer circuits, and in particular to frequency synthesizer circuits characterized by a small channel spacing. Embodiments disclosed include a frequency synthesizer circuit for a radio receiver, the circuit comprising: a digitally controlled oscillator configured to generate an output signal with an output frequency on application of an oscillator enable signal; a delay module; configured to delay an input reference signal to generate a delayed reference signal; and a duty cycle module configured to modulate the oscillator enable signal based on a period of an input reference signal and the delay of the delayed reference signal, such that a ratio between the output frequency and the frequency of the input reference signal is a non-integer.
US09571067B2
A semiconductor device includes a signal input circuit suitable for synchronizing an input signal with a clock signal and receiving the clock signal as a power source when the input signal has a first phase, where the signal input circuit amplifies a swing width of the input signal based on a swing width of the clock.
US09571059B2
A parallel via design is disclosed to improve the impedance match for embedded common mode choke filter designs. Particularly suited to such designs on four-layer printed circuit boards, the parallel via design effectively suppresses the reflection of the differential pair. By connecting the vias in parallel, the inductance of the entire via structure is reduced while its capacitance is simultaneously increased. By properly choosing the number of parallel vias and the spacing between them, the impedance of the parallel vias can be well controlled within the frequency range of interest. Consequently, the impedance match can be improved and the return loss of a four-layer printed circuit board common mode choke filter design is reduced.
US09571053B1
A method of adjusting signal processing in a receiver based on signal strength includes determining a received signal strength indicator (RSSI) level, defining an RSSI value to be high when the RSSI level is above a first threshold or defining the RSSI value to be low when the RSSI level is below the first threshold, determining an automatic gain control (AGC) gain level, defining an AGC value to be high when the AGC gain level is above a second threshold or defining the AGC value to be low when the AGC gain level is below the second threshold, and adjusting power consumption of one or more receiver stages based on the RSSI value and the AGC value.
US09571052B1
A circuit may increase input transconductance. An input stage may include a field effect transistor (FET) that has a gate, source, drain, and body terminal. An amplifier may generate an amplified version of the input voltage received that is applied to the body terminal of the FET. Application of the amplified version to the body terminal of the FET may increase the transconductance of the FET compared to what it would be in the same circuit without the amplified version being applied to the body terminal of the FET.
US09571049B2
Apparatus and methods for power amplifiers are disclosed. In one embodiment, a power amplifier circuit assembly includes a power amplifier and an impedance matching network. The impedance matching network is operatively associated with the power amplifier and is configured to provide a load line impedance to the power amplifier between about 6Ω and about 10Ω. The impedance matching network includes a fundamental matching circuit and one or more termination circuits, and the fundamental matching circuit and each of the of the one or more termination circuits include separate input terminals for coupling to an output of the power amplifier so as to allow the fundamental matching circuit and each of the one or more termination circuits to be separately tuned.
US09571047B2
A dual mode regulator provides power to a tower mounted low noise amplifier (LNA) and operates in either one of two modes. The dual mode regulator comprises a microcontroller that controls the amplifier and two regulators to operate in an Antenna Interface Standards Group (AISG) mode when the microcontroller is detecting AISG protocol information or in a current window alarm (CWA) mode when the microcontroller is not receiving AISG protocol information. In the CWA mode the total current to the two regulators and associated circuitry is maintained at a constant amplitude. Further in the CWA mode, the microcontroller is able to generate an alarm signal and deactivate the amplifier when it detects improper operation by the amplifier. In the AISG mode, a single regulator is used and the other regulator is de-activated by the microcontroller.
US09571044B1
Embodiments of an RF amplifier include a transistor with a control terminal and first and second current carrying terminals, and a shunt circuit coupled between the first current carrying terminal and a ground reference node. The shunt circuit includes a first shunt inductance, a second shunt inductance, and a shunt capacitor coupled in series. The second shunt inductance and the shunt capacitor form a series resonant circuit in proximity to a center operating frequency of the amplifier, and an RF cold point node is present between the first and second shunt inductances. The RF amplifier also includes a video bandwidth circuit coupled between the RF cold point node and the ground reference node.
US09571040B2
An audio amplifier is provided with: an amplifier circuit; a power supply circuit that generates a plurality of power supply voltages; a power supply relay that selects one of the power supply voltages as the power supply voltage supplied to the amplifier circuit; a switching condition determiner that determines whether the switching condition of the power supply relay is satisfied; a silent section detector that detects a silent section of the audio signal which is equal to or greater than the operation time of the power supply relay; and a switching instruction unit for providing the power supply relay with an instruction for switching the power supply voltage during the silent section when the switching condition is satisfied and the silent section is detected.
US09571038B1
Embodiments of a driver circuit for a power stage of a class-D amplifier and a class-D amplifier are described. In one embodiment, a driver circuit for a power stage of a class-D amplifier includes serially connected transistor devices connected to a gate terminal of a power transistor of the power stage of the class-D amplifier, a voltage generator connected between a gate terminal of a first transistor device of the serially connected transistor devices and a source terminal of the power transistor, and a current multiplier connected between the gate terminal of the power transistor and one of a source terminal and a drain terminal of the first transistor device. The current multiplier is configured to produce an output current that is proportional to a current at the one of the source terminal and the drain terminal of the first transistor device.
US09571033B2
A method for controlling the internal pressure of a photovoltaic module having a front plate, rear plate, photovoltaic cells, electrical interconnection conductors, and peripheral seal, in which the conductors are in pressure contact with the cells, under the effect of a force resulting from a vacuum prevailing inside the module. The method includes: a) gradually reducing the pressure of a gas quantity around the module; b) detecting, during step a), a physical parameter representative of the actual pressing of the interconnection conductors against the cells; and c) determining a value of the internal pressure of the module on the basis of a variation in the physical parameter. The control facility comprises an enclosure for receiving the module inside a gas quantity, the enclosure including elements for: reducing the pressure of this gas quantity, detecting a physical parameter representative of the actual pressing, and determining the internal pressure of the module.
US09571028B2
Methods and systems for replacing HVAC blower motors and other electric motors are disclosed including systems and methods for gathering and storing information about motors that may need to be replaced, systems and methods for selecting replacement motors, and systems and methods for programming the replacement motors. The systems and methods allow a select few replacement motors to be programmed to replace nearly any original motor.
US09571021B2
There is provided a motor control device for controlling a stepping motor having at least two coils. The motor control device includes a controller applies a pulse voltage being subjected to pulse width modulation to each of the coils and provides a stop period to a target coil being subjected to switching of a direction of the coil current, during which the application of the pulse voltage to the target coil is temporarily stopped. The controller also performs a control to set on-duty of the pulse voltage applied to all of the coils except the target coil to be either 100% or 0% during the stop period. An out-of step of the stepping motor is detected when a back electromotive voltage induced in the target coil during the stop period satisfies a predetermined out-of-step determination criterion.
US09571008B2
The present disclosure includes structures and methods of forming structures for restricting out-of-plane travel. One example of forming such structures includes providing a first wafer 100, 220 comprising a bond layer of a particular thickness 101, 221 on a surface of a substrate material 105, 225, removing the bond layer 101, 221 in a first area 103-1, 103-2, 223 to expose the surface of the substrate material 105, 225, applying a mask to at least a portion of a remaining bond layer 109-1, 109-4, 229-1, 229-3 and a portion of the exposed surface of the substrate material in the first area 109-2, 109-3, 229-2 to form a second area exposed on the surface of the substrate material 105, 225, etching the second area to form a cavity 110, 230 in the substrate material 105, 225 and the bond layer 101, 221, and forming by the etching, in the cavity 110, 230, a structure 113-1, 113-2, 233 for restricting out-of-plane travel, where the structure 113-1, 113-2, 233 has a particular height from a bottom of the cavity 115, 235 determined by the particular thickness of the bond layer 101, 221.
US09570997B2
A power supply circuit for supplying power to at least two loads which are connected to said power supply circuit comprises a current source which can be operated in a clocked manner and has a control input for adjusting the power. At least two load strings are connected in parallel between a power supply connection, which is coupled to the current source, and a reference connection. Each load string has a load and charge storage means which is connected in parallel with the load. A switch is used to selectively switch the current path of the load string. A sensor having a sensor resistor which is connected in the current path of the load string is used to detect a current flowing through the connected load string. Furthermore, the controlled power supply circuit comprises a control circuit which is coupled to the switch and to the sensor of each load string for the purpose of activating each load string in a time-multiplexed manner.
US09570991B2
During a dead time, a resonance current generated by a load current that flows in a resonance inductor and a resonance current generated by an excitation current of a transformer flow in a resonance circuit constituted by the resonance inductor and capacitors that exist in parallel to respective switching elements. A controller performs a turning off operation on the switching elements at a timing that the resonance current generated by the load current and the resonance current generated by the excitation current are cancelled each other during the dead time.
US09570988B2
This relates to systems and processes for programming parameters of a controller of a power converter. In one example, a predetermined signal may be applied to the input or output terminals of the power converter to unlock the controller and cause the controller to enter a programming mode. While in the programming mode, one or more additional predetermined signals may be applied to the terminals of the power converter to program one or more parameters of the controller. Once the desired parameters have been programmed, another predetermined signal may be applied to the terminals of the power converter to cause the controller to exit the programming mode and enter a locked mode. The predetermined signals applied to the terminals of the power converter can include an ac or dc signal having a predetermined pattern of changes in frequency, amplitude, and/or magnitude that are applied for a fixed or variable duration.
US09570984B2
A circuit for a paralleled power supply module to implement automatic current-sharing in proportion comprises: at least two power supply modules, and an output current feedback loop and an output voltage adjusting loop corresponding to each power supply module. Wherein, the output current feedback loop comprises an output current sample amplifying unit, configured to collect output current of a power supply module and amplify the collected output current into a voltage signal according to an inverse proportion of the output proportion set for each power supply module, and a current-sharing controller unit configured to adjust an output voltage of each power supply module; and the output voltage adjusting loop is configured to compare the output voltage of the current-sharing controller unit with a reference voltage, and control the output voltage of the power supply module to adjust the output current.
US09570980B2
According to an embodiment, a method of operating a switching power supply includes applying a periodic switching signal to a first switch that is coupled to an output node, detecting an offset delay between applying the periodic switching signal and a change in voltage of the output node, calculating a corrected midpoint of a half phase of the periodic switching signal based on the offset delay, generating a sampling pulse based on the corrected midpoint, and sampling a current at the output node according to the sampling pulse.
US09570975B2
An apparatus comprises a charge pump to receive a phase signal representing a result of a phase detection and to output a current flowing between an internal node of the charge pump and an output node of the charge pump; a capacitive load coupled to the output node; a current source controlled by a bias voltage to output a compensation current to the output node; a current sensor coupled between the internal node and the output node to sense the current; and a feedback network to generate the bias voltage in accordance with an output of the current sensor. A comparable method is also disclosed.
US09570974B2
A high-frequency switching circuit includes a high-frequency switching transistor, wherein a high-frequency signal-path extends via a channel-path of the high-frequency switching transistor. The high-frequency switching circuit includes a control circuit and the control circuit is configured to apply at least two different bias potentials to a substrate of the high-frequency switching transistor, depending on a control signal received by the control circuit.
US09570967B2
The present invention provides a power generator which can obtain efficient power generation by changing magnetic force acting on electromotive coils.The power generator is provided with a first permanent magnet member 1, a second permanent magnet member 2, and an electromotive coil member 3 arranged concentrically to have a telescoping structure and is configured so that power generation in the electromotive coil member 3 is induced by rotating the first permanent magnet member 1 or/and the second permanent magnet member 2. In the power generator, the first and second permanent magnet members 1 and 2 cooperate with each other to change the magnetic force and, thus, to obtain efficient power generation.
US09570964B2
A rotor core includes a rotor core includes a plurality of rotor core blocks each of which is constituted by stacking annular sheet-like core materials in a direction of sheet thickness of each core material and a plurality of catch recesses circumferentially disposed in an inner circumference of each core material at an interval of a predetermined angle so as to extend radially outward, the catch recesses having respective circumferential dimensions equal to each other and different radial depths. In each rotor core block, a plurality of the core materials is stacked while the catch recesses having an identical configuration are aligned. The rotor core blocks have respective outer peripheries which are shifted from each other according to the depths of the catch recesses caught by a bar-shaped aligning jig when the catch recesses of the rotor core blocks are caught by the aligning jig.
US09570960B2
A driving-device-integral-type rotary electric machine includes a driving device 8 having a first inverter 27a and a second inverter 27b, which can supply power to stator windings 5a and 5b of the rotary electric machine 2, and the first inverter 27a and the second inverter 27b are arranged and installed in a heat sink 19, in a state where the inverters are linearly symmetrical with respect to an axis X of the rotary electric machine 2, and the heat sink is configured in such a way that at least a heat capacity of a portion with respect to the first inverter 27a is roughly equal to a heat capacity of a portion with respect to the second inverter 27b.
US09570959B2
An electric motor having a housing having a front and a rear end plate, a rotor that is mounted in the end plates, a stator, the core of which stator includes stator plates that are aligned with respect to each other in the axial direction of the rotor, and a housing cooling system that includes a tube that surrounds the stator core, the being concentrically surrounded by at least one cooling channel that is open towards the tube.
US09570957B2
A gear box includes a gear box body of a reducer to which a motor is mounted. The gear box body includes a worm, wheel holding section where a worm wheel of the reducer is held, and a motor holding section, where a part of the motor is contained, the motor holding section having a motor mounting opening. The motor holding section is configured such that a bottom of the motor holding section is provided in a region between a line L1 and a line L2. Here, the line L1 passes through the center C of the worm wheel holding section and is perpendicular to the axis line X of a motor shaft. The line L2 is a tangent line passing through an outer edge portion located near a circular outer peripheral wall of the worm wheel holding section on a motor side and is perpendicular to the axis line X of the motor shaft.
US09570955B2
A vibration motor assembly includes a vibration motor, an end cap having electrical contacts configured for supplying electrical power to the vibration motor, the end cap having a first connecting structure connecting the end cap to the vibration motor, and a capsule connected to the end cap to define a cavity. The vibration motor further has a shaft, and an eccentric mass is connected to the shaft. The vibration motor is configured to use electrical power to rotate the shaft and the eccentric mass to create a vibration effect. The end cap further has a second connecting structure connecting the capsule to the end cap. The vibration motor and eccentric mass are enclosed by the so-connected end cap and capsule, so as to enable the vibration motor assembly to withstand fabrication conditions.
US09570952B2
A disk motor including: a rotor; a stator; an output shaft concentrically fixed to the rotor; at least one coil disk which is provided to one of the rotor or the stator, a coil pattern which includes a plurality of radial patterns or radial pattern groups extending outwards in a radial direction from a center part of the coil disk being formed on at least one surface of the coil disk; an electric current supply portion which supplies electric current to the coil pattern; a magnetic flux generating portion which is provided to another of the rotor or the stator and faces the coil pattern; and an intermediate pattern which is formed between adjacent radial patterns or adjacent radial pattern groups on the coil disk.
US09570946B2
A stator arrangement for an electrical machine includes a casing element as one component and at least two stator segments, which are arranged in the casing element as further components. One of the components has a feather key groove and another one of the components has a feather key, which corresponds with the feather key groove, for bracing the one component against the other component.
US09570935B2
There are provided a magnetic coupling unit and a magnetic coupling system which are capable of reducing energy loss when operations using magnetic coupling between magnetic devices are performed. The magnetic coupling unit includes: one or more magnetic devices each capable of being magnetically coupled with other magnetic device in other unit; and one or more coupling reinforcing sections each reinforcing the magnetic coupling.
US09570929B2
An apparatus comprising a battery unit and an electronics unit. The battery unit has a battery with a first and a second pole. The battery unit has at least a first, at least a second and at least a third electrical contact, wherein the first contact and the third contact are connected with the first pole, and wherein the second contact is connected with the second pole. The electronics unit has an input circuit with at least a first and at least a second electrical countercontact for receiving electrical energy from the battery unit essentially via the first and second contacts or essentially via the second and third contacts of the battery unit.
US09570928B2
A power supply system includes a charge module, a control module, and a discharge module. The charge module includes a charge circuit and a cell assembly. The control module includes a wireless unit. The discharge module includes a voltage increasing circuit coupled to the cell assembly and a voltage decreasing circuit coupled to the voltage increasing circuit. The charge module is coupled to a direct current power supply to charges the cell assembly. The cell assembly outputs a discharge voltage. The voltage increasing circuit is configured to increase the discharge voltage to a reference voltage. The voltage decreasing circuit decreases the increased discharge voltage to charge the wireless unit.
US09570925B2
In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus comprises an open frame comprising first and second members respectively comprising first and second channels. The second member is longer than the first member. A support arrangement comprises a base attached to the first member and projects in a rearward direction therefrom. The base is configured to support the open frame in a portrait position when the apparatus is in a first orientation, and to support the open frame in a landscape position when the apparatus is in a second orientation. First and second flanges respectively project in a frontward direction from the first and second members. A detachable wireless charging plate comprises first and second edge surfaces configured to respectively fit within the first and second channels of the open frame. The detachable wireless charging plate serves as a backrest of the apparatus.
US09570924B2
A battery pack of one aspect of an embodiment of the present disclosure comprises a battery, a control unit, a pair of external terminals, a first current cut-off unit, and a second current cut-off unit. The control unit determines whether the first current cut-off unit and the second current cut-off unit are normal or abnormal when neither charge nor discharge of the battery is performed. When the first current cut-off unit and the second current cut-off unit are both normal, the control unit turns the first current cut-off unit and the second current cut-off unit to an energized state. When at least one of the first current cut-off unit and the second current cut-off unit is abnormal, the control unit turns the first current cut-off unit or the second current cut-off unit to a cut-off state.
US09570914B2
An electric power retail management apparatus according to an embodiment includes a power generation source selection unit. The power generation source selection unit selects, as a power generation source for supplying electric power corresponding to an amount of electric power supplied to each of electric power consumers, one or more power generation sources of which one or more types are selected by each of the electric power consumers from among a plurality of power generation sources for each electric power consumer on the basis of an amount of electric power supplied from the power generation sources.
US09570911B2
This specification relates to a power supply control apparatus. In order to solve problems of a power supply control only with respect to a preset time slot and difficulties in power supply to a plurality of consumers and metering of power supplied, which are the drawbacks of the related art electronic power meter, the power supply control apparatus can store or supply power according to a comparison result between a preset reference and a real-time pricing rate. Accordingly, electric charges, which are decided according to an amount of power used and reflect real-time rates thereto, can be saved and an appropriate power supply and an appropriate power reception of a consumer according to the real-time pricing rate can be allowed.
US09570908B2
An apparatus is disclosed, which includes a system that includes loads, linear regulators, switches and a controller. The linear regulators supply power to the loads, and the controller is adapted to use the switches to selectively couple power sources to the linear regulators to regulate a collective power dissipation of linear regulators.
US09570896B2
Clip-type cable management apparatus and methods are disclosed. In one embodiment, a first jaw and a second jaw having interleaved tines in a predetermined configuration are coupled by a hinge pin around which a torsion spring is disposed to urge said first jaw and said second jaw pivotally toward a close position so as to securely retain a cable being folded or coiled into a bundle of cable segments. Such cable management is further enhanced with additional features, optimized structures, and operating methods.
US09570883B2
A photonic package includes a photonic device having a photon emitter on the front side of the die. A beam of photons from the photon emitter passing from the front side to the backside of the die, passes through the substrate material of the die which is substantially transparent to the beam of photons, to the backside of the die. Other embodiments are also described.
US09570879B2
Provided is an optical pulse-generator and an optical pulse-generating method which are capable of generating an optical pulse train with an arbitrary pattern. An optical pulse-generator 1 includes a first optical modulator 21 configured to modulate input light using a first modulation signal SIG1 to generate optical pulses, a second optical modulator 41 configured to perform a modulation operation using a second modulation signal SIG2 synchronizing with the first modulation signal SIG1 and having a signal pattern that is set to output only specific part of the optical pulses, and a dispersion compensator 30 configured to compensate a chirp of the optical pulse output from the first optical modulator 21.
US09570876B2
A supercontinuum optical pulse source provides a combined supercontinuum. The supercontinuum optical pulse source comprises one or more seed pulse sources, and first and second optical amplifiers arranged along first and second respective optical paths. The first and second optical amplifiers are configured to amplify one or more optical signals generated by said one or more seed pulse sources. The supercontinuum optical pulse source further comprises a first microstructured light-guiding member arranged along the first optical path and configured to generate supercontinuum light responsive to an optical signal propagating along said first optical path, and a second microstructured light-guiding member arranged along the second optical path and configured to generate supercontinuum light responsive to an optical signal propagating along said second optical path. The supercontinuum optical pulse source further comprises a supercontinuum-combining member to combine supercontinuum generated in at least the first and second microstructured light-guiding members to form a combined supercontinuum. The supercontinuum-combining member comprises an output fiber, wherein the output fiber comprises a silica-based multimode optical fiber supporting a plurality of spatial modes at one or more wavelengths of the combined supercontinuum.
US09570869B2
Wire-stripping and crimping pliers twist a stranded cable end with bars projecting into a pliers mouth at free ends of pliers jaws and crimp a cable end region with a ferrule using a ram guided in a cassette in a pliers legs crossing region and running into a die due to a closing force upon pressing the legs together, to compress the ferrule in the die. First and second moldings on the jaws project into the mouth. A forced lock has a pawl and a toothed segment on the moldings preventing the pliers from opening without the ram previously running against the ferrule. The toothed segment on the first molding has a course corresponding to a movement curve of the jaws. The pawl on the second molding is movable by a spring but fixed in position. The first and/or second molding is formed in one piece with the bars.
US09570867B2
A metallic contact for insertion into a modular telecommunications plug includes a generally planar body defining a top end, a bottom end, a front end, a rear end, and a length extending from the front end to the rear end. The bottom end is at least partially defined by a blade for piercing an insulation of a wire positioned within the plug. At least a portion of the top end is configured to electrically contact a conductor of a jack that receives the plug. The top end is defined at least in part by a first engagement surface that is separated from a second engagement surface by a notch. An uppermost portion of the first engagement surface defines a first push surface that is generally at the same height as a second push surface defined by an uppermost portion of the second engagement surface. The notch is defined by a front vertical wall spaced from a rear vertical wall, wherein the front vertical wall is positioned at a distance of at least half the length of the contact from the front end of the contact.
US09570865B1
This invention disclosure is an electrical outlet receptacle containing the high voltage AC side and low voltage DC power supply used typically for charging and/or powering portable electronic devices. The charge connector for interfacing with the portable device is contained in a removable module. Furthermore the removable module may contain a retractable charge cord or charge cords, charge status indicator lights, power supply switches, and it also may contain a portion of the power supply control circuitry to provide the particular power and signaling required to interface with the specific portable device. The other portion of the power supply and control circuitry would be contained in the fixed portion of the receptacle and/or the electrical box. Finally there may be additional heat sinks to provide enough thermal dissipation from the power supply.
US09570863B2
An artificial lighted tree is presented with power routed through the trunk of the tree and three-wire safety grounding. The tree is divided into sections for easy assembly, disassembly, and storage. The base of the tree is grounded through a three-prong safety grounded electrical cord and each section of the tree makes a ground connection with the base section as it is assembled to the artificial lighted tree. Electrical connections to power the lights may be made outside the trunk of the tree or through electrical connections within the tree.
US09570862B2
In a terminal including: a terminal body that has a mating terminal contact part with which a mating terminal is brought into contact, and a sensor fixing part; and a thermistor fixed to the sensor fixing part, and a charging connector using the terminal, the sensor fixing part has a cylindrical shape in which the thermistor is inserted, the thermistor has a lock part, and is allowed to be inserted in the sensor fixing part by elastic deformation of the sensor fixing part, and at an insertion completion position, the lock part is locked to the sensor fixing part.
US09570861B2
An electrical connector includes a housing having a cavity and a wafer stack received in the cavity. The wafer stack includes a plurality of electrical wafers arranged parallel to each other within the cavity. Each wafer includes a dielectric body and a leadframe having plural conductors held in the dielectric body, the conductors having terminating contacts and mating contacts with leads therebetween. The terminating contacts are both horizontally staged and vertically staged and exposed in a pocket of the dielectric body for electrical termination. The mating contacts being exposed for electrical connection. The electrical connector includes a flex harness includes a plurality of FPCBs. The FPCBs are electrically connected to corresponding wafers. Each FPCB has a stepped mating interface with conductors along the stepped mating interface configured to be electrically connected to corresponding terminating contacts.
US09570856B2
A connector is configured of a plug connector and a receptacle connector. The plug connector has an insertion convex portion including: a first sidewall portion and a second sidewall portion that are in parallel with each other and a plurality of first connection terminals provided on the sidewall portions. The receptacle connector has an insertion concave portion to which the insertion convex portion is inserted and in which a plurality of second connection terminals that are contacted with the first connection terminals are provided. The respective inner side surfaces of the first sidewall portion and the second sidewall portion face each other across a space, and the plurality of first connection terminals are arranged on the respective outer side surfaces of the first sidewall portion and the second sidewall portion.
US09570854B2
First and second stabilizers (26, 33) project on a main body (11) of a terminal fitting (10) while being spaced apart in a direction intersecting with a front-back direction. The first stabilizer (26) has a front end extending steeply in a direction substantially perpendicular to the front-back direction and the second stabilizer (33) has a front end part (38) inclined to recede. The front end part (38) of the second stabilizer (33) is more forward than the first stabilizer (26) so that the front end of the second stabilizer contacts a facing wall surface of a connector housing (60) before the first stabilizer (26) when an insertion posture is incorrect.
US09570848B1
The electrical plug and cord kit for hair clippers is adapted for use with electrically powered hair dressing equipment. Specifically, the electrical plug and cord kit for hair clippers is a plug and cable designed to provide electric power for use by electrically powered hair dressing equipment and especially for use by clippers. The use of a pluggable power system reduces the station requirements for electrical outlets and further reduces the need for organizing a plurality of cables at the station. The electrical plug and cord kit for hair clippers comprises a plug housing, a plug connector, a handle housing, and a hanging loop.
US09570846B2
Disclosed is a plug connector, known as a push-pull type of plug connector, wherein the plug connector is embodied from a base body for receiving a contact, a latch and also a first actuator for actuating the latching means. The first actuator is provided on the plug connector in such a manner that it can be displaced axially along the plugging direction. The first actuator is used for transferring the plugging force by the user to the plug connector, wherein the strengths of the force is limited to a defined maximum in order to prevent damage to components. Furthermore, the latch is actuated by displacing the first actuator in the opposite direction to the plugging direction and the latching arrangement with respect to the mating plug connector is released.
US09570841B2
It is aimed to enable a connecting operation to smoothly proceed by preventing erroneous connection of a connector (10). A connector structure includes a housing (20) in which a terminal fitting (60) is to be accommodated, a wire (70) to be connected to the terminal fitting (60) and pulled out from a wire pull-out surface (24) of the housing (20), and an extra-length adjusting portion (21) provided continuously to the housing (20) and configured to hold the wire (70) pulled out from the wire pull-out surface (24) in a state loosened into a substantially U shape or wounded one or more turns and variably adjust the amount of loosening or winding of the wire.
US09570840B2
The present invention concerns a corrosion-resistant terminal (10) before being crimped to an aluminum wire (40) in which a core (41) is covered with a coating (42) and the corrosion-resistant terminal (10) includes a wire barrel (31) to be crimped to the core (41) exposed by removing the coating (42), an insulation barrel (32) to be crimped to the coating (42), and an anticorrosive (50) applied in advance to a surface of the insulation barrel (32) to be held in contact with the coating (40). According to such a configuration, since the anticorrosive (50) is applied in advance to the surface of the insulation barrel (32) to be held in contact with the coating (42) of the aluminum wire (40), the anticorrosive 50 can be filled between the insulation barrel (32) and the coating (42) of the aluminum wire (40) when crimping is performed.
US09570834B2
An electrical socket (1) comprising a carriage (4), the carriage comprising shutter portions, each shutter portion associated with a respective pin receiving opening (5a, 5b, 5c, 5d, 5e), and the socket comprising a retainer arrangement, and the shutter portions (4a, 4b), when in a closed condition are inhibited from moving to an open condition by the retainer arrangement, and wherein all the shutter portions are required to be in a released condition from the retainer arrangement in order to allow the shutter portions to be moved to an open condition to allow the plug pins to be inserted therein, and also wherein, if not all of the shutter portions are moved to a released condition, the shutter portions are inhibited from movement to the open condition by way of engagement with the retainer arrangement.
US09570812B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods associated with mode conversion for electromagnetic field modification. A mode converting structure (holographic metamaterial) is formed with a distribution of dielectric constants chosen to convert an input electromagnetic field pattern from a first mode to a second mode to attain a target electromagnetic field pattern (near or far) that is different from the input electromagnetic field pattern. A solution to a holographic equation provides a sufficiently accurate approximation of a distribution of dielectric constants that can be used in conjunction with an electromagnetic radiation device with a known output field pattern to attain a target field pattern. A voxel-based discretization of the distribution of dielectric constants can be used to generate the mode converting structure and/or to facilitate the optimization algorithms. One or more optimization algorithms can be used to improve the efficiency of the mode conversion.
US09570810B2
The invention provides an antenna which has two feed ports and two conductor areas. Where the two areas face each other, there is a set of interdigitated arms and slots. These define a shape with two open slots (one on each side) extending from the two feed points, and a central closed slot.
US09570809B2
A printed millimeter wave dipole antenna and techniques for designing such an antenna are disclosed. In one embodiment, the dipole antenna comprises: a signal wing and at least one ground wing for propagating signals in a millimeter wave band; and an unbalanced feeding structure directly coupled to the signal wing. The unbalanced feeding structure is boarded by a plurality of escorting vias to ensure equipotential grounds.
US09570806B1
A dual band transmitter for transmitting a data signal in a first frequency or second frequency band. An antenna receives and sends data in one of the first and second frequency bands. An impedance matching network is connected in series with the antenna, and to a first node, and matches the impedance of the antenna to a predetermined value. The impedance matching network includes first and second antenna matching networks. The first antenna matching network is connected in series with the second matching network. In the first frequency band, the first antenna matching network matches the impedance of the antenna to the predetermined value, and in the second frequency band the second antenna matching network matches the impedance of the antenna to the predetermined value without affecting the first antenna matching network's matching in the first frequency band.
US09570805B2
An antenna structure includes a main body, a first radiating body, and a second radiating body. The main body includes a feeding portion, a connecting portion, a first coupling portion, and a second coupling portion. The connecting portion is perpendicularly connected to the feeding portion. The first coupling portion and the second coupling portion are positioned at two opposite sides of the connecting portion. The first radiating body is configured to surround and resonate with the first coupling portion. The second radiating body is configured to surround and resonate with the second coupling portion.
US09570801B2
A device for reducing interference among antennas of multiple base stations is provided, which includes an antenna module placed on a base station and configured to transmit and receive radio waves, a holding pole placed on the base station and configured to support the antenna module, a mounting bracket coupled to the antenna module and the holding pole, and a shielding apparatus placed on the holding pole or the antenna module and capable of being adjusted in directions. The device has a simple structure; it is easy to manufacture and install the device; it can be applied to the base station's antennas in network use. In addition, the device can efficiently increase isolation and reduce interferences among the antennas of the multiple base stations.
US09570793B2
A circuit can include a tandem directional coupler comprising a first directional coupler and a second directional coupler connected in tandem. Each of the first and second directional couplers can have a first strip and a second strip. Port 3 of the first directional coupler can be connected to Port 1 of the second directional coupler. Port 4 of the first directional coupler can be connected to Port 2 of the second directional coupler.
US09570788B2
A communication cable includes one or more conductive elements surrounded by a dielectric sheath. The sheath member has a first dielectric constant value. A dielectric core member is placed longitudinally adjacent to and in contact with an outer surface of the sheath member. The core member has a second dielectric constant value that is higher than the first dielectric constant value. A cladding surrounds the sheath member and the dielectric core member. The cladding has a third dielectric constant value that is lower than the second dielectric constant value. A dielectric wave guide is formed by the dielectric core member surrounded by the sheath and the cladding.
US09570787B2
Disclosed and claimed herein is a hollow core coaxial cable, having a dielectric capillary with an inside wall and an outside wall, an inner conductive layer on the inside wall of the hollow core coaxial cable and an outer conductive layer on the outside wall of the hollow core coaxial cable, the conductive layers may be patterned. Further disclosed is a method of making the hollow core coaxial cable. Further disclosed are holey fiber coaxial cables, having a holey fiber capillary having an inside wall and an outside wall, an inner conductive layer on the inside wall of the hollow core coaxial cable and an outer conductive layer on the outside wall of the hollow core coaxial cable, the conductive layers may be patterned.
US09570784B2
A flat cable high-frequency filter includes a dielectric substrate extending in a transmission direction of a high-frequency signal. The dielectric substrate includes dielectric layers stacked on each other. Elongated conductor patterns are provided on a flat surface of one dielectric layer which faces another dielectric layer. The conductor patterns are as wide as possible in the dielectric substrate in accordance with a desired inductance. A capacitive coupling conductor pattern opposes one conductor pattern by a predetermined area with a dielectric layer therebetween. By using a connecting conductor, the capacitive coupling conductor pattern is connected to the conductor pattern which does not oppose the capacitive coupling conductor pattern.
US09570780B2
A rechargeable battery including an electrode assembly including a first and second electrode, and a separator interposed between the first and second electrode; a case receiving the electrode assembly and having a top end opening; a cap assembly sealing the top end opening of the case, the cap assembly including a first terminal part and a second terminal part outwardly protruding; and a first collector plate received inside the case and electrically connecting the first electrode and the first terminal part, wherein the first collector plate includes a first lead part including a first electrode connection part connected to the first electrode, a first terminal connection part connected to the first terminal part, and a first connecting part electrically connecting the first electrode connection part and the first terminal connection part; and a first resin part on the first lead part, the first resin part covering the first connecting part.
US09570779B2
A flooded lead-acid battery, including a negative electrode plate holding a negative active material, a positive electrode plate holding a positive active material, and a flowable electrolyte solution in which these plates are immersed, and allowing the electrolyte solution to have a utilization factor greater than or equal to 75%, wherein the concentration of an alkali metal ion or an alkaline earth metal ion in the electrolyte solution is allowed to be 0.07 to 0.3 mol/L, and the pore volume of the negative active material after formation is allowed to be 0.08 to 0.16 mL/g.
US09570775B2
A battery assembly can be formed on a base layer provided on a temporary process substrate, with a thin film battery stack including an anode layer, a cathode layer, and an electrolyte layer between the anode and cathode layers. The thin film battery stack can be bonded to a transfer layer, and the process substrate can be removed for assembly into a battery system.
US09570767B2
The present disclosure provides a membrane humidifier for a fuel cell including: a case; a hollow fiber membrane module covering the case; a housing coupled to both ends of the hollow fiber membrane module; a plurality of hollow fiber membranes arranged in the case; and a hollow fiber membrane guide structure installed at one end or both ends of the hollow fiber membrane module and having a potting material layer formed therein to fix the plurality of hollow fiber membranes.
US09570765B2
A hydrogen supply unit is configured to inject hydrogen gas having flowed in an inflow passage into an outflow passage by use of an injector to reduce the pressure of the hydrogen gas. The hydrogen supply unit includes a primary-side relief valve for releasing the hydrogen gas from inside to outside of the inflow passage when the internal pressure of the inflow passage rises to a first predetermined value, and a secondary-side relief valve for releasing the hydrogen gas from inside to outside of the outflow passage when the internal pressure of the outflow passage rises to a second predetermined value. The primary-side relief valve and the secondary-side relief valve are held between the inflow block and the outflow block.
US09570762B2
An exemplary fuel cell component comprises a porous plate. A vapor permeable layer is provided on at least one portion of the porous plate. The vapor permeable layer is configured to permit vapor to pass through the layer while resisting liquid passage through the layer.
US09570761B2
Novel catalytic materials and novel methods of preparing M-N—C catalytic materials utilizing a sacrificial support approach and using inexpensive active polymers as the carbon and nitrogen source and readily available metal precursors are described.
US09570755B2
A production process for an electrode catalyst for a fuel cell, which includes a step (I) of mixing a nitrogen-containing organic substance, a transition metal compound and conductive particles with a solvent and a step (II) of calcining a mixture obtained in the step (I).
US09570753B2
An improved electrolyte battery is provided that includes a tank assembly adapted to hold an amount of an anolyte and a catholyte, a number of cell stacks operably connected to the tank assembly, each stack formed of a number of flow frames disposed between end caps and a number of power converters operatively connected to the cell stacks. The cell stacks are formed with a number of flow frames each including individual inlets and outlets for anolyte and catholyte fluids and a separator disposed between flow frames defining anodic and cathodic half cells between each pair of flow frames. The power converter is configured to connect the battery with either forward or reverse polarity to a DC power source, such as a DC bus. The anodic and cathodic half cells switch as a function of the polarity by which the battery is connected to the Dc power source.
US09570751B2
A binder composition for a secondary battery, and an anode and a lithium battery that include the binder composition are disclosed. The binder composition may include: first nanoparticles having a glass transition temperature of about 60° C. or greater and an average particle diameter of about 100 nm or less; and a first polymer binder having a glass transition temperature of about 20° C. or less.
US09570748B2
A lithium ion battery includes an anode and a cathode. The cathode includes a lithium, manganese, nickel, and oxygen containing compound. An electrolyte is disposed between the anode and the cathode. A protective layer is deposited between the cathode and the electrolyte. The protective layer includes pure lithium phosphorus oxynitride and variations that include metal dopants such as Fe, Ti, Ni, V, Cr, Cu, and Co. A method for making a cathode and a method for operating a battery are also disclosed.
US09570747B2
There is provided a negative electrode for a secondary battery that can provide a secondary battery having high charge and discharge efficiency, and a high capacity retention rate in charge and discharge cycles. A negative electrode for a secondary battery according to this exemplary embodiment contains scale-like graphite, a fluorine-based resin, and an imide-based resin. A method for manufacturing a negative electrode for a secondary battery according to this exemplary embodiment includes applying a negative electrode slurry containing scale-like graphite, a fluorine-based resin, an imide-based resin, and a solvent for dissolving the fluorine-based resin and the imide-based resin to a negative electrode current collector; and heat-treating the negative electrode current collector at a temperature of 100° C. or more and 150° C. or less.
US09570726B2
A base material for a lithium ion secondary battery separator provided by the present invention comprises a polyethylene terephthalate fiber, in which an average fiber diameter of the polyethylene terephthalate fiber is 9.0 μm or less, a specific X-ray diffraction intensity derived from the polyethylene terephthalate fiber is 300 cps/(g/m2) or more, and a coefficient of variation of a specific X-ray diffraction intensity is 12.0% or less, and is excellent in the workability during production and excellent in mechanical strength, uniformity and handling in a subsequent treatment step.
US09570724B2
The object is providing an energy storage device that can be attached to the frame of the bicycle without the need for using tools. This device is, on the one hand, not in the way while the rider is operating the bicycle, and on the other hand, a suitable solution for easy retrofitting action of conventional bicycles. The energy storage device includes a housing that has disposed therein at least one electrical connection is available on the housing that is accessible from the outside. This connection serves, on the one hand, for connecting an electrical consumer, particularly an electrical drive, to the electrical energy storage element; on the other hand, this connection can preferably also serve for recharging the electrical energy storage element. The at least one electrical energy storage element is preferably a rechargeable accumulator.
US09570720B2
A rechargeable battery includes an electrode assembly; a case accommodating the electrode assembly; a cap plate coupled to an opening of the case; an electrode terminal connected to the electrode assembly and extending through a terminal hole of the cap plate; and a retainer having first ends contacting the case and located between the electrode assembly and the side wall to support the electrode assembly and the side wall, wherein a thickness of the retainer gradually decreases away from the first ends of the retainer.
US09570713B2
Disclosed is an organic light emitting display (OLED) device that may include first and second pixels on a substrate, each including a TFT region and a display region, the display region of each of the first and second pixels including a first electrode, an emission layer and a second electrode; a color filter layer in the display region of the second pixel; and a reflection preventing layer in the first and second pixels, substantially excluding the display region of the second pixel.
US09570712B2
An organic light-emitting module including a light-transmissive substrate, a light extracting structure, a first electrode, an organic light-emitting stack, a second electrode, and a transparent carrying board is provided. The light-transmissive substrate has an index of refraction greater than 1.5 and has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The light extracting structure is disposed at the first surface. The first electrode is disposed on the second surface of the light-transmissive substrate. The organic light-emitting stack is disposed on the first electrode. The second electrode is disposed on the organic light-emitting stack. The transparent carrying board is connected with the light extracting structure. A minimum distance between the light extracting structure and the transparent carrying board is less than or equal to 125 μm.
US09570711B2
Disclosed are an organic light emitting diode and a method of manufacturing the same, the organic light emitting diode including: a light-transmitting substrate including a first region and a second region separated from the first region; a first lower electrode formed on the first region of the light-transmitting substrate and a second lower electrode formed on the second region thereof; a first organic thin film layer including a first emission material layer, formed on the first lower electrode of the first region, and a second organic thin film layer including a second emission material layer, formed on the second lower electrode of the second region; and a light-transmitting upper electrode formed on the first organic thin film layer and the second organic thin film layer and configured such that portions corresponding to the first region and the second region are connected to each other.
US09570710B2
An organic light-emitting display apparatus, including a substrate; a first reflective layer, a second reflective layer, and a third reflective layer that are separately disposed on the substrate; a first insulating layer on the first reflective layer, but not on the second reflective layer and the third reflective layer; a second insulating layer on the first insulating layer and the second reflective layer, but not on the third reflective layer; and a first pixel electrode for red emission on the second insulating layer and corresponding to the first reflective layer, a second pixel electrode for green emission on the second insulating layer and corresponding to the second reflective layer, and a third pixel electrode for blue emission on the third reflective layer.
US09570702B2
Provided are a display apparatus and a method of manufacturing the same. The display apparatus includes a display substrate arranged with a display portion including a display device; a sealing substrate disposed to face the display substrate; and a sealing portion that bonds the display substrate and the sealing substrate and surrounds the display portion. The sealing portion includes a first sealing portion that includes a sealing material and an insulating layer that includes at least one first opening; and a second sealing portion that is disposed outside the first sealing portion and includes at least one gas hole.
US09570691B2
An organic material consisting of a π-conjugated molecule which is in a liquid form at ambient temperature and use thereof are provided. The ambient temperature liquid-form organic material according to the present invention consists of a π-conjugated molecule having 2 or more side chains, the 2 or more side chains are same or different side chains selected from the group consisting of a branched alkyl chain, an alkyl chain having a polymerization site at a terminal, an oligosiloxane chain, a fluorocarbon chain, an oligoethylene glycol chain and derivatives thereof, and each of the 2 or more side chains is bound directly or via a substituent to the π-conjugated molecule.
US09570686B2
An organic light emitting diode (OLED) having an improved service life and improved transport of negative charge carriers. The organic light emitting diode based on an organic semiconductor material in which the transport of negative charge carriers and the stability with respect to reduction are determined by azahetarylene/Lewis acid complex units. This leads to an improved service life of the emission layer, which firstly increases the service life of the component and avoids readjustment of the brightness during operation. Organic light emitting diodes are disclosed in which the position of the emission zone in the emitter layer and the color of the emission can be specifically influenced by azahetarylene/Lewis acid complex units.
US09570674B2
A magnetic device includes a free layer including a first magnetization layer; a pinned layer including a second magnetization layer; and a tunnel barrier layer provided between the free layer and the pinned layer. At least one selected from the free layer and the pinned layer includes a synthetic antiferromagnetic (SAF) structure formed of a first ferromagnetic layer, a second ferromagnetic layer, and a ruthenium-rhodium (Ru—Rh) alloy layer provided between the first and second ferromagnetic layers.
US09570665B2
The present invention relates to a composition based on a polyamide matrix having a high thermal conductivity and comprising specific proportions of alumina and of graphite and also a flame-retardant system. This composition may in particular be used for producing components for lighting devices comprising light-emitting diodes.
US09570656B2
The present invention provides a Group III nitride semiconductor light-emitting device having a flat semiconductor layer, in which the stress applied to the light-emitting layer is relaxed. The light-emitting layer of the light-emitting device includes a well layer and a barrier layer comprising an AlGaN layer containing In. The light-emitting device has a pit extending from an n-type semiconductor layer to layers above the light-emitting layer. A pit diameter at an interface between the light-emitting layer and the n-type semiconductor layer is 120 nm to 200 nm. The barrier layer has an In concentration of 6.0×1019 cm−3.
US09570655B2
Provided is a light-emitting device that has a high emission efficiency, excellent stability and temperature properties, and that generates light having a high color rendering property sufficient for practical use. This semiconductor light-emitting device (1) comprises a semiconductor light-emitting element (2) that emits blue light, a green phosphor (14) that absorbs the blue light and emits green light, and an orange phosphor (13) that absorbs the blue light and emits orange light, and is characterized in that the orange phosphor is an Eu-activated α-SiAlON phosphor having an emission spectrum peak wavelength within a range of 595 to 620 nm.
US09570635B2
The present invention discloses in detail a semiconductor device and a patterning method for the plated electrode thereof. By using the laser ablation method according to the prior art, the semiconductor substrate below the ARC is damaged by direct destructive burning. According to the present invention, an additional protection layer is inserted between the ARC and the semiconductor substrate. Then a laser is used for heating and liquefying the protection layer below the ARC, and thus separating the ARC from the liquefied protection layer underneath and forming pattered openings. Afterwards, by a plating process, nickel and copper can plated.
US09570634B2
A packaged sensor assembly and method of forming that includes a first substrate having opposing first and second surfaces and a plurality of conductive elements each extending between the first and second surfaces. A second substrate comprises opposing front and back surfaces, one or more detectors formed on or in the front surface, and a plurality of contact pads formed at the front surface which are electrically coupled to the one or more detectors. A third substrate is mounted to the front surface to define a cavity between the third substrate and the front surface, wherein the third substrate includes a first opening extending from the cavity through the third substrate. The back surface is mounted to the first surface. A plurality of wires each extend between and electrically connecting one of the contact pads and one of the conductive elements.
US09570632B2
A method of manufacturing an optical apparatus is provided. The method includes arranging a photo device above a substrate with an adhesive located between the photo device and the substrate, forming a bonding member that bonds the substrate and the photo device by curing the adhesive, and arranging, above the photo device, a transparent plate and a sealing member. The sealing member covers the photo device and is located between the transparent plate and the substrate. An elastic modulus of the bonding member is 1 GPa or less.
US09570626B2
In a semiconductor device including a transistor including an oxide semiconductor film and a protective film over the transistor, an oxide insulating film containing oxygen in excess of the stoichiometric composition is formed as the protective film under the following conditions: a substrate placed in a treatment chamber evacuated to a vacuum level is held at a temperature higher than or equal to 180° C. and lower than or equal to 260° C.; a source gas is introduced into the treatment chamber so that the pressure in the treatment chamber is set to be higher than or equal to 100 Pa and lower than or equal to 250 Pa; and a high-frequency power higher than or equal to 0.17 W/cm2 and lower than or equal to 0.5 W/cm2 is supplied to an electrode provided in the treatment chamber.
US09570620B2
The present invention provides a manufacture method of an oxide semiconductor TFT substrate and a structure thereof. The manufacture method of the dual gate oxide semiconductor TFT substrate utilizes the halftone mask to implement one photo process, which cannot only accomplish the patterning to the oxide semiconductor layer but also obtain the oxide conductor layer (52′) with ion doping process, and the oxide conductor layer (52′) is employed as being the pixel electrode of the LCD to replace the ITO pixel electrode in prior art; the method manufactures the source (81), the drain (82) and the top gate (71) at the same time with one photo process; the method implements patterning process to the passivation layer (8) and the top gate isolation layer (32) together with one photo process, to reduce the number of the photo processes to nine for shortening the manufacture procedure, raising the production efficiency and lowering the production cost.
US09570617B2
The present invention provides a TFT substrate structure and a manufacturing method thereof. A metal oxide semiconductor layer is formed on an amorphous silicon layer to replace an N-type heavily-doped layer. The potential barrier between the amorphous silicon layer and metal layer is relatively low, making it possible to form an ohmic contact and thus increasing current efficiency, without the need of doping other ions to form the N-type heavily-doped layer. Further, the metal oxide semiconductor layer comprises numerous defects that trap holes so that during the operation of the TFT, even a great negative voltage is applied to the gate terminal to thus form a hole conducting channel, the holes may hardly move from the source/drain terminals through the metal oxide semiconductor layer and the semiconductor layer to reach the conducting channel and consequently, the current leakage issue occurring in a hole conducting zone of a conventional TFT substrate structure can be improved and severe bending of the hole current curve and poor reliability are also improved.
US09570610B2
To improve a semiconductor device having a nonvolatile memory. A first MISFET, a second MISFET, and a memory cell are formed, and a stopper film made of a silicon oxide film is formed thereover. Then, over the stopper film, a stress application film made of a silicon nitride film is formed, and the stress application film over the second MISFET and the memory cell is removed. Thereafter, heat treatment is performed to apply a stress to the first MISFET. Thus, a SMT is not applied to each of elements, but is applied selectively. This can reduce the degree of degradation of the second MISFET due to H (hydrogen) in the silicon nitride film forming the stress application film. This can also reduce the degree of degradation of the characteristics of the memory cell due to the H (hydrogen) in the silicon nitride film forming the stress application film.
US09570602B2
The present invention makes it possible to improve the accuracy of wet etching and miniaturize a semiconductor device in the case of specifying an active region of a vertical type power MOSFET formed over an SiC substrate by opening an insulating film over the substrate by the wet etching. After a silicon oxide film having a small film thickness and a polysilicon film having a film thickness larger than the silicon oxide film are formed in sequence over an epitaxial layer, the polysilicon film is opened by a dry etching method, successively the silicon oxide film is opened by a wet etching method, and thereby the upper surface of the epitaxial layer in an active region is exposed.
US09570600B2
A semiconductor structure has a first layer that includes a first semiconductor material and a second layer that includes a second semiconductor material. The first semiconductor material is selectively etchable over the second semiconductor material using a first etching process. The first layer is disposed over the second layer. A recess is disposed at least in the first layer. Also described is a method of forming a semiconductor structure that includes a recess. The method includes etching a region in a first layer using a first etching process. The first layer includes a first semiconductor material. The first etching process stops at a second layer beneath the first layer. The second layer includes a second semiconductor material.
US09570599B2
A portion of an AlN spacer layer of a high electron mobility transistor (GaN HEMI) having a nitride semiconductor used therein is removed only in a region directly below a gate electrode and in a vicinity of the region, and a length of a portion where the AlN spacer layer is not present is sufficiently smaller than a distance between a source electrode and a drain electrode.
US09570597B2
According to example embodiments, a high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) includes a channel supply layer that induces a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in a channel layer, a source electrode and a drain electrode that are at sides of the channel supply layer, a depletion-forming layer that is on the channel supply layer and contacts the source electrode, a gate insulating layer on the depletion-forming layer, and a gate electrode on the gate insulating layer. The depletion-forming layer forms a depletion region in the 2DEG.
US09570596B2
A super junction semiconductor device includes a semiconductor portion including mesa regions protruding from a base section and spatially separated in a lateral direction parallel to a first surface of the semiconductor portion, and a compensation structure covering at least sidewalls of the mesa regions. The compensation structure includes at least two first compensation layers of a first conductivity type, at least two second compensation layers of a complementary second conductivity type, and at least one interdiffusion layer between one of the first and one of the second compensation layers.
US09570595B2
A SiGe HBT has an inverted heterojunction structure, where the emitter layer is formed prior to the base layer and the collector layer. The frequency performance of the SiGe HBT is significantly improved through a better thermal process budget for the base profile, essential for higher cut-off frequency (fT) and a minimal collector-base area for a reduced parasitic capacitance, essential for higher maximum oscillation frequency (fmax). This inverted heterojunction structure can be fabricated by using ALE processes to form an emitter on a preformed epitaxial silicide, a base over the emitter and a collector over the base.
US09570591B1
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device comprises forming active regions on a semiconductor substrate, forming a gate stack over the active regions and regions adjacent to the active regions, depositing a layer of conductive material over the active regions and the substrate, patterning a first mask over the conductive material, etching to remove exposed portions of the conductive material and form conductive contacts, patterning a second mask over portions of the gate stacks and conductive contacts, and etching to remove exposed portions of the gate stack.
US09570590B1
A method is provided for forming an integrated circuit with an n-region including n-type FinFETs and a p-region including p-type FinFETs. Initially, a silicon-germanium (SiGe) layer consisting essentially of silicon (Si) and germanium (Ge) is formed. The SiGe layer is recessed to form a recessed SiGe layer in the n-type region while leaving an intact SiGe layer in the p-region. A Si layer consisting essentially of Si is formed on the recessed SiGe layer. The Si layer and recessed SiGe layer are patterned to form a Si/SiGe fin comprising a Si fin portion disposed on a recessed SiGe fin portion. The intact SiGe layer in the p-region is patterned to form an intact SiGe fin. The recessed SiGe fin portion in the n-region is selectively oxidized utilizing an oxidation process having an oxidation rate in the recessed SiGe fin portion faster than an oxidation rate in the Si fin portion.
US09570589B2
FinFET semiconductor devices and fabrication methods are provided. Discrete fins are formed on a substrate. An insulation layer is formed on the substrate between the discrete fins, the insulation layer having a top surface lower than a top surface of the fin and covering a portion of a sidewall surface of the fin. A sidewall spacer is formed covering the sidewall surface of the fin and exposing the top surface of the fin. A top portion of the fin is selectively nitrided to convert a thickness portion of the fin into a semiconductor nitride layer on a remainder fin. The semiconductor nitride layer is removed to form an opening on the remainder fin and between adjacent sidewall spacers. A stress layer is formed to fill the opening.
US09570586B2
Circuit fabrication methods are provided which include, for example: providing one or more gate structures disposed over a substrate structure, the substrate structure including a first region and a second region; forming a plurality of U-shaped cavities extending into the substrate structure in the first region and the second region thereof, where at least one first cavity of the plurality of U-shaped cavities is disposed adjacent in one gate structure in the first region; and expanding the at least one first cavity further into the substrate structure to at least partially undercut the one gate structure, without expanding at least one second cavity of the plurality of U-shaped cavities, where forming the plurality of U-shaped cavities facilitates fabricating the circuit structure. In one embodiment, the circuit structure includes first and second transistors, having different device architectures, the first transistor having a higher mobility characteristic than the second transistor.
US09570582B1
A method of removing a dummy gate dielectric layer is provided. Firstly a first plasma containing F is utilized to remove the dummy dielectric layer which contains Si and O. Then a second plasma containing H2 is utilized to remove fluorine compound on the surface of the semiconductor substrate. Since the fluorine residue formed after the first plasma treatment reacts with the second plasma to form a gaseous product HF, the fluorine element can be taken away from the semiconductor device with the HF, which prevents inversion layer offset and gate current leakage occurred in the subsequent processing steps due to the fluorine element.
US09570574B1
A method of fabricating a contact above a source or drain region of an integrated circuit includes depositing a first liner conformally in a bottom and along a sidewall of a trench formed above the source or drain region, depositing a second liner conformally over the first liner, and stripping the first liner and the second liner from a portion of the sidewall from an opening of the trench to a height above the bottom of the trench. The method also includes depositing a third liner conformally over the second liner on the bottom and to the height above the bottom of the trench and on the portion of the sidewall, and depositing a metal fill to fill the trench.
US09570571B1
Described herein are semiconductor devices and methods of forming the same. In some aspects, methods of forming a semiconductor device includes forming a gate stack having a self-aligning cap and a gate metal on a substrate, depositing a resist mask onto the semiconductor device, and patterning the resist mask such that the gate stack is exposed. Additionally, methods include removing the self-aligning cap and the gate metal from the exposed gate stack, depositing a resistor metal on the semiconductor device such that a metal resistor is formed within the exposed gate stack, and forming a bar contact and contact via above the metal resistor.
US09570568B2
A semiconductor component, which includes a substrate, an interfacial layer disposed on the substrate, a first metal gate structure and a second metal gate structure disposed on the substrate. The first metal gate structure includes a first high-k dielectric layer disposed on the interfacial layer, and a first metal gate layer disposed on the first high-k dielectric layer. The second metal gate structure includes a second high-k dielectric layer disposed on the interfacial layer, a third high-k dielectric layer disposed on the second high-k dielectric layer, and a second metal gate layer disposed on the third high-k dielectric layer.
US09570565B2
A metalization of a field effect power transistor having lateral semiconductor layers on an insulator substrate or an intrinsically conducting or doped semiconductor substrate is provided. A metalization of source electrode contact areas, a metalization of drain electrode contact areas and a metalization of gate electrode contact areas are on a semiconductor surface of the semiconductor layers and have a plurality of metalization layers, between which insulation layers are arranged in a lateral direction. The metalization layers both for the source electrode metalization and for the drain electrode metalization have a comb structure with contact fingers. The contact fingers of the source electrode metalization and of the drain electrode metalization intermesh in a spaced-apart fashion and each contact finger has a contact finger foot and a contact finger tip. A width of the contact finger foot is greater than a width of the contact finger tip.
US09570562B1
A method of planarizing a polysilicon gate are provided, comprising: growing a polysilicon gate layer on a substrate with trenches; depositing an oxide layer on the polysilicon gate layer; oxidizing the top portion of the polysilicon gate layer from the flat surface of the oxide layer, so as to form a silicon oxide interlayer in the top portion of the polysilicon gate layer; the bottom of the silicon oxide interlayer is aligned with or lower than the low-lying areas of surface of the polysilicon gate layer; removing the oxide layer and the silicon oxide interlayer, so as to obtain a flat surface of the polysilicon gate layer and avoid a series of problems resulted from the uneven surface in the subsequent processes.
US09570560B2
An electronic device includes a silicon carbide layer having a first conductivity type and a main junction adjacent a surface of the silicon carbide layer, and a junction termination region at the surface of the silicon carbide layer adjacent the main junction. Charge in the junction termination region decreases with lateral distance from the main junction, and a maximum charge in the junction termination region may be less than about 2×1014 cm−2.
US09570551B1
A lateral epitaxial growth process is employed to facilitate the fabrication of a semiconductor structure including a stack of suspended III-V or germanium semiconductor nanowires that are substantially defect free. The lateral epitaxial growth process is unidirectional due to the use of masks to prevent epitaxial growth in both directions, which would create defects when the growth fronts merge. Stacked sacrificial material nanowires are first formed, then after masking and etching process to reveal a semiconductor seed layer, the sacrificial material nanowires are removed, and III-V compound semiconductor or germanium epitaxy is performed to fill the void previously occupied by the sacrificial material nanowires.
US09570538B2
Various embodiments provide computer program products and computer implemented methods. In some embodiments, aspects provide for a method of manufacturing a polysilicon resistor with a selected temperature coefficient of resistance (TCR), the method including selecting a sheet resistance for the polysilicon resistor, the selected sheet resistance being related to a selected film thickness of the polysilicon resistor, selecting a dose level for a grain size modulating species (GSMS) for modulating an average grain size of grains of the polysilicon resistor, selecting a thermal coefficient of resistance (TCR) for the polysilicon resistor, the TCR being related to a selected average grain size of the polysilicon and forming the polysilicon resistor on a substrate, the polysilicon resistor having the selected sheet resistance, the selected GSMS dose level and the selected TCR.
US09570536B2
The methods for forming an inductor structure are provided. The method includes forming an oxide layer over a substrate, and the layer includes an opening. The method includes forming a magnetic material over the oxide layer and in the opening and forming a patterned photoresist layer over the magnetic material, wherein the patterned photoresist layer overlaps the opening. The method further includes performing an etching process on the magnetic material using the patterned photoresist as a mask.
US09570523B2
A method of making a display device includes forming first electrodes of organic light emitting diodes in respective pixel areas on a substrate, forming a first common layer on the first electrodes in the pixel areas, forming emission layers in the pixel areas on the first common layer, forming a second electrode of the organic light emitting diodes on the emission layer, and applying physical pressure to divide the first common layer.
US09570521B2
A display device includes: a first display panel and a second display panel disposed to face each other; a backlight unit interposed between the first display panel and the second display panel; and a speaker unit including a first piezoelectric module and a second piezoelectric module sharing an enclosure and disposed to face each other, a first output unit configured to output sound produced from the first piezoelectric module, and a second output unit configured to output sound produced from the second piezoelectric module.
US09570513B2
The disclosure relates to an integrated circuit comprising a transistor comprising first and second conduction terminals and a control terminal. The integrated circuit further comprises a stack of a first dielectric layer, a conductive layer, and a second dielectric layer, the first conduction terminal comprising a first semiconductor region formed in the first dielectric layer, the control terminal comprising a second semiconductor region formed in the conductive layer, and the second conduction terminal comprising a third semiconductor region formed in the second dielectric layer.
US09570511B2
Electronic devices having semiconductor elements and methods for fabricating such devices including, a method for fabricating an electronic device including a semiconductor memory, which includes: forming a sacrificial layer on a substrate including a first region and a second region; selectively etching the sacrificial layer and the substrate of the first region to form a trench; forming a first gate that fills a part of the trench in the first region; forming a gate protection layer on the first gate to fill the remaining part of the trench; removing the sacrificial layer of the first region to form a grooved portion surrounded by the gate protection layer; forming a conductive plug to cover the grooved portion; removing the sacrificial layer of the second region; and forming a second gate on the substrate of the second region.
US09570510B2
An MRAM device may include semiconductor structures, a common source region, a drain region, a channel region, gate structures, word line structures, MTJ structures, and bit line structures arranged on a substrate. Each of the semiconductor structures may include a first semiconductor pattern having a substantially linear shape extending in a first direction that is substantially parallel to a top surface of the substrate, and a plurality of second patterns that each extend in a third direction substantially perpendicular to the top surface of the substrate. A common source region and drain region may be formed in each of the semiconductor structures to be spaced apart from each other in the third direction, and the channel region may be arranged between the common source region and the drain region. Gate structures may be formed between adjacent second semiconductor patterns in the second direction. Word line structures may electrically connect gate structures arranged in the first direction to each other. MTJ structures may be electrically connected to corresponding ones of the second semiconductor patterns. Each bit line structure may electrically connect two adjacent MTJ structures in the first direction to each other.
US09570508B2
A photoelectric conversion unit generates an amount of charges. A differential amplifier has first and second input transistors and is configured to output a current signal based on the amount of charges. A reset voltage providing unit is configured to provide a reset voltage for input nodes of the first and second input transistors. A transfer transistor is electrically connected to, and configured to transfer a charge to, the input node of the first input transistor. A reset transistor is electrically connected to one of the input nodes, and configured to control an electrical connection between the reset voltage providing unit and the input node connected to the reset transistor. A connection transistor has first and second nodes and is configured to control an electrical connection between the input nodes. The first and second nodes are connected to the input nodes of the first and second input transistors, respectively.
US09570506B2
A photoelectric conversion device includes a pixel circuit section including: a first semiconductor region containing a first conductivity type impurity; a second semiconductor region formed in the first semiconductor region by using the first conductivity type impurity; a third semiconductor region formed in the second semiconductor region by using a second conductivity type impurity; and a contact plug formed on the third semiconductor region. A net concentration of the first conductivity type impurity is higher in the second semiconductor region than in the first and third semiconductor regions. In the second and third semiconductor regions, a distance between the contact plug and a position where the concentration of the second conductivity type impurity is maximum is equal to or less than a distance between the contact plug and a position where the concentration of the first conductivity type impurity is maximum.
US09570502B2
Various embodiment include optical and optoelectronic devices and methods of making same. Under one aspect, an optical device includes an integrated circuit having an array of conductive regions, and an optically sensitive material over at least a portion of the integrated circuit and in electrical communication with at least one conductive region of the array of conductive regions. Under another aspect, a film includes a network of fused nanocrystals, the nanocrystals having a core and an outer surface, wherein the core of at least a portion of the fused nanocrystals is in direct physical contact and electrical communication with the core of at least one adjacent fused nanocrystal, and wherein the film has substantially no defect states in the regions where the cores of the nanocrystals are fused. Additional devices and methods are described.
US09570496B2
The present disclosure relates to a solid-state imaging element and an electronic device capable of suppressing occurrence of a dark current and acquiring higher image quality.The solid-state imaging element includes a high-concentration diffusion layer configured to serve as a connection portion by which a wiring is connected to a semiconductor substrate, and a junction leak control film formed to cover a surface of the diffusion layer. Also, to connect the wiring to the diffusion layer, a width of an opening formed in an insulation film stacked on the semiconductor substrate is greater than a width of the diffusion layer. Further, in a charge accumulation portion configured to accumulate a charge generated by a photoelectric conversion portion generating the charge according to an amount of received light, the junction leak control film is also used as a capacitor film of the charge accumulation portion. Furthermore, a stack structure in which a silicon oxide or low interface state oxide film is formed is included between the diffusion layer and the junction leak control film. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a CMOS image sensor.
US09570493B2
A back side illumination (BSI) image sensor with a dielectric grid opening having a curved lower surface is provided. A pixel sensor is arranged within a semiconductor substrate. A metallic grid is arranged over the pixel sensor and defines a sidewall of a metallic grid opening. A dielectric grid is arranged over the metallic grid and defines a sidewall of the dielectric grid opening. A capping layer is arranged over the metallic grid, and defines the curved lower surface of the dielectric grid opening. A method for manufacturing the BSI image sensor is also provided.
US09570492B2
A pixel array of an image sensor includes multiple red, green, blue and panchromatic pixels. The red, green and blue pixels are formed on a substrate during a first process. Planarization material is deposited to form the panchromatic pixels on the substrate and to form a planarization layer on the red, green and blue pixels during the same second process subsequent to the first process. The planarization material of the panchromatic pixels and the planarization layer is characterized in high transmittance and high aspect ratio.
US09570490B2
There are provided an infrared transmission filter, which is inexpensive, is capable of being sufficiently made lighter and thinner, has no incident angle dependency, and is excellent in permselectivity for infrared light, and an imaging device, which employs such an infrared transmission filter.An infrared transmission filter 10 includes an infrared transmission base material 1 selectively transmitting light in an infrared wavelength range; and a short wavelength side infrared absorbing film 2 formed on one side of the infrared transmission base material 1 and containing a near-infrared absorbent having an optical absorption edge on a short wavelength side of a transmission wavelength band of the infrared transmission base material. An imaging device includes the infrared transmission filter 10.
US09570480B2
A liquid crystal display includes a thin film transistor on a substrate, a pixel electrode connected to a first terminal of the thin film transistor, a roof layer above the pixel electrode, a microcavity between the pixel electrode and the roof layer, the microcavity including a liquid crystal injection hole, a partition wall in the microcavity, the partition wall partitioning the microcavity into a first area and a second area, and a liquid crystal layer with liquid crystal molecules in the microcavity, the liquid crystal molecules in the first area being a different type than the liquid crystal molecules in the second area.
US09570473B2
An array substrate, a manufacturing method thereof and a display device are disclosed. The manufacturing method of an array substrate including: forming patterns including a thin film transistor, a gate wiring and a data wiring on the base substrate; the gate wiring and the data wiring are located in a PAD area; forming patterns of an insulating spacing layer, a first transparent electrode and a passivation layer, and forming a first via hole and a second via hole in areas corresponding to the gate wiring and the data wiring respectively to expose the gate wiring and the data wiring; a thickness of the insulating spacing layer in the PAD area on the array substrate is less than that of the insulating spacing layer in other areas. Therefore, the connection electrode can make better contact with the corresponding signal lines to avoid abnormal rubbing mura.
US09570470B2
A display device including an oxide semiconductor, a protective circuit and the like having appropriate structures and a small occupied area is necessary. The protective circuit is formed using a non-linear element which includes a gate insulating film covering a gate electrode; a first oxide semiconductor layer which is over the gate insulating layer and overlaps with the gate electrode; and a first wiring layer and a second wiring layer each of which is formed by stacking a conductive layer and a second oxide semiconductor layer and whose end portions are over the first oxide semiconductor layer and overlap with the gate electrode. The gate electrode of the non-linear element is connected to a scan line or a signal line, the first wiring layer or the second wiring layer of the non-linear element is directly connected to the gate electrode layer so as to apply potential of the gate electrode.
US09570465B2
An integrated circuit, including: a first cell, including: FDSOI transistors; a UTBOX layer lying beneath the transistors; a first well lying beneath the insulator layer and beneath the transistors, the first well having a first type of doping; a first ground plane having a second type of doping, located beneath one of the transistors and between the insulator layer and the first well; a first STI separating the transistors and crossing the insulator layer; a first conductive element forming an electrical connection between the first well and the first ground plane, located under the first STI; a second cell including a second well; a second STI separating the cells, crossing the insulator layer and reaching the bottom of the first and second wells.
US09570455B2
A method of making a monolithic three dimensional NAND string including forming a stack of alternating layers of insulating first material and sacrificial second material different from the first material over a major surface of the substrate, forming a front side opening in the stack, forming at least one charge storage region in the front side opening and forming a tunnel dielectric layer over the at least one charge storage region in front side opening. The method also includes forming a semiconductor channel over the tunnel dielectric layer in the front side opening, forming a back side opening in the stack and selectively removing at least portions of the second material layers to form back side recesses between adjacent first material layers. The method also includes forming electrically conductive clam shaped nucleation liner regions in the back side recesses and selectively forming ruthenium control gate electrodes through the back side opening in the respective electrically conductive clam shaped nucleation liner regions.
US09570448B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a storage node hole passing through an upper support layer, a bowing prevention layer and an upper mold layer using a dry etching process, forming a lower electrode in the storage node hole, patterning the upper support layer and the bowing prevention layer to expose a portion of the upper mold layer, removing the upper mold layer and at least a portion of the bowing prevention layer using a first wet etching process, and sequentially forming a dielectric layer and an upper electrode that cover the lower electrode. An etch rate of the bowing prevention layer may be substantially equal to an etch rate of the upper support layer during the dry etching process. An etch rate of the bowing prevention layer may be higher than an etch rate of the upper support layer during the first wet etching process.
US09570441B2
A first trench and a second trench, both extending from a main surface into a semiconductor layer, are filled with a first fill material. The first fill material is selectively recessed in the first trench. A mask is formed that covers the second trench and that exposes the first trench. An oxidation rate promoting material is implanted into an exposed first section of the recessed fill material in the first trench. The mask is removed. Then the first fill material is thermally oxidized, wherein on the first section an oxidation rate is at least twice as high as on non-implanted sections of the first fill material.
US09570439B2
A semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor region of a first conductive type, a second semiconductor region of a second conductive type, a first electrode, a third semiconductor region of the second conductive type, a fourth semiconductor region of the first conductive type, and a conductive portion. The second semiconductor region is provided on the first semiconductor region. The first electrode is provided on the second semiconductor region. The third semiconductor region is provided on the first electrode. The fourth semiconductor region is provided on the third semiconductor region. The conductive portion is surrounded by the third semiconductor region and an intervening insulation portion and is electrically connected to the first electrode.
US09570438B1
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor body including first and second lateral surfaces. A first device region includes a drift region of a first conductivity type, and a drift current control region of a second conductivity type being spaced apart from the second lateral surface by the drift region. A second device region includes a barrier layer, and a buffer layer having a different band gap than the barrier layer so that a two-dimensional charge carrier gas channel arises along an interface between the buffer layer and the barrier layer. An electrically conductive substrate contact forms a low ohmic connection between the two-dimensional charge carrier gas channel and the drift region. A gate structure is configured to control a conduction state of the two-dimensional charge carrier gas. The drift current control region is configured to block a vertical current in the drift region via a space-charge region.
US09570429B2
Methods of fabrication and testing of three-dimensional stacked integrated circuit system-in-package
The present invention provides a method of fabricating a 3D stacked IC SiP which includes: providing a first semiconductor wafer having a plurality of first dies formed thereon, each having a first wire bond pad and a first dielectric layer, at least a portion of the first wire bond pad is not covered by the first dielectric layer and constitutes an exposed area of the first die; providing a plurality of second dies, each having a second wire bond pad and a second dielectric layer, at least a portion of the second wire bond pad is not covered by the second dielectric layer and constitutes an exposed area of the second die different in size from that of the first die; aligning the second dies with the first dies and bonding the second dielectric layer to the first dielectric layer; plating the first semiconductor wafer bonded with the second dies.
US09570426B2
A semiconductor light-emitting device includes a support body multiple, multiple light-emitting elements arranged in a matrix on the support body, a transparent resin layer provided on the light-emitting elements, multiple transparent plates provided on the transparent resin layer, each of the transparent plates being provided over one of the multiple light-emitting elements, and multiple optical shield layers each provided at one of a first side face of a first one of the transparent plates and a second the face of a second one of the transparent plates opposing the first the face of the first transparent plate.
US09570416B2
A plurality of microelectronic assemblies are made by severing an in-process unit including an upper substrate and lower substrate with microelectronic elements disposed between the substrates. In a further embodiment, a lead frame is joined to a substrate so that the leads project from this substrate. Lead frame is joined to a further substrate with one or more microelectronic elements disposed between the substrates.
US09570402B2
An alignment key of a semiconductor device includes: a material layer formed at a scribe region of a semiconductor substrate, a first dummy hole and a second dummy hole passing through the material layers, a first channel insulation layer formed inside the first dummy hole, a second channel insulation layer formed inside the second dummy hole, a first capping layer formed on a side wall of an upper portion of the first dummy hole and an upper portion of the first channel insulation layer, and a second capping layer formed on a side wall of an upper portion of the second dummy hole and an upper portion of the channel insulation layer, having a height of a lower surface portion greater than that of a lower surface portion of the first capping layer.
US09570400B2
Provided is semiconductor package, including a semiconductor chip; an upper structure over the semiconductor chip, the upper structure having a first thermal expansion coefficient; and a lower structure under the semiconductor chip, the lower structure having a second thermal expansion coefficient of less than or equal to the first thermal expansion coefficient.
US09570397B1
A local interconnect structure includes a substrate having a dielectric layer and at least one semiconductor contact structure embedded in the dielectric layer. An electrically conductive material is deposited in a non-eroded contact trench that defines at least one electrically conducive contact via. The contact via extends from a first end that is flush with an upper surface of the dielectric layer to a second end that contacts the at one semiconductor contact structure. A local conductive material layer is formed in the dielectric layer and contacts the first end of the contact via. The non-eroded contact trench includes sharp upper corners formed at approximately ninety degrees with respect to the first end of the contact via.
US09570380B2
An electronic device comprising: a semiconductor die integrating an electronic component; a leadframe housing the semiconductor die; a protection body, which surrounds laterally and at the top the semiconductor die and, at least in part, the leadframe structure, defining a top surface, a bottom surface, and a thickness of the electronic device; and a conductive lead electrically coupled to the semiconductor die. The conductive lead is modelled in such a way as to extend throughout the thickness of the protection body for forming a front electrical contact accessible from the top surface of the electronic device, and a rear electrical contact accessible from the bottom surface of the electronic device.
US09570374B2
A system includes a heat sink, a semiconductor device, and a layer of thermal interface material (TIM) disposed between the heat sink and the semiconductor device. The TIM may facilitate dissipation of heat generated by the semiconductor device via the heat sink. The system also includes a fastener system that couples the semiconductor device to the heat sink about the layer of TIM. The system also includes one or more washers of the fastener system that maintain a coupling force between the semiconductor device and the heat sink after the TIM flows.
US09570370B2
A multi chip package includes a protective layer having an upper surface that surrounds a first chip and a second chip, which are mounted over a first substrate, to expose an upper surface of the first chip and an upper surface of the second chip, a heat spreader disposed over the upper surfaces, and a thermal interface material disposed at an interface between the heat spreader and the upper surfaces.
US09570361B1
A semiconductor device having a reduced variation in threshold voltage includes a semiconductor substrate with a high dielectric-constant (high-k) layer deposited in a gate trench and on a semiconductor portion of the substrate. At least one workfunction layer has an arrangement of first and second workfunction granular portions on an upper surface of the high-k layer to define a workfunction of the semiconductor device. The arrangement of first and second workfunction granular portions define a granularity of the at least one workfunction layer. A gate contact material fills the gate trench, wherein the high-k layer has a concentration of oxygen vacancies based on the granularity of the at least one work function metal layer so as to reduce the variation in the threshold voltage.
US09570359B2
A substrate structure, a complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) device including the substrate structure, and a method of manufacturing the CMOS device are disclosed, where the substrate structure includes: a substrate, at least one seed layer on the substrate formed of a material including boron (B) and/or phosphorus (P), and a buffer layer on the seed layer. This substrate structure makes it possible to reduce the thickness of the buffer layer and also improve the performance characteristics of a semiconductor device formed with the substrate structure.
US09570350B2
Microfeature workpieces having interconnects and conductive backplanes and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. One such device includes a semiconductor substrate having integrated circuitry and terminals electrically coupled to the integrated circuitry. The device also includes electrically conductive interconnects extending through at least a portion of the semiconductor substrate and electrically coupled to corresponding terminals. The device further includes a conductive backplane assembly having a conductive layer at a back side of the semiconductor substrate. One or more of the interconnects are electrically coupled to the conductive layer at the back side of the semiconductor substrate.
US09570345B1
Resistance increase in Cobalt interconnects due to nitridation occurring during removal of surface oxide from Cobalt interconnects and deposition of Nitrogen-containing film on Cobalt interconnects is solved by a Hydrogen thermal anneal or plasma treatment. Removal of the Nitrogen is through a thin overlying layer which may be a dielectric barrier layer or an etch stop layer.
US09570343B2
The present invention is a new formulation and process for treating TiN semiconductor devices having a high aspect ratio structure formed thereon. The new composition is designed to be used in the chip making process between cleaning a wet etched memory device and its final rinse/drying process. It is intended to include the treatment in order to prevent collapse of the high aspect ratio TiN structure found on the semiconductor device.
US09570335B2
According to the invention, a dicing film, which generates a small amount of scrapes and beard-like burrs during dicing and furthermore has desirable strength and external appearance, is provided. The dicing film according to the invention has an adhesive layer on at least one surface of a base film, wherein the base film contains a copolymer (A) of at least two kinds of alkyl(meth)acrylates and styrene; and a styrene-based elastomer (B). The copolymer (A) of at least two kinds of alkyl(meth)acrylates and styrene is a styrene-alkyl methacrylate-alkyl acrylate copolymer.
US09570334B2
A method for positioning a wafer in semiconductor fabrication is provided. The method includes sending a wafer into a processing chamber by a transferring module. The method further includes producing a video image in relation to an edge of the wafer by a monitoring module. The method also includes performing an image analysis on the video image to determine if the edge of the wafer is in a correct position. If the edge of the wafer is not in a correct position a shifting value is calculated and the wafer is moved according to the shifting value.
US09570318B1
Embodiments are directed to a method of forming portions of a fin-type field effect transistor (FinFET). The method includes forming at least one fin, and forming a dielectric layer over at least a portion of the at least one fin. The method further includes forming a work function layer over at least a portion of the dielectric layer. The method further includes forming a source region or a drain region adjacent the at least one fin, and performing an anneal operation, wherein the anneal operation anneals the dielectric layer and either the source region or the drain region, and wherein the work function layer provides a protection function to the at least a portion of the dielectric layer during the anneal operation.
US09570312B2
Provided is a plasma etching method capable of favorably forming masks used when etching a multilayer film. This plasma etching method for etching boron-doped amorphous carbon involves using a plasma of a gas mixture comprising a chlorine gas and an oxygen gas, and setting the temperature of a mounting stage (3) to 100° C. or greater.
US09570311B2
Methods of thinning a plurality of semiconductor wafers and apparatuses for carrying out the same are disclosed. A grinding module within a set of grinding modules receives and grinds a semiconductor wafer. A polishing module receives the semiconductor wafer from the grinding module and polishes the wafer. The polishing module is configured to polish the semiconductor wafer in less time than the grinding module is configured to grind the corresponding wafer.
US09570309B2
A mask alignment system for providing precise and repeatable alignment between ion implantation masks and workpieces. The system includes a mask frame having a plurality of ion implantation masks loosely connected thereto. The mask frame is provided with a plurality of frame alignment cavities, and each mask is provided with a plurality of mask alignment cavities. The system further includes a platen for holding workpieces. The platen may be provided with a plurality of mask alignment pins and frame alignment pins configured to engage the mask alignment cavities and frame alignment cavities, respectively. The mask frame can be lowered onto the platen, with the frame alignment cavities moving into registration with the frame alignment pins to provide rough alignment between the masks and workpieces. The mask alignment cavities are then moved into registration with the mask alignment pins, thereby shifting each individual mask into precise alignment with a respective workpiece.
US09570301B2
A process for fabricating an integrated circuit is provided. The process includes providing a substrate and forming a hard mask on the substrate. The hard mask may be formed by atomic-layer deposition (ALD) or molecular-layer deposition (MLD). The process also includes disposing an exposure mask over the hard mask and exposing the exposure mask to a patterning particle to pattern a gap in the hard mask. The patterning particle may be, for example, a photon or a charged particle.
US09570300B1
A strain relaxed buffer layer of a second semiconductor material and of a second lattice constant and containing misfit dislocation defects and threading dislocation defects is formed atop a surface of a first semiconductor material of a first lattice constant that differs from the second lattice constant. The surface of the first semiconductor material includes at least one recessed region and adjoining non-recessed regions. An anneal is then performed on the strain relaxed buffer layer to propagate and amass the misfit dislocation defects and threading dislocation defects at a sidewall of each of the non-recessed regions of the first semiconductor material.
US09570296B2
A method of forming a semiconducting material includes depositing a graded buffer on a substrate to form a graded layer of an indium (In) containing III-V material, the In containing III-V material being indium-gallium-arsenic (InGaAs) or indium-aluminum-arsenic (InAlAs) and comprising In in an increasing atomic gradient up to 35 atomic % (at. %) based on total atomic weight of InGa or InAl; and forming a layer of InGaAs on the graded layer, the layer of InGaAs comprising about 25 to about 100 at. % In based on total atomic weight of InGa.
US09570288B2
The present invention relates to a method of producing a FinFET sensor device comprising the steps of: providing a silicon substrate; etching the silicon substrate to produce at least one upwardly extending Fin structure externally protruding from a surface of the silicon substrate; depositing a spacer layer on the at least one Fin structure; anisotropically etching a section of the spacer layer to expose the underlying silicon; isotropic etching of the exposed silicon surrounding the at least one Fin structure; and carrying out oxidation of the silicon surrounding the at least one Fin structure to produce a Fin structure of silicon inside the at least one Fin structure. The present invention also relates to FinFET sensor devices produced by the above method.
US09570273B2
A compact cold plasma device for generating cold plasma having temperatures in the range 65 to 120 degrees Fahrenheit. The compact cold plasma device has a magnet-free configuration and an induction-grid-free configuration. An additional configuration uses an induction grid in place of the input electrode to generate the cold plasma. A high voltage power supply is provided that includes a controllable switch to release energy from a capacitor bank to a dual resonance RF transformer. A controller adjusts the energy input to the capacitor bank, as well as the trigger to the controllable switch.
US09570271B2
A novel composition, system and method thereof for improving beam current during boron ion implantation are provided. The boron ion implant process involves utilizing B2H6, BF3 and H2 at specific ranges of concentrations. The B2H6 is selected to have an ionization cross-section higher than that of the BF3 at an operating arc voltage of an ion source utilized during generation and implantation of active hydrogen ions species. The hydrogen allows higher levels of B2H6 to be introduced into the BF3 without reduction in F ion scavenging. The active boron ions produce an improved beam current characterized by maintaining or increasing the beam current level without incurring degradation of the ion source when compared to a beam current generated from conventional boron precursor materials.
US09570264B2
Provided is an X-ray generator which includes:an electron path 8; a target 9c disposed on a substrate 9a, in which electrons having passed through the electron path 8 are made to emit at the target 9c and to generate an X-ray, wherein: the target 9c is disposed at the central area of the substrate 9a; at least a part of a peripheral area of the substrate 9a which is not covered with the target 9c has higher transmittance than that of the central area of the substrate 9a covered with the target 9c, with respect to the X-ray generated when electrons having reflected from the target enter an inner wall of the electron path. X-ray generation efficiency may be improved by effectively using electrons reflected off the target 9c.
US09570257B2
A method performed in a control unit for opening a contactor device. The contactor device includes a carrier being movable between a closed position in which a current is allowed to flow in a current path and an open position in which the current path is broken. The control unit is configured to enable the movement of the carrier between the closed position and the open position by energizing a coil of an electromagnetic circuit. The method includes: initiating the opening of the contactor device by de-energizing the coil, wherein the de-energizing includes using a demagnetization circuit including a discharge element, the discharge element being arranged to consume energy in the coil; bypassing, at a first point of time, the discharge element; and re-energizing the coil.
US09570249B1
Apparatus and methods relating to a remote control mounting system having a clip and base are disclosed herein. In various embodiments, the clip may be designed for a specific remote control, and/or the clip may be attached to the base in one or more positions, giving the remote control mounting system modularity.
US09570246B2
Disconnector for switchgear, having a first contact position, in which a contact is between main and first terminals, and a second contact position, in which a contact is between the main and second terminal. The disconnector includes a connector body moveable in a first direction between the first and second positions and having an end extendable in a direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction for providing a contact force between the end and the first, second or main terminals, a first operating mechanism arranged to move the body between the first and second positions, and a second operating mechanism arranged to extend the end when the disconnector is in either the first or second contact positions, in which the end includes a conical inside surface and the second operating mechanism includes a first shaft having a first conically shaped end positioned inside the conical inside surface.
US09570243B2
A carbonaceous composition usable to constitute a supercapacitor cell electrode, a porous electrode usable to equip such a cell, a process for manufacturing this electrode and one such cell incorporating at least one such electrode, for example in order to equip an electric vehicle. This composition is usable to be in contact with an aqueous ionic electrolyte, is based on a carbonaceous powder and comprises a hydrophilic binder-forming system. The system may include between 3% and 10% by weight a first crosslinked polymer having a number-average molecular weight Mn of greater than 1000 g/mol and having alcohol groups, and between 0.3% and 3% by weight a second polymer of at least one acid and which has a pKa of between 0 and 6 and a number-average molecular weight Mn of greater than 500 g/mol, the first polymer being crosslinked thermally in the presence of the second polymer.
US09570236B2
An electronic component is provided with: an electronic component body including a top face, a bottom face, a pair of side faces, and a pair of end faces provided with an outside electrode; and a pair of metal terminals individually connected to the pair of outside electrodes of the electronic component body, wherein the metal terminals is electrically and mechanically connected to the outside electrode of the electronic component body, and is also in contact with bottom face of the electronic component. The electronic component requires no jig or a simple jig if any for securing a metal terminal and electronic component body in place.
US09570232B2
Disclosed is a transformer for power line communication, capable of performing power line communication without being influenced by voltage attenuation due to voltage conversion. The transformer for power line communication includes: a transforming unit configured to convert a high primary voltage into a low secondary voltage, or convert a low secondary voltage into a high primary voltage; a separation unit configured to separate a data signal from a primary voltage input thereto; and a coupling unit configured to couple the data signal with the low secondary voltage.
US09570223B2
A transformer apparatus includes: a case with a component mounting surface; an external-terminal provided on a wall adjacent to the component mounting surface of the case; a transformer provided on the component mounting surface and including a magnetic core and a winding; and a support provided in a position between the external-terminal and the core on the component mounting surface, and including a first-slit in a top surface of the support, the first-slit holding a first-conductor of the winding drawn from the core and a second-conductor drawn from the external-terminal, wherein the first-conductor is held at one end of the first-slit by a conductive member, the second-conductor is held at the other end of the first-slit by the conductive member, the first-conductor and the second-conductor are electrically connected through the conductive member, and the first-conductor and the second-conductor have surplus lengths.
US09570215B2
A method for manufacturing a superconducting wire includes the following steps. A laminate metal having a first metal layer and a Ni layer formed on the first metal layer is prepared. An intermediate layer (20) is formed on the Ni layer of the laminate metal. A superconducting layer (30) is formed on the intermediate layer (20). By subjecting the laminate metal to a heat treatment after at least either of the step of forming a intermediate layer (20) and the step of forming a superconducting layer (30), a nonmagnetic Ni alloy layer (12) is formed from the laminate metal.
US09570213B2
A USB cable (100), comprising: a power wire (1) transferring positive power, a pair of signal wires (2), a metallic braided layer (6) enclosing on the power wire and the signal wires, and an insulative outer jacket (7) surrounding the metallic braided layer. The power wire comprises a metallic inner conductor and an insulative layer surrounding the inner conductor, a mylar film (11) is surrounding on the power wire, and the mylar film is made of Heat Seal PET.
US09570209B2
Provided are a conductive layer and a method of manufacturing the same. The conductive layer is formed without, so called, a high temperature process but has suitable crystallinity, excellent transparency and excellent resistance characteristic, and the method of manufacturing the same is also provided.
US09570208B2
A carbon nanotube composite wire includes a carbon nanotube wire and a metal layer. The carbon nanotube wire includes a plurality of carbon nanotubes spirally arranged along an axial direction of the carbon nanotube wire. The diameter of the carbon nanotube wire ranges from about 1 micrometer to about 30 micrometers. The twist of the carbon nanotube wire ranges from about 250 t/cm to about 300 t/cm. The metal layer is coated on a surface of the carbon nanotube wire. The thickness of the metal layer ranges from about 1 micrometer to about 5 micrometers.
US09570205B2
A radiation monitoring device comprises a radiation monitor and a test unit for testing the radiation monitor. The radiation monitor includes a radiation detector and a measurement unit. The test unit includes a test pulse generator and a test pulse controller. The measurement unit includes a counter circuit, a computing part that computes a count rate with the standard deviation kept constant, an input switching circuit. When a test mode is selected in the radiation monitor, the test pulse controller changes the repetition frequency of test pulses in a step-function manner to the same repetition frequency of a start count rate specified as reference, replaces a count rate in the computing part at current computing cycle with the start count rate, switches the input switching circuit to the test pulse input at next computing cycle to start the test, and then finishes the test after a predetermined time elapses.
US09570193B2
A method and circuit for implementing a hidden security key in Electronic Fuses (eFuses), and a design structure on which the subject circuit resides are provided. The circuit includes a race condition circuit coupled to a latching structure. The race condition circuit is characterized including respective driver strengths of each stage in the race as well as a sampling clock during chip testing. The data is used to store drive strengths for each stage in eFuses and is used to get a logical one or logical zero out of the final latching stage of the race condition circuit.
US09570188B2
The trimming range of a reference current is extended larger than that of the related art. A semiconductor device includes a reference current generating circuit that generates a reference current. The reference current includes a first base current, a second base current base current, a second base current, a temperature compensating current, and a voltage compensating current. The first base current can be trimmed. The second base current flowing opposite to the first base current can be trimmed. The temperature compensating current flows in the same direction as the first base current and has higher temperature dependence than the first and second base currents. The voltage compensating current flows in the same direction as the first base current and depends on power supply voltages more than the base currents.
US09570182B1
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device comprises an input circuit configured to input data, a memory cell array which includes memory cells enabling data to be held and to which the input data is written, a control circuit configured to control operation of a memory relating to the data, and a training circuit configured to execute training of the input circuit in parallel with the operation of the memory.
US09570175B2
An array of programmable non-volatile devices, such as a nominal OTP cell, is adapted such that a Vt representing a particular binary logic state can be changed over time. This allows for re-programming and emulating a few times or multi-time programmable device.
US09570173B2
A semiconductor storage device has a memory string including a memory cell, a bit line electrically connected to one end of the memory string, and a sense amplifier electrically connected to the bit line. The sense amplifier has a first transistor, one end of which is connected to a first node on an electric current path of the bit line, and another end of which is electrically connected to a second node, a second transistor electrically connected between the second node and a sense node, and a third transistor, a gate of which is connected to the first node, and the third transistor being electrically connected between the second node and a third node whose voltage can be adjusted.
US09570168B2
Provided are nonvolatile memory devices and a driving method of the nonvolatile memory devices. The nonvolatile memory devices may include a plurality of memory banks, a read global bit line shared by the plurality of memory banks, a write global bit line shared by the plurality of memory banks, a read circuit connected with the read global bit line and performing a read operation, and a discharge control circuit connected with the write global bit line and primarily discharging the write global bit line during an initialization interval after a power-up operation.
US09570166B1
A memory devices and methods can use multiple sense operations to detect a state of memory elements in a marginal state. In some embodiments, an evaluation circuit can generates an output value for a memory element in response multiple sense results for the same memory element.
US09570162B2
The invention provides a data read method. In one embodiment, a flash memory comprises a plurality of pages, and predetermined information is written into each of the pages of the flash memory. First, a target address of the flash memory is read according to a source read voltage to obtain source data and a source error correction code. When error bits of the source data cannot be corrected according to the source error correction code, the predetermined information corresponding to the source data is read from the flash memory according to the source read voltage to obtain correction information. The source data and the source error correction code are then amended according to the difference between the predetermined information and the correction information to obtain an amended data and an amended error correction code. Error bits of the amended data are then corrected according to the amended error correction code.
US09570155B2
Approaches for stability of cells in a Static Random Access Memory (SRAM) array are provided. A circuit includes a precharging circuit configured to precharge bitlines of a Static Random Access Memory (SRAM) array to a first voltage potential for a non-read operation and to a second voltage potential for a read operation. The first voltage potential is different than the second voltage potential.
US09570149B2
An output signal generation device in accordance with disclosed embodiments includes: a phase adjustment unit that generates an output signal on the basis of an input signal and is capable of executing an adjustment operation of setting the phase difference between the input signal and the output signal to a predetermined value; a holding unit that holds a reference voltage; a comparison voltage generation unit that generates a comparison voltage that is dependent on a power supply voltage; and a control unit that intermittently compares the comparison voltage with the reference voltage held in the holding unit, causes the phase adjustment circuit to execute the adjustment operation when the comparison result satisfies a predetermined condition representing a variation in the power supply voltage, and changes the reference voltage held in the holding unit in accordance with the power supply voltage.
US09570147B2
A refresh control method of a semiconductor package, comprising: providing a semiconductor package including a first semiconductor chip and a second semiconductor chip; monitoring a temperature of each of a plurality of sensing areas of the first semiconductor chip when the first semiconductor chip operates; identifying at least one memory bank of the second semiconductor chip corresponding to an area having a lower temperature among the sensing areas; controlling the second semiconductor chip to transfer data to the identified memory bank from another memory bank of the second semiconductor chip; and controlling a refresh operation of the second semiconductor chip such that a period of a refresh operation on the identified memory bank is greater than that of a period of a refresh operation on the other memory bank.
US09570143B2
A semiconductor memory device includes: a plurality of memory areas; a target area setting unit suitable for designating a target area according to a number of accesses to the respective memory areas; a random address generation unit suitable for generating a random address within the respective memory areas in a random manner; a target address generation unit suitable for generating a target address based on the target area and the random address; and a driving unit suitable for performing a smart refresh operation according to the target address.
US09570138B2
Memory cells and methods for forming a memory cell are presented. The memory cell includes a storage unit and a selector unit. The storage unit includes a magnetic storage element with first and second storage terminals and a bitline coupled to the second storage terminal. The selector unit includes a first selector and a second selector. The first selector may be a tunneling select transistor or a metal oxide semiconductor select transistor. The second tunneling select transistor is configured to have a second unidirectional current flow between its source and drain terminals. The second selector serves at least as a read selector for read operations of the memory cell and a read current is in the direction of the second unidirectional current flow between the source drain terminals of the second selector.
US09570129B2
A system has a plurality of memory devices arranged in a fly-by topology, each having on-die termination (ODT) circuitry for connecting to an address and control (RQ) bus. The ODT circuitry of each memory device includes a set of one or more control registers for controlling on-die termination of one or more signal lines of the RQ bus. A first memory device includes a first set of one or more control registers storing a first ODT value, for controlling termination of one or more signal lines of the RQ bus by the ODT circuitry of the first memory device, and a second memory device includes a second set of one or more control registers storing a second ODT value different from the first ODT value, for controlling termination of one or more signal lines of the RQ bus by the ODT circuitry of the second memory device.
US09570112B2
A system and method for providing multiple views recording is provided. In example embodiments, an indication to record serial events including a first event and a second event on a same channel is received. A recording stream is started at a beginning of the first event and ends at an end of the second event. View markings are inserted in the recording stream that differentiate a first view corresponding to the first event from a second view corresponding to the second event. Thus, the recording stream creates a single file that contains multiple views. The single file is stored for later playback.
US09570099B2
A magnetoresistive device that can include a magnetoresistive stack and an etch-stop layer (ESL) disposed on the magnetoresistive stack. A method of manufacturing the magnetoresistive device can include: depositing the magnetoresistive stack, the ESL and a mask layer on a substrate; performing a first etching process to etch a portion of the mask layer to expose a portion of the ESL; and performing a second etching process to etch the exposed portion of the ESL and a portion of the magnetoresistive stack. The method can further include depositing a photoresist layer on the hard mask before the first etching process and removing the photoresist layer from the hard mask following the first etching process. The first and second etching processes can be different. For example, the first etching process can be a reactive etching process and the second etching process can be a non-reactive etching process.
US09570095B1
In accordance with an implementation of the disclosure, systems and methods are provided for providing an estimate for noise in a speech signal. An instantaneous power value is received that corresponds to a frequency index of a portion of the speech signal. A first weighted power value is updated based on the instantaneous power value and a first weighting parameter. A second weighted power value is updated based on the first weighed power value and a second weighting parameter. An estimate of the noise is computed from the instantaneous power value and the second weighted power value.
US09570071B1
A voice interaction architecture that compiles multiple audio signals captured at different locations within an environment, determines a time offset between a primary audio signal and other captured audio signals and identifies differences between the primary signal and the other signal(s). Thereafter, the architecture may provide the primary audio signal, an indication of the determined time offset(s) and the identified differences to remote computing resources for further processing. For instance, the architecture may send this information to a network-accessible distributed computing platform that performs beamforming and/or automatic speech recognition (ASR) on the received audio. The distributed computing platform may in turn determine a response to provide based upon the beamforming and/or ASR.
US09570070B2
A system and method for processing multi-modal device interactions in a natural language voice services environment may be provided. In particular, one or more multi-modal device interactions may be received in a natural language voice services environment that includes one or more electronic devices. The multi-modal device interactions may include a non-voice interaction with at least one of the electronic devices or an application associated therewith, and may further include a natural language utterance relating to the non-voice interaction. Context relating to the non-voice interaction and the natural language utterance may be extracted and combined to determine an intent of the multi-modal device interaction, and a request may then be routed to one or more of the electronic devices based on the determined intent of the multi-modal device interaction.
US09570063B2
A method and system for achieving emotional text to speech. The method includes: receiving text data; generating emotion tag for the text data by a rhythm piece; and achieving TTS to the text data corresponding to the emotion tag, where the emotion tags are expressed as a set of emotion vectors; where each emotion vector includes a plurality of emotion scores given based on a plurality of emotion categories. A system for the same includes: a text data receiving module; an emotion tag generating module; and a TTS module for achieving TTS, wherein the emotion tag is expressed as a set of emotion vectors; and wherein emotion vector includes a plurality of emotion scores given based on a plurality of emotion categories.
US09570054B2
A musical bar for a musical instrument includes a striking surface and a back surface which is a back side of the musical bar from the striking surface. When the striking surface is struck, the musical bar is vibrated to produce a musical tone with a unique pitch as a pitch of a fundamental tone. A recess is formed in the musical bar so as to be recessed from the back surface toward the striking surface. A position of a node of vibration of the fundamental tone for the musical bar is substantially aligned with an imaginary center of gravity of the recess in a longitudinal direction of the musical bar.
US09570051B1
A sound resonator device for internal connection to a guitar or other musical instrument that has strings tensioned over any type of bridge piece. The resonator device includes a torsion arm affixed to a sound board of the instrument from which is connected a plurality of involute coil sets, each made from a harmonically predetermined thickness (or gauge) of metal wire secured at its opposite end to the instrument interior.
US09570048B2
Herein disclosed an image display including: row scan lines configured to supply a control signal; column signal lines configured to supply a video signal; and pixel circuits configured to be disposed at intersections between the scan lines and the signal lines, wherein each of the pixel circuits has at least a drive transistor, a sampling transistor connected to a gate of the drive transistor, a capacitive part connected between the gate and a source of the drive transistor, and a light-emitting element connected to the source of the drive transistor.
US09570046B2
An approach is provided for rendering content based on chunks and layers. A request is received to render content at a device. One or more layers of the content are determined. One or more patterns are determined corresponding to one or more of the layers. One or more chunks are determined based, at least in part, on the one or more patterns. At least one of the layers and corresponding one or more chunks are determined to be rendered separately from the other layers.
US09570045B2
A terminal apparatus includes a display, a display control unit configured to display a screen on the display in a given display mode, a first selection operation detection unit configured to detect that a first selection operation concerning the given display mode has been performed in a given area of the screen, and a second selection operation detection unit configured to detect that a second selection operation concerning given processing has been performed in the given area of the screen. The display control unit displays a screen by changing to a second display mode based on detection of the first selection operation in the screen displayed in a first display mode, performs the given processing based on detection of the second selection operation, and performs display control processing for displaying a screen in the first display mode after the given processing.
US09570041B2
Reducing energy usage by a monitor includes a map manager between a monitor interface and a processor that divides a display area of a monitor into areas and stores display information in a staging area. The map manager distinguishes an active window selected by a user from the remainder inactive, unselected areas of a display, and further determines a used subset of areas within the active window distinguished from the remainder unused areas as a function of a user preference. Accordingly, the map manager drives the monitor at each of the used area active window areas with the processor display information stored in the staging area at a normal luminance specified by the processor display information, and at each of the remainder unused, inactive and unselected areas of the total display area at a reduced luminance lower than the specified normal luminance.
US09570038B2
A mobile device and a method for controlling the mobile device are provided. The mobile device includes a flexible display unit that has a first longitudinal edge and a second longitudinal edge and is configured to be wound in spiral turns and thereby to create at least two display regions with respect to a boundary between the first longitudinal edge in one turn and the second longitudinal edge in a next turn. The mobile device further includes a sensor unit configured to sense the boundary and to determine a display region, and a control unit configured to control the determined display region.
US09570034B2
The present disclosure relates to a pixel cell circuit of compensation feedback voltage. The pixel cell circuit is provided with the compensation capacitance (C_co), one end of the compensation capacitance (C_co) electrically connects to the compensation level wirings G(m)_co, and the other end of the compensation capacitance (C_co) electrically connects to the drain of the TFT (T1) and the pixel electrode (P). A level of the compensation signals transmitted by the compensation level wirings G(m)_co is opposite to the level of the scanning signals transmitted by the scanning lines G(m). When the pixel electrode has been fully charged, the compensation capacitance generates a pull-up feedback voltage for compensating the pull-down voltage caused by the parasitic capacitance so as to eliminate the effects toward the pixel electrodes caused by the scanning signals transmitted by the scanning lines. This configuration not only decreases the flickers, but also the image sticking. In brief, the display uniformity and the display performance are enhanced.
US09570025B2
A gate driving apparatus and display device are provided to settle abnormal display in a full screen caused by abnormality in signals output from a shift register when short-circuit occurs in wirings associated with gate lines within a liquid crystal panel. The apparatus comprises a plurality of gate driving units connected in cascade. Each stage of the gate driving units comprises a shift register unit and a relay unit whose pulling-up control terminal is connected to an output terminal of the shift register unit, reset signal terminal is connected to a reset signal terminal of the shift register unit, pulling-down control terminal is connected to pulling-down control node of the shift register unit, first power-supply input terminal is connected to first power voltage, second power-supply input terminal is connected to second power voltage, and output terminal is connected to the gate line as output terminal of the gate driving unit.
US09570022B2
A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel of a normally black type which receives a plurality of scan signals and a common voltage having a voltage level which periodically varies, and a backlight unit which provides backlight to the liquid crystal panel, where the plurality of scan signals sequentially has a scan-on voltage along a first direction, and the backlight has a luminance which is increased or decreased along the first direction.
US09570017B2
To provide a hold-type display device without a problem of motion blur and a driving method thereof. The length of a period for displaying a blanking image in one frame period is controlled in accordance with a control parameter showing the degree of motion blur, and the level of a signal supplied to a display element is changed in accordance with the length of the period for displaying the blanking image. Accordingly, the hold-type display device without a problem of motion blur and the driving method thereof can be provided.
US09570013B2
A light control device adjusts light intensity. The light control device determines whether or not the image based on an image signal is a correction object based on an image feature quantity of the image signal, and set adjustment information for adjusting intensity of light based on the determined result. Then, the light control device adjusts the light intensity of the light for the image display based on the adjustment information.
US09570011B2
A source driver IC chip, designed to prevent flicker in images displayed on a display panel while suppressing power consumption and heat generation, includes: a reference gradation voltage generating part (220) configured to generate a reference gradation voltage based on a first or second gamma characteristic of the display panel, using first and second power supply voltages (VH) and (VL) inputted through first and second external terminals (PA2, PA3); and a third external terminal (PA4) for externally outputting said reference gradation voltage. The source driver IC chip further includes first and second gradation voltage generating parts configured to generate first and second gradation voltages respectively, using a reference gradation voltage based on a first gamma characteristic inputted through a fourth external terminal and a reference gradation voltage having a second gamma characteristic inputted through a fifth external terminal respectively.
US09570008B2
A pixel circuit of an organic light emitting display device includes an emission unit, an emission control unit, a current supply unit, and a switch unit. The emission unit emits light based on an emission current. The emission control unit controls an emission operation of the emission unit based on a scan signal and a data signal. The current supply unit adjusts the emission current based on a current sinking operation performed based on an external constant current source, where the current supply unit is connected to the external constant current source. The switch unit controls an electrical connection operation between the emission control unit and the current supply unit.
US09570007B2
A pixel circuit able to prevent a spread of the terminal voltages of drive transistors inside a panel and in turn able to reliably prevent deterioration of uniformity, wherein a source of a TFT serving as a drive transistor is connected to an anode of a light emitting element, a drain is connected to a power source potential, a capacitor is connected between a gate and source of the TFT, and a source potential of the TFT is connected to a fixed potential through a TFT serving as a switch transistor and wherein pixel circuit lines are connected by an upper line and bottom line and are arranged in parallel with pixel circuit power source voltage lines so as not to have intersecting parts.
US09570006B2
An organic light-emitting display device which divides each frame into a plurality of sub-frames and represents gray levels based on the sum of the lengths of one or more sub-frames during which light is emitted, the organic light-emitting display device comprising a display unit including a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix, a scan driver configured to provide a scan signal to the display unit during each sub-frame period and a precharge voltage unit configured to provide a precharge voltage to the pixels, wherein the pixels are divided into a first pixel column block including a pixel receiving the scan signal before the other pixels and a second pixel column block next to the first pixel column block in a direction of the application of the scan signal and the precharge voltage is selectively provided to pixels included in the first pixel column block.
US09570002B2
Exemplary methods and systems use a micro light emitting diode (LED) in an active matrix display to emit light and a sensing IR diode to sense light. A display panel includes a display substrate having a display region, an array of subpixel circuits, and an array of selection devices. Each subpixel circuit includes a driving circuit to operate a corresponding infrared (IR) emitting LED in a light emission mode. Each selection device may be coupled to a corresponding sensing IR diode to operate the corresponding sensing IR diode in a light sensing mode.
US09570001B2
An organic light-emitting diode pixel circuit addresses problems associated with power consumption of a conventional 3D image display using two displayed adjacent frames of image signals that are spaced by a black picture. The pixel circuit includes a signal pre-storage module for storing a signal in a current frame of image signal, when the voltage of a first drive signal is higher than the voltage of a second drive signal and a gate line connected with the pixel is enabled; and a drive module for driving a drive transistor when the voltage of the first drive signal is higher than the voltage of the second drive signal; and to generate a current drive signal from the signal stored in the signal pre-storage module in the current frame of image signal, when the voltage of the first drive signal is not higher than the voltage of the second drive signal.
US09569999B2
There is provided a signal generation apparatus for generating an output video signal based on an input video signal provided corresponding to an image to be displayed, the output video signal being a signal for driving an image display section including a display area, the display area including a plurality of pixels arranged in a two-dimensional matrix. At a change of the input video signal from low-brightness display to high-brightness display for a portion of the display area including one or more of the pixels, during a period for the signal change, the output video signal being generated for each of the one or more of the pixels in the portion of the display area to obtain a higher brightness than usual for the portion of the display area.
US09569996B2
A pixel includes a load, a transistor which controls a current supplied to the load, a storage capacitor, and first to fourth switches. By inputting a potential in accordance with a video signal into the pixel after the threshold voltage of the transistor is held in the storage capacitor, and holding a voltage of the sum of the threshold voltage and the potential, variations of a current value caused by variations of threshold voltage of a transistor can be suppressed. Consequently, a predetermined current can be supplied to the load such as a light-emitting element. Further, by changing the potential of a power supply line, a display device with a high duty ratio can be provided.
US09569993B2
A pixel array including first and second signal lines, an active device, a pixel electrode and selection lines is provided. The second signal lines are intersected with the first signal lines to drive the active device, and the pixel electrode is connected to the active device. The selection lines are electrically insulated to the second signal lines and intersected with the first signal lines, where at least one selective line is disposed between the adjacent two second signal lines. An amount ratio of the first signal lines and the selection lines is a1/a2, where a1≦a2, and when a1 and a2 are mutually prime numbers, the selection lines are divided into a plurality of groups, and each group includes a1 selection lines electrically connected to the first signal lines, and (a2−a1) selection lines not electrically connected to the first signal lines.
US09569988B2
Disclosed herein is a display apparatus including: a first pixel including three sub-pixels for displaying three primary colors respectively; and a second pixel including three sub-pixels for displaying two colors selected among the three primary colors and a predetermined color other than the three primary colors, wherein, in the first pixel, the size of the display surface of a sub-pixel for displaying a specific color included in the three primary colors as a specific color missing from the second pixel is larger than each of the sizes of the display surfaces of the two other sub-pixels for displaying the two other primary colors respectively.
US09569986B2
A system and method for measuring biologically and behaviorally based responses to social media, locations, or experiences and providing instant and continuous feedback in response thereto. The system and method of the invention is capable of monitoring stress levels and well-being and may be implemented using a cloud-based infrastructure for remote monitoring.
US09569982B2
Computer implemented methods and systems to provide self-care and acclimation recommendations to a client device based on a unique health profile and environmental conditions.
US09569980B2
A security door breach training system comprising a frame member; a plurality of elongate members, each of the elongate members fixed to the frame member and having a free end spaced from the frame member, the plurality of elongate members including at least one capture member, a first clevis member, and a second clevis member fixed to the frame member opposite the first clevis member; at least one retention bar attached between two of the elongate members and spaced a distance from the frame member; and at least one retaining pin adjacent to the frame member, the at least one retaining pin comprising an elongate element at least partially adjacent to the frame member and having a first end and an opposing second end, a retaining pin socket attached to the elongate element proximal to the first end, and a stub extending from the at least one elongate element proximal to the second end.
US09569976B2
The present invention includes methods circuits, devices and systems for personality interpretation and expression. A personality interpretation and expression system may include central processing logic in addition to a personality engine. The central processing logic may be adapted to generate a data set corresponding to collected user and/or environment information. The personality engine may be adapted to evaluate a data set received from the central processing logic and generate at least one interaction instruction corresponding to the data set. Generating an interaction instruction is at least partially based on a comparison between the data set and a data set in a personality database functionally associated with or otherwise integral to the personality engine.
US09569974B2
A method and assembly for guidance of an aircraft during a low-altitude flight. The guidance assembly comprises a memory forming part of a flight management system, which is configured to store an active flight trajectory and any new flight trajectory, generated by the flight management system, and a memory forming part of a guidance system, which is configured to also store the flight trajectory and any new flight trajectory, which are received from the flight management system, the guidance assembly being configured to periodically transmit from the guidance system to the flight management system identification codes for the flight trajectories recorded in the memory of the guidance system.
US09569964B2
The present invention relates to a warning system for advising of dangerous situations in an aggressive setting. The warning system for advising of dangerous situations in an aggressive setting comprises at least one radiofrequency beacon (3-9) and at least one radiofrequency badge (11-17). The beacon comprises a means (3, 5) for emitting a magnetic field wave. The badge comprises a means (13, 15) for receiving the magnetic field wave radiated by the beacon. The badge comprises a means (17) for emitting a wave at very high frequency, activated by the means (13, 15) for receiving the magnetic field wave radiated by the beacon and the beacon comprises a means (7, 9) for receiving the very high frequency wave emitted by the badge, said means (7, 9) for receiving the very high frequency wave activating a warning facility for advising of dangerous situations.
US09569962B2
The invention relates to a method for assigning an identity certificate (I1, I2) transmitted by a vehicle (16, 18) to an object (O1, O2, O3, O4), which is detected by a sensor device (28) in identification apparatus (22) external to the vehicle. To this end, the identification apparatus receives the identity certificate (I1, I2), measures by means of the sensor device (28) a first value (V1) relating to at least one operating parameter of the object, receives a second value (V1, V2) of the vehicle (16, 18) relating to the at least one operating parameter and determined by the vehicle (16, 18) itself, compares the first value and the second value of each operating parameter with each other and assigns the identity certificate (I1) to the object (O1) if the two values for each operating parameter match.
US09569954B2
A remote control system for controlling a vehicle with a smart phone. The system includes the smart phone programmed with an application that can be installed in the phone via a computer or downloaded from the Internet. The system also includes the vehicle that has been equipped with a radio antenna adapted for communication with the smart phone, an electric power source, servo controller drive motor and a programmable microcontroller (including sensors) and a servo controller steering motor.
US09569945B2
A system is provided that includes a plurality of fire detectors distributed throughout a secured geographic area, a monitoring panel that detects a status of each of the plurality of fire detectors and saves a status indicator of the fire detector indicating one of normal, alarm, and fault into a memory along with a time value, an alarm processor of the monitoring panel that detects alarm signals from the plurality of fire detectors and presents respective indicators of the activated fire detectors on a geographic map of the secured area shown on a display, and a fire progression processor that displays an indicator of a progression of a fire on the map of the display based upon the status indicators saved in memory and upon a correlation between a status indicator of alarm in a previous time period and a status indicator of fault in a more recent time period.
US09569933B2
Systems and methods for conducting a localized, electronic card game tournament adaptable for play in private homes and public venues with no equipment or system modifications are disclosed. In one embodiment the tournament players' identities are verified. Once the players identities are identified, they are provided with handheld electronic game units and tournament entry credentials. Players will enter their tournament entry credentials into the respective handheld electronic game units. Once the tournament entry credentials have been entered into the handheld electronic game unit, game events are transmitted to the handheld electronic game unit from a single remote server. Furthermore, in this embodiment, the tournament entry fee, if any, is maintained separately from the remote game server and the handheld electronic game units. The fees may be collected and/or winnings may be paid in case, through electronic transfer or through electronic currency.
US09569930B2
A gaming system including a central server linked to a plurality of gaming machines. The gaming system includes a point or count based system to provide one or more awards to one or more players. Such points are accumulated by a player based on one or more events associated with the player's gaming experience. The points or counts utilized in the gaming system are selectively redeemed by the player in exchange for one or more opportunities to win an award. It should be appreciated that in one embodiment, the equalizing units disclosed herein are different, separate and independent from any monetary based points or credits, any promotional based points or credits, or any player tracking points.
US09569914B2
A slot machine includes a display on which symbols are rearranged in partitioned regions arranged in a matrix pattern including a plurality of columns and rows. The display includes a plurality of display windows corresponding to the respective columns for each unit game. In each of the display windows, for each slot game, executed is video display in which a symbol array having a plurality of symbols arranged therein is scrolled in an arrangement direction of the symbols. By this video display, the symbols arranged in the partitioned regions are rearranged in the slot game. When a feature game trigger is established during the slot game, an additional “WILD” symbol is inserted into the symbol array. The symbols in each symbol array have background images, respectively. The background images of a predetermined number of consecutive symbols immediately upstream of the “WILD” symbol are displayed in a predetermined color, and the background images of the other symbols are displayed in a normal color.
US09569911B2
A method for facilitating a rapid return of a article to an article dispensing machine is provided. The article dispensing machine comprises a first user interface portion having the first user interface, a second user interface portion having a second user interface, and an article transfer portion for vending and returning articles. The method includes receiving from a first user interface a first request to return the article, determining whether the article transfer portion is available to enable the return of the article, and based on the availability determination, displaying through a first user interface screen associated with the first user interface portion information indicating whether to proceed with the return of the article or to wait for a notification to proceed with the return.
US09569910B2
A banknote dispensing/receiving mechanism of a banknote processing device includes a housing and a baffle, the baffle is an elastic retaining piece, the elastic retaining piece has one end fixed with respect to the housing and another end being a free end, and the elastic retaining piece is located in the discharging route of banknotes. When the banknote dispensing/receiving mechanism operates, after the banknotes being discharged by a banknote-dispensing conveying mechanism, the banknotes fall onto the elastic retaining piece, and the elastic retaining piece provides a supporting force for the banknotes. When all the banknotes are discharged, the banknotes are pushed by a banknote pushing plate to apply a pushing force to the elastic retaining piece, and at this moment the elastic retaining piece generates a plastics deformation, which makes the banknotes and the banknote pushing plate pass through the elastic retaining piece together, to further perform subsequent operations.
US09569908B2
The invention relates to a device (10, 30, 40, 50) for receiving notes of value, comprising a base body (12) and a lid (14) for closing an opening of the base body (12). Another aspect of the invention relates to a device (60) for displaying the opening of a lid (14) closing an opening of a base body (12) of a cash box (10, 30, 40, 50, 80). Both devices (10, 30, 40, 50, 60) comprise a sensor (16, 64) for detecting the opening of the lid (14) and a display unit (18). Further, the devices (10, 30, 40, 50, 60) comprise a control unit (20) that controls the display unit (18) in such a manner that, at least when the sensor (16, 64) has detected an unauthorized opening of the lid (14), that the display unit (18) displays information on the opening of the lid (14).
US09569906B2
The present invention discloses the adherent PHBV-PCDA electrospun mats on paper for use as an authentication feature. Further disclosed herein is the process for preparation of adherent PHBV-PCDA electrospun mats and use of the above product to authenticate cigarettes.
US09569904B2
An intelligent entrance guard unlocking method includes: transmitting electric energy of an intelligent entrance guard by wireless electromagnetic radiation via a transmit coil; receiving the electric energy via a receive coil of a powerless smart key; scanning an eye of a user to recognize an iris image of the user and storing the iris image in a second storage unit of the powerless smart key; controlling a wireless transmit unit of the powerless smart key to transmit a wireless signal containing the iris image to the intelligent entrance guard; obtaining a predefined iris image from a first storage unit of the intelligent entrance guard and comparing the iris image with the predefined iris image; unlocking the intelligent entrance guard when the iris image matches with the predefined iris image and not unlocking the intelligent entrance guard when the iris image does not match with the predefined iris image.
US09569898B2
There is provided a display control device including an action information acquisition unit that acquires, at an action position of one actor, action information regarding a past action of another actor, an object generation unit that generates a virtual object for virtually indicating a position of the other actor during an action of the one actor based on the acquired action information, and a display control unit that causes a display unit displaying a surrounding scene to superimpose and display the generated virtual object during the action of the one actor.
US09569889B2
In an approach for updating instructions of machine repairs to a user interface, a processor populates a quantity of machine components used to construct a machine model. A processor receives the machine model constructed from the quantity of machine components. A processor couples the machine model with a set of vital product data. A processor associates a set of instructions for a repair procedure with the machine model and the vital product data file. A processor generates a visual representation of the repair procedure specific to the machine model.
US09569885B2
One embodiment of the present invention includes techniques for pre-computing ambient shadowing parameters for a computer-generated scene. A processing unit retrieves a reference object associated with the computer-generated scene and comprising a plurality of vertices. For each vertex in the plurality of vertices, the processing unit computes a local ambient shadowing parameter, and stores the local ambient shadowing parameter in a memory. For each instance of the reference object included in the computer-generated scene, the processing unit computes a first global ambient shadowing parameter based on the position of the instance within the computer-generated scene, and stores the first global ambient shadowing parameter in the memory. One advantage of the disclosed embodiments is that ambient obscurance is applied to instance objects in a scene in real time while reducing memory space dedicated to storing the AO parameters.
US09569878B2
Thin invention introduces a five-dimensional rasterization technique that uses a test based on triangle edges in order to obtain high efficiency. A compact formulation of five-dimensional edge equations is used to derive a conservative triangle edge versus tile test in five dimensions, expressed as an affine hyperplane.
US09569875B1
Unordered list operations are used to create and modify ordered lists of components. Each list operation specifies an intention to change some aspect of an ordered list, such as the addition or removal of components or a change in the sequence of components. List operations are associated with intrinsic and extrinsic time-independent attributes. Multiple users can collaborate on an ordered list by specifying their own list operations. List operations are cumulative and do not destructively overwrite list operations from previous pipeline activities. An embodiment of the invention interprets list operations in a time independent manner using intrinsic and extrinsic list operation attributes. Because list operations are processed in a time-independent manner, multiple users may collaborate in any order on the creation of an ordered list, including simultaneously editing the ordered list, and still obtain consistent results.
US09569874B2
A method and a system of stitching a plurality of views of a scene, the method including extracting points of interest in each view to include a point set from each of the plurality of image views of the scene, matching the points of interest and reducing an outlier, grouping the matched points of interest in a plurality of groups, determining a similarity transformation with a smallest rotation angle for each grouping of the match points, generating virtual matching points on a non-overlapping area of the plurality of image views, generating virtual matching points on an overlapping area for each of the plurality of image views, and calculating piecewise projective transformations for the plurality of image views.
US09569872B2
The application provides a method for rasterization. According to the method, a primitive may be divided, at a position where a color abruptly changes in the primitive, into a plurality of sub-primitives with continuously and gradually changing colors. Each of the sub-primitives is then rasterized. The present application further provides an apparatus for rasterizing an image. The apparatus may comprise a dividing module configured to divide a primitive at a position where a color abruptly changes into a plurality of sub-primitives with continuously gradually changing colors. Furthermore, the apparatus may comprise a rasterizing module configure to rasterize each of the sub-primitives. The application may improve the speed of the rasterization and the quality of the processed image.
US09569871B2
One or more processors receive a dataset that includes a plurality of nodes. One or more processors identify relationships between a plurality of interacting nodes within the dataset. One or more processors determine relationship strength values between a plurality of interacting node pairs within the dataset. One or more processors generate a graphical representation that represents the relationship strength values between the plurality of interacting nodes within the dataset. Interacting node pairs are connected by edges and the edges have a length that correlates with the relationship strength value between the interacting node pairs.
US09569870B2
Disclosed are a system and a method for generating multiple a master glyph. The system for generating a multiple master glyph according to the present invention includes: a user terminal receiving a grapheme from a user and converting the grapheme into a grapheme image; a server extracting vector data of the grapheme image; and an editor generating a basic grapheme glyph and an extended grapheme glyph and grouping the basic grapheme glyph and the extended grapheme glyph into a MMG.
US09569867B2
Various embodiments are generally directed to techniques for increasing the amount of information conveyed per graphical object in graphical presentations of data. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium includes instructions, that when executed, cause a computing device to determine a major range of values occurring during a major period, the major period including a shorter minor period; and generate a vector graph including a graphical object and an axis indicating a scale. The graphical object may include a major period line parallel to the axis and indicating the major range; and a minor period arrow overlying and pointing in a direction parallel to the length of the major period line, the point and base of the minor period arrow overlying the major period line at locations indicating values at an end and at a start, respectively, of the minor period. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09569865B2
A system includes a computing device that includes a memory configured to store instructions. The computing device also includes a processor to execute the instructions to perform operations that include receiving information that indicates whether an asset presenter being executed by a computing device is capable of presenting one or more colored fonts of a web asset. In response to receiving the information, sending color font information to the computing device to allow content of the web asset represented in colored fonts to be presented by the computing device.
US09569862B2
An example method of providing a solid texture map to a graphics processing unit (GPU) includes dividing a tile of renderable content into a plurality of partitions. The method also includes determining that a set of partitions of the plurality of partitions is a solid color. The method further includes generating a solid texture map indicating that the set of partitions of the plurality of partitions is a solid color. The method also includes providing access to the solid texture map to a GPU.
US09569858B2
A cross-platform web-based system for water testing capable of measuring, analyzing and maintaining the quality of water using a plurality of different test strip readers each configured to obtain a digital image of a reagent test strip, normalize and analyze color information in the digital image by colorimetric analysis, and to transmit a set of colorimetric values corresponding to said digital image to a cross-platform cloud-based system for analysis. The cloud-based server(s) receive the colorimetric values, calculate analyte parts-per-million (ppm), and return the calculated analyte ppm with consistant results no matter which reader is used.
US09569857B2
Techniques described herein convert digital images into images suitable for use as coloring book pages and the like. The techniques include applying a smoothing operator to at least one channel image of a digital input image to form at least one smoothed image. A scaling operator is then applied to the at least one smoothed image to form at least one scaled image. A tone equalization operator is then applied to the at least one scaled image to form at least one equalized image. An edge detection operator is then applied to the at least one scaled image to form at least one edge image. In addition, a threshold operator is applied to the at least one edge image to form at least one threshold image. A digital line drawing is then created based at least in part on the at least one threshold image.
US09569855B2
An apparatus and method for extracting an object of interest from an image using image matting are disclosed herein. The apparatus for extracting an object of interest from an image using image matting includes a saliency map generation unit, a trimap generation unit, and an alpha map generation unit. The saliency map generation unit generates a saliency map corresponding to an object of interest inside an input image using a color space probability distribution corresponding to the input image. The trimap generation unit generates meta-trimaps using filters, and generates a trimap by clustering the meta-trimaps. The alpha map generation unit generates an alpha map using the trimap and a matting Laplacian matrix, and extracts the object of interest based on image matting using the alpha map and the input image.
US09569849B2
A network for indicating and communicating detection of hostile fire, and systems, methods, and computer program products thereof. Hostile fire is optically detected and identified at a first vehicle and such identification is transmitted from the first vehicle to one or more other vehicles in the network. Data regarding hostile fire directed at the first vehicle can be stored at one or more of the other vehicles and even retransmitted to other vehicles or base stations.
US09569847B1
One of the described methods includes receiving a plurality of images from a camera, the plurality of images comprising a sequence; identifying one or more two-dimensional features in each of a plurality of images in the received sequence of images; associating a three-dimensional point with each of the identified one or more two-dimensional features; tracking each of the one or more two-dimensional features through successive images in the plurality of images; and iteratively minimizing a two-dimensional image error between the tracked each of the one or more two-dimensional features and an image reprojection with respect to the three-dimensional point corresponding to the one or more two-dimensional features and a three-dimensional position of the camera corresponding to one or more of the plurality of images.
US09569845B2
A method and system for characterizing cell motion comprising: receiving image data corresponding to a set of images of a cell culture captured at a set of time points; segmenting, from at least one image of the set of images, a cell subpopulation from the cell culture; determining a resting signal for the cell subpopulation; determining a single-peak motion signal based upon the set of images, the set of time points, and the resting signal; detrending the single-peak motion signal of the cell subpopulation based upon the resting signal; determining values of a set of motion features of the cell subpopulation, thereby characterizing cell motion; and clustering the cell subpopulation with at least one other cell subpopulation based upon at least one of the single-peak motion signal and a value of the set of motion features.
US09569843B1
A method for denoising Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) data includes receiving a noisy image acquired using an MRI imaging device and determining a noise model comprising a non-diagonal covariance matrix based on the noisy image and calibration characteristics of the MRI imaging device. The noisy image is designated as the current best image. Then, an iterative denoising process is performed to remove noise from the noisy image. Each iteration of the iterative denoising process comprises (i) applying a bank of heterogeneous denoisers to the current best image to generate a plurality of filter outputs, (ii) creating an image matrix comprising the noisy image, the current best image, and the plurality of filter outputs, (iii) finding a linear combination of elements of the image matrix which minimizes a Stein Unbiased Risk Estimation (SURE) value for the linear combination and the noise model, (iv) designating the linear combination as the current best image, and (v) updating each respective denoiser in the bank of heterogeneous denoisers based on the SURE value. Following the iterative denoising process, the current best image is designated as a final denoised image.
US09569836B2
Cases in which defects are analyzed in a manufacturing process stage in which a pattern is not formed or in a manufacturing process in which a pattern formed on a lower layer does not appear in the captured image are increasing. However, in these cases, there is a problem of not being able to synthesize a favorable reference image and failing to detect a defect when a periodic pattern cannot be recognized in the pattern. In the present invention, a defect occupation rate, which is the percentage of an image being inspected occupied by a defect region, is found, it is determined whether the defect occupation rate is higher or lower than a threshold, and, in accordance with the determination results, it is determined whether to create, as the reference image, an image comprising pixels having the average luminance value of the luminance values of a plurality of pixels contained in the image being inspected. In particular, when the defect occupation rate is low, an image comprising pixels having the average luminance value of the luminance values of a plurality of pixels contained in the image being inspected is used as the reference image.
US09569833B2
The torque which is required to open a plastic screw closure which is screwed onto a bottle is determined without contact by the rotation position of the screwed-on plastic screw closure in relation to the bottle being established. The rotation position is established by evaluating an image on the basis of a mark on the bottle and a mark on the screw closure. Ventilation slots which interrupt the turns of the screw thread on the bottle neck can be used as the mark on the bottle, and a predetermined breaking point on a securing ring of the screw closure can be used as the mark on the screw closure.
US09569829B2
An image processing apparatus comprising: an obtaining unit configured to obtain a plurality of radiation images that have been sensed without arranging an object and include a defect, and information about the defect included in the radiation images; and a generation unit configured to generate a sensitivity correction image not including the defect based on the plurality of radiation images and the information about the defect.
US09569824B2
With regard to a distortion correction apparatus and method which are applicable to hardware for real-time distortion correction, provided are a distorted image correction apparatus and method for correcting a distortion of an image by using a non-polynomial estimation function suitable for a hardware operation, and for correcting the distortion of the image by utilizing a morphing form.
US09569815B1
Systems and methods for optimizing resolution of an electronic display device are disclosed. A computer program product for optimizing display resolution of an electronic device includes a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith. The program instructions are executable by a computing device to cause the computing device to: detect the presence of at least one user; determine an identity of the at least one user; obtain, from a user data storage module, personalized optimal resolution data of the at least one user; and adjust the resolution of the electronic device display based on the personalized optimal resolution data.
US09569809B2
A method and apparatus verify whether a pattern extracted from an image or a video frame is identical to an original pattern in an electronic device. The method includes extracting a pattern and converting the extracted pattern into a first pattern of a binarized grid type, verifying pixel information of the first pattern, and determining whether the first pattern is identical to an original pattern in consideration of a similar degree between the pixel information of the first pattern and pixel information of the original pattern.
US09569805B2
A method and system for dynamically routing electric power in real time in accordance with parameters submitted by buyers and sellers of electric power using a feedback control scheme. A control node is arranged for receiving the parameters via a wide area network and to generate a route plan based on the parameters as well as current supply and demand in a network. The control node is also connected to the transmission and distribution systems to dynamically route electric power between matched buyers and sellers to effect the route plan.
US09569795B1
A computer-implemented method of captures transaction data associated with a purchase made on a client computer running a web browser client process and coupled over the Internet to an e-commerce server system. In this embodiment, the browser client process includes a script-generated process based on an e-commerce script served to the browser client process. The e-commerce script includes a user-enterable execute command that causes sending of a consummate-purchase command to the e-commerce server system. The method of this embodiment includes serving to the browser client process a capture script, the capture script configured to cause creation of an event log and, on entry of the execute command, to cause sending of the event log to an event server system.
US09569793B2
A method of providing dynamic content includes providing a client device with access to an online marketplace over a network. The method also includes facilitating transmission of a user identifier stored by the client device to a payment service provider. The method further includes receiving dynamic content from the payment service provider in response to the user identifier. In addition, the method includes serving the dynamic content to the client device over the network.
US09569786B2
Systems and methods are described for excluding individuals from retail analytics. Pedestrian traffic within a predetermined area is monitored via a video sensor to determine a video entrance. The video entrance may correspond to entrances of the predetermined area by a first set of individuals. The pedestrian traffic may also be monitored via a plurality of wireless sensors to determine a wireless entrance. The wireless entrance may correspond to entrances by a second set of individuals. The video entrance and the wireless entrance are compared to determine if any of the entrances associated with a video timestamp match any of the entrances with a wireless timestamp. An overall entrance count corresponding to the number of customers entering the predetermined area is determined. Retail analytics excluding employees may subsequently be calculated using the overall entrance count.
US09569783B2
Disclosed are a system and a method for providing an advertisement service and a smart card applied to the same. The system includes the smart card to extract meta data by searching for accumulated and processed personalized information according to the request for a personalized advertisement from a user terminal, and to provide the URL information for advertisement contents by searching for the advertisement contents, which are embedded based on the SCWS function, according to the meta data to provide the URL information of the advertisement contents. Personalized information is obtained based on the SCWS function and the USIM, and a messaging advertisement service is realized based on the personalized information, so that information focusing on a use extracted through personal behavior analysis is provided.
US09569773B1
Systems, methods, and program products for providing secure authentication for electronic messages are disclosed. A method may comprise generating an asymmetric private key based at least in part upon an invariant biometric feature vector derived from an input biometric reading. The private key may be further based at least in part upon a user password. The resulting private key may not be stored but rather may be generated when required to authenticate an electronic message, at which time it may be used to provide a digital signature for the electronic message. The private key may be deleted after use. The private key may be regenerated by inputting both a new instance of the biometric reading as well as a new instance of the password.
US09569771B2
A method and system for storage and retrieval of blockchains with Galois Fields. One or more blocks for a blockchain are securely stored and retrieved with a modified Galois Fields on a cloud or peer-to-peer (P2P) communications network. The modified Galois Field provides at least additional layers for security and privacy for blockchains. The blocks and blockchains are securely stored and retrieved for cryptocurrency transactions including, but not limited to, BITCOIN transactions and other cryptocurrency transactions.
US09569762B2
Portable electronic devices such as portable telephones, portable computers and the like may obtain power from fuel cells that consume fuel from fuel reservoirs of the portable devices. A network of fueling stations permits users of portable devices to main the devices operational by frequently topping up the fuel reservoirs. Payment systems combine payments for fuel with larger payments for other transactions to avoid the overhead of processing individual payments for very small amounts.
US09569752B2
A method, an apparatus and computer readable storage media facilitate initiating an actionable message at a computing device in response to input of a defined sequence of characters at the computing device, and executing an action associated with the initiated actionable message in accordance with information that is specific to the actionable message.
US09569751B2
A graph database is described for use in connection with a contact center. The graph database includes a plurality of nodes and relationships that describe the operations, entities, personnel, and attributes in the contact center. Also included in the graph database is an attribute tree that enables a work assignment engine in the contact center to make proximity-based work assignment decisions.
US09569750B2
A method to provide additional gaming network functionality links a user's gaming network identity with the user's social network identity. Linkage of the user's gaming network and social network identities establishes a two way communication link by which a gaming (social) network service can obtain information from, and send information to, a social (gaming) network service on behalf of the user. The gaming (social) network service may obtain information regarding the social (gaming) network relationships of the user's social (gaming) network identity and suggest gaming (social) network relationships to the user based on the social (gaming) network relationships. The gaming (social) network service additionally enables a user having linked identities to post gaming (social) network related messages as social (gaming) network messages via their social (gaming) network identity.
US09569748B2
Embodiments of the invention can include systems and methods for dispensing consumable products. One embodiment of the invention can provide a product dispenser. The product dispenser can include a controller configured to communicate with a data processing resource, determine that a recipe database update for a recipe of at least one beverage is available at the data processing resource, receive the recipe database update from the data processing resource, and update the recipe of the at least one beverage in a recipe database associated with the product dispenser, wherein an updated recipe comprises an ingredient identifier and an ingredient ratio for an ingredient associated with the ingredient identifier.
US09569745B1
Techniques described herein are directed towards dynamically adding new pickup orders to an existing route structure. In at least some embodiments, a service provider separates a number of vendors into separate clusters based on one or more attributes. For example, the vendors may be separated by geographic region. The service provider may then identify a set of routes that are associated with each of the vendor clusters and run optimization techniques on that set of routes. The set of routes may be filtered based on attributes of the route. In some embodiments, the service provider may make a route alteration that accommodates the new pickup order.
US09569744B2
Various embodiments include at least one of systems, methods, and software for product notice monitoring. Some embodiments include at least one product notice database that is an aggregation of product notices, such as product recalls, bulletins, safety notices, updated usage guidelines, and the like, that may be issued by various different sources. The product notice database is monitored in such embodiments in view of products of an organization to identify possible matches. When a possible match is identified, the notice is provided to the organization. Some embodiments may include routing the notice to particular people or departments responsible for the relevant product(s) of the notice. The matching in some embodiments may be relative matching based on one or more forms of fuzzy logic, which allows for approximate matching, although not necessarily identical. The product notice monitoring may be performed in whole or in part in the cloud.
US09569743B2
Systems, methods, and media for the application of funnel analysis using desktop analytics and textual analytics to map and analyze the flow of customer service interactions. In an example implementation, the method includes: defining at least one flow that is representative of a series of events comprising at least one speech event, at least one Data Processing Activity (DPA) event, and at least one Computer Telephone Integration (CTI) event; receiving customer service interaction data comprising communication data, DPA metadata, and CTI metadata; applying the at least one flow to the customer service interaction data; determining if the customer service interaction data meets the at least one flow; and producing an automated indication based upon the determination.
US09569730B2
A method and device for optimal processing of a plurality of sets of coherent states of lights. The method includes: receiving a light having a coherent state; splitting the coherent state into a plurality of identical states (slices), each a coherent state with lower intensity than that of the received coherent state; transferring the information of each of the identical coherent states into a qubit; compressing the quantum information of the qubit into a quantum memory; and quantum processing the quantum information from the quantum memory.
US09569723B2
A method for predicting a patient's outcome variable, such as a probability of mortality/recovery, includes accessing at least one of a plurality past patients' data fields including physiological and/or laboratory data, and a time of stay indicating how long each patient had been under care at the time. An outcome variable estimation algorithm is generated by data mining from a plurality of past patients' physiological and/or laboratory data, corresponding time of stay, and associated outcome variables. A current patient's outcome variable is determined from the current patient's physiological and/or laboratory data, the current time of stay, and the outcome variable estimation algorithm.
US09569721B1
A system correlates intellectual property analyses, for example, patent claim charts, with respect to analyzed intellectual property and a target product or other intellectual property. Analyses are stored to enable searching and/or creating reports over multiple analyses. Units of the analysis are associated with a context, inherited, e.g., from the intellectual property document's assignment to a relative role within organizational hierarchy; and associated with a context derived from the analysis itself. The analysis and respective documents and/or targets of the analysis can be searched/retrieved/analyzed from the hierarchical analysis, the context analysis, and/or the content of the analysis. This obviates the need to store each analysis as a separate document. The target or annotations may be visually represented by an item such as a thumbnail or hyperlink, and the system automatically associates the item with the appropriate application program.
US09569717B2
According to one embodiment, a memory card includes a first case including a first surface, the first surface including a groove, and the first case including a recessed area, a second case including a second surface, the second case being bonded to the first case, a memory disposed between the first case and the second case, a write-protect switch disposed between the first case and the second case and disposed in the recessed area, and a first director disposed between the first case and the second case, the first director being provided along an edge portion of the first case or the second case excluding the recessed area.
US09569712B1
The present invention provides integrated circuit chips having chip identification aspects. The chips include magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) structures, and more specifically, include permanent bit strings used for chip identification and/or authentication. Systems and processes for chip identification are also disclosed herein. The MTJ element structures provided herein can have a defined resistance profile such that the intrinsic variability of the MTJ element structure is used to encode and generate a bit string that becomes a fingerprint for the chip. In some embodiments, an oxygen treatment covering all or a selected portion of an array of MTJ elements can be used to create a mask or secret key that can be used and implemented to enhance chip identification.
US09569706B2
An image processing apparatus includes a target value calculation unit configured to calculate a target value to be output in a predetermined region in input image data based on pixel values of pixels included in the region, a distribution order determination unit configured to determine a distribution order of output values for distributing output values corresponding to the target value in the region based on a pixel value of each pixel included in the region and a threshold value in the threshold matrix corresponding to the pixel, and an output value determination unit configured to determine an output value of each pixel included in the region by allocating the target value to at least one pixel included in the region in the distribution order.
US09569693B2
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for object identification and location correlation based on received images. A method is provided including receiving identity data associated with an object derived from one or more of a plurality of images determining an identity of an object in one or more of the plurality of images, receiving location information associated with a camera which captured the plurality of images, and correlating the identified object with a location for each of the respective images of the plurality of images.
US09569687B2
An image analysis device includes: an acquiring unit configured to acquire a moving image showing a variation of a respiratory status, the moving image being formed with frame images including an image of a heart; an image analyzing unit configured to generate a first index indicating a cardiac status with respect to each of the frame images; and an index analyzing unit configured to derive a second index indicating lung function from a change caused in the first indexes by the respiratory status.
US09569686B2
A method and system for determining a field of view region on a mobile device display is provided. The method includes receiving by a mobile device from a user facing camera of the mobile device, an image of a user currently using the mobile device. Key features of the image are identified and attributes of the key features are determined. The attributes are analyzed and a specified region within a field of view of an object facing camera of the mobile device is determined. Data associated with the specified region is provided for a software application.
US09569677B2
A device for directing radiation in the direction of an optical element of an image sensing device of a vehicle. The device includes a central area for directing at least one portion of a first incident radiation onto the optical element. The device also includes at least one border area for directing at least one portion of at least one second incident radiation onto the optical element. The at least one second incident radiation runs in the opposite direction or at an obtuse angle with respect to the first incident radiation.
US09569670B2
A method for destination and duration of stay determination in a geographically bounded area such as a smart home includes detecting movement by an identified individual in an origination location of a geographically bounded area and retrieving a contemporaneously generated pattern of movement for the individual. The method additionally includes comparing the pattern for the identified individual to a set of patterns in a pattern data store and predicting from a matching pattern both a destination location in the geographically bounded area and a duration of time at which the identified individual is to remain at the destination location. Finally, the method includes directing activation of a fixture at the destination location responsive to predicting the destination location, and directing deactivation of a fixture at the origination location responsive to predicting a duration of time that exceeds a threshold value.
US09569667B1
Image navigation of an input image by edge registration proceeds by generating a reference image kernel in which edges of a reference image are embraced by borders. Image intensities of the reference image kernel internal to the borders increase with decreasing distance from the edges. A registration score is computed by cross-correlating the image intensities of the reference image kernel with image intensities in the input image. A feature exists in the input image when the registration score meets a registration criterion.
US09569656B2
A system and machine-implemented method for real-time facial recognition at an image capture device is provided. The method includes capturing an image at an image capture device, the image containing at least a first person, analyzing the image to identify one or more data points corresponding to the first person, determining if mapping information corresponding to the one or more data points is locally available at the image capture device, sending a request to a remote device for mapping information when it is determined that mapping information corresponding to the one or more data points is not locally available at the image capture device, receiving mapping information corresponding to the one or more data points in response to the request and locally storing the mapping information at the image capture device.
US09569652B2
A digital-imaging based system reads graphical indicia, including code symbols, on objects such as, but not limited to, code symbol menus by the user pointing his or her finger at the particular code symbol on the code symbol menu to be read, while digital images of the code symbol menu and the pointing finger are automatically captured, buffered and processed.
US09569638B2
A trusted computing device (TCD) includes an isolated environment, host interface, secure interface, and program instructions. The environment includes an isolated environment processor (IEP), memory (secure and non-secure partition), and an auxiliary processor (AP). Memory and AP are connected for data communication with the IEP, and communicate with a host only through the IEP. The host interface and each secure interface are connected for data communication with the IEP. The instructions provision TCD for cryptographic operations via a secure interface; present a first file system partition comprising a write file and a read file with file creation/deletion privileges allocated only to the IEP at the host interface via the IEP; present a non-secured file system partition with access to the non-secure partition via the host interface via the IEP; receive, via the write file, requests to perform trusted computing; perform requested computing using the IEP, secure memory, and AP; and write results to the read file.
US09569637B2
Methods, apparatuses and storage medium associated with providing enhanced privacy during usage of computer vision are disclosed. In embodiments, an apparatus may include one or more privacy indicators to indicate one or more privacy conditions of the apparatus in association with provision of computer vision on the apparatus. The apparatus may further include a privacy engine coupled with the one or more privacy indicators, and configured to pre-process images from an image source of the apparatus associated with the provision of computer vision to the apparatus, to increase privacy for a user of the apparatus, and to control the one or more privacy indicators. In embodiments, the apparatus may include means for blanking out one or more pixels with depth values identified as greater than a threshold. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US09569635B2
A computer implemented system and method of sharing files between a link sharer and a link recipient over a network. The method comprises generating, in response to a request by a link sharer, a file sharing link to a file set, where the link does not provide a link recipient the ability to modify the contents of the linked file set. In response to receiving an indication that the generated link has been activated by a link recipient, displaying a representation of the linked file set with a display element configured to send a request for modification rights to the linked file set when activated by the link recipient. In response to receiving the request for modification rights, either automatically granting modification rights to the linked file set or sending notice to the link sharer indicating that the link recipient is requesting modification rights to the linked file set.
US09569628B2
To prevent piracy, audiovisual content is encrypted prior to transmission to consumers. A low-cost, high-security cryptographic rights module (such as a smartcard) enables devices such as players/displays to decode such content. Security-critical functions may be performed by the cryptographic module in a manner that allows security compromises to be addressed by upgrading or replacing cryptographic modules, thereby avoiding the need to replace or modify other (typically much higher-cost) components. The security module contains cryptographic keys, which it uses to process rights enablement messages (REMs) and key derivation messages (KDMs). From a REM and KDM, the security module derives key data corresponding to content, uses public key and/or symmetric cryptography to re-encrypt the derived key data for another device, and provides the re-encrypted key data to the decoding device. The decoding device then uses cryptographic values derived from the re-encrypted key data to decrypt the content.
US09569627B2
System and methods are disclosed for governing digital rights management systems and other applications through the use of supervisory governance applications and keying mechanisms. Governance is provided by enabling the supervisory applications to revoke access keys and/or to block certain file system calls, thus preventing governed applications from accessing protected electronic content.
US09569601B2
A system and method for authenticating and enabling functioning of a manufactured electronic device are disclosed. A particular embodiment includes: an electronic device comprising: a protected device; and an embedded and active obfuscation unit including: an obfuscation code generator to produce an obfuscation code having a first portion representing manufacturing or physical characteristics of a particular paired system and a second portion representing one or more identifiers of the particular paired system; an authentication key retriever to use the obfuscation code to obtain an authentication key from an authorized representative using an external data communication; and an obfuscation state machine configured with a pre-defined quantity of state elements, a pre-defined quantity of the state elements being functional state elements, the obfuscation state machine being programmed with the authentication key to cause the obfuscation state machine to transition the protected device from an initial obfuscation state to a functional state.
US09569599B2
The write-access control line for an RTC is combined with a clear line for an RTC signature register, so that changes to the RTC will cause subsequent reads to return an invalidity flag.
US09569589B1
A system includes a plurality of RFID chips affixed to medical items, a data collection engine device, and a server device. The data collection engine wirelessly transmits power to a first one of the RFID chips and receives first medical data from the first RFID chip while the first RFID chip is activated by the power receiver. The data collection engine generates a first message indicative of the first medical data to be sent to the server device. The server device can determine aspects of the medical items such as position and consumption based upon the first medical data.
US09569582B2
A mechanism is provided for validating overall resilience and security characteristics of a sub-component chip design. For each instance of a resiliency template identified as appearing in a design netlist of the sub-component chip design thereby forming one or more identified resiliency sections, a determination is made as to whether an output of the design netlist where an error signal is output interconnects to the one or more identified resiliency sections of the design netlist. Responsive to the one or more identified resiliency sections interconnecting to the output of the design netlist where the error signal is output, one or more identified resiliency sections are marked as being protected by the error signal. An identification of the one or more identified resiliency sections and an identification of the error signal protecting the one or more identified resiliency sections are output to a design team.
US09569581B1
A method, executed by a computer, for routing a circuit includes receiving a logic structure for a circuit, retrieving a logic template, determining whether the logic structure for the circuit matches the logic template, and routing the circuit using a routing recipe corresponding to the logic template in response to determining that the logic structure matches the logic template. A corresponding computer program product and computer system are also disclosed herein.
US09569573B1
A computer-implemented method includes identifying an electronic circuit, which includes a plurality of circuit elements and is based on a circuit design. The circuit design includes structural information and logical information. The method generates a first verification model for the circuit design. The verification model includes a plurality of error report signal paths for each of the plurality of circuit elements. The method identifies a first circuit element output based on the plurality of error report signal paths. The method sets output for at least one of the first plurality of circuit elements to a fixed value. The method generates a second circuit element output based on the plurality of error report signal paths and setting output for at least one of the first plurality of circuit elements to a fixed value. The method determines a difference between the first circuit element output and the second circuit element output.
US09569566B2
A description of a device and method of use are provided for a containment chamber, accompanying sensing and monitoring instrumentation, and method of creation of a physical force wave that would be capable of mimicking physiologic waves such as pulse pressure, muscle contraction, peristalsis, acoustic waves and other desired waves to be studied. This device allows for the use of various biologic or biologically comparable fluids—alone or in combination—that would allow for the analysis of the passage of these waves through these media. Singularly, this device also allows for the manipulation of the external constraints that mimic the containment of that media in vivo. This allows for the analysis of the effects on the nature of the wave, its reflections, potential augmentation or dampening that occur in conjunction with various selected external and internal (baffle) constraints that mimic those found in nature or in therapeutic interventions.
US09569564B2
The present invention provides methods to create a pattern part, and a subsequent mold core package, that can be used in the casting process to cast one or more die components having a near net-shape of the finished part. In this way, the present invention provides a cast part which greatly reduces the amount of finishing work that needs to be performed on the part after casting. Further, the present invention provides a method which involves less upfront stock material to cast the near net-shape of the desired die component part. The present invention accomplishes this by providing an efficient and effective automated method to determine where and how to add appropriate mechanical features to a design model part to produce a manufacturing model part in a CAD software program.
US09569552B2
A processor implemented method of configuring an application on a mobile device comprising a code reading device is disclosed herein. The method comprises: reading a code with the code reading device, the code relating to an organization; and configuring at least one parameter of a first application of the mobile device based on the code.
US09569551B2
Dynamically modelling geospatial words in social media, in one aspect, generates a word set based on frequencies of words occurring in GPS annotated text data generated by a GPS-enabled device containing latitude and longitude coordinates. Locations are partitioned by mapping GPS coordinates in the GPS annotated text data to a set of discrete non-overlapped locations. A text stream contained in the GPS annotated text data is segmented into time windows. Footprints of locations in time windows are generated. Geospatial weights associated with words in the word set may be generated based on localness of words determined based on the footprints. Words in a text message are extracted and scores are determined for the set of discrete non-overlapped locations associated with the words.
US09569546B2
A method for sharing documents includes initiating a sharing session with a first participant and a second participant, wherein the first participant is communicatively connected to the second participant via a server, receiving a control request having an action from the first participant, determining whether the control request includes a share page action, and retrieving components of the page with available component types and sending components associated with preferences of the first participant to the first participant and components associated with preferences of the second participant to the second participant responsive to determining that the control request includes the share page action.
US09569542B2
According to some embodiments, a system includes a business data provider, collaboration platform, a user client device, and a web application server interfacing with the business data provider, the user client device, and the collaboration platform. In some embodiments, the user client device communicates with the web application using a markup language to request and receive business data and collaboration data from the business data provider and the collaboration platform, respectively.
US09569536B2
Systems, methods, and media for proposing similar applications to a candidate application are provided. A similar results server may surface similar applications to a user of an application store. The applications can be selected based on similarity between features of the application. The features may be extracted from graphical user interface information rendered by a device that executes the applications. The applications that are identified as similar (e.g., based on the features) are displayed to the user.
US09569535B2
Interaction of a user with external data sources related to the research and analysis of terms and content for improved indexing by search engines may be provided. One or more elements of the content may be used to return an analysis of those elements to the user within the experience of a word processing application environment. Systems and methods also may be provided for determining the relative competition of a term or terms to quantitatively derive the number of pages within a corpus that may be actively engaged to improve the indexing of the pages by information retrieval systems, such as search engines. Systems and methods may be further provided for determining the relative ranking of a term or terms based on the frequency and placement of the term or terms within a structured page.
US09569531B2
A method and system for creating a histogram of oriented occurrences (HO2) is disclosed. A plurality of entities in at least one image are detected and tracked. One of the plurality of entities is designated as a reference entity. A local 2-dimensional ground plane coordinate system centered on and oriented with respect to the reference entity is defined. The 2-dimensional ground plane is partitioned into a plurality of non-overlapping bins, the bins forming a histogram, a bin tracking a number of occurrences of an entity class. An occurrence of at least one other entity of the plurality of entities located in the at least one image may be associated with one of the plurality of non-overlapping bins. A number of occurrences of entities of at least one entity class in at least one bin may be into a vector to define an HO2 feature.
US09569529B2
An Internet or other online service is personalized or customized based on data collected for a user of a computing device. In one embodiment, a method includes: storing a plurality of person profiles for persons associated with communications received by a user of a computing device; receiving data associated with an online service; and filtering, using at least one processor, the data based on the plurality of person profiles, wherein the filtered data is for display to the user on the computing device.
US09569527B2
Methods, systems and apparatus, including computer program products, for expanding search queries. One method includes receiving a search query, selecting a synonym of a term in the search query based on a context of occurrence of the term in the received search query, the synonym having been derived from statistical machine translation of the term, and expanding the received search query with the synonym and using the expanded search query to search a collection of documents. Alternatively, another method includes receiving a request to search a corpus of documents, the request specifying a search query, using statistical machine translation to translate the specified search query into an expanded search query, the specified search query and the expanded search query being in the same natural language, and in response to the request, using the expanded search query to search a collection of documents.
US09569526B2
In a publication system, such as an ecommerce system, machine translation translates a query in a first language to a second language to query an ecommerce database maintained in the second language and obtain a result set responsive to the query. Human activity feedback relating to the result set is detected. If the feedback is positive the system increases the probability that the translation is correct. If the feedback is negative the system decreases the probability that the translation is correct. For positive feedback, the system detects whether a clue is recognized in the query. If a clue is recognized the system increases the value of the clue for making the translation. The system may detect the identity of the product in the query, accesses the product vendor website that is maintained in the first language, and detect information that is in the first language for use translation process.
US09569513B1
Methods and apparatus for conditional master election in a distributed database are described. A plurality of replicas of a database object are stored by a distributed database service. Some types of operations corresponding to client requests directed at the database object are to be coordinated by a master replica. Client access to the database object is enabled prior to election of a master replica. In response to a triggering condition, a particular replica is elected master. The master coordinates implementation of operations with one or more other replicas in response to client requests.
US09569506B2
A unified interface that abstracts the underlying differences among heterogeneous data sources and data formats to produce uniform search results. While the result of an initial search may be exactly what the user was seeking, it is likely that the result is in the neighborhood of what was sought. It may aid the end user to provide guided data navigation suggestions to locate related data during data exploration, by providing analysis to identify data similarities among disparate data sources, and by providing guided combination options. The guided data navigation suggestions may include suggestions based on schematic, semantic, and social information. Guided data navigation may aid the user in moving from the initial search landing point in the data to the precise result sought.
US09569504B1
A system analyzes one or more search streams to detect one or more associations between a document and one or more queries in the one or more search streams. The system further derives a value for the document based on the detected associations and uses the derived value in evaluating a quality of the document with respect to one or more subsequent queries.
US09569486B2
An embodiment provides intermediate data derived in the form of column stores which are in turn based on hierarchical data stores. This intermediate data represents a reduced subset of data matched appropriately to a query (or modified query) such that the amount of data handled in a query processing task on large data is greatly reduced. An embodiment may appropriately choose column data stores and/or modify queries in order leverage parallelization techniques such as map-reduce in order to query large data. The result is the ability to query large data stores in parallel while reducing the amount of data that must be handled.
US09569480B2
The ability to perform non-destructive editing of files and models requires the generation and persistence of input deltas that capture changes that are made to a base starting point. Reconstitution of saved state may be achieved through the application of deltas. This capability is useful for failover remediation in client/server environments since the client has access to the deltas, such that in the event that a stateful service becomes unresponsive (and therefore, no longer available), the service may be taken offline and a new resource may be assigned as a replacement. In such an event, the service is directed to load the baseline data and any changes may be reapplied, restoring the service state.
US09569477B1
A method, system, and program, product for managing scanning of databases in data storage system, the method comprising receiving a query request from an application server to a data storage system, scanning data stored in the data storage system and based on the query request, returning a set of data to the application server, wherein the set of data corresponds to the query request.
US09569476B2
Approaches for routing data to storage are provided. An approach includes determining implicit metadata from explicit metadata received with a request from a user to store a file. The approach also includes determining a storage resource based on the explicit metadata, the implicit metadata, and a registry of storage resources. The approach additionally includes routing data of the file to the determined storage resource.
US09569471B2
An asset model import connector includes an interface to receive asset data from a data source and a normalize module. The normalize module determines an operation to be performed at a system based on the received asset data and determines code to perform the determined operation. The schema may be populated with attributes from the asset data, and sent to the system.
US09569468B2
A virtualization manager receives a request to install a new feature in a first virtualization environment. The virtualization manager identifies a first database upgrade script corresponding to the new feature and compares a first identification number of the first database upgrade script to a second identification number of a second database upgrade script, the second database upgrade script previously run on a management database for the first virtualization environment. If the first identification number is less than the second identification number, the virtualization manager generates a copy of the first database upgrade script and names the copy of the first database upgrade script with a third identification number that is greater than the second identification number. The virtualization manager then runs the copy of the first database upgrade script on the management database.
US09569467B1
The present disclosure relates to computer-implemented methods, computer-readable media, and computer systems for providing an intelligent news management platform and social media platform services. One computer-implemented method includes collecting detection data, extracting event data from the collected detection data, prioritizing the extracted event data to created prioritized event data, scoring the prioritized collected event data against a newsworthiness threshold to create scored event data, associating the score with the scored event data, storing the scored event data into an event data store, determining that the scored event data is at least equal to the newsworthiness threshold, marking the scored event data as actionable, and reporting the scored event data.
US09569459B1
A node of a distributed storage service receives a read request from a client, directed to a particular physical page storing at least a portion of a file store object. The node transmits, to the client, a particular operation sequence number (OSN), obtained from a replicated state machine, indicative of an order in which the read request was processed at the node relative to other requests directed to the file store object. The node receives a write request from the client directed to the page. The write request includes the particular OSN. The node determines whether the page has been modified after the particular OSN was obtained. If the page has not been modified since the OSN was obtained, a modification indicated in the write request is performed; otherwise, the write request is rejected.
US09569458B2
Selective tuple versioning is used on a file system providing file system snapshots by, receiving a request for updating at least one node and at least a node identification (ID) and associated attributes of the plurality of nodes, generating a new snapshot timestamp indicating the time of the updating, duplicating one of a plurality of rows of the nodes in the file system table into a new one of the rows of the file system table with an end time set equal to a new snapshot timestamp if the snapshot has the snapshot timestamp that is greater than a start time and less than the end time of the nodes, and updating the rows of the nodes in the file system table according to the update request, wherein the start time of the nodes is set equal to the new snapshot timestamp.
US09569447B2
Several systems and methods for accessing files stored in a storage device are disclosed. In an embodiment, the method includes accessing a file allocation table (FAT) in a computer file system associated with the storage device. The FAT includes a plurality of cluster addresses corresponding to a plurality of clusters allocated to a file stored in the storage device. A cluster address is read to identify a location of a next cluster. One or more bits in the cluster address are read to determine a presence of a signature value indicating allocation of a set of contiguous clusters from among the plurality of clusters. A number of contiguous clusters is computed based on a pre-determined number of consecutive cluster addresses succeeding the cluster address if the signature value is present. The set of contiguous clusters are read from the storage device based on the computed number of contiguous clusters.
US09569443B1
Method and apparatus for providing access to data in unsupported file systems and storage containers
A method, apparatus and system for providing access to data comprising launching an image of a virtual machine, determining a file system or a storage container being unsupported by an operating system coupled to the virtual machine, mapping the file system or the storage container onto the operating system and accessing data within the file system or the storage container through the operating system.
US09569435B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for updating data stored within the database. In some implementations, actions include providing a plurality of cut-off dates, for each cut-off date in the plurality of cut-off dates determining a total time based on respective times associated with a plurality of tasks to provide a plurality of total times, each total time corresponding to a respective cut-off date, selecting an actual cut-off date based on the plurality of total times, and updating data within the database using the actual cut-off date.
US09569432B1
Systems and methods of evaluating content in a computer networked environment are provided. The data processing system can provide a first link to content for display on a first web page and a second link to the content for display on a second web page. The first and second links have first and second snippets associated with the content, respectively. The system determines at least one of a first number of views and a first number of conversions of the first link and at least one of a second number of views and a second number of conversions of the second link. The system determines a quality metric of the first snippet and a quality metric of the second snippet. The system selects one of the first snippet and the second snippet based on the quality metric of the first snippet and the quality metric of the second snippet.
US09569431B2
The present disclosure describes a teleconferencing system that may use a virtual participant processor to translate language content of the teleconference into each participant's spoken language without additional user inputs. The virtual participant processor may connect to the teleconference as do the other participants. The virtual participant processor may intercept all text or audio data that was previously exchanged between the participants may now be intercepted by the virtual participant processor. Upon obtaining a partial or complete language recognition result or making a language preference determination, the virtual participant processor may call a translation engine appropriate for each of the participants. The virtual participant processor may send the resulting translation to a teleconference management processor. The teleconference management processor may deliver the respective translated text or audio data to the appropriate participant.
US09569430B2
Approaches presented herein enable assignment of translated work to an agent in a customer support environment based on a confidence factor that measures accuracy of translation and an agent's language skill. Specifically, agent proficiencies in a set of natural languages are measured and scored. An incoming customer communication is translated into one or more natural languages and each language translation is assigned a translation score based on a confidence of translation. The skill score and translation score are utilized to calculate a confidence factor for each language. In one approach, the customer communication is assigned to an agent that has a confidence factor greater than a predetermined threshold confidence factor. In another approach, the communication is only assigned if a rule optimizing agent availability and risk of constrained resources is satisfied.
US09569428B2
A technique provides an electronic summary of source content. The technique involves performing, on the source content, a content recognition operation to electronically generate text output from the source content. The technique further involves electronically evaluating text portions of the text output based on predefined usability criteria to produce a respective set of usability properties for each text portion of the text output. The technique further involves providing, as the electronic summary of the source content, summarization output which summarizes the source content. The summarization output includes a particular text portion of the text output which is selected from the text portions of the text output based on the respective set of usability properties for each text portion of the text output.
US09569420B2
An apparatus and method provide logic for processing information. In one implementation, an apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive a selection of displayed content from a user. An obtaining unit is configured to obtain data corresponding to the selection. The data includes text data. An identification unit is configured to identify a keyword within the text data, and a storage unit is configured to store the keyword in a keyword database.
US09569415B2
In the case where an original document is edited, tints may be different at the time of printing because the attributes of drawings are different although they resemble each other. A specifying unit configured to specify contents of editing for an original document and a determination unit configured to determine a form of representation of the specified contents of editing so as to conform with the form of representation of an object in the original document are provided.
US09569412B1
A computer implemented method and system for managing browser tabs includes identifying a plurality of URLs (Uniform Resource Locator(s)) in response to detecting the URLs in a web browser running on a computer. The plurality of URLs are organized based on each of the URLs, and each of the plurality of URLs correspond to a tab opened by the web browser. The tabs of the web browser are grouped based on the URLs.
US09569406B2
Apparatus, systems, and methods may operate to transmit and receive information, such as between a client and a server, that enables the display of a plurality of version indicators corresponding to a plurality of versions of electronic content, the plurality of versions comprising a first version newer than a second version. Further activities may include detecting selection of, and then displaying, a first selection indicator to indicate selection of the first version and a second selection indicator to indicate selection of the second version. Further activity may include communicate information to enable displaying, at substantially the same time as the first and second selection indicators, at least a portion of a plurality of changes between the first version and the second version. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
US09569405B2
A computer-implemented method includes obtaining first and second binary vectors. For each of a plurality of vector locations in a first of j words in the first binary vector, the method includes shifting the binary values for the second binary vector so that a particular one of the binary values in the second binary vector is located at a vector location in a first of the k words in the second binary vector that matches the vector location in the first of j words in the first binary vector. For each of the j words in the first binary vector, the method includes aligning the second binary vector with the word in the first binary vector and determining a binary correlation score. A similarity of the first binary vector and the second binary vector can be determined based at least on one or more of the determined binary correlation scores.
US09569402B2
Three-dimensional (3-D) processor structures are provided which are constructed by connecting processors in a stacked configuration. For example, a processor system includes a first processor chip comprising a first processor, and a second processor chip comprising a second processor. The first and second processor chips are connected in a stacked configuration with the first and second processors connected through vertical connections between the first and second processor chips. The processor system further includes a mode control circuit to selectively configure the first and second processors of the first and second processor chips to operate in one of a plurality of operating modes, wherein the processors can be selectively configured to operate independently, to aggregate resources, to share resources, and/or be combined to form a single processor image.
US09569401B2
A method to solve large scale linear SVM that is efficient in terms of computation, data storage and communication requirements. The approach works efficiently over very large datasets, and it does not require any master node to keep any examples in its memory. The algorithm assumes that the dataset is partitioned over several nodes on a cluster, and it performs “distributed block minimization” to achieve the desired results. Using the described approach, the communication complexity of the algorithm is independent of the number of training examples.
US09569397B2
In one embodiment, a system includes a condition based replacement life (CBRL) approval system configured to receive a turbomachinery component data and to approve a turbomachinery component for CBRL based on the turbomachinery component data. The system further includes a CBRL validation system configured to repair the turbomachinery component into a repaired turbomachinery component, wherein the repaired turbomachinery component is configured to operate in a turbomachinery beyond a service time of the turbomachinery component.
US09569396B2
A device includes a transmitter coupled to a node, where the node is to couple to a wired link. The transmitter has a plurality of modes of operation including a calibration mode in which a range of communication data rates over the wired link is determined in accordance with a voltage margin corresponding to the wired link at a predetermined error rate. The range of communication data rates includes a maximum data rate, which can be a non-integer multiple of an initial data rate.
US09569393B2
A method of transferring data between a memory controller and at least one memory module via a primary data bus having a primary data bus width is disclosed. The method includes accessing a first one of a memory device group via a corresponding data bus path in response to a threaded memory request from the memory controller. The accessing results in data groups collectively forming a first data thread transferred across a corresponding secondary data bus path. Transfer of the first data thread across the primary data bus width is carried out over a first time interval, while using less than the primary data transfer continuous throughput during that first time interval. During the first time interval, at least one data group from a second data thread is transferred on the primary data bus.
US09569390B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to a protocol for communication of information. The protocol can be a non-standard universal serial bus (USB) protocol and can guarantee bandwidth and latency for information communication between a USB host and a single USB device. In one aspect, the non-standard USB protocol can employ a repeating message sequence that is fixed, or static, and preconfigured, the sequence comprising alternating transmission of messages between a first device (e.g., a host device) and a second device (e.g., a peripheral device).
US09569388B2
This document discusses, among other things, an identification (ID) detection module configured to identify a first ID code in a first detect period within a first attach period and to identify a second ID code in a second detect period within the first attach period.
US09569387B2
A master-slave detection method includes: every single time period, utilizing a random manner for determining whether a first device is used to transmit a specific pulse signal to a second device; every single time period, utilizing a random manner for determining whether the second device is used to transmit the specific pulse signal to the first device; when the first device receives at least one portion of the specific pulse signal earlier than the second device, setting the first device as a master device, stopping the master device from sending the specific pulse signal and utilizing the master device to start transmitting a specific sequence; and setting the second device as a slave device when the second device receives the specific sequence. The at least one portion of the specific pulse signal includes continuous single pulses.
US09569386B2
Embodiments of a system and method are disclosed. One embodiment is an I2C compatible device. The I2C compatible device includes an SDA interface for connection to an SDA line and a single-line I2C module configured to transmit a sync word from the SDA interface over the SDA line and following the sync word, to transmit I2C data from the SDA interface over the SDA line such that digital data is communicated via a single line. In an embodiment, the sync word is a sync byte+NACK.
US09569383B2
An information handling system includes a plurality of processors that each includes a cache memory, and a receive side scaling (RSS) indirection table with a plurality of pointers that each points to one of the processors. A network data packet received by the information handling system determines a pointer to a first processor. In response to determining the pointer, information associated with the network data packet is transferred to the cache memory of the first processor. The information handling system also includes a process scheduler that moves a process associated with the network data packet from a second processor to the first processor, and an RSS module that directs the process scheduler to move the process and associates the first pointer with the processor in response to directing the process scheduler.
US09569366B2
In one embodiment, a system comprises a memory and a memory controller that provides a cache access path to the memory and a bypass-cache access path to the memory, receives requests to read graph data from the memory on the bypass-cache access path and receives requests to read non-graph data from the memory on the cache access path. A method comprises receiving a request at a memory controller to read graph data from a memory on a bypass-cache access path, receiving a request at the memory controller to read non-graph data from the memory through a cache access path, and arbitrating, in the memory controller, among the requests using arbitration.
US09569360B2
Technology is provided for partitioning a shared unified cache in a multi-processor computer system. The technology can receive a request to allocate a portion of a shared unified cache memory for storing only executable instructions, partition the cache memory into multiple partitions, and allocate one of the partitions for storing only executable instructions. The technology can further determine the size of the portion of the cache memory to be allocated for storing only executable instructions as a function of the size of the multi-processor's L1 instruction cache and the number of cores in the multi-processor.
US09569357B1
Systems, methods, and computer readable storage mediums for optimistically managing compressed data in a storage system. When possible, multiple input blocks are compressed into a buffer and stored in a single physical block on a storage device. The metadata of the multiple input blocks can be managed separately. A fingerprint of the compressed buffer can be generated and used as an index to the single physical block. Alternatively, fingerprints of the uncompressed input blocks can be generated, and reference counts can be maintained to track the number of input blocks which reference the compressed buffer.
US09569351B2
A storage device controller may segregate data units that are typically accessed together to a common storage unit. In one example, a storage device includes a control unit configured to receive a plurality of logical blocks to be stored in the storage device, wherein a first set of addresses comprises logical block addresses (LBAs) of the plurality of logical blocks, and a non-volatile memory configured to store logical blocks in a plurality of storage units, wherein one of the plurality of storage units includes logical blocks corresponding to a second set of addresses. The control unit may determine an intersection of the first set of addresses with the second set of addresses and to store each of the logical blocks having LBAs in the determined intersection of addresses in a common storage unit of the storage device, wherein the common storage unit comprises one of the plurality of storage units.
US09569350B2
An apparatus and method for multidimensional resource allocation and management are provided. The method includes receiving a request for allocation of a block of a multidimensional memory resource, selecting a grid for tracking spaces of the multidimensional memory resource according to the allocation request, determining whether a block of the multidimensional memory resource corresponding to the request for the allocation of the block of the multidimensional memory resource is unallocated, and allocating the unallocated block of the multidimensional memory resource.
US09569348B1
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for performing a method for compressing page table entries (PTEs) prior to storing the PTEs in a translation look-aside buffer (TLB). A page table entry (PTE) request is received for a PTE that is not stored in the TLB. The PTE as well as a plurality of PTEs that are adjacent to the PTE are retrieved from a memory. The PTE and the plurality of PTEs are compressed and then stored in the TLB.
US09569345B2
Localizing errors by: (i) running the testcase on a software model version of a processor to yield first testcase-run results in the form of a first set of values respectively stored in the set of data storage locations; (ii) creating a resource dependency information set based on the instructions of the testcase; (iii) running the testcase on a hardware version of the processor to yield second testcase-run results in the form of a second set of values respectively stored in the set of data storage locations; (iv) determining a set of miscompare data storage location(s), including at least a first miscompare data storage location, by comparing the first set of values and the second set of values; and (v) creating an initial dynamic slice of the data flow.
US09569336B2
A method, computer program product, and computer system for generating, at a computing device, a first suspect profile of a plurality of suspect profiles that includes one or more characteristics, wherein the first suspect profile is associated with a traceability link between at least two artifacts. A change to a first characteristic associated with a first artifact of the at least two artifacts is determined. Which of the plurality of suspect profiles includes the first characteristic is determined. The first characteristic is matched to the first suspect profile of the plurality of suspect profiles based upon, at least in part, determining that the first suspect profile includes the first characteristic. The traceability link is marked as suspect based upon, at least in part, matching the first characteristic to the first suspect profile.
US09569330B2
A method and apparatus of determining enterprise network component dependency in a business application service group is disclosed. An example method may include collecting performance data of present operating conditions of a plurality of network components operating in the enterprise network and storing the performance data in memory. The method may also include extracting ontological component data of the plurality of network components from the collected performance data, and comparing the collected performance data with predefined service tier threshold parameters. The method may also include establishing direct and indirect relationships between the plurality of network components based on the determined operational relationships, and assigning a steady state to the established direct and indirect relationships.
US09569323B1
Technologies are described herein for cueing a pilot to flight deck controls based on steps in an electronic checklist (ECL). In one aspect, a computer-implemented method for cueing flight deck controls based on steps in an ECL includes displaying the ECL on an aircraft display that includes one or more steps involving controls on the flight deck. A step from the ECL is highlighted on the aircraft display and an indication indicating that the step has been completed is received. Upon receiving the indication, a next step in the ECL is highlighted. In various embodiments, flight deck visual indicators associated with the controls may be activated corresponding to steps in the ECL.
US09569321B2
A method for remote asynchronous volume replication and apparatus therefore are disclosed. Asynchronous replication is applied to deal with data changes on the source volume on the local site incurred by Host IO requests. In coordination with the “point-in-time differential backup” technology, the data is subjected to be backuped to Source BAS on the local site (backup-on-write operation) only when the original data being written into the block of the source volume is different from the data of the corresponding block of the destination volume on the remote site. As a result, once a new data is written into the source volume completely, the host will be responded that its Host IO request is completed. Therefore, the data necessarily transmitted to the destination volume on the remote site can be minimized, and the problem of remote data transmission limited by network bandwidth can be prevented effectively, thereby keeping the operation performance of the storage system at a better level.
US09569319B2
In one embodiment, a server is assigned a candidate secondary server role such that the dynamic network employs a “make-before-break” redundancy where redundant nodes proactively synchronize replicated data and state information with a standby secondary server prior to releasing the responsibilities of active primary and/or secondary server(s). The “make-before-break” redundancy ensures relatively high availability of dynamic networks and realized services.
US09569310B2
Described herein is a system and method for a scalable crash-consistent snapshot operation. Write requests may be received from an application and a snapshot creation request may further be received. Write requests received before the snapshot creation request may be associated with pre-snapshot tags and write requests received after the snapshot creation request may be associated with post-snapshot tags. Furthermore, in response to the snapshot creation request, logical interfaces may begin to be switched from a pre-snapshot configuration to a post-snapshot configuration. The snapshot may then be created based on the pre-snapshot write requests and the post-snapshot write requests may be suspended until the logical interfaces have switched configuration.
US09569303B2
According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a host and a memory system. The memory system includes a nonvolatile memory. The host includes a volatile memory, a first host control unit, and a second host control unit. The volatile memory includes a first area to be used by the host and a second area as a cache memory to temporarily store data of the nonvolatile memory. The first host control unit computes a first code, and stores the first data and the first code in the second area. The first code is redundant information of the first data. The second host control unit reads second data and a second code from the second area, performs error detection on the second data based on the second code, and transfers the second data. The second code is redundant information of the second data.
US09569301B2
Methods and apparatuses for determining an NVGRE data path failure are provided. In an embodiment, a first data packet comprising an echo request is generated at an originating tunnel end point device in a network. The echo request includes an NVGRE network identifier (VSID) associated with a selected NVGRE segment. A second data packet is generated comprising a header having a format associated with an NVGRE technology, the header comprising a network identifier portion including the NVGRE network identifier (VSID). The first data packet is encapsulated in the second data packet, and the second data packet is transmitted via the selected NVGRE segment.
US09569299B2
An error handling system as applied to a server, the server comprising a central processing unit, the central processing unit configured to send a warning signal when the central processing unit generates an error. The error handling system includes a programmable logic device, a baseboard management controller coupled to a southbridge chip, and a basic input-output system coupled to the baseboard management controller. The southbridge chip is configured to detect the warning signal and send a notification signal to the baseboard management controller upon detection. The basic input-output system is configured to identify the error and correct the error upon receiving the notification signal.
US09569297B2
An information handling system includes a processor and a configuration detection and error handling module operable to read a first tag data file from a first storage volume, read a second tag data file from a second storage volume, and determine that the first storage volume and the second storage volume are configured as mirrored storage volumes based upon the first tag data file and the second tag data file.
US09569289B2
Generic Distributed Processing Unit (DPU) for Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) provides a Machine to Machine (M2M) interface that is fast, flexible, redundant and scalable. It allows the handling of unlikely edge cases that Human Machine Interfaces (HMI) cannot. It also allows the processing of excessive amounts of ancillary data that are not processed easily with an HMI arrangement. In the digital ecosystem, any like DPU can back up any other, making the system exceedingly robust.
US09569286B2
A data structure including simple and complex objects. Each simple object includes a content type indicator, a size indicator, and one or more simple data types. Each complex object includes a content type indicator, a size indicator, and one or more child objects. The complex objects include a layer object having first and second child objects. The first child object is a collection of complex objects storing information for configuring a virtual filesystem of a virtual application at application startup. The second child object is a collection of complex objects storing information for configuring a virtual registry of the virtual application at application startup. Reading of selected simple and complex objects may be deferred at startup based on the content type indicator. Deferred objects may be read after startup when access to information stored by the deferred object is request by the virtual application.
US09569284B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products for composing applications on a mobile device are provided herein. A method includes exposing multiple capabilities from a set of multiple applications installed on an operating system of a user device to a configuration module executing on the operating system of the user device; defining one or more rules associated with using each of the multiple exposed capabilities; and invoking a combination of two or more of the multiple exposed capabilities, based on said one or more defined rules, to execute a user-defined task, wherein said invoking is executed by a super application executing on the operating system of the user device.
US09569280B2
A storage compute device includes a data storage section that facilitates persistently storing host data as data objects. The storage compute device also includes two or more compute sections that perform computations on the data objects. A controller monitors resource collisions affecting a first of the compute sections. The controller creates a copy of at least one of the data objects to be processed in parallel at a second of the compute sections in response to the resource collisions.
US09569278B2
A method is described that entails operating enabled cores of a multi-core processor such that both cores support respective software routines with a same instruction set, a first core being higher performance and consuming more power than a second core under a same set of applied supply voltage and operating frequency.
US09569275B2
According to one aspect of the present disclosure a method and technique for allocating and reserving virtualization-based resources is disclosed. The method includes: receiving, by a virtualization-based resource management system, a reservation request to reserve a set of computing resources; dynamically allocating the set of computing resources to the reservation request; assigning a key to the allocated set of computing resources; and maintaining the allocated set of computing resources in a reserved state until a utilization request is received to utilize the allocated set of computing resources, the utilization request including the key.
US09569263B2
An apparatus includes a task selector to receive an indication of a database task to be performed, wherein the database task includes a set of subtasks; a source selector to receive an indication of a source device to perform the set of subtasks, and to retrieve from the source device an indication of a processing environment currently available within the source device that includes an identity and version level of a database routine of the source device; and an instruction generator to determine a set of languages able to be interpreted by the database routine based on the identity and version level, select a language of the set of languages in which to generate instructions for each subtask based on the processing environment, and generate and transmit the instructions to the source device.
US09569261B2
The scheduler performs thread scheduling of repeating processings of specifying each hardware thread included in a first group among the multiple hardware threads for the number of times set up in advance for the hardware thread, and of specifying any one of the hardware threads in a second group for the number of times set up in advance for the second group that includes other hardware threads. Moreover, when the hardware thread in the first group specified by the thread scheduling is nondispatchable, the scheduler performs rescheduling of respecifying the hardware thread in the second group instead of the hardware thread in the first group.
US09569257B2
A computer system may receive an instruction to perform an action on an object. A schedule manager may identify a set of processes associated with the action that need to be performed by the computer system. A subset of primary process and a subset of secondary processes may be identified from the set of processes associated with the action. The schedule manager may schedule an asynchronous process to perform the subset of secondary processes on the object. The computer system may perform the subset of primary processes on the object. The subset of secondary process may be performed by the asynchronous process based upon the scheduling.
US09569252B2
A page compression strategy classifies uncompressed pages selected for compression. Similarly classified pages are compressed and bound into a single logical page. For logical pages having pages with more than one classification, a weighting factor is determined for the logical page.
US09569249B1
A method is provided for designing and optimizing a pattern by considering heterogeneous cloud environments. Building blocks within the pattern can be deployed into different cloud environments and different cloud providers, depending on where the pattern fits users need best. Further, building block configuration within the pattern can be optimized by target environments, along with runtime bursting among multiple environments.
US09569248B2
A method, system and computer program product for deploying a pattern. A placement engine of a hierarchical tier selects the region(s) of a next lower tier based on placement policies and constraints at the next lower tier and availability of the artifacts required by the virtual machine instance(s) in the next lower tier utilizing the summarization of resource usage and availability at the next lower tier. The placement engine at the lowest tier selects the compute node(s) in the selected region(s) of the lowest tier to place the virtual machine instances of the pattern based on placement policies and constraints at the compute node level and availability of the artifacts required by the virtual machine instance(s) of the pattern in the compute node level. In this manner, the virtual machine instances of the pattern can be effectively deployed when the resources of the cloud environment are large and geographically dispersed.
US09569244B2
A method, system and computer program product are provided for implementing dynamic adjustment of Input/Output bandwidth for Virtual Machines of a Single Root Input/Output Virtualization (SRIOV) adapter. The SRIOV adapter includes a plurality of virtual functions (VFs). Each individual virtual function (VF) is enabled to be explicitly assigned to a Virtual Machine (VM); and each of a plurality of VF teams is created with one or more VFs and is assigned to a VM. Each VF team is enabled to be dynamically resizable for dynamic adjustment of Input/Output bandwidth.
US09569242B2
A method, system and computer program product are provided for implementing dynamic adjustment of Input/Output bandwidth for Virtual Machines of a Single Root Input/Output Virtualization (SRIOV) adapter. The SRIOV adapter includes a plurality of virtual functions (VFs). Each individual virtual function (VF) is enabled to be explicitly assigned to a Virtual Machine (VM); and each of a plurality of VF teams is created with one or more VFs and is assigned to a VM. Each VF team is enabled to be dynamically resizable for dynamic adjustment of Input/Output bandwidth.
US09569239B2
A method includes loading a virtual machine snapshot of a virtual machine from a first computing device to a mobile device. The virtual machine runs on the first computing device and the virtual machine snapshot includes a COW file and an image file with files from the virtual machine. The method includes launching the virtual machine on a second computing device, where the second computing device reads the virtual machine snapshot from the mobile device and the second computing device records changes to a copy of the COW file stored on the second computing device while the second computing device runs the virtual machine. The method includes terminating a virtual machine session running on the second computing device and copying the COW file to the mobile device. The COW file includes changes to the virtual machine snapshot from execution of the virtual machine on the second computing device.
US09569214B2
In one embodiment, in an execution pipeline having a plurality of execution subunits, a method of using a bypass network to directly forward data from a producing execution subunit to a consuming execution subunit is provided. The method includes producing output data with the producing execution subunit, consuming input data with the consuming execution subunit, for one or more intervening operations whose input is the output data from the producing execution subunit and whose output is the input data to the consuming execution subunit, evaluating those one or more intervening operations to determine whether their execution would compose an identify function, and if the one or more intervening operations would compose such an identity function, controlling the bypass network to forward the producing execution subunit's output data directly to the consuming execution subunit.
US09569207B2
According to an example, source code flow analysis may include receiving source code for an application, and identifying virtual flow documents for the application from the source code. The virtual flow documents may represent ordered sequences of method calls for the application. The source code flow analysis may further include extracting features of the virtual flow documents, determining similarity between the virtual flow documents by estimating similarities for the extracted features to determine a flow-to-flow similarity, and clustering the virtual flow documents based on the flow-to-flow similarity. The flow-to-flow similarity may be further used, for example, to generate highest priority virtual flow documents and methods for the source code. The source code flow analysis may also include determination of flow-to-maintenance activity description (MAD) similarity, for example, to identify relevant virtual flow documents from the virtual flow documents based on the flow-to-MAD similarity to generate ordered relevant virtual flow documents.
US09569198B2
A deployment system provides the ability to deploy a multi-node distributed application, such as a cloud computing platform application that has a plurality of interconnected nodes performing specialized jobs. The deployment system may update a currently running cloud computing platform application according to a deployment manifest and a versioned release bundle that includes jobs and application packages. The deployment system determines changes to the currently running cloud computing platform application and distributes changes to each job to deployment agents executing on VMs. The deployment agents apply the updated jobs to their respective VMs (e.g., launching applications), thereby deploying an updated version of cloud computing platform application.
US09569197B2
Disclosed herein are mobile computing devices that employ compatible updated drivers. In one embodiment, the mobile computing device includes: (1) a processor, (2) a driver library configured to store original drivers and updated drivers for applications on the mobile computing device, and (3) a driver selector configured to determine at least one driver from the original drivers or the updated drivers to use for running one of the applications.
US09569193B2
A system and method for patching cloud services for use with a cloud computing environment. In accordance with an embodiment, a cloud environment includes a cloud services infrastructure, which allows a suite of software applications, middleware, and database offerings to be delivered to customers in a self-service, elastically scalable manner. Over time, it may become necessary to update one or more of the deployed services. In accordance with an embodiment, services can be patched using a two phase approach. During an offline phase, patches are used to update shared components, such as middleware volumes, without disrupting any currently running services. Subsequently, during an online phase, patched components are enabled on all service hosts, and any necessary domain update/upgrade operations are invoked.
US09569182B2
A method of creating a software application using an integrated development environment, IDE, running on a computing device having at least a processor, a memory, a display device and an input device. The method includes retrieving from the memory and providing on the display device a number of graphical elements each representing at least one operation to be performed on data. The method further includes enabling a user of the computing device to select and arrange at least some of the graphical elements on the display device using the input device. The method includes enabling the user to arrange graphical links between the selected graphical elements, wherein the selected graphical elements and the graphical links together form one or more graphical models of a process to be performed on data by the software application, and displaying in the IDE a 3D representation of the graphical model or models.
US09569181B2
A system and method can support an object-oriented scripting tool. The system can comprise a parser that operates to parse a document that specifies a software class in a scripting language using one or more tags that are defined in a markup language environment. Furthermore, the system can include a type definition table that includes a plurality of type definitions, wherein this type definition table operates to use a tag name of a said tag as a key that is associated with a type definition. Additionally, the system can include an instance pool that operates to store one or more instances of the software class for the object-oriented scripting tool.
US09569178B1
Fusion hints can be generated in order to recommend streams application actors (like streams operators) for fusion or separation in a streams computing environment. Profiles can be made for the streams application actors, and fusion candidates can be determined from the profiles, based on fusion candidate rules. Based on the fusion candidate rule satisfied, a particular associated fusion recommendation can be identified and made to the user via a user interface. The recommendation can be displayed, along with the identities of the streams application actors identified as fusion candidates.
US09569167B2
Input media data with an input playing speed is received and divided into input media data subsets. A first rate of audio utterance is determined for a first input media data subset in the media data subsets. A second different rate of audio utterance is determined for a second input media data subset in the media data subsets. Audio output media data is generated with an output playing speed at which audio utterance in the audio output media data is played at a preferred rate of audio utterance. The audio output media data comprises (a) a first output audio media data subset generated based on the preferred rate, the first rate, and the first input media data subset and (b) a second output audio media data subset generated based on the preferred rate, the second rate, and the second input media data subset.
US09569162B2
Provided is a multi-displayer scrolling display method in a telepresence system, including that when a content needing scrolling display is received, display positions and display contents of the content needing scrolling display in respective displayers are determined according to an arrangement manner, an output size and a scrolling display manner of the displayers of the telepresence system; the content needing scrolling display is subjected to weighed stacking respectively with originally to-be-displayed decoded outputted contents of the respective displayers, and the contents subjected to the weighed stacking are outputted as current frames of the respective displayers. A multi-displayer scrolling display device and a processing terminal in a telepresence system are also provided. A caption or an image can be displayed on a plurality of separately arranged displayers in a scrolling manner, thus enabling a use to have a better on-the-scene feeling by means of such a telepresence system, and improving user experience.
US09569158B2
A composite service providing system including a plurality of network electronic devices communicatively connected with each other. The plurality of network electronic devices includes electronic devices, each of which is capable of providing at least one service. A plurality of services provided by a plurality of electronic devices are combined to constitute a composite service. The composite service providing system further includes a composite service designating system that designates a composite service to be provided, an electronic device determining system that determines an electronic device that provides each of a plurality of services necessary for providing the composite service designated with the composite service designating system, and a controlling system that control the electronic devices determined by the electronic device determining system to provide the services so that the composite service designated by the designating system is provided.
US09569146B2
An information processor comprising a storage unit, a data acquisition unit, a search unit, and a replacement unit, wherein each of the first document data and the second document data is expressed in a page description language, and the search unit includes an object type determination unit configured to determine one kind of object type used in the search processing on the basis of priority of search defined with respect to plural object types, and an object type search processing unit configured to perform the search processing by comparing an object belonging to the one kind of object type determined by the object type determination unit of the objects included in the page after modification with an object belonging to the one kind of object type of objects included in each of the plural pages in the first document data.
US09569143B1
Techniques are disclosed herein for folding data within the same block of memory cells in 3D non-volatile storage. Data is programmed into a first string of memory cells within a block at “n” bits per memory cell. The data is folded to one or more other strings of memory cells in the same block at more than “n” bits per memory cell. For example, the data is folded to a second string at “m” bits per memory cell, where “m”>“n.” The folding operations may be performed in a way to reduce or eliminate program disturb. After the folding operation, the first string may be erased without erasing the folded data. When programming additional data into the first string at “n” bits per memory cell, memory cells on the first string that are associated with word lines for which folded data is stored are not programmed, in one aspect.
US09569139B1
Methods and apparatus to provide, in a cloud infrastructure environment a shared storage service with only storage, wherein the storage can be shared with other managed services. The storage is exposed to hosts with commands to the storage, networking, and compute resources.
US09569136B2
A mechanism is provided for balancing workload to one or more storage disks in a plurality of storage disks during redistribution or replication associated with adding or removing a storage disk to the plurality of storage disks. Historical information in collected information from the plurality of storage disks is analyzed to identify I/O operation patterns on a per storage disk level. An average amount of I/O operations that occur within each storage disk for a given time period are identified. For each storage disk that is impacted, a disk on/off-hoarding plan is generated that identifies a subset of I/O operations from a set of I/O operations to execute in the given time period using the average amount of I/O operations that historically occur within the storage disk that is impacted during the given time period. The subset of I/O operations are then executed in the given time period.
US09569128B2
A storage device includes a nonvolatile memory unit, a volatile memory unit, a power supply control unit configured to control power supply to the nonvolatile memory unit and the volatile memory unit, and a control unit configured to control the power supply unit to cut off the power supply to the nonvolatile memory unit and the volatile memory unit during a first operation, and control the power supply unit to cut off the power supply to the nonvolatile memory unit and to maintain the power supply to the volatile memory unit during a second operation that is different from the first operation.
US09569125B2
Apparatus and associated method contemplating: operating a storage server having access to a plurality of storage devices, at least a first storage device of the plurality of storage devices defining a first bank and at least a second storage device of the plurality of storage devices defining a second bank; during a first time interval, energizing the first bank to enable data transfer, and de-energizing the second bank to disable data transfer; during the first time interval, mapping data received from the storage server to the first bank; during a second time interval that begins before a storage capacity of the first bank is full, de-energizing the first bank to disable data transfer, and energizing the second bank to enable data transfer; and during the second time interval, mapping the data received from the storage server to the second bank.
US09569107B2
In one example, a method includes outputting, for display at a presence-sensitive display, a graphical user interface comprising a graphical keyboard that includes a group of keys, wherein each key in the group of keys is associated with a respective, different region of the presence-sensitive display. The method further includes receiving an indication of a gesture to select a sequence of one or more keys in the group of keys of the graphical keyboard. The method further includes determining, based at least in part on the indication of the gesture, that the gesture includes at least one feature associated with a cancellation of the selected sequence of one or more keys. The method further includes, in response to determining that the gesture includes the at least one feature associated with the cancellation, omitting the selected sequence of one or more keys from entry to a text input field.
US09569099B2
A method and an apparatus thereof display a key pad and solve the trouble and difficulty of a user in selecting the key pad displayed in a terminal having a touch screen. The method detects a touch gesture with respect to the touch screen; determines whether the detects touch gesture is zoom-out; displays thumbnails representing key pads, respectively, when the detected touch gesture is the zoom-out; and displays a key pad of a selected thumbnail when one of the displayed thumbnails is selected by a user.
US09569094B2
An input device has both a touch sensor and a position sensor. A computer using data from the input device uses the relative motion of a contact on a touch sensor with respect to motion from a position detector to disambiguate intentional from incidental motion. The input device provides synchronized position sensor and touch sensor data to the computer to permit processing the relative motion and performing other computations on both position sensor and touch sensor data. The input device can encode the magnitude and direction of motion of the position sensor and combines it with the touch sensor data from the same time frame, and output the synchronized data to the computer.
US09569092B2
A method includes displaying, to a user via an electronic display, a radial control comprising a plurality of concentric arcs, the radial control including a first central section defined by a first arc of the plurality of concentric arcs, and a plurality of child sections collectively defined by the first arc and the other arcs of the plurality of concentric arcs, the plurality of child sections being delineated from one another by dividers extending between two or more arcs of the plurality of concentric arcs, wherein the first central section is associated with a parent activity and each of the plurality of child sections is associated with a child activity related to the parent activity.
US09569091B2
A method and an apparatus input test in a touch screen terminal. The method comprises designating a certain region on a keyboard interface picture, not permitting text input through a keyboard when touch drag started from the designated region is sensed and acquiring a path of the touch drag, acquiring a path of following touch drag when at least the one or more following touch drag are sensed, and reading out at least the acquired one or more paths by cursive character recognition, deducing a character, determining the deduced character as an input target, and permitting the text input through the keyboard.
US09569087B2
A method of operating an electronic device is provided. The method includes detecting a plurality of fingerprint drags after a touch on a portion of the electronic device, wherein each of the plurality of fingerprint drags is a consecutive drag from a previous drag and each of the plurality of fingerprint drags has a different orientation from each other; and identifying a fingerprint based on a plurality of images acquired from the plurality of fingerprint drags, wherein each of the plurality of images is compared with corresponding portion of a reference image.
US09569083B2
Various embodiments provide an intelligent adaptive content canvas that can enable users to access content, such as photos and videos, and consume the content in an adaptive environment that tailors the user experience in accordance with various parameters. The user experience is personalized to the user and is adaptively predictive in a manner that attempts to surface content that the user would likely wish to consume.
US09569081B2
A control method according to the present disclosure causes a computer of an information apparatus to: display a display screen on the touch panel display, the display screen representing a floor plan of a building; display device icons representing target devices on the display screen representing the floor plan, the device icons including an icon representing an electric curtain device capable of opening and closing a curtain through a remote operation; display an operation screen including an image representing the curtain of the electric curtain device as overlapped on the display screen representing the floor plan, when selection of the icon representing the electric curtain device is sensed; and output a first open control command to the network when a pinch-out operation is sensed on the operation screen, the first open control command being for opening the curtain of the electric curtain device corresponding to the selected icon.
US09569080B2
In some implementations, a mobile device can display map user interface that includes a language control that a user can select to switch between a default language and a local language. Map information presented on the map user interface can be initially displayed in the default language. The user can select or manipulate the language control to cause the map information to be presented on the local language. The local language can be determined based on the current location of the mobile device. The language control can be displayed when it has been determined that the local language is not the default language. In some implementations, when a map search has been performed using the default language, the search can be automatically performed again in the local language in response to the user switching the map information displayed on the map user interface to the local language.
US09569078B2
Some embodiments provide an image editing application that edits an image. The image editing application displays an image in a display area. The image editing application displays a rotatable user interface item. In response to receiving a user input, the image editing application rotates the rotatable user interface item. The image editing application rotates the image displayed in the display area based on the rotation of the rotatable user interface item.
US09569074B2
Improved approaches to completing, submitting and updating on-line forms or registrations are disclosed. In one embodiment, an on-line form completion agent or an on-line registration agent intelligently guides an on-line form completion or registration process. In another embodiment, a registration is automatically monitored to determine whether and when the registration needs updated.
US09569072B2
The subject matter described herein is directed to controlling presentation and selection of objects that are digital images depicting subjects. According to one aspect, a plurality of objects is presented via a presentation device having a screen. Each object is associated with at least one other object of plurality of objects and is a digital image of a subject. A first object presented is selected in response to a first selection event associated with the first object. A second object non-adjacent to the first object is determined based on a predefined relationship associating the first object with the second object, wherein the second object is on-screen or off-screen. The second is presented via the presentation device on-screen and adjacent to the first object in response to the determination. An indication of the predefined relationship is also presented.
US09569070B1
Systems, methods, and graphical user interfaces are disclosed that assist a user in deconflicting concurrency conflicts in a peering network in which ambiguous concurrency conflicts can arise. In accordance with some embodiments, a method for assisting a user in deconflicting concurrency conflicts is disclosed. The method includes detecting a plurality of ambiguous data conflicts between the local deployment and the peer deployment. The method further includes providing a graphical user interface to a user at the local deployment that allows the user to filter the plurality of ambiguous data conflicts according to a selected data conflict type of a plurality of predefined data conflict types selectable by the user through the graphical user interface. By providing such as graphical user interface, the user can easily filter a large number (e.g., hundreds) of ambiguous concurrency conflicts that may exist at a given time between the local deployment and the peer deployment.
US09569068B2
A method for navigating between display layers is applied in a display device. The display device includes a touch screen and a display panel. The method includes following steps of determining a target display layer according to whether a pinching gesture or an expanding gesture is performed. When the expanding gesture is performed, expanding a distance between relevant columns or rows of icons currently displayed to reveal icons on the target display layer, and visually compressing formerly-displayed icons to two opposite edges of the display panel during the expanding gesture. When the pinching gesture is performed, narrowing a distance between columns or rows of icons on the target display layer which are introduced respectively from the two opposite edges to cover columns and rows of old icons, and visually expanding the newly-introduced icons during the pinching gesture.
US09569066B2
A user interface for rotating imagery among a plurality of canonical views of a geographic area of interest is disclosed. The interface includes at least one rotation control icon for rotating the imagery among a plurality of canonical views of the geographic area, and a direction indicating portion that indicates a compass direction associated with the canonical view presented on the display device. In particular implementations, the interface can be configured to come into view over the imagery whenever a user navigates to a particular view of the imagery where a plurality of canonical views is available. The motion of the navigation control interface appearing into the imagery is intended to draw attention to the control interface to inform the user that additional canonical views are available.
US09569060B2
Disclosed are methods, apparatus, systems, and computer-readable storage media for composing and batch publishing feed items in a user interface in a feed-based interaction context. In some implementations, a computing device provides a first prompt for display in a first user interface component, which is configured to display unpublished feed items. The computing device receives, at the first prompt, first feed item data for a first feed item. Responsive to a request to compose a second feed item, the computing device displays in the first user interface component a second prompt for second feed item data without publishing the first feed item. The computing device receives, at the second prompt, second feed item data for a second feed item of a first record, the first and second feed items being related to the first record.
US09569056B2
A touch panel includes: an upper transparent substrate having an upper transparent electrode film; a lower transparent substrate having a lower transparent electrode film; a first electric wiring formed on the upper transparent electrode film; a second electric wiring formed on the lower transparent electrode film; an insulator formed between the first electric wiring and the second electric wiring, the insulator being made of a material with a light shielding effect; and a decoration layer formed on the upper transparent substrate so as to cover the first electric wiring, the second electric wiring and the insulator.
US09569055B2
The touch sensor is a touch sensor that senses changes in characteristics of the electromagnetic signal in an environment in order to detect the contact or the proximity.
US09569046B2
A touch sensing device includes a touch screen panel including a touch sensor configured to generate a first electrical change corresponding to a touch and a touch controller configured to detect touch position data with respect to an area on the touch screen panel associated with the touch, based on the first electrical change or the touch sensor.
US09569042B2
A touch screen panel includes a plurality of first touch electrode serials arranged in a first direction and a plurality of second touch electrode serials arranged in a second direction crossing over the first direction, and electrically insulated from the plurality of first electrode serials. The first touch electrode serial includes a plurality of first touch electrodes connected in serial, and the second touch electrode serial includes a plurality of second touch electrodes connected in serial. The first touch electrode has a first stem portion, and a plurality of first branch portions outwardly extended from both sides of the first stem portion. The second touch electrodes has a second stem portion, and a plurality of second branch portions outwardly extended from both sides of the second stem portion.
US09569041B2
An electronic device includes a digitizer pad, a touch panel which is disposed above the digitizer pad, a digitizer pad controller configured to detect a first position using electromagnetic induction from the digitizer pad, a touch panel controller configured to detect a second position about a capacitance change from the touch panel, and a host device configured to correct the first position with reference to the second position and specifying the corrected first position as a touch position. A method includes detecting a first position using electromagnetic induction from a digitizer pad, detecting a second position using a capacitance change from a touch panel, correcting the first position with reference to the second position, and specifying the corrected first position as a touch position.
US09569028B2
Optical touch system, method of touch detection, method of calibration, and computer program product
An optical touch system including a reflecting unit, at least one light emitting module, at least one image detecting module, and a processing unit is provided. The reflecting unit, the light emitting module, and the image detecting module are disposed beside a base plane. The light emitting module provides a first detecting light and a second detecting light with different intensities by turns. The first detecting light and the second detecting light are transmitted to the reflecting unit. The image detecting module generates a first signal and a second signal. When an object approaches or touches the base plane, at least a portion of the first detecting light and a portion of the second detecting light are obstructed by the object. The processing unit determines a position of the object. Additionally, a method of touch detection, a method of calibration, and a computer program product are also provided.
US09568996B2
An image display device that is used by being mounted on the head of an observer, includes: an image forming unit that forms a virtual image as an image that is visually recognizable to the observer; a detection unit that detects movement of the head of the observer; and a control unit that controls the image forming unit on the basis of the movement detected by the detection unit, wherein when the movement that is detected by the detection unit is larger than a predetermined amount, the control unit changes a display position of the virtual image.
US09568992B2
A medical manipulator including a base section at which a support surface is formed, a movable part movably supported on the support surface, when a reference direction parallel to the support surface is defined, between a distal end position, which is a distal end side in the reference direction with respect to the base section, and a proximal end position, which is a proximal end side in the reference direction, a positioning mechanism configured to position the movable part at the distal end position with respect to the base section, a holding section movably supported in the reference direction with respect to the movable part and configured to detachably hold a proximal end portion of a treatment tool, and a driving unit configured to move the holding section in the reference direction with respect to the movable part.
US09568991B2
There is provided an audio data processing device. The device includes an IN terminal to which first audio data from outside are input, a THRU terminal from which the first audio data are output to the outside, an FPGA which signal-processes the first audio data from the IN terminal, an OUT terminal from which second audio data which are signal-processed are output to the outside, and a power supply switch. The FPGA outputs the first audio data from the IN terminal to the THRU terminal without any processing when the power supply switch is in an ON state and is also supplied with operational power and outputs the first audio data from the IN terminal to the THRU terminal without any processing when the power supply switch is in an OFF state.
US09568983B1
External jolts, such as those occurring during shipment, may inadvertently activate an electronic device. Such inadvertent activations may result in the electronic device entering an active mode during shipment, draining battery power. This document describes a power cut off mode that prevents inadvertent device activations and minimizes current consumption during shipment or storage of a device. This conserves battery power for operational use by the user.
US09568982B1
A system for adjusting a frequency of a processor is disclosed herein. The system includes a processor and a memory. The memory stores program code, which, when executed on the processor, performs an operation for adjusting a frequency of a processor. The operation includes inhibiting one or more processor cores from exiting an idle state. The operation further includes determining a number of processor cores requesting exit from the idle state and a number of non-idle processor cores. The operation also includes selecting a maximum frequency for the inhibited and non-idle processor cores based on the number of inhibited processor cores requesting exit from the idle state and the number of non-idle processor cores. The operation includes setting the maximum frequency for both the inhibited and the non-idle processor cores, and then uninhibiting the processor cores requesting exit from the idle state.
US09568979B2
A communication device for communicating via a telecommunication line includes a plurality of operating units, an energy-saving control unit, an instruction receiver, and a wake-up unit. The plurality of operating units are configured to receive an electric power and operate. The energy-saving control unit is configured to alternatively run a normal mode or an energy saving mode. The instruction receiver is configured to receive an instruction for selecting the operating unit that processes target data. The selection instruction is transmitted from a transmission device connected via the electric communication line prior to the transmission of the target data. The wake-up unit is configured to supply the electric power to the operating unit so as to wake up the operating unit from the sleep state upon receiving the selection instruction during the energy saving mode if the operating unit instructed by the selection instruction is in the sleep state.
US09568977B2
A method and system for context sensing is described herein. The method includes determining if sensor data obtained via a number of sensors exceed a predetermined threshold. The method also includes increasing a sampling rate of any of the sensors to obtain context data corresponding to a computing device if the sensor data exceed the threshold. The method further includes analyzing the context data to classify a context of the computing device.
US09568975B2
Technologies for adjusting server power consumption include a computing device to receive resource utilization data from a plurality of servers. The computing device identifies a source server and a destination server of the plurality of servers based on the resource utilization data and calculates the difference in resource utilization between the identified source server and the identified destination server based on the resource utilization data. If the computing device determines that the difference exceeds a threshold value, the computing device increases processor utilization of a processor of the source server by a power consumption change amount and decreases processor utilization of a processor of the destination server by a corresponding power consumption change amount to balance the servers' resources and create more head-room to place new workloads on the servers.
US09568970B1
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a method and system for hybrid and/or distributed implementation of generation and/or execution of power profile management instructions. An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a hardware element of a SoC/NoC that can be configured to generate and/or execute power profile management instructions using a hybrid combination of software and hardware, wherein the hardware element can be run in parallel with other hardware elements of the SoC/NoC to generate and execute power profile management instructions for different segments or regions of the SoC/NoC for efficient and safe working thereof.
US09568969B2
To make a replacement time difference between two power supply devices as small as possible when the two power supply devices serving as double power supply devices constitute a PLC, a power supply unit includes a temperature detection unit that detects an internal temperature of the own power supply unit, and an output adjustment circuit that adjusts internal power output from the own power supply unit so as to make smaller a difference between a detected temperature by the temperature detection unit of the own power supply unit and a detected temperature by the temperature detection unit included in the other power supply unit attached to a same PLC as the PLC to which the own power supply unit is attached.
US09568964B2
A cooling structure integrated all-in-one computer includes a display device including a hollow frame having retaining members located therein, a first electric connector mounted in the hollow frame and a display module mounted in the hollow frame, and a mainframe including an aluminum extruded casing slidably inserted into a back opening of the hollow frame, engaging members located in the casing for engaging the retaining members upon insertion of the casing into the hollow frame, and a motherboard mounted in a recessed accommodation chamber in the casing with heat-emitting sources thereof abutted against respective heat-transferring bearing blocks of the casing for quick dissipation of heat and a second electric connector thereof connected to the first electric connector.
US09568962B2
An expansion card securing mechanism is configured to secure different kinds of expansion cards. The expansion card securing mechanism includes a base and a plurality of securing members which are secured on the base. The base includes a latch portion. The latch portion defines a plurality of latch holes, the securing member can be secured in the latch hole. Each securing member defines a cavity, the latch hole and the cavity can receive different kinds of expansion cards to secure the expansion cards.
US09568959B1
A calculating apparatus includes a baseplate, a first mother board module and a connection module. The baseplate includes a bottom surface having a first component layout region, a second component layout region and a connection component layout region all arranged in order from a first side to a second side of the bottom surface. The first mother board is drawably disposed at the first component layout region of the bottom surface. The first mother board includes a first tray, a first control board, and a first electronic hard disk drive. The connection module is electrically connected to the first mother board module so that the first mother board module is capable of performing external communication through the connection module.
US09568958B2
An information processing apparatus includes a display, a controller, and an operation unit. The controller is capable of collectively displaying a plurality of icons in a first area of the display. The operation unit includes a second area provided near the display to correspond to the first area and is capable of selecting an icon displayed in the first area by operating a position in the second area that corresponds to a position of the icon.
US09568957B2
An electronic device is provided, which includes a display module, a computer module, and a frame. The display module includes a first magnetic element. The computer module includes a second magnetic element. A magnetic attraction element is positioned corresponding to the first and the second magnetic elements and is movably disposed in the frame. A magnetic force produced between the magnetic attraction element and the second magnetic element is varied according to the positioning angle of the supporting frame relative to the computer module. When the positioning angle is greater than a threshold value, the magnetic force is large enough to attract the magnetic attraction element so as to release the display module to move relative to the frame.
US09568953B2
A display device includes a display, a receiving member, and a buffer member. The receiving member includes a peripheral wall. The buffer member is attached to the receiving member. The display is received in an interior of the peripheral wall of the receiving member and the buffer member is positioned at an exterior of the peripheral wall of the receiving member.
US09568950B2
The present disclosure relates to systems for mounting touch-panel devices such as smartphones or tablets. An example embodiment of an on-wall docking station is provided wherein the docking station comprises a metallic pad, a gripping surface, mounting screws, a mounting plate, an external connection port, magnets, a near field communication device, and a magnet buffer. The docking station may allow for mounting a touch-panel device in a plurality of mounting orientations.
US09568940B2
An integrated circuit (IC) stack device for multiple active vertically stacked cores is disclosed. The IC stack device can include a primary IC having a first set of cores, and a supplementary IC interfaced with the primary IC having a second set of cores. The IC stack device can also include a peripheral component connection located such that the primary IC is between the peripheral component connection and the supplemental IC. The IC stack device can include control logic configured to route, in a primary mode, signals from a particular core of the first set of cores to a data bus. The control logic can route, in a secondary mode, signals from a particular core of the second set of cores to a data bus. The control logic can route, in a dual mode, signals from both of the particular cores to a data bus.
US09568937B1
A device and method(s) for implementing an AC line-powered primary-tap switching power supply which is easily or automatically switchable between a first configuration which supports a first input voltage, e.g., a 120 VAC input voltage, and a second configuration which supports a second input voltage, e.g., a 240 VAC input voltage, which is an integer multiple of the first input voltage, is described.
US09568936B2
In a phased array antenna that has a configuration in which a plurality of antenna panels, in each of which a plurality of antenna elements are arrayed, are connected in the form of a plane and that radiates power transmission microwaves in the arrival direction of a pilot signal sent from an electric-power receiving facility (rectenna system), by controlling the phases of signals input to and output from the antenna elements. An arithmetic processing section, which is provided in each of the antenna panels, calculates the phase shifts of power transmission microwaves to be radiated from the antenna elements. Then, the phase information indicating the phase shifts calculated by the arithmetic processing section is sent to at least three adjacent antenna panels by a transmission and reception section provided in each of the antenna panels.
US09568928B2
In accordance with an embodiment, a method of compensating for the temperature coefficient of a reference voltage includes generating a reference voltage that varies over temperature. A temperature compensated reference voltage is generated that compensates for a temperature variation in the voltage value of the reference voltage. In accordance with another embodiment, a temperature compensation circuit that compensates for temperature variation of a reference voltage is includes a reference voltage generator circuit having an output. A first impedance branch is coupled to the output of the reference voltage generator circuit and a second impedance branch is coupled to the output of the reference voltage generator circuit. A transconductance generation circuit having a first terminal connected to the first impedance branch and a second terminal connected to the second impedance branch.
US09568926B2
Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to circuits, apparatuses, and methods for power management. According to an example embodiment, an apparatus includes a low drop-out (LDO) voltage-regulation circuit configured to generate a regulated voltage from a voltage provided to a supply terminal of the LDO voltage-regulation circuit. The apparatus also includes switching circuitry coupled to the LDO voltage-regulation circuit and to a plurality of voltage sources. The voltage sources include at least power line carried along with a data bus and another voltage source. Each of the plurality of voltage sources provides a respectively different voltage range. The switching circuitry is configured, in response to a power-related condition of the plurality of voltage sources and while maintaining power to the LDO voltage-regulation circuit, to select and couple one of the voltage sources to the supply terminal and uncouple other ones of voltage sources from the supply terminal.
US09568921B2
The present disclosure is directed to a method and apparatus for approximating a static head of a fluid transfer system including a fluid transfer device. The method can include determining a rotational speed and a power consumption of the fluid transfer device, determining a first set of data points, calculating a second set of data points on the basis of the first set of data points, determining a minimum rotational speed producing flow through the fluid transfer device on the basis of the second set of data points, and determining the static head on the basis of the minimum rotational speed.
US09568915B1
A method controls a motion of a vehicle using a model of the motion of the vehicle that includes an uncertainty. The method samples a control space of possible control inputs to the model of the motion of the vehicle to produce a set of sampled control inputs and determines a probability of each sampled control input to move the vehicle into state satisfying constraints on the motion of the vehicle. The method determines, using the probabilities of the sampled control inputs, a control input having the probability to move the vehicle in the state above a threshold. The control input is mapped to a control command to at least one actuator of the vehicle to control the motion of the vehicle.
US09568913B2
A radio controlled (RC) vehicle includes a receiver that is coupled to receive an RF signal from a remote control device, the RF signal containing command data in accordance with a first coordinate system, wherein the first coordinate system is from a perspective of the remote control device. A motion sensing module generates motion data based on the motion of the RC vehicle. A processing module transforms the command data into control data in accordance with a second coordinate system, wherein the second coordinate system is from a perspective of the RC vehicle. A plurality of control devices control the motion of the RC vehicle based on the control data.
US09568904B2
Among a plurality of synchronous control programs each configured to include a plurality of output software modules with respect to one driving software module, a synchronous control program of a multi-axis configuration, in which driving software modules are coupled together into a same axis, is displayed on one screen. On this display screen, display is switched between a parameter setting screen, status information on respective software modules, and a waveform graph of the driving software module and the output software modules, in order to enable work ranging from software designing to debugging to be efficiently performed.
US09568903B2
Systems and methods are described herein for controlling the states of a microgrid module. The microgrid module includes transformers and/or power converters necessary for modifying the input AC or DC power sources to meet the required characteristics of the output power. The microgrid module further comprises a control software module installed on a microgrid computer. The control software module receives data associated with the operating state of the microgrid module. The control software module can access rules associated with each microgrid module operating state to determine whether the microgrid module must transition to a different operating state. If a transition is appropriate, the control software module can apply commands to transition the microgrid module to a different operating state. The control software module can continue to monitor the microgrid module to determine when another state transition is appropriate.
US09568884B2
An image forming apparatus includes: a main casing; a cartridge; a belt unit; and a fixing unit. The cartridge includes a photosensitive drum. The main casing includes a first side plate and a second side plate, interposing the fixing unit therebetween. The belt unit includes: an endless belt; a first pivot shaft supported at the first side plate; a first arm; a second pivot shaft supported at the second side plate; and a second arm. The belt unit is movable between an internal position where the belt contacts the photosensitive drum and an external position where the belt separates from the photosensitive drum. The first arm is positioned outward of the first side plate and connects the first pivot shaft to the belt unit. The second arm is positioned outward of the second side plate and connects the second pivot shaft to the belt unit.
US09568882B2
A cleaning device includes a plate-shaped scraping member that scrapes a liquid developer which remains on an outer circumferential surface of a holding member by contacting an edge portion with the outer circumferential surface, a first collecting member that collects the liquid developer scraped by the scraping member, and a second collecting member that collects the liquid developer which passes through the scraping member, is attached to an under surface of the scraping member, and falls.
US09568874B2
A power supply system includes: a switching power supply operated in an on mode and an off mode; a mode controller for generating a pulse signal for designating the mode; an auxiliary power supply for feeding power to the mode controller; a power supply controller configured to be activated as the power is fed and to control an oscillation operation in accordance with the pulse signal generated by the mode controller; and a supply detector for detecting starting of the power feeding. The power supply controller executes: oscillating the switching power supply when the pulse signal is input during the oscillation stop; stopping the oscillation of the switching power supply when the pulse signal is input during the oscillation; and invalidating an input of the pulse signal for predetermined time when the supply detector detects the starting of the power feeding.
US09568873B2
An image forming apparatus that shifts between a first power state and a second power state where power consumption is less than in the first power state. The image forming apparatus includes a detecting unit that includes a plurality of elements arranged on a line or in a grid to detect heat emitted from an object and a determination unit that determines whether to shift the image forming apparatus from the second power state to the first power state based on a detection result of the detecting unit and that controls the shift.
US09568871B2
Provided is an image forming apparatus including a fixing unit that is attached to the apparatus body and includes a fixing portion configured to fix an image formed on a sheet by an image forming portion and a reverse portion configured to reverse the sheet having passed through the fixing portion, a two-side conveyance unit that includes a duplex conveyance path configured to guide the sheet reversed by the reverse portion to the image forming portion and a conveyance portion configured to convey the sheet on the duplex conveyance path, and a positioning unit configured to position the two-side conveyance unit with respect to the fixing unit. The positioning unit includes an engagement portion provided in the fixing unit, and an engagement portion provided in the two-side conveyance unit and engaging with the engagement portion of the fixing unit.
US09568867B2
The image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a fixing unit having a heating member, a temperature detector, an acquisition unit, and a controller. When image formation is consecutively performed, and the acquisition unit acquires a first density, which is the density information of the image formed on a k-th recording material, and a second, higher density, which is the density information of the image formed on an l-th recording material, while the image is being fixed on the k-th recording material, the controller controls the power so that the detection temperature becomes a temperature higher than a fixing temperature according to the first density, and lower than a fixing temperature according to the second density. While the image is being fixed on the l-th recording material, the controller controls the power so that the detection temperature becomes the fixing temperature according to the second density.
US09568863B1
Provided is a transfer device including a transfer member that transfers a toner image to a recording medium, a removing member that has a hardness higher than a hardness of the transfer member and includes a corner portion coming into contact with the transfer member, so as to remove a toner attached to the transfer member by rotation of the transfer member in one direction, and a driving section that rotates the transfer member in the direction and rotates the transfer member in a direction opposite to the direction after a transfer operation of the transfer member is terminated.
US09568859B2
A toner conveying member is a member with a shaft and a screw around a longitudinal non-end portion (i.e., a central portion) of the shaft integrally molded with resin, and also includes a metal pipe. The metal pipe includes a surrounding portion provided around an end portion of the shaft where the screw is not provided, and a buried portion buried in at least a portion of the screw and extended from the surrounding portion.
US09568847B2
Metal-oxide composite particles are used as a toner additive.
US09568843B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide an exposure method and an exposure device. The exposure method comprises: placing at least two transparent substrates coated with photoresist under one mask, wherein all of the at least two substrates are in parallel with the mask; irradiating the mask vertically with parallel exposure light to respectively expose the photoresist on the at least two substrates along a propagation direction of the exposure light.
US09568836B2
An exposure apparatus includes a light shielding plate that is arranged on a plane conjugate to a substrate plane and shields against light to prevent the light from entering an outer peripheral region outside the circular borderline on the substrate; a first driving unit that rotationally drives the light shielding plate about an axis parallel to an optical axis of the illumination system; a second driving unit that linearly drives the light shielding plate within a plane perpendicular to the optical axis; a detecting unit that detects a light-shielding position; and a control unit that stores a light-shielding position at reference time point and light-shielding positions prior to and after change of the light shielding plate when the light shielding plate is changed after the reference time point, and calculates a variation amount of the light-shielding position based on a light-shielding position detected by the detecting unit at any time point after the light shielding plate is changed, a light-shielding position at the reference time point, and the difference between light-shielding positions before and after the light shielding plate is changed.
US09568835B2
The present invention provides an exposure apparatus for exposing a shot on a substrate to first pulsed light, the apparatus including an optical element for guiding the first pulsed light to the substrate, an irradiation device configured to irradiate the optical element with second pulsed light having an infrared wavelength which the first pulsed light has less than the second pulsed light has, and a controller configured to control the irradiation device in a process of exposing the shot to the first pulsed light plural times, such that the irradiation device irradiates the optical element with the second pulsed light during at least one period of non-irradiation periods in which the shot is not irradiated with the first pulsed light.
US09568832B2
An imaging optical system for a projection exposure system has at least one anamorphically imaging optical element. This allows a complete illumination of an image field in a first direction with a large object-side numerical aperture in this direction, without the extent of the reticle to be imaged having to be enlarged and without a reduction in the throughput of the projection exposure system occurring.
US09568829B2
A developing method includes: horizontally holding an exposed substrate by a substrate holder; forming a liquid puddle on a part of the substrate, by supplying a developer from a developer nozzle; rotating the substrate; spreading the liquid puddle on a whole surface of the substrate, by moving the developer nozzle such that a supply position of the developer on the rotating substrate is moved in a radial direction of the substrate; bringing, simultaneously with the spreading of the liquid puddle on the whole surface of the substrate, a contact part into contact with the liquid puddle, the contact part being configured to be moved together with the developer nozzle and having a surface opposed to the substrate which is smaller than the surface of the substrate. According to this method, an amount of liquid falling down to the outside of the substrate can be inhibited. In addition, since the rotating speed of the substrate can be decreased, spattering of the developer can be inhibited. Further, a throughput can be improved by stirring the developer.
US09568828B2
A liquid immersion member including first and second members forming the immersion space; first member having a first lower surface disposed at a portion of the optical member surrounding, second member having a second upper surface opposite to the first lower surface via a gap and a second lower surface opposing the substrate and second member disposed at a portion of exposure light optical path surrounding; driving apparatus to move the second member with respect to the first; controlling the driving apparatus so the second member's operation in the substrate first operation movement is between exposure termination and start of a first and second shot regions differently from a second member's operation in the substrate second movement period which is between exposure termination and start of a third and fourth shot regions; first and second shot regions are in the same row contrary to third and fourth shot regions.
US09568818B2
A method for producing a silica glass blank co-doped with titanium and fluorine for use in EUV lithography includes (a) producing a TiO2—SiO2 soot body by flame hydrolysis of silicon- and titanium-containing precursor substances, (b) fluorinating the TiO2—SiO2 soot body to form a fluorine-doped TiO2—SiO2 soot body, (c) treating the fluorine-doped TiO2—SiO2 soot body in a water vapor-containing atmosphere to form a conditioned soot body, and (d) vitrifying the conditioned soot body to form the blank. The blank has an internal transmission of at least 60% in the wavelength range of 400 to 700 nm at a sample thickness of 10 mm, a mean OH content in the range of 10 to 100 wt. ppm and a mean fluorine content in the range of 2,500 to 10,000 wt. ppm. Titanium is present in the blank in the oxidation forms Ti3+ and Ti4+.
US09568816B2
A projector system with a single imaging array has a low-etendue light source. The projector system includes a first optical path from the low-etendue light source to a plurality of optical conversion media having a plurality of emission wavelengths to provide display light with wavelengths longer than blue light. The projector system includes a second optical path from the optical conversion media to the imaging array. The projector system has a means of moving an excitation location on the optical conversion media in the first optical path. The projector system may include a blue LED, a diffuser region, or an optical conversion medium with a blue emission wavelength to provide blue display light. Light from the low-etendue light source is prevented from directly impinging on the imaging array.
US09568815B2
A light source unit includes a light source, a connecting conductor configured to supply power to the light source, a light source housing configured to accommodate the light source and the connecting conductor. At least part of the connecting conductor is provided on a gripping portion side of the light source housing, and the light source housing includes a lid-side forming portion configured to cover the gripping portion side of the light source and the connecting conductor, and a flow channel configured to guide cooling air to a cover portion of the lid-side forming portion.
US09568801B2
An optical modulator includes a first coupler that branches an input light into two and outputs a first output light and a second output light; a first Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) that modulates the intensity of the first output light from the first coupler and outputs a third output light; a second MZI that modulates the intensity of the second output light from the first coupler and outputs a fourth output light; a second coupler that combines the third output light from the first MZI and the fourth output light from the second MZI, branches a combined light into two, and outputs a fifth output light and a sixth output light. The interaction length of a branch of the first coupler and that of the second coupler are set such that the wavelength dependence of the splitting ratio of the first coupler is inversely related to that of the second coupler.
US09568796B2
A liquid crystal display includes: a substrate; a thin film transistor on the substrate; a pixel electrode connected with a terminal of the thin film transistor; a microcavity on the pixel electrode, and including a plurality of regions corresponding a pixel area; a liquid crystal layer in the microcavity; a liquid crystal injection hole exposing the microcavity; a common electrode on the microcavity; a supporting member on the common electrode; and a capping layer on the supporting member and covering the liquid crystal injection hole. The pixel electrode is connected with the terminal of the thin film transistor through a contact hole, and the contact hole is within the pixel area.
US09568794B2
To provide a display device in which parasitic capacitance between wirings can be reduced while preventing increase in wiring resistance. To provide a display device with improved display quality. To provide a display device with low power consumption. A pixel of the liquid crystal display device includes a signal line, a scan line intersecting with the signal line, a first electrode projected from the signal line, a second electrode facing the first electrode, and a pixel electrode connected to the second electrode. Part of the scan line has a loop shape, and part of the first electrode is located in a region overlapped with an opening of the scan line. In other words, part of the first electrode is not overlapped with the scan line.
US09568784B2
The embodiments of the present invention provide a liquid crystal display panel and driving method thereof. The liquid crystal display panel may comprise a substrate and a plurality of first electrodes and a plurality of second electrodes disposed on the substrate to generate a driving electrical field, wherein each of the first electrodes is disposed in two pixel units which are adjacent in a first direction, and each of the second electrodes is disposed in two pixel units which are adjacent in the first direction, the first electrodes and the second electrodes are disposed alternately by offsetting one pixel unit in the first direction, and the first direction is a row direction or a column direction.
US09568776B2
A sealed body which is sealed with low-melting-point glass and has high airtightness is provided. In the sealed body, at least a wiring layer is provided between two facing substrates, the two substrates are bonded together with the use of a sealing layer containing glass frits as a material, and a metal layer is selectively provided in a region where the wiring layer and the sealing layer overlap. In a laser light irradiation step, the metal layer functions as a laser light reflecting film and suppresses application of excess energy to a sealing member in a region overlapping with the wiring layer.
US09568772B2
An electronic device may be provided with a display mounted in a housing. The display may include a liquid crystal display module and a reflective polarizer having an in-plane optical axis. The display may also include a backlight unit that includes a light source, a light guide element, and a reflector film coupled to a backside of the light guide element. The display may also include a light retardation layer such as a quarter wave film. The quarter wave film may be arranged between the reflective polarizer and the reflector film of the backlight unit. Partially polarized light that is output from a front side of the light guide element may have a first component parallel to the in-plane optical axis and a second component perpendicular to the in-plane optical axis of the reflective polarizer. The second component may be reflected from the reflective polarizer.
US09568764B2
A display substrate, a display panel and a display device are disclosed. The display substrate includes: a base substrate (1), and a color film structure (2) and a transparent conductive oxide film layer (3) subsequently laminated on the base substrate (1). The color film structure (2) includes a plurality of color filter units arranged in a matrix and having different colors; at least one color of the color filter units in the color film structure (2) includes at least two layers of laminated color filter films, refractive indices of the color filter films gradually increase in a direction from the base substrate (1) towards the transparent conductive oxide film layer (3), and one layer of the color filter films adjacent to the base substrate (1) has refractive index larger than that of the base substrate (1), one layer of the color filter films adjacent to the transparent conductive oxide film layer (3) has refractive index less than that of the transparent conductive oxide film layer (3). The display substrate reduces the loss of light transmitted in the display panel, and thus the display brightness of the display device is increased.
US09568757B2
A display device includes: a display panel; a backlight unit disposed above the display panel and configured to provide light to the display panel; a mold frame disposed between the display panel and the backlight unit and including a sidewall portion, which is formed to define an opening, a support portion, which extends from the sidewall portion toward the opening and supports the display panel, and at least one coupling groove portion, which is formed on an inner side of the sidewall portion; and at least one protective member including a coupling protrusion portion, which is inserted into the coupling groove portion, and a contact portion, which is disposed between an inside of the sidewall portion and an outside of the display panel and is connected to the coupling protrusion portion.
US09568755B2
A display device is provided, comprising: a time sequence control board (300); and a back plate (100), comprising one main body and a plurality of edges, the time sequence control board (300) being attached to one of the edges of the back plate (100) with a connection member (200), the connection member (200) comprising a buckling part (210) and a connection part (220) connected with the buckling part, the buckling part (210) being used to buckle the time sequence control board (300), and the connection part (220) being connected with the edge of the back plate (100).
US09568724B2
A microscope including an objective having a focal plane in a sample space, and an autofocus device comprising a light modulator for generating a luminous modulation object that is intensity-modulated periodically along one direction, an autofocus illumination optical unit that images the modulation object such that its image arises in the sample space, an autofocus camera, an autofocus imaging optical unit that images the image of the modulation object in the sample space onto the autofocus camera, a control device, which receives signals of the autofocus camera and determines an intensity distribution of the image of the modulation object and generates a focus control signal therefrom. The control device determines an intensity distribution of the image of a luminous comparison object imaged by the optical unit to correct the intensity distribution of the image of the modulation object with regard to reflectivity variations in the sample space.
US09568719B2
A microscope apparatus includes a stage for holding a specimen, a stand portion for holding the stage, an arm portion having two arms extending from an upper part of the stand portion to a front side of the microscope apparatus, an optical system supported by the arm portion and configured to enlarge an image of the specimen on the stage, and gripping portions provided respectively on lower parts of the two arms and configured to be gripped by an observer.
US09568714B2
Provided is a projection lens including: a first lens, a reflective optical device, a second lens and a third lens from an image side of the projection lens to an object side of the projection lens in turn. The first lens is of a negative focal power, an image side of the first lens is concave; the reflective optical device enables light to be bended; the second lens is of a positive focal power, an object side of the second lens is convex; the third lens is of a positive focal power, an object side of the third lens is convex. A diaphragm is arranged between first lens and second lens, the projection lens meets: 0.4
US09568706B2
A lens barrel of the present invention is a lens barrel holding a photographing optical system which is a zoom lens constituted by five groups and includes: a cylindrical cam barrel arranged to be rotatable around an optical axis; a first lens driving section driving the cam barrel around the optical axis; a plurality of first cam grooves carved on an outer circumferential surface of the cam barrel; and a plurality of second cam grooves carved on an inner circumferential surface of the cam barrel. A first lens group holding barrel has a plurality of cam followers that are recessed in the first cam grooves; and each of a second lens group holding barrel and a third lens group holding barrel has a plurality of cam followers that are recessed in the second cam grooves.
US09568702B2
The present invention relates to an end cap for terminating a transmission cable containing at least one transmission line, the end cap comprising at least one lead-through opening for guiding the at least one line from a rear side to a front side of the end cap. Further, the invention relates to a terminating arrangement terminating a transmission cable containing at least one transmission line. Moreover, the invention relates to a kit for a terminating arrangement for terminating a transmission cable. In order to facilitate the termination of a transmission cable, the present invention provides that a passage extending from the rear side to the front side is formed at the end cap, the passage being adapted for accommodating a central strength member of the cable.
US09568694B2
An optical module includes a first circuit board, an optical sub-assembly, a first flexible printed circuit and a second flexible printed circuit. At first electrical connection terminals and a first electrical connector are provided on the first circuit board. The optical sub-assembly includes a second circuit board that includes second electrical connection terminals and a second electrical connector. The first flexible printed circuit is connected to the first electrical connection terminals and the second electrical connection terminals. The second flexible printed circuit is connected to the first and second electrical connectors. A high-speed electrical signal of 1 GHz or higher is transmitted between both the circuit boards through the first flexible printed circuit, and a power source signal and a low-speed electrical signal of 1 MHz or lower are transmitted between both the circuit boards through the second flexible printed circuit.
US09568690B2
A latch mechanism for a pluggable optical module includes a slide disposed in the pluggable optical module, wherein the slide includes a front cylinder connected to a rear cylinder with a slide body therebetween and a post connected to the rear cylinder; a bail over a top of a front portion of the pluggable optical module and rotatably connected thereto, wherein the bail includes a first cutout portion on each side in which the front cylinder is moveably positioned therein; a ramp disposed within the pluggable optical module for sliding the rear cylinder thereon; and a notch disposed within the pluggable optical module for translating force from the post thereto responsive to the bail moving the front cylinder, the front cylinder applying force to the rear cylinder via the slide body, and the rear cylinder translating the force to the post.
US09568677B2
Embodiments of forming a waveguide structure are provided. The waveguide structure includes a substrate, and the substrate has an interconnection region and a waveguide region. The waveguide structure also includes a trench formed in the substrate, and the trench has a sloping sidewall surface and a substantially flat bottom. The waveguide structure further includes a bottom cladding layer formed on the substrate, and the bottom cladding layer extends from the interconnection region to the waveguide region, and the bottom cladding layer acts as an insulating layer in the interconnection region. The waveguide structure further includes a metal layer formed on the bottom cladding layer on the sloping sidewall surface.
US09568676B2
A method for producing an integrated optical circuit comprising an active device and a passive waveguide circuit includes: applying an active waveguide structure on a source wafer substrate; exposing a portion of the source wafer substrate by selectively removing the active waveguide structure; applying a passive waveguide structure on the exposed portion of the source wafer substrate, wherein an aggregation of the active waveguide structure and the passive waveguide structure forms the active device, the active device having a bottom surface facing the source wafer substrate; removing the source wafer substrate from the active device; and attaching the active device to a target substrate comprising the passive waveguide circuit such that the bottom surface of the active device faces the target substrate.
US09568675B2
A waveguide coupler comprising: a first coupling portion arranged to couple with a first waveguide and a second coupling portion arranged to couple with a second waveguide so as to connect the first waveguide and the second waveguide together; wherein arranged between the first and second coupling portions is a wave modulation portion arranged to modulate wave signals transferred between the first waveguide and the second waveguide.
US09568669B2
The specification describes multimode optical fibers with specific design parameters, i.e., controlled refractive index design ratios and dimensions, which render the optical fibers largely immune to moderately severe bends. The modal structure in the optical fibers is also largely unaffected by bending, thus leaving the optical fiber bandwidth essentially unimpaired. Bend performance results were established by DMD measurements of fibers wound on mandrels vs. measurements of fibers with no severe bends. Additional embodiments of the present invention describe an improved optical link when the inventive multimode fiber is connected to standard or conventional multimode fibers.
