US09585292B2
A power converter includes a power semiconductor module, a first flow path forming body and a second flow path forming body that forms a housing space for storing the power semiconductor module and the first flow path forming body, in which the first flow path forming body is configured of a first side wall section, a second side wall section, and a bottom surface section, the first side wall section forms a first flow path space between one surface of the power semiconductor module and the first side wall section, the second side wall section forms a second flow path space between the other surface of the power semiconductor module and the second side wall section, and cooling refrigerant flows through the housing space, the first flow path space, and the second flow path space.
US09585286B2
An air-cooled case enabling automatic setting of a flow of cooling air during natural cooling and during forced cooling contains a heating element and a cooling fan in a space surrounded by multiple surfaces that include a top surface and mutually facing side surfaces. The air-cooled case is provided with a top surface ventilation opening formed in the top surface, side surface ventilation openings formed in the side surfaces, and a shutter that is provided in the top surface ventilation opening and opens/closes the top surface ventilation opening.
US09585285B2
A flexible thermal conduit runs from a first housing portion of an electronic device to a second housing portion of the electronic device, to convey heat generated by an electronic component located in the first housing portion to a heat dissipation structure located in the second housing portion, where the second housing portion is flexibly coupled to the first housing portion, for example, by a hinge or other type of joint. The flexible conduit may include a plurality of layers of thin, flat thermally conductive material, which may be arranged to flex independently of each other in the region where the first and second housing portions are coupled.
US09585283B2
A high insertion force ejector is provided. The high insertion force ejector includes an ejector mounting base, a pressure bar-ejector tooth, a first cam, and a second cam. The pressure bar-ejector tooth is connected to the ejector mounting base. A lever handle is operatively connected to the pressure bar-ejector and the ejector mounting base. The first cam and the second cam are operatively connected to the pressure bar-ejector tooth and the lever handle.
US09585278B2
A terminal assembly module is provided that simplifies the transfer of I/O wiring from a pre-existing industrial controller to a replacement industrial controller. The terminal assembly module replaces an I/O module in the pre-existing industrial controller chassis. The I/O module terminal block, with I/O wiring maintained intact, is removed from the discarded I/O module and installed on the terminal assembly module. A multi-conductor cable is then plugged into a cable connector on the front of the terminal assembly module, which electrically connects the I/O module terminals to the conductors of the cable. The cable conductors can then be connected to the I/O modules of the new industrial controller. Thus, the terminal assembly module eliminates the need to disconnect the existing I/O wiring from the I/O module terminal blocks of the pre-existing industrial controller.
US09585277B2
An electrowetting display device comprising at least one picture element with a first support plate including a first electrical element, a second electrical element and a through-connection electrically connecting the first electrical element to the second electrical element. The through-connection is arranged outside a projected display area of the at least one picture element.
US09585274B2
The present invention is an electronic device including a first housing, a second housing, and an opening and closing device for opening and closing the second housing with respect to the first housing between a closed position and an opened position, wherein the opening and closing device includes a stand that is disposed in the first housing; a base plate that is pivotably borne by the stand; a movable plate that is disposed in the second housing and that is movably disposed in the base plate, wherein the movable plate is configured to move between a first position where the movable plate overlaps with the base plate and a second position where the movable plate protrudes from the base plate; a bias unit configured to bias the movable plate to the base plate in the protruding direction; a movement restriction system that is formed of a first member and a second member, wherein during a state in which the base plate is at the closed position, the movement restriction system is configured to restrict, by locking between the first member and the second member, movement of the base plate with respect to the stand and movement of the movable plate with respect to the base plate; and a movement bias system configured to bias, during movement of the base plate from the opened position to the closed position, the movable plate to move from the second position toward the first position in accordance with the movement, wherein the first member is integrally formed with one of the first housing and the second housing.
US09585269B2
An object of the present invention is to provide an electrical connection box in which reduction in weight can be achieved by simplification of the construction, while preventing short-circuiting of a positive electrode side busbar and a negative electrode side busbar. An electrical connection box includes: a positive electrode side busbar connected to a positive electrode of a battery; a negative electrode side busbar connected to a negative electrode of the battery; and a case in which the positive electrode side busbar and the negative electrode side busbar are accommodated. The case includes: a bottom wall; a circumferential wall erected from the bottom wall; and a partition wall erected from the bottom wall. The partition wall is a waterproof partition that partitions a positive electrode side busbar accommodating area and a negative electrode side busbar accommodating area.
US09585266B2
A hot/cold aisle air containment system includes a frame structure, at least one electronic equipment enclosure installed at least partially within the frame structure, and a header panel assembly. The frame structure adapted to be at least partially covered by one or more panels to define an interior space and includes at least one horizontal member. The header panel assembly is installed between a top of the at least one electronic equipment enclosure and the at least one horizontal member of the frame structure to prevent circulation of air above the enclosure. The header panel assembly includes a pair of panels. A first of the pair of panels is adjustable horizontally relative to a second of the pair of panels, and the pair of panels, together, are adjustable vertically relative to the least one horizontal member.
US09585258B2
Provided is a method of manufacturing a printed circuit board, the method including: preparing an insulating substrate including a resin material in which a solid component is impregnated; forming a circuit pattern groove on the resin material by etching an upper surface of the insulating substrate; forming a plated layer in which the circuit pattern groove is buried; and forming a buried circuit pattern by removing the plated layer until the insulating layer is exposed, wherein the solid component has a diameter of less than 5% to a width of the buried circuit pattern. Thus, as a filler of a predetermined size or less is applied into the insulating layer for forming the circuit pattern, the occurrence of a void due to separation of the filler from a boundary part with the circuit pattern can be reduced, and reliability can be also secured.
US09585257B2
The present invention relates generally to integrated circuit (IC) chip packaging, and more particularly, to a structure and method of forming a glass interposer having thermally conductive vias in addition to electrically conductive vias. The thermally conductive vias help dissipate heat from one or more IC chips, through the glass interposer, into an organic carrying, and then, into an underlying substrate where it can be dissipated.
US09585255B2
A support apparatus for a component is provided and includes a periphery entirely disposable within a footprint of the component on a surface of a substrate, a first portion having a first surface adhesively connectable to the component, a second portion having a second surface disposable to contact the surface of the substrate in discrete sectors and defining an aperture through which leads are extendable from the component and through the substrate, and vents extending between the discrete sectors from the aperture to the periphery, and bosses disposed to protrude from the second surface and into through-holes defined in the substrate.
US09585241B2
In various embodiments, a substrate is provided. The substrate may include: a ceramic carrier having a first side and a second side opposite the first side; a first metal layer disposed over the first side of the ceramic carrier; a second metal layer disposed over the second side of the ceramic carrier; and a cooling structure formed into or over the second metal layer.
US09585239B2
One or more light emitting diode diodes (LEDs) are attached to a printed circuit board. The attached LEDs are connectable with a power source via circuitry of the printed circuit board. An overmolding material is insert molded an over at least portions of the printed circuit board proximate to the LEDs to form a free standing high thermal conductivity material overmolding that covers at least portions of the printed circuit board proximate to the LEDs. The free standing high thermal conductivity material has a melting temperature greater than about 100° C. and has a thermal conductivity greater than or about 1 W/m·K. In some embodiments, the free standing high thermal conductivity material is a thermoplastic material.
US09585225B2
There is provided a metal-based particle assembly comprising 30 or more metal-based particles separated from each other and disposed in two dimensions, the metal-based particles having an average particle diameter of 200 to 1600 nm, an average height of 55 to 500 nm, and an aspect ratio of 1 to 8, wherein the metal-based particle assembly has in an absorption spectrum for a visible light region a maximum wavelength of a peak at a longest side in wavelength, and the maximum wavelength shifts toward a shorter side in wavelength in a range of from 30 to 500 nm as compared with that of a prescribed reference metal-based particle assembly. The metal-based particle assembly can have in an absorption spectrum a maximum wavelength of a peak at a longest side in wavelength, and the maximum wavelength is in a range of from 350 to 550 nm.
US09585222B2
Systems and methods for dimming control using TRIAC dimmers are provided. An example apparatus for a power conversion system includes: a process-and-drive component configured to receive an input signal and output a drive signal to a switch to affect a current that flows through a primary winding of a power conversion system. The input signal includes a first pulse associated with a first input period and a second pulse associated with a second input period. The drive signal is associated with a first modulation period for the first input period and a second modulation period for the second input period. The process-and-drive component is further configured to: determine the first modulation period for the first input period; change the drive signal between a first logic level and a second logic level at a modulation frequency during the first modulation period; determine the second modulation period for the second input period.
US09585215B2
Disclosed is a lighting apparatus for reducing total harmonic distortion (THD). The lighting apparatus may include a lighting unit having a plurality of LED groups divided into first and second lighting groups, and the lighting unit may provide a current path for light emission corresponding to a change of a rectified voltage, using two or more drives having the same structure.
US09585214B2
An exemplary embodiment discloses a light-emitting diode (LED) driving circuit including an LED driving module configured to provide a first driving voltage to an LED light emitting module including a first LED group to an n-th LED group, n is an integer which is equal to or larger than 2, and sequentially drive the first LED group to the n-th LED group depending on a voltage level of the first driving voltage and a second driving voltage providing module configured to store some of the first driving voltage and selectively provide a second driving voltage to some of the LED groups other than at least the first LED group to an m-th LED group among the LED groups in a Vfm compensation section, 1≦m≦n−1, according to a control of the LED driving module.
US09585213B2
The present invention provides a light source driving circuit and method. The light source driving circuit is used to provide light source driving signals to a light source. The light source driving circuit comprises a light source driving chip, a first pulse width modulation (PWM) signal input terminal, and a first control circuit. The light source driving chip is utilized for generating and outputting the light source driving signals. The first PWM signal input terminal is utilized for receiving a first PWM signal. The first control circuit is utilized for controlling the light source to emit light rays according to the first PWM signal.
US09585206B2
Multi-junction solid state transducer devices for direct AC power and associated systems and methods
Multi-junction solid-state transducer (SST) devices and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. In several embodiments, for example, an SST system can include a first multi-junction SST chain having a first drive voltage, a first P-contact, and a first N-contact, and a second multi-junction SST chain having a second drive voltage, a second P-contact, and a second N-contact. The first and second multi-junction SST chains can be configured to be activated independently of each other. The SST system can further include a driver operably coupled to the first and second P- and N-contacts. The driver can be configured to activate the first multi-junction SST chain when voltage input is at least equal to the first drive voltage. When absolute voltage increases a predetermined voltage level, the driver can be configured to activate the second multi-junction SST chain or the first and second multi-junction SST chains.
US09585205B2
A system (100) for receiving electrical power wirelessly comprises a first (101) and a second electrode (102), with sandwiched there between at least one load module (103) dispersed in a matrix (104). Wherein at least the matrix (104) is applied in wet form.
US09585203B2
In a microwave heating device of the present invention, a heating-chamber input portion is adapted to direct, to a heating chamber, microwaves having propagated through a waveguide tube and having passed through the positions where microwave radiating portions are formed, thereby realizing a state where progressive waves are dominant among the microwaves propagating through the waveguide tube, so that the microwave radiating portions are caused to radiate, to the inside of the heating chamber, microwaves based on the progressive waves propagating through the waveguide tube. This enables uniformly heating an object to be heated, without using a rotational mechanism.
US09585202B2
A system and method for holding and warming food held in pans or trays having a low relative magnetic permeability, such as 300-series stainless steel, using induction heating.
US09585197B2
Provided is a semiconductor device including an asymmetric electrode arrangement in which a plurality of electrodes are arranged asymmetrically in a vertical or horizontal direction.
US09585195B2
An annealing apparatus includes: a temperature-gradient preheating unit, configured for performing a gradient-preheating process for a substrate that is to be annealed by using a gradient temperature; a high temperature heating unit, configured for performing a high temperature heating process for the preheated substrate; and a shifting device, configured for transporting the substrate from the temperature-gradient preheating unit to the high temperature heating unit when and/or after the substrate is subjected to the gradient-preheating process. The annealing apparatus adopts a gradient heating method to perform a preheating treatment for the substrate, so the annealing efficiency is increased. An annealing process that uses the annealing apparatus is further provided.
US09585194B2
A system and method for controlling the output power of a heat source. The system includes a user interface so that a user may select the power required from the heat source, a power supply, and a controller that receives a rectified signal having a work ratio that corresponds to a nominal voltage of an alternating voltage signal corresponding to a phase of a power supply. The controller is configured to control the output power of the heat source in accordance with the power selected by the user, and modifies, if necessary, the work cycle of a power signal linked to the heat source in accordance with the work ratio in order to compensate possible differences in the nominal voltage between different power supplier.
US09585182B2
Systems, devices and techniques disclosed in this document provide device-to-device communications via a human body of a user between (1) a capacitor sensor touch screen device that includes a capacitor sensor touch screen that includes capacitor sensors and provides a display function and (2) a capacitor sensor device that includes one or more capacitor sensors that detect or sense, based on capacitive sensing and without providing a display function, signals transmitted from the capacitor sensor touch screen of the capacitor sensor touch screen device. The human body of a user operates as a signal transmitting medium. In addition, the systems, devices and techniques disclosed in this document provide device-to-device communications via direct device-to-device coupling between two capacitor sensor touch screen devices each including capacitor sensor touch screen that includes capacitor sensors and provides a display function.
US09585178B2
A method for handling Proximity-based Service (ProSe) discovery, comprising: performing a ProSe communication preparation procedure, in response to a received ProSe discovery request message, with a first UE and a second UE, for guiding ProSe discovery between the first UE and the second UE, wherein the received ProSe discovery request message indicates ProSe identifiers of the first UE and the second UE for ProSe communication and the ProSe communication preparation procedure comprises transmitting a first request message including scheduled information for the first UE and a second request message including scheduled information for the second UE, to the first UE and to the second UE respectively, and receiving response messages from the first and second UE; determining if a direct radio link between the first UE and the second UE is feasible for ProSe communication based on the received response messages from the first and second UE.
US09585175B2
A method carried out by a first communications router for transmitting data packets to a second communications router by establishing an aggregated end-to-end connection with the second communications router. The aggregated end-to-end connection comprises a plurality of established end-to-end connections which are classified into a first group and at least one non-first group of established end-to-end connection(s). The first group of established end-to-end connection(s) satisfy all of one or more conditions and the at least one non-first group of established end-to-end connection(s) do not satisfy all of the one or more conditions. Data packets are transmitted through the first group of established end-to-end connection(s) and the at least one non-first group of established end-to-end connection(s), although, it is preferred to transmit data packets through the first group of established end-to-end connection(s). The present invention further comprises a method and system for determining whether each of the established end-to-end connections of an aggregated end-to-end connection belongs to a first group of established end-to-end connection(s) or at least one non-first group of established end-to-end connection(s) and determining whether data packets are first type data packets. The first type data packets are transmitted through the first group of established end-to-end connection(s).
US09585174B2
A technology for an enhanced node B (eNode B) in a cellular network that is operable to determine downtilt using full dimensional (FD) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO). A plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) signals can be transmitted, wherein each transmitted OFDMA signal is transmitted with a selected downtilt angle from a two dimensional antenna array of the eNode B. Reference signal received power (RSRP) feedback information can be received from a UE for each of transmitted OFDMA signals at the selected downtilt angles. Received signal strength indicator (RSSI) feedback information can be received from the UE. A reference signal received quality (RSRQ) can be calculated for each of the selected antennas angles using the RSRP feedback information and the RSSI feedback information. A downtilt angle can be selected for transmitting data from the eNode B with a highest signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR).
US09585172B2
A physical frame is constructed, the physical frame including a medium access control super-frame payload which in turn includes a plurality of medium access control frames. With respect to the constructed physical frame, virtual carrier sense information is set in the plurality of medium access control frame so that a result of carrier sense is identical to another by virtual carrier sense based on the plurality of medium access control frames in the medium access control super-frame payload. The physical frame in which the virtual carrier sense information has been set is transmitted to a destined communication apparatus.
US09585166B2
An embodiment of the present invention provides a method of controlling channel access in a WLAN system, comprising receiving, from an access point, a first channel access control message sent to stations located in some area through a directional antenna of the access point, and attempting to access a channel according to the first channel access control message. The method enables coexistence of several users and improves scalability of a wireless system.
US09585164B2
Methods, devices, and systems for multi-carrier network operation are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of pairing and linking carriers in a multi-carrier network, wherein the multi-carrier network includes a downlink carrier, a first uplink carrier, and a second uplink carrier between a base station and a user equipment (“UE”), comprises receiving a Radio Resource Control (“RRC”) signaling; pairing the first uplink carrier with the downlink carrier using information in the RRC signaling, wherein the information includes the pairing of the downlink carrier with the first uplink carrier; and linking the second uplink carrier with the downlink carrier using information in the RRC signaling, wherein the information includes the linking of the downlink carrier with the second uplink carrier.
US09585159B2
A method of enabling data to be relayed between an access point (AP) and a target station (STA). The AP identifies the target STA based at least in part on a medium usage efficiency of the target STA. The AP further sends a relay selection trigger to the target STA to cause the target STA to broadcast a relay selection request to a set of candidate STAs. The relay selection request includes a set of metrics pertaining to a direct link between the AP and the target STA. The AP then receives one or more relay selection responses from one or more candidate STAs in the set of candidate STAs based at least in part on the set of metrics and selects a relay STA from the set of candidate STAs based at least in part on the one or more relay selection responses.
US09585157B2
The present invention relates to a method in which an upper layer entity allocates resources to a plurality of access points (APs) in a wireless access system, including the plurality of APs and the upper layer entity for managing the plurality of APs, the method comprising the step of: sensing a change in minimum guaranteed resource amount allocated to each of the APs; acquiring, from each of the APs, AP-level topology information according to a degree of interference with adjacent APs and AP weight information given to each AP by a service provider; determining a minimum guaranteed resource amount for each of the APs based on the acquired AP-level topology information and AP weight information; and transmitting the determined minimum guaranteed resource amount to each of the APs.
US09585156B2
When communications of a single radio access technology (RAT), or different radio access technologies in a proximate communication spectrum are operating at the same time, potential interference between devices may occur. To reduce the interference, the time division duplex (TDD) configuration of one or more conflicting device may be altered. For example, at the edge of a communication region, TDD configurations used by edge base stations to communicate with mobile devices may be set to reduce interference. As another example, communications of a first device may be altered so the first device schedules uplink communications when a second device also has uplink communications scheduled. Other configurations may also be implemented.
US09585150B2
A method and apparatus for operating one or more satellites in a non-geosynchronous orbit (NGSO) satellite constellation are disclosed. In some aspects, a coverage area on Earth for a first beam transmitted from a first satellite in the NGSO satellite constellation may be determined, a cone may be projected onto a first region of the beam coverage area, a second region of the beam coverage area may be defined as including portions of the beam coverage area lying outside the first region, and a minimum arc angle for each of a plurality of points within the first region but not the second region of the beam coverage area may be determined.
US09585147B2
A method of transmitting at least one data stream by a transmitter in a wireless communication system and an apparatus in a transmission device for transmitting at least one data stream in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes generating a frame including a preamble section and a data section, the preamble section including signaling information and the data section including at least one data stream; and transmitting the generated frame, wherein the signaling information comprises first information related to the at least one data stream of the frame, second information related to the first information of the frame, at least one parity bit for decoding third information related to at least one data stream of a next frame, and information indicating a use of the at least one parity bit.
US09585137B2
A method of allocating channel resources in a wireless network is disclosed. The method of allocating instant channel resources in a wireless network includes receiving channel resource scheduling information of a specific superframe from a coordinator of the wireless network, requesting the coordinator to allocate instant channel resources for an unreserved duration of the specific superframe, and receiving an announcement message from the coordinator, the announcement message announcing allocation of the instant channel resources within the unreserved duration of the specific superframe.
US09585136B2
A base station includes a transmit path circuitry to scramble CRC bits of a DCI format using a C-RNTI for dynamic scheduling, and scramble the CRC bits of the DCI format using an SPS C-RNTI for semi-persistent scheduling. If C-RNTI is used, the circuitry generates a downlink transmission grant using the DCI format being a fallback format to indicate a transmit diversity transmission scheme or a single-layer beamforming scheme, and uses the DCI format being a dual-layer beamforming format to indicate a dual-DRS port transmission scheme or a single-DRS port transmission scheme. If SPS C-RNTI is used, the circuitry generates a downlink transmission grant using the DCI format being the fallback format to indicate a single-DRS port transmission scheme, and uses the DCI format being the dual-layer beamforming format to indicate a dual-DRS port transmission scheme or a single-DRS port transmission scheme.
US09585134B2
A method for receiving a radio resource control (RRC) message by a user equipment (UE) is described. The method includes receiving an RRC connection reconfiguration message including secondary cell group (SCG) configuration parameters for SCG addition. In response to receiving the RRC connection reconfiguration message including SCG configuration parameters for SCG addition, the method also includes ordering, by an RRC of the UE, a medium access control (MAC) of the SCG of the UE to initiate a random access procedure.
US09585127B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for transmitting uplink control information in a wireless communication system. A method for multiplexing uplink control information and uplink data and for transmitting the multiplexed uplink control information and uplink data according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises the following steps: encoding a first transmission block and a second transmission block to generate a first codeword and a second codeword; mapping the first codeword and the second codeword to one or more layers, respectively; and transmitting, via one or more antenna ports, each layer to which the first codeword and the second codeword are mapped, wherein the uplink control information is multiplexed only to either the first transmission block or to the second transmission block.
US09585123B2
The present disclosure proposes a UE, a base station, and a MTC-IWF for implementing MTC group trigger messages through a Cell Broadcasting Service (CBS). The method includes a MTC (Machine Type Communication) server transmitting to a MTC Inter-working Function (MTC-IWF) a trigger payload. The trigger payload would be delivered by the MTC-IWF to a group of MTC devices through Cell Broadcasting Center (CBC) and network nodes. The trigger payload may include a group trigger message indicator which distinguishes the group trigger message from a normal warning message. In response to receiving the content of the trigger payload, the network would page a group of MTC devices. From the group trigger message indicator embedded in the paging message, each MTC device would be able to receive a group trigger message through new system information block of the broadcast information.
US09585121B2
A method and apparatus for simulcasting within a communication system is provided herein. During operation, each base site will be equipped with a plurality of radios capable of transmitting on various frequencies. Base sites within the communication system will be capable of communicating on a predetermined number of channels, which may differ among base sites. A number of channels will be shared by the base sites. When a simulcast is desired, the participants are located, and a common channel is determined for communication. Thus, call participant location information is used to determine the best channel to use to meet the group's coverage needs.
US09585118B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a radio operation switch based on mobility data. In one embodiment, a mobile base station is disclosed, comprising: a global positioning system (GPS) module for determining a current location of the mobile base station; a velocity module coupled to the output of the GPS module for determining a current velocity of the mobile base station; and a controller, the controller configured to perform steps comprising: determining the current velocity of the mobile base station using the velocity module; comparing the current velocity to a threshold; and switching, based on the comparison, from a first radio band to a second radio band.
US09585116B2
The provision of dual mode services is facilitated. Access to the dual mode services is controlled by associating a mobile device to an access point. Subscribers are required to provide valid geographical addresses for access points associated with the mobile devices prior to provision of service. Consequently, physical addresses are necessarily available for emergency services (e.g., E911). Mobile devices are restricted to specific access points based upon the access point identifiers automatically provided during initialization of service and maintained for authorization purposes.
US09585110B2
The present invention relates to a method for transmitting an uplink signal in a wireless communication system. The method includes the steps of: transmitting an uplink signal in a first uplink transmitting timing period determined on the basis of a first timing advance command received from a first serving cell; and, when a specific condition is satisfied, transmitting an uplink signal in a second uplink transmitting timing period determined on the basis of a second timing advance command.
US09585107B2
A power headroom reporting (PHR) processing method in carrier aggregation system and a device thereof are provided. The PHR processing method includes the following steps: user equipment (UE) acquires a pathloss change corresponding to an uplink carrier which is in an activation state at present; the UE determines whether a PHR is to be triggered based on the pathloss change; if the PHR is to be triggered, the UE acquires power headroom (PH) information to be reported and reports the PH information.
US09585099B1
Disclosed are methods and systems to help conserve battery life of a user equipment device (UE). In particular, the UE may make a determination that a remaining battery life is threshold low. In response to making the determination, the UE may engage in a scanning-limiting process that involves (i) the UE identifying on the list each carrier frequency higher than the serving carrier frequency and (ii) based on the identifying, the UE excluding each identified higher carrier frequency from the list, so that, in response to detecting a trigger to scan carrier frequencies in search of target coverage for possible handover, the UE scans each carrier frequency on the list that is lower than the serving carrier frequency but forgoes scanning each identified higher carrier frequency. Further, once the UE detects the trigger, the UE may responsively scan carrier frequencies in accordance with the scanning-limiting process.
US09585085B1
Computer systems and methods for managing network data consumption between a client computer and one or more server computers. A computer system comprising: a memory persistently storing a set of instructions; one or more processors coupled to the memory, wherein the one or more processors execute the set of instructions, which causes the one or more processors to: intercept, at a client computer, a first request to a first server computer from a first application being executed on the client computer before the client computer sends the first request to the first server computer; determine whether the first request should be monitored based on data associated with the first application; in response to determining that the first request should be monitored, redirect the first request to a second server computer that is different than the first server computer, and include one or more parameters that identify the first application and the first server computer.
US09585074B2
A wireless communication system includes: a mobile station; a first base station that communicates with the mobile station; and a second base station that communicates with the mobile station. The mobile station includes a measuring unit, a calculating unit, and a sending unit. The measuring unit measures a location of the mobile station. The calculating unit calculates, by using location information measured by the measuring unit and location information on the first base station, a distance between the mobile station and the first base station. The sending unit sends, to the second base station based on the distance calculated by the calculating unit and a predetermined threshold, a request signal that is used to request setting of a channel between the second base station and the first base station.
US09585071B2
When a relay station load, which is the load of communications with radio terminals (300E-300G), of a relay node (200) exceeds a load allowable amount, which is determined according to the load of a radio base station (100A), the relay node transmits a handover request, which requests permission for a relay handover, to the radio base station (100A) and performs a relay handover if the relay node receives a handover command which instructs a relay handover.
US09585050B2
A wireless communication device and a method for adjusting a maximum number of accesses thereby are provided. The wireless communication device comprises a network speed providing module and a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) access number control module, wherein the network speed providing module is configured to provide a speed at a network side to a WLAN side; and the WLAN access number control module is configured to adjust a maximum number of accesses of a WLAN according to the speed at the network side provided by the network speed providing module. Through the disclosure, communication quality is ensured for an Internet user by adjusting a maximum number of user accesses of Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi); and when the network gets worse, the access of an excess user is not allowed or some users are removed according to a user rule.
US09585045B2
A method and apparatus for measuring a channel in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE) performs radio link monitoring (RLM) measurement and/or channel quality indicator (CQI) measurement according to phases of in-device coexistence (IDC) interference. The RLM measurement does not reflect the IDC interference in phase 2 and 3. The CQI measurement does not reflect the IDC interference in phase 3.
US09585039B2
Software applications for displaying and or recording receiver signal strengths and other parameters
A software application installed on a mobile device periodically measures a parameter and records it along with the position associated with the measurement. These data are recorded on the device's internal memory and displayed in the form of a map so that users can navigate to locations with desired parameter levels. In one embodiment, this parameter may be cellular signal strength, allowing users in areas with no useable cellular signal to find a location where a phone call can be placed. Parameter and location data may be displayed in a map as they are acquired or in other embodiments they may be preloaded onto the device, for example allowing cellular signal strength maps to be displayed on a device even when it has no current data connection.
US09585035B2
Provided is a mobile terminal test apparatus that can shorten a carrier aggregation testing time. The mobile terminal test apparatus includes a call processing units 12-0 to 12-n that transmits and receives a wireless signal between each of the call processing units 12-0 to 12-n and a mobile terminal 2, and makes a call connection suitable for testing conditions as a component carrier between each of the call processing units 12-0 to 12-n and the mobile terminal 2, and a control unit 15 that causes the mobile terminal 2 to perform a handover, and that applies parameters for a SCC that is designated, as parameters for a PCC that is a handover destination, to the call processing unit 12-0 that corresponds to a PCC, and applies parameters for the pre-handover PCC to the call processing unit 12-n that corresponds to the SCC that are designated and thus connects the SCC.
US09585031B2
A method to guide the placement of new small cell, wherein a small cell is a radio cell station with much smaller coverage area than a macro cell, having one or more existing wireless cells, one or more mobile devices of known location and application use and context, a processor and database system, a new small cell, a device for guiding the user in the placement of the new small cell, includes the steps: the location dependant measured network characteristics and location dependant contextual data needs of the mobile device are recorded and stored in the database system over time; and the contents of the database system are used to determine the likely future location specific network needs, such that this information together with the characteristics of the new small cell are used to determine the placement co-ordinates of the new small cell, and use the placement co-ordinates to guide a user in the placement of the new small cell, with the device for guiding the user.
US09585027B2
Methods and systems for enhanced 2-wire and 3-wire WLAN Bluetooth coexistence solution may include determining whether adaptive frequency hopping is active in a Bluetooth communication device. If the adaptive frequency hopping is active, handshaking with a collocated non-Bluetooth communication device may be disabled. The collocated non-Bluetooth communication device may be a wireless local area network communication device. If the adaptive frequency hopping is inactive, handshaking with the collocated non-Bluetooth communication device may be enabled. If the adaptive frequency hopping is inactive, the Bluetooth communication device may initiate handshaking prior to transmitting data. If the adaptive frequency hopping is inactive, the Bluetooth communication device may also respond to the handshaking initiated by the collocated non-Bluetooth communication device. The handshaking may be executed via a 2-wire Bluetooth/WLAN coexistence interface or a 3-wire Bluetooth/WLAN coexistence interface.
US09585019B2
A device management apparatus that mediates between an owner of a device and a user who is not the owner of the device in order to permit the user to use the device, includes a device information storage section in which information on each of a plurality of devices is registered, an acquisition section which acquires a desired condition from a user, and a matching process section which performs matching between the desired condition acquired from the user and the information on each device registered in the device information storage section thereby selecting a device satisfying the desired condition as a target device, generating contract information related to the use of the target device between an owner of the target device and the user, and granting a control right of the target device to the user.
US09585008B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide a number of approaches to deploy out-of-standard (or proprietary) features/enhancements that are not supported in the current communication standards. A mobile terminal and a network can mutually agree to support certain out-of-standard features/enhancements, and communicate support of such out-of-standard or non-standard features/enhancements by adapting or repurposing currently unused (or reserved) signaling data.
US09585003B2
Various methods and apparatuses associated with the serving of data from a wireless mobile phone, including a wireless mobile phone, are described herein.
US09585000B2
There is provided a method of providing a subscriber profile of an embedded universal circuit card (eUICC) that is performed in a terminal equipped with the eUICC. The method includes determining whether the terminal having a first subscriber profile stored therein has left a first mobile network operator (MNO) area corresponding the first subscriber profile, and when it is determined that the terminal has left the first mobile network operator area and moved into a second mobile network operator area, receiving a second subscriber profile corresponding to a second mobile network operator from a predetermined subscriber management server. In this way, it is possible to support mobile communication service by changing the mobile network operator even in the eUICC environment.
US09584995B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for multi-SIM user equipment (UE) devices to perform emergency calling. A UE may receive an indication to initiate an emergency call. The UE may select a cell on which to initiate the emergency call. If a serving cell of a first SIM of the UE is not available for the emergency call, the UE may utilize information from a second SIM of the UE as part of selecting the cell on which to initiate the emergency call. The information from the second SIM may include an indication of a serving cell of the second SIM. Alternatively or in addition, the information from the second SIM may include an indication of one or more neighboring cells of the second SIM. The emergency call may be initiated via the selected cell using the first SIM.
US09584992B2
In one embodiment, a mobile device determines a notification mode based on the mobile device's user interface mode, and transmits a message comprising the notification mode to a server, causing the server to transmit one or more messages to the mobile device based on the notification mode.
US09584986B2
A method may include receiving, by a transceiver, an upload content from a device among a plurality of devices, determining, by a controller, use conditions associated with each of the plurality of devices, forming a group of more than one device among the plurality of devices, based on the upload content and the use conditions; and transmitting, by the transceiver, the upload content to the group of more than one device simultaneously.
US09584979B2
A method on a server for providing content to a mobile device is provided. Paired device identity information associated with a device that has been paired to the mobile device is received. Content available from the server based upon the paired device identity information is determined and sent to the mobile device.
US09584977B2
A system comprising a plurality of mobile object servers respectively assigned to a plurality of regions in a geographic space, the plurality of mobile object servers including at least one mobile object server including a mobile object agent assigned to a moving object in the assigned region; and a plurality of event servers operable to manage events occurring in the geographic space; wherein each mobile object server is operable to transfer the mobile object agent to one of the plurality of mobile object servers assigned to a neighboring region in response to the moving object moving to the neighboring region, and execute the mobile object agent to collect information of events from at least one event server, and provide the moving object with information that assists the moving object with traveling in the geographic space.
US09584975B2
Example techniques are provided that may be implemented, at least in part, at a mobile device to determine certain parameters corresponding to movement of an object that is co-located with the mobile device and at least one other mobile device. In an example implementation, a mobile device may obtain measurements corresponding to sensors of a plurality of mobile devices co-located on an object, and determine at least one of an estimated speed of the object, an estimated heading of the object, or an estimated heading rate of the object based, at least in part, on all or a selected subset of the sensor measurements which are accepted for use.
US09584971B1
A method for determining a status of a user of an electronic device. The method includes a computer processor determining information associated with a first user of an electronic device. The method further includes identifying a plurality of electronic devices that are within a range of wireless communications to the electronic device. The method further includes defining an area monitored by the electronic device. The method further includes monitoring a group of the identified plurality of electronic devices that are within the defined area. The method further includes calculating a first safe-threshold value for the electronic device based on information associated with a first user of an electronic device and monitored information from the group of the identified plurality of electronic devices. The method further includes determining a status for the first user based, at least in part, on the calculated first safe-threshold value for the electronic device.
US09584968B2
Systems and methods are provided for determining in real-time geographic areas having a threshold level of content consumption and deploying dynamic geo-fences to contain these geographic areas. These dynamic geo-fences provide a means for timing message notifications in order to optimize the chances of delivering targeted content to a mobile device user based on the current geographic location of the user's device relative to a threshold level of content consumption area. As mobile device users may be more likely to launch a client application in a place where other users are currently consuming content, a general message notification sent to the user's device located in a dynamic geo-fence created based on real-time content consumption, may increase the likelihood that the user will launch the client application and thereby, allow targeted content to be delivered to the user's mobile device.
US09584963B2
A radio receiver 516 for receiving travel information, such as traffic events or the like, and optionally parts 520, 522 of an antenna therefor, are located within a housing 512 of a portable device having location determining capability, such as a PND 510. A common port 514 is used for connection both to data and power, for example in a home environment, and also to receive signals from the antenna, for example in a vehicle environment, with a switch 518 being provided within the device for switching between the two.
US09584956B2
A method of counting steps of a user employs a first device, e.g. a personal activity monitor 1) and a second device, e.g. a smartphone 2) which communicate with each other. The method includes detecting and counting the steps of the user by the first device, detecting and counting the steps of the user by the second device, transferring step data from one of the two devices to the other of the two devices, and identifying at least a first time period (Tw) for which a difference in the number of steps counted by the first device and by the second device is greater than a predetermined threshold (S). The method further includes supplementing the step data recorded for the first time period in one of the two devices with the step data from the other of the two devices.
US09584954B2
Methods, systems, and devices are described for adapting access timing parameters when using DSRC spectrum. A multi-mode device may adapt at least one access timing parameter while operating within the DSRC spectrum. The at least one access timing parameter may be adapted to provide priority to transmissions of DSRC devices using the DSRC spectrum. The multi-mode device may increase a duration of a short inter-frame spacing (SIFS) to be at least equal to a duration of a SIFS used by a DSRC device.
US09584949B2
A cloud based service architecture is used in providing Master Data Management (MDM) services to clients. The MDM cloud based architecture comprises a client architecture and a server architecture. The client architecture includes synchronization services that are used to interact with the MDM cloud based service. The server architecture comprises a public Application Programming Interface (API) and a portal for accessing different MDM functionality. For example, a client may access the server architecture to create/modify MDM workflows that are hosted by the cloud based service. The cloud based service architecture also provides access to different MDM services including MDM workflows, validation, transformation, and storage relating to master data. The cloud based architecture may be used to publish master data and/or subscribe to master data.
US09584945B2
Systems and methods that reproduce surround sound effects from an audio source are described. Wireless communication devices form a wireless network in which music, for example, can be played on the speakers of the wireless communication devices to reproduce surround sound effects from a selected audio source. As the wireless communication devices roam with respect to each other or with respect to a focal point or listening position of the wireless network, the wireless network adjusts how the audio source is played at each speaker of the respective wireless communication device to maintain or to enhance the reproduction of surround sound effects from the audio source.
US09584944B2
A stereo decoding method and apparatus are disclosed. The method includes: restoring a monophonic signal from a received code stream through decoding; restoring an interchannel level difference, a group delay, and a group phase from the received code stream through decoding; and processing the monophonic signal according to the interchannel level difference, group delay, and group phase to obtain a first channel signal and a second channel signal. According to the stereo decoding method and apparatus provided in embodiments of the present invention, the first and second channel signals are obtained according to the monophonic signal, ILD, group delay, and group phase by referring to not only the ILD but also the group delay and group phase, thereby yielding favorable stereo sound field effect for the obtained first and second channel signals.
US09584941B2
A digital loudspeaker and a method for operating a digital loudspeaker are disclosed. In an embodiment a digital loudspeaker includes a substrate, a first stator fixed with respect to the substrate, a second stator fixed with respect to the substrate and spaced at a distance from the first stator, and a membrane between the first stator and the second stator. The membrane is displaceable between a first position in which the membrane mechanically contacts the first stator and a second position in which the membrane mechanically contacts the second stator. The first stator and the second stator are arranged to electrostatically move the membrane from a rest position spaced apart from the first position and the second position to the first position and the second position, respectively.
US09584940B2
A method for wireless data exchange between devices in live events is presented. A method for exploring data of multiple devices in order to get information on the acoustic paths in different locations of venues is also provided. A method of exploring the microphones of sound-capturing devices of live event's audience is also presented.
US09584933B2
A hearing assistance system streams audio signals from one or more streaming sources to a hearing aid set and enhances the audio signals such that the output sounds transmitted to the hearing aid wearer include a spatialization effect allowing for localization of each of the one more streaming sources. The system determines the position of the hearing aid set relative to each streaming source in real time and introduces the spatialization effect for that streaming source dynamically based on the determined position, such that the hearing aid wearer can experience a natural feeing of the acoustic environment.
US09584932B2
A method for operating a hearing device including an ambient microphone, a signal processing unit, a receiver and an ear canal microphone. The method includes steps of filtering the audio signal processed by the signal processing unit with a filter having a transfer function including a transfer function from an output of the receiver to an input of the ear canal microphone when the hearing device is turned on and being worn in an ear canal of the user, computing a difference between the audio signal picked up by the ear canal microphone and the filtered signal, and detecting a presence of own-voice of the user based on the difference. Furthermore, a hearing device including an own-voice detection unit is provided, which is adapted to perform the proposed method.
US09584920B2
A system and method are provided for automatic fitting of all audio signals according to the ear in which a user is using to receive audio signals from a host device. The host device incorporates an audio signal fitting device, which may comprise an inquirer configured to query the host device for an in-use audio producing transducer; an electronic mechanism configured to identify an ear which a user is using to receive audio signals from a host device, based on the in-use audio producing transducer; and a notifier configured to instruct the host device, based on the identified ear, to output a channel of audio signals to the in-use audio producing transducer. The ear in use may be deduced from inertial data. The instructions may specify a particular channel of audio signals, or enhancement thereof to adjust for characteristics of the identified ear, for example by applying frequency-specific gain adjustments to adjust for frequency response characteristics of the identified ear, and/or to adjust for a detected or typical signal pathway used to transmit a signal to the identified ear.
US09584910B2
A sound gathering system is disclosed herein and includes a plurality of microphones each configured to sample sound coming from a sound source. A plurality of processors are arranged in a processor chain. Each processor is coupled to at least one of the microphones and is configured to store sound samples received from the at least one microphone to a memory. A controller is terminally connected to the processor chain via a first processor. The controller is configured to calculate at least one time delay for each microphone, wherein the at least one time delay for each microphone is provided to the processor coupled thereto and is used by the processor to determine a memory position from which to begin reading sound samples.
US09584909B2
Methods and systems are provided for implementing a distributed algorithm for beam-forming (e.g., MVDR beam-forming) using a message-passing algorithm. The message-passing algorithm provides for computations to be performed in a distributed manner across a network, rather than in a centralized processing center or “fusion center”. The message-passing algorithm may also function for any network topology, and may continue operations when various changes are made in the network (e.g., nodes appearing, nodes disappearing, etc.). Additionally, the message-passing algorithm may minimize the transmission power per iteration and, depending on the particular network, also may minimize the transmission power required for communication between network nodes.
US09584907B2
Signals free of wind noise should be made available with a short latency time in particular for binaural hearing device provision. To this end a method and a hearing apparatus are proposed, in which in a first branch with a first latency time the wind is analyzed and in a second branch with a shorter, second latency time the wind is reduced for a transmission signal.
US09584905B2
A system and a method for mixing at least two audio signals are provided that comprise transferring the audio signals with respective transfer functions, the audio signals each having an amplitude and a phase; adding the audio signals to provide an output signal representative of the mixed audio signals, the output signal having an amplitude and a phase; controlling at least one of the transfer functions of the signal lines so that the phase of the output signal is adapted to the phase of the audio signal with a higher signal strength than the other audio signal(s), the signal strengths corresponding to the amplitudes of the audio signals.
US09584903B2
This application relates to MEMS devices, especially MEMS capacitive transducers and to processes for forming such MEMS transducer that provide increased robustness and resilience to acoustic shock. The application describes a MEMS transducer having a flexible membrane (101) supported relative to a first surface of a substrate (105) which has one or more cavities therein, e.g. to provide an acoustic volume. A stop structure (401, 402) is positioned so as to be contactable by the membrane when deflected so as to limit the amount of deflection of the membrane. The stop structure defines one or more openings to the one or more substrate cavities and comprises at least one narrow support element (401, 402) within or between said one or more openings. The stop structure thus limits the amount of membrane deflection, thus reducing the stress experienced at the edges and prevents the membrane from contacting a sharp edge of a substrate cavity. As the stop structure comprises narrow support elements any performance impact on the transducer is limited.
US09584902B2
A dynamic microphone which prevents a wall forming a back-side air chamber from having a certain resonance frequency and effectively prevents the generation of standing waves in the back-side air chamber is provided. A dynamic microphone includes a dynamic microphone unit including a diaphragm configured with a voice coil and a magnetic circuit having a magnetic gap provided so as to allow the voice coil to vibrate, a bottomed case which is coupled to the dynamic microphone unit and forms a back-side air chamber communicating with back side of the diaphragm, and an acoustic resistance body which is pressingly attached in the case and composed of metal fiber including a pocket, an open cross sectional area of the pocket gradually decreasing toward the direction remote from the dynamic microphone unit.
US09584899B1
Personal audio systems and methods are disclosed. The personal audio system includes a processor configured to generate a processed ambient audio stream by processing the ambient audio stream in accordance with a selected set of processing parameters selected from the plurality of processing parameter sets stored in the memory, a communications interface configured to receive a new set of processing parameters, selected by someone other than the user, and a controller configured to instruct the processor to begin generating the processed ambient audio stream by using the new set of processing parameters.
US09584893B2
Apparatus and methods for recovering from an audio jack connection anomaly such as a partial insertion of an audio jack plug with an audio jack receptacle are provided. In an example, a method can include detecting a valid audio jack connection of an audio jack receptacle and an audio jack plug, detecting a change in a state of a detect switch associated with the audio jack connection, applying an oscillating signal to a microphone terminal associated with the audio jack connection, determining the state of the detect switch stays constant for a predetermined time, and isolating the oscillating signal from the microphone terminal.
US09584891B1
An audio accessory comprising one or more speaker units may be used to provide audio output for a media device such as a tablet computer, smartphone, and so forth. The speaker units may be affixed to various surfaces, such as an acoustic panel which serves as a portion of a cover for the media device. The acoustic panel may act as an acoustic radiator which is driven by one or more of the speaker units. When not in use, a pair of the speaker units may be joined together for compact storage.
US09584890B1
Methods and systems are disclosed relating to in-vehicle entertainment, information presentation, and/or processing. Aspects of multimedia in-vehicle entertainment systems that may incorporate removable and/or portable tablet-type computing devices are described. In certain configurations, a hinged tablet computer carrier includes guide rails into which a portable tablet computer may slide while in an open position, and which can hinge into a closed or locked position that holds the tablet computer in place, positions it for viewing, and effects mechanical and electrical coupling of the tablet computer with other components of the in-vehicle entertainment system. Exemplary placement could include headrest, seatback, overhead, or in-dash mounting. Hinging or sliding could be vertical or horizontal. Various other mechanical, electronic, and electro-mechanical aspects of the methods and systems are described.
US09584888B2
A microphone includes a microphone unit having a diaphragm vibrating in response to sound. The microphone unit converts the sound into an electrical signal. A cylindrical casing contains the microphone unit. A metal mesh strip rounded along the inner surface of the casing is attached to the inner surface of the main wall of the casing so as to cover openings. The rounded metal mesh strip has a spring portion generating spring force to expand the metal mesh strip against the inner surface of the casing to provide electrostatic shielding.
US09584885B2
In one embodiment, a method of photonic frame scheduling includes receiving, by a photonic switching fabric from a top of rack (TOR) switch, a frame request requesting a time slot for switching an optical frame to an output port of a photonic switch of the photonic switching fabric and determining whether the output port of the photonic switch is available during the time slot, and generating a contention signal including a grant or a rejection, in accordance with the determining. Also, the method includes assigning the time slot to the TOR switch for the output port of the photonic switch, when the contention signal includes the grant, transmitting, by the photonic switching fabric to the TOR switch, the contention signal and receiving, by the photonic switching fabric from the TOR switch, the optical frame during the time slot, when the contention signal includes the grant.
US09584876B2
A venue display system displayings recipient gifts for display at the venue display and includes a server that communicates with a box and includes a processor which receives a recipient gift from a first party that is then sent to a recipient, with the first party or recipient creating a created recipient gift to be displayed at the venue display. A content server is part of a screen management system (SMS). A venue display management system, a digital projector and a storage device are included.
US09584872B2
A method to bind the use of a digital audio/video service data receiver to a network on which at least one services provider broadcasts access controlled and free digital audio/video services streams, the method having the steps: receiving by the receiver a periodic signal transmitted by a conditional access system server via the network, said periodic signal being processed by a run time software embedded in the receiver to check legitimacy of the network; displaying services available on the network only if said run time software recognizes the periodic signal as indicating network legitimacy; and checking operability of the run time software and if necessary taking actions to enforce limitation of using the receiver on the network checked as legitimate. The invention further discloses a receiver bound to a specific network configured to perform the method.
US09584871B2
Systems and methods are provided for allowing a user with a Smartphone to pair the Smartphone with another Bluetooth device to receive audio that is played to the user over headphones or through speakers on the Smartphone. Further, an audio processing module is used to modify the audio presented to the user, extract closed captioning text to be displayed to the user, find information relevant to the audio to be displayed to the user, and pause audio content sent to the Smartphone when phone calls or other Smartphone interruptions occur.
US09584870B2
The present invention provides a content locating method and a content delivery network node. In this case, the content locating method provided by the present invention comprises: receiving by a first content delivery network CDN node a service request sent by a service control function entity or an IPTV service control function entity, wherein this service request carries a content identifier which is used to indicate requesting content corresponding to this content identifier; if the first CDN node cannot provide the content service requested by the service request, then the first CDN node sends an inquiry request to a CDN global controller so as to acquire the information about a second CDN node which can provide the content service requested by the service request and request the second CDN node to provide the content service. By way of the present invention, the pressure of the CDN global controller can be reduced and the processing delay of CDN can be shortened.
US09584869B2
Distributed and software reconfigurable remote CMTS (CMRTS) device, based on MAC and PHY units with FPGA and DSP components, for a HFC CATV network. The various CATV RF modulators, such as QAM modulators, may be located entirely at the fiber nodes if desired. Although a basic set of CATV QAM data waveforms may optionally be transmitted to the nodes using a first fiber, in a preferred embodiment, all data may be transmitted to the nodes using other protocols such as Ethernet protocols. The nodes will extract the data specific to each neighborhood and inject this data into the cable portion of the system as RF waveforms, such as RF QAM channels. A computerized “virtual shelf” control system for managing and reconfiguring the FPGA and DSP based CMTRS units, as well as a new type of edge router based all-digital virtual head end (virtual converged cable access platform) is also disclosed.
US09584855B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to facilitate the transfer and/or sharing of content between multiple devices. An interface may be used by a subscriber to cause content being viewed on a first device to be displayed at one or more other devices. Using an interface at a control device or source device, a user can select a content source, one or more target devices, and various options for outputting content from the content source at the target device(s). Selected content may be shared with or transferred to a target device.
US09584854B2
Provided are: an information providing system, an information providing method and a computer program, which are able to detect a position on a screen of a display specified by each of multiple users who view the screen, and to provide each user with information according to the position.In an information distribution system including a computer 1 having a storage part in which information having a hierarchical structure is stored, a display 2 connected to the computer 1 and displaying the information, and a mobile communication device 3 communicating with the computer 1, the mobile communication device 3 has an image obtaining part for photographing a part of the information displayed on the display 2 and obtaining an image, and a transmission part transmitting the obtained image to the computer 1, and the computer 1 is configured to have a reading part reading out the information having a hierarchical structure from the storage part based on the image transmitted from the mobile communication device 3 and a transmission part transmitting the read-out information to the mobile communication device 3.
US09584847B2
Live streaming video content is processed and stored for real-time delivery of the content, future VoD viewing of the content, and time-shifted viewing of the content, by manipulating a common manifest or playlist. Previously stored content may be reordered and/or recombined in order to provide a personalized content viewing experience.
US09584842B2
Disclosed is a method and apparatus for playing media resources. The method includes that: a multimedia resource server is searched for multimedia resources including identity attribute information, and a first play list is generated according to a search result; when there is a first multimedia player that is pre-selected, the first play list is searched for multimedia resources corresponding to multimedia file formats supported by the first multimedia player, and a second play list is generated on the basis of the found multimedia resources; and multimedia resources in the second play list are sequentially pushed to the first multimedia player for playing. By means of the technical solutions of the present disclosure, favorite multimedia resources of a user can be conveniently selected, and the favorite multimedia resources of the user are correspondingly played in a selected multimedia player.
US09584834B1
A video hosting system is provided for storing and managing broadcasts. A user device communicates with the video hosting system to create or join a broadcast. The user device transmits video to the video hosting system for inclusion in the broadcast that may be joined by video transmitted by other user devices. Users of user devices may also search for nearby broadcasts to join. The video hosting system associates a time and place for broadcasts and limits users from joining a broadcast who do not correspond to the time and place of the broadcast. Users of the video hosting system may search for and view videos associated with a broadcast and compile portions of videos associated with a broadcast to create a compilation.
US09584832B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide techniques for efficiently coding video data during circumstances of network congestion, or instances when a decoder is unable to handle incoming video at the intended frame rate. A video coder may code frames of a video sequence according to motion estimation prediction in which each frame of the video sequence is constrained to be coded as one of an I-frame or a P-frame. The video coder may determine for each coded P-frame, a distance from the respective P-frame and a most-recently coded reference frame, and if the distance matches a predetermined threshold distance, the respective P-frame may be marked as a reference frame. The coded video data of the I-frame(s), the reference P-frames and the non-reference P-frames may be transmitted in a channel.
US09584831B2
Data compression is performed on an original image frame of a display buffer area of the mobile terminal by using a wavelet transform compression algorithm, and after the compressed data is transmitted to the smart television and an inverse wavelet transform decompression processing is performed thereon, the original image frame is restored for display, so as to achieve the content display between the screens of the mobile terminal and the smart television. Existing hardware is used to compress and decompress data, which does not occupy operation resources of the mobile terminal and the smart television, and improves the system performance and accelerates the data compression speed. Also, the adopted wavelet transform compression algorithm can effectively improve the data compression ratio, reduce the data transmission amount in the transmission process, and reduce the hardware overhead.
US09584830B2
Image decoding apparatus adaptively determining a scan pattern according to an intra prediction mode
Provided is an image decoding apparatus that receives an intra prediction mode and one-dimensional (1D) quantized coefficients, restores a quantized transform block by inversely scanning the 1D quantized coefficients, inversely quantizes the quantized transform block using a quantization step size to generate a transform block, inversely transforms the transform block to generate a residual block, and generates a prediction block according to the intra prediction mode. When a size of the transform block is 8×8, the quantized transform block is divided into a plurality of sub-blocks, and the plurality of sub-blocks and coefficients of each sub-block are scanned using a same scan pattern determined according to the intra prediction mode.
US09584826B2
Image encoding apparatus adaptively determining a scan pattern according to an intra prediction mode
Provided is an image encoding apparatus that generates a prediction block according to an intra prediction mode, generates a residual block, transforms the residual block to generate a transform block, quantizes the transform block to generate a quantized transform block, scans the quantized transform block to generate one-dimensional (1D) quantized coefficients, and entropy-codes the 1D quantized coefficients. When a size of the transform block is 8×8, the quantized transform block is divided into a plurality of sub-blocks, the plurality of sub-blocks are scanned and coefficients of each sub-block are scanned using a scan pattern determined according to the intra prediction mode. The scan pattern for scanning the plurality of sub-blocks is the same as the scan pattern for scanning the coefficients of each sub-block and when the intra prediction mode is a horizontal mode, the scan pattern is a vertical scan.
US09584820B2
An electronic device for encoding a picture is described. The electronic device includes a processor and instructions stored in memory that are in electronic communication with the processor. The instructions are executable to encode a gradual temporal layer access (GTLA) picture. The instructions are further executable to send the GTLA picture.
US09584818B2
With an image coding method which allows reduction of processing loads, when pictures included in a video signal are classified into layers so as to belong to their respective layers, a picture that belongs to the second layer that is located in a range restricted according to the first layer to which a current picture to be coded that is one of the pictures belongs, is referred to as a reference picture for the current picture, and the current picture is coded based on the reference picture.
US09584809B2
There is provided an encoding control apparatus including a scene change detector that detects occurrence of scene change in frame images generated in real time by a renderer, and an encoder controller that controls an encoder that encodes each of the frame images in any of a first scheme in which another frame image is not referred to and a second scheme in which the other frame image is referred to, the encoder controller causing the encoder to encode a frame image after the scene change in the first scheme when the occurrence of the scene change is detected.
US09584806B2
An apparatus comprising a plurality of ports, and a processor coupled to the ports and configured to receive a plurality of video frames from any of the ports, wherein the video frames comprise an object and a background, and wherein the video frames comprise a plurality of color pixels for the object and the background, receive a plurality of depth frames from any of the ports, wherein the depth frames comprise the object and the background, and wherein the depth frames comprise an indication of an object depth relative to a background depth, and encode the video frames using the indication of the object depth relative to the background depth.
US09584803B2
In one embodiment, a video bitstream is received at a video processing device. The bitstream may be decoded by the video processing device to produce a first picture data and a second picture data. The decoded first picture data and decoded second picture data may be stored in a decoded picture buffer. The first decoded picture data has a corresponding first picture rate and the second decoded picture data has a corresponding second picture rate. Auxiliary information corresponding to the bitstream may be received for the first picture data and second picture data at the video processing device. The decoded first picture data stored in the decoded picture buffer may be processed by the video processing device based on the received auxiliary information. The decoded first picture data may be processed based on the auxiliary information to produce a version of the first picture data at the second picture rate, the second picture rate being different from the first picture rate.
US09584794B2
A hybrid transmission/auto-conversion 3D format and scheme for transmission of 3D data towards various types of 3D displays is described. In the decoder (20) a stereo-to-depth convertor (24) generates a depth map. In the 3D video signal additional depth information called depth helper data (DH-bitstr) is sparsely transmitted both in time (partial depths in time) and/or spatially (partial depth within the frames). A depth switcher (25) selects the partial depths based on an explicit or implicit mechanism for indicating when these are to be used or when the depths must be automatically generated locally. Advantageously disturbing depth errors due to said stereo-to-depth convertor are reduced by the depth helper data.
US09584779B2
An illumination unit includes: a light source section including a laser light source; an optical-path branching device outputting light incident from the light source section, by branching the light into an outgoing optical path of illumination light and other optical path; a photodetector receiving a light flux that travels on the other optical path; a control section controlling an emitted light quantity in the laser light source, based on a quantity of the light flux received by the photodetector; and a light-quantity-distribution control device disposed between the optical-path branching device and the photodetector on the other optical path, the light-quantity-distribution control device controlling a light quantity distribution in the light flux to be incident upon the photodetector.
US09584770B2
A method is provided for the real-time determination of signals to be summed from signals representative of an image portion which are respectively received from detectors belonging to the same optical sensor, the detectors being organized in a matrix formed by rows and columns, the signals to be summed being received on the same column. The method also determines the time during which the detectors must acquire the signals to be summed. The method determines a value representative of a modulation transfer function of at least one lens and/or at least one mirror placed upstream of the optical sensor, and a signal-to-noise ratio of the image portion, based on a location of one of the detectors and on a signal representative of an image portion obtained from the detectors. This representative value is dependent on the number. The method searches for the number and the time maximizing the representative value.
US09584752B2
A system includes an information processing apparatus and a terminal apparatus connected via a network. The information processing apparatus includes a processor that calculates based on image data of an image to be displayed on a display screen of the terminal apparatus and a compression rate of the image data, a data transfer volume to be transmitted to the terminal apparatus, and determines based on the calculated data transfer volume and a data transfer rate with the terminal apparatus, a segmentation unit by which the image is segmented.
US09584750B2
An imaging system includes a shutter, an array of photodetectors, and electronic circuitry associated with the photodetectors to read intensity values from the photodetectors, the electronic circuitry including elements configured to provide an operating bias point of the photodetectors. The imaging system includes components, such as a controller, configured to adaptively adjust the operating bias for the photodetectors wherein the adjustment is based at least in part on intermittent measurement of a flat field image. During use, the imaging system can be configured to perform intermittent adjustments of the operating bias based on changes in photodetector values for intermittently acquired flat field images. Adjustment of the operating bias may provide compensation for drift over time of the photodetectors and/or electronics due to effects including but not limited to temperature changes.
US09584746B2
An image processing apparatus that comprises a plurality of read out rows in an imaging unit of the apparatus. The imaging region comprises of a plurality of pixels which are equipped with color filters of the red, blue and green type. The apparatus comprises a controller configured to set a frame rate for a first row scanning unit and a second frame rate for a second row scanning unit. The apparatus is further configured to perform image interpolation and perform the auto focus, auto exposure, auto black white or the like functions and display an image with a high resolution on a display unit.
US09584740B2
There is used an XY address type solid-state image pickup element (for example, a MOS type image sensor) in which two rows and two columns are made a unit, and color filters having a color coding of repetition of the unit (repetition of two verticals (two horizontals) are arranged, and when a thinning-out read mode is specified, a clock frequency of a system is changed to 1/9, and on the basis of the changed clock frequency, a pixel is selected every three pixels in both a row direction and a column direction to successively read out a pixel signal.
US09584733B2
In personal electronic devices including digital imaging capability, methods, devices and computer readable media are described for determining when image capture operations may benefit from using high dynamic range imaging (HDRI) operations. In general, techniques are disclosed for analyzing an image's luminosity and/or color/tonal histograms to automatically determine when HDRI operations can benefit scene capture. If the determination that HDRI operations can improve scene capture, the user is so notified.
US09584696B2
An imaging system may output embedded data in an output frame. Selected bits of pixel data words, corresponding to data read out from imaging pixels and non-imaging pixels, may be modified to correspond to bits of embedded data. Modifying pixel data words may include receiving a pixel data word and decatenating the pixel data words into fragments of the data word. A first fragment may correspond to bits of the data word that are replaced by embedded data bits output from an embedded data engine. A second fragment may be modified using arithmetic circuitry based on whether the embedded data bits that replace the first fragment are the same as bits of the first fragment. An output data word may be produced that includes embedded data bits at its least significant bits, most significant bits, or intermediate bits.
US09584685B2
An image forming apparatus includes a character distinguishing unit, a character string extraction unit, a character specifying unit, a determination unit, an overwrite image data generation unit, and a control unit. The overwrite image data generation unit generates, if it is determined by the determination unit that there is a plurality of matches, overwrite image data that has been overwritten such that a character specified by the character specifying unit is indistinguishable as a character. The control unit performs control using the overwrite image data generated by the overwrite image data generation unit so as to cause a printing unit to perform printing on a printed material set in a printed material setting unit.
US09584676B2
There is provided an information processing apparatus comprising: a storage unit configured to store log data, which indicate locations along a path of movement, and image data, wherein the log data contains a plurality of pairs of position information and time information and wherein the image data contains time information and position information indicating a position where an image is captured; and a generation unit configured to generate interpolated log data which contains the plurality of pairs contained in the log data and the pair of position information and time information contained in the image data.
US09584674B2
An image forming apparatus includes a correction unit configured to execute first correction processing to be executed to bring reproduction characteristics of an image formed by an image forming unit close to a target value and second correction processing different from the first correction processing, and an adjustment unit configured to execute a plurality of adjustment processing including the second correction processing, wherein correction processing by the correction unit is set to be executed at a predetermined timing, and wherein in a case that correction processing by the correction unit is executed at the set timing after adjustment processing is executed by the adjustment unit, the image forming apparatus performs control not to execute the second correction processing included in the adjustment processing and to execute the second correction processing after executing the first correction processing by the correction unit.
US09584668B1
Various aspects may include storing sets of call agent login information for several call agents within the computer-telephony integration system and across several independent computing systems in a contact center login database. Additionally, various aspects may include generating several contact center service categories and sets of contact information for each contact center service category, which may be stored in a contact center directory database. When an incoming call is received from a customer, various aspects may include obtaining customer call information from the customer and generating a customer call key, which may be stored as a reference to the customer call information in a contact center customer call information database. The call key may be used to reduce an amount of data electronically transferred between call agents during telephone call transfers.
US09584656B1
Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for recording media communication. An exemplary method comprises the steps of: receiving an incoming communication from a first communication device; routing the incoming communication to a second communication device in a call center; transmitting media communications associated with the incoming media communication between the first communication device and the second communication device through a media application server; duplicating the media communications via the media application server; transmitting the duplicated media communications via the media application server; and recording the duplicated media communications.
US09584647B2
A system and method are provided for using location information associated with wireless devices. The system includes a wireless device, a location system, and a feature server. The wireless device includes any wireless apparatus having wireless communications capabilities. The location system can generate location information pinpointing the location of the wireless device. The feature server can use the location information to determine whether to execute an action in accordance with subscriber rules. A large number of applications may be implemented to execute the action via a number of communication channels, including without limitation, a wireless communications network, a computer network, and a public switched telephone system, for example.
US09584635B2
A packet processing system having a barrel compactor that extracts a desired data subset from an input dataset (e.g. an incoming packet). The barrel compactor is able to selectively shift one or more of the input data units of the input dataset based on individual shift values for those data units. Additionally, in some embodiments one or more of the data units are able to be logically combined to produce a desired logical output unit.
US09584634B2
Systems and techniques for adaptive automatic acknowledgment handling are described. A described system includes a memory structure to store a data rate (DR) adaptation mode indicator, a frame check sequence (FCS) adaptation mode indicator, a preset DR parameter, and a preset FCS parameter; an extractor to extract a DR parameter from a received frame to produce an extracted DR parameter and extract a FCS parameter from the received frame to produce an extracted FCS parameter; a selector to select between the preset DR parameter and the extracted DR parameter based on the DR adaptation mode indicator to produce a selected DR parameter and select between the preset FCS parameter and the extracted FCS parameter based on the FCS adaptation mode indicator to produce a selected FCS parameter; and a generator to generate an acknowledgment to the received frame based on the selected DR parameter and the selected FCS parameter.
US09584633B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example avoiding data copy and task switching by processing protocol headers of network PDUs as a serial tape to be processed in order such as by a single method. Other processing includes reducing stages and simplifying protocol processing and multiplexing during network communications. Address changing in an active network can be implemented by assigning multiple addresses to an entity so that a new address can replace the old address. Peer-to-peer application searching can be performed among networks that can be accessible or non-accessible networks. Utilizing anycast sets that include selected and alternative addresses to enable immediate or near immediate alternative route selection on failure or congestion. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09584628B2
A data transmission system for transmitting a data file from a server to a client device includes a processor, a memory and a network interface device. The memory includes a user space and a kernel space. The data file is stored in the kernel space. The processor receives a transmission request from the client device for transmitting the data file. The processor maps a set of virtual addresses corresponding to the data file to the user space as a mapped data file, and stores a set of physical addresses corresponding to the set of virtual addresses in a set of meta-buffers of a socket created in the user space. The network interface device retrieves the data file from the kernel space based on the set of physical addresses from the set of meta-buffers, and transmits the data file to the client device.
US09584624B2
A method and system are provided for triggering a transmittal of an application to a device connected to a host computer. The method comprises: displaying in a web browser on the host computer a list of at least one application available for download to the device; receiving instructions through the web browser to download the application to the device; and in response to receiving instructions to download the application to the device: i) transmitting a request for the application to an application delivery server; ii) receiving the application from the application delivery server at the host computer; and iii) transmitting the application from the host computer to the device.
US09584621B2
Methods and systems for improving efficiency of direct cache access (DCA) are provided. According to one embodiment, a set of DCA control settings are defined by a network I/O device of a network security device for each of multiple I/O device queues based on network security functionality performed by corresponding CPUs of a host processor. The control settings specify portions of network packets that are to be copied to a cache of the corresponding CPU. A packet is received by the network I/O device. Information associated with the packet is queued onto an I/O device queue. The information is then transferred from the I/O device queue to a host memory of the network security device. Based on the control settings for the I/O device queue only those portions of the information corresponding to the one or more specified portions are copied to the cache of the corresponding CPU.
US09584620B1
Embodiments include method, systems and computer program products for caching in storage clients. In some embodiments, a storage client for accessing a storage service from a computer program may be provided. A cache may be integrated within the storage client for reducing a number of accesses to the storage service. An application may be used the cache to reduce accesses to the storage service, wherein the application is implemented by a computer program. In response to the storage service being unresponsive or responding too slowly, the application may use the cache to allow the application to continue without communicating with the storage service.
US09584613B2
A computer implemented method, computer program product, and system for performing create, read, update, or delete operations on a plurality of resources in a client-server environment. In an embodiment, the computer implemented method includes the steps of identifying individual resources requiring operations to be performed, assigning local references for any resources to which a URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) has not been provided by the server, generating metadata describing the local references and operations to be performed, wrapping each individual resource with the metadata to provide a plurality of wrapped resources arranging the wrapped resources into a single payload, and transmitting the single payload to the server.
US09584610B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided for enhancing users' overall experiences with physical items by supplementing their physical experiences with digital experiences. According to an embodiment, a user uses an electronic device to scan a smart tag associated with an item to obtain an item identifier of the item. The electronic device sends the item identifier to a server, which selects digital content related to the item.
US09584607B2
Among other things, we describe a method that includes receiving a content stream that defines elements of media content, determining that an element of content of the content stream is associated with a first location, determining that an electronic device is at a second location proximate to the first location, and in response, making the element of content available on the electronic device.
US09584606B2
Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems receive input associated with a social networking system user account. The input includes content to be published to the social networking system. In response to the received input, one or more location suggestions are identified based upon the content. The one or more identified location suggestions are transmitted to a user device associated with the user account. Selection of a location suggestion is received. The content and selected location is published as a post within the social networking system.
US09584598B2
A method of operating a content delivery network includes assigning priority levels to push and pull content requests, respectively, for a communication link connecting a first server and a second server in the content delivery network and allocating a push portion of outgoing bandwidth from the first server to the second server for push content requests and a pull portion of the outgoing bandwidth from the first server to the second server for pull content requests based on the priority levels assigned to the push and pull content requests for the communication link, respectively.
US09584591B1
A playlist is received, based on information identifying a user-association to the playlist at a remote playlist source, at a media player device from the remote playlist source coupled to the media player device over an Internet network connection, the playlist comprising a plurality of item identifiers identifying a corresponding plurality of items. The playlist is communicated from the media player device to a wireless handheld remote control coupled to the media player device over a LAN connection using the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP). At least one item identifier is received from the wireless handheld remote control. At least one item corresponding to the at least one item identifier is rendered by the media player device. The media player device, the wireless handheld remote control, and the remote playlist source are all separate devices.
US09584589B2
Disclosed is a friend recommendation method, comprising: creating a recommendation backlist for a user; deleting a recommended object included in the recommendation backlist of the user from a recommended object list; and recommending remaining recommended objects in the recommended object list to the user. The present application further discloses a server and a storage medium, so as to recommend friends based on the requirements of a user and recommend objects that the user is really interested in. Therefore, the accuracy and efficiency of friend recommendation are improved, friends can be recommended effectively and the user experience is enhanced.
US09584586B2
An information processing apparatus is disclosed which includes: a storing element for storing content data; a managing element for managing preference data by which to determine preferences of a user; a reading element for reading the content data from the storing element in response to an instruction from the user; a sorting element for sorting the content data read by the reading element, in accordance with the preference data managed by the managing element; and a composing element for composing the content data sorted by the sorting element, into a single item ready to be handled by the user.
US09584582B2
An aspect for communicating content for delivery to a device to receive an electronic message having an attached electronic file includes receiving the attached electronic file at the device. The attached electronic file contains instructions for accessing the content. Responsive to an input signal indicating a request to access the attached electronic file, an address of a remote device that hosts the content is obtained, a viewing program is executed at the device, and a launch control icon via a toolbar of the viewing program is provided. Responsive to selection of the launch control icon, the content is obtained for delivery to a recipient of the electronic message using the address of the remote device to establish a connection with the remote device.
US09584580B2
A server system is disclosed that is capable of providing responsive content to a user when a request for an invalid URL is received. In a preferred embodiment, the server system implements multiple rescue strategies for attempting to rescue the invalid URL. One such rescue strategy involves repairing the URL by correcting for encoding errors, such as errors introduced by some web clients. Another rescue strategy involves determining that the URL contains an obsolete or outdated item identifier (e.g., product identifier) that renders the URL invalid, and returning information regarding one or more related items to the user. Another rescue strategy involves mining the invalid URL for one or more text strings reflective of the type of content desired, and then using the one or more text strings to execute a keyword search to identify content to provide to the user. The various rescue strategies may be attempted in sequence according to a hierarchy.
US09584578B2
Techniques for cross platform user joining are disclosed. In some embodiments, cross platform user joining includes associating a first user identification (UID) and a second UID with one or more Internet Protocol addresses (IPs); associating the first UID and the second UID with one or more monitored behaviors; and joining the first UID and the second UID based on the one or more IPs and the one or more monitored behaviors.
US09584569B2
Methods and systems for supplying media over communication networks are described. In one embodiment, a media supplier determines whether a media object hosted on a web server will be supplied to a client by streaming or not by streaming. Preferably, if the determination is to stream, the media supplier streams the media object to the client. In some cases, the same media supplier may be capable of supplying clients with media objects hosted on any of at least two web servers.
US09584563B2
A method of accessing content at a user terminal connected to a communication network and executing a communication client includes the client displaying a list of contacts associated with a user of the client and the client retrieving a message from the communication network. The message is related to a further user represented by one of the contacts displayed in the list of contacts, and includes a reference to content stored in a storage means accessible by the communication network. The client initiates a call to the further user over the communication network responsive to a user of the client selecting the one of the contacts in the list of contacts. Responsive to initiating the call, the client establishes communication with the storage means using the reference, accesses the content and displays the content at the user terminal.
US09584549B2
A computing platform may receive, from a network device, a message identifying data that was transmitted by a user device located in a private network associated with an organization. The network device may be located at a boundary between the private network and a public network. The data may include one or more images and may be destined for a network address associated with the public network. The computing platform may generate and store a record corresponding to the message. The computing platform may receive, from an analysis platform, data indicating whether the image(s) comprise content that violates a data leak prevention (DLP) policy of the organization. The computing platform may identify the record corresponding to the message and may update the record corresponding to the message to reflect whether the image(s) comprise content that violates the DLP policy of the organization.
US09584543B2
A computer-implemented method and system for the validation of a true browsing user on a website is disclosed. The invention allows for the collection of data regarding the evolving threat landscape created by online attackers. The system and method fingerprint user behavior to detect differences between a local user, a remote/foreign user, and an automated script. The system then covertly transmits that information back to a financial institution client without giving online attackers the opportunity to notice such transmittal. Certain embodiments of the invention also correspond with the browsing user to validate their identity. The claimed system and method proactively reveal attackers and attack ploys, additionally enabling institutions and security consultants to adapt to attacks in an automated fashion.
US09584534B1
A computer-implemented method involves identifying an initial element for serving by a web server system to a client device and recoding the element by creating a plurality of different elements that each represent a portion of the initial element. The different elements are then served in place of the initial element. A response is received form the client device and has portions that correspond to the different elements, and a combined response is created by combining the received portions in a manner that corresponds to a manner in which the initial element was recoded to create the plurality of different elements.
US09584532B2
Events are securely packaged and transmitted from peripherals of terminals and from secure input/out modules (SIOMs) of terminals. The events are collected and mined in real time for security risk patterns and dynamic remedial actions are pushed back down to the terminals, peripherals, and SIOMs.
US09584531B2
A method and system for tracing internet protocol packets is disclosed. One aspect of the method involves generating traceback packets containing information relating to their origin, destination, and encountered devices. The generated traceback packets can differ depending on the network configuration and Internet traffic scenarios. Another aspect involves analyzing incoming Internet traffic and generating traceback packets based on the performed analysis. Another aspect involves discovering a denial-of-service attack. Another aspect involves modifying operational parameters in response to the attack. One aspect of the system involves traceback servers, which can collect and provide traceback information to the public or on a private network. Another aspect involves the dissemination of traceback information to interested and/or authorized parties.
US09584524B2
A resource-access management system detects whether a user is authorized to access resources. The system may include a user device being configured to include a sensor that detects sensor data associated with the user. Further, the system includes a client qualification engine that determines whether or not a client is authorized to access the resources by comparing the sensor data with a plurality of patterns for evaluating whether or not the user is an authorized user. User scores are generated based on the compared sensor data and the plurality of patterns. Further, a composite score corresponding to the user is generated using the sensor data, plurality of patterns, and one or more additional criteria. Whether the user is granted access to the resources, presented with unauthorized user tests, or blocked from access to the resources depends on the composite score and threshold values.
US09584511B2
An automatic machine implemented identification and data processing, gathering and storage system and method. A system, method and computer program product for communicating peer-validated reputation information enabling users, including automated processing equipment and methods, to, among other things, make decisions of safe or unsafe personal interactions, such as participating in an in-person meeting.
US09584509B2
The embodiments described herein describe technologies for ticketing systems used in consumption and provisioning of data assets, such as a pre-computed (PCD) asset. A ticket may be a digital file or data that enables enforcement of usage count limits and uniqueness issuance ore sequential issuance of target device parameters. On implementation includes an Appliance device of a cryptographic manager (CM) system that receives a Module and a ticket over a network from a Service device. The Module is an application that securely provisions a data asset to a target device in an operation phase of a manufacturing lifecycle of the target device. The ticket is digital data that grants permission to the Appliance device to execute the Module. The Appliance device verifies the ticket to execute the Module. The Module, when executed, results in a secure construction of a sequence of operations to securely provision the data asset to the target device.
US09584508B2
Disclosed are various embodiments for facilitating the distribution of files from a file repository. Files from a file repository can be distributed via peer to peer transmissions where the peer devices can perform authentication functions. The authentication can be performed based upon metadata associated with the files as well as based upon authentication requests submitted to an authentication server.
US09584505B2
In accordance with disclosed embodiments, there are provided methods, systems, and apparatuses for implementing a cross instance user authentication architecture in an on-demand service environment including, for example, means for receiving a login request at a global Virtual Internet Protocol (VIP) address for the host organization from a client device; forwarding the login request; determining the selected datacenter is a home-geo or a non-home-geo datacenter; establishing a back-end link; forwarding the login request from the non-home-geo datacenter to the home-geo datacenter via the back-end link for authentication; and returning a response to the client device from the non-home-geo datacenter upon successful authentication of the login request at the home-geo datacenter. Other related embodiments are disclosed.
US09584503B2
Authentication to a remote-server from a computing device having stored credentials for the remote server is described. In one example, a method of authenticating a user to a remote server through a client application executing on a computing device includes: receiving, by the client application, a request to authenticate the user to the remote server using credentials stored on the computing device; prompting, by the client application, the user for gesture-based password; authenticating, by the client application, the gesture-based password; and sending, by the client application, the stored credentials to the remote server for authentication in response to successful authentication of the gesture-based password.
US09584494B2
A method of operating a terminal using Mobile Device Management (MDM) solution includes: installing an application, requesting for registration by a license key received from an Enterprise License Management (ELM) server, receiving a Right Object (R/O) that corresponds to the license key and comprises a permission list, setting at least one permission based on the permission list comprised in the received R/O, and performing the set permission. A terminal using MDM comprises an MDM application configured to control an installed application to acquire a required permission, a ELM agent configured to request for registration by a license key from an ELM server, and receive a R/O that corresponds to the license key and comprises a permission list, and an ELM permission enforcer configured to set at least one permission based on the permission list comprised in the received R/O.
US09584493B1
A secure chat client is described that allows users to exchange encrypted communications via secure chat rooms, as well as one-to-one communications. In particular, the secure chat client allows users to create, configure, and manage secure chat rooms. Furthermore, the secure chat client provides users with the ability to recover secure messages when they obtain a new device or otherwise lose communications.
US09584491B2
An approach is provided for managing a message being transferred from a mobile device. A sensitivity level of data in the message payload is determined prior to sending the message to a wireless access point (WAP) en route to a destination device. If the payload data has a first sensitivity level, the mobile device sends the message to a first secure WAP having encryption at a threshold strength at a network layer and utilizes a protocol having encryption at an application layer. If the data has a second sensitivity level, the mobile device (a) sends the message to the first secure WAP without utilizing the protocol or (b) sends the message to a second, less secure WAP having encryption at a lesser strength and utilizes the protocol. If the data has a third sensitivity level, the mobile device sends the message to the second WAP without utilizing the protocol.
US09584490B2
In digital content including; data in which digital copyrighted work is stored, and a plurality of separation data separated from the data, a header of the data stores position information for specifying a separation region in which one of the separation data is separated. Moreover each separation region in which the separation data is separated, stores position information for specifying other separation regions in an interlinked manner. Furthermore the data excluding the separation region is encrypted by a content key of the data, and the separation region of the data, and the separation data are encrypted respectively by a content key different for each separation data. Moreover, the separation data is distributed together with the content key on a route different to the data.
US09584481B2
A host providing system includes a physical host network switch which determines permission and non-permission of communication on the basis of whether or not information pieces indicating users correlated with information indicating a transmission source and information indicating a transmission destination included in communication data from a physical instance match each other, and controls the communication data on the basis of a determination result. Accordingly, since only communication between instances of the same user is permitted, and thus communication from a physical instance is appropriately controlled, it is possible to ensure security in the system.
US09584480B2
A system for and method of securing a network are described herein. A receiving device listens for packets with proper credentials. If a transmitting device sends the correct credentials, the receiving device will respond with an acknowledgment and further data is able to be transmitted. However, if the transmitting device does not send a packet with the proper credentials, then the receiving device will drop the packet and not respond. Thus, the transmitting device will be unaware of the presence of the receiving device, in particular when hackers are using scanning software to locate target devices.
US09584464B2
Provided are systems and methods for establishing a communication between mobile device users that register with a collaboration system. The collaboration system determines a match between profile data of the first registered mobile device and profile data of the second registered mobile device. Displayed at the first registered mobile device is a first list of user identifications, which includes an identification of a user of the second registered mobile device and an identification of a user of at least one other mobile device. Displayed at the second registered mobile device is a second list of user identifications. The second list includes an identification of a user of the first registered mobile device and an identification of at least one other mobile device user.
US09584456B2
A server includes volatile and non-volatile memories for storing messages received from a client device. A message reception module of the server stores a message received from a first client device in the volatile memory for an extended time period based on an indicator included in the message. The message reception module deletes the message from the volatile memory based on detection of a triggering event or stores the message in the non-volatile memory based on not detecting the triggering event before the extended time period has expired. The triggering event may include the message having been read by all specified recipients of the message. The indicator may be included in the message based on a relationship of the message to other messages. The message including the indicator may be related to other messages as part of a same conversation that has been determined to be suitable for short-term storage.
US09584450B2
Historical content corresponding to activity of a user in at least one social networking service is aggregated. The historical content indicates a plurality of collaboration partners with whom the user collaborated via the at least one social networking service in an occupation context. Based on the aggregated historical content, at least one of the collaboration partners can be identified as at least one priority collaboration partner. Whether the user currently is not in a facility where the user works can be automatically determined. Responsive to determining that the user is not in the facility where the user works, a message indicating that the user is not in the facility where the user works can be automatically sent to the at least one priority collaboration partner.
US09584449B2
A device for enabling a first computer network device to determine whether a second computer network device has an online status or an offline status includes a memory device with instructions for execution by a processor to: receive a request from the first computer network device for the status of the second computer network device; determine whether the second computer network device is online or offline; in response to a determination that the second computer network device is online, return a first network address to the first computer network device; and in response to a determination that the second computer network device is offline, return a second network address to the first computer network device, wherein the second network address is a known bad address that will not provide a response to the first computer network device.
US09584441B2
An apparatus and method for transmitting a multimedia data packet are provided. The method includes receiving Bottom-up Network Abstraction Layer (B-NAL) information from a network entity, determining a media data quality based on the received B-NAL information and generating media data having the determined media data quality, and generating a packet including the generated media data and transmitting the packet to the network entity.
US09584435B2
A device, of a cloud computing environment, receives information associated with one or more computing resources of a local portion of the cloud computing environment, and receives, from a global allocator device, a request for placement of a computing resource element at a selected computing resource of the one or more computing resources. The device also determines, based on the information, whether the request can be satisfied by the selected computing resource, and places the requested computing resource element in the selected computing resource when the request can be satisfied by the selected computing resource. The device sends, to the global allocator device, a message indicating that the requested computing resource element has been successfully placed in the selected computing resource.
US09584423B2
A dynamic resource repositioning load balancing and location management system repositions an incoming resource in a grid network of nodes. The system includes a first mapping device to map topology of said gird network of nodes, along with its resources; a determination device to determine at least an incoming resource's initial placement in terms of relative position of said node that the resource currently occupies and in terms of relative number of edges on which said resource currently resides; and resource repositioning device to reposition said at least a resource, in said grid network of nodes, in response to an incoming resource, said repositioning based on said determined position of said incoming resource; characterized, in that, said repositioning mechanism being guided by at least a step or a combination of steps or repetition of steps selected from a group of steps.
US09584419B1
Detecting network congestion at a network device by collecting, for various time intervals, measurements of a quantifiable characteristic of traffic transiting the network device at a plurality of respective measurement times during each of the time intervals. Described systems and methods select two or more sets of measurements, each set corresponding to a respective time interval; determine, for each of the selected sets of measurements, respective upper and lower boundaries for the quantifiable characteristic during the respective time interval; and analyze trends for a time window inclusive of the time intervals corresponding to the selected sets of measurements, the trends including an upper boundary trend and a lower boundary trend. Congestion is then identified responsive to the analysis detecting a substantially constant upper boundary trend concurrent with a rising lower boundary trend.
US09584416B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses are disclosed to facilitate wireless communications. User equipment (UE), such as a mobile device, identifies data congestion and transmits a recommended data rate modification wireless signal (e.g., a recommended reduced data rate) to the base station that is transmitting data to the UE. The base station may reduce the data rate of the down link (DL) to the reduced data rate. The UE may then receive data from the base station at the reduced data rate. Therefore, flow control may be implemented at the base station side (e.g., sometimes referred to as the Network (NW) side) based upon the reduced data rate modification determined and transmitted by the UE to the base station. In this way, the data rate transmission to the UE can be reduced to allow the UE to successfully process received data and successfully perform its functions.
US09584415B2
Routers using virtual routing and forwarding nodes to implement a service fabric of service chains. The router may configure M+1 virtual routing and forwarding instances, M being an integer representing a number of a plurality of service appliances in a data center network. Each virtual routing and forwarding instance may be associated with a routing table of routing rules to define various service chain routing paths. The routing rules are based on destination addresses in data packets.
US09584412B2
A tool that may be used for querying and obtaining per-hop information along a network path, and/or for verifying the host name of each hop against a data repository such as the DNS. The query and response may be transmitted in, e.g., the destination options header of data packets, such as an IPv6 destination options header.
US09584409B2
A network system of the present invention comprises a switch and a controller. The switch performs processes on a received packet in accordance with a flow entry in which are defined a rule and an action for uniformly controlling a packet as a flow. The controller sets the flow entry to a flow table of the switch. The switch notifies a vacancy status of a flow table of the switch itself to the controller. The controller performs a path calculation in consideration with the vacancy status of the flow table of the switch to improve a utilization of the flow table of the switch.
US09584404B2
Network traffic is sent via alternate paths in cases of network link or node failure. An alternate node responds to U-Turn traffic from a primary neighbor to select a further alternate. An algorithm for determining the alternate paths is provided to select loop-free neighbors.
US09584386B2
A node unit of distributed antenna system, the node unit comprises a delay measuring part configured to transmit a first test signal for delay measurement to an upper adjacent node unit and detect the first test signal looped back via the upper adjacent node unit and measure a round trip delay between the node unit and the upper adjacent node unit, and a delay providing part disposed on a signal transmission path through which a second test signal for delay measurement, to be transmitted from a lower adjacent node unit, is to be looped back to the lower adjacent node unit, and configured to provide a delay corresponding to the round trip delay.
US09584363B1
Method and apparatus for switching between a first server and a second server, each located within a virtual private cloud and the first server being located within a first zone and the second server being located within a second zone that is physically separate from the first zone. The method and apparatus further configured to determine that the first server has experienced a failure to send or receive data. The method and apparatus further configured to enable a second port on the second server. The method and apparatus further configured to create a new route table at the second server and flush the previous route table. The method and apparatus further configured to transmit, via the second port, a request to a virtual private cloud controller to update an elastic internet protocol address with the second port information and receive data from the virtual private cloud controller.
US09584362B2
The present invention relates to methods and apparatuses for establishing a routing path in a multi-hop network. The methods comprises (a) transmitting a notification message associated with communication problem to neighboring nodes, (b) deriving approaching characteristics of a communication problem-causing element from the notification message, and (c) establishing a routing path based on the approaching characteristics of the communication problem-causing element. With the methods and apparatuses, it is possible to determine a path that is expected to experience a communication problem based on the approaching characteristics of a communication problem-causing element and to adaptively establish a reliable routing path.
US09584360B2
A site switch determines the mapping between public and private IP addresses of VIPs configured on the site switch. The site switch then transmits the public IP address, rather than the private IP address, to a load balancing switch that performs the load balancing for network resources accessible via the site switch. This public IP address has also been configured on an authoritative DNS server for which the load balancing switch serves as a proxy. The load balancing switch updates its address records, containing the VIPs configured on the site switch, with the public address of the VIP. When the load balancing switch reorders a DNS reply from the authoritative DNS server for a domain containing the public address, the load balancing switch correctly identifies the IP address as a VIP on the site switch and applies appropriate load balancing metrics to the received IP address.
US09584358B2
Running a global production rule on data distributed over a plurality of machines may comprise receiving a local production rule that can run on each of the plurality of machines to jointly accomplish a global computation specified by the global production rule. The local production rule may be deployed to each of the plurality of machines, each of which stores a portion of the data and runs an instance of a rules engine that can run the local production rule. The plurality of machines are enabled to communicate intermediate data produced by the instance of the rules engine running the local production rule on said each of the machines. Coordinating between the plurality of machines is enabled to synchronize one or more local computations performed locally according to the local production rule on said each machine.
US09584357B2
Provided are a computer program, method, and system for determining and assigning a default value to a current server response if the current server response is not received from the server within a time-limit. An indication of a submission of a request is transmitted to the server for receiving a current server response. A default value is assigned to the current server response if the current server response is not received from the server within a time-limit with respect to the current submission of the request. A set of operations being performed from the assignment of the default value to the current server response is logged. An actual value of the current server response is received from the server and the logged operations are rolled-back and the current server response reset to the actual value if the actual value is different from the default value.
US09584351B2
In embodiments, apparatuses, methods, and storage media may be described for removing, from a frequency domain (FD) portion of a signal, a guard interval portion. One or more data symbols of the resultant unconstrained FD portion of the signal may then be constrained according to one or more tolerance parameters or thresholds. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US09584350B1
An electronic jamming circuit and method used to place a protective area around a person or vehicle so that an explosive device cannot be triggered are described. A wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA) device in proximity to an explosive device is prevented from being triggered by a WCDMA communication by disruption of the ability of the WCDMA device to synchronize with, and thus cannot decipher, the communication. The jammer device may operate by forcing timing circuits in the WCDMA device to lock onto a jamming signal.
US09584346B2
A decision-feedback equalizer for use in a receiver unit for receiving an incoming data stream and for providing a stream of bit data outputs includes a plurality of asynchronous comparators and a fastest decision detector unit operatively coupled with the asynchronous comparators. Each of the asynchronous comparators is configured to receive an input signal and to directly provide a comparison result output in an asynchronous manner. The fastest decision detector unit is configured for receiving at least a subset of the respective comparison result outputs of the asynchronous comparators and for forwarding the comparison result of one of the asynchronous comparators towards the output of the decision-feedback equalizer. The fastest decision detector unit is configured to select a given one of the asynchronous comparators as one which firstly provided its comparison result output.
US09584343B2
Systems, methods and computer program products for providing information associated with an attachment (e.g., attachment received through an instant message system, online collaboration tool, electronic message and the like). A sidebar may allow a user to view comprehensive profile and content information associated with the attachment using an attachment information viewer. The sidebar also may allow the user to switch between a message attachment information view (e.g., to facilitate browsing of the document or attachment) and a person profile information view (e.g., to facilitate browsing of personal or public data).
US09584339B2
A PVLAN switch for connecting a PVLAN to a non-PVLAN device is configured as a primary VLAN with secondary VLANs, the primary VLAN includes promiscuous ports, each of the secondary VLANs includes a smart PVLAN trunk port, and the smart PVLAN trunk port is included in at least two secondary VLANs where the smart PVLAN trunk port and the promiscuous port connect to non-PVLAN devices. A frame is received on a smart PVLAN trunk port sent from a non-PVLAN device, and includes a destination address and a secondary VLAN ID. The PVLAN switch port ID for the first frame, and a primary VLAN ID for the secondary VLAN ID are identified. If the frame is a non-isolated port, the secondary VLAN ID is modified to be the primary VLAN ID, and the modified frame is sent to another non-PVLAN device connected to the PVLAN switch port.
US09584334B2
A method for operating a cooperating user equipment (CUE) includes receiving a plurality of video packets that are hierarchically modulated (HM), with each video packet corresponding to a separately encoded video layer that is encoded with a rateless code, and decoding the plurality of video packets. The method also includes generating one or more supplemental packets to assist in the decoding of the plurality of video packets, and transmitting the one or more supplemental packets.
US09584331B2
A method carried out by a first communication gateway for transmitting broadcast data. Broadcast data is first received through a first network interface. The first communication gateway determines whether the broadcast data satisfies at least one condition, and forwards the broadcast data through at least one tunnel and through a second network interface to a second communication gateway if the broadcast data satisfies the at least one condition. The broadcast data is encapsulated in at least one encapsulating packet and the at least one encapsulating packet is decapsulated by the second communication gateway in order to retrieve the broadcast data. The broadcast data is then distributed by the second communication gateway to a second network.
US09584327B2
A method and apparatus of a network element that authenticates a transceiver and/or a field replaceable unit of the network element is described. The network element generates a stored transceiver signature using transceiver data stored in the removable transceiver and a nonce. In addition, the network element generates a hardware transceiver signature using data stored in secure storage of the network element and the nonce. If the stored transceiver signature and the hardware transceiver signature are equal, the network element uses the transceiver to communicate network data for the network element. Otherwise, the network element disables the transceiver.
US09584326B2
A method begins by a dispersed storage (DS) processing module receiving a file creation request to create a new file from portions of a set of existing files. The method continues with the DS processing module identifying data segments associated with the set of existing files corresponding to the portions of the set of existing files to produce identified data segments and identifying sets of encoded data slices of the identified data segments to produce identified sets of encoded data slices. The method continues with the DS processing module determining addressing information for the identified sets of encoded data slices from existing addressing information of the set of existing files and generating a segment allocation table for the new file based on the addressing information of the identified sets of encoded data slices such that the new file is created without duplication of the portions of the existing files.
US09584314B2
A security management system comprises a key management sub-system, an asset/workload management sub-system, and an event management sub-system. The event management sub-system detects events. The asset/workload management sub-system correlates events (irrespective of type) with the assets that generate them, and the key management sub-system uses the event-asset associations determined by the asset/workload management sub-system to automatically orchestrate the necessary key management activities (e.g., key creation, revocation, refresh, etc.) across the impacted components in the information technology and operational realms to ensure data security. In one use case, a security event detected by the event management sub-system triggers one or more actions within the asset/workload management sub-system. Service configuration records are identified from this scan, and assets defined in those records are identified. An event-asset association is then supplied to the key management sub-system, which uses this information to determine a key management operation.
US09584297B2
A method of wireless communications includes adapting to downlink/uplink resource allocations. In particular, the downlink/uplink communications may be adjusted according to time division duplexed (TDD) configurations of serving and neighbor cells.
US09584295B2
A method for configuring a physical resource block of a user equipment search space includes: a system side configuring a Physical Resource Block (PRB) pair of a default User equipment specific Search Space (USS), and notifying the user equipment of positions of the PRB pairs of the default USS, or the system side agreeing with the user equipment on the positions of the PRB pairs of the default USS. The user equipment obtains the positions of the PRB pairs of the default USS according to the notification from the system side, or agrees with the system side on the positions of the PRB pairs of the default USS. The embodiments of the present document further provide the system side and the user equipment.
US09584292B2
Components and operations of a wireless communication system are disclosed. Components of a wireless communication system may include a base station, a communication control device, and a terminal device. The base station may send configuration information to the communication control device, and the communication control device may send the configuration information to the terminal device. The configuration information may indicate a first protection status associated with frames. The terminal device may obtain measurement results indicating signal quality associated with one or more of the frames. The terminal device may send measurement information to the communication control device. The measurement information may depend on the measurement results. The communication control device may determine, based at least in part on the measurement information, whether to associate one or more of the frames with a second protection status.
US09584291B2
A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus receives one or more D2D broadcasts in a set of subchannels of a channel. In addition, the apparatus broadcasts in at least one subchannel of the channel information indicating a subset of the set of subchannels. The one or more D2D broadcasts may include a first set of broadcasts that includes control information and a second set of broadcasts that includes data traffic. The broadcasted information may be control information. The apparatus may determine a signal strength of each of the one or more D2D broadcasts received in the set of subchannels. The broadcasted information may further include the determined signal strength for each subchannel in the subset of the set of subchannels.
US09584289B2
It is possible to improve the CQI reception performance even when a delay is caused in a propagation path, a transmission timing error is caused, or a residual interference is generated between cyclic shift amounts of different ZC sequences. For the second symbol and the sixth symbol of the ACK/NACK signal which are multiplexed by RS of CQI, (+, +) or (−, −) is applied to a partial sequence of the Walsh sequence. For RS of CQI transmitted from a mobile station, + is added as an RS phase of the second symbol and − is added as an RS phase of the sixth symbol. A base station (100) receives multiplexed signals of ACK/NACK signals and CQI signals transmitted from a plurality of mobile stations. An RS synthesis unit (119) performs synthesis by aligning the RS phase of CQI.
US09584279B2
The present disclosure discloses a pilot signal configuration method in a wireless communication system and an associated wireless network node. The method comprises allocating a dedicated pilot signal to a User Equipment (UE) within a combined cell. The method further comprises selecting, from all Transmit-Receive Points (TRPs) within the combined cell, at least one TRP in the proximity of the UE for transmission of the dedicated pilot signal to the UE. The present disclosure further provides a pilot-signal-based reception method in a wireless communication network and an associated UE.
US09584278B2
In accordance with an embodiment, a method is provided in which a first wireless access point sends a downlink multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmission to a plurality of client devices. The downlink multi-user MIMO transmission is configured to solicit acknowledgments from two or more of the plurality of client devices. The acknowledgments are received at a plurality of antennas of the first wireless access point from the two or more of the plurality of client devices. Uplink multi-user MIMO processing of the acknowledgments is performed from the two or more of the plurality of client devices to recover the acknowledgments respectively from each of the two or more of the plurality of client devices.
US09584274B2
A method, a system and an apparatus can be used for transmitting data in a CA manner. A first base station currently serving a user equipment (UE), creates EPS bearers under different component carriers CC Groups for the UE. The UE sets different access stratum entities corresponding to the CC Groups to process data in the process of creating the EPS bearers. The UE determines, when transmitting or receiving data, a corresponding CC Group according to an EPS bearer that bears the data. An access stratum entity corresponding to the CC Group processes the data that needs to be transmitted or received, a site is a first base station currently serving the UE or a second base station currently serving the UE.
US09584266B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method for transmitting an uplink signal in the wireless communication system supporting carrier aggregation (CA), and to the apparatus for same, the method comprising the steps of: setting a scheduling cell, which has a first uplink-downlink (UL-DL) configuration, and setting a scheduled cell, which has a second TDD UL-DL configuration; and carrying out a HARQ process from the scheduled cell based on the number of HARQ processes for the scheduled cell.
US09584262B2
Method and apparatus for use within a wireless OFDM network that transmits and receives first and second packets each having header bits and utilizing variable header repetition. The header bits in the first packet are communicated on multiple OFDM symbols and repeated on a plurality of OFDM subcarriers in a first frequency band. The header bits in a second packet are communicated on fewer OFDM symbols and in a second frequency band that overlaps with and is wider than the first frequency band.
US09584261B2
A method and an apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals thereof are disclosed. The apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals comprises an encoder encoding service data, a time interleaver interleaving the encoded service data, a mapper mapping the interleaved service data into a plurality of OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex) symbols to build at least one signal frame, a frequency interleaver interleaving data in the at least one signal frame by using a different interleaving-seed which is used for every OFDM symbol pair comprised of two sequential OFDM symbols, wherein the frequency interleaver calculates an interleaving address for the different interleaving-seed based on a main-PRBS sequence and a cyclic shifting value, a modulator modulating the frequency interleaved data by an OFDM scheme and a transmitter transmitting the broadcast signals having the modulated data, wherein an interleaving-seed is generated based on a cyclic shift value and an FFT size of the modulating.
US09584257B2
A communication apparatus for communicating data conveyed by a plurality of transport channels, the data of the transport channels being multiplexed into at least one multiplexing frame, includes a processing unit. The processing unit transforms an input data block of an initial size into an output data block of a final size in accordance with a rate matching ratio of the final size to the initial size, transmits information on a maximum payload of the at least one multiplexing frame the communication apparatus can send, receives a first parameter relative to the rate matching ratio, and calculates the final size, according to the initial size of the input data block, the first parameter, a second parameter and the maximum payload of the at least one multiplexing frame. The second parameter is representative of a maximum puncture rate and is a predefined parameter for calculating the final size.
US09584240B2
A network device provides output data rate control having variable bandwidth and a response time constant that increases according to an amount of time that an input rate of data to the network device is evaluated by the logic to provide output data rate control. The device applies a rate estimate when a determination of the output rate to a predetermined accuracy is unavailable.
US09584235B2
A method including: receiving at least a first input audio channel and a second input audio channel; and using an inter-channel prediction model to form at least an inter-channel direction of reception parameter.
US09584230B2
An apparatus is disclosed configured for receiving a first alternating signal and for transmitting a second alternating signal. A detector is configured to receive a third alternating signal which is a reflection of at least a portion in power of the second alternating signal. The detector is further configured to convert the third alternating signal into a rectified signal and measure the power of said rectified signal. The measured power of the rectified signal is indicative of a power of the reflected third signal.
US09584216B2
Systems and methods for enabling the dynamic allocation of certain sub frames as downlink or uplink resources in a time division duplexed over the air communications system. A base station or eNB may allocate certain subframes within a repeating radio frame of a TDD configuration as either DL or UL subframes for communicating to user equipment or UE devices to increase efficient use of system resources based on the data to be transmitted. Methods for determining the capabilities of a selected UE and based on the determining step, dynamically allocating certain subframes are disclosed. The methods and systems are compatible with user equipment that does not support the dynamic allocation of subframes.
US09584214B2
Disclosed embodiments may help an aerial vehicle network to provide substantially continuous service in a given geographic area. An example method may be carried out at an aerial vehicle that is at a location associated with the first geographic area in an aerial network that includes a plurality of geographic areas. The balloon may determine that it should update its vehicle-state in accordance with a vehicle-state profile for the first geographic area. Then, in response, the balloon may determine the vehicle-state profile for the first geographic area, which may include one or more state parameters for balloons operating in the first geographic area. The balloon may then operate according to the vehicle-state profile for the first geographic area.
US09584212B2
A communication method of a source device according to an embodiment includes detecting a status of a first link directly connected from the source device to a destination device or a status of a second link connected from the source device to the destination device via a relay device, selecting any one of the first link and the second link based on a result of the detection, and transmitting data using the selected link.
US09584211B2
A method and apparatus for transmitting an uplink signal in a wireless communication system are disclosed. A transmission apparatus for receiving an uplink (UL) signal from a user equipment (UE) and transmitting the received UL signal to a base station (BS) in a wireless communication system includes: a plurality of reception antennas configured to receive UL signals from the UE; a radio frequency (RF) repeater configured to amplify and map the received UL signals to at least one transmission antenna; and a plurality of transmission antennas configured to transmit the amplified UL signals to the BS, wherein the RF repeater is configured to select M received UL signals from among a plurality of received UL signals which are received in the plurality of reception antennas, and map the M received UL signals to N transmission antennas from among the plurality of transmission antennas, and the number of the reception antennas (Nrx,REP) is higher than the number of the transmission antennas (Ntx,REP), and N is the number of the transmission antennas which is used to transmit the M received UL signals.
US09584199B2
The present disclosure relates to a radio system (1), a base band unit (20) and a method (100) for relaying radio signals in a cell (101) of a mobile network. The radio signals are relayed according to a service criterion (300). With the present invention the radio signals are grouped into a grouped payload signal (30-1, 30-2, . . . , 30-M) and a grouped receive signal (220-1, 220-2, . . . , 220-M) according to the service criterion (300). The grouped payload signal (30-1, . . . , 30-M) and the grouped receive signal (220-1, 220-2, . . . , 220-M) are associated with a beam forming vector (40-1, 40-2, . . . , 40-M). The grouping according to the present disclosure helps to improve a quality of service provided to an individual user of the mobile network. The associated beam forming vector (40-1, 40-2, . . . , 40-M) may be provided and adjusted at a digital radio interface DRI (200). Furthermore the present disclosure provides various computer programme product implementing the various aspects.
US09584192B2
A method for transmitting electric power and signals between a wall and a leaf pivotally mounted on the wall includes transmitting the electric power so as to be galvanically isolated, and transmitting the signals optically or optoelectronically.
US09584184B2
Techniques for accommodating an incoming signal at a front-end receiver via AC-coupling or DC-coupling are described herein. In one aspect, a front-end receiver comprises a differential input with a first data line and a second data line for receiving an incoming signal. The front-end receiver also comprises an AC-coupled switch coupled to the differential input, wherein the AC-coupled switch is configured to both perform high-pass filtering on the incoming signal and offset the filtered incoming signal with a DC-offset voltage if an AC-coupling mode of the receiver is enabled. The front-end receiver further comprises a DC-coupled switch coupled to the differential input, wherein the DC-coupled switch is configured to shift a common-mode voltage of the incoming signal if a DC-coupling mode of the receiver is enabled.
US09584183B2
The present invention presents a method of identifying faults in a DSL line using upstream and downstream attenuation measurements, which can be obtained directly from the DSLAM or CPE, thus requiring no specialist test equipment nor disrupting service. A downstream over upstream attenuation ratio is calculated for a line, with calculations repeated over a population of lines. The distribution of ratios, as well as upper and lower thresholds, is determined based on the population. A line is identified as being potentially faulty if it has an attenuation ratio above the upper threshold or below the lower threshold. Specifically, an attenuation ratio below the lower threshold is identified as having a high resistance joint fault (caused by an imperfect connection or corrosion at a joint in at least one of the pairs of a line), and a ratio above the upper threshold as a shunt (caused by degradation of the insulation between the pairs of a line, and often coupled with water ingress).
US09584178B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a signal having communication data from two or more mobile devices, each identifiable by an associated pseudonoise sequence. A first mobile device is identifiable by a first pseudonoise sequence. Two or more samples of the received signal are stored in an input register. A segment of the first pseudonoise sequence is stored as a bit vector in a second register. The SIMD instruction is processed, by an SIMD processor, to produce correlation values associated with the segment of the first pseudonoise sequence and the samples of the received signal. Processing the SIMD instruction includes distributing the segment of the first pseudonoise sequence, as a bit vector, across two or more lanes of the SIMD processor. The processing contributes to despreading the received signal, and an output of the processing includes at least a portion of the communication data from the first mobile device.
US09584177B2
A phase locked loop is disclosed having a frequency controlled oscillator, a feedback path, a time to digital converter and a memory. The frequency controlled oscillator comprises a first control input for varying the frequency of the output of the frequency controlled oscillator so as to track a reference frequency and a second control input for modulating the frequency of the output signal so as to produce a chirp. The feedback path is configured to provide an input signal to the time to digital converter, and comprises modulation cancelling module operable to remove the frequency modulation resulting from the second control input from the output signal. The memory stores second control input values that each correspond with a desired chirp frequency and which compensate for non-linearity in the response of the frequency controlled oscillator to the second control input. The phase locked loop is operable in a chirp mode, in which the second control input is produced by determining a value for the second control input corresponding with a desired chirp frequency based on the stored second control input values in the memory, and in which the phase locked loop is configured to determine the first control input based on the feedback path from which the modulation cancelling module has removed the frequency modulation resulting from the second control input.
US09584173B2
An electronic apparatus includes: a front surface member that includes a concavity in which an insertion aperture is located, the insertion aperture for receiving an object to be inserted into the insertion aperture, a bottom surface of the concavity having a support; and a cover that removably fits into the concavity to cover the insertion aperture. The cover includes a slider having an arc-shaped cross section. In a state in which the cover is fitted in the concavity, the slider of the cover contacts the support provided at the bottom surface of the concavity. When a part of the cover is pushed, the cover rotates, while the slider slides along a surface of the support.
US09584171B2
This application presents an adaptive data recovery (ADR) of original data symbols from intervals or parameters of tone signals derived from a received OFDM signal, conducted without compensating distortions or noise introduced to the received OFDM signal by an OFDM transmission channel. Such ADR is implemented by converting back the derived intervals or parameters into original data symbols corresponding to distinctive sets of the intervals or parameters which the derived intervals or parameters belong to.
US09584166B2
System and method embodiments are provided for null filling of IQ waveform. In an embodiment method, samples below a predetermined threshold are selected from a plurality of samples of an input signal. Amplitude values of a complex null-fill function are then calculated to push amplitudes of the samples below the predetermined threshold to a signal level at the predetermined threshold. The phase values of the complex null-fill function are calculated to push the samples of the input signal in an IQ plane in a defined direction from a point closest to a zero signal value. The resulting complex null-fill function is filtered within a predetermined bandwidth of the input signal, and then added to the input signal to provide a modified input signal for amplification.
US09584163B2
A method and apparatus for encoding data and for decoding data using LDPC (low density parity check) codes includes providing a mother LDPC matrix of a particular size. A data payload of a smaller size is encoded by shortening the mother matrix to a smaller daughter matrix corresponding in size to the data payload and using the smaller daughter matrix for the encoding. The portions of the mother matrix to be removed in the shortening are derived from a control signal. The encoded data is transmitted with the control signal so that the receiver can derive the portions of the mother matrix to be removed to obtain the daughter matrix. At the receiver, a mother matrix is shortened to a daughter matrix and is then used to decode the data. The data at the encoder may be further reduced by puncturing to remove selected information bits and selected parity bits. The decoder inserts the selected information bits and parity bits when decoding the data.
US09584153B2
A sigma-delta analog to digital converter (ADC) includes an M-bit digital-to-analog converter (DAC); a loop filter coupled to receive an output from DAC; and a variable level quantizer configured to provide a uniform quantization function by switching between an N-level quantizer function and an N−1 level quantizer function.
US09584142B2
The calculator calculates the remainder of the division of which the dividend is the minimum accumulated value at which a carryover occurs in the ΔΣ modulator and the devisor is a fractional set value, and calculates the quotient and remainder of the division of which the dividend is the devisor of the previous division and the devisor is the remainder of the previous division until the remainder becomes zero. The abnormal noise determiner determines that the fractional set value causes periodic abnormal noise based on the quotients calculated by the calculator using the fractional set value. The fractional setter sets in the ΔΣ modulator the fractional set value changed to the extent that the output frequency of the VCO does not exceed a given value when the abnormal noise determiner determines that the changed fractional set value does not cause periodic abnormal noise.
US09584141B2
A circuit and a method are disclosed herein. The circuit includes a digitally controlled oscillator and a detector. The digitally controlled oscillator is configured to generate an oscillator signal according to an oscillator tuning word. The detector is configured to output one of a first control word and a second control word that is derived from the first control word as the oscillator tuning word.
US09584140B2
Apparatuses, methods, and delay circuits for delaying signals are described. An example apparatus includes a fine delay circuit configured to provide an output signal based on a ratio of a first input signal and a second input signal. The fine delay circuit including a phase mixer circuit including first signal drivers configured to receive the first input signal. The fine delay circuit further including second signal drivers configured to receive the second input signal, where at least two of the first signal drivers have different drive strengths and at least two of the second signal drivers have different drive strengths.
US09584134B2
A semiconductor device includes an oscillator that oscillates at a specific frequency, a semiconductor integrated circuit that integrates a temperature sensor that detects a peripheral temperature, and a controller that is electrically connected to the oscillator and that corrects temperature dependent error in the oscillation frequency of the oscillator based on the temperature detected by the temperature sensor and a sealing member that integrally seals the oscillator and the semiconductor integrated circuit.
US09584128B2
A structure of a multi-mode supported and configurable six-input look-up table (LUT), and a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) device. The six-input LUT has six signal input ends and two signal output ends. The six-input LUT includes: a first five-input LUT, a second five-input LUT, a first multiplexer, and a second multiplexer. The first five-input LUT outputs a first output signal according to five data signals input by five signal input ends of the six-input LUT, where the first output signal is output by a first signal output end of the six-input LUT; the second five-input LUT outputs a second output signal according to the five data signals input by the five signal input ends of the six-input LUT; and the first multiplexer outputs a control signal according to a set configuration mode, to control the second multiplexer to output the first output signal or the second output signal.
US09584126B2
A noise resistant switch control circuit is provided. The circuit includes a low pass filter configured to couple to a first terminal of a switch and a first voltage clamp coupled to the low pass filter. The first voltage clamp is configured to couple to a control terminal of the switch and limit a voltage of the control terminal relative to the first terminal to within a first clamping range. The circuit includes a second voltage clamp coupled to an input terminal of the switch control circuit. The second voltage clamp is configured to couple to the control terminal of the switch. The second voltage clamp is further configured to reduce a level of a control voltage coupled to the second voltage clamp. The circuit includes a bias device configured to couple to the control terminal of the switch and to impress a biasing voltage to the control terminal.
US09584123B2
Level shifters are disclosed for high performance sub-micron IC designs. One embodiment is a level shifting device that comprises a first input circuit that toggles a first internal signal between a logical zero of a first voltage range and a logical one of a second voltage range based on an input data signal and an output data signal, and a second input circuit that toggles a second internal signal between a logical zero of the second voltage range and a logical one of the first voltage range based on the input data signal and the output data signal. An output circuit of the device toggles the output data signal between a logical zero of the second voltage range and a logical one of the second voltage range based on the first internal signal, the second internal signal, and a compliment of the input data signal.
US09584119B2
A power supply unit for use with thermostats or other like devices requiring power. A power supply unit may be designed to keep electromagnetic interference emissions at a minimum, particularly at a level that does not violate governmental regulations. A unit may be designed so that there is enough power for a triggering a switch at about a cross over point of a waveform of input power to the unit. Power for triggering may come from a storage source rather than line power to reduce emissions on the power line. Power for the storage source may be provided with power stealing. Power stealing may require switching transistors which can generate emissions. Gate signals to the transistors may be especially shaped to keep emissions from transistor switching at a minimum.
US09584118B1
A substrate bias circuit and method for biasing a substrate are provided. A substrate bias circuit includes a first voltage source, a second voltage source, a diode coupled between the first voltage source and the second voltage source, and a plurality of transistors, each transistor in the plurality of transistors having a substrate terminal. In one example, the first voltage source supplies, via the diode, the substrate terminal of a first transistor of the plurality of transistors during a power-up, and the second voltage source supplies the substrate terminal of the first transistor after the power-up.
US09584117B1
A method including activating a biasing current source which provides a biasing current flowing through a biasing inductor electromagnetically coupled to a resonant inductor; waiting for the resonant inductor to reach a state of saturation; activating a voltage supply for applying a source voltage across a first and a second transistor connected serially, the resonant inductor being connected to a node between the first and second transistors and a driving gate of a driving transistor; determining a first control voltage for applying to a first gate of the first transistor and a second control voltage for applying to a second gate of the second transistor; and applying the first and the second control voltage to the first and the second gate, respectively, the application of the first and the second control voltage sending a current to the driving gate via the resonant inductor activating the driving transistor.
US09584112B2
Methods and systems for reliable bootstrapping switches may comprise sampling a received signal with a bootstrapping switch, where the bootstrapping switch comprises a switching metal-oxide semiconductor (MOS) transistor having a pull-down path coupled to a gate terminal of the switching MOS transistor. The pull-down path includes a diode-connected MOS transistor coupled in parallel with a second MOS transistor that couples the gate terminal of the switching MOS transistor to ground via third and fourth MOS transistors when the switching MOS transistor is in an OFF state. The third and fourth MOS transistors may be in series with the second MOS transistor. A gate terminal of the fourth transistor may be switched from ground to a supply voltage, VDD, to activate the pull-down path. A capacitor may be coupled between gate and source terminals of the switching MOS transistor to switch the switching MOS transistor to an ON state.
US09584109B2
The present invention relates to a voltage regulator and a resonant gate driver of the voltage regulator, where the resonant gate driver is configured to drive a first power transistor and a second power transistor and includes: a first control gateway, a second control gateway, and an inductor, where: a first end of the first control gateway is connected to a first end of the second control gateway; a second end of the first control gateway is connected to a second end of the second control gateway by using the inductor; and a third end of the first control gateway is connected to the first power transistor, and a third end of the second control gateway is connected to the second power transistor. The resonant gate driver according to an embodiment of the present invention can reduce a driving period and increase a response speed.
US09584104B2
A semiconductor device comprising a substrate and an electronic circuit thereon is described. The electronic circuit comprises a first voltage provider node, a second voltage provider node, and an intermediary node connected to the first and second voltage provider node by a first and second network with a first and second resistance, respectively. The substrate is susceptible to conducting a substrate current. The semiconductor device further comprises a substrate current sensor. The first network is arranged to reduce the first resistance in response to the substrate current sensor signaling an increase of the substrate current and vice versa. Similarly, the second network is arranged to reduce the second resistance in response to the substrate current sensor signaling an increase of the substrate current and vice versa.A method of operating a semiconductor device is also disclosed.
US09584090B2
An RF impedance matching network includes a transformation circuit coupled to an RF input and configured to provide a transformed impedance that is less than a fixed source impedance; a first shunt circuit in parallel to the RF input, the first shunt circuit including a first shunt variable component providing a first variable capacitance or inductance; and a first virtual ground coupled to the first shunt variable component and a ground; and a second shunt circuit in parallel to the RF input and, the second shunt circuit including a second shunt variable component providing a second variable capacitance or inductance; and a second virtual ground coupled to the second shunt variable component and the ground.
US09584089B2
A nested multi-stage polyphase filter can comprise: a first filter stage and a second filter stage. The first filter stage can be connected to the second filter stage via first through fourth intermediate connections. The first filter stage and the second filter stage can be laid out in a nested-ring layout. The first through fourth intermediate connections can be laid out so as to not cross over each other.
US09584084B2
An audio output device includes a voltage detection unit, a processing unit, a voltage detection unit, an alarm unit and an audio output unit. The voltage detection unit is utilized for detecting a voltage level of an audio signal to generate a detection result. The processing unit is utilized for determining whether the voltage level of the audio signal is greater than a threshold value according to the detection result and accordingly generating a control signal. The volume adjustment unit is utilized for adjusting the audio signal to generate an adjusted audio signal according to the control signal. The alarm unit is utilized for outputting a first alarm signal to implement an alarm function according to the control signal. Then audio output unit is utilized for playing the adjusted audio signal according to the control signal.
US09584083B2
Scaling, by a desired amount sm, the overall perceived loudness Lm of a multichannel audio signal, wherein perceived loudness is a nonlinear function of signal power P, by scaling the perceived loudness of each individual channel Lc by an amount substantially equal to the desired amount of scaling of the overall perceived loudness of all channels sm, subject to accuracy in calculations and the desired accuracy of the overall perceived loudness scaling sm. The perceived loudness of each individual channel may be scaled by changing the gain of each individual channel, wherein gain is a scaling of a channel's power. Optionally, in addition, the loudness scaling applied to each channel may be modified so as to reduce the difference between the actual overall loudness scaling and the desired amount of overall loudness scaling.
US09584077B2
A method and system of synthesizing impedance in a radio frequency (RF) amplifier includes receiving a voltage signal at a passive mixer. The passive mixer down-converts the voltage signal into a baseband frequency. The method includes converting the voltage signal into a digital signal. Further, the method includes performing convolution of the digital signal with an impulse response. The impulse response is of a low Q impedance and is programmable. Furthermore the method includes generating a current signal based on output of the convolution. Furthermore the method includes performing up-conversion of the current signal in the passive mixer. The passive mixer performs impedance transformation of the low Q impedance. Moreover, the method includes providing the current signal via the passive mixer to synthesize desired impedance in the RF amplifier, thereby controlling frequency response of the RF amplifier.
US09584076B2
An output matching network for a differential power amplifier comprises an output transformer having a center tap and a low pass filter. The output transformer is configured to receive a first amplified signal from a first differential output stage amplifier of the differential power amplifier and provide a first output signal to the low pass filter. The output transformer is also configured to receive a second amplified signal from a second differential output stage amplifier of the differential power amplifier and provide a second output signal to the low pass filter. The low pass filter is configured to receive the first and second output signal from the output transformer and provide a filtered output signal.
US09584072B1
An amplifier having a pair of transistors arranged in a cascode amplifier arrangement serially connected to a first voltage source. A DC bias regulator is provided having: a DC bias circuit for producing a reference voltage at a control electrode of a first one of the pair of transistors: and a voltage combiner having a pair of inputs, a first of the pair of inputs being coupled to the reference voltage and a second one of the pair of inputs being coupled to the first voltage source. The DC bias regulator produces a DC bias voltage at a control electrode of a second one of the pair of transistors related to a combination of the reference voltage and the first voltage source.
US09584069B1
Embodiments include an apparatus, system, and method related to a body driven field effect transistor (FET). In embodiments, a body terminal of the FET may be electrically coupled with a source terminal of a second FET, and a drain terminal of the FET may be electrically coupled with a drain terminal of the second FET. Other embodiments may be described.
US09584048B2
An electroactive elastomer converter is described comprising at least one electroactive elastomer layer (3) with a top side and underside and an electrically conductive electrode body (1′) that is two-dimensionally connected to the top side at least in regions. An electrically conductive electrode body (1′) is dimensionally connected in at least two regions to the underside. At least one electrode body (1′) in each case has an electrode surface facing the elastomer layer (3). At least one opening (2) is present to which an a two-dimensional region in which there is no two-dimensional bond between the elastomer layer (3) and the electrode body (1′). A compressible medium is provided in the area of the opening.
US09584040B2
A secondary-side rectifier of an inductive n-phase energy transmission system with N greater than or equal to 3, the energy transmission system including in each phase a resonant oscillating circuit, each resonant oscillating circuit including at least one inductor and at least one capacitor wherein secondary-side resonant oscillating circuits are magnetically coupleable to primary-side resonant oscillating circuits, wherein the secondary-side resonant oscillating circuits are star-connected or mesh-connected and are connected to a rectifier via external conductors, wherein the rectifier includes a series connection of a plurality of diodes with identical conducting directions, wherein a smoothing capacitor is connected in parallel with the series connection and an output voltage of the rectifier is applied to connecting points of the smoothing capacitor wherein each external conductor is connected to an anode of the diodes.
US09584037B2
A generator for providing regulated current signals, to terminals of a load includes: a plurality of secondary stages, including a direct voltage source insulated from those of other stages, connected in series between the midpoint of the second half-bridge of each secondary stage and the midpoint of the first half-bridge of the next secondary stage, the load terminals being respectively connected to the midpoint of the first half-bridge of a first secondary stage, and to the midpoint of the second half-bridge of a last secondary stage; and a control circuit capable of: selecting a group of secondary active stages, and at least one regulating stage; simultaneously controlling each active stage, except the regulating stage, at the frequency of the current slots; controlling the regulating stage according to a frequency higher than the previous one; and controlling the switches of the non-selected secondary stages to insulate their voltage source.
US09584036B2
We describe a photovoltaic power conditioning unit comprising: both dc and ac power inputs; a dc link; at least one dc-to-dc converter coupled between dc input and dc link; and a dc-to-ac converter coupled between dc link and ac output. The dc-to-dc converter comprises: a transformer having input and output windings; an input dc-to-ac converter coupled between dc input and input winding; and an ac-to-dc converter coupled between output winding the dc link. The output winding has a winding tap between the first and second portions. The ac-to-dc converter comprises: first and second rectifiers, each connected to a respective first and second portion of the output winding, to the dc link and winding tap; and a series inductor connected to the winding tap. Rectifiers are connected to the winding tap of the output winding via the series inductor wherein the series inductor is shared between the first and second rectifiers.
US09584033B1
A power supply device includes an output port, a transformer, a power switch, a current sensor, a voltage-dividing controller, a voltage-feedback unit, a voltage comparator, a main controller, and a pulse width modulator. The transformer has two inductances. The power switch is electrically connected to a primary winding of the transformer, the pulse width modulator, and the current sensor coupled to the voltage-dividing controller. The voltage-feedback unit is electrically connected to the voltage-dividing controller, the voltage comparator, and the output port. The main controller is coupled to the pulse width modulator and the voltage comparator.
US09584030B2
A controller for eliminating acoustic noise of a power converter includes a control unit and a gate signal generation unit. The control unit is used for detecting a frequency corresponding to a gate control signal in a burst mode of the power converter. When the frequency is greater than a predetermined frequency, the control unit increases a resistance of a compensation resistor coupled to a compensation pin of the power converter; and when the frequency is less than the predetermined frequency, the control unit decreases the resistance of the compensation resistor. The gate signal generation unit is coupled to the control unit for generating the gate control signal to a power switch of a primary side of the power converter according to the resistance of the compensation resistor. The power switch is turned on according to the gate control signal.
US09584029B2
An apparatus includes a voltage regulation module that controls output voltage of a bidirectional DC to DC converter to an output voltage reference over an output current range between a positive power reference and a negative power reference. A positive power regulation module controls output power of the converter to the positive power reference over a positive constant power range between the output voltage reference and a positive output current reference. A negative power regulation module controls output power of the converter to the negative power reference over a constant power range between the output voltage reference and a maximum negative power limit, and a constant current module limits output current to a positive output current reference in a range between a minimum output voltage and output power of the converter reaching the positive power reference.
US09584024B2
A power supply for welding, cutting and similar operations includes a dual two-switch forward converter. The converter has two inverter circuits coupled in parallel but controlled to provide output power in an interleaved fashion. To avoid “walking” of the circuits (which could result in different duty cycles and imbalance of the load sharing), control signals are determined and applied to a first of the inverter circuits, and “on” times of the first circuit is monitored, such as by augmenting a counter to determine the number of clock cycles the first circuit is “on”. The same duration is then used for commanding output from the second inverter circuit. The duty cycles of both circuits is thus ensured to be the same regardless of changes in the total output power.
US09584022B1
In accordance with an embodiment, a method includes receiving an indication of a changed load condition or voltage characteristic of a power supply providing power to a load via an output port of the power supply in a first mode, and switching regulation of the power supply from sourcing a current to the load in the first mode to sinking the current from the load in a second mode in response to receiving the indication of the changed load condition or voltage characteristic. Sinking the current from the load in the second mode includes controlling the power supply to transfer energy from the output port of the power supply to an input port of the power supply.
US09584010B2
A power supply apparatus includes a transformer which has a primary coil and a secondary coil, a primary side semiconductor component which configures a primary side circuit connected to a side of the primary coil of the transformer, a secondary side semiconductor component which configures a secondary side circuit connected to a side of the secondary coil of the transformer, a choke coil which is connected to the secondary side semiconductor component, and a base plate on which the transformer, the primary side semiconductor component, the secondary side semiconductor component, and the choke coil are mounted. Any two of the transformer, the primary side semiconductor component, the secondary side semiconductor component, and the choke coil configure a first stacked body stacked in a normal direction of the base plate, and other two of the transformer, the primary side semiconductor component, the secondary side semiconductor component, and the choke coil configure a second stacked body stacked in the normal direction of the base plate. The power supply apparatus has a pair of first lines connecting the primary side semiconductor component and the transformer to each other, and a pair of second lines connecting the transformer and the secondary side semiconductor component to each other. The first lines and the second lines respectively have a pair of first current paths and a pair of second current paths which are arranged so as to be adjacent to each other and are configured so that currents flow in the normal direction of the base plate. At least one of the pair of the second current paths is adjacent to at least one of the pair of the first current paths in a second direction orthogonal to a first direction in which the pair of the first current paths are adjacent to each other. The first current paths and the second current paths adjacent to each other in the second direction are configured so that currents flow therethrough in directions opposite to each other.
US09584003B2
A semiconductor device includes a moveable element over a substrate, wherein the moveable element is moveable relative to the substrate. The semiconductor device further includes a first anchor portion connected to the substrate; and a second anchor portion connected to the substrate on an opposite side of the moveable element from the first anchor portion. The semiconductor device further includes a first connector configured to connect the moveable element to the first anchor portion. The semiconductor device further includes a second connector configured to connect the moveable element to the second anchor portion. The semiconductor device further includes a conductive wire loop on the moveable element; and a connection wire electrically connected to a first end of the conductive wire loop, wherein the connection wire extends across the first connector to the first anchor portion.
US09583987B2
A stator includes a hollow cylindrical stator core having stator teeth and slots. The stator teeth each extend radially inward and are circumferentially spaced from one another. Each of the slots is formed between one circumferentially-facing pair of the stator teeth and opens at the radially inner periphery of the stator core. Each of the stator teeth has a distal end portion that includes a slit, a base part and an oblique part. The slit is formed in a distal end surface of the stator tooth and extends axially. The base part and the oblique part are formed respectively on opposite circumferential sides of the slit. The base part extends radially inward to have a distal end surface that makes up an inner-diameter surface of the stator core. The oblique part is bent toward an adjacent slot so as to extend obliquely with respect to the base part.
US09583983B2
An electric motor assembly includes a housing and a stator. The housing includes an outer housing surface, an inner housing surface defining an interior housing cavity, and a plurality of housing protrusions extending from the inner housing surface. The stator is disposed in the inner housing cavity and includes an outer stator surface, an inner stator surface, and a plurality of stator protrusions extending from the outer stator surface toward the outer housing surface. The stator protrusions are configured to mate with the housing protrusions to frictionally couple the stator to the housing in order to fix the stator relative to the housing.
US09583978B2
A smart meter includes: a power supply control unit which causes stoppage of a supply of power passing through the smart meter to an television and so on, when an RD command to stop the supply is received; a first communication unit which performs a first communication through which the RD command is received; a second communication unit which performs a second communication; and a communication control unit which: causes the performance of the first communication before the RD command is received; and prohibit the performance of the first communication and cause only the performance of the second communication, after the RD command is received.
US09583960B2
Method for charging an electrochemical accumulator, comprising a step (E10) of determining the initial state of the electrochemical accumulator, characterized in that it comprises a step (E11) of determining the regime of charge of the electrochemical accumulator by optimizing the product of a charging time saving and an energy saving as a function of the initial state of the electrochemical accumulator.
US09583955B2
A video game controller charging device is supported directly on the top of a video game console and integrated therewith. The device includes a main body portion having a console-engaging structure for providing support to the device while positioned on top of the game console. One or more controller support surfaces, formed as cradles or docking structures for receiving game controllers, are formed on a top surface of the charging device. An extension arm engages a second surface of the game console and includes power connector integrated therein and adapted to engage a power source connection on the game console when the charging device is installed on the game console. Fastening devices may include suction devices that may be selectively activated to secure the charging device to a surface of the game console.
US09583951B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for tuning a transmit coil for operation in a plurality of frequency bands. In one aspect, a method of wireless power transmission is provided. The method includes exciting a first part of a wireless power transmission system, via a wireless power transmitter. The method further includes detecting, in the presence of a non-charging object, a first change in a first parameter. The first parameter is indicative of a coupling between the non-charging object and the first part. The method further includes varying a characteristic of the wireless power transmission based on said first change.
US09583949B2
A power receiving apparatus includes a power reception circuit, a first member having a cylindrical shape, a power receiving coil disposed on a cylinder side surface of the first member and connected through wires to the power reception circuit, and a resonance coil configured to be freely movable along the cylinder side surface in a circumferential direction around a cylinder center axis of the first member, wherein the power receiving coil and the resonance coil are coupled to each other through electromagnetic induction.
US09583948B2
Embodiments of the present invention may provide a circuit. The circuit may include a primary side, a secondary side, and an isolated energy transfer device electrically isolating the primary side and the secondary side. The primary side may include a first energy storage device coupled to a power source, a control system coupled to the first energy storage device for power, a second energy storage device, and a coupling system, coupled to the control system, to selectively couple the second energy storage device to the power source in a first phase and to selectively couple the second energy storage device to the primary side of the isolated energy transfer device during a second phase.
US09583945B2
A frequency control method includes segmenting a range from a predetermined reference frequency to a predetermined lower limit frequency or a predetermined upper limit frequency into frequency range segments according to a number of battery apparatuses, detecting a current frequency of a power system, and causing battery apparatuses to charge from the power system or discharge to the power system in order to control a frequency or maintain a supply and demand balance of the power system, causing lager number of battery apparatuses to charge or discharge as a frequency range segment including the current frequency becomes farther apart from the reference frequency.
US09583944B2
The methods and apparatus described enable automatic configuration, or commissioning, of controller devices and load control devices through a low voltage communication network controlled by one or more controller devices. These methods and apparatus further enable expansion of the load control system by connection of additional loads and or load control devices and or controller devices which will reinitialize the low voltage communication network and automatically reconfigure the controller devices and load control devices connected to the network.
US09583937B2
A low-, medium-, or high-voltage voltage switchgear with a circuit breaker or circuit breakers is disclosed which can switch electrical equipment. To protect the switchgear, and the circuit breakers in the switchgear against so called spot welding under vacuum atmosphere, such as during a closing operation of a switchgear used, for example, for switching capacitive or inductive equipment or inductive or capacitive current network an inrush current limiter is placed electrically in line or in series with the current path of the circuit breaker.
US09583935B2
System and method are provided for protecting a power converter. The system includes a first comparator, and an off-time component. The first comparator is configured to receive a sensing signal and a first threshold signal and generate a first comparison signal based on at least information associated with the sensing signal and the first threshold signal, the power converter being associated with a switching frequency and further including a switch configured to affect the primary current. The off-time component is configured to receive the first comparison signal and generate an off-time signal based on at least information associated with the first comparison signal. The off-time component is further configured to, if the first comparison signal indicates the sensing signal to be larger than the first threshold signal in magnitude, generate the off-time signal to keep the switch to be turned off for at least a predetermined period of time.
US09583931B2
A busbar kit is provided. The busbar kit electrically connects a circuit breaker and a main busbar, and comprises an insulating case having an inner space, a branch busbar disposed in the insulating case such that the branch busbar is spaced apart from the main busbar and crosses over the main busbar, and a busbar connector for electrically connecting the main busbar and the branch busbar.
US09583928B2
A mounting structure of an electronic component includes an electronic component, a housing member, a counterpart terminal, and at least one locking mechanism. The electronic component includes: an electronic component main body; a housing formed by assembling a casing member in which a chamber for the electronic component main body is formed and a base member to which the electronic component main body is attached; and a terminal exposed from the chamber to outside of the housing. The housing member includes a housing space including: a first chamber that accommodates the housing; and a second chamber that accommodates a terminal. The counterpart terminal is fitted into the second chamber and electrically coupled to the terminal. The locking mechanism maintains the accommodation state of the electronic component to the housing member by engaging a first engaging part and a second engaging part.
US09583925B2
A gasket for an electrical junction box of a railcar is fitted in a groove portion formed on a contact surface of a side wall portion or a contact surface of a cover in the electrical junction box including: a box main body having the side wall portion defining an opening communicating with an outer space; and the cover closing the opening. Further, the gasket for the electrical junction box of the railcar includes: small width portions, a width of each of the small width portions being smaller than a width of the groove portion; and large width portions each having projections projecting toward both respective sides of the small width portion in a width direction and having a larger width than the width of the small width portions. The small width portions and the large width portions are alternately provided.
US09583922B2
A cable bus system for the mounting and positioning of high amperature, from low to high voltage electrical power cables transmitting polyphase electrical current. The cable bus system included a ventilated enclosure used to protect electrical cables mounted therein. The enclosure is provided with multiple modular cable trays which are bolted together in a stacked arrangement to form a single multi-level cable raceway. The enclosure is further provided with ventilated top and bottom covers which are secured respectively to the top and bottom of the uppermost and bottom most cable trays to define the enclosed metal circuit. The cable bus system is capable of transmitting the same highest allowable “free air” cable amperature in both above and underground installations, effectively improving the transmission of electrical power from one end to the other end, in installations where a transition of electrical power from below ground to above ground is either necessary or economically preferable. For the underground portion, the cable bus is installed in the encasement that is uniquely offset vented or power cooled to meet the cable high amperage requirements. The cable bus system is also suitable for high vertical rise installations when utilizing anti cable slip mechanism or technique.
US09583916B2
An alumina sintered body has a main phase made of alumina crystals, a first dispersed phase made of MgAl2O4 dispersed in the main phase, and a second dispersed phase made of SiO2 and/or CaO dispersed in the main phase. A content ratio of the main phase is within a range from not less than 98% to less than 98%. The alumina sintered body satisfies a relationship of 100×I2/I1≧5.5%, where I1 indicates a maximum peak height intensity derived from alumina, and I2 indicates a maximum peak height intensity derived from MgAl2O4 in a X-ray diffraction of the alumina sintered body. An area ratio of the second dispersed phase on a surface of the alumina sintered body is not more than 15.2%. A spark plug has a central electrode, a ground electrode and an insulator made of the alumina sintered body having the specific features previously described.
US09583906B2
A system for removing a plurality of connectors from a circuit board includes two clamp plates. The system includes a divider plate coupled between the two clamp plates. The divider plate is configured to be positioned between adjacent rows of the plurality of connectors. The system further includes a tightening mechanism to tighten the clamp plates and the plurality of pin plates around the plurality of connectors. The system also includes an ejector coupled to the divider plate. The ejector includes a slot that corresponds to a projection on the divider plate, and the divider plate is configured to slide relative to the ejector.
US09583904B2
The inventions relates to crimping pliers with two hand levers (3, 5) and two actuation elements (9, 10) located in the region of a pliers head (4). The actuation elements (9, 10) actuates dies (12) between which a workpiece can be crimped. A toggle lever drive (33) with two toggle levers (34, 35) which build a toggle lever angle (36) acts between the hand levers (3, 5) and the actuation elements (9, 10). One toggle lever (34) is built by a roller (23) which is pivotably mounted to the hand lever (5). The roller (23) rolls along a curved track (24) fixed at the other hand lever (3). A forced locking unit (48) is built with a toothed latching lever (28) which is supported for being rotated relatively to the roller (23).A lever part (30) of the toothed latching lever (28) is coupled by a sliding guide to the hand lever (3), whereas the other lever part (29) of the toothed latching lever (28) forms a toothing (31) for latching of the forced locking unit (48).
US09583900B2
A plug connector includes a front housing, a first and a second terminal module each including an insulator insert molded with terminals. The front housing defines a rear wall, a front mating cavity opening forwards, and a plurality of terminal passageways running through the rear wall in a front and rear direction and the front housing in a vertical direction a first terminal module, The terminals comprising contacting portions received in the corresponding terminal passageways. The shell fitly encloses the front housing and the insulators. The front housing unitarily defines a plurality of protection flanges, each protection flange is located above a front end of each terminal passageway and each contacting section is located inside the protection flange thereby ensuring the contacting sections separating from the shell during the contacting sections are pushed outwards by an insertion of a mating receptacle connector.
US09583898B2
A female jack is provided that includes one or more terminals and a reception aperture configured to accept a male plug. The female jack also includes a first spring contact with a first mating curvature configured to contact the male plug and create electrical contact between the male plug and the female jack. The first spring contact also includes one or more flex joints.
US09583891B2
An electrical connector for connecting plural multi-contact linear arrays with an electrical system, including: a base portion having a base member and an alignment member on the base member configured to hold the multi-contact linear arrays in place; an interconnect portion configured to mate with the base portion and having (1) a plurality of pins mounted thereto, each pin positioned for contact with a respective contact of the multi-contact linear arrays, and (2) an interconnect array having a plurality of conductive pathways to the electrical system; and one or more closure elements for holding the base and interconnect portions together, wherein each of the contacts of the multi-contact linear arrays is electrically connected to a corresponding point in circuits within the electrical system.
US09583884B1
A dissipative insert provided within an electrical connector having multiple connector pins and an outer conductive housing where the insert is configured around the pins within the housing and provides structural integrity thereto and prevents a short circuit between the pins and between the pins and the housing. The insert is comprised of a mixture of a polymer and a conductive material that causes the insert to have a volume resistivity in the range of 1×106-1×1010 ohm-cm. In one embodiment, the conductive material is carbon nanotubes.
US09583880B2
A direct-connect orthogonal electrical connection system with improved high frequency performance is provided. A conductive member is provided between first and second components, each having signal and ground conductors. The conductive member is electrically coupled to ground conductors of both the first and second components and may also have openings through which signal conductors of the first and second components may connect. As such, signal conductors may be positioned relative to the conductive member such that a uniform impedance is maintained along a signal path throughout the interconnection, reducing noise and reflections. The signal conductors may be formed with multiple beams of different lengths to create multiple points of contact distributed along an elongated dimension. For example, a third beam may be fused to a mating portion to allow a tolerance for deviations in alignment between two directly connected connectors.
US09583870B2
A connector includes: a casing; a terminal which is connected to a mating terminal; a flexible conductor disposed inside the casing and on a side opposite to the mating terminal with respect to the terminal, and electrically connected to the terminal; a connecting member which is a conductor fixed to the casing, is disposed on a side opposite to the terminal with respect to the flexible conductor, and is electrically connected to the flexible conductor; and an electrical wire which is disposed on a side opposite to the terminal with respect to the connecting member, is electrically connected to the connecting member, and is drawn from the casing in a direction opposite to an insertion direction of the terminal toward the mating terminal.
US09583868B2
An underwater electrical connection assembly is provided, where the assembly includes (1) a contact pin including an axially extending conductive core and an axially extending annular insolation portion around the conductive core, (2) a front end portion of the conductive core having an electrical contact surface, (3) a rear end portion of the conductive core having an electrical contact surface, and (4) an intermediate portion of the conductive core extending axially at an intermediate location between the front and rear end portions. In the assembly, the rear end portion of the conductive core of the pin includes a diameter larger than the diameter of the intermediate portion thereof, and the annular insulation portion includes an inner insulating layer around the intermediate portion of the conductive core and an insulating sleeve around the inner insulating layer.
US09583865B2
A pluggable module includes a pluggable body extending lengthwise between a mating end and a cable end. The pluggable body has a first end and an opposite second end with sides extending therebetween along a length of the pluggable body. The first end, second end and sides define a cavity. An internal circuit board is held in the cavity. The internal circuit board is provided at an end of a cable communicatively coupled to the internal circuit board. The pluggable body is configured to be plugged into a receptacle assembly such that the internal circuit board is communicatively coupled to a communication connector of the receptacle assembly. The pluggable body is defined by a first shell including the first end and the sides and may be formed by extrusion and may have increased thermal conductivity and a second shell including the second end.
US09583863B1
A child-safety electrical socket includes a cover having at least two contact introduction apertures, which cover is disposed on a housing, and underneath which cover a slider is positioned, which stands under the influence of a spring, which supports itself on an intermediate bottom in the housing, wherein the intermediate bottom has at least two apertures and the slider has at least two apertures, which are provided with inclined surfaces, and the slider is disposed in the housing so as to rotate. The slider has a plate-like shape and stands in contact with guides on its circumference, which guides are provided on the cover, on the side facing toward the intermediate bottom.
US09583857B2
An object of the present invention is to provide an electrical contactor highly resistant to deformation capable of achieving satisfactory performance of electrical contact with a small number of elements.An electrical contactor of this invention includes a barrel having a spring part achieving a spring function formed in a partial section, and a first plunger and a second plunger inserted in the barrel through an opening at one end and an opening at an opposite end of the barrel and fixed to the barrel. It is preferable that an end part of the first plunger in the barrel and an end part of the second plunger in the barrel are placed in internal space of the same non-spring part not to achieve a spring function. It is preferable that the barrel has three or more spring parts separated while non-spring parts are placed between the spring parts.
US09583855B2
A circuit board device is provided, including: a first circuit board having a first predetermined connection section; a second circuit board arranged opposite to the first circuit board and having a second predetermined connection section directly facing the first predetermined connection section; and a connector including a first portion and a second portion. The connecter has: a first state where the first portion is arranged at a side of the first circuit board away from the second circuit board, the second portion is arranged at a side of the second circuit board away from the first circuit board, and the first portion and the second portion cooperate with each other to press the first circuit board against the second circuit board; and a second state where the first circuit board is separated from the second circuit board.
US09583854B2
To provide a connector wherein ground terminals can be designed easily, which not only suppresses the occurrence of impedance mismatch and crosstalk, but which does not lead to interferences between contacting portions. A ground terminal for a connector has a cylindrical main body. A plurality of contacting portions, for contacting a circuit board, are formed on the bottom edge of the cylindrical main body. The ground terminal has, as contacting portions, inner contacting portions and outer contacting portions. The inner contacting portions extend toward the inside of the cylindrical main body and in the downward direction, and the outer contacting portions extend toward the inside of the cylindrical main body and in the downward direction.
US09583852B1
A horizontal printed circuit board (PCB) holder for connection to a first PCB and a second PCB may include a frame having one or more legs extending outwardly from the frame, each of the one or more legs having a passageway therein, and at least one conductive pin fixedly secured within the passageway of at least one of the one or more legs. The at least one conductive pin may convey electrical signals between the first PCB and the second PCB. A PCB holder assembly may include first and second PCBs connected to a PCB holder. A method of providing a PCB holder may include determining at least one characteristic of a first PCB and second PCB, configuring the PCB holder according to the determined characteristic(s), and connecting the first and second PCBs to the PCB holder.
US09583847B2
A coaxial connector in combination with a coaxial cable is provided with an inner conductor supported coaxial within an outer conductor, a polymer jacket surrounding the outer conductor. A unitary connector body with a bore is provided with an overbody surrounding an outer diameter of the connector body. The outer conductor is inserted within the bore. A molecular bond is formed between the outer conductor and the connector body and between the jacket and the overbody. An inner conductor end cap may also be provided coupled to the end of the inner conductor via a molecular bond.
US09583844B2
A female contact intended to receive a male contact, the female contact including a base and at least one side wall having a free edge defining an open end, the side wall being connected to the base and including an inner wall, wherein: the female contact includes a helical spring made of an electrically conductive material disposed between the base and the open end; part of the inner wall and the base are made of an electrically conductive material; and the inner wall of the female contact and/or the spring assure/assures electrical contact with a male contact in the position of use.
US09583826B2
The present invention is to provide a resonance circuit, which is applicable to a circuit board of a first electronic device provided thereon with a circuit layout, a high-speed connector (e.g., a USB 3.0 connector) at a lateral side of the circuit layout for connecting with a second electronic device, and an antenna for enabling the circuit board to receive and transmit wireless information at a predetermined frequency. The connector and antenna are respectively connected to first and second connecting points of the circuit layout, and the distance between the two connecting points is not less than one wavelength. The resonance circuit is connected to a third connecting point of the circuit layout provided between the above two connecting points, such that the resonance frequency of the resonance circuit covers the reception and transmission frequencies of the antenna, for effectively inhibiting interference between the connector and the antenna.
US09583823B2
In one embodiment, a foldable radome sub-assembly for an antenna reflector dish has flexible material connected to a plurality of rigid rim segments. Connection elements (e.g., inserts) are configured to interconnect two adjacent rim segments, such that, with the connection elements applied, the radome sub-assembly is configured as a radome connectable to the antenna reflector dish, and, without the connection elements applied, the radome sub-assembly is foldable between adjacent rim segments. The foldable radome sub-assembly can be folded up for efficient storage and shipping, yet is easy to configure in the field into a rigid radome for attachment to an antenna reflector dish.
US09583817B2
A wireless device that suppresses deterioration of antenna characteristics and can be made thin is provided. The wireless device is provided with a substrate, a wireless module that is mounted on the substrate and has an antenna unit, and a casing that accommodates the substrate and the wireless module. The wireless device has a gap of a length that is an approximate multiple of a half-wavelength of a radio wave corresponding to a communication frequency of the antenna unit, from the antenna unit toward the casing.
US09583812B2
A signal transmission line includes a signal conductor and an array of resonators. The resonators can include split resonators. The array of resonators can partially overlap with the signal conductor of the signal transmission line. In some embodiments, the portion of the signal conductor overlapping with the split ring resonators is wider than the portion of the signal conductor outside the overlapping area. The signal transmission line can be tuned for a range of frequencies. For example, the signal transmission line can be tuned to have an absolute value of a s-parameter less than or equal to 1 dB for a range of frequencies. The signal transmission line can be less than or equal to 200 microns in thickness and may also be flexible.
US09583804B2
An energy store is provided, having at least one stack, each stack having at least one storage cell, which in turn has an air electrode and a storage electrode. The storage electrode is adjacent to channels, which contain a storage medium and water vapor. The channels have a larger cross-sectional area than the cross-section of the storage medium, which condition causes unhindered spreading of a reaction gas in the area between the storage electrode and the storage medium.
US09583801B2
A temperature regulating system for regulating the temperature of a battery in a vehicle. The system regulates airflow to the battery for cooling or warming the battery based on the speed of the vehicle and the temperature of the battery. The system provides active cooling airflow to the battery when the battery temperature is above a recommended temperature range, or when the battery temperature is within the recommended temperature range and the speed of the motor vehicle is below a speed threshold. The system provides passive cooling airflow when the battery temperature is within the recommended temperature range and the speed of the motor vehicle is above a speed threshold. The system provides active warming airflow when the battery temperature is below the recommended temperature range.
US09583796B2
A method for determining an operating state (e.g., state-of-charge or state-of-health) and/or generating management (charge/discharge) control information in a system including an electrochemical energy device (EED, e.g., a rechargeable Li-ion battery, supercapacitor or fuel cell) that uses optical sensors to detect the intercalation stage change events occurring in the EED. The externally or internally mounted optical sensors measure operating parameter (e.g., strain and/or temperature) changes of the EED during charge/recharge cycling, and transmit measured parameter data using light signals sent over optical fibers to a detector/converter. A processor then analyzes the measured parameter data, e.g., using a model-based estimation process, to detect intercalation stage changes (i.e., crystalline structure changes caused by migration of guest species, such as Li-ions, between the EED's anode and cathode), and generates the operating state and charge/discharge control information based the analysis.
US09583779B2
The present invention generally relates to energy storage devices, and to metal sulfide energy storage devices in particular. Some aspects of the invention relate to energy storage devices comprising at least one flowable electrode, wherein the flowable electrode comprises an electroactive metal sulfide material suspended and/or dissolved in a carrier fluid. In some embodiments, the flowable electrode further comprises a plurality of electronically conductive particles suspended and/or dissolved in the carrier fluid, wherein the electronically conductive particles form a percolating conductive network. An energy storage device comprising a flowable electrode comprising a metal sulfide electroactive material and a percolating conductive network may advantageously exhibit, upon reversible cycling, higher energy densities and specific capacities than conventional energy storage devices.
US09583765B2
Provided are a positive electrode active material for a sodium ion secondary battery, and a positive electrode and a sodium ion secondary battery using the material. The positive electrode active material for a sodium ion secondary battery comprises a lithium sodium-based compound containing lithium (Li), sodium (Na), iron (Fe), and oxygen (O).
US09583761B2
Methods for making anodes for lithium ion devices are provided. The methods include milling germanium powder, carbon, and boron carbide powder to form a nano-particle mixture having a particle size of 20 to 100 nm; adding an emulsion of tungsten carbide nano-particles having a particle size of 20 to 60 nm to the mixture to form an active material; and adding a polymeric binder to the active material to form the anode, wherein the weight percentage of the germanium in the anode is between 5 to 80 weight % of the total weight of the anode, the weight percentage of boron in the anode is between 2 to 20 weight % of the total weight of the anode and the weight percentage of tungsten in the anode is between 5 to 20 weight % of the total weight of the anode.
US09583759B2
A cathode active material capable of obtaining a high capacity and capable of improving stability or low-temperature characteristics, a method of manufacturing the same, and a battery are provided. A cathode (21) includes a cathode active material including a lithium complex oxide including Li and at least one kind selected from the group consisting of Co, Ni and Mn, and P and at least one kind selected from the group consisting of Ni, Co, Mn, Fe, Al, Mg and Zn as coating elements on a surface of the lithium complex oxide. Preferably, the contents of the coating elements are higher on the surface of the cathode active material than those in the interior thereof, and decrease from the surface to the interior.
US09583757B2
Electrodes and methods of forming electrodes are described herein. The electrode can be an electrode of an electrochemical cell or battery. The electrode includes a current collector and a film in electrical communication with the current collector. The film may include a carbon phase that holds the film together. The electrode further includes an electrode attachment substance that adheres the film to the current collector.
US09583752B2
A secondary battery including a first electrode assembly, the first electrode assembly including a first positive electrode uncoated portion and a first negative electrode uncoated portion; a second electrode assembly horizontally parallel with the first electrode assembly, the second electrode assembly including a second positive electrode uncoated portion and a second negative electrode uncoated portion; a first collector plate that is electrically connected to the first positive electrode uncoated portion; a second collector plate that is electrically connected to the second positive electrode uncoated portion; a third collector plate that is electrically connected to the first negative electrode uncoated portion and to the second negative electrode uncoated portion; a case accommodating the first electrode assembly, the second electrode assembly, the first collector plate, the second collector plate, and the third collector plate; and a cap plate sealing the case, wherein the third collector plate includes a fuse hole therein.
US09583737B2
An organic electro-luminescence display device includes a first substrate, plural pedestals which are provided in a convex shape on the first substrate and have inclined side surfaces, plural first electrodes respectively provided on the respective side surfaces of the pedestals, an organic electro-luminescence film which is provided above the plural pedestals and includes a light-emitting layer laminated on the plural fist electrodes, and a second electrode which is provided above the plural pedestals and is laminated on the organic electro-luminescence film. Light generated in the light-emitting layer is transmitted between a first reflection surface and a second reflection surface. The second electrode includes light transmission parts, through which the light passes, above upper end parts of the pedestals. A surface of the second electrode facing the organic electro-luminescence film is the second reflection surface except for the light transmission parts.
US09583733B2
An organic electroluminescent element is provided with a light transmissive substrate, a light transmissive electrode, a counter electrode paired with the light transmissive electrode, a sealing substrate facing the light transmissive substrate, an organic light emitting layer, and a resin structure. The organic light-emitting layer is disposed between the light transmissive electrode and the counter electrode. The organic light emitting layer is sealed with the light transmissive substrate and the sealing substrate. The resin structure is disposed between the light transmissive electrode and the light transmissive substrate. The resin structure is composed of a plurality of resin layers including a high refractive index layer and a low refractive index layer with different refractive indices. The high refractive index layer contains a physisorption-based moisture-absorbing material.
US09583730B2
A display device and method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. In one aspect, the display device includes a substrate including a display area and a non-display area surrounding the display area. The display device also includes a first insulating layer formed in the non-display area, a first metal layer formed over the first insulating layer, and a second insulating layer formed over the first metal layer. A plurality of openings are formed in each of the first and second insulating layers and the first metal layer. The display device further includes a sealing member formed over the second insulating layer. The sealing member includes a plurality of coupling portions filling the openings and a groove is formed in a side wall of each of openings.
US09583724B2
Continuous processes for fabricating a perovskite device are described that include using a doctor blade for continuously forming a perovskite layer and using a conductive tape lamination process to form an anode or a cathode layer on the perovskite device.
US09583721B2
Provided are a substrate for an organic electronic device, an organic electronic device and lighting. As a substrate for an OED such as an OLED, a substrate capable of providing an organic electronic system having excellent performance and reliability may be provided.
US09583719B2
The present invention relates to carbazolocarbazol-bis(dicarboximides), a method for their preparation and their use as semiconductors, in particular as semiconductors in organic electronics and organic photovoltaics.
US09583709B2
A mask for forming an organic layer pattern, the mask including a photomask having a first substrate and a reflecting layer on the first substrate; and a donor substrate on the photomask and separated therefrom, the donor substrate including a second substrate and an absorption part on the second substrate, wherein the photomask comprises a reflecting part configured to reflect light incident to the photomask and a light concentrating part configured to concentrate the light and transmit the light to the donor substrate.
US09583705B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device is provided. The method includes forming semiconductor patterns on a semiconductor substrate, such that sides are surrounded by a lower interlayer insulating layer. A lower insulating layer is formed that covers the semiconductor patterns and the lower interlayer insulating layer. A contact structure is formed that penetrates the lower insulating layer and the lower interlayer insulating layer and is spaced apart from the semiconductor patterns. The contact structure has an upper surface higher than the semiconductor patterns. An upper insulating layer is formed covering the contact structure and the lower insulating layer. The upper and lower insulating layers form insulating patterns exposing the semiconductor patterns and covering the contact structure, and each of the insulating patterns includes a lower insulating pattern and an upper insulating pattern sequentially stacked. After the insulating patterns are formed, metal-semiconductor compounds are formed on the exposed semiconductor patterns.
US09583701B1
A memory device comprising a doped conductive polycrystalline layer having an electrically resistive portion, is described herein. By way of example, ion implantation to a subset of the conductive polycrystalline layer can degrade and modify the polycrystalline layer, forming the electrically resistive portion. The electrically resistive portion can include resistive switching properties facilitating digital information storage. Parametric control of the ion implantation can facilitate control over corresponding resistive switching properties of the resistive portion. For example, a projected range or depth of the ion implantation can be controlled, allowing for preferential placement of atoms in the resistive portion, and fine-tuning of a forming voltage of the memory device. As another example, dose and number of atoms implanted, type of atoms or ions that are implanted, the conductive polycrystalline material used, and so forth, can facilitate control over switching characteristics of the memory device.
US09583699B2
A variable resistance memory device may include a first electrode and a second electrode. The device may further include a chalcogenide glass layer between the first electrode and the second electrode. The chalcogenide glass layer may include a chalcogenide glass material co-deposited with a metal material. The metal material may include tin. The device may also include a metal ion source structure between the chalcogenide glass layer and the second electrode. The device may include a buffer layer between the first electrode and the chalcogenide glass layer.
US09583696B2
An apparatus includes a perpendicular magnetic anisotropy magnetic tunnel junction (pMTJ) device. The pMTJ device includes a storage layer and a reference layer. The reference layer includes a portion configured to produce a ferrimagnetic effect. The portion includes a first layer, a second layer, and a third layer. The second layer is configured to antiferromagnetically (AF) couple the first layer and the third layer during operation of the pMTJ device.
US09583693B2
A piezoelectric energy harvester comprising: a metal substrate comprising a planar part, a first leg projecting from the planar part and a second leg projecting from the planar part, the metal substrate configured to support a piezoelectric matrix on the planar part between the first leg and the second leg; and a piezoelectric matrix provided on the substrate, the piezoelectric matrix comprising a plurality of adjacent PZT elements.
US09583690B2
An LED lamp core, an LED chip, and a method for manufacturing the LED chip are provided. A heat conductive core (6) using the structure of taper column or taper threaded column can be conveniently installed, and solves the heat conductive problem from the standardization of the LED lamp core. A heat diffusion plate (2) is made of copper or aluminum, and the area and the thickness thereof should be large enough, so as to achieve the effect of heat diffusion. A wafer (1) is welded on the heat diffusion plate (2), reducing the temperature difference between the wafer (1) and the heat diffusion plate (2) is primary and the insulation between the same is secondary. A high voltage insulation layer (4), which is required for safety, is provided between the heat diffusion plate (2) and the heat conductive core (6), and the heat flux density between the heat diffusion plate (2) and the heat conductive core (6) has already been reduced by the heat diffusion plate (2). The technique using a wafer locating plate solves the problem of aligning weld, costly equipment and low production efficiency.
US09583689B2
An LED package includes a chip carrier, an adhesive layer, one high-voltage LED die, and an encapsulating member. The chip carrier defines a receiving space. The adhesive layer is disposed in the receiving space and has a thermal conductivity of larger than or equal to 1 W/mK. The high-voltage LED die is attached to the adhesive layer to be received in the reflective space and has a top surface formed with a trench. The trench of the high-voltage LED die is disposed at an optical center of the receiving space. The encapsulating member encapsulates the high-voltage LED die and includes a plurality of diffusers. The trench is embedded with the encapsulating member and has a width ranging from 1 μm to 10 μm and a depth of less than or equal to 50 μm.
US09583687B2
A semiconductor device includes a light emitting structure, and an interconnection bump including an under bump metallurgy (UBM) layer disposed on an electrode of at least one of the first and second conductivity-type semiconductor layers, and having a first surface disposed opposite to a surface of the electrode and a second surface extending from an edge of the first surface to be connected to the electrode, an intermetallic compound (IMC) disposed on the first surface of the UBM layer, a solder bump bonded to the UBM layer with the IMC therebetween, and a barrier layer disposed on the second surface of the UBM layer and substantially preventing the solder bump from being diffused into the second surface of the UBM layer.
US09583682B2
A light-emitting device includes a plurality of light-emitting elements face-down mounted on a substrate, a phosphor-containing film on the plurality of light-emitting elements directly or via a transparent adhesive layer, a transparent plate provided on the phosphor-containing film so as to directly contact the film, and a white reflector to cover a side surface of the plurality of light-emitting elements and, of side surfaces of the phosphor-containing film, at least a side surface not located above a gap between the plurality of light-emitting elements. At least a portion of a region directly above the gap is not covered with the phosphor-containing film.
US09583666B2
A proximity sensor includes a semiconductor die, a light emitting assembly, a redistribution layer, and an encapsulating layer. A surface of the semiconductor die includes a sensor area and contact pads. A lens is positioned over the sensor area of the semiconductor die. The light emitting assembly includes a light emitting device having a light emitting area, a lens positioned over the light emitting area, and contact pads that face the redistribution layer. A side of the redistribution layer includes contact pads. Electrical connectors place each of the contact pads of the semiconductor die in electrical communication with a respective one of the contact pads of the redistribution layer. The encapsulating layer is positioned on the redistribution layer and at least partially encapsulates the semiconductor die, the lens over the sensor area of the semiconductor die, and the light emitting assembly.
US09583662B2
A solar concentrator has frame members connected together to form a framework, and a flexible sheet attached to the framework such that the flexible sheet takes a loose shape and can flex in response to shaping forces exerted thereon. The sheet has a reflective surface located between the frame members. A shaping force system is operative, when activated, to exert the shaping forces on the sheet, the shaping forces configured to draw the sheet from the loose shape into a desired shape such that solar rays striking the reflective surface are focused on a target, and a solar energy receiver is attached to the framework at a location corresponding to the target. Thin wall tubing filled with pressurized air can provide strong light frame members. When the shaping force system is deactivated, the flexible sheet reverts substantially to the loose shape.
US09583661B2
A grid for minimizing effects of ion divergence in plasma ion implant. The plasma grid is made of a flat plate having a plurality of holes, wherein the holes are arranged in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns thereby forming beamlets of ions that diverge in one direction. A mask is used to form the implanted shapes on the wafer, wherein the holes in the mask are oriented orthogonally to the direction of beamlet divergence.
US09583660B2
The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a photovoltaic module comprising plurality of solar cells in a thin-layer structure, in which the following are formed consecutively in the structure: an electrode on the rear surface (41), a photovoltaic layer (43) obtained by depositing components including metal precursors and at least one element taken from Se and S and by annealing such as to convert said components into a semiconductor material, and another semiconductor layer (44) in order to create a pn junction with the photovoltaic layer (43); characterized in that the metal precursors form, on the electrode on the rear surface (41), a continuous layer, while said at least one element forms a layer having at least one break making it possible, at the end of the annealing step, to leave an area (430) of the layer of metal precursors in the metal state at said break.
US09583655B2
A method of fabricating a photovoltaic device includes forming an absorber layer comprising an absorber material above a substrate, forming a buffer layer over the absorber layer, forming a front transparent layer over the buffer layer, and exposing the photovoltaic device to heat or radiation at a temperature from about 80° C. to about 500° C. for a period of time, subsequent to the step of forming a buffer layer over the absorber layer.
US09583652B2
A method for the wet-chemical etching of a highly doped silicon layer in an etching solution is provided. The method includes using, as an etching solution so as to perform etching homogeneously, an HF-containing etching solution containing at least one oxidizing agent selected from the group of peroxodisulfates, peroxomonosulfates, and hydrogen peroxide.
US09583650B1
Provided are a integrated plasmonic circuit including a plasmonic source using a surface plasmon resonance phenomenon, a plasmonic detector detecting an optical signal generated in the plasmonic source, and a link structure between the plasmonic source and the plasmonic detector, that is, a signal transferring part, and a method of manufacturing the same. Provided are a integrated plasmonic circuit capable of realizing both of miniaturization and speed improvement by overcoming both of a limitation of an electronic device in terms of a signal speed in spite of being excellent in terms of miniaturization efficiency and a limitation of an existing optical device in terms of miniaturization due to a diffraction limitation of light in spite of being improved in terms of a signal speed, and a method of manufacturing the same.
US09583640B1
A method comprises providing a semiconductor structure including a nonvolatile memory cell element comprising a floating gate, a select gate and an erase gate formed over a semiconductor material, the select gate and the erase gate being arranged at opposite sides of the floating gate, forming a control gate insulation material layer over the semiconductor structure, forming a control gate material layer over the control gate insulation material layer, performing a first patterning process that forms a control gate over the floating gate and comprises a first etch process that selectively removes a material of the control gate material layer relative to a material of the control gate insulation material layer, and performing a second patterning process that patterns the control gate insulation material layer, the patterned control gate insulation material layer covering portions of the semiconductor structure that are not covered by the control gate.
US09583631B1
A transistor with uniform density of poly silicon includes a gate terminal, a drain terminal, and a source terminal. The gate terminal is constructed by a plurality of separated poly silicon, such that the density of the poly silicon is uniform.
US09583625B2
A method of forming a FinFET fin with low-doped and a highly-doped active portions and/or a FinFET fin having tapered sidewalls for Vt tuning and multi-Vt schemes and the resulting device are provided. Embodiments include forming an Si fin, the Si fin having a top active portion and a bottom active portion; forming a hard mask on a top surface of the Si fin; forming an oxide layer on opposite sides of the Si fin; implanting a dopant into the Si fin; recessing the oxide layer to reveal the active top portion of the Si fin; etching the top active portion of the Si fin to form vertical sidewalls; forming a nitride spacer covering each vertical sidewall; recessing the recessed oxide layer to reveal the active bottom portion of the Si fin; and tapering the active bottom portion of the Si fin.
US09583609B2
Elongated metal contacts with longitudinal axes that lie in a first direction are formed to make electrical connections to elongated source and drain regions with longitudinal axes that lie in the first direction, and elongated metal contacts with longitudinal axes that lie a second direction are formed to make electrical connections to elongated source and drain regions with longitudinal axes that lie the second direction, where the second direction lies orthogonal to the first direction.
US09583608B2
A nitride semiconductor device of the present invention has a source-electrode-side insulator protection film layer disposed between a source electrode and a drain electrode on a second nitride semiconductor layer and formed at least partially covering the source electrode, a drain-electrode-side insulator protection film layer disposed separately from the source-electrode-side insulator protection film layer and formed at least partially covering the drain electrode, and a gate layer formed in contact with the second nitride semiconductor layer between the source-electrode-side insulator protection film layer and the drain-electrode-side insulator protection film layer and made of a p-type metal oxide semiconductor, and the gate layer has regions opposite to the second nitride semiconductor layer across each of the source-electrode-side insulator protection film layer and the drain-electrode-side insulator protection film layer and a region in contact with the second nitride semiconductor layer.
US09583602B2
Tunneling field effect transistors (TFETs) for CMOS architectures and approaches to fabricating N-type and P-type TFETs are described. For example, a tunneling field effect transistor (TFET) includes a homojunction active region disposed above a substrate. The homojunction active region includes a relaxed Ge or GeSn body having an undoped channel region therein. The homojunction active region also includes doped source and drain regions disposed in the relaxed Ge or GeSn body, on either side of the channel region. The TFET also includes a gate stack disposed on the channel region, between the source and drain regions. The gate stack includes a gate dielectric portion and gate electrode portion.
US09583596B2
An integrated circuit containing a diode with a drift region containing a first dopant type plus scattering centers. An integrated circuit containing a DEMOS transistor with a drift region containing a first dopant type plus scattering centers. A method for designing an integrated circuit containing a DEMOS transistor with a counter doped drift region.
US09583591B2
The present disclosure relates to a method of embedding an ESF3 memory in a HKMG integrated circuit that utilizes a replacement gate technology. The ESF3 memory is formed over a recessed substrate which prevents damage of the memory control gates during the CMP process performed on the ILD layer. An asymmetric isolation zone is also formed in the transition region between the memory cell and the periphery circuit boundary.
US09583588B2
A method includes epitaxially growing a gallium nitride (GaN) layer over a silicon substrate. The method further includes epitaxially growing a donor-supply layer over the GaN layer. The method further includes forming a source and a drain on the donor-supply layer. The method further includes forming a gate structure between the source and the drain on the donor-supply layer. The method further includes plasma etching a portion of a drift region of the donor-supply layer to a depth of less than 60% of a donor-supply layer thickness. The method further includes depositing a dielectric layer over the donor-supply layer.
US09583583B2
A semiconductor device has gate-all-around devices formed in respective regions on a substrate. The gate-all-around devices have nanowires at different levels. The threshold voltage of a gate-all-around device in first region is based on a thickness of an active layer in an adjacent second region. The active layer in the second region may be at substantially a same level as the nanowire in the first region. Thus, the nanowire in the first region may have a thickness based on the thickness of the active layer in the second region, or the thicknesses may be different. When more than one active layer is included, nanowires in different ones of the regions may be disposed at different heights and/or may have different thicknesses.
US09583577B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first nitride semiconductor layer on the substrate, a second nitride semiconductor layer on the first nitride semiconductor layer, a third nitride semiconductor layer on the second nitride semiconductor layer, an electrode on the third nitride semiconductor layer, and an insulating layer under the electrode and between the first nitride semiconductor layer and the second nitride semiconductor layer.
US09583571B2
A semiconductor substrate has a main surface and formed of single crystal silicon carbide. The main surface includes a central area, which is an area other than the area within 5 mm from the outer circumference. When the central area is divided into square areas of 1 mm×1 mm, in any square area, density of dislocations of which Burgers vector is parallel to <0001> direction is at most 1×105 cm−2. Thus, a silicon carbide semiconductor substrate enabling improved yield of semiconductor devices can be provided.
US09583562B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate and a p-doped layer formed on the substrate having a dislocation density exceeding 108 cm−2. An n-type layer is formed on or in the p-doped layer. The n-type layer includes a II-VI material configured to tolerate the dislocation density to form an electronic device with reduced leakage current over a device with a III-V n-type layer.
US09583558B2
A microelectronic device contains a high voltage component having a high voltage node and a low voltage node. The high voltage node is isolated from the low voltage node by a main dielectric between the high voltage node and low voltage elements at a surface of the substrate of the microelectronic device. A lower-bandgap dielectric layer is disposed between the high voltage node and the main dielectric. The lower-bandgap dielectric layer contains at least one sub-layer with a bandgap energy less than a bandgap energy of the main dielectric. The lower-bandgap dielectric layer extends beyond the high voltage node continuously around the high voltage node. The lower-bandgap dielectric layer has an isolation break surrounding the high voltage node at a distance of at least twice the thickness of the lower-bandgap dielectric layer from the high voltage node.
US09583551B2
Embodiments provide an OLED array substrate, a method for fabricating the same, and a display device. The present invention relates to the field of display technology, can decrease resistivity of an electrode, and avoid increase in patterning process. The OLED array substrate comprises an effective pixel display area and a peripheral wiring area. The effective pixel display area comprises a TFT which is arranged on a base plate. The array substrate further comprises a plurality of conductors which are arranged between the base plate and the first electrode; wherein, in the peripheral wiring area, the plurality of conductors are connected with the second electrode.
US09583548B2
Provided are an organic light emitting display (OLED) device and method for manufacturing the same. The OLED device includes: a plurality of gate lines in one direction on a substrate, a plurality of light-shielding patterns corresponding to at least parts of peripheries of the respective pixel regions on the substrate, the light-shielding patterns spaced apart from the gate lines, at least one insulating film covering the substrate, the gate lines, and the light-shielding patterns, a plurality of data lines in another direction crossing the gate lines on the insulating film to define the pixel areas, a passivation film covering the insulating film and the data lines, a plurality of color filters in the pixel areas on the passivation film, an over-coating film evenly covering the passivation film and covering the color filters, and a plurality of organic light emitting elements in the pixel areas on the over-coating film.
US09583545B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a light emitting device in which variations in an emission spectrum depending on a viewing angle with respect to a side from which luminescence is extracted are decreased. A light emitting device according to the invention has a transistor, an insulating layer covering the transistor and a light emitting element provided in an opening of the insulating layer. The transistor and the light emitting element are electronically connected through a connecting portion. Additionally, the connecting portion is connected to the transistor through a contact hole penetrating the insulating layer. Note that the insulating layer may be a single layer or a multilayer in which a plurality of layers including different substances is laminated.
US09583543B2
An organic light emitting device includes an anti-reflection film including a polarizer and a compensation film positioned on the polarizer and including a liquid crystal layer which includes liquid crystals having oriented direction tilting obliquely with respect to a surface of the liquid crystal layer extending in a horizontal direction in a cross sectional view.
US09583530B2
To provide an X-ray detector facilitating the installing and replacement work of a module while reducing the possibility of breakage. An X-ray detector 50 detecting X-ray image data for each detection module includes: a detection module 7 provided with a protruding frame on a back side of a detection device detecting X-rays; and a guide frame 12 fitting into the protruding frame and removably supporting the detection device, wherein the guide frame 12 fixes the position of the detection device relative to the guide frame 12 by fitting. Therefore, fitting the protruding frame 8 into the guide frame 12 enables precise and easy installation/removal of the detection module. That is a detection module can be newly installed onto the guide frame without interfering each other with adjacent detection modules already installed while minimizing a space therebetween.
US09583527B1
An image sensor includes a plurality of photodiodes disposed in a semiconductor material and a floating diffusion disposed in the semiconductor material adjacent to a photodiode in the plurality of photodiodes. A transfer gate is disposed to transfer image charge generated in the photodiode into the floating diffusion. A first electrical contact with a first cross sectional area is coupled to the transfer gate. A second electrical contact with a second cross sectional area is coupled to the floating diffusion, and the second cross sectional area is greater than the first cross sectional area. The image sensor also includes pixel transistor region disposed in the semiconductor material including a first electrical connection to the semiconductor material. A third electrical contact with a third cross sectional area is coupled to the first electrical connection to the semiconductor material, and the third cross sectional area is greater than the first cross sectional area.
US09583524B2
An optical imaging system (e.g., hyperspectral imaging system) is described herein which includes imaging optics, an uni-axial homogenizer (including a rectangular cross-section light pipe and an astigmatic paraxial optic), and a detector. The uni-axial homogenizer is configured to preserve imaging along one axis while homogenizing (removing all image information) along a second perpendicular axis. In one embodiment, the uni-axial homogenizer is utilized in a spectrograph of a hyperspectral imaging system where the rectangular cross-section light pipe replaces the entrance slit of the spectrograph and the astigmatic paraxial optic is built into the design of the spectrometer's optics.
US09583514B2
The present invention relates to a thin film transistor array substrate and a method of manufacturing the same. The thin film transistor array substrate may comprise a substrate which has a plurality of gate lines extending in a column direction along a boundary of pixels, a plurality of data lines extending in a row direction along the boundary of the pixels, and at least one thin film transistor formed in the pixel region; a first insulating film which covers the thin film transistor; a color organic film which is disposed on the first insulating film and has a valley area formed with a valley by partial superimposition of organic films of different colors based on the data lines; a second insulating film which covers the color organic film and the valley area; and a pixel electrode which is disposed on the second insulating film and connected to the thin film transistor via a contact hole, wherein the thin film transistor array substrate is provided with a separating organic film which extends from the color organic film and is disposed between the valley area and the contact hole.
US09583511B2
An array substrate includes: a substrate; a gate connecting line on the substrate in a gate circuit area; a gate insulating layer on the gate connecting line; an active pattern on the gate insulating layer; a source connecting line and a pixel pattern sequentially disposed on the active pattern; an interlayer insulating layer and an organic pattern sequentially disposed on the gate insulating layer; a first passivation layer on the organic pattern; and a conductive pattern on the first passivation layer, the conductive pattern coupled to the gate connecting line and to the pixel pattern.
US09583509B2
An object is to improve reliability of a semiconductor device. A semiconductor device including a driver circuit portion and a display portion (also referred to as a pixel portion) over the same substrate is provided. The driver circuit portion and the display portion include thin film transistors in which a semiconductor layer includes an oxide semiconductor; a first wiring; and a second wiring. The thin film transistors each include a source electrode layer and a drain electrode layer. In the thin film transistor in the driver circuit portion, the semiconductor layer is sandwiched between a gate electrode layer and a conductive layer. The first wiring and the second wiring are electrically connected to each other in an opening provided in a gate insulating film through an oxide conductive layer.
US09583506B2
According to an embodiment, a semiconductor memory device comprises a stacked body, a semiconductor layer, a charge accumulation layer, and a first layer. The stacked body includes a plurality of control gate electrodes stacked above a substrate. The semiconductor layer has one end connected to the substrate and faces the plurality of control gate electrodes. The charge accumulation layer is positioned between the control gate electrode and the semiconductor layer. The first layer is surrounded by the stacked body in a plane parallel to the substrate. Moreover, a width in a first direction parallel to the substrate, of the first layer is larger than a width in the first direction of the semiconductor layer.
US09583500B2
A first stack of alternating layers including first electrically conductive layers and first electrically insulating layers is formed with first stepped surfaces and a first dielectric material portion thereupon. Dielectric pillar structures including a dielectric metal oxide can be formed through the first stepped surfaces. Lower memory openings can be formed, and filled with a disposable material or a lower memory opening structure including a lower semiconductor channel and a doped semiconductor region. At least one dielectric material layer and a second stack of alternating layers including second electrically conductive layers and second electrically insulating layers can be sequentially formed. Upper memory openings can be formed through the second stack and the at least one dielectric material layer. A memory film and a semiconductor channel can be formed after removal of the disposable material, or an upper semiconductor channel can be formed on the doped semiconductor region.
US09583495B2
Provided is a method for fabricating a memory device including forming a stack layer on a substrate, and embedding a plurality of gate pillar structures and a plurality of dielectric pillars in the stack layer. The plurality of gate pillar structures and the plurality of dielectric pillars extend along a same direction and are alternately arranged, so that the stack layer is divided into a plurality of stack structures.
US09583494B2
A memory array includes a first memory column having a first bit line, a first word line and a second bit line. The memory array also includes a second memory column having the second bit line, a second word line and a third bit line. The first memory column and the second memory column are configured to share the second bit line. The sharing of the second bit line facilitates sharing one or more memory array components between the first memory column and the second memory column.
US09583493B2
An embodiment includes an integrated circuit comprising a standard cell, the standard cell comprising: first and second active regions having different conductivity types and extending in a first direction; first, second, and third conductive lines extending over the first and second active regions in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction, and disposed parallel to each other; and a cutting layer extending in the first direction between the first and second active regions and separating the first conductive line into a first upper conductive line and a first lower conductive line, the second conductive line into a second upper conductive line and a second lower conductive line, and the third conductive line into a third upper conductive line and a third lower conductive line; wherein: the first upper conductive line and the third lower conductive line are electrically connected together; and the second upper conductive line and the second lower conductive line are electrically connected together.
US09583492B2
A non-planar semiconductor structure containing semiconductor fins that are isolated from an underlying bulk silicon substrate by an epitaxial semiconductor stack is provided. The epitaxial semiconductor material stack that provides the isolation includes, from bottom to top, a semiconductor punch through stop containing at least one dopant of a conductivity type which differs from the conductivity type of the particular device region that the semiconductor fin is formed in, and a semiconductor diffusion barrier layer containing no n- or p-type dopant.
US09583489B1
A method of forming a semiconductor device comprises forming a first fin on a substrate, depositing an insulator layer on the substrate adjacent to the first fin, removing a first portion of the insulator layer to expose a first portion of a sidewall of the first fin, depositing a layer of spacer material over the first portion of the sidewall of the first fin, removing a second portion of the insulator layer to expose a second portion of the sidewall of the first fin, depositing a first glass layer including a first doping agent over the exposed second portion of the sidewall of the first fin, and performing a first annealing process to drive the first doping agent into the first fin.
US09583485B2
A FinFET device structure is provided. The FinFET device structure includes an isolation structure formed over a substrate and a fin structure formed over the substrate. The FinFET device structure includes a first gate structure and a second gate structure formed over the fin structure, and the first gate structure has a first width in a direction parallel to the fin structure, the second gate structure has a second width in a direction parallel to the fin structure, and the first width is smaller than the second width. The first gate structure includes a first work function layer having a first height. The second gate structure includes a second work function layer having a second height and a gap between the first height and the second height is in a range from about 1 nm to about 6 nm.
US09583483B2
An integrated circuit structure includes a gate stack over a semiconductor substrate, and a silicon germanium region extending into the semiconductor substrate and adjacent to the gate stack. The silicon germanium region has a top surface, with a center portion of the top surface recessed from edge portions of the top surface to form a recess. The edge portions are on opposite sides of the center portion.
US09583482B2
A multi-cell MOSFET device including a MOSFET cell with an integrated Schottky diode is provided. The MOSFET includes n-type source regions formed in p-type well regions which are formed in an n-type drift layer. A p-type body contact region is formed on the periphery of the MOSFET. The source metallization of the device forms a Schottky contact with an n-type semiconductor region adjacent the p-type body contact region of the device. Vias can be formed through a dielectric material covering the source ohmic contacts and/or Schottky region of the device and the source metallization can be formed in the vias. The n-type semiconductor region forming the Schottky contact and/or the n-type source regions can be a single continuous region or a plurality of discontinuous regions alternating with discontinuous p-type body contact regions. The device can be a SiC device. Methods of making the device are also provided.
US09583473B2
Embodiments disclosed in the detailed description include a complete system-on-chip (SOC) solution using monolithic three dimensional (3D) integrated circuit (IC) (3DIC) integration technology. The present disclosure includes example of the ability to customize layers within a monolithic 3DIC and the accompanying short interconnections possible between tiers through monolithic intertier vias (MIV) to create a system on a chip. In particular, different tiers of the 3DIC are constructed to support different functionality and comply with differing design criteria. Thus, the 3DIC can have an analog layer, layers with higher voltage threshold, layers with lower leakage current, layers of different material to implement components that need different base materials and the like. Unlike the stacked dies, the upper layers may be the same size as the lower layers because no external wiring connections are required.
US09583463B2
A semiconductor module includes: a module board, a plurality of chips mounted on the module board, and a plurality of array resistors mounted on the module board, the plurality of array resistors including at least a first array resistor. The first array resistor may include a substrate comprising a top surface, a bottom surface opposite the top surface, and first to fourth side surfaces connecting the top surface to the bottom surface, the first and third side surfaces being opposite each other, and the second and fourth side surfaces being opposite each other; a plurality of first electrodes disposed on the first side surface of the substrate, each first electrode including at least a first portion on the first side surface of the substrate and a second portion on the bottom surface of the substrate; a plurality of second electrodes disposed on the third side surface of the substrate, each second electrode opposite a respective first electrode and including at least a first portion on the third side surface of the substrate and a second portion on the bottom surface of the substrate; for each pair of respective first and second electrodes opposite each other, a resistor disposed on the substrate between the respective first and second electrodes; and at least one third electrode disposed on the second side surface of the substrate, the third electrode including at least a first portion on the second side surface of the substrate and a second portion on the bottom surface of the substrate. Each of the first electrodes, the second electrodes, and the third electrode may be bonded to the module board.
US09583462B2
A semiconductor device may include a first semiconductor die. A passivation layer supports the first semiconductor die. The passivation layer may include a first via having a barrier layer and a first redistribution layer (RDL) conductive interconnect coupled to the first via through the barrier layer. The first via may couple the first semiconductor die to the first RDL conductive interconnect.
US09583461B2
A method includes bonding a first package component on a first surface of a second package component, and probing the first package component and the second package component from a second surface of the second package component. The step of probing is performed by probing through connectors on the second surface of the second package component. The connectors are coupled to the first package component. After the step of probing, a third package component is bonded on the first surface of the second package component.
US09583460B2
Some features pertain to an integrated device that includes a dielectric layer configured as a base for the integrated device, several redistribution metal layers in the dielectric layer, a first wafer level die coupled to a first surface of the dielectric layer, and a second wafer level die coupled to the first wafer level die. The dielectric layer includes several dielectric layers. In some implementations, the first wafer level die is coupled to the redistribution metal layers through a first set of interconnects. In some implementations, the first wafer level die includes several through substrate vias (TSVs). In some implementations, the second wafer level die is coupled to the redistribution metal layers through a first set of interconnects, the TSVs, a second set of interconnects, and a set of solder balls. In some implementations, the integrated device includes an encapsulation layer that encapsulates the first and second wafer level dies.
US09583458B2
A method for bonding a hermetic module to an electrode array including the steps of: providing the electrode array having a flexible substrate with a top surface and a bottom surface and including a plurality of pads in the top surface of the substrate; attaching the hermetic module to the bottom surface of the electrode array, the hermetic module having a plurality of bond-pads wherein each bond-pad is adjacent to the bottom surface of the electrode array and aligns with a respective pad; drill holes through each pad to the corresponding bond-pad; filling each hole with biocompatible conductive ink; forming a rivet on the biocompatible conductive ink over each pad; and overmolding the electrode array with a moisture barrier material.
US09583456B2
Apparatuses relating generally to a substrate are disclosed. In such an apparatus, first wire bond wires (“first wires”) extend from a surface of the substrate. Second wire bond wires (“second wires”) extend from the surface of the substrate. The first wires and the second wires are external to the substrate. The first wires are disposed at least partially within the second wires. The first wires are of a first height. The second wires are of a second height greater than the first height for coupling of at least one electronic component to the first wires at least partially disposed within the second wires.
US09583454B2
A semiconductor die package. The semiconductor die package comprises a semiconductor die and a molded clip structure comprising a clip structure and a first molding material covering at least a portion of the clip structure. The first molding material exposes an outer surface of the clip structure. The clip structure is electrically coupled to the semiconductor die. The semiconductor die package further comprises a leadframe structure comprising a die attach pad and a plurality of leads extending from the die attach pad. The semiconductor die is on the die attach pad of the leadframe structure. A second molding material covers at least a portion of the semiconductor die and the leadframe structure. The semiconductor die package also includes a heat slug and a thermally conductive material coupling the heat slug to the exposed surface of the clip structure.
US09583453B2
Sintering die-attach materials provide a lead-free solution for semiconductor packages with superior electrical, thermal and mechanical performance to prior art alternatives. Wafer-applied sintering materials form a metallurgical bond to both semiconductor die and adherends as well as throughout the die-attach joint and do not remelt at the original process temperature. Application to either one or both sides of the wafer, as well as paste a film application are disclosed.
US09583449B2
A semiconductor package includes a dielectric layer, a plurality of traces, a plurality of electrical pads, a plurality of studs and at least a semiconductor device. The dielectric layer has a first dielectric surface and a second dielectric surface opposite the first dielectric surface. The traces are disposed in the dielectric layer and are exposed on the second dielectric surface. The electrical pads are disposed on the first dielectric surface. The studs are disposed in the dielectric layer and are exposed on the first dielectric surface. The studs are electrically connected to the traces and the electrical pads. The semiconductor device is disposed on the second dielectric surface and electrically connected to the traces.
US09583446B2
A semiconductor device has a first semiconductor die with a shielding layer formed over its back surface. The first semiconductor die is mounted to a carrier. A first insulating layer is formed over the shielding layer. A second semiconductor die is mounted over the first semiconductor die separated by the shielding layer and first insulating layer. A second insulating layer is deposited over the first and second semiconductor die. A first interconnect structure is formed over the second semiconductor die and second insulating layer. A second interconnect structure is formed over the first semiconductor die and second insulating layer. The shielding layer is electrically connected to a low-impedance ground point through a bond wire, RDL, or TSV. The second semiconductor die may also have a shielding layer formed on its back surface. The semiconductor die are bonded through the metal-to-metal shielding layers.
US09583441B2
A conductor provided in an interconnection layer is allowed to have a low resistance. An insulator film is provided over a substrate, and is comprised of SiO(1-x)Nx (where x>0.5 in an XRD analysis result). An interconnection is provided over the insulator film, and includes a first layer and a second layer. The first layer includes at least one of TiN, TaN, WN, and RuN. The second layer is provided over the first layer, and is formed of a material having a resistance lower than the first layer, for example, W.
US09583440B2
A semiconductor memory device can include a first conductive line crossing over a field isolation region and crossing over an active region of the device, where the first conductive line can include a first conductive pattern being doped, a second conductive pattern, and a metal-silicon-nitride pattern between the first and second conductive patterns and can be configured to provide a contact at a lower boundary of the metal-silicon-nitride pattern with the first conductive pattern and configured to provide a diffusion barrier at an upper boundary of the metal-silicon-nitride pattern with the second conductive pattern.
US09583422B2
A lead frame, as one product unit in a multi-row lead frame sharing a partition frame among other lead frames, has a non-mirrorsymmetric pad region and at least one terminal region arranged inside and held to a rectangular outer frame region, which is a part of the partition frame and forms a boundary of the lead frame as a product unit, via respective suspension leads. Only two suspension leads hold the non-mirrorsymmetric pad region to the outer frame region as extending from opposite sides of the outer frame region to the non-mirrorsymmetric pad region, respectively. This structure decreases stress resulting from holding of the non-mirrorsymmetric pad region to the outer frame region and thus can prevent the outer frame region from deformation without widened connecting bars or dambars, which form the outer frame region.
US09583411B2
A method for simultaneously making a plurality of microelectronic packages by forming an electrically conductive redistribution structure along with a plurality of microelectronic element attachment regions on a carrier. The attachment regions being spaced apart from one another and overlying the carrier. The method also including the formation of conductive connector elements between adjacent attachment regions. Each connector element having the first or second end adjacent the carrier and the remaining end at a height of the microelectronic element. The method also includes forming an encapsulation over portions of the connector elements and subsequently singulating the assembly, into microelectronic units, each including a microelectronic element. The surface of the microelectronic unit, opposite the redistribution structure, having both the active face of the microelectronic element and the free ends of the connector elements so that both are available for connection with a component external to the microelectronic unit.
US09583410B2
A volumetric integrated circuit manufacturing method is provided. The method includes assembling a slab element of elongate chips, exposing a wiring layer between adjacent elongate chips of the slab element, metallizing a surface of the slab element at and around the exposed wiring layer to form a metallized surface electrically coupled to the wiring layer and passivating the metallized surface to hermetically seal the metallized surface.
US09583407B2
A first conductor layer is provided on a first surface of an insulating plate, and has a first volume. A second conductor layer is provided on a second surface of the insulating plate, and has a second volume. A third conductor layer is provided on a second surface of the insulating plate, and has a second volume. The third conductor layer has a mounting region thicker than the second conductor layer. The sum of the second and third volumes is greater than or equal to 70% and smaller than or equal to 130% of the first volume. A semiconductor chip is provided on the mounting region. A sealing part is formed of an insulator, and seals the semiconductor chip within a case.
US09583399B1
A semiconductor device includes first channel layers disposed over a substrate, a first source/drain region disposed over the substrate, a gate dielectric layer disposed on and wrapping each of the first channel layers, and a gate electrode layer disposed on the gate dielectric layer and wrapping each of the first channel layers. Each of the first channel layers includes a semiconductor wire made of a first semiconductor material. The semiconductor wire extends into the first source/drain region. The semiconductor wire in the first source/drain regions is wrapped around by a second semiconductor material.
US09583397B1
One aspect of the disclosure relates to a contact within a dielectric layer to a source/drain terminal of a field-effect-transistor (FET). The contact may include: a titanium-tantalum-silicide at a surface of the source/drain terminal; a barrier layer over the titanium-tantalum-silicide; and a metal over the barrier layer and extending to a top surface of the dielectric layer.
US09583378B2
A structure including a first semiconductor material portion and a second semiconductor material portion is provided. An oxygen impermeable hard mask is then formed directly on a surface of the first semiconductor material portion. Next, a silicon germanium layer is epitaxially formed on the second semiconductor material portion, but not the first semiconductor material portion. An oxygen permeable hard mask is then formed over the first and second semiconductor material portions. A thermal condensation process is then performed which converts the second semiconductor material portion into a germanium-containing semiconductor material portion. The oxygen permeable hard mask and the oxygen impermeable hard mask are then removed. A functional gate structure can be formed atop the remaining first semiconductor material portion and the thus formed germanium-containing semiconductor material portion.
US09583377B2
An installation fixture adapted to mount an elastomer band in a mounting groove around a semiconductor substrate support used for supporting a semiconductor substrate in a plasma processing chamber is disclosed, which includes an annular ring having a vertically extending portion on an outer edge of the ring and adapted to receive the elastomer band, and a base plate configured to be attached to the annular ring, the base plate having a plurality of radially extending portions adapted to receive a plurality of mechanical fasteners at locations corresponding to mounting holes in the semiconductor substrate support.
US09583374B2
Described methods and apparatus provide a controlled perturbation to an adhesive bond between a device wafer and a carrier wafer. The controlled perturbation, which can be mechanical, chemical, thermal, or radiative, facilitates the separation of the two wafers without damaging the device wafer. The controlled perturbation initiates a crack either within the adhesive joining the two wafers, at an interface within the adhesive layer (such as between a release layer and the adhesive), or at a wafer/adhesive interface. The crack can then be propagated using any of the foregoing methods, or combinations thereof, used to initiate the crack.
US09583363B2
Apparatus and processes for preparing heterostructures with reduced strain are disclosed. The heterostructures may include a semiconductor structure that conforms to a surface layer having a different crystal lattice constant than the structure to form a relatively low-defect heterostructure.
US09583359B2
Stable aqueous polishing compositions that can selectively polish silicon nitride (SiN) films and nearly stop (or polish at very low rates) on silicon oxide films are provided herein. The compositions comprise an anionic abrasive, a nitride removal rate enhancer containing a carboxyl or carboxylate group, water, and optionally, an anionic polymer. The synergistic combination of anionic (negatively charged) abrasives and the nitride removal rate enhancer provide beneficial charge interactions with the dielectric films during CMP, a high SiN rate and selectivity enhancement (over oxide), and stable colloidal dispersed slurries.
US09583358B2
A hardmask composition may include a solvent and a 2-dimensional carbon nanostructure containing about 0.01 atom % to about 40 atom % of oxygen or a 2-dimensional carbon nanostructure precursor thereof. A content of oxygen in the 2-dimensional carbon nanostructure precursor may be lower than about 0.01 atom % or greater than about 40 atom %. The hardmask composition may be used to form a fine pattern.
US09583357B1
Systems and methods for reverse pulsing are described. One of the methods includes receiving a digital signal having a first state and a second state. The method further includes generating a transformer coupled plasma (TCP) radio frequency (RF) pulsed signal having a high state when the digital signal is in the first state and having a low state when the digital signal is in the second state. The method includes providing the TCP RF pulsed signal to one or more coils of a plasma chamber, generating a bias RF pulsed signal having a low state when the digital signal is in the first state and having a high state when the digital signal is in the second state, and providing the bias RF pulsed signal to a chuck of the plasma chamber.
US09583356B1
A method for forming a semiconductor device structure is provided. The semiconductor device structure includes forming a film over a substrate. The semiconductor device structure includes forming a first mask layer over the film. The semiconductor device structure includes forming a second mask layer over the first mask layer. The second mask layer exposes a first portion of the first mask layer. The semiconductor device structure includes performing a plasma etching and deposition process to remove the first portion of the first mask layer and to form a protection layer over a first sidewall of the second mask layer. The first mask layer exposes a second portion of the film after the plasma etching and deposition process. The semiconductor device structure includes removing the second portion using the first mask layer and the second mask layer as an etching mask.
US09583352B2
A method of operating a wafer processing system includes etching a batch of wafers. The method also includes transferring at least a portion of the batch of wafers to a first front opening universal pod (FOUP). The method further includes purging an interior of the first FOUP with an inert gas. The method additionally includes transporting the first FOUP from a first loading port to a second loading port. The method also includes monitoring an elapsed time from the purging. The method further includes performing a second purging of the interior of the first FOUP if the elapsed time exceeds a threshold time. The method additionally includes cleaning the batch of wafers.
US09583347B2
A manufacturing method for a semiconductor device, the method, comprising forming, on a substrate, a first resist pattern including a plurality of line patterns extending in a predetermined direction, injecting an impurity into the substrate by using the first resist pattern, removing the first resist pattern, forming a second resist pattern including a plurality of second line patterns extending in the predetermined direction, and injecting an impurity into the substrate by using the second resist pattern, wherein, in the forming the second resist pattern, the plurality of second line patterns are respectively formed between places where the adjacent first line patterns are formed.
US09583342B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device having a substantially undoped channel region includes providing a substrate having a fin extending from the substrate. An in-situ doped layer is formed on the fin. By way of example, the in-situ doped layer may include an in-situ doped well region formed by an epitaxial growth process. In some examples, the in-situ doped well region includes an N-well or a P-well region. After formation of the in-situ doped layer on the fin, an undoped layer is formed on the in-situ doped layer, and a gate stack is formed over the undoped layer. The undoped layer may include an undoped channel region formed by an epitaxial growth process. In various examples, a source region and a drain region are formed adjacent to and on either side of the undoped channel region.
US09583337B2
A method of performing an oxygen radical enhanced atomic-layer deposition process on a surface of a substrate that resides within an interior of a reactor chamber is disclosed. The method includes forming an ozone plasma to generate oxygen radicals O*. The method also includes feeding the oxygen radicals and a precursor gas sequentially into the interior of the reactor chamber to form an oxide film on the substrate surface. A system for performing the oxygen radical enhanced atomic-layer deposition process is also disclosed.
US09583336B1
A microelectronic device with a ferroelectric layer is formed using an MOCVD tool. A substrate is disposed on a susceptor heated to 600° C. to 650° C. A first carrier gas is flowed into a manifold to combine with a plurality of metal organic precursors. The first carrier gas, the metal organic precursors, and a second carrier gas, are flowed through a vaporizer into a chamber of the MOCVD tool, over the substrate. A ratio of a flow rate of the first carrier gas to a flow rate of the metal organic precursors is 250 sccm/milliliter/minute to 500 sccm/milliliter/minute. A ratio of a flow rate of the second carrier gas to a flow rate of the metal organic precursors is 700 sccm/milliliter/minute to 1500 sccm/milliliter/minute. An oxidizing gas is flowed into the chamber over the substrate. The metal organic precursors and the oxidizing gas react to form the ferroelectric layer.
US09583324B2
An excessive overshoot preventing unit (16) is connected to a loop in which a command voltage Vf according to a difference between: a voltage obtained by dividing an output voltage Vout as a high voltage; and a control voltage V cont set from the outside is obtained and fed back to each of drive circuits (3 and 5) of a positive voltage generating unit (2) and a negative voltage generating unit (4). The excessive overshoot preventing unit (16) clamps the command voltage Vf at a voltage value according to the control voltage Vcont. An overshoot that occurs in the voltage generating unit (2 or 4) at the time of polarity switching mainly depends on a circuit constant, and hence the amount of overshoot is excessive in the case of a low-voltage output even if the amount of overshoot is optimal in the case of a rated output. To deal with this, in this power unit, the overshoot of the command voltage Vf in suppressed by the excessive overshoot preventing unit (16), and hence the output voltage can be promptly settled to a target voltage even in the case of a low-voltage output.
US09583312B2
A film formation device to conduct a film formation process for a substrate includes a rotating table, a film formation area configured to include a process gas supply part, a plasma processing part, a lower bias electrode provided at a lower side of a position of a height of the substrate on the rotating table, an upper bias electrode arranged at the same position of the height or an upper side of a position of the height, a high-frequency power source part connected to at least one of the lower bias electrode and the upper bias electrode and configured to form a bias electric potential on the substrate in such a manner that the lower bias electrode and the upper bias electrode are capacitively coupled, and an exhaust mechanism.
US09583305B2
An exposure method may include: radiating a charged particle beam in an exposure system comprising a beam generator, radiating the beam, and main and auxiliary deflectors deflecting the beam to determine a position of a beam shot; determining whether a deflection distance from a first position of a latest radiated beam shot to a second position of a subsequent beam shot is within a first distance in a main field area of an exposure target area, the main field area having a size determined by the main deflector; setting a settling time according to the deflection distance so that a settling time of the subsequent beam shot is set to a constant minimum value, greater than zero, when the deflection distance from the first position to the second position is within the first distance; and deflecting the beam using the main deflector based on the set settling time.
US09583272B2
The present invention aims to provide an electrolyte solution for electrochemical devices, which has excellent thermal stability and high decomposition voltage and produces a small amount of evaporation at high temperatures. The present invention also aims to provide an aluminum electrolytic capacitor and an electric double layer capacitor, both of which include the electrolyte solution for electrochemical devices. The present invention relates to an electrolyte solution for electrochemical devices, the electrolyte solution including a solvent and an electrolyte, the solvent containing a sulfone compound represented by the formula (1): wherein R represents a C1-6 alkyl group.
US09583271B1
An electrolytic capacitor comprising an anode comprised of cryogenically milled anode material is described. The cryogenic milling process prepares the active anode material for anode fabrication. The capacitor further comprises a casing of first and second casing members secured to each other to provide an enclosure. A feedthrough electrically insulated from the casing and from the casing and extending there from through a glass-to-metal seal, at least one anode electrically connected within the casing, a cathode, and an electrolyte. The cathode is of a cathode active material deposited on planar faces of the first and second casing members.
US09583267B2
There are provided a multilayer ceramic capacitor and a board having the same. The multilayer ceramic capacitor may include: three external electrodes disposed on a mounting surface of a ceramic body to be spaced apart from each other and connected to lead portions of internal electrodes, wherein an interval between adjacent lead portions is 500.7 μm or less, widths of one-side margin portions of the external electrodes in a length direction of the ceramic body that are not in contact with the corresponding lead portions are 20.2 μm or more.
US09583266B2
There is provided a dielectric ceramic composition including: a major component (a barium titanate-based base material); and a minor component, wherein the dielectric ceramic composition is sintered to form a sintered body having a fine structure, the fine structure includes first crystal grains in which a Ca content is lower than 2.5 mol % and second crystal grains in which a Ca content is between 2.5 mol % to 13.5 mol %, and the second crystal grains have a cross-sectional area ratio of 30% to 80% on the basis of 100% of an overall cross-sectional area of the fine structure.
US09583258B2
A device for limiting current with variable coil impedance includes a choke coil and a cooling device. An additional coil is made of a high-temperature superconducting material and is disposed in the choke coil such that the current is limited by the device without using an iron core.
US09583253B2
Systems and methods for implementing interengagement structures for a ferrite tile assembly of an induction coil housing are described herein. One aspect of the subject matter described in the disclosure is a housing. The housing includes a base forming a receptacle. The housing further includes a ferrite tile assembly. The housing further includes an interengagement structure extending from the base and configured to secure the ferrite tile assembly relative to the base within the receptacle.
US09583251B2
There is provided a chip electronic component including: a magnetic body containing magnetic metal powder particles and a thermosetting resin; an internal coil part embedded in the magnetic body; and a surface protection layer with which a surface of the magnetic body is coated. The surface protection layer may prevent a plating spreading phenomenon occurring on a surface of the chip electronic component at the time of forming external electrodes.
US09583246B2
Fixtureless self-alignment and orientation of components during an assembly process, and self-aligning/self-orienting components for assembly. Self-alignment and self-orientation are provided by integrating complementary spatially-modulated magnetic arrays into components requiring alignment and/or orientation during an assembly process. In addition to providing self-alignment/self-orientation, the spatially-modulated magnetic arrays also provide selective component placement and/or assembly order. Final assembly can involve permanent mechanical or adhesive fasteners.
US09583235B2
A multipair differential signal transmission cable includes a plurality of differential signal transmission cables being bundled and each including two signal conductors as a differential pair covered with an insulation and a first shielding tape conductor provided therearound. The first shielding tape conductor is longitudinally lapped so as to have an overlapping portion in a cable longitudinal direction. The plurality of differential signal transmission cables include at least one or more pairs of two adjacent differential signal transmission cables. The two adjacent differential signal transmission cables are arranged such that the overlapping portion of one of the two adjacent differential signal transmission cables does not face the other of the two adjacent differential signal transmission cables.
US09583231B2
Provided is a carbon nanotube composite electrode having carbon nanotubes which are firmly fixed to an electrode substrate so as to utilize the characteristics of the carbon nanotubes, and having the intrinsic electrode characteristics of carbon nanotubes. The carbon nanotube composite electrode has a surface layer containing a porous oxide material and carbon nanotubes on the surface of the electrode substrate, wherein the carbon nanotubes are generated from the porous oxide material, and at least some of the carbon nanotubes are electrically connected to the electrode substrate. The carbon nanotube composite electrode is firmly fixed to the electrode substrate, and has the intrinsic electrode characteristics of carbon nanotubes, and thus may preferably be used in applications for electrodes and the like in various electronic devices such as electrochemical sensors and batteries.
US09583230B2
The present invention provides an electrically conductive polyethylene resin composition having a stable volume resistance value and in addition, a low-friction property and a wear-resistant property and a resin molding, a sliding bearing, and a sliding sheet made of the electrically conductive polyethylene resin composition. The electrically conductive polyethylene resin composition contains 100 parts by weight of ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene resin which cannot be injection-molded and has a weight average molecular weight of one million to four millions, 2 to 15 parts by weight of Ketjenblack, and 0.5 to 5 parts by weight of at least one powder, having an average particle size of 1 to 30 μm, which is selected from among polytetrafluoroethylene resin powder, graphite powder, and silicone resin powder.
US09583226B2
The cooling duct assembly for a control element drive mechanism (CEDM) includes a skirt that is combined on a circumference of a reactor head and has first air channels in an inner side thereof; a lower duct that is combined with an upper side of the skirt, has second air channels that are connected to the first air channels, and is disposed to surround a circumference of the CEDM; and an upper duct, an edge of which is combined with the cooling air handling device, and other edge of which is detachably combined with the lower duct, wherein air that cools the CEDM is discharged to the outside after sequentially passing the first air channels, the second air channels, the upper duct, and the cooling air handling device, and the upper duct separated from the lower duct is lifted together with the cooling air handling device.
US09583221B2
A pressurized water nuclear reactor (PWR) includes a pressure vessel having a lower portion containing a nuclear reactor core comprising a fissile material and an upper portion defining an internal pressurizer volume. A condenser is secured to, and optionally supported by, the upper portion of the pressure vessel. A condenser inlet is in fluid communication with the internal pressurizer volume. A heat sink is in fluid communication with the condenser such that the condenser operates as a passive heat exchanger to condense steam from the internal pressurizer volume into condensate while rejecting heat to the heat sink. A condenser outlet connects with the pressure vessel to return condensate to the pressure vessel. A single metal forging having a first end welded to the pressure vessel and a second end welded to the condenser inlet may provide the fluid communication between the condenser inlet and the internal pressurizer volume.
US09583219B2
In a repair of a random access memory (RAM), an error information is received, a fail address of the RAM identified, and a one-time programming applied to a portion of the redundancy circuit while a content of the RAM is valid. Optionally, the RAM is a dynamic access RAM (DRAM), a refresh burst is applied to the DRAM, followed by a non-refresh interval, and the one-time programming is performed during the non-refresh interval.
US09583217B2
A decoding method, a memory storage device and a memory control circuit unit are provided, the decoding method includes: reading a plurality of memory cells according to hard decision voltage to obtain hard bit; performing a parity check procedure for the hard bit to obtain a plurality of syndromes; determining whether the hard bit has error according to the syndromes; if the hard bit has the error, updating the hard bit according to channel information of the hard bit and syndrome weight information corresponding to the hard bit.
US09583215B2
A semiconductor memory device is provided which includes memory cells, a first error correction code (ECC) circuit configured to generate at least one selected parity bit corresponding to a selected data bit using an error correction code during a write operation and to correct an error of the selected data bit using the selected parity bit during a read operation, and a test circuit configured to selectively perform at least one of an error correction operation and a redundancy repair operation on at least one of the selected data bit and the selected parity bit based on test mode register set (TMRS) information.
US09583211B1
A column access control circuit for generating column write enable outputs with redundancy steering control and bit write control for an integrated circuit chip, and an integrated circuit chip having the same. A column access control circuit may include: a column write enable driver, a redundancy steering logic, and a bit write controller. The column write enable driver may produce column write enable outputs through an output. The column write enable driver is configured to receive certain column interleave write enable and enable column write according to the column interleave write enable received. The redundancy steering logic is configured to receive one or more fuses and skip a damaged column indicated by a corresponding fuse. The bit write controller is configured to receive one or more bit write and provide bit write control according to the one or more bit write received.
US09583209B1
Various implementations described herein are directed to an integrated circuit having high density memory architecture. The integrated circuit may include a plurality of bank arrays having multiple segments of bitcells configured to share local control. The integrated circuit may include a plurality of control lines coupling the local control to each of the multiple segments of bitcells. In some instances, during activation of a segment of bitcells by the local control via one of the control lines, another segment of bitcells may be deactivated by the local control via another of the control lines.
US09583205B2
In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes determining, by a processor, after the writing of data to a non-volatile memory block, one or more delta threshold voltage shift (TVSΔ) values configured to track temporary changes with respect to changes in the underlying threshold voltage distributions due to retention and/or read disturb errors. One or more overall threshold voltage shift values is calculated for the data written to the non-volatile memory block, the one or more overall threshold voltage shift values being a function of the one or more TVSΔ values to be used when writing data to the non-volatile memory block. The one or more overall threshold voltage shift values are stored.
US09583204B2
A NAND flash memory bank having a plurality of bitlines of a memory array connected to a page buffer, where NAND cell strings connected to the same bitline are formed in at least two well sectors. At least one well sector can be selectively coupled to an erase voltage during an erase operation, such that unselected well sectors are inhibited from receiving the erase voltage. When the area of the well sectors decrease, a corresponding decrease in the capacitance of each well sector results. Accordingly, higher speed erasing of the NAND flash memory cells relative to a single well memory bank is obtained when the charge pump circuit drive capacity remains unchanged. Alternately, a constant erase speed corresponding to a single well memory bank is obtained by matching a well segment having a specific area to a charge pump with reduced drive capacity. A reduced drive capacity charge pump will occupy less semiconductor chip area, thereby reducing cost.
US09583197B2
A nonvolatile memory device includes memory cells stacked in a direction perpendicular to a substrate and further includes a first memory cell string connected between a selected bit line and a selected string selection line, a second memory cell string connected between the selected bit line and an unselected string selection line, and a third memory cell string connected to an unselected bit line. During a bit line setup section of a program operation, a ground voltage is provided to the selected bit line and a power supply voltage provided to the unselected string selection line is changed to the ground voltage.
US09583192B1
The present disclosure relates to content addressable memories (CAM), and more particularly, to a searchable CAM structure having self-reference matchline precharge and local feedback control and method of use. The present disclosure includes a structure which includes: a sense line connected to a sensing device; a feedback line connected to the sense line at a tap point between a first end and a second end of the sense line; and a local precharge controller connected to the tap point by the feedback line to control precharging of the sense line according to a state of the feedback line.
US09583174B1
A semiconductor system may include a first semiconductor device and a second semiconductor device. The first semiconductor device may output command/address signals and receives temperature codes. The second semiconductor device may sense an internal temperature if a combination of the command/address signals is a first combination, generate and output the temperature codes having a combination corresponding to the internal temperature if a combination of the command/address signals is a second combination, and adjust a period of the temperature codes in accordance with a temperature section of the internal temperature.
US09583172B1
A self-refresh control device may be provided. The self-refresh control device may include a refresh signal output circuit configured to generate self-refresh signals with an oscillator and provide a refresh signal. The self-refresh control device may begin a self-refresh mode in response to a clock enable signal and a self-refresh signal within a self-refresh entry period, and may prevent performance of a new self-refresh operation by delaying an additional self-refresh signal until after the self-refresh entry period has ended.
US09583164B2
A system uses both MOS-based and bipolar-based decoding circuitry in an address decoder for MOS-based memory. The system includes a MOS-based memory, which includes an array of a plurality of memory cells configured to store data, and an address decoder including MOS-based circuitry and bipolar logic circuitry. The address decoder is configured to accept a word comprising a plurality of bits and access the array of memory cells using the word.
US09583161B1
A memory apparatus includes a first memory bank, a second memory bank, a row decoder and repair circuit, and an input/output driver controller. The row decoder and repair circuit is coupled to the first and second memory banks in common. The row decoder and repair circuit generates a shared repair signal according to whether a word line disposed in a first memory bank is replaced with a word line disposed in a second memory bank. The input/output driver controller allows read or write operations for one of the first and second memory banks to be performed based on the shared repair signal and an operation signal.
US09583149B2
Exemplary embodiments of systems and methods are provided for automatically creating time-based video metadata for a video source and a video playback mechanism. An automated logging process can be provided for receiving a digital video stream, analyzing one or more frames of the digital video stream, extracting a time from each of the one or more frames analyzed, and creating a clock index file associating a time with each of the one or more analyzed frames. The process can further provide for parsing one or more received data files, extracting time-based metadata from the one or more parsed data files, and determining a frame of the digital video stream that correlates to the extracted time based metadata.
US09583147B2
Systems for, and methods of, displaying video information comprising: a second screen device obtaining current play position data of a video being played on a primary screen device (e.g., obtaining from the primary screen device an identification of a current play position of the video, or obtaining information to generate an acoustic fingerprint of the video); determining a current play position of the video playing on the primary screen device based upon the current play position data (e.g., identification of the current play position or the acoustic fingerprint); downloading information (e.g., video map, subtitles, moral principles, objectionable content, memorable content, performers, geographical maps, shopping, plot point, item, ratings, and trivia information) over a computer communications network into the memory of the second screen device; and displaying information on the second screen device synchronized with the contemporaneously played video on the primary screen device.
US09583144B2
A system and method for creating a sports video may include receiving video of a sporting event inclusive of players with unique identifiers on their respective uniforms. At least one unique identifier of the players in the video may be identified. Video segments may be defined from the video inclusive of the at least one unique identifier. Video segments inclusive of the at least one unique identifier may be caused to be individually available for replay.
US09583143B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can initiate a video capture mode that provides a camera view. A touch gesture can be detected via a touch display. A drawing can be rendered based on the touch gesture. The drawing can be rendered to appear to overlay the camera view. A first video image frame can be acquired based on the camera view. At least a portion of the first video image frame and the drawing can be combined to produce a first combined frame. The drawing can appear to overlay the first video image frame. The first combined frame can be stored in a video buffer.
US09583138B2
An accessor includes a main body unit configured to convey a recording medium in a first direction, the main body unit being attached to a housing of a library device to be movable in the first direction, a picker configured to convey the recording medium in a second direction intersecting with the first direction, the picker being mounted on the main body unit to be movable in the second direction, and a cleaner mounted on a surface of the picker along the second direction.
US09583131B1
According to one embodiment, there is provided a magnetic disk device including a magnetic disk, a magnetic head, and a controller. The magnetic head is opposite the magnetic disk. The magnetic head includes a first read head and a second read head. The controller determines a track pitch in the vicinity of a first track or a second track adjacent to the first track of the magnetic disk based on first position information and second position information. The first position information depends on a servo signal read by the first read head and corresponds to the first track. The second position information depends on a servo signal read by the second read head and corresponds to the second track.
US09583127B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for provisioning storage devices. An example method includes determining a write status of an adjacent track that is adjacent to a target track of a shingled magnetic recording (SMR) disk drive. The method may further include determining an offset for a write head based on the write status of the adjacent track and positioning the write head according to the offset.
US09583125B1
A stainless steel suspension component such as a mount plate is chemically activated by exposure to an activating solution. Gold is then spot plated onto the mount plate in the activated area using an elastomeric mask that is clamped over the mount plate. A component may then be bonded to the gold bond pads. The component may include a PZT microactuator bonded to the gold bond pads using a conductive adhesive such as silver epoxy. The gold acts as an interface metal that provides to a low resistance and environmentally robust ground path for the microactuator.
US09583120B2
Disclosed herein is a noise cancellation apparatus and method, which select in advance parameters to be used for noise cancellation in a reference voice signal section by generating a reference voice signal in advance before a voice signal is generated, thus improving noise cancellation effects. The noise cancellation apparatus includes a parameter initialization unit for determining an initial value of a parameter to be used for noise cancellation, based on reference signals filtered for respective frequencies, a parameter estimation unit for receiving the initial value of the parameter, and estimating the parameter in response to signals that are input after being filtered for respective frequencies, a gain estimation unit for calculating gains for respective frequencies based on the parameter from the parameter estimation unit, and a gain application unit for cancelling noise by applying the gains to the signals that are input after being filtered for respective frequencies.
US09583115B2
The present disclosure provides techniques for adjusting a temporal gain parameter and for adjusting linear prediction coefficients. A value of the temporal gain parameter may be based on a comparison of a synthesized high-band portion of an audio signal to a high-band portion of the audio signal. If a signal characteristic of an upper frequency range of the high-band portion satisfies a first threshold, the temporal gain parameter may be adjusted. A linear prediction (LP) gain may be determined based on an LP gain operation that uses a first value for an LP order. The LP gain may be associated with an energy level of an LP synthesis filter. The LP order may be reduced if the LP gain satisfies a second threshold.
US09583112B2
The present invention relates to a signal processing apparatus and a signal processing method, an encoder and an encoding method, a decoder and a decoding method, and a program capable of reproducing music signal having a better sound quality by expansion of frequency band.A sampling frequency conversion unit converts a sampling frequency of an input signal, and a sub-band division circuit divides the input signal after the sampling conversion into sub-band signals of sub-bands having the number corresponding to the sampling frequency.A pseudo high band sub-band power calculation circuit calculates pseudo high band sub-band powers based on low band signals of the input signal and coefficient tables having coefficients for the respective high band sub-bands. A pseudo high band sub-band power difference calculation circuit compares high band sub-band powers and the pseudo high band sub-band powers to each other and selects a coefficient table from plural coefficient tables. In addition, a coefficient index which specifies the coefficient table is encoded and set as high band encoded data. The present invention can be applied to an encoder.
US09583100B2
A method of providing hands-free services using a mobile device having wireless access to computer-based services includes receiving speech in a vehicle from a vehicle occupant; recording the speech using a mobile device; transmitting the recorded speech from the mobile device to a cloud speech service; receiving automatic speech recognition (ASR) results from the cloud speech service at the mobile device; and comparing the recorded speech with the received ASR results at the mobile device to identify one or more error conditions.
US09583095B2
A speech recognition unit (102) includes a phrase determination unit (103) which determines a phrase boundary based on the comparison between the hypothetical word group generated by speech recognition and set words representing phrase boundaries. In this speech processing device, the speech recognition unit (102) outputs recognition results for each phrase based on a phrase boundary determined by the phrase determination unit (103).
US09583093B2
A sound deflector apparatus having mutually coextensive tab and wall portions, the tab portion mounted to an area of an electronic device adjacent the speaker outlet(s), and the wall portion having a curvilinear segment or bend directing sound waves toward the listener(s) viewing programming on a flat-screen television, monitor, smart device, and/or similar electronic devices with such speaker outlet configurations.
US09583092B2
Sound reflectors for an electronic device are provided. In one embodiment, the sound reflector has a sound redirecting surface having two curvatures. The first concave curvature is in one plane and the second curvature is in another plane, and the first and second curvature's planes are in obtuse angle with each other. In other embodiments, the sound reflector has a device attachment surface configured to attach to a back of the display device, which the sound reflector is coupled with, and a sound redirecting surface. The sound redirecting surface has a proximal portion that extends backwards relative to the device attachment surface, and a distal portion that extends forward relative to the attachment surface. The sound redirecting surface is disposed to directly receive sound emanating from the speaker.
US09583088B1
Apparatus and associated methods relate to training FIR filter coefficients by deconvolving a first input signal and a second input signal in the frequency domain, both of the signals being generated in response to an undetermined broadband excitation applied to an acoustic body instrument, until a fidelity of the second signal convolved with the trained coefficients meets predetermined fidelity criteria relative to the first signal. In an illustrative example, a musical instrument pickup signal and a microphone signal from the musical instrument may be sampled, segmented, and transformed to the frequency domain. FIR filter coefficients may be, for example, trained by block deconvolution in the frequency domain of the microphone signal and the pickup signal. In various examples, the trained FIR filter coefficients may adapt the pickup signal to mimic microphone performance, including full-body acoustic content.
US09583079B2
A silencer for a wind instrument includes a hollow pipe whose one end is closed and serves as a closed end. The pipe includes an outer wall having at least one of at least one recessed portion and at least one protruding portion on a portion of the outer wall near the closed end.
US09583068B2
An image display apparatus includes a display unit configured to display an image, an information acquisition unit configured to extract a target image and a comparison image, to cut first and second regions from the extracted target image, to cut third and fourth regions from the extracted comparison image, and to obtain an image feature quantity of each of the first to fourth regions, a comparison unit configured to perform comparison of the image feature quantities of the first region and the third region, and to perform comparison of the image feature quantities of the second region and the fourth region, and a feature quantity setting unit configured to perform weighting to the first region and the second region based on the comparison result of the comparison unit, and to obtain an image feature quantity of the entire target image based on the result of weighting.
US09583063B2
A scan line to which a selection signal or a non-selection signal is input from its end, and a transistor in which a clock signal is input to a gate, the non-selection signal is input to a source, and a drain is connected to the scan line are provided. A signal input to the end of the scan line is switched from the selection signal to the non-selection signal at the same or substantially the same time as the transistor is turned on. The non-selection signal is input not only from one end but also from both ends of the scan line. This makes it possible to inhibit the potentials of portions in the scan line from being changed at different times.
US09583060B2
A low-resolution image is displayed at higher resolution and afterimages are reduced. Resolution is made higher by super-resolution processing. In this case, the super-resolution processing is performed after frame interpolation processing is performed. Further, in that case, the super-resolution processing is performed using a plurality of processing systems. Therefore, even when frame frequency is made higher, the super-resolution processing can be performed at high speed. Further, since frame rate doubling is performed by the frame interpolation processing, afterimages can be reduced.
US09583048B2
A light guide plate, a dual-view backlight module having the light guide plate and a dual-view display device having the dual-view backlight module are provided. A lower surface of the light guide plate includes at least one V-shaped groove configured to reflect a light ray, which is incident onto the lower surface of the light guide plate from sides thereof, onto an upper surface of the light guide plate by sides of the at least one V-shaped groove, the reflected light ray leaving the light guide plate from the upper surface thereof. The V-shaped groove on the light guide plate refracts the light from the two sides of the V-shaped groove, so that the light leaving the upper surface of the light guide plate can form dual-view backlight with a good brightness enhancement effect and a dual-view display having a high brightness can be manufactured.
US09583045B2
A display control circuit is capable of adjusting backlight intensity according to image content as well as compensating pixel values of frames for power saving and distortion reduction. The display control circuit includes a threshold determining circuit, a pulse width modulation (PWM) control circuit and a pixel value adjusting circuit. The threshold determining circuit determines a threshold according to a reference value by histogramming a to-be-displayed frame. The threshold is smaller than an upper limit of the pixel values, and a proportion of the number of pixel values between the threshold and the upper limit which occupy a total pixel number is lower than the reference value. The PWM control circuit generates a PWM signal for controlling a backlight luminance according to the threshold. The pixel value adjusting circuit adjusts the values of the pixels according to the threshold.
US09583044B2
An organic light emitting display device includes a display panel including red sub-pixels, green sub-pixels, first blue sub-pixels, and second blue sub-pixels. A data drive unit receives an image signal and outputs a plurality of data output signals. A demultiplexer distributes the data signals to the red sub-pixels, the green sub-pixels and either the first blue sub-pixels or both the first and second blue sub-pixels in response a drive selection signal. A control unit processes raw image data and provides an image signal to the data drive unit, and detects image data belonging to a first color gamut and a second color gamut from the image data, determines a first blue drive area belonging to the first color gamut and a mixed drive area belonging to the second color gamut, and provides the appropriate selection signal to the demultiplexer to increase efficiency and extend useful life of the display.
US09583035B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus for generating images on a multi-primary display. A multi-primary display can include control logic that converts input image data into the multi-primary color space employed by the display by mapping the input pixel values into an intermediate color space according to a gamut mapping function and then decomposing the mapped pixel values into color subfields associated with the display's primary colors. The control logic can be configured to identify a lossy gamut mapping saturation parameter value to use in the gamut mapping process which results in a power-saving desaturated image that is perceived by the Human Visual System (HVS) as substantially maintaining its color fidelity.
US09583034B2
A subpixel arrangement structure for a display device includes a plurality of unit pixels each having a red subpixel, a green subpixel, and a blue subpixel. The red, green, and blue subpixels form a delta arrangement. Green subpixels are disposed on a plurality of first subpixel arrangement lines, each of which extends along a direction of a first axis. Two red subpixels and two blue subpixels are alternately disposed along the first axis direction on a plurality of second subpixel arrangement lines. Each of the plurality of second subpixel arrangement lines is positioned between every two of the plurality of first subpixel arrangement lines and extends along the first axis direction.
US09583024B2
Disclosed is a magnification device for use by blind and/or low vision individuals. The device includes an X-Y table upon which an item to be magnified can be placed. A stationary camera arm and a pivotal monitor arm are oriented over the X-Y table. The monitor arm includes a video monitor pivotally mounted at its distal end. The camera arm also includes two laterally disposed lighting arms. A series of controls are provided along a lower edge of the monitor via a mounting bracket.
US09583022B2
An apparatus for teaching fine motor skills to a special needs student. The apparatus has a plurality of different personal life-skills training tools that more accurately replicate the skill encountered in real life. When the apparatus is arranged in its primary orientation and rests against the student's body, the life-skills training tools replicate the orientation of the objects relative to the orientation encountered by the student in real life. The apparatus includes a configurable platform having a plurality of walls. A plurality of hinges pivotally connect each wall with at least one other wall. The walls of the platform can be oriented and arranged in at least a first configuration forming a housing enclosing the training tools, and a second configuration wherein all of the walls are coplanar. The walls can also be oriented and arranged in at least a third configuration wherein none of the walls are coplanar.
US09583021B2
Provided herein is a device (and associated method of using the device) to aid and educate a child in blowing their nose. The device comprises a pinwheel assembly, which is positioned under the child's nostrils such that air expelled from the nostrils will turn the blades of the pinwheel. The device optionally comprises a pacifier, which is configured such that when the nipple of the pacifier is in the child's mouth, the pinwheel assembly is positioned such that air expelled from the child's nostrils will turn the blades of the pinwheel assembly. Other configurations include cups, which encircle the child's mouth, and handles which aid in the proper positioning of the device.
US09583019B1
An aircraft simulation system comprising a user interface and a simulator in communication with the user interface. The user interface is configured to interact with an operator. The simulator is configured to generate a representation of controls in an aircraft that are visible from a current field of view identified by the user interface. The simulator is further configured to display the representation of the controls on the user interface. The simulator is further configured to identify interaction by the operator with the controls from user input received by the user interface. The simulator is further configured to record a sequence of performed operations from the interaction with the controls.
US09583017B2
A system for determining vehicle driver hazard detection proficiency and calculating insurance discounts, the system comprising: an Internet device that presents to an Internet user a visual presentation of a continuous drive through a driving environment comprising at least two hazard modules, wherein each hazard module presents to the Internet user at least one driving scenario that comprises at least one hazard; an Internet device that records user viewing locations within the visual presentation, the user viewing locations corresponding to locations within the visual presentation that are viewed by the user during the visual presentation of the continuous drive; a computer analytics device comprising an algorithm that compares the recorded user viewing locations with defined locations of hazards within the visual presentation of the continuous drive, and determines a hazard detection proficiency of the user based at least on the comparison; a computer memory device comprising at least one minimum hazard detection proficiency criteria corresponding to an insurance discount; and a computer analytics device that compares the determined hazard detection proficiency of the user with the minimum hazard detection proficiency criteria and determines whether to award the insurance discount to the user.
US09583016B2
A method and apparatus for facilitating interaction in a learning environment is provided. Based on the subject matter that a student is working on, another student is selected for interaction with the student.
US09583015B2
An educational evidence and evaluation system for generating media files and context parameters and linking the media files and context parameters to education profiles during evaluation of a subject is disclosed. An example educational evidence and evaluation system comprises a capture engine that captures two media files, a context engine that tags the media files with context parameters, and a linking engine that links the media files and their tagged context parameters to an education profiles of a subject, wherein the evaluation engine links a first media file and its first context parameter to the education profile of a first subject before the capture engine captures a second media file.
US09583014B2
A system and device for welding training. In one example, a welding training system includes a position detecting system configured to detect a distance between the position detecting system and objects within a field of view of the position detecting system, and to produce a map corresponding to the objects. The welding training system also includes a markers configured to be coupled to a device of the welding training system. Furthermore, the markers are configured to be detected by the position detecting system.
US09583011B2
A system of an aircraft for signaling the presence of an obstacle during visual flight, which system includes at least one onboard unit to be installed in an aircraft to be equipped, which onboard unit includes an onboard database that stores at least one obstacle to be avoided during flight. The onboard unit includes an interface to be installed in the aircraft and whose function is to authorize the addition and the deletion of obstacles in the onboard database, with the interface being in communication with the onboard database.
US09583000B2
A travel reporter system is used to report abnormal travel events. In use, a sensor mounted on a vehicle obtains real-time data about an object near the vehicle. The object has an object type which is identified by processing the real-time data with an object recognition subsystem of the travel reporter system. An event evaluation subsystem of the travel reporter system processes the real-time data and the object type in order to determine that the object is associated with an abnormal travel event. The abnormal travel event has an event type which is processed by an event notification subsystem of the travel reporter system in order to select a first information consumer type. The event notification subsystem reports the abnormal travel event to information consumers having the first information consumer type.
US09582995B2
In a dental operatory system a master device coordinates the activity levels of multiple slave devices. The master device coordinates activity via a communication link with all slave devices. A communication protocol incorporates a closed system addresses scheme in which the master device learns all associated addresses of slave devices, and all slave devices learn all associated addresses of the master device. Each communication between master device and any slave device includes both the master device address and the slave device address. The master device scans all slave devices for an activity status and determines which slave device exhibits a threshold level of activity, and whether activity is increasing or decreasing. The master device passes a communication control token to the slave device to be controlled by operation of the master device.
US09582991B2
A remote control system may be for a vehicle including a data communications bus extending throughout the vehicle and connecting vehicle devices. The vehicle devices may be operable with a given set of vehicle device codes from among different sets thereof for different vehicles. A vehicle controller that is responsive to a remote transmitter may include a controller data link interface. A data bus adaptor may store the given set of vehicle device codes and include an adaptor data link interface cooperating with the controller data link interface to provide a communication link for adapting the vehicle controller to communicate with a vehicle device via the data communications bus. The data bus adaptor may be operable based upon a set of adaptor codes from among different sets thereof. The vehicle controller may include a controller download interface for downloading the set of adaptor codes to operate the data bus adaptor.
US09582990B2
A handheld electronic apparatus, a remote control method, a home appliance system and a home appliance apparatus are disclosed. The handheld electronic apparatus comprises a network module, an orientation sensor, a touch display and a processor. The network module receives a broadcast packet, which comprises a home appliance orientation and a controllable function of the home appliance apparatus and is outputted from the home appliance apparatus. The orientation sensor provides the remote control orientation of the handheld electronic apparatus. The processor relates the controllable function to a touch gesture of the touch display, and determines whether the home appliance apparatus is a controlled apparatus according to the home appliance orientation and the remote control orientation. When the home appliance apparatus is the controlled apparatus, and the touch display receives the touch gesture, the remote control home appliance apparatus executes the controllable function.
US09582978B2
Methods, computer systems, and computer-storage medium are provided for managing patient alerts using a mobile device. A mobile device associated with a patient caregiver receives a critical alert related to the patient, and the alert is presented on the mobile device. The alert includes important contextual information that enables the caregiver to make a quick assessment of how to effectively address the alert. The alert includes options for accepting the alert or rejecting the alert. Acceptance of the alert enables the caregiver to communicate the alert to selected caregivers that can assist in managing the alert. Rejecting the alert causes the alert to be automatically communicated to additional caregivers associated with patient.
US09582972B2
METHOD FOR BANK EQUIPMENT REINFORCEMENT AND FIXATION THROUGH AN ANCHORAGE BASE”, which is intended for the reinforcement and clamping of ATMS and “Cash Dispensers” type equipment, being characterized by envisioning the installation of jackets (1) in the equipment, being that the jackets (1) are protective plates installed in the safes, being basically composed by a box (2) made of metal plate, having material layers in its internal part having the objective to provide resistance against burglary, being the first layer of material contained in the box (2) forming the jacket (1) a chemical compound (3) providing resistance against the effects of a blow torch while the second layer is preferably produced with concrete (4), providing mechanical strength to the parts; the chemical protection which constitutes the layer (3) is, essentially, a flammable compound, preferably containing bitumen, pitch and sulfur at duly specified layer amounts and thicknesses; in its turn, layer (4), which constitutes the mechanical protection is preferably obtained with reinforced concrete containing cement, aluminum oxide with a number of granulations and steel stretched wires, at the specified amounts.
US09582970B2
Systems and methods for providing games, such as wagering games, that include game features, such as symbols, that may be temporarily replaced or modified by player provided elements, if desired, wherein the player provided elements may function in the same manner as the symbols in one or more rounds of the game.
US09582968B2
A method of activating a lottery ticket at a mobile device, comprising: performing the following to a mobile device side: acquiring, by a camera of the mobile device, an image of a lottery ticket having an identification code and a visual security means; sending the identification code to a main server; receiving instructions to manipulate an interactive three-dimensional presentation from the main server; augmenting the interactive three-dimensional presentation in an image sequence imaging the lottery ticket, the image sequence is currently captured by the camera and displayed by the mobile device; receiving input from a user interacting with the interactive three-dimensional presentation using user interface of the mobile device; and manipulating the interactive three-dimensional presentation according to the instructions and in response to processing the input.
US09582961B2
A method of playing a wagering game that comprises the player making multiple wagers to play a single-outcome game, the multiple wagers being made on multiple predetermined paytables for said game. One single-outcome game and at least two differing paytables for said game are offered to the player. The paytables may be for different game versions or for a single game version with differing risk levels. The payback percentage of each of the said differing paytables may vary according to the amount of the wager. The player makes one wager for each predetermined paytable to be utilized in the resolve of the wagers. Multiple same paytables, multiple differing paytables or combinations thereof may be wagered for the play of a single game having a single outcome. The said single outcome is then compared to each wagered predetermined paytable, and each wager is resolved according to that same wagered predetermined paytable.
US09582959B2
A reflection structure configured to be disposed on a light guide body that guides a light beam incident from a light source and causes the light beam to exit from a light emitting area set in a light exit surface, having a reflection surface that reflects the light beam emitted from the light source toward the light emitting area. When the reflection structure is viewed from a direction perpendicular to the light exit surface, a pointed end is arranged in a direction orthogonal to a traveling direction of the reflected light beam, and an angle formed between the traveling direction of the reflected light beam and a normal direction of an end edge of the reflection surface connected to the pointed end is less than or equal to −38.327x2+152.3x−94.014, wherein x is a refractive index of the light guide body.
US09582956B2
A tablet division feeder includes a moving unit to move a tablet T, a fixing blade located in a movement path of the tablet T, and a support plate extending from the fixing blade such that divided tablets T2 on the fixing blade are transferred and kept onto the support plate. The fixing blade divides the tablet T into upper and lower divided tablets as the tablet T is moved in such a manner that the lower divided tablet T1 is discharged and the upper divided tablet T2 is transferred from the fixing blade to the support plate by the moving unit and kept on the support plate. The upper divided tablet T2 is discharged from the support plate as the upper divided tablet T2 is further moved by the moving unit in such a manner that the upper divided tablet T2 is discharged from the moving unit.
US09582955B2
The invention relates to a method 30 for managing at least one processing relating to an application supported or to be supported by a token. The token comprises means for processing data, means for storing data and means for communicating with outside.According to the invention, the method comprises steps in which at least one token user is required to give or not to give her/his authorization 38 before executing the at least one processing relating to an application supported or to be supported by the token; and the token verifies 316 whether the at least one token user gives or does not give her/his authorization.The invention relates also to a corresponding token likely to cooperate with a terminal.
US09582948B2
A biometric system comprises an identity proving system with a non-volatile memory for storing biometric verification data for a biometric feature of an individual. The biometric system also includes a first body coupled communication interface configured to transmit the biometric verification data via body coupled communication along or through the body of the individual to a second body coupled communication interface. The biometric system further includes an identity verification system comprising a biometric reader configured to measure the biometric feature of the individual to obtain biometric data. The second body coupled communication interface is configured to receive the biometric verification data via the body coupled communication along or through the body of the individual. The biometric reader is arranged so that the second body coupled communication interface is in contact or close proximity to the individual during measurement of the biometric feature by the biometric reader to allow the receiving, and a biometric data verifier configured to verify the obtained biometric data against the biometric verification data.
US09582943B1
Driving data are collected from a vehicle by a device. The device comprises a vehicle interface for interfacing with an on-board diagnostics system of a vehicle and retrieving vehicle parameters of the vehicle from the on-board diagnostics system. The retrieved vehicle parameters include a vehicle identification parameter and driving parameters. The device includes a processor configured to identify the vehicle based on the vehicle identification parameter and determine data describing how the vehicle is driven based on the retrieved vehicle parameters. The device also includes an output interface configured to output the determined data.
US09582937B2
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for displaying an indication of an object when location information associated with the object describes a location within the current field of view of an imaging device. The indication of the object can be displayed within a map image, live image, etc., when the location information associated with the object describes a location within the current field of view of an imaging device.
US09582921B1
In one embodiment, a method includes distributing rendering tasks to connected client nodes having capable graphics processing units by transmitting viewport state data objects and a unique spatial location to each of the clients, performing path tracing at each of the clients from the starting point of their unique spatial locations, and transmitting their rendered output back to the server. The server generates a composite rendered output from the individual rendered outputs received by the participating clients, and then transmits the composite to all connected clients for display. Thus, as the number of client nodes increases, the scene is rendered more rapidly and at higher quality. In particular embodiments, the rendered output is a lightmap representing the diffuse lighting for the scene, and each client may render the scene's specular highlights from its own viewport.
US09582912B2
Device for aiding the production of a mesh, includes storing first numerical data defining a surface to be processed, a partitioner calculating three-dimensional work cells given initial points, each work cell associated with a point in space, a tiling tool actuating the partitioner with a first set of initial points, defined with respect to the surface, so as to obtain a first set of work cells, an evaluator calculating a cumulative quantity representing the sum of the moments of the points of the work cells with respect to their associated points, and an optimizer iteratively actuating the tiling tool and the evaluator with a set of initial points drawn from the previous sets, according to a rule calculated to minimize said cumulative quantity. The moments are determined by a chosen nonnative function, of order higher than or equal to two and/or according to an adaptation matrix representing an anisotropy field.
US09582911B2
Systems and methods for generating one or more graphs corresponding to a data set are included. A computing system may receive user input data indicating a data set, the data set including one or more variables. Variable selection data indicating a subset of the one or more variables included in the data set may be obtained for the data set. An electronic representation of a graph selection structure may be generated based on the variable selection data. One or more graphs may be generated using the graph selection structure.
US09582908B2
A method for presenting detailed information for an item within overview information on a display screen, comprising: displaying a first presentation of the overview information on the display screen, the overview information being presented on one or more lines of a grid; receiving a signal selecting the item from the first presentation; generating a second presentation by displacing the overview information at least partially away from a region in the first presentation and inserting the detailed information for the item into the region, wherein the overview information remains at least partially visible in the second presentation to provide context for the detailed information in the region, wherein the displacing displaces the one or more lines of the grid away from the region without distorting the lines, and wherein the inserting inserts one or more additional lines into the grid in the region upon which the detailed information is presented; and, displaying the second presentation on the display screen.
US09582902B2
Among other things, methods, systems and computer program products are disclosed for managing image files. In one aspect, a method includes displaying, at a data processing device, a preview of images available for import from a storage device, wherein each image is associated with a pair of corresponding image files comprising a compressed image file and a raw image file obtained from a single image capture. At the data processing device, both the raw image file and the compressed image file of the pair associated with at least one of the images are imported. At the data processing device, at least one of the pair of corresponding image files is identified as a master image file for the associated image. At the data processing device, the identified master image file for the associated captured image is displayed.
US09582901B2
Systems and methods are discussed to separate the specular reflectivity and/or the diffuse reflectivity from an input image. Embodiments of the invention can be used to determine the specular chromaticity by iteratively solving one or more objective functions. An objective function can include functions that take into account the smooth gradient of the specular chromaticity. An objective function can take into account the interior chromatic homogeneity of the diffuse chromaticity and/or the sharp changes between chromaticity. Embodiments of the invention can also be used to determine the specular chromaticity of an image using a pseudo specular-free image that is calculated from the input image and a dark channel image that can be used to iteratively solve an objective function(s).
US09582898B2
An electronic device comprises a computing module and a storing module. The computing module receives a first image having a first region with two spots, determining whether a first interval between the spots of the first region is larger than a threshold, computing the first image with a parameter of a parameter set for obtaining a second image having a second region corresponding to the first region with two spots if the first interval is larger than the threshold, and determining whether a second interval between the spots of the second region is larger than the threshold. The storing module records the parameter, if the second interval is smaller than or equal to the threshold.
US09582894B2
Method for analyzing the beating of a derived human cardiomyocyte (CM) includes obtaining the derived human CM, capturing a sequence of images depicting the derived human CM over an analysis period, and determining at least one signal descriptive of the beating of the derived human CM during the analysis period on basis of the sequence of captured images. Apparatuses, and a computer program for analyzing the beating of a derived human CM are configured to obtain: the sequence of images depicting the derived human CM over an analysis period, information indicative of the region of the images depicting the derived human CM, information indicative of two or more sub-regions within the region, and determine two or more signals characterizing the displacement within the region of images depicting the derived human cardiomyocyte, each signal characterizing the extent of displacement within a respective sub-region of the region as a function of time.
US09582892B2
A radiation imaging apparatus comprising: an image capture unit capturing a radiation image; a first decision unit deciding, as a first region of interest, a region of interest from a region of a first radiation image; a first extraction unit extracting the first region of interest from the first radiation image; a form decision unit deciding a first form from the first region of interest; a first display unit enlarging and displaying the first region of interest; a first search unit searching a region of a second radiation image for a second form similar to the first form; a second decision unit deciding a second region of interest from the second radiation image so as to include the second form; a second extraction unit extracting the second region of interest from the second radiation image; and a second display unit enlarging and displaying the second region of interest.
US09582884B2
Image processor, treatment system, and image processing method for determining a position of a point
According to an image processor of one embodiment, a first acquirer acquires a first perspective image of a target, which has a first resolution. A second acquirer acquires a second perspective image of the target, which has a second resolution. A first image generator generates first and second display images respectively from the first and second perspective images. The first and third display images have a third resolution lower than at least one of the first and second resolutions. A first point acquirer acquires first and second corresponding points respectively on the first and second display images. A first corrector searches, on the second perspective image, a second image similar to a first image on the first perspective image, the first image including the first corresponding point, and changes, on the second perspective image, a position of the second corresponding point to a position of the second image.
US09582869B2
Methods and systems for generating a defect sample for a wafer are provided. One method includes separating defects detected on a wafer into bins having diversity in values of a first set of one or more first attributes of the defects. The method also includes selecting, independently from one or more of the bins, defects within the bins based on diversity in a second set of one or more second attributes of the defects. The selected defects are then used to create a defect sample for the wafer. In this manner, defects having diverse values of multiple attributes can be easily selected.
US09582868B2
An image processing apparatus includes a histogram detecting unit that detects a luminance histogram from an input image. A determination unit determines control points for use in generation of a tone curve based on such a luminance that a percentage from a low-luminance side in the detected luminance histogram is equal to a first value, and a percentage from a high-luminance side in the detected luminance histogram is equal to a second value. A tone curve generating unit generates a tone curve based on the calculated control points. An image processing unit performs image processing based on the tone curve. A judgment unit judges whether illuminance of a shooting environment is low. A point light source detecting unit detects a component originating from a point light source from the luminance histogram. When the illuminance of the shooting environment is low, the determination unit makes the second value greater.
US09582866B2
An adaptive contrast enhancement method, the steps include: calculating a probability density function based on pixel values of a plurality of pixels of an input image signal; dividing the plurality of pixels into one of a plurality of low-brightness sets and high-brightness sets according to the pixel values of the plurality of pixels, wherein a part of the plurality of pixels with pixel values below one of a plurality of delimiting values are allocated to the low-brightness set and a part of the plurality of pixels with pixel values above the delimiting value are allocated to the high-brightness set; determining a mapping function according to the probability of the plurality of pixels in the low-brightness set and the probability of the plurality of pixels in the high-brightness set; and mapping the input image signal to an output image signal according to the mapping function.
US09582860B2
Implementations generally relate to enhancing a video. In some implementations, a method includes classifying one or more objects in one or more frames of the video. The method further includes determining one or more filter parameters of one or more filters based on the classifying of the one or more objects. The method further includes smoothing one or more of the determined filter parameters based on the classifying of the one or more objects. The method further includes applying one or more of the filters with corresponding smoothed filter parameters to one or more frames of the video.
US09582856B2
An apparatus and method for processing an image based on a motion of an object, the apparatus including a motion estimator configured to estimate a motion of an object included in a current image, an image determiner configured to determine a neighboring image neighboring the current image based on the motion of the object, and a pixel value determiner configured to determine a pixel value of a hole region neighboring the object based on the neighboring image is provided.
US09582853B1
Techniques related to demosaicing Bayer-type image data for image processing.
US09582847B2
In accordance with some embodiments, a mask or table may be maintained to record information about whether or not each pixel within a tile is cleared. As used herein, a “cleared” tile is one that is not covered by any other depicted objects. The clear mask may store a bit per pixel or sample to indicate whether the pixel or sample contains a color value or whether it is cleared. As a result, the compression ratio may be increased for partially covered tiles in some embodiments.
US09582845B2
A texture map for use in graphics processing is encoded by first subdividing the texture map into a plurality of texture element blocks. The texture data elements in each texel block to be encoded are then divided into different partitions (sub sets) within the block. The partitioned block is then encoded in a compressed form as an encoded texture data block. Each encoded block is partitioned using a partitioning pattern generation function to generate the partitioning patterns. The partitioning pattern generation function sorts the texture data elements of the block into respective partitions based on their respective positions within the block. To do this the partitioning pattern generation function generates a series of sawtooth waves at various angles, phases and frequencies across the block of texture data elements to be encoded.
US09582837B2
A communication terminal receives acceptance data for gas cock opening created by a server, performs selection based on the received acceptance data, reads a two-dimensional barcode, and compares two-dimensional barcode data and target data stored in a storage device of the communication terminal; the sever sends the communication terminal a gas inspection item in which the target data is reflected; the communication terminal receives the inspection item in which the target data is reflected, checks an inspection result item created for the inspection item, and sends the checked inspection result item to the server; and the server gives permission for the gas cock opening based on the sent inspection result item, and sends a result of the permission to the communication terminal.
US09582835B2
Disclosed are an apparatus, a system, and a method for searching for a power user in social media. The apparatus according to the present invention includes an input unit configured to receive a keyword corresponding to an interested object from a user; a communication unit configured to transmit a search request message including the received keyword and receive a search response message corresponding to the transmitted search request message; a controller configured to, when receiving the search response message, extract a search list in which power users related to the keyword are arranged according to a preset power ranking from the received search response message; a display unit configured to sequentially display the power users related to the keyword received from the user according to the preset power ranking based on the extracted search list; and a storage unit configured to store the extracted search list.
US09582824B2
A system for enabling touch and feel over the internet provides a three-dimensional representation of a good being sold, that three-dimensional representation being viewable from a number of different directions. In one embodiment, the good being sold is in a package and the package is displayed from the number of different directions. Another embodiment has the good being a book, and the inside and outside covers of the book are displayed and specified pages of the book can be displayed. The user can read from either the label or the covers just like as if the were actually handling the good.
US09582821B2
A system and method are disclosed for rationalizing configurations associated with one or more products. The system includes a database associated with one or more customers. The system further includes an order analysis system coupled with the database. The order analysis system is capable of rationalizing the differences between configurations of various combinations of options that are stored in the database.
US09582820B2
An order management system is provided. The order management system receives one or more order components. The order management system maps each order line of one or more order lines to a fulfillment pattern. The order management system creates a fulfillment flow by combining one or more fulfillment patterns. The order management system generates an orchestration plan by applying one or more dependencies of the fulfillment flow to the one or more order components. The one or more dependencies of the fulfillment flow are translated into one or more order line dependencies between the one or more order lines of the one or more order components. Each order line dependency is at a completion of a fulfillment function of the order line.
US09582816B2
A service and system for providing sponsored data, wherein the data usage is not charged to a mobile subscriber but, rather, paid for by a sponsor. The system and service is mobile-operator neutral and exists separate and apart from any given mobile network. The system provides, to mobile network operators and sponsoring entities, a single domain name (TLD). The TLD is white-listed, in wild-card form, by the mobile network operator so that the operator will know to zero rate any data traffic associated with the TLD. Sponsoring entities are also provided with a unique identifier. The unique identifier is concatenated, as a pre-pend, to the TLD, thereby generating a FQDN that (1) identifies associated data traffic as being “sponsored” and (2) identifies the entity sponsoring the data. The system monitors data usage associated with each FQDN and prepares a bill that charges each sponsoring entity for the data usage associated with the particular FQDN.
US09582814B2
Systems and techniques to provide location-based services. In general, in one implementation, the technique includes receiving a request for directions from an initial location to a final location, determining a route from the initial location to the final location, determining one or more landmarks based on the route and providing directions for traveling the route from the initial location to the final location, the directions including a reference to the one or more landmarks.
US09582807B2
A social network advertises to its members with engagement interfaces. An engagement interface comprises a call to action and a link to perform the action within the social network from within the engagement interface. Responsive to a user selection of the link to perform the action, the engagement interface modifies one or more objects within the social network associated with the call to action according to the selection of the link to perform the action. The engagement interface may be refreshed on the user's screen to indicate to the user that the action has been performed. An engagement interface may also be presented to a user from the social network or from an external system apart from the social network.
US09582800B2
A system and method for permitting a user to submit a payment electronically, which includes a network and an electronic device in communication. The electronic device is operated by the user to submit an electronic payment request. A first server in communication with the network receives the request and in response communicates an encryption key and process to the electronic device. The electronic device encrypts the financial information with the encryption key and process and communicates encrypted financial information to the first server. A second server is in communication with the first server at least some of the time via an Internet connection. If there is Internet connectivity, the first server communicates the encrypted financial information to the second server. If there is no Internet connectivity and the payment amount is less than a predefined amount, the first server communicates to the electronic device that the payment has been accepted.
US09582787B2
Systems and methods for facilitating a purchase are described. When a payment processor declines a transaction, an error code is sent to a merchant. The error code indicates to the merchant that the failed transaction is recoverable if the user chooses a new funding source or payment instrument. The merchant sends the user back to a payment service provider site where the user can either choose a new funding source or enter a new payment method.
US09582785B2
A method of generating a linked client master mind map. Client actions and documents are linked to a client master mind map to generate a linked client master mind map. The linked client master mind map and a client relationship management program are reviewed and packaged.
US09582778B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a portable computing device to retrieve agricultural certification information. In an example embodiment, an apparatus comprises a hand-held device including a display and one or more input devices to sense product identification indicia associated with or affixed to a food product that is grown or raised in an agricultural operation, the product identification indicia comprising at least a universal product code for the food product. The hand-held device includes at least one processor to determine a machine-readable identification code from the product identification indicia; send the identification code to at least one remote server; receive, from the at least one remote server, agricultural certification information that is associated with the product, the certification information being associated with the product using the machine-readable identification code; and display the certification information on the display in human readable form.
US09582775B2
In one aspect, a method for reducing uncertainty in a hydraulic model of a water distribution network due to uncertain parameters and faults in the water distribution network is provided which includes the steps of: (i) calculating an optimized placement of sensors throughout a given uncertain section of the water distribution network; (ii) collecting data from the sensors; (iii) partitioning the given uncertain section of the water distribution network into observable and unobservable sub-sections based on the hydraulic model and a) a position, b) a number, and/or c) a type of the sensors that are available; (iv) correcting uncertain parameters and identifying faults for each of the observable sub-sections; (v) calculating a global uncertainty value for each of the unobservable sub-sections; and (vi) repeating the steps (i)-(vi) iteratively, at each iteration selecting an uncertain sub-section of the water distribution network, until no uncertain sub-sections of the water distribution network remain.
