US09622394B1
A chassis includes a flash module comprising a cover and an integrated connector, a metal stiffener, an electromagnetic interference (EMI) gasket, and a midplane. The flash module is connected to the midplane using the integrated connector, the integrated connector extends past the cover of the flash module, and, when the flash module is connected to the midplane, the cover of the flash module is in direct contact with the EMI gasket, in which the metal stiffener is interposed between the EMI gasket and the midplane.
US09622389B1
Described herein is an integrated data center that provides for efficient cooling, as well as efficient wire routing, and in particular a configuration in which electronic equipment cabinets are arranged in rows within thermal compartments where the cabinets may be rolled in and out of place as required and a frame supports thermal shields of the thermal compartment.
US09622382B2
A heat-sink device intended for at least one electronic component (12), includes: a heat-sink; a substrate (11) for the at least one electronic component (12), said substrate covering the heat-sink; and thermal coupling provided between the substrate and the heat-sink and made from a material different from that of the heat-sink. The heat-sink comprises of a set of independent fins (10), and the thermal-coupling (13) is made from a heat-conductive polymer material and also serve as mechanical coupling between the substrate (11) and the fins (10).
US09622380B1
Two-phase jet impingement cooling devices and electronic device assemblies are disclosed. In one embodiment, a cooling device includes a manifold having a fluid inlet surface, a fluid outlet surface defining an outlet manifold, and a fluid outlet. The fluid inlet surface includes an inlet channel fluidly coupled to a first jet region and a second jet region each including a plurality of jet orifices and a plurality of surface features extending from the fluid inlet surface. A target plate is coupled to the fluid outlet surface of the manifold that includes a target surface, a first heat sink, and a second heat sink. A cover plate is coupled to the fluid inlet surface of the manifold, which includes a fluid inlet port fluidly coupled to the inlet channel of the manifold, and a fluid outlet port fluidly coupled to the fluid outlet of the manifold.
US09622376B2
An information handling system (IHS) automatically responds to a change in cooling medium that cools functional components. A cooling medium sensor senses a material characteristic of the cooling medium. A thermal management controller determines whether the material characteristic received from the cooling medium sensor is in one of a first range that is associated with the air cooling medium and a second range that is associated with the liquid cooling medium. In response to determining that the material characteristic is within the second range, the thermal management controller disables a thermal mitigation component that reduces a temperature of the functional components of the IHS.
US09622374B2
Electrical equipment that includes a cabinet comprising a plurality of walls is provided. The cabinet is disposed around a plurality of electric components such as conductors. Further, the electrical equipment also includes at least one barrier. The barrier is disposed in the cabinet and spaced apart from the conductor by a spacing distance to define a channel within the cabinet for air to flow between the barrier and the conductor. The barrier is placed such that a portion of the barrier is coupled to one of the plurality of walls of the electric cabinets.
US09622367B2
An assembly of subsea equipment and a plurality of subsea devices each of which is individually mountable on and separable from the subsea equipment wherein each device includes a respective stab connector for establishing electrical connection with the equipment and further has a respective terminal connector for a jumper lead, each device having at least dual redundancy whereby connection through the respective jumper terminal can substitute for the connection though the respective stab connector.
US09622366B2
A display panel having a wireless charging function is provided, and the display panel includes a first substrate, an induction coil layer, a display pixel layer, and a second substrate. The induction coil layer is disposed on the first substrate. The induction coil layer includes at least one induction coil. The induction coil layer is adapted for collaborating with a wireless charging power supply, such that the induction coil layer executes the wireless charging function. The display pixel layer is disposed on the induction coil layer. The second substrate is disposed on the display pixel layer.
US09622364B2
An electronic device is provided which may include a tray, an exterior cover, and/or a first hooking structure. The tray may be inserted or drawn to or from an inside via an opening of a housing of the electronic device, and may include a space for receiving a card. The exterior cover may be movably coupled to the tray. The first hooking structure may be disposed inside the electronic device, and may maintain a closed state of the exterior cover, and may release the closed state of the exterior cover in response to pressing of the exterior cover.
US09622358B2
One embodiment of the invention comprises an improved method for making a via structure for use in a printed circuit board (PCB). The via allows for the passage of a signal from one signal plane to another in the PCB, and in so doing transgresses the power and ground planes between the signal plane. To minimize EM disturbance between the power and ground planes, signal loss due to signal return current, and via-to-via coupling, the via is shielded within two concentric cylinders, each coupled to one of the power and ground planes.
US09622355B2
An environmentally sealed electrical housing assembly with an integrated connector and a method for manufacturing same is presented. The assembly includes a non-accessible electrical component, such an electromechanical relay, and a plurality of terminals connected to a circuit board. A dielectric housing encases the non-accessible electrical component. The housing is in intimate contact with the non-accessible electrical component, thereby sealing it from the environment. The housing defines an integral perimeter wall that surrounds the terminals, forming a connector shroud. Removable electrical components, such as fuse assemblies, may be attached to the terminals inside the shroud. When a sealed mating connector is attached to the housing, the removable components are also sealed from the environment. The assembly allows distribution of power switching functions and circuit protection to be distributed to a location near the electrical load instead of a central location, such as a bussed electrical center.
US09622346B2
A conductive polymer-metal complex becomes to be adhered simply and strongly on the surface of a substrate such as PTFE. By subjecting a solution containing a monomer which provides a conductive polymer, an anion, and a metal ions such as Ag+, Cu2+, Cu+ and the like to an irradiation with light having an energy required for exciting an electron to an energy level capable of reducing the metal ion, such as ultraviolet light, under an appropriated condition, thereby precipitating the conductive polymer-metal complex as being dispersed in the reaction liquid. By supplying this dispersion liquid onto various substrates, the complex microparticles in the dispersion liquid enter into and mate with the narrow holes on the surface of the substrate. As a result, the complex precipitate formed on the surface of the substrate and the substrate can be adhered strongly to each other.
US09622338B2
According to various aspects, exemplary embodiments include one or more frequency selective structures (e.g., two-dimensional or three-dimensional frequency selective structure or surface, etc.), which may be used for shielding or mitigating EMI within open or closed structures. Also disclosed are methods of using one or more frequency selective structures for shielding or mitigating electromagnetic interface (EMI) within open or closed structures.
US09622328B2
A two-level LED security light with a motion sensor. At night, the LED is turned on for a low level illumination. When the motion sensor detects any intrusion, the LED is switched from the low level illumination to a high level illumination for a short duration time. After the short duration time, the LED security light returns to the low level illumination for saving energy. The LED security light includes a power supply unit, a light sensing control unit, a motion sensing unit, a loading and power control unit, and a lighting-emitting unit. The lighting-emitting unit includes one or a plurality of LEDs which may be turned-on or turned-off according to the sensing results from the light sensing control unit. When the motion sensing unit detects an intrusion, the illumination of the LED security light can be immediately turned on to the high level to scare away the intruder.
US09622324B2
A method and system for geolocation using a street light system having transponding technology. A predetermined band of radio frequencies employing spread spectrum technology is used to identify locations relative to an individual street light.
US09622321B2
Systems, devices and methods for controlling one or more lights are disclosed. In some aspects, systems for controlling one or more lights can include an interface and a remote sensing device that is separate from and is in electrical communication with the interface. The remote sensing device can additionally include at least one sensor, for example an ambient light sensor. Each of the remote sensing device and the interface can be configured to attach to support structures via retaining features. In one aspect, the remote sensing device can include a first and a second retaining member that rotatably thread onto a main body of the sensing device and adjust according to the thickness and structure of the support structure. In another aspect, the interface can include a retention feature utilizing flexible tabs with integrated detents to accommodate variable sizes of openings of the support structure.
US09622308B2
A lighting device includes a first current controller, a second current controller, and a charging current controller. The first current controller is configured to control current flowing through a light source so that the current flowing through the light source does not exceed a first predefined value. The charging current controller is configured to control current flowing through a storage element. The second current controller is configured to control current flowing through a first light source so that the current flowing through the first light source does not exceed a second predefined value.
US09622303B1
Embodiments of a current mirror for a constant-current light-emitting diode (LED) driver system and a constant-current LED driver integrated circuit (IC) device having the current mirror are described. In one embodiment, a current mirror includes at least one current mirror cell. Each of the at least one current mirror cell includes semiconductor circuits configured to generate an output current based on a reference current and a control module configured to alternately and continuously charge the semiconductor circuits in response to non-overlapping clock signals.
US09622302B2
A lighting system includes: a lighting device having an LED as a light source; a lighting circuit; and a heat dissipation device configured to dissipate heat generated by the lighting device. The lighting circuit has: a power source configured to supply electric power to the LED; and a controller configured to control current which is output from the power source to the LED. The heat dissipation device has a device characteristics information providing unit configured to provide device characteristics information of the heat dissipation device to the controller, wherein the controller determines compatibility between the heat dissipation device and the lighting device, based on the device characteristics information, and controls lighting of the LED.
US09622301B2
Systems and methods for driving optical sources operating at different wavelengths within a smoke sensor are described herein. Multiple optical sources such as light emitting diodes may be used in a photoelectric smoke sensor to detect particles of different sizes. Photoelectric smoke sensors can operate by pulsing the LEDs and measuring a response in a light sensor. The signal measured at the light sensor changes based on the quantity of particles existing in a smoke chamber. Each optical source may have different operational characteristics and thus require different drive currents to operate. LED driving circuitry according to embodiments discussed herein provide a consistent and reliable drive current to each optical source, while maximizing efficiency of power consumption across a range of possible voltages provided by different power sources.
US09622297B2
The present invention is one that uniformly and simultaneously heats a plurality of cup-shaped or annular metallic bodies to improve productivity, and has a plurality of divided core parts formed by dividing an annular core; configured such that a plurality of divided end parts of the divided core part are respectively attached with metallic bodies W made of non-magnetic metal; and inductively heats the metallic bodies W through input windings provided in outer or inner circumferential parts of the metallic bodies W.
US09622292B1
Mount for an access point and an antenna includes a base for attachment to a support structure, the base for attaching thereto an access point; and a tray pivotably attached to the base, the tray for attaching thereto an antenna. The tray is disposed above the base and the tray is positionable at an angle relative to a reference plane.
US09622282B2
A communication control device includes circuitry that acquires system information indicating information to enable a device to communicate with another device via device-to-device communication, and that controls transmission of the system information to a terminal device.
US09622279B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for selecting a resource for a direct device-to-device (D2D) communication link between wireless devices in a cellular communication network. In one embodiment, a control node in a cellular communication network selects a resource for a direct D2D communication link between a first wireless device and a second wireless device based on one or more criteria including a service area type of a service area within the cellular communication network in which the first wireless device and the second wireless device are located. The service area type is either homogeneous or heterogeneous. The control node communicates an indicator of the resource selected for the direct D2D communication link to the first wireless device and/or the second wireless device. Thereafter, the first and second wireless devices communicate over the direct D2D communication link using the selected resource.
US09622275B2
A method for allowing multiple devices to communicate includes initiating a multi-media communication session between a first device and a second device, each of the first and second device having access to at least one additional device, identifying at least a portion of the multi-media communication session to direct to the at least one additional device, the first device obtaining a unique identifier of the at least one additional device and directing the identified at least a portion of the multi-media communication session to the at least one additional device.
US09622272B2
Disclosed are a communication performing method and terminal, and the method is a method by which a terminal with dual connectivity performs communication in a heterogeneous cell environment, in which: a first reporting message reporting that a downlink signal is received from a small cell in an intensity greater than a threshold value is transmitted to a macro cell; an RRC establishment message indicating a connection to a small cell cluster is received from the macro cell; connections are added to a plurality of small cells included in the small cell cluster according to additional time information included in the RRC establishment message; and the connections to the plurality of added small cells are respectively activated according to activation connection time information included in the RRC establishment message, and the small cell cluster is determined on the basis of information on a location relationship among the plurality of small cells.
US09622271B2
A wireless communication network that forms an ad-hoc network without the arrangement of a controlling station sets a period that a communication apparatus can utilize with priority and performs isochronous communication in the period as required. When isochronous communication has not been performed or after isochronous communication has finished in the priority utilization period, other communication apparatuses perform arbitrary communication. When another communication is performed in a communication apparatus's own priority utilization period, the start of isochronous communication is temporarily delayed. In an ad-hoc communication environment, data having a real-time characteristic, such as AV content, can be efficiently transmitted through the isochronous communication.
US09622270B2
A method of establishing a bearer in a packet switched mobile wireless communications network comprising a mobile device and a network node, and a corresponding network. A predetermined maximum number of bearers can be established for the mobile device within the network. Bearer information can be sent indicating the predetermined maximum number of bearers, a remaining number of bearers, or that no more bearers can be established. If no more bearers can be established and a further bearer is required a bearer previously established for the mobile device within the network can be released and if required a bearer synchronization procedure can be performed. A further bearer for the mobile device within the network can then be established. Alternatively, if the mobile device determines that an emergency PDN connection is required, it can send a request for a further bearer to the network node. If a current number of bearers established for the mobile device is equal to the maximum number of bearers, the network node can release a previously established bearer establish a bearer for an emergency PDN connection.
US09622268B2
A random access method and random access system for a terminal in a high-speed mobile environment are provided. Wherein, the method comprises: selecting a random access preamble format according to a preset cell coverage radius target value; judging whether using a restricted set of cyclic shift quantities pre-configured satisfies a requirement of the cell coverage radius target value under the selected random access preamble format; if not satisfying, selecting a cyclic shift quantity which satisfies the requirement of the cell coverage radius target value from a unrestricted set of the cyclic shift quantities pre-configured; and generating a random access signal according to the cyclic shift quantity and a pre-configured mother code, and performing access using the random access signal. Through the above-mentioned technical scheme, the embodiment of the present document provides a more perfect random access method and random access system for a terminal in a high-speed mobile environment.
US09622249B2
An apparatus, method and system to set a control channel configuration in a response to an indication of interference in a communication system. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a processor 520 and memory 550 including computer program code. The memory 550 and the computer program code are configured to, with the processor 520, cause the apparatus to detect interference for the apparatus operable on a communication system from another communication system, and provide an indication of the interference to a base station. The memory 550 and the computer program code are further configured to, with the processor 520, cause the apparatus to receive an indication of a relocation of at least a portion of a control channel to a protected area in response to a signal from the base station.
US09622247B2
Preamble and header bit allocation for power savings within multiple user, multiple access, and/or MIMO wireless communications. Within a multi-user packet, information (e.g., partial address information) related to a recipient group of wireless communication devices (e.g., as few as one wireless communication device or any subset of a number of wireless communication devices, sometimes including all of the wireless communication devices) is emplaced within a PHY (e.g., physical layer) header of such a multi-user packet to be communicated within a multi-user (MU) environment. Such recipient indicating information can be encoded with relatively higher robustness (e.g., lower coding rates, lower ordered modulation, cyclic redundancy check (CRC), etc.) that remaining portions of the multi-user packet. Various portions of the remainder of the multi-user packet may respectively correspond to different wireless communication devices (e.g., a first field for a first wireless communication device, a second field for a second wireless communication device, etc.).
US09622246B2
Techniques for performing scrambling and descrambling in a communication system are described. In an aspect, different scrambling sequences for different channels and signals may be generated based on different cyclic shifts of a base scrambling sequence, which may be a maximal-length sequence. A scrambling sequence for a given channel may be generated by (i) determining a sequence selector value based on a channel type value and at least one parameter value for the channel and (ii) cyclically shifting the base scrambling sequence based on the sequence selector value. In another aspect, a reference signal sent on variable system bandwidth may be generated with two scrambling sequences, which may be different cyclic shifts of a base scrambling sequence. Scrambling/descrambling for positive and negative frequencies for the reference signal may be performed with the first and second scrambling sequences, respectively.
US09622245B2
When a state of a radio communication device corresponds to a predetermined state, a communication control unit operates in the first mode to communicate according to the BLE standard, while when the radio communication device does not receive connect request packets, the communication control unit operates in the second mode to communicate. A rewrite switching unit switches to a rewritable state when the communication control unit operates in the first mode and to a rewriting prohibited state when the communication control unit operates in the second mode. The first mode is a mode for updating. In the first mode, the communication control unit transmits a notification for limiting the communication to the updating in an establishment process of the communication. The second mode is a mode for performing processing other than the updating. In the second mode, the communication control unit does not transmit the notification.
US09622218B2
A method and system for managing a channel in a wireless local area network is disclosed. The method includes detecting adjacent access points, transmitting a resource allocation request frame including candidate channel information which the first access points wants to a master access point among the detected adjacent access points, receiving a resource allocation response frame which is a response with respect to the resource allocation request frame from the master access point, and configuring the BSS based on channel related information included in the resource allocation response frame. Accordingly, performance of the wireless local area network can be improved.
US09622217B2
Disclosed are an uplink-downlink configuration method and device in a system using a time division duplex communication mode, which relate to the technical field of wireless communications and are used for optimizing a configuration solution of an uplink/downlink subframe allocation manner. In the present invention, the method comprises: a central node device receiving reference information which is used for configuring an uplink-downlink configuration and sent by a transmission node device managed by the central node device; the central node device configuring the uplink-downlink configuration according to the received reference information; and the central node device sending the information about the configured uplink-downlink configuration to the corresponding transmission node device or to the corresponding transmission node device and a terminal. The configuration solution of the uplink-downlink configuration in the present invention is more optimized.
US09622199B2
A method of controlling uplink signal power in a distributed antenna system includes monitoring a noise condition of an uplink signal path in the distributed antenna system and determining the noise contribution from the distributed antenna system that is presented to the base station. The receive noise floor of the base station is determined. The determined noise contribution and receive noise floor are unlisted. Based on the evaluation, the uplink gain that is applied to uplink signals from the distributed antenna system to a base station is adjusted.
US09622192B2
Providing for virtual management of wireless resources in a mobile communication environment is described herein. By way of example, access terminals in the communication environment can maintain connections with nearby network transmitters and report factors pertinent to wireless scheduling to a central entity, such as a macro base station. The macro base station can employ those factors in improving wireless communications for other serving cells within or near to a macro coverage area served by the macro base station. By maintaining information pertinent to prevailing wireless conditions, quality of service requirements, pilot signal reports, mobility management considerations, and so on, of transmissions within the cell, significant interference reduction can be implemented for the macro coverage area, or nearby coverage areas.
US09622180B1
Systems and methods for regulating alerts in a wearable device are disclosed. The alerts may be generated from a mobile device or a wearable device communicatively coupled to the mobile device. The system may include an alert storage module that receives alerts of various types, and generate a plurality of alert heaps each including respective one or more alerts. The system may determine for an alert a respective cost value associated with issuing a notification of the alert. The alert heaps may be merged to produce a cost-biased leftist heap including prioritized alerts based on the cost values of the alerts. The system may generate a queue of notification commands based on the prioritized alerts, and transmit the commands to the wearable device.
US09622165B2
A method and system for obtaining network access modes of mobile devices are disclosed. An exemplary method may include obtaining network connection information once a mobile device connects to a network and obtaining network access point information from the network connection information. In addition, the method includes determining a network access mode corresponding to the network access point information. The method and system consistent with the present disclosure may improve the accuracy for identifying network access modes of mobile devices.
US09622145B2
A method includes receiving information associated with a first data request from a base station at a server of a wireless communication network. The first data request is received at the first base station from a first mobile device. The method includes selecting a second base station to transmit data responsive to the first data request to the first mobile device based on a data type of the data and based on a location of the first mobile device. The method further includes transmitting the data from the server to the second base station.
US09622138B2
A method and system for formulating an SINR metric for cells using only the existing RSRP and RSRQ measurements. With this method and system side information is exchanged between eNBs of an E-UTRAN using the X2 interface where the X2 interface carries the X2 Application Protocol (X2AP). The side information is introduced either within X2AP messages exchanged between eNB nodes or via modification of existing X2AP messages. Serving cell system information block (SIB) messages may also be modified or new SIB messages introduced to facilitate computation of an SNIR metric at a UE.
US09622133B1
Techniques and systems are disclosed for addressing the challenges in interference and mobility management in broadband, UAV-assisted heterogeneous network (BAHN) scenarios. Implementations include BAHN control components, for example, at a controlling network node of a BAHN. Generally, a component implementing techniques for managing interference and handover in a BAHN gathers state data from network nodes or devices in the BAHN, determines a candidate BAHN model that optimizes interference and handover metrics, and determines and performs model adjustments to the network parameters, BS parameters, and UAV-assisted base station (UABS) device locations and velocities to conform to the optimized candidate BAHN model. Also described is a UABS apparatus having a UAV, communications interface for communicating with a HetNet in accordance with wireless air interface standards, and a computing device suitable for implementing BAHN control or reinforcement learning components.
US09622131B2
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for D2D handovers. The method may include sending to a target base station a handover request message including a proposed common identifier for a device-to-device pair and a proposed allocation of radio resources for the device-to-device pair; receiving, from the target base station in response to the handover request message, a handover request reply message including a confirmation of the proposed allocation and of the proposed common identifier; sending to a first device of the device-to-device pair a handover command including the proposed allocation and the proposed common identifier; receiving, from a second device of the device-to-device pair, a measurement report representative of the target base station; and determining whether to initiate a handover of the second device to the target base station, wherein when the handover is initiated, the first device of the device-to-device pair and the second device of the device-to-device pair are handed over to the target base station. Related apparatus, systems, methods, and articles are also described.
US09622125B2
It is described a method for controlling radio measurements of a user equipment within a cellular network system, wherein the user equipment is served by a cell of a first cell type characteristic, the cell being assigned to a base station, wherein the cellular network system includes the cell and at least one further cell of a second cell type characteristic. The method includes providing, by the base station, a radio measurement configuration to the user equipment, wherein the radio measurement configuration is indicative for parameters to be applied by the user equipment for radio measurements, the radio measurement configuration includes different parameters being assigned to different cell type characteristics, and controlling the radio measurements of the user equipment based on the provided radio measurement configuration.
US09622123B2
The dynamic determination of a handover trigger for triggering handover of a mobile terminal in a wireless network from a source base station to a target base station is based on one or more Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Each KPI indicates a quality of wireless services provided by the wireless network responsive to a particular handover trigger. If an obtained parameter that indirectly or directly impacts handover performance passes a corresponding performance test, the mobile terminal selects the handover trigger based on the KPIs. If the parameter fails the corresponding performance test, the source base station selects the handover trigger based on the KPIs.
US09622120B2
In an embodiment, a radio communication device may be provided. The radio communication device may include a first receiver configured to receive from a first cell first data representing a content encoded using a first codec; a second receiver configured to receive from a second cell second data representing the content encoded using a second codec; and a combiner configured to combine the first data and the second data.
US09622119B2
A method and an apparatus for displaying a network name are provided. A first mobility management device in a first network acquires first network name information, where the first network name information is a network name currently displayed on a user equipment UE, and/or a public land mobile network identity PLMN ID corresponding to the network name that is currently displayed on the UE, and the first network is a network with which the UE currently registers or a network of two networks with which the UE currently jointly register. If the UE switches over to a second network during a process of executing a service, the first mobility management device sends the first network name information to a second mobility management device in the second network, so that the second mobility management device sends, to the UE for displaying, a network name corresponding to the first network name information.
US09622117B2
A wireless communication apparatus uses a Wi-Fi system to transmit to another wireless communication apparatus a WiGig switching request frame (F1) requesting that the communication method for communicating with another wireless communication apparatus be switched from the Wi-Fi system to a WiGig system. The wireless communication apparatus uses RSSI when the WiGig switching request frame (F1) was received to determine whether to allow the switch from the Wi-Fi system to the WiGig system, and uses the Wi-Fi system to transmit to the wireless communication apparatus a WiGig switching response frame (F2) indicating the result of the determination.
US09622111B2
Logic may implement a hierarchical data structure for traffic indication mapping (TIM) and segment the TIM into TIM segment bitmaps to facilitate transmissions for wireless communications devices. The traffic indication provides information as to whether a device associated with an access point (AP) has data buffered by the AP. Logic of the AP may inform devices about the range of devices represented by each of the TIM segments by including a block start and block range or a TIM segment index that can be associated with a range of blocks. Logic may provide at least one page bitmap to devices for the TIM segment bitmaps to provide an indication to the devices as to whether a particular block includes an indication that any client devices have data buffered by the access point.
US09622097B2
Systems and methods presented herein provide for monitoring of noise and other interfering energy on a communication link. One system includes an interface coupled to the communication link to receive a signal conveyed over the communication link. The system also includes a monitor operable to: track energy across a frequency spectrum of the signal conveyed over the communication link for a predetermined period of time; flag, at intervals of the predetermined period of time, energy levels across the frequency spectrum of the signal that breach a threshold energy level to identify where in the frequency spectrum a breach of the threshold energy level occurs; and add the flags to determine how long the threshold energy level was breached during the predetermined period of time.
US09622084B2
The disclosure provides a method and system of resource reconfiguration for a cognitive-radio system. The method includes that: a reconfiguration module of a wireless communication system acquires a reconfiguration command according to a received spectrum refarming indication or by monitoring a network condition of the wireless communication system (101); and sends the reconfiguration command to a base station to implement resource reconfiguration by executing the reconfiguration command via the base station (102). With the disclosure, proper radio resource reconfiguration is performed by a reconfiguration module of each wireless communication system according to utilization of spectral resources in the system, so that the utilization of spectral resources in a primary system and between RATs may be coordinated, thereby enhancing the resource utilization rate of each wireless communication system and the spectrum utilization rate of the primary system, such as a broadcast and television system, and leading to a more balanced network load.
US09622082B2
To detect the theft of a mobile terminal (TM) connected to a radiocommunication network (RR), a device (DA) capable of communicating with a location register (HLR) initially stores an IMSI identity and an IMEI number for the mobile terminal (TM) together with secret data (DonS) provided by the owner of the mobile terminal. After authentication of the mobile terminal by a network entity, the device retrieves the IMSI identity and IMEI number for the mobile terminal, compares the retrieved IMSI identity and IMEI number with the initially stored IMSI identity and IMEI number, queries the mobile terminal (TM) by asking the user of the mobile terminal to provide the secret data if either the retrieved IMSI identity or IMEI number are different from the initially stored IMSI identity or IMEI number, and detects a theft of the mobile terminal if the secret data provided are different from the initially stored secret data (DonS).
US09622074B2
The present disclosure provides a method, a mobile electronic device, a wearable electronic device and a computer readable medium for continuing an operation initiated on the wearable electronic device on the mobile electronic device based on motion coherence between movements of the mobile electronic device and a wearable electronic device without providing an input. In the disclosure, an operation would be initiated on the wearable electronic device. The wearable electronic device would transmit an application data associated with the operation initiated on the wearable electronic device to the mobile electronic device. Then, an application program associated with the operation would be automatically launched on the mobile electronic device to continue the operation initiated on the wearable electronic device according to the application data in response to a motion coherence of the mobile electronic device and the wearable electronic device.
US09622070B2
Various methods are described for providing updated network subscription information for a device to one or more other devices. One example method may comprise establishing a first subscription associated with a first network operator for a device. The method may further comprise transferring the device from the first subscription associated with the first network operator to a second subscription associated with a second network operator. Additionally, the method may comprise updating one or more other devices identified in a connection map associated with the device of the transfer to the second subscription. Similar and related methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are also provided.
US09622062B1
A navigating device and a vehicle are disclosed. A V2X communication circuit electrically connected with the navigating unit may be additionally provided in the navigating device; thereby a communication connection with nearby vehicles may be established via V2X communication. Since V2X is a kind of short-range communication, it is possible to perform interactions with nearby vehicle by establishing communication connection with nearby vehicles via V2X communication, and may address the technical problems that the navigating device in the related art have unitary functions and thus cannot perform interaction with nearby vehicles.
US09622054B2
A Short Message Service (SMS) delivery method and apparatus is provided for delivering an SMS message efficiently by selecting a network domain to attach to according to the service provided to a Mobile Station (MS) by the mobile operator network. An SMS delivery method of the present invention includes receiving, at a network node, an Attach/Routing Area Update (RAU) Request message including a parameter indicating an attach/update type and SMS-only service, and transmitting, when SMS in a Serving General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) Support Node (SGSN) is supported at the core network node, to the mobile station an Attach Accept message including a parameter indicating that SMS in SGSN is supported. The SMS delivery method of the present invention is capable of delivering SMS message efficiently in the wireless communication system.
US09622050B2
A method for navigating is provided. The method comprises, in response to input on user equipment of a first member of a group who is travelling to a destination, one or more processors acquiring current position information of the user equipment of the first member. The method further includes one or more processors sending a first message to a server. The first message includes the current position information indicating an area where the first member was when the first message was sent. The first message is for directing a member of the group, who receives the first message when passing the area, to the same destination as the first member.
US09622049B2
A method of facilitating multimedia broadcast multicast services (MBMS) in a communications network including one or more first evolved node Bs (eNBs) having backhaul interfaces for a first internet protocol (IP) version and one or more second eNBs having backhaul interfaces for a second IP version includes receiving, at a first network element, an initial MBMS content stream; generating, at the first network element, based on the initial MBMS content stream, a first MBMS content stream and a second MBMS content stream; transmitting the first MBMS content stream from the first network element to the one or more first eNBs using a first IP multicast address of the first IP version; and transmitting the second MBMS content stream from the first network element to the one or more second eNBs using a second IP multicast address of the second IP version.
US09622048B2
The disclosure is related to a method of identifying an incident occurring in a service area by a server. The method may include detecting abnormal traffic generation in a service area of the server, collecting text data from at least one of a social network service (SNS) system, access points and base stations associated with a location of the abnormal traffic generation, collecting sensing data from at least one of sensors installed around the location of the abnormal traffic generation, and identifying an incident occurring in the service area based on the collected text data and the collected sensing data.
US09622041B2
Systems, methods, and devices enable spectrum management by identifying, classifying, and cataloging signals of interest based on radio frequency measurements. In an embodiment, signals and the parameters of the signals may be identified and indications of available frequencies may be presented to a user. In another embodiment, the protocols of signals may also be identified. In a further embodiment, the modulation of signals, data types carried by the signals, and estimated signal origins may be identified.
US09622040B2
Apparatus is configured: to transmit angle-of-departure positioning messages from which a mobile device can calculate a direction to the mobile device from the apparatus; and to transmit a point of interest packet data unit for providing an emergency navigation service to a mobile device, the point of interest packet data unit comprising first data indicating a location of a first emergency point of interest and data indicating that the location relates to an emergency point of interest.
US09622037B2
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.
US09622028B2
This disclosure relates to methods and arrangements for positioning of a communication device (102, 202, 208, 402, 502) in a communication system. Based on received radio channel information from a positioning server (112, 212, 408, 508), positioning nodes (104a-d, 204, 206, 410, 412, 510) identify (S-430, S-538, 704) a radio signal from said communication device, measure (S-432, S-433, S-540, 706) the strength of said received signal and sends (S-434, S-435, S-542, 708) signal strength information and position information of the positioning nodes to said positioning server. The positioning server then determines (S-436, S-544, 610) the position of the communication devices based on the received signal strength measurements and the position information of the positioning nodes. High accuracy in-door positioning of communication devices is achieved.
US09622025B2
A method and apparatus for scanning, by an asset tag manager during a scanning window, for wireless broadcasts from beacon devices. The method further filters the wireless broadcasts to generate a subset of the wireless broadcasts. The method continues by identifying, within the subset of the wireless broadcasts, a first wireless broadcast with a first data packet in view of an indication that a first beacon device is within a specified distance from the asset tag manager. The method proceeds by parsing the first data packet to locate a first beacon identifier associated with a first beacon device. The method also creates a second data packet with the first beacon identifier and an asset tag identifier associated with the asset. The method transmits a second wireless broadcast comprising the second data packet, the second wireless broadcast to be received by a hub.
US09622024B1
A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium provides a beacon management service that includes logic that allows a user to configure a beacon system remotely and off-site relative to a location of the beacon system, and a beacon service that provides contextual data to end users based on beacons.
US09622022B2
An IP multimedia subsystem (IMS)-based service sharing system includes an IMS, a master IMS terminal registered in the IMS, and a slave IMS terminal not registered in the IMS, wherein the master IMS terminal transmits IMS registration information to the slave IMS terminal by using near field communication (NFC), and the slave IMS terminal is registered in the IMS on the basis of the transmitted IMS registration information.
US09622008B2
Higher Order Ambisonics (HOA) represents three-dimensional sound. HOA provides high spatial resolution and facilitates analyzing of the sound field with respect to dominant sound sources. The invention aims to identify independent dominant sound sources constituting the sound field, and to track their temporal trajectories. Known applications are searching for all potential candidates for dominant sound source directions by looking at the directional power distribution of the original HOA representation, whereas in the invention all components which are correlated with the signals of previously found sound sources are removed. By such operation the problem of erroneously detecting many instead of only one correct sound source can be avoided in case its contributions to the sound field are highly directionally dispersed.
US09621996B2
A micromechanical sound transducer system and a corresponding manufacturing method, in which the micromechanical sound transducer system includes a substrate having a front side and a back side, the substrate having a through opening extending between the back side and the front side, and a coil configuration on the front side having a coil axis, which runs essentially parallel to the front side, the coil configuration covering the through opening at least partially. Also provided is a magnet device, which is situated so as to allow for an axial magnetic flux to be generated through the coil configuration. The coil configuration has a winding device which has at least first winding sections made from at least one layer of a low-dimensional conductive material, the coil configuration being configured to inductively detect and/or generate sound.
US09621995B2
A vibrating element including a diaphragm, a voice coil and a stiffening layer is provided. The diaphragm has a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other. The first surface includes a first conductive region and a second conductive region. The voice coil is disposed on the first surface. Two ends of the voice coil are electrically connected to the first conductive region and the second conductive region. The stiffening layer is disposed on the diaphragm. The diaphragm has a center region, which is enclosed and circled by the voice coil and includes an area of the diaphragm above the voice coil. The region outside the center region includes an inner circled zone and an outer circled zone surrounding the inner circled zone. At least one end of the voice coil is located in the inner circled zone and the stiffening layer covers the inner circled zone.
US09621994B1
The present invention provides for a surface acoustic transducer optimally structured to produce sound within an aircraft cabin by vibrating the interior cabin walls. Specifically, the surface acoustic transducer comprises a primary assembly comprising a voice coil assembly having a voice coil former and wire, and a transducer housing for retaining said primary assembly and a magnet therein such in movable relations. The present surface acoustic transducer may further include a spider structured to provide an improved excursion. An external housing may additionally be provided comprising a rigid retaining wall for protecting the surface acoustic transducer from potential externally applied forces and a malleable excursion cover allowing for an excursion of the primary assembly thereof.
US09621990B2
A method performed by an audio decoder for reconstructing N audio channels from an audio signal containing M audio channels is disclosed. The method includes receiving a bitstream containing an encoded audio signal having M audio channels and a set of spatial parameters, the set of spatial parameters including an inter-channel intensity difference parameter and an inter-channel coherence parameter. The encoded audio bitstream is then decoded to obtain a decoded frequency domain representation of the M audio channels, and at least a portion of the frequency domain representation is decorrelated with an all-pass filter having a fractional delay. The all-pass filter is attenuated at locations of a transient. A matrixed version of the decorrelated signals are summed with a matrixed version of the decoded frequency domain representation to obtain N audio signals that collectively having N audio channels where M is less than N.
US09621986B2
An apparatus and method for supplying power to an audio device is provided. An electronic device includes an audio device connector comprising a microphone terminal configured to receive an audio signal of a microphone from an audio device, at least one audio terminal configured to output the audio signal to the audio device, a ground terminal, a power supply unit configured to selectively generate one of a first power and a second power to be supplied to the audio device through the microphone terminal, and a controller configured to identify whether the audio device has a type that includes an additional function unit based on a voltage at the microphone terminal, and to control the power supply unit to apply one of the first power and the second power to the microphone terminal correspondingly to the type of the audio device.
US09621972B2
Provided is a burst-mode receiver configured to receive an optical signal having a preamble and a data payload, the burst-mode receiver including a first bias resistor coupled between a first voltage supply and a photosensor, a first capacitor coupled between the photosensor and an amplifier, a first common-mode resistor configured to supply a voltage of a common-mode voltage supply to the amplifier, a first bypass switch configured to couple the first capacitor to the common-mode voltage supply while bypassing the first common-mode resistor, and a first data switch configured to couple the first capacitor to the amplifier, and to couple the first capacitor to the common-mode voltage supply through the first common-mode resistor.
US09621966B2
A monitoring control system sequentially processing data collected from various data sources to find a possible phenomenon, producing an appropriate action for the found change or phenomenon, and outputting control information for causing a system to perform a notification or predetermined control. The monitoring control system includes a phenomenon detecting section configured to detect a phenomenon leading to a particular result from contiguous data received from data sources serving as data transmission element based on detecting rule definition data previously specifying a change attribute of contiguous time-series data pieces for each phenomenon leading to a particular result, and a determination section configured to extract action information associated with the particular result detected by the phenomenon detecting section to produce an event for a predetermined system based on action definition data previously specifying action information for each particular result.
US09621964B2
Techniques and systems that allow receiving a data stream and a location value. The location value, in one embodiment, is indicative of a location in the data stream at which the data stream has been aborted. This value may be determined by a sending entity and sent to a receiving entity. In various embodiments, the receiving entity may compute the remaining amount of data to be received in the data stream, and then receive that amount of data. In some embodiments, a checkpoint value may be used in conjunction with the location value to indicate an abort location for a data stream. A checkpoint value may correspond to an amount of data between successive checkpoints in the data stream. In some embodiments, upon aborting a data stream, a receiving entity receives data until a next checkpoint in the data stream.
US09621952B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for monitoring video content provided to a vehicle. In one embodiment a method includes: receiving video content at the vehicle; monitoring the video content based on guidelines data stored in a datastore; and selectively modifying the video content based on the monitoring.
US09621947B1
In accordance with some implementations of the disclosed subject matter, mechanisms for determining channel information are provided. In some implementations, a method for providing media guidance is provided, the method comprising: associating with a local area network; detecting at least one media device on the local area network; determining device information associated with the at least one media device on the local area network; determining, without user intervention, television provider information based on the device information; determining location information of the at least one media device; determining channel information based on the determined television provider information and the determined location information; and causing media guidance information to be presented that includes at least a portion of the determined channel information.
US09621946B2
A receiver accumulates characteristic information by tracking content being presented. When the receiver determines to present a menu of recorded content, the receiver analyzes the accumulated information to rank the recorded content based on a frequency of the characteristics and sorts the menu based at least one the analysis. The receiver may present an instance of content when it is selected. In some implementations, the instances of content are recorded as part of recording multiple instances of content received via at least one broadcast wherein the multiple instances of content are all included in a same frequency band of the broadcast and are all encoded utilizing a same code word. In one or more implementations, the menu may include content information for one or more of the instances of content in the menu, such as the number of related instances of content also stored by the content receiver.
US09621945B2
The disclosure discloses a method and system for continuously playing a media resource in a device. The method includes that a Digital Media Player (DMP) or a Digital Media Renderer (DMR) obtains breakpoint information corresponding a media resource before playing the media resource, wherein the breakpoint information includes a Message-Digest Algorithm 5 (MD5) value of the media resource, a unique device Identifier (ID) of the DMP or the DMR, and breakpoint time when the DMP or the DMR stops playing in the last playing process of the media resource; the DMP or the DMR sends to a Digital Media Server (DMS) according to the breakpoint information, a request for sending data of the media resource from a breakpoint; the DMP or the DMR obtains the data of the media resource from the DMS and plays the same. By means of the disclosure, DMPs/DMRs of different users are enabled to remember breakpoint information of a media resource to be played by each user when playing the same media resource on different DMSs and multi-breakpoint continuous playing can be supported. In addition, the breakpoint information of each user will not overlap each other.
US09621941B2
A system to provide an interactive experience with a participant device operating in relation to a vehicle is disclosed. The interactive experience may include live experience presentations synchronized across multiple participant devices. The multiple participant devices may be operating within or outside of the vehicle. The system may identify a relationship between the participant device and the vehicle. A live experience presentation on the participant device is configured based on the identified relationship. One or more of multimedia and/or multi-sensory streams may be communicated amongst the multiple participant devices and an experience service as layers. The layers are composed to generate the live experience presentation. The experience service may be implemented by an experience platform system.
US09621934B2
A file is multicast from an error-correcting multicast apparatus to a plurality of endpoints forming a first multicast group, over a network segmented into at least second and third multicast groups. The second and third multicast groups are subsets of the first multicast group. Given ones of the endpoints are assigned to the second and third multicast groups based on likelihood of experiencing similar errors. At the error-correcting multicast apparatus, over the network, a retransmission request is obtained from a first one of the endpoints, based on at least one of loss and corruption of a portion of the file during the multicasting of the file to the first one of the endpoints. The portion of the file is retransmitted, via multicasting, over the network, to one of the second and third multicast groups.
US09621930B2
A method is described for streaming video data within a network, wherein the video data includes a sequence of frames. The method includes encoding the sequence of frames and generating a plurality of substreams from the encoded frames in this embodiment. Each of the plurality of substreams is assigned an identifier, and each substream includes a common encoded frame and a non-overlapping portion of the encoded sequence. The non-overlapping portion of the encoded sequence of each substream is selected from the encoded frames based on the identifier of the respective substream. The method also includes transmitting the plurality of substreams to a receiver in an embodiment.
US09621916B2
Provided is an apparatus for encoding a moving picture. When the current block is coded in intra prediction and a size of the transform block is larger than 4×4, the quantized transform coefficients of the quantized transform block are divided into a plurality of sub-blocks. The plurality of sub-blocks are scanned according to a first scan pattern determined by the intra prediction mode of the current block and the quantized transform coefficients of each sub-block are scanned according to a second scan pattern determined by the intra prediction mode of the current block. The first scan pattern for scanning the plurality of sub-blocks is the same as the second scan pattern for scanning the quantized transform coefficients of each sub-block.
US09621913B2
A method for decoding an image according to the present invention comprises the steps of: restoring a residual block by performing inverse quantization and inverse transformation for the entropy-decoded residual block; generating a prediction block by performing intra prediction for a current block; and restoring an image by adding the restored residual block to the prediction block, wherein the step of generating the prediction block further comprises a step for generating a final prediction value of a pixel to be predicted, on the basis of a first prediction value of the pixel to be predicted, which is included in the current block, and of a final correction value that is calculated by performing an arithmetic right shift by a binary digit 1 for a two's complement integer representation with respect to an initial correction value of the pixel to be predicted. Thus, the operational complexity during image encoding/decoding can be reduced.
US09621912B2
A method for decoding an image according to the present invention comprises the steps of: restoring a residual block by performing inverse quantization and inverse transformation for the entropy-decoded residual block; generating a prediction block by performing intra prediction for a current block; and restoring an image by adding the restored residual block to the prediction block, wherein the step of generating the prediction block further comprises a step for generating a final prediction value of a pixel to be predicted, on the basis of a first prediction value of the pixel to be predicted, which is included in the current block, and of a final correction value that is calculated by performing an arithmetic right shift by a binary digit 1 for a two's complement integer representation with respect to an initial correction value of the pixel to be predicted. Thus, the operational complexity during image encoding/decoding can be reduced.
US09621909B2
A method or coding image information, according to the present invention, comprises the steps of: binarizing according to different techniques, index values of forward prediction, backward prediction, and bidirectional prediction, depending on whether the bidirectional prediction is applied when inter-predicting a current block; and entropy coding a binarized codeword, wherein whether to apply the bidirectional prediction when inter-predicting the current block can be determined on the basis of the size of the current block. As a result, provided are a method for binarizing an inter-prediction direction of a prediction unit having a specific size, and an apparatus using same.
US09621878B2
A video controller for synchronizing presentation of a plurality of images is provided. A color switching device is operable to continually select a color out of a set consisting essentially of a plurality of fundamental colors. Each fundamental color is selected for presentation for a fixed time segment. A light processing element is operable to block and permit transmission of light in each color selected by the color switching device during each fixed time segment. The light includes at least two streams of sequential images. A synch signal generator is in control of the light processing element and is configured to time presentation of the light by the light processing element and of control signals to a viewing device of the display. The presentation of the light and of the control signals is timed in synchrony with the fixed time segments only during a transition state of the viewing device.
US09621875B2
A stereophotogrammetry device intended to reduce the 3D surface reconstruction artifacts due to specular reflections when a unique camera body is used. Indeed, specular reflection of the camera flash on shiny objects are creating virtual objects in the scene inducing spikes in reconstruction. The device is constituted of a computing unit (C) enabling 3D reconstruction, a unique camera body (5) equipped with a non-polarized double-optics (OA) and (OB) and two light sources (2A) and (2B) separated by the same distance as the double-optics and aligned with these such that (2A) is aligned with (OA) and (2B) is aligned with (OB) relative to the subject (S). According to geometry considerations, the computing unit (C) is defining the best matching amongst four possible matches relative to the specular spot position.
US09621870B2
One or more techniques to reduce or eliminate the false depth of objects that move along the axis of ocular separation when displayed using time division multiplexing. Experiments can be performed to determine a perceived depth of an object moving with known velocity. Then, when rendering stereoscopic image pairs, the location of the object can be modified to change the perceived stereoscopic depth of the object to compensate for the false depth. In one technique, the images can be displayed with alternating left- and right-precedence to reduce the perception of false depth.
US09621869B2
Systems and methods are provided for minimizing re-projection artifacts. From a re-projection method, a distortion map determines areas of excessive stretching or compressing of pixels, which are then rendered. The re-projection and render are composited to create a new stereo image. Systems and methods are also provided for a “depth layout” process, whereby a new offset view of a 2D plate is created, allowing a stereo pair of images. Custom geometry that approximates the scene is created and 2D rotoscoping is employed to cut out shapes from the geometry. A depth map is created, from which an offset image may be re-projected, resulting in a stereo pair. Systems and methods are also provided for a fast re-projection technique, which creates a novel view from an existing image. The process generates a disparity map and then a distortion map, which is then used to create the new view.
US09621867B2
According to an embodiment, a decoding device includes an acquiring unit configured to acquire first format information, encoded data, and first filter information, the first format information indicating a resolution of a color-difference component of the encoded data; a decoding unit configured to decode the encoded data to obtain a decoded image; and a converting unit configured to convert a color-difference format of the decoded image represented by a first color-difference format by using a filter identified by the filter information.
US09621853B1
Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to service orchestration to support cloud-based, multi-party video conferencing service in a virtual overlay network environment. According to one aspect of the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, a video conferencing service orchestrator can receive, from a user device, a service request for the cloud-based, multi-party video conferencing service orchestrated by the video conferencing service orchestrator. In response to the service request, the video conferencing service orchestrator can provide, to the user device, virtual network layer system software and a virtual machine container for installation on the user device. The virtual network layer system software can implement a network function to provide an interface between the user device and a service controller during a video conference. A conference image particular to the type of video conference can be installed on the virtual machine container to implement the video conference for the user device.
US09621851B2
Systems and methods for augmenting web conference sessions with multimedia content based on text extracted from audio content transmitted during the web conference. In one embodiment, a conference application or other application can receive audio content from at least one client participating in a web conference. The web conference can connect multiple clients for live sharing of audio and video. The conference application can also extract at least one text item from the audio content. The conference application can also generate augmented electronic content by combining electronic content received via the web conference with additional electronic content based on the at least one text item. The conference application can also provide the augmented electronic content via the web conference.
US09621850B1
A system and method enable broadband communication between a remote or airborne station and a terrestrial network linking any other station around the earth. The airborne station connectivity may be routed either via a proximal LEO SAT belonging to a high density LEO SAT constellation as well as via a proximal ground based station directly connected with the terrestrial network. Latency values available to the airborne station are within tolerance for video conferencing by employing steerable antenna elements onboard the airborne station to establish connectivity with and actively track one or more proximal LEO SATs. The airborne station maintains connectivity with the ground based station where available via cellular geographical transmission patterns to deconflict specific bands of limited spectrum as well as protocols specific to the local wireless network. The high density LEO SAT constellation is networked and connected to the terrestrial network via several global down links.
US09621848B2
A transmission management apparatus manages transmission states of a plurality of transmission terminals including a first transmission terminal and a second transmission terminal. The apparatus includes a terminal management table storage unit configured to store therein a terminal management table in which terminal information including an identifier and an identification name of each transmission terminal is managed; a receiving unit configured to receive a terminal information request signal from the first transmission terminal, the terminal information request signal indicating a request for information for identifying the second transmission terminal, the first and second transmission terminals being in transmission therebetween; a terminal state acquisition unit configured to acquire the information for identifying the second transmission terminal from the terminal management table in response to the terminal information request signal; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the information acquired by the terminal state acquisition unit to the first transmission terminal.
US09621831B2
An image capture device includes multiple pixels, each of which has multiple photoelectric conversion elements. Each of first pixels which are some of the pixels outputs a signal based on charges obtained by adding together the charges generated in the photoelectric conversion elements. Each of second pixels outputs a signal based on charges generated by a photoelectric conversion element disposed at a first position, without outputting charges generated by a photoelectric conversion element disposed at a second position among the photoelectric conversion elements. Each of third pixels outputs a signal based on charges generated by the photoelectric conversion element disposed at the second position, without outputting a signal based on charges generated by the photoelectric conversion element disposed at the first position.
US09621826B2
An image sensor having a pixel unit in which a plurality of pixels are two-dimensionally arranged, and a scanning unit that selects row or rows and causes signals to be output from pixels in the selected row or rows, each of the pixels comprising: a photoelectric converter; a storage portion; a transfer portion configured to transfer a signal charge generated by the photoelectric converter to the storage portion, if each of the pixels is included in the selected row or rows; and an output portion configured to output a pixel signal corresponding to the signal charge transferred to the storage portion. In a merged readout mode, a capacitance of the storage portion of a pixel in a row or rows except a predetermined row among the plurality of selected rows is different from that in the predetermined row.
US09621815B2
A photographing apparatus and a photographing control method are provided, including an exposure-commencement instructing device configured to provide an instruction to commence an exposure of the image sensor, and an exposure-commencement controller configured to commence a driving of the movable member via the driver upon the image sensor being instructed to commence an exposure by the exposure-commencement instructing device in a non driving state of the movable member, performed by the driver, and after a predetermined unstable-operation period of time of the low-pass filter operation lapses from the commencement of the driving of the movable member, the exposure-commencement controller commences an exposure of the image sensor.
US09621809B2
A display control apparatus includes a first display unit in an eyepiece viewfinder, a second display unit configured to be visible without the user's eye being in contact therewith, and a display control unit configured to perform control to display a soft keyboard on the second display unit without displaying the soft keyboard on the first display unit in response to an operation for displaying the soft keyboard during display on the first display unit.
US09621807B2
An optical device that is capable of reducing eccentric aberration while reducing image blur. A first shake correction unit corrects image blur optically based on a shake amount that is detected by a shake detection unit. A second shake correction unit corrects image blur optically based on a shake amount that is detected by the shake detection unit. The second shake correction unit has a different image blur correction effect from the first shake correction unit. The optical device has a mode in which shake correction is performed using the first shake correction unit without using the second shake correction unit.
US09621803B2
A method for correlating views of two or more video camera systems includes obtaining a plurality of data point coordinate sets to represent relative positioning between the camera systems and data point objects in the environment. The views may be correlated through Interpolation or extrapolation using the obtained data point coordinate sets. Devices such as lasers may also be used to correlate views of two or more video camera systems.
US09621801B2
An imaging apparatus to communicate with an external apparatus via a network includes an image capturing unit, a rotation unit, a reception unit, first and second control units, a determination unit, and a control switching unit. The rotation unit rotates the image capturing unit in a predetermined direction. The reception unit receives a control command including information for designating acceleration when the rotation unit rotates the image capturing unit. The first control unit controls the rotation unit at the designated acceleration. The second control unit controls the rotation unit at acceleration that is different from the designated acceleration. The determination unit determines whether a speed at which the rotation unit rotates the image capturing unit is within a predetermined range. The control switching unit switches between the first control unit and the second control unit according to a determination result of the determination unit, and control the rotation unit.
US09621799B2
An imaging apparatus includes a first detector configured to detect an elapsed time after starting to shoot an image in a specific shooting mode for shooting the image by moving the imaging apparatus in a predetermined shooting direction, a second detector configured to detect amount of movement of the imaging apparatus, and a controller configured to control display of a display unit to display, in the specific shooting mode, a first indicator fixedly positioned on the display unit and a second indicator movably positioned on the display unit. The controller decides a first amount of movement in the predetermined shooting direction according to the detected elapsed time and a second amount of movement in an opposite direction according to the detected amount of movement of the imaging apparatus, and controls a display position of the second indicator based on the first and second amounts of movement.
US09621787B2
An image pickup apparatus detachably mounting a lens unit including a plurality of optical members includes an image pickup unit that accumulates charge in synchronization with a vertical synchronizing signal to generate an image signal, and a control unit that generates control information for each of the plurality of optical members of the mounted lens unit and communicates the control information with the lens unit in synchronization with the vertical synchronizing signal. The control unit is configured to perform a first communication in synchronization with the vertical synchronizing signal, and to perform a second communication, for controlling an optical member different to the optical before a next first communication that is performed in synchronization with a next vertical synchronizing signal. The first communication and the second communication are predetermined packet communications in which optical members to be controlled among the plurality of optical members are different from each other.
US09621782B2
An image capturing apparatus includes: an image capturing element in which a plurality of pixels are formed and arranged and phase difference pixels are formed within an effective pixel region; a photographing lens; and a control unit which analyzes a captured image signal by the image capturing element, obtains a phase difference amount from detection signals of two of the phase difference pixels that make a pair, and performs a focusing control of the photographing lens, in which the control unit calculates, as a sensitivity ratio, a ratio of an integration value of light receiving sensitivity of the phase difference pixel within a range of an incident angle of the photographing lens, and an integration value of light receiving sensitivity of a pixel other than the phase difference pixel, and corrects a deviation in light receiving sensitivity between the two phase difference pixels.
US09621774B2
A camera module, according to an embodiment of the present invention, comprises: a printed circuit board, on which an image sensor is mounted; a lens barrel installed on the printed circuit board and having at least one lens installed therein; an actuator module which is assembled in the lens barrel and includes first and second actuators having first and second moving lenses, respectively, installed therein, wherein the first and second moving lenses respectively perform and auto focusing function on an image formed at the image sensor and an image stabilization function; and a connector which is formed in the lens barrel and connected to the actuator module such that electricity can flow therebetween.
US09621771B2
Switch boxes and other such utility boxes must some time be monitored by video. And most of the time, they are behind a door for security and safety reasons In order to image them, the imaging system must then be located very close to them, that is, inside the enclosure. Disclosed herein are systems and corresponding methods for imaging and monitoring utility panel elements arranged on a utility surface. Example embodiments include an optical focusing element to focus rays from utility panel elements and image the elements onto an imaging plane that is non-parallel with a utility surface, and an imaging surface configured to acquire a representation of the image. Example systems and corresponding methods provide for thermal imaging of utility panel elements at close proximity to the elements and within an enclosure. An advantage of these systems and methods is that utility panel elements such as fuses and switches may be imaged even when located within an enclosure and remotely monitored.
US09621766B2
The present invention provides an image processing apparatus including a skeleton component separation unit configured to separate a skeleton component illustrating a perspective structure from a source image, a mist/fog correction unit configured to calculate, based on color information in each color channel of the skeleton component, a correction factor that lowers brightness of a pixel as the pixel is brighter and correct, based on the correction factor, brightness of each pixel of the source image, and a brightness restoration unit configured to restore brightness of the brightness-corrected source image to brightness of environmental light as target brightness.
US09621765B2
A method for converting color data includes reading from a memory the color data represented in a first color space; converting the color data into un-premultiplied color data; converting the un-premultiplied color data from the first color space to a second color space; converting the un-premultiplied color data in the second color space into first premultiplied color data; and writing the first premultiplied color data to the memory.
US09621760B2
Information is encoded in an image signal by exploiting spectral differences between colors that appear the same when rendered. These spectral differences are detected using image sensing that discerns the spectral differences. Spectral difference detection methods include using sensor-synchronized spectrally-structured-light imaging, 3D sensors, imaging spectrophotometers, and higher resolution Bayer pattern capture relative to resolution of patches used to convey a spectral difference signal.
US09621757B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image scanning section, an exit tray, and an upper housing. The image scanning section scans an image of an original document. The exit tray is disposed below the image scanning section. A sheet bearing an image is ejected onto the exit tray. The upper housing houses the image scanning section. The image forming apparatus has a sheet ejection space that is formed between the exit tray and the upper housing. A user's hand is inserted into the sheet ejection space for taking out the sheet from the exit tray. The upper housing includes a bottom plate having a surface that faces the exit tray. The bottom plate includes a plurality of reinforcing members that are disposed on the surface of the bottom plate and that extend in a direction in which the user takes out the recording medium from the exit tray.
US09621756B2
An optical scanning device includes a light source that emits light, a deflector that deflects and scans the light emitted from the light source in a main scanning direction, a housing, a synchronization detection sensor, and a sensor board. The synchronization detection sensor is mounted in the housing, detects scanning light from the deflector, and outputs a write timing reference signal of image data. The sensor board is mounted with the synchronization detection sensor. The aforementioned sensor board is formed with a light transmitting hole for allowing a part of the scanning light to pass therethrough when an incident position of the scanning light for a light receiving surface coincides with a center position of the aforementioned light receiving surface in a sub-scanning direction on an extension line of a center line of the light receiving surface of the aforementioned synchronization detection sensor in the sub-scanning direction.
US09621752B2
An image forming apparatus includes an information obtainer, a memory, a candidate determining unit, and an image forming device. The information obtainer obtains feature information from the target recording medium. The memory stores at least one set of recording medium information regarding the target recording medium associated with the feature information and at least one set of image forming condition information corresponding to the recording medium information. The recording medium information is identification information. The candidate determining unit determines a candidate recording medium information from the recording medium information stored in the memory based on the feature information of the target recording medium obtained by the information obtainer. The image forming device forms an image on the target recording medium based on the image forming condition information in the memory according to the candidate recording medium information determined by the candidate determining unit.
US09621747B2
An apparatus and method provide logic for processing information. In one implementation, an apparatus may include a receiving unit configured to receive information associated with a first imaging region and information associated with a second imaging region. The apparatus may also include a determination unit configured to determine, based on at least the first and second imaging region information, whether a portion of the first imaging region is coincident within at least a portion of the second imaging region. A classification unit configured may assign a classification to at least one of the first or second imaging regions, based on the determination.
US09621745B2
The present invention discloses a processing system and method for the scanning content. The processing system for the scanning content includes a scanning device and a cloud processing device. The scanning device scans the image of the non-electronic paper to generate a paper image and retrieves a selected content image corresponding to the selected content from the paper image. The cloud processing device analyzes the selected content image to correspondingly generate a content type, obtains a processing mode table which stores a plurality of content types and processing means corresponding to each content type, determines which content type in the processing mode table the generated content type belongs to and executes the processing means corresponding to the content type.
US09621739B2
Methods are disclosed for providing replicas of a sporting trophy and for scoring the sporting trophy. The first method includes providing a sporting trophy to be scanned, scanning the sporting trophy to provide three-dimensional image data of the sporting trophy, and providing the three-dimensional image data of the sporting trophy to a replica generating system to provide a replica of the sporting trophy. The second method includes providing three-dimensional digital data of a sporting trophy having a volume and a surface area, providing at least one sporting-relevant measurement based on the three-dimensional data of the sporting trophy, and providing a score of the sporting trophy based on the at least one sporting-relevant measurement.
US09621734B2
A system for yielding control of a network to a device configured to operate on a PSTN. The system includes a network configured to couple one or more devices to a PSTN, and a PSTN telephone, a PSTN security system, and an ATA and modem coupled to the network. The ATA and modem are configured to provide a VoIP interface between the network and the Internet and to provide a dial tone to the network. An access detector is coupled to the network to detect when the security system attempts to use the network.
US09621733B2
A method and system for operating a multitenancy telephony system including a call queue that stores call requests received from a plurality of users; an expandable and contractible telephony resource cluster that establishes call sessions for call requests; a analysis system that calculates capacity requirements of the system; a resource allocator that manages the scaling and operation of the telephony resource cluster; and a plurality of telephony network channels that are used as telephony communication channels for call sessions.
US09621732B2
A system for detecting three-way calls in a monitored telephone conversation includes a speech recognition processor that transcribes the monitored telephone conversation and associates characteristics of the monitored telephone conversation with a transcript thereof, a database to store the transcript and the characteristics associated therewith, and a three-way Call detection processor to analyze the characteristics of the conversation and to detect therefrom the addition of one or more parties to the conversation. The system preferably includes at least one domain-specific language model that the speech recognition processor utilizes to transcribe the conversation. The system may operate in real-time or on previously recorded conversations. A query and retrieval system may be used to retrieve and review call records from the database.
US09621731B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for determining participants for a conference call where the participants may be selected based on similar attributes as well as the descriptions of the conference call. Additionally, the conference call may be split into smaller breakout sessions, further separating the participants based on various attributes. Further, the conference call participants may be shuffled thereby creating different breakout sessions with different participants with like attributes. The conference call including the selected participants is initiated.
US09621720B1
A message receiving, intercepting and processing method and corresponding application and device may provide receiving a message at a message processing server, the message being intended for a phone number associated with a customer service provider. The method may also include identifying a telephone number of the sender of the message, parsing at least one word from the message, retrieving user account information of the sender, and generating an automated response to the message that includes contextual information that is based on at least one of the user account information and the parsed at least one word from the message.
US09621710B2
A method for displaying menu items and a terminal for implementing the same are disclosed to improve user convenience. The terminal includes: a display unit; a controller for displaying arbitrary menu items on the display unit such that menu items at a particular position are differentiated from menu items at a different position, and a user input unit for selectively rearranging the position of the menu items by a user.
US09621707B2
A system and method for discouraging the in appropriate use of a mobile device including registering a mobile device with a monitoring application running on a system coupled with a network. A mobile device is linked with the monitoring application through the network. The operational status of the mobile device is monitored to detect if a change occurs in the operational status. A change in the operational status of the mobile device is reported to the monitoring program with time information and the status change is displayed in a graphical interface, and a notification message is sent to a system user. Beacons might also be implemented to advise a device user to disable a mobile device to be monitored.
US09621706B2
A method of haptic communication at a wireless device is disclosed. The method may include receiving an input gesture and generating an input gesture message from the input gesture. The input gesture message may be operable for transmission to a receiving wireless device.
US09621704B2
A method and system for file synchronization may include sending, by a first device, a file synchronization request to a server; receiving, by the server, the file synchronization request from the first device; determining, according to first file synchronization information and at least one piece of second fine synchronization information, the latest state information of the file to be synchronized among the first state information and the at least one piece of second state information; sending the latest state information of the file to be synchronized to the first device; receiving, by the first device, the latest state information of the file to be synchronized sent by the server; and performing synchronization operations on the file according to the latest state information of the file to be synchronized. In such a way, the present invention can allow a file to be synchronously used between different devices.
US09621702B2
A control system includes a control device, a controller, a plurality of user mobile devices, and a manager mobile device. Initial first identification information picked up by each user mobile device is sent to the manager mobile device, is authenticated, and is encoded. Every time a user mobile device is connected to the controller for opening the control device, a holder of the user mobile device is requested to input an instant first identification information. After decoding by a decoding key, the controller identifies whether the instant first identification information is identical to the authenticated initial first identification information. The identification result is used to decide whether the control device should be set to be an open state.
US09621696B2
The present invention relates to a casing and protective shell for a mobile electronic device. The casing includes an outer layer having a first side exposed to the outside, and a second side opposite to the first side; a flexible buffer layer having a first side connected to the second side of the outer layer, and a second side opposite to the first side of the buffer layer; and a layer for holding, which has a side connected to the second side of the buffer layer.
US09621690B2
Disclosed is a housing for a portable handheld electronic device such as a cellphone. The device has a housing, having a left side and right side. At least one of the left side and right side is provided with integral surface features or surface structures to enhance gripping the cellphone, preferably along the entire length of the phone or within about the top half or one third of the phone.
US09621687B2
The formation of a wireless device group for use in a computing environment involves establishing a wireless communication connection between a host wireless interface device and each of one or more dependent wireless interface devices, in which each dependent wireless interface device is configured to not directly communicate with a computing device. Another wireless communication connection is established between the host wireless interface device and the computing device when the host wireless interface device is within a host connection distance of the computing device. A further wireless communication connection can be established between the host wireless interface device and a second, different computing device.
US09621686B2
A method for identifying reset source and reason in a TCP session is provided in the illustrative embodiments. A reset packet is prepared for the TCP session. An identifier associated with the target data processing system is added using a first header in the reset packet. The identifier associated with the target data processing system is unknown to a sender a data packet in the TCP session. The sender sends the data packet to another data processing system during the TCP session. A reason for resetting the TCP session is added using a second header in the reset packet. The TCP session is reset by sending the reset packet.
US09621682B2
A system for distributing audio or video data across a network, wherein an input data rate controller at a server controls the transmission rate to a client such that it matches the intended rendering rate of the data, and time stamps the data using a clock that is synchronized with the clock of the client. The client monitors the rate at which data is received, compares the rate against the rate at which the data is actually rendered, and adjusts the rate at which the data is actually rendered depending on the comparison.
US09621679B2
A server including an input device receiving information, an output device generating output information, a memory, and a processor utilizing the memory.The processor executes a process including receiving the information of an operations task including tasks having device and human tasks, and an order of the tasks; determining an operating time of each of the tasks based on a time determination rule; generating process definitions having the determined operating time associated with a corresponding one of the tasks; extracting, based on the process definitions and an analysis rule, one of a dependence relationship between the tasks, a risk in the dependence relationship between the tasks, and a risk in each of the tasks; and generating the output information for visually outputting one of the dependence relationship between the tasks, the risk in the dependence relationship between the tasks, and the risk in the each of the tasks.
US09621674B2
A method for associating online accounts includes: sending a device identification of a public device corresponding to a public online account that includes at least a first online account and second online account information corresponding to a second online account to a server, so that the server associates the second online account with the first online account in the public online account corresponding to the device identification, to obtain a public online account including the first online account and the second online account.
US09621671B2
A method of transmitting a content reply packet from a content owner in content-centric networking (CCN) includes determining a caching capability value threshold (CCVth) for determining a candidate node for caching a content based on a policy of the content owner, and transmitting a content reply packet including the content and the CCVth in response to a content request packet from a content requester.
US09621667B2
A server machine may create a network connection to a device and receive a request to stream media that is managed by a different server machine. The server machine that created the network connection may be unaware of the location of the media at the time the network connection is created, and the location of the media may remain unknown to this server machine until the location is identified by the request, which may be received at runtime. In response to this request, the server machine that created the network connection may communicate with the different server machine and function as an intermediary in routing a stream of data between the device and the different server machine. In example embodiments where certain media is managed by the other server machine, the server machine may retrieve the media and stream it to the device using the created network connection.
US09621663B2
Described herein are systems and methods for assessing an asset's contributions to the social media performance of a peer group and comparing those contributions against those of other peer group members. In particular, the performance of one or more social media profiles associated with a peer group comprising the asset may be assessed. Share assessments may be made as to a share or a portion of the social media performance of the peer group that may be attributable to the asset. Similar assessments may be made with respect to other entities belonging to the peer group. The peer group members, including the asset, may then be ranked in accordance with their contributions to the peer group's social media performance. Peer groups may be customized or dynamically defined by a user such that the share assessments may be used to accurately benchmark assets against their peers and/or develop best practices.
US09621657B2
A network device issues a globally unique identifier (GUID) to an application for use in a database read/write session. The network device determines a session key based on the GUID. The network device determines a total number of database nodes available to handle a read/write session with the application, and determines one of the database nodes to route a session to based on applying a modulo function to the session key and to the determined total number of database nodes. The network device, when determining the one of the database nodes to route the session to, applies the function (X mod Y)+1, where X is the session key and Y is the total number of database nodes available to handle the read/write session with the application.
US09621655B2
A method and device of sharing an event or experience by capturing a geographic location of the and at least one detail of the experience or event in the form of data such as video, text, sound, or pictures, with an electronic device, storing the geographic location plus the data on a database accessible to a plurality of users. The application further alerts a user or a plurality of users of the details of the experience when the user is near the geographic location where the at least one detail of the experience was captured and guiding the user to the geographic location where the experience was captured.
US09621653B2
A Data Storage Device (DSD) includes a Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) for storing data, a network interface for communicating on a network, and a processor. According to one aspect, a command is received via the network interface for storing data in the NVM or retrieving data from the NVM. Based on a transport attribute of the command, it is determined whether to execute a file interface for accessing files stored in the NVM or an object interface for accessing data objects stored in the NVM. According to another aspect, computer-executable instructions are received from a device via the network interface and the computer-executable instructions are executed using an off-load interface. The computer-executable instructions cause the processor to transform data stored in the NVM or data received from the network and send the transformed data to another device on the network or store the transformed data in the NVM.
US09621652B2
Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to time stamp based data synchronization and provide a method, system and computer program product for scalable, ranging time stamp based data synchronization. In an embodiment of the invention, a ranging time stamp synchronization method can include computing a time range for a specified time, and producing time stamp synchronization anchors using the time range for each of the anchors. Optionally, a drift value can be computed for the time range and the computing and producing steps can be repeated when the drift value exceeds a threshold. Finally, the anchors can be used to determine whether to update data items in a remote data source in the remote host computing platform with data items from a primary data source in the primary host computing platform.
US09621646B2
Candidate nodes for live streaming services are provided and selected. A candidate nodes list for live streaming services is provided. The method includes collecting information of each node involved in the live streaming services; based on the collected information, calculating progress factors of each node; comparing the collected information of each node with load thresholds; sorting the nodes, the collected information of which are below the load thresholds, on the basis of the calculated progress factors; and forming the candidate nodes list by a number N of first N nodes of the sorted nodes. The candidate node for live streaming services may also be selected by: based on information involved in the live streaming services, calculating progress factors; reporting the calculated progress factors and requesting for candidate nodes list; selecting a candidate node from the candidate nodes list according to delay requirements and overlay policies of the live streaming services.
US09621641B2
Features are disclosed for determining which content item or items are likely to be requested by a particular user or device, or by a group of users or devices. The determined content items may be obtained independently of a request from the users or devices, and substantially current versions of the content items may be maintained at a server system, such as an intermediary system. Visual representations of the content items may be generated to reduce processing requirements at a user device. When the content items are determined to be likely to be requested by a particular user, a predicted time may also be determined, and the visual representations may be generated such that they are available at the predicted time.
US09621636B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus are described for throttling a distributed processing system. In one aspect, a method includes identifying records being processed by a distributed processing system that performs agent processes, each of the records including a corresponding timestamp; determining, based on timestamps of the records that have been processed by a first agent process, a first agent progress; identifying a dependent agent process performed by the distributed processing system, wherein the dependent agent process processes only records that have been processed by the first agent process; determining, based on timestamps of records that have been processed by the dependent agent process, a dependent agent progress; and throttling performance of the first process based on the first agent progress and the dependent agent progress.
US09621635B1
Systems and methods for exchanging information in a distributed computing system implementing an interactive application, such as a location-based parallel reality game, are provided. In particular, the subject matter of the present disclosure provides an alternative approach for providing and processing return results from a remote procedure call (RPC) by which remote computing systems (e.g. a game server and a remote client) send requests and responses to one another. Rather than providing a single return result in response to a single request as in typical remote procedure calls, information about updates to the state of the interactive application, such as updates to game status, can be returned via side channels which are handled generically while passing the main return result of the invoked service directly back to the caller.
US09621632B2
In one embodiment, a method of scaling stateful enterprise services is provided. In this method, a request for data from an enterprise application is received. A user identifier is identified from the request, and an instance of the enterprise application that is associated with the user identifier is identified. The request is then routed to the identified instance of the enterprise application.
US09621629B2
A cache server, connected to a packet forwarding apparatus that forwards a packet to be sent and received between a user terminal and a distribution server that distributes content over the Internet, temporarily stores at least some of the content in a content temporary storage unit of the cache server, calculates a bit rate when sending content based on a TCP response signal or an ECN (Explicit Congestion Notification) signal received from the terminal, and reads a file or stream of content requested in a content request message received from the terminal, whose bit rate is not greater than the bit rate, from the content temporary storage unit or the distribution server, stores the read file or stream in a packet of a prescribed protocol, and sends the packet.
US09621625B2
System and methods for determining a relationship between an application-level identifier and a network-level identifier are provided. In one implementation, a discovery server receives a data request that includes an application-level identifier and a transitory network-level identifier. Based on the transitory network-level identifier, the discovery server determines a stable network-level identifier, and further maps the application-level identifier to the stable network-level identifier.
US09621624B2
Content is inserted into conversations hosted on a takeoff site using creatives that provide lures and links to other material that users engaged in the conversation might find helpful and relevant. Such insertions are made in a contextually meaningful fashion through the use of a matching and decision process that determines best candidate creatives and an appropriate time and place for their insertion into the conversation.
US09621623B2
A client includes a registration unit that registers operation control information received from a server and corresponding to a service provided by the server, a calling unit that calls the service in order to cause the server to execute the service when a user selects the service corresponding to the operation control information registered by the user, and an execution unit that, when the user selects the service corresponding to the operation control information registered by the user, executes processing to be executed by the client indicated by the operation control information corresponding to the service, in calling of the service.
US09621620B2
The present invention provides content providing apparatus and method and a content providing system which maintains a compatibility with an IP network and deliver a content with a complete distributed architecture excluding the content synchronizing process and the request routing process which delivers the content.
US09621618B2
A packet analyzer device and method are described herein that measure a video quality of IP multicast media. In one embodiment, the packet analyzer device and method measure a video quality of transmitted IP multicast media when the transmission of the IP multicast media involves the use of Forward Error Correction (FEC) in accordance with the FLUTE protocol.
US09621614B2
Apparatuses and methods control communication of content streams through a content distribution network. A data repository is accessed to retrieve information which identifies a group of user equipment nodes that are registered with one of a plurality of subscriber accounts and which further identifies weight values that are associated with the group of the user equipment nodes. Communication bit rates that are provided by a weighted fair queuing scheduler node to individual ones of a group of the content streams within bandwidth allocated to a virtual pipe for carrying the group of the content streams through the content distribution network to the group of the user equipment nodes, are regulated responsive to the weight values associated with the group of the user equipment nodes. Weighted fair queuing scheduling can thereby be provided at a virtual pipe level and, furthermore, at a user equipment node level.
US09621611B2
Systems and methods for transforming and sending generic content into a platform-specific format or receiving pre-transformed platform-specific content. The generic content and platform-specific format includes one or more tiles that are modified as part of the transformation. An electronic device requests content, and a smart tile processor converts the generic content to platform-specific content before sending the platform-specific content to the requesting electronic device.
US09621606B2
A request to retrieve data from a client device is intercepted by a video detector. The video detector determines if the request is for retrieving a video file. If the request is for a video file, and the video file is deemed to be transcoded to be displayed on the client device, the video detector forwards the request to a video optimizer along with encoding parameters. Encoding parameters are selected by the video detector based on properties of the client device, networks accessible by the client device, conditions of those networks, properties of the requested video and the type of video requested. The encoding parameters also include a file format type to which the requested video is to be transcoded.
US09621605B2
A network bridge connects a host device, such as digital media player, cell phone or camera, to content sources over a network to permit the host device to transmit or receive digital media. The network bridge includes a network interface module that identifies at least one media source as well as digital media available on the network. A host device interface module receives, from the host device, file system requests in accordance with a protocol, such as a mass storage protocol. In response to the request, a host device protocol interface module on the network bridge translates the file system request to a request for digital media. The network interface module acquires digital media from the media source, and the host device interface module transfers the digital media to the host device in accordance with the interface protocol.
US09621599B2
A first call control server transmits line information of a line to be used by a terminal device calls of which are controlled by the first call control server to a second call control server when congestion is detected. The first call control server receives the line information to be used in call control from the second call control server, and establishes a connection with the terminal device using the received line information. The second call control server receives the line information from the first call control server, and receives a call control request for the terminal device, the call control request being addressed to the first call control server. The second call control server responds to the first call control server with the received line information, when the call control request is received.
US09621591B2
A service provision apparatus and related method which provides a service for a user via a network includes a setting unit, a determination unit, and a decision unit. The setting unit sets an evaluation policy for evaluating reliability of at least one authentication apparatus performing authentication on the user. The determination unit determines whether the authentication made by the at least one authentication apparatus is to be relied on, on the basis of at least one evaluation result obtained by evaluating whether the at least one authentication apparatus is to be relied on, on the basis of the evaluation policy. The decision unit determines that the service is to be provided for the user in response to a determination that the authentication made by the at least one authentication apparatus is to be relied on and information that the user has been authenticated by the at least one authentication apparatus.
US09621586B2
A method for enhancing resiliency of a service includes: decomposing at least one component associated with the service into a plurality of corresponding smaller elements; encrypting the elements to generate a corresponding plurality of encrypted elements; decomposing each of the encrypted elements into a corresponding plurality of smaller fragments; replicating each of the fragments; encapsulating the fragments into respective intelligent components, each of the intelligent components corresponding to a given one of the encapsulated fragments, each of the intelligent components being configured to independently determine a location of a first storage element in which to store itself; storing each of the intelligent components; and moving the intelligent components from the first storage element location to a second storage element location.
US09621581B2
In one embodiment, a switch in a computer network intercepts a packet to a destination target, the packet having a solicited node multicast address of the target as a destination media access control (MAC) address of the packet. As such, the switch may determine whether the solicited node multicast address is a hit or miss within a switch hardware table of the switch, and in response to a hit, re-writes the destination MAC address with a known value of the destination target from the table, and unicasts the packet to the destination target. In one or more additional embodiments, in response to a miss, and in response to a single-switch architecture, the switch drops the packet, while in response to a miss, and in response to a multi-switch architecture, the switch may compute a repository switch for the solicited multicast destination, and unicasts the packet to the computed repository switch.
US09621572B2
Systems are described for capturing network traffic data and efficiently storing the data on solid state storage devices. The systems can include a capture process module, a storage management module, and a query module. The storage management module can include circuitry configured to hold an arbitrarily large number of solid state storage devices configured to appear to a host system as a single large solid state drive.
US09621561B2
Architecture for providing a superuser privilege in a conferencing environment. A pre-configured entity such as a bot program receives special conferencing privileges. A request can be identified as originating from a trusted service and an associated predetermined set of privileges passed to the service. The trusted service can impersonate a user, and join a conference using its own identity or using the identity of a user. Conference control rules can be enforced on the trusted user (e.g., no other users can eject or mute this entity). Moreover, the trusted service can (optionally) hide itself from the conference roster to remain invisible to all participants.
US09621552B2
Computer and communications systems and methods are provided in which a first computing system sends a second computing system a message and an associated deep-string and the second computing system applies a key of a cryptographic system or a one-way function to the deep-string to determine the deep-string's deep-string-depth. The second computing device then uses the determined deep-string-depth in determining subsequent behavior regarding the message. In some environments, a third computing device may generate and provide deep-strings of various deep-string-depths to the first computing device to ensure more favorable behavior of the second computing device.
US09621549B2
An integrated circuit may comprise a secure volatile memory configured to store first data-validity information associated with first data stored in an external nonvolatile memory; and a secure processor configured to: retrieve the first data-validity information from a secure remote server over a secure communication channel, wherein the secure processor uses mutual authentication with the secure remote server to secure the secure communication channel; store the first data-validity information in the secure volatile memory; retrieve the first data from the external nonvolatile memory; obtain second data-validity information associated with the first data; compare the first data-validity information stored in the secure volatile memory with the second data-validity information to generate a comparison value; and determine, based on the comparison value, whether the first data is valid.
US09621547B2
Technologies are provided in embodiments to establish trust between a trusted execution environment (TEE) and a peripheral device. Embodiments are configured to communicate with an attestation server to generate an encryption key, and to establish, using the encryption key, a secure connection with an authentication server to enable communication between the authentication server and the peripheral device. Embodiments are also configured to receive a pairwise master key if the peripheral device is authenticated and to receive a trusted communication from the peripheral device based, at least in part, on the pairwise master key. Embodiments may also be configured to identify a connection to the peripheral device before the peripheral device is authenticated to the authentication server, receive an identifier from the peripheral device, and establish a connection to an attestation server based on at least a portion of the identifier.
US09621541B1
Systems and methods for incrementally communicating a document to a client computer are disclosed herein. Time consistent views of the document are maintained throughout the incremental downloading through use of a cryptographically secured permissions token identifying a version of the document the user is permitted to access.
US09621538B2
A method and system for providing a first network resource with secure but limited access to a second network resource. A method embodying the invention includes receiving a request to access the second resource. It is verified that the source of the request is the first resource. It is then verified that the request was originated by a user through, for example, a web browser, and then a user's credentials are authenticated. Only when the request can be properly verified and the user credentials authenticated, is access to the second resource granted. Beneficially, the first resource cannot access the second without the user's knowledge or, at least, implicit consent.
US09621525B2
Various features pertain to digital signatures for use in signing messages. In one aspect, a digital signature is generated based on a nonce derived using a per-message salt value, particularly a salt selected to provide a semi-deterministic nonce (i.e. a nonce that is neither fully deterministic nor completely random.) In one example, the nonce is generated by concatenating the salt value with a long-term private key and then applying the result to a key derivation function along with a hash of the message to be signed. The salt value may be, e.g., a counter, a context-specific message or may be randomly generated within a restricted range of values (relative to a full range of values associated with the particular digital signature generation protocol used to generate a digital signature from the nonce.)
US09621518B2
Various disclosed embodiments include methods and systems for provisioning traversal using relays around network address translation (TURN) credentials and servers for network address translation/firewall (NAT/FW) traversal via a Voice-over-Internet-protocol/Web Real-Time Communication (VoIP/WebRTC) signaling channel. The method comprises receiving, at a signaling gateway, a signaling message from a first electronic device (ED) when the first electronic device registers with the signaling gateway or sends other signaling messages for requesting a TURN credential. The signaling message comprises one or more signaling message parameters. The signaling message further comprises a request that the signaling gateway generate a TURN credential for the first electronic device, the TURN credential associated with the one or more signaling message parameters. The method comprises sending, from the signaling gateway, the TURN credential to the first electronic device.
US09621507B2
A control method and apparatus for data display are described. The method includes: receiving, by a first client at current time, first target data pushed by a second client; determining, by the first client, whether the first target data pushed by the second client has been received within a first predetermined time period before the current time; and determining, by the first client at least according to the number of times that the first target data is received within the first predetermined time period and whether the first target data received within the first predetermined time period has been displayed on the first client, whether to display, on the first client, the first target data received at the current time if the first client determines that the first client has received, within the first predetermined time period, the first target data pushed by the second client.
US09621504B2
A method for handing messages on a secure social network (SSN) includes receiving a message comprising a recipient name from a SSN member sender, retrieving a list of SSN member names approved to communicate with the SSN member sender, and determining that recipient name matches a first SSN member name and a second member name stored in the list of SSN member names, where the first SSN member name identifies an inmate of a controlled facility. The method further includes retrieving a first period of time since a previous communication between the SSN member sender and the first SSN member name, retrieving a second period of time since a previous communication between the SSN member sender and the second SSN member name, and sending the message to the inmate based on a comparison of the first period of time to the second period of time.
US09621501B2
A message screening system includes routing to a supervisory recipient an electronic message directed to an intended recipient. The supervisory recipient then is allowed to screen the electronic message by approving or rejecting the electronic message. The electronic message then is forwarded to the intended recipient if the electronic message is approved by the supervisory recipient.
US09621495B1
An example embodiment includes a method of employing an anonymous message (AM) proxy to facilitate anonymous communication between parties. The method includes creating a channel associated with a first actual address of a first party. The method also includes assigning a channel address to the channel. The method further includes receiving a channel access request at the channel address from a second actual address of a second party. The method also includes assigning a first proxy address to the first actual address and a second proxy address to the second actual address. The method further includes mapping a first address pair to a second address pair for the channel. The first address pair includes the first proxy address and the first actual address. The second address pair includes the second proxy address and the second actual address. The method also includes sending the second proxy address to the second actual address.
US09621483B2
An EtherCAT packet forwarding system with distributed clocking is provided. The system comprises a master device and a plurality of slaves. The master comprises a processing port and a forward port for being respectively coupled to the at least two Ethernet ports of the master device in a redundant ring topology. The slaves comprise an internal clock indicating a current time, and a slave memory comprising a processing timestamp variable, a forwarding timestamp variable, a temporary timestamp variable and a copy-direct bit.
US09621481B2
An island-based network flow processor (IB-NFP) integrated circuit includes islands organized in rows. A configurable mesh control bus extends through the islands. The configurable mesh control bus is configurable to have a unidirectional tree structure such that configuration information passes into the integrated circuit, through a root island, through the branches of the tree structure, and to each of the other islands. The functional circuits of the islands, as well as a configurable mesh data bus of the integrated circuit, are all configured with configuration information supplied via the tree structure. In one example, the configurable control mesh bus portion of each island includes a statically configured switch and multiple half links that radiate from the switch. The static configuration is determined by hardwired tie off connections associated with the island.
US09621479B2
IEEE 802.1Q and Enhanced Transmission Selection provide only eight different traffic classes that may be used to control bandwidth in a particular physical connection (or link). Instead of relying only on these eight traffic classes to manage bandwidth, the embodiments discussed herein disclose using an Enhanced Transmission Selection scheduler that permits a network device to set the bandwidth for an individual virtual LAN. Allocating bandwidth in a port based on a virtual LAN ID permits a network device to allocate bandwidth to, e.g., millions of unique virtual LANs. Thus, this technique may increase the granular control of the network fabric and its performance.
US09621474B2
A relay wireless communication device is implemented to perform buffer management and coordination with a source wireless communication device. A relay wireless communication device (generally, a relay) informs a source wireless communication device (source) of the status of memory therein to store messages intended for a destination wireless communication device (destination). For example, the source transmits information to the relay, which buffers information before forwarding it on to the destination. This buffering may be a function of the source having additional information intended for the relay and/or destination. The relay performs appropriate signaling, such as suspend transmission requests and resume transmission requests, to inform other devices in the system of its memory storage status (e.g., such as when having an actual or anticipated overflow). In one implementation, a suspend transmission request may be implemented by setting a particular bit within a communication from the relay to the source.
US09621471B2
The congestion notification system of some embodiments sends congestion notification messages from lower layer (e.g., closer to a network) components to higher layer (e.g., closer to a packet sender) components. When the higher layer components receive the congestion notification messages, the higher layer components reduce the sending rate of packets (in some cases the rate is reduced to zero) to allow the lower layer components to lower congestion (i.e., create more space in their queues by sending more data packets along the series of components). In some embodiments, the higher layer components resume full speed sending of packets after a threshold time elapses without further notification of congestion. In other embodiments, the higher layer components resume full speed sending of packets after receiving a message indicating reduced congestion in the lower layers.
US09621460B2
A method and apparatus for connecting multiple customer sites over a wide area network (WAN) using an overlay network is described. In one embodiment of the invention, each one of multiple customer edge (CE) routers establishes a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) session with one or more BGP route reflectors and announces their private IP network prefixes and one or more transport IP addresses to reach that CE router. The BGP route reflector(s) reflect those IP network prefixes and the one or more transport IP addresses to reach that specific CE router to the other CE routers. The CE routers receive those reflected IP network prefixes and the corresponding transport IP address(es) to reach that CE router in which those IP network prefixes belong and register them in their corresponding routing/forwarding data structures. In this way, the CE routers learn how to reach each other.
US09621456B2
A rule indicates that data having particular characteristics be automatically routed to a particular destination. When software on a switching device detects a new data stream, it is analyzed to determine whether it has characteristics specified by the rule. If it does, the packet is encapsulated with a special tag, indicating that the packet should be routed to the new destination. Also, an entry is added to a quick-lookup table in the switching device. The entry indicates that future packets in the data stream that have the same source and destination port and address should also be routed to the new destination.
US09621439B2
Embodiments relate to dynamically allocating access to a shared resource based on quota shares. An aspect includes computing, by a client node, an expected size of quota shares needed by the client node based on a historical rate of resource consumption by the client node. The client node transmits a request for a count of quota shares based on the expected size. The client node receives an indication that the request for the count of quota shares is one of: granted, denied, and granted-in-part. The client node self-rules the shared resource based on the indication.
US09621435B2
A method for offering a set of services is disclosed. The method may comprise storing, by a cloud infrastructure system, subscription order information identifying a service from a set of services provided by the cloud infrastructure system, the cloud infrastructure system comprising one or more computing devices. A computing device from the one or more computing devices may determine a service declaration for the service, the service declaration comprising information indicative of procedures for provisioning resources for enabling the service. A computing device from the one or more computing devices may cause the service to be provisioned based on the service declaration.
US09621425B2
A method implemented by a network service provider to provide a virtual network to tenants requiring bandwidth in a cloud computing environment, where the virtual network includes a first set of one or more virtual switches that manage a second set of one or more physical servers that host virtual machines (VMs). The method starts with receiving by one virtual switch a request for a first plurality of VMs, where at least one VM of the first plurality of VMs contains a bandwidth different from bandwidths of the rest of one or more VMs. The it is determined whether to accept the request for the first plurality of VMs by calculating a set of allocation ranges (ARs) associated to the virtual switch, wherein each AR of the set of ARs denotes at least one discontinuous VM allocation space within a virtual switch. Then VMs are allocated for the request.
US09621412B2
A method providing service continuity of a telecommunication network, wherein a first node of the network receives a service request sent by a client computer to a first service server providing the service, the first service server accessing the network by the first node, the method including: storing a local copy of data packets related to the received service request; starting a server state verification procedure to check an operative state of the first service server; and transmitting the data packets to a second service server if the server state verification procedure detects a failure in the operative state of the first service server, the second service server being configured to act as a backup server for the service to be provided.
US09621410B2
A method of localizing failures occurring along a transmission path is provided. A data signal is transmitted along the transmission path, which comprises a path segment. A first network node performs a tandem connection monitoring source function of a tandem connection. A second network node monitors the transmission along the path segment, by performing a tandem connection monitoring sink function. When the first network node detects a failure of the data signal, the first network node enters information indicating a data signal failure into the data signal's overhead field. When the second network node detects a failure by the tandem connection monitory sink function, the second network node enters information into the overhead field. When a third network node detects a failure of the data signal, the third network node uses the information in the overhead field to determine whether the failure occurred within or outside of the path segment.
US09621405B2
An Constant Access Gateway provides secure access for remote mobile computing users to centrally stored data without requiring a VPN connection or a direct connection to the LAN in which the data resides. A Cache Server works alone or in conjunction with the Constant Access Gateway to provide distributed access to the centrally stored data. The Cache Server performs local storage of de-duplicated versions of the centrally stored data, and may interact with the Constant Access Gateway to maintain cache coherency with the central data store.
US09621404B2
Disclosed herein are example embodiments for behavioral fingerprinting with social networking. For certain example embodiments, one or more devices may: (i) communicate for at least one interaction related to a user of a user device in a behavioral fingerprint habitat; or (ii) administer at least an aspect of at least one interaction related to a user of a user device in a behavioral fingerprint habitat. However, claimed subject matter is not limited to any particular described embodiments, implementations, examples, or so forth.
US09621399B1
Embodiments of a distributed caching system are disclosed that cache data across multiple computing devices on a network. In one embodiment, a first cache system serves as a caching front-end to a distributed cluster of additional cache systems. The first cache system can distribute cache requests to the additional cache systems. The first distributed caching system can also serve as a cache server itself, by storing data on its own internal cache. For example, the first cache system can first attempt to find a requested data item on the internal cache, but, if the lookup results in a cache miss, the first cache system can search the additional cache systems for the data. In some embodiments, the first cache system is configured to identify additional requests for the first data item and duplicate the requested data item in order to respond to the additional requests, which allows for greater responsiveness to requests.
US09621394B2
A method is provided for determining at least one filter of a filter bank in a transmission or coding system, on the basis of a prototype filter p. The method includes determining coefficients p[k] of the prototype filter p, of length L equal to N, from Δ angle parameters θi, for 0≦i≦Δ−1, expressed on the basis of a polynomial function ƒ(x), also referred to as a compact representation, such that: f ( x ) = π 4 + t ∑ k = 0 d - 1 β k T 2 k ( t ) ; t = 2 x - 1.
US09621391B2
System and method embodiments are provided for improving reception of direct detection optical signals. In an embodiment, a method for optical transmission includes bit loading and power loading, with a digital signal processor (DSP), transmission bits of an orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) signal; calculating, with the DSP, a signal-signal beat interference (SSBI) component of the bit and power loaded OFDM signal by modulating each subcarrier with a symbol; and subtracting, with the DSP, the calculated SSBI component from the bit and power loaded OFDM signal.
US09621389B2
The present disclosure relates to a method to introduce complementing training symbols into a 802.11p OFDM frame in vehicular communications, wherein a transmitter sends encrypted information from a first unit to a receiver of a specific second unit or a respective receiver of a number of second units and wherein fixed training symbols, which are implemented in a transmitter chip, are multiplexed with the information and transmitted to the receiver for channel estimation at the receiver side. In order to improve channel estimation complementing training symbols are inserted at the transmitter side immediately after an LLC sub-layer, where the LLC sub-layer is software defined and can be modified. It also relates to a receiver for exploiting the inserted complementing training symbols in order to improve channel estimation in 802.11 p OFDM vehicular communications, which is arranged to reproduce the complementing training symbols inserted in accordance with the method.
US09621377B2
Instant messaging (IM) entities may be invited to an electronic calendar event using an instant message. Selecting the IM entities as invitees to the event may include dragging and dropping names of the IM entities from a buddy list of an IM application to an event from an electronic calendar application, or vice versa. A method of inviting an entity to a calendar event includes providing a calendar event from a calendar application and recognizing, by the calendar application, an IM entity as an invitee to the event.
US09621369B2
A user interface (UI)-providing system and method for device control are provided. The User Interface (UI) providing method, the method includes: identifying at least one controlled devices relating to an activity mode selected by a user; collecting control information relating to functions provided by the identified at least one controlled devices; and generating a UI used to control the at least one controlled devices relating to the activity mode based on the collected control information.
US09621356B2
Disclosed herein is a technique for revoking a root certificate from at least one client device. In particular, the technique involves causing a secure element—which is included in the at least one client device and is configured to store the root certificate as well as at least one backup root certificate—to permanently disregard the root certificate and prevent the at least one client device from utilizing the specific root certificate. According to one embodiment, this revocation occurs in response to a receiving a revocation message that directly targets the root certificate, where the message includes at least two levels of authentication that are verified by the secure element prior to carrying out the revocation. Once the root certificate is revoked, the secure element can continue to utilize the at least one backup root certificate, while permanently disregarding the revoked root certificate.
US09621352B2
A system and method for verifying a digital signature on a certificate, which may be used in the processing of encoded messages. In one embodiment, when a digital signature is successfully verified in a signature verification operation, the public key used to verify that digital signature is cached. When a subsequent attempt to verify the digital signature is made, the public key to be used to verify the digital signature is compared to the cached key. If the keys match, the digital signature can be successfully verified without requiring that a signature verification operation in which some data is decoded using the public key be performed.
US09621349B2
An apparatus includes a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: authenticate an identification for accessing a first service by comparing a password associating with the identification with an first encrypted password that is generated by encrypting the password on the basis of a first encryption policy to authenticate an access to the first service; and provide a second service with the identification and the password to cause to generate information when an authentication of the identification is successful, the information being accessed to authenticate the identification when the second service is accessed based on the identification and the password.
US09621342B2
A cryptographic key is generated using biometric data and a hierarchy of biometric descriptors. The hierarchy of biometric descriptors includes multiple levels, wherein a biometric descriptor at a first level is associated with a subset of the biometric descriptors at the next lower level. To generate a cryptographic key, biometric data is collected and compared to the biometric descriptors at the first level of the hierarchy. One of the biometric descriptors is selected at the first level, and a first key component is generated based on the first selected biometric descriptor. The biometric data is then compared to the subset of biometric descriptors at the second level of the hierarchy associated with the first selected biometric descriptor. This process of selecting a biometric descriptor and generating a key component continues for each level of the hierarchy. The key components are then used to generate a cryptographic key.
US09621340B1
The input samples transmitted by the base station are decimated and the decimated samples are correlated with the three reference PSS sequences to obtain the correlation results. The correlation results are differentially combined to obtain the hypotheses. The hypotheses are grouped into windows. The peaks across windows of multiple half frames are selected and obtained peaks are averaged over the multiple half frames to detect the half frame boundary window. Reference PSS versions are generated for ICFO estimation. The hypotheses are generated in the HFBW. The highest averaged hypothesis is selected to estimate ICFO. The ICFO error is corrected by adjusting a reference clock signal. The decimated samples are correlated and differentially combined around the HFB to determine a HFB and a FCFO from the peak value of the hypotheses. The received samples are correlated and differentially combined around the half frame boundary to further refine HFB and FCFO estimations.
US09621339B1
A host device, coupled to a slave device through a bus interface, includes a frequency detector, a jitter detector, and a signal processing circuit. The frequency detector receives a first work frequency, and determines whether the first work frequency is the same as a second work frequency of the slave device. The jitter detector receives a first clock signal, and determines whether a jitter difference corresponding to the first clock signal exceeds a predetermined range. The signal processing unit includes a clock signal input pin, a data input pin, and an output pin. When the first work frequency is the same as the second work frequency, and the jitter difference is within the predetermined range, the signal processing circuit outputs a data signal to the slave device according to the first clock signal, data and Seems System Management Bus protocol.
US09621336B1
A system and a technique for recovering data from an input data stream without synchronization of an input sampling circuit to the input data stream determines a count of incoming samples (or frames) without generating a signal that is frequency-locked to the input data stream. A first clock is generated comprising a frequency that is greater than or equal to an expected frequency of the input data stream. A sample count is incremented in response to a sample received in the input data stream, and is decremented in response to a second clock signal. The second clock is generated from the first clock signal by passing the first clock signal if the sample count of the sample counter does not equal a predetermined sample count value and by blocking the first clock signal if the sample count equals the predetermined sample count value.
US09621334B2
A data transmission method for a data transmission system including a first device and a second device is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of transmitting a clock signal to synchronize the first device and the second device; transmitting a mode signal from the first device to the second device, wherein the mode signal indicates a transmission mode between the first device and the second device; and transmitting a serial data between the first device and the second device based on the clock signal, wherein the length of the serial data is determined based on the transmission mode.
US09621322B2
In a method for generating a null data packet (NDP) sounding packet for transmission via a communication channel, a signal field and one or more long training fields are generated. The signal field and the long training fields are modulated using a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols. Symbol duration of each OFDM symbol of the plurality of OFDM symbols is at least 8 μs. The NDP sounding packet is generated to include the plurality of OFDM symbols. The NDP sounding packet omits a data payload portion.
US09621312B2
One embodiment of the present invention provides a wireless transceiver. The transceiver includes a plurality of receiving paths, a plurality of transmitting paths, a number of RF components, and a configurable multiplexer for coupling one or more RF components to the transmitting paths and the receiving paths. The multiplexer is configured in such a way as to allow a particular RF component to couple to a subset of the receiving paths and/or a subset of the transmitting paths, thereby enabling flexible provisioning of the RF components.
US09621309B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a joint scheduling method and apparatus. The method of the present invention is as follows: judging whether a CoMP user equipment exists in user equipments that wait to be scheduled in a sector that participates in joint scheduling; scheduling, if a CoMP user equipment exists in user equipments that wait to be scheduled, the CoMP user equipment that waits to be scheduled and assigning CoMP frequency band resources to the scheduled CoMP user equipment according to a size of frequency band resources required by the scheduled CoMP user equipment, where the CoMP frequency band resources are partial frequency band resources allocated from frequency band resources of the sector that participates in joint scheduling and are preferentially used by the CoMP user equipment. Embodiments of the present invention mainly apply to a joint scheduling process in a wireless communications system.
US09621296B2
A remote node device for mutual communication between optical network units in a passive optical network includes an N×N-arrayed waveguide grating configured to receive upstream optical signal of one of the optical network units and to output this signal as a first optical signal; a 1×2 wavelength division multiplexer configured to separate per band the first optical signal to obtain a second optical signal; and a 1×(N−1) power distributor configured to transmit the second optical signal to the corresponding optical network unit through the N×N-arrayed waveguide grating.
US09621289B2
A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided in connection with enabling distributed frequency synchronization based on a fastest node clock rate. In one example, a first UE is equipped to determine that a fastest clock rate is faster than an internal clock rate of the first UE by more than a first positive offset, and adjust the internal clock rate based on the determined fastest clock rate. In an aspect, the fastest clock rate is associated with a second UE of one or more other UEs from which synchronization signals may be received. In another example, a UE is equipped to obtain GPS based timing information, adjust an internal clock rate based on the GPS based timing information, and transmit a synchronization signal at an artificially earlier time in comparison to a scheduled time of transmission associated with the adjusted internal clock rate.
US09621284B2
A mobile communication system comprises: a user terminal that receives a desired wave signal from a serving cell while receiving an interference wave signal from a neighboring cell adjacent to the serving cell; and a base station that manages the serving cell. The base station comprises: a controller that generates an interference replica signal corresponding to the interference wave signal and superposes the interference replica signal on the desired wave signal; and a transmitter that transmits the desired wave signal superposed with the interference replica signal to the user terminal. The controller generates the interference replica signal such that the interference replica signal cancels the interference wave signal in a location of the user terminal. The interference replica signal acts as a disturbing signal, which disturbs demodulation of the desired wave signal, in a location other than the location of the user terminal.
US09621270B2
Embodiments of the present invention pertain to optical wireless architecture and, in particular, to novel optical architecture to provide fiber-optic and wireless communication systems, links, and access networks. Certain embodiments of the invention pertain to a novel method and apparatus to provide 109.6 Gb/s capacity over spans of 80-km SMF and 2×2 MIMO. Conversion of PM-QAM modulated wireless mm-wave signal to an optical signal as well as 80-km fiber transmission of the converted optical signal is also realized.
US09621267B2
A visible light communication system, and a method of modulating data and a method of feeding back performance information in the system, are provided.In the system, a transmitting unit modulates a plurality of data on a plurality of LED channels basis that are formed by a plurality of LEDs, respectively, and transmits the modulated data into a corresponding light signal. A receiving unit receives a light signal that is transmitted from the transmitting unit to demodulate the received light signal to a signal on a plurality of LED channels basis. By determining performance information on a plurality of LED channels basis by estimating a state on the plurality of LED channels basis, the receiving unit feeds back the performance information to the transmitting unit, and the transmitting unit determines a modulation degree on the channel basis according to performance information on a channel basis of the plurality of LEDs that are fed back from the receiving unit and performs modulation on the plurality of LED channels basis of the plurality of data.
US09621261B2
The invention refers a method and an arrangement for channel set up in an optical network. An optical signal path is configured for a certain optical channel signal (OC1) of a WDM-signal. This channel signal (OC1) is on-off-modulated by a modulation test signal (MT1) having a predetermined lower frequency and is generating a channel test signal (OT1). This channel test signal (OT1) is combined with other optical channels (OC2-OCn) to the WDM-signal (WS) and transmitted via said path. At a start node (1) or a downstream node (3, 5) a measurement signal (EMI, EM3) is derived from the complete WDM-signal (WS) without wavelength de-multiplexing. The measurement signal (EMI, EM3) is compared with a correlation signal (MC1) and an obtained power level (PC1) is used to adjust the channel power (PC1, PC2, PC3) to achieve predetermined target power values (PC1-PC4) at different power monitoring points (19, 40, 41, 58). The adjustment step is repeated for all downstream nodes (3, 5) and all further channel signals (OC2-OCn).
US09621246B2
One embodiment is directed towards a distributed antenna system (DAS). The DAS includes a host unit a plurality of remote units communicatively coupled to the host unit. The plurality of remote units are configured to implement a common arrangement of resource blocks for uplink transport signals. The host unit is configured to instruct a subset of the plurality of remote units to send a digital sample stream over a monitor path of their respective uplink transport signals. One or more simulcast modules are configured to sum the monitor paths from the respective uplink transport signals to generate a summed digital sample stream, the one or more simulcast modules configured to send the summed digital sample stream to the host unit. The host unit is configured to provide a signal based on the summed digital sample stream to one or more signal analysis modules.
US09621243B2
A method of operating a communication system is disclosed. The method includes transmitting a plurality of channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) sub-resources and a plurality of mode configuration signals to a remote transceiver. The method further includes receiving channel state information (CSI) signals according to the mode configuration signals for the respective sub-resources.
US09621241B2
A method for reporting, by a UE, a downlink channel state in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: receiving a vertical precoding matrix indicator (PMI) to be used to calculate the downlink channel state; calculating a value of the downlink channel state using the received vertical PMI; and reporting the calculated downlink channel state value to an eNB, wherein the received vertical PMI is used from a later subframe between a subframe in which the vertical PMI is received and a subframe preceding a subframe in which the calculated downlink channel state value is reported by the number of subframes necessary to calculate the downlink channel state value using the received vertical PMI.
US09621240B1
In one or more aspects data packets are iteratively transmitted to a receiver using predefined spatial mapping matrices, channel estimates are received from the receiver responsive to iteratively transmitted data packets, and one of the predefined spatial mapping matrices is selected for transmitting additional data packets to the receiver based on the received channel estimates.
US09621236B2
The present invention relates to a method for multiple-input multiple-output impairment pre-compensation comprising: receiving a multiple-input signal; generating a pre-distorted multiple-input signal from the received multiple-input signal; generating a multiple-output signal by feeding the pre-distorted multiple-input signal into a multiple-input and multiple-output transmitter; estimating impairments generated by the multiple-input and multiple-output transmitter; and adjusting the pre-distorted multiple-input signal to compensate for the estimated impairments. The present invention also relates to a pre-compensator for use with a multiple-input and multiple-output transmitter, comprising: a multiple-input for receiving a multiple-input signal; a matrix of pre-processing cells for generating a pre-distorted multiple-input signal from the received multiple-input signal; and a multiple-output for feeding the pre-distorted multiple-input signal to the multiple-input and multiple-output transmitter. The pre-processing cells are configured so as to estimate impairments generated by the multiple-input and multiple-output transmitter and adjust the pre-distorted multiple-input signal to compensate for the estimated impairments.
US09621233B2
Provided are a method and apparatus for user equipment (UE) selection in a mobile communication system. The method may include: selecting the n−1th UE in multiple cells (n: constant ≧2); and selecting a UE with the maximum weighted sum rate (WSR) as the nth UE from among UEs belonging to the remaining cells excluding those cells containing the 1st to n−1th UEs. Hence, the scheduling function enabling suitable user equipment selection may further increase overall system throughput by providing additional gains in addition to beamforming, i.e. further reducing inter-cell interference and increasing signal strength toward a desired user equipment.
US09621227B2
Technology is described for proximity based communications. A proximity boundary can be defined with dimensions defined by a communication range of one of a first Short Range Communication (SRC) device and a second SRC device. The first SRC device and the second SRC device can be configured to communicate using near field magnetic induction (NFMI). A proximity signal can be communicated in the proximity boundary between the first SRC device and the second SRC device. A security permission can be provided to enable selected data to be communicated from one or more of the first SRC device or the second SRC device in the proximity boundary when the proximity signal is detected between the first SRC device and the second SRC device. The selected data can be communicated from one or more of the first SRC device or the second SRC device using a radio frequency (RF) communication standard.
US09621225B2
A method of two-way communications over a power distribution network in which outbound communication signals (O) and an inbound communication signals (I) modulate a time-varying waveform propagated through the network, on the low voltage side of the network. An outbound signal waveform is detected at a customer location (C) with remote communication equipment (RCE) at the customer location then producing a return or inbound communication signal. A corresponding inbound signal is produced in an associated voltage waveform and this signal is detected and processed by a distribution concentrator unit (DCU) at the sending end of the network. The transmission and detection of signals on the low voltage side of the network requires less energy than the generation, propagation, detection, and processing of signals on the high voltage side thereof.
US09621221B2
A full duplex radio includes self-interference cancellation circuitry for reducing self-interference. The self-interference cancellation circuitry may receive analog radio frequency signals that are to be transmitted by an antenna, and downconvert and digitize the signals to provide a digital baseband signal for processing, for example by an adaptive filter. The filtered signal may be converted to an analog signal and applied in an analog portion of a receive chain of a receiver of the full duplex radio. Preferably the analog signal is applied in the receive chain after low noise amplification of received signals of interest.
US09621204B2
An apparatus and method for detecting a burst signal. The apparatus includes circuitry that concatenates a predetermined number of samples and transmits the samples to a first programmable memory tap of a predetermined number of programmable memory taps. For each memory tap, a corresponding partial correlation is computed. A normalized sum of all the partial correlations is multiplexed and transmitted to a predetermined number of multipliers. A peak of the burst signal is determined by computing a summation of the complex multiplications of each multiplier, wherein the determined peak corresponds to a start of the burst signal.
US09621192B2
A bit interleaving method involves applying a bit permutation process to bits of a QC-LDPC codeword made up of N cyclic blocks each including Q bits, and dividing the codeword after the permutation process into a plurality of constellation words each including M bits, the codeword being divided into F×N′/M folding sections (N′ being a subset of N selected cyclic blocks and being a multiple of M/F), each of the constellation words being associated with one of the F×N′/M folding sections, and the bit permutation process being applied such that each of the constellation words includes F bits from each of M/F different cyclic blocks in a given folding section associated with a given constellation word.
US09621179B1
Various aspects facilitate error reduction for an analog to digital converter (e.g., due to metastability). A digital to analog converter generates a scaled reference voltage based on a reference voltage. A comparator component performs a comparison between an input voltage and the scaled reference voltage based on a defined period of time to perform the comparison.
US09621177B1
Methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture (e.g., physical storage media) to calibrate interpolating string digital-to-analog converters are disclosed. Example methods disclosed herein to calibrate a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) include determining a first calibration codeword based on a first nonlinearity error value measured at an output of the DAC when a most-significant-bit (MSB) portion of an input codeword is applied to an input of the DAC. Such disclosed example methods also include determining a second calibration codeword based on a second measured nonlinearity error value measured at the output of the DAC when a least-significant-bit (LSB) portion of the input codeword is applied to the input of the DAC. Such disclosed example methods further include combining the first calibration codeword and the second calibration codeword to determine a third calibration codeword to be accessed by the DAC to calibrate the output of the DAC when the input codeword is applied to the DAC.
US09621155B2
A switching circuit includes a normally-on switch, a normally-off switch, a current compensating unit and a current sharing unit. Each of the normally-on switch and the normally-off switch include a first terminal, a second terminal and a control terminal respectively. The first terminal of the normally-off switch is connected to the second terminal of the normally-on switch. The second terminal of the normally-off switch is connected to the control terminal of the normally-on switch. The current compensating unit is connected to the normally-on switch and configured to generate a compensating current when a leakage current of the normally-on switch is smaller than the leakage current of the normally-off switch. The current sharing unit is connected to the normally-off switch and configured to share the leakage current of the normally-on switch when the leakage current of the normally-on switch is larger than the leakage current of the normally-off switch.
US09621153B2
A semiconductor device according to an embodiments controls a gate voltage to be applied to a gate electrode of a junction field effect transistor including a source electrode, a drain electrode, and the gate electrode, the transistor having a first threshold voltage at which the transistor is turned on, and a second threshold at which conductivity modulation occurs in the transistor so as to make the gate voltage equal to or higher than the second threshold voltage when a forward current in a direction from the drain electrode toward the source electrode flows, and so as to make the time variation in gate voltage have a point from which the rate of the time variation starts decreasing at a voltage between the second threshold voltage and the first threshold voltage when the forward current to be shut down.
US09621147B2
A gate pulse modulation waveform-shaping circuit includes an input terminal, an output pair, and a gate pulse modulation waveform-shaping control circuit. The input terminal receives a control signal. The output pair is connected to a scan line for outputting a gate output voltage. The gate pulse modulation waveform-shaping control circuit is connected to the output pair for adjusting a voltage waveform on the scan line. The gate pulse modulation waveform-shaping control circuit is based on the control signal to use a time interval or fixed discharge voltage to generate a desired delay for adjusting a discharge slope thereby generating different discharge time on the scan line, so that the gate output voltage has a voltage waveform including at least two waveform segments each with a non-zero sliding slope and at least two waveform segments each with a zero slope.
US09621144B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide a data storage circuit. The data storage circuit includes a first latch, a second latch, and a clock gating and buffer circuit. The first latch is configured to provide an intermediate output to the second latch in response to a data input when a clock signal is in a first state and to hold the intermediate output when the clock signal is in a second state, and the second latch is configured to provide a data output in response to the intermediate output and the clock signal. The clock gating and buffer circuit is configured to provide the clock signal, and to suppress providing the clock signal to one or both of the first latch and the second latch when the intermediate output stays unchanged.
US09621133B2
A semiconductor device is operated by applying a gate voltage with a first value to a gate electrode terminal such that current flows through the IGBT between first and second electrode terminals and current flow through a desaturation channel is substantially blocked. A gate voltage with a second value is applied to the gate electrode terminal the absolute value of which is lower than that of the first value, such that current flows through the IGBT between the first and second electrode terminals and charge carriers flow as a desaturating current through the desaturation channel to the first electrode terminal. A gate voltage with a third value is applied to the gate electrode terminal, the absolute value of which is lower than that of the first and second values, such that current flow through the IGBT between the first and second electrode terminals is substantially blocked.
US09621127B2
In an elastic wave device, a first electrode structure and a second electrode structure are provided on a piezoelectric substrate, first and second elastic wave element portions are configured by the first electrode structure and the second electrode structure, respectively, and a first bump that is configured of a conductive material to provide shielding is provided on an electrode formation surface of the piezoelectric substrate between the first elastic wave element portion and the second elastic wave element portion.
US09621118B2
Compression control through power amplifier voltage adjustment. A power amplifier module can include a power amplifier including a cascode transistor pair. The cascode transistor pair can include a first transistor and a second transistor. The power amplifier module can include a power amplifier bias controller. The power amplifier bias controller can include a current comparator configured to compare a first base current of the first transistor and a second base current of the second transistor to obtain a comparison value. The power amplifier module can include a saturation controller configured to supply a reference signal to a voltage converter based on the comparison value. The voltage converter can be configured to modify a supply voltage provided to the power amplifier based at least in part on the reference signal.
US09621114B2
An amplifier according to the principle of load modulation comprises a first push-pull transistor, a second push-pull transistor and a balanced hybrid coupler. The first push-pull transistor is configured as a main amplifier and generates a balanced main-amplifier signal. The second push-pull transistor is configured as an auxiliary amplifier and generates a balanced auxiliary-amplifier signal. Outputs of the first push-pull transistor and of the second push-pull transistor are connected to the balanced hybrid coupler in such a manner that the balanced hybrid coupler combines the main-amplifier signal and the auxiliary amplifier signal according to the principle of load modulation to form a balanced output signal.
US09621113B2
Embodiments disclosed in the detailed description relate to a pseudo-envelope follower power management system used to manage the power delivered to a linear RF power amplifier.
US09621108B2
In at least one embodiment, the invention provides a bidirectional amplifier and method of control that enables immediate feedback directly from the output for fast response and low distortion. Mechanisms responsive to instantaneous feedback eliminate undershoot, overshoot, and sub-harmonic behavior. One embodiment comprises two switches and a single two-terminal inductor. Another embodiment produces a bipolar output from a single unregulated supply rail. The use of Predictive Energy Balancing controls yield high efficiency and low total harmonic distortion. These amplifiers are suited for audio application, and can drive piezo or dynamic speakers.
US09621096B1
A method for driving first and second voice coil motors (VCMs) by generating a first coil current through the first VCM and routing a portion (not all) of the first coil current through the second VCM when a first VCM movement command is commanding greater movement than a second VCM movement command. A second coil current is generated through the second VCM and a portion (not all) of the second coil current is routed through the first VCM, when the first VCM movement command is commanding smaller movement than the second VCM movement command. This may reduce power consumption. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US09621095B2
An amplitude control unit (40) detects the amplitude of a movable element (12) that reciprocates relative to a stator (11), detects fluctuations in a load over time according to detected fluctuations over time in the amplitude, and detects an abnormality on the basis of the detected fluctuations over time in the load. The amplitude control unit (40) outputs the detected amplitudes to a control output unit (50). The control output unit (50) controls a drive current (Id) for reciprocating the movable element (12) on the basis of the amplitude information supplied from the amplitude control unit (40).
US09621082B2
An embodiment of this invention is directed to implementing motor control of suppressing the influence of the cogging of a motor while minimizing preliminary detection processing. According to this embodiment, a printing apparatus includes an acceleration sensor for detecting the acceleration of a moving carriage, and a control unit configured to control drive of the motor to suppress the influence of the cogging of the motor based on the detection by the acceleration sensor. In accordance with the relationship between the band of the cogging frequency of the motor and the band of the resonance frequency of the carriage, the control unit determines whether to use a cancel signal for feedback control of an encoder sensor. When the cancel signal is not used, the control unit changes the gain of feedback control of the acceleration sensor.
US09621076B2
A vibration type driving device includes an electro-mechanical energy conversion element; a vibrator fixed to the electro-mechanical energy conversion element and configured to be vibrated by application of voltage to the electro-mechanical energy conversion element; a first driven member and a second driven member frictionally driven by press-contact with the vibrator and configured to transmit rotational forces by frictional driving to an output shaft; and at least one pressing portion configured to bring the first driven member and the second driven member into press contact with the vibrator, wherein the pressing portion, the first driven member, the second driven member, and the vibrator are arranged to allow an air flow generated by an airflow generation unit to flow through an air-ventilation path of the pressing portion, between the first driven member and the second driven member, and an air-ventilation path of the vibrator.
US09621071B2
A high powered current generator for electromagnetic inspection of hydrocarbon pipelines from an AC stabilized with rectangular waveform and whose measurements and interpretation are used for evaluating the condition of the lining of the pipelines of five main modules: self-programmable regulated voltage power source module; power source reference decoupling module; H Bridge inverter module; feedback module, and control and processing module. The generator was specifically designed as part of the instrumentation of (TIEMS); which supplies an electric current in the pipeline to produce electromagnetic radiation along the hydrocarbon pipeline. This energy is detected by antennas for obtaining the location of the pipeline and the electric current flowing therein. The generator produces an alternating current at a frequency that can be set within the range of 0.1 Hz to 1 KHz. However, to simplify the job of the operating personnel, default values of 0.1, 0.2, 0.05, 1, 2, 4, 8, 98, 512 and 625 Hertz were established. The current value can also be programmed within the range of 0.1 A to 4.5 A. In order to facilitate the work of the operators, a set of fixed current values 0.100, 0.250, 0.500, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, 2.5, 3, 3.5, 4.0 and 4.5 Amperes was established.
US09621069B2
The rectifier includes two input paths configured to receive an alternating input voltage and two output paths configured to provide a direct output voltage. A switched-mode rectifying path is connected between one of the input paths and one of the output paths and comprises at least two semiconductor elements with controllable paths; the controllable paths are series-connected with each other. An auxiliary output node is disposed between the controllable paths of the two semiconductor elements in the rectifying path and provides an auxiliary node voltage. A controllable output path is connected downstream of one of the two output paths and comprises a semiconductor element with a controllable path, wherein the controllable path of the semiconductor element of the controllable output path is controlled by a signal representing the auxiliary node voltage.
US09621066B2
A master/slave control system of an AC/DC power supply includes a master device. The master device is able to supply AC and DC power. The master device is connected with a plurality of slave devices through a plurality of local area network transmission interfaces. The slave devices are able to supply AC and DC power. Through the local area network transmission interfaces, a control signal can be transmitted fast for the mater device and slave devices to carry out a master/slave control. The signal transmission efficiency of the master/slave control can be enhanced greatly, so that the master/slave control is more fast and prompt. The present invention avoids the arrangement of the traditional series data communication interface and the controller area network, and simplifies the configuration and wiring of the master device and the slave devices.
US09621064B2
In a voltage-type DC power supply provided with an inverter, current supply from the inverter to the load side is suppressed when arc is generated. DC output from the voltage-type DC power supply is suspended and resumed: upon suspending the DC output, the chopper is separated from the inverter, thereby suppressing excessive current to the load when arc is generated, allowing the arc to be extinguished at high speed, and holding the current passing through the chopper in the form of circulating current. Upon restarting the inverter, the circulating current being held is supplied to the load, thereby reducing a delay of supply of DC power to the load at the time of resuming the DC output from the voltage-type DC power supply.
US09621058B2
A synchronous rectifier is described that includes a transistor device that has a gate terminal, a source terminal, a drain terminal, and a field-plate electrode. The field-plate electrode of the transistor device includes an integrated diode. The integrated diode is configured to discharge a parasitic capacitance of the transistor device during each switching operation of the synchronous rectifier. In some examples, the integrated diode is also configured to charge the parasitic capacitance of the transistor device during each switching operation of the synchronous rectifier.
US09621057B2
A switched mode power converter includes a switch, an energy transfer element coupled to the switch, and a controller that includes a delayed ramp generator coupled to generate a delayed ramp signal, an input charge control signal generator coupled to generate an input charge control signal representative of an integral of an input current sense signal and a ratio of an input voltage sense signal to an output voltage sense signal, and a drive signal generator coupled to receive the delayed ramp signal and the input charge control signal, to regulate an output of the switch mode power converter. The drive signal generator produces a drive signal responsive to the input charge control signal and the delayed ramp signal. The drive signal is coupled to control the switch of the switch mode power converter.
US09621051B2
An electrical power converter comprises an inverter with semiconductor switches, a resonant circuit coupled with the inverter, and a controller for switching the semiconductor switches of the inverter to switching states. The controller is adapted for periodically switching the inverter between switching states, such that a periodic resonant current is generated in the resonant circuit, for synchronizing switching events of the switching states with the periodic resonant current, such that a switching state is applied to the inverter at a time point associated with a specific periodic point of the periodic resonant current, and for applying the switching states such that an overall power feed backward from the resonant circuit to an input of the inverter is balanced with an overall power feed forward from the input of the inverter to the resonant circuit.
US09621049B2
The present invention relates to a feedback device for a power supply, including a main feedback module, an auxiliary feedback module and a feedback control module. The main feedback module is adapted to sample a voltage on a main output branch of the power supply, and output a main feedback voltage to the feedback control module. The auxiliary feedback module is adapted to reduce the main feedback voltage when a voltage on an auxiliary output branch of the power supply drops. The feedback control module is adapted to control the power supply to increase its power output when the main feedback voltage decreases, so that the voltage on the auxiliary output branch is restored to normal. By using the power supply feedback device of the present invention, the circuit is simple, not only solving voltage sag problems, but also ensuring the power density and cost.
US09621048B2
A switching power-supply circuit includes a second rectifying/smoothing circuit arranged to generate a second output voltage by rectifying and smoothing the output of a second secondary winding, and the second rectifying/smoothing circuit includes a second rectifier circuit and a capacitor, connected to the second secondary winding. A second switching control circuit operates in response to an alternating-current winding voltage occurring in the second secondary winding, and includes a time constant circuit causing a switch mechanism connected to the control terminal of a rectifier switch element to operate, and a second feedback circuit arranged to detect and feed back the second output voltage to the time constant circuit.
US09621038B2
A switch control circuit for controlling an average current flowing into a load through a current control switch that is series-coupled to an input power and the load includes a sensing unit configured to measure a current flowing into the load, a folder unit configured to fold a sensing signal related to the measured current based on a first reference voltage to generate first and second folder output signals based on an initialization voltage, the first and second folder output signals being symmetric to each other, a comparison unit configured to compare the generated first and second folder output signals and a control unit configured to control an operation of the current control switch according to a comparison result in the comparison unit. Such a switch control circuit integrates and compares a sensing signal and a reference signal to effectively perform an average current control.
US09621022B1
Aspects of the disclosure provide a circuit. The circuit includes a voltage step up circuit, a voltage control unit, and a complementary voltage generator. The voltage step up circuit is configured to receive a primary supply voltage of a first voltage level and output a secondary supply voltage of a second voltage level that is higher than the first voltage level. The voltage control unit is configured to receive the secondary supply voltage and to output a control voltage having a voltage level in a range from a ground level to the second voltage level. The complementary voltage generator is configured to operate based on the primary supply voltage and to generate a pair of complementary signals in response to the control voltage. The voltage sum of the pair of complementary signals is equivalent to the first voltage level.
US09621016B2
A Lorentz actuator mechanism, which controls the motion of a mobile component relative to a static component, includes a flat coil assembly which is physically coupled to the mobile component in a magnetic field of one or more magnets and is configured to adjust a position of the mobile component, relative to the static component, based at least in part upon Lorentz forces. The flat coil assembly includes at least one conductor element, at least partially bounded by a set of insulator elements within an interior of the flat coil assembly, which forms a coil structure, within the interior of the flat coil assembly, which is configured to generate the Lorentz forces based at least in part upon an electrical current through the at least one conductor element.
US09621014B2
A double-rotor switched reluctance machine includes a stator, a first rotor, and a second rotor. The stator and the first rotor operate as a first electric machine and the stator and the second rotor operate as a second electric machine. Each electric machine has an output torque profile that fluctuates periodically between a maximum and a minimum instantaneous torque. The double-rotor switched reluctance machine is configured so that when the first and second electric machines are operated at a common electrical frequency, the first and second maximum instantaneous torques are temporally offset, thereby reducing the overall torque ripple of the switched reluctance machine. Additionally, or alternatively, a double-rotor switched reluctance machine is configured so that the first and second rotors are radially offset from each other to reduce a net radial force imposed on the stator by the operation of the first and second electric machines.
US09621012B2
A lamination pack for a motor and method of forming the lamination pack is provided. The method includes inserting a plurality of conductor bars into a plurality of rotor slots defined by a lamination stack such that opposing bar ends of the conductor bars extend from opposing end faces of the lamination stack, skewing the lamination stack and the conductor bars to a skew angle relative to a rotation axis of the lamination stack, and subsequently bending the bar ends of the conductor bars in opposing radial directions to a locking angle greater than the skew angle, to lock each of the conductor bars in its respective rotor slot. The bent bar ends exert a compressive axial locking force on the lamination stack to prevent axial and radial movement of the laminations in the lamination stack and to prevent axial movement of the conductor bars relative to the lamination stack.
US09621007B2
An electric machine with a closed circuit air cooling provides using only passive elements to realize an efficient and compact heat transfer from inside the electric machine to an ambient heat sink.
US09621004B2
An armature includes a core having a plurality of teeth, which are radially formed with a rotation axis as the center, a plurality of coils where each coil is wound around each set of teeth containing at least two teeth. The plurality of coils have a plurality of inside coils placed on a rotation axis side of the teeth and a plurality of outside coils placed outside the inside coils. The plurality of inside coils are circularly arranged so that inside coils adjacent to each other are not wound around the same tooth. The plurality of outside coils are circularly arranged so that outside coils adjacent to each other are not wound around the same tooth. The outside coils are wound around a second set of combinations of teeth, which are different from a first set of combinations of teeth around which the inside coils are wound.
US09620998B2
A motor cooling and eddy current suppression structure (100), which is attached to the surface of the motor winding (201), includes a first cooling plate (101), a second cooling plate (103,104), and a cooling water circuit located between the first cooling plate and the second cooling plate. The cooling water circuit is configured to allow the cooling fluid to pass through. The first and the second cooling plates are both non-magnetic metallic materials. The first cooling plate is divided into a plurality of individual first regions (301,303) which are corresponding to each pole of the motor by one or more first slits (305) provided on the first cooling plate in the position where the motor poles are combined. Each of the first regions is further divided into an even number of first sub-areas by at least one fist sub-slit (306) where induced electromotive force is generated. Two adjacent first sub-areas in respective first regions are grouped together, and the ends of each first sub-area that has the same polarity are connected in series. The second cooling plate is divided into a plurality of individual second regions which are corresponding to each pole of the motor by one or more second slits provided on the second cooling plate in the position where the motor poles are combined. Each of the second regions is further divided into an even number of second sub-areas by at least one second sub-slit where induced electromotive force is generated. Two adjacent second sub-areas in respective second regions are grouped together, and the ends of each second sub-area that has the same polarity are connected in series. This structure can efficiently reduce the temperature of the motor winding and reduce the induced eddy current.
US09620988B2
An object is to provide a power storage device provided with a battery that is a power storage means, for safe and accurate supply of electric power in a short period of time for drive power supply voltage without checking remaining capacity of the battery or changing batteries with deterioration over time of the battery for drive power supply voltage. The power storage device is provided with a battery that is a power storage means as a power supply for supplying electric power and a counter circuit for counting charging time of the power storage means. An electromagnetic wave with electric field intensity, magnetic field intensity, and power flux density per unit time which are transmitted from a power feeder are controlled, and the power storage means is efficiently charged using the electromagnetic wave in a short period of time.
US09620984B2
An electric power charge and discharge system for an electronic device having a battery, by which the electronic device can be used for a long period of time. In a wireless communication device including a wireless driving portion including a first battery and a wireless charging portion including a second battery, the first battery is charged by electric power from a fixed power supply and the second battery is charged by using electromagnetic waves existing in an external space. Further, the first battery and the second battery are discharged alternately, and during a period in which the first battery is discharged, the second battery is charged.
US09620983B2
Methods and systems may provide for detecting a location of an adjacent ultrasonic receiver of a battery powered device relative to a charging surface of a contactless charger. The charging surface may include an ultrasonic array of transmitter sub arrays, wherein one or more of the transmitter sub arrays may be selectively activated based on the location to focus an ultrasonic beam on the adjacent ultrasonic receiver. In one example, a movement of the adjacent ultrasonic receiver may be detected and the focus of the ultrasonic beam is adjusted in response to the movement.
US09620982B2
A comparator circuit includes: a switching element that is disposed between a positive electrode of a battery cell and a fixed potential supply source, that has a control terminal connected to a negative electrode of the battery cell, and that operates in response to a voltage applied from the battery cell to the control terminal; a voltage regulating unit that is disposed between the battery cell and the switching element and that regulates the voltage applied from the battery cell to the switching element; and an output signal line that outputs a potential between the switching element and the fixed potential supply source.
US09620978B2
Disclosed is a method and device 700 for determining an expected usage of the device, determining a charge level of a battery 750 associated with the device, and tuning the charge level of the battery by at least one of charging the battery based on the determined expected usage of the device and the determined charge level of the battery, and discharging the battery by changing an operation of the device based on the determined charge level of the battery and the determined expected usage of the device.
US09620977B2
A battery device includes a plurality of power converters, and a power storage unit connected between the power converters. The power converters and the power storage unit are configured to convert power from a first power standard to a second power standard by transferring the power through the power storage unit.
US09620972B2
A wireless charging device disclosed herein includes a housing having a wireless charging module mounted therein, an upper cover covering an upper surface of the housing, the upper cover having screw holes formed on one surface thereof, screws inserted into the screw holes to couple the housing and the upper cover to each other, magnets inserted into the screw holes to overlap the screws, and a pad disposed to cover the upper cover, the pad having a terminal mounting surface.
US09620961B2
A method for supplying internal consumers in a domestic appliance from a low voltage supply network, for example a photovoltaic power station or wind power station, includes classifying the internal consumers commensurate with a stored energy requirement of each internal consumer and supplying the internal consumers with energy commensurate with the classification. This protects against low voltage and excessive electric loads and against partial interruption of a treatment program for items when the low voltage supply is interrupted due to a temporary overload. The energy supply of the internal consumers is switched off in stages depending on their energy requirement and on their classification, when the energy available from the low voltage supply network is insufficient for supplying all internal consumers, and is switched back on again in stages, when the energy available from the low voltage supply network is once again sufficient for supplying all internal consumers.
US09620958B2
An electronic cigarette battery reverse connection protection device and method for using the same, comprising: a battery, a switch circuit, an alarm circuit, a discharge control circuit and a load circuit. The battery is connected with the switch circuit, the switch circuit is connected with the discharge control circuit and the alarm circuit respectively, the discharge control circuit is connected with the load circuit. The switch circuit is configured to determine whether the battery is reversely connected according to a power signal provided by the battery; when the battery is reversely connected, the discharge control circuit is turned off, and the alarm circuit is turned on and generates an alarm signal; and when the battery is correctly connected, the discharge control circuit controls the load circuit working.
US09620955B2
Systems and methods are presented for managing communication between devices in an electric power generation and delivery system. In certain embodiments, a method for managing communication messages performed by a network device included in an electric power generation and delivery system may include receiving a message including an identifier and data state information via a communications interface. A determination may be made that that the message represents a data state change associated with the identifier. The message may be stored in a message buffer associated with the identifier. Finally, the stored message may be transmitted from the message buffer to an intelligent electronic device.
US09620953B2
Methods may be provided to control an electro-permanent magnetic device powered from an AC mains power source provided through first and second power lines of a controller, wherein a first switch is provided on the first power line between the AC mains power source and the electro-permanent magnetic device and a second switch is provided on the second power line between the AC main power source and the electro-permanent magnetic device. In particular, a sequence of switching pulses may be transmitted through the first and second switches to change a magnetic state of the electro-permanent magnetic device. Related controllers are also discussed.
US09620941B2
A telecommunications patching system having point-to-point tracing capabilities includes: a plurality of end devices; at least one rack structure; a plurality of patch panels mounted to each rack structure; a plurality of connector ports disposed on each of the patch panels; a plurality of patch cords for selectively interconnecting different pairs of connector ports; a plurality of cables for selectively interconnecting the connector ports on the patch panels with respective end devices; tracing modules associated with said connector ports and end devices that monitor connectivity of the connector ports and end devices; and a display associated with the tracing modules configured to display the connectivity of a circuit comprising one or more of the connector ports and one or more of the end devices.
US09620938B2
A switchboard applied with a bushing-type current transformer includes a terminal bushing inserted from a front direction, a switchboard terminal coupled to the terminal bushing, a metering current transformer bushing inserted from a front direction and inserted into the terminal bushing while wrapping the switchboard terminal, and a metering current transformer disposed outside the metering current transformer bushing and assembled or disassembled at a front surface through a circuit breaker chamber. Thus, the switchboard applied with a bushing-type current transformer has an advantage of having a high degree of internal space utilization or capable of being made to be compact.
US09620936B2
An ion/ozone wind generation device includes a plurality of electrode pairs having a needle-shaped electrode and an opposite electrode, ions, ozone, and ion wind being generated using corona discharge by generating a potential difference between the respective electrode pairs. In this device, the opposite electrode in each of the electrode pairs is formed into a planar and annular or spiral shape, a main electrode pair as a pair of electrodes and a plurality of sub-electrode pairs as electrode pairs in which the opposite electrodes are regularly located adjacent or proximate to each other so as to surround the opposite electrode in the main electrode pair along an outer circumference of the opposite electrode in the main electrode pair are provided, and planar normal vectors in all the opposite electrodes are directed in substantially the same directions.
US09620935B2
A packing between an insulator and a metal shell of a spark plug. A length between a first position of a contact portion of the packing and the insulator and a second position of a contact portion of the packing and the insulator parallel to an axial line direction is set as a first length. In the case where a load perpendicular to the axial line direction is applied to the second position, a ratio of stress at a surface position that is a position on a surface of the insulator to stress at the first position is set as a stress ratio. In a range of the surface position where the stress ratio is 0.8 or more to 1.15 or less, a length in a continuous range from the first position toward a front end side parallel to the axial line direction is set as a second length. A ratio of the second length to the first length is 0.7 or more.
US09620920B2
A pulsed gas discharge laser operating at an output laser pulse repetition rate of greater than 4 kHz and a method of operating same is disclosed which may comprise a high voltage electrode having a longitudinal extent; a main insulator electrically insulating the high voltage electrode from a grounded gas discharge chamber; a preionizer longitudinally extending along at least a portion of the longitudinal extent of the high voltage electrode; a preionization shim integral with the electrode extending toward the preionizer. The preionizer may be formed integrally with the main insulator. The preionization shim may substantially cover the gap between the electrode and the preionizer. The apparatus and method may comprise an aerodynamic fairing attached to the high voltage electrode to present an aerodynamically smooth surface to the gas flow.
US09620907B1
A receptacle assembly includes a receptacle housing including panels defining a pluggable module cavity and providing EMI shielding for the module cavity. A gasket assembly is provided at the bottom of the receptacle housing. The gasket assembly has a bottom plate, a hinge plate rearward of the bottom plate and a rear plate extending from a rear of the hinge plate providing EMI shielding for the module cavity. The bottom plate provides EMI shielding at the bottom of the receptacle housing and the rear plate provides EMI shielding at a back end of the receptacle housing. The hinge plate is hingedly coupled between the bottom plate and the rear plate to change relative positions of the bottom plate and the rear plate during assembly to the circuit board.
US09620902B2
A connector fixing piece comprises an engagement body, two cantilevers, a first buckle block, and a second buckle block. The engagement body is provided with a bottom surface. Two cantilevers project from the bottom surface of the engagement body to form a sleeve joint portion together. The first buckle block is located on the engagement body, and projects from the bottom surface of the engagement body. The second buckle block is located between the first buckle block and the two cantilevers, and projects from the bottom surface of the engagement body. By using the connector fixing piece of the present invention, the reliability of connector insertion connection can be improved.
US09620901B2
A breakaway coaxial cable connector includes a first conductive body configured to engage a first cable, and a second conductive body configured to engage a second cable. The first conductive body and the second conductive body are configured to be selectively coupled to each other so as to maintain electrical connectivity between the first cable and the second cable during operation of the connector when a first tension force below a predetermined threshold level is applied between the first cable and the second cable. The first conductive body and the second conductive body are configured to be selectively de-coupled from each other so as to interrupt electrical connectivity between the first cable and the second cable during operation of the connector when a second tension force above the predetermined threshold level is applied between the first cable and the second cable.
US09620896B1
A two sided electrical connection system that automatically connects two connector sides together is provided. A male side and female side of the connector have bodies shaped such that the male side may be received by the female side automatically by a force of gravity. Guiding structure around the female side of the two sided connector allows the male side to be guided into place without requiring perfect alignment of the two sides of the connector.
US09620895B2
A socket is to receive a memory module usable in a computing system. A latch is to retain the memory module seated in the socket. The latch is to generate a positive locking latch retention force to prevent removal of the memory module while the latch is in a latched position.
US09620881B1
The present invention provides an electrical connector comprising a socket and a plug. A jack is set on the socket, and a socket pin is set in the jack. The plug is set with a plug pin that has a one-to-one correspondence with the socket pin. The plug has an insertion part that is in insertion fit with the jack, and the end part of the insertion part is set with a first groove that extends along its insertion direction. The plug pin has a one-to-one correspondence with the first groove, and has an exposed part that is exposed in the first groove. The electrical connector further comprises a first compression spring, which has a one-to-one correspondence with the first groove. The two ends of the first compression spring respectively abut against the inner wall of the two ends of the first groove. The first compression spring is detachably mounted on and contact the exposed part in the corresponding first groove. The socket pin contacts the corresponding first compression spring as the jack becomes in insertion fit with the insertion part of the plug. The invention further provides a drilling system. The solution of the present invention can solve the problem of the prior art that the operation is complex and the cost is high when the connection stability of the electrical connector is ensured by way of replacing pins.
US09620870B2
An adjustable mounting system for mounting solar panels on roofs is disclosed. The system allows a user to mount the solar panels either with or without rails. The mounting assemblies are adjustable to allow the user to mount a base plate in a chosen location (either on a roof joist or other structural member or not) and to adjust the mounting location for the panel in as many as three axis of adjustment from the location of the base plate. A system for mounting and grounding the panels at the same time is also disclosed.
US09620864B2
A method of designing a reflectarray including a substrate having a surface perpendicular to a predetermined axis, wherein elements are disposed on the substrate. The method obtains a reflection phase of the elements as a function of a design parameter such as element spacing, when a radio wave enters the arranged elements, and stores a relationship between the reflection phase and the design parameter in a memory. Here, the design parameter is equally set for the elements. The method repeatedly determines, for each of the elements, the design parameter of a specific element in accordance with the relationship. The function of the design parameter has a range of almost 360 degrees with respect to a range of the design parameter. The reflection phase is the continuous function of the element spacing such that two resonant points occur at which the reflection phase becomes zero.
US09620863B2
A first radiating element and a second radiating element each have a first extending portion protruding from a region where a ground conductor is formed to a non-ground-conductor region, and a second extending portion extending parallel with a boundary of the ground-conductor region and the non-ground-conductor region. The first radiating element and the second radiating element are arranged such that an open end of the second extending portion of the first radiating element and an open end of a second extending portion of the second radiating element face each other. A parasitic element is formed on a side of the second radiating element distant from the region (where the ground conductor is formed. A parasitic element is formed along the first radiating element. With this configuration, an antenna device is realized which has gain in two frequency bands and has forward directivity.
US09620859B2
A polymorphic antenna, including a metallic template configurable in at least first and second possible different three-dimensional shapes, the antenna, when configured in the at least first and second different three-dimensional shapes, having a common antenna feed point, a common balun coupled to the common antenna feed point; and a common dipole coupled to the common antenna feed point and to the common balun. The antenna operates in a common frequency band when configured in either of the at least first and second different three-dimensional shapes when fed via the common antenna feed point.
US09620854B2
An electronic device includes a wiring board having one or more layers, an integrated circuit arranged on the wiring board, an antenna, and a signal path. The integrated circuit generates a high frequency signal and feeds it to the signal path. The signal path conveys the high frequency signal to the antenna. The antenna emits the high frequency signal into an environment of the electronic device. Alternatively or in addition, the antenna receives the high frequency signal from the environment and feeds it to the signal path. The signal path conveys the high frequency signal to the integrated circuit. The integrated circuit processes the high frequency signal. The signal path includes a wave guide that traverses one or more of the layers of the wiring board.
US09620848B2
There is provided an apparatus comprising: a first radiation element having a horizontal pattern extending in parallel with a ground element and having a first open end; a second radiation element having a horizontal pattern extending in parallel with the ground element and having a second open end; wherein each of said first radiation element and second radiation element connects to the ground element; wherein said second open end of the second radiation element occupies an area surrounded by a horizontal pattern of the first radiation element and the ground element; and a driven element including a first excitation pattern extending along the horizontal pattern of the first radiation element and a second excitation pattern extending along the horizontal pattern of the second radiation element. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09620841B2
A radio frequency coupling structure is arranged to couple a radio frequency signal between a first side of the radio frequency coupling structure to a second side of the radio frequency coupling structure opposite to the first side. The radio frequency coupling structure comprises a dielectric layer, a first electrically conductive layer comprising a first transition structure, a second electrically conductive layer comprising a second transition structure, and an integrated waveguide structure formed by an array of electrically conductive vias extending through the dielectric layer from the first to the second electrically conductive layer to enclose a portion of the dielectric layer. The portion is arranged to guide the radio frequency signal between the first transition structure and the second transition structure.
US09620835B2
An arrangement includes a plurality of split ring resonators on a planar substrate. Each split ring resonator of the plurality of split ring resonators includes two mutually parallel ring structures of a metal conductor element spaced apart by the substrate. The two mutually parallel rings structures are respectively separated by at least one gap. At least two split ring resonators of the plurality of split ring resonators are positionable relative to one another such that the separated ring structures may be reciprocally guided through a gap of the respective other ring structures and interlock. Overlap regions may be produced by common ring structure inner surfaces.
US09620821B2
A rechargeable lithium battery includes an electrode assembly including a positive electrode, a first separator, a negative electrode, and a second separator that are sequentially stacked. The first separator includes a first substrate including a first side facing the positive electrode and a second side facing the negative electrode. The second separator includes a second substrate including a third side facing the negative electrode and a fourth side facing the positive electrode. At least one of the first side to the fourth side includes an organic layer including an organic material, and at least one of the second side or the third side includes an inorganic layer including an inorganic material.
US09620817B2
The present invention is to provide: a liquid electrolyte for batteries, which has excellent stability to lithium metals; a method for producing the liquid electrolyte; and a lithium battery comprising the liquid electrolyte. Presented is a liquid electrolyte for lithium batteries, wherein the liquid electrolyte comprises a mesoionic compound represented by the following general formula (1): wherein R1 is an aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms, and R2 is a group represented by any one of the following general formulae (2), (3) and (4): General Formula (2): —ClH2l—(OCH2)m—CnH2n+1; General Formula (3): —CxH2x—(CH2OCH2)y—CzH2z+1; and General Formula (4): —CpH2p—(C2H4OCH2)q—CrH2r+1.
US09620804B2
A fuel cell is provided having a structure in which a cathode and an anode face each other with an electrolyte layer therebetween. The cathode includes an electrode on which an oxygen reductase and the like are immobilized, and the electrode has pores therein, water repellency is imparted to at least part of the surface of the electrode. Water repellency is imparted by forming a water-repellent agent on the surface of the electrode. The water-repellent agent includes a water-repellent material such as carbon powder and an organic solvent such as methyl isobutyl ketone that causes phase separation with water. When the electrode has pores therein, there are provided a fuel cell that stably provides a high current value and a method for manufacturing the fuel cell.
US09620792B2
An example fuel cell arrangement includes a fuel cell stack configured to receive a supply fluid and to provide an exhaust fluid that has more thermal energy than the supply fluid. The arrangement also includes an ejector and a heat exchanger. The ejector is configured to direct at least some of the exhaust fluid into the supply fluid. The heat exchanger is configured to increase thermal energy in the supply fluid using at least some of the exhaust fluid that was not directed into the supply fluid.
US09620788B2
An electrode catalyst for a fuel cell, an electrode, a fuel cell, and a membrane electrode assembly (MEA), the electrode catalyst including a carbonaceous support, and a catalyst metal loaded on the carbonaceous support, wherein the carbonaceous support includes a functional group bound on a surface thereof, the functional group being represented by one of Formula 1 or Formula 2, below,
US09620778B2
A method for manufacturing a molten material (the crystallized portion of which consists of a single crystalline phase), includes a) mixing raw materials so as to form a feedstock; b) melting the feedstock until a liquid mass reaches a temperature higher than the melting temperature Tf of the molten material obtained at the end of step e); c) cooling until the liquid mass is completely solidified to obtain a molten material, the amorphous phase of which is constitutes less than 80 wt % thereof; d) optionally crushing/grinding and/or performing selection by particle size on the molten material; e) optionally, heat-treating the molten material at a temperature which is an increment lower than the melting temperature of the molten material and is between Tf−800° C. (or 500° C.) and Tf−50° C., for a period of time in a reducing environment; and f) optionally, crushing/grinding and/or performing selection by particle size on said molten material.
US09620768B2
A negative electrode 1 for lithium secondary batteries, which can increase the charge/discharge capacity of a lithium secondary battery, includes a negative electrode current collector, a negative electrode active material layer, and a lithium layer. The negative electrode active material layer is disposed on regions and of the respective surfaces and of the negative electrode current collector. The lithium layer is disposed on uncovered regions and, which are regions of the respective surfaces and of the negative electrode current collector on which the negative electrode active material layer is not disposed. The lithium layer includes lithium.
US09620767B2
An electrode active material layer containing an electrode active material and a binder. The binder is distributed in the electrode active material layer such that the amount of the binder increases continuously from an outer surface of the electrode active material layer toward the core. The amount of the binder present in the electrode active material layer per unit thickness is less than 10 in a region extending from a position 90% of the thickness of the electrode active material layer to a position 100% of the thickness of the electrode active material layer from a surface of the electrode active material layer facing the core, with 10 being assigned to the amount of the binder present in the electrode active material layer per unit thickness if the binder is uniformly distributed in the electrode active material layer.
US09620766B2
Considering that battery separators will require further thinner materials and lower costs in the future, a battery separator of the present invention, in which multi-layer polyolefin porous membrane with exceptionally high peel strength against a modified porous layer, suitable for high-speed processing during slit process and battery assembly process, and suitable for laminating on a multi-layer modified porous layer, and a multi-layer modified porous layer are laminated, is provided. A multi-layer polyolefin porous membrane comprising at least two or more layers, the multi-layer polyolefin porous membrane having a shut-down temperature in a range of 128 to 135° C., a rate of increase in air permeation resistance from 30° C. to 105° C. scaled to 20 μm thickness less than 1.5 sec/100 cc Air/° C., and a thickness not more than 20 μm.
US09620763B1
A connector assembly (100,500) includes a plate (101,501) having a body (107,507) and one or more legs (108,109,110,508,509,510) extending distally from the body. The body can define an aperture (112,512). A flexible substrate (102,502) can electrically couple to the legs such that a portion (202,602) of the body extends distally from an edge (203,603) of the flexible substrate. A connector (103,503) is electrically coupled to the flexible substrate, with one or more circuit components (104,105,504,505) electrically coupled between the legs and the connector. The flexible substrate can define a perimeter (201,601) that is complementary in shape to an upper surface (122,522) of a busbar connector (106,506).
US09620756B2
Provided are a separator-integrated electrode and a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery with a reduced risk of a short circuit between electrodes due to precipitation of metallic lithium on a surface of an electrode mixture layer. A positive electrode (12) configured as a separator-integrated electrode includes a positive current collector (22), a positive active material layer (24) formed on a surface thereof, a first porous layer (26) formed on a surface of the positive active material layer (24) and containing inorganic particles, and a second porous layer (28) formed on a surface of the first porous layer (26) and made of resin fibers.
US09620737B2
An organic light emitting display apparatus includes a substrate including a pixel region, a first electrode on the substrate, a second electrode on the first electrode, an organic light emission layer between the first and second electrodes to emit light, a plurality of layers on the second electrode, and a light compensation pattern on the second electrode and overlapping the pixel region, the light compensation pattern including a plurality of protrusion patterns having progressively decreasing widths as a distance from a center of the pixel region increases, and a plurality of grooves separating the protrusions in a direction parallel to the substrate from the center of the pixel region.
US09620730B2
Organic electronic devices and methods for making organic electronic devices are provided. The organic electronic devices may include a gate electrode, a gate insulator, an organic semiconducting layer, a contact improving layer, a source electrode, and a drain electrode. The source electrode and the drain electrode may be arranged on the contact improving layer, and the contact improving layer may include an organic dopant material which is soluble in Hydrofluorether.
US09620729B2
An organic thin film transistor and a method of manufacturing the same, an array substrate and a display device are disclosed. The thin film transistor including: a source electrode (4), a drain electrode (5), an organic semiconductor layer (6) disposed on the source electrode (4) and drain electrode (5), and a modified layer (7); the modified layer (7) is disposed at a position below an organic semiconductor layer (6) and corresponding to the source electrode (4) and the drain electrode (5), covers the source electrode (4) and the drain electrode (5), and is configured to change a contact angle on both the source electrode (4) and the drain electrode (5). The thin film transistor avoids the problems of poor formation effects and easy disconnection of the organic semiconductor layer (6) because of the large contact angle on electrode layers, and therefore reduces production costs.
US09620728B2
A thin film transistor (TFT) has a gate electrode; a gate insulation layer, a semiconducting channel separated from the gate electrode by the gate insulation layer; a source electrode and a drain electrode. The gate insulation layer is a cross-linked cyanoethylated polyhydroxy polymer, e.g. a cross-linked cyanoethylated pullulan, having a high dielectric constant and the semiconducting channel has a network of semiconducting carbon nanotubes. The semiconducting channel is adhered to the gate insulation layer through a polymeric material. The carbon nanotubes adhere to the polymeric material and the polymeric material reacts or interacts with the gate insulation layer. TFTs have high mobilities while maintaining good on/off ratios.
US09620722B2
The present invention relates to compounds of the formula (1) and formula (2), which are suitable for use in electronic devices, in particular in organic electroluminescent devices.
US09620720B2
An organic electroluminescent element including a substrate, a pair of electrodes including an anode and a cathode, disposed on the substrate, and at least one organic layer including a light emitting layer, disposed between the electrodes, in which at least one kind of compound represented by the following general formula (I) is contained in any layer of the at least one organic layer. The organic electroluminescent element has good luminous efficiency, driving voltage, and driving durability, and has low dependence of such performance on a deposition rate: wherein X, Q, R1 to R8 are as defined in the application.
US09620716B2
The invention relates to novel organic semiconducting polymers containing one or more monomers derived from s-indacene fused symmetrically on each terminus with dithieno[3,2-b;2′,3′-d]thiophene (IDDTT), cyclopenta[2,1-b;3,4-b′]dithiophene (IDCDT), or derivatives thereof, to methods for their preparation and educts or intermediates used therein, to polymer blends, mixtures and formulations containing them, to the use of the polymers, polymer blends, mixtures and formulations as semiconductors in organic electronic (OE) devices, especially in organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices and organic photodetectors (OPD), and to OE, OPV and OPD devices comprising these polymers, polymer blends, mixtures or formulations.
US09620714B2
Oxidation treatment is performed to the surface of a substrate provided with a photocatalytic conductive film and an insulating film; treatment with a silane coupling agent is performed, so that a silane coupling agent film is formed and the surface of the substrate is modified to be liquid-repellent; and the surface of the substrate is irradiated with light of a wavelength (less than to equal to 390 nm) which has energy of greater than or equal to a band gap of a material for forming the photocatalytic conductive film, so that only the silane coupling agent film over the surface of the photocatalytic conductive film is decomposed and the surface of the photocatalytic conductive film can be modified to be lyophilic.
US09620711B2
An electronic device includes a semiconductor unit. The semiconductor unit includes a first electrode and a second electrode spaced apart from each other in a first direction; and a first material layer interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode and having a variable resistance characteristic or a threshold switching characteristic, wherein the first electrode, or the second electrode, or both includes a plurality of sub-electrodes and a plurality of second material layers that are alternately arranged in the first direction, and wherein each of the second material layers has a thickness that is sufficiently small to enable the second material layers to exhibit an ohmic-like behavior for a current flowing therein at an operating current of the semiconductor unit.
US09620708B2
A magnetic material includes a cobalt layer between opposing iron layers. The iron layers include iron and are body-centered cubic (BCC), the cobalt layer comprises cobalt and is BCC or amorphous, and the magnetic material has a perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA).
US09620703B2
A piezoelectric thin-film element includes a substrate, a lower electrode layer formed on the substrate, a piezoelectric thin-film layer that is formed on the lower electrode layer and includes potassium sodium niobate having a perovskite structure represented by the composition formula of (K1-xNax)NbO3 (0.4≦x≦0.7), and an upper electrode layer formed on the piezoelectric thin-film layer. The piezoelectric thin-film layer is formed such that a value of (Ec−+Ec+)/2 is not less than 10.8 kV/cm and a value of (Pr−+Pr+)/2 is not more than −2.4 μC/cm2 where Ec− and Ec+ are intersection points of a polarization-electric field hysteresis loop and the x-axis indicating an electric field and Pr− and Pr+ are intersection points of the polarization-electric field hysteresis loop and the y-axis indicating polarization.
US09620700B2
An integrated circuit may include a substrate and a dielectric layer formed over the substrate. A plurality of p-type thermoelectric elements and a plurality of n-type thermoelectric elements may be disposed within the dielectric layer. The p-type thermoelectric elements and the n-type thermoelectric elements may be connected in series while alternating between the p-type and the n-type thermoelectric elements.
US09620698B2
An integrated circuit may include a substrate and a dielectric layer formed over the substrate. A plurality of p-type thermoelectric elements and a plurality of n-type thermoelectric elements may be disposed within the dielectric layer. The p-type thermoelectric elements and the n-type thermoelectric elements may be connected in series while alternating between the p-type and the n-type thermoelectric elements.
US09620694B2
An optoelectronic component includes a leadframe, a molded body connected to the leadframe, and an optoelectronic semiconductor chip arranged on the leadframe, wherein the leadframe includes an alignment opening, and wherein the molded body includes a recess via which the leadframe is exposed in the area of the alignment opening.
US09620692B2
An exemplary lead frame includes a substrate and a bonding electrode, a first connecting electrode, and a second connecting electrode embedded in the substrate. A top surface of the bonding electrode includes a first bonding surface and a second bonding surface spaced from the first bonding surface. A top surface of the first connecting electrode includes a first connecting surface and a second connecting surface spaced from the first connecting surface. Top surfaces of the bonding electrode, the first connecting electrode and the second connecting electrode are exposed out of the substrate to support and electrically connect with light emitting chips. Light emitting chips can be mounted on the lead frame and electrically connect with each other in parallel or in series; thus, the light emitting chips can be connected with each in a versatile way.
US09620689B2
A semiconductor light emitting device that achieves miniaturization and high brightness is provided. The semiconductor light emitting device has a light extraction surface (6) parallel to a lamination direction of a semiconductor layer (2). The semiconductor light emitting device includes a light guide member (3) placed on the semiconductor layer (2) and having a sloped surface (7) with a side surface opposite to the light extraction surface (6) sloped to the light extraction surface and a light-reflecting member (4) placed on a surface of the light guide member including at least the sloped surface of the light guide member.
US09620683B2
A light emitting device is provided that may include a light emitting structure including a first conductivity-type semiconductor layer, an active layer provided on the first conductivity-type semiconductor layer, and a second conductivity-type semiconductor layer provided on the active layer, a first electrode that conductively contacts the first conductivity-type semiconductor layer, an insulating layer provided on a portion of the light emitting structure and the first electrode, and a second electrode that conductively contacts the second conductivity-type semiconductor layer, the first electrode including a first portion protruding from a side surface of the first conductivity-type semiconductor layer.
US09620682B2
A light emitting device includes a light emitting structure having a plurality of light emitting regions including a first semiconductor layer, an active layer, a second semiconductor layer, a first electrode in one of the light emitting regions, a second electrode in another of the light emitting regions, and at least one connection electrode to sequentially connect the light emitting regions in series. The light emitting regions connected in series are divided into 1st to ith light emitting region groups. Areas of light emitting regions that belong to different groups are different. An area of a light emitting region which is more frequently used among the plurality of light emitting regions is larger than an area of a light emitting region which is less frequently used among the plurality of light emitting regions.
US09620681B2
A semiconductor device including a first conductivity type semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second conductivity type semiconductor layer which are sequentially stacked; a first conductivity type upper electrode portion and a first conductivity type lower electrode portion disposed to correspond to each other with the first conductivity type semiconductor layer interposed therebetween; a second conductivity type upper electrode portion and a second conductivity type lower electrode portion disposed to correspond to each other with the first and second conductivity type semiconductor layers interposed therebetween; and a second conductivity type electrode connection portion electrically connecting the second conductivity type upper electrode portion and the second conductivity type lower electrode portion.
US09620679B2
A light-emitting device comprises a light-emitting semiconductor stack comprising a plurality of recesses and a mesa, each of the plurality of recesses comprising a bottom surface, and the mesa comprising an upper surface; a first electrode formed on the upper surface of the mesa; a plurality of second electrodes respectively formed on the bottom surface of the plurality of recesses; a first electrode pad formed on the light-emitting semiconductor stack and contacting with the first electrode; a second electrode pad formed on the light-emitting semiconductor stack and contacting with the plurality of second electrode; a first insulating layer comprising a plurality of passages to expose the plurality of second electrodes; and a second insulating layer comprising a plurality of spaces and formed on the first insulating layer, wherein the plurality of spaces is covered by the first electrode pad.
US09620673B2
An optoelectronic device includes a carrier on which a semiconductor layer sequence is applied, said semiconductor layer sequence including an n-doped semiconductor layer and a p-doped semiconductor layer such that a p-n junction is formed which includes an active zone that generates electromagnetic radiation, wherein at least one of the n-doped semiconductor layer and the p-doped semiconductor layer includes a doped region having a first doping concentration greater than a second doping concentration in a surrounding area of the region in the semiconductor layer including the region.
US09620669B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor light emitting device includes a light emitting chip and a fluorescent material layer. The light emitting chip includes a semiconductor layer, a first electrode, a second electrode, an insulating layer, a first interconnect layer, a second interconnect layer, a first metal pillar, a second metal pillar, and a resin layer. The semiconductor layer includes a light emitting layer, a first major surface, and a second major surface formed on a side opposite to the first major surface. The fluorescent material layer is provided on the first major surface and has a larger planer size than the light emitting chip.
US09620668B2
A composition for manufacturing an electrode of a solar cell, comprising metal nanoparticles dispersed in a dispersive medium, wherein the metal nanoparticles contain silver nanoparticles of 75 weight % or more, the metal nanoparticles are chemically modified by a protective agent having a main chain of organic molecule comprising a carbon backbone of carbon number of 1 to 3, and the metal nanoparticles contains 70% or more in number-average of metal nanoparticles having a primary grain size within a range of 10 to 50 nm.
US09620667B1
A method is disclosed for doping a semiconductor material comprising the steps of providing a semiconductor material having a first and a second surface. A dopant precursor is applied on the first surface of the semiconductor material. A thermal energy beam is directed onto the second surface of the semiconductor material to pass through the semiconductor material and impinge upon the dopant precursor to dope the semiconductor material thereby.
US09620659B2
A preparation method of a glass film, a photoelectric device and a packaging method thereof, and a display device are provided, and the preparation method of a glass film includes: forming a sacrificial layer on a base substrate; forming a glass frit film on the sacrificial layer; solidifying the glass frit film; and removing the sacrificial layer, so as to obtain a glass film. The method can bring an individual glass film, which is helpful to a narrow-bezel design of a photoelectric device.
US09620658B1
A modular, lightweight, high-survivable, photovoltaic flexible blanket assembly for a space solar array is disclosed. The modular blanket is an accordion foldable or rollable flexible photovoltaic solar panel blanket assembly comprising a plurality of common photovoltaic modules spaced in an orthogonal pattern. Each module is mechanically attached with multiple low profile fasteners on their backside to an open weave mesh tensioned backplane structure. The backplane forms a tensioned dimensionally stable planar surface in the deployed configuration onto which the modules are suspended. Each module is common and comprised of a rectangular substrate that includes solar cell assemblies, circuitry, exposed electrical contacts for integration of blanket-level harnessing, and frontside and rearside shielding and coatings as required for the mission application. The blanket assembly may be dispersed with an open pattern of compliant and formable material on the backside to provide insulation against the vigorous vibration of the launch environment.
US09620654B2
A voltage switchable coherent spin field effect transistor is provided by depositing a ferromagnetic base like cobalt on a substrate. A chrome oxide layer is formed on the cobalt by MBE at room at UHV at room temperature. There was thin cobalt oxide interface between the chrome oxide and the cobalt. Other magnetic materials may be employed. A few ML field of graphene is deposited on the chrome oxide by molecular beam epitaxy, and a source and drain are deposited of base material. The resulting device is scalable, provides high on/off rates, is stable and operable at room temperature and easily fabricated with existing technology.
US09620652B2
The present invention provides a TFT and a manufacturing method thereof, an array substrate and a display device. The TFT comprises a gate, an active layer located on the gate, an ohmic contact layer located on the active layer, and a first electrode and a second electrode located on the ohmic contact layer, wherein the first electrode and the second electrode are partially overlapped with the active layer, the ohmic contact layer is located within a region where the first electrode and the second electrode are overlapped with the active layer; the active layer is partially overlapped with the gate, the active layer comprises at least one opening region partially overlapped with the gate; and the first electrode and/or the second electrode extends beyond the active layer through the at least one opening region.
US09620651B2
A thin film transistor, a manufacturing method thereof and an array substrate are provided. The thin film transistor includes a gate electrode, a gate insulation layer, an active layer, a source electrode and a drain electrode provided on a base substrate, and along a direction perpendicular to the base substrate, the source electrode and the drain electrode are respectively provided at opposite both sides of the active layer, and the source electrode and the drain electrode contacts the active layer.
US09620644B2
A semiconductor device that includes at least one fin structure and a gate structure present on a channel portion of the fin structure. An epitaxial semiconductor material is present on at least one of a source region portion and a drain region portion on the fin structure. The epitaxial semiconductor material includes a first portion having a substantially conformal thickness on a lower portion of the fin structure sidewall and a second portion having a substantially diamond shape that is present on an upper surface of the source portion and drain portion of the fin structure. A spacer present on first portion of the epitaxial semiconductor material.
US09620640B2
The invention provides a body-contact metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) device. The body-contact MOSFET device includes a substrate. An active region is disposed on the substrate. A gate strip is extended along a first direction disposed on a first portion of the active region. A source doped region and a drain doped region are disposed on a second portion and a third portion of the active region, adjacent to opposite sides of the gate strip. The opposite sides of the gate strip are extended along the first direction. A body-contact doped region is disposed on a fourth portion of the active region. The body-contact doped region is separated from the gate strip by a fifth portion of the active region. The fifth portion is not covered by any silicide features.
US09620639B2
An electronic device can include a transistor structure, including a patterned semiconductor layer overlying a substrate and having a primary surface. The electronic device can further include first conductive structures within each of a first trench and a second trench, a gate electrode within the first trench and electrically insulated from the first conductive structure, a first insulating member disposed between the gate electrode and the first conductive structure within the first trench, and a second conductive structure within the second trench. The second conductive structure can be electrically connected to the first conductive structures and is electrically insulated from the gate electrode. The electronic device can further include a second insulating member disposed between the second conductive structure and the first conductive structure within the second trench. Processing sequences can be used that simplify formation of the features within the electronic device.
US09620634B2
The invention is a field-effect transistor with a channel consisting of a thin sheet of one or more atomic layers of lateral heterostructures based on hybridized graphene. The role of lateral heterostructures is to modify the energy gap in the channel so as to enable the effective operation of the transistor in all bias regions. This solution solves the problem of the missing bandgap in single-layer and multi-layer graphene, which does not allow the fabrication of transistors that can be efficiently switched off. The possibility of fabricating lateral heterostructures, with patterns of domains with different energy dispersion relations, enables the realization of field-effect transistors with additional functionalities with respect to common transistors.
US09620621B2
In some embodiments, an field effect transistor structure includes a first semiconductor structure and a gate structure. The first semiconductor structure includes a channel region, and a source region and a drain region. The source region and the drain region are formed on opposite ends of the channel region, respectively. The gate structure includes a central region and footing regions. The central region is formed over the first semiconductor structure. The footing regions are formed on opposite sides of the central region and along where the central region is adjacent to the first semiconductor structure.
US09620620B2
A method of preventing contact metal from protruding into neighboring gate devices to affect work functions of the neighboring gate devices is provided includes forming a gate structure. Forming the gate structure includes forming a work function layer, and forming a gate metal layer having a void, wherein the work function layer surrounds the gate metal layer. The method further includes forming a contact plug having a contact metal directly on the gate metal layer of the first gate stack, wherein the contact metal protrudes into the void, and the work function layer prevents the contact metal from protruding into a second gate stack.
US09620618B2
A method for forming a transistor is provided. The method includes: forming a channel layer over a substrate; forming a barrier layer between the channel layer and the substrate; forming a recess that extends into the barrier layer through the channel layer; and forming a source layer in the recess.
US09620605B2
A multi-layered semiconductor device and method of manufacture are provided. In an embodiment a first semiconductor layer, a first insulator layer, a second semiconductor layer, a second insulator layer, and a third semiconductor layer are formed over a substrate. A first transistor comprises the first semiconductor layer, the first insulator layer, and the second semiconductor layer, and a second transistor comprises the second semiconductor layer, the second insulator layer, and the third semiconductor layer.
US09620602B2
The semiconductor device including: two fins having rectangular parallelepiped shapes arranged in parallel in X-direction; and a gate electrode arranged thereon via a gate insulating film and extending in Y-direction is configured as follows. First, a drain plug is provided over a drain region located on one side of the gate electrode and extending in Y-direction. Then, two source plugs are provided over a source region located on the other side of the gate electrode and extending in Y-direction. Also, the drain plug is arranged in a displaced manner so that its position in Y-direction may not overlap with the two source plugs. According to such a configuration, the gate-drain capacitance can be made smaller than the gate-source capacitance and a Miller effect-based circuit delay can be suppressed. Further, as compared with capacitance on the drain side, capacitance on the source side increases, thereby improving stability of circuit operation.
US09620596B2
A method including forming a diamond material on the surface of a substrate; forming a first contact and a separate second contact; and patterning the diamond material to form a nanowire between the first contact and the second contact. An apparatus including a first contact and a separate second contact on a substrate; and a nanowire including a single crystalline or polycrystalline diamond material on the substrate and connected to each of the first contact and the second contact.
US09620590B1
A method and structures are used to fabricate a nanosheet semiconductor device. Nanosheet fins including nanosheet stacks including alternating silicon (Si) layers and silicon germanium (SiGe) layers are formed on a substrate and etched to define a first end and a second end along a first axis between which each nanosheet fin extends parallel to every other nanosheet fin. The SiGe layers are undercut in the nanosheet stacks at the first end and the second end to form divots, and a dielectric is deposited in the divots. The SiGe layers between the Si layers are removed before forming source and drain regions of the nanosheet semiconductor device such that there are gaps between the Si layers of each nanosheet stack, and the dielectric anchors the Si layers. The gaps are filled with an oxide that is removed after removing the dummy gate and prior to forming the replacement gate.
US09620584B2
This invention discloses a method for manufacturing a semiconductor power device in a semiconductor substrate comprises an active cell area and a termination area. The method comprises the steps of a) growing and patterning a field oxide layer in the termination area and also in the active cell area on a top surface of the semiconductor substrate b) depositing and patterning a polysilicon layer on the top surface of the semiconductor substrate at a gap distance away from the field oxide layer; c) performing a blank body dopant implant to form body dopant regions in the semiconductor substrate substantially aligned with the gap area followed by diffusing the body dopant regions into body regions in the semiconductor substrate; d) implanting high concentration body-dopant regions encompassed in and having a higher dopant concentration than the body regions and e) applying a source mask to implant source regions having a conductivity opposite to the body region with the source regions encompassed in the body regions and surrounded by the high concentration body-dopant regions.
US09620581B2
A method and an electrical device with superimposed layers in an alternation of conductive layers and insulating layers. A mesa-type structure is formed, leaving for at least one conductive layer, an uncovered peripheral portion accessible for connection. In this portion, an electrically insulating pattern is configured in order to mark out an electrically insulated area located in the peripheral portion of said at least one of the electrically conductive layers. Application to electrical capacitances and redistribution layers for microelectronic devices.
US09620572B2
Disclosed are OLED display panel and method for manufacturing the same, as well as display device including the OLED display panel. The present disclosure belongs to the field of an organic light emitting diode. The OLED display panel includes a light emitting structure, a TFT backplane, and an insulating layer. The insulating layer locates between the light emitting structure and the TFT backplane. A refractive index of the insulating layer gradually decreases in a direction of an emergent ray of the light emitting structure. The technical solution of the present disclosure may decrease influences of the emergent ray of the light emitting structure on TFT performance.
US09620570B2
Provided are an organic light emitting display device and a method for manufacturing the same. A color filter is disposed on a substrate. An overcoating layer is disposed on the color filter and includes a plurality of protrusions or a plurality of recesses. The plurality of protrusions and the plurality of recesses are disposed on the color filter to be overlapped with the color filter. A buffer layer for reducing step difference is disposed on the overcoating layer. The buffer layer has a higher refractive index than the overcoating layer and reduces a step difference caused by the plurality of protrusions and the plurality of recesses. An organic light emitting element including an anode, an organic light emitting layer, and a cathode is disposed on the buffer layer. Since the buffer layer has a higher refractive index than the overcoating layer, light extraction efficiency can be increased.
US09620564B2
A semiconductor device includes four or more first memory cells arranged on a row, the first memory cells each including a first pillar-shaped semiconductor layer, a first gate insulating film formed around the first pillar-shaped semiconductor layer, a first gate line formed around the first gate insulating film, and a first magnetic tunnel junction storage element formed on the first pillar-shaped semiconductor layer. The semiconductor device further includes a first source line that connects lower portions of the first pillar-shaped semiconductor layers to each other, a first bit line that extends in a direction perpendicular to a direction in which the first gate line extends and that is connected to an upper portion of the first magnetic tunnel junction storage element, and a second source line that extends in a direction perpendicular to a direction in which the first source line extends.
US09620562B2
Voltage-controlled magnetic anisotropy switching device using an external ferromagnetic biasing film
Aspects of the present disclose related to a voltage-controlled magnetic anisotropy (VCMA) switching device using an external ferromagnetic biasing film. Aspects of the present disclose provide for a magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) device. The MRAM device generally includes a substrate, at least one magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) stack disposed on the substrate, wherein the MTJ stack comprises a tunnel barrier layer between a first ferromagnetic layer having a fixed magnetization and a second ferromagnetic layer having unfixed magnetization, and a magnet disposed adjacent to the second ferromagnetic layer.
US09620561B2
According to one embodiment, a magnetoresistive element is disclosed. The magnetoresistive element includes an underlayer containing aluminum (Al), nitrogen (N) and X. The X is an element other than Al and N. A first magnetic layer is provided on the underlayer. A nonmagnetic layer is provided on the first magnetic layer. A second magnetic layer is provided on the nonmagnetic layer.
US09620557B2
A semiconductor device has a substrate containing a transparent or translucent material. A spacer is mounted to the substrate. A first semiconductor die has an active region and first conductive vias electrically connected to the active region. The active region can include a sensor responsive to light received through the substrate. The first die is mounted to the spacer with the active region positioned over an opening in the spacer and oriented toward the substrate. An encapsulant is deposited over the first die and substrate. An interconnect structure is formed over the encapsulant and first die. The interconnect structure is electrically connected through the first conductive vias to the active region. A second semiconductor die having second conductive vias can be mounted to the first die with the first conductive vias electrically connected to the second conductive vias.
US09620543B2
A solid-state imaging apparatus includes: a solid-state imaging device photoelectrically converting light taken by a lens; and a light shielding member shielding part of light incident on the solid-state imaging device from the lens, wherein an angle made between an edge surface of the light shielding member and an optical axis direction of the lens is larger than an incident angle of light to be incident on an edge portion of the light shielding member.
US09620535B2
A TN-type array substrate and a fabrication method thereof, and a display device, the fabrication method of the TN-type array substrate includes: a step of forming a first metal layer, a gate insulating layer, an active layer, a second metal layer and a transparent conductive layer on a substrate, wherein the first metal layer includes a gate electrode, the second metal layer includes a data line, the transparent conductive layer includes a pixel electrode; and wherein the forming the second metal layer and the transparent conductive layer includes: sequentially forming a transparent conductive thin film and a metal thin film on the substrate; performing one-off patterning process on the transparent conductive thin film and the metal thin film to form a thin film transistor (TFT) channel region, the transparent conductive layer and the second metal layer.
US09620534B2
Thin-film transistor array substrate and organic light-emitting display apparatus including the same
A thin-film transistor (TFT) array substrate includes a driving TFT, a storage capacitor, a first wire, a first interlayer insulating film, a second interlayer insulating film, and a second wire. The storage capacitor has a first electrode connected to a driving gate electrode of the driving TFT and a second electrode on and insulated from the first electrode. The first wire is on a same layer as the driving gate electrode. The first interlayer insulating film covers the first electrode and the first wire. The second interlayer insulating film is on the first interlayer insulating film and includes an opening that exposes part of the first interlayer insulating film. The second wire is on the second interlayer insulating film and at least partially overlaps the first wire. The second electrode is in the opening of the second interlayer insulating film.
US09620519B2
According to one embodiment, a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device comprises a memory cell array including a first selection gate, word lines and a second selection gate stacked above a semiconductor substrate, and a memory pillar disposed through the first selection gate, word lines and second selection gate, a hookup region disposed adjacent to the memory cell array region in a first direction, and a dummy region disposed outside the memory cell array region and the hookup region, the dummy region including dummy word lines, each provided at the same layer as the associated word line.
US09620506B2
An improved transistor with channel epitaxial silicon. In one aspect, a method of fabrication includes: forming a gate stack structure on an epitaxial silicon region disposed on a substrate, a width dimension of the epitaxial silicon region approximating a width dimension of the gate stack structure; and growing a raised epitaxial source and drain from the substrate, the raised epitaxial source and drain in contact with the epitaxial silicon region and the gate stack structure. For a SRAM device, further: removing an epitaxial layer in contact with the silicon substrate and the raised source and drain and to which the epitaxial silicon region is coupled leaving a space above the silicon substrate and under the raised epitaxial source and drain; and filling the space with an insulating layer and isolating the raised epitaxial source and drain and a channel of the transistor from the silicon substrate.
US09620505B2
A semiconductor device which includes: a substrate; a first set of fins above the substrate of a first semiconductor material; a second set of fins above the substrate and of a second semiconductor material different than the first semiconductor material; and an isolation region positioned between the first and second sets of fins, the isolation region having a nitride layer. The isolation region may be an isolation pillar or an isolation trench.
US09620492B2
A bottom package having a first semiconductor chip and first connection members; and a top package disposed over the bottom package, and having a second semiconductor chip and second connection members electrically coupled with the first connection members. The bottom package includes an interposer having electrodes arranged along edges; first bond fingers arranged by being separated from the edges of the interposer; a first semiconductor chip disposed over the interposer to expose the electrodes, and having first bonding pads; first bonding wires electrically coupling the first bonding pads and the electrodes; second bonding wires electrically coupling the electrodes and the first bond fingers; and a first encapsulation member formed to cover the first bond fingers, the upper and side surfaces of the interposer and the first semiconductor chip, and the first and second bonding wires, and having via holes which expose portions of the second bonding wires.
US09620484B2
A semiconductor package device includes a lower package, an interposer disposed on the lower package and including a ground layer and at least one opening, and an upper package on the interposer. The lower package includes a first package substrate, a first semiconductor chip on the first package substrate, and a first molding compound layer on the first package substrate. The upper package includes a second package substrate and at least one upper semiconductor chip on the second package substrate. A heat transfer member includes a first portion disposed between the interposer and the upper package, a second portion disposed in the at least one opening of the interposer, and a third portion disposed between the interposer and the lower package.
US09620476B2
A bonding head and a die bonding apparatus having the same are disclosed. The bonding head includes a body connected to a driving section for transferring the die, a plate heater mounted to a lower surface of the body and a collet mounted to a lower surface of the plate heater and configured to hold the die using a vacuum pressure. A cooling channel is formed at the lower surface of the body, and cooling passages are formed through the body and connected with the cooling channel to supply a cooling fluid into the cooling channel and to recover the cooling fluid from the cooling channel thereby cooling the plate heater.
US09620473B1
First and second integrated devices each have an optical component and a plurality of interconnect structures disposed one edge thereon. The first edge surface of the second integrated device is positioned contiguous to the first edge surface of the first integrated device. The interconnect structures disposed on the first integrated device are in physical contact with the interconnect structures disposed on the edge surface of the second integrated device so as to provide alignment for conveying at least one signal between the optical components on the first and second integrated devices.
US09620469B2
Embodiments of mechanisms for forming a semiconductor device are provided. The semiconductor device includes a contact pad over a substrate. The semiconductor device also includes a passivation layer over the substrate and a first portion of the contact pad, and a second portion of the contact pad is exposed through an opening. The semiconductor device further includes a post-passivation interconnect layer over the passivation layer and coupled to the second portion of the contact pad. In addition, the semiconductor device includes a bump over the post-passivation interconnect layer and outside of the opening. The semiconductor device also includes a diffusion barrier layer physically insulating the bump from the post-passivation interconnect layer while electrically connecting the bump to the post-passivation interconnect layer.
US09620458B2
Photolithography alignment mark structures, semiconductor structures, and fabrication method thereof
A method is provided for fabricating a photolithography alignment mark structure. The method includes providing a substrate; thrilling a first grating, a second grating, a third grating and a fourth grating in the substrate; forming a photoresist layer on a surface of the substrate; obtaining a first alignment center along a first direction and a second alignment center along a second direction based on the first grating and the fourth grating, respectively; providing a mask plate having a fifth grating pattern and a sixth grating pattern; aligning the mask plate with the substrate by using the first alignment center as an alignment center along the first direction and the second alignment center as an alignment center along the second direction; reproducing the fifth grating pattern and the sixth grating pattern in the photoresist layer; and forming a fifth grating and a sixth grating on the substrate by removing a portion of photoresist layer.
US09620452B2
An apparatus including a conductive stack structure includes an Mx layer interconnect on an Mx layer and extending in a first direction on a first track, an My layer interconnect on an My layer in which the My layer is a lower layer than the Mx layer, a first via stack coupled between the Mx layer interconnect and the My layer interconnect, a second via stack coupled between the Mx layer interconnect and the My layer interconnect, a second Mx layer interconnect extending in the first direction on a track immediately adjacent to the first track, and a third Mx layer interconnect extending in the first direction on a track immediately adjacent to the first track. The Mx layer interconnect is between the second Mx layer interconnect and the third Mx layer interconnect. The second Mx layer interconnect and the third Mx layer interconnect are uncoupled to each other.
US09620446B2
A wiring board includes plural terminals, an insulating layer, and recess portions. Each terminal includes a roughened upper surface and a roughened side surface. The insulating layer is formed between the terminals. The upper surfaces of the terminals are exposed. An upper surface of the insulating layer is a concave curved surface. The recess portions are formed in the insulating layer around the terminals so as to partially expose the side surfaces of the terminals.
US09620445B1
A chip package structure including a chip, a circuit layer, a passive element material and a substrate is provided. The circuit layer is disposed on a surface of the chip, wherein the circuit layer includes a plurality of bumps and a plurality of passive element electrodes. The bumps and the passive element electrodes have the same material, and the passive element electrodes are electrically connected with part of the bumps. The passive element material is disposed between the passive element electrodes, so that the passive element electrodes and the passive element material form a passive element located on the surface of the chip. The chip is disposed on the substrate and faces the substrate by the surface, so that the chip and the passive element are electrically connected to the substrate through the bumps. A method of manufacturing the chip package structure aforementioned is also provided.
US09620442B2
A semiconductor device includes a package part having a semiconductor element sealed in resin, a plurality of first leads each having an outer portion extending from a first side of the package part, and a plurality of second leads each having an outer portion extending from a second side of the package part. A combined bottom surface area of the outer portions of the plurality of first leads is greater than a combined bottom surface area of the outer portions of the plurality of second leads. The semiconductor device also includes a heat dissipation plate provided on the bottom surface of the package part and connected to at least one of the plurality of second leads.
US09620431B2
A chip package including a semiconductor substrate is provided. A recess is in the semiconductor substrate, wherein the semiconductor substrate has at least one spacer protruding from the bottom of the recess. A conducting layer is disposed on the semiconductor substrate and extends into the recess. A method for forming the chip package is also provided.
US09620428B2
Semiconductor devices comprising a getter material are described. The getter material can be located in or over the active region of the device and/or in or over a termination region of the device. The getter material can be a conductive or an insulating material. The getter material can be present as a continuous or discontinuous film. The device can be a SiC semiconductor device such as a SiC vertical MOSFET. Methods of making the devices are also described. Semiconductor devices and methods of making the same comprising source ohmic contacts formed using a self-aligned process are also described. The source ohmic contacts can comprise titanium silicide and/or titanium silicide carbide and can act as a getter material.
US09620427B2
A semiconductor device may include an enclosure structure. The semiconductor device may further include a getter for absorb gas molecules. The getter may be positioned (and enclosed) inside the enclosure structure and may overlap a first portion of a surface of the enclosure structure. The semiconductor device may further include an inductor. The inductor may be positioned (and enclosed) inside the enclosure structure and may overlap a second portion of the surface of the enclosure structure without overlapping the getter in a direction perpendicular to the first surface of the enclosure structure.
US09620422B2
A semiconductor arrangement includes a first semiconductor device including a first type region having a first conductivity type and a second type region having a second conductivity type. The semiconductor arrangement includes a second semiconductor device adjacent the first semiconductor device. The second semiconductor device includes a third type region having a third conductivity type and a fourth type region having a fourth conductivity type. The semiconductor arrangement includes a first insulator layer including a first insulator portion around at least some of the first semiconductor device and a second insulator portion around at least some of the second semiconductor device. The first insulator portion has a first insulator height, and the second insulator portion has a second insulator height. The first insulator height is different than the second insulator height. A method of forming a semiconductor arrangement is provided.
US09620420B2
A semiconductor arrangement and method of formation are provided. The semiconductor arrangement includes a metal connect over and connected to a first active region, over and connected to a second active region and over a shallow trench isolation (STI) region thereby connecting the first active region to the second active region. A metal contact is over and connected to a gate in the STI region. The metal connect is formed in a first opening and the metal contact is formed in a second opening, where the first opening and the second opening are formed concurrently using a single mask. The semiconductor arrangement formed using a single mask is less expensive to fabricate and requires fewer etching operations than a semiconductor arrangement formed using multiple masks.
US09620416B1
A method of forming a semiconductor device that includes providing a plurality of fin structures, wherein a surface of the fin structures has a first orientation for a diamond shaped epitaxial growth deposition surface. A first epitaxial semiconductor material having a diamond geometry is grown on the diamond shaped epitaxial growth surface. A blocking material is formed protecting a lower portion of the first epitaxial semiconductor material. An upper portion of the first epitaxial semiconductor material is removed to expose a second orientation surface of the first epitaxial semiconductor material for merged epitaxial semiconductor growth. A second epitaxial semiconductor material is epitaxially formed on the first epitaxial semiconductor material. The second epitaxial semiconductor material has a substantially planar upper surface and extends into direct contact with at least two adjacent fin structures.
US09620414B2
A die has a first surface, a second surface opposite the first surface, and sidewalls includes a first portion and a second portion, wherein the first portion is closer to the first surface than the second portion. A fillet contacts the first portion of sidewalls of the die and encircles the die. A work piece is bonded to the die through solder bumps, with the second surface facing the work piece. A first underfill is filled a gap between the die and the work piece, wherein the first underfill contacts the fillet, and wherein the first underfill and the fillet are formed of different materials.
US09620411B2
In one embodiment, there is provided a non-volatile magnetic memory cell. The non-volatile magnetic memory cell comprises a switchable magnetic element; and a word line and a bit line to energize the switchable magnetic element; wherein at least one of the word line and the bit line comprises a magnetic sidewall that is discontinuous.
US09620405B2
A substrate transfer robot is disposed in a robot installment area defined between a first apparatus and a second apparatus including an opening. The first apparatus includes a first wall, the second apparatus including a second wall. The first apparatus accommodates the substrate at each of a lowest height position and a highest height position. The substrate transfer robot includes a base stationary, a hand configured, and an arm. The arm is rotatably mounted to the base to move the hand. The hand and the arm move in a height direction between a movable range defined between a lowest position and a highest position. The arm rotates with partially entering the opening when the substrate transfer robot takes out the substrate from the first apparatus. The substrate is accommodated at each of the lowest height position and the highest height position.
US09620404B1
A stiffener tape for a wafer. The stiffener tape includes a mounting tape; a heat spreading stiffener removably attached to the mounting tape; and an attachment film secured to the heat spreading stiffener, wherein the attachment film includes thermal conductive fillers having at least one of silver, alumina, crystalline silica, boron nitride or aluminum nitride. An electronic assembly includes a wafer; a plurality of integrated circuits on the wafer; and an attachment film covering the plurality of integrated circuits and the substrate, wherein the attachment film includes thermal conductive fillers having at least one of silver, alumina, crystalline silica, boron nitride or aluminum nitride; and a heat spreading stiffener secured to the attachment film.
US09620392B2
An apparatus for drying a substrate may include a spin chuck, a drying chamber and a drying fluid line. The spin chuck may be configured to support the substrate. The spin chuck may rotate the substrate. The drying chamber may be configured to receive the spin chuck. The drying chamber may have an inlet, an outlet and a vortex exhaust. A drying fluid may be supplied through the inlet into the drying chamber. The drying fluid may be drained through the outlet. A vortex of the drying fluid may be drained through the vortex exhaust. The drying fluid line may be connected to the inlet.
US09620384B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor structure, by depositing a dielectric layer is a dummy gate, or an existing gate structure, prior to the formation of gate spacers. Following the formation of spacers, and in some embodiments replacing a dummy gate with a final gate structure, oxygen is introduced to a gate dielectric through a diffusion process, using the deposited dielectric layer as a diffusion pathway.
US09620359B2
The Siemens process for deposition of polycrystalline silicon in the form of rods in a sealed reactor is improved by, after introduction of deposition gas has ceased, introducing a ventilating gas into the partially sealed reactor, withdrawing a gas stream from the reactor, and monitoring the components in the gas stream withdrawn until a desired concentration of one or more components is reached, and opening the reactor to remove the rods.
US09620358B2
A method for manufacturing a silicon carbide semiconductor device includes the following steps. There is prepared a first silicon carbide layer having a first main surface and a second main surface. A first recess including a side portion and a bottom portion is formed in the first main surface of the first silicon carbide layer. A second silicon carbide layer is formed in contact with the first main surface, the side portion, and the bottom portion. An image of a second recess formed at a position facing the first recess of the fourth main surface is obtained. Alignment is performed based on the image of the second recess. The first main surface corresponds to a plane angled off relative to a {0001} plane. A ratio obtained by dividing a depth of the first recess by a thickness of the second silicon carbide layer is more than 0.2.
US09620356B1
Methods and apparatuses for filling an epitaxial layer into a trench/via/structure formed in a substrate with good deposition profile control and film uniformity across the substrate are provided. In one embodiment, a method of depositing a epitaxial layer on the substrate includes supplying a gas mixture having a first ratio of a dichlorosilane gas to a chlorine containing gas into the processing chamber, altering the gas mixture to have a second ratio of the dichlorosilane gas to the chlorine containing gas into the processing chamber, maintaining a substrate temperature of between about 600 degrees Celsius and about 1000 degrees Celsius, and filling an opening formed in a substrate.
US09620339B2
Embodiments of a sputter source for semiconductor process chambers are provided herein. In some embodiments, a sputter source for a semiconductor process chamber may include: a target comprising a magnetic material to be deposited on a substrate, the magnetic material including a front surface where material is to be sputtered and an opposing back surface; and an outer magnet disposed proximate a back surface of the target and arranged symmetrically with respect to a central axis of the target, wherein the target has an annular groove formed in the back surface of the target disposed proximate the outer magnet to reduce a magnetic permeability of a region of the target proximate the outer magnet, wherein the groove is an unfilled v-shaped groove having an inner angle greater than 90 degrees.
US09620335B2
A processing apparatus may include a plasma source coupled to a plasma chamber to generate a plasma in the plasma chamber, an extraction plate having an aperture disposed along a side of the plasma chamber; a deflection electrode disposed proximate the aperture and configured to define a pair of plasma menisci when the plasma is present in the plasma chamber; and a deflection electrode power supply to apply a bias voltage to the deflection electrode with respect to the plasma, wherein a first bias voltage applied to the deflection electrode is configured to generate a first angle of incidence for ions extracted through the aperture from the plasma, and a second bias voltage applied to the deflection electrode is configured to generate a second angle of incidence of ions extracted through the aperture from the plasma, the second angle of incidence being different from the first angle of incidence.
US09620327B2
A combined scanning and focusing magnet for an ion implantation system is provided. The combined scanning and focusing magnet has a yoke having a high magnetic permeability. The yoke defines a hole configured to pass an ion beam therethrough. One or more scanner coils operably are coupled to the yoke and configured to generate a time-varying predominantly dipole magnetic field when electrically coupled to a power supply. One or more focusing coils are operably coupled to the yoke and configured to generate a predominantly multipole magnetic field, wherein the predominantly multipole magnetic field is one of static or time-varying.
US09620321B2
Described is a fuse for an electrical circuit, comprising two contact arms, each having at least one connecting pin for inserting into a hole of a printed circuit board, and a spring which connects the two contact arms in an electrically conductive manner. According to this disclosure, it is provided that the spring is fastened to at least one of the two contact arms by means of a fastening means that loses its strength at a trigger temperature of the fuse, wherein the fuse is formed in such a manner that by inserting the connecting pins into holes of a printed circuit board, the spring is loaded such that the spring lifts from the at least one contact arm by spring force as soon as the fastening means loses its strength due to overheating. Moreover, a printed circuit board comprising such a fuse is described.
US09620318B2
A circuit protection device includes a substrate with first and second electrodes connected to the circuit to be protected. The circuit protection device also includes a heater element. A sensing element facilitates an electrical connection between the first and second electrodes. A flux material is provided around the sensing element. In a preferred embodiment, the flux contains a first component that is a polar material and a second component that is a non-polar material. A spring element exerts a force on the sensing element. The sensing element resists the force applied by the spring element. Upon detection of an activation, or fault, condition, the sensing element loses resilience and no longer resists the force exerted by the spring element, resulting in the spring element severing the electrical connection between the first and second electrodes. The flux allows the spring element to sever the electrical connection without dragging the sensing element.
US09620315B2
Provided is a gas circuit breaker that can reduce control energy smaller than that in previous double motion systems and an excessive force applied to a moveable pin to achieve a highly reliable double motion system. A gas circuit breaker has a double motion mechanism unit including a driving-side connecting rod, a driven-side connecting rod, a lever to connect the rods, and a guide to define the motion of the driving-side and driven-side connecting rods. A moveable pin extends through a first grooved cam of the driving-side conencting rod, a second grooved cam of the guide, and a third grooved cam of the lever. The driving-side connecting rod operates to move the moveable pin inside the grooved cams. Thus, the lever is rotated, the driven-side connecting rod is driven opposite to the driving-side connecting rod, and the driven-side arcing contact is driven opposite to the driving-side arcing contact.
US09620313B2
An object of the present invention is to provide an engine starting device which can prevent rattling of an ignition switch in a coupled state. Provided is an engine starting device including: a housing 2 accommodating a rotational operation shaft 1; and an ignition switch 3 coupled to the housing 2 and configured to be actuated upon application of rotational operation force to the rotational operation shaft 1. The ignition switch 3 is fitted and held in an attachment recess 4 formed in the housing 2, in such a way as to be prevented from falling from the attachment recess 4 by appropriate snap-locking portion 5. The peripheral wall surfaces of the ignition switch 3 and the attachment recess 4 on the fitting start end side and the peripheral wall surfaces thereof on the fitting finish end side come into pressure contact with each other substantially simultaneously with each other when the depth of the fitting of the ignition switch 3 to the attachment recess 4 reaches a predetermined depth, to thereby reduce rattling in the radial direction.
US09620311B2
A locking assembly for locking a switch is provided. According to a preferred embodiment, a locking member is connected to a support member having a plurality of first grooves, a lower receiving element, a retaining tab, a resilient member and a fastening element. Preferably, the lower receiving element includes a securing socket element having at least a second groove and a third groove. According to a preferred embodiment, the fastening element preferably secures the locking member, the lower receiving element, and the resilient member with a panel to form a locking assembly that automatically locks the switch when the switch is in a selected position.
US09620309B2
A rotary selector switch prevents accidental rotation to an undesired position. For example, an automobile moving forward at 55 kph may have a rotary selector switch in electrical communication with its transmission. The disclosed switch prevents accidental rotation that would indicate that a REVERSE gear is desired when it is not. Optionally, on override feature may permit users to overpower an otherwise prevented rotation.
US09620305B2
A transfer switch and load controller that can be plugged into an existing utility meter socket and electrically positioned between the meter socket and a distribution panel to allow switching between utility power and standby power. The plug-in transfer switch functions to transfer the power supplied to a home between the utility power source and the generator power source upon loss of power from the utility power source. The transfer switch components are contained in an enclosed housing of a meter socket adapter that is mounted directly to the meter socket of a meter housing. The meter socket adapter is prewired to a standby generator such that the standby generator can be connected to a home power system by plugging the meter socket adapter into the meter socket.
US09620291B2
A thin film capacitor including a lower electrode layer, a dielectric layer provided on the lower electrode layer, and an upper electrode layer formed on the dielectric layer, wherein the dielectric layer includes a recessed portion in a portion on the upper face thereof, a cross-sectional structure perpendicular to the dielectric layer of the recessed portion has a cross-sectional taper angle of 1 degree or more and 25 degrees or less, and the distance between the bottom portion center and an outermost portion of the recessed portion is 20 times or more and 150 times or less a thickness of the dielectric layer.
US09620280B2
A split-flux transformer has a primary or input coil, at least two secondary or output coils, spaced apart and arranged in 3D, a magnetic core running through the primary and secondary coils, a source of electricity connected to the primary coil which when turned on creates a magnetic field in the core, and electrical wires connected to the secondary coils, each of which provides additive electricity into an output circuit.
US09620276B1
An air cooling system, method, apparatus and kit applied to lower transformer operating temperatures, such as governed by a tank or container of oil, allowing transformer components to run more efficiently at a lower temperature level, e.g., down from the hot level operating temperatures typical in stressed conventional devices. By lowering the operational levels to within or below the nominal operational temperature ranges for the equipment, and recovering heat generated during operation, several advantages are obtained.
US09620274B2
An apparatus may include a ferromagnetic housing defining a housing cavity, an electrically-conductive coil disposed in the housing cavity and defining a coil cavity, a ferromagnetic core piece disposed in the coil cavity, a ferromagnetic pole piece comprising a first face in contact with the core piece and a projection extending from a second face of the pole piece opposite the first face, a flexible element defining an opening, where the projection is disposed within the opening and the flexible element is disposed between a portion of the projection and the first face of the pole piece, and a ferromagnetic armature coupled to the flexible element, where the flexible element is disposed between at least a portion of the armature and the first face of the pole piece.
US09620270B2
The present invention provides a composite magnetic core, containing magnetic powders poor in its moldability, which can be configured arbitrarily and has a magnetic characteristic excellent in direct current superimposition characteristics and a magnetic element composed of the composite magnetic core and a coil wound around the circumference thereof. A compressed magnetic body (2) obtained by compression-molding magnetic powders is combined with an injection-molded magnetic body (3) obtained by mixing a binding resin with magnetic powders having surfaces thereof electrically insulated and by injection-molding a mixture of the magnetic powders and the binding resin. The compressed magnetic body (2) is press-fitted into the injection-molded magnetic body (3) or bonded thereto at a combining portion thereof to obtain the combined body. The combined body is composed of the injection-molded magnetic body (3) constituting a housing in which the compressed magnetic body (2) is disposed.
US09620266B2
An electrical device having at least one functional element that includes a ceramic body, on which a first electrical contact layer and a second electrical contact layer are applied to two opposite-lying side faces, respectively, and the functional element is arranged between a first contact strip and a second contact strip, wherein the first contact strip and the second contact strip comprise several contact pins, respectively, and wherein the first contact layer electrically contacts at least one contact pin of the first contact strip and the second contact layer electrically contacts at least one contact pin of the second contact strip.
US09620264B2
A method for manufacturing a transparent conductive film, including: 1) providing a conductive scraper including a slurry feeding mouth and a slurry discharging gap; 2) placing a transparent film including a prefabricated groove on a conductive moving table, moving the conductive moving table horizontally in relation to the conductive scraper, controlling the moving speed of the conductive moving table at between 0.1 and 1 m/min, and allowing the conductive slurry to flow out of the conductive scrapper via the slurry discharging gap; 3) applying a voltage between the conductive moving table and the conductive scraper, and driving the conductive slurry flowing out of the conductive scraper to fill the groove of the transparent film by an electrodynamic force produced by the voltage; and 4) curing the conductive slurry filled in the groove of the transparent film.
US09620261B2
A resin composition for producing an insulating material includes (A) 40 to 50% by weight of a base resin formed with a polyolefin-based resin or a derivative thereof, (B) 40 to 50% by weight of a magnesium hydroxide flame retardant of which surface is treated with vinyl silane, (C) 1 to 2% by weight of an antioxidant in which a first antioxidant and a second antioxidant are mixed in a weight ratio of 1:1 to 3, (D) 0.5 to 2% by weight of a lubricant, (E) 2 to 3% by weight of organosilane, (F) 0.05 to 0.2% by weight of an initiator, and (G) 1 to 4% by weight of a catalyst.
US09620259B2
Methods of forming composites that incorporate networks of conductive polymer nanofibers are provided. Networks of less-than conductive polymers are first formed and then doped with a chemical dopant to provide networks of conductive polymers. The networks of conductive polymers are then incorporated into a matrix in order to improve the conductivity of the matrix. The formed composites are useful as conductive coatings for applications including electromagnetic energy management on exterior surfaces of vehicles.
US09620252B2
A nuclear power plant comprises a pressurized water reactor (PWR) and a steam generator driving a turbine driving an electric generator. A condenser condenses steam after flowing through the turbine. Responsive to a station blackout, the nuclear power plant is electrically isolated and a bypass valve is opened to convey bypass steam flow from the steam generator to the condenser without flowing through the turbine. The thermal power output of the PWR is gradually reduced over the transition time interval. After opening, the bypass valve is gradually closed over the transition time interval. A supplemental bypass valve may also be opened responsive to the station blackout to convey supplemental bypass steam flow from the steam generator to a feedwater system supplying secondary coolant feedwater to the steam generator. The supplemental bypass steam flow does not flow through the turbine and does not flow through the condenser.
US09620249B2
A nuclear reactor fuel bundle assembly including: a fuel bundle including an array of fuel rods and water rods mounted in an upper tie plate and housed in walls of a channel, and a pore type debris shield mounted at least partially in the channel, above or below the upper tie plate, the shield extending to or over the walls of the channel, whereby deflecting and/or capturing falling debris from entering the fuel assembly, wherein the shield is design to be durable, yet flexible, and porous.
US09620223B2
Disclosed herein is a regulator for a non-volatile memory is provided. The regulator comprises an operational amplifier for receiving a reference voltage and a feedback voltage to output a voltage amplifying the difference of the reference voltage and the feedback voltage, the feedback voltage being obtained by dividing an output voltage of the regulator; a first switching unit turning on in response to the amplified voltage; a second switching unit electrically connected between a first node and the first switching unit for protecting the first switching unit from the voltage of the first node; and a third switching unit providing the output voltage of the regulator to a second node in response to a voltage of the first node.
US09620218B2
According to one embodiment, each memory chip included in a memory package includes a first storage unit that stores therein first information that is n-bit information and is a comparison target of a chip address, and is used for identifying its own memory chip, a second storage unit that stores therein second information for determining an effective bit of the n-bit first information, and a control unit that determines an effective bit of the n-bit first information and an effective bit of the chip address based on the second information.
US09620211B1
A maintaining device and a maintenance method for maintaining the normal operation of a resistive random access memory are disclosed. The maintenance method can be executed by the maintaining device. Said memory includes first and second electrodes. The first electrode is not grounded. The maintaining device is connected to the first electrode so that the first electrode receives an operational signal and a restoring signal generated by the maintaining device. The operational signal transits from a zero voltage to a non-zero voltage and then to the zero voltage. If the operational signal has already transited from the non-zero voltage to the zero voltage, the maintenance method controls the restoring signal to transit from the zero voltage to a negative voltage, controls the restoring signal to remain the negative voltage for a period of restoring time, and controls the restoring signal to transit from the negative voltage to the zero voltage.
US09620209B2
Circuits and methods for limiting cell current or throttling write operation, or both, in resistive random access memory (RRAM or ReRAM) cells are provided. An RRAM cell can include a select transistor and a programmable resistor that can change between a relatively high resistance and a relatively low resistance. The present circuits and methods can reduce or inhibit excess current from being applied to the programmable resistor, which potentially can regulate the resistance of the programmable resistor so as to reduce or inhibit decreases in the resistance of that resistor below the relatively low resistance. Such regulation potentially can improve reliability of the RRAM cell. Additionally, or alternatively, the present circuits and methods can throttle a write operation in an RRAM cell, e.g., can disable current flow through the RRAM cell based on the programmable resistor reaching a pre-defined target resistance, such as the relatively low resistance.
US09620207B2
Described examples include sensing circuits and reference voltage generators for providing a reference voltage to a sensing circuit. The sensing circuits may sense a state of a memory cell, which may be a PCM memory cell. The sensing circuits may include a cascode transistor. Examples of reference voltage generators may include a global reference voltage generator coupled to multiple bank reference voltage generators which may reduce an output resistance of the voltage generator routing.
US09620206B2
A non-volatile memory device includes a word line extending along a first direction; a bit line extending along a second direction; a memory unit having a read transistor coupled to the bit line, at least one two-terminal memory cell, and a select transistor, the two-terminal memory cell having a first end coupled to the word line and a second end coupled to a gate of the read transistor. The second end of the two-terminal memory cell is coupled to a common node shared by a drain of the select transistor and the gate of the read transistor.
US09620205B2
A resistive switching memory device can include three or more electrodes interfacing a switching layer, including a top electrode, a bottom electrode, and a side electrode. The top and bottom electrodes can be used for forming conductive filaments and for reading the memory device. The side electrode can be used to control the resistance state of the switching layer.
US09620203B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor integrated circuit includes a memory cell including first and second electrodes and a resistance change film therebetween, and a control circuit controlling a potential difference between the first and second electrodes. The control circuit reversibly changes the memory cell to a first resistive state by applying a first potential to the first electrode and by applying a second potential smaller than the first potential to the second electrode. The control circuit reversibly changes the memory cell to a second resistive state by applying a third potential to the first electrode and by applying a fourth potential smaller than the third potential to the second electrode.
US09620197B1
A circuit for driving a sense amplifier of a semiconductor memory device is provided. The circuit includes a first driving circuit configured to supply a current from a power node to a first driving node of the sense amplifier based on a first driving control signal, a source control circuit configured to generate a control signal based on a second driving control signal and a voltage of the drain node, and a second driving circuit configured to draw current from a second driving node of the sense amplifier to a ground node based on the control signal.
US09620192B2
A semiconductor apparatus with a plurality of slices electrically coupled through through electrodes. Any one slice of the plurality of slices may be configured to generate a refresh cycle signal in response to a refresh command, and transmit the refresh cycle signal to the other slices through the through electrodes. The other slices may be configured to perform refresh operations in synchronization with the refresh cycle signal.
US09620165B2
A system, method, and computer program product for the banded allocation of storage device address ranges in distributed parity schemes is disclosed. A storage system with storage devices logically divides up the storage devices into bands of contiguous logical block address ranges. A storage controller provisions logical volumes in the bands. Upon unavailability of a storage device, the data pieces are reconstructed at the next available data extent within the same band on the other storage devices. The storage controller detects a replacement drive and logically divides the replacement storage device into the same number of bands as on the other storage devices. The storage controller transfers the reconstructed data pieces to the replacement drive and places the data pieces within the same bands on the replacement drive.
US09620159B2
Rotational latency is reduced in a standard conventional form factor HDD system by replacing, for example, the prior art rotary arm actuator of a conventional HDD, with one or more belts and pulleys and one or more read/write heads mounted on, or otherwise associated with the belts. Multiple scaled iterations facilitate energy savings and power optimized systems, without compromise to data access performance.
US09620155B2
Disc drive actuator bearing cartridge assembly with temperature induced rotational torque mitigation
Various aspects of the present disclosure are directed toward a disc drive actuator assembly including an e-block, a bearing, and a sleeve. The bearing includes an inner race, an outer race and a plurality of balls between the inner and outer races. The inner race being coupled to a pivot shaft of a disc drive, and the bearing being configured and arranged to facilitate rotation of the e-block around the pivot shaft. The sleeve coupling the outer race of the bearing to the e-block, and includes a groove along an inner diameter of the sleeve adjacent the outer race. The groove and outer race mitigate rotational torque changes due to thermal effects upon the disc drive actuator assembly by allowing the outer race of the bearing to deform into or away from the groove and therein mitigate or prevent the generation of certain forces in bearings.
US09620152B2
Methods of forming a NFT the methods including forming a hard mask positioned over at least a portion of the rod, the hard mask including at least one layer; patterning a resist mask over the hard mask, the resist mask having an edge positioned over at least a portion of the rod; etching a portion of the hard mask to expose a back edge of the rod and to form a back edge of the hard mask, wherein the back edge of the rod is equivalent to the back edge of the peg; and wherein a forward portion of the rod which is the portion of the rod forward of the back edge is covered by the hard mask; forming a disc mask including a void configured to form a disc of a NFT, the disc mask being formed over at least a portion of the hard mask so that the exposed back edge of the rod is within the void configured to form the disc; etching an area exposed in the void of the disc mask to remove both a rear portion of the rod and the surrounding dielectric up to the back edge of the hard mask edge; depositing a disc material in the etched void, wherein the back edge of the hard mask defines the front edge of the disc and the back edge of the rod is in contact with the front edge of the disc; and polishing the deposited disc material to form a top surface substantially planar with the top of the forward rod portion.
US09620140B1
A system for providing voice audio to an operator. The system includes: one or more audio inputs for receiving at least two received voice audio signals; a processing unit, a digital to analog converter, and a loudspeaker. The processing unit is connected to the one or more audio inputs, and configured to: adjust the pitch of a first voice audio signal of the at least two received voice audio signals to form a first adjusted voice audio signal; and combine the first adjusted voice audio signal with at least one other received voice audio signal or adjusted voice audio signal to form a composite audio signal. The pitch in the audio allows the listener to disambiguate one or more speakers or conveys to the listener attributes such as urgency or location information.
US09620138B2
The invention relates to a codec and a discriminator and methods therein for audio signal discrimination and coding. Embodiments of a method performed by an encoder comprises, for a segment of the audio signal: identifying a set of spectral peaks; determining a mean distance S between peaks in the set; and determining a ratio, PNR, between a peak envelope and a noise floor envelope. The method further comprises selecting a coding mode, out of a plurality of coding modes, based at least on the mean distance S and the ratio PNR; and applying the selected coding mode for coding of the segment of the audio signal.
US09620122B2
Described is a technology by which speech is locally and remotely recognized in a hybrid way. Speech is input and recognized locally, with remote recognition invoked if locally recognized speech data was not confidently recognized. The part of the speech that was not confidently recognized is sent to the remote recognizer, along with any confidently recognized text, which the remote recognizer may use as context data in interpreting the part of the speech data that was sent. Alternative text candidates may be sent instead of corresponding speech to the remote recognizer.
US09620116B2
Systems and methods may provide for determining a sound vibration condition of an ambient environment of a wearable device and determining a motion condition of the wearable device. In addition, one or more automated voice operations may be performed based at least in part on the sound vibration condition and the motion condition. In one example, two or more signals corresponding to the sound vibration condition and the motion condition may be combined.
US09620111B1
Described herein are systems and methods for the generation and maintenance of language models. Language models are developed based at least in part on transaction data from one or more users. These transactions may include purchases and other interactions between one or more users and one or more online merchants. The language models may be associated with a particular user or group of users. Ongoing transactions may modify the language models. The language models may be used to recognize spoken input from the one or more users.
US09620098B2
A magnet or array of magnets is attached to the inner surface of a stringed musical instrument such an acoustic guitar, allowing an external electronic device equipped with one or more magnet or ferromagnetic elements to be softly and removably mounted to the outer surface of the instrument without adhering to or disturbing the outer surface of the instrument. The inner-mounted magnet or magnet array may be attached permanently or removably to the inner surface of the instrument, and may have its position adjusted for optimizing the position of the externally mounted device.
US09620090B2
A system, for determining the velocity of a hammer of a keyboard instrument, with a light transceiver and processing circuitry. The light transceiver being configured to transmit a light signal to a hammer to measure a hammer velocity, receive a reflected light signal from the hammer indicative of the velocity of the hammer and send an electrical signal to the processing circuitry, where the electrical signal is based on the reflected light signal from the hammer. The processing circuitry being configured to receive and process the electrical signal so that a time interval between the electrical signal passing through a first trigger point and a second trigger point and the velocity of the hammer can be determined.
US09620075B2
A display driver includes an adjustment unit 20 that outputs an electronic volume value based on a detected temperature derived using a temperature sensor 90, a power supply circuit 60 that supplies a drive power supply voltage based on the electronic volume value, and a drive circuit that drives a display panel based on the drive power supply voltage. The adjustment unit 20 outputs a first electronic volume value that sets the drive power supply voltage to a first voltage, in the case where the detected temperature belongs to a first temperature range, outputs a second electronic volume value that sets the drive power supply voltage to a second voltage, in the case where the detected temperature belongs to a second temperature range, and an interpolated electronic volume value that sets the drive power supply voltage to an interpolated voltage that is between the first voltage and the second voltage, in the case where the temperature range to which the detected temperature belongs switches from the first temperature range to the second temperature range.
US09620070B2
An image display controlling method and a control device thereof, and an image display device are provided. The method includes: receiving at least one frame of a first image to be displayed by the display; controlling the display to interpolatively display a frame of a second image when a frame number of the received first image displayed continuously by the display is greater than or equal to a preset frame number; wherein the first image is different from the second image. This method can prevent the display to display a still picture for a long time and thereby eliminating after-image.
US09620065B2
The invention relates to a display device including a plurality of pixels forming an image, and an optical plate arranged opposite the image and having transparency areas configured to allow the light from the pixels to at least partially pass therethrough. The optical plate further includes at least one array of functional elements corresponding to an electronic and/or mechanical function. The functional elements are inserted between the transparency areas and arranged such that the light emitted by the pixels is directed so as to pass through the transparency areas without intercepting the arrays of functional elements, so as to render the arrays of functional elements invisible or quasi-invisible to an observer of the display device. The invention can be used in any type of display device in which functions other than display itself must be integrated in a visually discreet manner.
US09620052B2
A method of controlling a dimming operation is disclosed. In one aspect, the method includes determining the brightness of an input image frame based on input image data, determining an input dimming value based on the brightness of the input image frame, selectively performing the dimming operation is based on a comparison of an absolute value of a difference between the input dimming value and a current output dimming value against a predetermined threshold value, where a value generated by adjusting the current output dimming value by a predetermined adjustment value is output as a next output dimming value when performing the dimming operation, and the input dimming value is output as the next output dimming value when not performing the dimming operation.
US09620048B2
An electro-optic display has a plurality of pixels, each of which is capable of displaying two extreme optical states and at least one intermediate gray level. Each pixel is driven from an initial intermediate gray level to one extreme optical state and then to a first desired intermediate gray level, so producing a first image on the display. The pixel then remains at this first desired intermediate gray level for a finite length of time. The pixel is then driven from this first desired intermediate gray level to the opposed extreme optical state and then to a second desired intermediate gray level, so producing a second image on the display.
US09620045B2
An array substrate and a detecting circuit thereof are disclosed. The detecting circuit comprises a detecting unit, which comprises a first to a sixth detecting lines; a switching signal access unit, used for receiving a switching control signal; a detecting signal access unit, used for receiving a first detecting signal or a second detecting signal; and a switching unit, comprising a first switching line and a second switching line, which are connected among the detecting unit, the switching signal access unit and the detecting signal access unit. The array substrate comprises an active area and a detecting circuit.
US09620042B2
The invention provides a multiple-view display system and a method for operating the same, wherein a seat sensor is incorporated into the system so that it is possible to get the information whether a user is present or not. Therefore, only one sensor installed on one side of the multiple-view touchscreen for detecting a proximity of the user to the multiple-view touchscreen is enough to identify the touchevent is given by which user, and no extra device is required.
US09620033B2
An apparatus comprising at least one processor and at least one memory that are configured to cause the apparatus at least to perform: causing display, in a first display area of a display, of a first map that represents a first geographic area, at a first scale, including a first location and that highlights the first location, wherein the first scale is controlled so that the first geographic area includes the first location but does not include a second location; causing simultaneous display, in a second different display area of the display, of a second map that represents a second geographic area, at a second scale, including the second location and that highlights the second location, wherein the second scale is controlled so that the second geographic area includes the second location but does not include the first location.
US09620031B2
Proposed is a training and simulation device for electric functional processes in electric, electromechanical and electrofluidic systems, with a controller (14) for the simulation and visual reproduction of system components (25-31) on a display (11), and with electric terminals (13) located adjacent to the display (11) for cable connection to hardware components of the system, wherein optical inputs and/or outputs of the simulated system components on the display (11) are assigned to at least a part of the terminals (13) and wherein the controller (14) comprises means for generating electric voltages at the terminals (13) of assigned outputs of the simulated system components (31) and/or for generating reactions of the simulated system components (25-30) in dependence on voltages externally applied to terminals (13) assigned to inputs of said simulated system components.
US09620030B2
Apparatus and methods for enhancing a working memory of a human is provided. A computing system having a processor executing instructions out of a memory device presents a plurality of selectable working memory domains corresponding to cognitive functions of a human brain, where each working memory domain is associated with a corresponding training game that is configured to enhance a selected working memory domain.
US09620026B2
A method for contextual graphical user interface (GUI) training includes, with a training module, switching from a normal mode of the GUI to a lesson mode to provide a lesson to a user, the lesson being one of a number of lessons that were preselected by the user. The method further includes, while in the lesson mode, overlaying instructions of a task onto the GUI, with the training module, providing example user input to demonstrate the task, with the training module, undoing the task, prompting the user to perform the task, notifying the user that an input received by the computing system does not correspond to the demonstrated task, and recording completion of the task in response to input from the user, the input corresponding to successful completion of the demonstrated task.
US09620024B1
A system and method are provided for integrating live flight following information provided as Trusted Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) data with stored planned flight and other information, and for, in part, comparatively analyzing the data/information to generate automated alerts to one or more end-users when an aircraft is determined to deviate from a planned flight route by a predetermined degree, as specified by adjustable set parameters. Broadcast ADS-B data transmitted by participating aircraft is collected and communicated via a secure, trusted and dependable worldwide network for analysis in a centralized location. The analysis involves, in part, comparing the ADS-B data to other information provided to, or collected by, the centralized location from multiple sources regarding planned routes of flight for participating aircraft and other available information relevant to aircraft operations in particular geographic locations. Alerts regarding identified discrepancies or deviations are generated and communicated to stakeholders.
US09620022B2
A method of route planning for a vehicle proceeding from a current location to a destination in a planning space is provided. The method includes generating a destination-rooted tree from global information that provides cost-to-go routing to the destination from multiple locations in the planning space, generating a vehicle-rooted tree using local information from the current location out to a sensing horizon and determining a local destination at the sensing horizon. The local destination corresponds to minimal cost-to-go routing obtained from the destination-rooted tree.
US09620017B2
A merge assistance system for a vehicle. The system includes a camera configured to monitor an area, at least one sensor configured to detect information about at least one moving target object, an electronic control unit having a processor in electronic communication with the camera and the sensor to receive information about the monitored area and the at least one moving target object. The system also includes a computer readable medium storing instructions that cause the processor to receive information about a velocity and an acceleration of the vehicle, determine a merging location based on the information received from the camera, determine a velocity and an acceleration of the at the least one moving target object based on the information from the at least one sensor, identify a merge assist situation, and initiate a merge driving maneuver to control the vehicle during the merge assist situation.
US09620010B2
A method of controlling a traffic light having at least two distinguishable light signals is provided herein. The method may include the following steps: obtaining a lighting pattern that determines an order of turning “on” and turning “off” said light signals over time; and illuminating the light signals based on the lighting pattern, such that over at least one period of time, a first light of the at least two distinguishable light signals is visible from a first distance range from the traffic light and a second light of the at least two distinguishable light signals is visible from a second distance range from the traffic light, wherein the first and the second distance ranges are non-overlapping.
US09620005B2
A trainable transceiver for installation in a vehicle and for controlling a remote device includes a transceiver circuit configured, based on training information, to control the remote device, a communications device configured to communicate with a mobile communications device, an output device, and a control circuit coupled to the transceiver circuit, coupled to the communications device, and coupled to the output device. The control circuit is configured to receive notification information from the mobile communications device via the communications device, and wherein the control circuit is configured to generate an output using the output device based on the notification information.
US09620004B2
In one embodiment, a first controlling device includes a processor to send a first pairing request to a remote device, receive a grant of access from the remote device, receive user input commands, receive a second pairing request from a second controlling device, grant access to the second controlling device, receive control commands from the second controlling device, and send control commands to the remote device based on the control commands received from the second controlling device and the user input commands, after the first controlling device loses a connection with the remote device, the processor being operative to send a third pairing request to the remote device and receive a denial of the third pairing request and an identification of the second controlling device from the remote device, send a fourth pairing request to the second controlling device, receive a grant of access from the second controlling device.
US09619996B1
A system and method for detecting and managing wildfires is described. The system and method deploy a plurality of fixed sensors in an area to be monitored. Each fixed sensor is operable to detect ambient conditions in the vicinity of the fixed sensor and to relay that information to a central control center. A plurality of mobile sensors are deployed with responders, where each mobile sensor is capable of detecting ambient conditions near the respective responder and conditions of the responder. The plurality of mobile sensors are in communication with the central control center. The system then determines attributes of the wildfire from the collective data from the plurality of fixed sensors and the plurality of mobile sensors and coordinates the activity of responders in response to the wildfire using the collective data.
US09619995B2
A multi-device alert notification system that includes a trigger device that has a low energy wireless transmitter for broadcasting an alert message in unlicensed spectrum for mobile user devices when activated, and a remote server system storing information that identifies the trigger device, the remote server being configured to receive, through a network, an alert notification message from each of a plurality of mobile user devices, each alert notification message indicating that the mobile user device has received the alert message from the trigger device and including a unique trigger device identifier and a unique user identifier associated with the mobile user device. The remote server system receives, through the network, an alert acceptance request message from one of the mobile user devices that includes the unique trigger device identifier and the unique user identifier associated with the mobile user device and sends notification messages to at least the mobile user devices that did not send the alert acceptance request message indicating that the alert message from the trigger device has been accepted by one of the plurality of mobile user devices.
US09619984B2
Monitoring systems and methods for use in security, safety, and business process applications utilizing a correlation engine are disclosed. Sensory data from one or more sensors are captured and analyzed to detect one or more events in the sensory data. The events are correlated by a correlation engine, optionally by weighing the events based on attributes of the sensors that were used to detect the primitive events. The events are then monitored for an occurrence of one or more correlations of interest, or one or more critical events of interest. Finally, one or more actions are triggered based on a detection of one or more correlations of interest, one or more anomalous events, or one or more critical events of interest. Events may come from sensory devices, legacy systems, third-party systems, anonymous tips, and other data sources. The present invention may be used to increase business productivity by improving security, safety, and increasing profitability of business processes.
US09619972B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a gaming system and method providing a card game wherein two or more cards of a hand of cards are combinable to form at least one resultant card with a higher combined value. In various embodiments, for a play of the card game, the gaming system randomly selects and displays a hand of cards and each card is associated with one of a plurality of different values. The gaming system enables the player to select at least two of the displayed cards to combine to form at least one resultant card. Each resultant card is associated with a resultant value. The resultant value includes the sum of the values associated with each selected card that is combined to form the resultant card. Each resultant card provides an opportunity to convert a non-winning hand into a winning hand.
US09619969B2
Systems and methods for using player information in wagering game environments are described herein. In one embodiment a method includes receiving a first set of player information, where the first set of player information indicates casino activities of a player. The method can also include analyzing the first set of player information and a second set of player information to determine preferences and tendencies associated with the player. The method can also include providing an indication of the preferences and tendencies to wagering game network devices.
US09619962B2
A system for use in providing gaming property services to a player via a gaming device is provided. The system includes a gaming property server, a gaming machine, and gaming tracking device. The gaming property server provides gaming property services to the player. The gaming machine includes a gaming display, a display device that is coupled to the gaming display, and a gaming controller that is coupled to the display device. The gaming controller is configured to randomly generate an outcome of a game and transmit game data indicative of the outcome to the display device. The gaming tracking device also includes a web browser program for displaying gaming property services via a website provided by the gaming property server. The display device configured to display a player interaction screen including the outcome of the game and the gaming property services.
US09619953B2
A method of operating a keyless padlock is provided, comprising: establishing communication with the padlock; requesting the padlock serial number from the padlock; receiving the padlock serial number form the padlock; establishing communication with a server having the padlock serial number and the initial password stored in a database; transmitting the padlock serial number to the server with a request to own the padlock; receiving the initial password and a new password from the server after the server has validated the request; transmitting the initial password to the padlock; transmitting the new password to the padlock after the padlock has validated the initial password; receiving confirmation from the padlock that the padlock has stored the new password in the memory of the padlock; and transmitting the confirmation to the server, whereupon the server updates the database to recognize the user as the owner of the padlock.
US09619949B2
The example embodiments may relate to a vehicle operator incentive system. In an example, the system may include a vehicle control system having a plurality of controllers, wherein the controllers are configured to communicate diagnostic messages via an internal communication network and wherein each of the diagnostic messages provides information about operation of a vehicle by an operator. The vehicle operator incentive system may include a vehicle diagnostic system communicatively coupled to the internal communication network and configured to: process the diagnostic messages to determine a plurality of measured parameters, award points based on the measured parameters, calculate a score for the operator based on the awarded points, and cause a user interface of the vehicle to display the operator score.
US09619942B2
Embodiments of the invention include a method, a system, and a mobile device that incorporate augmented reality technology into land surveying, 3D laser scanning, and digital modeling processes. By incorporating the augmented reality technology, the mobile device can display an augmented reality image comprising a real view of a physical structure in the real environment and a 3D digital model of an unbuilt design element overlaid on top of the physical structure at its intended tie-in location. In an embodiment, a marker can be placed at predetermined set of coordinates at or around the tie-in location, determined by surveying equipment, so that the 3D digital model of the unbuilt design element can be visualized in a geometrically correct orientation with respect to the physical structure. Embodiments of the present invention can also be applied to a scaled down 3D printed object representing the physical structure if visiting the project site is not possible.
US09619939B2
Embodiments that relate to presenting a plurality of visual information density levels for a plurality of geo-located data items in a mixed reality environment are disclosed. For example, in one disclosed embodiment a graduated information delivery program receives information for a selected geo-located data item and provides a minimum visual information density level for the item to a head-mounted display device. The program receives via the head-mounted display device a user input corresponding to the selected geo-located data item. Based on the input, the program provides an increasing visual information density level for the selected item to the head-mounted display device for display within the mixed reality environment.
US09619933B2
A method for providing a model file to a user. The user acquires a plurality of images using a device, such as a smart phone, with at least a monocular image capture device. The plurality of images are then processed to provide the user with a model file. The model file is created by a minimization of an energy which is done using a primal-dual hybrid gradient. The model file may be used in a printer capable of printing in three dimensions. The user is either charged a fee for uploading the plurality of images, downloading the model file, or both.
US09619932B2
Embodiments include a system for integrating capture software functionality into other software applications including computer aided design (CAD) application, search application, database management application, email applications, network publishing applications, collaboration applications, copying and facsimile applications, manufacturing applications and similar programs. A user may utilize any of these applications to initiate a capture of an image or model. The applications may include an integrated capture functionality or message system to communicate with a capture application to initiate a capture. A separate or integrated conversion application may automatically be invoked to convert and return the image or model to the requesting application.
US09619930B2
A light transport simulator and a method of constructing and classifying light transport paths. One embodiment of the light transport simulator includes a light transport simulator operable to construct and classify a light transport path between two points in a scene, including: (1) a memory configured to store dual deterministic finite automata (DFA) based on an LPE that defines criteria for accepting the light transport path, and (2) a processor configured to employ the dual DFA to construct opposing light subpaths originating from the two points, and employ a correspondence among states of the dual DFA to unite the opposing light subpaths to form the light transport path.
US09619925B2
A method for generating a volume-viewing image on the basis of three-dimensional image data of the interior of a body generated by way of a medical imaging system is described. In at least one embodiment, a plurality of different functional structures of the body are first of all segmented in the three-dimensional image data. Moreover, structure selection data for fixing functional structures to be visualized is determined. Then, at least one volume-viewing image is generated from the three-dimensional image data on the basis of the segmented functional structures and the structure selection data and the image is output. Moreover, in at least one embodiment, an image-processing system to carry out at least one embodiment of the method is described.
US09619924B2
There is provided an illumination rendering system and method for use by such a system. The system includes a system processor, a system memory, and an illumination rendering engine including a ray tracing unit stored in the system memory. The system processor is configured to execute the ray tracing unit to recognize a present classification of a light path traveling between a ray source and a ray receiver, and to identify a scattering type of a next scattering event corresponding to a ray on the light path. The system processor is also configured to execute the ray tracing unit to determine a next classification of the light path based on the present classification of the light path and the scattering type.
US09619916B2
A method for transmitting digital scene description data from a transmitter scene processing device to at least one receiver scene processing device is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of encoding of scene description data and rendering commands in the transmitter scene processing device by setting of priorities for the scene description data and related rendering commands and dynamically reordering the scene description data and related rendering commands depending on the respective priorities in order to reduce the bandwidth required for transmission and/or to adapt to unreliable bandwidth; and transmitting the encoded scene description data and related rendering commands to the at least one receiver scene processing device for decoding and executing the rendering commands in relation to the transmitted scene description data by the at least one receiver scene processing device to achieve animated digital graphic.
US09619907B2
Disclosed herein is a microparticle analyzing apparatus including a detecting portion configured to simultaneously detect a fluorescence generated from a microparticle in plural wavelength regions and a displaying portion configured to display thereon detection results in the plural wavelength regions in a form of a spectrum.
US09619906B2
Disclosed herein are an X-ray imaging apparatus and a method for the same. The X-ray imaging apparatus includes a kernel function setter configured to set a scatter kernel function in response to a scatter component included in first X-ray image data detected by an X-ray detector, and an image data corrector configured to generate second X-ray image data obtained by performing scatter correction on the first X-ray image data using the scatter kernel function and data consistency. According to the X-ray imaging apparatus and the control method for the same, scatter correction is performed by using data consistency so that accuracy of the scatter correction may be increased and an X-ray image may be generated based on the accuracy, thereby improving quality of the X-ray image.
US09619894B2
A system and method for estimating dynamics of a mobile platform by matching feature points in overlapping images from cameras on the platform, such as cameras in a surround-view camera system on a vehicle. The method includes identifying overlap image areas for any two cameras in the surround-view camera system, identifying common feature points in the overlap image areas, and determining that the common feature points in the overlap image areas are not at the same location. The method also includes estimating three-degree of freedom vehicle dynamic parameters from the matching between the common feature points, and estimating vehicle dynamics of one or more of pitch, roll and height variation using the vehicle dynamic parameters.
US09619885B2
The present invention relates to a digital device capable of obtaining both a color image and a depth image and a method of processing a three dimensional image using the same. The method can include the steps of switching a resolution of a light-receiving unit from a first resolution to a second resolution which is lower than the first resolution, sensing a visible light and an infrared light from a prescribed subject, extracting color image information from the visible light sensed by a first sensing unit of the light-receiving unit during a first time, extracting depth image information from the infrared light sensed by a second sensing unit of the light-receiving unit during a second time, determining whether extraction of both the color image information and the depth image information for the subject is completed and if the extraction of the color image information and the extraction of the depth image information for the subject are completed, implementing a 3D image of the subject based on the extracted color image information and the depth image information.
US09619882B2
There is disclosed a novel form of imaging referred to in this disclosure as “correlated diffusion imaging” or CDI in which the tissue being imaged is characterized by a joint correlation of diffusion signal attenuation across multiple gradient pulse strengths and timings. Advantageously, by taking into account signal attenuation at different water diffusion motion sensitivities, correlated diffusion imaging can provide significantly improved delineation between cancerous tissue and healthy tissue when compared to existing diffusion imaging modalities. In an embodiment, the method comprises performing quantitative evaluation using receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis, tissue class separability analysis, and visual assessment to study correlated diffusion imaging for the task of identification of biological tissue of interest. In another embodiment, the method comprises comparing T2-weighted imaging results with that obtained using standard diffusion imaging (via the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC)) and with that obtained using CDI for tissue characterization and analysis. In still another embodiment, the method comprises of a dual-stage signal mixing configuration of CDI that provides better visualization of anatomical information while preserving strong delineation between cancerous tissue and healthy tissue.
US09619874B2
An image processing apparatus includes an alignment unit configured to align a first fundus oculi image that is an aberration-corrected image of an eye being examined and a second fundus oculi image having a larger view angle and a lower resolution than the first fundus oculi image, by using a third fundus oculi image having a smaller view angle and a higher resolution than the second fundus oculi image; a distance acquisition unit configured to acquire a distance from a macula lutea of the eye being examined to a certain position in the first fundus oculi image aligned by the alignment unit; and an evaluation unit configured to evaluate the state of the eye being examined from the distance and information concerning photoreceptor cells included in the first fundus oculi image.
US09619870B2
Techniques are disclosed for removing blur from a single image by accumulating a blur kernel estimation across several scale levels of the image and balancing the contributions of the different scales to the estimation depending on the noise level in each observation. In particular, a set of observations can be obtained by applying a set of variable scale filters to a single blurry image at different scale levels. A single blur kernel can be estimated across all scales from the set of observations and used to obtain a single latent sharp image. The estimation at a large scale level is refined using the observations at successively smaller scale levels. The filtered observations may be weighted during the estimation to balance the contributions of each scale to the estimation of the blur kernel. A deblurred digital image is recovered by deconvolving the blurry digital image using the estimated blur kernel.
US09619869B2
A method, a computer program, a computer program product and a computed tomography system are disclosed. The image data is a spatially three-dimensional reconstruction. At least one value for an image metric of the image data is determined. A motion field for motion compensation of the image data is then determined on the basis of image data as a function of the image metric. Essentially, partial image data is determined, wherein the partial image data corresponds in each case to the spatially three-dimensional reconstruction from scan data of an angular sub-range. The motion field of the image data is determined at the control points via an optimization method as a function of the image metric, so that, thereafter, the partial image data is transformed in accordance with the motion of the motion field. New image data is then produced by merging the partial image data.
US09619862B2
This disclosure pertains to novel devices, methods, and computer readable media for performing raw camera noise reduction using a novel, so-called “alignment mapping” technique to more effectively separate structure from noise in an image, in order to aid in the denoising process. Alignment mapping allows for the extraction of more structure from the image and also the ability to understand the image structure, yielding information for edge direction, edge length, and corner locations within the image. This information can be used to smooth long edges properly and to prevent tight image details, e.g., text, from being overly smoothed. In alignment maps, the amount of noise may be used to compute thresholds and scaling parameters used in the preparation of the alignment map. According to some embodiments, a feature map may also be created for the image. Finally, the image may be smoothed using the created feature map as a mask.
US09619861B2
A method and apparatus for improving quality of an enlarged image are provided. The apparatus includes first and second image input units for outputting first and second images which are obtained by capturing the same subject at different positions spaced apart by a predetermined gap, a first image processor for converting a resolution of the first image to a preview resolution, a display for displaying the first image from the first image processor, a second image processor for, when an area to be enlarged in the displayed first image is selected, cropping an area corresponding to the selected area from the second image, and a controller for controlling the display to display the cropped area on the first image in an overlaying manner. Consequently, a user may view a high-magnification image cropped from a high-definition image and an original image together.
US09619858B1
One embodiment provides a system that facilitates the execution of a web application. During operation, the system loads a native code module that includes a scenegraph renderer into a secure runtime environment. Next, the system uses the scenegraph renderer to create a scenegraph from a graphics model associated with the web application and generate a set of rendering commands from the scenegraph. The system then writes the rendering commands to a command buffer and reads the rendering commands from the command buffer. Finally, the system uses the rendering commands to render, for the web application, an image corresponding to the graphics model by executing the rendering commands using a graphics-processing unit (GPU).
US09619843B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to systems, methods, and computer program products for providing e-receipts to customers. Embodiments receive authorization from a customer for the customer to be enrolled in a point of transaction e-receipt communication program; receive transaction data corresponding to at least one transaction performed by the customer at a point of transaction of a merchant; and initiate communication, to the customer, of an e-receipt based at least in part on the received transaction data. Some embodiments receive authorization from a plurality of enrolling merchants for enrollment in the point of transaction e-receipt communication program; and build a cooperating merchant list comprising information corresponding to a plurality of cooperating merchants cooperating with a financial institution implementing the point of transaction e-receipt communication program.
US09619827B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing access to the use of computing resources. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, from a resource user, request data that specifies: a resource commitment rate for a particular computing resource and a burst tier related to the resource commitment rate. The resource commitment rate can specify a first number of units of the particular computing resource that the resource user has committed to leasing for a particular time period. The burst tier can specify an additional number of units of the particular computing resource that the resource user can use simultaneously with the first number of units of the particular computing resource at a discounted rate during the particular time period. The discounted rate for using the additional units is determined based on the first number of units and the additional number of units.
US09619818B2
A client device detects a QR code (or NFC tag). The client device decodes the QR code. The client device determines that the data encoded within the QR code includes a URL. Based on the URL, the client device sends a first request to a first server identified by the URL. In response to the first request, the client device receives from the first server data configured to cause the client device to display, to a user of the client device, at least one of: a video or an interactive web page. Responsive to the data encoded in the QR code, the client device sends to a coupon server: identification data associated with a user of the client device, and a request for the coupon server to distribute a digital coupon for an offer associated with an identifier encoded within the QR code to an account associated with the user.
US09619815B2
A method determines a user demographic profile of a user that visits one or more websites of a predetermined group of websites. The method includes generating a first record of visits by the user to the websites of the predetermined group of websites. The method further includes providing one or more website profiles comprising demographic characteristics of each website visited by the user of the predetermined group of websites. The method further includes calculating an estimated user demographic profile of the user by using the first record of visits by the user and the one or more website profiles.
US09619804B1
Various methods and devices that involve biometrically secured networked devices with enhanced privacy protection are disclosed. For example, a computer-implemented method for onboarding a first biometrically secured device to a network is disclosed. The method comprises generating an asymmetric key pair, transmitting the public key to a second device, and receiving an encrypted master encryption key from the second device. The master key is encrypted with the public key. The method also comprises decrypting the encrypted master encryption key using the private key and receiving an encrypted set of biometric data. The encrypted set of biometric data is a set of biometric data that is encrypted with the master encryption key. The method also comprises storing the set of biometric data on a memory of the first device. The set of biometric data uniquely identifies at least two users that are registered to use both the first and second devices.
US09619792B1
A method and apparatus for associating an account with a proxy card based on a photo are disclosed. The proxy card can be associated with account data from multiple other cards, such as account data from a driver's license and from various payment cards, such as a credit card, a debit card, and a pre-paid gift card. In some embodiments, a card-holder can associate an additional card with the proxy card by taking a photo of the face of the additional card using a mobile device. The mobile device analyzes the photo to obtain text representing account information that appears in the photo of the additional card. The mobile device associates the additional card with the proxy card by causing updating of stored association information, that represents an association between the card and the account data of the multiple cards, with the account information.
US09619789B1
Methods and systems for virtual checking are described. In some embodiments, information for a virtual check created in a mobile device associated with a payor can be received from the mobile device. The information may include an amount of the virtual check. A computer system may determine whether there are sufficient funds to cover the amount of the virtual check and may place the funds in the amount of the virtual check in reserve when the funds are sufficient to cover the amount of the virtual check.
US09619788B2
A computer-assisted method for automatically assigning work tasks in a workflow management system includes providing at least one first directed graph and at least one second directed graph assigning, with respect to a user, an authorization category to at least one object in the first graph and to at least one object in the second graph in order to respectively obtain at least one assigned object forming the Cartesian product of the first and the second graph to obtain a product graph, identifying the product object of the product graph resulting from the assigned object of the first graph and the assigned object of the second graph and identifying sub-objects of the product object, to which the second authorization category also applies, if applicable, assigning the user to the identified product object and the identified sub-objects of the product graph, obtaining a responsibility request with respect to a requested object of the product graph, determining the user assigned to the requested object, and assigning the request to the user.
US09619782B2
In an embodiment, a system server receives, from a plurality of advertiser devices, a plurality of advertisements, at least one corresponding personal information value, and a corresponding price. The system server calculates, for each of a plurality of personal information types, a corresponding price. The system server instructs the email device to display the plurality of personal information types and the corresponding prices.The system server sends, to a first email account, a plurality of email messages, in which each email message includes a respective advertisement of the subset of advertisements. Then the system server determines an amount to pay the user based on the prices corresponding to the subset of advertisements, and increases an account balance by the amount to pay the user.
US09619779B2
Methods and systems are disclosed that allow automated pre-qualification and qualification of an application. An application description can be generated for an application submitted by a developer, the application description can be automatically examined to determine whether the application complies with rules or guidelines (e.g., policies) of a platform. If the application complies with the rules or guidelines, the application can be pre-qualified and submitted for approval and distribution. If the application does not comply with the rules or guidelines, the application developer can be notified of the errors in the application and the developer can be prevented from uploading the application for approval and distribution.
US09619778B2
A computer-implemented method for scanning computer infrastructure within a computer network includes a first host device and a second host device having distinct operating systems. The host devices are coupled to a controller server. The method includes deploying a first scan program to the host devices. The method includes installing a first tool set on the first host device, installing a second tool set on the second host device, executing the first scan program on the first host device for gathering and storing a first set of inventory data on the first host device, executing the first scan program on the second host device for gathering and storing a second set of inventory data on the second host device, collecting the first set of inventory data from the first host device and the second set of inventory data from the second host device.
US09619776B1
In one embodiment, a method includes determining real-time location information for a transportation item. The method further includes determining real-time route information for a plurality of vehicles, the plurality of vehicles comprising a vehicle-in-transit actively transporting the transportation item. In addition, the method includes analyzing, via the real-time location information and the real-time route information, a route efficiency of the plurality of vehicles relative to an intended destination of the transportation item. Further, the method includes selecting a replacement vehicle from among the plurality of vehicles based, at least in part, on a result of the analyzing. Additionally, the method includes initiating physical transfer of the transportation item from the vehicle-in-transit to the replacement vehicle.
US09619775B1
Systems, methods, and devices for determining shipping rules and shipping methods for an order are disclosed herein. A computer implemented method includes receiving an electronic record of an order placed with a merchant. The method further includes determining a smallest available package size in which the order content can be shipped and one or more additional available package sizes having dimensions larger than the smallest available package size in which the order content can be shipped. The method also includes determining a shipping price to ship the order content and presenting a plurality of shipping methods to a user with the shipping price.
US09619770B2
Systems and methods for authoring and performing procedural workflows, and engaging in multimedia communication, remote assistance, training, data entry, inventory management, authentication, and secure networking using a hands-free or substantially hands-free wearable digital device are described. In one implementation, a user logs into a secure network using existing credentials, and a Quick Response Code is generated to temporarily authorize the user's wearable device within the secure network. In another implementation, information is encrypted and transferred between a computing device and a remote system, and the computing device is verified as being connected to a particular network and located within a particular geofence. In a further implementation, an interface for authoring a procedural workflow includes defining workflow steps based on selected primitives, and displaying rendered previews of the workflow as it would appear on different user devices.
US09619755B2
A method processes a signal represented as a graph by first determining a graph spectral transform based on the graph. In a spectral domain, parameters of a graph filter are estimated using a training data set of unenhanced and corresponding enhanced signals. The graph filter is derived based on the graph spectral transform and the estimated graph filter parameters. Then, the signal is processed using the graph filter to produce an output signal. The processing can enhance signals such as images by denoising or interpolating missing samples.
US09619753B2
A data analysis system includes a modeling unit, a feature-extraction unit, a processing unit and an output unit. The modeling unit creates a prediction model by a machine learning algorithm according to training data. The feature-extraction unit extracts a plurality of fragment of feature data of input data, and classifies the feature data into a plurality of groups. The processing unit obtains a probability of the input data corresponding to the prediction model by the machine learning algorithm according to the feature of one of the groups, and determines the probability. When the probability is less than a predetermined value, the processing unit uses another feature data corresponding to another group which is not used to renew the probability of the input data corresponding to the prediction model through the machine learning algorithm. When the probability is greater than or equal to the predetermined value, the processing unit classifies the input data. The output unit outputs a classification result.
US09619744B2
A colored smart card module having a light-transmissible substrate with first and second sides; a card-reader contact element formed on the first side of the substrate; and a colored ink layer printed on the second side of the substrate. The printed colored ink layer is then at least in part visible from the first side of the substrate around the card-reader contact element. A smart card including such a colored smart card module is also provided.
US09619742B2
A data tag containing self-descriptive data, a method for reading such a data tag and a system for interpreting such a data tag are disclosed. Characterizing information about a first data element stored in a memory of the data tag is stored in a first header preceding a first data element. In addition, characterizing information about a second data element stored in the memory of the data tag is stored in a second header preceding a second data element. The application of a multitude of descriptive headers, each characterizing a data element stored in the data tag memory, facilitates flexible data storage on such devices. Furthermore, it also facilitates data compression due to the fact that field lengths can be characterized as well, thus excluding the presence of redundant bits in the data stored in the memory.
US09619735B1
An approach is provided in which a knowledge manager processes an image using a convolutional neural network. The knowledge manager generates a pixel-level heat map of the image that includes multiple decision points corresponding to multiple pixels of the image. The knowledge manager analyzes the pixel-level heat map and detects sets of decision points that correspond to target objects. In turn, the knowledge manager marks regions of the heat map corresponding to the detected sets of per-pixel decision points, each of the regions indicating a location of the target objects.
US09619733B2
Disclosed are a method of generating a hierarchical structured pattern based descriptor and a method and a device for recognizing an object in an image using the same. The method of generating a hierarchical structured pattern based descriptor may include generating a hierarchical structured pattern by defining a parent node based on a patch region for a feature point of an input image to be analyzed and defining a child node obtained by dividing the parent node to a predetermined depth, calculating a master direction vector of the patch region based on position coordinates and representative pixel values of the parent node and the child node, and calculating a rotation angle of the patch region based on the master direction vector and rotating the hierarchical structured pattern by the rotation angle.
US09619732B2
Implementations generally relate to generating compositional media content. In some implementations, a method includes receiving a plurality of photos from a user, and determining one or more composition types from the photos. The method also includes generating compositions from the selected photos based on the one or more determined composition types. The method also includes providing the one or more generated compositions to the user.
US09619728B2
Multiple reference fiducials are formed on a sample on a sample for charged particle beam facilities processing of the sample. As one fiducial is degraded by the charged particle beam, a second fiducial is used to create one or more additional fiducials.
US09619726B2
An information input device includes a first detection device, a second detection device, a coupling member, a connecting line, and a protective member. The coupling member includes a fixing portion and a holding portion, and a folding portion. The connecting line includes an intermediate portion connecting the first detection device and the second detection device that detect a position of the writing tool. At least a part of the intermediate portion extends between the first detection device and the second detection device and is arranged to face the folding portion. The protective member includes an arrangement portion whose length is longer than a length of the intermediate portion. An end portion of the protective member is fixed to at least one of the fixing portion and the holding portion. The arrangement portion is disposed between the folding portion and the intermediate portion of the connecting line.
US09619722B2
A gaze direction detection device according to the present technology includes a detector for detecting a gaze of a driver over a predetermined period of time, a determiner for outputting second gaze information indicating that the driver is gazing, from first gaze information detected by the detector, a generator for generating a gaze distribution from the second gaze information output by the determiner, and a corrector for correcting the first gaze information detected by the detector, where the corrector calculates a center of a reference distribution that is set in advance and a center of the gaze distribution generated by the generator, and causes the center of the reference distribution and the center of the gaze distribution to overlap each other, and then calculates a correction parameter based on a difference between the reference distribution and the gaze distribution, and corrects the first gaze information with the correction parameter.
US09619721B2
To monitor a degree of attentiveness for a driver of a vehicle, a period is determined on the basis of a speed of the vehicle. It is determined whether an eyelid closed time and/or an eyelid closing time of the driver exceeds the period.
US09619717B2
An apparatus for recognizing lane lines including a broken line. An image capture unit is configured to acquire an image of the surroundings including a roadway ahead of a subject vehicle. An edge-point extractor is configured to extract edge points in the image. An first-edge-point detector is configured to detect first edge points facing at least one missing section of a broken line in the edge points extracted by the edge-point extractor. A lane-line recognizes is configured to recognize a lane line using the edge points extracted by the edge-point extractor other than all or some of the first edge points.
US09619703B2
A method and system is provided for geo-demographic classification of a geographical region. The present application discloses an unsupervised learning method and system for analyzing satellite imagery and multimodal sensory data in fusion for geo-demographic clustering. The present application also discloses an inexpensive and faster method and system for geo-demographic classification of a geographical region.
US09619700B2
Provided is an image processing device capable of specifying a character area included in an image even if a variable-density difference in an area included in the image other than the character area is large. A feature point specifying unit specifies corners of edges in a target image as feature points. An area obtaining unit obtains, based on a specified result of the feature point specifying unit, an area including a plurality of feature points aligned in a substantially straight line. A character area specifying unit specifies a character area in the target image based on the area obtained by the area obtaining unit.
US09619695B2
A system for tracking a gaze of a driver of a vehicle includes a tracking device, a processor, a memory, and a display. The tracking device is configured to track a gaze of a driver of a vehicle. The processor is in electronic communication with the tracking device. The memory is in electronic communication with the processor. The memory includes programming code configured to be executed by the processor. The programming code is configured to determine in real-time a duration of the gaze of the driver of the vehicle tracked by the tracking device. The display is in electronic communication with the processor. The display is configured to display a symbol showing the determined duration, or a portion of the determined duration, of the gaze of the driver of the vehicle as determined by the processor.
US09619694B2
In particular embodiments, one or more images associated with a primary user are received. The image(s) may comprise single images, a series of related images, or video frames. In each image, one or more faces are detected and/or tracked. For each face, a set of one or more candidates are selected who may be identified with the face. The primary user has a computed measure of affinity for candidates in the set through a social network, or the candidate in the set is otherwise known to the primary user. A facial recognition score is calculated for each candidate. A subset of candidates is selected, wherein each candidate in the subset has a facial recognition score above a predetermined threshold. A candidate score is calculated for each candidate based on the facial recognition score and the computed measure of affinity. A winning candidate is selected based on the candidate scores.
US09619692B2
A system and method for identifying objects being carried by an operator who is approaching an instrument. The system includes image-, motion-, and depth-capturing sensors that are in communication with the instrument. The captured image, motion, and depth data are compared to data stored in a database and the objects are identified. Once the objects have been identified, an action that corresponds to the identified objects is initiated in the instrument.
US09619690B2
An authentication apparatus includes a prism and an imaging unit. The prism comprises: a contact surface, an imaging surface, a first reflection surface opposed to the imaging surface, contacted with the contact surface to make an angle to be lower than an optimum angle to an incident light from a concave portion of the living body, and to reflect an incident light from a convex portion of the living body on the imaging surface and a second reflection surface opposed to the imaging surface, contacted with the first reflection surface, and to form a reflection body that reflects the incident light from the concave portion of the living body and the incident light from the convex portion of the living body on the imaging surface. The imaging unit images the light which is reflected by the first reflection surface and the light, which is reflected by the second reflection surface.
US09619687B2
An article identifier or code including at least one photo-responsive dye and a method of encoding or embedding information in same. A reader device for decoding or extracting information in an article identifier or code and verifying or authenticating that information and the associated extraction and authentication methods.
US09619684B2
A method and a system for recording data that are generated by manipulating an animal, which can be done by a manipulator, wherein the data are transmitted from a transmission apparatus to a reception apparatus, wherein a network including the transmission apparatus, the reception apparatus and the animal is set up for the purpose of transmitting the data, and wherein the animal is recognized from an identification code and the data are associated with the animal. As part of the data from the manipulation, the identity of the manipulator is also captured.
US09619682B2
An electronic device operable with a radio frequency identification device operable with a detector logic and a method for operating the electronic device with a radio frequency identification device and a detector logic is provided. Firstly, a detection event is registered by the detector logic. The detected event relates to an operation of the radio frequency identification device, which is applicable to transmit data to a counterpart radio frequency identification device. A detection signal is generated and issued by the detector logic in response to the registering and detection event, respectively, which detection signal is received by the electronic device. Then, the electronic device initiates one or more operations in response to the receiving of the detection signal.
US09619663B2
A replaceable printer component includes a first memory device and a communication link. The first memory device is configured to store a first secret. The communication link is configured to communicatively link the first memory device to a printer controller when the replaceable printer component is installed in a printing system. The printing system comprises a second memory device storing a second secret. The second memory device is communicatively linked to the printer controller. The printer controller is configured to determine an authenticity of the replaceable printer component based on the first secret and the second secret.
US09619662B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for implementing virtual network pairs between virtual machines and other devices. In one aspect, a method includes associating each of a plurality of different virtual machine network addresses with a respective host machine network address; receiving, from a sender, a request for a source virtual machine to communicate with a destination virtual machine; determining that the source virtual machine is authorized to communicate with the destination virtual machine; selecting, from the associations, a host machine network address for the destination virtual machine; generating a token based at least partly on the selected host machine network address and on a secret key of the destination virtual machine, wherein the secret key is not known by the source virtual machine; and sending the selected host machine network address and generated token to the sender.
US09619653B2
Embodiments of a system and method for detecting a security compromise on a device are described. Embodiments may be implemented by a content consumption application configured to protect content decryption keys on a device, such as a computer system (e.g., a desktop or notebook computer) or a mobile device (e.g., a smartphone or tablet). For instance, the content consumption application may be configured to provide decryption keys for respective content to a media component (or another component of the operating system) if multiple conditions have been met. For instance, in various embodiments, the content consumption application may pass the key to the media component after ensuring that i) one or more security mechanisms of the device operating system have not been compromised and ii) one or more executable instructions of the content consumption application have not been tampered (e.g., instructions corresponding to a function that handles the decryption key(s)).
US09619650B2
Disclosed are a method and a device for identifying a virus APK. The method comprises: presetting a virus database comprising a virus characteristic code; detecting whether a designated file in a target Android installation package APK contains the virus characteristic code; and if yes, determining that the target Android installation package APK is a virus APK. In the application, the virus APK and a variation thereof can be rapidly, accurately and effectively identified, thereby improving the security of an APK application.
US09619649B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method for detecting potentially malicious applications may include (1) detecting a request issued by an application running on a client device to download a file from a remote device, (2) determining that the request calls an application programming interface that enables the client device to download the file from the remote device, (3) determining that a parameter passed to the application programming interface in the request has been implicated in a previous attempt to download a known malicious file, and then in response to determining that the parameter has been implicated in a previous attempt to download a known malicious file, (4) classifying the application that issued the request as potentially malicious. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US09619646B2
In one example, a method includes receiving, by a wireless docking center (WDC) and from a wireless dockee (WD), a request to access one or more peripheral functions (PFs) associated with the WDC, and receiving, by the WDC and from the WD, one or more authentication credentials. In this example, the method also includes determining, by the WDC, whether or not the one or more authentication credentials received from the WD grant access to the one or more PFs to which the WD requests access. In this example, the method also includes permitting, by the WDC, the WD to access a first PF of the one or more PFs to which the WD requests access in response to determining that the one or more authentication credentials grant access to the first PF.
