US09698920B2
An apparatus comprises a receiver receiving wireless transmission of a real radio system from at least one base station of a radio system as a function of reception direction. The transmission comprises predetermined data. The apparatus comprises also a processing unit that forms taps of a delay profile on the basis of comparison between the data that is received and corresponding predetermined data. The processing unit estimates direction for the taps of the delay profile on the basis of a reception direction of the transmission, and forms radio channel data by associating the taps of the delay profile with the estimated direction. The radio channel data is for a radio channel model of a MIMO emulation in an OTA chamber having a plurality of antennas around a test zone where a device-under-test may be placed.
US09698908B2
Light-based communication (LCom) techniques are disclosed for decoding LCom signals using a sub-raster line sampling process. In accordance with an embodiment, a system is provided that is configured to sub-sample each raster line to capture data at a much faster sampling rate, which in turn allows for longer LCom messages and faster response time. The sub-sampling of the raster lines can be carried out in a rolling shutter mode. Without such sub-sampling of the raster lines, decoding the LCom signals may be effectively limited by the raster line frequency, given that the raster line sampling rate is tied to the horizontal resolution of the camera. However, by sub-sampling the raster lines as provided herein, the sampling rate can be a combination of horizontal and vertical pixels which represents a substantial improvement over standard raster line based rolling shutter modes.
US09698906B2
An apparatus for transmitting information using a visible light includes at least three light emitting devices, each being installed based on a predetermined interval and direction, and a data transmitting unit to transmit data by controlling the at least three light emitting devices.
US09698902B2
An optical transmission system includes: a first optical transmission device configured to transmit measurement light to an optical transmission line on a first direction; and a second optical transmission device configured, when an optical transmission characteristic is measured, to loop-back the measurement light received from the first optical transmission device through an optical transmission line on the first direction and to transmit the measurement light to the first optical transmission device through an optical transmission line on a second direction, wherein, when the optical transmission characteristic is measured, the first optical transmission device receives the measurement light loop-backed by the second optical transmission device and measures the optical transmission characteristic between the first optical transmission device and the second optical transmission device.
US09698889B2
A technology that is operable to schedule data transfer for a multiple user multiple-input and multiple-output (MU-MIMO) communications network is disclosed. In one embodiment, an enhanced node B (eNode B) is configured with circuitry configured to receive a sounding signal from each of a plurality of user equipment (UEs). One or more major paths of the sounding signals from each of the plurality of UEs are determined. An angle of arrival (AoA) is determined that is associated with each of the one or more major paths. The plurality of UEs are grouped into one or more candidate MU-MIMO sets using the AoAs associated with each of the one or more major paths. Data transmissions are scheduled for one or more of the candidate UEs of the candidate MU-MIMO set on one or more of the major paths of each of the candidate UEs.
US09698886B2
In a mobile communication system that supports downlink multi-antenna transmission, a base station managing a cell receives beamforming control information fed back from each of a plurality of beamforming target terminals connected to the cell, and null steering control information fed back from a null steering target terminal. When there exists no beamforming target terminal that feeds back the beamforming control information that coincides with the null steering control information, the base station selects, as a pair terminal, a beamforming target terminal that feeds back the beamforming control information containing a predefined rank indicator.
US09698883B2
According to one embodiment of the disclosure, a non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions which, when executed by one or more hardware processors, causes performance of operations. One of these operations comprises transmitting, from a first device to a second device, a first plurality of frames using a first polarization configuration for a first antenna corresponding to the first device. Based on feedback information associated with the first plurality of frames, a second polarization configuration, which is different than the first polarization configuration, is selected for transmitting a second plurality of frames. Thereafter, the second plurality of frames is transmitted from the first device to the second device using the second polarization configuration for the first antenna.
US09698882B2
A telecommunications system is provided that is controllably operable as a sectorized antenna system and as an omnidirectional antenna system without requiring hardware reconfiguration. The telecommunications system includes a phase correlation measurement unit that can be between a sectorized antenna sub-system and a remotely located RF source site. The phase correlation measurement unit can be coupled to the RF source site over at least one feed line. The phase correlation measurement unit can output signals for controlling a phase shifter at the RF source site for phase shifting downlink signals and for causing operation of the sectorized antenna sub-system as an omnidirectional antenna sub-system. In a sectorized operation mode, the phase correlation measurement unit and the phase shifter can be inactivated.
US09698875B2
A communication device may establish at least one type of connection among a first type of connection and a second type of connection which are according to a particular protocol defined in an NFC standard based on a current state of the communication device and a current state of an external device. The first type of connection may be a connection in which the communication device operates as a server and the external device operates as a client. The second type of connection may be a connection in which the communication device operates as a client and the external device operates as a server. The communication device may communicate the target data with the external device by using the established connection. The contents of the communication may be different in response to which type of connection is established.
US09698860B2
A method for tuning an analog self-interference canceller includes detecting a tuning trigger, calculating a set of tuning parameters (the tuning parameters including complex weights for a set of taps of the analog self-interference canceller) in response to the tuning trigger, and applying the set of tuning parameters based on component calibration data.
US09698856B2
A method and a device for selecting a radio in an electronic device with a hybrid radio function. The method includes detecting an entrance to a hybrid radio function; determining a default radio mode to be executed as a default in response to a preconfigured mode determination condition; and receiving and reproducing a radio broadcast in a radio mode corresponding to the determined default radio mode. The present disclosure can be applied to various other embodiments based on the aforementioned embodiment.
US09698841B2
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media are disclosed for associating a radio frequency identification tag with a participant. In one embodiment, a method is provided for associating an unassociated RF location tag with a participant. The method may include determining an unassociated RF location tag to be associated with the participant, receiving sensor derived data from one or more sensors, determining an identity of the particular participant using the sensor derived data, and associating the identity of the particular participant with the unassociated RF location tag.
US09698838B1
A receiver system includes a blocker detector circuit configured to receive a radio frequency (RF) input signal and detect an existence of a blocker therein, and further configured to output a blocker detection signal indicative of the existence of the blocker. The receiver system further includes a configurable receiver circuit configured to receive the RF input signal and the blocker detection signal, and selectively configure the configurable receiver circuit between a first mode wherein the configurable receiver circuit exhibits first linearity characteristics, and a second mode wherein the configurable receiver circuit exhibits second, different linearity characteristics based on the blocker detection signal.
US09698835B2
A method for carrying data on a live host signal, comprising the steps of: varying timing in a host signal in response to data to be encoded, wherein variations in timing are smaller than a sampling period for detection and capture of the digital signal receiving the live host signal; sensing pulse timing variations in the received live host signal by comparison to a reference signal; and determining information in the sensed timing variations.
US09698826B2
A bit interleaver, a bit-interleaved coded modulation (BICM) device and a bit interleaving method are disclosed herein. The bit interleaver includes a first memory, a processor, and a second memory. The first memory stores a low-density parity check (LDPC) codeword having a length of 16200 and a code rate of 4/15. The processor generates an interleaved codeword by interleaving the LDPC codeword on a bit group basis. The size of the bit group corresponds to a parallel factor of the LDPC codeword. The second memory provides the interleaved codeword to a modulator for 256-symbol mapping.
US09698819B1
A method for generating Huffman codewords to encode a dataset includes selecting a Huffman tree type from a plurality of different Huffman tree types. Each of the Huffman tree types specifies a different range of codeword length in a Huffman tree. A Huffman tree of the selected type is produced by: determining a number of nodes available to be allocated as leaves in each level of the Huffman tree accounting for allocation of leaves in each level of the Huffman tree; allocating nodes to be leaves such that the number of nodes allocated in a given level of the Huffman tree is constrained to be no more than the number of nodes available to be allocated in the given level; and assigning the leaves to symbols of the dataset based an assignment strategy selected from a plurality of assignment strategies to produce symbol codeword information.
US09698813B2
An input buffer for an ADC is provided. The input buffer includes a receiving circuit and an impedance circuit. The receiving circuit is coupled between a power supply and a sample-and-hold circuit of the ADC, and receives an analog input signal and generating an analog signal. The impedance circuit is coupled to the receiving circuit, and selectively provides a variable impedance. When the sample-and-hold circuit of the ADC is operated in a first phase, the impedance circuit provides a small impedance, and when the sample-and-hold circuit of the ADC is operated in a second phase, the impedance circuit provides a large impedance.
US09698810B2
A method, computer-readable storage medium, and signal processing apparatus for processing a plurality of input signals. The method includes receiving or generating a first intermediate signal and a second intermediate signal. The first and second intermediate signals are output to a signal analog-to-digital converter having a predetermined sampling frequency.
US09698806B2
Methods and systems are provided for dynamic power switching in current-steering digital-to-analog converters (DACs). A DAC circuit may be configured to apply digital-to-analog conversions based on current steering, and to particularly incorporate use of dynamic power switching during conversions. The DAC circuit may comprise a main section, which may connect a main supply voltage to a main current source. The main section may comprise a positive-side branch and a negative-side branch, which may be configured to steer positive-side and negative-side currents, such as in a differential manner, to effectuate the conversions. The dynamic power switching may be applied, for example, via a secondary section connecting a main current source in the DAC circuit to a secondary supply voltage. The secondary supply voltage may be configured such that it may be less than the main supply voltage used in driving the current steering in the DAC circuit.
US09698803B1
In one aspect a system is provided. The system a plurality of flash compare modules to output a set of unordered output signals based on an analog input signal; a plurality of device selection modules that receive the unordered output signals and generate ordered signals representing the analog input; and a temperature and voltage compensation module for receiving one or more of temperature and voltage signals from at least a temperature and voltage sensor module that senses one or more of temperature and voltage values that are used to compensate for changes in output signals caused by changes in one or more of die temperature and core voltage.
US09698797B1
Techniques are disclosed relating to feedback-controlled oscillators (e.g., phase-locked loops) arranged in two or more levels. In some embodiments, in a relatively higher-frequency mode, a first level feedback-controlled oscillator provides reference signals to one or more second level feedback-controlled oscillators that in turn generate output clock signals to clock sequential circuitry. In some embodiments, in a relatively lower-frequency mode, the first level feedback-controlled oscillator bypasses the second level feedback-controlled oscillators and provides output clock signals directly to sequential circuitry (without using any intervening feedback-controlled oscillators).
US09698794B1
Systems and methods for coalescing regions on a virtualized programmable logic device are provided. A first function is configured on a first subregion on the virtualized programmable logic device. The first subregion may border an unused subregion on the programmable logic device. The first function operated on the first subregion is migrated to a second function operated on a second subregion on the virtualized programmable logic device by mapping a first set of bits configuring the first subregion to a second set of bits configuring the second subregion for the second function. The first subregion is then released from the first function. The second function is configured to perform a same task with the first function, and the first subregion and the unused subregion together form a larger unused subregion on the virtualized programmable logic device. Similarly, multiple subregions can be migrated and vacated to form a larger available region.
US09698793B1
A method for upgrading a programmable logic device (PLD) in a network element is provided. The method includes writing PLD configuration data to a nonvolatile memory and directing a signal control device external to the PLD to hold system control signals in the network element at a predefined state irrespective of direction by the PLD. The method includes loading the PLD configuration data from the nonvolatile memory into a PLD configuration memory in the PLD, while the signal control device holds the system control signals at the predefined values. The method includes directing the signal control device to release the holding the system control signals, so that the PLD directs the system control signals, responsive to completion of the loading the PLD configuration data into the PLD configuration memory. A network element is also provided.
US09698792B1
An electronic device includes multiple functional logic modules each having a corresponding settling time, a clock generator element, and multiple memory elements. The clock generator element generates multiple clock signals having clock periods of a common duration. Each clock signal has a first clock transition and a second clock transition during each clock period, and a latest second clock transition of the clock signals in a particular clock period precedes an earliest first clock transition in a subsequent clock period by the settling time. Each memory element is clocked by a respective one of the clock signals, and each memory element includes an input latch clocked on a first clock transition of the respective one of the clock signals, and an output latch clocked on a second clock transition of the respective one of the clock signals.
US09698791B2
A forwarding plane comprising a scalable array of field programmable gate array (FPGA) devices, a memory bank, FPGA data and transport network ports, and an array interconnect. The scalable array is configured to execute a networking application source code partitioned as computing elements executed by the FPGA devices with a uniform global memory address space. The memory bank includes an allocated portion of the FPGA devices addressable by the address space. The ports are coupled to data networks and include ingress ports configured to receive traffic and egress ports configured to transmit traffic. The array interconnect is configured to forward the traffic from the ingress ports to the egress ports, choose cell sizes of data cells that encapsulate payload data units of the traffic, control latency between the FPGA devices based on the chosen cell sizes; and enable utilization of the memory bank for buffering of the traffic.
US09698784B1
Systems and methods are described for a contention-free single-wire latch controller that includes first and second bidirectional signal pins (e.g., the L and R pins in the FIGS), a latch enable output pin (or signal), E, and a decision element (such as a NAND or a NOR gate). A first driving transistor may be coupled between the first bidirectional signal pin and a power rail. A second driving transistor may be coupled between the second bidirectional signal pin and the power rail. A first half-latch may be coupled to the first bidirectional signal pin. A second half-latch may be coupled to the second bidirectional signal pin.
US09698782B1
A circuit includes a data input in communication with a first transistor stack; a first capacitor having a first capacitance and in communication with a power supply via a first transistor of the first transistor stack, wherein the first transistor is configured to charge the first capacitor in response to the data input receiving a signal corresponding to a first binary value; a data output node coupled between the first transistor stack and a transmission line having a second capacitance; and wherein the first capacitor is coupled between the data output node and a second transistor of the first transistor stack, further wherein the second transistor is configured to discharge the first capacitor to the data output node in response to the data input receiving a signal corresponding to a second binary value.
US09698779B2
Methods for reconfiguring an ASIC at runtime without using voltage over scaling. A functional criticality of a set of logic in the ASIC is identified. Then, the set of logic are classified into a set of regions based on the functional criticality, each region of the set of regions having a target error threshold. Further, each region is power gated at runtime based on the functional criticality such that the target error threshold is achieved without using voltage over scaling.
US09698777B1
An apparatus includes a keyboard and circuitry. The keyboard includes at least an interface line and a key. The key is configured to connect the interface line to first and second different capacitances when positioned in first and second positions, respectively. The circuitry is connected to the interface line and is configured to detect whether the key is in the first position or in the second position, by sensing electrical current flowing on the interface line in response to a stimulation waveform.
US09698764B2
Described is an apparatus of a quadrature divider. The apparatus is independent of a jam latch, and is for generating a quadrature clock. The apparatus comprises: a first selection unit controllable by a clock signal, the first selection unit to directly or indirectly generate a first phase of the quadrature clock; a third selection unit controllable by the clock signal, the third selection unit to receive the first phase of the quadrature clock, the third selection unit to directly or indirectly generate a third phase of the quadrature clock, wherein the first selection unit to receive the third phase of the quadrature clock.
US09698759B2
An approach to time domain filtering uses a passive charge sharing approach to implement an infinite impulse response filter. Delayed samples of an input signal are stored as charges on capacitors of a first array of capacitors, and delayed samples of the output signal are stored as charges on capacitors of a second array of capacitors. Outputs are determined by passively coupling capacitors of the first and second arrays to one another, and determining the output according to a total charge on the coupled capacitors. In some examples, a gain is applied to the total charge prior to storing the output on the second array of capacitors. In some examples, a charge scaling circuit is applied to the charges stored on the arrays prior to coupling capacitors to form the output.
US09698752B2
Embodiments of resonator circuits and modulating resonators and are described generally herein. One or more acoustic wave resonators may be coupled in series or parallel to generate tunable filters. One or more acoustic wave resonances may be modulated by one or more capacitors or tunable capacitors. One or more acoustic wave modules may also be switchable in a filter. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US09698751B2
RF multiplexer circuitry includes a first signal path coupled between a first intermediate node and a common node, a second signal path coupled between a second intermediate node and the common node, first resonator circuitry coupled between the first signal path and ground, and second resonator circuitry coupled between the second signal path and ground. The first resonator circuitry is configured to allow signals within a first frequency pass band to pass between the first intermediate node and the common node, while attenuating signals outside of the first frequency pass band. The first resonator circuitry includes a first LC resonator. The second resonator circuitry is configured to allow signals within a second frequency pass band to pass between the second intermediate node and the common node, while attenuating signals outside of the second frequency pass band.
US09698749B2
An impedance matching device is presented. The device includes an input terminal configured to receive a radio frequency signal, and an output terminal configured to couple to an amplifier. The device includes an impedance prematch network coupled to the input terminal and the output terminal. The impedance prematch network includes a first inductor, such as a first wire bond. The device includes a resonator structure including a second inductor, such as a wire bond, inductively coupled to the first inductor.
US09698739B2
Aspects of this disclosure relate to systems and methods of performing dynamic impedance tuning. Certain aspects may be performed by or include a dynamic impedance matching network. The dynamic impedance matching network can determine a desired output power for a power amplifier, true power information for the power amplifier, and an output power delivered to a load by the power amplifier. In addition, the dynamic impedance matching network can determine whether the output power satisfies the true power information. Responsive to this determination, the dynamic impedance matching network may modify a load line impedance for the power amplifier using an impedance tuning network.
US09698732B2
A controller may be configured to sequentially apply a plurality of switch configurations of a power converter in order to operate the power converter as a differential output converter to switch a polarity of the output voltage, such that: during a charging phase of the power converter, a power inductor is coupled between one of a first terminal and a second terminal of the power source and one of a first terminal and a second terminal of the output load, during a transfer phase of the power converter, at least one of the plurality of switches is activated in order to couple the power inductor between the second terminal of the power source and one of the first terminal of the output load and the second terminal of the output load, wherein the output voltage is a differential voltage between the first terminal and the second terminal.
US09698730B2
The exemplary embodiments include methods, computer readable media, and devices for calibrating a non-linear power detector of a radio frequency device based upon measurements of the non-linear power detector output and the associated power amplifier output level, and a set of data points that characterize a nominal non-linear power detector. The set of data points that characterize the nominal non-linear power detector is stored in a calibration system memory as nominal power detector output data. The measured non-linear power detector outputs, power amplifier output levels, and the nominal power detector output data is used to determine a power detector error function that characterizes the difference between the response of the non-linear power detector and the nominal non-linear power detector. The power detector error function and the nominal power detector output data are used to develop a calibrated power detector output data set that is stored in the non-linear power detector.
US09698714B2
A method for implementing asynchronous operation of a permanent magnet motor (PMM) by detecting asynchronous operation of the PMM and creating cyclic variations in the PMM output using the asynchronous operation of the PMM. In another embodiment, an apparatus that comprises a microcontroller that obtains computer executable instructions stored on a non-transitory medium that when executed by the microcontroller causes the apparatus to determine that a rotor shaft within a PMM is rotationally restricted and to vary a plurality of frequencies and a plurality of amplitude currents supplied to the monitor to produce a reverse impact on a downhole tool coupled to the PMM.
US09698712B2
An inverter apparatus includes an inverter circuit, a capacitor, and a control unit. In the first control mode, the control unit shifts a phase of at least one of PWM signals of three phases such that a time period during which polarities of output voltages of three phases are the same is shorter in the first control mode than the time period in the second control mode; and controls the inverter circuit so as to supply a direct current to the three-phase AC motor as a d-axis current by outputting the PWM signals of three phases, each having a phase after the phase shift processing. In the second control mode, the control unit controls the inverter circuit so as to supply an alternating current to the three-phase AC motor by outputting the PWM signals of three phases, each having a phase before the phase shift processing.
US09698709B2
A motor driving device includes an inverter circuit having switching elements; and a control device controlling the switching of the switching elements. The control device sets a carrier frequency to f1 when a two-phase modulation scheme is selected, and sets the carrier frequency to f0, which is half of the carrier frequency f1, when a three-phase modulation scheme is selected. Thereby, the frequency of the secondary component of a current flowing in a filter circuit of when selecting the three-phase modulation scheme may be deviated from the resonance frequency of the filter circuit. Accordingly, the current ripple generated in the filter circuit may be reduced even when selectively switching the modulation scheme for the PWM modulation among a plurality of modulation schemes.
US09698708B2
Techniques and systems are disclosed for locomoting fuel-free nanomotors in a fluid. In one aspect of the disclosed technology, a system for locomoting fuel-free nanomotors can include an electrically-driven nanowire diode formed of two or more segments of different electrically conducting materials, a fluid container, and a mechanism that produces an electric field to drive the nanowire diode to locomote in the fluid. In another aspect, a system for locomoting fuel-free nanomotors can include a magnetically-propelled multi-segment nanowire motor formed of a magnetic segment and a flexible joint segment, a fluid container, and a mechanism that generates and controls a magnetic field to drive the multi-segment nanowire motor to locomote in the fluid. The disclosed fuel-free nanomotors can obviate fuel requirements and can be implemented for practical in vitro and in vivo biomedical applications.
US09698701B2
A power module packaging structure includes a first conducting layer, a first insulating layer, a second conducting layer, a first power device, and a first controlling device. The first insulating layer is disposed above the first conducting layer. The second conducting layer is disposed above the first insulating layer. The first power device is disposed on the first conducting layer. The first controlling device is disposed on the second conducting layer and used for controlling the first power device. The first conducting layer, the second conducting layer, the first power device, and the first controlling device form a loop. A direction of a current which flows through the first conducting layer in the loop is opposite to a direction of a current which flows through the second conducting layer in the loop.
US09698697B2
A storage (80) stores a first drooping characteristic of a rated current Ioc1, and a second drooping characteristic of an allowable current value Ico2 that is greater than the rated current value Ioc1. A controller (70) is configured to select a drooping characteristic stored in the storage (80) in accordance with the current value detected by an output current detector (50) and a mask condition, and perform droop control.
US09698692B2
A multi-phase interleaved converter includes n sub-circuits of phases, a current controller and a balancing controller. The n sub-circuits of phases have inputs connected in parallel and outputs connected in parallel in order to convert a direct current (DC) or alternating current (AC) input voltage of one level into a DC or AC output voltage of another level. The current controller receives a current control command and a phase current value of a particular sub-circuit of a particular phase among the n sub-circuits of the respective phases to output a control signal for controlling the particular sub-circuit of the particular phase. The balancing controller receives phase current values of the n sub-circuits of the respective phases and receives a control signal output from the current controller to adjust the duty ratios of control signals applied to the other sub-circuits.
US09698690B2
In one embodiment, a method of controlling a converter can include: (i) when first and fourth switches are on, and second and third switches are off, generating an on time signal according to an input voltage and a stable output voltage of the converter; (ii) generating an off time signal according to the input voltage and the stable output voltage of the converter; (iii) generating a reference time voltage according to a reference current signal and a reference voltage signal; and (iv) controlling the first, second, third, and fourth switches based on whether the on time signal is activated to indicate that the converter is operating in a buck mode, the off time signal is activated to indicate that the converter is operating in a boost mode, or the reference time signal is activated to indicate that the converter is operating in a buck-boost mode.
US09698677B2
In one embodiment, a brownout recovery circuit configured for a switch power supply circuit with a first switch, can include: (i) an under-voltage detection circuit that activates a detection signal when a bootstrap capacitor is not in an under-voltage state, and deactivates the detection signal when the bootstrap capacitor is in the under-voltage state; (ii) a logic circuit that generates a first control signal according to a main control signal from the switch power supply circuit and a second switch state; (iii) a first control circuit that generates a first switch signal according to the detection signal, and controls the first switch thereby; and (iv) a second control circuit that receives the first control signal, and generates a second switch signal to control the second switch thereby.
US09698674B1
A DC-DC converter includes a plurality of switches configured to be in a first charging mode until current through an inductor reaches a first current threshold to thereby indicate an end of the first charging mode. Responsive to the end of the first charging mode the DC-DC converter is configured to operate in a second charging mode for a time period ΔT in which a first side of the inductor is coupled to an input voltage and a second side of the inductor is coupled to a load. Responsive to the end of the time period ΔT, the DC-DC converter operates in a discharge mode until current through the inductor reaches its minimum.
US09698673B2
A method for controlling an electronic circuit by means of the first, second and third operating parameters, comprises: determining a range of variation of the third parameter for each value of the first parameter by varying the second parameter, said ranges being different; determining a target value of the third parameter; if the target value is within one of the ranges, operating the electronic circuit by setting the third parameter to the target value; and in the opposite case, selecting the two ranges framing the target value and operating the electronic circuit by consecutively bringing the third parameter into each one of the selected ranges.
US09698666B2
A power supply and a gate driver includes a power switching element to control current, a control circuit to output a control signal for opening or closing of the power switching element, and a gate drive circuit to open or close the power switching element in accordance with the control signal. The gate drive circuit includes a first inductive circuit connected to a supply voltage source, and a second inductive circuit connected to an input stage of the power switching element, and transfers electrical energy stored in the input stage of the power switching element, using the first and second inductive circuits. Accordingly, electrical energy supplied to the input stage of the power switching element during an ON state of the power switching element is again recovered during an OFF state of the power switching element.
US09698648B2
Recesses and projections that extend in an axial direction are formed on an outer-circumferential surface of a molded resin body. The recesses are provided on portions where are extended outward from the winding and are on the outer circumferential surface. In addition, further recesses and projections that extend in a radial direction are formed on an axial-direction end surface of the molded resin body. The further recesses are provided on portions of the axial-direction end surface that are aligned in the axial direction with the winding.
US09698647B2
According to an embodiment of the invention, an electric machine is provided. The machine includes a support structure and a stator secured to the support structure. The machine also includes a rotor rotatably scoured to the support structure. The rotor defines a wall of the rotor. The machine also includes a sensor secured to the support structure and adapted to cooperate with the wall of the rotor to sense the position of the rotor relative to that of the stator.
US09698643B2
A stator winding of a rotary electric machine includes windings for each pole of each phase being configured by a single layer lap wound coil. The single layer lap-wound coil includes combination coils each configured by two or more divided unit coils of the same phase being disposed one over the other in a radial direction inside slots of a stator core. The combination coils each comprise a first-row unit coil and a second-row unit coil disposed in a radially inner side of the stator core with respect to the first-row unit coil. A turns count of the first-row unit coil equals a turns count of the second-row unit coil. A count of lead wires of the first-row unit coil differs from a count of lead wires of the second-row unit coil.
US09698638B2
A cooling system for an electric machine is provided. The cooling system includes an airflow diverter feature configured to provide even distribution of airflow to the electric machine. The airflow diverter feature includes a circular disk mounted to the housing of the electric machine. The disk defines a plurality of vents forming an axial air passage. A plurality of radial air passages are in fluid communication with the axial air passage. The airflow diverter feature defines at least one inlet and at least one outlet. The inlet comprises at least one interior choke and the outlet comprises at least one exhaust choke. The interior choke and the exhaust choke are sized to control a rate of air flow through the radial air passages.
US09698637B2
A rotating portion of a motor includes a magnet, a yoke, and a hub. An upper portion of the yoke is fixed to the hub. The yoke includes a first inner circumferential surface radially opposite to an outer circumferential surface of the magnet with a first gap intervening therebetween, and a second inner circumferential surface radially opposite to the outer circumferential surface of the magnet with a second gap intervening therebetween below the first inner circumferential surface. The second inner circumferential surface is parallel or substantially parallel to the outer circumferential surface of the magnet, and is located radially outward of the first inner circumferential surface. An adhesive is provided in at least a portion of the first gap. No adhesive is provided in at least a lower axial end portion of the second gap.
US09698627B2
The invention includes; a sealed housing made of a plastic or metal material; a conductive plate made of a copper material, positioned in the center of the housing, and respectively connected to power lines so as to accumulate magnetic energy generated in an internal polymer-clay nanocomposite; a base insulation plate having insulation characteristics so as to fix the conductive plate; electric wires which are power lines for transmitting the magnetic energy stored on the conductive plate to the outside; the polymer-clay nano composite filled in the bottom portion of the housing such that the conductive plate is submerged therein; an upper ceramic layer coated on the inner wall of the housing so as to promote the magnetic interaction of a ceramic compound in the upper space portion of the polymer-clay nano composite.
US09698619B2
A device for collecting energy has a moving conducting body and with capacitive plates at the edge. When an incoming wave is incident upon the energy collection device, currents are induced on the moving conducting body, in turn having charges accumulated at the capacitive plates that are attached to the edge of the moving conducting body. As the accumulated charges move along with the conducting body, time-varying magnetic field is produced nearby, from which power is collected by various energy collection devices such as inductive and capacitive coupling devices. It is also possible to collect the energy by putting touch brushes on the charge-stored capacitive plates directly. Also the accumulated charges and consequently the amount of collected power are enhanced by applying the external magnetic field to the moving conducting body.
US09698616B2
Systems and methods for restoring service within electrical power systems are disclosed. The methods may include identifying a restoration path for an outage area within a power system, selecting a mobile energy resource connection site that is electrically connected to the restoration path and/or the outage area, sending power injection requests to a plurality of mobile energy resources, at least some of which may be proximate the connection site, receiving power injection acceptances from participating ones of the plurality of mobile energy resources, and implementing the restoration path. The systems may include a processor and a computer readable storage medium having a plurality of machine-readable instructions embodied thereon and configured for execution by the processor to carry out the method.
US09698613B2
A non-limiting example charging stand comprises a main body that includes an outer side member and the inner side member. The inner side member has an inserting portion for inserting a portable game apparatus. The inserting portion is set with a depth that hides a portion of a hinge but does not hide a cover constituting a part of a housing of the portable game apparatus when inserting the folded portable game apparatus in a vertical orientation. Accordingly, when viewing the portable game apparatus inserted in the charging stand from the front, it is possible to see a color, a pattern or an image of character that is applied to the cover. At this time, a color, a pattern or an image of character that is applied to an outer circumference surface (front) of the charging stand can be also seen.
US09698594B2
Components can be damaged if they are exposed to excess voltages. A device is disclosed herein which can be placed in series with a component and a node that may be exposed to high voltages. If the voltage becomes too high, the device can autonomously switch into a relatively high impedance state, thereby protecting the other components.
US09698590B1
The personal electrical injury protection device includes a first wireless transmitter, a first receiver, and a second receiver. The first wireless transmitter is adapted to be worn on an end user. The first wireless transmitter is in wired connection with at least one electrical sensor. The at least one electrical sensor is adapted to be attached to a limb of said end user, and is able to detect a change in voltage, and upon doing so shall signal the first receiver. The first receiver is in wireless communication with the first transmitter, and includes a speaker, and at least one light. The second receiver is adapted to turn off the main circuit breaker in order to stop electricity to be transmitted to all applicable circuits, and of which an end user has come into contact.
US09698573B2
A method for making an extruded insulator for a spark plug in a manner that minimizes pores, relics and/or other defects in the insulator microstructure so that the overall dielectric strength or performance of the insulator is improved. The method may be used to manufacture an extruded insulator that avoids many of the drawbacks associated with such defects, but also has a stepped internal bore for receiving a center electrode. In one embodiment, the method uses a multi-phase extrusion process to extrude a ceramic paste around an elongated arbor and form an extruded section, and then removes the arbor from the extruded section to reveal a stepped internal bore.
US09698569B2
To improve characteristics of a semiconductor device (semiconductor laser), an active layer waveguide (AWG) comprised of InP is formed over an exposed part of a surface of a substrate having an off angle ranging from 0.5° to 1.0° in a [1-1-1] direction from a (100) plane to extend in the [0-1-1] direction. A cover layer comprised of p-type InP is formed over the AWG with a V/III ratio of 2000 or more. Thereby, it is possible to obtain excellent multiple quantum wells (MQWs) by reducing a film thickness variation of the AWG. Moreover, the cover layer having side faces where a (0-11) plane almost perpendicular to a substrate surface mainly appears can be formed. A sectional shape of a lamination part of the cover layer and the AWG becomes an approximately rectangular shape. Therefore, an electrification region can be enlarged and it is possible to reduce a resistance of the semiconductor device.
US09698567B2
A wavelength-selectable laser device providing spatially-selectable wavelength(s) may be used to select one or more wavelengths for lasing in a tunable transmitter or transceiver, for example, in a wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) optical system such as a WDM passive optical network (PON). The wavelength-selectable laser device uses a dispersive optical element, such as a diffraction grating, to disperse light emitted from a laser emitter and to direct different wavelengths of the light toward a reflector at different spatial positions such that the wavelengths may be selected by allowing light to be reflected from selected spatial position(s) back into the laser emitter. Thus, the reflected light with a wavelength at the selected spatial position(s) is allowed to complete the laser cavity.
US09698565B1
A diode control device include a first terminal for receiving a first power supply voltage and a second terminal for receiving a second power supply voltage. A circuit of the diode control device applies a regulated voltage on the anode of the diode in response to a control voltage. The control voltage is equal to a preset voltage when a reference voltage is less than or equal to zero. Conversely, when the reference voltage is greater than zero, the control voltage is equal to the sum of the present voltage and a difference between cathode voltage of the diode and the reference voltage.
US09698560B2
A laser ignition system, in particular for an internal combustion engine, including a vertical emitter and a laser-active crystal, the laser-active crystal being doped in at least some areas using ytterbium, the ytterbium-doped area having a length of 200 μm to 7000 μm. The monolithic laser is based on a YAG or LuAG host crystal having 3 differently doped areas: a laser-active ytterbium-doped area, an undoped area which determines the resonator length and therefore the pulse duration, and a chromium-doped or vanadium-doped area for the passive Q-switch. The resonator is delimited by 2 mirrors.
US09698559B2
The invention relates to scanning pulsed laser systems for optical imaging. Coherent dual scanning laser systems (CDSL) are disclosed and some applications thereof. Various alternatives for implementation are illustrated, including highly integrated configurations. In at least one embodiment a coherent dual scanning laser system (CDSL) includes two passively modelocked fiber oscillators. The oscillators are configured to operate at slightly different repetition rates, such that a difference δfr in repetition rates is small compared to the values fr1 and fr2 of the repetition rates of the oscillators. The CDSL system also includes a non-linear frequency conversion section optically connected to each oscillator. The section includes a non-linear optical element generating a frequency converted spectral output having a spectral bandwidth and a frequency comb comprising harmonics of the oscillator repetition rates. A CDSL may be arranged in an imaging system for one or more of optical imaging, microscopy, micro-spectroscopy and/or THz imaging.
US09698558B2
A method of pumping an optical resonator includes directing light generated by a pumping light at the optical resonator, exciting a propagating surface state of the optical resonator at an interface of the optical resonator, and changing a propagating frequency of the light proximate the interface, where the changed frequency corresponds to a propagation frequency of the surface state. The optical resonator includes a photonic crystal and a material, where the interface is formed between the photonic crystal and the material.
US09698553B2
A crimping die includes a first die for constraining the wire crimping portion by a concave die surface shaped in conformity with the wire crimping portion, and a second die including a convex die surface paired with the concave die surface. A width of a recess on the concave die surface and that of a projection on the convex die surface are equal to an outer diameter of the wire crimping portion. The wire crimping portion is pressed by the concave die surface of the first die and the convex die surface of the second die, whereby the wire crimping portion and the wire inserted into the cylindrical interior of the wire crimping portion are crimped and fixed.
US09698542B1
An assembly and method of plural conductive slots sharing an overheating destructive fixing element is disclosed, including a first conductive element, a second conductive element and an overheating destructive fixing element. The first conductive element includes a front end, a rear end, plural conductive slots, a connection portion and a contact portion. The conductive slots include a front end conductive slot and a rear end conductive slot, between which a control section is defined. The connection portion is disposed on the control section, and the contact portion connects the connection portion. The second conductive element contacts the contact portion by the overheating destructive fixing element, allowing the plural conductive slots to share the overheating destructive fixing element. Furthermore, when any one conductive slot reaches each own limiting working temperature respectively, the overheating destructive fixing element is destructed by reaching a pre-determined temperature.
US09698538B2
Ribbon assembly includes first and second contact modules that each include signal and ground contacts that are configured to engage electrical contacts of a corresponding mating connector. The ribbon assembly also including a plurality of cables that are coupled to and extend between the first and second contact modules. The cables electrically couple the signal and ground contacts of the first contact module to the signal and ground contacts, respectively, of the second contact module. The cables extend parallel to one another and are coplanar at the first contact module and at the second contact module. The ribbon assembly also includes a cable organizer that is coupled to the plurality of cables at a location between and separate from the first and second contact modules. The cables extend parallel to one another and are coplanar as the cables extend through the cable organizer.
US09698537B2
A mating connector, that includes a mating ground portion, includes a holding member, a contact, a shell and a ground member. The holding member is formed of an insulating body defining a connection space, the contact has a contact point which is held by the holding member to be positioned in the connection space, the shell covers, at least in part, the holding member in a plane perpendicular to a front-rear direction, and the ground member is electrically connected with the shell and has a base portion positioned between the holding member and the shell. A ground spring extends from the base portion and a ground contact point to be connected to the mating ground portion, and has first, second and third springs. The third spring is inward of the second spring, and supports the ground contact point to project into the connection space.
US09698533B1
A composite connector comprises a housing, a position-limiting structure, a first type terminal, and a second type terminal. The housing is disposed on a system board, and a first oblique slot is disposed on one sidewall of the housing. The position-limiting structure is movably disposed in the housing, and the position-limiting structure and the sidewall of the housing have one of and the other of a first moving structure and the first oblique slot, respectively. The first type terminal and the second type terminal are disposed at different depths of the housing. Thereby, the space utilization of the system board is enhanced, the advantage of reducing the volume of the electronic product is achieved, and the switching operation can be more stable and less easy to fail when the connecting interfaces are switched.
US09698524B1
Embodiments of the present invention provide an apparatus, a system, and a method of manufacturer for a magnetic, self-retracting, auto-aligning electrical connector. The apparatus includes a first conductor and a first magnet configured to magnetically couple with a second magnet, wherein magnetic coupling causes a change in a magnetic field of a magnetically coupled combination of the first magnet and the second magnet and wherein the change in the magnetic field causes electrical coupling of the first conductor and a second conductor. The system includes a first connector comprising a first magnet and a first conductor and a second connector comprising a second magnet and a second conductor, wherein magnetic coupling causes a change in a magnetic field of a magnetically coupled combination of the first magnet and the second magnet and wherein the change in the magnetic field causes electrical coupling of the first conductor and the second conductor.
US09698522B2
A strain relief element for a cable. The strain relief element has a clamping collar in form of an at least partially closing ring for clamping the cable sheathing arranged in a clamping opening of the ring. The clamping collar having first and second half-ring clamping elements with a partial clamping opening each and hinged together through a first hinge. The clamping opening being defined by the two half-ring clamping elements folded towards each other and fixed with a clamping force executed by a clamping element. The strain relief element has a fixing collar means in form of an at least partially closing ring for fixing a corrugated tube surrounding the cable arranged in a fixing opening of the ring, the fixing collar having first and second half-ring fixing elements with a partial fixing opening each and hinged together through a second hinge.
US09698520B2
A shrouded connector and associated methods of manufacture are provided. The shrouded connector includes an insulating shroud which includes at least one ventilation passageway which communicates an internal cavity of the insulating shroud with an annular space of the insulating shroud, the annular space adjacent an exterior of the insulating shroud.
US09698519B2
An electronic device includes a housing including an outer surface and an inner surface, the housing including an opening through which the outer surface and the inner surface communicate with each other. The external connection terminal also includes a female connector including a receiver configured to receive at least a part of a male connector inserted externally, the female connector including a conducting portion located to face the inner surface of the housing and electrically connectable to the male connector through the opening, and a seal located around the opening and located obliquely with respect to a direction in which the male connector is received.
US09698516B2
One aspect of the present disclosure is directed to a connector. The connector includes a top cover, a connecting plate, and a base. The top cover includes a top cover body and a first arc member. A first end of the first arc member is arranged on a side surface of the top cover body. A removable thin plate is arranged inside the first arc member. The connecting plate includes a connection section and a protruding section. The top cover body and the base are engaged and connected to form a cavity. The connection section is arranged inside the cavity. The connection section is connected to the base. A first end of the protruding section is connected to the connection section and a second end of the protruding section protrudes from the base.
US09698515B2
A port of a computing system includes a connector movable between a recessed position and an extended position. The connector is extended from the recessed position to the extended position in response to a plug.
US09698513B1
A force biased spring probe pin assembly includes a barrel member having a barrel wall defining an elongate internal cavity with a lower end and an upper end. The assembly also includes a first plunger member reciprocally mounted in the internal cavity proximate the lower end of the internal cavity. A spring member is positioned in the internal cavity between the plunger member and the second end of the internal cavity. Three or more conductive bearings are positioned in the internal cavity in contact with the first plunger member and the spring member. A force biased spring probe pin assembly includes a barrel member having a barrel wall defining an elongate internal cavity with a lower end and an upper end. The assembly also includes a first plunger member reciprocally mounted in the internal cavity proximate the lower end of the internal cavity and a second plunger member reciprocally mounted in the internal cavity proximate the upper end of the internal cavity. A spring member is positioned in the internal cavity between the first plunger member and the second plunger member. Three or more conductive bearings are positioned in the internal cavity in contact with the first plunger member and the spring member.
US09698511B2
An electric contact for preventing a terminal of an electrical part and the electric contact from sticking to each other after a continuity test to improve the durability of the electric contact; and a socket for electrical part using the electric contact. In the electric contact according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention, a foundation layer composed primarily of Ni, a surface layer composed primarily of Pd and Ag, and an outermost layer composed primarily of Sn or Au are formed on a surface of an electrically-conductive base material.
US09698503B2
A part (11) of a conducting bar (5) for an electrical apparatus, such as a terminal block, the part (11) of the conductive bar (5) comprising a first planar portion extending along an extension direction (15) of the part (11) of the conducting bar (5), a second planar portion (23) extending along the extension direction (15), the extension plane (25) of the second portion (23) being transversal to the extension plane (21) of the first portion. The part (11) has a first cutout along a first contour arranged in the first portion and a second cutout along a second contour arranged in the first portion.
US09698502B2
A coaxial plug connection having a coaxial plug connector and a counter plug connector. The coaxial plug connector having an inner conductor, an outer conductor which surrounds the inner conductor, and a bayonet nut which is arranged so as to be rotatable relative to the outer conductor and which forms a locking groove for accommodating a projection of a counter plug connector. The locking groove is disposed in the form of a helical groove and the bayonet nut has first and second bayonet nut parts that each form one side of the helical groove, wherein the bayonet nut parts can be displaced relatively to each other in longitudinal axial direction of the coaxial plug connector in order to clamp the projection of the counter plug connector in the helical groove, and wherein the bayonet nut parts can be fixed in position relative to each other by a fixing element.
US09698500B2
A joint sleeve is proposed for connecting busbar sections, each having connectable contacts. In an embodiment, the sleeve includes—a non-magnetic case defining butt ends occluded with non-magnetic flanges each having a hole securing the respective busbar section therein,—a fire-resistant coating covering the case,—an electrically insulated supporting tube disposed within the case and defining a chamber therein, enclosing the connectable contacts,—a grounding screen mounted on the supporting tube, and—a fire-resistant layer disposed between the case and the screen capable of thermal expansion upon heating thereof, thereby improving fire-resistance. Instead of the fire-resistant layer, another embodiment includes an annular air chamber formed between the case and the supporting tube, while the annular chamber is in communication with hollows, and the supporting tube is closed by another pair of flanges with holes securing the respective busbar sections. The sleeve allows for improving fire-safety of power consuming facilities.
US09698491B2
A multi-panel antenna system may be disassembled and packaged into a container with substantially smaller dimensions than the assembled antenna system. The antenna system may include two or more reflector panels, such that a respective reflector panel can include a curved surface that may form a portion of a parabolic reflector, and can include an inter-panel fastener operable to align a side surface of the respective reflector panel with a side surface of another reflector panel. The antenna system may also include a mounting assembly that may be used to fasten a convex side of the two or more reflector panels to a surface external to the antenna system, and a feed assembly that may be attached to the mounting assembly.
US09698481B2
A first radiating electrode of a split ring resonator type is formed on a side face of a substrate of a rectangular cuboid antenna device so as to be at a right angle to a ground electrode surface, a second radiating electrode is provided on a top surface of the substrate, the first radiating electrode and the second radiating electrode are capacitively coupled, and the resonance frequency of the first radiating electrode and second radiating electrode are configured to be approximately in symmetry with the central frequency of the used frequency.
US09698478B2
An electronically-controlled steerable beam antenna with suppressed parasitic scattering includes a feed line defining an axis x; and first and second arrays of electronically-controlled switchable scatters distributed along the axis x, each of the scatterers in the first and second arrays being switchable between a high state and a low state to scatter an electromagnetic wave propagating through the transmission line so as to form a steerable antenna beam. Each of the scatters of the second array is configured to be 180°-phase-shifted relative to a corresponding scatter of the first array. The switchable scatterers of the first and second arrays are configured into high states and low states relative to each other so as to suppress parasitic scattering of the electromagnetic wave without suppressing the steerable antenna beam.
US09698474B2
The invention concerns a helical antenna comprising a shape of revolution and a plurality of radiating strands helically wound around the shape of revolution, characterized in that each radiating strand is defined by a repetition of a fractal pattern comprising segments formed by a sinusoidal curve.
US09698473B2
An antenna device that is built inside a hollow body fixed to a vehicle comprises a composite antenna element that has an antenna length corresponding to a first frequency band and is bent so as to also function as a capacitive antenna corresponding to a second frequency band and to improve an antenna effective capacitance and that is disposed in a substantially planar manner. The composite antenna element is disposed such that a planar direction thereof is inclined toward a vertical-direction side with respect to a metal body of the vehicle, and is offset-disposed to a left or right side in the hollow body with respect to a vehicle traveling direction, and is grounded in a metal portion of the vehicle near a position where the composite antenna element is disposed.
US09698463B2
A power divider including an input port receiving an electrical power input, a coupled port transmitting a portion of the power input, and a transmitted port transferring a remaining portion of the power input from the input port. A first conductor produces an electrical field and electrically connects the input port to the transmitted port. And, a second conductor, disposed within electrical field of the first conductor, electrically connects to the coupled port, the second conductor. The first and second conductors are configured to be variably spaced to vary the coupling factor between the input and transmitted portions of the input power.
US09698460B2
Provided is a signal transmission device including a high-frequency signal waveguide that transmits a high-frequency signal emitted from an electronic device. When the electronic device is arranged close to the high-frequency signal waveguide, the high-frequency signal is transmitted via the high-frequency signal waveguide.
US09698448B2
An electrochemical cell includes a high voltage cathode configured to operate at 1.5 volts or greater; an anode including Mg0; and an electrolyte including an ether solvent and a magnesium salt; wherein: a concentration of the magnesium salt in the ether is 1 M or greater.
US09698444B2
A nonaqueous electrolyte composition includes an electrolyte salt, a nonaqueous solvent, a matrix polymer, and a ceramic powder, wherein the ceramic powder has an average particle size of 0.1 to 2.5 μm and a BET specific surface area of 0.5 to 11 m2/g.
US09698443B2
In at least one of principal surfaces of the electrolyte sheet for a solid oxide fuel cell of the present invention, (1) a burr height [ΔH (0-3)] in a first zone is 100 μm or less, as measured by irradiating the principal surface of the sheet with a laser beam at a pitch of 0.01 mm using a laser optical three-dimensional shape measurement device, the first zone being a zone extending between a peripheral edge of the sheet and a position 3 mm inside the peripheral edge, and (2) a ratio [ΔH (0.61-3)/ΔH (0-0.6)] of a burr height [ΔH (0.61-3)] in a third zone to a burr height [ΔH (0-0.6)] in a second zone is 0.5 or more and 2.0 or less, as calculated from the burr heights measured by irradiating the principal surface of the sheet with a laser beam at a pitch of 0.01 mm using the laser optical three-dimensional shape measurement device, the second zone being a zone extending between the peripheral edge of the sheet and a position 0.6 mm inside the peripheral edge, and the third zone being a zone extending between a position 0.61 mm inside the peripheral edge of the sheet and the position 3 mm inside the peripheral edge.
US09698434B2
A heater includes a fuel cell stack assembly disposed within a heater housing and includes a plurality of fuel cells which convert chemical energy from a fuel into heat and electricity through a chemical reaction with an oxidizing agent. A combustor disposed within the heater housing receives an anode exhaust and a cathode exhaust from the fuel cell stack assembly and combusts a mixture of the anode exhaust and the cathode exhaust to produce a heated combustor exhaust. The combustor includes a combustor exhaust outlet for discharging the heated combustor exhaust into the heater housing. A baffle disposed around the fuel cell stack assembly and the combustor defines a heat transfer channel radially between the heater housing and the baffle. A flow director in fluid communication with the combustor exhaust outlet and the heat transfer channel communicates the heated combustor exhaust to the heat transfer channel.
US09698430B2
A lithium-lanthanum-titanium oxide sintered material has a lithium ion conductivity 3.0×10−4 Scm−1 or more at a measuring temperature of 27° C., the material is described by one of general formulas (1-a)LaxLi2-3xTiO3-aSrTiO3, (1-a)LaxLi2-3xTiO3-aLa0.5K0.5TiO3, LaxLi2-3xTi1-aMaO3-a, and Srx-1.5aLaaLi1.5-2xTi0.5Ta0.5O3 (0.55≦x≦0.59, 0≦a≦0.2, M=at least one of Al, Fe and Ga), and concentration of S is 1500 ppm or less. The material is obtained by sintering raw material powder mixture having S content amount of 2000 ppm or less in the entirety of raw material powders for mixture, that is, titanium raw material, lithium raw material, and lanthanum raw material.
US09698424B2
A cathode unit for a battery, in which the cathode includes a viscoelastic, and a polymeric gel former selected from the group of natural polysaccharides having a proportion of carboxylate or carboxylic acid groups of greater than or equal to 0.5 and less than or equal to 2.0 in relation to the number of monomer units. Also described is a method for manufacturing the cathode units and the use of a battery including the cathode unit according to the invention for power supply.
US09698417B2
A lithium-free mixed titanium and niobium oxide, including at least one trivalent metal M, and having a molar ratio Nb/Ti greater than 2, said oxide being selected from the group including the material of formula (I) and the material of formula (II): MxTi1−2xNb2+xO7±δ (I) where 0
US09698411B2
According to one embodiment, there is provided an electrode for battery which includes a current collector and an active material layer provided on the current collector. The active material layer contains particles of a lithium titanate compound having a spinel structure and a basic polymer. Here, the basic polymer is coating at least a part of the surface of the particles of the lithium titanate compound.
US09698410B2
Provided are novel electrode material composite structures containing high capacity active materials formed into porous base structures. The structures also include shells that encapsulate these porous base structures. During lithiation of the active material, the shell mechanically constrains the porous base structure. The shell allows lithium ions to pass through but prevents electrolyte solvents from interacting with the encapsulated active material. In certain embodiments, the shell contains carbon, while the porous base structure contains silicon. Although silicon tends to swell during lithiation, the porosity of the base structure and/or void spaces inside the shell helps to accommodate this additional volume within the shell without breaking it or substantially increasing the overall size of the composite structure. This allows integration of the composite structures into various types of battery electrodes and cycling high capacity active materials without damaging the electrodes' internal structures and deteriorating cycling characteristics of batteries.
US09698406B2
An electrode assembly and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The electrode assembly includes an electrode stack including at least one anode, at least one cathode, and at least one separation film and a plurality of cathode tabs and a plurality of anode tabs for electrically connecting the electrode stack. In this case, the electrode tabs are arranged to allow the electrode tabs having the same polarity to be electrically connected to one another while a portion of the electrode tabs having the same polarity are arranged so as not to overlap one another on the same plane.
US09698398B2
Disclosed is a secondary battery module including: a plurality of unit cells, at least one or more unit cells among the plurality of unit cells being stacked so as to be in surface contact with each other; and an adhesive pad disposed between contact surfaces of the stacked unit cells. The adhesive pad enhances adhesion between the unit cells to prevent electrical sparks or short-circuiting. Therefore, the secondary battery module is stable and reliable in operation performance and electrical properties.
US09698395B2
An energy storage apparatus includes one or more energy storage devices and an outer housing that houses the one or more energy storage devices. The outer housing includes a communication part defining a passageway allowing communication between an interior and an exterior of the outer housing, and the communication part includes a functional membrane that allows passage of gas and prohibits passage of liquid.
US09698385B2
The disclosed OLED display panel includes: an OLED unit, including one or more pixel light-emitting units, wherein light emitted from the pixel light-emitting units is transmitted in a first area; a rotatable optical component, arranged on a transmission path of the light emitted from the pixel light-emitting units, wherein the light emitted from the pixel light-emitting units is transmitted onto the optical component and then reflected by the same, and light reflected by the optical component, when the optical component is rotated, is projected onto a second area within a predetermine period, wherein the second area is larger than the first area; and a light-transmitting display substrate, arranged on a transmission path of the light reflected by the optical component and arranged corresponding to the second area.
US09698383B2
The present invention provides an organic light emitting diode display panel and a display device, and relates to the field of display technology, which can solve the problem that the display contrast of an existing organic light emitting diode display panel and an existing display device is reduced due to the reflection of ambient light. In the organic light emitting diode display panel and the display device of the present invention, a light gathering unit and a light absorption layer matched with each other are arranged in pixel defining regions, so that the incident ambient light can be gathered by the light gathering unit to the light absorption layer and absorbed by the light absorption layer, to reduce ambient light outgoing from the display panel due to reflection, and increase the contrast of the display panel.
US09698379B2
Provided are an encapsulating film, an electronic device and a method of manufacturing the same. An encapsulating film having excellent moisture blocking property, handleability, workability and durability and a structure including a diode encapsulated with the encapsulating film may be provided.
US09698359B2
Platinum and palladium complexes are disclosed that can be useful as narrow band phosphorescent emitters. Also disclosed are methods for preparing and using the platinum and palladium complexes.
US09698356B2
In an aspect, an organic compound and an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) including the same are provided.
US09698350B2
The disclosure relates to a light emitting diode. The light emitting diode includes a first semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second semiconductor layer, a first electrode, a second electrode and a nanotube film. The first semiconductor layer, the active layer, and the second semiconductor layer are stacked with each other in that order. The first electrode is electrically connected with the second semiconductor layer. The second electrode is electrically connected with the first semiconductor layer. The nanotube film is located on one of the first semiconductor layer, the active layer and the second semiconductor layer. The nanotube film comprises a number of nanotubes orderly arranged and combined with each other by ionic bonds.
US09698349B2
A polymer of an embodiment includes a recurring unit containing at least one bivalent group selected from among a formula (1), a formula (2), a formula (3), and a formula (4). Z1 indicates carbon having an R1 group, nitrogen, or the like. Z2 indicates oxygen, sulfur, selenium, nitrogen having an R2 group, or the like. The R1 and R2 groups indicate hydrogen, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, a substituted or unsubstituted heteroaryl group, or the like, X indicates oxygen, sulfur, selenium, or the like.
US09698348B2
The present invention relates to polymers comprising one or more (repeating) unit(s) of the formula (I), wherein Y is a group of formula (II); and their use as IR absorber, organic semiconductor in organic devices, especially in organic photovoltaics and photodiodes, or in a device containing a diode and/or an organic field effect transistor. The polymers according to the invention can have excellent solubility in organic solvents 10 and excellent film-forming properties. In addition, high efficiency of energy conversion, excellent field-effect mobility, good on/off current ratios and/or excellent stability can be observed, when the polymers according to the invention are used in organic field effect transistors, organic photovoltaics and photodiodes.
US09698343B2
A method of forming a ferroelectric memory cell. The method comprises forming an electrode material exhibiting a desired dominant crystallographic orientation. A hafnium-based material is formed over the electrode material and the hafnium-based material is crystallized to induce formation of a ferroelectric material having a desired crystallographic orientation. Additional methods are also described, as are semiconductor device structures including the ferroelectric material.
US09698332B2
A hybrid device (80) comprises, in a first zone (91), at least one thermoelectric element (3) allowing an electric current to be generated from a temperature gradient applied between two of its active faces (4a, 4p). The device (80) further comprises a first circuit (1) able to allow the circulation of a first fluid, and a second circuit (2) able to allow the circulation of a second fluid of a temperature lower than that of the first fluid so as to create the gradient. The device (80) also comprises a second zone (92) so as to allow an exchange of heat between the second fluid and the first fluid. The device (80) is designed so that the first fluid passes through it by travelling in a single direction, referred to as first direction (L), wherein the first zone (91) and the second zone (92) are situated in series in the first direction (L).
US09698326B2
An optoelectronic semiconductor component including an optoelectronic semiconductor chip having a first surface, wherein the first surface is a radiation emission surface of the optoelectronic semiconductor chip, the semiconductor chip is embedded in a mold body, the first surface is elevated with respect to a top side of the mold body, and a reflective layer is arranged on the top side of the mold body.
US09698322B2
A lighting device comprises a solid state light emitter on a circuit board, and an optic held in place relative to the first circuit board, a voltage drop across the emitter at least 60 volts. A lighting device comprises a solid state light emitter on a first circuit board, an optic held in place relative to the first circuit board, and a non-isolated power supply. A lighting device comprises a solid state light emitter on a first circuit board, and a flame-rated optic held in place relative to the first circuit board. An optic, comprising a translucent region, a first dimension not larger than about 10 mm, a second dimension not larger than 15 mm. A flame-rated optic comprising a translucent region, structure configured to hold the optic in place relative to a circuit board. Methods of making lighting devices.
US09698319B2
A light emitting diode (LED) package according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a base including a first lead terminal and a second lead terminal, an LED chip disposed on the base, a housing disposed on the base, the housing having a cavity in which the LED chip is disposed, and an encapsulation member having a side surface contacting the housing. The first lead terminal and the second lead terminal each have a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, and have an unbent form, respectively. The second surface is exposed to the outside of the LED package.
US09698316B2
A method for producing a laterally structured phosphor layer and an optoelectronic component comprising such a phosphor layer are disclosed. In an embodiment the method includes providing a carrier having a first electrically conductive layer at a carrier top side, applying an insulation layer to the first electrically conductive layer and a second electrically conductive layer to the insulation layer, etching the second electrically conductive layer and the insulation layer, wherein the first electrically conductive layer is maintained as a continuous layer. The method further includes applying a voltage to the first electrically conductive layer and electrophoretically coating the first electrically conductive layer with a first material, and applying a voltage to the second electrically conductive layer and electrophoretically coating the second electrically conductive layer with a second material.
US09698310B2
The present invention provides a method for producing a semiconductor device exhibiting the improved emission efficiency by reducing a strain between a p-contact layer and a transparent electrode. A transparent electrode made of IZO (Zinc-doped Indium Oxide) was formed on a p-type contact layer by vapor deposition or sputtering. Subsequently, a p-type cladding layer and a p-type contact layer were p-type activated and a transparent electrode was crystallized by indirect resistance heating. This heat treatment was performed under a reduced pressure at a temperature of 700° C. Next, microwave heating was performed for three to thirty minutes at a temperature of 100° C. to 350° C. by microwave irradiation with a frequency of 5.8 GHz in a nitrogen atmosphere. This reduced a strain of the transparent electrode, and improved the conductivity or translucency of the transparent electrode.
US09698308B2
The disclosed technology provides micro-assembled micro-LED displays and lighting elements using arrays of micro-LEDs that are too small (e.g., micro-LEDs with a width or diameter of 10 μm to 50 μm), numerous, or fragile to assemble by conventional means. The disclosed technology provides for micro-LED displays and lighting elements assembled using micro-transfer printing technology. The micro-LEDs can be prepared on a native substrate and printed to a display substrate (e.g., plastic, metal, glass, or other materials), thereby obviating the manufacture of the micro-LEDs on the display substrate. In certain embodiments, the display substrate is transparent and/or flexible.
US09698305B2
A high voltage LED flip chip includes two or more regions; a Mesa-platform, the Mesa-platform in each region has a first groove; a first electrode located on the Mesa-platform, an area between the first electrodes in two adjacent regions forms a second groove; a first insulation layer covering the Mesa-platforms and the first electrodes, the first insulation layer fills the second groove and partially fills the first groove, and a part of the first groove which is not filled forms a third groove; a fourth groove formed in the first insulation layer, the fourth groove exposes a surface of the first electrode; and an interconnection electrode, the interconnection electrode comprises a first portion connecting the first semiconductor layer through the third groove in a particular region with the first electrode through the fourth groove in another region adjacent to the particular region. The LED formed has improved performance.
US09698304B2
A lighting system includes a lighting unit comprising at least one lighting device, a sensing unit configured to measure at least one of atmospheric temperature and humidity, a controlling unit configured to compare the at least one of the temperature and the humidity measured by the sensor unit with set values and determine a color temperature of the lighting unit as a result of the comparison, and a driving unit configured to drive to the lighting unit to have the determined color temperature.
US09698303B2
A light-emitting device is disclosed. The light-emitting diode device includes a substrate, comprising an upper surface, a lower surface and a plurality of side surfaces; and a semiconductor stack formed on the upper surface of the substrate; wherein the plurality of side surfaces comprises: a first region, adjacent to the upper surface and having a first surface roughness; a second region, comprising one or a plurality of textured areas substantially parallel to the upper surface and/or the lower surface in a side view, wherein the textured area is composed of a plurality of textured stripes and has a second surface roughness; and a third region, having a third surface roughness and being between the first region and the second region, and/or between the plurality of textured areas; wherein the first surface roughness is smaller than the second surface roughness, and the third surface roughness is smaller than the first surface roughness.
US09698284B2
An optoelectronic device including at least one of a solar device, a semiconductor device, and an electronic device. The device includes a semiconductor unit. A plurality of metal fingers is disposed on a surface of the semiconductor unit for electrical conduction. Each of the metal fingers corresponds to a section of the optoelectronic device. A plurality of pad areas is available for connection to a bus bar, wherein each of the metal fingers is connected to a corresponding pad area for forming an electrical contact. The optoelectronic device includes a bad section, wherein the bad section is associated with a compromised metal finger and a compromised pad area. A dielectric spot coating is disposed above the compromised pad area to electrically isolate the bad section.
US09698279B2
Provided is a thin film transistor including an active layer including a first silicon active layer, a second silicon active layer, and an oxide active layer in a space between the first silicon active layer and the second silicon active layer, a gate electrode on the active layer with a gate insulating layer disposed therebetween, and a source electrode and a drain electrode with an interlayer insulating layer disposed between the gate electrode and the source and drain electrodes, the source and drain electrodes being in contact with the first silicon active layer and the second silicon active layer, respectively.
US09698272B1
According to one embodiment, a transistor includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a current path between the first and second electrodes, the current path including an oxide semiconductor layer, a control terminal which controls an on/off action of the current path, an insulating layer between the control terminal and the oxide semiconductor layer, a first oxide layer between the first electrode and the oxide semiconductor layer, the first oxide layer being different from the oxide semiconductor layer, and a second oxide layer between the second electrode and the oxide semiconductor layer, the second oxide layer being different from the oxide semiconductor layer.
US09698268B2
Methods of forming a semiconductor device are provided. A method of forming a semiconductor device includes forming a semiconductor layer on a fin, where the fin and the semiconductor layer include first and second semiconductor materials, respectively. Moreover, the method includes defining first and second active fins that include the second semiconductor material, by removing at least a portion of the fin. Related semiconductor devices are also provided.
US09698261B2
The present disclosure relates to a vertical transistor device having rectangular vertical channel bars extending between a source region and a drain region, and an associated method of formation. In some embodiments, the vertical transistor device has a source region disposed over a semiconductor substrate. A channel region with one or more vertical channel bars is disposed over the source region. The one or more vertical channel bars have a bottom surface abutting the source region that has a rectangular shape (i.e., a shape with four sides, with adjacent sides of different length, and four right angles). A gate region is located over the source region at a position abutting the vertical channel bars, and a drain region is disposed over the gate region and the vertical channel bars. The rectangular shape of the vertical channel bars provides for a vertical device having good performance and cell area density.
US09698254B1
This disclosure describes a method of making a tunnel barrier-based electronic device, in which the tunnel barrier and transport channel are made of the same material—graphene. A homoepitaxial tunnel barrier/transport device is created using a monolayer chemically modified graphene sheet as a tunnel barrier on another monolayer graphene sheet. This device displays enhanced spintronic properties over heteroepitaxial devices and is the first to use graphene as both the tunnel barrier and channel.
US09698247B2
A semiconductor arrangement is produced by providing a semiconductor carrier of a second conduction type and epitaxially growing a first semiconductor zone of a first conduction type on the carrier. The first semiconductor zone includes a semiconductor base material doped with first and second dopants which are made of different substances which are both different from the semiconductor base material. The first dopant is electrically active and causes a doping of the first conduction type in the semiconductor base material, and causes a decrease or an increase of a lattice constant of the first semiconductor zone. The second dopant causes one or both of hardening of the first semiconductor zone and an increase of the lattice constant of the first semiconductor zone if the first dopant causes a decrease, or a decrease of the lattice constant of the first semiconductor zone if the first dopant causes an increase.
US09698239B2
In one example, a method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming a mandrel comprising silicon. Sidewalls of the silicon are orientated normal to the <111> direction of the silicon. A nanowire is grown directly on at least one of the sidewalls of the silicon and is formed from a material selected from Groups III-V. Only one end of the nanowire directly contacts the silicon.
US09698235B2
The present invention provides a field-effect transistor having an accumulation-layer-operation type field-effect transistor that includes a semiconductor layer in which a source region, a channel region, and a drain region that have either an N-type or P-type conductivity in common are formed, and a gate electrode disposed adjacent to the channel region via a gate insulating film, wherein the gate insulating film is made of a dielectric having a change gradient of a relative dielectric constant in which the relative dielectric constant changes to decrease according to the magnitude of a gate voltage applied to the gate electrode.
US09698230B2
A semiconductor device includes a source and drain on a substrate; a first and second gate on the source, and the second gate and a third gate on the drain; a source contact over the source and between the first and second gates, the source contact including first and second portions, the first portion in contact with the source and extending between the first and second gates, and the second portion contacting the first portion and extending over the first and second gates; and a drain contact formed over the drain and between the second and third gates, the drain contact including first and second portions, the first portion contacting the drain, extending between second and third gates, and recessed with respect to the first portion of the source contact, and the second portion in contact with the first portion and extending between and over the second and third gates.
US09698228B2
Disclosed is a transistor device. The transistor device includes a plurality of field structures which define a plurality of semiconductor mesa regions in a semiconductor body, and each of which comprises a field electrode and a field electrode dielectric; a plurality of gate structures in each semiconductor mesa region, wherein each gate structure comprises a gate electrode and a gate dielectric, and is arranged in a trench of the semiconductor mesa region; a plurality of body regions, a plurality of source regions, and a drift region. Each body region adjoins the gate dielectric of at least one of the plurality of gate structures, and is located between one of the plurality of source regions and the drift region.
US09698226B1
Semiconductor device fabrication method and structures are provided having a substrate structure which includes a silicon layer at an upper portion. The silicon layer is recessed in a first region of the substrate structure and remains unrecessed in a second region of the substrate structure. A protective layer having a first germanium concentration is formed above the recessed silicon layer in the first region, which extends along a sidewall of the unrecessed silicon layer of the second region. A semiconductor layer having a second germanium concentration is disposed above the protective layer in the first region of the substrate structure, where the first germanium concentration of the protective layer inhibits lateral diffusion of the second germanium concentration from the semiconductor layer in the first region into the unrecessed silicon layer in the second region of the substrate structure.
US09698215B2
A metal-insulator-metal capacitor is provided in a replacement metal gate module having a gate cap formed on a gate. The capacitor includes a first electrode formed within a portion of the gate using a metal forming the gate. The first electrode has a horizontal component and a stack rising from at least a portion of the horizontal component. The capacitor further includes an insulator formed within a recess. The recess is formed to have a lower portion and walls rising from edges of the lower portion. The lower portion is formed on a different portion of the horizontal component than the stack. The walls are formed adjacent to a sidewall of the stack and a portion of the gate cap. The capacitor also includes a second electrode formed within the recess and on the insulator.
US09698212B2
A method includes forming an insulating carrier substrate, forming a shallow trench isolation region within the insulating carrier substrate, and forming a plurality of gate recesses on the shallow trench isolation region. The plurality of gate recesses is formed by forming a plurality of dummy gates on the shallow trench isolation region and etching the plurality of dummy gates. The method further includes depositing a metal resistor layer within the plurality of gate recesses.
US09698203B2
An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display is disclosed. In one aspect, the display includes a substrate and a display layer formed over the substrate and including a pixel area and a non-pixel area. The display also includes an upper thin layer formed over the display layer, wherein the upper thin layer comprises at least first and second conductive layers and a dielectric layer formed between the first and second conductive layers, wherein the second conductive layer is closer to the substrate than the first conductive layer, and wherein the first and second conductive layers are patterned as a touch electrode. The display further includes a light absorbing member at least partially overlapping the non-pixel area and not overlapping the pixel area.
US09698198B2
Provided is a memory device, including a memory element on a substrate; a protection insulating pattern covering a side surface of the memory element and exposing a top surface of the memory element; an upper mold layer on the protection insulating pattern; and a bit line on and connected to the memory element, the bit line extending in a first direction, the protection insulating pattern including a first protection insulating pattern covering a lower side surface of the memory element; and a second protection insulating pattern covering an upper side surface of the memory element and including a different material from the first protection insulating pattern.
US09698197B2
A high-voltage flip LED chip and a manufacturing method thereof. In the high-voltage flip LED chip, a P-N electrode connecting metal block is filled into an isolation trench between two adjacent chip units and is respectively filled into a first electrode hole of one chip unit and a second electrode hole of the other chip unit to serially connect the two adjacent chips. Since the chip units are interconnected by adopting large-area metal and the metal is filled into the isolation trench, not only can the high luminous efficiency of the chip be guaranteed, but also the high reliability and excellent current spreading between the units are guaranteed, the process stability can be improved, and the rate of non-defective products and the product reliability are improved; since the isolation trenches between the chip units adopt an ODR design, the reflectivity of reflectors at the trenches can be improved and the absorption by electrodes is reduced; and since the chip has large-area spacing-controllable P and N electrodes, the heat dissipating capability of the chip is guaranteed to be good and simultaneously the packaging difficulty is reduced.
US09698196B2
A demodulation pixel improves the charge transport speed and sensitivity by exploiting two effects of charge transport in silicon in order to achieve the before-mentioned optimization. The first one is a transport method based on the CCD gate principle. However, this is not limited to CCD technology, but can be realized also in CMOS technology. The charge transport in a surface or even a buried channel close to the surface is highly efficient in terms of speed, sensitivity and low trapping noise. In addition, by activating a majority carrier current flowing through the substrate, another drift field is generated below the depleted CCD channel. This drift field is located deeply in the substrate, acting as an efficient separator for deeply photo-generated electron-hole pairs. Thus, another large amount of minority carriers is transported to the diffusion nodes at high speed and detected.
US09698194B2
A method for fabricating a signal-separating CFA includes forming a multi-height CFA on a substrate. The multi-height CFA includes a plurality of tall spectral filters and a plurality of short spectral filters. Each of the tall spectral filters is taller than each of the short spectral filters. The method also includes disposing a spectral-blocking layer on the multi-height CFA, and planarizing the spectral-blocking layer to expose a top surface of each of the plurality of tall spectral filters.
US09698173B2
A thin film transistor (TFT) device is provided. The TFT device includes a first conductive layer including a gate electrode and a connection pad. The TFT device further includes a first dielectric layer covering the gate electrode, and a semiconductor layer disposed on the dielectric layer and overlapping the gate electrode. The TFT device further includes a second dielectric layer disposed on the semiconductor layer and the first dielectric layer so as to expose first and second portions of the semiconductor layer and the connection pad. The TFT device further includes a second conductive layer which includes a source electrode portion covering the first portion of the semiconductor layer; a pixel electrode portion extending to the source electrode portion; a drain electrode portion covering the second portion of the semiconductor layer; and an interconnection portion disposed on the connection pad and extending to the drain electrode portion.
US09698172B2
The present invention provides a TFT substrate structure, comprising a Switching TFT and a Driving TFT, and the Switching TFT comprises a first active layer, and the Driving TFT comprises a second active layer, and the first active layer and the second active layer are made by the same or different materials and the electrical properties of the Switching TFT and the Driving TFT are different. According to the different functions of the different TFTs, the present invention employs different working structures for the Switching TFT and the Driving TFT to respectively implement deposition and photolithography, and employs different materials for the active layers of the Switching TFT and the Driving TFT to differentiate the electrical properties of different TFTs in the TFT substrate. Accordingly, the accurate control to the OLED with lowest cost can be realized.
US09698169B2
An object is at least one of a longer data retention period of a memory circuit, a reduction in power consumption, a smaller circuit area, and an increase in the number of times written data can be read to one data writing operation. The memory circuit has a first field-effect transistor, a second field-effect transistor, and a rectifier element including a pair of current terminals. A data signal is input to one of a source and a drain of the first field-effect transistor. A gate of the second field-effect transistor is electrically connected to the other of the source and the drain of the first field-effect transistor. One of the pair of current terminals of the rectifier element is electrically connected to a source or a drain of the second field-effect transistor.
US09698157B2
A microstructure body according to an embodiment includes a stacked body. The stacked body includes a plurality of unit structure bodies stacked periodically along a first direction. A configuration of an end portion of the stacked body in a second direction is a stairstep configuration including terraces formed every unit structure body. The second direction intersects the first direction. A first distance in a third direction between end edges of two of the unit structure bodies facing the third direction is shorter than a second distance in the second direction between end edges of the two of the unit structure bodies facing the second direction. The third direction intersects both the first direction and the second direction.
US09698135B2
A method for forming a package structure is provided. The method includes forming a plurality of conductive columns over a carrier substrate and forming an interfacial layer over sidewalls and tops of the conductive columns. The method also includes disposing a semiconductor die over a planar portion of the interfacial layer. The method further includes forming a molding compound to partially or completely encapsulate the semiconductor die, the conductive columns, and the interfacial layer such that the molding compound is in direct contact with the interfacial layer.
US09698128B2
An LED module includes a substrate having a main surface and a rear surface located opposite the main surface, a main surface electrode located on the main surface, a plurality of penetration electrodes connected to the main surface electrode and extending through the substrate, three or more LED chips arranged on the main surface electrode along a first direction, and a case arranged on the main surface to surround the main surface electrode. The LED chips include at least one LED chip that can emit red light, at least one LED chip that can emit green light and at least one LED chip that can emit blue light.
US09698127B2
An integrated device die and package is disclosed. The integrated device die includes a unitary body. The unitary body can have an upper portion comprising one or more active components. The upper portion can have first and second opposing lateral sides defining at least a portion of a periphery of the upper portion such that an upper surface of the upper portion is disposed between upper edges of the first and second opposing lateral sides. The unitary body can also have a lower portion monolithically formed with the upper portion. The lower portion can comprise a pedestal extending downwardly from the upper portion. The pedestal can be laterally inset from lower edges of the first and second opposing lateral sides. The pedestal can include a distal end portion configured to couple to a carrier.
US09698122B2
A semiconductor package structure and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The semiconductor package structure has a substrate and a die stack of n die(s), wherein n≧1. The substrate has a first side, a second side and an opening extending from the first side to the second side. The die stack is disposed in the opening. The thickness of the substrate is substantially the same as the thickness of the die stack.
US09698120B2
A package process is provided. An adhesive layer is disposed on a carrier board and then plural first semiconductor devices are disposed on the adhesive layer. A first molding compound formed on the carrier board covers the sidewalls of the first semiconductor devices and fills the gaps between the first semiconductor devices so as to form a chip array board constructed by the first semiconductor devices and the first molding compound. Next, plural second semiconductor devices are flip-chip bonded to the first semiconductor devices respectively. Then, a second molding compound formed on the chip array board at least covers the sidewalls of the second semiconductor devices and fills the gaps between the second semiconductor devices. Subsequently, the chip array board is separated from the adhesive layer. Then, the first and the second molding compound are cut along the gaps between the second semiconductor devices.
US09698118B2
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for attaching the integrated circuit (IC) packages to printed circuit boards (PCBs) to form smooth solder joints. A polymer flux may be provided in the process to mount an IC package to a PCB. The polymer flux may be provided on connectors of the IC package, or provided on PCB contact pad and/or pre-solder of the PCB. When the IC package is mounted onto the PCB, the polymer flux may cover a part of the connector, and may extend to cover a surface of the molding compound on the IC package. The polymer flux may completely cover the connector as well. The polymer flux delivers a fluxing component that facilitates smooth solder joint formation as well as a polymer component that offers added device protection by encapsulating individual connectors. The polymer component may be an epoxy.
US09698112B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor chip having a wire and a passivation film formed on the outermost surface with an opening partially exposing the wire. A resin layer is stacked on the semiconductor chip and provided with a through-hole in a position opposed to a portion of the wire facing the opening. A pad is formed on a peripheral portion of the through-hole in the resin layer and in the through-hole so that an external connection terminal is arranged on the surface thereof. The peripheral portion of the resin layer is formed more thickly than the remaining portion of the resin layer other than the peripheral portion.
US09698094B2
A wiring board includes: an insulating layer; and a wiring layer including: an upper surface; a lower surface opposite to the upper surface; and a side surface between the upper surface and the lower surface, wherein the upper surface of the wiring layer is exposed from the insulating layer, and the side surface and the lower surface of the wiring layer are embedded in the insulating layer. A recess portion is formed in an outer edge portion of the upper surface of the wiring layer, and the recess portion is filled with the insulating layer.
US09698087B2
A semiconductor device includes a quadrilateral package with a first pair of opposed sides and a second pair of opposed sides. Both sides of the first pair of opposed sides are provided with electrical contact leads. Only one side of the second pair of opposed sides is provided with electrical contact leads. The side of the second pair of opposed sides without electrical contact leads is a leadless side. That side is not a molded side of the package, but rather is defined by a cut surface.
US09698082B2
A semiconductor device according to the present invention, having an Au-based solder layer (3) sandwiched between a semiconductor element (1) and a Cu substrate (2) made mainly of Cu, in which the semiconductor device includes: a dense metal film (23) which is arranged between the Cu substrate (2) and the Au-based solder layer (3), and has fine slits (24) patterned to have a predetermined shape in a plan view; and fine structures (4) with dumbbell-like cross section, which have Cu and Au as main elements, and are each buried in the Cu substrate (2), the Au-based solder layer (3), and the fine slits (24) of the dense metal film (23).
US09698073B2
In a plasma processing step in a method of manufacturing an element chip in which a plurality of element chips are manufactured by dividing a substrate, which has a plurality of element regions, the substrate is divided into element chips by exposing the substrate to first plasma. In a protection film forming step of forming a protection film covering a side surface and a second surface by exposing the element chips to second plasma of which raw material gas is mixed gas of carbon fluoride and helium, protection film forming conditions are set such that a thickness of a second protection film of the second surface is greater than a thickness of a first protection film of the side surface.
US09698067B2
A spacer system for a semiconductor switching device which is formed as a spacer ring and a plurality of insulating elements and supporting elements are arranged in an alternating manner around a circumference of the spacer ring. The insulating element includes a recess receiving a cathode gate connector element. The supporting element includes a projection receiving a spring system for clamping while assembling the switching device. The switching device includes a substrate, a cathode pole piece, an anode pole piece, strain buffer plates and a gate ring. Further connector elements, are electrically connecting the cathode pole piece and the gate ring of the semiconductor switching device to an external circuit unit. The space between the connector elements is minimized in order to reduce the gate circuit impedance, thus enabling an increased maximum turn-off current and further allowing for the use of larger semiconductor switching devices for high power applications.
US09698059B2
The present invention provides a semiconductor device and a method of forming the same. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first transistor and a second transistor. The first transistor and the second transistor are disposed on the substrate. The first transistor includes a first channel and a first work function layer. The second transistor includes a second channel and a second work function layer, where the first channel and the second channel include different dopants, and the second work function layer and the first work function layer have a same conductive type and different thicknesses.
US09698053B2
This work provides a new approach for epitaxial liftoff. Instead of using a sacrificial layer that is selectively etched chemically, the sacrificial layer selectively absorbs light that is not absorbed by other parts of the structure. Under sufficiently intense illumination with such light, the sacrificial layer is mechanically weakened, melted and/or destroyed, thereby enabling epitaxial liftoff. The perimeter of the semiconductor region to be released is defined (partially or completely) by lateral patterning, and the part to be released is also adhered to a support member prior to laser irradiation. The end result is a semiconductor region removed from its substrate and adhered to the support member.
US09698051B2
A semiconductor chip including through silicon vias (TSVs), wherein the TSVs may be prevented from bending and the method of fabricating the semiconductor chip may be simplified, and a method of fabricating the semiconductor chip. The semiconductor chip includes a silicon substrate having a first surface and a second surface; a plurality of TSVs which penetrate the silicon substrate and protrude above the second surface of the silicon substrate; a polymer pattern layer which is formed on the second surface of the silicon substrate, surrounds side surfaces of the protruding portion of each of the TSVs, and comprises a flat first portion and a second portion protruding above the first portion; and a plated pad which is formed on the polymer pattern layer and covers a portion of each of the TSVs exposed from the polymer pattern layer.
US09698048B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming a first material layer over a substrate, forming a middle layer over the first material layer, forming a first hard mask (HM) layer over the middle layer, forming a second HM layer over the first HM layer, forming a first trench in the second HM layer that extends into the first HM layer, forming a second trench in the second HM layer, The second trench is parallel to the first trench. The method also includes forming a first hole feature in the middle layer within the first trench by using the second HM layer and the first HM layer as a mask and forming a second hole feature in the middle layer within the second trench by using the second HM layer as a mask.
US09698029B2
A method and device for processing wafer-shaped articles includes a spin chuck for holding and rotating a wafer-shaped article about a rotation axis, and at least one dispenser for dispensing a fluid onto at least one surface of a wafer-shaped article. A collector surrounds the spin chuck for collecting process fluids, with at least two collector levels for separately collecting fluids in different collector levels. Each collector level comprises an exhaust gas collecting chamber leading to a respective exhaust gas conduit. At least one of the exhaust gas conduits comprises a valve mechanism that reciprocally restricts exhaust gas flow from its associated exhaust gas conduit while opening the exhaust gas conduit to an ambient environment outside the collector, and vice-versa.
US09698018B1
A method of introducing self-aligned dopants in semiconductor fins and the resulting device are provided. Embodiments include providing semiconductor fins on first and second portions of a substrate; forming a BSG layer on side surfaces of the semiconductor fins on the first portion of the substrate; forming a first SiN layer on the BSG layer; forming a high quality oxide layer over an upper surface of the substrate, the first SiN layer and side surfaces of the semiconductor fins on the second portion of the substrate; forming a PSG layer over the high quality oxide layer on the second portion of the substrate and side surfaces of the semiconductor fins on the second portion of the substrate; and forming a second SiN layer over the high quality oxide layer and the PSG layer.
US09698017B2
A manufacturing method of a semiconductor device is provided by forming a trench in a surface of a SiC substrate, positioning a protective substrate to cover the trench, and annealing the SiC substrate and the protective substrate.
US09698009B2
Methods of depositing a film comprising positioning a plurality of substrates on a substrate support in a processing chamber having a plurality of processing regions, each processing region separated from an adjacent region by a gas curtain. Alternating exposure to first reactive gases, purge gases, second reactive gases, and purge gas in at least one of the processing regions to deposit a film.
US09698008B2
An object is to provide a deposition method in which a gallium oxide film is formed by a DC sputtering method. Another object is to provide a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device using a gallium oxide film as an insulating layer such as a gate insulating layer of a transistor. An insulating film is formed by a DC sputtering method or a pulsed DC sputtering method, using an oxide target including gallium oxide (also referred to as GaOX). The oxide target includes GaOX, and X is less than 1.5, preferably more than or equal to 0.01 and less than or equal to 0.5, further preferably more than or equal to 0.1 and less than or equal to 0.2. The oxide target has conductivity, and sputtering is performed in an oxygen gas atmosphere or a mixed atmosphere of an oxygen gas and a rare gas such as argon.
US09697996B2
A method of mass spectrometry is disclosed comprising: performing a survey scan of a plurality of different types of parent or precursor ions, wherein the survey scan comprises analyzing the ion mobilities of the ions and mass analyzing the ions; determining the charge states of parent or precursor ions analyzed in the survey scan based on their determined combinations of ion mobility and mass to charge ratio; selecting a parent or precursor ion for fragmentation or reaction; and fragmenting or reacting the selected ion, wherein the fragmentation or reaction conditions are selected from a plurality of different fragmentation or reaction conditions based upon the determined charge state of the selected ion.
US09697995B2
A method for analyzing a mixture of components includes forming precursor ions from the components, alternately causing the precursor ions to pass to and to by-pass a fragmentation device, to form product ions from the precursor ions that pass to the device and to form substantially fewer product ions from precursor ions that by-pass the device, and obtaining mass spectra from product ions received from the device and from precursor ions that by-passed the device. An apparatus for analyzing a sample includes an ion source for forming precursor ions from the components of the sample, a fragmentation device for forming product ions from the precursor ions, a by-pass device disposed upstream of the fragmentation device for switchable by-pass of the fragmentation device, and a mass analyzer.
US09697991B2
An RF matching network includes a control circuit configured to instruct at least one EVC to alter its variable capacitance, the alteration of the variable capacitance causing the matching network to achieve a preliminary match state, the preliminary match state having an associated first reflection parameter value at an RF source output; and upon the achievement of the preliminary match state, instruct an RF source to alter a variable RF source frequency, the alteration of the variable RF source frequency causing achievement of a final match state, the final match state having an associated second reflection parameter value at the RF source output; wherein the second reflection parameter value is less than the first reflection parameter value.
US09697980B2
A radiation generating apparatus includes a radiation generation tube including an electron emitting source having an electron emitting member, a transmission type target, a tubular backward shielding member having an electron passing hole facing the target layer at one end, located at the electron emitting source side of the transmission type target, and connected to the periphery of the base member. The radiation generating apparatus further includes a collimator having an opening for defining an angle for extracting the radiation at the opposite side of the electron emitting source side of the transmission type target, and an adjusting device connected to the collimator, and configured to vary an opening diameter of the opening, wherein the target layer has a portion separated from a connection portion of the base member and the backward shielding member at the periphery.
US09697979B2
A microwave wave generator device with oscillating virtual cathode, with axial geometry, includes at least one first reflector positioned in a cylindrical waveguide downstream of a thin anode, positioned at the entrance of the cylindrical waveguide, between a cathode and the cylindrical waveguide. The device further includes a tight magnetic ring of width (LM) along the longitudinal axis (z), positioned externally around the cylindrical waveguide, between the thin anode and the first reflector.
US09697967B2
A rotary knob assembly capable of up-and-down motion is provided. The rotary knob assembly includes a lower case with an oil damper; a rotary sleeve rotatably disposed in the lower case with a connecting hole; a slide cam that moves linearly with respect to the lower case with a pair of cam grooves and a sleeve hole; an elastic member disposed between the slide cam and the lower case; an up-and-down moving sleeve that moves up and down with respect to the rotary sleeve with a pair of up-and-down cams inserted in the pair of cam grooves of the slide cam; a rotary knob that is rotatably connected to the up-and-down moving sleeve; and an upper case connected to the lower case to limit vertical movement of the rotary knob, wherein a moving speed of the slide cam is controlled by the oil damper.
US09697963B2
The invention relates to an on-load tap-changer (1) having a switching tube (15), an energy accumulator (13) for adjusting a switch position of the switching tube (15), a detector (200) for detecting a switch position of the on-load tap-changer (1), and an on-load tap-changer mechanism (100). The switching tube (15) and the detector (200) are both mechanically coupled to the energy accumulator (13) via the on-load tap-changer mechanism (100).
US09697957B2
An integrable electrochemical capacitor and methods for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The electrochemical capacitor comprises a first electrode comprising a first rigid piece having a first porous portion, a second electrode comprising a second rigid piece having a second porous portion, and an electrolyte in contact with the first porous portion and the second porous portion. The structure allows the electrochemical capacitor to be manufactured without a separator film between the electrodes and is compatible with semiconductor manufacturing technologies. The electrochemical capacitor can also be manufactured within a SOI layer 8.
US09697941B2
A display device includes a display panel, an accommodation member configured to accommodate the display panel therein and to fold or unfolded the display panel along one direction, and a magnetic force generating member coupled to the accommodation member, the magnetic force generating member being configured to magnetized when current flows, and to generate a magnetic force in a first state in which the display panel is unfolded.
US09697930B2
An oxide superconductor wire includes: a tape-shaped oxide superconductor laminate that is formed by providing an intermediate layer on a front surface side of a metal tape-shaped substrate, providing an oxide superconductor layer on the intermediate layer, and providing a protective layer on the oxide superconductor layer; and a coating member that includes a metal tape and a low melting point metal layer, in which the metal tape has a wider width than that of the oxide superconductor laminate and covers the protective layer surface of the oxide superconductor laminate, both side surfaces of the oxide superconductor laminate, and both end portions of a substrate back surface side in a width direction thereof, and both end portions of the metal tape in a width direction thereof are provided to cover both the end portions of the substrate back surface.
US09697925B2
The present invention related to an electrical element (100, 101, 102) including an electrically conductive element (3, 5, 10, 31, 32, 51), characterized in that the electrical element also includes a first layer (1) of a polymer material with electrical conductivity gradient obtained from a polymer composition including at least one polymer and conductive carbonaceous fillers.
US09697912B2
A first switch is closed to initialize a circuit by charging a capacitance of the circuit. A second switch is closed to initialize an amplifier in unity-gain configuration. The amplifier is capacitively coupled to the circuit. The first switch and the second switch are then opened to detect a leakage current of the circuit by detecting a change in an output voltage of the amplifier.
US09697908B1
Various implementations described herein may refer to and may be directed to non-discharging read-only memory cells. For instance, in one implementation, an integrated circuit may include a read-only memory (ROM) array including a plurality of ROM cells arranged into a column, where the column is disposed proximate to a bit line and to a reference voltage line. The plurality of ROM cells arranged into the column may include a plurality of non-discharging ROM cells positioned adjacently to one another, where each non-discharging ROM cell has a source terminal, a drain terminal, or both coupled to at least one adjacent non-discharging ROM cell. In addition, the plurality of non-discharging ROM cells may be coupled to the bit line using two or fewer connections.
US09697906B2
A controlling block for a non-volatile memory device including a switching element coupling a bit-line with the corresponding page buffer, includes: a look-up table configured to store a plurality of address zones; and a matching logic configured to match one address zone among the plurality of address zones based on an inputted row address and generate a bias voltage, based on the address zone, to the switching element for reading operation of the non-volatile memory, wherein the plurality of address zones are defined by grouping word-lines having a I-V characteristic which differs for a current value different from a prefixed value.
US09697905B2
A method performed at a data storage device includes adjusting a first read voltage and a second read voltage to form sets of read voltages. First representations of data are read from a logical page in the non-volatile memory according to the sets of read voltages. The first representations of the data correspond to multiple values of the first read voltage and the second read voltage. The first representations of the data are stored in a memory and second representations of the data are generated based on the first representations. A value of the first read voltage is selected based on syndrome weights corresponding to the second representations.
US09697899B1
Described are apparatuses, methods and storage media associated with performing deflate decompression using multiple parallel content addressable memory cells.
US09697894B2
A method may include applying a first current through the memory element and a first selection component. The memory element and the first selection component may be located along a memory line. The method may also include measuring a first potential difference across the memory line. The method may further include applying a second current through a second selection component, wherein the second selection component is located along a dummy line, and measuring a second potential difference across the dummy line. The method may additionally include determining the resistance of the memory element based on the first potential difference and the second potential difference. The first selection component may be activated and the second selection component may be deactivated to apply the first current. The first selection component may be deactivated and the second selection component may be activated to apply the second current.
US09697891B2
A sense amplifier circuit includes a power node having a power node voltage at a power voltage level, a bit line having a bit line voltage, a sense amplifier output, an NMOS transistor and a PMOS transistor coupled in series between the power node and the bit line, and a logic gate configured to generate a sense amplifier output voltage at the sense amplifier output based on the bit line voltage. The NMOS transistor is configured to operate in a sub-threshold region to maintain the bit line voltage at a first level and operate in a region above the sub-threshold region to maintain the bit line voltage at a second level, and the first level is between the second level and the power voltage level.
US09697884B2
Described are memory modules that support different error detection and correction (EDC) schemes in both single- and multiple-module memory systems. The memory modules are width configurable, and support the different EDC schemes for relatively wide and narrow module data widths. Data buffers on the modules support the half-width and full-width modes, and also support time-division-multiplexing to access additional memory components on each module in support of enhanced EDC.
US09697882B1
A ferroelectric memory and a method for operating a ferroelectric memory are disclosed. The ferroelectric memory includes a ferroelectric memory cell having a ferroelectric capacitor characterized by a maximum remanent charge, Qmax. A write circuit receives a data value having more than two states for storage in the ferroelectric capacitor. The write circuit measures Qmax for the ferroelectric capacitor, determines a charge that is a fraction of the measured Qmax to be stored in the ferroelectric capacitor, the fraction being determined by the data value. The write circuit causes a charge equal to the fraction times Qmax to be stored in the ferroelectric capacitor. A read circuit determines a value stored in the ferroelectric capacitor by measuring a charge stored in the ferroelectric capacitor, measuring Qmax for the ferroelectric capacitor, and determining the data value from the measured charge and the measured Qmax.
US09697877B2
A compute memory system can include a memory array and a controller that generates N-ary weighted (e.g., binary weighted) access pulses for a set of word lines during a single read operation. This multi-row read generates a charge on a bit line representing a word stored in a column of the memory array. The compute memory system further includes an embedded analog signal processor stage through which voltages from bit lines can be processed in the analog domain. Data is written into the memory array in a manner that stores words in columns instead of the traditional row configuration.
US09697870B2
A first video preview corresponding to a first video program is played back. When it is time to transition from playing back the first video preview to playing back a second video preview corresponding to a second video program, the transition is made from playing back the first video preview to playing back the second video preview. The transition can be made by sliding the first video preview off a display while sliding the second video preview onto the display. Additionally, metadata associated with the first video program can be displayed for an amount of time before playback of the first video preview ceases, and metadata associated with the second video program can be displayed for an amount of time after playback of the second video preview begins.
US09697862B2
A disk-shaped glass substrate for a magnetic-disk glass substrate includes an outer circumference having a roundness of 1.3 μm or less. A first reference circle is obtained with a least squares method from a first outline corresponding to a shape of a lap around the outer circumference. A second reference circle is obtained with a least squares method from a second outline obtained by performing low-pass filtering using a period in which the number of peaks per lap is 150 as a cut-off value on the first outline. A ratio of the second peak count value defined by the number of peaks of the second outline that project outward in a radial direction from the second reference circle to the first peak count value defined by the number of peaks of the first outline that project outward in a radial direction from the first reference circle is 0.2 or less.
US09697859B1
A heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) medium includes a substrate, a bi-layer, a heat-sink layer, and a magnetic-recording layer. The bi-layer includes a seed layer disposed on the substrate, and a thermal-transport-control layer (TTCL) disposed on seed layer. The heat-sink layer is disposed on the TTCL; and the magnetic-recording layer is disposed on the heat-sink layer. The bi-layer is configured to enable use of a 50% thinner heat-sink layer that allows use of a reduced operating current of a laser in HAMR write operations while maintaining about the same write performance parameters as a HAMR medium that includes a thermal-barrier layer (TBL) and twice as thick heat-sink layer. A HAMR data-storage device that incorporates the HAMR medium within a HAMR disk, and a method for making the HAMR medium are also described.
US09697847B2
An acoustic signal processing system and method. In accordance with an embodiment, the acoustic signal processing system includes an adaptive filter that filters a signal from a frequency band reservation module and generates a filter signal that is received by a subtractor. The subtractor generates an error signal that is used by a double-talk indicator module to generate a control signal that indicates the presence of double-talk.
US09697838B2
An apparatus for generating a representation of a bandwidth-extended signal on the basis of an input signal representation includes a phase vocoder configured to obtain values of a spectral domain representation of a first patch of the bandwidth-extended signal on the basis of the input signal representation. The apparatus also includes a value copier configured to copy a set of values of the spectral domain representation of the first patch, which values are provided by the phase vocoder, to obtain a set of values of a spectral domain representation of a second patch, wherein the second patch is associated with higher frequencies than the first patch. The apparatus is configured to obtain the representation of the bandwidth-extended signal using the values of the spectral domain representation of the first patch and the values of the spectral domain representation of the second patch.
US09697832B2
A speech recognition apparatus includes: a sound collection unit that collects a sound signal; a sound source localization unit that calculates a spatial spectrum from the sound signal that is collected by the sound collection unit and uses the calculated spatial spectrum to perform sound source localization; a speech zone determination unit that determines a zone in which a power of the spatial spectrum that is calculated by the sound source localization unit exceeds a predetermined threshold value based on a vehicle state; and a speech recognition unit that performs speech recognition with respect to a sound signal of the zone determined by the speech zone determination unit.
US09697829B1
Methods, computer program products, and systems are described for receiving, by a speech recognition engine, audio data that encodes an utterance and determining, by the speech recognition engine, that a transcription of the utterance includes one or more keywords associated with a command, and a pronoun. In addition, the methods, computer program products, and systems described herein pertain to transmitting a disambiguation request to an application, wherein the disambiguation request identifies the pronoun, receiving, by the speech recognition engine, a response to the disambiguation request, wherein the response references an item of content identified by the application, and generating, by the speech recognition engine, the command using the keywords and the response.
US09697824B1
Voice command recognition with dialect translation is disclosed. User voice input can be translated to a standard voice pattern using a dialect translation unit. A control command can then be generated based on the translated user voice input. In certain embodiments, the voice command recognition system with dialect translation can be implemented in a driving apparatus. In those embodiments, various control commands to control the driving apparatus can be generated by a user with a dialect input. The generated voice control commands for the driving apparatus can include starting the driving apparatus, turning on/off A/C unit, controlling the A/C unit, turning on/off entertainment system, controlling the entertainment system, turning on/off certain safety features, turning on/off certain driving features, adjusting seat, adjusting steering wheel, taking a picture of surroundings and/or any other control commands that can control various functions of the driving apparatus.
US09697819B2
The present invention provides a method for building a speech feature library, as well as a method, an apparatus, a device and corresponding non-volatile, non-transitory computer readable storage media for speech synthesis. Because the speech feature library used in the present invention saves at least one context corresponding to each piece of personalized textual information and at least one piece of textual information semantically identical to the personalized textual information, when performing speech synthesis, even if the provided textual information is not personalized textual information corresponding to the desired personalized speech, personalized textual information semantically identical to the textual information to be subject to speech synthesis may be first found in the speech feature library to thereby achieve personalized speech synthesis, such that use of the personalized speech will not be restricted by aging, sickness, and death of a person.
US09697815B2
To provide an effect circuit that can give round-shaped distortion effect to a music signal.An effect circuit 1 includes a input resistor R2 that is connected to a negative input terminal of an operational amplifier U1, a feedback resistor VR1 that is provided between a positive input terminal of the operational amplifier U1 and an output terminal of the operational amplifier U1, zener diodes D1 and D2 in each of which cathodes are connected and that are provided in parallel with the feedback resistor VR1, and diodes D3 and D4 that are connected in parallel so that each cathode and each anode are connected and are provided between cathodes of the zener diodes D1 and D2.
US09697808B1
Provided is a foldable stringed having a rotating neck in which the fret board in the folded position is opposite the rear face and the mechanism employs a flexible cable system under variable tension.
US09697800B2
The present invention relates to latency determination for wearable display devices. In particular, the invention is particularly useful with regards to virtual reality (VR) headsets, augmented reality (AR) headsets or head mounted displays (HMD). It is an object to provide a system and method for determining application latency for a wearable display device. It is a further object of to provide a hardware independent system and method for determining application latency between a computing device and a wearable display device. With hardware independent systems and methods, different hardware, e.g. different wearable display devices, can be benchmarked and compared to each other accurately.
US09697795B2
The present disclosure discloses a video processing device and method, the device comprising a dual matrix selecting module and a dual channel color data processing module. Due to the use of the dual channel color data processing module, two groups, i.e. an odd group and an even group, of pixel data can be processed simultaneously within one clock period. Since two dithering matrices are used when two adjacent frames of images are displayed, the structure is simple, and the processing speed is high. The present disclosure uses the algorithm period of two frame cycle for dithering in time and uses the dithering matrix of 2*2 for dithering in space, so as to achieve the effect of dithering 8 bit video data using 6 bit display data. Moreover, due to the use of two dithering matrices, the display performance of the display can be improved, two groups, i.e. an odd group and an even group, of pixel data are processed simultaneously within one clock, which reduces the working frequency of the circuit.
US09697793B2
In an exemplary flat display apparatus and control circuit and method for controlling the flat display apparatus, the flat display apparatus includes a plurality of gate driving units, each of which controls the operation of a scan line in the flat display apparatus. The flat display apparatus provides a first gate high level voltage signal and a second gate high level voltage signal to the gate driving units such that the first and second gate high level voltage signals are used as voltage signals transmitted to corresponding scan lines. The first and second gate high level voltage signals respectively include a falling edge with a slope. Duration time of the falling edge of the first gate high level voltage signal is longer than that of the falling edge of the second gate high level voltage signal.
US09697788B2
A liquid crystal display device includes a pixel portion, a selection signal output circuit which outputs a selection signal in the first operation mode and stops outputting the selection signal in a second operation mode, a pixel data signal output circuit which generates and outputs a pixel data signal, and a backlight unit including a cold cathode fluorescent lamp. The pixel portion includes: a transistor which includes a gate electrode supplied with a selection signal and a source electrode and a drain electrode one of which is supplied with a pixel data signal in a first operation mode and which remains off in a second operation mode; a first electrode electrically connected to the other of the source electrode and the drain electrode of the transistor; a second electrode; and a liquid crystal. The transistor includes an oxide semiconductor layer in which a channel is formed.
US09697780B2
A liquid crystal display (LCD) device includes: a data source, for generating a N-bit pixel data, N being a positive integer; a digital gamma correction unit, coupled to the data source, for performing digital gamma correction on the pixel data to generate a (N+M)-bit digital gamma correction pixel data, M being a positive integer; an image dithering unit, coupled to the digital gamma correction unit, for performing image dithering on the digital gamma correction pixel data to generate a (N+M−K)-bit dithering compensation pixel data, K being a positive integer; and a converter, coupled to the image dithering unit, for converting the dithering compensation pixel data into an output image. A bit number of the converter is lower than a bit number of the digital gamma correction unit.
US09697776B2
An organic light emitting display device includes a storage area, a degradation compensator, and a display driver. The storage area stores accumulated data for a plurality of pixels. The degradation compensator determines degrees of degradation of the pixels based on the accumulated data, selects a flat up mode or a flat down mode, selects a reference pixel based on the selected mode, generates ratios of a maximum emission brightness of the reference pixel to a maximum emission brightness of the pixels as first coefficients, and generates modulated data for the pixels using the first coefficients and margin ratios. The panel driver transforms the modulated data to data voltages for the pixels, adds the modulated data to the accumulated data, and stores the accumulated data in the storage area.
US09697760B2
The invention provides a pixel structure and a display method thereof, and a display device including the pixel structure. The pixel structure comprises first pixel units and second pixel units which are sequentially arranged in staggered positions, wherein the first pixel unit comprises a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel arranged in an oblique line, and the second pixel unit comprises a third sub-pixel and a fourth sub-pixel arranged in an oblique line, and wherein the first sub-pixel and the third sub-pixel have different basic colors, and the second sub-pixel and the fourth sub-pixel have the same basic color.
US09697758B2
A display device that suppresses electric power consumption and displays an image with excellent quality is to be realized. A host control section (30) in accordance with an aspect of the present invention is a control device for a display device (1), said control device includes: an image determining section (35) for determining whether or not grayscale levels of a plurality of pixels in an image fall within a first range which consists of intermediate grayscale levels; and a driving changing section (36) for changing, according to a result of the determining carried out by the image determining section (35), a refresh rate of the display device (1).
US09697756B2
A timing controller includes a display mode detection circuit configured to detect an image display mode of a display panel based on a plurality of first image data signals that are output in synchronization with a first clock signal having a first frequency, and to selectively activate at least one clock signal generation selected among a plurality of clock signal generators based on the detected image display mode, the clock signal generators configured to generate a second clock signal having a second frequency, respectively when activated by the display mode detection circuit, and to apply the second clock signal to a plurality of signal converting circuits, respectively, and the signal converting circuits configured to convert the first image data signals into a plurality of second image data signals that are output in synchronization with the second clock signal.
US09697755B1
The invention discloses a freely combinable tension fabric popup display, the tension fabric popup display includes an exhibit grid frame, and aluminum grooved straight rods. The eight sides on the two planes of the exhibit grid frame are connected to the aluminum grooved straight rods. A popup display with a preset size and shape is provided by combining a plurality of tension fabric popup displays as needed. The aluminum grooved straight rods for the adjacent tension fabric popup displays are locked by a plurality of fasteners. The display before or after the combination is formed by inserting the silicon strips at the edges of the display into the grooves of grooved straight rods. The tension fabric popup displays of the invention can be combined freely to form various shapes, which are seamlessly attached by the fasteners.
US09697753B2
A main body of a label holder is made of an opaque material and includes a main panel having a top end, a bottom end and a plurality of bends that define the main panel into a plurality of sections. The sections include a first substantially vertical section having a front facing surface that is spaced behind a front facing surface of a second substantially vertical section by a depth of a substantially horizontal section. A sign sleeve is at least partially made of a transparent material and is coupled to the front facing surface of the first substantially vertical section. The sign sleeve is located between the front facing surface of the first substantially vertical section and a plane that is in alignment with the front facing surface of the second substantially vertical section.
US09697749B2
Patient simulator systems for teaching patient care are provided. In some instances, the patient simulator systems include a patient body comprising one or more simulated body portions. Generally, the patient simulator systems of the present disclosure provide physiological modeling. In one embodiment, the patient simulator includes a maternal simulator comprising a maternal circulatory model, a maternal cardiac ischemia model, and a maternal respiratory model and a fetal simulator comprising a fetal circulatory model, a fetal cardiac ischemia model, and a fetal central nervous system model. A controller in communication with the maternal and fetal simulators coordinates parameters of the maternal circulatory model, the maternal cardiac ischemia model, the maternal respiratory model, the fetal circulatory model, the fetal cardiac ischemia model, and the fetal central nervous system model to simulate physiological characteristics of a natural mother and fetus. Methods of utilizing the patient simulator systems are also provided.
US09697748B1
A dental implant two-piece fixture mount has an implant fixture-mount base portion at its distal end and a snap-on, separate, separable top piece at its proximal end.
US09697747B2
Mathematical teaching aids (100) and a method of enhancing the mathematical perception skills of a target person, preferably of practicing abductive reasoning, which teaching aids (100) include a number of teaching tiles (102), each of the teaching tiles (102) having at least one mark (104), wherein at least two teaching tiles (102), when combined, together form an identifiable pattern via the marks (104).
US09697743B2
A data collection system for surfing which includes a data collection device mounted on the upper torso of the surfer or on the surf board. The device includes a clock, GPS unit, three dimensional accelerometers, three dimensional gyroscopes, and a microprocessor and data store for processing the signals from the GPS unit, three dimensional accelerometers and three dimensional gyroscopes. The microprocessor is programmed to identify and collect signal data to derive information identifying one or more parameters including number of waves passed up, power of each wave, size and frequency of the waves, time when a wave is caught, number of paddles required to catch a wave, time between catching the wave and the surfer standing up, distance travelled and speed during ride, time when rider exits the wave, acceleration during each manoeuvre during the ride, g force and speed during turns.
US09697738B2
Provided is a simulator device of a sailing boat including: a fixed structure, configured to support the simulator device on the ground, a support structure configured to firmly support the sailing boat, a rotatable connection means of the support structure to the fixed structure, configured to allow the rotation of the support structure around a substantially vertical axis and with respect to the fixed structure, and a tilting connection means of the support structure to the fixed structure, configured to allow the rotation or tilting of the support structure around a longitudinal axis, perpendicular to the vertical axis, wherein the tilting support includes an articulated quadrilateral including two lower hinges connected to a lower non-tilting element, two upper hinges connected to an upper tilting element, rods which connect said lower hinges to said upper hinges in an intersecting manner, and elastic contrast means of the tilting of said articulated quadrilateral.
US09697735B2
The device comprises: a first image capture means (7) for image capturing a host vehicle vicinity; a sonar (12) which senses an object in the host vehicle vicinity; a second image capture means (14) for image capturing the left front corner of the host vehicle; an image compositing means for forming a bird's-eye image on the basis of the images which are captured with the first image capture means (7) and the second image capture means (14); and a control means (5) for controlling a switch of a display of a display means (13). The control means (5) establishes the display switch condition of the display means (13) on the basis of the travel state of the host vehicle when the sonar (12) senses the object and the travel state of the host vehicle when the sonar (12) does not sense the object.
US09697731B2
Precision traffic flow indication may involve receiving device data over a period of time representing a plurality traffic flow readings associated with a road involving a plurality of subsections. Calculating traffic flows and determining road subsections having similar traffic flows may also be involved. Also, indicating a different traffic flow level for a first subsection and a second subsection of road may be involved.
US09697726B2
Apparatus and method for detecting the presence of a mobile device in a room, the apparatus having a device control unit for controlling a target device, a mobile device for controlling a target device, a signal source for emitting a pilot signal, a signal receiver for receiving a room signal caused by the pilot signal, the signal receiver arranged in the vicinity of the mobile device and outputting a measurement signal in response to the room signal, a signal control unit for controlling the signal source, the signal control unit controlling the signal source based on an actual value signal obtained from the measurement signal in such a manner that the actual value signal approaches a predefinable target value signal over time, and the device control unit configured to control the target device by means of the mobile device on the basis of whether the approach has taken place.
US09697721B1
Across the planet, the fear of physical attacks is experienced daily by millions of men and women, especially those walking or running alone in secluded areas. In many instances, attacks start from behind, exploiting a weakness in our forward-facing vision system. To address this, the present inventor devised, among other things, a rear-facing clip-on sensor that attaches to the back of a user, detecting rear-approaching objects or persons, and vibrating or beeping to alert the user. In some embodiments, the clip-on sensor includes a digital camera and a wireless transceiver to communicate with a smartphone or smartwatch, not only allowing the smartphone or smartwatch to alert the user via audible, visible, and/or tactile (haptic) alarms, but also to send SOS signals and real-time audio and/or video signals to designated persons or security services.
US09697709B2
Apparatus and systems using merchandise activity sensors for increasing the awareness of interactivity with merchandise on retail store displays (shelves, peg hooks, merchandise pushers, and other Point of Purchase displays) in order to facilitate more effective customer service, reduce theft and to provide additional analysis data related to merchandise/shopper interaction.
US09697708B2
Tracking device embodiments, comprising: portable housing with a locking mechanism; band latched about a wrist; tampering detection device to detect tampering with the band, comprising: power source; latch configured to latch one end of the band within the housing; a shape memory material component connected to the latch; an electrical circuit for controlling the power source to heat the shape memory material component to cause the shape memory material component to change from a first length/shape to a second length/shape during supply of power to perform a locking function; a timer; two-way network communication device; a tracking element; tampering signal generation circuit. In embodiments, a tamper resistant container cap, comprises: cap housing releasably lockable to an open end of a container and a locking mechanism using a shape memory material component.
US09697706B2
Disclosed examples include methods and circuits to drive a haptic actuator, in which a single input signal from a host device has a first state representing a command to drive the actuator and a second state representing a command to stop the actuator. A control circuit provides a drive control signal to a driver circuit to drive the haptic actuator in response to the control signal transitioning to the first state, and to stop the haptic actuator in response to the control signal transitioning to the second state. A timer circuit places the circuit in a low power mode a predetermined time after the control signal transitions to the second state, or the control circuit places the circuit in the low power mode in response to a feedback signal indicating that the actuator has reached a stopped condition.
US09697703B2
A capsule is provided that aligns with at least one light source. The capsule includes a rim having its opaqueness interrupted to as to form at least four transparent portions. The capsule is capable of being oriented according to at least two positions: a first position in which two of the at least four portions, simultaneously let through light coming from the at least one light source; and a second position in which the rim blocks light coming from the at least one light source.
US09697697B2
“n” cards of a first hand may be dealt. None to all of the n cards may be discarded. When card(s) are discarded, card(s) may be drawn to complete the first hand to have n cards to form a final first hand. The final first hand may be duplicated to a second hand of n cards, or card(s) may be selected from the final first hand to duplicate to a second hand and additional card(s) drawn to have n cards. None to all of the n cards of the second hand may be discarded. When card(s) are discarded, card(s) may be drawn to complete the second hand to have n cards to form a final second hand. A determination of whether the final first and second hands are winning hands may be made.
US09697695B2
A wagering system and method may include a processor that filters bet types available for placement of a bet by a user according to user-input betting criteria, and that presents the filtered bet types that satisfy the criteria in a user interface via which the user may place a bet of one of the presented bet types. The user may input particular criteria to customize the available results of the bet filter as desired. The system may output an identification of a surest bet. The system may provide a slider control for input of a desired payout amount or odds, or range thereof, as criteria according to which the system filters bet types.
US09697693B2
A gaming device that does not employ pay lines is provided, and has a playfield that is subdivided into a plurality of groups. The configuration of the groups could be done manually by the player, or at random, and changes for each game. At least one key group is used to define key symbols that must be repeated at other groups for a winning combination of symbols to occur.
US09697692B2
A gaming system includes a bonus server and an initial gaming machine having a processor. The bonus server is configured to transmit an initial token including a first parameter relating to the gaming system. The processor of the initial gaming machine is configured to receive the initial token. The processor is further configured to translate a plurality of parameters relating to the gaming system to a plurality of translated values. The plurality of parameters includes the first parameter. The processor is further configured to sum the plurality of translated values to an accumulated value. The processor is configured to receive a random number and determine a bonus game outcome based on a comparison of the random number and the accumulated value. The processor is further configured to transmit a quantity of scatter tokens to the bonus server, where the quantity is determined based on a value of the random number.
US09697691B2
A game play on an electronically based system utilizes symbol collection outcomes along paylines to determine winning events in a virtual game. Even when the symbols used in the virtual game comprise or consist of playing cards displaying conventional ranks, suits and symbols, winning outcomes are determined only by accumulation of sets of symbols, without regard to linear order (straights and straight flushes) and random symbols within a suit (flushes). Accumulated symbols in an at least five symbols display game event as pairs, trips (three-of-a-kind), two pairs, full houses (three of one symbol plus two of a different symbol), four-of-a-kind and five-of-a-kind are determined to be winning events, while a flush, straight and even straight flushes may be or are required to be ignored. Optional and even preferred additional events are used in a draw poker variant (with playing card symbols or non-playing card symbols are used in an accumulated symbol gaming event).
US09697687B2
A gaming system includes: a reader configured to read chip identification information which identifies a chip used in a casino; a writer configured to write validity information, betting information, and information about whether the chip is received from a cashier or from a dealer into chip information based on the chip identification information; and a determination unit configured to determine the validity, the betting state, and the source based on the chip information, wherein the writer is configured to update the validity information from invalid to valid when the chip is handed from the cashier or the dealer to a player and vice versa, to update the betting information as being betted when the chip is placed on a betting area and vice versa.
US09697686B2
Disclosed is a computer-implemented method for displaying the total count and value of casino chips stored by a casino dealer during dealing. The method comprises receiving transmissions representative of the reception of casino chips within a groove of a dealer tray, keeping count of the number of chips within the groove at any given time by keeping count of the number of transmissions received, aggregating the values of the individual chips within the groove at any given time and displaying the count and the aggregated value of the chips on a display panel located on the dealer tray.
US09697679B2
A gaming machine having a liftable monitor is provided, wherein the cabinet has a receiving space defined therein, and the cabinet is formed with at least one opening communicating with the receiving space; a display unit is mounted to the cabinet by a pivoting device for closing the opening. Each rotary shaft of the pivoting device respectively and pivotally connects to an interior of the cabinet and the display unit, and at least one supporting arm pivotally connects between the cabinet and the display unit, such that the display unit is movable supported and secured by the rotary shafts and the supporting arm to allow the display unit to be lifted and rotated relative to the cabinet for opening/closing the opening.
US09697676B2
Disclosed is a method of displaying augmented reality gaming information associated with a player card using mobile device in an augmented reality gaming system. In one embodiment, the method includes: enabling a user to view a live image of a player card through a display of a mobile device; acquiring player identification information from the player card; sending the player identification information via a network to a server; retrieving player specific information from the server using the mobile device; and displaying the player specific information in conjunction with the player card when viewing the player card through the display of the mobile device using augmented reality.
US09697672B2
According to one aspect of the invention, a gaming system and method for providing passive participation in at least one wagering game are disclosed. Funds are received to obtain a period of eligibility for an award associated with the wagering game. An entertainment layer having a plurality of features is conducted in response to receiving the wager. A separate gaming layer includes the wagering game. A gaming machine having a display and a player input device is in communication with the entertainment layer and the gaming layer. At least one feature of the entertainment layer is conducted during the period of eligibility. The entertainment layer is operable in response to at least one input from the player input device. Information regarding the wagering game is presented on the gaming machine.
US09697662B2
An activate signal is sent out from a remote controller via a first channel. An authorization process is activated after the activate signal is received by an access control terminal. A control signal is sent out from the remote controller via a second channel to the access control terminal. The access control terminal is unlocked if the control signal received by the access control terminal is verified by the authorization process to be consistent with a predetermined rule. The first channel is different from the second channel.
US09697661B1
A wireless access control system may include a remote access wireless communications device and a lock assembly to be mounted on a door. The lock assembly may include a lock, a door position sensor, interior and exterior directional antennas, lock wireless communications circuitry, and a lock controller. The lock controller determine whether the lock is manually unlocked, determine when the door is closed after being opened based upon the door position sensor, and determine whether the remote access wireless device is in an interior or an exterior based upon the directional antennas. The lock controller may also switch the lock to the locked position when the door is closed and when the remote access wireless device is in the exterior, and not switch the lock to the locked position when the door is closed and when the remote access wireless device is in the interior.
US09697658B1
A wireless access control system may include a remote access wireless communications device and a lock assembly to be mounted on a door. The lock assembly may include a lock, a door position sensor, interior and exterior directional antennas, lock wireless communications circuitry, a touch sensor, and a lock controller. The lock controller may be configured to unlock the lock based upon the touch sensor, determine when the door is closed after being opened based upon the door position sensor, determine whether the remote access wireless device is in an interior or an exterior based upon the directional antennas, switch the lock to the locked position when the door is closed and when the remote access wireless device is in the interior, and not switch the lock to the locked position when the door is closed and when the remote access wireless device is in the exterior.
US09697649B1
This application describes, in part, system and methods for controlling access to a device, application or service available through a device. In some implementations, an access request may be received and a three-dimensional representation of an object presented on a display of the device that allows a user to provide a three-dimensional input pattern. The input pattern may traverse multiple surface areas of the graphical representation of the three-dimensional object and in some instances the graphical representation of the object may rotate as the input pattern is received. The input pattern may then be verified and access to the device either granted or denied.
US09697647B2
A method of blending at least one virtual construction jobsite object and at least one real construction jobsite object in a dynamic augmented reality scene of a construction jobsite includes several steps. One step involves capturing a depth map image via a depth sensing device, and capturing a red, green, and blue (RGB) image via an RGB image-capturing device. Another step involves registering the depth map image and the RGB image to a common coordinate system. Yet another step involves projecting the at least one virtual construction jobsite object in a scene of the construction jobsite with the use of geographical information system (GIS) data, computer-aided design (CAD) data, or both types of data, to generate the augmented reality scene of the construction jobsite. And yet another step involves removing hidden surfaces of the at least one virtual construction jobsite object in the augmented reality scene.
US09697644B2
A method for determining solar access at a position includes: obtaining an image of a horizon that includes a skyline; determining the azimuth orientation and the inclination of the obtained image; and determining solar access based on the skyline within the obtained image, the measured azimuth orientation and inclination of the obtained image, and a position associated with the image of the horizon. Other features and embodiments relating to solar access measurement are disclosed.
US09697629B1
Embodiments disclosed herein can match a virtual display configuration to a physical display configuration. A method may include receiving from a physical device a physical device display configuration; generating a list of display configurations compatible with the physical display configuration, the generating a list including determining best matches of display geometries, aspect ratio, and density; providing the list to the physical device; and implementing a selected member of the list as a virtual device display on the physical device.
US09697628B2
A system receives a page request for a requested document, where the requested document specifies a set of first images as being presentable within the requested document. In response to the received page request, the system modifies the requested document and generates a modified document. The modified document specifies a second image that is to be generated based on the set of first images. The system generates the second image, based on the set of first images, and provides the modified document and access to the second image. The second image is an aggregation of the first images, which are represented within the second image as sprites to be rendered with the modified document. The modified document may use these sprites by specifying regions within the second image as being presentable within the modified document, where these regions correspond to the first images.
US09697625B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media are provided for efficient real-time ink stroke smoothing, trajectory prediction, and GPU-leveraged rendering of ink stroke input. First and second ink points are received and an active Bézier approximation is computed based thereupon. Sequentially later in time that the first and second ink points, a third ink point is received. It is determined whether the third ink point adequately fits the active Bézier approximation. Where it is determined that the third ink point adequately fits, an updated active Bézier approximation is computed that includes the first, second and third ink points. Where it is determined that the third ink point fails to adequately fit, a different new Bézier approximation is computed that includes the third ink point but not the first and second ink points. Leveraging a GPU, a smoothed ink stroke based upon the Bézier approximation(s) is rendered.
US09697624B2
An image processing apparatus and a radiation tomography apparatus capable of acquiring a tomographic image of high visibility are provided. The image processing apparatus initially generates a map m showing an extending direction of a linear structural object seen in an original image P0. Then, the apparatus generates an extrapolated image P1 by adding the area positioned at the side section of the original image P0 to the side section so as to extend the linear structural object seen in the side section by referring to the map m. By adding the side section to the original image P0 while shifting the pattern of the side section so as to extend the linear structural object seen in the side section of the image, the subject image can be naturally compensated. After this operation, by generating the tomographic image D, a tomographic image D having improved visibility can be generated.
US09697622B2
The present disclosure belongs to the field of computer technologies and discloses an interface adjustment method, apparatus, and terminal. The method includes: capturing a current image by an image capture device of the terminal; analyzing current ambient brightness according to the current image; and adjusting display of an interface on the terminal according to the current ambient brightness. According to the present disclosure, current ambient brightness is obtained by capturing a current image and analyzing the current image, thereby implementing interface adjustment. Such approach solves the problem that an existing interface adjustment method can only be used in a smart TV having a light sensor, and any terminal having an image capture function can adjust an interface by sensing light.
US09697616B2
A method, system and apparatus for image capture, analysis and transmission are provided. A link aggregation method involves identifying controller network ports to a source connected to the same subnetwork; producing packets associating corresponding controller network ports selected by the source CPU for substantially uniform selection; and transmitting the packets to their corresponding network ports. An image analysis method involves producing by a camera an indication whether a region of an image differs by a threshold extent from a corresponding region of a reference image; transmitting the indication and image data to a controller via a communications network; and storing at the controller the image data and the indication in association therewith. The controller may perform operations according to positive indications. A transmission method involves receiving user input in respect of a video stream and transmitting, in accordance with the user input, selected data packets of selected image frames thereof.
US09697615B2
A method, system and apparatus for image capture, analysis and transmission are provided. A link aggregation method involves identifying controller network ports to a source connected to the same subnetwork; producing packets associating corresponding controller network ports selected by the source CPU for substantially uniform selection; and transmitting the packets to their corresponding network ports. An image analysis method involves producing by a camera an indication whether a region of an image differs by a threshold extent from a corresponding region of a reference image; transmitting the indication and image data to a controller via a communications network; and storing at the controller the image data and the indication in association therewith. The controller may perform operations according to positive indications. A transmission method involves receiving user input in respect of a video stream and transmitting, in accordance with the user input, selected data packets of selected image frames thereof.
US09697608B1
A computing device can be configured to analyze information, such as frames captured in a video by a camera in the computing device, to determine locations of objects in captured frames using a scene-based tracking approach without individually having to track the identified objects across the captured frames. The computing device can track scenes, a global planar surface, across newly captured frames and the changes to (or transformation) the scene can be used to determine updated locations for objects that were identified in previously captured frames. Changes to the scene between frames can be measured using various techniques for estimating homographies. An updated location for the particular object in the currently captured frame can be determined by adjusting the location of the object, as determined in the previously captured frame, with respect to the transformation of the scene between the previously captured frame and the currently captured frame.
US09697592B1
The present invention provides a method for converting a low dynamic range (LDR) image to a high dynamic range (HDR) image, including obtaining an input LDR image; and in an HDR image database, selecting one or more HDR images that match the input LDR image as candidate images. Further, the candidate images are warped according to a spatial correspondence between the candidate images and the input LDR image. The input LDR image is decomposed to an illumination component and a texture component. The illumination component and the texture component are reconstructed respectively based on the warped candidate images. The reconstructed illumination component and the reconstructed texture component are combined to produce an output HDR image.
US09697589B2
Provided is a signal processing apparatus, including an input unit into which first image data and second image data are input, the first image data and the second image data being obtained by capturing a predetermined subject with an imaging unit and having mutually different states of blurring; a distance information calculation unit that calculates first distance information in accordance with a position in a depth direction of the subject based on the first image data and the second image data; and a distance information correction unit that calculates second distance information by performing, on the first distance information, processing to correct a deviation of the blurring caused by a mismatch between an image-forming plane of the subject and an imaging plane of the imaging unit.
US09697587B2
Techniques and architectures for video stabilization can transform a shaky video to a steady-looking video. A path smoothing process can generate an optimized camera path for video stabilization. With a large smoothing kernel, a path smoothing process can remove both high frequency jitters and low frequency bounces, and at the same time can preserve discontinuous camera motions (such as quick panning or scene transition) to avoid excessive cropping or geometry distortion. A sliding window based implementation includes a path smoothing process that can be used for real-time video stabilization.
US09697585B2
A method and an apparatus for displaying a statistical chart. The method includes determining whether a screen rotation event of switching from portrait-orientation display to landscape-orientation display is received. The method further includes obtaining additional to-be-shown data added during switch from a portrait-orientation-display drawing area to a landscape-orientation-display drawing area if yes, and drawing the landscape-orientation-display drawing area. The method further includes displaying a statistical chart in the drawn landscape-orientation-display drawing area, where the additional to-be-shown data is shown in the statistical chart. A statistical chart fills a drawing area in a landscape-orientation state.
US09697584B1
An apparatus for multi-stage super-resolution is described herein. The apparatus includes a personalized dictionary, a plurality of super-resolution stages, and a reference merger. Each of the plurality of super-resolution stages correspond to at least one personalized dictionary, and the personalized dictionary is applied to an input image that is sparse-coded to generate a reconstructed image. The reference merger is to merge the reconstructed image and the input image to generate a super-resolved image for each stage.
US09697577B2
The present inventive subject matter provides systems, methods, software, and data structures for patent mapping, storage, and searching. Some such embodiments include mapping patent documents, claims, and claim limitations. Some further embodiments provide for searching a universe of patent documents by patent document, claim, limitation, class, element, or concept.
US09697567B2
The present invention provides systems and methods for tracking obligations incurred between individuals. The method may include receiving a request from a first party, where the request includes an expense incurred by the first party for the benefit of a second party. The method may also include providing a notice of the request to the second party and receiving an acceptance from the second party to assume an obligation associated with the expense. The method may further include associating the obligation with the second party and associating a benefit with the first party. The obligation and/or benefit may be substantially equal in value to the expense. The method may additionally include interfacing with a social network service to provide the social network service with information about the obligation and/or the benefit.
US09697566B2
A method for providing information about an auction for a plurality of assets is provided. A plurality of assets that is made to be available during an auction is identified. Each of the plurality of assets includes an auction state. During the auction, a matrix interface is displayed. The matrix interface includes a plurality of entries, where each entry identifies a corresponding asset and the auction state of that asset. The auction state of one or more assets is dynamically updated during the auction.
US09697555B2
One form of the present invention contemplates a unique system for creating a customized bank card by a consumer/user based on instructions from a remote terminal. Other forms of the present invention contemplate unique apparatuses, systems, devices, hardware, software, methods, and combinations of these for creating customized bank cards.
US09697554B2
One variation of a method for quoting manufacture of a part during construction of a virtual model of the part within a computer-aided drafting engine includes: receiving a quote file specifying a current manufacturing schedule and a pricing structure for a manufacturing facility; at a first time, in response to insertion of a first three-dimensional virtual geometry into the virtual model, calculating a manufacturing quote for the part based on the first three-dimensional virtual geometry and the quote file; displaying the manufacturing quote; at a second time succeeding the first time, in response to insertion of a second three-dimensional virtual geometry into the virtual model, updating the manufacturing quote based on the second three-dimensional virtual geometry and the quote file; and, at a third time succeeding the second time, submitting a form of the virtual model to the manufacturing facility for manufacture of the part.
US09697552B2
Methods and systems are provided for social shopping on a network-based marketplace. The method receives, over a network at a social shopping platform, a request from a user in a first community of users. The social shopping platform includes multiple network-based marketplaces respectively associated with communities that include the first community of users that is associated with a first network-based marketplace. The method identifies the first network-based marketplace from the network-based marketplaces based on the request. The request is for an activity associated with the first network-based marketplace. The first network-based marketplace is used by the first community of users to transact items of a single domain that is of interest to the first community of users. The method updates a listing reputation score based on the activity associated with the first network-based marketplace and a user reputation score based on the listing reputation score.
US09697545B1
Some embodiments provide a service monitor that operates on a number of different mobile devices to track and monitor services that an application is using. The service monitor of some embodiments includes a service call wrapper to intercept a request made by the application to access the service and capture data relating to the service request. The service monitor then sends the captured data to a performance monitoring server in order to present, based on the captured data and other captured data from other mobile devices, a set of performance reports relating to the performance of the service as used by the same application across a number of mobile devices.
US09697540B2
A system and method automatically report electronically recorded golf scores and other information to a golfer during or upon completion of a round of golf. A golfer operates a mobile terminal during play of a round of golf. The mobile terminal displays at least an electronic score card on its display. The mobile terminal may optionally display other information, such as advertisements, that may be of interest to the golfer. During play, the mobile terminal receives inputs from the golfer to record the golfer's scores. Other inputs may include selection of a displayed advertisement or purchase of a displayed product or service. Once the scores have been entered, the mobile terminal wirelessly transmits the scores and/or other information to a central server via a wireless subsystem. The scores and/or other information are then automatically communicated from the server to an email account and/or personal web portal account of the golfer.
US09697539B2
Various presence detection techniques are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system comprises a signal generator configured to generate a signal that includes a plurality of selected frequencies that are selected from among a set of candidate frequencies, wherein inclusion or exclusion of each candidate frequency in the signal encodes a bit of information and wherein the encoded information comprises a store identifier that identifies a retail store; and a transmitter configured to transmit the signal within the retail store; wherein presence of a device in the retail store is determined in response to reception of the signal at the device and extraction of the store identifier from the received signal by decoding the received signal.
US09697535B2
A system and method in a virtual universe (VU) system for identifying spam avatars based upon the avatars' multimedia characteristics may have a table that stores multimedia characteristics of known spam avatars. It further may have an analysis unit that compares the multimedia characteristics of avatars against the multimedia characteristics of known spam avatars to determine if the avatar has known spam avatar characteristics. It may further have a scoring system to calculate a spam score based upon the similarities of the comparison and identifying the avatar as a spam avatar based upon the calculated spam score. It may further compare the calculated spam score with a spam score threshold wherein the avatar is identified as a spam avatar if the calculated spam score is equal to or greater than the calculated spam score. Multimedia characteristics include graphics, audio, movement, interactivity, voice, etc.
US09697525B1
A mobile computerized apparatus for use with a roadside assistance program to assist in identifying a service provider, such as a tow truck, is disclosed. The apparatus transmits relevant information to a remote server. The server in turn provides information about a plurality of service providers available to service the vehicle.
US09697524B1
Systems and methods for providing services to customers in response to customer requests received through one or more channels are disclosed. The present invention provides for a central fulfillment hub in which all requests from banking customers may be processed by applying a library of policies to systematically resolve the customer requests or engage resources necessary to resolve such requests. Resources, data, and other information compartmentalized in individual business unit systems may be dynamically retrieved as necessary to fulfill the customer request and such retrieval is completed prior to any processing of the customer request for resolution. The disclosed fulfillment system, thus, may open a request, prefetch the necessary information, take steps to resolve the request, and close the request accordingly in a dynamic and efficient manner on a request-by-request basis.
US09697522B2
Methods and apparatuses for interactive device operation are disclosed. In one example, a method for user device operation includes retrieving from a user device memory a user device identifying data, dialing a remote computing device having an interactive voice response (IVR) system, and transmitting the user device identifying data to the remote computing device. The method includes outputting one or more voice messages from the interactive voice response system to a user of the user device, the one or more voice messages associated with a usage of the user device. The method further includes transmitting a user action to the remote computing device made responsive to the one or more voice messages.
US09697518B2
Data can be protected in mobile and payment environments through various tokenization operations. A mobile device can tokenize communication data based on device information and session information associated with the mobile device. A payment terminal can tokenize payment information received at the payment terminal during a transaction based on transaction information associated with the transaction. Payment data tokenized first a first set of token tables and according to a first set of tokenization parameters by a first payment entity can be detokenized or re-tokenized with a second set of token tables and according to a second set of tokenization parameters. Payment information can be tokenized and sent to a mobile device as a token card based on one or more selected use rules, and a user can request a transaction based on the token card. The transaction can be authorized if the transaction satisfies the selected use rules.
US09697508B1
Existing infrastructure for processing credit card transactions at point-of-sale (POS) devices is leveraged to provide secure and convenient payment with a mobile device. A mobile transaction infrastructure that is integrated with the credit card interchange network receives information from the mobile device and passes this information to a gateway provider or a payment processor. By combining information from both the mobile device and the POS device, this backend infrastructure can uniquely identify a transaction and appropriately charge an account associated with the user of the mobile device. The transaction may be matched with the mobile device be based on location, time, transaction charge, and/or other factors.
US09697505B2
Arrangements relate to processing financial transactions on an automated teller machine (ATM). An ATM identifier can be presented on a display of the ATM. An ATM identifier confirmation can be received from a mobile computing device. Responsive to determining that the ATM identifier confirmation matches the identifier presented on the display of the ATM, a customer authentication or a transaction request can be received from the mobile computing device. Responsive to verifying the customer authentication or the transaction request, the transaction request can be processed.
US09697499B1
While consuming digital content, a user may highlight a portion considered relevant or of interest. When this user highlight corresponds with an existing highlight created by other users in a community of users, a highlight match indicator is presented to the user. This indicator provides a positive reinforcement to the user that they have serendipitously highlighted a portion which others in the community of users found relevant.
US09697496B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products are for processing damage survey information associated with a disaster event. According to one aspect, a method for processing damage survey information associated with a disaster event includes in response to the disaster event, receiving, at a disaster recovery system (DRS), the damage survey information. In some embodiments, the damage survey information includes an area of impact that defines an area in which at least one physical plant was damaged in the disaster event and a physical plant type identifier (PPTI) for each physical plant damaged in the disaster event. Each PPTI identifies a physical plant type of a plurality of physical plant types. The method also includes analyzing the damage survey information to determine to which of a plurality of disaster recovery dispatch units (DRDUs) the DRS should route the damage survey information and routing the damage survey information to the appropriate DRDUs.
US09697494B2
In a user-interactive method and system, a display application for enhancing user interaction over a network is provided. The method includes receiving preference information from a first user, the preference information indicating at least one type of image the first user wishes to view. In response to a network interaction being established between at least the first user and a second user, the method further includes retrieving a plurality of images associated with the second user based on the preference information. The method further includes displaying the plurality of images based on the preference information.
US09697488B1
Various embodiments of a system and method for generating predictions for unit allocation in a materials processing network are described. Various embodiments may include a capacity planner for defining a model including, for each of a plurality of discrete periods of time, a corresponding representation of a materials processing network including materials handling facilities, constraints associated with ones of the materials handling facilities, and logic for determining efficient flows of materials within the materials processing network during that discrete period of time. In order to determine efficient flows of materials within the materials processing network for a particular period of time, the capacity planner may determine the discrete periods of time corresponding to representations of the model required to determine the one or more efficient flows, and evaluate the logic of the those representations without evaluating logic of representations of the model corresponding to other discrete periods of time.
US09697487B2
Systems and methods for verifying and monitoring employees are provided. Employees call-in to the system at scheduled times. If an employee misses a scheduled call-in, an alert can be generated. An employer notification process can generate the alert, notifying a supervisor of the employee's missed call. The alert can include the employee's name, the location of the employee, and the time he/she was supposed to call. Such systems and methods can be used to verify that a worker is at the proper location at the proper time and awake and alert during the entire time period that he/she is supposed to be working.
US09697485B2
Systems and methods are provided for the organization, management, and graphical display of multiple logically related entities. In some embodiments, the systems and methods provide the real-time display of status and location information for a fleet of tracked vehicles. In some embodiments, the systems and methods permit the automatic clustering of assets based on a user's view of an underlying map. In some embodiments, the assets are vehicles that are a part of a managed fleet. In some embodiments, the assets are logically arranged into clusters of like assets. In some embodiments, the clusters provide graphical indications of status or class information of their underlying assets.
US09697483B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure include methods and systems for tracking and reporting environmental impact and agricultural-producer information. In an example embodiment, a method comprises receiving first data associated with an impact on groundwater pollution or surface water pollution, the impact on the groundwater pollution or the surface water pollution resulting from a production of an agricultural product, the groundwater pollution or the surface water pollution comprising a contaminant of at least one of an inorganic or organic pollutant, the first data being received from a single representative sampling location; receiving second data associated with the impact on the groundwater pollution and the surface water pollution from at least one of a plurality of representative sampling locations; generating a benchmark percentage-based result based on the first or second data; calculating comparative data using the benchmark percentage-based result and at least some of the first or second data; and reporting the benchmark percentage-based result and the comparative data to a user.
US09697478B2
A system and method is disclosed for generating targeted e-mails based on individual subject behavior and interests, as determined by an application's website browsing behavior, online and offline purchases, ratings, and other implicit and explicit indications of subject preferences and interests. The subject's behavior data is collected directly from the subject's client browser or from the application's own information and used to generate profiles of the subjects that will be sent e-mails and the objects that will be recommended. Targeted content is generated by matching subject and object profiles in combination with any subject segmentation filters that the application provides. The e-mail targeting is optimized by measuring subject response to targeted e-mails and adjusting recommendation strategies used to generate subsequent recommendations. The system has application in personalization, behavioral targeting, Internet retailing, affiliate marketing, and online advertising, to name but a few applications.
US09697472B2
Disclosed in some examples are systems, methods, and machine readable mediums which allow for the automatic creation of a skills hierarchy. The skills hierarchy comprises an organization of a standardized list of skills into a hierarchy that describes category relationships between the skills in the hierarchy. The category relationships may include no relationships, parent relationships, and child relationships. A skill may be considered a parent of another skill if the parent skill describes a broader category of skill that includes the child. Other relationships such as grandparent (e.g., a parent's parent), great-grandparent, grandchild, great grandchild and so on may be defined inferentially as well. In some examples, the constructed hierarchy may be organized with broader skills at higher levels and narrower skills at lower levels.
US09697465B2
Disclosed are techniques (300, 500, 600) and apparatuses (102, 700) for drawing an inference using multiple sensors. These techniques and apparatuses enable a computing device to choose (302) a set of sensors that are capable of providing information for an inference, invoke (304) the chosen set of sensors to provide the information, receive (306) the information from at least a subset of the chosen sensors, and draw (308), based on the received information, the inference. In some cases, the set of sensors are chosen such that time or resources of the computing device can be conserved.
US09697464B2
The present invention is a method of solving the decision, for example, testing if, given a finite number of transformations which can be applied to a finite number of elements, the corresponding n-generated discrete object has a hamiltonian cycle and/or path, searching, for example, obtaining the explicit construction of one several or all the hamiltonian cycles and or paths of the given input, counting, for example, obtaining an upper bound of the number of Hamiltonian cycles and/or paths of the given input and optimization, for example, selecting one of several hamiltonian cycles and/or paths solutions according to an specified criterion, versions of the hamiltonian traversal (cycle and/or path) problem in class of combinatorial discrete objects.
US09697463B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for computing a layer output for a convolutional neural network layer, the method comprising: receiving the layer input, the layer input comprising a plurality of activation inputs, the plurality of activation inputs represented as a multi-dimensional matrix comprising a plurality of depth levels, each depth level being a respective matrix of distinct activation inputs from the plurality of activation inputs; sending each respective kernel matrix structure to a distinct cell along a first dimension of the systolic array; for each depth level, sending the respective matrix of distinct activation inputs to a distinct cell along a second dimension of the systolic array; causing the systolic array to generate an accumulated output from the respective matrices sent to the cells; and generating the layer output from the accumulated output.
US09697454B2
A payment card (e.g., credit and/or debit card) or other card or device (e.g., mobile telephone) is provided with a magnetic emulator operable to communicate data to a magnetic stripe read-head. User interfaces are provided in a number of different configurations in order to achieve a number of different functionalities.
US09697450B1
A magnetic stripe data transmission (MST) driver and a method for driving the MST are disclosed. The MST driver is configured to transmit magnetic strip data comprising of streams of pulses. The MST driver comprises a pair of high side switches and a pair of low side switches. The pair of high side switches comprises a first switch and a second switch. The pair of low side switches comprises a third switch and a fourth switch. The first, second, third and fourth switches are arranged in a full bridge type configuration connected across a voltage source and a ground. An inductive coil is connected across outputs of the full bridge type configuration of the switches. The MST driver includes a switch driver configured to drive the pair of low side switches and the pair of high side switches under current slope control using pulse width modulation. The driven load current has a rising portion and a falling portion through the inductive coil in a forward direction or in a reverse direction with programmable load current rising and falling slopes to induce a recognizable back electromagnetic force at a receiver emulating the magnetic strip data during the load current rising and falling portions and to reduce power loss during time periods without signal transmission.
US09697448B2
Techniques for making electronic cards that can be displayed on a mobile phone. The techniques permit making an electronic card based on an arbitrary SMS message and making an electronic card (eCard) that corresponds to a pre-existing non-electronic privilege card such as a loyalty card. In the latter case, the system on which the card is being made obtains information about the user and the issuer and uses the information to determine whether to issue the eCard and also to make use validity information which is associated with the card and is used to determine the validity of the card as it is used.
US09697446B2
The present invention relates to a set of security documents. Each security document within the set having an optical code, notably a barcode, which is neither connected nor coupled to any electronic chip that may be carried by the security document. The optical code on each security document within the set encodes the same information for the same optical reader. Each security document having different respective electromagnetic signature, these signatures being unique to each of the security documents.
US09697445B2
An image forming apparatus includes a control unit that generates a valid region signal corresponding to the length of a paper sheet of a regular size in the conveyance direction thereof, and performs control to form an image on the paper sheet based on the valid region signal, wherein, when an image is formed on a long paper sheet having a longer length than the paper sheet of the regular size, the control unit generates the valid region signal in each channel, performs control for generating the next valid region signal in a period during which the valid region signal is not generated in any of the channels, generates a continuous valid region signal corresponding to the long paper sheet by combining the valid region signals in the channels, and performs control to form an image by reading out image data based on the continuous valid region signal.
US09697438B2
Image description and image recognizable method, it contain (a) It obtain an image which possess plural pixels. (b) It determines a starting position in the image. (c) In the image, From the starting point along the trajectory of the former spiral aggregation makes a pixel sampling, and the pixel on the trajectory rank to the former spiral aggregation. (d) the angle increases with the increase of the variance, it forming a the angle of the latter spiral aggregation. From the starting point along a trajectory of the former spiral aggregation makes the pixel sample, and the pixel on the trajectory rank to the former spiral aggregation. (e) It decides how many frequencies the angle variation increase, and repeatedly performs the step (d). After obtaining a plurality of the latter spiral aggregation, the pixel corresponds to the value. (f) It ranks the former spiral aggregation and the latter spiral aggregation. Then, spiral aggregation map will be formed and recorded the every value of the pixel.
US09697433B1
Features are disclosed for classifying pixels included in a digital image. Distance information from a pixel to structural reference points, such as skeletal joints, is generated. The distance information is then applied to a pixel classifier to identify one or more classifications for the pixel.
US09697429B2
An example disclosed method includes receiving an image containing shelf edge content displayed on a shelf edge; determining a location of the shelf edge content and an apparent orientation of the shelf edge content; determining, based on the location of the shelf edge content and the apparent orientation of the shelf edge content, a region in the image corresponding to the shelf edge; and providing an output based on the image that identifies the region in the image corresponding to the shelf edge.
US09697422B2
According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a stroke manager and a controller. The stroke manager is configured to store on a storage medium handwritten documents including stroke data items corresponding to strokes. The controller is configured to acquire a result of a search. The search includes least one of a character-string search and a handwriting search. The search is based on a value associated with an aspect ratio of a first stroke group.
US09697419B2
A portable information processing apparatus according to one embodiment includes at least an image pick-up portion, a recognition module recognizing a detection target which includes a part of a user within an image obtained by the image pick-up portion and outputting change over time in position of recognition of the detection target, a processing module performing processing in accordance with change over time in position of recognition of the detection target, and a correction module correcting change over time in position of the detection target output by the recognition means in accordance with change in posture of the information processing apparatus.
US09697410B2
A capacitive fingerprint sensor includes a compensation memory which stores a direct current offset parameter and a gain compensation parameter of each sensing unit of a capacitive sensing array. Therefore, the above-mentioned capacitive fingerprint sensor is able to individually compensate sensing signals measured by each the sensing unit and the sensing signals measured by each sensing unit have better uniformity and signal to noise ratio (SNR).
US09697405B2
A portable electronic device includes a housing, a first display operably coupled to the housing, and a second display operably coupled to the housing. A processor is operably coupled to the first display and to the second display. A wireless receiver is coupled to the processor for receiving data comprising, for example, an electronic ticket having machine-readable data, and the processor and the second display are operable to display of the machine-readable data. The second display is operable to display the machine-readable data such as a barcode with at least one of a lower reflectance, a higher resolution, and a higher contrast compared to display of the machine-readable data on the first display.
US09697403B2
A hand-held indicia-reading device includes a housing and a cable having a unitary-construction. The indicia-reader has a head portion with an indicia-reading system including a printed circuit board. The entire handle portion of the reader is typically over-molded onto a host-connector cable. The host-connector cable includes a circuit board connector on one end and a connector for connecting to a host at an opposite end extending from a base portion of the handle.
US09697395B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus for identifying parts with electromagnetic identification (EMID) tags are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, a method involves receiving, with a first antenna(s) on a mobile EMID reader portal, a first signal(s) from an EMID tag(s). The method further involves transmitting, with a second antenna(s) on the mobile EMID reader portal, a second signal(s) to an access point(s). Also, the method involves transmitting, with the access point(s), a third signal(s) to an EMID processing system and a location processing system. In addition, the method involves determining, with the location processing system, the location of the mobile EMID reader portal. Additionally, the method involves transmitting, by the location processing system, the location of the mobile EMID reader portal to the EMID processing system. Further, the method involves associating, by the EMID processing system, the EMID tag(s) with the location of the mobile EMID reader portal.
US09697394B2
An aspect of the present invention provides an RFID tag system in which a null point is hardly generated. The RFID tag system includes an RFID tag and an RFID reader/writer. The RFID reader/writer includes a transmitter that transmits a circularly-polarized radio wave to the RFID tag, a receiver that separately receives horizontal and vertical polarization components of a return wave from the RFID tag; and a received signal combiner that logically combines signals separately received by the receiver. The received signal combiner includes an optimum combiner that combines the horizontal polarization component and the vertical polarization component such that an S/N ratio of the received signal is enhanced compared with the case that the horizontal polarization component and the vertical polarization component are separately received.
US09697391B2
An RFID transponder having an analog front end receiver having an attenuator coupled to receive an RF-signal from an antenna and to attenuate the RF-signal, an amplifier having a fixed amplifier gain and being coupled to receive and to amplify the attenuated RF-signal and a control unit coupled to control a gain of the attenuator, wherein the control unit is configured to control the attenuator gain in response to a level of the amplified RF-signal, the control unit is configured to have a plurality of predetermined states causing the attenuator to increase (step-up) or to decrease (step-down), its gain by a predefined step size, wherein the step size of a step-up is equal to or smaller than the step size of a step-down and wherein the control unit is further configured to switch, upon reaching or exceeding a predefined threshold value, from a first to a second state having a smaller step size and causing the attenuator to change the gain such that the slope of the RF signal inverts and to switch, upon reaching the predefined threshold again, to a third state causing the attenuator to change a prefix of the gain.
US09697389B2
A reader device includes a housing for receiving a smart card, a processor in electronic communication with an integrated circuit chip of the smart card when the smart card is received in the housing, a wireless communications device in electronic communication with the processor for enabling the reader device to transmit first encrypted information wirelessly and to receive second encrypted information wirelessly, and a memory in electronic communication with the processor that includes one or more routines executable by the processor. The one or more routines include a cryptographic module adapted to encrypt first information to create the first encrypted information and decrypt the second encrypted information to obtain second information. In addition, a communication system that includes the reader device and a computing device, wherein the reader device and computing device are able to wirelessly exchange information in a secure manner.
US09697380B2
An apparatus for providing security for an integrated circuit (IC) chip is disclosed. The apparatus may include the IC chip, attached to a surface of a printed circuit board (PCB). The PCB may include a first, electrically insulative, conformal coating layer attached to the PCB surface and to exposed IC chip surfaces. The PCB may also include a Wheatstone bridge circuit to indicate changes to a second, X-ray opaque, optically opaque and electrically resistive, conformal coating layer. The circuit may include four resistors, formed from second conformal coating layer regions, four sets of electrically conductive pads on the PCB, each set electrically connected to a resistor of the four resistors. The circuit may also include a voltage source, connected to two conductive pads and a monitoring device, connected to another two conductive pads and configured to detect a change of resistance of the Wheatstone bridge.
US09697374B2
One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for deploying an application according to a data access profile used to sandbox the application. For example, an event planner app may be identified for download from an app store. A deployment mock data configuration interface may be presented to a user prior to or as a preliminary operation of downloading and/or installing the event planner app. A data access profile, specifying that the event planner app has access to user age data, but is blocked from accessing user phone number data, for example, may be received through the deployment mock data configuration interface. The event planner app may thus be deployed in a sandbox mode on the device based upon the data access profile (e.g., real age data may be provided to the event planner app whereas mock phone number data may be provided to the event planner app).
US09697364B2
The present invention prevents unauthorized functions from being installed to a predetermined storage unit in the background through a communication function that is being used for authorized communication operations and further prevents confidential information from being read out and stolen from the predetermined storage unit. A semiconductor device adopts an exclusive control unit that exclusively controls communication performed by a communication unit capable of communicating with the outside and access to a predetermined storage unit. For example, the communication status of the communication unit is determined based on whether a communication clock is active or inactive, and the exclusive control is exercised based on the determination result.
US09697361B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for controlling opening of computer files by vulnerable applications. An example method includes: detecting a request from a software application to open a computer file on the user computer; determining one or more parameters of the file; determining a file access policy based on the parameters of the file, wherein the file access policy specifies at least access rights of the software application to the resources of the user computer; identifying vulnerabilities of the software application; determining an application launching policy for the software application based at least on the determined vulnerabilities, wherein the application launching policy specifies at least whether opening of the file is permitted or prohibited; and controlling opening of the file on the user computer and accessing of the computer resources by the software application working with the opened file based on the file access policy and application launching policy.
US09697346B2
In one embodiment, a method includes identifying a request for access to a first system and obtaining a visual image including at least a first piece of information associated with the request. The visual image is associated with a first device and obtained using a second device. The method also includes determining if the at least first piece of information indicates that the access to the first system is to be granted, wherein determining if the at least first piece of information indicates that the access to the first system is to be granted includes implementing a visual recognition algorithm to process the at least first piece of information. Finally, the access to the first system is granted if it is determined that the at least first piece of information indicates that the access to the first system is to be granted.
US09697343B2
An information processing method of convenience and an information processing system are disclosed. In some embodiments, the system includes acquiring a 1st attribute information from a person with a personal digital assistant that contains a 2nd attribute information; acquiring the 2nd attribute information from two or more personal digital assistants; comparing the acquired 1st attribute information with the acquired 2nd attribute information to form countervalue information; and storing the countervalue information in the personal digital assistant of the person from which the 1st attribute information was acquired.
US09697341B1
A system and method for managing user access to a device includes detecting a first language and a second language a user uses on the device; prompting the user to setup multiple security questions using multiple languages; receiving a first question in a third language from the user, wherein the user decides the first question and the third language; receiving a first answer to the first question from the user, wherein the answer is provided in a fourth language chosen by the user and different from the third language; receiving a second question in a fifth language from the user wherein the user decides the second question and the fifth language; receiving a second answer to the second question from the user, wherein the second answer is provided in a sixth language chosen by the user and different from the fifth language.
US09697331B2
Disclosed is a computerized method and system for identifying a medicinal substance from a plurality of different machine-readable codes that are each compliant with a different coding standard. A code reader reads a machine-readable code and transmits a signal indicative of the machine-readable code in response. A recognition identifies the coding standard with which the machine-readable code complies. Based on the identification by the recognition unit, computer-executable instructions specific to decoding information according the identified standard are selected and executed to decode the information encoded pursuant to the identified coding standard.
US09697327B2
A “dynamic” reference is presented that utilizes population level information to improve reference-based alignment to detect novel, deleterious, or functional variants in clinical sequencing applications. An automatically updated database of known genetic variants is provided to a memory connected with an integrated circuit configured for genetic sequence data with the dynamic reference and reference variants.
US09697326B1
Embodiments are presented for topology graph optimization. A design geometry is represented as a graph. Engineering objectives and constraints are associated with a graph representation of a design geometry. The graph representation of the design geometry is iteratively refined for analysis using an optimization algorithm. The graph representation of the design geometry is evaluated according to constraints and objectives associated with the desired resulting design. The optimization results can be further refined by updating objectives and constraints. The optimization results may be machined directly.
US09697323B2
A computer system with one or more processors and memory performs a breadth-first-search for an analysis of a digital circuit that includes a plurality of components. The computer system identifies two or more N generation components, initiates processing of the two or more N generation components, and subsequent to initiating the processing of the two or more N generation components, receives results of processing a subset, less than all, of the two or more N generation components. Prior to receiving results of processing all of the N generation components, the computer system identifies one or more N+1 generation components, and initiates processing of the one or more identified N+1 generation components. Subsequently, the computer system receives results of processing at least a subset of the one or more identified N+1 generation components.
US09697314B1
Systems and techniques are described for designing an integrated circuit (IC). Some embodiments identify and preserve slices by using new objects in an IC design data model. One or more IC design representations that are used in an IC design flow may natively support such slice objects. These new objects can enable rapid access and preservation of slices, thereby improving the runtime and/or quality of results (QoR) of an IC design system.
US09697305B2
Systems and methods for evaluating thermodynamics of atomic changes in a polymer include using a first portion of a refined derived set of three-dimensional coordinates for a derivation of the polymer, which incorporates the atomic change under study, to compute a first effective atomistic Hessian. A second effective atomistic Hessian is computed using a second portion of a refined native set of three-dimensional coordinates for the native polymer. Atoms in the first and second portions are identical. A thermodynamic property of the first portion is determined using the refined derived set of three-dimensional coordinates and the first effective atomistic Hessian. A thermodynamic property of the second portion of the native polymer is determined using the refined native set of three-dimensional coordinates and the second effective atomistic Hessian. The effect of the atomic changes is quantified by taking the difference between the calculated thermodynamic properties of the first and second portions.
US09697293B2
A system and method are disclosed for controlling metadata associated with content on an electronic device that includes displaying interface screens for user entry of metadata control instructions, accepting user instructions, modifying metadata of applicable content, and associating the modified metadata with the applicable content. The system can export and/or store the applicable content along with modified metadata. The system can automatically modify metadata according to one or more profiles. Relevant profiles can be determined based on the export mechanism, destination or type of content. The system can add watermarks to indicate metadata modification. The system can display metadata for user modification. The content can include photos, videos or other content. The system can display metadata and geolocation indicators for each content item that indicate whether that item has associated metadata and geolocation information. The user can selectively modify meradata of selected content.
US09697292B2
Disclosed is a content management method, which includes obtaining data for a content including a plurality of point-of-interest (POI) and a plurality of POI documents associated with each of the plurality of POIs, obtaining at least one level-of-detail (LOD) information which allows the content to be displayed according to an interest of the user, and determining a display format for the content based on the LOD information. Here, the LOD information may include information for the interest level of the user with regard to the content, and the interest level may be independent from a scale level of a map at which the content is displayed.
US09697290B2
Techniques are described herein that facilitate monitoring one or more activities performed by a user on one or more devices, determining one or more topics of interest based on the monitored activities, preference information, and information within a user network, retrieving information from one or more network sites relating to the one or more topics of interest, and providing the retrieved information to the user.
US09697271B2
The present subject matter relates to generation of business intelligence reports with navigable reference indicators. The method comprises obtaining information from an information source for providing in a business intelligence report. Further, report parameters are obtained through a user interface, wherein the report parameters include at least notes and indicator parameters. The notes and indicator parameters indicate a plurality of navigable reference indicators to be included in the business intelligence report. The method further comprises mapping the notes and indicator parameters with the obtained information. Based on the mapping, the business intelligence report is generated with the plurality of navigable reference indicators. Further, the plurality of navigable reference indicators provides a forward and backward link between two or more sections of the business intelligence report.
US09697269B2
A content item block replication protocol for multi-premises hosting of digital content items. In one embodiment, for example, a method comprises: receiving, from a server, a server journal entry identifying one or more content item blocks of a content item represented by the server journal entry; storing a replication task log entry corresponding to the server journal entry in a replication task log, the replication task log entry identifying the one or more content item blocks of the content item represented by the server journal entry and identifying a block server; and either offering to send the one or more content item blocks identified in the replication task log entry to the block server identified in the replication task log entry, or downloading the one or more content item blocks identified in the replication task log entry from the block server identified in the replication task log entry.
US09697265B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to one or more configured computing systems identifying when decoupled content includes companion content that can be synchronously presented. Once a content match is identified, a device to receive synchronization information can also be identified. The synchronization information can enable one or more devices to synchronously present companion content.
US09697261B2
A hardware module for an application search system includes a data processing module that generates a plurality of canonical application structures each identifying a canonical application, a plurality of application editions associated with the canonical application, and respective attributes associated with the at least one application edition. The data processing module generates search indexes including the plurality of canonical application structures and the respective attributes. An application search module receives a search query from a user, selects at least one of the search indexes based on the search query and the respective attributes, identifies an initial set of canonical applications using the selected search index based on the search query, generates search results based on the initial set of canonical applications, and provides the search results to the user.
US09697244B2
Record addressing information retrieval is achieved using a plurality of user data descriptors. When a threshold number of user data descriptors from a set of user data descriptors are received, the threshold number of user data descriptors can be converted into a computed record index that is compared to a list of record indexes associated with a plurality of records. When the computed record index compares favorably to a record index in the list of record indexes, the record addressing information for a particular record is retrieved based on the record index.
US09697241B1
A processing platform implemented using one or more processing devices comprises a data fabric layer and a storage infrastructure layer underlying the data fabric layer. The data fabric layer comprises at least one database application having a plurality of nodes. The storage infrastructure layer comprises a plurality of storage servers and is configured to implement one or more virtual storage volumes for each of the nodes of the database application of the data fabric layer using the storage servers. In some embodiments, responsive to detection of a failure of a given one of the nodes of the database application, the one or more virtual storage volumes associated with the given node are utilized to facilitate instantiation of a replacement node for the given node. For example, a virtual storage volume may be unmounted from the given node and attached to the replacement node.
US09697240B2
A method, system, and/or computer program product associates new contextual state information about a changed data structure with a beneficial target data. Event data, which describes an event that modifies a data structure, is incorporated into the data structure to create a changed data structure state. New contextual state information, which describes the changed data structure state, is generated and transmitted to multiple beneficial target data stores, wherein applying the new contextual state information to a particular beneficial target data affects an activity that utilizes the particular beneficial target data.
US09697233B2
A configured machine performs image matching and retrieval of natural images that may depict logos. The machine generates and uses color-localized spatial masks, which may be computationally less expensive than spatial verification techniques. Key points are detected within images that form a reference database of images. Local masks are defined by the machine around each key point based on the scale and orientation of the key point. To utilize color information presented in logo images, ordered color histograms may be extracted by the machine from locally masked regions of each image. A cascaded index may then be constructed for both visual descriptors and color histograms. For faster matching, the cascaded index maps the visual descriptors and color histograms to a list of relevant or similar images. This list may then be ranked to generate relevant matches for an input query image.
US09697231B2
A computerized method and apparatus for providing a virtual media channel based on media search is featured. The method and apparatus features the steps of, or structure for, obtaining a set of rules that define instructions for obtaining media content that comprise the content for a media channel, the set including at least one rule with instructions to include media content resulting from a search; searching for candidate media content according to a search query defined by the at least one rule; and merging one or more of the candidate media content resulting from the search into the content for the media channel. The candidate media content can include segments of the media content resulting from the search. The set of rules can additionally include a rule with instructions to add media content from a predetermined location.
US09697223B2
Data file in the data deduplication system are associated with a file identifier defined to have a first part identifier for denoting a location of the data file in a storage, and a second part identifier for uniquely identifying the data file in the data deduplication system over time.
US09697220B2
A system and method can support metadata compression in a distributed data grid. The system can store a plurality of keys in compact data structure (such as a radix tree) in a heap, wherein each said key is associated with an entry in a journal off-heap. Furthermore, the system can look up the tree for a key, wherein the key is associated with a journal ticket that represents a virtual address of an entry in the journal. Then, the system can use the journal ticket to manage the entry in the journal that is associated with said key.
US09697215B2
Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for resumable replication. In one implementation, an interruption in a transfer between a source and a target is identified. The transfer includes a send stream generated by the source and configured for receipt by the target. The send stream includes one or more snapshots of the source. A receive checkpoint generated by the target is received at the source. The receive checkpoint indicates data successfully received into the target during the transfer prior to the interruption. The transfer is resumed based on the received checkpoint. The resumed transfer skips any of the one or more snapshots and all data in a resumable snapshot already existing on the target. A complete transfer from the source to the target is verified using a chain of custody.
US09697212B2
A method and system for managing consistent data objects are included herein. The method includes detecting an operation to store a consistent data object. Additionally, the method includes detecting an attribute for the consistent data object. Furthermore, the method includes storing the consistent data object based on the attribute. In addition, the method includes determining an additional format of the consistent data object is to be stored. The method also includes generating a second consistent data object based on the additional format and storing the second consistent data object.
US09697211B1
Techniques for creating and using a hierarchical data structure, in accordance with embodiments of the present invention include storing received data as records in a first level of the hierarchical data structure. One or more parameters for each block of records in the first level are summarized and stored in a second level of the hierarchical data structure. The techniques may also include querying a given level of a hierarchical data structure. One or more blocks of records one level below the given level are accessed. Each of the accessed blocks correspond to records that are summarized by records in the given level that satisfies the query.
US09697209B2
The disclosure provides a multimedia authoring method for assistance in physical exercise, including the following steps. According to an exercise level command, a first number of first category parameters and a second number of second category parameters are defined to generate a category parameter sequence in which the first number of first category parameters and the second number of second category parameters are arranged randomly. First category multimedia file(s) corresponding to the first number of first category parameters and second category multimedia file(s) corresponding to the second number of second category parameters are selected from a database to establish a multimedia play list in which the first category multimedia file(s) and the second category multimedia file(s) will be sorted according to the order of the first number of first category parameters and the second number of second category parameters in the category parameter sequence.
US09697205B2
Additional documents are automatically located that are relevant to an original document, such as a document being read by a user, and also potentially relevant to personal information of the user. The additional documents may be located based on descriptive information that includes personal information of the user and content information of the document being read. The additional documents, or links to the additional documents, may be incorporated into the document being read. In some implementations, the additional documents may be presented in-line with the document being read, such as through an in-link link or text snippet. The user can thus be efficiently presented with additional information that is relevant to the original document being read.
US09697201B2
A speech-to-speech (S2S) translation system may utilize a damaging channel model to adapt machine translation (MT) training data so that a MT engine of the S2S translation system that is trained with the adapted training data can make better use of output received from an automated speech recognition (ASR) engine of the S2S translation system. The S2S translation system may include a MT training module that uses MT technology in order to simulate a particular ASR engine output by treating the ASR engine as a “noisy channel”. A process may include modeling ASR errors of a particular ASR engine based at least in part on output of the ASR engine to create an ASR simulation model, and performing machine translation to generate training data based at least in part on the ASR simulation model. The MT engine of the S2S translation system may then be trained using the generated training data.
US09697195B2
Various technologies pertaining to constructing a lexicon for a defined context are set forth herein. Social media text is acquired, where the social media text has contextual data that corresponds thereto. The social media text is encoded to form encoded text (in Unicode), and the contextual data is assigned to the encoded text. A text corpus for a defined context is formed by filtering the encoded text based upon contextual data, such as location. Frequency of occurrence of words or phrases in the text corpus is used to identify words or phrases that are to be included in the lexicon.
US09697194B2
A processor generates a temporary dictionary of one or both words and phrases based on an access of a first application. The processor uses the temporary dictionary to carry out auto-correct operations on text included in a second application.
US09697193B2
A spreadsheet application associates data obtained from a captured image with a spreadsheet. For example, one or more images of physical data may be captured and translated into electronic data that is automatically associated with one or more spreadsheets. The formatting and underlying formulas of the data included within the captured image may be represented within a spreadsheet (e.g. highlighted data remains highlighted within the electronic spreadsheet). The data may also be compared with existing electronic data. For example, differences between the data in the captured image with the data in an existing spreadsheet may be used to update the existing spreadsheet. A display of a captured image may be also be augmented using data that is obtained from the captured image. For example, a chart may be created and displayed using data that is obtained from the captured image.
US09697189B2
A method of delivering webpages to a browser includes delivering a first webpage using a streaming protocol that optimizes delivery of content of the first webpage where the first webpage includes information that may persist in a browser cache; delivering a second webpage without using the streaming protocol where the second webpage and the first webpage both reference a first resource; and forcing revalidation of the first resource stored on the browser cache.
US09697188B2
A method of delivering content of a webpage to a web browser on a device communicating with a network through a proxy server includes embedding a first nested browsing context in a parent browsing context of the web browser where the parent browsing context is associated with a first domain and the first nested browsing context is associated with a second domain; sending a request for content from the first nested browsing context to the second domain through the proxy server; and receiving at the first nested browsing context the content from the second domain.
US09697178B1
The tools and abstractions of the subject invention function as part of or to configure a system to use available data and information to automatically create narrative stories that describes domain events, circumstances and/or entities in a comprehensible and compelling and audience customized, manner. Computer executable instructions provide for generating a narrative story using standard and uniform structures and data for receiving domain related data and a story specification, parsing the story specification to provide constituent components, transforming the constituent components into executable code, instantiating content blocks having at least one feature for the domain according to the story specification and rendering the narrative story using the constituent components specified by the content blocks.
US09697174B2
A method and apparatus for efficiently processing data in various formats in a single instruction multiple data (“SIMD”) architecture is presented. Specifically, a method to unpack a fixed-width bit values in a bit stream to a fixed width byte stream in a SIMD architecture is presented. A method to unpack variable-length byte packed values in a byte stream in a SIMD architecture is presented. A method to decompress a run length encoded compressed bit-vector in a SIMD architecture is presented. A method to return the offset of each bit set to one in a bit-vector in a SIMD architecture is presented. A method to fetch bits from a bit-vector at specified offsets relative to a base in a SIMD architecture is presented. A method to compare values stored in two SIMD registers is presented.
US09697169B2
According to one embodiment, an electronic device including: a display unit; and a processor configured to: accept an input of numerical expression data comprising an input field-equipped function data with one or plural input fields; cause the display unit to display the numerical expression data and a cursor; move, upon accepting a first user operation, the cursor from one element to a next or previous element, the element being a constituent of numerical expression data; and move, upon accepting a second user operation when the cursor is present in the input fields, the cursor to an outside of the input field-equipped function data with the input fields.
US09697163B2
A data path configuration component for configuring at least one data path setting within a signal processing device is described. The data path configuration component is arranged to receive an indication of an operating mode of the signal processing device, and dynamically configure the at least one data path setting within the signal processing device based at least partially on the received indication of an operating mode of the signal processing device.
US09697160B2
A cabled midplane interconnect system includes a cabled midplane interconnect having a first connection and a second connection. A first circuit board has a third connection configured to be coupled to the first connection. A second circuit board has a fourth connection configured to be coupled to the second connection. The connection orientations are assigned such that a midplane cable, having a plurality of conductors, couples the first connection to the second connection so that none of the plurality of conductors crosses another of the plurality of conductors.
US09697156B2
A method, system and computer program product are provided for detecting and configuring an external input/output (IO) enclosure in a computer system. A PCIE Host Bridge (PHB) in a system unit is connected to a plurality of PCIE add-in card slots. One or more cables are connected between the PHB and the external enclosure. System firmware including detecting and configuring functions uses sideband structure for detecting a PCIE cable card and configuring the external input/output (IO) enclosure.
US09697153B2
An embodiment of the disclosure relates to the field of data transmission, in particular to a data transmission method and a data transmission device, for solving the problems of low data transmission efficiency and poor Direct Memory Access (DMA) performance in a method of arbitrating each DMA channel in a round-robin mode and transmitting data according to an arbitration result. The method in the embodiment of the disclosure includes that: for each DMA channel, an arbitration unit corresponding to the channel among a plurality of arbitration units is determined according to transmission performance corresponding to data in the channel; and when data in channels corresponding to at least two arbitration units need to be transmitted, the data are transmitted according to priorities of the at least two arbitration units. The embodiment of the disclosure first transmits data corresponding to a channel with good transmission performance corresponding to the data in the channel, and keeps a bus unblocked, thus improving data transmission efficiency and improving DMA performance.
US09697150B2
A real-time operating system (OS) for an embedded system may be configured for asynchronous handling of input and output (I/O) operations. When application code is executing, the OS may be configured to register I/O interrupts and queue I/O operations. When no application code is executing, the OS may be configured to call appropriate interrupt handlers. As result, the OS may maintain the real-time execution that may be required of applications on an embedded system while providing the flexibility and scalability offered by an operating system.
US09697143B2
A memory system is configured for access by a plurality of computer processing units. An address lock bit is configured in a translation table of the memory system. The address lock supports both address lock shared and address lock exclusive functions. A storage manager of an operating system configured to obtain exclusive access to an entry in a DAT table either by obtaining an address space lock exclusive or obtaining an address space lock shared, and setting a lock bit in a DAT entry.
US09697138B2
A mapping may be changed in a table stored in memory. The table may map a first set of addresses, for a set of data, to a second set of addresses. The changing of the mapping may including mapping the first set of addresses to a third set of addresses. In response to the changing of the mapping, one or more flush operations may be executed to invalidate one or more entries within one or more address translation caches. The one or more entries may include the second set of addresses. In response to the executing of the one or more flush operations, a first test case may be run. The first test case may be to test whether any of the first set of addresses are mapping to the second set of addresses.
US09697137B2
A filter includes filter entries, each corresponding to a mapping between a virtual memory address and a physical memory address and including a presence indicator indicative which processing elements have the mapping present in their respective translation lookaside buffers (TLBs). A TLB invalidation (TLBI) instruction is received for a first mapping. If a first filter entry corresponding to the first mapping exists in the filter, the plurality of processing elements are partitioned into a first partition of zero or more processing elements that have the first mapping present in their TLBs and a second partition of zero or more processing elements that do not have the first mapping present in their TLBs based on the presence indicator of the first filter entry. The TLBI instruction is sent to the processing elements included in the first partition, and not those in the second partition.
US09697136B2
A data processing system utilizing a descriptor ring to facilitate communication between one or more general purpose processors and one or more devices employs a system memory management unit for managing access by the devices to a main memory. The system memory management unit uses address translation data for translating memory addresses generated by the devices into addresses supplied to the main memory. Prefetching circuitry within the system memory management unit serves to detect pointers read from the descriptor ring and to prefetch address translation data into the translation lookaside buffer of the system memory management unit.
US09697127B2
A semiconductor device may include a pattern detector configured to select any one of a plurality of stride patterns as a detect pattern by referring to an input address, and the pattern detector may be configured to generate a prefetch address. The semiconductor device may also include a prefetch controller configured to generate a prefetch request according to the prefetch address generated by the pattern detector. The semiconductor device may also include a first storage unit configured to store prefetch data provided from a memory device according to the prefetch request generated by the prefetch controller, and a second storage unit configured to store prefetch data removed from the first storage unit.
US09697121B2
A computer-implemented method includes, in a transactional memory environment, identifying a transaction and identifying one or more cache lines. The cache lines are allocated to the transaction. A cache line record is stored. The cache line record includes a reference to the one or more cache lines. An indication is received. The indication denotes a request to demote the one or more cache lines. The cache line record is retrieved, and the one or more cache lines are released. A corresponding computer program product and computer system are also disclosed.
US09697114B2
An apparatus, method, and system are provided as a solution for computer operation. An embodiment of the apparatus includes a device that interconnects the core of the computer through the memory interface. The apparatus provides a communication path from the computer core to the world wide network. Computing communication and storage functions of the conventional computer are incorporated in the apparatus. The purpose of the apparatus is to enable the computer data and program to flow into and out of the computer core without being stored on a peripheral device such a disk or other media.
US09697110B1
The application code testing computing device may receive a set of instructions for testing one or more user interface pages of an application under test. The computing device may determine that the set of instructions is written in a first format, and parse the set of instructions to determine an action to perform and to determine data to use for the action to perform in response to determining that the set of instructions is written in the first format. Systems described herein may convert the determined action to perform to a second format to generate a converted action to perform and/or convert the determined data to use for the action to perform to the second format to generate converted data. The application code testing computing device may send, to an application framework, the converted action to perform and the converted data.
US09697104B2
A unique identifier is provided for a transaction. The unique identifier provided by a passport library. Corresponding trace and log data is assigned to the unique identifier of the transaction. A UI trace file is generated, the UI trace file comprising the unique identifier and UI trace and log data comprised in the assigned trace and log data. The UI trace file is replicated in a centralized system database and the UI trace file is parsed to extract the unique identifier and the UI trace and log data. Detailed trace and log data is dynamically collected from systems connected to the centralized system based on the unique identifier of the transaction. Detailed trace and log data and the UI trace and log data is aggregated in an end-to-end analysis tool.
US09697102B2
A method for comparing concurrent thread executions is disclosed. A thread flow marker class is defined for a source code. One or more markers of the thread flow marker class are embedded in a class of interest or in places of interest within the class of interest in the source code. A flow of data from concurrent threads executions from the source code is tracked using the one or more markers.
US09697101B1
Systems, methods, and computer program products to perform an operation comprising receiving a user action script, a first callback queue, and an asynchronous operation queue generated based on a first execution instance of a web application, simulating the first execution instance of the web application, comprising: invoking a second execution instance of the web application, simulating each user action of a plurality of user actions specified in the user action script, based on a plurality of callback functions specified in the first callback queue, simulating each asynchronous operation of a plurality of asynchronous operations specified in the asynchronous operation queue based on the plurality of callback functions specified in the first callback queue, and generating a second callback queue based on the simulated plurality of user actions and asynchronous operations.
US09697097B2
Methods are in use for saving data stored in a volatile memory to a non-volatile memory during a power outage in a storage system so that the data on the volatile memory is not lost. In the related art, the entire data saved to the non-volatile memory is read and written in the volatile memory when electric power supply is restored. Then, an operation as the storage system is resumed and an access request from a host is accepted. In the related art, the data saved in the non-volatile memory has to be read in entirety, and thus time is required until resumption of the access request acceptance and availability is impeded. According to the invention, a cache directory and cache data are saved to a non-volatile memory during a power outage and the cache directory is copied from the non-volatile memory to a volatile memory, a storage location of the data whose storage location in the cache directory prior to the saving is the volatile memory is changed to the non-volatile memory, and host I/O processing is initiated when electric power is restored in order to address this problem.
US09697095B2
A switch failure recovery system includes a network and a backup device that is coupled to the network. A first switch that includes a first switch memory system is also coupled to the network. The first switch stores a first switch configuration in the first switch memory system. The first switch then detects a failure issue associated with an imminent failure of the first switch and, in response, retrieves the first switch configuration from the first switch memory system, The first switch then sends the first switch configuration over the network to the backup device prior to an inability to communicate over the network due to the failure issue. The backup device may then provide the first switch configuration for application to the first switch (upon recovery) or a second switch that is coupled to the network.
US09697093B2
Techniques for recovering a virtual machine are disclosed. In one particular embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for recovering a virtual machine comprising the steps of selecting a first backup copy of a virtual machine in a first data store, selecting a second data store; enabling use of the virtual machine by reading from the first data store and writing to the second data store, selecting a second backup copy of the virtual machine, and migrating the virtual machine from the second backup copy to the second data store.
US09697092B2
Resiliency in file replication scenarios via maintenance of multiple replication queues with differing susceptibility to various sources of data loss. A plurality of requests are received at a first file system location to write to one or more file system objects at the first file system location. Details about the plurality of requests are recorded in at least two replication queues which differ, at least in part, as to types of failures which will cause data loss. Responsive to detection of data loss in one of the replication queues, details about the plurality of requests are retrieved from another of the replication queues.
US09697091B2
Method and system for asynchronously dispersing Disaster Recovery (DR) enabling data between a plurality of storage sites. The method comprises: receiving, at a primary storage site, a written block and a write frequency counter associated with the written block. In case the write frequency counter is below a threshold: receiving information dispersal parameters including number indicative of a size difference between said written block and DR enabling data based on said written block; number of slices to slice said DR enabling data into and data indicative of DR storage sites of said plurality of storage sites for storing said slices. Further calculating DR enabling data based on written block, wherein DR enabling data is larger than said written block by size difference; slicing DR enabling data in accordance with number of slices; and dispersing slices in accordance with data indicative of DR storage sites.
US09697081B2
A storage control device includes a processor. The processor is configured to acquire, when a first fault has occurred in a first storage device, first storage data to be used in recovery of the first storage device from a plurality of first storage control devices. The processor is configured to derive, when a second fault has occurred in a second storage device controlled by a second storage control device, first processed data from the first storage data. The first processed data is to be used in recovery of the second storage device. The processor is configured to notify the second storage control device of the first processed data.
US09697078B2
A method for auto recovery storage of JBOD array is disclosed. The method includes: determining whether a disk of the JBOD array is failed, deleting a storage resource according to a storage resource list for the failed disk is stored with an index area upon determining the failed disk, updating the index area corresponding to a recorded data area when the failed disk is stored with the storage resource of the recorded data area instead of the index area; transmitting control instructions indicative of adding a hot spare to the JBOD array to add the hot spare to the JBOD array, and adding the storage resource and activating the storage resource for the failed disk stored with the index area after the hot spare is added to the JBOD array.
US09697073B1
Systems and methods are provided for encoding forwarded error for data bus width conversion. Input data and input forwarded error information are received. System input parity information is computed based on the input data and the input forwarded error information. Output data based on the input data and system output parity information based on the system input parity information are provided, and it is determined whether to indicate a forwarded error output based on the output data and the system output parity information.
US09697070B2
Service issues predicted by detecting anomalies in an event signal is provided. An application such as a signal analysis application receives an event signal for analysis. The event signal includes events captured during a time period. The event signal is processed to generate a trend line. The trend line includes a best fit line transposed across averages of number of events of each data point across the time period. The number of events of an end data point may be compared to an upper confidence score and a lower confidence score associated with the end data point on the trend line. In response to detecting the number of events of the end data point exceed the upper confidence score, a notification is transmitted to a stakeholder associated with the event signal. The notification may describe a symptom associated with the number of events on the end data point.
US09697069B2
A processor-implemented method provides a remote diagnosis for an information appliance via a secure connection. A command is received from a console, and an examination is performed to determine whether or not the command is permitted to be issued. In response to a remote diagnostic module being initiated, a determination is made as to whether a secure connection to a remote information appliance has been created. In response to determining that the secure connection to the remote information appliance has been created, the command is transmitted to the remote information appliance via the secure connection.
US09697066B2
The present invention relates to a method for processing data quality exceptions in a data processing system, the data processing system having access to one or more data sources and having access to multiple technical support systems, the multiple technical support systems having one or more predefined technical tasks. The method comprises providing a predefined grouping rule for assigning data quality exceptions to exception groups, and associating each exception group using at least one technical task; receiving a first description of at least a first data quality exception in a data set of the first data source; using the grouping rule for assigning the first data quality exception to at least a first exception group using the first description, and for associating the first exception group with a first technical support system; routing by the exception engine at least part of the first description to the first technical support system.
US09697060B2
A mail handler is provided. The mail handler manages a source queue for incoming messages. The source queue has a first count of slots in memory and is associated with a source read pointer and a source write pointer. The mail handler manages the source write pointer and the source read pointer. The mail handler also manages a destination queue for outgoing messages. The destination queue has a second count of slots in memory and is associated with a destination read pointer and a destination write pointer. The mail handler advances the destination write pointer in response to at least one of (i) transferring one or more messages form the source queue to the destination queue and (ii) reserving one or more slots in the destination queue. The at least one processor advances the destination read pointer in response to reading at least one message from the destination queue.
US09697058B2
A plurality of computer messages are classified into clusters according to the behavior of the computer messages in the context of a computer resource. For a new message of the plurality of computer messages, it is determined whether the cluster to which the new computer message is classified has been seen previously. A measure is then obtained of the probability that the cluster to which the next new message will be classified has been seen previously.
US09697051B2
An approach is provided for providing services via cloud based analytics. An analytics platform determines one or more data propagation policies associated with propagating user information from at least one device to one or more cloud components. The analytics platform also processes and/or facilitates a processing of the one or more data propagation policies to cause, at least in part, a propagation of the user information to the one or more cloud components, wherein the propagation causes, at least in part, the user information to be available to one or more applications, one or more services, or a combination thereof.
US09697037B2
Aspects of the present disclosure are directed towards a method of receiving a first command for a virtual machine (VM) instance. This includes performing automatic command line parsing on the first command. This can further include associating, based on automatic command line parsing, a first tag with the VM instance. This can further include causing the first tag to be displayed as associated with the VM instance.
US09697030B2
A controller of a network control system for configuring several middlebox instances is described. The middlebox instances implement a middlebox in a distributed manner in several hosts. The controller assigns a first set of identifiers to a first middlebox instance that associates an identifier in the first set with a first packet. The controller assigns a second set of identifiers to a second middlebox instance that associates an identifier in the second set with a second packet.
US09697029B2
A hypervisor identifies one or more interrupts of a networking device for a virtual machine. The hypervisor queues the interrupts and determines the execution state of at least one virtual processor of a virtual machine. Upon determining that the execution state of the virtual processor is active, the hypervisor continues queuing the interrupts of the networking device. Upon determining that the execution state of the virtual processor has changed to idle, the hypervisor provides the queued interrupts to the virtual machine.
US09697022B2
Scripts are incrementally compiled at runtime to generate executable code. The incremental compilation generates executable code corresponding to a basic block of the script. The executable code for a basic block of script is generated for a set of types of variables of the basic block resulting from execution of the script in response to a request. The generated executable code is stored and executed for subsequent requests if these requests result in the same types of variables for the basic block. The incremental compilation of the script is performed in a lazy fashion, such that executable code is not generated for combinations of types of variables of the script code that are not obtained from requests received at runtime. The script may dynamically generate portions of a web page that is returned in response to a request for execution of the script.
US09697018B2
A computer implemented method of preserving functionality in a computer program by generating customized mock inputs may include identifying a set of functionalities of the computer program, where a first functionality has a first input, and a second functionality has a second input. The method may also include determining a first and a second constraint respectively on the first and second inputs, where the first constraint defines a set of values of the first input which enables the first functionality, and the second constraint defines a set of values of the second input which enables the second functionality. The method may then include generating a constraint satisfaction problem including the first and second constraints, and determining whether a tuple of mock input values exists that satisfy the constraint satisfaction problem. The method may additionally include providing the tuple to the computer program as the customized mock inputs.
US09697010B2
This patent relates to user devices that have user-selectable operating systems. One implementation can include primary storage having multiple compressed operating systems stored thereon in inoperable form. This implementation can also include a processor configured to execute a multi-option boot loader configured to receive a user selection of an individual operating system. The multi-option boot loader is configured to install a file folder structure on the primary storage in a configuration specific to the individual operating system and to install the individual operating system in an operable form on the primary storage relative to the file folder structure.
US09697007B2
A display apparatus and method for bending a display panel automatically during booting are provided. According to an exemplary embodiment, the display apparatus may include a display module; an input unit configured to receive a command from a user; a storage configured to store a booting sequence; a driver configured to change a curvature of the display module; and a processor configured to, in response to a power-on command being received through the input unit, control the driver to bend the display module, while performing booting according to the booting sequence.
US09696996B2
Mechanisms for extracting data dependencies during runtime are provided. With these mechanisms, a portion of code having a loop is executed. A first parallel execution group is generated for the loop, the group comprising a subset of iterations of the loop less than a total number of iterations of the loop. The first parallel execution group is executed by executing each iteration in parallel. Store data for iterations are stored in corresponding store caches of the processor, Dependency checking logic of the processor determines, for each iteration, whether the iteration has a data dependence. Only the store data for stores where there was no data dependence determined are committed to memory.
US09696995B2
Mechanisms for extracting data dependencies during runtime are provided. With these mechanisms, a portion of code having a loop is executed. A first parallel execution group is generated for the loop, the group comprising a subset of iterations of the loop less than a total number of iterations of the loop. The first parallel execution group is executed by executing each iteration in parallel. Store data for iterations are stored in corresponding store caches of the processor. Dependency checking logic of the processor determines, for each iteration, whether the iteration has a data dependence. Only the store data for stores where there was no data dependence determined are committed to memory.
US09696985B1
A method and associated system for patching virtual machines in L redundancy groups in accordance with a patching schedule. The patching schedule is generated by scheduling, in W sequential time windows, P patches applicable to the virtual machines. Each redundancy group includes virtual machines and independently belongs to a respective software application x of X software applications, wherein P≧1, L≧1, Rm≧1, and X≧1. The L redundancy groups collectively comprise at least 2 virtual machines. The scheduling determines xwmk for T tuples (w, m, k) defined by (w=1, . . . , W) and (m=1, . . . , L) and (k=1, . . . , Rm), by maximizing an objective function subject to constraints. Determining xwmk includes setting xwmk=1 if virtual machine k in redundancy group m is to be patched in time window w or setting xwmk=0 otherwise.
US09696982B1
Technologies are described herein for deploying an update to hosts in a heterogeneous host fleet. One or more relevant host attributes for hosts in the host fleet are identified. Hosts in the fleet of hosts are classified into groups based on the identified relevant host attributes. A pilot host set is built by selecting one or more hosts from one or more of the groups according to a pilot host selection criteria. The update is deployed to the hosts included in the pilot host set as a test deployment. If the test deployment is successful, the update is deployed to the remaining hosts in the fleet of hosts; otherwise, the deployment is modified to continue the deployment to a subset of the host or to cancel the deployment and to restore the hosts in the pilot host set to their previous states. An analysis may be conducted based on the deployment data to provide recommendations for future deployments.
US09696980B2
There is provided a method and system to automatically provide software and/or firmware updates to the electronic devices, particularly mobile devices used by consumers such as portable health-care data interchange devices. There is also provided a method and system of updating software in electronic devices without requiring a wired data interface to affect changes. There is also provided a method and system for tracking the configuration of electronic devices that are sold to and configured by particular consumers, especially consumers/patients using electronic devices related to health care. Further, there are also provided a methods and systems for integrating the purchase, and ordering, and software configuration of electronic devices.
US09696971B1
A tool that outputs workflows for target computing devices receives user input selecting one or more Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), a plurality of workflow activities, each of which define actions that are to be performed by the target computing device, and an application framework. Based on these selections, the tool compiles the workflow activities for execution on the target computing device based on the first application framework selected by the user, and generates a workflow activity package to comprise the compiled plurality of workflow activities. If the selected application framework is not compatible with the execution environment at the target device, the tool allows the user to select a different application framework to replace the initially selected application framework, and to re-compile the workflow activities based on the newly selected application framework.
US09696969B2
The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or method that facilitates creating a portion of an industrial process. An interface component can receive a first portion of data associated with a first programming language and a second portion of data associated with a second programming language, wherein the first programming language is independent and disparate of the second programming language. An editor component can create at least one of a portion of an industrial process or a portion of a mixed language object by enabling the combination of the first portion of data and the second portion of data independent of the respective programming languages.
US09696953B1
A system monitors usage of devices, such as document processing devices, relative to users, user's locations and device location. A display is generated that shows device utilization by various users allowing system administrators to gage efficiency and effectiveness of device placement. A graphical display of a premises layout, such as an office floorplan, includes indicia for user location and device location. Modification of size or color provides visual feedback for devices, device use pairing, and relative activity levels. Storage of historic usage allows for an administrator to move indicia relative to the layout screen, such as dragging and dropping of new devices, moving devices into new locations or removal of devices, to predict and display how user activity may be affected.
US09696952B2
A method of providing a screen for manipulating execution of an application of an image forming apparatus, and the image forming apparatus using the method. The method includes an operation of displaying, on the screen, a first user interface for setting options to be applied to the execution of the application, and a second user interface including at least one virtual button for controlling the operation of the image forming apparatus, so that a user may control the image forming apparatus without using physical buttons.
US09696950B2
A computer implemented method of analyzing the content of a digital image, for example a page to be printed, computes a boundary enclosing all the non-white content of the image. The image within the boundary is then divided into regions based on a predetermined division rule. For each region the number of unique colors and the proportion of non-white pixels are computed. The image is then categorized according to the result of those computations. The categorization can be used to automatically set print settings according to the content of the image.
US09696947B1
A system and method include a printing system with printing modules through which print media is transferred. The printing modules include sensors and a fault detection component. A printing system includes a fault identification system (FIS) and a scheduler. The FIS includes, a machine learning component, a Dependency-matrix component and an optimal search component. The optimal search component repeatedly implements a Rate of Return (ROR) that links the probabilities of occurrences of faults to a priori probabilities of faults and a detection function of the ROR to elements of the D-matrix, determines a ROR value, provides a benefit, and sends one more test to a scheduler of the printing system, which then physically implements the one more test. The prior steps are repeated until a stopping condition is reached and a fault is diagnosed.
US09696946B2
An image forming apparatus, including a storage unit wirelessly accessible from an external device, switches its operation mode related to wireless access of the image forming apparatus between an active mode in which a signal for wirelessly connecting to an external device is transmitted and a passive mode enabling access to the storage unit in response to a signal for wireless connection from an external device.
US09696944B2
A storage system includes a plurality of vdisks, with each vdisk containing a plurality of storage segments, and each segment providing a specific class of service (CoS). Each vdisk stores files with data and meta data distributed among its storage segments. A storage system includes a memory having multiple classes of service. The system includes an interface for storing a file as blocks of data associated with a class of service in the memory. The interface chooses the class of service for a block on a block by block basis.
US09696939B1
In one aspect, a method to send a snapshot to a replication site includes generating a first snapshot of a production storage volume at a first point in time, generating a second snapshot of the production storage volume at a second point in time after the first point in time, obtaining differences between the first snapshot and the second snapshot, reading signatures from the production storage volume, sending the signatures to the replication site, writing the signatures to the replication site, reading data from changed locations in the second snapshot which is not at the replication site and sending the data from the changed locations to the replication site comprising a replica volume replicating the production storage volume. The production storage volume is part of a deduplication-based storage array.
US09696932B1
Guaranteeing space availability for thin devices includes reserving space without committing, or fully pre-allocating, the space to specific thin device ranges. Space may be held in reserve for a particular set of thin devices and consumed as needed by those thin devices. The system guards user-critical devices from running out of space, for example due to a “rogue device” scenario in which one device allocates an excessive amount of space. The system uses a reservation entity, to which a thin device may subscribe, which reserves space for the thin device without allocating that space before it is need to service an I/O request.
US09696916B2
The present disclosure relates to examples of reducing memory write operations using coalescing memory buffers. In one example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a method comprises computing a difference between a current state of data of at least one block of a storage device to which data is to be written and a state that would result from the write operation. The method further comprises populating at least one of one or more coalescing memory buffers with difference information associated with the difference and to be used to update an associated one of the blocks. Additionally, the method comprises selectively writing the difference information in the coalescing memory buffers to the storage devices, based on a determination of fullness of the coalescing memory buffers. The coalescing memory buffers are separate from the storage devices.
US09696912B2
Aspects include communicating synchronous input/output (I/O) commands between an operating system and recipient by issuing a first synchronous I/O command with an initiation bit set, identifying that a mailbox command has been initiated to return control to an operating system before waiting for operations of the first synchronous I/O command to complete, and issuing a second synchronous I/O command with a completion bit set in response to the control returning to the operating system.
US09696910B2
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods for data compression and management. A number of methods include receiving a number of data segments corresponding to a managed unit amount of data, determining a respective compressibility of each of the number of data segments, compressing each of the number of data segments in accordance with its respective determined compressibility, forming a compressed managed unit that includes compressed and/or uncompressed data segments corresponding to the number of data segments corresponding to the managed unit amount of data, and forming a page of data that comprises at least the compressed managed unit.
US09696906B1
A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving a storage operation request for a logical storage object. A storage insurance value is associated with the logical storage object. The storage operation request is processed to associate a storage liability value with the storage operation request. Whether the storage operation request should be effectuated is determined based, at least in part, upon the storage liability value and the storage insurance value.
US09696894B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a method and system for developing an analytic process. The method includes displaying, within an electronic system, a plurality of components operable to be used for designing a data analysis process. A user makes a selection of a data access component from the plurality of components. The data access component is operable for configuring access to a data source. The method further includes the user making a selection of a data selection component from the plurality of components and a data display component. The data selection component is operable for selecting data accessed via the data access component. The data display component is operable for configuring display of data based on the data selection component. Configuration data corresponding to the data access component, the data selection component, and the data display component can then be stored.
US09696887B2
A computer receives user input regarding at least a first and a second resource. The computer retrieves navigational content for the first and second resource. The computer displays the retrieved navigational content in a single interface. The computer receives user selection of at least one element of the retrieved navigational content. The computer then retrieves page content associated with the selected at least one element of the retrieved navigational content.
US09696884B2
An approach is provided for mixing at least one additional element on top of a media stream. A mix media platform determines at least a first media item for rendering in a first application. The mix media platform next determines one or more interactions with at least one connecting user interface element to associate a first representation of the first media item with a second representation of one or more media sources of a second application. The mix media platform then causes, at least in part, a mixing of the first media item and at least a portion of one or more second media items associated with the one or more media sources to cause, at least in part, a generation of a mix item.
US09696880B2
A screen management system may receive a user input to divide a screen area and divide the screen area into a plurality of divided screen areas. A different application may be displayed in each of the divided screen areas. User input comprised of dragging a resizing bar in a direction is received and the plurality of divided screen areas are resized in response to the user input.
US09696879B2
The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a method for tab switching. The method includes a step for receiving a multi-finger swipe gesture event for a computing device in a direction corresponding to a list of tabs of a user interface displayed on a screen of the computing device. The method also includes a step for determining a distance of movement corresponding to the received multi-finger swipe gesture. The method also includes a step for determining a next tab for selection from the list of tabs, where a distance from a current tab to the next tab is proportional to the determined distance of movement. The method also includes a step for providing instructions for a graphical update of the user interface, where the graphical update displays contents of a user interface associated with the determined next tab.
US09696875B2
A method for managing an e-mail response based on the e-mail domains of the recipients is provided. The method receives a first e-mail sent to a plurality of e-mail addresses that includes e-mails with different domain names, provides a list of different domain names associated with a plurality of e-mail addresses and an e-mail address of a sender of the first e-mail, generates, based on a selection of one or more of the different domain names, a distribution list including one or more e-mail addresses limited to e-mail addresses having a selected domain name, and providing the distribution list in an addressee field associated with the e-mail response.
US09696870B2
A method of outputting background content, which includes outputting a complex area by outputting a background content area in which a background content designated as a start content is output and outputting a function selection area to the background content area, the function selection area including items for selecting at least one specific function supported by a terminal, receiving an input signal for removing the function selection area, and outputting a background screen including only the background content area according to the received input signal for removing the function selection area.
US09696863B2
Methods, systems and devices are described for detecting a position-based attribute of a finger, stylus or other object with a touchpad or other sensor having a touch-sensitive region that includes a plurality of electrodes. Modulation signals for one or more electrodes are produced as a function of any number of distinct digital codes. The modulation signals are applied to an associated at least one of the plurality of electrodes to obtain a resultant signal that is electrically affected by the position of the object. The resultant signal is demodulated using the plurality of distinct digital codes to discriminate electrical effects produced by the object. The position-based attribute of the object is then determined with respect to the plurality of electrodes from the electrical effects.
US09696861B2
A touch panel includes capacitive sensing electrodes and a touch controller operates in a first operating mode to detect a touch location on the touch panel. In a second operating mode, the touch controller transmits a modulated data signal through the touch panel to an active stylus. Each electrode is driven by a line driver circuit. A control circuit selectively actuates first ones of the line driver circuits to pass the modulated data signal to corresponding first ones of the electrodes which do not pass through a region of the touch panel associated with the location of the detected touch. Simultaneously, the control circuit selectively actuates second ones of the line driver circuits, different from said first ones of the line driver circuits, to ground corresponding second ones of the electrodes which do pass through the region of the touch panel associated with the location of the detected touch.
US09696853B2
An optical touch apparatus includes a first light source, a second light source, a light guide device, a light reflecting device and an image sensing module. The first light source emits first light beam which travels within the light guide device and is reflective by an object close to or in contact with a surface of the light guide device to become a first image light beam. The first image light beam is reflected by a light reflecting device. The image sensing module receives the first image light beam. The second light source emits a second light beam, wherein when the optical touch apparatus moves on a working surface, the second light beam is reflective by the working surface to form a second image light beam which is received by the same image sensing module.
US09696850B2
In one embodiment, a computing device determines a touch gesture on a touch screen of the computing device. The touch gesture includes two or more data points that each correspond to a particular location on the touch screen and a particular point in time. For each of one or more of the data points, the computing device adjusts a time value representing its particular point in time. For each of one or more of the data points, the computing device adjusts a position value representing its particular location on the touch screen. The computing device fits a curve to the two or more data points to determine a user intent associated with the touch gesture.
US09696838B2
An organic light emitting display apparatus including a thin film encapsulation layer having a touch screen structure. The organic light emitting display apparatus includes a substrate; an organic light emitting diode (OLED) layer on the substrate; a thin film encapsulation layer on the OLED layer, and comprising a plurality of inorganic layers and a plurality of organic layers that are alternately stacked; and a touch sensing layer in the thin film encapsulation layer, wherein the touch sensing layer includes: a first touch conductive layer; a touch inorganic layer on the first touch conductive layer; and a second touch conductive layer on the touch inorganic layer, wherein the touch inorganic layer is one of the plurality of inorganic layers included in the thin film encapsulation layer.
US09696836B2
An electronic device includes a touch panel, an operation position detecting unit that detects an operation position, in a locked state, at which a touch operation has been made on the touch panel, an ear pinna determining unit that determines whether the touch operation has been made by a user's ear pinna, according to the detected operation position, and an ear pinna operation accepting unit that, if the touch operation is determined to have been made by the user's ear pinna, accepts an operation input made by the touch operation by the ear pinna.
US09696835B2
An organic light emitting display device includes an organic light emitting display panel and touch electrodes directly disposed on the organic light emitting display panel. The organic light emitting display panel includes an organic light emitting device disposed in a light emitting area and a first light blocking layer disposed in a non-light emitting area. The touch electrodes are disposed on a sealing layer that covers the organic light emitting device. The touch electrodes are disposed to overlap with the non-light emitting area. At least one of the touch electrodes includes a conductive light blocking material.
US09696824B2
Electronic device, input device, and method for controlling electronic device using the input device
An electronic device, an input device, and a method for controlling the electronic device using the input device are provided. The electronic device includes an input device sensor configured to detect mounting of an input device, a reception unit configured to receive a button input signal received from the input device mounted on the electronic device, and a controller configured to set a button portion provided in the input device as a button of the electronic device in response to a mounting of the input device on the electronic device, and to perform a function corresponding to the button input signal if the button input signal of the input device is received from the reception unit. Other embodiments are also possible.
US09696820B2
The present invention relates to digital circuit processing and provides a position indication device and a position indication method. In order to improve positioning accuracy of the position indication device without degrading its sensitivity, a position indication device is provided. The device comprises: a voltage dividing circuit connected with a resonant circuit and a rectifying and filtering circuit. The voltage dividing circuit obtains a predetermined proportion of a signal output from the resonant circuit and outputs it to the rectifying and filtering circuit. The present invention is applicable to digital handwriting pens.
US09696817B2
A portable electronic device includes a touch-sensitive display including a display and display touch-sensors to detect touches, and a keyboard including mechanical keys associated with characters, the mechanical keys including depressible keycaps to output the characters and keyboard touch sensors to detect touches on the mechanical keys. A processor is coupled to the keyboard and to the touch-sensitive display to detect a touch at a location associated with a signature entry field displayed on the touch-sensitive display, in response to detecting the touch, enter a keyboard signature process, detect a moving touch on the mechanical keys of the keyboard, along a path of contact of the touch on the mechanical keys, and, in response to detecting completion of the moving touch, enter a signature defined by the path of contact of the touch on the mechanical keys into the signature entry field.
US09696814B2
It is possible to operate a device while reducing erroneous recognition of a device even when a line of sight does not face the device in an accurate direction. An information processing device that detects a motion of a user includes a detecting unit that detects the motion of the user and a face direction of the user from an image photographed by an imaging unit, a detected motion determining unit that determines whether or not the motion detected by the detecting unit is an operation on the information processing device based on the face direction of the user and position information of the information processing device stored in a storage unit, and a display content control unit that causes a display unit to reflect the motion when the detected motion determining unit determines that the motion detected by the detecting unit is the operation on the information processing device.
US09696805B2
Provided is an electronic device including a contact detection unit 16 configured to detect a contact made by a contacting object, a pressure detection unit 13 configured to detect pressure applied to the contact detection unit 16, and a control unit 11 configured to perform control so that predetermined processing is carried out when data based on the pressure detected by the pressure detection unit 13 satisfies a predetermined standard. When the contact detection unit 16 detects another contact within a predetermined time period after the predetermined processing has been carried out, the control unit 11 performs control so that the predetermined processing is carried out when the data based on the pressure satisfies a lower standard than the predetermined standard.
US09696801B2
Techniques for providing an eye-controlled user interface for an electronic device are described. In some examples, a process includes establishing a control link between a device and a visual control circuit, the visual control circuit having an image sensor and a visual feature disposed substantially proximate to the image sensor at a control point, receiving an image by the image sensor, evaluating the image to determine whether an eye is oriented substantially toward the control point, determining whether a control action is intended, and, if the control action is intended, deriving the control action, and using the control link to perform the control action.
US09696799B2
An information display device that displays plural pieces of display information on a screen while laying out these pieces of display information, including: a gaze judger that judges whether or not the user is gazing at the screen; a display area change detector that detects a change of the display area of the display information; a display area determinator that, when a change of the display area is detected when the user is gazing at the screen, determines a display area according to a ratio of the change of the display area; and a display information display that displays the display information according to the display area of the display information. Even when the layout of the display information is changed in a state in which the user is not gazing at the screen, a change from a state in which an original display is produced is displayed when the user is gazing at the screen.
US09696798B2
A user of a computing system gazes at an image of visible objects in the user's field of view. The computing system determines the direction of the user's eye gaze into the field of view, and augments the image seen by the user with a computer-generated gaze direction indicator. The computing system may also determine the direction of an auxiliary pointer into the field of view, and may further augment the image seen by the user with a computer-generated auxiliary pointer direction indicator. The gaze direction indicator may be adjusted based on the user's eye movement and the auxiliary pointer direction indicator may be adjusted based on manipulation of the auxiliary pointer. The direction indicators may intersect over an object in the user's field of view, and may be displayed on a transparent display screen positioned between the user and the object.
US09696793B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein that may be implemented to selectably suppress computing input events that are generated for an information handling system based on output signals received from a variable pressure or displacement (VPD) sensor that correspond to one or more pressure or displacement zones defined for the VPD sensor. Using the disclosed systems and methods, computing input events based on sensor output signals from one or more given VPD sensing zones may be selectably suppressed and/or withheld during sensor pressure or displacement changes from further host system processing according to a time delay, e.g., as a function of the elapsed time taken for a user to depress or release a given VPD sensor.
US09696777B2
A system can include a processor; memory operatively coupled to the processor; a chipset operatively coupled to the processor; ports where each of the ports includes a respective power supply line; a switch; a hub operatively coupled to the ports and to the chipset for data transfer via an in-band protocol; and a microcontroller operatively coupled to the chipset, to the switch and to the hub where the microcontroller includes circuitry that controls the switch to transfer data to one of the ports via an out-of-band protocol and where the microcontroller includes circuitry that controls supply of power to the power supply lines.
US09696769B1
A chassis includes a base, a lid, and air baffles disposed within the base. The lid slidably engages opposing base side walls and slides between secured and unsecured positions. In one embodiment, a mechanical latch attaches to the lid and has a spring-biased latch arm for selectively locking the lid to the base and a latch hook for selectively locking the air baffle to the lid, wherein depressing the mechanical latch releases the lid from the base and physically separating the lid from the base causes the latch hook to secure the air baffle for removing the air baffle along with the lid. In another embodiment, a first magnet is attached to the lid and a second magnet is attached to the air baffle, wherein sliding the lid to the unsecured position aligns the first and second magnets and magnetically couples the air baffle to the lid.
US09696767B2
A command recognition method and electronic device using the method are described. The command recognition method includes obtaining at least two first contact points at side edge of the electronic device; determining a holding gesture with respect to the electronic device according to the at least two first contact points; obtaining at least one second contact point at which contact state is changed on a side edge of the electronic device in a predetermined time period; based on the holding gesture, the at least one second contact point and its corresponding contact state change, recognizing corresponding command. By use of the command recognition method, it can favorably achieve the recognition of the operation command with respect to the electronic device in the case that the number of keys in the electronic device (even no key) is reduced, thereby achieving effective control to the electronic device.
US09696764B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a dual-part hinge assembly for a portable electronic device. According to one embodiment, the portable computing device includes a display and a base housing connected via the dual-part hinge assembly. Furthermore, the dual-part hinge assembly comprises a first portion and a second portion that extends behind the first portion when the display transitions to an open position so as to provide stability for the computing device.
US09696760B1
An electronic device is provided to solve the problem of a relatively single form of an electronic device in the prior art. The electronic device comprises: a first main body; a connector; a second main body, being connected to the first main body through the connector, and can perform a first motion operation relative to the first main body via the connector, the second main body can perform a second motion operation along a second path via the connector.
US09696756B1
A case for a device includes a plurality of walls defining a cavity and an opening to the cavity. A first one of the walls is opposite the opening and is configured as a support surface to support a portion of a first housing of the device and also has a first recess therein configured to receive a portion of at least a first end of a band of the device. A second one of the walls defines an edge of the opening that is configured to extend along a center support of the band with the optical element of the device being positioned between the second one of the walls and the support surface when the device is received in the cavity. The case also includes a lid configured to cover the opening and to selectively enclose the interior cavity.
US09696751B2
A substrate is provided with a transparent electrode in which the pattern is hardly visible even when the transparent electrode layer has been patterned, and a method for manufacturing thereof is provided. On at least one of the surfaces of a transparent film, a first, second, and third dielectric material layer, and a patterned transparent electrode layer are included, in this order, each preferably having a film thickness and refractive index within a specific range. The first and third dielectric material layers are silicon oxide layers containing SiOx and SiOv as main components, respectively. The second dielectric material layer is a metal oxide layer containing a metal oxide. The transparent electrode layer is a conductive metal oxide layer containing an indium-tin composite oxide as a main component. The refractive indexes of the first (n1), second (n2), and third (n3) dielectric material layers satisfy the relationship n3
US09696750B2
The semiconductor device includes a command generator, an information signal storage unit, a termination signal generator and a code generator. The command generator generates a mode register write command signal, a start command signal and a termination command signal from external command signals. The information signal storage unit extracts information signals from the external command signals to store the information signals and output the information signals. The termination signal generator generates a termination signal in response to the information signals. The code generator generates code signals to control a timing of a control signal.
US09696737B2
A surge current compensating circuit has a compensating current generation unit and a bias unit, for compensating a surge current drawn from a supply power after an output signal of a specific circuit transits. The compensating current generation unit electrically coupled to the output stage of the specific circuit draws a compensating current form the supply power according to the output signal. The compensating current substantially equals to the surge current, and a summation of a current flowing through the output stage of the specific circuit and the compensating current is substantially unchanged regardless whether the output signal transits or not. The bias unit electrically coupled to the compensating current generation unit provides a bias to the compensating current generation unit to receive the compensating current passed through the compensating current generation unit or output the compensating current to the compensating current generation unit.
US09696735B2
A thermostat and a method include using occupancy sensors, temperature sensors, and humidity sensors to control activation of a cooling function of an HVAC system to dehumidify an enclosure. During times when the enclosure is occupied, the cooling function is activated when the humidity exceeds a first threshold humidity, and continues until the humidity drops below a second threshold humidity or the temperature drops below a first threshold temperature. During times when the enclosure is unoccupied, the cooling function is activated when the humidity exceeds a third threshold humidity, and continues until the humidity drops below a fourth threshold humidity or the temperature drops below a second threshold temperature.
US09696732B2
A valve device includes a valve seat forming member, a case, a first O-ring, and a second O-ring. The valve seat forming member is fit into a passage defining and forms a valve seat. The case houses an electromagnetic solenoid and is connected to the passage defining member. The first O-ring is interposed between an inner circumferential surface of the passage defining member and an outer circumferential surface of the valve seat forming member. The first O-ring prohibits the fluid from flowing through a space between the passage defining member and the valve seat forming member when the main valve body seats on the valve seat. The second O-ring is interposed between the case and the passage defining member. The second O-ring prohibits the fluid from flowing from the passage to an outside of the passage defining member.
US09696725B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for launching and landing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) including multi-rotor aircrafts. The methods and apparatus disclosed herein utilize positional change of the UAV, visual signal, or other means to effect the launch or landing. The methods and apparatus disclosed herein are user friendly, particularly to amateur UAV users lacking practice of operating a UAV.
US09696724B1
A system, device, and method for a takeoff (T/O) of an aircraft are disclosed. The T/O automating system may include an autothrottle system configured with a plurality of thrust modes, an autopilot system configured with a plurality of vertical guidance modes; and a flight management computer (FMC). The FMC may be configured to perform the method of receiving of input data representative of inputs of a T/O profile selection, a first profile altitude, a second profile altitude, and/or a third altitude; generating output data representative of outputs which includes a command engaging a thrust mode and a command engaging a vertical guidance mode to provide pitch attitude guidance commensurate to a speed and/or vertical speed; and providing the output data to the autothrottle system and the autopilot system. In some embodiments, the T/O profile could be a profile designed for one or more noise abatement departure profiles.
US09696722B1
A light detection and ranging (LIDAR) device scans through a scanning zone while emitting light pulses and receives reflected signals corresponding to the light pulses. The LIDAR device scans the emitted light pulses through the scanning zone by reflecting the light pulses from an array of oscillating mirrors. The mirrors are operated by a set of electromagnets arranged to apply torque on the mirrors, and an orientation feedback system senses the orientations of the mirrors. Driving parameters for each mirror are determined based on information from the orientation feedback system. The driving parameters can be used to drive the mirrors in phase at an operating frequency despite variations in moments of inertia and resonant frequencies among the mirrors.
US09696720B2
An apparatus for controlling autonomous navigation includes: a map data reception unit configured to receive parking lot map data indicating that a plurality of virtual lanes are located in a driving road in a parking lot and a grid point is located in each virtual lane by a certain interval from a parking server; and a controller configured to control driving of an autonomous vehicle based on a weight of each grid point included in the parking lot map data.
US09696716B2
A method for the serial personalization of smart cards in a production chain includes a phase of detecting a smart card already personalized and physically defective, and a phase of retrieving a serial number of the physically defective smart card, to be assigned to a smart card not yet personalized in the production chain. The physically defective smart card and the smart card not yet personalized are loaded together in the production chain wherein the physically defective smart card is rendered unusable, and the not yet personalized smart card receives the serial number retrieved from the physically defective smart card.
US09696715B2
A method protects at least two redundant servers. The redundant servers act as main and shadow interfaces between respectively at least two redundant process servers coupled to a manufacturing execution system and at least two redundant control servers coupled to an automation part. Each of the servers is configured to receive automation data from each of the redundant control servers. A time of receipt and a tag are extracted from the automation data and are registered in a database coupled with the servers. If one of the tags is registered within a predefined delay after the time of receipt of the other tag, the server with the older time of receipt is set up as the main interface and the other server is set up as the shadow interface.
US09696709B2
A method computes reference signals for a machine with redundant positioning by first generating a reference trajectory according to an ordered list of points. Then, using a filter or by choosing the value of the reference at each sampling time, a reference trajectory for the slow subsystem is produced. Next, determine whether the reference trajectory and the slow subsystem reference trajectory violate feasibility constraints, and if true, slowing down the reference trajectory and repeating with the generation of the slow subsystem reference trajectory. The slow subsystem reference trajectory is sent, via a model predictive control block, to a slow positioning subsystem controller, and a combination of the slow subsystem reference trajectory and the reference trajectory is sent to a fast positioning subsystem controller.
US09696707B2
A method for performing a milling operation includes providing a milling cutter and a workpiece having an non-machined workpiece surface; receiving a set of milling cutter geometry parameters; creating a curvilinear profile from the workpiece surface; extracting a radius parameter from the curvilinear profile; determining an initial step-over value in response to the set of milling cutter geometry parameters; determining a surface roughness value in response to the set of milling cutter geometry parameters, the curvilinear profile of the workpiece surface, the radius parameter, and an initial tool inclination angle; determining a minimum surface roughness value in response to the cutter inclination angle value; and adjusting a calculated step-over value in response to the minimum surface roughness value where the calculated step-over value and the calculated inclination angle value are applied to operating the milling cutter.
US09696704B2
A motor control system is provided that includes a communication gateway that facilitates connection of components, such as a motor starter, an operator interface, and a terminal block, through a digital communication link. The communication gateway includes control logic designed to discover interface and operational components connected to the digital communication link upon start-up of the motor control system. The control logic may then set up an operational profile for the motor control system based on the discovered components. For example, the control logic may retrieve and load an operational profile that corresponds to the set of discovered components from a storage of the communication gateway. The operational profile can then be used during operation of the motor control system to govern the functionality of the motor control system.
US09696702B2
Included are embodiments for wireless control and management. Some embodiments include receiving a first signal regarding a device condition of a service device in an environment, determining a condition type of the device condition, and sending a first request for to correct the device condition, based on the condition type. Some embodiments also include receiving a second signal indicating whether the device condition was corrected.
US09696698B2
We add a new entity Production Parameter History to the ISA-95 Production Schedule Model, thereby extending the model. The new entity stores the recent history of the values assumed by a subset of batch parameters most relevant for production control and resource planning, thus without the ERP system being charged with retrieving the historian from a log or from a warehouse in order to schedule the plant production. Putting together the batch information present in the ISA-95 Segment Requirement and the new Production Parameter History, the MES creates and stores a fully Electronic Batch Record close to a real situation found during product manufacturing. The MES system can provide the Electronic Batch Record to the ERP system through the ISA-95 Production Performance model extended thereof, since a production performance report is made up of a set of one or more Production Responses associated with Production Requests.
US09696696B2
Exemplary embodiments provide substation automation systems for operating a high or medium voltage substation for an electric power transmission or distribution network. The substation automation system includes a multitude of secondary devices, which transmit and receive data from/to each other via multicast packets. The secondary devices include packet filters, which are adapted to be set up dynamically during the runtime of the substation automation system, in order to update the rules for forwarding multicast packets received from the station bus system to the application running on the secondary devices.
US09696694B2
A technique that allows determination of appropriate control parameter values automatically. A constraint evaluation indicator setting unit sets, to each of a plurality of additional constraints, a third evaluation indicator obtained by combining a first evaluation indicator that indicates a level of influence on other control parameters when a control parameter is changed, and a second evaluation indicator that indicates weight according to a property including importance and the like. A constraint satisfaction solution retrieve unit retrieves a combination of control parameter values that satisfies constraints. When the constraint satisfaction solution retrieve unit fails to retrieve the combination of control parameter values, a constraint relaxing unit relaxes the additional constraints in accordance with the third evaluation indicator.
US09696683B2
An image forming apparatus includes a front cover and a maintenance cover. The front cover has a support section, an interference section, and a projection. The support section is supported by a housing of the image forming apparatus so as to be pivotable about a pivot axis. The interference section extends rearward from an edge of the front cover. The projection is located on a contact surface that comes in or out of contact with a specific section of the maintenance cover as the front cover is closed or opened with the maintenance cover in a closed state. The specific section of the maintenance cover has a hole. The projection fits in the hole.
US09696682B2
An image forming apparatus, comprising: a body casing, a drum unit movable between an inside position and an outside position, and a waste toner storage unit, and wherein the drum unit comprises a photosensitive drum, a cleaning unit to remove toner remaining on a surface of the photosensitive drum, and a conveying unit including a conveying member to convey the toner in a moving direction of the drum unit, and a conveying tube to accommodate the conveying member and to have a discharging outlet through which the toner is discharged to the waste toner storage unit, and wherein the conveying tube comprises: a first conveying tube to extend in the moving direction and to accommodate the conveying member, and a second conveying tube to be connected to the first conveying tube and to extend in a direction intersecting with a direction in which the first conveying tube extends.
US09696672B2
A drive transmission unit transmits driving force to a driven unit including a driven rotator coupled to the drive transmission unit via a unit coupler. The drive transmission unit includes a driving source, a drive transmission member to transmit driving force from the driving source to the driven rotator by engaging the driven rotator, and a basal plate with a turning shaft portion at one end thereof. The basal plate supports the driving source and the drive transmission member thereon. The drive transmission unit is turned around the turning shaft portion together with the driven unit in a direction substantially orthogonal to a direction of a driving reaction force applied to the drive transmission member when the driven rotator receives the driving force from the drive transmission member.
US09696669B2
A fuser device is provided with a first endless belt, a heat application member that is enclosed by the first endless belt and heats the first endless belt, a fuser member enclosed by the first endless belt, a second endless belt of which rigidity is higher than that of the first endless belt, a pressure application member that is enclosed by the second endless belt and applies a pressure to developers on a carried recording medium in the contact part with the fuser member, and a support part forming part that forms a support part of the first endless belt and the second endless belt.
US09696666B2
In an image forming apparatus including a pressing member arranged on an inner circumferential surface of an intermediate transfer belt, configured to correct a position of the intermediate transfer belt in the width direction to be fit within a movable region, positions of both ends of the pressing member in the width direction are respectively arranged outside positions of both ends of the movable region.
US09696657B2
A removable device to be detachably attached to an apparatus main body includes a container body to store developer; a discharge opening to discharge the developer inside the container body; an internal shutter to open and close the discharge opening; an external shutter to open and close the discharge opening, the external shutter being disposed at an outer side with respect to the internal shutter, wherein the internal shutter and the external shutter are configured to be driven separately.
US09696631B2
A projection exposure system and a method for operating a projection exposure system for microlithography with an illumination system are disclosed. The illumination system includes at least one variably adjustable pupil-defining element. The illumination stress of at least one optical element of the projection exposure system is determined automatically in the case of an adjustment of the at least one variably adjustable pupil-defining element. From the automatically determined illumination stress, the maximum radiant power of the light source is set or determined and/or in which an illumination system is provided with which different illumination settings can be made. Usage of the projection exposure system is recorded and, from the history of the usage, at least one state parameter of at least one optical element of the projection exposure system is determined.
US09696624B2
A composite, which is a blend comprising: a nanoparticle comprising a core and a coating surrounding the core; and a polymer, wherein the coating of the nanoparticle comprises a ligand, wherein the ligand is a substituted or unsubstituted C1-C16 carboxylic acid or a salt thereof, a substituted or unsubstituted C1-C16 amino acid or a salt thereof, a substituted or unsubstituted C1-C16 dialkyl phosphonate, or a combination thereof; and wherein the polymer is a polymerization product of a photoacid generator comprising a polymerizable group; at least one unsaturated monomer, which is different from the photoacid generator comprising a polymerizable group; and a chain transfer agent of formula (I); wherein: Z is a y valent C1-20 organic group, x is 0 or 1, and Rd is a substituted or unsubstituted C1-20 alkyl, C3-20 cycloalkyl, C6-20 aryl, or C7-20 aralkyl.
US09696611B2
A panoramic device includes a base member and a clamp member rotatably interconnected within a single plane of rotation with the base that includes a first rotatable knob to selectively inhibit the rotation of the clamp member with respect to the base. The upper surface includes a central region that is at a different elevation than another portion of the upper surface. The clamp includes a pair of opposed surfaces suitable to detachably secure a camera thereto. The one of the opposed surfaces is maintained in a fixed relationship with respect to the clamp member. The other one of the opposed surfaces is in a movable relationship with respect to the clamp member using a second rotatable knob. The first knob and the second knob are rotatably connected with respect to one another.
US09696605B2
A method for fabricating crystalline dielectric material on top of metal layers to produce an apparatus for non-mechanical steering of an input laser beam is provided. The apparatus may include a plurality of stacked parallel dielectric waveguides, each waveguide of which is fabricated by separating layers of dielectric material from a donor wafer and bonding the separated layers of dielectric material to a receiving wafer. A plurality of voltages is applied across the stacked parallel dielectric waveguides. Each of the stacked parallel dielectric waveguides is electrically phase modulated to deflect an output beam in a predictable manner.
US09696602B2
A method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display includes: forming a first passivation layer and an organic layer, forming an edge of an inclined portion of the organic layer by partially removing the organic layer at a location where a first drain contact hole that exposes a drain electrode of a thin film transistor is formed, forming a second passivation layer including a third drain contact hole exposing the drain electrode, a first electrode including a second drain contact hole exposing the drain electrode, and the first drain contact hole through an etching process using one etching mask, and forming a second electrode on the second passivation layer. The first drain contact hole, the second drain contact hole, and the third drain contact hole overlap with each other, and a size of the second drain contact hole is greater than a size of the third drain contact hole.
US09696600B2
A display device may include a substrate and a first roof layer portion that is formed of a roof layer material and overlaps the substrate in a direction, the direction is perpendicular to a surface of the substrate. A lateral surface of the first roof layer portion is disposed in a plane. The display device may further a second roof layer portion formed of the roof layer material and separated from the first roof layer portion. The display device may further a common electrode portion disposed between the first roof layer portion and the substrate in the direction. A lateral surface of the common electrode portion is disposed in the plane or is spaced from the lateral surface of the first roof layer portion in a second direction parallel to the surface of the substrate. The display device may further a pixel electrode disposed between the first common electrode portion and the substrate.
US09696598B1
The present invention provides a display panel and a display device. In the display panel, edges of multiple rows of pixel units are arranged in a step-like manner, each row of pixel units include a central pixel unit and a marginal pixel unit, each central pixel unit includes first thin film transistors each corresponding to a sub-pixel and having a first semiconductor region; each marginal pixel unit includes second thin film transistors each corresponding to a sub-pixel and having a second semiconductor region; length and width of the first semiconductor region are respectively set to be a first set length and a first set width, length and width of the second semiconductor region are respectively set to be a second set length and a second set width such that brightness of the marginal pixel unit is smaller than brightness of the central pixel unit during display.
US09696593B2
An electro-optical device may include a first substrate, a second substrate, a seal member between the first substrate and the second substrate, and a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer between the first substrate and the seal member. The first substrate may include a pixel area and a seal region around the pixel area and in which the seal member is provided. The first conductive layer may include a first pattern having a first edge and a second edge, the second conductive layer may include a second pattern having a third edge and a fourth edge, the first edge may be arranged at an inner side of the second pattern and closest to the third edge, the second edge may be arranged at the inner side of the second pattern and closest to the fourth edge, and the second pattern may overlap with the first pattern.
US09696583B2
A switchable type display device includes: a display panel displaying an image; and a lens panel refracting or transmitting a light emitted from the display panel, the lens panel comprising: first and second substrates facing and spaced apart from each other; first and second electrodes on an inner surface of at least one of the first and second substrates; a lens layer between the first and second substrates; and a liquid crystal layer between the lens layer and one of the first and second substrates, the liquid crystal layer including a nano liquid crystal having a nano capsule filled with a plurality of liquid crystal molecules.
US09696577B2
According to one embodiment, a reflective type liquid crystal display device provided can suppress light leakage into a thin film transistor due to entry of extraneous light. An array substrate includes a glass substrate, a plurality of thin film transistors, a plurality of pixel electrodes, and a metal film. The plurality of thin film transistors are provided to the glass substrate. The plurality of pixel electrodes are spaced apart from each other and driven by the thin film transistors. The plurality of pixel electrodes reflect extraneous light entering the reflective type display device from a counter substrate side. The metal film is provided between a gap between the pixel electrodes and each of the thin film transistors.
US09696569B2
The present disclosure discloses a driving apparatus of a display panel and a display apparatus. A temperature detection module for detecting a temperature of the switching power supply is provided, so that when the temperature of the switching power supply is larger than or equal to a preset temperature value, the temperature detection module may feed back to the clock controller a first control signal. The clock controller may switch a polarity inversion mode of displaying an image on the display panel according to the received first control signal, i.e., switching the polarity inversion mode from the first polarity inversion mode with a large power consumption into a second polarity inversion mode with a small power consumption, thereby reducing the power consumption of the switching power supply and thus reducing the temperature of the switching power supply.
US09696568B2
Provided are a light source apparatus and an inspection apparatus that can stably output a wavelength converted light beam. A light source apparatus includes a laser light source that generates a first fundamental light beam, at least one nonlinear optical crystal that generates a wavelength converted light beam using the fundamental light beam or a harmonic laser beam of the fundamental light beam as an incident light beam, a detector that detects the wavelength converted light beam, an acousto-optic modulator that is disposed in an optical path of the incident light beam in such a way that a zero-order light beam enters the nonlinear optical crystal, and a controller that controls an output intensity of the wavelength converted light beam according to a detection signal from the detector.
US09696560B2
A new 2D/3D switchable display apparatus matches a polarization direction of light output from a 2D image display panel with a rubbing direction of a lower alignment layer of a liquid crystal lens, and tilts a rubbing direction of an upper alignment layer of the liquid crystal lens and a direction of a polarization axis of a polarizer at a predetermined angle, thereby reducing a loss of light passing through the liquid crystal lens, making it possible to improve luminance of images, improve the quality of 3D images in the horizontal direction, prevent or reduce color separation and moire phenomena, and reduce the manufacturing cost.
US09696552B1
A system is disclosed including a mountable component configured with an attachment to allow the mountable component to be readily attached to and removed from an independent wearable garment, a positioning slide connected to the mountable component, a display mount connected to the positioning slide, a lens adjustment arm attached to the positioning slide, and a curved lens surface connected to the lens adjustment arm. The positioning slide is configured to move the lens and display mount in a back and forth direction and a left to right direction. Another system and method are also disclosed.
US09696551B2
The disclosure discloses an information processing method and an electronic device. The information processing method comprises: acquiring a second image; analyzing the second image to determine a second display parameter of the second image; determining, based on the second display parameter of the second image, a first display parameter of the display content to be presented, so as to make the difference between the first display parameter of the display content and the second display parameter of the second image greater than a threshold; and presenting the display content with the first display parameter.
US09696549B2
A method pairs content from a specific area in virtual space with a graphics driver for a physical display. An augmented reality device defines a virtual space, which is delimited by a spatial border that is created by the augmented reality device and is visible only to a user of the augmented reality device. One or more processors associate the virtual space with a graphics driver from a plurality of graphics drivers. A signal indicating a virtual space selection gesture is generated by the augmented reality device in response to the user making a physical motion that selects the virtual space, and sent to a video adapter hardware card. In response to receiving the signal indicating the virtual space selection gesture, the video adapter hardware card implements the graphics driver to display content associated with the virtual space on the physical display.
US09696545B2
A projector includes a light source portion; and an optical scanning portion that scans light from the light source portion, wherein the light source portion comprises a first holder that holds a light source, and a second holder that holds an optical portion through which light from the light source is emitted, and the first holder and the second holder are arranged in that order from a light emitting direction.
US09696543B2
Arrangement positions in a physical space, which are set in advance for a plurality of indices, are acquired. Among indices in an image of the physical space, an index that satisfies a predetermined condition is specified as a target index. Notification of the arrangement position of the target index is performed.
US09696542B2
An input device including: an input unit having a plurality of buttons disposed in a handle of a vehicle; an interface unit configured to receive data concerning the vehicle or to transmit an input signal received via the input unit to an external device; a processor configured to change a function of at least one of the plurality of buttons to a set function based on a manipulation signal from the input unit; and a display configured to display an image corresponding to the set function of the at least one of the plurality of buttons.
US09696538B2
To provide a high-density optical interconnect device, information processing device and data transmission method which are able to suppress limitations caused by the widening of light beams and the size of lenses. An optical interconnect unit includes a plurality of first lenses and a plurality of second lenses corresponding to a plurality of light-emitting element groups, and a plurality of light beams emitted from the plurality of light-emitting element groups pass through plurality of first lenses and the plurality of second lenses. The optical interconnect unit also includes a plurality of third lenses and a plurality of fourth lenses, and light beam groups pass through any one of the plurality of third lenses and the plurality of fourth lenses, and are focused by any one of a plurality of light-receiving element groups that include a plurality of light-receiving elements.
US09696532B2
An image having an expected superresolution effect is created in a straightforward manner and with superior precision. The invention provides a scanning laser microscope including a scanner that scans a laser beam emitted from an Ar laser device on a specimen; an objective lens that radiates the laser beam scanned by the scanner onto the specimen and that collects return light coming from the specimen; a detector array that has a plurality of minute detector elements arrayed at a position that is optically conjugate with the focal position of the objective lens; and a superresolution calculating portion that calculates a center position of a spot of the return light that is incident on the detector array on the basis of a light intensity signal output from each of the minute detector elements in the detector array.
US09696529B2
A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens unit having a positive refractive power; a second lens unit having a negative refractive power; a third lens unit having a positive refractive power; a fourth lens unit having a positive refractive power; and a fifth lens unit having a negative refractive power, in which: at a telephoto end as compared to a wide angle end, an interval between first lens unit and second lens unit is increased, and an interval between second lens unit and third lens unit is decreased; an interval between each pair of adjacent lens units is changed during zooming; and focal lengths of a focusing mechanism and the third lens unit, a movement amount of the fifth lens unit during zooming from the wide angle end to the telephoto end, and other factors are appropriately set.
US09696528B2
Present embodiments provide for a mobile device and an optical imaging lens thereof. The optical imaging lens comprises five lens elements positioned in an order from an object side to an image side. Through controlling the convex or concave shape of the surfaces of the lens elements to allow the thickness of the second lens element and air gaps between the five lens elements along the optical axis satisfying the relation 4.11≦f/(AG12+AG45)≦17.06, where f is the effective focal length of the optical imaging lens, AG12 is the air gap between the first and second lens element along the optical axis, and AG45 is the air gap between the fourth and fifth lens element along the optical axis. The optical imaging lens shows better optical characteristics and the total length of the optical imaging lens is shortened.
US09696527B2
A projection lens includes a first lens group and a second lens group, all of which are arranged in sequence from a projection side to an image source side along an optical axis. The first lens group is with positive refractive power. The second lens group is with positive refractive power and includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens and a fourth lens, wherein the first lens is with negative refractive power, the second lens is with positive refractive power, the third lens is with positive refractive power and the fourth lens is with positive refractive power. The first lens and the second lens are cemented together to form a cemented lens, the cemented lens is with negative refractive power. The first lens satisfies: −0.579≦f1/f≦−0.4 wherein f1 is an effective focal length of the first lens and f is an effective focal length of the projection lens.
US09696523B1
An optical imaging lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side: a stop, a first lens element with a positive refractive power, a second lens element with a negative refractive power, a third lens element with a refractive power, a fourth lens element with a positive refractive power, and a fifth lens element with a negative refractive power. A focal length of the second lens element, the third lens element and the fourth lens element combined is f234, a focal length of the fifth lens element is f5, and they satisfy the relation: −1.8
US09696521B2
A lens module includes: a first lens including a convex object-side surface and a convex image-side surface; a second lens including a concave image-side surface; a third lens including a concave object-side surface; a fourth lens having negative refractive power, and including a concave object-side surface; and a fifth lens having negative refractive power and including an image-side surface having one or more inflection points and a convex object-side surface. The first lens, the second lens, the third lens, the fourth lens and the fifth lens are sequentially disposed in a direction from an object side of the lens module. The expression f/ImgH<1.3 is satisfied, with f being an overall focal length of an optical system including the first lens, the second lens, the third lens, the fourth lens and the fifth lens, and with ImgH being half of a diagonal length of an image sensor.
US09696516B2
A vehicle repair hand tool has a handle, a connecting rod, a connecting unit and a working unit. The connecting rod is connected with the handle. The connecting unit is connected with the connecting rod and has an engagement hole. The working unit is connected with the connector and has a base, an engagement unit and a working body. The base has a sliding recess and a recess opening formed in a bottom of the sliding recess. The engagement unit is mounted in the sliding recess and has a sliding block slidably mounted in the sliding recess. The engagement unit further has an engagement ball mounted in the recess opening, sheltered by the sliding block, and selectively engaged in the engagement hole. The working body is mounted on the base.
US09696504B2
An electronic apparatus includes a substrate and an optical connector connected to a waveguide on the substrate. The optical connector includes a ferrule that holds an optical fiber and has front and rear parts along a connecting direction of the optical connector with respect to the substrate. The ferrule has a hook and a presser member provided on a bottom face at the front part of the ferrule, a projection provided on the bottom face at the rear part of the ferrule, and a sloping part including a groove formed in the bottom face to hold the optical fiber. The optical fiber is held obliquely downward toward the substrate by the sloping part. The substrate has holes to receive the hook and the projection, and a groove to receive the optical fiber.
US09696501B2
A fiber coupling module comprises an optical fiber connector detachable from an optical fiber cable, wherein an end surface of the optical fiber cable is treated with an anti-reflection coat to set the reflectance lower than a predetermined value relative to the light of a first wavelength band and to set the reflectance higher than a predetermined value relative to the light of a second wavelength band excluding the first wavelength band, and the fiber coupling module connects to the optical fiber cable through said optical fiber connector. A main light source outputs the light of the first wavelength band to the optical fiber cable. An aiming light source outputs the light of the second wavelength band to the optical fiber cable. A detection element that detects the connection status of the optical fiber cable to the optical fiber connector based on the light of the second wavelength band reflected from the end surface of the optical fiber cable.
US09696499B2
Optical switch for adjustable deflection of a light beam from the direction of an input point in the direction of one of several output points. The optical switch includes a switching mirror sensitive to changes in environmental conditions, such as temperature fluctuations. Also included is a rotatable capturing mirror, two beam splitters, and two spatially-resolving detectors. Both mirrors can be rotated around respective axes. A front beam splitter for the partial coupling of the light beam at the front detector that is optically positioned between the capturing mirror and the switching mirror, while the back beam splitter for the partial decoupling of the light beam at the back detector is arranged optically between the switching mirror and each of the output positions. A control unit is adapted to control the drive of the switching mirror on the basis of a signal from the back detector.
US09696485B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for optical communications. In one aspect, an optical circulator array includes a plurality of stacked three port circulators each having a respective first port of a first port array, a respective second port of a second port array, and a respective third port of a third port array, wherein each of the plurality of stacked three port circulators share optical components including: a first Wollaston prism coupled to the first port array, a first lens, a first half wave plate, a polarization dependent beam path separator, a second half wave plate, a second lens, a propagation direction dependent polarization rotation assembly, a second Wollaston prism coupled to the second port array, and a third Wollaston prism coupled to the third port array.
US09696484B2
A solution for fabricating a structure including a light guiding structure is provided. The light guiding structure can be formed of a fluoropolymer-based material and include one or more regions, each of which is filled with a fluid transparent to radiation having a target wavelength, such as ultraviolet radiation. The region(s) can be created using a filler material, which is at least substantially enclosed by the fluoropolymer-based material and subsequently removed from each region. The structure can further include at least one optical element integrated into the light guiding structure.
US09696480B2
Provided is a method for a light conversion member including forming a plurality of grooves etched by a predetermined depth from a top surface to a bottom surface of a first substrate, forming a plurality of first connection members disposed in a first unit area partitioned by each of the grooves and having a closed loop shape surrounding each of the grooves on the top surface of the first substrate, forming a quantum dot member in the groove, forming a plurality of second connection members disposed in each of second unit areas partitioned on a bottom surface of a second substrate, cutting the second substrate along boundaries of the second unit areas; bonding a plurality of second sub substrates cut along the second unit areas to the top surface of the first substrate so as to overlap the first unit areas.
US09696478B2
An optical device is provided for coupling an external optical signal into a plurality of on-chip photonic sub-circuits provided on a substrate. The optical device comprises: a planar waveguide layer on the substrate; a diverging grating coupler configured to couple the external optical signal to the planar waveguide layer and to thereby create an on-chip diverging optical beam in the planar waveguide layer; and a plurality of channel waveguides formed in the waveguide layer. Each channel waveguide of the plurality of channel waveguides comprises a waveguide transition structure having a waveguide aperture oriented towards the diverging grating coupler. For each channel waveguide of the plurality of channel waveguides the position and the width of the corresponding waveguide aperture and the angle and the shape of the waveguide transition structure are individually selected to capture a predetermined portion of the on-chip diverging optical beam.
US09696473B2
The present invention relates to a laminate including an unstretched polymer film; and an unstretched polyvinyl alcohol-based film attached to at least one surface of the polymer film, and a preparing method for a thin polarizer using the laminate.
US09696463B2
The present invention provides an antiglare film that has a thin antiglare layer and suppresses generation of scintillation and white muddiness at significantly high levels, while maintaining the hard-coating property and antiglare property, thereby providing favorable high-contrast display images. The present invention is an antiglare film including: a light-transmitting substrate; and an antiglare layer that has surface roughness and is provided on one face of the light-transmitting substrate, wherein the antiglare layer has plural rod-shaped projections having an aspect ratio of at least 2 on the opposite side of the surface contacting the light-transmitting substrate, the projections of the antiglare layer occupy 20 to 40%, per unit area, of the opposite side of the surface contacting the light-transmitting substrate, and NT indicating the number of all projections and NS indicating the number of rod-shaped projections among all the projections, per unit area of the surface of the antiglare layer, satisfy the following formula (1): NS/NT>0.2 (1).
US09696462B2
There is provided a metal-based particle assembly comprising 30 or more metal-based particles separated from each other and disposed in two dimensions, the metal-based particles having an average particle diameter in a range of from 200 to 1600 nm, an average height in a range of from 55 to 500 nm, and an aspect ratio, as defined by a ratio of the average particle diameter to the average height, in a range of from 1 to 8, wherein the metal-based particle assembly has in an absorption spectrum for a visible light region a maximum wavelength of a peak at a longest side in wavelength, and an absorbance at the maximum wavelength is higher as compared with that of a reference metal-based particle assembly, on the premise that the numbers of the metal-based particles are the same. The metal-based particle assembly of the present invention presents significantly intense plasmon resonance.
US09696457B1
A motion sensing device includes an infrared radiation (IR) sensor configured receive signal IR from a warm object and background IR to produce a direct current output. A first transformation filter receives the direct current output and produces a filtered background. A second transformation filter receives the direct current output and produces a filtered signal. A rating compares the filtered signal and the filtered background to produce a result signal based on a detected difference between the filtered signal and the filtered background.
US09696448B2
A ground tracking apparatus for connection to a locator or other measurement device and configured to determine position, motion, and/or orientation information is disclosed. The ground tracking apparatus may include a ground follower assembly including one or more wheels, which may be detachably coupled to a buried object locator system to capture three-dimensional positional and orientation information during a locate process, as well as provide output data or information to be integrated with maps, photographs, drawings, or other data or information.
US09696437B2
Improved X-ray detectors are provided in a cross-strip geometry with better resolution than the electrode spacing. The basic idea is analog charge cloud reconstruction. An important practical aspect of this work is rotating the electrode pattern by about 45 degrees relative to the detector slab, which provides several performance benefits (equal length for all electrodes and greater ease of integration into vertical stacks etc.) that are expected to be especially relevant to achieve high performance from analog charge cloud reconstruction.
US09696422B2
Low cost, generally broad bandwidth synthetic aperture radar systems are detailed. The systems may be bistatic and include analog to digital converters in ground based receivers while transmitters and analogoue repeaters may be space-borne or airborne. Methods of producing synthetic aperture radar images also are detailed.
US09696419B2
An all-solid-state marine radar technology based on a non-rotating cylindrical array antenna is described. Multiple transmit/receive (T/R) modules are used to form the antenna beam, which allows the beam sequencing, the dwell time in each beam position, the resolution, and the beam shape to be varied in order to make best use of the available energy. Waveforms with a high duty ratio can be used on transmit in order to make efficient use of solid-state power amplifiers. High resolution in both range and Doppler provides high measurement accuracy and superior performance in clutter. Alternate embodiments, including continuous waveform embodiments are disclosed.
US09696417B2
An antenna includes a plurality of transmitting antennas that are: a first transmitting antenna that transmits a transmission wave in a right-upward direction relative to a reference axis substantially parallel to a road surface; a second transmitting antenna that transmits a transmission wave in a left-upward direction relative to the reference axis; a third transmitting antenna that transmits a transmission wave in a right-downward direction relative to the reference axis; and a fourth transmitting antenna that transmits a transmission wave in a left-downward direction relative to the reference axis. A transmission range of the transmission wave transmitted from each of the first transmitting antenna, the second transmitting antenna, the third transmitting antenna and the fourth transmitting antenna partially overlaps with the transmission ranges of the transmission waves transmitted from the transmitting antennas located in vicinity.
US09696415B2
A radar apparatus includes a change amount calculation section for obtaining, for each of a plurality of peaks of a first spectrum belonging to the same group, a peak value at the present point in time and calculating the difference between the peak value and a peak value obtained before the present point in time; a ratio calculation section for comparing the obtained difference with a predetermined difference threshold and calculating a ratio of the number of peaks whose differences are greater than the difference threshold to the number of all the peaks belonging to the same group; and a pedestrian determination section for determining that the object is a pedestrian when the calculated ratio is greater than a predetermined ratio threshold and at least one of peaks belonging to the same group differs from the remaining peaks in terms of the sign of the difference.
US09696403B1
Systems and methods are provided for a replaceable internal open-short-load (OSL) calibrator and power monitor. A calibration system can include a test port; and a replaceable module including a first lookup table corresponding to an open-short-load (OSL) component and a second lookup table corresponding to a power measuring component.
US09696395B2
Provided are apparatuses and methods for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) method includes applying radio frequency (RF) pulses to an object in a magnetic field, the RF pulses having different frequency bands for each of at least two types of nucleus in the object; applying predetermined pulse sequences for each type of nucleus to the object; receiving magnetic resonance signals emitted by each nucleus in response to the RF pulses and the predetermined pulse sequences; and generating an image of the object based on the received magnetic resonance signals.
US09696378B2
The disclosure describes a novel method and apparatus for providing a shadow access port within a device. The shadow access port is accessed to perform operations in the device by reusing the TDI, TMS, TCK and TDO signals that are used to operate a test access port within the device. The presence and operation of the shadow access port is transparent to the presence and operation of the test access port. According to the disclosure, the shadow access port operates on the falling edge of the TCK signal while the test access port conventionally operates on the rising edge of the TCK signal.
US09696368B2
On an EP substrate 1, an EP layer 2 having a conductivity type different from that of the EP substrate 1 is grown. With ion implantation, a well 5 having the same conductivity type as the EP layer 2 is formed, and a channel stop layer 10 is also formed. A dopant having a conductivity type different from that of the well 5 is diffused in the well 5 to form a pn junction 7 in the well 5. A plurality of cells 20 each having the diffusion layer 6 as one electrode and a rear surface 1a as the other electrode are formed as a TEG. Using the TEG, junction leakage currents from two depletion layers, a depletion layer 8 in the well and a depletion layer 4 at an interface between the EP layer 2 and the EP substrate 1, are measured.
US09696364B2
Disclosed herein is an apparatus and method for detecting a fault in a digitizer. The apparatus includes a function generator for generating test signals, a transmitting switch for transmitting the test signals generated by the function generator to a selective part or all of X- and Y-channels of a transmitting digitizer, a receiving digitizer arranged in a shape identical to that of the transmitting digitizer to be adjacent to the transmitting digitizer, the receiving digitizer receiving reception signals produced by the transmitting digitizer, a receiving switch for receiving resulting signals, generated by the receiving digitizer in response to the reception signals, from a selective part or all of X- and Y-channels of the receiving digitizer, a channel controller for controlling the transmitting switch and the receiving switch, a data collection unit for collecting the resulting signals, and an analysis unit for analyzing the collected resulting signals.
US09696363B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure include a method of operating an arc fault detection system, an arc fault detection system, and a system. An embodiment is a method of operating an arc fault detection system coupled to a power line, the method including determining one or more arc fault detection windows in power line signals on the power line, the power line signals comprising a communication signal and an alternating current (AC) power signal. The method further includes receiving the power line signals from the power line during the one or more arc fault detection windows, and performing arc fault detection processing on the received power line signals.
US09696360B2
A sump, ejector, or other pump monitor configured to monitor the amperage of electric current power supplied through the pump monitor to a pump and communicate one or more signals regarding the amperage or variations in amperage to a remote signal receiving device which indicate a predicted failure or actual failure of the pump. In various embodiments, the pump monitor operates with a remote pump failure warning system. The remote signal receiving device or remote pump failure warning system provides suitable warnings to one or more user access devices.
US09696358B2
A method for detecting the presence of a receiver in an inductively coupled power transfer system having a transmitter and receiver. The method includes switching on a transmitter converter at a first frequency, measuring the inrush current and determining whether there is a receiver present. In another method, the inrush current is measured for a range of transmitter frequencies, and the variation in current is used to determine where there is a receiver present. In another method, the inrush current is measured when there is a change in voltage in the transmitter, and the variation in current is used to determine where there is a receiver present. In another method, the current supplied to the transmitter converter is measured over two transmitter frequencies, and the variation in current is used to determine where there is a receiver present. In another method, the current supplied to the transmitter converter is measured over two transmitter voltages, and the variation in current is used to determine where there is a receiver present.
US09696355B2
A system and method to detect the fundamental frequency of an electric input signal using a feedback control loop including a phase error detector, a loop controller, and a digitally controlled oscillator. The frequency detector may detect the fundamental frequency of an electric input signal and produce an output signal representing the fundamental frequency of the electric input signal. The frequency detector may further include a filter that may be coupled to the frequency detector output signal in order to remove spurious tones or noise from the output signal.
US09696354B2
A system to measure electrical energy of current in a secondary electrical conductor connected to a primary electrical conductor, the primary and secondary conductors having substantially same voltage. The system includes a primary module including an emitter and a unit for measuring voltage of the primary conductor, at least one secondary module including a receiver, an intensity sensor of current in the secondary conductor, and a unit for calculating energy of the current. The primary module compresses the measured voltage value and emits, to each secondary module, a first message containing the compressed measured voltage value. A time synchronization mechanism performs time synchronization of each intensity sensor with the voltage measuring unit. The calculating unit is connected to the receiver and can calculate energy from the measured voltage and intensity values.
US09696350B2
Described is an apparatus having a non-linear control to manage power supply droop at an output of a voltage regulator. The apparatus comprises: a first inductor for coupling to a load; a capacitor, coupled to the first inductor, and for coupling to the load; a first high-side switch couple to the first inductor; a first low-side switch coupled to the first inductor; a bridge controller to control when to turn on and off the first high-side and first low-side switches; and a non-linear control (NLC) unit to monitor output voltage on the load, and to cause the bridge controller to turn on the first high-side switch and turn off the first low-side switch when a voltage droop is detected on the load.
