US09781869B2
The present invention relates to energy conversion device which contains one or more collection units (10) suitable for receiving environmental energy as well as a conversion unit (30) in an electrically conducting connection with the collection unit (10) with the help of a cable (20), at least one of the collection units (10) is formed by a set of metal material pipe members (11), while the conversion unit (30) has a condenser part-unit (32) consisting of metal armored plates (32a, 32a′) separated from each other by a gap (T) and located in the cover (31), as well as a frequency-setting part-unit (33) cooperating with the condenser part-unit (32), where the frequency-setting part-unit (33) has a reception space (35) located within the cover (31) of the conversion unit (30) and enclosed by a delimiting shell (34) in the vicinity of the condenser part-unit (32) and a charge (40) located in the reception space (35), and the charge (40) contains an organic component and an inorganic component distributed in a carrier medium (36).
US09781868B2
A compact protector is unlikely to be affected by electromagnetic noise and provides excellent workability when being assembled, despite having a configuration in which twisted electrical wires are not used. The protector includes first and second plate members that respectively have a plurality of parallel slits that have a depth that is approximately half a length of wiring areas in a widthwise direction of the wiring areas. First and second linear conductors are respectively supported by the first and second plate members such that the first and second linear conductors have an approximately wave-like shape that is bent in a lengthwise direction, a widthwise direction, and a thickness direction of the first and second plate members. The first and second plate members are laterally fitted to each other such that respective bottom parts of each pair of parallel slits that face each other are brought close to each other.
US09781863B1
An apparatus for cooling a POP stacked package within a small form factor electronic module by configuring the enclosure of the module to come into direct contact with the device on the top surface in addition to the bottom surface to create two thermal conduction paths for the POP device to the enclosure. The enclosure itself then acts as the heat sink to draw heat from the device and into the surrounding air external to the optical module.
US09781862B2
A subsea unit includes a housing containing a dielectric liquid, a first heat generating component and a second heat generating component. The first heat generating component is arranged in thermal connection with the housing and the second heat generating component is arranged at a distance from the housing. A method of cooling heat generating components contained in a housing of a subsea unit is also presented.
US09781859B1
Cable-routing systems can be provided for a tray configured for movement between an extended position and a stowed position. The cable-routing system can include a biasing mechanism and a pivot. The pivot can receive a bend of a cable about the pivot. The pivot can be coupled with the biasing mechanism. Movement of the tray toward the extended position can pull the cable away from a stored state against a biasing force of the biasing mechanism. The cable can be biased into the stored state by the biasing force of the biasing mechanism when the tray is in or moved toward the stowed position.
US09781854B1
A second modular mount rack frame for storing devices is described herein. One mount rack frame can comprise two modular rigid support structures in which bolts reversibly insert to laterally increase or decrease the horizontal dimension available for a computer related device. Rigid modular support structures stack, align vertically, and mechanically attach to each other to increase storage in a vertical dimension. A second modular mount rack frame can also exhibit wheels or coasters so the entire frame can smoothly and easily move across a flat supporting surface.
US09781852B2
An electronic equipment enclosure includes a frame structure and at least one panel secured to the frame structure. The at least one panel includes one or more panel knockouts arranged therein. Each panel knockout is configured to be removable from the at least one panel to provide a pass-through opening for a cable. The at least one panel further includes a split brush assembly seated in place of a removed one of the one or more panel knockouts.
US09781849B2
An electronic control device (10) includes a housing having a plurality of housing members (1) joined together, a housing vent hole (2) formed through the housing member (1) so as to extend in a thickness direction of the housing member, a protection wall (3) covering an outer opening (2b) of the housing vent hole (2), with a gap (3b) left between the protection wall (3) and the outer opening (2b), a protection-wall vent hole (3a) formed in the protection wall (3) at a position apart from the housing vent hole (2) so as to extend from the gap (3b) in a radial direction of the housing vent hole (2), and an air-permeable waterproof membrane (5) fixed to an inner opening (2a) of the housing vent hole (2). A vent passage (6) with a bent part (6a) is formed between the air-permeable waterproof membrane (5) and the protection-wall vent hole (3a).
US09781848B2
Plug having common specifications are arranged on the side surfaces of each of the devices of different types included in the drive apparatus that controls an electric motor, and the plugs are positioned such that the side surfaces of the devices are in close contact with each other by connecting the plugs and the devices of different types are integrated.
US09781846B2
Apparatus and methods for assembling an electronic device and components thereof are provided. The electronic device may include a housing and a cover inserted into an opening in the housing. The electronic device may also include a first assembly that may be inserted into the housing through a first end, and a second assembly that may be inserted into the housing through a second end. The electronic device may also include end cap assemblies. In some embodiments, the electronic device may include an input mechanism coupled to the housing and a plate coupled to the housing. In some embodiments, a connector of the electronic device may be mounted on a circuit board by inserting a fixture into the connector, mounting the connector to a portion of the circuit board, removing the fixture from the connector, and separating the portion of the circuit board from another portion of the circuit board.
US09781845B2
In a semi-finished product for the production of a printed circuit board, the semi-finished product comprising a plurality of having multiple insulating layers of a prepreg material and conductive layers (2, 2′) of a conductive material and further comprising having at least one electronic component embedded in at least one insulating layer the at least one electronic component is attached to a corresponding conductive layer by the aid of an Anisotropic Conductive Film and the Anisotropic Conductive Film as well as the prepreg material are in an unprocessed state. The method for producing a printed circuit board comprises the following steps: Providing at least one conductive layer (2), Applying an Anisotropic Conductive Film on the conductive layer, Affixing at least one electronic component on the Anisotropic Conductive Film, Embedding the electronic component in at least one insulating layer of prepreg material to obtain a semi-finished product, Laminating the semi-finished product to process the prepreg material and the Anisotropic Conductive Film.
US09781834B1
An integrated passive device and assemblies containing the same are disclosed. The integrated passive device can include a thin-film magnetic inductor. Various configurations of electrically connecting an integrated passive device to a processor and/or an interposer such as a chip-scale package are also disclosed. An inductor on an integrated passive device can configured and arranged such that it is magnetically coupled to an inductor on a structure such as a processor chip or a system on a chip.
US09781833B2
This invention relates to a method for producing an electrical system comprising a support (1) bearing on a first face at least one device; with the device comprising at least one electronic component (2) provided with at least one electrical connector (21, 22), with the method comprising: a step of setting in place of a cover (6) positioned above the component; said cover (6) comprising at least one passage (61, 62) according to a dimension in thickness of the cover (6) in such a way as to form an access space to the at least one electrical connector (21, 22), a step of forming a sealing seam (71) in such a way that the component is encapsulated in a sealed cavity (9) delimited by the first face of the support (1), the first face of the cover (6) and the sealing seam (7). The method comprises a step of filling with a conductive material of is at least one passage (61, 62) of the cover (6) in such a way as to establish an electrical continuity between the conductive material and the at least one electrical connector (21, 22), formant a tapping (81, 82) and in that the sealing seam (7) comprises a dielectric material.
US09781832B2
A laminate body includes a plurality of dielectric sheets laminated together. A first ground conductor is provided in or on the laminate body. A second ground conductor is provided in or on the laminate body and located on a different layer from the first ground conductor. A signal line is provided between the ground conductors and with respect to a direction of lamination. A signal line is provided between the ground conductors and with respect to the direction of lamination and located closer to the second ground conductor than the signal line is, and the signal line has a portion extending along the signal line in a parallel-lines area when viewed from the direction of lamination. The first ground conductor has openings in the parallel-lines area, and the openings are arranged over the signal line when viewed from the direction of lamination.
US09781826B2
A foldable display is disclosed. In one aspect, the display includes a flexible display panel including a folding region at which the flexible display panel is configured to be folded and a rigid plane region. The display further includes a heat dissipation sheet attached to one side of the plane region and configured to dissipate heat generated by the flexible display panel. The heat dissipation sheet is not attached to the folding region.
US09781819B2
Exemplary embodiments are disclosed of multifunctional components for electronic devices. In an exemplary embodiment, a multifunctional component generally includes a base component, such as a smart phone case (e.g., a back cover, etc.), an inner plate (e.g., a screenplate, a mid-plate, etc.). A heat spreader may be disposed on the base component. Thermal interface material and electromagnetic interference shielding may be disposed on area(s) of the heat spreader. The area(s) may correspond in mirror image relation to component(s) of a circuit board with which the multifunctional component is configured to be joined. During operation of the electronic device, the multifunctional component may draw waste heat from one area and transfer/spread the waste heat to one or more other areas of the electronic device, which may increase a temperature of these one or more other areas. This, in turn, may make device temperature more uniform.
US09781816B2
A power contact for a liquid-cooled plasma arc cutting system is provided. The cutting system includes a torch body and a lower torch assembly. The power contact comprises a substantially hollow body including an upper portion and a lower portion, and an external surface of the upper portion of the hollow body configured to matingly engage the torch body. The power contact further includes a thread region disposed on an internal surface of the hollow body. The thread region is configured to retain an electrode holder of the lower torch assembly of the plasma arc cutting system to matingly engage the lower torch assembly and secure the lower torch assembly to the torch body.
US09781800B2
A device for driving several light sources is provided, wherein the several light sources are arranged in a matrix structure; wherein the several light sources of the matrix structure are connected to a semiconductor device; wherein a portion of the semiconductor device corresponds to a light source of the matrix structure, wherein the portion of the semiconductor device comprises a diagnosis function which when activated is arranged for supplying an output diagnosis signal.
US09781794B1
A distributed lighting network has its lights scheduled based on weather forecast information. A lighting controller stores a lighting schedule for distribution to the distributed lighting network and transmits the lighting schedule to the network. The lighting controller receives from a subscription weather server, short-term or long-term weather forecast datasets. The lighting controller generates lighting control information to modify the lighting schedule, based on the received customized weather forecast datasets, and transmits the lighting control information to the distributed lighting network to modify the lighting schedule, based on the customized weather forecast datasets. The system also enables the lighting schedules to modulate human circadian rhythms if necessary to further promote public health and safety during weather events.
US09781792B1
A series-wired LED light string formed of a plurality of LEDs connected in series with a current limiting resistor. A resistive component is electrically connected across each LED and serves as a shunt to electrically bypass a failed LED to keep the remaining LEDs in the light string fully illuminated. The LED light string has only two wires and is powered by a full wave rectified voltage, generated external to the light string.
US09781791B2
Disclosed is a light emitting device having a configuration that, when a magnitude of an input voltage is greater than a minimum light emitting voltage, all light emitting devices are turned on regardless of the magnitude of the voltage. As the magnitude of the voltage is smaller, the light emitting devices are connected in parallel. As the magnitude of the voltage is greater, the light emitting devices are serially connected.
US09781788B1
In one example, a method includes generating, by a current source of a device, a first portion of a power signal that drives one or more load elements. In this example, a second portion of the power signal is generated by one or more components that are external to the device and are in parallel to the current source such that the second portion of the power signal does not flow through the current source.
US09781784B2
In an embodiment, method of controlling an illumination device by an output signal of a DC-DC converter is disclosed. The output signal is controlled by a PWM signal. The method includes receiving a feedback signal corresponding to variation in the output signal with respect to a pre-determined output signal, and determining a target duty cycle of the PWM signal based on the feedback signal. The PWM signal of the target duty cycle is capable of enabling the DC-DC converter to generate the pre-determined output signal. The method includes providing the PWM signal of an effective duty cycle equal to the target duty cycle over N switching pulses of the PWM signal to the DC-DC converter. The method provides the PWM signal by providing M switching pulses of a first PWM signal of a first duty cycle, and N−M switching pulses of a second PWM signal of a second duty cycle.
US09781780B1
A system, apparatus, and method for operating one or more drivers of light sources, such as can be used with LED lighting fixtures, wherein main power to the drivers is galvanically isolated from communication functionalities to and from the drivers. In one example, a controller can receive information or send information to the drivers in a galvanically isolated manner. The galvanic isolation can be accomplished in different ways and configurations for high flexibility of design.
US09781770B2
Communication systems, such as an evolved packet system, may benefit from methods for addressing infrequent transmissions. In particular, certain communication systems in which machine type communication devices are deployed may benefit from a machine type communication feature for infrequent transmission. A method for providing such a feature can include negotiating at least one characteristic of a bearer. The method can also include deactivating the bearer based on the at least one characteristic.
US09781767B2
A method and a system which enables a User Equipment (UE) in a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UTMS) to achieve fast dormancy in least possible time are provided. The method reduces the signalling burden on UE and Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (UTRAN) by eliminating the need of SCRI procedure by introducing cause value as ‘end of user data’ in Cell update cause Information element which can be used in cell update message in a Paging Channel (Cell_PCH) state and a UTRAN registration area (URA_PCH) states indicated to the network. The method reduces the time and signalling to transition the UE to an idle mode time and the method is energy efficient.
US09781763B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to a radio link reestablishment method and a controller. The method includes: if after sending downlink signaling or downlink data for designated times, a controller receives no corresponding acknowledgment returned by a user equipment in a cell dedicated channel state, or the controller receives a radio link failure indication message sent by a base station corresponding to the user equipment, the controller instructs the user equipment to re-search for a cell to trigger a cell update procedure, thereby improving reliability of a communications service, and ensuring normal running of the communications service.
US09781762B2
A technique for handling mobile terminating connection attempts for a mobile terminal for which a change of an association from a first routing node to a second routing node is accompanied by a Circuit Switched (CS) fallback is described. In one exemplary embodiment, a method may be performed by a Circuit Switched Fallback Interworking Function (CSFB-IWF) for handling mobile terminating connection attempts for a mobile terminal for which a change of an association from the CSFB-IWF to a Mobile Switching Center (MSC) is accompanied by a Circuit Switched Fallback (CSFB). The method may include receiving a mobile terminating connection attempt to the mobile terminal. In response to receiving the mobile terminating connection attempt, the method may include paging the mobile terminal using a Mobility Management Entity (MME). In response to paging the mobile terminal, the method may include triggering the mobile terminal to initiate a CSFB procedure. Further, the method may include determining an identity of the MSC based on a message received by the CSFB-IWF from the MSC. Also, the method may include transmitting, to the MSC, a second mobile terminating connection attempt for a CS connection to the mobile terminal.
US09781750B2
Example embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to automatic wireless mode switching in wireless communication devices and systems, and methods of automatic wireless mode switching. In one example embodiment, a wireless communication device generally includes a wireless communication interface configured to transmit data to a remote device via wireless communication, and a controller configured to control a mode of operation of the wireless communication device and to automatically switch the mode of operation of the wireless communication device between at least a first mode of operation and a second mode of operation. The first mode of operation is one of a client mode of operation, an access point mode of operation, an ad hoc mode of operation, a dual mode operation and a tri-mode operation. The second mode of operation is one of a dual mode operation and a tri-mode operation.
US09781749B2
Provided is a communication control device for controlling wireless communication among a plurality of communication apparatuses, including an identification information acquisition unit configured to acquire, from a first object corresponding to a first communication apparatus of the plurality of communication apparatuses, first identification information for identifying the first communication apparatus, and to acquire, from a second object corresponding to a second communication apparatus of the plurality of communication apparatuses, second identification information for identifying the second communication apparatus, an action recognition unit configured to recognize an action of coupling the first object with the second object, and a connection control unit configured to perform communication between the first communication apparatus and the second communication apparatus corresponding to the coupled first object and second object, respectively, based on the acquired first identification information and second identification information to connect the first communication apparatus to the second communication apparatus through wireless communication.
US09781742B2
Disclosed are method for transmitting and receiving frame in wireless local area network and apparatus for the same. A communication method performed in a first station, the communication method comprises receiving, through a channel from an access point, a first frame notifying a first period for transmission or reception of a frame; and processing the first frame, wherein a second period exists between the first frame and the first period, and wherein the second period is a contention period during which stations are allowed to contend for the channel. Therefore, performance of WLAN can be enhanced.
US09781741B2
An apparatus and a method of controlling slot-based channel access by an access point (AP) to manage a network in a wireless local area network (WLAN) environment and a slot-based channel access terminal are disclosed. A slot-based channel access control apparatus of a WLAN system according to an exemplary embodiment determines one of each terminal and a group of terminals as a slot allocation target, allocates a slot defined in a beacon interval to the determined terminal or group to distinguish channel access time, and transmits a beacon including information on the allocated slot.
US09781733B2
A method for organizing random access (RA) resources, comprising: forming a device group including a plurality of group members and at least one group representative; providing the at least one group representative with priority access to RA resources; sending, by the at least one group representative, a primary event message to a central unit in said RA resources; and sending, by the central unit, a response message, responsive to the primary event message, to the group members for managing access of the group members to the RA resources.
US09781726B2
Embodiments are provided for assessing radio resource requirements using virtual bin virtualization. An embodiment method includes receiving a service request from a user equipment (UE) in a geographical bin. Resource requirements are then obtained, from a lookup table (LUT), for a serving radio node and neighbor radio nodes associated with the geographic bin of the UE. The LUT comprises a plurality of entries that map combinations of path losses of wireless links for the serving radio node and neighbor radio nodes to corresponding combinations of resource requirements. The entries of the path losses further include one or more service specific and network node parameters for the serving radio nodes and neighbor radio nodes, which are also mapped to the resource requirements. The obtained resource requirements are then assessed, including deciding whether to serve the UE according to the resource requirements and to resource availability.
US09781722B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more specifically, disclosed are a method and an apparatus for accessing a channel in a WLAN system. The method for accessing a channel from a station (STA) in a wireless communication system, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: receiving from an access point (AP) a first frame including a traffic indication map (TIM) and a restricted access window (RAW) parameter set component; determining a RAW in which channel access of the STA is permitted, on the basis of the RAW parameter set (RPS) component; and transmitting a second frame to the AP from within the RAW that is determined, wherein the RAW includes at least one slot, the RPS component includes at least one RAW allocation field, each of the at least one RAW allocation field includes a RAW duration field and a slot duration field, and wherein an index of a slot which is allocated to the STA can be determined on the basis of an association identifier (AID) of the STA and the number of the slots in the RAW.
US09781720B2
A method for a user equipment, UE, and apparatus in a wireless communication system supporting carrier aggregation are provided. The UE includes a radio entity on which at least one component carrier is served by a network node. The method includes the steps of receiving a first indication from the network node for updating the at least one component carrier having an order which requires a retuning the radio entity and receiving at least a second indication for updating the at least one component carrier having an order which requires a retuning the radio entity. Further the method includes the steps of combining all orders to reduce the retuning steps of the radio entity and retuning the radio entity in accordance with the combined orders.
US09781719B2
The present invention introduces a multichannel MAC into a white-space-using system. A base station and a terminal station are each configured from a plurality of wireless communication units and centralized control units thereof. Each of the wireless communication units wirelessly transmits/receives for one channel. The base station operates one or more channels according to white-space-channel status, and is assigned to a terminal station. When operating a plurality of channels, it is possible to select a redundancy mode for assigning data by duplicating the terminal-station data in a plurality of channels, and a high-speed mode for dividing the data and distributing the data among the plurality of channels.
US09781715B2
According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a wireless communication system that performs communication of a first base station device and a second base station device with a terminal device through a plurality of cells, in which the first base station device notifies the second base station device of a request message including information regarding whether or not a data path for user data of the terminal device has been changed, and the second base station device changes the data path for the user data of the terminal device, based on the information regarding whether or not the data path has been changed.
US09781713B2
A method and a radio network node (800) for enabling a switch between transmission modes for sending downlink signals to a User Equipment, UE. A switching unit (800a) selects a first transmission mode when downlink signal quality in the UE is above a switching threshold (Th), and selects a second transmission mode when the downlink signal quality is below the switching threshold. An obtaining unit (800c) obtains a first performance level when the first transmission mode is used and the downlink signal quality is within a specific vicinity range from the switching threshold, and obtains a second performance level when the second transmission mode is used and the downlink signal quality is within the specific vicinity range. An adjusting unit (800d) then adjusts the switching threshold (Th) based on a deviation between the first performance level and the second performance level. Thereby, the adjusted switching threshold may be more or less optimized and used to achieve the best possible performance under the currently prevailing circumstances regardless of the downlink signal quality. (FIG. 8)
US09781706B2
A wireless transmit/receive unit includes at least one processor that receives a high speed physical downlink shared channel, and in response, transmits at least one random access channel preamble followed by ACK/NACK and channel quality indicator (CQI) information. The at least one random access channel preamble is selected from a set of random access preambles reserved for the ACK/NACK and CQI information.
US09781705B2
In order to control feedback control information in uplink transmission appropriately even when using carrier aggregation in HetNet, the present invention provides a user terminal that is able to communicate with a plurality of radio base stations having overlapping coverage areas by using carrier aggregation, the user terminal comprising: a reception section that receives downlink shared channel signals using component carriers of a primary cell and a secondary cell; a generating section that generates transmission acknowledgement signals in response to the downlink shared channel signals; and an allocating section that allocates the transmission acknowledgement signals to predetermined uplink control channel resources, wherein the allocating section allocates the transmission acknowledgement signals to either or both of uplink control channel resources of the primary cell and uplink control channel resources of the secondary cell in accordance with contents of the transmission acknowledgement signals and/or an uplink control channel format.
US09781697B2
In one aspect of the invention, a method for determining the location of a device is described. The method involves using one or more signal emitting platforms, which are capable of performing a wide variety of operations. In some embodiments, for example, the signal emitting platform is capable of physical movement. Various embodiments relate to signal emitting platforms, devices, systems, servers, computer code, methods and techniques for determining the location of a device.
US09781694B2
A processor in a mobile wireless device communicates detailed state information about attachments to a user identity module card embedded in the mobile wireless device. The processor detects a change in an attach state of the mobile wireless device for at least one of a plurality of attachment types. The processor determines the attach state of the mobile wireless device for each of the plurality of attachment types and sends a status message to the user identity module card indicating the determined attach states. The plurality of attachment types can include at least a circuit switched attachment and a packet switched attachment. The processor can wait until completion of circuit switched and packet switched attachments of the mobile wireless device to the wireless network prior to sending the status message.
US09781685B2
Both uplink spectral efficiency and downlink spectral efficiency are improved through adjustments made to various parameters that would otherwise be treated as static type parameters. Variations in respective performance of two or more cells can be considered during the adjustment. Further, variations of respective cell performance based on time of day/week are considered and compensated for through various adjustments. Such timely adaptations are applied in order to improve the performance of each cell, during each time of day/week.
US09781680B2
A collection unit collects the identification information on each terminal apparatus and the remaining amount information on a remaining amount of battery by having each terminal apparatus mutually communicate the identification information on each terminal apparatus and the remaining amount information on the remaining amount of battery by way of a second communication unit. The collection unit also collects the identification information on its own terminal apparatus and the remaining amount information on the remaining amount of battery of the own terminal apparatus. A selector selects a single terminal apparatus, based on the remaining amount information collected. When the selector selects the own terminal apparatus, the positional information on the own terminal is acquired and the acquired positional information and the identification information collected by the collection unit are transmitted by the first communication unit to the base station apparatus.
US09781671B2
A particular method includes receiving a first frame from a station at an access point indicating that the station is to enter a power save mode. The method also includes transmitting one or more data frames from the access point to the station. The one or more data frames were buffered for transmission prior to receipt of the first frame. The method further includes transmitting an end of data frame to the station. Another particular method includes transmitting a first frame from the station to the access point indicating that the station is to enter the power save mode. The method also includes refraining from entering the power save mode until an end of data frame is received from the access point.
US09781670B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and, more particularly, a method and device for implementing power saving in a wireless LAN system are disclosed. A method of implementing power saving by a station (STA) in a wireless LAN system according to an embodiment of the present invention may include the steps of: receiving a plurality of frames from an access point (AP) by means of the station STA that is changed from a sleep state to an awake state; determining whether each of the plurality of frames has an error; and transmitting a response frame representing the presence and absence of the error to the AP. Even if each of the plurality of frames includes information instructing the AP to stop transmitting to the station to the station STA, it is possible to maintain the awake state when at least one of the plurality of frames has an error.
US09781666B2
A communication control method for linking a cellular communication system with a wireless LAN system comprises: in a cellular base station, a step of storing location information of a wireless LAN access point; a step of acquiring location information of a user terminal connected to the cellular base station; a step of determining, on the basis of the respective location information of the wireless LAN access point and the user terminal, whether or not the user terminal is connected to the wireless LAN access point; and a step of transmitting a scan instruction for the wireless LAN access point to the user terminal when it is determined that the user terminal is connected to the wireless LAN access point.
US09781664B2
Structures and protocols are presented for signaling a status or decision concerning a wireless service or device within a region to a network participant or other communication device (smartphone or motor vehicle, e.g.).
US09781663B2
Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate efficient cell acquisition in a wireless communication system. In one aspect, a reference signal for use in cell acquisition can be constructed in a bandwidth-agnostic manner such that it contains a common central portion in a predetermined frequency band that is independent of a bandwidth utilized by an associated wireless communication system. The central portion can be constructed as a two-dimensional block in time and frequency that spans a default cell search bandwidth, a predetermined bandwidth specified by synchronization codes or other signals, or another suitable bandwidth. A reference signal can then be constructed form the central portion by tiling or expanding the central portion such that it spans the entire system bandwidth.
US09781656B2
Embodiments of the claimed subject matter provide a method and apparatus for modifying call admission control thresholds. One embodiment of a method includes modifying one or more call admission control thresholds provided to base stations by a radio access network in response to a mismatch between a wireless access capacity of the base stations and a backhaul capacity between the base stations and the radio access network.
US09781635B2
A source base station method, a source base station, a target base station method, a target base station and computer program products are disclosed. The source base station method comprises: in response to receiving an identification message from a user equipment being served by the serving base station identifying a target base station detected by the user equipment, transmitting a prepare message to the target base station requesting the target base station allocate but not utilise resources to support communication with the user equipment; and transmitting an active set update message to the user equipment instructing the user equipment to add the target base station to its active set. In this way it can been seen that functionality employed during hard handover is used in order to provision the target base station, but that soft handover procedures are used towards the user equipment. This means that the target base station is able to be rapidly handed over to when required, since it has already been provisioned and configures the user equipment to be expecting transmissions from the target base station when required. This enables a more simplified base station to be provided which need not provide all the functionality for soft handover. Also, because no soft handover is required, limited additional resources are required over the backhaul, and the processor and memory requirements are less intensive.
US09781620B2
A radio measurement collection method according to the present invention, comprises the steps of: sending IdleMDTConfiguration message for setting a plurality of measurement triggers from E-UTRAN including a radio base station eNB to a radio terminal UE; setting the plurality of measurement triggers in the radio terminal UE by the radio terminal itself according to the IdleMDTConfiguration message from the E-UTRAN; measuring a radio environment for each of the plurality of measurement triggers by the radio terminal UE in an idle mode; and storing, by the radio terminal UE, each measurement result obtained at the measuring step in association with the measurement trigger corresponding to the measurement result.
US09781618B2
A radio terminal (2) is provided that can be used in a radio communication system (100) and can communicate with a radio station (1). The radio terminal (2) includes a measurement unit (20). The measurement unit (20) operates to perform, using a terminal measurement procedure for executing a first terminal measurement corresponding to radio access technology applied to the radio communication system (100), a second terminal measurement of a shared frequency shared by a plurality of radio systems including the radio communication system (100).
US09781615B2
Disclosed are a link adaptation method and device in an active scanning method. The link adaptation method transmits a the probe request frame comprising null data packet announcement (NDPA) information elements, transmits a null data packet (NDP) frame comprising only a physical layer convergence protocol (PLCP) header after transmitting the probe request frame, and receives a the probe response frame comprising feedback information elements measured based on the NDP frame. Therefore, the invention is capable of improving data transmission efficiency by using a modulation coding scheme (MCS) suitable for a channel state from initial connection.
US09781608B2
The invention relates to method for configuring a first wireless network that includes at least one access point. In order to optimize the configuration of the first wireless network, the method comprises a step of configuring at least one parameter of the at least one access point of the first wireless network on the basis of at least a portion of the linking balance of a second wireless network including at least two nodes, the nodes being positioned in a predetermined physical space.
US09781607B2
System(s) and method(s) for network resource optimization in a service area of a communication network are described. The method includes dividing a service area into a plurality of sub-areas, where each of the plurality of sub-areas is serviced by at least one network resource from a pre-determined number of network resources. The method further includes determining a locally optimal deployment solution comprising at least one local allocation attribute for the at least one network resource in each of the plurality of sub-areas, to meet a plurality of objectives for network resource optimization. The method further includes obtaining a globally optimal deployment solution comprising at least one global allocation attribute for allocation of the pre-determined number of network resources in the service area, based on the locally optimal deployment solution to meet the plurality of objectives.
US09781606B2
The exemplary embodiments include at least a method and apparatus sending by a second network operator a request to use sub-frames muted by macro cells of a first network operator for use by at least one small cell of the second network operator; receiving information for the use of the muted sub-frames; synchronizing a use of the muted sub-frames; and sending an indication of the synchronized use. In addition, a method and apparatus receiving by a first network operator a request to use sub-frames muted by macro cells of the first network operator for use by at least one small cell of a second network operator; sending information for the use of the muted sub-frames; and receiving an indication of the synchronized use of the muted sub-frames.
US09781604B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method for detecting illegitimate devices on wireless networks may include (1) identifying a baseline signal strength for a wireless network, (2) monitoring a signal strength of the wireless network to obtain at least one additional signal strength measurement, (3) determining that the additional signal strength measurement varies from the baseline signal strength beyond a threshold, (4) determining, in response to determining that the additional signal strength measurement varies from the baseline signal strength, that an illegitimate device is present on the wireless network, and (5) initiating, in response to determining that the illegitimate device is present on the wireless network, a security action. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US09781603B1
The present disclosure describes a combined network and physical security appliance. The appliance may be wired to or communicate with automation systems, IoT devices, physical sensors, computing devices and servers on an internal or local network, and other computing devices on an external network. By combining network security and physical security into a single device, a combination security appliance may correlate physical sensor signals with packet inspection results, providing enhanced protection against network threats to physical security systems, and physical protection against network threats.
US09781602B1
The proliferation of IOT devices has led to an increase in sensitive, cloud-stored data. To provide further protection, IOT device data may be secured by geographically based access controls as a supplement to or in place of traditional password protection. A geographically based access control restricts data accessibility to designated geographical areas. In this manner, a requesting device may not access geo-fence protected IOT device data unless the requesting device is located within a designated geographical area. Geo-fence parameters utilized for creation of a geo-fence policy may be pre-specified or generated based on operating conditions. For example, a user may provide location data, such as an address or geographical coordinate, and a radial distance from the location for which data access is permissible. Additionally, geo-fence parameters can be automatically determined based on criteria such as an IOT device type or data usage characteristics.
US09781598B2
A personal digital ID device provides a digital identifier to a service for a predetermined duration in response to user interaction. The user interaction may include a button press. The personal digital ID device may be in the form of a bracelet, a key fob, or other form factor. The service may be provided by a mobile device, in the cloud, or elsewhere.
US09781592B2
A method and apparatus for performing a membership verification or an access control in a wireless communication system is provided. A mobility management entity (MME) performs the membership verification or the access control of a user equipment (UE), and transmits verified UE membership information to a target HeNB.
US09781589B1
Methods and systems for providing alternate SMS/MMS traffic to a user using alternate wireless and network service. Aspects of the disclosed systems and methods allow existing wireless customers to continue using their normal wireless phone and phone number for SMS/MMS traffic while still easily avoiding large roaming and texting charges, all while nearly transparently maintaining the full range of normal wireless voice, text, and SMS/MMS services.
US09781577B2
A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. In an aspect, method operations for broadcasting a first signal comprising a first expression code in association with availability of location information of a UE; determining the location information associated with the UE; determining a second expression code associated with the location information; and broadcasting a second signal comprising the second expression code and the location information, independent of the first signal. In another aspect, a method includes the operations of receiving, from a second UE, a first signal comprising a first expression code associated with the second UE; determining a second expression code based on the received first signal; receiving a second signal from the second UE, the second signal comprising the second expression code; and determining a location of the second UE based on the received second signal and the determined second expression code.
US09781572B2
Systems and methods are provided for positioning determination for mobile devices. A system includes: a database configured to store positioning data associated with one or more base stations in a network, and a data management component configured to compare the parameters with one or more parameter thresholds, and update the positioning data based at least in part on the comparison of the parameters and the parameter thresholds. The updated positioning data is used for positioning determination of a mobile device.
US09781564B2
Wireless access points within a GPS-Unavailable environment can provide location services to user equipment devices within the environment provided that the access points are aware of their precise locations. In order to calibrate the locations of the wireless access points, a user equipment is moved to specific locations within the environment. At each of those locations, the user equipment transmits calibration signals that include the transmission location as well as a timestamp of the transmission time. Upon receipt by the access points, these signals are timestamped with a reception timestamp by a clock that is synchronized with the clock of the user equipment. After accumulating sufficient calibration information from a sufficient number of calibration locations, the access points can accurately determine their locations using trigonometric and other functions.
US09781559B2
A method for a communication link establishing device to establish a communication link in a targeted communication system is provided. A source terminal transmits a source terminal's identification information and threshold value information for selecting a relative angle measurement target to neighboring terminals including a target terminal, and transmits a relative angle measurement request signal to the target terminal and the neighboring terminals. Upon receipt of a response signal for the relative angle measurement request signal from at least one of the neighboring terminals including the target terminal, a communication link with the selected communication target's terminal is established based on the information contained in the response signal.
US09781541B2
A server may receive provisioning information for a client device; provision, based on the provisioning information, the client device to prepare the client device to gather data to form a data record and communicate with a user device, via the server, to receive or transmit information relating to the data record; and receive a communication request from the user device via a first network. The communication request may include a request to transmit the information relating to the data record to or from the client device. The server may communicate with the client device via a second network, on behalf of the user device, to process the communication request based on authorizing the user device. The second network may be different from the first network. The server may provide a response to the communication request to the user device. The response may include the information relating to the data record.
US09781536B2
The present invention provides an audio-data transmission system including a channel encoder, a data modulator and a speaker. The channel encoder is utilized to receive and encode a bit signal and generates an encoding signal. The data modulator is utilized to receive the encoding signal and modulates it to an audio signal whose frequency is on a frequency band. The audio signal includes at least four different sub-audio signals. The frequency band includes at least four sub-frequency bands with different frequencies. The frequencies of the at least four sub-audio signals are respectively on the at least four sub-frequency bands. The speaker is utilized to transmit the audio signal including the at least four different sub-audio signals.
US09781532B2
Examples described herein involve calibrating a playback device. An example implementation involves causing a network device to display a guide to calibrate at least one playback device, the guide comprising an indication that the network device is to be moved during a given time. The example implementation also involves detecting, via the network device during the given time, an audio signal played by the at least one playback device. The example implementation further involves causing, via the network device, identification of an audio processing algorithm based on data indicating the detected audio signal.
US09781520B1
A passive carbon nanotube transducer is provided. The passive carbon nanotube transducer includes shells as protective walls for the top and bottom housing of the transducer with carbon nanotube sheets affixed between the shells. The shells act as acoustic windows that match the surrounding acoustic medium. A gasket encloses the shells and carbon nanotube sheets of the transducer. Each carbon nanotube sheet has an electrode at both ends. Multiple carbon nanotube sheets are capable of sensing sound induced environment temperature deviations and converting electric voltage or current for passive acoustic detection.
US09781519B2
A microelectromechanical system (MEMS) device package for encapsulating a MEMS device a molded package spacer that connects to a conductive lid and to a substrate. The molded package spacer forms either side walls or a divider of the MEMS device package and is adapted to route electrical connections from the MEMS device to either the substrate or a second MEMS device package via the substrate.
US09781515B2
A loudspeaker diaphragm includes a base layer and a coating layer. The base layer contains natural fibers. The coating layer is composed of bamboo cellulose nanofibers and is formed at least on the first side of the base layer. The coating layer has a thickness in the range of 3% to 15%, both inclusive of the sum of the thicknesses of the base layer and the coating layer.
US09781511B2
The DJ controller 10 has a load operation member 82 that loads audio signals to each channel, a synchronization button 84 that realizes a beat synchronization function, and a channel fader 85 that reproduces the loaded audio signals by the fader start function corresponding to each channel.
US09781507B2
An apparatus comprising: an input configured to receive at least two groups of at least two audio signals; a first audio former configured to generate a first formed audio signal from a first of the at least two groups of at least two audio signals; a second audio former configured to generate a second formed audio signal from the second of the at least two groups of at least two audio signals; an audio analyzer configured to analyze the first formed audio signal and the second formed audio signal to determine at least one audio source and an associated audio source signal; and an audio signal synthesizer configured to generate at least one output audio signal based on the at least one audio source and the associated audio source signal.
US09781506B2
An earphone comprising an earphone housing having a wall comprising (1) a front side that joins (2) an end portion in which a primary sound output opening is formed, which joins (3) a face portion in which a secondary output opening is formed, which joins (4) a back side which joins the front side and encloses a driver, wherein the face portion and the front side form a tapered portion of the earphone housing that is dimensioned to be inserted into, and contact, an ear of a wearer, wherein the primary output opening is dimensioned to output sound generated by a diaphragm of the driver contained within the earphone housing into the ear, the secondary output opening is dimensioned to vent the ear to a surrounding environment, and wherein the primary output opening and the secondary output opening face different directions and are positioned over a sound output face of the driver.
US09781505B2
A microphone includes a microphone base that has a first surface and a second surface. The microphone also includes a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) device coupled to the first surface of the microphone base. The microphone also includes a cover coupled to the first surface of the microphone base, such that the cover divides the first surface into a covered portion where the cover encloses the MEMS device, and a non-covered portion extending away from the cover. The microphone also includes one or more pads on the uncovered portion of the first surface of the base. The microphone also includes a port extending through the base from the first surface to the second surface.
US09781504B2
An earphone connected to a smart device is provided. The earphone connected to a smart device includes a voice signal input and output function that returns a sound generated by the smart device itself as well as a sound generated from the exterior into the smart device as a high-quality sound. The voice signal is extracted from a wire that connects the smart device and the ear receiver and inputs the extracted voice signal into the input terminal of the microphone of the smart device.
US09781497B1
An accessory device suitable for use with an electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device may include an audio assembly designed to generate acoustical energy. The audio assembly may use certain components of the accessory device to generate the acoustical energy. For example, the accessory device may include a shell, or rigid body, that provides structural support for the accessory device. The accessory device may also include a flexible layer, such as silicone, disposed over the shell. The audio assembly may use part of the shell and acoustically drive that part of the shell to generate the acoustical energy. Further, the audio assembly may use part of the flexible layer as a “surround” to allow part of the shell to move relative to other parts. The electronic device may electrically couple with the accessory device, thereby providing a means for providing an audio signal.
US09781494B1
A activity monitoring computing system includes a network circuit exchanging information over a network and an evaluation circuit. The evaluation circuit receives, over the network via the network circuit, sensor data from a monitoring device indicative of physiological and movement characteristics of a monitored individual during performance of an assigned task. The evaluation circuit determines productivity information based on a comparison of the physiological and movement characteristics of the monitored individual and expected physiological and movement characteristics associated with the assigned task. The evaluation circuit transmits, over the network via the network circuit, the productivity information to at least one of a display device and the monitoring device.
US09781483B2
A system and method of distributing electronic content includes a network operations center communicating national feeds to an over-the-air broadcast center through a satellite. The over-the-air broadcast center receives the national feeds from the satellite and broadcasts the national feeds to a user device through a cellular tower wireless transmitter.
US09781478B2
A Personal TV System receives a plurality of video segments constituting a TV program and information describing each segment, and controls the display of the segments to a viewer in accordance with preferences of the viewer and with the description of each segment. Segments may be omitted or replaced with substitute segments. The viewer may review his preferences and edit or replace them. In a multi-viewer household, the system may prompt a viewer to confirm her preferences. A TV program may contain interactive segments, and when the viewer chooses to interact with a particular segment, the system automatically stores all subsequently received segments for later viewing while the viewer interacts with the selected segment. The system may present TV program choices to the viewer selected and arranged in accordance with her preferences.
US09781476B2
Various embodiments facilitate generation, distribution, and presentation of a video program on a virtual channel. In one embodiment, an electronic program guide (“EPG”) manager is provided for execution on a receiving device, such as a set-top box. The EPG manager receives from a program distributor a video stream that has plurality of video programs having program content. Each program has been preassigned for presentation on a particular channel. A virtual channel is linked to one or more users. The EPG manager tracks the types of programs that a user watches and records metadata associated with the programs that the user actually views. When sufficient data is stored in the data base, the virtual channel is provided that program that a user will likely wish to view based on this past viewing history.
US09781475B2
An information processing method, a system and an electronic device are disclosed. The method includes: acquiring a first motion locus with the first electronic component, where the first motion locus is generated by the first part from a first time instant to a second time instant; and acquiring a second motion locus with the second electronic component, where the second motion locus is generated by the second part from the first time instant to the second time instant. The first electronic device may obtain and execute a first control instruction corresponding to the first motion locus and the second motion locus. With the method and electronic device, an advantage of precisely recognizing a slight local action of the user is achieved.
US09781474B2
A content playback information estimation apparatus, for estimating a state on playback of content, that is provided between a distribution server and a terminal in a system in which the distribution server distributes the content to the terminal via a network and the terminal plays the content, the content playback information estimation apparatus including: a unit configured to obtain packet data distributed from the distribution server to the terminal and to store the packet data in a storage unit; a unit configured to estimate a data amount in a buffer of the terminal based on obtained packet data; and a unit configured to estimate a state on playback at each time of the content in the terminal by comparing the estimated data amount with a predetermined threshold.
US09781469B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a computer-readable storage medium having computer instructions to present a plurality of unassociated media programs from a single presentation device having overlapping presentation periods, and cause the single presentation device to present a user interface for one of the plurality of unassociated media programs responsive to detecting a request for the user interface. Each of the plurality of unassociated media programs can be viewable only with a viewing apparatus. The viewing apparatus can be configured for viewing one of the unassociated media programs at a time. Other embodiments are disclosed and contemplated.
US09781467B2
A remote controller of an image processing apparatus includes: a touch screen which displays an input menu; a menu processor which processes the touch screen to display respective input menus corresponding to at least two modes among a control mode of the image processing apparatus, a character input mode and a handwriting mode; and a controller which controls the menu processor to display the input menu of the mode corresponding to a selection signal when the selection signal for the mode is received.
US09781462B2
In response to a request initiated by a user at a user terminal, selected entertainment programming content, when broadcast, is recorded at a location remote from the user terminal. The request is communicated through a communications network, e.g., cable TV network, which is also used for transmission of entertainment programming content to user terminals. The recorded programming content is stored in a storage space at the remote location, which is allocated to the user terminal. In response to a review request from the user terminal, the recorded programming content is retrieved from the storage space allocated thereto, and transmitted to the user terminal through the communications network. The presentation of the recorded programming content may be manipulated by the user to perform rewinding, pausing and fast-forwarding thereon.
US09781461B1
A computer-implemented system and method for providing information to a traffic system allowing a traffic system operator to make faster and better decisions related to whether or not to import specific break structure files. The system, via a dashboard, permits the traffic system operator to select a single network, a group of specific networks or all networks for importation of the specific break structure files. The system and method are configured to handle changes in any of three important programming categories, namely windows, breaks and programming content. The programming categories are separated into easy-to-read columns listing the number of changes for a given future time period allowing the traffic system operator to easily locate the changes. Such a system and method solves the problem of traffic system operators having to “blindly” import data.
US09781458B2
In the dynamic generation of video, a video service provider receives a video request from a video player over a data network. The video service provider matches the video request with a given video descriptor record of a plurality of video descriptor records. a video media file including a plurality of cue slots is generated according to the given video descriptor record using the video request. A plurality of video clip files in a video clip library is selected for the plurality of cue slots, and the plurality of video clip files are copied to the plurality of cue slots in the video media file. The video service provider then sends the video media file to the video player.
US09781448B2
Provided is a method and apparatus for performing intra-prediction using an adaptive filter. The method for performing intra-prediction comprises the steps of: determining whether or not to apply a first filter for a reference pixel value on the basis of information of a neighboring block of a current block; applying the first filter for the reference pixel value when it is determined to apply the first filter; performing intra-prediction on the current block on the basis of the reference pixel value; determining whether or not to apply a second filter for a prediction value according to each prediction mode of the current block, which is predicted by the intra-prediction performance on the basis of the information of the neighboring block; and applying the second filter for the prediction value according to each prediction mode of the current block when it is determined to apply the second filter.
US09781441B2
Initial value is selected when motion estimation is performed using predicted motion vector in video codec in which multiple references are allowed, and coding amount of motion vectors is reduced using predicted motion vector. Motion vector encoding apparatus includes predicted motion vector generator that generates adjacent motion vectors of current block with respect to each of reference pictures and generates each predicted motion vector of the current block from the generated adjacent motion vectors, motion estimator that determines final motion vector of the current block and final reference picture corresponding to the final motion vector with regard to search regions of the reference pictures, differential unit that obtains difference between the final motion vector of the current block and final predicted motion vector corresponding to the determined final reference picture among the predicted motion vectors, and unit for encoding information about the final reference picture and the difference.
US09781412B2
The thick lens calibration method enables better calibration of complex camera devices such as devices with thick lens systems. The thick lens calibration method includes a two step process of calibrating using the distance between a second nodal point and an image sensor, and calibrating using the distance between the first and second nodal point.
US09781409B2
A 2D/3D conversion processing section converts 2D contents (television broadcast program) received by a television broadcast receiving section to contents for the right eye and contents for the left eye for 3D, and the contents for 3D obtained by conversion are subjected to 3D display on a display section. When switching is made from 2D display to 3D display, a central control section suppresses display of data-broadcast data regarding television video data. Consequently, even if video display of the television broadcast is switched from 2D to 3D, video of television broadcast can be displayed in 3D as effectively as possible.
US09781401B2
The present technology relates to a reproduction device, a reproduction method, and a recording medium capable of displaying graphics with a broader dynamic range of luminance and appropriate brightness.An optical disc records STN_table associating HDR graphics, which are graphics having a second luminance range different from and broader than a first luminance range, with tone_mapping_info including HDR information indicating a luminance characteristic of the HDR graphics and tone_mapping_info, which is tone mapping definition information used when luminance conversion from the HDR graphics to STD graphics which are graphics having the first luminance range is performed, the HDR graphics, and the tone_mapping_info. The present technology is applicable to a recording medium recording graphics.
US09781397B2
A projector according to the present disclosure includes: a projection unit, a lens unit, an imaging unit, and a computing unit. The projection unit displays a first image. The lens unit projects the first image that is displayed by the projection unit. The imaging unit images a second image, which is projected by another projector, through the lens unit. The computing unit computes a distance between a surface on which the second image is projected and the another projector. Such the distance is computed from imaging data of the second image imaged by the imaging unit, and from spacing information on a spacing between the projector concerned and the another projector.
US09781395B2
A projection system includes a plurality of projection units configured to project an image as a whole; a receiver configured to receive an instruction for shifting reference points that define a projection target area onto which the plurality of projection units project the whole image on an occasion of an initial calibration processing; a storage unit configured to store the reference points of the projection target area used in the initial calibration processing; a controller configured to start a recalibration processing in response to an event; a setting unit configured to reset the projection target area based on the reference points stored in the storage unit on an occasion of the recalibration processing; and a correction coefficient calculator configured to calculate correction coefficients for the plurality of projection units based on the projection target area that is reset by the setting unit.
US09781389B2
A method substantially as shown and described the detailed description and/or drawings and/or elsewhere herein. A circuitry substantially as shown and described the detailed description and/or drawings and/or elsewhere herein.
US09781388B2
A method and system for providing immersive user experience in a social experience (SE) environment by allowing users to create content Bookmarks. The SE environment amalgamates content received from various sources available in the network. The method streams the amalgamated content to the users through an SE server. The SE server provides enhanced experience service to the users by allowing the users to store, retrieve, and share the created Bookmarks with other users.
US09781383B2
The present disclosure relates to electronic communication devices, and more specifically to streaming media between the electronic communication devices. The present disclosure relates to a method for setting up a media stream connection between a sending device 100, 110 and at least one receiving device 200, 210. The method comprises sending a session initiation message S10 to the at least one receiving device, sending a request S20 for a list of IP-addresses of the at least one receiving device and receiving S30 the list of IP-addresses from the at least one receiving device. The method further comprises setting up uni-directional or bi-directional connection between the sending device 100, 110 and the at least one receiving device 200, 210 by using the received list of IP-addresses and sending the media stream S50 via the uni-directional or bi-directional connection to the at least one receiving device.
US09781379B2
A media recorder is operable to receive broadcast media data from a media data source. The media recorder comprises a storage element for storing at least a portion of the media data, and a receiver for receiving a sequence of video images from a video camera. The media recorder further comprises a user detector for detecting whether a user is attending to a presentation of the media data, and a media presentation status detector operable to detect whether the presentation of the media item has ended. If the user detector detects that the user is not attending to the presentation, the user detector is operable to cause the storage element to store the media data. If the media presentation status detector detects that presentation of the media item has ended, the media presentation status detector is operable to cause the media recorder to enter a stand-by mode.
US09781375B2
A receiving apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives expected waves, and a control unit that sets the receiving unit to an operational state that has a lower electricity consumption within a range in which reception performance is allowed, depending on interference waves with respect to the expected waves that the receiving unit receives.
US09781369B2
An image sensor which operates in a global shutter mode is provided. The image sensor includes a pixel array comprising a plurality of pixels arranged in a plurality of rows and columns, a timing generator configured to generate row driver control signals which controls an integration period of a pixel of the plurality of pixels to include at least two sub integration periods, and a row driver configured to generate a plurality of row control signals which controls each of the rows in the pixel array based on the row driver control signals, wherein the timing generator is further configured to control a single image frame to include the integration period and a readout period of the pixel, based on the row driver control signals.
US09781367B2
An image sensor includes an image sensing plane in which a plurality of pixels are two-dimensionally arranged and at least a portion of a region thereof has a curved shape, and a plurality of well contacts that fix a well potential and are connected to a portion of pixels from among the plurality of pixels. The well contacts are arranged such that an arrangement density thereof in the image sensing plane is different in each region according to the curved shape of the image sensing plane.
US09781365B2
A method, apparatus and system that allows for the identification of defective pixels, for example, defective pixel clusters, in an imager device. The method, apparatus and system determine, during use of the imager device, that a pixel defect, e.g., cluster defect, exists and accurately maps the location of the defective pixel. By analyzing more than one frame of an image, the method increases the accuracy of the defect mapping, which is used to improve the quality of the resulting image data.
US09781351B2
A zooming control device includes a first determination unit configured to determine whether a current state is a specific image capturing state in which a photographer can perform self photographing, a zooming control unit configured to, in a case in which it is determined that an image does not satisfy a predetermined composition condition, perform zooming control so as to satisfy the predetermined composition condition, and a reception unit configured to receive a predetermined operation for instructing an image capturing preparation operation. The zooming control unit performs the zooming control in a first state in which the predetermined operation is not received, and in a case in which the first determination unit determines that the current state is the specific image capturing state, the zooming control unit continues the zooming control even in a second state in which the predetermined operation is received.
US09781346B2
The image capturing control apparatus to control an image capturing apparatus that performs still image capturing of a moving object with drive of a movable element movable in a direction other than an optical axis direction of an image capturing optical system. The control apparatus includes a vector acquisition unit to acquire multiple motion vectors respectively detected in multiple object areas of a captured moving image produced by the image capturing apparatus, and a control unit to control the still image capturing with a drive control of the movable element. The control unit causes the image capturing apparatus, when the multiple motion vectors have mutually different magnitudes, to perform the still image capturing multiple times with the drive controls of the movable element while changing a drive amount of the movable element on the basis of the respective multiple motion vectors.
US09781341B2
An image processing system includes an image acquisition section that consecutively acquires still images, a direction determination section that determines a camera moving direction that is a moving direction of an imaging section during capture, and a panoramic image generation section that performs a synthesis process of the consecutively acquired still images to generate a panoramic image. The direction determination section determines whether the camera moving direction is a first camera moving direction or a second camera moving direction that differs from the first camera moving direction when the imaging section is moved during capture. The panoramic image generation section performs the synthesis process of a still image among the consecutively acquired still images based on the camera moving direction when the consecutively acquired still images were captured to generate the panoramic image.
US09781337B2
An image processing apparatus may include a trimming-decision processing to determine a trimming of an image based on motion information of an object appearing in the image and motion information of the image processing apparatus.
US09781328B2
An image pickup element including an image pickup unit including an array of a plurality of unit pixels, each of the plurality of unit pixels including a plurality of pixels; a saturation detection unit configured to detect a saturated pixel based on a plurality of pixel signals of a subject image output from the plurality of pixels of each of the plurality of unit pixels; a first image signal generation unit configured to generate a first image signal of the subject image by combining the plurality of pixel signals output from each of ones of the plurality of pixels; and an output unit configured to output information indicating a result of detection of the saturated pixel conducted by the saturation detection unit and the first image signal.
US09781299B2
In a case where a first information including an execution request of a specific function via a first type of interface is received, a function executing device may execute a change process for changing an interface for communicating with a terminal device from the first type of interface to a second type of interface in a case where a state of the function executing device is determined as a non-error state. The function executing device may not execute the change process in a case where the state of the function executing device is determined as an error state. The specific function may include a communication process for communicating object data with the terminal device. The function executing device may execute the specific function including the communication process via the second type of interface in a case where the change process is being executed.
US09781298B2
An image processing apparatus includes a job processing portion, a first communication portion, a second communication portion, a job control portion. In the image processing apparatus, the first communication portion performs first wireless communication being proximity-type wireless communication. The second communication portion performs second wireless communication whose communicable distance is longer than that of the first wireless communication and whose communication speed is faster than that of the first wireless communication. After the first communication portion automatically establishes communication connection between the first communication portion and a transmission source of the signal through the first wireless communication, the first communication portion hands over the communication connection to second wireless communication. The image processing apparatus transmits information of a settable condition to a mobile information terminal through the second communication portion, and causes the job processing portion to execute a job in according to a job execution request.
US09781295B2
An image processing apparatus includes a processor having a plurality of cores, each having different specifications. The image processing apparatus further includes a first estimator that estimates a processing capability of each of the plurality of cores, a second estimator that estimates, based on the processing capability of each of the plurality of cores, a required time for each of the plurality of cores to perform a specific process, and a controller. The plurality of cores comprises one or more candidate cores. The required time for each of the one or more candidate cores is equal to or less than a threshold. The controller controls one of the one or more candidate cores to perform the specific process. The required time of the candidate core that performs the specific process is the longest among the one or more candidate cores.
US09781288B2
A photoelectric conversion element comprises: a plurality of photodetectors that perform photoelectric conversion per pixel to output an analog image signal, and that are arranged on a straight line; and wirings that are formed on a wiring layer, and that are enabled to be used as at least one of a signal line used in a peripheral circuit of the photodetector, a power source, and a ground, wherein the photodetector is formed to have a first shaded region and a second shaded region in which light is shaded by the wirings that are positioned on the straight line sandwiching an opening, respectively, when light that has passed through the opening that opens being sandwiched by the wirings positioned on the straight line is incident perpendicularly on a light receiving surface of the photodetector.
US09781284B2
An image reading device includes a housing, a reading unit, a flat cable, and a support member. The reading unit is movably provided in the housing and configured to reciprocally move from a start position to an end position in a reading range. One end of the flat cable is coupled with the reading unit and a predetermined portion thereof on the other end side is fixed to the housing. The flat cable is stored in a bent state in the housing. The support member is provided in the reading unit and configured to support the flat cable and displace, in response to a movement position of the reading unit, a support point of the flat cable in an up-down direction with respect to a coupling portion coupling the one end of the flat cable with the reading unit.
US09781282B2
The present invention roughens at least a partial region of an outer planar surface of at least one of an optical case and a lid of a laser scanner; thus, electrification of the optical case to be caused by friction with another member or a person is reduced, and damage to an electronic component is prevented.
US09781276B1
A computing platform enables the reliable delivery of message data (e.g., virtual airtime credits) into the accounts of mobile device users. The computing platform facilitates a large network of integrations (communication channels) with mobile network operators and reseller, preferably via a statistically-based message routing technique that uses a continuously updated estimate of the probability that a particular request over each integration will succeed. Requests are then routed over an integration picked using this information; if the request fails, the attempt is then retried using another integration until either it succeeds or the system believes the request will never succeed. The success or failure of each request is also used to update the probability estimate, preferably continuously, so that the system adjusts automatically as the reliability of each integration changes over time.
US09781272B2
Calls placed to a call recipient bypass the terminating messaging system, creating an enhanced message in the call originator's messaging system and delivering the enhanced message using alternate routing information. A caller creates enhanced messages for a call recipient even when the call recipient's messaging system does not support such functionality. The caller also embeds stored content and/or use links in the enhanced messages to allow the message to be modified and/or deleted before it is accessed by the call recipient.
US09781264B1
Technologies are disclosed for determining a best time to contact a party over a plurality of contact periods of time to achieve at least one of a desired outcome and a desired result. In various embodiments, the party has multiple contact types that can be utilized to contact the party. Accordingly, an optimal contact type for the party for each contact period is selected that identifies the contact type with a probability having the highest likelihood of achieving at least one of the desired outcome and the desired result by utilizing the contact type to contact the party during the contact period. A best time to contact the party is then identified as one of the contact periods based on the optimal contact types selected for the party for each contact period and associated probabilities.
US09781255B1
A method of authenticating a call origination directed to an enterprise call center. The method comprises receiving a first call origination message from a communication network by a computer system, wherein the first call origination message comprises an automatic number identification (ANI) storing a first phone number, determining by the computer system that the first phone number is not associated with an originator of the first call origination message, and responsive to determining that the first phone number is not associated with the originator of the first call origination message, dropping the first call origination message by the computer system and not answering the associated call, whereby the enterprise call center reduces its vulnerability to call origination spoofing.
US09781253B2
A system and method for recording media for a contact center includes establishing via a processor in a first geographic location, a communication session between first and second communication devices. The processor determines that media exchanged during the media session is to be recorded. The processor identifies a second geographic location associated with a resource involved in the media session, and identifies a media controller associated with the second geographic location. The media controller bridges the media path between the first and second communication devices, and the media exchanged during the media session is recorded.
US09781252B2
The invention provides an information processing method, system and a mobile terminal, which can detect a motion trajectory of the mobile terminal after the mobile terminal receives a call request, and execute a first process when the motion trajectory meets a preset condition. It can be seen that, in the invention, whether a user will answer the call request is determined by the judgment to the motion trajectory of the mobile terminal after the call request is received. After it is determined that the user will answer the call request, the processes, such as automatically answering the call request, closing a screen touching function of a touch screen, or adjusting screen brightness, can be executed, so that the user does not need to perform any manual operation, which on one hand, improves execution efficiency, and on the other hand, avoids a misoperation caused by a manual operation.
US09781250B2
Methods, devices and systems support focused driving, working, and studying without distraction. A method of operating a mobile phone includes setting the phone into a driving focused mode and keeping the phone in the driving focused mode while the phone is moving, wherein in the focused mode certain features of the mobile phone are modified or at least partially disabled.
US09781248B2
Presented herein are methods, systems, devices, and computer-readable media for recording and conveying information/data by a device. The device may record and store data associated with a catastrophic or emergency event. The device may transmit and convey data to facilitate locating the device after a catastrophic event. In some embodiments, a device may be configured to be ejected from a vehicle before or during a catastrophic event.
US09781245B2
Systems and methods are provided for controlling electric and electronic devices. The devices may communicate with each other in a many-to-many, peer-to-peer network to provide control functionality without the need for a central controller. Device-to-device control messages may be implemented over short range, wireless broadcast messages.
US09781242B2
A setting system including a mobile terminal having an interface with an external device so as to transmit and receive information therebetween; and a display device having the interface with the mobile terminal so as to transmit and receive information therebetween, a display section whose screen size is larger than the mobile terminal, and an input section to which the user can input information. When the mobile terminal and the display device are connected through the interface, the mobile terminal and the display device display a setting screen that includes a setting item that sets at least the state of the mobile terminal such that the user can change a setting for the mobile terminal on the setting screen.
US09781238B2
A housing (1) is provided which in particular is suitable for a mobile phone and, in addition to the customary loudspeaker housing (2) for accommodating a loudspeaker (4), comprises an additional housing (3) enclosing an additional volume of air (16) and being arranged in a preferential direction (V) for sound emission of the loudspeaker housing (2). Further, a loudspeaker module comprising the housing (1) as well as a loudspeaker (4), a microphone (8) and a control unit for active noise suppression is provided.
US09781237B2
An electronic device includes an analog connector and a digital connector. The analog connector has one or more analog signal contacts and at least one other contact. A signal detector detects signals at the other contact. A switch is coupled to the other contact to, where analog signals are at the other contact, to cause the switch to transition a connection to other contact from a common node of the device to a signal node of the device, thereby allowing a user to use either a four-wire accessory device or five-wire accessory device with a four-wire analog connector.
US09781235B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus for indicating a subframe format. For example, the apparatus may generally include a processing system configured to generate a subframe of a data unit, the subframe comprising a first field that indicates a presence or absence of at least one of a source address (SA) or destination address (DA) in the subframe. The apparatus may also include a transmitter configured to transmit the subframe to another apparatus using frame aggregation.
US09781234B2
An electronic device that relays an IPv4 packet includes circuitry configured to process the IPv4 packet in each of a first mode operating as a router and a second mode operating as a bridge, set one of the first mode and the second mode as a mode of the electronic device, terminate an IPv4 over IPv6 tunnel, and perform a communication test through the IPv4 over IPv6 tunnel with respect to another electronic device, and the another electronic device is connected with the electronic device via the IPv4 over IPv6 tunnel and terminates the IPv4 over IPv6 tunnel, and set the first mode as the mode, when a result of the communication test shows that communication is available.
US09781232B2
An apparatus includes a receiving unit, a determining unit, and a reply unit. The receiving unit is configured to receive a request for service information from an information processing apparatus via a network. The determining unit is configured to determine the service information based on the request, where the service information includes information associated with accessing a service and display object information on a display object corresponding to the service. The reply unit is configured to send the service information to the information processing apparatus.
US09781230B2
A method for providing software updates to a client computing device, includes, responsive to sending a broadcast message requesting available updates addressed from a client computing device network address of the client computing device, receiving at the client computing device network address a response message comprising the update service network address. The method may also include responsive to sending an update request message addressed to an update service associated with an update service network address, receiving at the client computing device network address information for updating software on the client computing device.
US09781229B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media are disclosed for roaming profiles and application compatibility in multi-user systems. In an embodiment, a user profile exists on a plurality of client computers. Each client computer executes a roaming profile client that intercepts a change to an application's settings. The roaming profile client sends this change to a roaming profile server that stores it. When the user profile logs on to a second client computer, the roaming profile server sends an indication of the change to a second roaming profile client on the second client computer. This roaming profile client alters the settings for the application on the second client computer such that, when the user session executes the application on the second client computer, the application reflects the change.
US09781227B2
A system for data storage includes multiple servers, which are configured to communicate over a network with multiple multi-queue storage devices and with at least one storage controller, to store on the storage devices compressed data belonging to a user volume, to specify storage locations, in which the compressed data is stored on the storage devices, in a shared data structure that is shared and modified by the servers using remote direct memory access, and to coordinate access to the compressed data by the servers by querying the shared data structure, without executing code on a processor of the storage controller.
US09781225B1
Various embodiments of systems and methods to efficiently use a compute element to process a plurality of values distributed over a plurality of servers using a plurality of keys. In various embodiments, a system is configured to identify (or “derive”) the various server locations of various data values, to send requests to the various servers for the needed data values, to receive the data values from the various servers, and to process the various data values received. In various embodiments, requests are sent and data values are received via a switching network. In various embodiments, the servers are organized in a key value store, which may optionally be a shared memory pool. Various embodiments are systems and methods with a small number of compute elements and servers, but in alternative embodiments the elements may be expanded to hundreds or thousands of compute elements and servers.
US09781222B2
The present invention relates to transmitting a digital resource in a client-server communication system. A disclosed method comprises at a main server device: receiving a request for a main resource from a client device; determining at least one missing secondary resource, wherein the at least one missing secondary resource is at least one resource associated with said requested main resource and missing at the main server device; and requesting a secondary server device to push the at least one missing secondary resource to the client device. Thanks to the push initiated by the main server device, the secondary resources required by the main resource become available at the client device before the latter discovers that they are required to exploit or display the main resource.
US09781218B2
When a social networking system receives content describing a user via a client device associated with the user, the social networking system determines a state describing a characteristic of the user from the content. One or more options for generating a content item associated with the determined state are provided to the client device for presentation to the user, and the options may be based in part on the determined state. Based on the state and selection of one or more of the options, a content item is generated and provided to one or more client devices for presentation to social networking system users. By interacting with the content item, users may view additional information about the state or perform actions associated with the state.
US09781216B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a content posting from a device associated with a first user, the content posting including data representative of a content instance and an associated geographic location; determining that a second user is associated with the geographic location; and enabling communications associated with the content instance between a client device associated with the first user and a client device associated with the second user.
US09781213B2
A machine-to-machine communication platform provides a flexible system for device control and solution hosting. In particular, the communication platform hosts and manages third party vertical solutions that interact with external devices. A third party gateway provides the third parties with access to the communication platform so that the third parties may define, configure, and monitor custom vertical solutions that are locally hosted in the communication platform. The communication platform provides a communication manager that implements a device independent communication facility for communicating with the external devices. As a result, the communication platform connects to, communicates with, and controls virtually any external device.
US09781212B2
The apparatus comprises at least one database for storing digital information associated with at least a first user and a second user, at least one links module for the first user and for the second user, at least one manipulations module and at least one display device for respectively displaying at least said linked digital information wherein said linked digital information associated with said first user is automatically updated on at least said display device of said second user when that information is manipulated, and wherein said linked digital information associated with said second user is automatically updated on at least said display device of said first user when that information is manipulated.
US09781211B2
A storage device is operable to be coupled to a host electronic device. The storage device includes a memory operable to store an operating system, applications and to provide mass storage functionality, a processor operable to run the operating system and execute the applications on the storage device and an interface is operable to couple the storage device to the host electronic device. The interface provides a data communication path and a power communication path between the storage device and the host electronic device. The storage device has a master storage device mode in which the storage device is operable to control at least one slave function of the host electronic device and a slave storage device mode in which at least one slave function of the storage device is controlled by the host electronic device.
US09781200B2
A system for counting shoe and uploading data to a centralized server. The system includes a shoe that counts the number of steps a user takes during a predefined period of time. When the number of steps are greater than a predefined number, e.g., a target, the shoe displays a message congratulating the user. For example, when the target is reach, the display will show a winner message on the shoe. The shoe may be placed on a charging (or docking) station, allowing the shoe to be charged. The charging station may also download the data from the shoe, and transmit the data to a central server.
US09781197B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for selecting a Content Delivery Network (CDN) for Internet Protocol (IP)-based services. A service request message is received from a user. The service request message includes user location information. The CDN is selected in accordance with the user location information. The service request message is transmitted to the CDN for connection of a corresponding delivery function module of the CDN to the user.
US09781194B2
In accordance with the teachings of the present disclosure, a method of performing application-specific assessment of hosting suitability of multiple clouds is disclosed. The method may include defining, in a synthetic application definition, a plurality of resource consumptions, wherein the plurality of resource consumptions are equivalent to consumptions by a candidate application. The method may further include consuming a first plurality of quantities of resources of a plurality of nodes of a first computing system and consuming a second plurality of quantities of resources of a plurality of nodes of a second computing system. The method may also include recording a performance of the first and second synthetic application, and comparing the first computing system and the second computing system based upon the first performance and the second performance. The present disclosure additionally includes associated systems and apparatuses.
US09781192B2
Systems and methods are described that comprise receiving at a platform an enrollment request from a client device. The enrollment request comprises a request key and device data of the client device. Device identification is generated and issued to the client device in the absence of a previous enrollment event. A response to the client device is generated, and the response is a response to the enrollment request that includes the device identification. Subsequent sessions between the client device and the platform are controlled with the device identification.
US09781187B2
Downloadable pluggable services and methods of distributing the same are described. The downloadable pluggable services may correspond to communication services that can be downloaded to upgrade a communication system. The downloadable pluggable services may include a number of component parts that can be distributed among various servers in the communication system being upgraded along with instructions that enable the component parts to instruct each server in the communication system to operate in a coordinated fashion so as to provide the downloaded service.
US09781182B2
Apparatus and methods for reporting stream loss in internet gateway devices. One embodiment comprises an internet gateway device for installation at a customer premises. The internet gateway device identifies a request to join an IP multicast stream identified by a group address, and monitors for packets directed to the group address. The internet gateway device detects a stream loss responsive to a failure to receive a packet directed to the group address during a time interval, and reports the stream loss for the group address to a management system.
US09781178B2
A system, computer-readable storage medium, and computer-implemented method for creating a crowdsourced content publication. Layout information defining a layout of elements of a crowdsourced content publication is received. Contribution privilege information identifying a group of users of a social networking service as contributors to the crowdsourced content publication is received. The group of users may belong to a common organization as defined by a social graph maintained by the social networking service. Content criteria information specifying one or more criteria for selection of content included in the crowdsourced content publication is then received. The layout information, contribution privilege information, and content criteria information are then processed to generate a template for the crowdsourced content publication.
US09781177B2
A system for dynamic conferenced communications, comprising a communication application server that handles interactions between conference participants, a communications bridge that receives interactions from participants via the Internet or other data networks, and a telephony switch that receives and handles interactions from participants via a telephone network, and a method for providing dynamic communications conferencing.
US09781173B2
An improved system and method are disclosed for providing voice call continuity in an enterprise network. For example, an enterprise public branch exchange (PBX) may be configured with a pilot number that is used to provide VCC services when called by a client. Digit collection via DMTF signaling or other means may be used to collect destination information from the client. The enterprise network may use the collected digits to establish a communication session with another device that corresponds to the destination information.
US09781158B1
Improved techniques involve comparing paronymous addresses received in transaction data with trusted sets of paronymous data stored in a database by both a trusted client computer and a trusted server computer. Along these lines, the trusted client computer sends data packets to the trusted server computer that contain network addresses and a secure identifier. In response, the trusted server computer sends acknowledgment data packets containing encrypted network addresses and the secure identifier. Upon sending the acknowledgement data packets, the server computer communicates the network addresses to an aggregator. When the client computer receives the acknowledgement data packets, the client computer communicates the network addresses to the aggregator. Once the aggregator receives transaction data containing paronymous addresses, the aggregator compares the paronymous addresses to those communicated to it by the trusted server and client computers. Based on the comparison, the aggregator determines the likelihood that the paronymous addresses are legitimately synonymous.
US09781153B2
Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for local applications and local application distribution. According to one aspect of the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, an application authority system can receive a local application for distribution to a local router. The application authority system can perform an application approval process to approve the local application for distribution to the local router. The application authority system can cause the local application to be distributed to the local router. The local router can receive the local application and can distribute the local application to one or more devices via a local network.
US09781138B2
A device for providing a security breach indicative audio alert. The device includes: a security monitor adapted to detect a security breach in device and a loudspeaker, the device wherein including a secure audio alert generating hardware, adapted to participate, in response to the detection of the security breach, in a generation of a security breach indicative audio alert. The secure audio alert generating hardware is connected to an audio mixer that is adapted to mix the security breach indicative audio alert signal with audio signals generated by a software controlled audio source to provide a mixed signal. The audio mixer is further adapted to provide the mixed signal to the loudspeaker that reproduces the mixed signal as sound.
US09781137B2
The present invention provides methods, apparatuses and computer program product relating to fake base station detection with core network support. The present invention includes receiving, at a core network, context information from a user equipment, receiving, at the core network, context information from at least one network element, and determining, at the core network, whether the context information received from the user equipment coincides with the context information received from the network element.
US09781133B2
A system for automatic stability determination and deployment of discrete parts of a profile representing normal behavior to provide fast protection of web applications is disclosed. The system, in response to a sensor collecting from HTTP requests sent by the clients to the web application installed on the protected device, automatically creates for a web application a profile with discrete parts that will represent normal behavior so that deviations from the profile can be considered anomalous. The system automatically determines that a first of the discrete parts of the profile has become stable. The system then automatically deploys the first discrete part of the profile to the sensor that now will compare with the first discrete part of the profile subsequent HTTP requests sent by the clients to the web application to detect deviations from the normal behavior represented by the first discrete part.
US09781115B2
To authenticate nodes, a connection between a first node and a second node may be identified. A first set of nodes having connections with the first node and assigned to a first plurality of clusters may be identified. A second set of nodes having connections with the second node and assigned to a second plurality of clusters may be identified. A first distribution of clusters may be generated based on the first set of nodes. A second distribution of clusters may be generated based on the second set of nodes. The first distribution and the second distribution may be analyzed. An authenticity metric for at least one of the first node and the second node may be generated based on the analyzing the first distribution and the second distribution.
US09781096B2
Application-to-Application authentication features using a second communication channel for out-of-band authentication separate from a communication channel of a request from a client to a server. Authentication information is associated with a component of the system such as the request or the client application, while being collected independent of interaction with the client application initiating the request. Implementations provide improved security over existing solutions using in-band or other means of collecting authentication information.
US09781093B2
The application relates in particular to a method for authentication of a secure electronic device (BNK_SRV) from a non-secured electronic device (PC, SP) comprising an input peripheral (KBD, MS, TS, CAM), an output peripheral (SCR, SPK, PRN) and a secure electronic circuit (TPM).The application also relates to a secure electronic circuit (TPM), a computer program and a storage medium arranged to implement such a method.
US09781091B2
Techniques for provisioning a smart navigation service are presented. The provisioning can be performed by a name owner, by the smart navigation service itself, or by a third-party keyword service. The provisioned information can include an entity name, a keyword, and possibly other data correlated to at least one network locator. The navigation service electronically stores in navigation service persistent memory a rule correlating the entity name, the keyword, and, if used, the other data, to the at least one network locator, such that when the navigation service receives, from a client computer communicatively coupled to the navigation service, command data that includes the entity name, the keyword, and possibly other data, the navigation service responds to the client computer with the at least one network locator.
US09781090B2
Continuous user authentication includes receiving authentication event information including (1) transaction information describing authentication transactions, the transaction information received from authentication providers and including identification of users and instances of authentication of the users by the authentication providers, and (2) user identification and activity information describing presence and state (e.g. location) of the users, this information received from (a) mobile sensing devices in physical proximity of users independent of user location, and (b) stationary sensing devices at fixed locations of the users. The authentication event information is stored in an authentication event database and is provided to the authentication providers in a continual manner to enable the authentication providers to (a) establish new authentications of the users for accessing services of the computing system, and (b) maintain and revoke previously established authentications of the users based on the authentication event information and authentication policies.
US09781089B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for authenticating a user account with a content management system are disclosed. A synchronized content management system may receive an identifier via a first access platform. The identifier may be associated with a device. The content management system can generate a link based on the identifier and the device. The link may be then send to the device by using the identifier. When accessed by the device, the link may authenticate a user account associated with the device at a second access platform.
US09781071B2
An apparatus for providing automatic delivery of information to a terminal includes a communication element, a registry element and a proxy element. The communication element is configured to receive information corresponding to new content associated with a particular service. The registry element is configured to retrieve an identifier of an publisher associated with the particular service in response to receipt of the information. The proxy element is configured to push an indication of the new content to a receiving terminal having the identifier in a contact list of the receiving terminal in response to receipt of the information.
US09781070B2
System and method for associating general data with an end-user based on the domain name system (DNS) resolver that the end-user uses to map the canonical domain names of internet services to their associated network addresses. The present invention elegantly addresses concerns of scale regarding the key-space, for example the global number of distinct DNS resolvers, and the data-space, for example the number of distinct geographical areas to associate.
US09781068B2
Systems and techniques are disclosed for transmitting a message via one or more platforms, the messages being associated with media content and/or related media content. A related media content may be identified based on the media content and a platform may be selected based on a platform selection criteria. The message may correspond to the related media content and may be transmitted to the platform.
US09781066B2
A terminal device is provided. The terminal device includes an input unit configured to receive an input of a user command inviting a non-subscriber of a messaging service to join a messaging group, and a communication unit configured to transmit a request for invitation information to a server, when the invitation information is received from the server, to transmit an invitation message including the invitation information and an application installation Uniform Resource Locator (URL) to a non-subscriber terminal, and when a join result of the non-subscriber joining the messaging service is received, to transmit a request for an invitation of the non-subscriber to the messaging group.
US09781065B2
Disclosed herein are technologies to provide lightweight software applications deployable on mobile devices that allow users and intermediary solution providers to receive specific data or information from application or solutions. In accordance with one aspect, a configuration file is uploaded and an input message is received from a user. The input message is mapped to one or more commands related to the configuration file, and the one or more mapped commands is run in order to extract data requested by the input message.
US09781057B1
Described are techniques for avoiding deadlock. Each consumer is assigned a priority level denoting a number of resource allocation requests that have been currently granted to the consumer. The priority level is incremented for each resource allocation request granted to the consumer. A set of common resource pool(s) and a reserved resource pool are provided. A wait list of pending resource requests made by the consumers is maintained. If no allocated resources of the set of common pool(s) have been released for at least a threshold amount of time and there is at least one request on the wait list, first processing is performed which includes selecting, in accordance with one or more criteria, a first pending resource request from the wait list that was made by a first consumer, and assigning the first consumer exclusive use of the reserved pool for a lifetime of the first consumer.
US09781047B2
A wireless communication terminal includes a processor; and a non-transitory memory storing thereon a program which is executed by the processor, the program causing the processor to: transmit a first interest packet requesting transmission of an index of content to a plurality of communication devices via a content-oriented network; receive a first data packet from a first communication device among the plurality of communication devices in response to the first interest packet, wherein the first data packet includes i) the index and ii) first remaining battery level information indicating a remaining battery level of the first communication device, and determine to transmit to the first communication device a second interest packet requesting for transmission of the content to the wireless communication terminal when it is determined that the first remaining battery level information is more than a predetermined threshold value.
US09781045B2
A method for receiving a multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system; the UE therefore; a method for transmitting an MBMS by a base station (BS) in a wireless communication system; and the BS therefore are discussed. The method for receiving an MBMS by a UE according to one embodiment includes transmitting one or more system information blocks (SIBs); receiving a first MBMS interest indication message indicating whether MBMS reception is prioritized above unicast reception, when a predetermined SIB related to MBMS service continuity is included in the one or more SIBs; and receiving a second MBMS interest indication message according to a change of priority between the MBMS reception and the unicast reception.
US09781039B2
Systems and methods for multi-channel signal processing by a series of single processing core logic circuitries in time-slicing. A first logic circuitry is configured to process multiple data streams from multiple channels in a first cycle-based time-sliced schedule. A time slice in the first cycle-based time-sliced schedule comprises a predetermined number of clock cycles allocated to a corresponding data stream. A second logic circuitry is coupled to the first logic circuitry and configured to process the data streams in a first fragment-based time-sliced schedule. A time slice in the first fragment-based time-sliced schedule is determined based on a predetermined boundary associated with the data fragment and is allocated to process a data fragment of the data streams.
US09781029B2
Various systems and methods for preventing loops. For example, one method involves receiving a multicast data packet at a node. The node is coupled to a local area network (LAN). An internet protocol (IP) prefix is assigned to the LAN. The method involves determining whether a source address included in the packet is covered by the IP prefix. Depending on the direction of travel of the multicast data packet and whether or not the source address is covered by the IP prefix, the node determines whether a loop exists.
US09781012B2
The behavior of multiple users with access to a multi-tenant resource can be monitored and compliance enforced by monitoring state information for each user. The state information can be captured across a level of a network environment, such that any activity across that layer can be monitored and the data aggregated to give a global view of user behavior. If user behavior is determined to fall outside an acceptable range of behavior, any of a number of remedial actions can be taken, which can include notifying the user, billing the user for the inappropriate behavior, or modifying that behavior outside of the control of the user.
US09781003B2
Migration of profiles between virtual connect domains is described. In an example, a plurality of validations are performed on a profile from a first virtual connect domain virtualizing devices using a first configuration. The profile is updated based on a second virtual connect domain virtualizing devices using a second configuration. The profile is moved for use by a device in the second virtual connect domain.
US09780992B2
The present invention relates to a method for selecting a virtual slot to start up an instance of an application in a distributed system comprising a plurality of physical machines distributed on a network, each physical machine housing at least one virtual machine, and each virtual machine comprising at least one virtual slot for running an application instance in said virtual machine.The method according to the invention comprises selecting an application slot to start up an instance of an application including the following steps: determining a set of free application slots, i.e., those not occupied by an application instance in use, computing a score for each free application slot, the score computation depending on at least one constraint, selecting the application slot to start up the considered application instance, said selected application slot being that having the best score.
US09780983B2
Slot-level remapping physical uplink control channels into two resource blocks, respectively located at two slots of a subframe, are generally adapted to a 3GPP LTE physical uplink. ACK/NAK resource blocks may be applied by the extended cyclic prefix, adapted to a complex 3GPP LTE physical uplink where mixed resource blocks (where the ACK/NAK and CQI channels coexist) may be applied by the normal cyclic prefix, and adapted to a complex 3GPP LTE physical uplink where mixed resource blocks (where the ACK/NAK and CQI channels coexist) may be applied by the extended cyclic prefix.
US09780982B2
An OFDM signal transmission apparatus is provided, which includes a mapping unit configured to map first signals into N subcarriers and second signals into M subcarrier(s) to form an OFDM signal, wherein N is larger than M. The first signals are each indicating a same bit of retransmission information and the second signals are each indicating a same bit of information other than retransmission information. The OFDM signal transmission apparatus further includes a transmitting unit configured to transmit the formed OFDM signal.
US09780974B2
A Power Over Data Lines (PoDL) system includes Power Sourcing Equipment (PSE) supplying DC power and Ethernet data over a single twisted wire pair to a Powered Device (PD). The PSE supplies the DC current and AC data through a cascaded coupling network including a series of AC-blocking inductor stages having different inductances to substantially filter out the AC component and pass the DC component. The data is supplied to the wires via capacitors. The PD may have a matched decoupling network for providing the separated DC power and data to a PD load.
US09780973B2
A receiver circuit for estimating a state of an uplink channel between a wireless communication unit and a base station in a wireless communication system computes a conditioned Channel Impulse Response (CIR), the amount of conditioning being based on the noise present in the channel. A CIR and a Noise Variance are estimated from a Sounding Reference Signal received from the wireless communication unit. The estimated CIR is conditioned by comparing it with an adaptive threshold value selected from a look up table that lists threshold values against Noise Variance values. The threshold value further conditions the CIR to eliminate noise and interference. The conditioned CIR is converted into the frequency domain and used to provide a channel gain estimate which, together with noise estimates, is used to determine a Signal to Interference Noise Ratio (SINR) for the channel.
US09780964B1
A method is provided in one example and includes determining a bandwidth level associated with a link, which is provided between a first microwave transceiver and a second microwave transceiver. The link is part of a communication ring containing multiple Ethernet ring protection elements. The method also includes comparing the bandwidth level associated with the link to a threshold level. A fail-over can be triggered for a selected one of the plurality of Ethernet ring protection elements if the bandwidth is below the threshold level. In certain example embodiments, the first microwave transceiver and the second microwave transceiver can implement an adaptive modulation protocol on the link.
US09780962B2
A method, system and computer program for transmitting at least two payloads in a downstream traffic phase of a time-division duplex (TDD) cycle with a single preamble from a headend followed by concatenated payloads without intervening preambles, whereby the payloads are ranked by increasing modulation profiles. The preamble, and concatenated and ordered set of payloads are then transmitted to two or more predetermined customer premise equipments (CPEs).
US09780959B2
A method and apparatus for content multicasting and broadcasting and data unicasting in a broadband multicarrier wireless communication system. A base station is configured to transmit, and a mobile station is configured to receive, a sequence of consecutive frames. The frames comprise two types: frames containing time-frequency resources for content multicasting and broadcasting via a single frequency network, and frames containing time-frequency resources for data unicasting without the use of a single frequency network. The two types of frames are intermixed in accordance with an intermixing configuration pattern. The intermixing configuration pattern is indicated by a bit-map contained in a scheduling signal.
US09780953B2
A method for requesting a credential associated with token in a multiple token layer environment is disclosed. A tokenization certificate serves to validate the identity of a credential requestor and provide information about the requestor's authorization for de-tokenizing a token. Also, a public key in the tokenization certificate is used to encrypt the credential for secure transmission to the requestor.
US09780951B2
Technologies for prevention of forgery of a network communication request to a server include a system for security of a network communication request. The system includes a communication module configured to receive the network communication request from a client. The network communication request may have a content parameter. The communication module may be configured to generate a string of content parameters comprising the content parameters and a hash of the content parameter, and communicate portions of a result of the network communication request to the client incorporating the encrypted string of content parameters. Furthermore, the communication module may receive a subsequent request from the client. The subsequent request may be associated with the network communication request. As a result of authenticating the subsequent request, the communication module may complete the network communication request.
US09780950B1
A method and system for authenticating a credential via a one time password which includes receiving a user ID, a client ID, and the one time password from a client device, and then validating the one time password based on the user ID and the credential ID. Upon validating the one time password, a response is sent to the client device, and the response includes at least one of an authorization to access a private key stored on the client device or at least a portion of the private key.
US09780946B2
A method in an elliptic curve cryptographic system, the method being executed by an electronic device and including a multiplication operation of multiplying a point of an elliptic curve by a scalar number, the point having affine coordinates belonging to a Galois field, the multiplication operation including steps of detecting the appearance of a point at infinity during intermediate calculations of the multiplication operation, and of activating an error signal if the point at infinity is detected and if the number of bits of the scalar number processed by the multiplication operation is lower than the rank of the most significant bit of an order of a base point of the cryptographic system.
US09780941B2
A terminal device includes: a setting unit that sets resources used to calculate a channel quality indicator; a reception unit that monitors a physical downlink control channel accompanied with information indicating an uplink-downlink configuration; a measurement unit that performs interference measurement to calculate the channel quality indicator based on the resource excluding at least the resource in an uplink subframe which is based on the uplink-downlink configuration; and transmission unit that transmits the channel quality indicator via a physical uplink shared channel. The transmission unit adjusts transmission with the physical uplink shared channel to which a physical downlink control channel accompanied with an uplink grant corresponds in subframe n+k based on detection of the physical downlink control channel accompanied with the uplink grant in subframe n. The setting unit sets a second uplink-downlink configuration. Here, k is given based on the second uplink-downlink configuration.
US09780929B2
A method for and apparatus for performing resource allocation in a wireless communication system is provided. The apparatus includes receiving a configuration of an entire system bandwidth including a predefined system bandwidth and a carrier segment in which is allocated in not available region for the predefined system bandwidth; checking an indication to indicate whether the entire system bandwidth is available or not for the UE, and information for the entire system bandwidth in the configuration; and receiving a reference signal and a control signal at subframes determined based on the indication and the information.
US09780927B2
The present invention is related to a method and system for transferring wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU)-specific information to support enhanced uplink (EU) operation in a wireless communication system. A radio network controller (RNC) obtains WTRU-specific information, and transfers the WTRU-specific information to the Node-Bs. Each Node-B is configured to schedule uplink transmissions from a WTRU and utilizes the WTRU-specific information in operation of EU transmissions.
US09780925B2
An access point with capability of dynamically adjusting a present clear channel assessment (CCA) threshold value and an operating method of the access point are disclosed herein. The operating method includes, sensing a channel status through a receiving module, determining whether to transmit data through a transmission module according to the channel status and the present CCA threshold value, calculating a transmission error rate according to the data is successfully transmitted through the transmission module or not, determining a minimum received signal strength indicator (RSSI) value from a plurality of RSSI values corresponding to the workstations to serve as an upper bound of CCA threshold value and dynamically adjusting the present CCA threshold value according to the transmission error rate and the upper bound of CCA threshold value.
US09780924B2
Techniques according to which HARQ feedback transmitted from a wireless device to a base station includes not only the ACK/NACK status for the corresponding hybrid automatic-repeat-request, HARQ, process, but also certain information that was provided by the network in the last received downlink assignment. An example method, as implemented in a wireless device operating in a wireless communication network, comprises receiving (610) from the wireless communication network, in a first transmission-time interval, a resource-assignment message indicating resources allocated for a data transmission to the wireless device. The example method further comprises transmitting (620) to the wireless communication network, in a second transmission-time interval, feedback information that includes an indication of whether the data transmission was correctly received by the wireless device and further includes one or more mirrored information fields copied from the resource-assignment message.
US09780922B2
A method and apparatus for increasing the data rate and providing antenna diversity using multiple transmit antennas utilize a set of bits of a digital signal to generate a codeword. Delay elements may be provided in antenna output channels, or, with suitable code construction, delay may be omitted. n signals represent n symbols of a codeword are transmitted with n different transmit antennas. At the receiver, the noisy received sequence is decoded. The parallel transmission and channel coding enables an increase the data rate over previous techniques, and recovery even under fading conditions. The channel coding may be concatenated with error correction codes under appropriate conditions.
US09780921B2
A receiver receives packets without prior knowledge of their bandwidths. The receiver calculates a first auto-correlation function for a first channel, a second auto-correlation function for a second channel, and a dot product of the first auto-correlation function and the second auto-correlation function. A packet is detected and its bandwidth classified based at least in part on the dot product.
US09780920B2
The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and method supportive of distributed turbo coding based on relay network utilizing a noisy network coding scheme. For this, included is a relay node operating as a component encoder to relay a signal from a source node to a next node in a distributed turbo coding scheme. The relay node quantizes the signal transmitted from the source node and then interleaves the quantized signal using a predetermined pattern to distinguish the signal transmitted from the source node from a signal to be output from an opposing node, so that the signal transmitted from the source node is relayed to the next node based on a noisy network coding scheme.
US09780918B2
A rate matching method for polar codes includes: with respect to polar codes output by an encoder, determining a plurality of types of punching position sets to be selected, punching positions indicated by any two punching position sets being not completely identical to each other; for each type of punching position set, determining the sum of error probabilities of all bit channels for transmitting information bits of the Polar codes when the punching position set is applied, the sum of the error probabilities being called the upper limit of frame error ratios corresponding to the punching position set; and from the plurality of types of punching position sets to be selected, selecting a punching position set corresponding to the minimum upper limit of the frame error ratios as a selected punching position set, and according to p punching positions indicated in the selected punching position set, conducting rate matching,
US09780914B2
Methods and apparatus for transmitting and receiving broadcast signals are provided. The method for transmitting a broadcast signal includes encoding mobile data for forward error correction (FEC), encoding signaling data, forming data groups including the encoded mobile data and the encoded signaling data and transmitting a signal frame that includes the data groups.
US09780912B2
A method and apparatus for a wireless communication system, initially increases resources allocated to an ACKCH as resources allocated to a shared data channel (SDCH), such as a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) or a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), increases. The resources allocated to ACK are subsequently limited to a predetermined amount.
US09780905B2
A transmission system includes: an acquisition section configured to acquire a free band between a target channel including a plurality of wavelength signals contiguous to one another and a channel adjacent to the target channel; and an adjustment section configured to adjust signal power of at least one of the plurality of wavelength signals in the target channel, based on a power adjustment amount for the wavelength signal, the power adjustment amount being provided for the free band acquired by the acquisition section.
US09780888B2
The disclosure provides techniques for reducing interference caused by a first device to a second device receiving a satellite-based positioning signal. A device such as a user equipment (UE) or base station (eNB) determines a threshold transmission power for a transmission frequency of the device. The device also determines a signal strength of the satellite-based positioning system signal at the device. The device then controls a transmission property of the device based on the signal strength of the satellite-based positioning system signal when a transmission power of the device at the transmission frequency satisfies the threshold. The device may also determine that reception of the satellite-based positioning system signal by the second device is likely to be affected by a transmission from the device at a transmission power that satisfies the threshold and control the transmission property when reception of the satellite-based positioning system signal is likely to be affected.
US09780882B2
An optical transmitter module that generates a signal multiplexing two or more optical signals each having optical power satisfying a preset magnitude is disclosed. The optical transmitter module includes laser diodes (LD), adjusting lenses coupled with the LDs to generate dispersive optical outputs, and a concentrating lens that concentrates the dispersive optical beams onto a coupling fiber. A feature of the optical transmitter module is that the adjusting lenses are set closer to the LDs to adjust the optical power coupled with the coupling fiber.
US09780873B2
Techniques are disclosed for providing light-based communication (LCom) between a receiver device and one or more transmitting LCom-enabled luminaires. In accordance with some embodiments, LCom data to be transmitted may be allocated over multiple colors of light output by multiple LCom-enabled luminaires and transmitted in parallel across the multiple colors of light using a time division multiple access (TDMA) scheme. In some cases, the disclosed techniques can be used, for example, to allow for multiple LCom-enabled luminaires to communicate simultaneously over multiple active LCom channels with a single receiver device. In some instances, the disclosed techniques may be used, for example, to provide channel redundancy that facilitates successful completion of LCom data transmission when an LCom channel is broken. In some instances, the disclosed techniques may be used, for example, to provide more accurate positioning for indoor navigation.
US09780871B2
A monitored fiber optic patch panel system is disclosed. The system includes a unit controller and at least one patch panel unit. The unit controller includes a computer, a graphic display, and a Universal Serial Bus (USB) hub. The patch panel unit is connected to the USB hub and includes connectors configured to receive a corresponding optical fiber. Optical directional couplers are coupled to a corresponding one of the connectors, and photodiodes are positioned adjacent corresponding optical directional couplers to measure an optical power level conveyed on the corresponding optical fiber. A data acquisition device is connected to the photodiodes to capture data indicative of the optical power levels. A microcontroller is connected to the data acquisition device to store the data captured by the data acquisition device. The computer is configured to receive the stored data from the microcontroller, and to identify to which connectors optical fibers are connected.
US09780868B2
Apparatus (10) for an optical communications network has optical paths for optical traffic, and optical ports (20,40), one of which is an unused input port (20). A security monitoring system (30) has a blocking part (50) comprising an interface (51) coupled removably to the unused input port (20) to occupy it to prevent unauthorized access. A light source is optically coupled to the interface (51) such that, when the interface is coupled to the unused input port, light can be transmitted through the interface (51) into the unused input port (20). An optical detector (60) can detect light reflected back from the interface (51), and there is alarm circuitry (70) configured to output an alarm signal based on the detecting of the reflected light. This monitoring can help make the node more secure from interference such as the introduction of a noise signal. The system can be passive or active, and does not require a change in the installed node configuration and so can be added easily to existing infrastructure.
US09780862B2
An antenna structure includes a feed end, a ground end, a main radiator, a coupling portion, a matching circuit, a switching circuit, and a diplexer. The main radiator is coupled to the feed end. The coupling portion is coupled to the ground end and is spaced apart from the main radiator to allow current to flow from the main radiator to the coupling portion. The switching circuit is coupled to the ground end. The diplexer includes a first port, a second port, and a third port, the first port is coupled to the feed end, the second port is coupled to a transceiver via the matching circuit, and the third port is coupled to the transceiver. The diplexer separates high frequency current from low frequency current output from the feed end, the matching circuit and the switching circuit adjust the high frequency current and the low frequency current.
US09780844B2
The present invention relates to a system for providing distributed communication between communication terminals and a method for same. The method for providing distributed communication between communication terminals in a communication system includes the steps of: a first communication terminal receiving at least one first signal from at least one target communication device; the first communication terminal collecting at least one second signal that at least one second communication terminal receives from the at least one target communication device and at least one third signal that the at least one second communication terminal obtains by processing the at least one second signal in a preset processing scheme; and the first communication terminal combining the at least one first signal and the at least one second signal, or the at least one first signal and the at least one third signal.
US09780840B2
A power transmitter supplies an electric power signal to a wireless power receiver. A transmission antenna is configured to transmit the electric power signal, and to receive data from the wireless power receiver. The data includes personal data that indicates user-specific information with respect to the user of the wireless power receiver, in addition to control data to be used to control the wireless power transmitter. A driver drives the transmission antenna. A controller controls the driver according to the control data received via the transmission antenna, and acquires the personal data.
US09780831B2
Radio frequency (“RF”) signal amplifiers include an RF input, at least one RF output and communications paths therebetween. The communications paths include a downstream path that is configured to pass signals in a downstream frequency band, a first upstream path that is configured to pass signals in a first upstream frequency band that encompasses frequencies that are lower than the frequencies included within the downstream frequency band and a second upstream path that is configured to pass signals in a second upstream frequency band that encompasses frequencies that are between the frequencies included within the downstream frequency band and the frequencies included within the first upstream frequency band. These RF signal amplifiers further include a downstream power amplifier on the downstream path, a first upstream power amplifier on the first upstream path and a second upstream power amplifier on the second upstream path.
US09780795B2
A source-synchronous clocking signal is sampled by an edge sampler triggered by a phase-adjusted version of the clocking signal. The output of the edge sampler is used as a phase-error indicator for a filtered feedback loop that aligns the phase-adjusted clocking signal to minimize, on average, the difference between the received source-synchronous clocking signal and the phase-adjusted version of the clocking signal minus the setup time of the sampler. This forms a delay-locked loop configuration. The phase adjustment information used to produce the aligned phase-adjusted clocking signal is then to produce a receiver clocking signal that is used to sample the source-synchronous data signal.
US09780786B2
Apparatuses and methods for standby current control of a signal path in a semiconductor device are described. An example apparatus includes: first and second logic gates coupled in series; a first circuit coupled between the first logic gate and a power supply line that activates the first logic gate responsive to a first control signal; and a second circuit coupled between the second logic gate and the power supply line that activates the second logic gate responsive to a second control signal that is different from the first control signal.
US09780784B2
Described are on-die termination (ODT) systems and methods that facilitate high-speed communication between a driver die and a receiver die interconnected via one or more signal transmission lines. An ODT control system in accordance with one embodiment calibrates and maintains termination resistances and drive currents to produce optimal output swing voltages. Comparison circuitry employed to calibrate the reference resistance is also used to calibrate the drive current. Termination elements in some embodiments are divided into two adjustable resistive portions, both of which are designed to minimize capacitive loading. One portion is optimized to produce a relatively high range of adjustment, while the other is optimized for fine-tuning and glitch-free switching.
US09780780B2
A target detection system may include a power supply and an inductor capacitor (LC) tank circuit. The LC tank circuit may include a sensing coil, a first tank capacitor, and a second tank capacitor. Further, the LC tank circuit may alternate between the first tank capacitor and the second tank capacitor, and the power supply may power the LC tank circuit. The target detection system may further include measurement circuitry to measure a first decay characteristic of a first set of free oscillations from the first tank capacitor and a second decay characteristic of a second set of free oscillations from the second tank capacitor. Additionally, the target detection system may also include processing circuitry to compare the first decay characteristic to the second decay characteristic to determine a presence and a distance of a target.
US09780778B2
An RF switch circuit and method for switching RF signals that may be fabricated using common integrated circuit materials such as silicon, particularly using insulating substrate technologies. The RF switch includes switching and shunting transistor groupings to alternatively couple RF input signals to a common RF node, each controlled by a switching control voltage (SW) or its inverse (SW_), which are approximately symmetrical about ground. The transistor groupings each comprise one or more insulating gate FET transistors connected together in a “stacked” series channel configuration, which increases the breakdown voltage across the series connected transistors and improves RF switch compression. A fully integrated RF switch is described including control logic and a negative voltage generator with the RF switch elements. In one embodiment, the fully integrated RF switch includes an oscillator, a charge pump, CMOS logic circuitry, level-shifting and voltage divider circuits, and an RF buffer circuit.
US09780773B2
Provided is a load drive slope control device that can reduce EMI noise, and power loss and heat generation when a drive transistor is turned on and off, and can prevent excessive high temperature-induced damage to the drive transistor at an excessive high temperature. Disclosed is a load drive control device including: a drive transistor that drives a load; a pre-driver that drives the drive transistor via an ON/OFF control terminal of the drive transistor; a capacitor that is connected to an input side of the pre-driver, a first current source that is ON/OFF controlled by a first signal, and generates current which is charged to the capacitor; and a second current source that is ON/OFF controlled by a second signal, and generates current for discharging the capacitor, in which an output voltage from the pre-driver is changed by charging or discharging the capacitor, the drive transistor is turned on and off by the output voltage from the pre-driver, and a linear ascending gradient and a linear descending gradient of the waveform of a voltage driving the load are obtained by turning on and off the drive transistor.
US09780772B2
A power supply device is provided. The power supply device includes a power transistor, a detection circuit and a driving circuit. The power transistor is controlled by the driving circuit to generate an output current. A first end of the power transistor is coupled to a power voltage pin through a first bonding wire. A second end of the power transistor is configured to output the output current. The detection circuit is coupled between two ends of the first bonding wire to detect the output current and generate a control signal. The driving circuit generates a driving signal according to the control signal. When the output current value is larger than or equal to an over-current-protection current value, the driving circuit starts to adjust a voltage value of the driving signal, such that the output current value is kept at the over-current-protection current value.
US09780766B1
The techniques of this disclosure may digitally generate a driver signal with a period (or frequency) at a finer resolution than can be achieved by simply counting clock cycles of a system clock. The driver signal may be configured to trigger based on single output clock signal that may be phase-shifted relative to the master system clock. A clock phase shift circuit may increment the phase shift of the output clock signal to any fraction relative to the master system clock. A driver signal generated based on the phase-shifted output clock may achieve the high resolution in frequency desirable when controlling some pulse-width modulated circuits, such as an LLC converter.
US09780758B2
An apparatus includes a carrier substrate, a ferrite core, a first set of wire windings, a second set of wire windings, a third set of wire windings, and a fourth set of wire windings. The ferrite core is attached to the carrier substrate. The first set of wire windings, the second set of wire windings, the third set of wire windings, and the fourth set of wire windings pass through the ferrite core and between the ferrite core and the carrier substrate to which the ferrite core is attached.
US09780752B2
An assembly includes an analog signal processing unit. An analog signal path and an amplifier an automatic gain control unit are coupled to the signal path. Further to the output of the amplified analog signal, a gain information is provided as an analog or digital signal at a gain information output. This information can be used for further processing the signal, e.g., by automatic noise compression or to control further signal processing units.
US09780749B2
A radio module may be configured to receive a starter motor relay signal from a first control module indicative of a motor start. The module may in turn mute a sound device associated with the radio module and upon receiving a delayed accessory signal from a second control module indicative of a delayed accessory trigger, un-mute the sound device in response to receiving the delayed accessory signal.
US09780744B2
A transmit circuit for sending and/or receiving at least one single-ended signal and for sending a differential signal on two transmission lines, including: a differential amplifier for sending signal parts of a differential signal via the two transmission lines, two impedance matching resistances that are situated between the transmission lines, connected in series, for the impedance matching of the differential amplifier; a switch that is connected in series between the impedance matching resistances; at least one single-ended transmit amplifier for sending or receiving a single-ended signal via an associated one of the transmission lines, each of the at least one single-ended transmit amplifiers being connected to a terminal of the switch that is connected, via the corresponding impedance matching resistance to the associated transmission line.
US09780740B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe apparatuses, methods, and systems of front end module (FEM) having a feedback path that includes a passive attenuation network. The passive attenuation network may provide a feedback signal to a receive output port of the FEM that may be used as a basis for predistortion. Other embodiments may also be described and/or claimed.
US09780733B2
Radio frequency (RF) amplification devices are disclosed that include Doherty amplification circuits and methods of operating the same. In one embodiment, a Doherty amplification circuit includes a main carrier RF amplifier, a peaking RF amplifier, and a periodic quadrature coupler. To provide Doherty amplification, the peaking RF amplifier is configured to be deactivated while an RF signal is below a threshold level and is configured to be activated while the RF signal is above the threshold level. The periodic quadrature coupler is configured to combine a first RF split signal from the main carrier RF amplifier and a second RF split signal from the peaking RF amplifier into the RF signal, such that the RF signal is output from an output port while the peaking RF amplifier is activated. The periodic quadrature coupler allows the Doherty amplification circuit to provide broadband amplification in various RF communication bands.
US09780729B2
A signal frequency conversion circuit is configured to reduce power consumption and resource costs of the signal frequency conversion circuit. Embodiments of the present disclosure include a primary-stage frequency conversion module and at least one subsequent-stage frequency conversion module that is in series connection, where the primary-stage frequency conversion module includes a first filter and a numerically controlled oscillator NCO, and an output of the first filter is connected to an input of the NCO; each subsequent-stage frequency conversion module includes a second filter and a subsequent-stage frequency conversion unit, and an output of the second filter is connected to an input of the subsequent-stage frequency conversion unit; and an output of the NCO is connected to an input of a second filter in a first subsequent-stage frequency conversion module in the at least one subsequent-stage frequency conversion module in series connection.
US09780721B2
A solar panel assembly includes a solar panel having a frame and a solar harvesting surface held by the frame; and a shield assembly having a solar shield movable between an operating position and a shielding position and a heat sensitive element. The solar shield is configured to automatically assume the shielding position after the heat sensitive element reaches and/or exceeds an activation temperature.
US09780716B2
An electric drive system includes a permanent magnet machine having a rotor and a stator and a power converter electrically coupled to the permanent magnet machine and configured to convert a DC link voltage to an AC output voltage to drive the permanent magnet machine. The power converter includes a plurality of silicon carbide switching devices having a voltage rating that exceeds a peak line-to-line back electromotive force of the permanent magnet machine at a maximum speed of the permanent magnet machine.
US09780712B2
This invention is concerning a control apparatus for an AC rotary machine including: an AC rotary machine that includes a first winding and a second winding which have a phase difference; a first current detection unit that detects a current of the first winding; a second current detection unit that detects a current of the second winding; a control unit that calculates a first voltage command and a second voltage command on the basis of a detected current value; and a first detectability determination unit that determines a detectability of the current of the first winding, detected by the first current detection unit, on the basis of at least one of the voltage commands , wherein the control unit calculates the first voltage command and the second voltage command on the basis of the detected current value of the second winding when the current of the first winding is undetectable.
US09780709B2
The present disclosure is directed to a system and method for optimizing operation of a wind turbine. The method includes providing a voltage regulator between a power grid and the wind turbine. The voltage regulator is configured to control at least one voltage condition of the wind turbine. Another step includes monitoring, via one or more sensors, at least one operating condition and at least one voltage condition of the wind turbine. The method also includes comparing, via a controller, at least one of the operating condition or the voltage condition with a predetermined threshold to determine a margin-to-threshold ratio. Thus, a further step includes controlling the voltage regulator based on the comparison so as to maximize the margin-to-threshold ratio.
US09780707B2
A drive controller that controls a drive of a motor. The drive controller performs a collision force moderation control during a motor start time, during which a collision force in a collision between a shaft outwall with an impeller hole inwall for a positioning is moderated, by changing a power supply at a stage transition time of transiting from a position detection to a position determination. The maximum value of a first output value during a position detection time is set to be greater than a first threshold that at least causes a rotation number of the motor to yield a detectable induction voltage. A second output value during a position determination time is set to be lower than a second threshold that causes a wear or a breakage of an impeller by the collision force.
US09780700B2
A back electromotive force of a rotating motor is converted into a voltage for a load by driving, in accordance with a duty cycle, at least one switching circuit that couples the back electromotive force to a load through a rectifying circuit. An error signal is generated that is a difference between the load voltage and a reference voltage. The duty cycle is controlled as a function of the error signal to cause the load voltage to approach the reference voltage.
US09780698B2
The inventive concept discloses a piezoelectric energy harvesting array and a method of manufacturing the same. The manufacturing method may include forming a plurality of piezoelectric energy harvesting devices; connecting masses to one side of the piezoelectric energy harvesting devices and connecting the other side of the piezoelectric energy harvesting devices facing the masses to a base; and individually tuning a resonant frequency of each of the piezoelectric energy harvesting devices to prevent mismatch of resonant frequency when the masses vibrate.
US09780694B2
Provided is a power converter capable of reliably turning OFF a switching element before turn-OFF of a diode even with a fluctuation in rpm so as not to generate a backflow of a current. The power converter includes a diode ON-interval monitoring unit (18) configured to measure a change rate of a diode ON detection interval signal. When a diode ON detection interval change rate signal (S20) exhibits a decrease on a negative side and is smaller than a predetermined value (an absolute value thereof exceeds a predetermined value), an OFF-timing of the switching element is advanced by a predetermined value or larger, to thereby reliably turn OFF the switching element before the turn-OFF of the diode even with the fluctuation in rpm.
US09780684B2
A power converter includes: a circuit board having an insulating substrate and a plurality of wirings in the insulating substrate; and first and second switching elements on a first surface of the circuit board that are connected in series. The first switching element has first and second electrodes. The second switching element has a third electrode and a fourth electrode. The circuit board has a first wiring connected to the first electrode, a second wiring connected to the second and third electrodes, a third wiring connected to the fourth electrode, a fourth wiring as an output wiring connected to the third electrode, and a fifth wiring connected to the third wiring. The first, second, third and fourth wirings are arranged in order on the first surface, and the fifth wiring on a second surface opposite to the first surface is opposed to the first, second, and third wirings.
US09780680B2
A frequency-controlled power converter includes a power stage frequency response characterization circuit. A PWM input control value F_OL_CTL generates a PWM output control signal to drive the converter to a selected output voltage. F_OL_CTL is added to each of a set of periodic, incrementally time-sequenced discrete frequency deviation control values F_DEV(t) having a periodicity of F_RESP corresponding to a frequency at which a response of the power stage is to be measured. A resulting set of perturbed PWM input control values F_CTL_PTB(t) frequency-modulate the PWM output control signal and perturb the converter output voltage. A corresponding set of perturbed converter output voltage samples V_OUT_PTB(t) is cross-correlated to the set of F_CTL_PTB(t) to generate correlation components of V_OUT_PTB(t) and F_CTL_PTB(t). Real and imaginary components of a frequency response of the converter power stage are determined from the correlation components for each F_RESP and together form the power stage transfer function.
US09780678B2
A PWM controlled multi-phase resonant voltage converter may include a plurality of primary windings powered through respective half-bridges, and as many secondary windings connected to an output terminal of the converter and magnetically coupled to the respective primary windings. The primary or secondary windings may be connected such that a real or virtual neutral point is floating.
US09780676B2
A power converter circuit includes a switching circuit with at least one electronic switch, a capacitor configured to provide or receive a voltage with a predefined voltage level, at least one first inductor, and a snubber circuit. The snubber circuit includes at least one second inductor inductively coupled to the at least one first inductor and electrically coupled to the capacitor.
US09780675B2
A power converter is presented. The power converter includes a primary bridge unit coupled to a voltage source. Further, the power converter includes a secondary bridge unit coupled to a load. Also, the power converter includes a transformer disposed between the primary bridge unit and the secondary bridge unit and configured to magnetically couple the primary bridge unit to the secondary bridge unit. Additionally, the power converter includes a current sensor configured to measure instantaneous current flowing at an input terminal of the transformer. Furthermore, the power converter includes a cyclic state controller configured to receive the measured instantaneous current flowing at the input terminal of the transformer, and change a switching state of the power converter from a present switching state to a subsequent switching state based on the measured instantaneous current.
US09780674B2
An electrical circuit for providing electrical power for use in powering electronic devices, such as monitors, televisions, white goods, data centers, and telecom circuit boards, is described herein. The electrical circuit includes a voltage reduction circuit cell that includes a first capacitor, a second capacitor, a switching circuit, and a hold capacitor. The switching circuit includes a plurality of switching devices that are coupled to the first and the second capacitors for delivering power from an input terminal to an output terminal. The plurality of switching devices includes at least two switching devices that are coupled to ground. The voltage reduction circuit cell also includes a controller for operating the switching circuit in a plurality of operational modes to deliver an output power signal at a desired voltage level.
US09780668B2
A power supply configured to include a switch which performs a switching operation in accordance with a preset period in a standby mode, a transformer which supplies voltage from a primary side to a secondary side in response to the switching operation of the switch, and a constant-voltage controller which controls voltage supplied to the system by regulating the voltage at the secondary side of the transformer, the constant-voltage controller including a blocking diode which shuts off current flowing from an output of the power supply to the constant-voltage controller in an off-section of the switch. Thus, the power consumption is decreased in the off-section, thereby having an effect on reducing the standby power.
US09780663B2
A switched-mode power regulator circuit has four solid-state switches connected in series and a capacitor and an inductor that regulate power delivered to a load. The solid-state switches are operated such that a voltage at the load is regulated by repetitively (1) prefluxing the inductor then charging the capacitor causing an increased current to flow in the inductor and (2) prefluxing the inductor then discharging the capacitor causing increased current to flow in the inductor. The inductor prefluxing steps enable the circuit to provide increased output voltage and/or increased output current.
US09780658B2
An intermediate voltage circuit current converter having two current converter sections arranged in series on the direct voltage side is disclosed. The current converter section has a capacitor connected in parallel with two bridge modules that are connected in series with each other. The output of the current converter section is located on the series connection between the two bridge modules and the outputs of the two current converter sections are connected to a further bridge module. Each bridge modules comprises a series connection of two power semiconductor units. The intermediate potentials on the connection between the two power semiconductor units in each of the bridge modules are electrically connected to one another by a further capacitor, and the intermediate potential of the further bridge module provides the phase connection of the intermediate voltage circuit current converter for a given phase of the intermediate voltage circuit current converter.
US09780649B2
A method is provided for controlling a converter of the multiphase interleaving type. According to the method, there is detected when a change of the load applied to an output terminal of the converter occurs. All the phases of the converter are simultaneously turned off, and a driving interleaving phase shift is recovered so as to restart a normal operation of the converter. A controller for carrying out such a method is also provided.
US09780647B2
A circuit comprises a first circuit and a second circuit. The first circuit is configured to operate at a first-circuit supply voltage value, and to generate a first reference voltage value based on a voltage rated for transistors in a second circuit. The second circuit is configured to operate at a second-circuit supply voltage value, to receive a first signal and the first reference voltage value, and to clamp an input node of the second circuit based on the first reference voltage value. The second-circuit supply voltage value is less than the first-circuit supply voltage value. The first signal is configured to swing between a low voltage value and a voltage value higher than the second-circuit supply voltage value.
US09780645B2
A method and apparatus for converting DC input power to DC output power with reactive power control. The apparatus includes a plurality of flyback circuits, coupled in parallel, and a DC-AC inversion circuit coupled across an output of each flyback circuit of the plurality of flyback circuits. The apparatus also including a reactive power control circuit coupled to an output of one flyback circuit of the plurality of flyback circuits, and across an output of the DC-AC inversion circuit; and a controller operative to coordinate timing of switches in each flyback circuit of the plurality of flyback circuits and the reactive power control circuit to generate AC output power of a desired power factor.
US09780643B2
A power system for a marine ship includes a plurality of protection zones, wherein at least two protection zones are coupled to each other via at least one bus-tie converter. Each of the protection zones includes a plurality of direct current (DC) buses and a plurality of power converters. The bus-tie converter includes at least two converter legs coupled by at least one inductor. Each converter leg includes a first branch connected with a snubber circuit by an intermediate switching device. The first branch includes two outer switching devices and at least one inner switching device connected between the two outer switching devices. The snubber circuit includes a combination of a diode, a resistor and a capacitor. A controller controls the operation of the plurality of power converters and the at least one bus-tie converter.
US09780615B2
A motor winding structure includes a base plate is disclosed. The base plate includes a board having a winding unit. The winding unit includes a plurality of coils formed on the surface of the board by electroforming or layout. Each coil has a center, and includes an inner end adjacent to the center and an outer end distant to the center. Two adjacent coils are connected to each other via the inner ends. The winding unit further includes an insulating layer and a conducting layer. The inner ends of the two coils are connected to an electrical connection pad. The insulating layer is arranged on the board. The two adjacent coils are covered by the insulating layer. The conducting layer extends through the insulating layer and is connected to the electrical connection pads of the two coils. The two coils are connected to each other via the inner ends.
US09780610B2
A rotor includes first and second rotor cores, a field magnet, and an annular magnet. The first and second rotor cores each include a core base and core magnetic poles. The core magnetic poles are provided on an outer peripheral portion of the core base at equal intervals. The core bases are faced with each other. The core magnetic poles are alternately arranged in a peripheral direction. The annular magnet is a resin molding product including a magnetic pole magnet portion and an inter-pole magnet portion. The annular magnet has a non-contact portion not in contact with the first and second rotor cores. A gate mark portion in injection molding of the annular magnet is arranged in the non-contact portion.
US09780604B1
A wireless sensor assembly that includes a battery pack and a wireless sensor. The battery pack is placed in spaced relation to the wireless sensor and inductively powers the wireless sensor utilizing primary and secondary resonant coils presented within the battery pack and wireless sensor. The wireless sensor additionally has super capacitors therein to continue to operate the wireless sensor during the changing of the battery pack.
US09780602B2
A system of monitoring and/or maintaining remotely located autonomously powered lights, security systems, parking meters, and the like is operable to receive data signals from a number of the devices, and provide a comparison with other similar devices in the same geographic region to detect a default condition of a particular device, and/or assess whether the defect is environmental or particular to the specific device itself. The system includes memory for storing operating parameters and data, and outputs modified control commands to the devices in response to sensed performance, past performance and/or self-learning algorithms. The system operates to provide for the monitoring and/or control of individual device operating parameters on an individual or regional basis, over preset periods.
US09780592B2
A controlling and computing portion for controlling charge or discharge of a secondary battery comprises an operation mode setting portion for selectively setting a high capacity mode using a first voltage or a long life mode using a second voltage lower than the first voltage, a remaining capacity calculating portion for calculating a relative state of charge from a remaining capacity of the secondary battery and a full charge capacity, a cycle number calculating portion for calculating a cycle number from a calculation result of the remaining capacity calculating portion, and a charge end voltage setting portion for decreasing the first voltage based on the cycle number, and setting the second voltage at a voltage left by subtracting a predetermined voltage from the first voltage in a case where the first voltage becomes equal to or less than a voltage obtained by adding a predetermined value to the second voltage.
US09780586B2
The invention relates to a device (100) for charging an electric energy store (B) from a three-phase AC voltage source (W1, W2, W3), having, in each phase of the AC voltage source (W1, W2, W3):—a step-down converter (TS1 . . . TS3) with a switch (STS1 . . . STS3);—a diode (FLD) connected in parallel to the step-down converter (TS1 . . . TS3); and—a converter (U) which is connected to the step-down converter (TS1 . . . TS3) and which comprises at least one first half bridge (H1) with two serially connected switches (S1, S2), an inductor (L4) being connected between a connection point of the two switches (S1, S2) of the first half bridge (H1) and the step-down converter (TS1 . . . TS3);—wherein a current direction across the inductor (L4) is set by means of a rectifier (D11 . . . D33) in the step-down converter (TS1 . . . TS3); and—the switches (STS1 . . . STS3) of the step-down converter (TS1 . . . TS3) and at least one second switch (S2) of the first half bridge (H1) of the converter (U) can be switched by means of a controller (10) dependent on the voltages of the AC voltage source (W1, W2, W3) and a current flowing through the inductor (L4) such that a current drawn from the AC voltage source (W1, W2, W3) in order to charge the electric energy store (B) can be generated in such a manner that a substantially sinusoidal current is drawn from each phase of the AC voltage source (W1, W2, W3), the current and the corresponding voltage of the AC voltage source (W1, W2, W3) being substantially in phase in each said phase.
US09780582B2
A protective system for an electric unit operated by an installable battery pack includes: a control device configured to activate the electric unit in the case of the installed battery pack by operating a main switch; a contact device of the electric unit and a contact device of the battery pack including mutually complementary contact elements, which in each case form a first and a second interface for producing a first and a second electrical connection between the electric unit and the battery pack. In this instance, the contact devices are configured, during the installing of the battery pack, to produce the first electrical connection before the second electrical connection in time.
US09780581B2
Embodiments include a portable rechargeable battery pack, system, and external adapter that allow the portable rechargeable battery pack to both power a host device though a set of host contacts and provide power through a set of charging contacts. The portable rechargeable battery pack includes a charge protection circuit that prevents an excessive discharge current through the charging contacts and allows high charge current when charging the portable rechargeable battery pack. A discharge circuit allows a low level discharge current through the charging contacts to provide power to other devices.
US09780580B1
A battery pack for an electro-optical reader includes a rechargeable battery and a printed circuit board (PCB), both mounted in a battery housing. First and second electrical connectors are supported by the same PCB and/or the battery housing. The first electrical connector is connected to reader contacts in the reader when the battery pack is mounted in the reader. The second electrical connector is either connected to station contacts in a docking station when the reader is docked, or to a recharging cable.
US09780579B2
A mobile charging station includes a plurality of drawers, an off-the-grid power source and a fastening element. Each of the drawers is configured to allow for secure storage of a mobile device and includes a charging lead and a charging circuit configured to connect to the charging lead and to charge the mobile device connected to the charging lead. The power source is coupled to the plurality of drawers and configured to provide electricity to the charging circuit for charging the mobile device connected to the charging lead. The fastening element is coupled to the plurality of the drawers and configured to secure the charging station to a facility to reduce a possibility of unauthorized removal.
US09780577B2
Provided is an electric power supply control device for an electric power supply apparatus including a plurality of storage batteries and an electric power generator performing charging of the plurality of storage batteries, the electric power supply control device controlling a parallel connection between the plurality of storage batteries. Voltage adjustment by one of a) charging processing by electric power feeding from the electric power generator to the storage battery having the lowest output voltage among the plurality of storage batteries and b) discharging processing by electric power feeding from the storage battery having the highest output voltage among the plurality of storage batteries to a load circuit connected to the storage battery having the highest output voltage is performed. Parallel connection is performed in a case where output voltage difference between the plurality of storage batteries becomes equal to or less than a previously-determined threshold.
US09780571B2
Disclosed herein are methods and systems for providing a ballast load for a magnetic resonance power source. One embodiment takes the form of a magnetic resonance power source that includes a source coil, a load-detection module, a tunable ballast coil circuit, and a controller programmed to carry out a set of functions. The set of functions includes obtaining, via the load-detection module, an estimated load on the source coil. The set of functions also includes decreasing the power received by the tunable ballast coil circuit from the source coil when the estimated load on the source coil is greater than a desired load on the source coil. The set of functions also includes increasing the power received by the tunable ballast coil circuit from the source coil when the estimated load on the source coil is less than the desired load on the source coil.
US09780569B2
A device for electrical energy supply and/or data supply of end devices using inductive coupling includes an oblong holding device and a number of adjacently arranged transmitting coils that generate magnetic field lines along the holding device. Structurally narrow end devices have flat receiving coils whose plane is oriented perpendicular to the longitudinal extension of the holding device.
US09780548B1
A cable support device includes a body having a first bracket and a cap having a first hinge. The cable support device further includes a transition piece disposed between the body and the cap. The transition piece includes an integrally formed body portion and oppositely-facing cap portion. The body portion has an inner surface defining a body portion groove extending longitudinally from a first end to an opposite end of the body portion. The body portion further includes a second bracket. The cap portion has an inner surface defining a cap portion groove extending longitudinally from a first end to an opposite end of the cap portion. The cap portion further includes a second hinge.
US09780547B2
Fixture including a band and a holding member enables a long-size object to be held on a mounting member regardless of the holding member thickness. With the locking member on one side of the mounting member, one end of the band extends through a slot in the mounting member and through a first through-slot of the holding member, a contact surface of the holding member abuting the mounting member. The band extends around the long-size object held on a holding member holding surface, and through a second through-slot to a surface away from the holding surface and the abutting surface.
US09780545B2
A mounting bracket for a junction box includes a face plate, a first leg extending from the face plate, a second leg extending from the face plate, and a leg connector extending between and interconnecting the first and second legs.
US09780541B1
A splice case alignment cutout is provided. The splice case alignment cutout may include a body having an interior surface and an outer surface. The body may be configured to have a length and a width, wherein the body is configured to releasably attach to one of a left side distal end or right side distal end of a back cover member. The splice case alignment cutout may further include an endplate seating channel spanning the length of the body along the interior surface of the body. The endplate seating channel may be configured to allow a rim of an endplate to seat into the interior surface of the frame. When the endplate is seated in the endplate seating channel and releasably attached to the back cover member, the endplate seating channel may be configured to align the endplate with respect to the back cover member.
US09780540B2
A duct rod system to be pushed in a conduit of a defined configuration for installing an elongated element in the conduit and comprising at least one rod having a flexible main body, the flexible main body having a bending stiffness arrangement defined in relation to the defined configuration of the conduit to permit a friction reduction of the flexible main body in the conduit.
US09780535B2
A spark plug having a ground electrode, a noble metal tip having a front end that projects forward of a front end portion of the ground electrode, and a center electrode. When S1 represents an area of an overlap region in which a region onto which the center electrode is projected overlaps a region onto which the noble metal tip is projected when the center electrode and the noble metal tip are projected onto an imaginary plane perpendicular to a center line of the center electrode, and S2 represents an area of an overlap region in which a region onto which the noble metal tip is projected overlaps a region onto which the ground electrode is projected when the noble metal tip and the ground electrode are projected onto the imaginary plane, 0.22≦S1/S2≦0.68 is satisfied.
US09780533B2
An ESD protective device is provided which can lower a discharge start voltage. In an ESD protective device 1, first and second discharge electrodes 3 and 4 are disposed in a substrate 2 in a spaced relation with a discharge gap G interposed therebetween, and a conductor 9 is arranged around the discharge gap G. The conductor 9 has a nonlinear sectional shape in a section of the substrate 2 extending in a direction interconnecting a first principal surface 2a and a second principal surface 2b of the substrate 2 and passing the discharge gap G.
US09780531B2
A laser assembly for generating an output beam includes a first module assembly, a second module assembly, and a module fastener assembly. The second module assembly is selectively movable relative to the first module assembly to selectively adjust a cavity length, and a pivot axis of a grating in the laser. Further, an arm assembly that retains the grating can be adjusted to adjust the cavity length, and to adjust the plane of the grating face. Moreover, the grating is movable relative to the arm assembly to align the grating.
US09780518B2
Apparatuses and methods are disclosed for applying laser energy having desired pulse characteristics, including a sufficiently short duration and/or a sufficiently high energy for the photomechanical treatment of skin pigmentations and pigmented lesions, both naturally-occurring (e.g., birthmarks), as well as artificial (e.g., tattoos). The laser energy may be generated with an apparatus having a resonator with the capability of switching between a modelocked pulse operating mode and an amplification operating mode. The operating modes are carried out through the application of a time-dependent bias voltage, having waveforms as described herein, to an electro-optical device positioned along the optical axis of the resonator.
US09780517B2
First and second electrical connectors are configured to be supported by each other prior to being mated to at least one complementary electrical connector. The at least one complementary electrical connector can be a common third electrical connector. The first electrical connector can be configured to be mounted onto a first electrical component of a first type. The second electrical connector can be configured to be mounted onto a second electrical component of a second type that is different than the first type. For instance, one of the first and second electrical components can be a printed circuit board, and the other of the first and second electrical components can include a plurality of electrical cables.
US09780513B2
The lifetime of sliding contact surface(s) of a precious metal or a precious metal alloy can be enhanced by embedding at least one nano-particle in the layer forming the sliding contact surface(s).
US09780512B2
A card edge connector includes an insultive housing, a plurality of conductive terminals retained in the insultive housing and a metal frame retained in the insultive housing. The insultive housing defines two sidewalls extending along a longitudinal direction and two endwalls connected to the longitudinal ends of the sidewalls. The metal frame is integrally formed in the insulative housing and defines an elongated flat portion and a pair of fixing portions extending downwardly from both longitudinal ends of the flat portion, the flat portion is embedded into an upper portion of the insulative housing.
US09780508B2
The invention relates to a test cable as well as a socket adapter for a test cable wherein the socket adapter has a plug strip with contact pins arranged at a distance from each other on a base body and having a socket contact section and a printed circuit board contact section and has a contact holding plate connected with the base body with individual through holes delimiting the printed circuit board contact sections from each other, each of which are designed for the fixed receiving of a lug arranged on a lead end.
US09780497B1
Combined connector receptacles, examples of which comprise tongues configured to be aligned to openings in a device enclosure; EMI shield contact rails, a central ground plane, a connector receptacle shield to provide isolation between the individual connector receptacles to reduce signal noise; and organizers and other structures arranged to reduce or eliminate damage to through-hole contact portions during their insertion into corresponding openings in a printed circuit board.
US09780492B1
Disclosed is an improved structure of an electrical connector, which includes an upper transmission conductor assembly including an upper grounding terminal assembly and an upper power terminal assembly; and a lower transmission conductor assembly including a lower grounding terminal assembly and a lower power terminal assembly, each of which defines soldering sections, extension sections, and contact sections. The soldering sections have a width between 0.35 mm and 0.45 mm and a thickness between 0.1 mm and 0.2 mm. The extension sections have a width between 0.35 mm and 0.45 mm and a thickness between 0.1 mm and 0.2 mm. The contact sections have a width between 0.285 mm and 0.295 mm and a thickness between 0.1 mm and 0.2 mm. As such, a need for supply of a large electrical current can be satisfied and noise interference can be prevented.
US09780489B2
A lock structure of a connector includes a lock arm and a lock release arm which are provided in one connector housing of a pair of connector housings which are fitted into each other. The lock arm is engaged with a lock engagement part of the other connector housing to lock a fitting state between the connector housings when fitting between the connector housings is completed. The lock release arm is formed integrally with the lock arm and can deflect the lock arm in a lock release direction. The lock release arm is provided above the lock arm.
US09780486B2
A connector includes a connector main member and an operation member. The operation member covers the connector main member at least in part in a plane perpendicular to a front-rear direction, The operation member is movable between a front limitation position and a rear limitation position. The operation member has, therein, a front regulating portion accommodation portion accommodating the front regulating portion, and an operated portion accommodation portion accommodating the operated portion. The front regulating portion accommodation portion is provided, therein, with a front regulated portion which is brought into abutment with the front regulating portion when the operation member is positioned at the front limitation position. When the operation member is moved to the rear limitation position, the operated portion accommodation portion is provided, therein, with an operating portion which presses the operated portion inward of the connector main portion and moves the lock portion to a released position.
US09780484B2
Magnetic connectors that may be readily manufactured and provide a high landed force and labels for magnetic connectors that may protect magnets or magnetic elements in the connectors, provide an aesthetically pleasing appearance, and improve the magnetic performance of the connectors. In various examples, power and signal paths may be formed using contacts that are separate from magnets or magnetic elements, paths may be formed using magnets or magnetic elements, or paths may be formed using a combination of contacts and magnets and magnetic elements. The magnets may have various arrangements. One or more magnets may be used in conjunction with magnetic elements. The interface surface of these magnets and magnetic elements may have various contours, such as flat, spline, or involute.
US09780469B2
A card connector is provided for receiving an inserted card module. The card connector includes a housing including a terminal holding portion for arranging terminals to make contact with electrode pads on the card module. Each terminal includes a base portion held by the terminal holding portion and a cantilevered arm portion extending from the base portion in an inclined direction relative to the transverse direction of the housing. Each arm portion includes a curved portion and a pair of inclined portions. The curved portion has a curved profile with a curved surface positioned so the center of curvature is positioned above. The inclined portions are inclined relative to the extension direction of the arm portion on both sides of the apex portion positioned at the free end. The inclined portions each have a different angle of inclination relative to the extension direction of the arm portion.
US09780468B2
A connector is mateable with an object along a front-rear direction. The connector comprises a housing, a shell and an additional member. The housing has a base portion and a body portion. The body portion extends forward from the base portion along the front-rear direction. The shell has a cylindrical portion which covers the body portion of the housing in a plane perpendicular to the front-rear direction. The cylindrical portion has a connected portion. The additional member is press-fit in the base portion of the housing and has a main portion and a connection portion. The connection portion of the additional member extends from the main portion along the front-rear direction and is welded to the connected portion of the shell. The body portion of the housing and the connection portion sandwich the connected portion in a perpendicular direction perpendicular to the front-rear direction.
US09780463B2
A surge protection device comprises at least one surge protection unit, consisting of a substantially U-shaped socket part and a plug part which can be fixed in the socket part and which receives a surge protector. Insulated electric conductors on or in the socket part are contacted by vampire taps or displacing terminals. The surge protection device also comprises openings or perforations formed in the socket part for receiving conductors. The openings are selectively designed so that the electric conductors are inserted into or through the openings, and the openings are exposed in a socket part region which can be covered by the socket part such that cutting surfaces located on the base of the plug part penetrate the conductor insulation during the plug-in process and directly contact the respective conductor.
US09780462B2
A crimp terminal includes: a terminal fitting having a terminal connecting portion electrically connected to a counterpart terminal and an electric wire connecting portion electrically connected by crimping to an end portion of an electric wire placed on an inner wall surface thereof; and a second water stop portion that is pasted on the inner wall surface of the electric wire connecting portion before crimping and that, after crimping, forms a second water stop area capable of suppressing water entry between the electric wire connecting portion and the core wire from the terminal connecting portion side with respect to the distal end position of the core wire at the distal end of the electric wire. The electric wire connecting portion has a core wire crimp portion crimped on the core wire at the distal end of the electric wire.
US09780450B2
An antenna device includes a feeder coil connected to a feeder circuit, a first conductor surface including a first slit that extends in a direction toward an outer edge and a second conductor surface including a second slit that extends in a direction toward an outer edge. The feeder coil is arranged at a position that is superposed with the first slit when viewed in plan, the feeder coil and the first conductor surface are magnetically coupled with each other, the first conductor surface and the second conductor surface are magnetically coupled with each other and the first slit and the second slit are arranged at positions so as to be partially superposed with each other when viewed in plan. At least a portion of the first slit is superposed with a portion of the second conductor surface other than the second slit when viewed in plan, and at least portion of the second slit is superposed with a portion of the first conductor surface other than the first slit when viewed in plan.
US09780434B1
A flexible microwave antenna having a “fish-scale” ground plane is provided. The approach represents a significant advance in the combined thickness and flexibility that can be achieved, especially when using relatively thick substrates which are important for optimum antenna performance. An increase in gain was observed when bent in a positive radius of curvature and further reduction of back radiation.
US09780427B2
The invention provides a bandpass filter, comprising: a substrate with a plurality of dielectric layers; a plurality of resonators; and a plurality of ground layers each having one slot arranged on; wherein the plurality of resonators are arrayed vertically each on respective one of the plurality of dielectric layers alternately without any of offsets, and each of the plurality of ground layers is between adjacent dielectric layers. Adjacent slots are arranged in opposite sides of the ground layers. The invention also provides a method of fabricating the bandpass filter.
US09780426B2
The present disclosure relates to a phase shifter, an accelerator, and an operating method therefor. The phase shifter comprises a rotating part having a first hollow structure, the first hollow structure having a first cavity, a distance between a circumference of the cross section of the first cavity and a rotation center of the rotating part changing periodically and continuously in a peripheral direction, such that when the rotatory part rotates, a phase shift occurs between two adjacent microwave pulses at an outlet of the phase shifter. The operating method comprises transmitting a microwave pulse within the accelerator at a repetitive frequency v Hertz; the driving devices drives the rotating part to rotate at a rotation speed of n RPM, wherein n=15v*m, m is an odd number, 1, 3, 5 . . . , such that when transmitting a microwave pulse each time, the long axis of the oval cross section of the first cavity of the rotatory part is rotated to a horizontal or vertical state.
US09780420B2
A battery assembly may include an array of battery cells, a conduit system, and an emitter. The conduit system delivers coolant for thermally communicating with the array and defines a channel with a flexible wall having dielectric particles. The emitter is located proximate the wall and programmed to selectively output a voltage or electric field to impart a dielectrically driven compression force on the particles to adjust a cross-sectional area of the channel to control a flow of the coolant therethrough. The channel may be a flexible resin-based tube including piezoelectric materials. The emitter may output a voltage to move the piezoelectric materials. The channel may be a flexible resin-based tube including materials having electrostriction properties. The emitter may output an electric field to move the materials having electrostriction properties.
US09780419B2
A method for retrieving active material from a galvanic cell is provided. The galvanic cell includes an active material, a support for the active material and a binder for bonding the active material and the support. The method includes the following steps: (a) crushing the cells, in particular under inert gas or in a vacuum, so that solid cell fragments are also formed, (b) heating the solid cell fragments up to the decomposition temperature (Tz), which is high enough to make the binder decompose so that it loses its binding properties, preferably under inert gas or in a vacuum, such that heat treated cell fragmented are formed, and (c) classifying the heat treated cell fragments, whereby (d) the classifying comprises air jet sieving and (e) the air jet sieving is carried out in such a way that the active material is separated from the support.
US09780409B2
The present invention is to provide: a nonaqueous-electrolyte battery excellent in terms of safety during overcharge and high-temperature storability; and a nonaqueous electrolytic solution which gives the battery. The present invention relates to a nonaqueous electrolytic solution comprising an electrolyte and a nonaqueous solvent, wherein the nonaqueous electrolytic solution comprises at least one of specific compounds.
US09780400B2
A fuel cell includes a membrane electrode assembly interposed between a cathode-side separator and an anode-side separator. A first gas diffusion layer included in a cathode is designed to have a planar size larger than a planar size of a second gas diffusion layer included in an anode. The anode-side separator has a thin clearance part in a portion that faces an outer peripheral portion of the second gas diffusion layer.
US09780397B2
There is provided a fuel cell system that generates an electric power by supplying an anode gas and a cathode gas to a fuel cell. The fuel cell system includes: auxiliary machines and a drive motor driven by the generated electric power of the fuel cell; a pressure control unit configured to control a pressure of the cathode gas to be supplied to the fuel cell at a normal target pressure, the normal target pressure being used for ensuring an oxygen partial pressure within the fuel cell in accordance with the generated electric power of the fuel cell; and a warming-up pressure control unit configured to control the pressure of the cathode gas to be supplied to the fuel cell to become a predetermined warm-up acceleration target pressure during warm-up of the fuel cell, the predetermined warm-up acceleration target pressure being higher than the normal target pressure. In a case where there is a request to drive the drive motor during the warm-up of the fuel cell, the warming-up pressure control unit controls the pressure of the cathode gas to be supplied to the fuel cell to a warm-up target pressure between the normal target pressure and the warm-up acceleration target pressure.
US09780388B2
A fuel cell includes an electrode assembly having an electrolyte between an anode and a cathode for generating an electric current and byproduct water. A porous plate is located adjacent to the electrode and includes reactant gas channels for delivering a reactant gas to the electrode assembly. A separator plate is located adjacent the porous plate such that the porous plate is between the electrode assembly and the separator plate. The separator plate includes a reactant gas inlet manifold and a reactant gas outlet manifold in fluid connection with the reactant gas channels, and a purge manifold in fluid connection with the porous plate such that limiting flow of the reactant gas from the reactant gas outlet manifold and opening the purge manifold under a pressure of the reactant gas in the reactant gas channels drives the byproduct water toward the purge manifold for removal from the fuel cell.
US09780386B2
A composite for a lithium air battery, wherein the composite is represented by Formula 1: MCxN(1−x) Formula 1 wherein M in Formula 1 is at least one selected from a metal element and a metalloid element, and 0
US09780382B2
The invention relates to a fuel cell having superior durability by suppressing a reaction between a component contained in a solid electrolyte and an oxygen-side electrode during a long-period operation, a fuel cell stack and a fuel cell apparatus using thereof. A fuel cell (10) includes a solid electrolyte (9) containing Zr, an intermediate layer (4) and an oxygen-side electrode (1) that are disposed in this order on one surface of the solid electrolyte (9), and a fuel-side electrode (7) disposed on another surface opposed to the oxygen-side electrode (1) of the solid electrolyte (9). The intermediate layer (4) includes a surface layer region (4a) that contains Zr and is on a side of the solid electrolyte (9), and another region (4b) except the surface layer region (4a) that does not contain Zr. Accordingly, it is possible to suppress a reaction between Zr and the oxygen-side electrode (1) and suppress power generation performance degradation of the fuel cell (10).
US09780368B2
A lithium-ion secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode containing an active material, and an electrolytic solution, in which the active material contains, as constituent elements, Si, O, and at least one element M1 selected from Li, C, Mg, Al, Ca, Ti, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Ge, Zr, Mo, Ag, Sn, Ba, W, Ta, Na, and K, and the atomic ratio x (O/Si) of O to Si is 0.5≦x≦1.8.
US09780367B2
Disclosed herein is a non-carbon-based anode active material for lithium secondary batteries, including: a core containing silicon (Si); and silicon nanoparticles formed on the surface of the core. The non-carbon-based anode active material is advantageous in that the increase in the volume expansion during charging-discharging can be prevented by the application of silicon nanoparticles, and in that SiOx(x<1.0) can be easily prepared.
US09780364B2
In order to provide an inexpensive product composed of a porous carbon provided with electrochemical active material, said product being suitable particularly for use as a cathode or anode material for a secondary battery, a process comprising the following process steps is proposed: (a) producing a template from inorganic material by gas phase deposition, said template comprising a framework of pores and nanoparticles joined to one another, (b) coating the template framework with an electrochemical active material or a precursor thereof, (c) infiltrating the pores of the template with a precursor substance for carbon, (d) carbonizing the precursor substance to form a carbon layer, (f) removing the template.
US09780362B2
Electrodes made with a matrix selectively loaded with particular active particles provide uniform distribution and reduce issues due to particle expansion. The electrode has a current collector, a separator and a matrix having first pores having a first size and second pores having a second size, the first size being larger than the second size, the second pores being uniformly distributed throughout the matrix; first active particles deposited in the first pores, the first active particles having a first particle size smaller than the first pores and larger than the second pores; and second active particles deposited in the second pores, the second active particles having a second particle size smaller than the second pores.
US09780359B2
Disclosed are a method of manufacturing an electrode for secondary batteries that includes surface-treating a current collector so as to have a morphology wherein a surface roughness Ra of 0.001 μm to 10 μm is formed over the entire surface thereof to enhance adhesion between an electrode active material and the current collector and an electrode for secondary batteries that is manufactured using the method.
US09780358B2
Improved high energy capacity designs for lithium ion batteries are described that take advantage of the properties of high specific capacity anode active compositions and high specific capacity cathode active compositions. In particular, specific electrode designs provide for achieving very high energy densities. Furthermore, the complex behavior of the active materials is used advantageously in a radical electrode balancing design that significantly reduced wasted electrode capacity in either electrode when cycling under realistic conditions of moderate to high discharge rates and/or over a reduced depth of discharge.
US09780355B2
A method for preparing self-supporting flexible electrodes is provided using refined cellulose fibers as binder. The negative or positive self-supporting flexible electrode is obtained by such method. A Li-ion battery is also provided in which at least one electrode is a self-supporting flexible electrode.
US09780352B2
An energy storage device includes a positive electrode terminal, a first electrode body and a second electrode body, and a positive electrode current collector electrically connecting the positive electrode terminal and the first and second electrode bodies. The positive electrode current collector includes a terminal connection portion electrically connected to the positive electrode terminal, inner electrode body connection portions connected to the first and second electrode bodies, and a coupling portion extending from an end of the terminal connection portion and coupling the terminal connection portion and the inner electrode body connection portions. The coupling portion has a substantially trapezoidal shape with a width at a connection end with the end of the terminal connection portion being larger than a width at a connection end with the inner electrode body connection portions.
US09780350B2
A battery cell stack connector assembly includes a plurality of busbar modules. Each of the busbar modules has a module frame with a first side with a first connector and a second side with a second connector. Each module frame defines a module axis that extends from the first side to the second side. Each of the busbar modules also includes a busbar attached to the module frame. The plurality of busbar modules are connected to form a connector frame that defines a connector axis that extends from a first assembly side to a second assembly side. The module axes of the plurality of busbar modules are aligned with the connector axis. Also, the first connectors and second connectors are adapted so that each of the plurality of module frames is mated with and attached to respective adjacent module frames.
US09780349B2
A dendrite penetration-resistant layer for a rechargeable alkali metal battery, comprising an amorphous carbon or polymeric carbon matrix, an optional carbon or graphite reinforcement phase dispersed in this matrix, and a lithium- or sodium-containing species that are chemically bonded to the matrix and/or the optional carbon or graphite reinforcement phase to form an integral layer that prevents dendrite penetration through this integral layer in the alkali metal battery, wherein the lithium- or sodium-containing species is selected from Li2CO3, Li2O, Li2C2O4, LiOH, LiX, ROCO2Li, HCOLi, ROLi, (ROCO2Li)2, (CH2OCO2Li)2, Li2S, LixSOy, Na2CO3, Na2O, Na2C2O4, NaOH, NaiX, ROCO2Na, HCONa, RONa, (ROCO2Na)2, (CH2OCO2Na)2, Na2S, NaxSOy, or a combination thereof, wherein X=F, Cl, I, or Br, R= a hydrocarbon group, x=0-1, y=1-4; and wherein the lithium- or sodium-containing species is derived from an electrochemical decomposition reaction.
US09780346B2
Method for increasing safety when using bursting discs (BV), wherein the bursting disc (BV) is suitable for releasing gas in a controlled manner from battery systems (B), wherein a signal, in particular a warning signal, is generated in dependence upon the spatial change at least of one site on the surface of the bursting disc (BV).
US09780337B2
An organic light-emitting diode and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The organic light-emitting diode includes: a substrate (10) and a first light extraction layer (20), a first electrode layer (30), a light-emitting layer (40), a second electrode layer (50) and an encapsulation layer (70) that are sequentially disposed on the substrate, wherein the organic light-emitting diode further includes a second light extraction layer (60), and the second light extraction layer (60) is disposed adjacent to the encapsulation layer (70); the light-emitting layer (40) is an organic light-emitting layer and the first electrode layer (30) is an anode layer or a cathode layer and correspondingly the second electrode layer (50) is a cathode layer or an anode layer.
US09780312B2
A carbazole compound represented by Formula 1: wherein in Formula 1, groups and variables are the same as described in the specification.
US09780311B2
The present invention relates to compounds for use in electronic devices, preferably organic electroluminescent devices. The invention furthermore relates to processes for the preparation of these compounds and to electronic devices comprising these compounds, preferably in a function as matrix materials and/or as electron-transport materials.
US09780310B2
A novel heterocyclic compound for an organic electroluminescent device excellent in long service life and light-emitting characteristics is provided. A cyclic azine compound has at least one substituent (substituent B) selected from a specific group.
US09780305B2
Provided is a mask frame assembly for thin film deposition. The mask frame assembly includes a mask frame having an opening surrounded by the mask frame; and a support extending across the opening to support a mask on the mask frame. The support includes a support body, a plurality of ribs in the support body, and one or more patterned portions in spaces between the plurality of ribs, the one or more patterned portions having a different thickness than the ribs.
US09780298B2
According to one embodiment, a magnetoresistive element includes a recording layer having a variable magnetization direction, a reference layer having an invariable magnetization direction, an intermediate layer provided between the recording layer and the reference layer, and a first buffer layer provided on a surface of the recording layer, which is opposite to a surface of the recording layer where the intermediate layer is provided. The recording layer comprises a first magnetic layer which is provided in a side of the intermediate layer and contains CoFe as a main component, and a second magnetic layer which is provided in a side of the first buffer layer and contains CoFe as a main component, a concentration of Fe in the first magnetic layer being higher than a concentration of Fe in the second magnetic layer. The first buffer layer comprises a nitrogen compound.
US09780292B2
A piezoelectric bulk wave device that includes a piezoelectric thin plate that is made of LiTaO3, and first and second electrodes that are provided in contact with the piezoelectric thin plate. The piezoelectric bulk wave device utilizes the thickness shear mode of the piezoelectric thin plate made of LiTaO3, and of the Euler Angles (φ, θ, φ) of LiTaO3, φ is 0°, and θ is in the range of not less than 54° and not more than 107°.
US09780278B2
A method for converting heat to electric energy is described which involves thermally cycling an electrically polarizable material sandwiched between electrodes. The material is heated by extracting thermal energy from a gas to condense the gas into a liquid and transferring the thermal energy to the electrically polarizable material. An apparatus is also described which includes an electrically polarizable material sandwiched between electrodes and a heat exchanger for heating the material in thermal communication with a heat source, wherein the heat source is a condenser. An apparatus is also described which comprises a chamber, one or more conduits inside the chamber for conveying a cooling fluid and an electrically polarizable material sandwiched between electrodes on an outer surface of the conduit. A gas introduced into the chamber condenses on the conduits and thermal energy is thereby transferred from the gas to the electrically polarizable material.
US09780275B2
A method for manufacturing a light emitting device includes preparing a light emitting element that includes a light transmissive substrate comprising a first main surface, a second main surface, and a side surface having a light transmitting part and a light absorbing part whose optical transmissivity is lower than that of the light transmitting part, and a semiconductor laminate that is provided to the first main surface of the light transmissive substrate, joining the light emitting element to an upper surface of a base body such that the base body is opposite to the side where the semiconductor laminate is provided, providing a support member that covers the side surface of the light emitting element and part of the base body, and removing the light absorbing part by thinning the light transmissive substrate from the second main surface side.
US09780273B2
An optoelectronic component includes a carrier substrate; at least one light emitting semiconductor chip arranged on a surface of the carrier substrate; and a frame part at least laterally partly surrounding the light emitting semiconductor chip; and comprising an injection-molded body, and wherein the frame part includes an injection-molded body and a diaphragm part, the diaphragm part including a protuberance enclosed by the injection-molded body.
US09780272B2
Disclosed are a light-emitting diode and a method for manufacturing a light-emitting diode. The method includes: a base layer; a circuit layer formed on the base layer; a light-emitting chip formed on the circuit layer; electrode pads formed on the base layer and electrically connected to the light-emitting chip so that the electrode pads and the circuit layer and the light-emitting chip are spaced from each other by first spacing distances and the electrode pads and the circuit layer and the light-emitting chip define therebetween first grooves, where an altitude of the electrode pad is equal to an altitude of the light-emitting chip; and a phosphor powder contained package layer formed on the light-emitting chip and the electrode pads and filled into the first grooves between the electrode pads and the circuit layer to form a uniform dome shape.
US09780265B2
The invention relates to an optoelectronic semiconductor component (1) comprising:—an optoelectronic semiconductor chip (2), comprising—a growth substrate (21) having a growth surface (21a),—a layer sequence (22) with a semiconductor layer sequence (221, 222, 223) with an active zone (222) grown on the growth surface (21a),—contact points (29) for electrically contacting the semiconductor layer sequence (221, 222, 223) and—and insulation layer (26), which is formed in an electrically insulting manner—a connection carrier (4), which is mounted to the cover surface (2a) of the optoelectronic semiconductor chip facing away from the growth surface (21a), wherein—the semiconductor layer sequence (221, 222, 223) is connected to the connection carrier (4) in an electrically conducting manner and—a conversion layer (5) is applied to a bottom surface (21c) of the growth substrate (21) facing away from the growth surface (21a) and to all side surfaces (21b) of the growth substrate (21).
US09780264B2
The present application discloses a light-emitting element comprising a semiconductor light-emitting stack emitting a first light which has a first color coordinate, a first wavelength conversion material on the semiconductor light-emitting stack converting the first light to emit a second light, and a second wavelength conversion material on the first wavelength conversion material converting the second light to emit a third light. The first light and the second light are mixed to be a fourth light having a second color coordinate. The third light and the fourth light are mixed to be a fifth light having a third color coordinate, and the second color coordinate locates at the top right of the first color coordinate and the third color coordinate locates at the top right of the second color coordinate.
US09780257B1
A method of preparing a quantum dot layer, including: placing an anodic aluminum oxide sheet with a plurality of through holes on a substrate; dispersing quantum dots into the plurality of through holes of the anodic aluminum oxide sheet; and removing the anodic aluminum oxide sheet to form a quantum dot layer.
US09780250B2
An improved method of doping a workpiece is disclosed. The method is particularly beneficial to the creation of interdigitated back contact (IBC) solar cells. A patterned implant is performed on one surface of the workpiece. A self-aligned masking process is then performed, which is achieved by exploiting the changes in surface properties caused by the patterned implant. The masking process includes applying a coating that preferentially adheres to the previously implanted regions. A blanket implant is then performed, which serves to implant the portions of the workpiece that are not covered by the coating. Thus, the blanket implant is actually a complementary implant, doping the regions that were not implanted by the first patterned implant. The coating is then optionally removed from the workpiece.
US09780248B2
Avalanche photodiodes (APDs) having at least one top stressor layer disposed on a germanium (Ge) absorption layer are described herein. The top stressor layer can increase the tensile strain of the Ge absorption layer, thus extending the absorption of APDs to longer wavelengths beyond 1550 nm. In one embodiment, the top stressor layer has a four-layer structure, including an amorphous silicon (Si) layer disposed on the Ge absorption layer; a first silicon dioxide (SiO2) layer disposed on the amorphous Si layer, a silicon nitride (SiN) layer disposed on the first SiO2 layer, and a second SiO2 layer disposed on the SiN layer. The Ge absorption layer can be further doped by p-type dopants. The doping concentration of p-type dopants is controlled such that a graded doping profile is formed within the Ge absorption layer to decrease the dark currents in APDs.
US09780245B2
It is an object of the present invention to easily and inexpensively provide a structure of effectively utilizing a light incident on an invalid area of a solar cell. Moreover, it is another object to improve output characteristics of the solar cell by effectively utilizing the light. The gist of the present invention resides in a solar battery module in which plate-like solar cells are held between a light penetrable sheet member on a light receiving surface side and a sheet member on a back surface side, and internal apertures are filled. with a sealing resin, wherein a light diffusion section for diffusely reflecting a light or a light diffusion section of a white color is arranged in an invalid region of each solar cell.
US09780242B2
A polymer substrate and back contact structure for a photovoltaic element, and a photovoltaic element include a CIGS photovoltaic structure, a polymer substrate having a device side at which the photovoltaic element can be located and a back side opposite the device side. A layer of dielectric is optionally formed at the back side of the polymer substrate. A metal structure is formed at the device side of the polymer substrate.
US09780227B2
According to one embodiment, a thin-film transistor and a method of manufacturing the thin-film transistor provided herein achieve enhanced reliability by preventing a disconnection in a gate insulating film at a position corresponding to an end surface of an oxide semiconductor layer. The oxide semiconductor layer includes a channel region, a source region, and a drain region. The channel region is placed between the source region and the drain region. The gate insulating film covers the oxide semiconductor layer in a range from at least a part of an upper surface to an end surface continuous with the upper surface of the oxide semiconductor layer. The oxide semiconductor layer is formed so as to have an oxygen concentration that becomes lower from a top side to a bottom side and the end surface is inclined so as to diverge from the top side to the bottom side.
US09780226B2
Provided is a transistor with small parasitic capacitance or high frequency characteristics or a semiconductor device including the transistor. An oxide semiconductor film includes a first region in contact with a first conductive film, a second region in contact with a first insulating film, a third region in contact with a third insulating film, a fourth region in contact with a second insulating film, and a fifth region in contact with a second conductive film. The first insulating film is positioned over the first conductive film and the oxide semiconductor film. The second insulating film is positioned over the second conductive film and the oxide semiconductor film. The third insulating film is positioned over the first insulating film, the second insulating film, and the oxide semiconductor film. The third conductive film and the oxide semiconductor film partly overlap with each other with the third insulating film provided therebetween.
US09780225B2
A semiconductor device capable of high speed operation is provided. Further, a semiconductor device in which change in electric characteristics due to a short channel effect is hardly caused is provided. An oxide semiconductor having crystallinity is used for a semiconductor layer of a transistor. A channel formation region, a source region, and a drain region are formed in the semiconductor layer. The source region and the drain region are formed by self-aligned process in which one or more elements selected from Group 15 elements are added to the semiconductor layer with the use of a gate electrode as a mask. The source region and the drain region can have a wurtzite crystal structure.
US09780217B2
Non-planar semiconductor devices having self-aligned fins with top blocking layers and methods of fabricating non-planar semiconductor devices having self-aligned fins with top blocking layers are described. For example, a semiconductor structure includes a semiconductor fin disposed above a semiconductor substrate and having a top surface. An isolation layer is disposed on either side of the semiconductor fin, and recessed below the top surface of the semiconductor fin to provide a protruding portion of the semiconductor fin. The protruding portion has sidewalls and the top surface. A gate blocking layer has a first portion disposed on at least a portion of the top surface of the semiconductor fin, and has a second portion disposed on at least a portion of the sidewalls of the semiconductor fin. The first portion of the gate blocking layer is continuous with, but thicker than, the second portion of the gate blocking layer. A gate stack is disposed on the first and second portions of the gate blocking layer.
US09780200B2
A semiconductor arrangement and a method for manufacturing the same. An arrangement may include a bulk semiconductor substrate; a fin formed on the substrate; a first FinFET and a second FinFET formed on the substrate. The first FinFET comprises a first gate stack intersecting the fin and a first gate spacer disposed on sidewalls of the first gate stack. The second FinFET includes a second gate stack intersecting the fin and a second gate spacer disposed on sidewalls of the second gate stack; a dummy gate spacer formed between the first FinFET and the second FinFET and intersecting the fin; an isolation section self-aligned to a space defined by the dummy gate spacer. The isolation section electrically isolates the first FinFET from the second FinFET; and an insulation layer disposed under and abutting the isolation section.
US09780198B2
Aspects of the present invention relate to a method for manufacturing a high-performance and low-power field effect transistor (FET) element of which surface roughness scattering is minimized or removed, comprising: a first step of etching a strained silicon substrate into a pin structure; a second step of stacking undoped SiGe thereon; a third step of etching the undoped SiGe; a fourth step of etching after performing lithography; a fifth step of stacking doped SiGe thereon; a sixth step of etching the doped SiGe after performing lithography; and a step of forming a transistor element by sequentially stacking an oxide and a gate metal on the doped SiGe and there is an effect of enabling the implementation of a Fin HEMT capable of having all of good channel controllability and a high on-current, which are advantages of a FinFET, and high electron mobility, which is an advantage of an HEMT.
US09780189B2
Various methods and devices that involve body contacted transistors are disclosed. An exemplary method comprises forming a gate on a planar surface of a semiconductor wafer. The gate covers a channel of a first conductivity type that is opposite to a second conductivity type. The method also comprises implanting a body dose of dopants on a source side of the gate using the gate to mask the body dose of dopants. The body dose of dopants spreads underneath the channel to form a deep well. The body dose of dopants has the first conductivity type. The method also comprises implanting, subsequent to implanting the body dose of dopants, a source dose of dopants on the source side of the gate to form a source. The method also comprises forming a source contact that is in contact with the deep well at the planar surface of the semiconductor wafer.
US09780185B2
A method of forming a gate structure for a semiconductor device that includes forming first spacers on the sidewalls of replacement gate structures that are present on a fin structure, wherein an upper surface of the first spacers is offset from an upper surface of the replacement gate structure, and forming at least second spacers on the first spacers and the exposed surfaces of the replacement gate structure. The method may further include substituting the replacement gate structure with a functional gate structure having a first width portion in a first space between adjacent first spacers, and a second width portion having a second width in a second space between adjacent second spacers, wherein the second width is greater than the first width.
US09780182B2
A memory film and a semiconductor channel can be formed within each memory opening that extends through a stack including an alternating plurality of insulator layers and sacrificial material layers. After formation of backside recesses through removal of the sacrificial material layers selective to the insulator layers, a metallic barrier material portion can be formed in each backside recess. A molybdenum-containing portion can be formed in each backside recess. Each backside recess can be filled with a molybdenum-containing portion alone, or can be filled with a combination of a molybdenum-containing portion and a metallic material portion including a material other than molybdenum.
US09780180B2
A transistor includes a substrate and a gate over the substrate. The transistor further includes a source and a drain over the substrate on opposite sides of the gate. The transistor further includes a channel region beneath the gate separating the source from the drain, the channel region having a channel width with respect to a surface of the substrate greater than a width of the gate with respect to the surface of the substrate. The transistor further includes a silicide over a first portion of the drain, wherein a second portion of the drain, closer to the gate than the first portion, is an unsilicided region.
US09780179B2
A semiconductor device includes a third first-conductivity-type semiconductor layer on a semiconductor substrate; a first pillar-shaped semiconductor layer formed on the semiconductor substrate and including a first first-conductivity-type semiconductor layer, a first body region, a second first-conductivity-type semiconductor layer, a first second-conductivity-type semiconductor layer, a second body region, a second second-conductivity-type semiconductor layer, and a third second-conductivity-type semiconductor layer; a first gate insulating film around the first body region; a first gate around the first gate insulating film; a second gate insulating film around the second body region; a second gate around the second gate insulating film; an output terminal connected to the second first-conductivity-type semiconductor layer and the first second-conductivity-type semiconductor layer; and a first contact that connects the first gate and the second gate.
US09780176B2
The present invention relates to a high reliability field effect power device and a manufacturing method thereof. A method of manufacturing a field effect power device includes sequentially forming a transfer layer, a buffer layer, a barrier layer and a passivation layer on a substrate, patterning the passivation layer by etching a first region of the passivation layer, and forming at least one electrode on the first region of the barrier layer exposed by patterning the passivation layer, wherein the first region is provided to form the at least one electrode, and the passivation layer may include a material having a wider bandgap than the barrier layer to prevent a trapping effect and a leakage current of the field effect power device.
US09780168B2
An IGBT includes a floating P well, and a floating N+ well that extends down into the floating P well. A bottom surface of the floating P well has a waved contour so that it has thinner portions and thicker portions. When the device is on, electrons flow laterally from an N+ emitter, and through a first channel region. Some electrons pass downward, but others pass laterally through the floating N+ well to a local bipolar transistor located at a thinner portion of the floating P type well. The transistor injects electrons down into the N− drift layer. Other electrons pass farther through the floating N+ well, through the second channel region, and to an electron injector portion of the N− drift layer. The extra electron injection afforded by the floating well structures reduces VCE(SAT). The waved contour is made without adding any masking step to the IGBT manufacturing process.
US09780165B2
A method for fabricating semiconductor device is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: providing a substrate having a plurality of fin-shaped structures thereon; forming a first shallow trench isolation (STI) between the fin-shaped structures and a second STI around the fin-shaped structures; removing part of the fin-shaped structures; and removing part of the first STI so that the top surfaces of the fin-shaped structures are higher than the top surface of the first STI and lower than the top surface of the second STI.
US09780162B2
An integrated inductor includes a patterned ground shield, an inner rail, and an inductor. The patterned ground shield is disposed in a first direction. The inner rail is coupled to the patterned ground shield. The inner rail is disposed inside the integrated inductor and in a second direction. The first direction is perpendicular to the second direction. The inductor is disposed above the patterned ground shield.
US09780161B2
A method for manufacturing an electronic device and an electronic device are disclosed. In an embodiment the method comprises forming an opening in an isolation layer, isotropically etching the opening thereby forming an extended opening with curved sidewalls, and forming a conductive material in the opening.
US09780157B2
There is provided a flexible display having a plurality of innovations configured to allow bending of a portion or portions to reduce apparent border size and/or utilize the side surface of an assembled flexible display.
US09780152B2
An organic EL display device in an embodiment according to the present invention includes a plurality of first electrodes provided corresponding to each of a plurality of pixels above a first substrate, a bank layer provided above the first substrate between adjacent first electrodes to cover an end part of the first electrode, an organic EL layer provided to cover the plurality of first electrodes and the bank layer, a second electrode provided above the organic EL layer, the organic EL layer includes a first region overlapping the bank layer, and a second region overlapping the plurality of the first electrodes, and a first resistance of the first region is larger than a second resistance of the second region.
US09780150B2
An Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) display device and a manufacturing method thereof, the OLED display device including: a substrate; a pixel definition layer located on the substrate, wherein a plurality of pixel units arranged together are defined in the pixel definition layer, at least one of the pixel units comprises at least one first sub pixel, at least one second sub pixel and at least one third sub pixel, and the third sub pixel comprises at least two third secondary sub pixels; a first organic light emitting layer arranged in each of the at least one first sub pixel, a second organic light emitting layer arranged in each of the at least one second sub pixel, and third organic light emitting layers arranged in the at least two third secondary sub pixels of the at least one third sub pixel.
US09780147B2
A semiconductor memory device according to an embodiment includes a memory cell array and a control circuit. The memory cell array includes: a plurality of first conductive layers that are stacked; a memory layer provided on a side surface of the plurality of the first conductive layers; and a second conductive layer that contacts the side surface of the plurality of the first conductive layers via the memory layer. A thickness of the first conductive layer disposed at the first position is larger than a thickness of the first conductive layer disposed at the second position. The control circuit is configured to apply a first voltage to a selected first conductive layer. The control circuit changes a value of the first voltage based on a position of the selected first conductive layer.
US09780132B2
This technology provides an image sensor and an electronic device including the same. In an image sensor including a pixel array including a plurality of unit pixels, each of the plurality of unit pixels may include a photoelectric conversion element and a pixel lens over the photoelectric conversion element and comprising a plurality of light condensing layers in which a lower layer has a larger area than an upper layer, wherein the pixel lens has a shape changing based on a position of a corresponding unit pixel from a center of the pixel array to an edge of the pixel array.
US09780130B2
An image sensor is provided. The image sensor includes a first photoelectric conversion element and a second photoelectric conversion element, which are formed in a semiconductor substrate; a red color filter formed on the first photoelectric conversion element; a cyan color filter formed on the second photoelectric conversion element; and an organic photoelectric conversion layer formed on the red color filter and the cyan color filter, the organic photoelectric conversion layer configured to absorb wavelengths in a green range.
US09780129B2
A sample-and-hold circuit having an error correction circuit portion that compensates for charge injection and noise. The error correction circuit portion includes an error-current-accumulating capacitor and a feedback circuit. The error-correction circuit performs error correction during a sampling operation by accumulating, at the error-current-accumulating capacitor, an error current output from an amplifier of the sample-and-hold circuit, and then applying, via the feedback circuit, a voltage boost to an input of the amplifier. The magnitude of the voltage boost depends on a voltage of the error-current-accumulating capacitor, and on various design parameters of the components of the circuit. By appropriately setting the design parameters, the magnitude of the fed-back voltage boost can be made to cancel out error due to charge injection and noise.
US09780127B2
A liquid crystal display includes: an insulation substrate; a thin film transistor including gate and data lines on the insulation substrate; a passivation layer on the thin film transistor; a pixel electrode on the passivation layer and including a first subpixel electrode to which a first voltage is applied and a second subpixel electrode to which a second voltage is applied; a shielding electrode on the passivation layer and applied with a common voltage; a first microcavity on the pixel electrode and injected with a liquid crystal material; a second microcavity on the shielding electrode and injected with the liquid crystal material; a common electrode on the first and second microcavities and separated from the pixel electrode and the shielding electrode by the first and second microcavities; a roof layer on the common electrode;; and an overcoat on the roof layer to seal the first and second microcavities.
US09780119B2
The present application discloses a package cover plate for packaging a curved display panel comprising at least two curved portions.
US09780108B2
An alternating stack of insulating layers and sacrificial material layers is formed over a substrate. Memory openings are formed through the alternating stack to the substrate. After formation of memory film layers, a sacrificial cover material layer can be employed to protect the tunneling dielectric layer during formation of a bottom opening in the memory film layers. An amorphous semiconductor material layer can be deposited and optionally annealed in an ambient including argon and/or deuterium to form a semiconductor channel layer having a thickness less than 5 nm and surface roughness less than 10% of the thickness. Alternately or additionally, at least one interfacial layer can be employed on either side of the amorphous semiconductor material layer to reduce surface roughness of the semiconductor channel. The ultrathin channel can have enhanced mobility due to quantum confinement effects.
US09780106B2
A memory device includes an N-channel transistor and a P-channel transistor. A word line is electrically connected to a drain terminal of the N-channel transistor, and a source terminal of the P-channel transistor. A first bit line is electrically connected to a source terminal of the N-channel transistor. A second bit line is electrically connected to a drain terminal of the P-channel transistor. Gate terminals of the N-channel transistor and the P-channel transistor are electrically connected and floating.
US09780101B1
The present invention provides a flash cell structure and a method of fabricating the same. The flash cell structure includes a semiconductor substrate, a stacked gate structure disposed on the semiconductor substrate, a first doped region disposed in the semiconductor substrate at a side of the stacked gate structure, a first dielectric layer, a second dielectric layer, and an erase gate. The stacked gate structure includes a floating gate insulated from the semiconductor substrate and a control gate disposed on the floating gate and insulated from the floating gate. The first dielectric layer is disposed on a sidewall of the floating gate. The second dielectric layer is disposed on the first doped region. A thickness of the first dielectric layer is less than a thickness of the second dielectric layer.
US09780091B2
A semiconductor device is provided that includes a first plurality of fin structures having a first width in a first region of a substrate, and a second plurality of fin structures having a second width in a second region of the substrate, the second width being less than the first width. A first gate structure is formed on the first plurality of fin structures including a first high-k gate dielectric that is in direct contact with a channel region of the first plurality of fin structures and a first gate conductor. A second gate structure is formed on the second plurality of fin structures including a high voltage gate dielectric that is in direct contact with a channel region of the second plurality of fin structures, a second high-k gate dielectric and a second gate conductor.
US09780087B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device and formation method thereof. A shallow trench isolation structure is formed in a semiconductor substrate. A first dielectric layer is formed on the semiconductor substrate. First and second dummy gate structures are formed on the shallow trench isolation structure and through the first dielectric layer. A resistive material layer is formed on the first and second dummy gate structures and on the first dielectric layer between the first and second dummy gate structures. A second dielectric layer is formed on the first dielectric layer and the resistive material layer. A first plug is formed in the second dielectric layer and the resistive material layer and on the first dummy gate structure. A second plug is formed in the second dielectric layer and the resistive material layer and on the second dummy gate structure.
US09780084B2
An electrostatic discharge protection structure includes: substrate of a first type of conductivity, well region of a second type of conductivity, substrate contact region in the substrate and of the first type of conductivity, well contact region in the well region and of the second type of conductivity, substrate counter-doped region between the substrate contact region and the well contact region and of the second type of conductivity, well counter-doped region between the substrate contact region and the well contact region and of the first type of conductivity, communication region at a lateral junction between the substrate and the well region, first isolation region between the substrate counter-doped region and the communication region, second isolation region between the well counter-doped region and the communication region, oxide layer having one end on the first isolation region and another end on the substrate, and field plate structure on the oxide layer.
US09780083B1
An IC includes logic cells, selected from a standard cell library, and fill cells, configured for compatibility with the standard logic cells. The fill cells contain structures configured to obtain in-line data via non-contact electrical measurements (“NCEM”). The IC includes such NCEM-enabled fill cells configured to enable detection and/or measurement of a variety of open-circuit and short-circuit failure modes, including at least one via-open-related failure mode, one TS-short-related failure mode, one metal-short-related failure mode, and one AA-short-related failure mode.
US09780076B2
Disclosed herein is a device comprising a first package having a first side with a plurality of connectors disposed thereon and a second package mounted on the first package by the connectors. A molding compound is disposed on the first side of the first package and between the first package and the second package. A plurality of stress relief structures (SRSs) are disposed in the molding compound, the plurality of SRSs each comprising a cavity free of metal in the molding compound and spaced apart from each of the plurality of connectors.
US09780075B2
A multi-layer semiconductor device includes at least two semiconductor structures, each of the at least two semiconductor structures having first and second opposing surfaces and including a first section and a second section. The second section includes a device layer and an insulating layer. The multi-layer semiconductor device also includes one or more conductive structures and one or more interconnect pads. Select ones of the one or more interconnect pads are electrically coupled to the one or more conductive structures. The multi-layer semiconductor device additionally includes a via joining layer disposed between and coupled to second surfaces of each of the at least two semiconductor structures. A corresponding method for fabricating a multi-layer semiconductor device is also provided.
US09780074B2
A semiconductor package using a coreless signal distribution structure (CSDS) is disclosed and may include a CSDS comprising at least one dielectric layer, at least one conductive layer, a first surface, and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The semiconductor package may also include a first semiconductor die having a first bond pad on a first die surface, where the first semiconductor die is bonded to the first surface of the CSDS via the first bond pad, and a second semiconductor die having a second bond pad on a second die surface, where the second semiconductor die is bonded to the second surface of the CSDS via the second bond pad. The semiconductor package may further include a metal post electrically coupled to the first surface of the CSDS, and a first encapsulant material encapsulating side surfaces and a surface opposite the first die surface of the first semiconductor die, the metal post, and a portion of the first surface of the CSDS.
US09780066B2
A thermocompression bonding system for bonding semiconductor elements is provided. The thermocompression bonding system includes (1) a bond head assembly including a heater for heating an semiconductor element to be bonded, the bond head assembly including a fluid path configured to receive a cooling fluid; (2) a pressurized cooling fluid source; (3) a booster pump for receiving a pressurized cooling fluid from the pressurized cooling fluid source, and for increasing a pressure of the received pressurized cooling fluid; (4) a pressurized fluid reservoir for receiving pressurized cooling fluid from the booster pump; and (5) a control valve for controlling a supply of pressurized cooling fluid from the pressurized fluid reservoir to the fluid path.
US09780065B2
A method of ultrasonically bonding semiconductor elements includes the steps of: (a) aligning surfaces of a plurality of first conductive structures of a first semiconductor element to respective surfaces of a plurality of second conductive structures of a second semiconductor element; (b) ultrasonically forming tack bonds between ones of the first conductive structures and respective ones of the second conductive structures; and (c) forming completed bonds between the first conductive structures and the second conductive structures.
US09780049B2
A semiconductor package includes a substrate; and first and second semiconductor chips sequentially disposed on the substrate so that active surfaces of the first and second semiconductor chips face each other, wherein the first and second semiconductor chips are center pad-type semiconductor chips each having I/O pads arranged in two columns to be adjacent to a central line thereof, and I/O pads of the second semiconductor chip are electrically connected directly to the substrate without intersecting the central line of the second semiconductor chip.
US09780044B2
A transient electronic device utilizes a glass-based interposer that is treated using ion-exchange processing to increase its fragility, and includes a trigger device operably mounted on a surface thereof. An integrated circuit (IC) die is then bonded to the interposer, and the interposer is mounted to a package structure where it serves, under normal operating conditions, to operably connect the IC die to the package I/O pins/balls. During a transient event (e.g., when unauthorized tampering is detected), a trigger signal is transmitted to the trigger device, causing the trigger device to generate an initial fracture force that is applied onto the glass-based interposer substrate. The interposer is configured such that the initial fracture force propagates through the glass-based interposer substrate with sufficient energy to both entirely powderize the interposer, and to transfer to the IC die, whereby the IC die also powderizes (i.e., visually disappears).
US09780038B2
A method including forming a dielectric layer on a contact point of an integrated circuit structure; forming a hardmask including a dielectric material on a surface of the dielectric layer; and forming at least one via in the dielectric layer to the contact point using the hardmask as a pattern. An apparatus including a circuit substrate including at least one active layer including a contact point; a dielectric layer on the at least one active layer; a hardmask including a dielectric material having a least one opening therein for an interconnect material; and an interconnect material in the at least one opening of the hardmask and through the dielectric layer to the contact point.
US09780036B2
A semiconductor device may include pillars and a plurality of conductive layers being stacked while surrounding the pillars and including a plurality of first regions including non-conductive material layers and a plurality of second regions including conductive material layers, wherein the first regions and the second regions are alternately arranged.
US09780031B2
Wiring structures with dummy metal features and methods of manufacture are disclosed. A structure includes a metal wiring structure, and dummy metal features in electrical and direct physical contact with the metal wiring structure in a same plane as the metal wiring structure. The dummy metal features do not change a resistance of the metal wiring structure and are remote from other structures.
US09780024B2
A semiconductor package and a method of making a semiconductor package. As non-limiting examples, various aspects of this disclosure provide various semiconductor packages, and methods of making thereof, that comprise a conductive layer that comprises an anchor portion extending through at least one dielectric layer.
US09780006B2
An SOI substrate evaluating method includes: forming a device onto a measuring SOI substrate, and previously determining a relationship between an interface state density and a leakage power upon application of radio-frequency thereon, or converting the interface state density to a resistance followed by previously determining a relationship between the converted resistance and the leakage power; measuring an interface state density of the evaluation target SOI substrate to determine the interface state density or a resistance converted from the interface state density; evaluating a leakage power of the evaluation target SOI substrate from the measured interface state density of the evaluation target SOI substrate on the basis of the determined relationship between the interface state density and the leakage power, or from a resistance converted from the measured interface state density of the evaluation target SOI substrate on the basis of the determined relationship between the resistance and leakage power.
US09780004B2
Disclosed are apparatus and methods for the generation of a stage speed profile and/or the selection of care areas for automated wafer inspection. The stage speed profile generated corresponds to a fastest speed the inspection machine is able to inspect provided a set of care areas. The set of care areas selected correspond to specific regions on the wafer which are to be imaged in detail by the inspection machine. The apparatus and methods herein may also calculate speed of inspection and coverage (and possibly other characteristics of the inspection) for a quantity of cases, and select the best trade-off of coverage versus inspection time using a cost function. Other aspects, features, and embodiments of the invention are also disclosed.
US09780003B2
A method of forming a Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT) includes forming an elongated collector line, forming an elongated emitter line parallel to the collector line, and forming an elongated base line parallel to the collector line and positioned between the collector line and the base line. The emitter line, the base line, and the collector line are formed over fin structures.
US09779999B2
Present embodiments provide for a complementary nanowire semiconductor device and fabrication method thereof. The fabrication method comprises providing a substrate, wherein the substrate has a NMOS active region, a PMOS active region and a shallow trench isolation (STI) region; forming a plurality of first hexagonal epitaxial wires on the NMOS active region and the PMOS active region by selective epitaxially growing a germanium (Ge) crystal material; selectively etching the substrate to suspend the pluralities of first hexagonal epitaxial wires on the substrate; forming a plurality of second hexagonal epitaxial wires on the NMOS active region by selective epitaxially growing a III-V semiconductor crystal material surrounding the pluralities of first hexagonal epitaxial wires on the NMOS active region; depositing a dielectric material on the pluralities of first hexagonal epitaxial wires and the pluralities of second hexagonal epitaxial wires, wherein the dielectric material covers the pluralities of first hexagonal epitaxial wires and the pluralities of second hexagonal epitaxial wires; and depositing a conducting material on the dielectric material for forming a gate electrode surrounding the pluralities of first hexagonal epitaxial wires and the pluralities of second hexagonal epitaxial wires, wherein the pluralities of first hexagonal epitaxial wires are a plurality of first nanowires and the pluralities of second hexagonal epitaxial wires are a plurality of second nanowires.
US09779984B1
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming a first dielectric layer over a substrate that includes a gate structure, forming a first trench in the first dielectric layer, forming dielectric spacers along sidewalls of the first trench, removing a portion of the dielectric spacers to expose a portion of the sidewalls, forming a first metal feature in the first trench over the another portion of the dielectric spacers and along the exposed portions of the sidewalls of the first trench, forming a second dielectric layer over the first metal feature and the gate structure and forming a second trench through the second dielectric layer to expose a portion of the first metal feature and a third trench through the second dielectric layer and the first dielectric layer to expose a portion of the gate structure in the same etching process.
US09779983B2
A method of forming a shallow trench isolation trench in a semiconductor substrate is described. The method includes forming a trench in a region of the substrate, forming a first dielectric material in the trench, forming a second dielectric material above the first dielectric material, forming a first air gap in the first dielectric material in the trench, and forming a second air gap in the second dielectric material above the first air gap.
US09779972B2
A device for handling substrates within a semiconductor manufacturing plant having substrate processing equipments, substrate storage means, substrate transport means, and a manufacturing execution system (MES) functionally related with the substrate processing equipments, the substrate storage means and the substrate transport means, including at least one substrate storage and transport box that is transported by the transport means and stored in the storage means; at least one gas analysis device of the gases forming the internal atmosphere of the substrate storage and transport box, which produces analysis signals representative of the quantity of the critical gas that is likely to generate molecular contamination, which is present in the storage and transport box; and an execution device which pilots the transport means and the storage means, with the execution device comprising instructions for detecting a molecular decontamination need as a function of analysis signals emitted by the gas analysis device.
US09779969B2
A package structure and a manufacturing method are provided. The package structure includes a semiconductor substrate and a first conductive feature over the semiconductor substrate. The package structure also includes a substrate and a second conductive feature over the substrate. The second conductive feature is bonded with the first conductive feature through a bonding structure. The package structure further includes a protection material surrounding the bonding structure, and the protection material is in direct contact with a side surface of the first conductive feature.
US09779951B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: forming a first major electrode on a first major surface of a semiconductor substrate; forming a second major electrode on a second major surface of the semiconductor substrate opposite to the first major surface; carrying out a surface activating treatment to activate surfaces of the first and second major electrodes; carrying out a surface cleaning treatment to clean up the surfaces of the first and second major electrodes; and after the surface activating treatment and the surface cleaning treatment, simultaneously forming first and second Ni films on the first and second major electrodes respectively by a wet film forming method, wherein a ratio of crystalline Ni contained in the first and second Ni films is 2% or more.
US09779950B2
Ruthenium film forming method, film forming apparatus, and semiconductor device manufacturing method
A ruthenium film forming method includes a deposition process of introducing a mixed gas of a ruthenium carbonyl gas and a CO gas into a processing vessel 1 by supplying the CO gas as a carrier gas from a CO gas container 43 configured to contain the CO gas into a film forming source container 41 configured to contain ruthenium carbonyl in a solid state as a film forming source material, and forming ruthenium film by decomposing the ruthenium carbonyl on a wafer W; and a CO gas introduction process of bringing the CO gas into contact with a surface of the wafer W by introducing the CO gas directly into the processing vessel 1 from the CO gas container 43 after stopping the introducing of the mixed gas into the processing vessel 1. The deposition process and the CO gas introduction process are repeated multiple times.
US09779937B2
One object is to have stable electrical characteristics and high reliability and to manufacture a semiconductor device including a semi-conductive oxide film. Film formation is performed by a sputtering method using a target in which gallium oxide is added to a material that is easy to volatilize compared to gallium when the material is heated at 400° C. to 700° C. like zinc, and a formed film is heated at 400° C. to 700° C., whereby the added material is segregated in the vicinity of a surface of the film and the oxide is crystallized. Further, a semi-conductive oxide film is deposited thereover, whereby a semi-conductive oxide having a crystal which succeeds a crystal structure of the oxide that is crystallized by heat treatment is formed.
US09779935B1
A crystalline base substrate including a first semiconductor material and having a main surface is provided. The base substrate is processed so as to damage a lattice structure of the base substrate in a first region that extends to the main surface without damaging a lattice structure of the base substrate in second regions that are adjacent to the first region. A first semiconductor layer of a second semiconductor material is formed on a portion of the main surface that includes the first and second regions. A third region of the first semiconductor layer covers the first region of the base substrate, and a fourth region of the first semiconductor layer covers the second region of the base substrate. The third region has a crystalline structure that is disorganized relative to a crystalline structure of the fourth region. The first and second semiconductor materials have different coefficients of thermal expansion.
US09779930B2
Systems and methods are provided for performing multiplex electrostatic linear ion trap mass spectrometry. A first beam of ions is received and the first beam is split into N beams of ions using a beam splitter. N is two or more. Ions are received from only one of the N beams of ions at each entrance aperture of N entrance apertures of an electrostatic linear ion trap (ELIT). Ions from each entrance aperture of the N entrance apertures are trapped in separate linear flight paths using the ELIT, producing N separate linear flight paths. Ion oscillations in the N separate linear flight paths are measured at substantially the same time using the ELIT. The ELIT uses two concentric mirrors with N apertures to trap ions in the N separate linear flight paths. The ELIT uses an image current detector with N apertures to the measure the ion oscillations.
US09779929B2
A method of screening a sample for the presence of one or more known compounds of interest is disclosed. A fragmentation device is repeatedly switched between a fragmentation mode of operation and a non-fragmentation mode of operation. A determination is made whether a candidate parent ion of interest is present in a non-fragmentation data set and whether one or more corresponding fragment ions of interest are present in a fragmentation data set. A further determination is made to check if the candidate parent ion of interest and the one or more corresponding fragment ions of interest have substantially similar elution or retention times and/or ion mobility drift times.
US09779922B1
Systems for the generation of discovery ion currents. One of the systems includes a mass spectrometer providing ion current measurement. The system includes a controller coupled to the mass spectrometer. The system also includes a liquid handler coupled to the controller and the mass spectrometer. The controller is configured to identify a base average ion current of each mass to charge interval, the mass to charge interval comprising at least one mass to charge channel. The controller is configured to calculate a relative change between a current ion current measurement for a charge interval to the base average for the charge interval. The controller is configured to compare the relative change to a threshold. The controller is also configured to, in response to determining that the relative change exceeds the threshold, start fraction collection using the liquid handler.
US09779920B2
Implementations of the present disclosure relate to a sputtering target for a sputtering chamber used to process a substrate. In one implementation, a sputtering target for a sputtering chamber is provided. The sputtering target comprises a sputtering plate with a backside surface having radially inner, middle and outer regions and an annular-shaped backing plate mounted to the sputtering plate. The backside surface has a plurality of circular grooves which are spaced apart from one another and at least one arcuate channel cutting through the circular grooves and extending from the radially inner region to the radially outer region of sputtering plate. The annular-shaped backing plate defines an open annulus exposing the backside surface of the sputtering plate.
US09779918B2
Provided is a substrate processing apparatus. The substrate treating apparatus includes a processing chamber, a substrate supporting unit, a plasma generation unit, a gas supplying unit, an exhaust adjusting unit, or the like. Residual gas and reaction by-products are generated in a chamber after a substrate is treated by using a gas supplied from the gas supplying unit or plasma excited by the plasma generation unit. The gas exhaust adjusting unit adjusts discharge amounts of residual gas and reaction by-products to adjust residence time or pressure of gas, plasma, or the like in the apparatus, thereby controlling a uniformity of the substrate treating process.
US09779917B2
Embodiments of the present invention generally provide plasma etch process chamber improvements. An improved gas injection nozzle is provided for use at a central location of the lid of the chamber. The gas injection nozzle may be used in an existing plasma etch chamber and is configured to provide a series of conic gas flows across the surface of a substrate positioned within the chamber. In one embodiment, an improved exhaust kit for use in the plasma etch chamber is provided. The exhaust kit includes apparatus that may be used in an existing plasma etch chamber and is configured to provide annular flow of exhaust gases from the processing region of the chamber.
US09779914B2
An apparatus for preparing a sample for microscopy is provided that has a milling device that removes material from a sample in order to thin the sample. An electron beam that is directed onto the sample is present along with a detector that detects when the electron beam has reached a preselected threshold transmitted through or immediately adjacent the sample. Once the detector detects the electron beam has reached this threshold, the milling device terminates the milling process.
US09779907B2
A cathode head can include: a first electron emitter filament having a first size; a first grid pair defining walls of a first filament slot having the first filament therein, each grid member of the first grid pair being electronically coupled to different voltage sources; a second electron emitter filament; and a second grid pair defining walls of a second filament slot having the first electron emitter therein, each grid member of the second grid pair being electronically coupled to different voltage sources. The first grid pair can have a first and second grid members; and the second grid pair can have the second grid member and a third grid member. The first grid member and third grid member are electronically coupled to the same voltage source and the second grid member being electronically coupled to a different voltage source.
US09779899B1
A switch assembly and method for use with power equipment, the switch assembly comprises a housing assembly for having an actuator opening, the opening defining spaced first and second internal housing positions and a removably located actuator for selectively positioning within the opening of the housing assembly for altering the operation of power equipment. The switch assembly further includes a first switch corresponding to the first housing position to selectively provide power to one or more components of the power equipment and a second switch corresponding to the second housing position such that the second switch is spaced away from the first housing position, the second switch for detecting the presence and position of the actuator such to further alter the operation of power equipment.
US09779897B2
The switch includes the base, a plurality of the fixed contact terminals, the sliding body, the operation lever, the coil spring, and the cover. From above the base, the fixed contact terminals, the sliding body, the operation lever, and the coil spring are mounted to the base, and the sliding body is pressed against the operation lever to position the operation lever. The cover is mounted to the base from above so as to press the operation lever by the pressing portion of the cover and cause the operation lever to rotate to an initial position.
US09779890B2
A terminal shield for a circuit breaker, formed of an electrically insulating material, protects an operator from inadvertently touching the load terminal that would otherwise be exposed on the bottom side of the circuit breaker: In accordance with an example embodiment of the invention, the terminal shield is integrated with a toroidally shaped current transformer sensor, to enable measuring the current in a load wire that has been inserted through an aperture in the terminal shield. Preferably there is an access hole in the front portion of the terminal shield, which allows the operator to insert a tool through the front face of the circuit breaker, to tighten the load terminal onto the load wire. The terminal shield with the integrated current transformer sensor enables standardization of load current sensing capability for circuit breakers and further enables ease of installation without clutter in the confined regions of the load center.
US09779887B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure include an apparatus for enclosing energy storage devices. An apparatus according to the present disclosure can include: an elongated sleeve having a contoured interior configured to enclose each of a plurality of energy storage devices, wherein the elongated sleeve is composed at least partially of a thermally conductive material; and at least one slot disposed on an exterior surface of the elongated sleeve, wherein the at least one slot is configured to receive for mechanically coupling a mounting rail to the elongated sleeve.
US09779885B2
A method for pre-doping a lithium ion capacitor, including: compressing a lithium ion capacitor of the formula: C/S/A/S/C/S/A/S/C, where: /A/ is an anode coated on both sides with an anode carbon layer, and each anode carbon layer is further coated with lithium composite powder (LCP) layer; C/ is a cathode coated on one side with a layer of an cathode carbon mixture; and S is a separator; and a non-aqueous electrolyte; and conditioning the resulting compressed lithium ion capacitor, for example, at a rate of from C/20 to 4C, and the conditioning redistributes the impregnated lithium as lithium ions in the anode carbon structure. Also disclosed is an carbon coated anode having lithium composite powder (LCP) layer compressed on the carbon coated anode.
US09779878B2
A magnetic supercapacitor has a dielectric layer positioned between magnetic layers. The magnetic layers may comprise hard, soft magnetic material or magnetic exchange coupled magnet (i.e. soft and hard magnet composite). A magnetic flux generated by the magnetic layers increases the permittivity of the dielectric layer, thereby increasing the capacitance and, hence, stored energy of the supercapacitor. When the magnetic layers comprise soft magnetic material, the capacitance of the supercapacitor can be varied. In this regard, current passing through a conductive segment within close proximity to the magnetic layers may be controlled in order to tune the capacitance as may be desired.
US09779875B2
A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes a ceramic body including dielectric layers and first and second internal electrodes disposed to face each other with respective dielectric layers interposed therebetween, and external electrodes disposed on outer surfaces of the ceramic body. Opposite edge portions of at least one or more of the first and second internal electrodes in a width direction of the ceramic body are thicker than a central portion thereof, and a ratio (T2/T1) of a thickness (T2) of the edge portion to a thickness (T1) of the central portion satisfies 1.0
US09779873B2
There are provide a multilayer ceramic capacitor and a method of manufacturing the same. The multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a multilayer body having a first side and a second side opposed to each other and having a third side and a fourth side connecting the first side to the second side, inner electrodes formed in the multilayer body and formed to be spaced apart from the third side or the fourth side by a predetermined distance, groove portions formed on at least one of top and bottom surfaces of the multilayer body and formed parallel to the third or fourth side by a predetermined distance from the third side or the fourth side, and outer electrodes extended from the third side and the fourth side to the top surface or the bottom surface of the multilayer body to cover the groove portions.
US09779871B2
A manufacturing device for cleft magnets comprises a cleaving mechanism for cleaving a magnet plate by applying a pressing force to the magnet plate corresponding to a back of a groove formed on one surface of the magnet plate and a carry-in mechanism for carrying the magnet plate to a cleaving position by the cleaving mechanism. By comprising a foreign matter removal mechanism for removing a foreign matter adhering to the magnet plate before the magnet plate is carried to the cleaving position by the carry-in mechanism, the foreign matter adhering to the magnet plate is removed before cleaving.
US09779868B2
A compact impedance transformer is disclosed having a first dielectric substrate, a first planar conductor disposed on a top surface of the first dielectric substrate in a loop, a second planar conductor disposed on a bottom surface of the first dielectric substrate in a second loop, wherein the first planar conductor and the second planar conductor are substantially identical and in stacked alignment. A second dielectric substrate has a third planar conductor disposed on a top surface of the second dielectric substrate in a third loop, and a fourth planar conductor disposed on a bottom surface of the second dielectric substrate in a fourth loop, wherein the third planar conductor and the fourth planar conductor are substantially identical and in stacked alignment. An interconnect structure between terminals of the first planar conductor, the second planar conductor, the third planar conductor, and the fourth planar conductor provide impedance transformations.
US09779865B2
Voltage controlled magnetic components are described. The magnetic components include a thin layer of ferromagnet adjacent to an oxide layer. The magnetic properties of the ferromagnet may be controlled in a reversible manner via application of an external electric field and voltage-induced reversible oxidation of the ferromagnet.
US09779845B2
Primary voltaic sources include nanofiber Schottky barrier arrays and a radioactive source including at least one radioactive element configured to emit radioactive particles. The arrays have a semiconductor component and a metallic component joined at a metal-semiconductor junction. The radioactive source is positioned proximate to the arrays such that at least a portion of the radioactive particles impinge on the arrays to produce a flow of electrons across the metal-semiconductor junction. Methods of producing voltaic sources include reacting at least one carbon oxide and a reducing agent in the presence of a substrate comprising a catalyst to form a solid carbon product over the substrate. Material is disposed over at least a portion of the solid carbon product to form a nanofiber Schottky barrier array. A radioactive source is disposed adjacent the nanofiber Schottky barrier array.
US09779841B2
A method of determining and quantifying the presence and concentration of regulated radionuclides present in filter material used to remove radionuclide contaminants from the cooling water of a nuclear reactor. Multiple samples of the reactor cooling water are taken and the presence and concentration of directly measurable fission and activation produced radionuclides are determined through gamma spectroscopy. The release rate of radioactivity from the reactor as a function of the removal rate of the filter material is determined at equilibrium. The presence and the concentration of the indirectly measured fission regulated radionuclides are determined as a function of release rates of the directly measurable fission produced isotopes.
US09779836B2
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of information data storage and processing. There is provided a method for regulating magnetic multi-domain state, comprising: when a current is applied to a magnetic thin film, applying an additional external magnetic field having a magnetic field strength of 0 to 4×105 A/m to regulate magnetization state of the magnetic thin film; wherein the current is configured to drive movements of a magnetic domain of the magnetic multi-domain states in the magnetic thin film, and the external magnetic field is configured to regulate generation of new magnetic domain in the magnetic thin film and state of the magnetic domain during the movement, so that the magnetic thin film is in a stable magnetic multi-domain state. Such a multi-domain state can't be affected by a higher or lower current and keeps stable when the current is removed. Such a method may be used for magnetic memory or spin-logic device to implement a nonvolatile multi-valued storage, multi-bits logic operation, or neuromorphic computing.
US09779831B1
An electronic apparatus and a data verification method using the same are provided. The electronic apparatus includes a first read-only memory having first data, a second read-only memory having second data and a controller. A correspondence relation exists between the first data and the second data. The controller is coupled to the first read-only memory and the second read-only memory. The controller reads first sub-data of the first data from the first read-only memory, and reads second sub-data of the second data corresponding to the first sub-data from the second read-only memory according to the correspondence relation. The first sub-data includes to-be-verified data. The controller perfoi ins a verification operation to the to-be-verified data according to the first sub-data, the second sub-data and the correspondence relation.
US09779826B1
Memory devices may include digital-to-analog converters configured to convert digital values to analog read voltages and to apply the analog read voltages to memory cells in different memory planes, and multiplexers to selectively couple a corresponding table to a page buffer for output of a code from an identified code-containing row of the corresponding tables for each of the different memory planes, with each code corresponding to a data state of one of the memory cells.
US09779823B2
In a non-volatile memory system, a fast bulk secure erase method for erasing data includes, in response to a secure erase command: applying charge to a portion of non-volatile memory in the non-volatile memory system, and performing an erase operation sufficient to remove charge from the portion of non-volatile memory to below an erase threshold. The applied charge is sufficient to program memory cells in the portion of non-volatile memory to above a pre-erase program threshold.
US09779817B2
A method for programming a non-volatile memory device includes concurrently boosting channels of memory cells in a selected memory string and an unselected memory string of the memory device, discharging the boosted channels of the memory cells in the selected memory string, and programming a selected memory cell in the selected memory string after discharging the boosted channels in the selected memory string.
US09779816B2
Apparatus and methods are disclosed, such as an apparatus that includes a string of charge storage devices associated with a pillar (e.g., of semiconductor material), a source gate device, and a source select device coupled between the source gate device and the string. Additional apparatus and methods are described.
US09779807B2
A memory cell includes a single bi-directional resistive memory element (BRME) having a first terminal directly connected to a first power rail and a second terminal coupled to an internal node; and a first transistor having a control electrode coupled to the internal node, and a first current electrode coupled to a first bitline, and a second current electrode coupled to one of a group consisting of: a read wordline and the first power rail.
US09779802B1
A write assist circuit includes a write detection circuit, a write detection-aware write driver and a write condition recovery circuit. The write detection circuit receives a detected result signal and a write data, and generates a write detect control signal and generating a selecting signal according to the detection result signal and the write data. The write detection-aware write driver receives the write detect control signal and operates a write detection operation on a selected memory cell according to the write detect control signal, and decides whether to provide a negative voltage to one of a bit line and an inverted bit line of the selected memory cell or not according to the selecting signal. The write condition recovery circuit respectively couples the bit line and the inverted bit line to the write data line and the inverted data line according to a write pass-gate control signal, and provides a pre-charge voltage to the write data line and the inverted data line during the write detection time period according to a recovery signal.
US09779801B2
A method includes using a first tracking circuit corresponding to a first set of access ports of a memory macro to cause a signal transition of a first tracking signal based on an edge of a clock signal. Using a second tracking circuit corresponding to a second set of access ports of the memory macro, a signal transition of a second tracking signal is caused based on the edge of the clock signal. A reset signal is generated based on the signal transition of the first tracking signal and the signal transition of the second tracking signal. A read operation or a write operation on the memory macro is performed based on the edge of the clock signal and the reset signal.
US09779787B2
The digital signal processor includes a DRAM including multiple memory cells configured to store data in a parasitic capacitor and a core logic configured to perform an operation of recording, reading, or updating data in the DRAM on the basis of a predetermined digital signal processing architecture. The core logic: records input data in a memory cell of the DRAM; reads the recorded input data before a retention time passes; and externally outputs the data or stores the data in another memory cell of the DRAM.
US09779786B1
A system includes global memory circuitry configured to store input tensors and output tensors. Row data paths are each connected to an output port of the memory circuitry. Column data paths are connected to an input port of the memory circuitry. Processing elements are arranged in rows and columns along the row data paths and column data paths, respectively. The processing elements include local memory circuitry configured to store multiple masks and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to receive portions of the input tensors from one of the row data paths; receive masks from the local memory circuitry; perform multiple tensor operations on a same received portion of an input tensors by applying a different retrieved mask for each tensor operation; and generate, using results of the multiple tensor operations, an output for a corresponding column data path.
US09779785B2
A computer architecture employs multiple intercommunicating tiles each holding an array of memory elements. Programmable decoding circuitry allows these memory elements to be used as local memories (including content addressable memories or random access memories), logic elements or interconnect elements. The ability to dynamically change the function of any of these tiles allows tight integration of memory and logic tailored to particular calculation problems reducing costs in data transfer.
US09779776B1
The present invention suppresses audio skipping. A frame number acquisition unit 102 acquires a current frame number S11. An audio data acquisition unit 104 acquires an audio data S12 of a current frame. A signal processing unit 110 holds the audio data S12 of the current frame in the sub-buffer 114 when the current frame number S11 is discontinuous with a last normal frame number. The signal processing unit 110 stores the audio data stored in the sub-buffer 114 into the main buffer 112 and sets it as a reproduction object, if the current frame number S11 matches an expected value S14 before audio data of N frames is stored in the sub-buffer 114, where N is a predetermined value.
US09779774B1
A cinemagraph is generated that includes one or more video loops. A cinemagraph generator receives an input video, and semantically segments the frames to identify regions that correspond to semantic objects and the semantic object depicted in each identified region. Input time intervals are then computed for the pixels of the frames of the input video. An input time interval for a particular pixel includes a per-pixel loop period and a per-pixel start time of a loop at the particular pixel. In addition, the input time interval of a pixel is based, in part, on one or more semantic terms which keep pixels associated with the same semantic object in the same video loop. A cinemagraph is then created using the input time intervals computed for the pixels of the frames of the input video.
US09779773B1
A data storage device may be destroyed by suspending a transducing head above a data storage medium prior to inducing contact of the transducing head with a first layer of the data storage medium in response to a signal from a controller. Deflection of the transducing head can then be increased to penetrate to a destroy depth in a second layer of the data storage medium that is maintained while the data storage medium spins. The controller may then issue at least one data read command to access data from the data storage medium and when a data read error is received, the data storage medium and transducing head can be verified as destroyed and incapable of accessing data previously written to the data storage medium.
US09779766B1
A method according to one embodiment includes coupling closures to a section having a plurality of rows of transducers formed on a substrate, the closures being coupled to the section on an opposite side of the transducers as the substrate. The section is coupled to a lapping-resistant guide, where the closures protrude beyond a lap-stop end of the guide. The closures are lapped for shortening the closures in a direction toward the transducers, wherein the lapping is terminated after the guide contacts a lapping surface. A method according to another embodiment includes coupling closures to a section having a plurality of rows of transducers formed on a substrate. The closures are lapped for shortening the closures in a direction toward the transducers. An extent of the lapping is determined using an optical and/or a contact technique.
US09779760B1
An architecture is provided for handling event notifications generated by a speech analytics module (“SAM”) that recognizes keywords present in the audio of a call between an agent in a contact center and a remote party. In one embodiment, an event handler module receives and forwards the event notifications to various application specific modules (“ASMs”). The forwarding process may vary on the content and/or type of event notification received. Each ASM performs the processing for a particular audio context and may generate call instance data that pertains to the audio context and indicates whether the agent complied with various requirements during the call. The call instance data may be stored in a file for evaluating the agent's performance. The ASM may also perform other actions as appropriate, such as providing visual indicators on the agent's computer desktop or notify the agent's supervisor.
US09779756B2
A system for indicating a speaker is likely to be misunderstood by at least one listener from a group of listeners. The system includes a computer interface configured to receive lexicon information from the group of listeners. The lexicon information includes words encountered by each of the listeners from the group of listeners and a word count associated with each of the words. A computer with at least one central processing unit is configured to determine when the word count corresponding to a spoken word from the speaker is below a threshold count. A transducer coupled to the computer is configured to signal the speaker that the spoken word has likely been misunderstood by the listener when the word count corresponding to the spoken word is below the threshold count.
US09779746B2
A method performed in an audio decoder for reconstructing an original audio signal having a lowband portion and a highband portion is disclosed. The method includes receiving an encoded audio signal and extracting reconstruction parameters from the encoded audio signal. The method further includes decoding the encoded audio signal with a core audio decoder to obtain a decoded lowband portion and regenerating the highband portion based at least in part on a cross over frequency and the decoded lowband portion to obtain a regenerated highband portion. The method also includes creating a synthetic sinusoid with a level based at least in part on a spectral envelope value for the particular subband and a noise floor value for the particular subband and adding the synthetic sinusoid to the regenerated highband portion in the particular frequency band specified by the location information. Finally, the method includes combining the lowband portion and the regenerated highband portion to obtain a full bandwidth audio signal.
US09779745B2
A method performed in an audio decoder for decoding M encoded audio channels representing N audio channels is disclosed. The method includes receiving a bitstream containing the M encoded audio channels and a set of spatial parameters, decoding the M encoded audio channels, and extracting the set of spatial parameters from the bitstream. The method also includes analyzing the M audio channels to detect a location of a transient, decorrelating the M audio channels, and deriving N audio channels from the M audio channels and the set of spatial parameters. A first decorrelation technique is applied to a first subset of each audio channel and a second decorrelation technique is applied to a second subset of each audio channel The first decorrelation technique represents a first mode of operation of a decorrelator, and the second decorrelation technique represents a second mode of operation of the decorrelator.
US09779744B2
A linear prediction coefficient of a signal represented in a frequency domain is obtained by performing linear prediction analysis in a frequency direction by using a covariance method or an autocorrelation method. After the filter strength of the obtained linear prediction coefficient is adjusted, filtering may be performed in the frequency direction on the signal by using the adjusted coefficient, whereby the temporal envelope of the signal is shaped. This reduces the occurrence of pre-echo and post-echo and improves the subjective quality of the decoded signal, without significantly increasing the bit rate in a bandwidth extension technique in the frequency domain represented by SBR.
US09779742B2
A device and/or method for allowing authorization of computing device association using human-perceptible signals includes forming an association between a computing device and a further computing device. The computing device computes a fingerprint of a common key derived during the forming of the association and emits a first audio stimuli based upon the computed fingerprint. The first audio stimuli is at least one octave number apart from a second audio stimuli of the further computing device emitted by the further computing device based upon the common key.
US09779738B2
The present document relates to audio encoding/decoding. In particular, the present document relates to a method and system for improving the quality of encoded multi-channel audio signals. An audio encoder configured to encode a multi-channel audio signal according to a total available data-rate is described. The multi-channel audio signal is representable as a basic group (121) of channels for rendering the multi-channel audio signal in accordance to a basic channel configuration, and as an extension group (122) of channels, which—in combination with the basic group (122)—is for rendering the multi-channel audio signal in accordance to an extended channel configuration. The basic channel configuration and the extended channel configuration are different from one another.
US09779716B2
Systems and methods for active noise reduction and occlusion reduction based on seal quality of an in-the-ear (ITE) module inserted into a user's ear canal are provided. An example method includes receiving one or more acoustic signals. Each of the acoustic signals represents at least one captured sound having at least one of a voice component and an unwanted noise. The voice component may include the user's own voice. A quality of a seal of an ear canal is determined based at least partially on the acoustic signals. If the quality of the seal exceeds a predetermined threshold value, an occlusion reduction is performed on the acoustic signals to improve the voice component. If the quality of the seal is below a predetermined threshold value, active noise reduction is performed on the acoustic signals to reduce the unwanted noise.
US09779714B2
An active noise control arrangement has a signal input (SI), a microphone input (MI), a signal output (SO) and a digital interface (DI). A signal processing block (SP) coupled to the microphone input (MI) by means of an amplifier (MA) has a digitally adjustable gain and comprises combining means (CM) and a filter (TP). The signal processing block (SP) is configured to generate an output signal at the signal output (SO) as a function of an input signal at the signal input (SI) and an amplified microphone signal. A control block (CB) is coupled to the digital interface (DI) and configured to adjust the gain of the amplifier (MA).
US09779713B2
An acoustic wave gate is provided. The gate includes one or more layers of metamaterial configured to be in a first state and a second state and configured to change from the first state to the second state when electrical and/or magnetic energy is applied thereto. The gate also includes at least one source configured in operational communication with the one or more layers and configured to supply at least one of electrical and magnetic energy to the one or more layers. The one or more layers are configured to (i) prevent the passage of acoustic energy through the one or more layers when in the first state and (ii) permit the passage of acoustic energy through the one or more layers when in the second state, wherein the one or more layers are configured to be stimulated in phase with the acoustic energy.
US09779712B2
An installation structure for an acoustic transducer configured to vibrate a vibrated body in a first direction so as to permit the vibrated body to generate sounds, wherein the acoustic transducer includes: a magnetic-path forming portion that forms a magnetic path; and a vibrating portion configured to vibrate in the first direction with respect to the magnetic-path forming portion, and wherein an anchor is provided between the vibrating portion and the vibrated body such that the anchor is undetachably fixed to the vibrated body by bonding and such that the anchor is detachably fixed to the vibrating portion.
US09779708B2
Systems and methods for collectively generating sound are provided. A sound composition can include multiple component pieces and those component pieces can be divided amongst devices so that the devices can collectively generate the sound composition. For example, each component piece may be assigned to a different device and the each device may provide its assigned component pieces in a synchronized manner so that the overall sound composition is collectively generated. By generating a sound composition in this manner, the network may create new and exciting spatial effects.
US09779705B2
A musical sound generator is provided including a tube defining a resonant cavity, the tube having a plurality of sound producing chimes configured to produce an audible sound when at least one object impacts on at least one of the chimes; a reservoir configured to hold a number of objects; and a transfer mechanism configured to transfer the objects from the reservoir to an elevated position within the resonant cavity, wherein the objects fall down from the elevated position within the resonant cavity by gravity after being transferred by the transfer mechanism, to strike the plurality of sound producing chimes; and wherein the position of the reservoir is configured to be moved depending on the level of the objects held in the reservoir.
US09779699B2
According to an embodiment, an image processing device includes a first calculator to calculate, when a photographic subject image is determined to satisfy a first condition, a first position of the clothing image such that the position of a feature area matches with the position of the feature area; a second calculator to calculate a second position of the clothing image in the photographic subject image such that the position of a feature point in the clothing image matches with the position of the feature point in the photographic subject image; a deciding unit to decide, when the photographic subject image is determined to satisfy the first condition, on the first position as a superimposition position, and decide, when the photographic subject image is determined not to satisfy the first condition, on the superimposition position based on the difference between the first position and the second position.
US09779698B2
An information processing method and an electronic device are described. The information processing method is applied to an electronic device having a display unit. The method includes obtaining a parameter value of a pixel of a source icon on the display unit; analyzing an energy distribution of the source icon based on the parameter value, and determining a core area of the source icon; extracting the core area and conducting image processing of the core area to generate a substitution icon of the source icon for displaying, the substitution icon possesses main display information features of the source icon.
US09779682B2
The present invention provides a GOA circuit with forward-backward scan function. In the GOA unit circuit of every stage, the pull-up controlling module comprises two thin film transistors respectively controlling the forward, backward scans. With proper received signals, as the thin film transistor controlling the forward scan is on, the GOA circuit performs forward scan from the GOA unit circuit of the first stage to the GOA unit circuit of the last stage, and as the thin film transistor controlling the backward scan is on, the GOA circuit performs backward scan from the GOA unit circuit of the last stage to the GOA unit circuit of the first stage. Thurs, the GOA circuit possessing functions of forward scan and backward scan at the same time can be achieved to expand the application field of the GOA circuit.
US09779679B2
It is an object to provide a semiconductor device which can supply a signal with sufficient amplitude to a scan line while power consumption is kept small. Further, it is an object to provide a semiconductor device which can suppress distortion of a signal supplied to the scan line and shorten a rising time and a falling time while power consumption is kept small. A semiconductor device which includes a plurality of pixels each including a display element and at least one first transistor and a scan line driver circuit supplying a signal for selecting the plurality of pixels to a scan line. A light-transmitting conductive layer is used for a pixel electrode layer of the display element, a gate electrode layer of the first transistor, source and drain electrode layers of the first transistor, and the scan line. The scan line driver circuit includes a second transistor and a capacitor for holding a voltage between a gate electrode layer of the second transistor and a source electrode layer of the second transistor. The source electrode of the second transistor is connected to the scan line.
US09779676B2
Systems and method of performing touch and force sensing in an electronic device. The device includes a cover and an array of touch-sensor electrodes disposed below the cover. The first array of electrodes may be configured to sense a touch on the cover using a capacitive sensing scheme. The device also includes a force-sensor drive electrode disposed below the first array of electrodes and a force-sensor sense electrode disposed below the force-sensor drive electrode. The force-sensor drive and sense electrode may be configured to sense a force on the cover. The device also includes a shared drive circuit having an output that is operatively coupled to the array of touch-sensor electrodes and the force-sensor drive electrode.
US09779674B2
Provided are a touch panel system with improved indicator detection accuracy and an electronic information device provided with the touch panel system. A touch panel system 1 includes: a touch panel 3 provided with a plurality of electrodes SL, DL; and an indicator position detection unit 5 for detecting a position of the indicator that is in contact with or close to the detection surface P, based on an output signal that is outputted by at least part of the electrodes SL, DL and shows a capacitance formed by the electrode SL. The touch panel system is characterized in that the indicator position detection unit 5 corrects detection sensitivity for each predetermined position within the detection surface P so as to correspond to a pattern of the electrodes SL, DL, and detects the position of the indicator within the detection surface P.
US09779661B2
A pixel circuit comprising two sub pixel circuits, each of which includes: five switching units, a driving unit, an energy storage unit and an electroluminescent unit. A first switching unit, a second switching unit and a fifth switching unit of a first sub pixel circuit and a first switching unit, a second switching unit and a fifth switching unit of a second sub pixel circuit share a scanning signal line. In the pixel circuit, the operating current flowing through the electroluminescent unit is not affected by the threshold voltage of the corresponding driving transistor, which solves the problem of non-uniformity of display luminance because of the threshold voltage drift of the driving transistor. At the same time, driving of two pixels is completed by using one compensation circuit, and the two adjacent pixels share a plurality of signal lines, which can reduce a number of signal lines used for the pixel circuit in the display apparatus, reduce a cost of an integrated circuit, decrease pixel spacing and achieve a higher pixel density.
US09779659B2
A pixel architecture includes a LED, a transistor, a data receiving unit, a compensation unit, a first switching unit, a second switching unit, and a capacitor. The transistor is configured to drive the LED. The first switching unit transmits a pixel data signal to the transistor according to a first scan signal. The compensation unit transmits a reference voltage. The first switching unit transmits a supply voltage to the transistor according to a second scan signal. The second switching unit transmits the pixel data signal to the transistor according to the second scan signal or a third scan signal. The capacitor is coupled to the transistor and the data receiving unit. The pixel data signal is transmitted to the capacitor at the time that the compensation unit transmit the reference voltage to the transistor.
US09779656B2
A pixel driving method of a display panel is disclosed. The display panel includes a plurality of scan lines, data lines and pixels. Each of the pixel includes a first transistor with a first end coupled to the data line, and a gate end coupled to the scan line, a second transistor with a first end selectively coupled to a voltage source or current source, and a gate end coupled to a second end of the first transistor, and a light-emitting unit with a first end coupled to a second end of the second transistor. The method includes turning on the first transistors of the pixels; coupling the data lines and first ends of the second transistors to the current source; reading voltage levels of gate ends of the second transistors; and providing corresponding data voltages to the pixels according to voltage levels of gate ends of the second transistors.
US09779652B2
A sub-pixel is provided in a display area of an organic EL display device. A bank layer surrounds an outer periphery of the sub-pixel. A contact area is positioned in the display area and is adjacent to the sub-pixel through the bank layer. A pixel electrode is provided in the sub-pixel. A common electrode is disposed across the sub-pixel and the contact area. At least a part of an auxiliary conductive layer is positioned in the contact area. A contact hole is provided in the contact area and electrically connects the common electrode and the auxiliary conductive layer.
US09779644B2
A method computes drive currents for LEDs in a pixel of a signboard to achieve a desired color at a desired luminous intensity. This method is particular applicable to a signboard having pixels made up of four (4) or more primary colors. The method selects a number of colors within a color gamut, and for each selected color, the method computes drive currents for the LEDs of each basis color, such that the resulting luminous intensity of the selected color is maximum. Using the computed drive currents, the method then scales the drive currents to achieve the desired luminous intensity in the desired color. The drive currents may be computed, for example, using a constrained maximization technique, such as linear programming. In one embodiment, the drive currents for each selected color are computed subject to the constraint that none of the drive currents is negative, and that their total is less than a predetermined value. In one embodiment, the selected color is expressed in the units of a linear color space.
US09779643B2
In embodiments of imaging structure emitter configurations, an imaging structure includes a silicon backplane with a driver pad array. The embedded light sources are formed on the driver pad array in an emitter material layer, and the embedded light sources can be individually controlled at the driver pad array to generate and emit light. The embedded light sources are configured in multiple rows for scanning by an imaging unit to generate a scanned image for display.
US09779630B2
This method for computing a conjugated airport navigation graph, from an initial airport navigation graph, is implemented by a computer.This method involves acquiring the initial graph including a plurality of navigation arcs, each including two end nodes, having at least one authorized navigation direction and being identified by its two end nodes.This method further involves determining a conjugated node for each navigation arc and for each authorized navigation direction of the arc, each conjugated node corresponding to a single authorized direction and representing the arc of the initial graph associated with the authorized direction. The conjugated graph is computed by connecting the conjugated nodes as a function of the connections between the arcs of the initial graph and the authorized directions. Two conjugated nodes connect to one another corresponding to two successive arcs of the initial graph and to a same authorized direction.
US09779626B2
Disclosed is a vehicle, and an apparatus and method for controlling the vehicle. The vehicle includes a line information obtainer configured to obtain information regarding a line; a vehicle controller configured to determine whether the vehicle is moving out of a lane based on the information regarding the line, and to determine a level of danger that indicates an extent of danger to the vehicle while the vehicle is changing the lane, based on at least one of a condition around the vehicle or a behavior of the vehicle while the vehicle is moving out of the lane; and a warning unit configured to provide different levels of alert to a driver based on the level of danger.
US09779618B2
A garage door opening device for a motorcycle is provided that includes a vehicle-side communicating device configured to transmit a door opening or closing signal to a garage-side communicating device. The garage door opening device also includes a manual operation switch configured to initiate sending of the opening or closing signal via the vehicle-side communicating device. The vehicle-side communicating device and the manual operation switch are located separately from each other. The vehicle-side communicating device is disposed inside a front cowl that is forward of a meter housing of the motorcycle.
US09779617B2
A microprocessor-operated, networked device that uses sensors in, on and near the toilet to detects toilet leaks and overflows of the toilet tank or bowl, then reports these errant conditions with a visual or audible indicator in addition to sending a message via a network (if available) to a computer system that may collate this data with that from other toilets and other sources and subsequently determine further action such as shutting off water or calling a technician. The present invention can be integral to a toilet or removably attached to an existing toilet without this technology.
US09779616B1
The synchronized, multifocal emergency alert system may include a device/emergency kit container, or may be incorporated into a belt, harness, or other personal protective equipment. The system may include a zipper slider, a zipper, access tab, alert device, and non-conductive pull tab. When the non-conductive pull tab is pulled, the alert device is triggered, and the synchronous, multifocal system alerts monitors that an emergency situation has occurred involving traumatic injury and alerting the monitors of the location of the emergency situation.
US09779610B2
A system includes a marshalling cabinet, a plurality of junction boxes, and an interface. The marshalling cabinet is configured to source a voltage in a plurality of cables through junction boxes to a plurality of field devices. Each of the junction boxes is configured to detect the voltage from the marshalling cabinet and transmit a detection message upon detecting the voltage. The interface is configured to receive the detection messages from the respective junction boxes that detect the voltage.
US09779608B2
An alarm output circuit can cope with simultaneous generations of a plurality of alarm factors based on alarm signals output from one output terminal. The alarm output circuit notifies externally of generations of alarm factors in an intelligent power module. A digital/analog converter, into which digital data indicating the presences and absences of generations of the alarm factors is input, outputs corresponding voltages. A voltage control oscillator outputs a signal of a frequency corresponding to an output voltage of the digital/analog converter.
US09779607B2
Systems are described for monitoring environmental conditions around extremities to aid in preventing damage associated with physical impact. A device embodiment includes, but is not limited to, a deformable substrate configured to conform to a skin surface of a body portion; a sensor assembly coupled to the deformable substrate, the sensor assembly including a proximity sensor configured to generate a sense signal associated with a proximity of an environmental object relative to the body portion; circuitry operably coupled to the sensor assembly and configured to receive the sense signal associated with the proximity of an environmental object relative to the body portion; and a reporting device operably coupled to the circuitry and configured to generate a communication signal associated with one or more of the environmental object or the proximity of the environmental object relative to the body portion responsive to instruction by the circuitry.
US09779585B2
A gaming system, and method of controlling a gaming system, having a touchscreen, that simulates a game of skill by showing a graphical object and detecting a pair of spaced-apart user input touch points on the touchscreen. An increase in distance between the touch points corresponds to an increase in stress upon the object, which is animated on the touchscreen, and scaling of an associated reward. A failure threshold is selected and the increase in stress is tested against the failure threshold. The failure threshold may be at least partly randomized. If the stress exceeds the threshold, then a failure event is shown. If the touch input ceases, the user may elect to accept then current reward value or to continue. The object may be a bubble and the stress may be expansion of the bubble, leading to popping of the bubble if the expansion exceeds the failure threshold.
US09779578B2
An electronic gaming machine, system and method for providing game components with 3D enhancement are provided. The machine includes: one persistent data store; one receiver to receive game data for storage in the persistent data store; at least one processor configured to, using a portion of the game data, generate a multi-faceted gaming surface having a plurality of facet gaming surfaces, wherein each facet gaming surface comprises at least one of a row and a column of game components along a plane in accordance with a set of game rules for a given game; and a display device configured with a user interface to display the multi-faceted gaming surface in three-dimensions in relation to the plane of the display device; wherein the at least one processor is configured to run multiple instances of the given game in parallel on different facet gaming surfaces of the multi-faceted gaming surface.
US09779575B1
A computerized method for an electronic game includes starting a round of play of the electronic game, and monitoring a user's brain activity. The method includes determining whether at least one component of the user's brain activity exceeds a threshold level, and changing a chance of winning the round of play if the at least one components of the user's brain activity exceeds the threshold level. Changing the chance of winning the round of play may include increasing the chance of winning the round of play.
US09779570B2
Systems and methods of user code synchronization with Z-wave door locks are provided. Methods can include determining an occurrence of a predetermined event, upon the occurrence of the predetermined event, identifying a set of a plurality of user codes stored in a control panel to be synchronized, and wirelessly transmitting the set of the plurality of user codes to be synchronized from the control panel to at least one door lock using a Z-wave communications protocol.
US09779566B2
Systems and methods are disclosed that provide for management of resources of one or more systems included in an access-controlled area of a distributed site of an electric power delivery system. In certain embodiments, one or more users entering and access-controlled area may be identified via physical access control credentials provided to an associated access control system. A determination may be made as to whether the users have access rights to one or more hardware and/or software resources of systems included in the access-controlled area. Based on the determination, control signals may be generated by the access control system to enable and/or disable associated resources.
US09779565B2
A motor vehicle controls operation of a mobile electronic device and includes a fingerprint sensor which scans a driver's fingerprint and produces a first electronic representation of the driver's fingerprint. A wireless transceiver receives from the mobile electronic device a first air-borne signal including a second electronic representation of the driver's fingerprint. An electronic processor determines whether the vehicle is in motion, compares the first electronic representation of the driver's fingerprint to the second electronic representation of the driver's fingerprint, and causes the transceiver to transmit a second air-borne signal to the mobile electronic device. The second air-borne signal instructs the mobile electronic device to disable itself. The second air-borne signal is transmitted only if the processor determines that the vehicle is in motion and ascertains as a result of the comparison that the first electronic representation of the driver's fingerprint matches the second electronic representation of the driver's fingerprint.
US09779564B2
Device and method for controlling an access authorisation and/or driving authorisation for a vehicle
A system for controlling an access authorization and/or driving authorization for a vehicle includes at least one mobile communication device and a control unit in the vehicle that receives and checks authorization data sent from the mobile communication device. The mobile communication device has a data carrier for storing the authorization data. The data carrier has at least one protected storage region for the storage of the authorization data. A database server transfers encrypted authorization data to the data carrier for storage in the protected storage region.
US09779559B2
An abnormality monitoring circuit of an ECU includes a microcomputer, a reset circuit that resets the microcomputer, a monitor circuit that monitors the operation of the microcomputer, and an output circuit that activates an external actuator. The monitor circuit has an abnormality decision signal output section that outputs an abnormality decision signal to the output circuit when not being able to confirm that an output of a normal monitor signal of the microcomputer has occurred within an abnormality decision time. The monitor circuit has a reset decision signal output section that outputs a reset decision signal to the reset circuit when not being able to confirm that an output of the normal monitor signal of the microcomputer has occurred within a BIST (Built In Self Test) completion time of the microcomputer and a reset decision time set to a time longer than the abnormality decision time.
US09779557B2
Embodiments are directed to monitoring vehicle operations. If sensor information based on sensor data captured by a sensor computer installed in a vehicle is provided to a server by a client computer. An analysis engine may compare the sensor information to vehicle models associated with the vehicle. One or more reports based on the comparison may be distributed registered subscribers. A modeling engine may be employed to update the vehicle models based on the sensor information. The one or more updated vehicle models may be communicated to one or more client computers that may be associated with one or more users. The sensor information may be obtained from the sensor computer. Sensor information may include metrics associated with the operation of the vehicle. Metrics may include timestamps, road shocks, straight line driving, harshness, acceleration, deceleration, trip length, travel speeds, or the like.
US09779548B2
A multiuser, collaborative augmented reality (AR) system employs individual AR devices for viewing real-world anchors, that is, physical models that are recognizable to the camera and image processing module of the AR device. To mitigate ambiguous configurations when used in the collaborative mode, each anchor is registered with a server to ensure that only uniquely recognizable anchors are simultaneously active at a particular location. The system permits collaborative AR to span multiple sites, by associating a portal with an anchor at each site. Using the location of their corresponding AR device as a proxy for their position, AR renditions of the other participating users are provided. This AR system is particularly well suited for games.
US09779545B1
Aspects of the technology described herein optimally locate business labels within the footprint of a building shown on a digital map. An optimal arrangement comprises business labels displayed entirely within the building footprint without the business labels overlapping each other. The technology initially generates label arrangements and calculates a cost for the arrangements. A cost of zero means the arrangement is optimal. For non-zero costs, a lower cost means the arrangement is close to an optimal arrangement. The technology can continue to generate arrangements for analysis until an acceptable arrangement is found.
US09779543B2
A method for providing information representing physical features of a portion of a three-dimensional surface, the information including data files at different resolution levels. The data files are stored in a hierarchical file system. A hash value is computed from a file designator of a data file and is assigned to the data file. The data file is stored according to the assigned hash value in the file system. A request hash value is received from the external device, and a data file that has an assigned value corresponding to the request hash value is provided to the external device. A method for receiving such information is also provided, in which information including an information designator is requested. A request hash value is computed from the information designator and transmitted to the server. A data file that includes the requested information is received from the remote server.
US09779541B2
There is provided a system including a hardware processor, a memory, and an illumination rendering unit including a virtual object discrimination module stored in the memory. The hardware processor is configured to execute the illumination rendering unit to perform a first, primitive render of an illumination of a scene including multiple virtual objects, and to determine a score for each of the virtual objects corresponding to its respective contribution to the illumination of the scene. The hardware processor is also configured to execute the illumination rendering unit to identify one or more of the virtual objects as disregardable based on their respective scores, and to perform a second render of the illumination of the scene while disregarding presence of the identified one or more virtual objects as disregardable in the scene.
US09779540B2
A virtual reality (VR) console receives slow calibration data from an imaging device and fast calibration data from an inertial measurement unit on a virtual reality headset. Using a model of the VR headset, the VR console identifies model locators corresponding to locators on the VR headset and generates estimated positions for locators included in slow calibration data. The VR console adjusts calibration parameters so a relative distance between estimated positions of the locators and positions of their corresponding model locators is less than a threshold value. From the estimated positions, the VR console generates calibrated positions of a reference point on the VR headset associated with images from the slow calibration data. The VR console determines predicted positions of the reference point from the calibrated positions and adjusts calibration parameters so intermediate estimated positions of the reference point are within a threshold distance of the predicted positions.
US09779539B2
An information processing apparatus and method provide logic for processing information. In one implementation, a computer-implemented method includes receiving spatial positions associated with a plurality of images. The method determines displacements of the images in opposing first and second horizontal directions, based on at least the spatial positions. The method then generates, using a processor, first and second composites of the images, based on the determined displacements.
US09779536B2
A graphics processing pipeline (20) comprises first vertex shading circuitry (21) that operates to vertex shade position attributes of vertices of a set of vertices to be processed by the graphics processing pipeline. Tiling circuitry (22) then determines for the vertices that have been subjected to the first vertex shading operation, whether the vertices should be processed further. A second vertex shading circuitry (23) then performs a second vertex shading operation on the vertices that it has been determined should be processed further, to vertex shade the remaining vertex attributes for each vertex that it has been determined should be processed further.
US09779534B2
In an example, rendering graphics data includes determining, with a graphics processing unit (GPU), a texture offset for a current segment of a plurality of ordered segments of a dashed line, where the texture offset for the current segment of the plurality of ordered segments is based on an accumulation of lengths of segments that precede the current segment in the order, and pixel shading the current segment including applying the texture offset to determine a location of the current segment.
US09779531B1
The present disclosure is directed towards systems and methods for modifying and scaling content within a digital image. For example, systems and methods described herein involve identifying source content to add to a destination image. The source content includes one or more detected objects. The systems and methods further involve scaling the source content based on a size of one or more detected objects within the destination image. Additionally, the systems and methods involve displaying the source content within the destination image while preventing portions of the source content from interfering with one or more protected regions corresponding to the one or more detected objects within the destination image. In this way, the systems and methods enable adding source content to a destination image while minimizing manual modifications to blend the source content into the display of the destination image.
US09779528B2
In one example, a graphics processing unit may use an optimized geometric realization to render a text shape as a scalable geometry. The graphics processing unit may generate an inner geometry for a text shape. The graphics processing unit also may generate a tessellated edge geometry abutting the inner geometry for an edge of the text shape. The graphics processing unit further may assign a coverage gradient to the tessellated edge geometry to create an anti-aliased edge for the text shape.
US09779525B2
Systems and methods are presented for representing non-numerical data objects in an object time series. An object time series of can be created by establishing one or more associations, each association including a mapping of at least one point in time with one or more objects that include properties and values. Visual representation of an object time series may include displaying non-numerical values associated with objects in the object time series in association with respective points in time.
US09779521B2
A system and method of a gravity point drawing that simulate a physical model to draw or modify vector curves. A node is identified in a drawing of a graphical application. A size of a predefined space around the node and an intensity value associated with the node are determined. The intensity value affects the curvature of a vector curve in the predefined space. The vector curve is generated in the predefined space. The curvature of the vector curve is based on the size of the predefined space and the intensity value associated with the node in the drawing.
US09779516B2
A method of predicting a portion of an image, for encoding or decoding of an image, the image portion being predicted by an intra prediction process with respect to samples of at least one reference image portion of the image, the method comprising deriving samples from at least one reference image portion; generating, from said derived samples, by the intra prediction process, at least one prediction image portion corresponding to the image portion to be predicted; and applying a parametric displacement transformation to at least the derived samples and/or the prediction image portion. A method and device for encoding and a method a device for decoding are also described.
US09779515B2
Spatio-temporal light field cameras that can be used to capture the light field within its spatio temporally extended angular extent. Such cameras can be used to record 3D images, 2D images that can be computationally focused, or wide angle panoramic 2D images with relatively high spatial and directional resolutions. The light field cameras can be also be used as 2D/3D switchable cameras with extended angular extent. The spatio-temporal aspects of the novel light field cameras allow them to capture and digitally record the intensity and color from multiple directional views within a wide angle. The inherent volumetric compactness of the light field cameras make it possible to embed in small mobile devices to capture either 3D images or computationally focusable 2D images. The inherent versatility of these light field cameras makes them suitable for multiple perspective light field capture for 3D movies and video recording applications.
US09779506B2
A method for processing information and an electronic device are provided. The electronic device includes a camera device, an image is acquired by the camera device as a preview image, and a first distance between the camera device and a shooting object which is shot in the preview image is obtained; the preview image is detected, and at least one area meeting a predetermined condition is obtained, where the first distance corresponding to the at least one area falls within the first predetermined distance scope.
US09779500B2
An image processing device includes an input unit and an alignment unit. The input unit inputs a cell shape image and a fluorescence image. The cell shape image shows a shape of a cell in a tissue section. The fluorescence image shows expression of a specific protein as a fluorescent bright point in a region same as a region in the tissue section. The alignment unit aligns the cell shape image and the fluorescence image based on an information source detected in both the cell shape image and the fluorescence image.
US09779498B2
In the present embodiments, a statement related to an image point or an image region in a reconstructed x-ray image is made in relation to the reliability of the reconstructed grayscale value for the image points of a 2D/3D x-ray image. A confidence level is formed for the grayscale value from a first number of the available x-ray images in relation to a second number of required x-ray images for a complete reconstruction of the respective grayscale value of the 2D/3D x-ray image to be imaged.
US09779496B2
A method is provided for measuring or estimating stress distributions on heart valve leaflets by obtaining three-dimensional images of the heart valve leaflets, segmenting the heart valve leaflets in the three-dimensional images by capturing locally varying thicknesses of the heart valve leaflets in three-dimensional image data to generate an image-derived patient-specific model of the heart valve leaflets, and applying the image-derived patient-specific model of the heart valve leaflets to a finite element analysis (FEA) algorithm to estimate stresses on the heart valve leaflets. The images of the heart valve leaflets may be obtained using real-time 3D transesophageal echocardiography (rt-3DTEE). Volumetric images of the mitral valve at mid-systole may be analyzed by user-initialized segmentation and 3D deformable modeling with continuous medial representation to obtain, a compact representation of shape. The regional leaflet stress distributions may be predicted in normal and diseased (regurgitant) mitral valves using the techniques of the invention.
US09779494B2
A dispensing system for depositing material on an electronic substrate includes a frame, a dispensing unit gantry movably coupled to the frame, a dispensing unit coupled to the dispensing unit gantry, a vision system gantry coupled to the frame, and a vision system coupled to the vision system gantry. A controller is configured to manipulate the vision system with the vision gantry system to move to the position defined by a feature, to acquire an image of at least a portion of a feature, to search for an edge of interest along a center of the image, and to return a value indicating an offset of zero (0), which is interpreted as the location that is exactly as expected, and an offset that reflects where the edge of interest intersected that axis location.
US09779487B2
Methods and systems of equalizing spatial frequency signals for images are provided. Images distorted through defocus, motion blur, under-sampling or other reasons may be equalized. Equalized spatial frequency signals may be used to determine correspondence matching between images. Image patches from two or more image signals may be identified and analyzed to determine image patches that contain similar representations of the real scene, with sufficient local details for accurately computing cross-correlation.
US09779484B2
Dynamic motion path blur techniques are described. In one or more implementations, paths may be specified to constrain a motion blur effect to be applied to a single image. A variety of different techniques may be employed as part of the motion blur effects, including use of curved blur kernel shapes, use of a mesh representation of blur kernel parameter fields to support real time output of the motion blur effect to an image, use of flash effects, blur kernel positioning to support centered or directional blurring, tapered exposure modeling, and null paths.
US09779461B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus embodiments for electric power grid and network registration and management of physical and financial settlement for participation of active grid elements in supply and/or curtailment of power. Settlement is provided for grid elements that participate in the electric power grid following initial registration of each grid element with the system, preferably through network-based communication between the grid elements and a coordinator, either in coordination with or outside of an IP-based communications network router. A multiplicity of active grid elements function in the grid for supply capacity, supply and/or load curtailment as supply or capacity, and are compensated through settlement for their functional participation in the electric power grid. Also, messaging related to settlement is managed through a network by a Coordinator using IP messaging for communication with the grid elements, with the energy management system (EMS), and with the utilities, market participants, and/or grid operators.
US09779458B2
The present disclosure generally relates to a computer implemented system and method for automatically generating insurance policy related data. The system and method may determine a vehicle operator and generate empirical vehicle operator identity data. The system and method may further acquire empirical vehicle operation data related to the actual vehicle operator, and correlate the empirical vehicle operator identity data and the empirical vehicle operation data to generate vehicle insurance policy related data. The system and method may further include processing one or more insurance options, including underwriting and pricing, based at least in part on the vehicle insurance policy related data.
US09779449B2
Veracity determination through comparison of a geospatial location of a vehicle with a provided data
A method, apparatus and system related to veracity determination through comparison of a geospatial location data of a vehicle with a provided data are disclosed. In one aspect, the method of a veracity server associates a provided data of an individual with a vehicle using a processor, determines the geospatial location of a vehicle, correlates a relevance of the geospatial location of the vehicle with the provided data, and determines the veracity of the provided data based on the relevance of the geospatial location of the vehicle to the provided data. The method may also comprise the usage of a geospatial circuit in the vehicle in order to transmit geospatial coordinates as well as a plurality of relevant locational information of the vehicle to the veracity server in order to make a correct veracity determination of the provided data.
US09779447B2
A rendering constraint is detected for a maximum time between capture of each a plurality of frames of a captured video stream of a consumer and a rendering of each corresponding frame of a consumer representation comprising a rendered three dimensional model rendered to depict a consumer appearance and a movement wearing a particular merchandise item. Processor elements accessible to the at least one computing system are selected that are able to generate the rendered three dimensional model within the time period specified in the rendering constraint. At least one processing task is directed to the selected processor elements to build the consumer representation comprising the three dimensional model and generate a rendering of the three dimensional model wearing the particular merchandise item as the captured video stream is received in real time at the at least one computer system.
US09779440B2
Methods and systems to suggest information to be used with an item being listed for sale may include analyzing a plurality of stored entries of words and identifying certain entries based on desirability scores associated with those entries. The entries and the desirability scores may be identified based on their frequency of use in the plurality of stored entries and/or in the title information or other information associated with items offered for sale.
US09779437B2
Methods and systems to automatically respond to a request for product information are described. In one embodiment, a data collection module may collect product data over a network, identify that the product data is related to a particular product, and store the product data and an association between the product data and the particular product in a database. An instant messaging engine may receive a request for the product data after the product data is stored in the database and an interpreter module may identify, in response to the request, the request to correspond to the particular product and retrieve the product data based on the association between the particular product and the product data. The instant messaging engine may also transmit, using an instant messaging protocol, a response to the request, the response including the product data.
US09779430B2
A licensing envelope provides use of an application or device on a metered basis. The licensing envelope can be used with or without a connection to a computer network. In one embodiment, an application is provided with a dynamically linked library for the licensing envelope. The dynamically linked library verifies that access is enabled and calls a local licensing server when the application is opened. The local licensing server connects to and transfers data to a remote licensing server on a periodic basis. The remote licensing server can provide authorization codes for additional use of the application, bill the user, and forward payment to the application vendor.
US09779426B2
Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to share media are disclosed. An example system includes a first device to capture, via a sensor, a representation of media being presented by a media presentation device separate from the first device. The first device to send a first user identifier of a first user of the first device, a second user identifier of a second user, different from the first user, and the representation of media to a media share facility. In response to the sending of the first user identifier, the second user identifier and the representation of media to the media share facility, receiving access to the media for the second user. When the access to the media is provided to the second user, crediting the media content with audience-interest credit based on the first user identifier.
US09779425B2
A method and system is provided for facilitating affiliate link generation. A publisher enables the system by identifying a webpage on an affiliate web site. The system performs an initial assessment of the page to extract webpage information, which is compared to information stored in a database. If the extracted information matches stored information, a record of the webpage is displayed and an affiliate link is dynamically generated for immediate use. If the extracted information does not match stored information, a new record of the webpage is created. If the webpage contains product-specific data, a product-specific record is stored. If the webpage does not contain product-specific data, a non-product record is stored. An affiliate link is then dynamically created. The new record of the product and dynamically created affiliate link is added to the database for immediate use.
US09779422B2
A revenue share analysis module can determine individual session revenues for content items provided by content providers. The module can also determine total session content revenues for each of the content items according to the determined individual session revenues, and determine respective content values for each of the content items according to the determined total session revenues for each of the content items. It also may determine total session provider revenues for each of the content providers according to the determined total session revenues for each of the content items, and determine respective provider values for each of the content providers according to the determined total session revenues for each of the content providers. Also, it can determine revenue share offers according to the content values and/or the provider values.
US09779416B2
A social graph is built which includes interactions, sharing activity, and connections between the users of the open Web and can be used to improve ad targeting and content personalization. Personally identifiable information is not collected. The sharing activity can include receiving first activity information for a sender of a message to a recipient by a collection resource at a Web site, the collection resource adding a link to the message, and receiving second activity information when the recipient accesses the link. The first or second activity information can include a cookie, which can be used to identify a node in a social graph as being representative of a particular person or user. When a match is not found, a fingerprinting approach can be performed using attributes, such as device identifiers; IP addresses; operating systems; browsers types; browser versions; or user navigational, geo-temporal, or behavioral patterns.
US09779412B2
A method and system for placement of graphical objects on a page to optimize the occurrence of an event associated with such objects. The graphical objects might include, for instance, advertisements on a webpage, and the event would include a user clicking on that ad. The page includes positions for receipt of the object material. Data regarding the past performance of the objects is stored and updated as new data is received. A user requests a page from a server associated with system. The server uses the performance data to derive a prioritized arrangement of the objects on the page. The objects are arranged according to a calculation and returned to the user on the requested page.
US09779410B2
The disclosure relates to network-implemented methods and systems for providing dynamic product pricing to a seller, using a self-updating database.
US09779408B2
In a system and method for flexibly offering on-line promotions to visitors of a website hosted by a server, when a user signs up with the website, the server collects a plurality of user data from the visitor. If a user's data matches predetermined criteria from an advertiser, then online promotions from this advertiser are included in an opt-in window displayed to the user. In some aspects, a bifurcated client/server scripting approach isolates personally identifiable information until or unless a user opts-into an offer or offers. The server dynamically generates pricing information for each advertiser according to a flexible algorithm. The flexible algorithm depends on the type and quality of user requested by the advertiser.
US09779407B2
Real-time fraud prevention software-as-a-service (SaaS) products include computer instruction sets to enable a network server to receive medical histories, enrollments, diagnosis, prescription, treatment, follow up, billings, and other data as they occur. The SaaS includes software instruction sets to combine, correlate, categorize, track, normalize, and compare the data sorted by patient, healthcare provider, institution, seasonal, and regional norms. Fraud reveals itself in the ways data points deviate from norms in nonsensical or inexplicable conduct. The individual behaviors of each healthcare provider are independently monitored, characterized, and followed by self-spawning smart agents that can adapt and change their rules as the healthcare providers evolve. Such smart agents will issue flags when their particular surveillance target is acting out of character, outside normal parameters for them. Fraud controls can therefore be much tighter than those that have to accommodate those of a diverse group.
US09779401B2
A user device can be configured for network access, such as for guest network access. In one example, a first device receives an indication of a transaction that uses the first device. The first device communicates a request for network access to an access point of the network in response to receiving the indication of the transaction. The first device then receives a first key from the access point. The first device provides the first key to the user device. The user device is to use the first key to obtain the network access to the network.
US09779400B2
The present disclosure concerns a method of identifying a biometric record of an individual in a database comprising a plurality of biometric records, each record comprising at least one reference biometric sample, the method comprising: receiving, by a biometric identification unit (202), an input biometric sample with associated source information; selecting, by the biometric identification unit using a reference table (210), and based on said source information a matching process; and applying by said biometric identification unit said selected matching process to at least some of said biometric records of said database to determine whether said input biometric sample matches a reference biometric sample of one of said biometric records.
US09779398B2
An approach is provided for purchasing items using contactless payment devices (credit cards and debit cards, key fobs, smartcards or other devices). The approach retrieves the contactless payment identifiers that each pertain to a separate payment account used by a user. One of the contactless payment identifiers is selected based on one or more selection criteria, such as user and monetary incentives. The approach further pays for purchases using the payment account that corresponds to the selected contactless payment identifier.
US09779396B2
The current invention provides a mobile payment method and a number of variations that enable a consumer to pay for a purchase from a merchant. Preferably the consumer may use a mobile device such as a smart phone to complete the transaction. With the current invention, the merchant may be capable of conducting the transaction using only an ordinary point of sale (OPOS) terminal, allowing the merchant and consumer to conduct business in a more convenient manner. The variations of the core method also significantly facilitate possible payment from the consumer to the merchant, enhancing the efficiency of the transactions.
US09779390B1
The APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ADVANCEMENT PATH BENCHMARKING (“APB”) provides mechanisms allowing advancement seekers to identify, map out, structure and interact with various advancement paths to the seeker's goals. In one embodiment, the seekers are career advancement seekers, and the APB provides mechanisms allowing the seeker to explore various career paths and opportunities. In one embodiment, the APB interacts with a statistical engine, which allows seekers to map their experiences to various advancement states in the statistical engines state structure. By so doing, it allows seeker to explore multiple paths based on various criteria, and allows seekers to plan their career goals. In the process, the APB obtains and tracks information from a number of seekers allowing any one seeker to benchmark attributes of their advancement path against other seekers. In other embodiments, the seekers may be students wishing to advance their academic advancements. In yet other embodiments, the seekers are financial seekers who wish to achieve their financial goals.
US09779386B2
The present invention relates to software and a method of use for implementing workflows and managing engagements and staff. More particularly, the present invention relates to a software module tracking data of staff, engagements and workflows and a method of using such data in the management of staff and assignment of tasks. Information concerning employees is input into a database by the manager and the employees, and is tracked therein. The information concerning an employee includes an employee's availability, ability and experience. Workflow/Task information is input into the database when either a client makes a request for service of the business, or a workflow/task internal to the business is needed to be performed. Task information includes the nature of the work and deadlines. Task information is compared to the employee information. A list is automatically generated naming the employees best suited to the mandate of the task. The manager then chooses a name from the top of the list and assigns the task to that employee.
US09779385B2
A social networking system determines the meaning of an anchor term used in a communication received from a communicating user. Candidate nodes are identified in the dictionary based on the anchor term, where each candidate node represents a possible meaning of the anchor term. The context of the anchor term is determined, and a score is determined for each candidate node based on the determined context. A candidate node is selected that most likely represents the meaning of the anchor term based on the determined candidate node scores. The context of the anchor term may be a social context derived from users connected to the communicating user that use the anchor term in communications. A communicating user may be prompted to identify the meaning of the anchor term explicitly based on the use of the term in communications from other users connected to the communicating user.
US09779377B2
A method includes analyzing, by a computer device, data associated with tickets generated in a managed environment. The method also includes generating, by the computer device, a suggested rule change based on the analyzing. The method further includes receiving, by the computer device, an acceptance or denial of the suggested rule change.
US09779375B2
Aspects described herein relate to a flexible order fulfillment management system that utilizes predefined fulfillment workflows including common business processes. By utilizing predefined workflows including common business processes, the order fulfillment management system is able to drive store-based fulfillment programs efficiently as multiple fulfillment workflows may utilize the same common business processes and a single fulfillment management system may operate workflows in parallel. In addition, such an order fulfillment management system may also be more easily adapted for different retail store environments as the system allows a designer to easily create or modify a fulfillment workflow by selecting predefined common business processes or creating any additional custom business processes. Another aspect described herein relates to a tool that allows a designer of an order fulfillment program to select from a group of predefined common business processes to create workflows associated with an order fulfillment program.
US09779370B2
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for detecting anomalous correlations between public and private activities of a user. During operation, the system collects public and private activity data associated with the user. The system generates a series of feature pairs, each feature pair including a public feature vector and a private feature vector generated from the activity data. Each respective feature pair corresponds to a respective point in time. The system generates a model to determine whether there is an anomaly in a correlation between the user's public and private activity data. The model is associated with a normal correlation between the user's public and private activity data over a period of time. The system collects additional public and private activity data and applies the model to determine whether there is an anomaly. The system may issue an alert in response to detecting an anomaly.
US09779360B2
A system may include first and second qubits that cross one another and a first coupler having a perimeter that encompasses at least a part of the portions of the first and second qubits, the first coupler being operable to ferromagnetically or anti-ferromagnetically couple the first and the second qubits together. A multi-layered computer chip may include a first plurality N of qubits laid out in a first metal layer, a second plurality M of qubits laid out at least partially in a second metal layer that cross each of the qubits of the first plurality of qubits, and a first plurality N times M of coupling devices that at least partially encompasses an area where a respective pair of the qubits from the first and the second plurality of qubits cross each other.
