US09713520B2
Novel tissue repair implants are disclosed. The tissue repair implants have a bottom planar base member and an upper skirt member extending about the periphery of the base member. The implants have at least one position indicating feature that alerts the surgeon if the skirt member has rolled over or displaced during fixation to tissue in order to assist in preventing fixation of the skirt in an improper position to provide an optimal surgical repair.
US09713519B2
An implantable prosthesis can have a three-dimensional shape that is invertible, so as to assume either a right configuration or a left configuration, which can be substantially mirror images of each other, so as to eliminate the need for separately manufacturing a left prosthesis and a right prosthesis. An implantable prosthesis can be preformed to independently assume a contoured three-dimensional shape that more adequately fits the extraperitoneal laparoscopic inguinal space, while simultaneously maintaining a relatively large area for fixation of the prostheses (e.g., through suturing or integration with the surrounding tissue). An implantable prosthesis can have a three-dimensional contoured shape that is formed from a single piece of continuous material, such as a mesh, and can possess substantially uniform rigidity. An implantable prosthesis may be trimmed, cut, or altered at an outer perimeter with no detrimental effect on its ability to independently maintain a predetermined three-dimensional contoured shape.
US09713516B2
An inhaler, preferably for insertion into a nostril, in particular a horse's nostril, with an inhalation valve, which has a movable valve element, whereby the valve element is designed in an annular manner and has an outer edge and an inner edge, whereby the valve element is fastened at the outer edge, the inner edge forms the boundary of an indentation of the valve element, and the inhalation valve has a valve body seat that corresponds to the inner edge.
US09713510B2
A drill limit system includes a holder having drill stops removably coupled thereto and configured to receive a drill bit therethrough, and a platform coupled to the holder and configured to engage a tip end of the drill bits when received through the drill stops, wherein the holder and platform are movable relative to each other so that the position of the drill stops relative to the drill bits may be selectively varied. A method for attaching drill stops to a drill bit includes providing a holder and a platform movable relative to each other, the holder having a plurality of drill stops removably coupled thereto, inserting a plurality of drill bits through respective drill stops, moving the holder and platform relative to each other to select a desired height of the drill stops on the bits, and engaging the drill stops to the drill bits at the selected height.
US09713505B2
A system and a method are disclosed that allow for generation of a model or reconstruction of a model of a subject based upon acquired image data. The image data can be acquired in a substantially mobile system that can be moved relative to a subject to allow for image acquisition from a plurality of orientations relative to the subject. The plurality of orientations can include a first and final orientation and a predetermined path along which an image data collector or detector can move to acquire an appropriate image data set to allow for the model of construction.
US09713501B2
Provided herein is a tissue stretching device configured for orbicular expansion of a tissue placed therein. Methods of use of the device to stretch a tissue as well as for culturing organized tissues are also provided. Stretched and/or cultured tissues produced by these processes are also provided, as well as methods making use of the same.
US09713494B2
A renal denervation system includes an ablation catheter and an inflation balloon. The renal denervation catheter is insertable into a renal artery to perform a renal denervation procedure. The inflation balloon is inflatable within the renal artery, wherein one of a blood pressure condition in the renal artery resulting from operation of the inflation balloon and a performance characteristic of the inflation balloon indicates efficacy of the renal denervation procedure.
US09713491B2
Method for manufacturing an electrode assembly configured for use with an electrosurigcal instrument
A method for manufacturing an electrode configuration configured for use with an electrosurgical instrument is provided. A pre-assembled jaw configuration including jaw members including respective first and second electrodes is provided. One or more stop members are positioned on the first electrode. The first and second electrodes are approximated toward one another for contact therebetween so as to form an at least one indentation on the second electrode.
US09713485B2
A bone plate has a first frame portion with a plurality of apertures. The apertures may have central axes angled with respect to a bone contacting surface adjacent thereto at an angle of other than 90°. The plate has a second plate portion comprising a plurality of apertures therethrough and has a first end connected to the first plate portion. The plate has a third plate portion having first and second ends respectively connected to a second end of the second plate portion and to the first plate portion at a point thereon closer to a center of the first plate portion than the first end of the second plate portion to the first plate portion. The first, second and third plate portions having an arcuate shape capable of conforming to an arcuate bone surface, the bone contacting surface forming a concave portion of the arcuate shape.
US09713477B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for preparing a distal end of a femur for receiving a knee prosthesis. A method can include installing a valgus guide onto an intermedullary rod, coupling a drill guide with said valgus guide, resting a boom tip of said drill guide on a high part of the femur, drilling a hole into a distal portion of a medial condyle using a first drill hole of said drill guide and drilling a hole into a distal portion of a lateral condyle using a second drill hole of said drill guide, and, subsequent to drilling the first and second drill holes, resecting the distal portion of the medial condyle of the femur and the distal portion of the lateral condyle of the femur. A system can include a valgus guide, a drill guide, and a resection tower, among other things.
US09713470B2
A dissecting tip is provided for use with a surgical stapler or instrument. In one embodiment, the dissecting tip is secured to the end effector of the surgical instrument, e.g., to the cartridge assembly. The dissecting tip extends distally from the end effector and is configured to dissect or separate target tissue from certain tissue, e.g., adherent, connective, joined or other tissue.
US09713447B2
The apparatus for the non-invasive glucose detection comprises an electrical detection device (2) for measuring the response of the tissue or blood to an electric field at low frequencies below 1 MHz and at high frequencies above 10 MHz. The former is primarily dominated by skin hydration and sweat, while the latter contains contributions from the current glucose level. Combining the two signals allows an increased degree of accuracy. The apparatus further comprises a force or acceleration sensor (4, 5), which allows to detect the pressure of the apparatus against the skin and/or quick movements. Further sensor modules, such as a temperature sensor (6) or alternative perfusion sensor (7), improve the accuracy of the measured result.
US09713442B2
Generally, embodiments of the invention relate to analyte determining methods and devices (e.g., electrochemical analyte monitoring systems) that have improved uniformity of distribution of one or more components of the sensor by inclusion of a low surface tension polymer leveling agent, where the components are disposed proximate to a working electrode of in vivo and/or in vitro analyte sensors, e.g., continuous and/or automatic in vivo monitoring using analyte sensors and/or test strips. Also provided are systems and methods of using the, for example electrochemical, analyte sensors in analyte monitoring.
US09713441B2
An optical rotation measurement method includes causing measurement light of a predetermined polarization to be incident on a subject from an incident direction that is a non-right angle to the subject, discriminating an optical rotation reflecting component of the predetermined polarization from reflected light that is reflected in a different direction to the incident direction of the subject, and measuring the optical rotation based on the discrimination result.
US09713431B2
Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to detecting Atrial Fibrillation (AF). As may be implemented in accordance with one or more embodiments, a time series of inter-beat intervals is computed from a recording of activity of a beating heart. The time series is decomposed into subcomponents, and an envelope of at least one of the subcomponents is computed. The presence of atrial fibrillation (AF) is detected based upon characteristics of the envelope that are indicative of AF.
US09713429B2
A pressure sensor module configured for implant at a desired site at which a pressure is to be measured. The pressure sensor module includes a pressure sensitive membrane which is in direct contact with the environment at which a pressure is to be measured. The pressure sensor module forms a part of a pressure measuring system which uses a telemetry link between the pressure sensor module and an external controller for data transmission and transfer. The pressure measuring system provides a dual stage power and data transfer capability for use with an implantable system. An exemplary use is in a three pressure sensor system including a flow control valve in a shunt to treat hydrocephalus. An embodiment of the invention includes a pressure sensor and associated electromagnetic coils embedded in the tip portion of the shunt for measuring the pressure of fluid externally of the shunt at the tip portion.
US09713419B2
An endoscopic illumination system for illuminating a subject for stereoscopic image capture, includes a light source which outputs light; a first complementary multiband bandpass filter (CMBF) and a second CMBF, the first and second CMBFs being situated in first and second light paths, respectively, where the first CMBF and the second CMBF filter the light incident thereupon to output filtered light; and a camera which captures video images of the subject and generates corresponding video information, the camera receiving light reflected from the subject and passing through a pupil CMBF pair and a detection lens. The pupil CMBF includes a first pupil CMBF and a second pupil CMBF, the first pupil CMBF being identical to the first CMBF and the second pupil CMBF being identical to the second CMBF, and the detection lens includes one unpartitioned section that covers both the first pupil CMBF and the second pupil CMBF.
US09713415B2
There is provided herein an endoscope assembly comprising at least one front-pointing camera and at least one front illuminator associated therewith, at least one side-pointing camera and at least one of side illuminator associated therewith, a front working channel configured for insertion of a medical tool and a side service channel configured for insertion of a medical tool.
US09713412B2
A mesh back mop head includes a cleaning surface and a backing member. The cleaning surface is secured to the backing member along a plurality lines to define channels in the cleaning surface. The backing member is formed from an open mesh material that substantially allows the free flow of liquid therethrough. The backing member includes at least one receiver operably mounted to the backing member for receiving a mop head frame. A cleaning system and a method of cleaning using the mesh back mop head are disclosed.
US09713406B2
An apparatus capable of moving a toilet seat from one position to another in a number of ways including, but not limited to, a switch, voice recognition software, infrared remote control, a motion detector, and a mobile device application. A lifting structure is attached under the seat and is connected to a housing containing a motor and/or a microprocessor.
US09713405B2
A urine wipe system includes a urinal is mounted on a wall. A housing has a rear wall, a front wall and a perimeter wall that is attached to and extends between the front and rear walls. The rear wall is mounted on the wall within 3.0 feet of the urinal. The housing has an opening therein. A roll of wiping material is positioned within the housing and is rotatably mounted on a spindle. The wiping material extends through the opening and is comprised of a paper material that is biodegradable in water. The paper material is formed into a strip has a diameter of less than 2.0 inches.
US09713399B2
Disclosed are methods, systems, and devices for portably brewing tea, coffee, or other beverages in a container that regulates the temperature and diffusion during and after brewing. For example, the present technology allows people to prepare and consume tea, coffee and other beverages while on the go. In some aspects, a portable brewing device includes a container having a specialized canister system in the interior of the container that encloses the beverage material and controls the diffusion of water in/out of the canister; an intelligent heating and cooling system to continuously regulate the temperature of water in the device; and a data processing unit in communication with the canister and heating and cooling systems to control operational features and store user-specialized settings for the device.
US09713395B2
A merchandising system including a track and a pusher. The track defines a longitudinal axis and includes a plurality of tabs. Each tab of the plurality of tabs includes a width that is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis. The pusher member is configured to slide longitudinally with respect to the track. The pusher member includes at least one leg configured to mechanically engage the track. The track includes a discontinuity to facilitate removal of the pusher member from the track. The discontinuity includes at least one other tab having a width less than a width of an adjacent tab of the plurality of tabs.
US09713391B2
A child carrier having a waist belt, an upper torso support, a hammock coupled to the waist belt and to the upper torso support, and a thigh support strap extending to each side of the hammock. Each thigh support strap has an inward end portion proximate to the hammock and an outward end portion configured for selective coupling to the upper torso support in multiple positions. When the thigh support straps are coupled to the upper torso support, the hammock and the thigh support straps form a seat to support a child in an ergonomic spread-squat position in inward and outward facing orientations. The shape of the seat adjusts depending on the positions in which the outward end portions of the thigh support straps are coupled to the upper torso support.
US09713390B1
An insertion device facilitates the insertion of a compressible pillow into a flexible pillowcase. A left edge of a resilient sheet includes a compression handle stem projecting away therefrom and terminating at a first compression handle. A right edge of the sheet includes a second compression handle projecting away therefrom. The sheet further includes a horizontal slot traversing therethrough, the slot sharing a common longitudinal axis with the compression handle stem. The resilient sheet when curved around itself, with the compression handle and the compression handle stem traversing the horizontal slot, form an enclosure into which the pillow is inserted. The compression handle is pulled away from the second compression handle to constrict the pillow, which, with the enclosure, is then easily inserted into the pillowcase.
US09713388B2
A frame for an adjustable has a head section with two longitudinal frame rails separated by at least two lateral members extending between the two longitudinal frame rails, and two sleeves each having a cavity with one of the two sleeves on each of the two longitudinal frame rails. The frame has a foot section having two longitudinal frame rails separated by at least two lateral members extending between the two longitudinal frame rails, and two sleeves each having a cavity with one of the two sleeves on each of the two longitudinal frame rails, and an inner tube with a nose for each of the two sleeves and for moving between a first position retracted in the cavity of the sleeve and a second position extending from the cavity of the sleeve.
US09713382B2
A chair has a frame with legs, a seat hoop carried by the legs, and a backrest extending above the seat hoop. A seat is carried by the seat hoop of the frame, and has a seat base with a cushion. A perimeter lip circumscribes the seat base and rests over the seat hoop. The seat base has a flexible and resilient corrugated interior capable of deflecting under weight and returning when the weight is removed. An annular bottom projection projects from the seat base between the perimeter lip and the corrugated interior and into the seat hoop, and has an annular bottom surface substantially flush with the lower surface of the seat hoop.
US09713381B2
This disclosure describes a chair having a base frame, a seat support, and a backrest support. The seat support is connected to the backrest support. The backrest support is rotatably connected to a rear part of the base frame such that a pivot axis is defined about which the backrest support is pivotable. The seat support is connected to a front part of the base frame by at least one four-joint coupling mechanism, whereby the seat support is moved on a defined movement path in the chair longitudinal direction during a pivoting movement of the backrest support.
US09713372B1
A rounded hammock includes a middle panel having a rounded profile and a center. At least four sidewalls, include a first sidewall, a second sidewall, a third sidewall, and a fourth sidewall connected to the middle panel. A first pleat is formed on the first sidewall. A second pleat is formed on the second sidewall. A third pleat is formed on the third sidewall. A fourth pleat is formed on the fourth sidewall. A first pleat cover is stitched over the first pleat. A second pleat cover is stitched over the second pleat. A third pleat cover is stitched over the third pleat. A fourth pleat cover is stitched over the fourth pleat.
US09713367B2
An umbrella shaft assembly is provided for securing an umbrella to a chair or table. The umbrella shaft assembly includes an elongated shaft having a first end and a second end. A plurality of hinged finger projections are located on the elongated shaft. The finger projections are configured to extend outward and retract inward toward the elongated shaft. Further, an aperture is located on the elongated shaft, wherein a cord extends therethrough. The umbrella shaft assembly can be secured to a chair via securing the cord to a chair frame. Similarly, the umbrella shaft assembly can be secured to a table by extending the finger projections such that the umbrella cannot be hoisted through an umbrella receiving opening of the table. The umbrella shaft assembly further includes a conventional umbrella assembly construction that is large enough to shield a person or persons from the elements encountered outdoors.
US09713364B2
A foot habiliment (1) that allows for easily interchanging an outer (5) with varying designs and features (4). The foot habiliment (1) takes no steps to conceal the fact that an interchangeable outer is being worn and does not take away from the functionality of the body (3) of the foot habiliment. The interchangeable outer (5) attaches to the foot habiliment (1) by a cord (21) threaded through a loop (23) on the foot habiliment (1), the ends of the cord (21) being attached to the respective edges of the outer (5). This arrangement allows the user to easily remove and replace the outer with another having a different design or decoration.
US09713361B2
A method and system for making uppers for articles of footwear is disclosed. The system comprises a last assembly as well as a pressing system for forming uppers with the last assembly. The last assembly includes a last member and a base member. The last member is inverted so that the bottom surface of the last member is oriented away from the base member.
US09713360B2
A removable exercise device attached to a users shoe for use during exercise. The device includes a variety of removable and interchangeable accessories to be used for various physical activities and exercises. These accessories are designed to place user's foot in a declined position. The accessories include wheels and bottoms with various shapes, heights, and materials.
US09713358B2
According to various aspects, exemplary embodiments are disclosed of articles of footwear or foot-receiving devices having inner and outer tongues, such as double tongue snowboarding boots, etc. In an exemplary embodiment, an article of footwear or foot-receiving device (e.g., snowboarding boot, etc.) generally includes a housing member at least partially defining a chamber for receiving a foot. An inner tongue is coupled to the housing member. An outer tongue is coupled to at least one of the inner tongue and the housing member. Other aspects of the present disclosure relates to methods. An exemplary method of wearing an article of footwear generally includes tucking a portion of a wearer's pants leg generally between inner and outer tongues of the snowboarding boot. Another example method includes inserting a foot through an opening of a housing member of a foot-receiving device that also includes first and second tongues.
US09713350B1
A removable insert for use with a brassiere includes a body having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. At least a portion of the second surface is configured to provide removable attachment to a user's skin. A mechanical connection associated with the body is configured to provide removable attachment of the body to the brassiere. The first surface is disposed adjacent the brassiere when the body is attached to the brassiere.
US09713345B2
There is provided a method of controlling an electrical heating element, including maintaining a temperature of the heating element at a target temperature by supplying pulses of electrical current to the heating element; monitoring a duty cycle of the pulses of electrical current; and determining if the duty cycle differs from an expected duty cycle or range of duty cycles, and if so, reducing the target temperature, or stopping the supply of current to the heating element or limiting the duty cycle of the pulses of electrical current supplied to the heating element. As the temperature is maintained at a known target temperature, any variation in the duty cycle or range of duty cycles expected to maintain the target temperature is indicative of abnormal conditions.
US09713337B2
A method of processing meat is disclosed. The method includes subjecting the meat (pork or turkey) to high pressure processing at a pressure of at least 175 MPa for a time of 20 minutes or less, wherein post mortem glycolysis is inhibited. For beef, a pressure of at least 200 MPa and a hold time of from 30 seconds to 20 minutes are used.
US09713332B2
The disclosure provides methods of applying glyphosate to improve weed control in a field containing herbicide tolerant brassica species. More specifically, glyphosate treatments are applied to a substantial portion of herbicide tolerant brassica plants which are beyond the 2-6 leaf stage such as for example to a substantial portion of herbicide tolerant brassica plants which are at the 10% open flowers to about 10% pod stage. The disclosure provides methods that apply glyphosate at late stage brassica development.
US09713329B2
Cyclodextrin compositions, including a hydrophobic carrier and a cyclodextrin complex, are formed and disposed on a variety of substrates using conditions that avoid substantial loss of the complexed compound from the cyclodextrin complex, even where the complexed compound is a gas a common ambient temperatures (e.g. 20° C.). Flexographic printing is particularly useful for disposing the cyclodextrin compositions on one or more substrates. Substrates treated with the cyclodextrin complexes are useful for subsequent release of the complexed compound.
US09713317B1
A locking device that is held in a hand of a user, grabs an eel directly at any desired position along the eel, impales the eel and locks onto the eel of any diameter both for secure grabbing. The locking device includes a stationary handle, a movable handle, a stationary jaw, and a movable jaw. The stationary handle and the movable handle are pivotally attached to each other, and are held in the hand of the user. The stationary jaw and the movable jaw are pivotally attached to each other, extend from the stationary handle and the movable handle, respectively, grab the eel directly at any desired position along the eel, and impale the eel and lock onto the eel of any diameter both for secure grabbing.
US09713315B2
Reconfigurable cat litter box and method of manufacturing same, including a base and a cover mountable atop the base. The cover includes a hinged lid for the cat owner to access the interior of the box. The cover has a first end wall defining a first access opening and an opposing second end wall defining a second access opening for the cat. The base includes an upright blocking panel to cover the first access opening or optionally to cover the second access opening. If the first access opening is adjacent a wall or furniture, then the first access opening is blocked by the blocking panel and the cat accesses the box through the second accessing opening. If the second opening is adjacent a wall or furniture, then the second access opening is blocked by the blocking panel and the cat accesses the box through the first accessing opening.
US09713314B2
The invention relates to a press cover for a cheese mold, particularly for a cheese mold (1, 12) made from metal with a round or polygonal cross section, wherein the shape and dimensions of the press cover (1) match the inner cross section of the cheese mold (1). It should be of simple construction, able to withstand high pressing force, and also satisfy stringent hygiene requirements. This is solved in that the press cover (1) comprises a perforated plate (22) and a frame (30) with is provided on the periphery of the press cover (21), which frame has a movable outer ring (33) arranged on the outside thereof, which ring lies flush against the inner wall of the cheese mold (1, 12) and creates an effective seal therewith when the raw cheese mass is pressed out. The press cover (21) is also provided with a stiffening frame and rib structure (23, 24, 30).
US09713311B1
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01057181. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01057181. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01057181 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01057181 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US09713308B2
A celery cultivar, designated TBG 33, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of celery cultivar TBG 33, to the plants of celery cultivar TBG 33 and to methods for producing a celery plant by crossing the cultivar TBG 33 with itself or another celery cultivar. The invention further relates to methods for producing a celery plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic celery plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to celery cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from celery cultivar TBG 33, to methods for producing other celery cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from celery cultivar TBG 33 and to the celery plants, varieties, and their parts derived from the use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid celery seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar TBG 33 with another celery cultivar.
US09713305B2
A support arrangement for an agricultural harvesting head comprises a feederhouse (102) supported on an agricultural harvester (104); a first hydraulic cylinder (108) and a second hydraulic cylinder (110) disposed to raise and lower the feederhouse on the agricultural combine when the cylinders are extended and retracted, respectively; a first coil spring (112) and a second coil spring (114) disposed about the first hydraulic cylinder (108) and the second hydraulic cylinder (110), respectively, to support the feederhouse (102) on the agricultural harvester (104); a member (116) extending between the first coil spring and the second coil spring and abutting a rear end of the first coil spring and the second coil spring; and a third hydraulic cylinder (118) abutting the member (116) and disposed to move the member along the first hydraulic cylinder (108) and the second hydraulic cylinder (110) when the third hydraulic cylinder (118) is extended.
US09717169B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for mitigating electromagnetic interference within a computing device. A base unit is coupled to an inside of a computing device. One or more conductive elements are coupled to the base unit. The one or more conductive elements are located within an air flow such that the one or more conductive elements are movable in response to air movement generated by the air flow.
US09717165B2
A data center (100) includes at least one rack room (in for example module 140) having a floor and a plurality of rack storage areas on the floor, each rack storage area being arranged to accommodate a plurality of racks (143) in which a plurality of rack-mountable electronic components may be housed, one or more controllable air circulation systems (in for example module 122), one or more cold aisles (144) in the rack room, each cold aisle being adjacent to a rack storage area, and one or more hot aisles (145) in the rack room, each hot aisle being adjacent to a rack storage area. There may be a large air duct, in the form of a personnel corridor (123), for transporting, under the control of the one or more air circulation systems, cooling air, above the floor, to the one or more cold aisles. The air supply corridor/duct (123) may have a height greater than 1.5 m above the floor and a cross-sectional area of at least 2 m2 and a maximum dimension in the plane of the cross-section of less than 3 m.
US09717159B2
A mainframe computer with a supporting rack includes: a rack chassis and a supporting rack. The rack chassis has a first rack, and the first rack has a plurality of first positioning members. The supporting rack is arranged on the rack chassis, and the supporting rack has at least one first corresponding positioning member positioned corresponding to any one of at least one first positioning member. Therefore, the rack chassis and the support rack allow various types of objects (such as: solid state disk, cooling liquid tanks for cooling, hard drive or optical drive and so on) to be easily and conveniently installed onto the mainframe computer.
US09717157B2
Computer modules with small thicknesses and associated methods of manufacturing are disclosed. In one embodiment, the computer modules can include a module substrate having a module material and an aperture extending at least partially into the module material. The computer modules can also include a microelectronic package carried by the module substrate. The microelectronic package includes a semiconductor die carried by a package substrate. At least a portion of the semiconductor die extends into the substrate material via the aperture.
US09717154B2
Tamper-respondent assemblies and methods of fabrication are provided which include an electronic enclosure and a tamper-respondent electronic circuit structure. The electronic enclosure encloses, at least in part, at least one electronic component to be protected, and includes an inner main surface, and an inner sidewall surface which has at least one inner-sidewall corner. The tamper-respondent electronic circuit structure includes a tamper-respondent sensor covering, at least in part, the inner sidewall surface of the electronic enclosure. The tamper-respondent sensor includes a flexible layer(s) with tamper-detect circuit lines and multiple slots provided therein. The multiple slots facilitate disposing the tamper-respondent sensor to cover the at least one inner-sidewall corner of the inner sidewall surface by allowing for one or more regions of overlap of the flexible layer(s) of the tamper-respondent sensor at the at least one inner-sidewall corner of the electronic enclosure.
US09717151B2
A flex-rigid wiring board includes a flexible substrate, a first non-flexible substrate positioned on a first side of the flexible substrate, a second non-flexible substrate positioned on a second side of the flexible substrate, a first insulation layer laminated on first surfaces of the flexible substrate and first and second non-flexible substrates, and a second insulation layer laminated on second surfaces of the flexible substrate and first and second non-flexible substrates. Each of the first and second insulation layers has an opening portion exposing a portion of the flexible substrate such that the portion of the flexible substrate forms a flexible section connecting non-flexible rigid sections, and the first and second non-flexible substrates include a heat dissipating portion including a heat dissipating material having thermal conductivity which is higher than thermal conductivity of the first and second insulation layers.
US09717150B2
A method for fabricating a biocompatible hermetic housing including electrical feedthroughs, the method comprises providing a ceramic sheet having an upper surface and a lower surface, forming at least one via hole in said ceramic sheet extending from said upper surface to said lower surface, inserting a conductive thick film paste into said via hole, laminating the ceramic sheet with paste filled via hole between an upper ceramic sheet and a lower ceramic sheet to form a laminated ceramic substrate, firing the laminated ceramic substrate to a temperature to sinter the laminated ceramic substrate and cause the paste filled via hole to form metalized via and cause the laminated ceramic substrate to form a hermetic seal around said metalized via, and removing the upper ceramic sheet and the lower ceramic sheet material from the fired laminated ceramic substrate to expose an upper and a lower surface of the metalized via.
US09717142B2
A multilayer wiring substrate, a method of producing and a semiconductor product includes: a trench produced at one surface of an insulation layer, the trench having a depth shallower than a thickness of the insulation layer; and a copper plating applied to the trench.
US09717125B2
A lighting fixture having a light source, a light sensor, a communication interface, and circuitry is described. In addition to controlling the light source, the circuitry is adapted to monitor for a light signal provided from a handheld device via the light sensor; upon receiving the light signal, measure a signal level associated with the light signal; and effect transmission of the signal level to the handheld device via the communication interface. In one embodiment, the circuitry is further configured to receive an instruction to monitor for the light signal from the handheld device via the communication interface such that the circuitry begins monitoring for the light signal upon receiving the instruction.
US09717119B2
An LED bulb comprises a structural shell formed by folding a flat PCB into a three-dimensional polyhedron shape and a fitting for removably coupling the bulb to a light socket. The PCB comprises a plurality of LEDs, at least one LED mounted electronically on a plurality of faces of the polyhedron, and a driver circuit for driving each LED. The perimeter of the PCB is shaped to join adjacent faces. Each LED produces minimal excess heat, which is partially conducted by a metallic heat sink bridge to the PCB and dissipated to the air through the PCB and through a plurality of spaces in the shell.
US09717118B2
Provided is a light-emitting device control system, comprising: a light source module that outputs a beam of light at a first surface location; a beam steering mechanism, the light source module coupled to the beam steering mechanism for directing the beam of light at the first surface location, wherein an illumination region is formed at the first surface location in response to the directed beam of light; a control module that detects a signal corresponding to a hand gesture, the control module positioned at a separate location than the light source module and the beam steering mechanism, and communicating with the light source module via a network; and a control spot generator that generates a control spot at a second surface location, the control module detecting a presence of a hand forming the hand gesture at the control spot, and wherein the beam steering mechanism moves the illumination region in response to the hand gesture at the control spot.
US09717116B2
A method of operating a microwave oven and a microwave oven are disclosed. The microwave oven comprises a magnetron for providing microwave power to heat a load placed in the microwave oven, and a solid-state microwave generator for providing microwave power to sense presence and/or determine nature of the load in the microwave oven.
US09717113B2
A method and system for controlling discontinuous reception (DRX) in a mobile device in a wireless communications network uses autonomous DRX control after initial VoIP traffic setup. If the mobile device transmits a negative-acknowledgement signal (NACK) indicating unsuccessful receipt of a VoIP packet, then it autonomously turns on a predetermined delay time later to receive the retransmission of the VoIP packet. The predetermined delay time is related to the time for the base station to process the NACK and prepare the VoIP packet for retransmission. When the mobile device transmits or retransmits a VoIP packet, reception is deactivated, but is autonomously activated the predetermined delay time later to receive an acknowledgement signal (ACK) or NACK. VoIP packets may be transmitted from the mobile device the predetermined delay time before VoIP packets are transmitted from the base station.
US09717109B2
To establish a connection between electronic devices some embodiments include a system, method, and/or computer program product for password pairing user-interface devices in wireless proximity. A first electronic device (e.g., a keyboard) transmits an advertising packet, and receives a password, where the password has been generated by a second electronic device (e.g., a smartphone) and the password enables pairing between the first electronic device and the second electronic device. The first electronic device transmits a message including the password to the second electronic device, where the second electronic device is within a predefined range of the first electronic device. In some embodiments the first device receives a command from the second electronic device to transition to a discovery mode, transitions to the discovery mode, and transmits a confirmation to the second electronic device that the first device is in the discovery mode.
US09717105B2
Systems and methods for managing mobility in a network of moving things. As non-limiting examples, various aspects of this disclosure provide systems and methods for managing mobility in a network in which at least a portion of the network access points are moving.
US09717092B2
A method and apparatus for allocating resources for D2D communication are disclosed. The method includes a WCN allocating dedicated resource for a first D2D data session and common resource for a second D2D data session in a user equipment (UE), wherein the first D2D data session and the second D2D data session are active simultaneously in the UE. The method could also include the WCN receiving a corresponding request message from the UE for establishing each D2D data session. The method could further include the WCN transmitting a response message to the UE in response to reception of the corresponding request message, wherein the response message includes resource information that indicates which type of resource is allocated for each D2D data session.
US09717086B2
A method for generating an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) data unit is described. A plurality of different orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) tone blocks for a wireless local area network (WLAN) communication channel are assigned to a plurality of devices including a first device and second device. The plurality of different OFDM tone blocks includes at least a first OFDM tone block assigned to the first device and a second OFDM tone block assigned to the second device. The first OFDM tone block and the second OFDM tone block together span a bandwidth equal to a smallest channel bandwidth of a legacy WLAN communication protocol. An OFDMA data unit is generated for the WLAN communication channel. The OFDMA unit includes a preamble portion and a data portion. The preamble portion has i) at least a legacy portion that spans the entire WLAN communication channel, ii) a first non-legacy portion that spans the first OFDM tone block, and iii) a second non-legacy portion that spans the second OFDM tone block.
US09717079B2
A method and apparatus reduce latency of Long Term Evolution (LTE) uplink transmissions. Configuration information regarding a Downlink Control Information (DCI) message for a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) transmission can be acquired. The DCI message can be received on a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) in a first subframe. The DCI message can indicate a plurality of resource assignments in a second subframe for an uplink carrier from which a User Equipment (UE) can select one resource assignment for transmission on the uplink carrier. The DCI message can be Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) scrambled by a Radio Network Temporary Identifier (RNTI) that is indicated via higher layers that are higher than a physical layer. A resource assignment can be selected from the plurality of resource assignments using a selection criterion. A data packet can be transmitted on the PUSCH in a resource of the selected resource assignment in the second subframe on the uplink carrier.
US09717074B2
A relay user equipment (UE) device is operable to provide a currently activated function to a 3GPP network entity and an application out of the 3GPP network. The currently activated function of the relay UE device reflects whether the relay UE device is operating as a regular terminal UE or relay UE. The disclosed relay UE device and base station provide an enhanced monitoring response with an enhanced positioning granularity to a position monitoring request.
US09717072B2
Method performed by a first device for sending a modified encoded radio block to a second device. The first device and the second device operate in a wireless communications network. The first device selects a set of bit positions of an encoded radio block that has the second device as intended recipient. The set of bit positions is unique to a value of an extended Temporary Flow Identifier, eTFI, assigned to the second device, or the set of bit positions is unique to a case in which no eTFI has been assigned to the second device. The first device performs a modulo-2-addition of the selected set of bit positions of the encoded radio block with a pre-determined bit pattern, to obtain a modified encoded radio block. The first device sends the modified encoded radio block to the second device.
US09717061B2
A base station transmits a first message to a wireless device over a primary cell group. The first message comprises a content descriptor and originates from an application server. The base station transmits to the wireless device over the primary cell group: first content packets; a control message configuring a secondary cell group; and an activation command activating one or more secondary cells in the secondary cell group. The base station transmits second content packets over the primary cell group and the secondary cell group.
US09717060B2
A user equipment (UE) detects control channels on multiple component carriers in a downlink subframe of a radio frame. An acknowledgement/negative-acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) signal for the detected control channels or data channels corresponding to the detected control channels is transmitted in an uplink (UL) resource region. The UE determines whether UL transmission (Tx) power control fields received at a respective one of the detected control channels are used as values indicating a resource region for transmission of the ACK/NACK signal based on whether a respective one of the detected control channels carries triggering information for activating use of a UL Tx power control field of the respective control channel for aperiodic sounding reference signal (SRS) power control. The UE transmits the ACK/NACK signal in a UL resource region based on a result of the determining, or in a UL resource region linked to the respective one of the detected control channels.
US09717050B2
Disclosed are methods for delivering data (212) to a wireless station (102). An access point (104), or any other suitable device or system, receives a plurality of association requests (204) from a plurality of wireless stations (102) and transmits a different association identifier (208) to each of the plurality of wireless stations (102). The access point (104) buffers data (212) for a subset of the wireless stations (102). If the number of wireless stations (102) with buffered data (212) at the access point (104) is less than a threshold, then the access point (104) transmits a list of association identifiers indicating that buffered data (212) are held for each wireless station (102) identified by the list. If the number of wireless stations (102) with buffered data (212) at the access point (104) is not less than the threshold, then the access point (104) transmits data indicative of a range of association identifiers indicating that buffered data (212) are held for at least one wireless station (102) identified by the range.
US09717036B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products are for managing access to a femtocell coverage area. An exemplary method includes storing in a memory component a first identifier corresponding to a subscribed service of a communication device and a second identifier corresponding to a user of the communication device, and granting access to the femtocell coverage area using the second identifier.
US09717026B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a cooperative communication processing method, the method includes: acquiring report information of a first communication device, where the first communication device is a supporting device or a benefited device; and if it is determined, according to the report information of the first communication device, that the first communication device needs to perform a communication handover, executing the following steps: sending a connection configuration message to the first communication device, so that the first communication device releases a cooperative bearer context between the first communication device and a source eNB; and sending a connection configuration message to a second communication device. According to the present invention, release or maintenance processing of a cooperative relationship between cooperative communication devices in a communication handover process can be implemented.
US09717023B2
A method for improving session continuity for a terminal (204′) in a serving communication network (202′) distinct from a home communication network (200′) of the terminal (204′), wherein the serving communication network (202′) comprises a session transfer node (208′) for transferring sessions each comprising signaling data and media data from a first access network (210′) of the serving communication network (202′) to a second access network (212′) of the serving communication network (202′) comprises the following: Routing signaling data of a session of the terminal (204′) between the first access network (210′) and the home communication network (200′) via the session transfer node (208′) in the serving communication network (202′), receiving a session transfer request requesting the transfer of the session from the first access network (210′) to the second access network (212′) for the terminal (204′), and transferring the session from the first access network (210′) to the second access network (212′), and routing the signaling data of the session of the terminal (204′) between the second access network (210′) and the home communication network (200′) via the session transfer node (208′).
US09717019B2
A data flow control method, and related device and communication system are provided. In the solutions of a data flow control, a first gateway receives a first message sent by a user equipment (UE) through a first access network, where the first message carries first Internet Protocol (IP) flow identification information; the first gateway sends a second message to a packet data network gateway, and receives a third message sent by the packet data network gateway, where the third message carries third IP flow identification information, and the third IP flow identification information is used to identify an IP flow that is allowed by a network to be transmitted by the UE through the first access network and/or an IP flow that is allowed by a network to be transmitted by the UE through a second access network; and the first gateway sends a fourth message to the UE.
US09717014B1
A traffic management system for managing communication traffic on wireless local area networks (WLAN)s. The traffic management system comprises: a traffic aggregator and a traffic prioritizer. The traffic aggregator is configured to aggregate traffic management parameters from neighboring ones of the WLANs which share a selected communication channel with one another for communication links between their associated wireless access point (WAP) node and station nodes. The traffic prioritizer is coupled to the traffic aggregator and configured to prioritize the communication traffic of the neighboring ones of the WLANs using the aggregated traffic management parameters; thereby avoiding impediments to high priority communication traffic on a one of the neighboring networks resulting from a lack of prioritization coordination with an other of the neighboring networks.
US09717011B2
In a telecommunications network, information about events that occur at nodes (27) is sent to event-based management applications (31) in operations and maintenance servers (21). Event reports (23) comprising such event information are replaced or accompanied in data packets by event summaries (33). The summaries (33) can be used to route the data packets to the correct event-based management application (31) with less processing time and resources than if the event reports (23) are used for routeing, because information about the events can be obtained from the summaries (33) more easily than from the event reports (23). Routeing using the summaries (33) may be done in a fast path. Some event-based management applications can use the summaries (33) instead of the event reports (23), which can also save processing time and resources, and such event-based management applications may be performed in a fast path.
US09717010B2
A cellular communications network 10 comprises a plurality of basestations 12, 14, 16 and 18 connected to each other through an interface and to a core network through another interface. Each basestation has a coverage area referred to as a cell k. There are provided methods for estimating the load imparted on a cell in the cellular communications network by user equipments in the cell. The methods make it possible to estimate any potential increase in the load that may impact onto a target cell due to the handover of a UE from a serving cell.
US09717006B2
Techniques for device quarantine in a wireless network are described. According to various implementations, a device (e.g., a mobile client device) that requests a connection to a wireless network is placed in a quarantine state in the wireless network. Attributes of the device are determined and connection parameters are specified based on the attributes. In at least some embodiments, the device can be released from the quarantine state subject to the connection parameters.
US09717003B2
Systems and techniques are disclosed to facilitate the sponsored connectivity of a user equipment on a serving network so that the UE may access a service whose connectivity is sponsored by an application service provider. The application service provider provisions the serving network so that it is aware of the sponsored connectivity. In an attach attempt to the serving network, the UE provides a client token based on a pre-existing credential (established between the UE and the application service provider) instead of a subscriber identifier with the attach request. The application service provider's server validates the access credential to authenticate the UE and provides information that the serving network uses to mutually authenticate with the UE. The UE may then use the serving network to access the service via the sponsored connection, even where the UE does not have a subscriber identity and subscription with a cellular network.
US09717002B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide various approaches for mobile device intercommunication (e.g., digital) as well as various authentication methods. In one embodiment, the present invention provides direct line-of-sight visual digital communication between mobile devices for controlled security. In another embodiment, the present invention provides direct contact motion-based digital communication between mobile devices for controlled security. Embodiments of the present invention also provide various authentication methods. One such example relates to secure authentication code exchange with subsequent digital communications in one or more channels. In another example, human-readable information is used along machine-readable digital codes (e.g., quick response (QR) codes to verify visual codes. Still yet, embodiments of the present invention provide non-obtrusive visual codes that maintain a user's access to a mobile device screen.
US09717001B2
An authentication system, an authentication device, and an authentication method are provided. The authentication system includes a mobile device and an authentication device. The mobile device includes a storage unit, and a code-for-authentication generator. The authentication device includes an output device configured to output the prescribed code to be used for generating the code for authentication, an input device configured to obtain the code for authentication output from the mobile device, an authenticator generation unit, and an authentication processing unit configured to determine whether the user at the mobile device is authenticated. The authentication device includes an output device, an input device, and processing circuitry. The authentication method performed by the authentication device includes outputting, reading, and determining whether the user at the mobile device is authenticated.
US09717000B2
Techniques for validating a delivery channel are described. An apparatus may comprise a validity component operative to query a database of device subscriber information for device information of a device associated with a delivery channel, to analyze the device information to determine whether the device is associated with a user, and to determine whether the delivery channel is valid for communication with the user based on whether the device is associated with the user. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09716999B2
A method and system for completing the authentication process in a second communication network (such as Wi-Fi or WiMAX) utilizes a user credential of a first communication network, such as GSM, UMTS, CDMA, or LTE. Preferably, the user credential is a SIM card, a USIM card, a R-UIM card, or a functionally similar component. The system includes a client and an authentication platform that retrieves Service State information of the user credential in the first communication network and passes the information to the authentication platform of the second communication network. The client is granted access to the second communication network after the authentication platform validates the client's service and subscription status with the first communication network.
US09716994B2
A communication control method comprises: transmitting, by a user terminal to a base station, a message including information notifying the base station of the user terminal having an interest in receiving a discovery signal in a discovery procedure for discovering a proximal terminal, and information of a frequency in the discovery procedure, when the user terminal has an interest in the discovery procedure. The user terminal notifies the base station of a request for a gap for receiving the discovery signal.
US09716989B2
A mobile terminal for storing supplementary information together with a captured screen when the mobile terminal captures a screen displayed on a display unit, and a controlling method thereof is provided. The method of controlling a mobile terminal including a display unit includes capturing a screen of a process displayed on the display unit, extracting supplementary information associated with the process displayed on the display unit, and storing the extracted supplementary information together with the captured screen, as a captured image.
US09716988B2
A method and system for facilitating communication in an LTE network between an eNB and Limited Capability Terminal Equipments (LCTEs). A subset of PRACH preambles is defined for use by the LCTEs. PRACH preambles are selected by LCTEs only from said subset for inclusion in transmission of a PRACH preamble message to the eNB. Upon receipt of a PRACH preamble belonging to the subset, the eNB adjusts its operation to accommodate a limitation of the LCTE corresponding to the PRACH preamble. For example, the eNB may schedule transmission of the associated RAR on a restricted set of PRBs which is predictable and accessible to said LCTEs, to accommodate LCTE reception limitations. The subset of PRACH preambles can be adjusted in size in order to control system performance. The subset may include one or more preambles for exclusive use by LCTEs and/or preambles for non-exclusive use by LCTEs.
US09716985B2
An electronic device includes a storage unit and a processing unit. The storage unit is configured for storing specific information. The processing unit is coupled to the storage unit and for controlling and accessing the storage unit. The processing unit is capable of accessing the specific information within the storage unit to control the electronic device to send the specific information to an access point device so as to make the access point device treat a multicast/broadcast frame as a unicast frame and transmit the unicast frame by using unicast transmission.
US09716968B2
Systems, methodologies and components enable the ability to assign, manage and use intermodal, bi-modal and tractor/trailer asset associations between shipping assets, for example, container/truck associations, chassis/container associations, chassis/truck associations, trailer/truck associations, associations for gensets, and refrigerated containers, etc.
US09716966B2
Sensed conditions are communicated from a cable sensing array suspended in one or more grain storage bins using an adapter which includes a port for making a wired connection with a cable output of the cable sensing array. The adapter further includes a sensor receiver in connection with the port to receive sensed conditions from the cable sensing array, and an interface. In a preferred embodiment, the interface forms a wired connection with a headphone jack of a smartphone. A program executable on the smartphone communicates a sampling instruction from the smartphone to the adapter through the interface to cause the adapter to retrieve the sensed condition data from the sensing array and transmit the sensed condition data back to the smartphone. The program on the smartphone may include further instructions to transmit the data over a wireless network to a remote server for access by internet enabled devices.
US09716962B2
Disclosed are an apparatus and method of processing an audio signal to optimize audio for a room environment. One example method of operation may include recording the audio signal generated within a particular room environment and processing the audio signal to create an original frequency response based on the audio signal. The method may also include creating at least two iterative filters based on at least two separate frequency ranges of the original frequency response, calculating an error difference between the frequency response modified by the at least two iterative filters and the original frequency response, and applying the error difference to the audio signal.
US09716959B2
In general, techniques are described for compensating for error in decomposed representations of sound fields. In accordance with the techniques, a device comprising one or more processors may be configured to quantize one or more first vectors representative of one or more components of a sound field, and compensate for error introduced due to the quantization of the one or more first vectors in one or more second vectors that are also representative of the same one or more components of the sound field.
US09716958B2
An audio headset may receive a plurality of audio signals corresponding to plurality of surround sound channels. The headset may determine, via its audio processing circuitry, context and content of the audio signals. The audio processing circuitry may process the audio signals to generate a pair of stereo signals carrying one or more virtual surround channels, wherein the processing comprises automatically controlling, based on the context and the content of the audio signals, a simulated acoustic environment of the virtual surround channels.
US09716957B2
A type of channel-convertible headphone is disclosed in the utility model which comprises: The left speaker, the first articulated switch, the second articulated switch, the right speaker, the left channel input terminal and the right channel input terminal, wherein, the first articulated switch is provided with the first and the second electronic contact and the second articulated switch with the third and the fourth electronic contact which can switch off or on the connection; the left speaker is connected to the third electronic contact through the first electronic contact and the second electronic contact to the right speaker through the fourth electronic contact; the left channel input terminal is connected to the left speaker through the first electronic contact and the right channel input terminal to the right speaker through the second electronic contact. Application of the channel-convertible headphone of the utility model can maintain the left and right channels in such a manner that they output same audio content and realize conversion between signal and double channels by turning the headphone switch and build a reasonable structure for easy control of the cost.
US09716955B1
Devices for monitoring a sound pressure level of sound generated by a speaker. For example, the device may sample voltages at various points along a path of an audio signal, determine a current associated with the audio signal, and receive or infer an efficiency of the speaker. The device may then determine the sound pressure level based on the voltage, the current, and the efficiency to more accurately monitor the sound pressure level exposure of a user.
US09716954B2
A DC impedance detection circuit can include: an integration time generation circuit configured to generate an integration time signal in accordance with a current flowing through a speaker, where the current of a speaker at a beginning time of each active time interval of the integration time signal is the same as that at an ending time of the active time interval; a current integration circuit configured to integrate the current of the speaker in the active time interval, and to generate a current integration signal; a voltage integration circuit configured to integrate a voltage of the speaker in the active time interval, and to generate a voltage integration signal; and where a ratio between the voltage integration signal and the current integration signal is configured as a DC impedance of the speaker in the active time interval.
US09716937B2
This application relates to earbuds configured with one or more biometric sensors. At least one of the biometric sensors is configured to be pressed up against a portion of the tragus for making biometric measurements. In some embodiments, the housing of the earbud can be symmetric so that the earbud can be worn interchangeably in either a left or a right ear of a user. In such an embodiment, the earbud can include a sensor and circuitry configured to determine and alter operation of the earbud in accordance to which ear the earbud is determined to be sitting in.
US09716934B2
An acoustic device such as a microphone or speaker is positioned with and coupled to a housing to connect an acoustic port of the acoustic device with an external opening of the housing. A reservoir is connected to the external opening via a bleed channel. The bleed channel may be less resistive to liquid ingress than the acoustic port. As such, the reservoir and bleed channel may redirect liquid from the external opening away from the acoustic port. In some implementations, the reservoir and/or the bleed channel may be defined by one or more acoustically permeable barriers such as meshes that cover the acoustic port, compressible materials such as foams that form a perimeter around the acoustic port, and/or adhesive layers that couple the acoustic device, the housing, and/or one or more other components.
US09716933B2
Method and apparatus for improving performance of digital microelectromechanical systems microphones
A microphone device comprising a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) acoustic sensors, an automatic gain compensation (AGC) component, and a direct current (DC) offset cancellation component is described. An microphone device can be configured for AGC of an analog gain stage or a digital gain stage associated with the MEMS acoustic sensor. Provided implementations can also be configured to compensate DC offset resulting from adjustment of the analog provided by the AGC component. Additional embodiments of the subject disclosure can provide digital frequency equalization and/or linearization.
US09716927B2
A method of sending data from a central facility to a vehicle includes transmitting a vehicle identifier to a status server from a central facility located apart from the status server; obtaining at the central facility one or more vehicle status variables corresponding to the transmitted identity of the vehicle from the status server; and initiating a direct transmission of packet data from the central facility to the vehicle based on the content of the obtained vehicle status variables.
US09716904B2
A video content presentation terminal includes a video content receiver that is configured to receive video content and presentation override controls for the video content. The presentation override controls define presentation restrictions for the video content. The video content presentation terminal also includes an applications processor that is configured to execute applications on the video content presentation terminal. The applications include presentation format requests. The video content presentation terminal also includes a controller that is responsive to the video content receiver and the applications processor. The controller is configured to format the content that was received for presentation on a content presentation device according to the presentation override controls that were received, while preventing implementation of the presentation format requests that are made by the applications that are inconsistent with the presentation override controls. Related systems, methods and devices are described.
US09716896B2
Video encoding apparatus, video decoding apparatus, video encoding method, and video decoding method
A video encoding apparatus appends decoding delay correction information and display delay correction information to encoded video data in order to ensure that even when one or more pictures that are later in encoding order in the video data than a first picture that may potentially be spliced to a trailing end of other encoded video data have been discarded, the first picture and subsequent pictures in the encoded video data can be continuously decoded and displayed by a video decoding apparatus. The video decoding apparatus corrects the decoding delay and display delay of the first picture and its subsequent pictures by using the decoding delay correction information and display delay correction information.
US09716894B2
A video coder applies a residual differential pulse code modulation technique to a residual data of a block coded using lossy coding. The block may be coded without application of a transform to the residual data.
US09716881B2
Spatial distortion (i.e., when a frame is viewed independently of other frames in a video sequence) may be quite different from temporal distortion (i.e., when frames are viewed continuously). To estimate temporal distortion, a sliding window approach is used. Specifically, multiple sliding windows around a current frame are considered. Within each sliding window, a large distortion density is calculated and a sliding window with the highest large distortion density is selected. A distance between the current frame and the closest frame with large distortion in the selected window is calculated. Subsequently, the temporal distortion is estimated as a function of the highest large distortion ratio, the spatial distortion for the current frame, and the distance. In another embodiment, a median of spatial distortion values is calculated for each sliding window and the maximum of median spatial distortion values is used to estimate the temporal distortion.
US09716865B2
A method of shooting a moving picture in a camera device includes acquiring a frame image for each frame from a camera upon shooting a moving picture. The method also includes dividing and generating the acquired image to a display image and a compression image to transmit one frame, and configuring the compression image as a motion vector of a frame corresponding to a reference frame image or a compression image of a reference frame image. The method further includes displaying the display image and restoring and compressing the compression image to a moving picture, and storing the compressed moving picture.
US09716861B1
A method and system of facilitating a collaboration session among a plurality of conferees including at least first and second conferees using first and second different interface devices that includes first and second display screens, respectively, the method comprising the steps of presenting a first session interface on the first display screen, the session interface including a session queue, a first sharing window and a first private window, the session queue including a list of documents uploaded to the session by at least one of the conferees and presenting a second session interface on the second display screen, the second session interface including the session document queue, a second sharing window and a second private window, wherein either of the first or second conferee can open any document in the session queue in their sharing window and any document in the session queue in their private window at any time during a conference and wherein, any change in the document opened in either of the first or second sharing windows is mirrored in the other of the sharing windows.
US09716860B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, computer program products, and the like, for linking a plurality of conferences that are occurring on separate conference bridges. In one embodiment, the network is configured to determine when two or more related conferences are occurring on separate conference bridges. Related conferences may be any two conferences that share the same attribute. For example, two conferences may be initiated on separate conference bridges under the same account number for a user of the system. When the related conferences are detected, the network links the two conferences through the network such that participants in both conferences may now interact as if in a single collaboration conference. The linking allows the network to combine related conferences without the need to disconnect anyone conference from a conference bridge.
US09716853B2
A device receives a request from a controlling device, such as a remote control, smart phone, or the like, where the request is intended to have one or more target devices perform one or more functional operations. The device responds to the request by applying the optimum methodology to propagate one or more commands to each intended target appliance to cause each intended target appliance to perform the intended one or more functional operations.
US09716850B2
There is provided a BJT pixel circuit including a BJT transistor, a photodiode, a first storage capacitor and a second storage capacitor. The first storage capacitor is configured to discharge, via the BJT transistor, to a first output voltage in a first exposure time of the photodiode. The second storage capacitor is configured to discharge, via the BJT transistor, to a second output voltage in a second exposure time of the photodiode.
US09716838B1
Systems and methods for extracting information from a scanned item having a plurality of regularly spaced row marks along at least part of a length of the scanned item are disclosed herein. The system can include a line scan camera that can generate a line of pixels of a portion of the scanned item in an imaging area; a feed device coupled to the line scan camera; and a timing circuit. The feed device can move at least a portion of the scanned item through the imaging area, and the timing circuit can provide a plurality of capture signals to the line scan camera. The timing circuit can vary a time interval between capture signals based on a number of pixels between adjacent row marks along at least a portion of the length of the scanned item.
US09716834B2
An image display device includes: an eyeball angular velocity calculation unit that calculates an eyeball angular velocity of a viewer viewing an object by an equation: eyeball angular velocity=(2 arctan(s/2d))/t, using a movement distance moved by the object included in a moving image between two sequential frames on a screen, a time interval between the two sequential frames, and a viewing distance, a distance between the viewer and the screen; a determination unit that determines whether the calculated eyeball angular velocity is not less than a lower limit of an eyeball angular velocity in a saccadic eye movement; an image processor that (a) stops the moving image or replaces the moving image with a single color image when it is determined that the calculated eyeball angular velocity is not less than the lower limit, (b) does not stop the moving image and does not replace the moving image with the single color image when it is determined that the eyeball angular velocity is less than the lower limit.
US09716831B2
An imaging apparatus including a mode sequence control unit configured to select a control scheme for a still image recording operation in accordance with an imaging operation setting, wherein the mode sequence control unit is configured to select a first control scheme when the imaging operation setting is a normal imaging setting and a second, different control scheme when the imaging operation setting is an unconscious imaging setting.
US09716830B2
An image signal processing device includes a channel converter to divide an input signal stream, that includes image signals generated by a plurality of pixels, by processing units and generate a plurality of processing unit signals, an image signal processing core including a plurality of image processing channels each performing an image signal processing operation, and generating a plurality of output unit signals by receiving and processing the plurality of processing unit signals in parallel through one or more of the plurality of image processing channels, a channel combiner to combine the plurality of output unit signals and generate an output signal stream, and a configuration controller to control, according to an operation mode, at least one of the number of the plurality of processing unit signals, selection of a frequency of a processing clock signal, and combination of the plurality of output unit signals.
US09716825B1
The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces. In some examples, the electronic device transitions between user interfaces for capturing photos based on data received from a first camera and a second camera. In some examples, the electronic device provides enhanced zooming capabilities that result in visual pleasing results for a displayed digital viewfinder and for captured videos. In some examples, the electronic device provides user interfaces for transitioning a digital viewfinder between a first camera with an applied digital zoom to a second camera with no digital zoom. In some examples, the electronic device prepares to capture media at various magnification levels. In some examples, the electronic device enhanced capabilities for navigating through a plurality of values.
US09716824B2
A focus detection apparatus according the present invention includes: a normal focus detection information acquiring section which detects a normal AF evaluation peak position from contrast information; a special focus detection information acquiring section which detects a special AF evaluation peak position among different focus positions using brightness information and the contrast information; a determination section which determines information to be used for focus detection using the brightness information and either of the normal AF evaluation peak position and the special AF evaluation peak position, and a focus detection calculation section which calculates a focus detection position using the information to be used for focus detection determined by the determination section.
US09716823B2
Provided is an image pickup apparatus, including a plurality of microlenses, a plurality of image pickup rows being configured to output a signal for generating an image a distance measurement row being configured to output a focus detection signal a plurality of signal processing units, and a control unit. The control unit is configured to control the plurality of image pickup rows to perform a first operation of reading signals to the plurality of signal processing units; control, before or after the first operation, the distance measurement row to perform a second operation of reading signals to the plurality of signal processing units; control the plurality of signal processing units to be in an operating state in one of the first and second operations; and control a part of the plurality of signal processing units to be in an operation-restricted state in another of the first and second operations.
US09716822B2
Methods and imaging devices are disclosed for determining a first direction to move a lens in an autofocus operation. For example, one method includes capturing a plurality of frames depicting a scene, selecting a portion of at least one frame that corresponds to an object in a displayed frame, and tracking the object in the plurality of frames, where tracking the object provides a reference parameter of the object for each of the plurality of frames. The method may further includes detecting a change in the reference parameter of at least a first frame and a second frame of the plurality of frames, determining a focus direction based on the change in the reference parameter, and initiating a focus operation by moving a lens of the imaging device based on the determined focus direction.
US09716821B2
An image pickup apparatus includes a light receiving element configured to photoelectrically convert an optical image to output a pair of image signals, a selection unit configured to select a focus detection region from among a plurality of focus detection regions, and a calculation unit configured to calculate a defocus amount based on the image signals from the selected focus detection region and a correction value for the selected focus detection region, and the correction value varies depending on the plurality of focus detection regions.
US09716811B2
This is a method for obtaining a cross-section of a color gamut of an image forming apparatus by slicing the color gamut along a plane. This method includes the steps of obtaining gamut boundary line segments, obtaining cross-section boundary line segments, and obtaining endpoints. The gamut boundary line-segment obtaining step is to obtain gamut boundary line segments serving as baseline segments of a boundary of the color gamut. The cross-section boundary line-segment obtaining step is to obtain cross-section boundary line segments serving as baseline segments of a boundary of the cross-section. The endpoints obtained in the endpoint obtaining step are points of intersection of the gamut boundary line segments and the plane. The cross-section boundary line segments obtained in the cross-section boundary line-segment obtaining step are line segments making up a route that is the shortest route passing through all the endpoints only once.
US09716810B2
An image processing apparatus capable of suppressing the occurrence of a density gap within the same object due to smoothing processing, and a storage medium are provided. An image processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a determination unit configured to determine whether or not a drawing command for an object is a gradation drawing command by analyzing data described in a page description language. Further, the image processing apparatus includes a control unit configured to apply image processing to an edge portion of the object in a case where the determination unit determines that the drawing command for the object is not a gradation drawing command, and to suppress image processing for the edge portion of the object in a case where the determination unit determines that the drawing command for the object is a gradation drawing command.
US09716807B2
The present disclosure relates to advanced signal processing including digital watermarking and steganography. One method includes: obtaining image data representing imagery in a first color mode; steganographically embedding a watermark signal into the image data, thereby generating watermarked image data; obtaining reader data representing an input color mode of a reader configured to detect or decode the watermarked image data, wherein the input color mode is different from the first color mode; transforming the watermarked image data from the first color mode to the input color mode; estimating a signal strength of the watermark signal within the transformed watermark image data; and visually displaying the estimated signal strength. The estimated signal strength can be visually displayed as a multi-color heat map. Of course, other combinations are described as well.
US09716803B2
A reading device includes a platen; a cover; a reading unit; and a controller. The platen includes first and second reference points. The controller is configured to: control the reading unit to read one line worth of data in a main scanning direction when the cover is moved from an open position to a close position with an original document being placed on the platen, the one line including the first and second reference points; determine whether the first reference point is overlaid with the original document; in response to determining that the first reference point is overlaid with the original document, determine a first length of the original document in the main scanning direction based on the one line worth of data; specify a particular size of the original document such that the first length is a short side length of a prefixed sheet in the particular size.
US09716801B2
An information processing device includes a display; a communication interface; and a controller. The controller is configured to perform: acquiring first map data from a server through the communication interface, the first map data being indicative of a first map image, a first zoom level indicating a first scale of the first map image; displaying the first map image based on the first map data on the display; setting a print area to the first map image; determining a second zoom level on the basis of the first zoom level, the second zoom level indicating a second scale of a second map image, the second map image including at least the print area in the first map image; and acquiring second map data from the server through the communication interface, the second map data being indicative of the second map image.
US09716799B2
A predictive analytics model, that provides for overlaying indexing techniques and enriching the data with public domain and customer sentiment data to provide customer metrics. Analysis of toll-free telecommunications data, such as call volume data to toll-free numbers owned by key federal agencies, month over month, may be used to develop an indicator of economic events, trends and correlates.
US09716792B2
A system and method for muting interactions to contact center agents. The system is adapted to identify a network of agents and customers. Each node of the network represents either an agent or a customer, and a connection is made between the node representing the agent and the node representing the customer, in response to identifying a fit between the customer and the agent. The system is adapted to identify a current interaction to be routed, identify a first group of agents based on one or more constraints for generating one or more candidate agents, and determine the fit between a current customer and each of the candidate agents based on the network of agents and customers. The system is further adapted to select a particular agent of the candidate agents with a best fit, and transmit a signal for routing the current interaction to the particular agent.
US09716791B1
Detecting fraud in a contact center including receiving an incoming Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP) media stream associated with a contact, and determining, based on a real-time biometric analysis of the incoming RTP media stream, that the contact is a potential fraudulent contact. The incoming RTP media stream comprises at least one of an audio stream or a video stream. At least one characteristic related to one or more of an audio quality or a video quality of the incoming RTP media stream is altered without altering any characteristics of an outgoing RTP media stream from the contact center to the potential fraudulent contact, and an altered incoming RTP media stream associated with the potential fraudulent contact is received. In some embodiments, at least one subsequent communications session is automatically scheduled and initiated and a subsequent incoming RTP media stream is received during each subsequent communications session.
US09716778B1
A versatile multiple display screen smart-phone, having configuration of retractable dual extension screen unites assembled at either side of device, whereby retracted extension screens can be extracted from a prefabricated interior twofold passageway/storage unit for added multi-tasking convenience and/or combined consolidation with main display screen for display screen enlargement.
US09716774B2
A system, method, and computer-readable medium for method for syncing a user interface on a server device to a user interface on a client device are disclosed. The method includes broadcasting a signal from a server device to a client device when the server device presents an active user input interface on a display screen, wherein the active user input interface illustrates input from a user via a remote control that is separate from the client device, wherein the remote control requires multiple steps for inputting a character. The method next includes establishing a connection between the server device and the client device if certain pre-defined criteria are met. Next the method includes transmitting parameters for displaying a client user input interface on the connected client device that is associated with the active user input interface, including loading existing data in an input field of the active user input interface into a client input field on the client device. The method then includes receiving character input sent from the connected client device to the server device via the client user input interface, wherein the character is received via a single step. The method then includes updating the input field of the active user input interface with the received character input from the client user input interface, and removing the client user input interface on the client device upon the occurrence of an event.
US09716768B2
Provided are a cache system and a caching service providing method using a cache cloud structure. The cache system may include a plurality of cache servers, each, configured to be independently driven, and configured to be registered to a corresponding virtual layer among a plurality of virtual layers that are managed by a management server, and the management server operating on a storage device and configured to transmit information about at least one registered cache server to at least one client that is connected to the corresponding virtual layer. The at least one client is configured to generate or update a server list in response to the transmitted information, and the registered cache server and the at least one client are configured to be connected to each other based on the server list.
US09716760B2
In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and apparatus for social networking in a dynamic environment. In one embodiment, a method for social networking in a network includes broadcasting a first set of one or more keywords representing one or more interests of a first user in the network, receiving a response from a second user in the network indicating interest in at least one of the interests of the first user, and connecting to a server in the network, where the server hosts a group for supporting communications between at least the first network user and the second network user.
US09716755B2
Locally providing cloud storage array services for a storage array of a data center when the storage array is not connected to a remote cloud-based storage array services provider includes initiating, by a primary storage array, one or more cloud storage array services and locally providing the cloud storage array services. Such local providing of the cloud storage array services also includes generating, by the cloud storage array services, metadata describing one or more real-time storage array characteristics and presenting the metadata to a user through a local area network.
US09716741B2
Systems and methods for generating and sharing interactive charts are described. The interactive charts are generated in an online portal that allows users to customize the interactive features of the chart. An online portal may also be provided to allow users to automatically embed interactive chart(s) in another website without reprogramming the code of the website each time the interactive chart(s) are changed or new interactive chart(s) are added.
US09716737B2
Wireless communication devices are provided with direct video and audio streaming capability. The streaming capability may support overlays, and seek functionality. Some implementations include incorporation of these features into devices with a mirroring display mode such as Miracast.
US09716731B2
System, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions for performing the methods are provided for facilitating electronic audio and/or video communications between multiple parties over a consolidated peer-to-peer media session. The peer-to-peer media session is consolidated in the sense that at least one of the two communications systems of the peer-to-peer media session performs media data relaying functions for at least one other communications system that is also a communications participant.
US09716716B2
Techniques described herein leverage a trusted entity within a domain to enable devices to establish trust with one another so they can securely discover each other and connect to one another. In various examples discussed herein, a device is configured to provide trust information to, and/or receive trust information from, the trusted entity. The trust information may include, for example, a public key of an encryption key pair, a certificate signed by the trusted entity proving authenticity, and/or a hash function and a hash seed used to compute a series of results that form a hash chain. The device may use the trust information to discover another device and to connect to the other device securely and automatically (e.g., with no user involvement or limited user involvement). Moreover, the device may use the trust information to dynamically change a MAC address being used to communicate with the other device.
US09716712B2
An information processing device includes: an image acquirer configured to acquire a shot image of a user from an imaging device; a registered user information holder configured to hold face identification data of a registered user; a face authentication section configured to execute authentication processing of a face image in the shot image by using the face identification data held in the registered user information holder; a shooting condition controller configured to adjust a shooting condition to bring a characteristic of the face image close to a characteristic of a face image of an acquisition source of the face identification data and make the imaging device perform shooting in order to improve an authentication result in the face authentication section; and an information processing section configured to execute information processing on the basis of an authentication result of a face image obtained by adjustment.
US09716711B2
Provided herein are systems and methods for providing document certification and authentication using 2D barcodes.
US09716708B2
A system-on-chip (SoC) includes multiple hardware modules that are implemented on a substrate. The hardware modules include a plurality of hardware and software security features and the SoC provides one or more external interfaces for accessing the security features. A validation module, implemented in the boot code of the SoC for example, manages security certificates to control access to the plurality of security features. Each security certificate includes one or more unique identifiers corresponding to one or more hardware modules in the SoC and access control settings for one or more security features of the one or more hardware modules. The security certificate additionally includes a certificate signature signed by a secure key.
US09716704B2
In an approach for providing data privacy in information integration systems, a method performed during compilation of an information integration job receives information regarding a data flow structure of the job to be executed, said data flow structure comprising at least one source system, one or more target entities, and at least one operator for modifying output data provided by the source system. The method determines data exit points at which output data are provided to the target entities and determines at least one non-trusted target entity. The method determines, for each non-trusted target entity, if at least one data field included in the output data provided to the non-trusted target entity is classified as sensitive information, and, if so, modifies the information integration job by including a masking operator directly before a data exit point associated with the non-trusted target entity in order to mask said sensitive information.
US09716696B2
An encryption key management system and method implements enterprise managed encryption key for an enterprise using encryption for cloud-based services. In some embodiments, the enterprise deploys a key agent on the enterprise data network to distribute encryption key material to the network intermediary on a periodic basis. The network intermediary receives the encryption key material from the enterprise and stores the encryption key material in temporary storage and uses the received encryption key material to derive a data encryption key to perform the encryption of the enterprise's data. In this manner, the enterprise can be provided with the added security assurance of maintaining and managing its own encryption key while using cloud-based data storage services. The encryption key management system and method can be applied to ensure that the enterprise's one or more encryption keys do not leave the enterprise's premises.
US09716690B2
An integrated security switch and related method for managing connectivity and security among networks. The integrated security switch includes a security function connectable with a first network and at least one switching function connectable with a second network. A common management interface driven by both command line interface and graphic user interface protocols manages the switching function via a management path dedicated between the security function and the switching function. The common management interface enables secure switching of traffic to flow via a traffic path dedicated between the switching function and the security function. Typically, the traffic is a flow of data between the Internet and a group of networked users such as a wide area network.
US09716685B2
Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to auto-entry of addresses in an electronic message and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for cautious auto-entry for messaging systems. In one embodiment of the invention, a cautious auto-completion method can be provided. The method include auto-completing a messaging address provided in a messaging client; computing a similar name set (SNS) value for the auto-completed messaging address; and, posting a warning if the SNS value exceeds an SNS threshold. As used herein, an SNS includes a list of similar messaging addresses having similarities likely to result in an unintended auto-completed messaging address in a messaging system.
US09716682B2
Enabling recipients to share tags that they associate with received e-mails includes receiving an e-mail from a sending user addressed to a receiving user, the e-mail including a header and a body and being capable of supporting attachments to the e-mail that are distinct of the body. The receiving user is enabled to perceive the e-mail and associate at least one tag with the e-mail, the at least one tag being a textual descriptor for the received e-mail distinct from the header, body, and attachments of the received e-mail. The received e-mail and the at least one tag are stored in a data store associated with the receiving user. The at least one tag is propagated to at least one of the sending user and another recipient of the e-mail to whom the sender sent the e-mail.
US09716681B2
A method and associated systems for using analytics to optimize performance of a messaging system via topic migration to alternate delivery methods. A messaging system delivers messages organized into topics to users by any of several message-delivery mechanisms, such as a publish/subscribe push mechanism and an HTTP polling pull mechanism. A processor analyzes characteristics of messages associated with a particular topic and delivered by a first delivery mechanism, and if it finds that those characteristics render the first delivery mechanism an inefficient or expensive way to deliver those messages, it determines whether a second mechanism would be more efficient or less expensive. If so, the messaging system then migrates all messages associated with the topic to the second mechanism, regardless of an identity or other characteristic of a user that receives messages associated with the topic.
US09716675B2
Provided is a method and system for controlling an Internet of Things (IoT) device. An IoT control method configured as a computer may include registering an IoT device as a buddy through an open application programmer interface (API) of a messenger service platform; creating a group chat room by grouping a plurality of IoT devices among IoT devices registered as the buddy; and providing a messaging service participated in by the plurality of IoT devices through the group chat room.
US09716658B1
A method for weighted routing of data traffic can include generating a first hash value based on a header of a data packet and performing a lookup in a first ECMP table using the first hash value to select a secondary ECMP table from at least two secondary un-weighted ECMP tables, the first ECMP table including a weighted listing of the at least two secondary un-weighted ECMP tables. The method can also include generating a second hash value based on the header of the data packet and performing a lookup in the selected secondary ECMP table based on the second hash value to select an egress port of a plurality of egress ports of the data switch and forwarding the data packet on the selected egress port.
US09716654B2
A mobile communications network can establish one or more communications bearers for communicating data packets to/from a communications terminal via a radio network and a core network, each of the communications bearers established using context information associated with connections from the communications terminal to destination addresses, or to the communications terminal from source addresses. The communications terminal can, in an idle state, communicate a short signalling message data packet to a base station of the radio network, using predetermined parameters for configuring a mobile communications terminal transmitter, which correspond with parameters with which a receiver in the base station can receive the short message data packet, the short message data packet including an indication of context information usable by the mobile communications network for communicating the short message data packet to a mobility manager of the mobile communications network. The short message data packet can be context-less or quasi-context-less.
US09716650B2
A communication system includes a work path and a protection path that are set between a first transfer apparatus and a second transfer apparatus, one of the work path and the protection path being selected by the first transfer apparatus and the second transfer apparatus according to a control signal that includes first information indicating whether there is a failure in one of the work path and the protection path, and a third path that is activated when the first transfer apparatus or the second transfer apparatus receives a control signal in which the first information has been changed to second information indicating that a failure had occurred in both the work path and the protection path and is selected by the first transfer apparatus and the second transfer apparatus.
US09716642B2
An error input occurs in the meter indication value input of an LP gas meter. Whether the meter indication value input has an error input or not must be subjected to the determination by a responsible person. Since the meter indication value is used for delivery prediction for example, the business is enormously influenced by the error input. Thus, whether or not the meter indication value is a correct value is determined. When the inputted meter indication value is a correct value, then the meter indication value is stored in a predetermined data region as the latest meter indication value data. When the inputted meter indication value is a false value, the reentry of the meter indication value is prompted and the inputted meter indication value is cleared.
US09716637B1
A communication network employing a communicator, a string commander and a measurement string including one or more operational monitors. The string commander is in communication with the communicator and the operational monitor(s) in accordance with a serial communication protocol. In operation, each operational monitor measures one or more operational parameters of one of a system, a device or a sensor, and communicates the measurement(s) to the string commander. The string commander collects measurements of the operational parameter(s) of an associated measurement string and formats the measurements into the reportable format that is made available by the communicator to a workstation and/or a database.
US09716636B2
Techniques for separately accounting for multiple transactions in the same data packets communicated over a network using Transport Control Protocol (TCP) include receiving an Internet Protocol (IP) data packet that includes Transport Control Protocol (TCP) payload data. The TCP payload is parsed to determine boundary data that indicates a byte location on a boundary between a first transaction and a second transaction. A byte count that indicates a number of bytes in the TCP payload associated with the first transaction is determined based on the boundary data. Accounting data for the first transaction is determined based at least in part on the byte count. These techniques allow a service gateway to bill separately for different requests and responses carried in TCP data packets, such as those for Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP).
US09716631B2
Machine logic (for example, software) that performs the following steps: (i) providing a system including a first hypervisor and a first topology agent; (ii) running the topology agent on the hypervisor; (iii) dynamically creating a first unique address for the first topology agent; and (iv) storing the first unique address in a set of forwarding database (FDB) table(s) located on a set of network switch(es). Also, lightweight mechanisms on network switches for finding and/or clearing media access controller (MAC) addresses from FDB tables.
US09716622B2
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for automatic configuration of a computing device in a content-centric network (CCN). During operation, the system sends, by the computing device on at least one of the computing device's faces, an interest in configuration information. The interest has a predetermined name prefix. The system then receives a content object in response to the interest. The content object includes at least a default name prefix, to which the computing device can send other interests. The system further configures the computing device based on the received content object.
US09716621B2
A programmable transceiver for a network element includes a programmable circuit including internal logic and control logic. Interfaces connect the programmable circuit to a network and a network element. The control logic facilitates programming of the internal logic responsive to an in-band program signal while the programmable circuit services network traffic received via at least one of the interfaces.
US09716619B2
A system and method of processing media traffic for a hub-based system federating disparate unified communications systems is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a system includes a federation server that is configured to connect to a first unified communications system and a second unified communications system, where the federation server receives a media call initiation request from a first client of the first unified communications system, where the media call initiation request initiates a media call with a second client of the second unified communications system, and where the federation server provides a uniform resource locator to the second client based on the media initiation request, wherein the uniform resource locator is configured to direct a user on the second client to a browser to accept the media call.
US09716618B2
A scheduler may run a script. The script may have a plurality of configuration commands for a network device. A first configuration command of the plurality of configuration commands may be called to begin. A script engine may determine whether a termination request has been received. The script engine may run the first configuration command when it is determined the termination request is not received. While the first configuration command is running, the script engine may receive the termination request. Instead of terminating immediately upon detection of a termination request, the first configuration command may complete.
US09716615B1
A network comprises a plurality of switches coupled in a ring topology, wherein each adjacent pair of switches in the plurality of switches forms a multiple link aggregation group interswitch connection therebetween and forms a ring resiliency protocol logical node. A first switch in a first adjacent pair of the plurality of switches is coupled via a first link to a second switch in a second adjacent pair of the plurality of switches, and a third switch in the first adjacent pair is coupled via a second link to a fourth switch in the second adjacent pair. In the event of a failure of the first link, a packet flow to be transmitted from the first switch over the first link is redirected from the first switch to the third switch for transmission over the second link to the fourth switch. However, in the event of a concurrent failure of the first link and the second link, a ring resiliency protocol reconfigures the ring topology such that a packet flow to be transmitted via the failed links is redirected to a fifth switch in a third adjacent pair via a third link.
US09716610B2
Methods of the present inventions allow for generating and providing an enhanced domain name. An exemplary method may comprise providing an enhanced domain to a second party. The enhanced domain may comprise a domain name, a web space automatically enabled and associated with the domain name, and at least one application automatically enabled and associated with the domain name.
US09716607B2
A plurality of training fields of a preamble of a multi-user physical layer data unit are generated, and training fields of the plurality of training fields are mapped to respective signal streams of a plurality of streams using a mapping matrix, where different portions of each column of the mapping matrix correspond to different client devices. A first signal field of the preamble of the data unit corresponding to a first client device is generated, and the first signal field is mapped to a first set of signal streams using a first portion of a column of the mapping matrix. A second signal field of the preamble of the data unit corresponding to the second client device is generated, and the second signal field is mapped to a second set of signal streams using a second portion of the column of the mapping matrix.
US09716606B2
In a WLAN, a device generates a short training field and a long training field following the short training field. The device generates a first signal field following the long training field, and the first signal field includes a mode field for indicating a transmission mode of a frame to be transmitted and a check bit for protecting at least the mode field. The device transmits the frame including the short training field, the long training field, and the first signal field.
US09716604B2
A method and apparatus for efficient precoding matrix verification in a multiple-input multiple-output MIMO wireless communication system are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit WTRU sends a precoding matrix index PMI to an eNodeB. The eNodeB sends a verification message including a PMI indicator indicating whether or not the PMI of the WTRU and a PMI of the eNodeB are identical. If the PMI of the WTRU and of the eNodeB are identical, the eNodeB sends just a PMI indicator otherwise the eNodeB sends to the WTRU a PMI indicator and the PMI of the eNodeB. A plurality of PMIs may be sent simultaneously, and the PMIs may be partitioned into a plurality of groups. The PMI indicator may be either attached to or inserted into control signaling. PMI validation messages can be signaled to WTRU by control signaling or use of a dedicated reference signal.
US09716598B2
An information processing device according to one aspect of the present invention has a plurality of data transfer units and includes a data transfer monitoring unit to monitor whether or not a data transfer is executable by a first data transfer unit in the plurality of data transfer units and a data transfer inhibiting unit to inhibit, based on monitoring of the data transfer monitoring unit, the data transfer of a second data transfer unit different from the first data transfer unit in the plurality of data transfer units while the data transfer is executable by the first data transfer unit.
US09716593B2
Techniques for leveraging multiple biometrics for enabling user access to security metadata are provided. In one embodiment, a computing device can receive first and second biometric identifiers from a user. The computing device can further determine, via a multi-biometric authentication system, that the user's identity can be verified using the first biometric identifier, but cannot be, or has not been, verified using the second biometric identifier. In response to this determination, the computing device can provide information to the user for facilitating verification of the user's identity using the second biometric identifier.
US09716591B2
The invention relates to a method for authorizing a second client (C2) to a server (S) for a user account for setting up a secure connection between the second client (C2) and a first client (C1).
US09716588B2
A method for generating a shared key between two users of a network. The two users respectively have at least one clock as well as an arrangement for detecting a certain surroundings variable. The two users detect the certain surroundings variable synchronously at respectively predefined points in time or start a detection of a course of the surroundings variable. Finally, the two users respectively generate the shared key taking values detected in this manner for the surroundings variable into account.
US09716586B2
Methods, media, and systems for, in one embodiment, protecting one or more keys in an encryption and/or decryption process can use precomputed values in the process such that at least a portion of the one or more keys is not used or exposed in the process. In one example of a method, internal states of an AES encryption process are saved for use in a counter mode stream cipher operation in which the key used in the AES encryption process is not exposed or used.
US09716579B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide bandwidth allocation in wireless telecommunications including communication devices that can operate according to different operating bandwidth. The bandwidth allocation can include allocation of subcarrier blocks having specific sizes. The subcarriers blocks can be contiguous within a channel or can be non-contiguous or distributed.
US09716576B2
The present invention relates to a method and device for decoding a channel in a wireless communication system. User equipment receives, from a base station, a candidate group of antenna ports including a plurality of antenna ports, and receives a reference signal from the base station onto enhanced physical downlink control channel (e-PDCCH) ports that correspond to all or some of the plurality of antennas in the candidate group of antenna ports. The user equipment blind-decodes the e-PDCCH configured in a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), on the basis of the received reference signal.
US09716574B2
A method of transmitting a training signal in a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) system includes generating one or more first training signals for a first destination station and one or more second training signals for a second destination station by applying a mapping matrix P to a training signal generation sequence, mapping the first training signals and the second training signals to a plurality of antennas according to an antenna mapping matrix, and performing Inverse Fast Fourier Transform (IFFT) on each of the first training signals and the second training signals mapped to the plurality of antennas and transmitting the training signals through the plurality of antennas.
US09716566B2
An apparatus (100) includes a canine harness (101) with a radio frequency inhibitor (400). A leash (1002) can serve as a control device (102). The leash can selectively mechanically couple to the canine harness and electrically couple an actuator (114) to the radio frequency inhibitor. When the actuator is actuated, the radio frequency inhibitor is to emit one or more radio frequency inhibition signals (405), which can include the emission of all programmed signals simultaneously. Radio frequency inhibitors can also be integrated into clothing or armor (1802), as well as equipment (1901). The radio frequency inhibitor can interrupt, suppress, or halt electronic detonation communications to an explosive device.
US09716563B2
Method and apparatus of a network configuration configured to permit a dense wavelength division multiplexing (“DWDM”) element to connect to a storage server, an Internet Protocol (“IP”) router, and DWDM network are disclosed. The configuration includes the DWDM network, storage area network (“SAN”) server, IP router, and optical transport network (“OTN”) switch. While the DWDM network transports information via optical fibers, the DWDM switch is coupled to the DWDM network for transporting optical signals. The SAN server is coupled to a port of the DWDM switch and is configured to store data at a remote location. The IP router which is coupled to the DWDM switch facilitates IP traffic between a user and the DWDM network. The OTN switch, coupled to the first DWDM switch, is capable of processing at least a portion of the optical signals.
US09716550B2
Disclosed are a dimming method, a dimming device and a computer storage medium. The method comprises: segmenting, on a Media Access Control (MAC) layer, a MAC Service Data Unit (MSDU) into multiple sub-MSDUs of the same length; encapsulating the sub-MSDUs after the segmentation into separate MAC Protocol Data Units (MPDUs), and separately generating a Compensation Frame (CF) for each MPDU according to a target brightness value of a light source; and aggregating the MPDUs and the CFs into a Physical Layer Service Data Unit (PSDU) of a Physical Layer Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) and transmitting the PPDU.
US09716546B2
Methods and systems for frequency generation may comprise receiving a satellite signal the satellite signal having a center frequency; determining an amplitude response profile of the satellite signal; and computing the center frequency of the satellite signal based on the amplitude response profile of the received signal; and generating a reference signal at the computed center frequency. A center frequency of each of a plurality of satellite signals may be computed based on the computed center frequency. The determining the amplitude response profile may include: sweeping a tuner above and below a given reference frequency; measuring the received signal strength during the sweeping operation; and determining upper and lower rolloff points of the signal based on the measured signal strength.
US09716539B2
A method of reporting channel state information (CSI) on a terminal in which a plurality of CSI processes are configured in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: measuring a channel based on a CSI reference signal (RS) resource related to one of the CSI processes; measuring interference based on a CSI-interference measurement (IM) resource related to the CSI process; determining CSI based on the measured channel and the measured interference; and reporting the CSI through an uplink channel, wherein a codebook for reporting the CSI, which is used for determining the CSI, is one of two or more codebooks that correspond independently to each of the CSI processes.
US09716532B2
User convenience is reduced if vibration of a power receiver is inhibited when the power receiver is receiving power through a cable or when the power transmitting region is large and vibration of the power receiver does not cause the power receiver to deviate from a power transmitting region of a power transmitter. It is desired to selectively inhibit the vibration of the power receiver during power reception, depending on the power reception status. The power receiver includes a vibrating unit, and includes a power receiving unit configured to receive power, an identifying unit configured to identify a power reception technique used in the power receiving unit when the power receiving unit receives the power, and an inhibiting unit configured to inhibit the vibrating unit from vibrating in accordance with the identification by the identifying unit.
US09716531B2
A near field communication (NFC)-based data transmission method and apparatus, and a near field communication device. An NFC touch apparatus sends an intelligent extraction instruction to a first NFC device, to trigger the first NFC device to perform intelligent extraction processing on to-be-transmitted data determined by the first NFC device to obtain intelligently extracted data, receives the intelligently extracted data that is sent by the first NFC device by means of NFC communication and sends the intelligently extracted data to a second NFC device by means of NFC communication. A size of the NFC touch apparatus is smaller than sizes of the first NFC device and the second NFC device, so that an NFC antenna of the NFC touch apparatus and an NFC antenna of the first NFC device as well as an NFC antenna of the second NFC device are easily within an effective communication range.
US09716525B2
An electronic device includes a case, a lid removably attachable to the case, a bolt as a first fastening portion which is located in the lid and can secure at least a part of the lid to the case, and an insert nut as a second fastening portion which is located in the case and can be fastened to the first fastening portion. The lid can take at least two states of a proper attached state and a provisional attached state with respect to the case. In the proper attached state, the lid is relatively fixed to the case as the bolt and the insert nut are fastened to each other, and in the provisional attached state, the bolt is pressed against the insert nut while the bolt is not fastened to the insert nut.
US09716523B1
A wireless communication assembly for enhancing public safety includes a base station. The base station is configured to record incoming and outgoing communications. Each of a plurality of communicators is configured to communicate with the base station. A respective communicator is configured to communicate with the plurality of communicators. The base station is configured to record incoming and outgoing communications with the plurality of communicators. The respective communicator is configured to communicate with the plurality of communicators.
US09716520B2
An integrated standard-compliant data acquisition device includes an electrically insulating package including a plurality of conductive leads and an integrated circuit (IC) disposed within the electrically insulating package and electrically coupled to at least some of the plurality of conductive leads. The IC includes a first multiplexer (MUX), a second MUX, a third MUX, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), a plurality of registers, a fourth MUX, control logic, and communication circuitry. In operation, a first circuit value under a first condition can be determined and stored, a second circuit value under a second condition can be determined and stored, and the decision as to whether there is a fault condition can be mad by comparing the first circuit value and the second circuit value.
US09716517B1
A telematics system includes a telematics input unit that has a first housing and an electrical barrier located in the telematics input unit. The telematics input unit is connectable to a power supply through the electrical barrier and provides safe electrical power. A telematics transmitter unit has a second housing and is remote from the telematics input unit. The telematics transmitter unit receives the safe electrical power from the telematics input unit. A communications device is disposed within the telematics transmitter unit.
US09716516B2
A transmitting apparatus is provided. The transmitting apparatus includes: an encoder configured to perform a low-density parity check (LDPC) encoding on input bits using a parity check matrix to generate an LDPC codeword comprising information word bits and parity bits; an interleaver configured to interleave the LDPC codeword; and a modulator configured to map the interleaved LDPC codeword onto a modulation symbol, wherein the modulator is further configured to map a bit included in a predetermined bit group from among a plurality of bit groups constituting the LDPC codeword onto a predetermined bit of the modulation symbol.
US09716515B2
Modifying a digital data stream that includes immediately consecutive code words of different length by segmenting, based on a certain block grid, the digital data stream. Each block of the block grid includes a fixed number of bits. It is determined whether all bits of the last block associated with the digital data stream are occupied by data of the digital data stream. If not all bits of the last block are occupied, the unoccupied bits of the last block are padded with bits of an end-of-record (EOR) indicator. If all bits of the last block are occupied, attaching an EOR indicator to the digital data stream is skipped.
US09716505B2
A circuit, integrated circuit, system tor implementation in an integrated circuit, and method of operating such a circuit, integrated circuit, or system are disclosed herein. In one example embodiment, the such a circuit includes a multiplier circuit portion, a first duty cycle correction (DCC) circuit portion, and a clock gating circuit portion. The multiplier circuit portion, DCC circuit portion, and clock gating circuit portion are all coupled in series with one another between an input port and an output port of the circuit. Additionally, the circuit is capable of receiving at the input port a first clock signal having a first frequency and, based at least indirectly upon the first clock signal, outputting a second clock signal having a second frequency that is related by a factor to the first frequency.
US09716498B2
An impedance-to-digital converter is provided. A sensible impedance range of the impedance-to-digital converter is adjustable by changing magnitudes of signals inputted thereto.
US09716497B2
A calibration circuit sharing a resistor for impedance matching includes a command decoder configured to receive a command signal and decode the command signal into a calibration enable signal; a selector configured to select one of the calibration enable signal and a start signal according to a select signal, and provide a driving signal; and a calibration driver configured to perform an impedance matching operation in response to the driving signal, and generate a completion signal when performance is completed, wherein the start signal corresponds to a completion signal provided from another calibration circuit which shares the resistor for the impedance matching.
US09716483B1
Multi octave frequency-range electro-mechanical impedance tuners cover frequencies from the megahertz (FM range) to the high (millimeter-wave) gigahertz range, by combining a high frequency with one or two low frequency slide screw tuner modules. Special configurations allow for compact size. The low frequency module can be bypassed using SPDT remotely controlled millimeter wave switches. Appropriate calibration, control and tuning procedures allow for a fully integrated operation.
US09716475B1
A selectable low noise amplifier (LNA) system comprising, a plurality of LNAs having a plurality of LNA characteristics and at least one selection switch network coupled to the plurality of LNAs to select at least one of the plurality of LNAs.
US09716464B2
An aspect of the present disclosure provides solar panel mounting system comprising a hub and a girder assembly. The hub may comprise a plurality of attachment points on its exterior. The girder assembly may comprise a plurality of top girders configured to be mechanically fastened to each other at their proximal ends, and having a distance between their distal ends that is greater than a distance between the proximal ends of the top girders. The girder assembly may also comprise a plurality of bottom configured to be mechanically fastened to each other at their proximal ends and the plurality of top girders at their distal ends. Further, the girder assembly and one of the plurality of attachment points of the hub may be configured to be mechanically fastened to each other.
US09716462B2
A method for operating an electronically commutated synchronous machine, having a stator with at least two, in particular three, phase windings and a rotor having at least one permanent magnet. A control factor is determined periodically for each phase winding. The time periods during which an upper and lower supply voltage is applied to the phase winding are determined based on the control factor. The electronically commutated synchronous machine is actuated according to space vector modulation. Zero vectors are applied to the phase windings at the beginning and/or end of a period for a switch-off duration. All switches connected to the upper supply voltage or all switches connected to the lower supply voltage are on. The selection of the zero vector is performed in accordance with the phase winding with the greatest, in magnitude, deviation from the average control factor. As disclosed is an actuation circuit and the use thereof.
US09716455B2
A power conversion device includes an inverter which can convert between DC and AC power by turning on and off bridge-connected semiconductor switching elements with free wheel diodes connected in reverse parallel; and a rotating electric machine, such as an AC generator or motor, which is connected to the AC terminals of the inverter, where when the DC voltage of the inverter is below a specified value when starting the machine, the speed of the machine is detected in a condition where the DC voltage of the inverter is boosted to at least a specified value of the induced voltage of the machine, by intermittently turning on and off at least one of the switching elements, so as to accurately detect the speed of the machine and stably start it even when the DC voltage of the inverter is lower than the induced voltage of the machine.
US09716454B2
A driving circuit of a PMSM can include a current sampling circuit configured to generate a current sampling signal by sampling a stator current information of one phase of the permanent magnet synchronous motor; a BEMF circuit configured to receive the current sampling signal and a voltage sampling signal that represents a stator voltage of the phase, to estimate back electromotive force information of the phase, and to output a first voltage signal that represents the back electromotive force information; and a torque regulating circuit configured to generate an angle difference signal by calculating an angle difference between the first voltage signal and the current sampling signal, where the angle difference signal is configured to regulate an amplitude of a first U-shaped modulation wave such that a rotor current is in phase with the first U-shaped modulation wave for maximum torque per ampere.
US09716451B2
A semiconductor device that controls a motor driving device. The semiconductor device includes: a position detection section that detects changes in a turning position of a rotor provided at a motor and outputs detection signals corresponding to the changing turning position; a first switching section that, in accordance with the detection signals, outputs ground switching signals, which switch which end portion of a coil is connected to a ground side, to a first switching circuit; and a second switching section that, in accordance with the detection signals, outputs connection switching signals, which switch which end portion of the coil is connected to a driving power supply side, to a third switching circuit that controls the switching of connections between the end portions of the coil and the driving power supply side by a second switching circuit.
US09716447B2
Embodiments of an integrated motor drive power electronics system are generally described herein. In some embodiments, the integrated motor drive power electronics system includes an active line filter (ALF) configured to control and regulate current drawn from an input power source and to attenuate current ripple fed back to the input power source, an energy storage capacitance coupled to an output of the active line filter, and a bidirectional low voltage power supply (LVPS). In some embodiments, the bidirectional LVPS may provide regulated power to a load and may selectively recycle power back to the input power source and regulate voltage at the load to a predetermined output voltage. In some embodiments, the energy storage capacitance may serve as a local input power source for higher power motor drive electronics and the bidirectional LVPS.
US09716434B2
An apparatus can include: (i) a power stage circuit including first, second, third, and fourth switches and an inductor; (ii) a constant time control circuit configured to generate a switch trigger signal according to switching signals of the first and third switches; (iii) a PWM control circuit configured to receive an input voltage signal via the input terminal, an output voltage via the output terminal, and the switch trigger signal, and to generate switching signals to control the first, second, third, and fourth switches; and (iv) the PWM control circuit being configured to turn on or off the first and third switches in response to the switch trigger signal being activated.
US09716424B2
Multiple arrays of linear motors and generators are combined in a radial configuration to provide high mechanical efficiency to deliver power in a single plane of motion to a common crankshaft. Magnet core assemblies for the motors and generators use powerful rare earth magnets positioned within an outer flux containment shell with a highly-magnetically-permeable ferrous-alloy to provide high power density. The motor magnet stack is attached directly to a link rod that connects to the crankshaft. Pulsed power is provided to electromagnetic coils coils by microcomputer control, and coil energy is recovered at the ends of the linear stroke. A controller energizes the coils in certain combinations of coil location and polarity in order to produce bi-directional mechanical motion. Energy that is released when coils are switched off is harvested as voltage pulses returned to standby batteries or capacitors, or the electrochemical cells.
US09716423B1
The tactile feedback actuator generally has a stopper, a damper, a hammer path between the stopper and the damper, a coil element fixedly mounted relative to the hammer path, and a magnetic hammer guidingly mounted for movement along the hammer path. The magnetic hammer has two opposite ends. Each end of the magnetic hammer has a corresponding permanent magnet. The two permanent magnets have opposing polarities. The magnetic hammer is electromagnetically engageable by a magnetic field emitted upon activation of the coil element so as to be longitudinally slid along the hammer path in any one of two opposite directions depending on a polarity of activation of the coil element. The stopper has a striking surface adapted for stopping the magnetic hammer, and the damper is adapted for decelerating the magnetic hammer as the magnetic hammer is longitudinally slid towards the damper.
US09716422B2
A machine learning apparatus able to learn a point of connection of a ground wire or a shield wire optimal for reducing noise. It is a machine learning apparatus learning a point of connection of a ground wire or shield wire used in an electric motor apparatus provided with a status observing part and learning part. The status observing part observes a point of connection of a ground wire or shield wire and a feedback signal from an electric motor as status variables. The learning part learns a point of connection of a ground wire or a shield wire able to reduce noise included in the feedback signal in accordance with a training data set prepared based on the status variables.
US09716421B2
A resolver device includes a stator core and a rotor core supported so as to be freely rotatable with respect to the stator core and configured such that a reluctance component in a gap between the rotor core and the stator core changes in accordance with a relative angle position to the stator core. The stator core includes stator main poles and stator interpoles.
US09716416B2
A linear motor system includes a coil assembly, a movable magnet assembly, and a bearing assembly coupled to facilitate movement of one of the magnet assembly and the coil assembly with respect to the other. The bearing assembly includes a single bearing rail, wherein the single bearing rail is a separate component from the coil assembly and the magnet assembly and is mounted to the magnet assembly on a major face thereof opposite the major face thereof adjacent to which the coil assembly is disposed. The single bearing rail is narrower than the coil assembly and the magnet assembly. The single bearing rail includes a profiled rail configured to hold the magnet assembly on the coil assembly while allowing the magnet assembly to move along the coil assembly.
US09716405B2
An electronic circuit that accepts a variable DC voltage power source and converts it to a constant DC power source, the energy of which is either stored in a battery bank or sent out to DC loads or AC loads via a DC/AC conversion subsystem. The device capable of using solar, wind, geothermal, or hydroelectric energy sources.
US09716404B2
A charging circuit and a charging method of a battery are disclosed. The charging circuit provides a charging current to charge the battery. The charging circuit includes a charging control module, a current detecting module and a compensation module. The charging control module provides a charging voltage. The current detecting module detects the charging current, and generates a detecting voltage according to the charging current. The compensation module detects the charging voltage, and provides a feedback voltage to the charging control module according to the detecting voltage and the charging voltage.
US09716398B2
A driving device with correction function is provided herein and utilizes a sensing resistor to detect the variation in an operation amplifier. A signal generated by an offset voltage correction circuit is fed back to the operation amplifier and the offset voltage of the abnormal input in the operation amplifier is corrected to be zero so as to keep the operation amplifier under the best performance condition. The driving device implements in the wireless charger driving system can enhance the accuracy of the current value and can achieve good output performance and better system stability.
US09716397B2
The present disclosure discloses an apparatus and method for maintaining a charge amount of a secondary battery. The present disclosure reduces a charge amount or increases a discharge amount when a larger charge amount than a required proper charge amount is charged in the secondary battery. Also, the present disclosure reduces a discharge amount or increases a charge amount when a smaller charge amount than a required proper charge amount is charged in the secondary battery. Through this, a proper charge amount may be maintained.
US09716378B2
A cold shrinkable termination has an electric power cable, an insulation body, and a stress control tube. The electric power cable has a conductor core, an insulation layer covering the conductor core, and a conductive shielding layer covering the insulation layer. The insulation body has a first end portion and an opposite second end portion. The stress control tube is disposed in the insulation body adjacent to the second end portion of the insulation body. The stress control tube has a first tube portion directly overlapped on the insulation layer of the electric power cable, and a second tube portion directly overlapped on the conductive shielding layer of the electric power cable and extending a predetermined length thereon when the cold shrinkable termination is mounted on the electric power cable.
US09716376B2
The invention relates to a mounting for a data conductor on a conductor strand of a conductor line. The invention further relates to an energy transmission system for transmitting electrical energy between a conductor line and an electrical consumer that can be moved along the conductor line and has at least one data conductor guided along the conductor line and at least one antenna arranged on the consumer, and to a data transmission system for contactless local data transmission between at least one data conductor guided along a conductor line and at least one antenna arranged on an electrical consumer that can be moved along the conductor line. The invention solves the problem of enabling a compact construction, simple, fast fitting and retrofitting of an energy transmission system and reliable data transmission in an energy transmission system by means of a mounting having a mounting means that is adapted to an outer contour of the conductor strand for fastening the mounting to the conductor strand and a fastening means for fastening the data conductor to the mounting at a distance from the conductor strand, and by means of an energy transmission system and a data transmission system, which comprise a multiplicity of mountings for mounting the data conductor at an invariant distance from a conductor strand of the conductor line.
US09716375B1
A protective cover for cable connectors and methods of fabricated the protective cover. The protective cover comprises a tube open at one end and substantially closed at the opposed end by an end cap. The end cap bears an opening formed by slits, or by a combination of an open hole in addition to slits. The protective cover has a foil outer layer, a soft felt inner layer, and an insulating fiberglass core between the outer and inner layers. The tube is made by overlappingly rolling and bonding a section of foil-backed fiberglass. The end cap may be separately made, made as part of the pattern for the tube, or may be formed by cutting pointed teeth into one end of the tube pattern and bonding them generally perpendicularly to the length of the tube.
US09716373B2
An inventive method of mounting a cold shrinkable termination on an electric power cable has the steps of: providing a support tube having an outer surface coated with a soft material comprising a gel or a sealing compound on a predetermined segment; pre-expanding an insulation body of a cold shrinkable termination on the support tube coated with the soft material; inserting a cable joint of the electric power cable having a portion of a conductive shielding layer and a portion of an inner insulation layer removed, into the support tube; and removing the support tube from the cold shrinkable termination such that the cold shrinkable termination shrinks on the cable joint of the electric power cable, and the soft material is positioned between the cold shrinkable termination and the cable joint.
US09716365B2
A fiber block is configured with a fiber block including a Nd-doped active fiber and a pump-light delivery fiber which has a stretch extending along the active fiber in a side-to-side configuration so as to lunch pump light into the Nd-doped core of the active fiber. The core of the active fiber is surrounded by at least one or more claddings which, like the core, have a double bottleneck cross-section with a relatively large-area central region and relatively small input and output regions. The pump light delivery fiber is structured to have a substantially dumbbell cross-section with a relatively small-area central region coextending with the central region of the active fibers. The active fiber is dimensioned so that the overall length of the active fiber is configured to provide for the maximal amplification of the laser signal in a 900 nm range while limiting amplification in the 1060 nm range to the preset threshold. The fiber block is further configured so as to have the major fraction of the unabsorbed light, supported in the relatively large-area output end region of the passive fiber, be further used for pumping a neighboring fiber block.
US09716363B2
A connector includes: a connecting member including a plurality of tab sections and made of a conductive metal material; and a housing which is made of resin and in which the connecting member is insert-molded. Terminals of a counterpart connector are connectable to the tab sections by a connection of the counterpart connector. A side of the connecting member of the housing opposite to a protruding direction of the tab sections is used as a resin charging gate section from which the resin is charged.
US09716355B1
The systems, methods, and apparatuses disclosed herein relate to apparatuses having high density of electrical contacts and/or pins. In some embodiments, an apparatus comprises sets of electrical contacts, and a housing comprising housing portions, each of the housing portions comprising a corresponding planar end that supports a number of the sets of electrical contacts, wherein at least two sets of the sets of electrical contacts are located at different positions measured along a length of the housing. In further embodiments, an apparatus comprises sets of pins, and a housing comprising sets of walls, each of the sets of walls defines a corresponding portion of the elongated cavity, each of the sets of walls supporting a number of sets of the sets of pins, wherein at least two sets of the sets of pins are located at different depths measured along a length of the elongated cavity.
US09716350B2
The invention relates to a connector including a thermal protection circuit which detects abnormal heating to cut off the power supply. The connector (200) of the invention has: a cover portion (21); a plug portion (22); and a printed circuit board (27). The thermal protection circuit includes: an FET (34) which is inserted in a power supply line of a printed circuit board; and a temperature switch IC (33) which detects a temperature, and which, when the detected temperature exceeds a predetermined temperature, outputs an abnormal heating signal for causing the FET to cut off the power supply line. The connector includes a metal bonding member (360) which thermally couples a metal shell (25) to the temperature switch IC (33). The connector in which power supply can be cut off with high sensitivity with respect to abnormal heating in a plug portion is provided.
US09716344B2
An exemplary connector insert assembly, and methods of manufacture and use thereof. In one embodiment, the connector insert assembly comprises an insert body assembly consisting of two insert body elements made from a high-temperature polymer. The insert body assembly includes an electronic component receiving cavity that is configured to receive any number of electronic components, including without limitation, chip chokes and wire wound electronic components. The insert body assembly includes a wire termination feature that includes termination slots that position the wire ends of the wire wound electronic components adjacent to a substrate to which the wire ends are ultimately to be secured. The wire ends are then secured to the substrate using, for example, a mass termination technique. The aforementioned connector insert assembly can then be inserted into a single or multi-port connector assembly. Methods of manufacturing the aforementioned single or multi-port connector assemblies are also disclosed.
US09716342B2
A plug-in connector part includes a housing and a plug-in portion arranged on the housing and that can be brought into plugged engagement with an associated mating plug-in connector part so as to electrically contact the plug-in connector part and the mating plug-in connector part. A locking element is movably arranged on the housing and can lock the plug-in connector part to the mating plug-in connector part, the locking element being movable between a locked position, in which the plug-in connector part is locked to the mating plug-in connector part, and an unlocked position, in which the plug-in connector part can be removed from the mating plug-in connector part. A blocking element is arranged on the housing and guided on the housing so as to be adjustable in an adjustment direction. The blocking element can block the locking element in the locked position. The blocking element includes a handle element.
US09716330B2
The invention relates to a female connector for a connecting blade, which connector is produced from a metal blank and comprises: —a connecting bow (2) comprising at least two contact branches (10, 11) facing one another which define a slot into which to insert the connecting blade and which are intended to clamp the connecting blade, —and at least one fixing base intended to rest against a circuit in order to be fixed thereto, characterized in that the two contact branches (10, 11) each comprise a bowed contact end which is connected by a straight joining segment (30, 30′) to a curved “U”-shaped or “C”-shaped web situated at the opposite end from and facing the insertion slot, said contact end having at least a convex surface oriented towards the inside of the insertion slot, and in that one of the two contact branches (10), referred to as the main branch (10), laterally in the region of the corresponding joining segment (30) bears two fixing assemblies each one comprising a fixing base, the two fixing assemblies being symmetric with respect to the web and situated one on either side of the joining segment (30) of the main branch (10).
US09716329B1
A high-safety electrical plug includes a plug body, a rotation element, and at least one plug pin. The rotation element is rotatably arranged on the plug body, and the at least one plug pin is arranged on the rotation element. The rotation element includes an elastic element and a rotation body standing with the elastic element. The rotation body includes two axial cylinders opposite each other and a position limiting element. The two cylinders are formed on the rotation body. The position limiting element defines more than two side surfaces. One side surface connects with the elastic element, deforming the elastic element. The rotation body is rotated until the side surface previously connected with the elastic element is replaced by another side surface to connect with the elastic element, which fixes the rotation body on the elastic element after the rotation.
US09716324B2
An antenna arrangement with two horizontal and two vertical array antennas. A first horizontal antenna port and a second vertical antenna port are connected to a first polarization. A first vertical antenna port and a second horizontal antenna port are connected to an orthogonal second polarization. Each port is connected to corresponding antenna elements. The first horizontal antenna port and the first vertical antenna port are connected in phase. The second horizontal antenna port and the second vertical antenna port are connected with opposite phases. A plurality of antenna element symmetry pairs are formed with respect to a common symmetry point. Certain weights are applied to the antenna elements of each symmetry pair, where a weight for a certain polarization in an antenna element in a symmetry pair comprises the complex conjugated weight for an orthogonal polarization in the other antenna element in the symmetry pair.
US09716319B2
The invention relates to a lens antenna. The invention also relates to an antenna system for transmitting and receiving electromagnetic signals comprising at least one antenna according to the invention. The invention further relates to a method of manufacturing an antenna according to the invention. The invention moreover relates to a method for use in wireless communications by using an antenna according to the invention. The invention additionally relates to a RF transceiver of a wireless communications device comprising at least one antenna according to the invention. The invention further relates to an electronic device comprising an RF transceiver according to the invention.
US09716313B1
In some embodiments, a microfluidic beam scanning focal plane array for a beam scanning antenna includes an elongated microfluidic channel that contains an electrically conductive antenna element suspended within a dielectric fluid that is provided within the channel and means for moving the position of the antenna element along a length of the channel to change a direction along which electromagnetic waves are transmitted or received.
US09716305B2
According to the invention there is provided a balun including: a slotline which is coupled to an input line and an output line, in which at least a portion of the slotline is sandwiched between a first and a second layer of dielectric material.
US09716302B2
A system is provided for transmitting sub-terahertz electro-magnetic radio frequency (RF) signals using a dielectric waveguide (DWG) having a dielectric core member surrounded by dielectric cladding. An RF transmitter is coupled to an antenna located on a first substrate, in which the antenna is adjacent an edge of the substrate. The first substrate is mounted on a second substrate. A conductive reflector plate is formed on the top surface of the second substrate. An end of the DWG is mounted on the second substrate over the reflector plate such that an exposed face of the core member at the end of the DWG is adjacent the antenna. The core member at the end of DWG forms an angle of inclination with the second substrate in which the angle is in a range of approximately 10-30 degrees.
US09716301B2
The present invention relates to a radio frequency filter having a cavity structure, comprising: a container which has a hollow inner portion and a cavity that is cut off from the outside, and a resonance element which is placed in the hollow inner portion of the container, wherein the container has a wrinkled structure for adjusting the intervals between a longitudinal front end surface of the resonance element and the inner surfaces of the container facing the longitudinal front end surface using external pressure. Thus, the invention can be further miniaturized and is lightweight, and the design of the invention enables frequency tuning without employing a coupling structure of a tuning screw and a fastening nut, thereby obtaining a convenient and simplified structure.
US09716296B2
A lithium ion battery pack includes a plurality of prismatic lithium polymer cells and one or more graphite heat spreaders. Each spreader has at least two major surfaces and is made of one of a sheet of a compressed mass of exfoliated graphite particles, a graphitized polyimide sheet, or combinations thereof.
US09716286B2
An active cell is prepared by dispensing first electrode sub-layers, pressing in physical structures to partially embed them in an uppermost sub-layer, and dispensing more first electrode sub-layers wherein dispensing is in order of increasing porosity, then drying the sub-layers to form a first electrode layer. An electrolyte layer is then formed thereon. Further preparation includes dispensing second electrode sub-layers over the electrolyte layer, pressing in physical structures to partially embed them in an uppermost sub-layer, and dispensing more second electrode sub-layers wherein dispensing is in order of decreasing porosity, then drying the sub-layers to form a second electrode layer. A laminated stack is formed, then the physical structures are pulled out. Sintering then forms the active cell with active passages embedded in and supported by the sintered electrode layers, and with decreasing porosity in the electrode layers in a thickness direction away from the electrolyte layer.
US09716275B2
A cylindrical nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes: a wound electrode unit as a wound electrode laminate of belt-like positive and negative electrodes laminated via a separator, the positive electrode including a positive electrode collector and a positive electrode active material layer, and the negative electrode including a negative electrode collector and a negative electrode active material layer; an adhesive member provided to cover the wound electrode laminate at a terminating end portion lying on an outer side of the wound electrode unit; and a battery canister housing the wound electrode unit, the adhesive member including a base material, and an adhesive layer provided on a whole surface or on at least a part of the surface on one side of the base material, and the base material being a mixture of a resin material of high swellability and a resin material of high melting point.
US09716274B2
A cathode active material for sodium batteries has excellent discharge capacity, and a sodium battery has the cathode active material for sodium batteries. A cathode active material for sodium batteries is represented by a general formula Na4Co(3-x)Mx(PO4)2P2O7; M is any of Fe, Cr, Mn and Al; X is 0.015≦x≦0.21 when M is Fe; X is 0.03≦x≦0.18 when M is Cr; X is 0.006≦x≦0.24 when M is Mn; and X is 0.03≦x≦0.06 when M is Al.
US09716266B2
[Object] Provided is a means for improving cycle characteristics by suppressing electrode deterioration resulting from non-uniformity of voltage across an electrode plane in a high-capacity and large-area non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery that includes lithium nickel-based composite oxide as a positive electrode active substance.[Solving Means] Disclosed is a positive electrode for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery used in a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery in which the ratio value of battery area (projected area of the battery including the battery outer casing body) to rated capacity is 5 cm2/Ah or more and the rated capacity is 3 Ah or more, the positive electrode comprising a positive electrode current collector and a positive electrode active substance layer that is formed on a surface of the positive electrode current collector and has a positive electrode active substance containing a lithium nickel-based composite oxide and a spinel type lithium manganese composite oxide, in which, when the average secondary particle diameter (D50) of the lithium nickel-based composite oxide is D50(A) [μm], the content ratio of the lithium nickel-based composite oxide in the positive electrode active substance layer is A [% by mass], the average secondary particle diameter (D50) of the spinel type lithium manganese composite oxide is D50(B) [μm], and the content ratio of the spinel type lithium manganese composite oxide in the positive electrode active substance layer is B [% by mass], the positive electrode satisfies the following Mathematical Formula 1 and Mathematical Formula 2: [Math. 1] 2.0
US09716262B2
A battery wiring module is manufactured by an arrangement process of arranging in parallel a long chain bus-bar which is configured by connecting a plurality of bus bars at chain parts, a covering process of covering both an outer periphery of plurality of linear conductors and a side edge of the chain bus-bar adjacent to the plurality of linear conductors with an insulation resin part integrally formed by extrusion molding, a breaking process of breaking the chain parts of the chain bus-bar in order to separate the plurality of bus bars, and a connection process of electrically connecting each of the plurality of linear conductors to a predetermined one of the bus bars.
US09716261B2
Disclosed is a rechargeable battery including an electrode assembly and a housing for the electrode assembly. The housing includes a case having an opening therein, the opening exposing case sides the case configured to receive the electrode assembly through the opening and a cap plate to seal the case at the opening. The cap plate includes cap plate sides corresponding to the case sides, the case sides facing and contacting the cap plate sides at first and second contact regions, respectively, the first and second contact regions being asymmetric to each other.
US09716258B2
A battery pack is disclosed. In one embodiment, the battery pack includes i) a plurality of battery cells, ii) a first flexible board configured to electrically connect the battery cells to each other and having a plurality of first terminals. The battery pack also includes iii) a second flexible board contacting the first flexible board and having a plurality of second terminals which are electrically connected to the first terminals, wherein each of the second terminals comprises a plurality of protrusions and iv) a circuit module electrically connected to the second flexible board.
US09716257B2
A battery locking device and method are provided, wherein the devices comprises a shaft, a rotatable latch, a deformable biasing member, and a stop member. The rotatable latch extends between a proximal portion carried on the shaft and a distal portion opposite of the proximal portion at a distance from the shaft. The proximal portion has opposing first and second ends with the first end having a cylindrical projection with a splined outer profile comprising a plurality of spaced-apart teeth. The distal portion has a configuration for engaging at least a portion of a battery. The deformable biasing member is carried on the shaft adjacent the second end of the proximal portion of the rotatable latch. The stop member is positioned adjacent the cylindrical projection and has a free end engagable with the splined outer profile to prevent rotation of the rotatable latch about the shaft in a first direction.
US09716247B2
Various embodiments may relate to an optoelectronic component, including a carrier, a planar, electrically active region on or above the carrier; an adhesion layer on or above the electrically active region, wherein the adhesion layer at least partly surrounds the electrically active region, a cover on or above the adhesion layer, wherein a part of the adhesion layer is exposed, and an encapsulation on or above the exposed adhesion layer, wherein the encapsulation is formed from an inorganic substance or substance mixture. Further various embodiments may relate to a method for producing an optoelectronic component.
US09716246B2
Provided is a display apparatus and a method of manufacture. The display apparatus includes a first substrate with a plurality of organic electroluminescence devices, a second substrate with a color filter, the second substrate facing the first substrate, and an adhesive layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate so as to cover the plurality of organic electroluminescence devices, the adhesive layer being made of a material selected from the group consisting of a phenol resin, a melanin resin, an unsaturated polyester resin, an epoxy resin, a silicon resin and a polyurethane resin.
US09716231B2
A problem to be solved of the present invention is to provide a liquid composition for an organic semiconductor device having good coating property, wherein the lifetime of the function of an organic semiconductor device is prolonged when an organic layer is formed from the liquid composition for an organic semiconductor device, and a process for producing the liquid composition. A mean for solving the problem is a process for producing a liquid composition for an organic semiconductor device comprising a step of dissolving an organic compound which is solid at 1 atm and 25° C. in an organic solvent which is liquid at 1 atm and 25° C. and has a halogen compound concentration of not more than 100 ppm by weight.
US09716228B2
The present disclosure provides an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) device, comprising at least two electron transport layers between a cathode and a light-emitting layer of the device, wherein energy barrier of different electron transport layers successively increase from the cathode to the light-emitting layer. The present disclosure also provides an evaporation equipment and an OLED device manufacturing method, wherein the electron transport layers of the OLED device are formed by an evaporation process using the evaporation equipment. The OLED device of the present disclosure improves the luminescence efficiency of OLED devices, and the evaporation equipment can readily effect a fast switching between different evaporation rates within a same evaporation chamber.
US09716224B2
A memristor device with a thermally-insulating cladding includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a memristor, and a thermally-insulating cladding. The memristor is coupled in electrical series between the first electrode and the second electrode. The thermally-insulating cladding surrounds at least a portion of the memristor.
US09716223B1
A resistive random access memory device includes a bottom electrode, a plurality of memory stacks separately formed over the bottom electrode, a third oxygen diffusion barrier layer formed between the memory stacks, and a top electrode formed over the plurality of memory stacks and the third oxygen diffusion barrier layer. Each of the plurality of memory stacks includes a resistive switching layer formed over the bottom electrode, a first oxygen diffusion barrier layer formed over the resistive switching layer, a conductive oxygen reservoir layer formed over the first oxygen diffusion barrier layer, and a second oxygen diffusion barrier layer formed over the conductive oxygen reservoir layer.
US09716221B2
Embodiments are directed to a sensor having a first electrode, a second electrode and a detector region electrically coupled between the first electrode region and the second electrode region. The detector region includes a first layer having a topological insulator. The topological insulator includes a conducting path along a surface of the topological insulator, and the detector region further includes a second layer having a first insulating magnetic coupler, wherein a magnetic field applied to the detector region changes a resistance of the conducting path.
US09716217B2
The present invention relates to an exhaust system for a combustion engine, more preferably of a road vehicle, with at least one exhaust gas-conducting component having a ring-shaped closed inner wall in circumferential direction, whose inner side is exposed to the exhaust gas.The energetic efficiency of the combustion engine can be improved with at least one thermoelectric generator which converts heat into electric energy and which is arranged on an outer side of the inner wall.
US09716213B2
Light emitting devices comprise a substrate having a surface and a side surface; a semiconductor structure on the surface of the substrate, the semiconductor structure having a first surface, a second surface and a side surface, wherein the second surface is opposite the first surface, wherein the first surface, relative to the second surface, is proximate to the substrate, and wherein the semiconductor structure comprises a first-type layer, a light emitting layer and a second-type layer; a first and a second electrodes; and a wavelength converting element arranged on the side surface of the semiconductor structure, wherein the wavelength converting element has an open space, and wherein the open space is a portion not covered by the wavelength converting element.
US09716203B2
The present invention provides a method for forming metal nanoparticle(s) onto an inner surface of one or more open volume defects within a substrate by providing the substrate containing the one or more open volume defects, depositing an immiscible metal on a surface of the substrate, and forming the metal nanoparticle(s) by diffusing the immiscible metal from the surface onto the inner surface of each open volume defect using a heat treatment. The method can be used to produce a substrate having at least one open volume defect with a metal nanoparticle formed onto an inner surface of the open volume defect, a solar cell, an optical switch, a radiation detector, or other similar device.
US09716197B2
Process for manufacturing a photovoltaic module placed on an emissive display device, said photovoltaic module comprising an array containing a plurality of photovoltaic cells and a plurality of transparent zones called “orifices”, and said photovoltaic module comprising an array of optical elements able to focus, by refraction or reflection, the light emitted by the device into the orifices.
US09716193B2
An integrated optical sensor module includes an optical sensor die having an optical sensing area on its first surface, and an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) die arranged over the first surface of the optical sensor die. A hole in the ASIC die is at least partially aligned with the optical sensing area such that at least some of the light passing through the hole may contact the optical sensing area. The hole through the ASIC die can be configured to receive an optical fiber, lens structure, or other optical element therein.
US09716192B2
Photovoltaic devices are formed by laser drilling vias through silicon substrates and, following surface preparation of the via sidewalls, plating a continuous, electrically conductive layer on the via sidewalls to electrically connect the emitter side of the cell with the back side of the cell. The electrically conductive layer can be formed on portions of a base emitter within the vias and on the back side of the substrate. Alternatively, the electrically conductive layer can be formed on a passivation layer on the via sidewalls and back side of the cell.
US09716186B2
A semiconductor device manufacturing method according to an embodiment includes: forming an n-type SiC layer on a SiC substrate; forming a p-type impurity region at one side of the SiC layer; exposing other side of the SiC layer by removing at least part of the SiC substrate; implanting carbon (C) ions into exposed part of the SiC layer; performing a heat treatment; forming a first electrode on the p-type impurity region; and forming a second electrode on the exposed part of the SiC layer.
US09716181B2
A semiconductor device includes a polycrystalline semiconductor layer on a substrate, first and second stacks on the polycrystalline semiconductor layer, the first and second stacks extending in a first direction, a separation trench between the first and second stacks and extending in the first direction, the separation trench separating the first and second stacks in a second direction crossing the first direction, and vertical channel structures vertically passing through each of the first and second stacks, wherein the polycrystalline semiconductor layer includes a first grain region and a second grain region in contact with each other, the first and second grain region being adjacent to each other along the second direction, and wherein each of the first and second grain regions includes a plurality of crystal grains, each crystal grain having a longitudinal axis parallel to the second direction.
US09716180B2
It is an object of the present invention to connect a wiring, an electrode, or the like formed with two incompatible films (an ITO film and an aluminum film) without increasing the cross-sectional area of the wiring and to achieve lower power consumption even when the screen size becomes larger. The present invention provides a two-layer structure including an upper layer and a lower layer having a larger width than the upper layer. A first conductive layer is formed with Ti or Mo, and a second conductive layer is formed with aluminum (pure aluminum) having low electric resistance over the first conductive layer. A part of the lower layer projected from the end section of the upper layer is bonded with ITO.
US09716171B2
A semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the semiconductor device includes forming a first and a second gate electrode on a semiconductor substrate, forming a first and a second insulator on the first and second gate electrodes, forming a third insulator on the second insulator, a first thickness of the third insulator on the first gate electrode being different than a second thickness of the third insulator on the second gate electrode, and etching-back the first, second and third insulators to form a first spacer beside the first gate electrode and a second spacer beside the second gate electrode. Herein, a horizontal length of the first spacer being contacted with a surface of the semiconductor substrate is different from a horizontal length of the second spacer being contacted with a surface of the semiconductor substrate.
US09716170B1
Embodiments of the invention are directed to a vertical FET device having gate and source or drain features. The device includes a fin formed in a substrate and a source or a drain region formed in the substrate. The device further includes a trench formed in the source or the drain region and a dielectric region formed in the trench. The device further includes a gate formed along vertical sidewalls of the fin and positioned such that a space between the gate and the source or the drain region includes at least a portion of the dielectric region. In some embodiments, the device further includes a bottom spacer formed over an upper surface of the dielectric region and positioned such that the space between the gate and the source or the drain region further includes at least a portion of the bottom spacer.
US09716166B2
A laterally diffused metal oxide semiconductor (LDMOS) transistor structure with improved unclamped inductive switching immunity. The LDMOS includes a substrate and an adjacent epitaxial layer both of a first conductivity type. A gate structure is above the epitaxial layer. A drain region and a source region, both of a second conductivity type, are within the epitaxial layer. A channel is formed between the source and drain region and arranged below the gate structure. A body structure of the first conductivity type is at least partially formed under the gate structure and extends laterally under the source region, wherein the epitaxial layer is less doped than the body structure. A conductive trench-like feed-through element passes through the epitaxial layer and contacts the substrate and the source region. The LDMOS includes a tub region of the first conductivity type formed under the source region, and adjacent laterally to and in contact with said body structure and said trench-like feed-through element.
US09716161B2
A semiconductor structure and a method for forming the same are provided. The semiconductor structure includes a metal gate structure having curved sidewalls formed over a substrate. The semiconductor structure further includes spacers formed on the curved sidewalls of the metal gate structure. In addition, each curved sidewall of the metal gate structure has a top portion, a middle portion, and a bottom portion, and an angle between the middle portion and the bottom portion of the curved sidewall of the metal gate structure is smaller than 180° C.
US09716160B2
The present invention relates generally to semiconductor devices and more particularly, to a structure and method of forming a contact silicide on a source-drain (S-D) region of a field effect transistor (FET) having extensions by using an undercut etch and a salicide process. A method of forming a contact silicide extension is disclosed. The method may include: forming an undercut region below a dielectric layer and above a source-drain region, the undercut region located directly below a bottom of a contact trench and extending below the dielectric layer to a gate spacer formed on a sidewall of a gate stack; and forming a contact silicide in the undercut region, the contact silicide in direct contact with the source-drain region.
US09716159B1
After a trench is formed, a deposition film is formed on the front surface of a base material and an inner wall of the trench such that a thickness of a portion of the deposition film covering the front surface of the base material is greater than a thickness of a portion of the deposition film covering the inner wall of the trench. The total thickness of the deposition film is then reduced until the inner wall of the trench is exposed, leaving only the portion of the deposition film covering the front surface of the base material. By performing sacrificial oxidation in this state, the thermal oxide film caused by thermal oxidation barely grows at the interface of the front surface of the base material and the deposition film, and thus the thickness of an n+ source region is mostly maintained.
US09716158B1
Unfilled gaps are provided as spacers between gate stacks and electrically conductive source/drain contacts to reduce parasitic capacitance in CMOS structures. Sidewall spacers are removed partially or entirely from portions of the gate stacks and replaced by materials such as amorphous semiconductor materials. Source/drain contacts subsequently formed on source/drain regions adjoin the spacer replacement material. Selective removal of the spacer replacement material leaves unfilled gaps between the source/drain contacts and the gate stacks. The unfilled gaps are then sealed by a dielectric layer that leaves the gaps substantially unfilled.
US09716156B2
This invention discloses a semiconductor power device. The trenched semiconductor power device includes a trenched gate, opened from a top surface of a semiconductor substrate, surrounded by a source region encompassed in a body region near the top surface above a drain region disposed on a bottom surface of a substrate. The semiconductor power device further includes an implanting-ion block disposed above the top surface on a mesa area next to the body region having a thickness substantially larger than 0.3 micron for blocking body implanting ions and source ions from entering into the substrate under the mesa area whereby masks for manufacturing the semiconductor power device can be reduced.
US09716142B2
Techniques for producing stacked SiGe nanowires using a condensation process without parasitic Ge nanowires as an undesired by-product. In one aspect, a method of forming SiGe nanowires includes the steps of: forming a stack of alternating Si and SiGe layers on a wafer; patterning fins in the stack; selectively thinning the SiGe layers in the fins such that the Si and SiGe layers give the fins an hourglass shape; burying the fins in an oxide material; and annealing the fins under conditions sufficient to diffuse Ge from the SiGe layers in the fins to the Si layers in the fins to form the SiGe nanowires. A FET device and method for formation thereof are also provided.
US09716141B2
A disclosed method of fabricating a hybrid nanopillar device includes forming a mask on a substrate and a layer of nanoclusters on the hard mask. The hard mask is then etched to transfer a pattern formed by the first layer of nanoclusters into a first region of the hard mask. A second nanocluster layer is formed on the substrate. A second region of the hard mask overlying a second region of the substrate is etched to create a second pattern in the hard mask. The substrate is then etched through the hard mask to form a first set of nanopillars in the first region of the substrate and a second set of nanopillars in the second region of the substrate. By varying the nanocluster deposition steps between the first and second layers of nanoclusters, the first and second sets of nanopillars will exhibit different characteristics.
US09716135B2
The present invention discloses an organic thin film transistor array substrate and a fabrication method thereof. The fabrication method is that a metal layer is first deposited successively on a substrate and followed by depositing a layer of Indium Tin Oxide (ITO), and then a photoresist layer is covered thereon to form a data line, a source electrode, a drain electrode and a pixel electrode by a first mask process. Subsequently, an organic semiconductor layer, a gate electrode, a scanning line, and a passivation layer are formed successively. Finally, a region where the pixel electrode, i.e. an anode of an OLED device, is situated and covered with the passivation layer is excavated an opening and allowing the underlying pixel electrode to be exposed to the outside. Then, a layer of OLED material is deposited on the exposed ITO pixel electrode to form an OLED device.
US09716133B2
Disclosed herein is a display apparatus, including, a panel having a plurality of pixels disposed in a matrix and each including a self-luminous element for emitting light, the panel including first to third conductive layers laminated in order on a supporting substrate, a first contact portion between the first and second conductive layers and a second contact portion between the second and third conductive layers being disposed at the same position in a planar direction.
US09716130B2
An organic light-emitting display apparatus includes a substrate; a thin film transistor (TFT) on the substrate; a pixel-defining layer (PDL) disposed on the TFT and comprising a first area having a first thickness and a second area having a second thickness greater than the first thickness, and a via hole in the first area; a pixel electrode disposed on at least a portion of the first area, and electrically connected to the TFT via the via hole; an intermediate layer on the pixel electrode, the intermediate layer comprising an emission layer (EML); and an opposite electrode on the intermediate layer. According to a method of manufacturing the organic light emitting display apparatus, the PDL is formed on the substrate and then the pixel electrode is formed on the first area.
US09716127B2
A light-emitting element includes a light-emitting layer, and an optical function film. The light-emitting layer is configured to include a first plane with a first electrode, a second plane with a second electrode, and a circumferential plane connecting the first and second planes, the second plane being opposing to the first plane, and the light-emitting layer being made of a semiconductor. The optical function film is configured to include a reflection layer being able to reflect light coming from the light-emitting layer, the reflection layer being provided with first and second regions, the first region covering the second plane and the circumferential plane, the second region protruding from the first region to an outside of the light-emitting layer to expose an end plane thereof.
US09716124B2
An apparatus includes: a light source; a two-dimensional image sensor that receives reflected light from a subject including specular light of the source and outputs an image of the subject; and an optical member arranged in an optical path of light emitted from the source to the subject. When a specular position of the source in the subject arranged apart from the two-dimensional image sensor by a certain distance is defined as a first specular position, whereas a specular position of the source in the optical member is defined as a second specular position, a relative positional relation of the optical member and the source with respect to the two-dimensional image sensor is determined so that a difference between an incident angle from the source toward the first specular position and an incident angle from the source toward the second specular position is a reference value or more.
US09716122B2
Provided is a solid state imaging device including: a pixel portion where pixel sharing units are disposed in an array shape and where another one pixel transistor group excluding transfer transistors is shared by a plurality of photoelectric conversion portions; transfer wiring lines which are connected to the transfer gate electrodes of the transfer transistors of the pixel sharing unit and which are disposed to extend in a horizontal direction and to be in parallel in a vertical direction as seen from the top plane; and parallel wiring lines which are disposed to be adjacent to the necessary transfer wiring lines in the pixel sharing unit and which are disposed to be in parallel to the transfer wiring lines as seen from the top plane, wherein voltages which are used to suppress potential change of the transfer gate electrodes are supplied to the parallel wiring lines.
US09716120B2
An image sensor includes a semiconductor substrate integrated with at least one of a first photo-sensing device that may sense a first wavelength spectrum of visible light and a second photo-sensing device that may sense second wavelength spectrum of visible light, and a third photo-sensing device on the semiconductor substrate that may selectively sense third wavelength spectrum of visible light in a longer wavelength spectrum of visible light than the first wavelength spectrum of visible light and the second wavelength spectrum of visible light. The first photo-sensing device and the second photo-sensing device may overlap with each other in a thickness direction of the semiconductor substrate.
US09716119B2
Disclosed are a manufacturing method of a dual gate TFT substrate and a structure thereof. The manufacturing method of a dual gate TFT substrate includes sequentially manufacturing a bottom gate, a first isolation layer, an island shaped semiconductor layer, and a second isolation layer on a substrate; then, depositing a second metal layer, and implementing a patterning process to the second metal layer with one mask to form a source, a drain and a top gate at the same time; and then, sequentially manufacturing a third isolation layer and a pixel electrode. It can promote the stability of the TFT, reduce the amount of the masks, and shorten the process flow, simplifying the manufacture process and diminishing the production cost. In the structure of the dual gate TFT substrate, the structure is simple, and the stability of the TFT is better, and easy to manufacture.
US09716114B2
An array substrate and a manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. The present disclosure relates to the technical field of display, whereby the qualified rate of the array substrate can be improved, and the manufacturing cost thereof can be reduced significantly. The array substrate includes a first wiring, a first insulating layer, and a second wiring from bottom up in sequence. The second wiring crosses over the first wiring. A crossed-over part of the second wiring consists of a plurality of branches, with an interspace formed between every two adjacent branches, so as to obtain a comb structure. At least one of the branches is nearer to the first wiring relative to other branches. The array substrate of the present disclosure can be used in liquid crystal TV, liquid crystal display, mobile phone, tablet personal computer, and other display devices.
US09716110B2
A method for manufacturing an array substrate which includes: depositing a gate metal film on a base substrate, and forming a first pattern including the gate electrode by a first patterning process; depositing a gate insulating film, a first transparent conductive film, a source/drain metal film and a doped a-Si film sequentially, and forming a second pattern including the pixel electrode, the source electrode, the drain electrode and a doped semiconductor layer by a second patterning process; depositing an a-Si film, and forming a third pattern including a TFT channel, the semiconductor layer and a gate insulating layer via-hole by a third patterning process; depositing a passivation layer film, and forming a fourth pattern including a passivation layer via-hole by a fourth patterning process, the passivation layer via-hole being arranged at a position corresponding to the gate insulating layer via-hole; and depositing a second transparent conductive film on the base substrate with the fourth pattern, and forming a fifth pattern including an electrical connector by a fifth patterning process.
US09716109B2
An object is to obtain a semiconductor device having a high sensitivity in detecting signals and a wide dynamic range, using a thin film transistor in which an oxide semiconductor layer is used. An analog circuit is formed with the use of a thin film transistor including an oxide semiconductor which has a function as a channel formation layer, has a hydrogen concentration of 5×1019 atoms/cm3 or lower, and substantially functions as an insulator in the state where no electric field is generated. Thus, a semiconductor device having a high sensitivity in detecting signals and a wide dynamic range can be obtained.
US09716105B1
A three-dimensional memory device includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers located over a substrate, memory stack structures including a memory film and a vertical semiconductor channel and extending through a first region of the alternating stack, and support pillar structures extending through a second region of the alternating stack that is laterally offset from the first region. Each insulating layer includes a respective first insulating material portion having a respective first insulator thickness in the first region of the alternating stack and a respective second insulating material portion having a respective second insulator thickness that is greater than the respective first insulator thickness in the second region.
US09716095B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate having a field region disposed therein that defines an active region of the substrate, the active region comprising a pillar-shaped bit line contact region having an upper surface disposed at a higher level than an upper surface of the field region. An interlayer insulating layer is disposed on the substrate and covers the field region. A bit line is disposed in a trench in the interlayer insulating layer above the pillar-shaped bit line contact region and electrically connected thereto.
US09716094B2
A semiconductor device having a capacitor includes a substrate which has a transistor, a first insulating pattern which is formed on the substrate and does not overlap a first contact node formed in the substrate, a second insulating pattern which is formed on the substrate, does not overlap a second contact node formed in the substrate, and is separated from the first insulating pattern, a first lower electrode which is formed on part of the substrate and sidewalls of the first insulating pattern, a second lower electrode which is formed on part of the substrate and sidewalls of the second insulating pattern, a dielectric layer pattern which is formed on the first lower electrode and the second lower electrode, and an upper electrode which is formed on the dielectric layer pattern. Related fabrication methods are also discussed.
US09716091B2
A fin field effect transistor (FinFET) including a first insulation region and a second insulation region and fin there between. A gate stack is disposed over a first portion of the fin. A strained source/drain material is disposed over a second portion of the fin. The strained source/drain material has a flat top surface extending over the first and second insulation regions. The first insulation region may include a tapered top surface.
US09716085B2
A method for manufacturing a micro LED display is provided. The method includes providing a plurality of LED elements on a first substrate, transferring, using a magnetic holder or a vacuum holder, at least two of the plurality of LED elements of the same primary color from the first substrate to a second substrate, performing the steps of the providing and the transferring with respect to three primary colors, forming an array of RGB LED units on the second substrate, each of the array of RGB LED units including a red LED element, a green LED element, and a blue LED element, interposing the array of RGB LED units between the second substrate and an LED driver wafer, detaching the second substrate from the array of RGB LED units, and interposing the array of RGB LED units between the LED driver wafer and a cover.
US09716078B2
A device comprises a first chip comprising a plurality of first interconnect structures over a first substrate, a plurality of first connection pads over the plurality of first interconnect structures and a plurality of first bonding pads, wherein a first bonding pad is formed over a corresponding first connection pad, and a second chip comprising a plurality of second interconnect structures over a second substrate and a plurality of second bonding pads over the plurality of second interconnect structures, wherein the first chip and the second chip are face-to-face bonded together, and wherein a first bonding pad is in direct contact with a corresponding second bonding pad.
US09716077B2
A method of connecting a wire with a terminal including a plurality of conductors is provided. The method includes: positioning the terminal by holding a part of the terminal between an upper side jig and a lower side jig; and connecting the wire and one of a plurality of conductors, which is exposed on a surface of the positioned terminal. The terminal includes a laminate structure that includes an insulator interposed between a first conductor and a second conductor. The part of the terminal held in the positioning of the terminal includes a pressure receiving area, where a contact area between the upper side jig and an upper surface of the terminal and a contact area between the lower side jig and a lower surface of the terminal overlap. The laminate structure exists outside of the pressure receiving area, and does not exist in the pressure receiving area.
US09716076B2
There is provided a semiconductor device, including a semiconductor substrate, an interlayer insulating layer formed on the semiconductor substrate, a bonding electrode formed on a surface of the interlayer insulating layer, and a metal film which covers an entire surface of a bonding surface including the interlayer insulating layer and the bonding electrode.
US09716068B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor chip, an electrically insulating element separated from the semiconductor chip by a space, and encapsulation material disposed in the space. The semiconductor chip includes a first face having a contact, and the electrically insulating element defines at least one through-hole. The encapsulation material is disposed around the semiconductor chip and around the electrically insulating element. Electrically conducting material is deposited in the through-hole of the electrically insulating element and communicates with the contact.
US09716060B2
The present invention provides a package structure with an embedded electronic component and a method of fabricating the package structure. The method includes: forming a first wiring layer on a carrier; removing the carrier and forming the first wiring layer on a bonding carrier; disposing an electronic component on the first wiring layer; forming an encapsulating layer, a second wiring layer and an insulating layer on the first wiring layer; disposing a chip on the electronic component and the second wiring layer; and forming a covering layer that covers the chip. The present invention can effectively reduce the thickness of the package structure and the electronic component without using adhesives.
US09716054B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor element, a substrate, a lead, and a sealing resin member. The semiconductor element has a first electrode and a second electrode located on opposite sides in the thickness direction. The substrate has an insulating base and a conductive plate. The base has first and second surfaces located on opposite sides in the thickness direction. The conductive plate is bonded to the first surface of the base and electrically connected to the second electrode of the semiconductor element. The lead has an island electrically connected to the first electrode. The sealing resin member covers at least the semiconductor element.
US09716042B1
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a plurality of fins on the substrate, wherein the plurality of fins each include a fin channel region, first isolation regions on the substrate corresponding to active gate regions, a second isolation region on the substrate corresponding to a dummy gate region, wherein a height of the second isolation region is greater than a height of the first isolation regions, a plurality of active gate structures formed around the fins, and on the first isolation regions, and a dummy gate structure formed on the second isolation region.
US09716041B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming a pre-fin extending in a first direction, the pre-fin including first, second, and third regions, forming first and second gates on the pre-fin to extend in a second direction intersecting the first direction, the first and second gates being spaced apart from each other in the first direction and overlapping with the first and second regions, respectively, forming first and second dummy spacers on the first and second regions, respectively to form a first trench in the third region that exposes the third region, forming a second trench by etching the exposed third region using the first and second dummy spacers as masks to separate the pre-fin into first and second active fins corresponding to the first and second regions, respectively, forming a dummy gate by filling the first and second trenches and removing the first and second dummy spacers.
US09716028B2
A clamping apparatus and method for maintaining a workpiece flatness during processing includes a base having a planar surface for receiving a first workpiece. Two sets of opposing clamping mechanisms are mounted to the base and include a clamp head at a distal end of a rod extending from a housing in removable overlapping relation to the first workpiece. Each set of the clamp heads are in opposing spaced relationship to each other defining a second workpiece area, and the clamp heads are configured to mate with a top surface of the first workpiece. A biasing member is coupled to each of the housings and apply a downward vertical force to the housings, rods, and the clamp heads for applying a downward vertical pressure to the first workpiece. The first workpiece is thereby discouraged from thermally expanding in a vertical direction and is thermally expandable horizontally along the planar surface.
US09716026B2
[Problem] To provide a highly heat resistant resin composition which exhibits good tackiness at low temperatures less than or equal to 180° C., and whose production of a volatile portion due to decomposition or the like is small even at high temperatures greater than or equal to 250° C., and whose increase in adhesive force is small even after passage through a heat treatment step, and therefore which allows a base material to be easily peeled off at room temperature when the base material is to be peeled off, and a cured membrane and a laminate film that employ this resin composition.[Solution Means] A resin composition containing a polyimide-based resin and a methylol-based compound, the resin composition being characterized in that the polyimide-based resin has an acid dianhydride residue and a diamine residue, and has as the diamine residue at least a residue of a polysiloxane-based diamine represented by General formula (1) and a residue of an aromatic diamine having a hydroxyl group, and a cured product and a laminate film that employ this resin composition. (n is a natural number, and an average value thereof calculated from an average molecular weight of the polysiloxane-based diamine is in a range of 5 to 30. R1 and R2 may be individually the same or different, indicating an alkylene group or a phenylene group whose carbon number is 1 to 30. R3 to R6 may be individually the same or different, indicating an alkyl group, a phenyl group or a phenoxy group whose carbon number is 1 to 30.)
US09716020B2
Disclosed is a substrate liquid processing apparatus including: a first processing liquid supply mechanism provided with a first tank in which a processing liquid is stored and a first nozzle through which the processing liquid stored in the first tank is ejected, and configured to supply the processing liquid to a first surface of a substrate by the first nozzle; a second processing liquid supply mechanism provided with a second tank in which a processing liquid having the same composition as the processed liquid stored in the first tank is stored and a second nozzle through which the processed liquid stored in the second tank is ejected, and configured to supply the processed liquid to a second surface of the substrate by the second nozzle; a processing unit configured to perform processing on the substrate using the processed liquids supplied by the first nozzle and the second nozzle; and a recovery line configured to recover the processed liquids which are supplied to the substrate from the first nozzle and the second nozzle and mixed with each other from the processing unit and return the recovered processed liquids to the second tank.
US09716016B2
One or more techniques or systems for forming an electrostatic discharge (ESD) clamp are provided herein. In some embodiments, the ESD clamp includes a first pad and a second pad. For example, the first pad is a positive supply voltage (Vdd) pad and the second pad is a negative supply voltage (Vss) pad. In some embodiments, active regions and oxide regions are associated with substantially rounded shapes or obtuse angles. Additionally, metal regions are configured to be in contact with at least some of at least one of the active regions or the oxide regions and the first pad. In some embodiments, the metal regions are substantially wedge shaped. In this manner, an ESD clamp with enhanced performance is provided, at least because the respective active regions are substantially rounded or associated with obtuse angles, for example.
US09716010B2
A handle wafer which prevents edge cracking during a thinning process and method of using the handle wafer for grinding processes are disclosed. The handle wafer includes a body portion with a bottom surface. A square edge portion is provided about a circumference of the bottom surface.
US09716009B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes: a first semiconductor region; a second semiconductor region selectively provided on the first semiconductor region; a third semiconductor region selectively provided on the second semiconductor region; a first electrode provided on the third semiconductor region and connected to the third semiconductor region; a second electrode electrically connected to the first semiconductor region; a third electrode provide via an insulating film on the first semiconductor region, the second semiconductor region, and the third semiconductor region; and a fourth electrode provided on the second electrode side of the third electrode, the fourth electrode being provided via the insulating film on the first semiconductor region. The insulating film has three or more regions between the fourth electrode and the first semiconductor region. Width of each of the regions in a direction crossing a direction from the third electrode toward the second electrode is different.
US09716007B2
A multiple patterning method is provided. The multiple patterning method includes providing a substrate; and forming a sacrificial film on the substrate. The multiple patterning method also includes forming a first mask film on the sacrificial film; and forming a second mask film for subsequently forming a certain structure to protect the subsequently formed mask structures on the first mask film. Further, the multiple patterning method includes forming first mask structures and second mask structures by etching the second mask film, the first mask film, and the sacrificial film.
US09715992B2
An apparatus for inspecting a sample, is equipped with a charged particle column for producing a focused beam of charged particles to observe or modify the sample, and an optical microscope to observe a region of interest on the sample as is observed by the charged particle beam or vice versa. The apparatus is accommodated with a processing unit adapted and equipped to represent an image as generated with the column and an image as generated with the microscope. The unit is further adapted to perform an alignment procedure mutually correlating a region of interest in one of the images, wherein the alignment procedure involves detecting a change in the optical image as caused by the charged particle beam.
US09715969B2
An electrolytic capacitor module for installation in a housing of a motor vehicle control device, a method for producing an LC module and a corresponding motor vehicle control device with an electrolytic capacitor module. The electrolytic capacitor module includes a cylindrical electrolytic capacitor with a capacitor can and a cover at each end of the can. The covers secure a capacitor winding inside the capacitor can. The electrolytic capacitor module also has a support plate with a chamber for accommodating the electrolytic capacitor. The capacitor can has at least one opening and, on the inside of the electrolytic capacitor, the interstice between the inner wall of the capacitor can and the capacitor winding is at least partially filled with casting compound. The capacitor is at least partially surrounded by the same casting compound on the outside thereof in the region of the chamber.
US09715964B2
This disclosure describes methods and systems for minimizing electromagnetic interference (EMI) noise emanating from a ceramic capacitor. The ceramic capacitor may include several terminations are on a bottom portion of the capacitor. The capacitor may be designed to include several capacitors formed from electrode layers. The capacitor may include a conductive coating on an outer peripheral portion. The coating may include conductive materials such as Cu, Ni, Ag, and/or graphite. Alternatively, some regions of the capacitor may include electrode layers built into the capacitor that are not associated with capacitors. In this manner, the ceramic capacitor may be free of the conductive coating to locations proximate to the described electrode layers not associated with capacitors. The conductive coating can act as an electromagnetic shielding to prevent the EMI noise from emanating outside the electromagnetic shielding. Also, the conductive coating can be electrically grounded (e.g., to printed circuit board) via terminals.
US09715957B2
A bulk permanent magnetic material may include between about 5 volume percent and about 40 volume percent Fe16N2 phase domains, a plurality of nonmagnetic atoms or molecules forming domain wall pinning sites, and a balance soft magnetic material, wherein at least some of the soft magnetic material is magnetically coupled to the Fe16N2 phase domains via exchange spring coupling. In some examples, a bulk permanent magnetic material may be formed by implanting N+ ions in an iron workpiece using ion implantation to form an iron nitride workpiece, pre-annealing the iron nitride workpiece to attach the iron nitride workpiece to a substrate, and post-annealing the iron nitride workpiece to form Fe16N2 phase domains within the iron nitride workpiece.
US09715956B2
The magnet has a composition expressed by RpFeqMrCutCo100-p-q-r-t. The magnet has a metallic structure including a main phase having a Th2Zn17 crystal phase. The main phase has crystal grains. 5% or less of the crystal grains having a grain diameter equal to or smaller than 10 μm, 40% or less of the crystal grains having crystal orientation perpendicular to (001) plane of the Th2Zn17 crystal phase in a direction deviated 30 degrees or more relative to an axis of easy magnetization.
US09715939B2
Systems and methods disclosed herein are used to efficiently manage low read data. In one aspect, a method includes, in response to detecting occurrence of a first event (e.g., PFail), writing low read data to non-volatile memory of a storage device with a fast SLC programming mode, distinct from a default SLC programming mode. Writing the low read data with the fast SLC programming mode: (i) includes using one or more memory programming parameters distinct from a default set of memory programming parameters used for writing data with the default SLC programming mode and (ii) takes less time per predefined unit of data than writing data with the default SLC programming mode. The method also includes: in response to detecting occurrence of a second event (e.g., host write command), writing data corresponding to the second event with the default SLC programming mode using the default set of memory programming parameters.
US09715930B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe techniques and configurations for providing a reset current to a non-volatile random access memory (NVRAM), such as a phase change memory (PCM) device. In an embodiment, the apparatus may comprise an NVRAM device; a selection mirror circuit coupled with the NVRAM device to apply a selection mirror voltage to the NVRAM device, to select a memory cell of the NVRAM device; and a reset mirror circuit coupled with the NVRAM device to apply a reset mirror voltage to the memory cell of the NVRAM device, subsequent to the application of the selection mirror voltage, to reset the memory cell. The reset mirror voltage may be lower than the selection mirror voltage, to facilitate delivery of a reset current above a current threshold to the memory cell. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US09715922B1
A memory comprised of a plurality of single port SRAM memory cells, each driven by two word lines in an asynchronous manner has a hold mode, a read mode and a write mode. Each of the single port SRAM memory cells includes a first write switch, a second write switch and a latch. The first write switch is electrically connected to a first word line and is turned on by a first turn-on signal transmitted by the first word line. The second write switch is electrically connected to a second word line and is turned on by a second turn-on signal transmitted by the second word line. When the memory is in the write mode, the second write switch is turned on by the second turn-on signal having a delay with respect to the first turn-on signal, thereby blocking the pseudo read of the unselected memory cell.
US09715918B1
Methods, systems, and devices for operating a ferroelectric memory cell or cells are described. A memory device may leverage non-volatile memory properties of a ferroelectric capacitor—e.g., that a ferroelectric capacitor may remain polarized at one of two states without a voltage applied across the ferroelectric capacitor—to activate a subset of sensing components corresponding to multiple memory cells with a common word line. For example, a first and second set of memory cells with a common word like may be selected for a read operation. A first set of sensing components corresponding to the first set of memory cells may be activated for the read operation, and a second set of sensing components that correspond to the second set of memory cells may be maintained in a deactivated state.
US09715917B2
Magnetic memory devices having an antiferromagnetic reference layer based on Co and Ir are provided. In one aspect, a magnetic memory device includes a reference magnetic layer having multiple Co-containing layers oriented in a stack, wherein adjacent Co-containing layers in the stack are separated by an Ir-containing layer such that the adjacent Co-containing layers in the stack are anti-parallel coupled by the Ir-containing layer therebetween; and a free magnetic layer separated from the reference magnetic layer by a barrier layer. A method of writing data to a magnetic random access memory device having at least one of the present magnetic memory cells is also provided.
US09715915B2
Magneto-resistive devices with lower power consumption and higher stability are provided. The magneto-resistive devices may include a pinned layer, a free layer and an insulating layer between the pinned layer and the free layer. The pinned layer, the free layer and the insulating layer may constitute a magnetic tunnel junction. The free layer may include a first magnetic layer and a second magnetic layer that has a Curie temperature lower than a Curie temperature of the first magnetic layer.
US09715903B2
A method includes receiving, at a device, a plurality of image frames corresponding to a video stream. The plurality of image frames include a first image frame having a first resolution and a second image frame having a second resolution that is lower than the first resolution. The method also includes detecting, at the device, a trigger by analyzing the second image frame. The method further includes designating, at the device, the first image frame as an action frame based on the trigger.
US09715898B2
A method and device for editing a media file comprising input video frames. The editing device comprises a frame analyzer to determine whether the input video frames have the frame characteristics suitable for compressed domain editing or spatial domain editing. For those frames suitable for compressed domain editing, the frame analyzer provides frame data to a compressed domain processor so that video frame data can be modified in the compressed domain. For those frames only suitable for spatial domain editing, the frame analyzer provides frame data to a decoder and then to a spatial domain processor for frame data modification. The modified data at different domains are combined and converted to file format by a file format composer. Moreover, a file format parser is used to separate audio data from video data so that audio data can also be modified, if so desired.
US09715897B2
A test deck may be employed as part of a data storage component testing system. A test deck can consist of at least a bottom cover mating to a top cover to define an enclosed testing region configured to house a data storage medium, transducing head, and head suspension. The top cover may have an access port occupied by a door providing access to the enclosed testing region.
US09715895B1
Embodiments include systems and methods for distribution of power and communications to robotic assemblies in data storage libraries, including enabling instruction signal communications during robot motion on conductive rails of the data storage library. For example, each robot can include at least two distinct sets of brushes, one set (e.g., pair) of power brushes and one set of signal brushes. The power brushes can be optimized for transferring power from the rails to the robot, and the signal brushes can be optimized for communicating instruction signals from the rails to the robot during robot motion. The power brushes can be coupled with power processing circuitry, and the signal brushes can be coupled with signal processing circuitry. Certain embodiments isolate the power and signal circuitry to improve power and/or signal distribution properties. Such techniques can appreciably increase the cartridge exchange rate and/or otherwise improve performance of the data storage library.
US09715892B1
A data reader can be configured with at least a magnetoresistive stack contacting one or more magnetic shields. The magnetoresistive stack can be separated from a magnetic shield by a seed lamination on an air bearing surface with the seed lamination consisting of at least three sub-layers that are constructed with different material compositions.
US09715884B2
An information processing apparatus includes: an acquisition unit adapted to acquire activities corresponding to a plurality of bases from an audio signal; a determination unit adapted to determine whether the plurality of acquired activities have a specific characteristic; and an output unit adapted to output an audio signal obtained by separating, from the audio signal, a component corresponding to an activity which is determined to have the specific characteristic by the determination unit.
US09715875B2
Systems and processes for selectively processing and responding to a spoken user input are provided. In one example, audio input containing a spoken user input can be received at a user device. The spoken user input can be identified from the audio input by identifying start and end-points of the spoken user input. It can be determined whether or not the spoken user input was intended for a virtual assistant based on contextual information. The determination can be made using a rule-based system or a probabilistic system. If it is determined that the spoken user input was intended for the virtual assistant, the spoken user input can be processed and an appropriate response can be generated. If it is instead determined that the spoken user input was not intended for the virtual assistant, the spoken user input can be ignored and/or no response can be generated.
US09715860B2
A shift register unit and driving method thereof, a gate driving circuit and a display apparatus are provided. The potential of the pull-up control node is continuously raised by the output signals of multiple stages of shift register circuits. The high level of the pull-up control node can be used to release output noise of the shift register unit, such as to improve the quality of the display apparatus product, and ensures the life and the long time stable operation of the GOA circuit. The shift register unit provided by embodiments of the present disclosure comprises an input module, a pull-up module, a pull-down control module, a pull-up control module and a pull-down module.
US09715847B2
The present invention provides a drive method and a drive device of a liquid crystal display, and the drive method comprises: receiving an image to display; implementing block detection to the image pixels of the image to display to determine dimensions of color blocks where the image pixels are; respectively setting block weights for the respective image pixels according to the dimensions of the color blocks; implementing the color washout compensation to the image to display according to the block weight; driving the liquid crystal panel to show the image to display after the color washout compensation. With the aforesaid arrangement, the present invention can reduce the color washout under large view angle to promote the display effect of the large view angle.
US09715846B2
Described herein are systems and methods that that reduce power consumption for an electronics device that includes a display. The power conservation systems and methods alter background video information not needed for interactive use when a user returns to a display after some period of inactivity. Power conservation also preserves video information for one or more graphical user interface items. Preserving a graphics item maintains a person's ability to detect the graphical user interface item, and return to it at a later time, even though the background video information has been altered to conserver power.
US09715841B2
An indication device includes an indication portion made of a light transmitting material and a cover portion made of a light blocking material. The indication portion has a sign including at least one of a character, a symbol and a figure. The cover portion covers a periphery of the sign of the indication portion. The sign is illuminated by light emitted by a light source and guided to the indication portion. The cover portion is configured such that a recess from a surface of the cover portion is provided in a region corresponding to the sign of the indication portion.
US09715839B2
A perfusion system apparatus includes a subject simulator for simulating a subject. The subject simulator includes a circulatory system having an inlet line for receiving fluid from the perfusion system, an outlet line for transferring fluid to the perfusion system, at least one sensor for sensing at least one fluid property and at least one control device coupled to at least one of the inlet line and the outlet line. The control device manipulates the at least on fluid property based at least partially on signals from the at least one sensor, to thereby simulate a least one of compliance and resistance of the simulated subject.
US09715836B2
A toilet training assembly includes a toilet that has a housing, a seat and a lid and the housing has a top wall, a bottom wall and a peripheral wall extending therebetween. The top wall has an opening extending therethrough and the seat is hingedly coupled to the top wall. The seat has an aperture extending therethrough such that the aperture is aligned with the opening. The lid is hingedly coupled to the seat to selectively cover the aperture. A bowl is removably positioned within the opening to capture waste from a child when the child utilizes the toilet to urinate or defecate. A detection apparatus is coupled to the toilet to detect when the waste is deposited in the bowl. The detection apparatus issues an audible congratulation and produces a visual reward when the child deposits the waste in the bowl.
US09715835B2
In some embodiments, a scheme engine selects a progressive support scheme that promotes wellness by encouraging users to responsibly respond to a health condition. The scheme includes a set of nodes. Each node represents a progression of the health condition being experienced by a user. A node of the set of nodes is associated with a set of tasks, each promoting wellness given a presence of the condition. A progression tracker identifies, for the user, the node as corresponding to a current progression of the condition. A task engine assigns a weight to a task characteristic based on an input received from the user and selects a task from amongst the set of tasks associated with the identified node. The selection of the task is based on the weight assigned to the task characteristic. The task engine further presents the task to the user.
US09715824B2
The embodiments of the present invention provide a method which includes: acquiring, by a control device, a first signal received strength of data that is received by each controlled device of at least one controlled device in a direct path mode, and a second signal received strength of data that is received by each controlled device of the at least one controlled device in a multipath mode; calculating a ratio of the first signal received strength to the second signal received strength of each controlled device, to obtain a signal received strength ratio of each controlled device; determining, according to the signal received strength ratio of each controlled device and a preset signal received strength ratio corresponding to the controlled device, whether the control device directs to the corresponding controlled device; and determining a target controlled device to which the control device directs, and displaying a control interface of the target controlled device.
US09715804B1
Systems (100) and methods (900) for detecting the presence of a security tag. The methods involve performing operations by a master pedestal of an EAS system to determine a first Tx/Rx scheme to be used during a first iteration of an EAS tag detection process based on (A) a first total number of time windows randomly selected from a plurality of total number of time windows in which an EAS exciter signal should be transmitted from at least one pedestal, and (B) first time windows randomly selected from a plurality of time windows in which the EAS exciter signal can be sent during the EAS tag detection process. Information specifying the first Tx/Rx scheme is communicated from the master pedestal to at least one slave pedestal. Transmit and receive operations are performed by the master and slave pedestals in accordance with the first Tx/Rx scheme.
US09715797B2
The present disclosure provides an event notification system including: a controller that senses a command to select a first event among a plurality of events and generates a first vibration pattern corresponding to the selected first event; and a memory that stores the generated first vibration pattern corresponding to the selected first event.
US09715794B2
A POS system comprises a checkout means for carrying out a payment operation, a cash drawer which includes a storage compartment for storing money, wherein in an open condition of the cash drawer the storage compartment is open for an access and in a closed condition of the cash drawer the storage compartment is closed, a control means for controlling the cash drawer, wherein the control means is formed to generate a control signal for opening the cash drawer, and a sensor means for generating an opening signal which indicates whether the cash drawer is in its open condition. The control means is formed to evaluate whether or not an opening signal is preceded by a control signal with a predetermined time interval, in order to detect a manipulation process during opening and/or closing the cash drawer on the basis of the evaluation.
US09715781B2
A system and method is disclosed for calibrating the location of a player's gaze at a video display of a gaming machine. The system and method includes capturing images of the player's gaze with a camera while displaying a plurality of reference symbols at locations on the display during serial display of game video content. Also, a processor creates control signals that represent the direction of the player's gaze relative to the location of the plurality of symbols on the display of the gaming machine. The processor develops a data set based on the control signals and the locations of the plurality of reference symbols to develop a data set. Further, the system and method includes calibrating the location of the player's gaze using the data set with the location s of the plurality of reference symbols on the display.
US09715779B2
An apparatus for conveying money items, which is configured to singulate money items during conveyance, sense characteristics of money items during conveyance and eject money items from a conveyor.
US09715778B1
A random number generating device for generating random number sequences for lottery games includes a cylinder that has opposing ends. A plurality of rings is rotationally coupled to the cylinder. Indicia are coupled to and arrayed linearly around an outer surface of each ring. Each ring is selectively rotatable around the cylinder, such that the rings are randomly positionable and wherein the indicia are arrayed in a plurality of parallel rows that extends between the opposing ends of the cylinder.
US09715772B2
An internet-connected garage door control system is disclosed that includes a garage door opener for opening and closing a garage door in response to signals received through the internet, and an in-vehicle remote garage door opener integrated into a vehicle for transmitting the signals through the internet to the garage door opener. The in-vehicle remote garage door opener includes an interface configured to communicate with an internet-connected device, a trainable RF transceiver for transmitting an RF signal to the garage door opener, a user-actuated input, an interface configured to communicate with an internet-connected device, and a controller, wherein, upon actuation of the user-actuated input, the controller is configured to at least one of (a) request a signal to be transmitted by the internet-connected device through the internet to the garage door opener, and (b) cause the trainable RF transceiver to transmit the RF signal to the garage door opener.
US09715765B2
A display control unit causes a display device to display the synthesized image in a case where the determination unit does not determine that the error region exists in the synthesized image, and causes the display device to display the physical space image in a case where the determination unit does determine that the error region exists in the synthesized image.
US09715764B2
A method for in-vehicle dynamic virtual reality includes receiving vehicle data and user data from one or more portable devices, wherein the vehicle data comprises vehicle dynamics data of the vehicle. The method includes generating a virtual view based on the vehicle data, the user data and a virtual world model. The virtual world model including one or more components that define the virtual view and wherein generating the virtual view includes augmenting one or more components of the virtual world model according to at least one of the vehicle data and the user data. The method includes rendering the virtual view to an output device by controlling the output device to update display of the virtual view according to at least one of the vehicle data or the user data.
US09715759B2
Images are made of a surface, and images are made of a covering (in the form of a reference object) having a pattern that includes an array of locally non-repetitive pattern elements. A three-dimensional models of the pattern elements on the covering is created using the images. A correlation in scaling between the process of generating three-dimensional models of the pattern elements on the covering and the process of generating a three-dimensional model of the surface is known, and this known correlation in scaling and the known actual distances among pattern elements on the covering can be used as a dimensional scale reference to determine dimensional information of the three-dimensional model of the surface.
US09715758B2
A sampler of an image processing apparatus may sample at least one first virtual point light (VPL) from a direct light view. The sampler may sample a second VPL in a three-dimensional (3D) space independent of the direct light view. A calculator may calculate a luminance of the second VPL using a first VPL adjacent to the second VPL selected from among the at least one first VPL.
US09715755B2
Systems and methods are provided for producing a rendered drawing or rendering from a detailed image of an object (e.g. photograph) resulting in a rendering that is photogrammetric and that preserves detail in the said image of said object. The combination of the metric nature and image detail preservation in a rendering resulting from the process enhances the usefulness of the rendering to users. The invention is useful in particular for large format renderings such as wire frame style drawings used for blueprints in the architecture, engineering and construction industry (AEC industry) when used for existing structures. The processes combine graphic arts techniques with photogrammetric techniques to preserve, fully or partially, information about an object as captured in image detail of said object and to present said information in photogrammetrically correct rendering, which rendering may be incorporated into drawings useful to and/or familiar to end users of said drawings.
US09715750B2
A method for tile-based rendering of content. Content may be rendered in a memory region organized as multiple tiles. In scenarios in which content is generated in layers, for operations that involve compositing image layers, an order in which portions of the image are processed may be selected to reduce the aggregate number of memory accesses times, which in turn may improve the performance of a computer that uses tile-based rendering. An image may be processed such that operations relating to rendering portions of different layers corresponding to the same tile are performed sequentially. Such processing may be used in a computer with a graphics processing unit that supports tile-based rendering, and may be particularly well suited for computers with a slate form factor. An interface to a graphics processing utility within the computer may provide a flag to allow an application to specify whether operations may be reordered.
US09715745B2
To provide an X-ray CT apparatus that can reduce calculation time required for an iterative approximation projection data correction process by restricting a range for the iterative approximation projection data correction process and generate low-noise images according to the examination purpose, the calculation device of the X-ray CT apparatus generates correction projection data by performing an iterative approximation projection data correction process for projection data acquired in scanning and reconstructs CT images using the correction projection data. The calculation device determines a range to which iterative approximation projection data correction process is applied based on scanning conditions and reconstruction conditions. For example, a slice direction application range is determined based on an X-ray beam width, and a channel direction application range is determined based on an FOV. The calculation device performs an iterative approximation projection data correction process for projection data corresponding to the determined application range to generate correction projection data.
US09715735B2
A digital magazine server presents content, which may include images, retrieved from various sources to a user. To improve presentation of images while allowing modification of images, the digital magazine server identifies feature points in an image and identifies regions of the image including the feature points. Groups of regions are generated based at least on the number of feature points in each region and the location of each region. Based on information associated with the groups, such as the location of various groups and the aspect ratio of various groups, one or more groups are selected and associated with the image. The selected groups may identify regions of the image including an object or not including an object, providing information for modifying the image without obscuring objects in the image.
US09715731B2
In one embodiment, a plurality of images is received. The plurality of images are frames of a video file. A user requests for a thumbnail picture representative of the plurality of images. The plurality of images are filtered to obtain a set of images. The filtering can be based on a blurriness of the image, whether an image is near a scene transition, an amount of text depicted in the image, or a color level of the image. Valence scores may be determined for one or more of the images in the set of images. Valence scores are based on determining values of characteristics of an image that can predict user responses to the image. A first image from the set of images is selected based at least in part on the valence score of the first image. The first image is sent for display.
US09715722B2
An image pickup apparatus which is capable of setting image quality as desired by a user when performing tone correction according to a luminance histogram of a taken image. A luminance histogram obtaining unit obtains a luminance histogram from image data. A luminance tone correction unit performs tone correction on the image data using a correction curve generated based on the obtained luminance histogram. A user setting unit receives a setting as to a correction intensity of the tone correction from the user and sets parameters for determining coordinate values of control points on the correction curve. A luminance tone control unit generates the correction curve based on the luminance histogram and determines the coordinate value according to the parameters set by the user setting unit.
US09715712B2
A system and method in accordance with example embodiments for comprehensive sales and service data reporting. Sales and service events that take place at a front end branch of an enterprise may be input into a front end system and transmitted to a backend system where various modules then use the front end system data to generate various data and reports to display various data, such as, for example, sales incentive metrics and key performance indicators.
US09715708B2
A computerized auction system is used for collecting bids from a plurality of producers. The bids are placed on individual components of a multi-component ensemble. Bids from separate marketers are added and affect the rank of a single ensemble within a potential consumer's ensemble search result. The bids are cooperative as the separate bids on the components are added to form the single bid on the ensemble. The bids are anonymous such that each bidding marketer is kept unaware of whether another marketer's bid was combined with the bidding marketer's bid.
US09715699B1
A method and system for pricing advertisement placements online in a real-time bidding (RTB) environment is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes receiving a plurality of responses from a plurality of real-time bidding (RTB) requests for an advertisement placement and determining a first data set from the plurality of responses, where the first data set includes prices paid for winning the advertisement placement. The computer-implemented method further includes determining a second data set from the plurality of responses, where the second data set includes losing bid prices, and estimating a price distribution curve based on one or more of the first data set and the second data set.
US09715696B2
The present disclosure includes a system, method, and article of manufacture for targeting ad impressions. A list of customer records may be transmitted to a service provider system that identifies a matched customer and installs a cookie on a web client associated with the matched customer. The system may further receive a campaign request from a merchant and transmit the campaign request to the service provider system which may add a flag to the cookie based on the campaign request as well as instruct a media buyer system to bid on an ad impression for the matched customer based on the flag. The system may further receive an expenditure associated with the matched customer who received the ad impression and compare the expenditure to an expenditure associated with a customer who did not receive targeted ad impression but fits parameters associated with the campaign request.
US09715694B2
A system and method for the generation of candidate domain names and potential website content are presented. The method includes receiving, by at least one server communicatively coupled to a network, a request to access or purchase access to a software application, the request being received from a user. Keywords associated with at least one of the user, a website of the user, and a business of the user may be generated and a candidate domain name relevant to the keywords may be generated. A drill-down survey may be presented to collect information from the user that the user thinks is relevant to the generation of a candidate domain name or potential website content. The survey responses are aggregated and then analyzed to generate one or more candidate domain names and/or to suggest potential website content.
US09715681B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to methods, systems, and computer program products pertaining to obtaining, providing, and using dynamic card verification values for portable consumer devices, such as credit cards and debit cards. An exemplary method comprises receiving, at a server, a request for a device verification value for a portable consumer device associated with a user; obtaining, at the server, a datum indicative of a device verification value for a portable consumer device; and sending, from the server, the datum to at least one of a phone number or network address of a personal communication device associated with the user.
US09715676B2
A method and system for confirming proper receipt of an e-mail file sent by a sending party over a communications network such as the Internet and intended to be received by a target party. The e-mail file sent by the sending party is properly or improperly delivered to a recipient e-mail address and stored in a data storage location of a recipient computer system. When the accessing party, who may or may not be the intended target party, accesses either the e-mail file itself or an e-mail processing program or user account, various recipient information, including identity information associated with the accessing party, is discovered from the recipient computer system and included in a generated confirmation of receipt notice. The confirmation of receipt notice is subsequently and automatically return transmitted to the sending party. In one embodiment, an attachment file is transmitted together with the e-mail which operates to discover and obtain the recipient data, generate the confirmation of receipt notice, and transmit the confirmation of receipt notice to the sending party. In this manner, the sending party can determine whether the accessing party who actually received and was notified of the e-mail file was in fact the intended target party, and thereby determine whether delivery was proper.
US09715666B2
A method for supply chain management using mobile devices with a server on an electronic data network includes receiving identifying information for a product transmitted from a mobile device via the network, the server being periodically updated with product recall data. The server queries a traceability server via the network for master data and event data related to the product using the identifying information. The server processes the recall data, master data, and event data to produce product data which is output to the mobile device.
US09715665B2
A computer-implemented method for detecting a working condition of one or more vehicle components includes communicating with a cellular communication module in a vehicle over a telecommunications network. A vehicle component characteristic or identifier for the vehicle components is received over the telecommunication network. One or more operation status identifiers for the one or more vehicle components based on data from the vehicle is also received. A location for servicing or purchasing the one or more vehicle components based on the vehicle component characteristic or identifier is determined. A service status of the one or more vehicle components based on the one or more operation status identifiers is also determined. Based on the service status, a message including an identification of the vehicle components and a service or purchase location for the vehicle components is generated. The message is transmitted to a terminal for display.
US09715664B2
A technique for detecting missing rules (mr) with most general conditions in a rule project (1) having a given scope with a fixed number of objects of a given type, wherein each rule (r) is defined by at least one test (t) in respect to at least one condition of at least one attribute (age, value) of the object, the method comprising the steps of finding at least one missing case not covered by the rules (r), identifying a list of tests (t) that occur in the rules (r), generalizing the missing case into a family of missing cases (mc) in terms of the tests (t) occurring in the rules (r), generalizing the family of missing cases (mc) into a missing rule (mr), and generating missing rules (mr) with most general conditions.
US09715663B2
Predicting program performance on hardware devices, in one aspect, may comprise obtaining a set of existing applications and observed performance on a target hardware device. The set of existing applications are run on one or more general purpose computer processors and application features are extracted from the existing application. A machine learning technique is employed to train a predictive model based on the extracted application features and the observed performance for predicting application performance on the target hardware device.
US09715660B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training a deep neural network. One of the methods includes training a deep neural network with a first training set by adjusting values for each of a plurality of weights included in the neural network, and training the deep neural network to determine a probability that data received by the deep neural network has features similar to key features of one or more keywords or key phrases, the training comprising providing the deep neural network with a second training set and adjusting the values for a first subset of the plurality of weights, wherein the second training set includes data representing the key features of the one or more keywords or key phrases.
US09715659B2
A system, computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and a computer-implemented method for determining a level of confidence that an identified media item is currently being presented to a user is presented. A media item being presented to a user on an output device coupled to the client device is identified, the client device including an input device usable by a user of the client device to instruct the client device to acquire and present media items from a plurality of media devices. A level of confidence that the identified media item is currently being presented to the user is calculated. A determination is made that at least one predetermined event has occurred. A level of confidence that the identified media item is currently being presented to the user is adjusted based on the at least one predetermined event.
US09715647B2
A method of disseminating a message is disclosed. The message is encoding in a barcode. A selected region of the barcode is damaged so as to hinder decoding of the message at a scanning device. The damaged region of the barcode may be occluded from the scanning device in order to enable the scanning device to read the barcode and the message therein.
US09715646B2
A computer system and method are provided to intercept a task from a primary user account 121 prior to execution of the task by the computer device 200, where the task relates to an untrusted content. A task isolation environment 350 is provisioned for executing the task, including programmatically creating a secondary user account 121b on the computer device. The task is executed in the task isolation environment 350 in relation to the untrusted content. A second folder 126b in the secondary user account 121b is mapped to a first folder 126a in the primary user account 121 and file access requests for the second folder 126b are intercepted by an agent 300 and redirected to the first folder 126a.
US09715644B1
One embodiment comprises a system that includes a first print head that applies a colorant to a medium based on a first bitmap that indicates printable features for the medium, and a second print head that applies a clear protectant to the medium based on a second bitmap. The system receives the first bitmap, and replicates the printable features in the first bitmap to generate the second bitmap. The system identifies boundaries of the printable features in the second bitmap, and expands the boundaries of the printable features in the second bitmap where the clear protectant is applied to the medium. The system directs the first print head to apply the colorant to the medium to form the printable features based on the first bitmap, and directs the second print head to apply the clear protectant to the printable features formed on the medium based on the second bitmap.
US09715637B2
A method and system for aorta segmentation in a 3D volume, such as a C-arm CT volume is disclosed. The aortic root is detected in the 3D volume using marginal space learning (MSL) based segmentation. The aortic arch is detected in the 3D volume using MSL based segmentation. The ascending aorta is tracked from the aortic root to the aortic arch in the 3D volume, and the descending aorta is tracked from the aortic arch in the 3D volume.
US09715636B2
By setting a parameter in accordance with features of a unique portion appearing in a print image, the unique portion in the print image is efficiently determined. The image is printed on a sheet along with a relative movement in a main scanning direction of the sheet and a print head on which multiple printing elements are arrayed in a sub-scanning direction. One division area is set such that a size in the main scanning direction is greater than a size in the sub-scanning direction. A shift amount from one division area to another division area is set such that a shift amount in the main scanning direction greater than a shift amount in the sub-scanning direction.
US09715624B1
In a document image segmentation method, pixels of the image are classified into different types such as background, text, table, etc., to generate an initial segmentation map. The initial segmentation map is processed multiple rounds. In each round, a working map is divided into 2×2 pixel blocks; based on pixel types in the block, a corresponding pixel in a combined map is assigned a type, and pixels in a corresponding block in the segmentation map are modified either to change some background pixels to other types or keep them unchanged. The initial segmentation map is used as the working map in the first round, and the combined map of the last round is used as the working map for the next round. After a number of rounds, remaining background pixels of the segmentation map are changed to other types based on the types of their neighboring areas.
US09715616B2
A sequence of biometric data images is received, such as, for example, a sequence of fingerprint images, and a set of biometric data images is selected from the sequence of images. The set of images can include one or more segments of at least one image in the sequence of images. One or more portions of at least one image of biometric data in the set of images can be selected to be included in the unified image of biometric data. The unified image of biometric data can be constructed using the one or more portions of the at least one image of biometric data. If the unified image of biometric data is not complete, a user can be prompted for one or more additional images of biometric data.
US09715610B2
A method for tracking non-motorized vehicle commuting activity includes providing a tracking system having a tag reader at a commute destination, wherein the tag reader is adapted to detect the presence of an RFID tag, and to generate and transmit a detection signal indicating a time of detection and one or more attributes of the detected RFID tag. The RFID tag is secured to a non-motorized vehicle used in commuting to the commute destination, and is secured in a manner to enable detection by the tag reader at the commute destination, and to prevent tampering therewith. Information obtained by the tracking system is accessible by one or more of a system administrator and a commuting participant.
US09715609B1
A radio frequency identification (RFID) system includes an RFID interrogator and an RFID tag having a plurality of information sources and a beamforming network. The tag receives electromagnetic radiation from the interrogator. The beamforming network directs the received electromagnetic radiation to a subset of the plurality of information sources. The RFID tag transmits a response to the received electromagnetic radiation, based on the subset of the plurality of information sources to which the received electromagnetic radiation was directed. Method and other embodiments are also disclosed.
US09715606B2
Aspects of tag-based product monitoring and evaluation are described. In one embodiment, a system instructs a tag reader to transmit an electromagnetic field and receives a plurality of unique identifiers for a plurality of products from a plurality of tags in response to the electromagnetic field. The plurality of tags may be provided on a plurality of product packages for the plurality of products. The system also identifies the plurality of products using the plurality of unique identifiers and identifies whether a product package of at least one of the plurality of products has been opened based on the plurality of unique identifiers or the product detail data. The system may alert a user as to whether one or more product packages have been opened before purchasing.
US09715605B1
RFID readers may be configured to recover weak RFID tag signals from collisions with stronger RFID tag signals. An RFID reader may receive a combined tag response including a strong tag response and a weak tag response. The reader recovers the strong and weak tag responses using source separation. In one example, the reader may recover the strong tag response from the combined tag response and remove the recovered tag response from the combined tag response to form a modified tag response. The reader may then recover the weak tag response from the modified tag response.
US09715602B1
During admission to a location, a machine reader optically reads original machine-readable data on an original admission ticket and stores an original code based on the original machine-readable data and original user-specific information in re-writeable electronic memory on the original admission ticket while the original user is entering the location. The original user is then provided initial entry to the location. After the initial entry, a potential admission ticket is received at the location from a potential user. The machine reader optically reads potential machine-readable data on the potential admission ticket at the location, and the machine reader compares a potential code based on the potential machine-readable data and potential user-specific information to the original code stored in the re-writeable electronic memory on the original admission ticket. The potential user is provided re-entry to the location only if the potential code matches the original code.
US09715599B2
A system and method is provided to permit a first computer to interact with computers in different security domains without forming covert channels. Separate GPUs are provided for each computer. An image routing map (IRM) determines which security domain is the subject of an I/O event to determine to which security domain to send the I/O event. A response is transmitted to the associated GPU and multiplexor and another response used to update the IRM, which is then provided to the MUX. The MUX uses the updated IRM to adjust the content on the monitor. Content from the security domains are able to be displayed on the monitor and in a similar manner as by the computer in each security domain.
US09715594B2
As disclosed herein a computer system for secure database backup and recovery in a secure database network has N distributed data nodes. The computer system includes program instructions that include instructions to receive a database backup file, fragment the file using a fragment engine, and associate each fragment with one node, where the fragment is not stored on the associated node. The program instructions further include instructions to encrypt each fragment using a first encryption key, and store, randomly, encrypted fragments on the distributed data nodes. The program instructions further include instructions to retrieve the encrypted fragments, decrypt the encrypted fragments using the first encryption key, re-encrypt the decrypted fragments using a different encryption key, and store, randomly, the re-encrypted fragments on the distributed data nodes. A computer program product and method corresponding to the above computer system are also disclosed herein.
US09715590B2
A system and device for verifying the integrity of a system from its subcomponents, the system comprising a plurality of subcomponents each having a physical state, the system and the device comprising a processor that is connected to each of the subcomponents, the processor configured to verify systemic integrity by performing verification on some or all specified subcomponents. The verification may be individual (1,1) or threshold (n,1), and may be interactive or non-interactive.
US09715586B2
For controlling access rights between a read/write device (1) and a transponder module (2) configured to exchange data via an electromagnetic field (3), the read/write device (1) obtains via the electromagnetic field (3) from the transponder module (2) a technology release code (T) which indicates a version of technology of the transponder module (2). Subsequently, the read/write device (1) sets access rights for the transponder module (2) using the technology release code (T). Setting access rights based on a technology release code (T) obtained from a transponder module (2) makes it possible to block transponder modules (2) selectively, depending on their inherent technology release, so that transponder modules (2) with a technology release that is without a security breach may remain in operation whereas transponder modules (2) with a technology release having a compromised security can be blocked from access.
US09715585B2
An operation at a mobile device is authenticated by using a random visual presentation displayed at the device for the authentication. The mobile device generates and displays the random visual presentation which is optically captured (e.g., by a camera) at a capturing device. The capturing device uses the captured random visual presentation to generate an authentication value (e.g., a hash) based on a defined security protocol. The authentication value is compared to an expected value and if the values match the mobile device executes the operation.
US09715580B2
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a method for providing a user access to a gaming environment without a full license. In operation, a license generator receive a request to generate a temporary license for a user not having access to the gaming environment from a primary user having a full license. The license generator then generates the temporary license based on license information associated with the full license belonging to a primary user. The user can then access the gaming environment via the temporary license, but may only be given restricted access to the gaming environment.
US09715569B1
Disclosed are techniques for devising an electronic design with disconnected field domains. These techniques identify a plurality of electrically conductive shapes of an electronic design, add a plurality of patches to a model of the electronic design for multiple apertures in the electronic design, analyze the model to generate analysis results for the electronic design, and devise or implement the electronic design based in part or in whole upon the analysis, wherein an aperture of the multiple apertures causes disconnected electromagnetic field domains in the model.
US09715558B2
A programming technique is disclosed for linking (or “mapping”) a query on the tree structure of an extensible markup language (XML) based computer-coded file to the “start” and “end” positions of the corresponding XML-coded data contained within the file, when the coded data has variable length in order to enhance the efficiency of querying an XML document (or other type of file).
US09715556B2
A computer implemented system comprises one or more computer processors and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprises instructions, that when executed, control the one or more computer processors to be configured for receiving a first input representative of associating the text object and the graphical representation, determining a relationship between the text object and the graphical representation, converting the text object to a control variable according to the relationship, and linking the control variable to the graphical representation, wherein the graphical representation is dynamically updated when a second input is received that modifies the control variable.
US09715555B2
In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for user registration with a multi-tenant on-demand database system. These mechanisms and methods for user registration with a multi-tenant on-demand database system can provide user registration of the multi-tenant on-demand database system which takes into consideration a registration of an associated tenant of the multi-tenant on-demand database system. The ability to consider a tenant's registration with the multi-tenant on-demand database system when registering a user with the multi-tenant on-demand database system can improve the management of permissions associated with of the multi-tenant on-demand database system.
US09715550B2
A method of using contents includes the steps of setting public time information and private time information, the public time information being associated with each content and defined universally for use by a large number of unspecified users, the private time being associated with the content and defined for use by a small number of particular persons, and searching for a content according to the public time information and/or the private time information and using the content detected in the searching.
US09715547B2
A method and computer system for providing newsfeed updates is provided. Event data for a set of events from at least one enterprise resource planning application is received via a newsfeed application executing on a computing device. A first newsfeed is generated for a first party from the event data. A second newsfeed is generated for a second party from the event data. The second newsfeed is more generic than the first newsfeed.
US09715537B2
A computer implemented method for updating and distributing data objects among multiple client applications is described. The method includes receiving object data for an object from a first application instance of an application engine, wherein the object data reflects a change to a state of the object based on action of the first application instance, updating a data structure for the object in a based on the received object data, determining whether a transformation policy is applicable to the object and, if so, modifying data associated with the object according to the transformation policy, identifying application instances that should receive updated object data for the object based on stored information identifying clients that have agreed to share updated object data and based on stored information identifying types of updates that clients are to receive, and communicating updated object data to the application instances that should receive updated object data according to stored preferences associated with each of the application instances.
US09715536B2
A virtualization method for large-scale distributed heterogeneous data includes using a three-layer structure and a two-level mapping. According to different abstraction degrees, a data model is defined as three layers from low to high: a physical layer, a virtual table layer, and a virtual view layer. Each layer has a proprietary data model. The two-level mapping comprises a PV mapping and a VV mapping, which is a transformation mechanism of the data models of different layers. As a result, the virtualization method virtualizes decentralized heterogeneous data, and is applicable to data interoperability treatments.
US09715535B2
According to one embodiment of the present invention, a system for managing data within a plurality of data management architectures includes at least one processor. The system persists an entity managed by a first data management architecture to a second data management architecture. The first data management architecture manages entity data within data sources and the second data management architecture manages persisted entities within a common repository. Entity attributes are mapped between the first and second data management architectures. The system further provides one or more supplemental attributes for the persisted (e.g., registration mode or fully persisted mode) entity within the second data management architecture, wherein the supplemental attributes are unmapped between the first and second data management architectures. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and computer program product for managing data within a plurality of data management architectures in substantially the same manner described above.
US09715527B2
A database server receives a query from a remote application server that is associated with a calculation scenario. The calculation scenario defines a data flow model that includes one or more calculation nodes that each define one or more operations to execute on the database server. The database server can be a column-oriented database and at least one of the calculation nodes comprises at least one join operation. Thereafter, the database server instantiates the calculation scenario so that it is optimized by removing one or more join operations and associated branches within the calculation scenario. The database server then executes the operations defined by the calculation nodes of the optimized calculation scenario to result in a responsive data set. The database server then provides the data set to the application server.
US09715520B1
A method and apparatus is disclosed for utilizing a validity map to indicate whether an overwriting data portion of user data is received. In the method and apparatus, a plurality of data portions of user data are received, whereby each data portion of the plurality of data portion may overwrite another data portion. A validity map may be utilized to indicate whether a data portion is an overwriting data portion. The validity map may be utilized for retrieving the data portion instead of the data portion being replaced.
US09715513B2
The present invention relates to a system, method and computing apparatus to isolate a database in a database system. The disclosure of the present invention enables more efficient and more secured implementation of “database isolation” in a multi-tenant or multi-user database system storing service data belonging to different users. The user identifier(s) are extracted from the default database, creating a user table according to the extracted user identifier(s), creating a service table in the main database with owner user identifier column and owner group identifier column inserted, it can efficiently create view to a user when the user requests to access the service data which the user owns or the user is authorized to access. The created service table with owner user identifier column and owner group identifier column inserted achieve database isolation at database level, and the created view achieves database isolation at application level.
US09715511B2
A handling machine performs a method for updating a database for managing a fleet of vehicles, during replacement of a tire on a vehicle that includes a plurality of predetermined spatial zones. The database includes a tire identifier for each tire of the vehicle and a zone identifier for each predetermined spatial zone. Each of the tire identifiers is associated with a corresponding one of the zone identifiers in the database. A zone identifier of a spatial zone containing a tire is determined when first predetermined conditions are met, and a tire identifier of the tire is determined when second predetermined conditions are met. An association in the database between a zone identifier and a tire identifier is updated if at least the first and second predetermined conditions are met simultaneously at least once.
US09715509B2
The present invention relates to a method for navigating over documents represented by identifiers displayed on a navigation menu. Each document is associated with a plurality of numerical values characterizing it according to a plurality of criteria. Each identifier of a document is placed at a position dependent on a part of the parameter values associated with this document. The whole set of the documents is subdivided into a given number of regions. The sums of the values associated with all the documents of a region and corresponding to a certain number of criteria are virtually equal for each region. The outer contour of the regions is displayed so as to enable its selection. The selection of a region triggers the display in full screen mode of all of the identifiers of the selected region. The invention also relates to a display device capable of executing the navigation method.
US09715503B2
A programmable display device main body includes an address file detecting section for detecting whether a memory card stores a MAC address file, a password file detecting section for detecting whether the memory card stores a password file, and an activation control section for reading data from the memory card. The activation control section does not read data in a case where the memory card stores neither a MAC address file nor a password file.
US09715494B1
A message being constructed for posting on a messaging platform is analyzed to extract a set of message characteristics. A past period is computed for a channel on the messaging platform. A set of channel characteristics is extracted from a past period data posted in the channel during the past period. When a threshold degree of match exists between the set of message characteristics and the set of channel characteristics, a characteristic is determined that is different in the message characteristics and the channel characteristics, and which is desirable in the channel. A recommendation is constructed to include (i) a channel identifier of the channel to suggest posting the message in the channel, and (ii) a change to the message according to the corresponding characteristic in the set of channel characteristics, wherein the change to the message increases a degree of acceptability of the message in the channel.
US09715487B2
Multi-level naming of grouped data is disclosed. In some embodiments, a specification of a plurality of levels of headers with respect to at least one dimension of a group of cells is received, and header cell values of header cells comprising the plurality of levels of headers are enabled to refer to one or more associated cells in the group of cells.
US09715481B2
According to one technique, a modeling computer computes a Hessian matrix by determining whether an input matrix contains more than a threshold number of dense columns. If so, the modeling computer computes a sparsified version of the input matrix and uses the sparsified matrix to compute the Hessian. Otherwise, the modeling computer identifies which columns are dense and which columns are sparse. The modeling computer then partitions the input matrix by column density and uses sparse matrix format to store the sparse columns and dense matrix format to store the dense columns. The modeling computer then computes component parts which combine to form the Hessian, wherein component parts that rely on dense columns are computed using dense matrix multiplication and component parts that rely on sparse columns are computed using sparse matrix multiplication.
US09715470B1
Direct memory access between an accelerator and a processor using a coherency adapter including receiving, by the adapter from the accelerator, a request to initiate a DMA transfer; providing, by the adapter, a translation tag (‘XTAG’) to the accelerator; receiving, by the adapter from the accelerator, a DMA instruction comprising the XTAG; generating, by the adapter, a DMA instruction comprising a real address based on the XTAG; and sending, by the adapter, the generated DMA instruction comprising the real address to a communications bus.
US09715460B1
A driver enables a first virtual storage director running in a container maintained by a hypervisor to achieve direct memory access to memory of a second virtual storage director running in a different container. An address space is made available to the first virtual storage director. A first portion of the address space is associated with memory allocated to the first virtual storage director by the container. A second portion of the address space is mapped to memory allocated to the second virtual storage director.
US09715452B2
A method and system for making global variables NUMA-aware by identifying a first and a second global variable; determining a quantity of NUMA groups of a computing device; partitioning, based on the quantity of NUMA groups, the first global variable into a first global variable array of first global variable array elements; storing each first global variable array element in a different cache line of a first plurality of cache lines of a first cache associated with a first NUMA group of the NUMA groups; partitioning, based on the quantity of NUMA groups, the second global variable into a second global variable array of second global variable array elements; and storing each second global variable array element in a different cache line of a second plurality of cache lines of a second cache associated with a second NUMA group of NUMA groups.
US09715449B2
Hierarchical address translation structures providing separate translations for instruction fetches and data accesses. An address is to be translated from the address to another address using a hierarchy of address translation structures. The hierarchy of address translation structures includes a plurality of levels, and a determination is made as to which level of the plurality of levels it is indicated that translation through the hierarchy of address translation structures is to split into a plurality of translation paths. The hierarchy of address translation structures is traversed to obtain information to be used to translate the address to the another address, in which the traversing selects, based on a determination of the level that indicates the split and based on an attribute of the address to be translated, one translation path of the plurality of translation paths to obtain the information to be used to translate the address to the another address. The information is then used to translate the address to the another address.
US09715446B2
Disclosed is a method for updating an inverted index of a flash solid state disk (SSD). The method including: storing postings of a term that is present in only an in-memory inverted index in a block of an output buffer and reading postings of a last block of each posting list to be updated from an on-disk inverted index to be stored in each block of an input buffer, by scanning the on-disk inverted index and the in-memory inverted index; moving postings of the input buffer to the blocks of the output buffer for each block and attaching new postings of the in-memory inverted index to the block corresponding to the output buffer; and updating the on-disk inverted index by using the postings of each block of the output buffer.
US09715443B2
A method and apparatus of memory management are disclosed. Pooling of at least one memory to generate a memory pool, dividing the memory pool to generate at least one memory space, and allocating a respective memory space to a respective CPU in a one-to-one correspondence manner are performed. Further, the respective memory space allocated to the respective CPU is set as a pinned memory of the respective CPU. Additionally, setting unallocated memory space as a shared memory pool, obtaining a memory value that represents usage of the respective memory space by the respective CPU during operation, and determining if the memory value exceeds a preset threshold range are performed. Selecting, if the memory value exceeds the preset threshold range, additional memory space from the memory pool to allocate to the respective CPU or reallocating at least a portion of the respective memory space allocated to the CPU are performed.
US09715439B1
Disclosed are various embodiments for a user interface builder for application. The user interface builder may embed defect reporting logic into the user interface of an application to aid in the description and reporting of defects. Defect reporting logic is embedded if particular flags, variables or other indicators are set directing the user interface builder application to embed the additional defect reporting logic during the generation of a user interface. When the defect reporting logic is embedded within the user interface of the application, a user may click on and automatically file defect reports for various components of the application.
US09715412B2
Session management can be supported in a distributed transactional service system using a distributed transactional server and an affinity client. The affinity client operates to receive a service request from a user application and invoke at least one distributed transactional service provided by the distributed transactional server. The distributed transactional server operates to create and maintain a session for the user application when the at least one distributed transactional service is invoked, and the distributed transactional server further operates to determine an affinity scope associated with the session. The affinity scope, which is maintained on the affinity client, defines a routing scope within the distributed transactional service system, into which consequent requests in the session from the user application are dispatched.
US09715402B2
A system for providing dynamic code deployment and versioning is provided. The system may be configured to receive a first request to execute a newer program code on a virtual compute system, determine, based on the first request, that the newer program code is a newer version of an older program code loaded onto an existing container on a virtual machine instance on the virtual compute system, initiate a download of the newer program code onto a second container on the same virtual machine instance, and causing the first request to be processed with the older program code in the existing container.
US09715399B2
The present technology concerns a mainframe injection component (MIC) for manipulating at least one data packet communicated between at least one emulator and at least one mainframe. A packet processor is configured to receive the at least one data packet, manipulate the at least one received data packet to produce at least one modified data packet, and inject the at least one modified data packet into the communication between the at least one emulator and the at least one mainframe. The packet processor is further configured to retrieve at least one processing instruction from a repository according to at least one pre-defined processing rule and to apply the at least one processing instruction on the at least one received data packet to produce the at least one modified data packet.
US09715390B2
A method includes, in a processor that processes instructions of program code, processing a first segment of the instructions. One or more destination registers are identified in the first segment using an approximate specification of register access by the instructions. Respective values of the destination registers are made available to a second segment of the instructions only upon verifying that the values are valid for readout by the second segment in accordance with the approximate specification. The second segment is processed at least partially in parallel with processing of the first segment, using the values made available from the first segment.
US09715383B2
Processing of character data is facilitated. A Find Element Equal instruction is provided that compares data of multiple vectors for equality and provides an indication of equality, if equality exists. An index associated with the equal element is stored in a target vector register. Further, the same instruction, the Find Element Equal instruction, also searches a selected vector for null elements, also referred to as zero elements. A result of the instruction is dependent on whether the null search is provided, or just the compare.
US09715382B2
Structure of a prototype-based programming language program is determined based on results of program execution. The structure determined can be implied by a program rather than explicitly declared. For example, classes and namespaces of a prototype-based program can be detected or inferred by identifying patterns that indicate the presence of a class or namespace. Furthermore, members of classes and namespaces can also be determined.
US09715377B1
Techniques relate to a behavior based code recompilation triggering scheme. A determination is made whether a fingerprint is present in software that is currently executing on a processor of a computer system, where the fingerprint includes a representation of a sequence of behavior that occurs in the processor while the software is executing. In response to determining that the fingerprint is not present in the software currently executing on the processor, monitoring continues of the software executing on the processor for the fingerprint. In response to determining that the fingerprint is present in the software currently executing on the processor, a compiler is caused to perform a recompilation to the software.
US09715368B2
A computerized information and display apparatus useful for providing information to a user via a display. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a processor apparatus, touch screen input and display device, and speech input apparatus, and at least one computer program configured to run on the processor apparatus, the at least one program being configured to enable an user to intuitively operate the apparatus to rapidly converge on a desired organization or entity which they wish to locate, via speech input of only a name or a part of a name. The information and display apparatus is particularly useful in time-pressured mobile transport vehicle environments, and when the user is unfamiliar with the operation of the apparatus.
US09715362B2
A print controlling apparatus includes a user interface to input a printing command of a document displaying a plurality of overlaid objects, a printing data generator to detect a transparency region where a transparency is set, in the overlaid objects, to generate a transparency image by calculating a pixel value of the transparency region, based on the pixel value of each object and the transparency, and to generate printing data comprising the transparency image, and a communication interface to send the printing data to the image forming apparatus.
US09715361B2
An information processing system including an information processing apparatus that selects between transferring data and obtaining data, and controls transferring data or obtaining data based on the selection. The system also includes a server that stores data transferred from the information processing apparatus, and controls transferring data to the information processing apparatus based on a request for transferring data received from the information processing apparatus.
US09715360B2
An approach is provided for a service provider to identify documents to include in a client's repository and for the client to print the documents from the client's repository. In an embodiment, a computing device receives authentication information identifying a first user, receives first user information identifying a second user, receives information indicating selection of a one or more particular documents, from a set of one or more documents, and sends document information that at least identifies the one or more particular documents to a repository associated with the second user. A printing device receives second user information identifying the second user, and, in response to receiving the second user information, retrieves the one or more particular documents from the repository based, at least in part, on the second user information. The printing device processes at least one document of the one or more particular documents for printing.
US09715347B2
Techniques for managing the migration of data from one virtual machine to another using volume snapshotting and sub-file cloning are described. According to exemplary embodiments, data including a header and content is stored on a storage volume associated with a first virtual machine. The header is converted to be compatible with a second virtual machine, and the storage volume is snapshotted to provide a read-only representation of the storage volume at the time that the snapshot was created. New data is created using the converted header and a pointer to the location of the data inside the volume snapshot. Using the exemplary techniques described herein, data can be migrated from one virtual machine to another in constant time, and data access is more robust because the pointer refers to the volume snapshot.
US09715337B2
A tele-presence system that includes a remote device coupled to a control station through a communication link. The remote device includes a remote monitor, a remote camera, a remote speaker and a remote microphone. Likewise, the control station includes a station monitor, a station camera, a station speaker and a station microphone. The control station displays a plurality of graphical icons that each represents a different type of communication link between the control station and the remote device. The graphical icons can be selected to allow a user of the control station to change the communication link between the remote device and its initial node.
US09715332B1
Methods and systems are described for navigating between visual components. A first visual component, of a first operating application in a plurality of operating applications, is detected in a first application region of a presentation space of a display device. A first navigation control is presented, in a first navigation region determined based on the first application region, for navigating to a second visual component, of a second application in the plurality, in a second application region in the presentation space. A user input corresponding to the first navigation control is detected. In response to the detected user input, navigation information is sent to navigate to the second visual component.
US09715331B2
A computer-implemented method includes displaying a GUI comprising a report including a first graphical representation of one or more data elements, receiving an input indicating a selection of a first data element included in the one or more data elements using an insight visualization tool, and displaying, as part of the GUI while maintaining display of the report, an insight view comprising respective graphical representations of a subset of the one or more data elements, the first data element included in the subset. Each of the respective graphical representations includes one or more graphical regions corresponding to one or more sub-elements included in a data element represented by the respective graphical representation and the respective graphical representations of the insight view are displayed based at least in part on a display characteristic that defines the displaying of the report.
US09715325B1
An activity stream based interaction model and systems implementing such a model are disclosed. In various embodiments, a text-based tag is recognized in a received communication stream, such as an activity stream. An action indicated by text included in the tag is determined and performed in response to receiving the tag. In some embodiments, a tag to be inserted into the communication stream may be determined automatically by a machine or a process running on a machine, for example a workflow engine.
US09715317B2
An electronic device may include a multi-layer panel, a first upper electrode and a first lower electrode disposed in different respective layers of the multi-layer panel, a second upper electrode and a second lower electrode disposed in different layers respectively of the multi-layer panel. A first controller may detect a touch input by detecting a change in an electromagnetic field between the first upper electrode and the first lower electrode. A second controller may detect a hovering input by detecting a change in an electromagnetic field between the second upper electrode and the second lower electrode.
US09715311B2
An overhanging touch control system and a method thereof are provided. The overhanging touch control system includes a touch surface, a first overhanging transceiver circuit, a second overhanging transceiver circuit, and a controller, wherein the first and second overhanging transceiver circuits are disposed at different edge positions on the touch surface, and their detection ranges overlap. The first overhanging transceiver circuit detects a first initial image upon initialization and a first real-time image after initialization. The second overhanging transceiver circuit detects a second initial image upon initialization and a second real-time image after initialization. The controller determines whether a reflective object is present at the detection range of the first overhanging transceiver circuit based on the first real-time image, and determines whether the reflective object is present at the detection range of the second overhanging transceiver circuit based on the second real-time image.
US09715302B2
An electrode sheet including an electrode layer and a support layer may be provided. The electrode layer includes a first electrode and a second electrode. The electrode sheet is used to detect a capacitance change between the first electrode and the second electrode, which is changed according to a relative distance change between the electrode layer and a reference potential layer disposed apart from the electrode sheet. The support layer is made of a material which is bent when a pressure is applied thereto and which is restored to its original state when the pressure is released therefrom.
US09715295B2
According to one embodiment, a display device includes first and second substrate units, a display function layer, and a drive element. The first substrate unit includes a first substrate, a display unit, and a circuit unit. The first substrate has a first surface including a display region and a peripheral region. The display unit is provided in the display region, and includes first lines, second lines, switch elements, pixel electrodes, and third lines. The circuit unit is provided in the peripheral region, and is electrically connected to one of the second lines and one of the third lines. The second substrate unit includes a second substrate and fourth lines. The display function layer is provided between the first and second substrate units. The drive element is provided on the peripheral region. At least a portion of the circuit unit is disposed between the drive element and the first substrate.
US09715292B2
A touch panel and a method for fabricating the touch panel are provided. The touch panel includes a window substrate, a first conductive layer provided on a top surface of the window substrate, a metal electrode layer provided on a top surface of the first conductive layer and patterned into a first pattern, and a second conductive layer provided on top surfaces of the first conductive layer and the metal electrode layer and patterned into a second pattern, and surrounding the metal electrode layer.
US09715290B2
A slim type touch panel is provided. The slim type touch panel includes an upper substrate, a first sensor electrode layer disposed at a lower part of the upper substrate, an insulating film disposed at a lower part of the first sensor electrode layer, and a second sensor electrode layer disposed at a lower part of the insulating film, or includes a first sensor electrode cover sheet in which a sensor electrode layer is patterned, a first adhesive layer disposed at a lower part of the first sensor electrode cover sheet, and a film layer disposed at a lower part of the first adhesive layer and comprising a second sensor electrode layer.
US09715289B2
A method for preparing a conducting substrate according to the present invention comprises: 1) forming a conducting pattern on a substrate; 2) forming a first darkening layer in at least a partial area on the conducting pattern by performing electroplating; and 3) forming a second darkening layer in at least a partial area on the conducting pattern by dipping the conducting pattern in an oxidizer solution.
US09715288B2
The electronic device includes a control unit 10 configured to set in stages a plurality of thresholds which relate to the data based on press and cause a predetermined processing to be executed. The control unit 10 sets the thresholds such that, as the data based on press increases, the difference between thresholds gradually decreases.
US09715287B2
A method for operating an image display apparatus includes receiving a pairing request signal from a first remote controller, performing pairing with the first remote controller, receiving a pairing request signal from a second remote controller, confirming attributes of content which is being used, and determining whether pairing with the second remote controller is performed based on the confirmed attributes of the content. An image display apparatus includes an interface configured to receive a pairing request signal from a remote controller, a display configured to display predetermined content, and a controller configured to receive a pairing request signal from a second remote controller in a state of performing pairing with a first remote controller and to determine whether pairing with the second remote controller is performed based on attributes of the predetermined content. Accordingly, user convenience can be increased by variously and conveniently using the plurality of remote controllers.
US09715286B2
Apparatus including: hand-controllable signal-generating device that includes body having top side, and bottom side spaced apart from and facing away from top side, bottom side being configured for facilitating displacements of body over working surface in two-dimensional directions, body having biaxial-displacement detector configured for generating biaxial displacement signals representative of displacements of body in two-dimensional directions; and signal transmitter configured for communicating biaxial displacement signals to external electronic processor. Body has palm rest on top side; palm rest includes palm contact surface having contour for receiving portion of palm of person's hand into contact at position on palm contact surface. Contour of palm contact surface is configured for facilitating control by portion of palm of person's hand, being in contact at position on palm contact surface, of displacements of body in two-dimensional directions over working surface. System including digit-controllable signal generating device and hand-controllable signal generating device. Related processes.
US09715283B2
An electronic device includes one or more processors, a motion detector, another motion detector, such as a gyroscope or one or more accelerometers, and one or more proximity detectors. An amount of movement of the electronic device, an amount of rotation about an axis, and whether an object is proximately located with a major face of the electronic device can be determined. A gesture lifting the electronic device occurring can be confirmed when the amount of movement exceeds a first predetermined threshold, the amount of rotation exceeds a second predetermined threshold, and the object is proximately located with the electronic device. Other factors, such as whether the motion was against a gravity direction and a final orientation of the electronic device can be considered as well. A control operation can occur in response to confirming the gesture.
US09715281B2
One illustrative system disclosed herein includes a touch-sensitive surface, which includes: a first surface on a first plane; and a second surface adjacent to the first surface, wherein the second surface is on a second plane different from the first plane. The illustrative system also includes a haptic output device configured to receive a haptic signal and output a haptic effect. Further, the illustrative system includes a processor coupled to the haptic output device and the touch-sensitive surface, the processor configured to: determine an event; determine the haptic effect based at least in part on the event; determine the haptic signal based at least in part on the haptic effect; and transmit the haptic signal associated with the haptic effect to the haptic output device.
US09715279B2
Embodiments hereof relate a system that includes a processor and a haptic peripheral with a haptic output device. The processor is configured to receive an audio file, or a haptic file generated from the audio file, that includes a first channel having a first set of control parameters to generate a first haptic effect and a second channel having a second set of control parameters to generate a second haptic effect and to output a control signal that includes the first and second sets of control parameters for the haptic effect. The haptic output device is configured to receive the control signal from the processor and to output the haptic effect to the haptic peripheral. In an embodiment, the haptic output device is coupled to a bi-directional trigger and the control parameters move the trigger in opposing directions. In another embodiment, the control parameters generate different timelines of haptic effects to a user input element.
US09715276B2
A haptic conversion system is provided that analyzes an audio signal, generates a plurality of haptic signals based on the analysis of the audio signal, and plays the generated plurality of haptic signals through a plurality of actuators to produce one or more haptic effects. The haptic conversion system maps the generated plurality of haptic signals to the plurality of actuators based on one or more audio characteristics of the audio signal. Each generated haptic signal includes one or more haptic parameters, and is played at its mapped actuator to generate the one or more haptic effects.
US09715268B2
A system has one or more primary power regions having restrictions indicating that the primary power regions are not to be placed in an offline state. The system also includes one or more secondary power region that can either be parked or off-lined into a limited state having limited functionality in that functionality is removed from the one or more secondary power regions when placed in a limited state. At least one interrupt is allocated to one of the primary power regions, based on interrupt characteristics. At least one thread is allocated to one of the primary power regions, based on thread characteristics. At least one page is allocated to one of the primary power regions, based on page characteristics.
US09715267B2
A method for switching operating systems and an electronic apparatus are provided. A first operating system (OS) is notified to enter a power saving mode when a switching signal is received in case of running the first OS. In the power saving mode, a first running data of the first OS is stored to a first dump area of a storage unit from a system memory, a second OS is loaded to the system memory such that the second OS enters a normal operating mode.
US09715260B2
A cooling system for a computer system comprises at least one unit such as a central processing unit (CPU) generating thermal energy and a reservoir having an amount of cooling liquid, said cooling liquid intended for accumulating and transferring of thermal energy dissipated from the processing unit to the cooling liquid. The cooling system has a heat exchanging interface for providing thermal contact between the processing unit and the cooling liquid for dissipating heat from the processing unit to the cooling liquid. Different embodiments of the heat exchanging system as well as means for establishing and controlling a flow of cooling liquid and a cooling strategy constitutes the invention of the cooling system.
US09715256B2
One embodiment provides an apparatus, including: a transmitter; and a hinge, comprising: a receiver; the receiver being optically coupled to the transmitter and receiving data from the transmitter. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US09715249B2
A display device and a terminal having the same are disclosed. The terminal includes a base including a circuit board provided therein, and upper and lower housings, a support configured with one side combined with at least a portion of the lower housing and the other side having a head part configured for combination with a main body of a display, a first hole located on the upper housing and configured for combination with the support, and a second hole located on the circuit board and configured for combination with the support. The display device and the terminal having the same increase combining force between the support and the base and may use the same support and base in main bodies having various sizes, thus simplifying a manufacturing process and reducing part and assembly costs.
US09715245B2
A circuit for generating an output voltage and method for setting an output voltage of a low dropout regulator are provided. A current source is configured to generate a reference current, and an error amplifier has a first input, a second input, and a single-ended output. The first input is connected to a reference voltage, and the second input is connected to an output node of the circuit via a feedback resistor. A pass transistor includes a control electrode connected to the single-ended output of the error amplifier, a first electrode connected to a power supply voltage, and a second electrode connected to the output node of the circuit. A first branch of a current mirror is connected to the current source, and a second branch of the current mirror is connected to the second terminal of the feedback resistor. The output node provides an output voltage of the circuit.
US09715244B2
An electronic device that determines an adapter current limit for a power adapter, including a regulator, a voltage comparator, and a controller. The regulator regulates an adapter output current level to prevent it from exceeding the adapter current limit, and provides a regulation signal during regulation. The voltage comparator provides an under-voltage signal when adapter output voltage level falls below a low voltage threshold. The controller initially sets the adapter current limit at a lowest level, increases the adapter current limit by an incremental amount when the regulation signal is provided, and when the under-voltage signal is provided, decreases the adapter current limit by the incremental amount to determine a final adapter current limit. The final adapter current limit is at or near the actual maximum current limit of the power adapter. The adapter current limit may be increased only when regulation occurs for at least a predetermined time period.
US09715243B2
A timing controlled converter and method for converting a time varying input signal to a regulated DC output voltage for application to a load circuit. A feedback loop is employed as a control means for switchably coupling the time varying input signal to the load circuit for controlled periods of time in a manner so as to provide an average load voltage equal to a reference voltage. The duration of the controlled periods of time is a function of: the difference between the time varying input signal and the output voltage; and the integral of the difference between the output voltage and the reference voltage.
US09715237B2
The disclosure describes a method for operating a flow-control valve that includes comparing a desired flow with an actual flow through the valve and re-calibrating a valve iso-curve at periodic intervals when the actual flow falls outside of a predetermined threshold relative to the desired flow. When operating in a nested control loop based on a control parameter, a flow setpoint is selected based on the control parameter and maintained independently of pressure across the flow-control valve.
US09715235B2
A method and apparatus for autonomously managing operation of an unmanned aerial vehicle. Sensor data is received by a computer system located onboard the unmanned aerial vehicle. The sensor data is processed by the computer system to generate information of interest related to at least one target, while the unmanned aerial vehicle is out of a communications range of a control station. A number of actions to be performed is identified by the computer system based on the information of interest related to the at least one target, while the unmanned aerial vehicle is out of the communications range of the control station.
US09715228B2
In restarting automatic operation after a machining program or machining conditions are changed or manual intervention is performed while the automatic operation is suspended, a machining path based on simulated operation is drawn to check the change for correctness. A drawing path of an unmachined part is reconstructed by, for example, recalculating a check drawing path at or behind a program stop position, and the reconstructed drawing path is redrawn.
US09715220B2
The present invention is a method for real-time controlling a resin transfer molding process, which is used to control a filling pressure of a resin in a resin transfer molding (RTM) apparatus. In a pre-control RTM process, the current filling pressure, the current permeability and the wave front position at the current time point is input into a prediction-control model to acquire a predicted filling pressure at the next time point. The predicted filling pressure is used as the filling pressure to make the resin flow to the expected position of the wave front at the next time point, whereby to achieve stable quality of RTM products.
US09715219B2
There is provided an information processing apparatus, including a first information acquisition section which acquires priority action information, a second information acquisition section which acquires biological information related to a body clock of the user at a present time, a state setting section which sets an ideal state of the body clock corresponding to the priority action, a state estimation section which estimates a present state of the body clock at the present time, a third information acquisition section which acquires set action information related to a set action, and a display control section which displays a state of the body clock in the schedule on a display section.
US09715211B2
An image forming apparatus includes a laser scanning unit, an upper guide member, a plurality of reinforcing ribs, and an air blower. The upper guide member is provided below the laser scanning unit and forms an upper guide surface of a sheet conveyance path extending in a direction along a bottom surface of the laser scanning unit. The plurality of reinforcing ribs are provided on an upper surface of the upper guide member and extend in a predetermined direction. The air blower is configured to send air to a space between the plurality of adjacent reinforcing ribs.
US09715210B2
In order to enable a main body of an image forming apparatus to selectively attach and detach a first cartridge group and a second cartridge group, a first guide for positioning the first cartridge group to the main body of the image forming apparatus and a second guide for positioning the second cartridge group to the main body of the image forming apparatus are detachably attachable to the main body of the image forming apparatus.
US09715203B2
A fixing device includes a heat source; a fixing member looped into a generally cylindrical shape to rotate in a circumferential direction thereof and partially heated by the heat source and to heat a surface of a recording medium bearing an unfixed toner image to fix the unfixed toner image thereon in a fixing process; a rotary pressing member disposed facing the fixing member to form a nip therebetween, through which the recording medium is transported in a transport direction; and a rotation driver to rotate one of the fixing member and the pressing member. In a case in which the fixing member is halted for a reason other than the fixing process while power of the fixing device is on, electric power is not supplied to the heat source and the fixing member is rotated by a predetermined amount or more after the fixing member is halted.
US09715197B2
A fixing device includes a fixing rotator, a heat source, a controller, a pressure rotator, and a nip formation pad. The controller controls the heat source such that a temperature of the fixing rotator is equal to a preset fixing temperature. The nip formation pad abuts the pressure rotator via the fixing rotator and forms a nip between the fixing rotator and the pressure rotator. When a print time of a previous job is longer than a prescribed time A and a next job is started within a prescribed time B after an end of the previous job, the controller corrects the preset fixing temperature during a time from a start of the next job to an entry of a print sheet into the nip and during a time from the entry of the print sheet into the nip to a lapse of a prescribed time C after the entry.
US09715194B2
Drive belt systems and methods thereof are disclosed. Drive belt systems and methods thereof include driving a continuous belt around a drive pulley member and an idler pulley member by the drive pulley member and transporting a transport unit and/or reciprocating carriage unit coupled to the continuous belt in a first direction away from the drive pulley member. Drive belt systems and methods thereof also include applying at least a force to the belt in a traverse direction thereto to direct a portion of the belt about the drive pulley member by a belt stretch management apparatus coupled to the transport unit and/or reciprocating carriage unit.
US09715192B2
A semiconductive roller and a method of making the same, wherein the roller includes a conductive support and a semiconductive elastic layer disposed on a circumferential surface of the conductive support, the semiconductive elastic layer containing at least an epichlorohydrin rubber, an acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber and a conducting agent and having a foam structure, wherein, when the semiconductive roller is left to stand in pure water for 30 minutes, the chlorine ion content derived from the semiconductive elastic layer per unit area of the semiconductive elastic layer is approximately not more than 0.06 0.06 μmol/cm2, wherein a mixing ratio of the epichlorohydrin rubber to the acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber ranges from 80/20 to 20/80 by mass and wherein no electricity has been run through the semiconductive roller prior to being immersed in the pure water.
US09715186B2
Provided is an electrostatic image developing toner having toner mother particles containing a binder resin and a releasing agent, wherein the binder resin contains an amorphous vinyl resin and a crystalline polyester resin; the releasing agent contains a first releasing agent component containing an ester wax and a second releasing agent component containing a microcrystalline wax; a content of the first releasing agent component in the releasing agent is in the range of 40 to 98 mass %; a content of the second releasing agent component in the releasing agent is in the range of 2 to 60 mass %; and a content of the crystalline polyester resin in the binder resin is in the range of 5 to 20 mass %.
US09715182B2
A lithographic apparatus includes a driven object having compliant dynamics; a plurality of actuators configured to act on the driven object, wherein the plurality of actuators are over-determined in an actuator degree of freedom; a control system including a transformation matrix configured to generate controller output signals for each of the plurality of actuators in response to a setpoint, wherein the transformation matrix is configured such that the controller output signals do not excite the compliant dynamics of the driven object in at least one degree of freedom.
US09715180B2
A photolithography method includes instructing an optical source to produce a pulsed light beam; scanning the pulsed light beam across a wafer of a lithography exposure apparatus to expose the wafer with the pulsed light beam; during scanning of the pulsed light beam across the wafer, receiving a characteristic of the pulsed light beam at the wafer; receiving a determined value of a physical property of a wafer for a particular pulsed light beam characteristic; and based on the pulsed light beam characteristic that is received during scanning and the received determined value of the physical property, modifying a performance parameter of the pulsed light beam during scanning across the wafer.
US09715174B2
A droplet generator, for an EUV radiation source, comprises: a capillary in which, in use, molten material flows; an actuator configured to modulate a pressure inside the capillary; and a controller configured to drive the actuator at a driving frequency; wherein the droplet generator is arranged such that, in use, the driving frequency is equal or about equal to a main resonance frequency of the molten material in the capillary.
US09715172B2
A method is provided for forming a patterned topography on a substrate. The substrate is provided with features formed atop that constitute an existing topography, and a template for directed self-assembly (DSA) surrounds the exposed topography. Further to the method, the template is filled with a block copolymer (BCP) to cover the exposed topography, and then the BCP is annealed within the template to drive self-assembly in alignment with the topography. Developing the annealed BCP exposes a DSA pattern immediately overlying the topography.
US09715171B2
An imprint lithography apparatus includes an actuator configured to displace an imprint template holder relative to a substrate holder to perform an imprint process. The imprint template holder and/or the substrate holder being supported on a support structure, the support structure being mounted to a vibration isolation system that is mounted to a base of the apparatus. The vibration isolation system is configured to provide a vibration isolation of the support structure relative to the base. A control unit is configured to control the actuator during the imprint process. The control unit is arranged to control an adjustable member of the vibration isolation system to adjust a dynamical characteristic of the vibration isolation system during at least part of the imprint process so as to reduce a displacement of the support structure relative to the base due to a force exerted on the support structure during the imprint process.
US09715169B2
A method and system for fracturing or mask data preparation is disclosed in which a desired substrate pattern for a substrate is input. A plurality of charged particle beam shots is then determined which will form a reticle pattern on a reticle, where the reticle pattern will produce a substrate pattern on the substrate using an optical lithography process, wherein the substrate pattern is within a predetermined tolerance of the desired substrate pattern. A similar method and a similar system for forming a pattern on a reticle are also disclosed.
US09715168B2
An aspect of the polarization conversion element according to the invention is directed to a polarization conversion element including a first optical block including a first polarization separation film, a first reflecting film, a first surface, and a first light incidence surface, and a second optical block including a second polarization separation film, a second reflecting film, a second surface, and a second light incidence surface, wherein the first optical block and the second optical block are bonded to each other so that the first surface and the second surface are opposed to each other, the first polarization separation film is disposed so as to be opposed to the second polarization separation film via the first surface and the second surface, and the first polarization separation film is terminated at a position in the first surface separate from the first light incidence surface.
US09715161B2
A control unit for acquiring information relating to an environment in which a shutter device is used, and changing at least one of a driving start timing at a time of driving a motor and a driving speed at the time of driving the motor.
US09715160B2
The present invention relates to a barium tetraborate compound and a barium tetraborate non-linear optical crystal, and a preparation method and use thereof, wherein the chemical formulae of the barium tetraborate compound and the non-linear optical crystal thereof are both BaB4O7, with a molecular weight of 292.58; the barium tetraborate non-linear optical crystal has a non-centrosymmetric structure, which belongs to a hexagonal system, and has a space group P65 and lattice parameters of a=6.7233(6) Å, c=18.776(4) Å, V=735.01(17) Å3, and Z=6, wherein the powder frequency-doubled effect thereof is two times that of KDP (KH2PO4), and the ultraviolet cut-off edge is lower than 170 nm. The barium tetraborate compound is synthesized by a solid-phase reaction method; the barium tetraborate non-linear optical crystal is grown by a high-temperature molten solution method; and the crystal has a moderate mechanical hardness, is easy to cut, polish and store, and is widely applicable in the non-linear optics of a double-frequency doubling generator, an upper frequency converter, a lower frequency converter or an optical parameter oscillator etc.
US09715157B2
A voltage controlled optical directional coupler (VCODC) having a coupling ratio that can be adjusted to any desired value through voltage tuning is disclosed. The VCODC may include a first optical hybrid coupler and a second optical hybrid coupler, which may be coupled with each other via one or more voltage controlled optical elements having a variable transparency depending on a voltage applied to the one or more voltage controlled optical elements. The VCODC may be configured to divert a portion of optical power received to a trunk input of the VCODC to a tap output of the VCODC based on the variable coupling ratio of the VCODC, which may be dependent on the variable transparency of the one or more voltage controlled optical elements.
US09715156B2
Various implementations described herein involve interferometric modulators (IMODs), which may be single-mirror IMODs (SMIs). Such IMODs may include an absorber stack and a mirror stack. The absorber stack and the mirror stack may define a gap therebetween and may be capable of being positioned in a plurality of positions relative to one another to form a plurality of gap heights. A hinge area may physically connect the mirror stack and an anchor area. Some such IMODs have hinge areas without any metal layer. However, the hinge area may be capable of forming an electrical connection with at least one metal layer of the mirror stack. For example, such IMODs may have a hinge area that includes a non-metal conductor.
US09715149B2
A liquid crystal display including a first substrate facing a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, a first field generating electrode on the first substrate, and a second field generating electrode on the first substrate and including a plurality of branch electrodes overlapped with the first field generating electrode. The second field generating electrode includes a wing connected to an end of a first branch electrode positioned at an outermost side the plurality of branch electrodes.
US09715148B2
A pixel structure of display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer, a first pixel electrode, an insulation layer, a second pixel electrode and a common electrode. The first substrate has a plurality of alignment regions. The second substrate and the first substrate are disposed opposite to each other. The first pixel electrode is a patterned electrode, which includes a plurality of branch electrodes disposed in the alignment regions. The insulation layer is disposed between the first pixel electrode and the liquid crystal layer. The second pixel electrode is a patterned electrode disposed in at least one boundary of each of the alignment regions. The common electrode is disposed on the second substrate.
US09715137B2
A liquid crystal display (LCD) device includes a lower substrate and an upper substrate disposed to face each other and having a liquid crystal layer interposed therebetween, black matrices provided on the lower substrate, a color filter provided between the black matrices, and a common electrode provided on the entire surface of the lower substrate, a gate line and a data line provided on the upper substrate and intersect with each other to define a pixel area, a thin film transistor (TFT) present in the pixel area of the upper substrate, and a pixel electrode electrically in contact with the TFT, wherein a sensing signal is output by detecting a change in self-capacitance between a touch object contacting the upper substrate and the gate line and the data line.
US09715136B2
A method for aligning optical layers of a multi-layer display includes illuminating a display layer with a plurality of illumination sources of an illumination layer disposed behind the display layer. The display layer includes a plurality of transmissive pixel arrays. An illumination pattern is cast onto a screen layer disposed in front of the display layer. The illumination pattern includes bright regions due to overlapping illumination cast from adjacent ones of the transmissive pixel arrays. The bright regions of the illumination pattern cast onto the screen layer are analyzed to identify misalignments.
US09715135B2
A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel including first and second substrates and a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates; a backlight unit under the liquid crystal panel; a bottom frame including a horizontal surface and first, second, third, and fourth side surfaces, the first side surface corresponding to a first edge of the liquid crystal panel and being opposite to the second side surface, wherein the liquid crystal panel has a size larger than the bottom frame such that a side of the liquid crystal panel protrudes beyond the bottom frame; a main frame including a first guide portion corresponding to the first edge and a second guide portion corresponding a second edge of the liquid crystal panel opposite to the first edge; and an adhesive covering the side of the liquid crystal panel and an outer side of the third and fourth side surfaces.
US09715132B2
There is provided a liquid crystal display (LCD) device that prevents light leaks near spacers. The LCD device controls the optical transmissivity of a liquid crystal layer interposed between substrates disposed opposite each other, by means of an electric field generated in the layer-thickness direction of the liquid crystal layer. The LCD device includes spacers on a liquid-crystal-side surface of one substrate, signal lines formed on a liquid-crystal-side surface of the other substrate, an insulating film formed to cover the signal lines, and electrodes on the insulating film's upper surface. Each electrode contributes to controlling the optical transmissivity of the liquid crystal layer. Each spacer has a vertex surface disposed opposite to the signal lines. A portion of each electrode extends to the upper surface of a corresponding signal line. The extended portion is opposite to a part of a spacer's vertex surface disposed opposite to the corresponding signal line.
US09715128B2
Disclosed is a connecting structure for spectacle temples. An axle slot and axle hole are formed coaxially on a spectacle frame and a preemptive groove transversely on the spectacle frame, with the preemptive groove being linked up with the axle slot at a position thereof close to the axle hole; a pivot and connecting section are formed on a spectacle temple, the connecting section is in connection with the middle of the pivot, an elastic cutting slot is respectively formed on the two ends of the pivot, the two ends of the pivot are inserted in the axle hole and axle slot, and the connecting section is aligned with the preemptive groove, allowing the spectacle temple to be coupled pivotally to the spectacle frame. Whereby, the connection is secure, and the operation feel of closing and opening the spectacle is better.
US09715123B2
An apparatus and method for despeckling that includes a pulsed green laser, a green laser diode assembly, and stimulated Raman scattering light formed in an optical fiber. The stimulated Raman scattering light is divided into green light and red light. The green light from the stimulated Raman scattering is combined with the green laser diode assembly to form a green primary light. The red light from the stimulated Raman scattering light forms a red primary light. The green primary light and the red primary light are used to project a digital image.
US09715120B2
An optical modulation device, according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, includes first and second plates facing each other, the first and second plates including a plurality of regions, and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first and second plates, the liquid crystal layer including liquid crystal molecules aligned in a vertical alignment (VA) mode. The first plate includes a non-conductive layer including stepped structures repeatedly arranged in a first direction, a first electrode formed to partially cover the non-conductive layer, and first and second aligners disposed in a second direction different from the first direction, wherein the first and second aligners are aligned in opposite directions with respect to each other. The second plate includes a second electrode.
US09715118B2
A parallax barrier panel includes plural sub-areas which are arranged in an X direction, plural light-shielding area each of which includes the plural sub-areas in a light-shielding state, and plural light-transmitting areas each of which includes the plural sub-areas in a light-transmitting state and which are arranged alternately with the plural light-shielding areas in the X direction. The sub-areas extend in a Y direction and can be switched between the light-transmitting state and the light-shielding state. Each of the sub-areas is provided with an electrode for controlling a liquid crystal layer. A first electric line is connected to an upper end part of the electrode, and a second electric line is connected to a lower end part of the electrode.
US09715107B2
A scanning device includes a substrate, which is etched to define an array of two or more parallel rotating members and a gimbal surrounding the rotating members. First hinges connect the gimbal to the substrate and defining a first axis of rotation, about which the gimbal rotates relative to the substrate. Second hinges connect the rotating members to the support and defining respective second, mutually-parallel axes of rotation of the rotating members relative to the support, which are not parallel to the first axis.
US09715096B2
A microscope apparatus includes a light source configured to emit a coherent illuminating light, an optical system configured to irradiate a specimen with the illumination light, and a detector configured to form an image based on a light generated from the specimen by the illumination light that irradiates the specimen. The optical system is configured to project a plurality of focal points of the illumination light on the specimen, and allow the plurality of focal points to interfere with each other while changing phases of the plurality of focal points.
US09715092B2
A zoom lens includes: a first lens unit having a negative refractive power; and a rear group having a positive refractive power, in which, when a focal length of the zoom lens is a shortest focal length, a maximum image height is lower than a half of a diagonal length of an image pickup region, and when a focal length of the zoom lens at which the maximum image height becomes a half of the diagonal length of the image pickup region is defined as an intermediate focal length, a focal length of the zoom lens at a longest focal length, a half angle of field of the zoom lens at the longest focal length, and other such factors are appropriately set so that the maximum image height is increased continuously from the shortest focal length to the intermediate focal length.
US09715077B2
A lens aligning device includes: a decentering detection mechanism for measuring a first lens decentering amount; a aligning position calculation control mechanism for calculating a target inter-lens decentering amount by using Formula (1); an adjustment mechanism for moving at least one of a first lens and a second lens so that the inter-lens decentering amount matches the target inter-lens decentering amount. Inter-lens decentering amount=First lens decentering amount×−2 (1)
US09715070B2
A structure for optically aligning an optical fiber to a photonic device and method of fabrication of same. The structure optically aligns an optical fiber to the photonic device using a lens between the two which is moveable by actuator heads. The lens is moveable by respective motive sources associated with the actuator heads.
US09715068B2
The cable termination may include a housing and a cable having at least one conductor disposed within the housing with an elastomeric body disposed in the housing and constrictively stretched over a portion of the cable. A retainer may be disposed around a portion of the cable for retaining the elastomeric body on the cable. The cable termination may also include an enclosure capable of changing volumetrically in response to fluctuating pressure disposed in the housing and around a portion of the cable.
US09715065B2
A multi-functional splicing clamp for use in a fiber splicing device includes a clamp body and a clamp cover body, wherein one side of said clamp body is pivotally connected to the clamp cover body. The clamp body is provided with a fiber-carrying pad, and the clamp cover body is provided with an abutment structure that can abut said fiber-carrying pad.
US09715054B2
A planar light unit is provided that suppresses appearance of a bright line when viewed from the side of the emission surface of the light guide plate. The planar light unit includes a light source, and a light guide plate including an incident surface for receiving light emitted from the light source, an emission surface from which the light introduced through the incident surface is emitted, an opposing surface disposed so as to oppose the emission surface, and a side surface disposed along an outer periphery of the emission surface and the opposing surface. The emission surface has a non-rectangular outer shape, and at least a part of the side surface is formed as a diffusing surface.
US09715043B2
Provided are an optical member having abrasion resistance and transparency and a method of producing the optical member. The method of producing the optical member includes coating a coating material containing hollow particles and a solvent on a substrate and further coating a coating material containing a binder and a solvent to form a film in which the binder lies between the hollow particles; and then drying the film.
US09715036B2
A system for determining at least one property of at least one fluid in at least one subterranean formation comprises a fluid delivery system configured and positioned to deliver a fluid into at least one of at least one subterranean formation and a wellbore extending through the at least one subterranean formation. The system comprises a radiation source within the wellbore, the radiation source configured to generate excitation radiation, carbon quantum dots disposed in the fluid, and a detector within the wellbore, the detector configured to measure at least one fluorescence property of the carbon quantum dots. Related methods of determining a property of a wellbore and methods of forming the carbon quantum dots are also disclosed.
US09715028B2
A method of assessing a hydrocarbon source rock candidate uses seismic data for a region of the Earth. The data are analyzed to determine the presence, thickness and lateral extent of candidate source rock based on the knowledge of the seismic behavior of hydrocarbon source rocks. An estimate is provided of the organic content of the candidate source rock from acoustic impedance. An estimate of the hydrocarbon generation potential of the candidate source rock is then provided from the thickness and lateral extent of the candidate source rock and from the estimate of the organic content.
US09715013B2
Methods and compositions for preventing opposing ILS systems on a single runway from becoming active at the same time. A physical interlock system employs a physical switch element that may activate a first ILS system or an opposing second ILS system, but is not capable of permitting, and may prevent, opposing ILS systems from being active simultaneously. Also included are methods for preventing opposing ILS systems on a single runway from becoming active, comprising the use of a physical switch preventing activating signals from being sent to opposing ILS systems at the same time.
US09715010B2
A detection device for detecting an OUD (Object Under Detection) includes a transceiver, a first antenna element, and a second antenna element. The transceiver has a transmitter port and a receiver port. The first antenna element is coupled to the transmitter port of the transceiver. The second antenna element is coupled to the receiver port of the transceiver. The transceiver transmits an electromagnetic signal through the first antenna element to the OUD, and then receives a reflective signal through the second antenna element from the OUD. The electromagnetic signal has a first polarization direction, and the reflective signal has a second polarization direction.
US09714992B2
A method, a system, and an article of manufacture are disclosed for obtaining imaging data from human extremities using an Extremities MRI (EMRI) system configured to accommodate both legs of a patient during scanning by providing multiple bores, including a scanning bore and one or more non-scanning bores, deployed within an actively or passively shielded, Cryogen-Free (CF), cooled superconducting electromagnet. In various embodiments, the non-scanning bores are located between field or main coils and shield coils, and the cross sections of the bores may be circular, oval, or any other appropriate and useful geometric shape. The longitudinal axis of extra bores may or may not be parallel to the longitudinal axis of the scanning bore. In various embodiments, the EMRI system may have a passively shielded superconducting magnet in which the other leg may be placed between the outside of a cryostat of the superconducting magnet and the ferromagnetic shield components.
US09714990B2
An apparatus for magnetic particle imaging, the apparatus comprising: a sensing unit configured to detect linear sample signals, which represent the mixed electromagnetic fields, generated from magnetic particles in a sample; a driving unit configured to move the sensing unit in a direction of X-axis, Y-axis, or Z-axis; and a data processing unit configured to rearrange in a matrix linear sample signals detected by the sensing unit that is moved by the driving unit.
US09714978B2
A method, system, and computer program product for integrated circuit wafer and die testing. The method commences by selecting areas of interest accessible from a backside of an integrated circuit where the areas of interest correspond to electronic devices (e.g., gates or transistors or vias or pads). Then, using a small-beam light source such as a laser, illuminating the areas of interest and collecting the reflected signal returned from illuminated areas of interest. A processor analyses the reflected signal to determine logic states and timing information of the electronic devices and compares the determined logic states and timing information to a pre-determined logic pattern to identify one or more errors as observed from the actual electronic devices. Specific points within an area of interest are determined from CAD layout data, and the pre-determined logic patterns can be retrieved from CAD simulation data.
US09714975B2
A receptacle testing device for testing the wiring condition of three phase receptacles is disclosed. The receptacle testing device may be used for performing a quick check of the wiring of three phase receptacles to assess that power is present at the correct terminals within the receptacle, and that the neutral and ground wires are properly wired.
US09714974B2
Disclosed is a device for detecting an open phase of a connection line of a standby transformer in a nuclear power plant by using a Rogowski coil. A Rogowski coil is provided to a neutral line of a Y connection at the primary side of the standby transformer. An open phase detection unit is provided for determining the generation of an open phase at the primary side and generating a warning signal if a current induced in the Rogowski coil is maintained at a value higher than a preset reference value for a time longer than a preset reference time in a state where a circuit breaker at the secondary side of the standby transformer is open. A main control unit is provided for displaying the warning to an administrator according to the warning signal provided by the open phase detection part.
US09714973B2
A microelectronic short circuit detection module is disclosed that locates and distinguishes among different types of short circuits in touch screen panels. Individual short circuit detection circuits are coupled to force and sense lines throughout a wire matrix within the touch screen. If the line is shorted to a neighboring line or any other line carrying an opposite logic state, its logic state will be corrupted by the short and will be held at a value opposite that of the intended input signal. Comparing the input and the output therefore provides an indicator of a short circuit to another force or sense line in the wire matrix. A pair of pull up/down stages is engaged to detect whether the short is coupled to power or ground. A threshold resistor can be varied to adjust detection sensitivity. By conducting a serial test, matrix coordinates of the short circuit can be identified.
US09714968B2
A surface-potential distribution measuring device includes: a laser light source; a Pockels crystal; a mirror; a photodetector that detects light intensity of the laser beam reflected by the mirror; a holding and mounting part that holds and moves the Pockels crystal; a voltage correction database; and a calculation unit that identifies an input voltage corresponding to a testing output voltage as a surface potential of the electric-field-reduction system. The Pockels crystal is formed in such a way that a size of a cross section of the Pockels crystal that is perpendicular to an axial direction changes along the axial direction. The holding and mounting part has a protection unit to protect a structure of the Pockels crystal, a movement unit to that moves the Pockels crystal in order to measure a surface potential of the electric-field-reduction system, and a drive control unit to control the movement unit.
US09714962B2
A monitoring device is provided that includes a first line section with a first connection point and a second connection point spaced apart from the first connection point in the direction of the line, and with a control unit and with a first current sensing unit, having a current source. A first switch is inserted into the first connecting line and connects the first current source to the first connection point or disconnects it therefrom. In a first state the first switch is closed and the first current is impressed on the first line section and a first voltage determined by the amplitude of the actual current, and in a second state the first switch is open and a second voltage is determined, and the control unit is configured to ascertain the amplitude of the first actual current from the two voltages.
US09714957B2
An HV divider stepping down an input high voltage in HV systems includes a primary part with first and second assemblies within an insulator and a divider input terminal. The first assembly is a first capacitor stack having first high and middle voltage capacitors. The second assembly has a second capacitor stack and resistor stack in parallel. The second capacitor stack has second high and low voltage capacitors. The resistor stack has high and low voltage resistors. The secondary part has an electromagnetic unit and a secondary part output set has: a first output terminal subset, deriving from a first intermediate terminal processed through electromagnetic unit, to provide a first output voltage subset for measuring amplitude of the input voltage at nominal frequency range; a second output terminal, deriving from a second intermediate terminal, to provide a second output voltage for measuring waveform of the input high voltage.
US09714956B2
An apparatus, system, and method are described for providing an intuitive user interface on a test and measurement instrument. The test and measurement instrument can include container logic, which provides a work mode in which interactions with objects within a container on a display are allowed, and a move mode in which interactions with the objects within the container on the display are temporarily prevented. When in the move mode, the container logic can detect a dragging gesture associated with the container. In response to the dragging gesture, a preview container arrangement is provided overlaying the container arrangement. The container logic can detect a dropping indication, thereby causing the arrangement to snap to the preview container arrangement. Various other user interface controls are provided while in the move mode. In multi-user environments, customized container arrangements may be saved and then later recalled. Containers may be moved among multiple different displays.
US09714950B2
Secretome profiling improves the pregnancy success rate of in vitro fertilization processes, while reducing the risk of multiple births.
US09714942B2
It is intended to provide a detection method and a determination method for detection target capable of detecting and determining a detection target promptly and simply with high accuracy at low cost. The detection method includes the steps of: mixing a first conjugate 10 in which a first substance containing a stimulus-responsive polymer 11 and a particulate magnetic substance 19 is conjugated to a first antibody 13 against a detection target 50 with a sample; applying a magnetic force after placing the resulting mixture in a condition capable of aggregating the stimulus-responsive polymer 11; measuring a generated magnetic field; and detecting the detection target 50 based on the degree of increase in the magnetic field after applying the magnetic force.
US09714940B2
This invention features systems and methods for the detection of analytes, and their use in the treatment and diagnosis of disease.
US09714938B2
The invention relates to a method of detecting a disease state or disease susceptibility in a mammalian subject which comprises detecting an antibody in a test sample comprising a bodily fluid from said mammalian subject wherein said antibody is a biological marker of a disease state or disease susceptibility, the method comprising: (a) contacting said test sample with a plurality of different amounts of an antigen specific for said antibody, (b) detecting the amount of specific binding between said antibody and said antigen, (c) plotting or calculating a curve of the amount of said specific binding versus the amount of antigen for each amount of antigen used in step (a) and (d) determining the presence or absence of said disease state or disease susceptibility based upon the amount of specific binding between said antibody and said antigen at each different antigen concentration used.
US09714932B2
Disclosed are systems, apparatus, devices and methods, including a method that includes determining traction forces exerted by a cellular monolayer on a substrate on which the monolayer is placed, and determining internal forces within and between cells of the monolayer based on the determined traction forces. In some embodiments, determining the internal forces of the cellular monolayer may include determining internal stresses within the cellular monolayer that act to balance the determined traction forces over at least part of the cellular monolayer. In some embodiments, determining of the internal stresses may also include setting boundary conditions at a boundary determined based on an optical field of view of an observed section of the monolayer.
US09714919B2
A method of detecting specific gas species in an ion trap, the specific gas species initially being a trace component of a first low concentration in the volume of gas, includes ionizing the gas including the specific gas species, thereby creating specific ion species. The method further includes producing an electrostatic potential in which the specific ion species are confined in the ion trap to trajectories. The method also includes exciting confined specific ion species with an AC excitation source having an excitation frequency, scanning the excitation frequency of the AC excitation source to eject the specific ion species from the ion trap, and detecting the ejected specific ion species. The method further includes increasing the concentration of the specific ion species within the ion trap relative to the first low concentration prior to scanning the excitation frequency that ejects the ions of the specific gas species.
US09714911B2
An electric potential is applied to first and second electrodes on opposite sides of a gap between an electronic component and a heat spreader. At least one of a thermal interface material in the gap, the electronic component and the heat spreader is subjected to a changing physical condition. The electrical capacitance between the electrodes is monitored during the changing physical condition. Such a method can be practiced using an array of components sharing a common heat spreader. An assembly for testing thermal interfaces includes a printed circuit board, a plurality of electronic components mounted to and operatively associated with the printed circuit board, a heat spreader positioned for absorbing heat generated by the electronic components, a first electrode associated with the heat spreader, a plurality of second electrodes associated, respectively, with the electronic component, and a device for monitoring electrical capacitances between the first and second electrodes. The technique may be employed for monitoring physical changes in electronic devices and other structures having interfaces between components.
US09714902B2
An apparatus that measures a concentration of a material within a sample includes signal generation circuitry that generates a first signal having at least one orthogonal function applied thereto and applies the first signal to the sample. A detector receives the first signal after the first signal passes through the sample and determines the concentration of the material within the sample based on a detected orthogonal function within the first signal received from the sample.
US09714901B2
The nitrate-nitrogen concentration in soil is estimated based on the nitrate-nitrogen 200 nm absorption peak. In one embodiment, a device measures the attenuation spectrum of a soil-extractant mixture over a wavelength range that includes wavelengths in the vicinity of the 200 nm absorption peak (the spectral operating range) and then determines the nitrate-nitrogen concentration based on the attenuation spectrum.
US09714899B2
The present invention relates to a method for monitoring a control parameter of a polymerization reaction mixture in heterogeneous phase comprising the following steps: (a) acquiring at least one NIR reflectance spectrum of said mixture; (b) calculating a value of said control parameter by means of a calibration curve which correlates the NIR reflectance spectrum with the values of said control parameter measured with a reference measurement method. The present invention also relates to an apparatus for implementing said method.
US09714898B2
A method of manufacturing a glatiramer acetate drug product is described. The method entails measuring one or both of alpha helical content of the glatiramer acetate and random coil content of the glatiramer acetate in the batch and manufacturing a glatiramer acetate drug product using at least a portion of the glatiramer acetate when the alpha helical content and or random coil content meets certain criteria.
US09714896B2
A methodology and system determine properties of a sample substance, such as a liquid/foam used to control sweep homogeneity problems in an earth formation. The methodology and system utilize a core of formation simulation material placed in a container. An injection system is coupled to the container and enables placement of both the sample substance and an injection fluid into the container. The injection fluid is injected under pressure and moves the sample substance through the core. A data acquisition system is employed to measure parameters such as pressure differentials along the core as the sample substance propagates through the formation simulation material. The pressure differentials may be evaluated over time by the data acquisition system to determine fluid breakthrough properties of the sample substance.
US09714895B2
A new apparatus for monitoring fine particle concentration in an exhaust system of a combustion engine has a part that extends into the exhaust system, and a housing that includes structure that attaches and seals the apparatus to the exhaust system through a single opening in a wall of the exhaust system. A gas inlet in the housing provides a measurement flow into a particle measurement sensor inside the housing. At least a fraction of the particles entering the particle measurement sensor are charged, and at least a fraction of the current carried by the charged particles are detected. A gas outlet in the housing carries the measurement flow away from the particle measurement sensor. The structure that attaches the apparatus to the exhaust system has one electrical connector that provides power to the sensor, and another electrical connector that transmits the electrical signal created by the sensor.
US09714882B2
When a liquid level is changed even though an inflow of a heat medium into a specific heat transfer tube bundle is stopped, it is determined that there is no abnormality in the heat transfer tube bundle in which the inflow of the heat medium is stopped and then another heat transfer tube bundle is inspected. Next, when the inflow of the heat medium into the specific heat transfer tube bundle is stopped not to cause the change in the liquid level, it is determined that there is an abnormality in the heat transfer tube bundle to which the inflow of the heat medium is stopped. Thus, it is possible to determine that there is an abnormality in the heat transfer tube bundle in which the inflow of the heat medium is stopped.
US09714871B2
Techniques for real-time virtual sensing of an axle assembly temperature include determining, at a controller of a vehicle, an initial temperature of an axle assembly of the vehicle based on an ambient temperature and a fluid temperature of a transmission. The techniques include determining, at the controller, an operating mode of the vehicle, the operating mode of the vehicle being one of moving and non-moving. The techniques also include estimating, at the controller, a temperature of the axle assembly based on the initial axle assembly temperature and the vehicle operating mode using an axle temperature model.
US09714869B2
A temperature sensor 1 includes: a thermosensitive element 2 composed of a low-thermal expansion ceramics having a coefficient of linear expansion of 3×10−6/° C. to 5×10−6/° C. and of which electrical characteristics change depending on temperature; a pair of electrode films 20 provided on the surfaces of the thermosensitive element 2; and a pair of lead wires having a coefficient of linear expansion of 15×10−6/° C. or less and bonded to the electrode films 20. When the coefficients of linear expansion of the thermosensitive element 2, the electrode film 20, and the lead wire 21 are respectively Ta(/° C.), Tb(/° C.), and Td(/° C.), the temperature sensor 1 satisfies a relationship Ta≦Tb≦Td.
US09714867B2
There is provided a radiation detection means (10) which includes a carrier (12) with at least one pivotable portion (16), a receiving unit (18), a drive (24) and an evaluation and control unit. The receiving unit (18) is arranged on the pivotable portion (16) which together with the receiving unit (18) is pivotable about at least one axis relative to the carrier (12). The evaluation and control unit is connected with the drive (24) and the receiving unit (18) and the drive (24) is associated to the pivotable portion (16).
US09714865B2
Provided is a light condensing unit including a reflection member having a hollow dome shape a side wall of which is curved to be extended from a top portion toward a bottom portion, the reflection member having a mirror-finished inner surface, and a plurality of light irradiation members arranged around an outer wall of the reflection member and configured to irradiate an irradiation region of the top portion with light through a first opening portion formed in the outer wall. The reflection member includes a second opening portion formed in the irradiation region of the top portion, and a third opening portion formed in the bottom portion to face a light receiving lens of a light receiving unit, the light receiving unit being configured to perform a predetermined process on received light.
US09714862B2
A vehicle seat includes a seat pan, where the seat pan front edge defines a first pivot point and the seat pan rear edge defines a second pivot point. A swivel is disposed beneath and supporting the seat, permitting the seat to rotate about a pivotal axis. First and second armrests are disposed on either side of the seat pan. A first control is positioned in the first armrest to lock and unlock movement of the seat in at least one of lateral and longitudinal directions. A second control is positioned in the second armrest to lock and unlock at least the swivel.
US09714852B2
A gas flow test apparatus and method include a flow monitor that is selectively connectable to a gas pipeline. An air motor driven regenerative blower is used to increase the flow of gas through the around a blockage in the pipeline to simulate an increased gas loading condition on the intake side of the apparatus. The gas drawn from the intake side is not vented to the atmosphere, but rather, is discharged to the exhaust side of the apparatus back into the pipeline. Pipeline pressure is measured on the intake side of the apparatus to ensure that gas supply is adequate for blocking off the pipeline for maintenance.
US09714849B2
The present disclosure relates to a position-indicating module including a position sensor consisting of a mobile element, able to be driven directly by an operator or by a mechanical or electromechanical drive element, and of a detection assembly delivering electrical information dependent on the position of the mobile assembly, as well as at least one illumination element including at least one light source, wherein the mobile assembly includes a zone able to allow through the light beam issuing from the illumination element and the illumination element is situated opposite the zone.
US09714846B2
A dial indicator for accurately measuring displacement of a part along a measurement axis. The dial indicator includes scale electrodes of a given pitch and reader stationary scale electrodes of a given pitch. A reader carries a plurality of reader bars having a pitch of one half that of the scale electrodes. A set of drive signals of a given frequency are applied in different ways to the scale bar electrodes to achieve coarse and fine positions of the reader relative to the scale. One operating mode involves determining the position of the reader 34 with a coarse measurement relative to the scale, and a fine measurement. These signals can combined to obtain an accurate position over the reader and position of a spindle reading displaced.
US09714837B2
Systems and methods for identifying available charging stations (e.g., charging stations available to be used by an electric vehicle) and/or determining travel routes for electric vehicles are described. In some embodiments, the systems and methods receive a request to find an available charging station, determine a state of charge for an electric vehicle associated with the request, identifies one or more available charging stations located within a suitable distance to the electric vehicle, the suitable distance based on the determined state of the charge for the electric vehicle, and present information to the electric vehicle, or an associated mobile device, that indicates the identified charging stations.
