US09788460B2
A heatsink structure cools a first electronic chip and a second electronic chip that are positioned serially and in-line to one or more cooling fan, such that cooling air from the cooling fan(s) passes above the first electronic chip before passing above the second electronic chip. The heatsink structure includes a first heatsink and a second heatsink, which are identical to each other, and which fit adjacent to one another when a first heatsink is rotated 180 degrees relative to the second heatsink.
US09788459B2
A thermal stand-off includes a rigid thermal stand-off section within a spatial region that extends along a distance between a first location and second, opposed location. The rigid thermal stand-off section includes a tortuous solid-wall thermal conduction path that extends from the first location to the second location. The tortuous solid-wall thermal conduction path is longer than the distance of the spatial region. The tortuous solid-wall thermal conduction path can include a tensile spring constant that is greater than a maximum tensile spring constant of a coil spring that fits in the same spatial region and is formed of the same material composition. The tortuous solid-wall thermal conduction path can include an antegrade section and, relative the antegrade section, a retrograde section.
US09788455B1
The present invention relates to electronic equipment data center or co-location facility designs and methods of making and using the same in an environmentally aware manner, and generally provides apparatus and methods for using novel support bracket structures, and thermal panels associated with the same, that allow for distinct partitioning of air flowing in hot aisles and cold aisles, as well as for holding wiring above cabinets that are used to store electronic equipment in the facility.
US09788453B2
A server includes a chassis, a power bridge module having a first power connector, a backplate having a first signal connector, a tray, a motherboard module and a signal bridge board. The motherboard module is fixed to the tray, and includes a second power connector detachably and electrically connected to the first power connector. The signal bridge board includes a second signal connector detachably and electrically connected to the first signal connector. Removal of the tray out of the chassis results in removal and electrical disconnection of the second signal connector from the first signal connector, and removal and electrical disconnection of the second power connector from the first power connector.
US09788452B2
In one implementation of a modular rack system, a rack module (22, 24, 222, 522, 722, 724) comprises a bay (30, 730) comprising a first side wall (32, 732), a second side wall (32, 732) and floor (36, 736) and an intermediate wall positioning mechanism (280, 380, 390, 392, 790, 792) to support a wall (282, 782) at different spacings with respect to the first side wall (32, 732). In another implementation of the modular rack system, a utility bay (148) extends across rack modules (22, 24, 222, 522, 722, 724).
US09788450B2
The present invention relates to a modular component assembly system comprising a supporting profiled rail (200) and at least one bridging module (300) for electrically connecting at least one functional component, wherein the bridging module (300) comprises a modular locking means (301) for locking the bridging module (300) onto the supporting profiled rail (200).
US09788449B2
A power conversion apparatus 2 has a configuration in which a plate-like bus-bar 80, 80′ is disposed vertically so that a width direction thereof is set in a vertical direction, electrically connected to positive electric potential of a battery and fixed to a resin case 50 to include a flat plate-like bus-bar body 81, 82, to which positive electric potential of the battery is applied, and a voltage measuring terminal 82 to 85 branched from the bus-bar body 81, 82. The voltage measuring terminal 82 to 85 includes a projecting portion 83 projecting from the bus-bar body 81, 82, an upright portion 84 extending from the projecting portion 83 upward toward a circuit board 100, and a measuring terminal portion 85 that is an upper part of the upright portion 84 and electrically connected to the circuit board 100.
US09788447B2
A rigid electrical raft is provided to a gas turbine engine via a fusible mount arrangement. The rigid electrical raft may be a part of an electrical system of the gas turbine engine, for example a part of the electrical harness. The fusible mount is arranged to break when a predetermined load is applied. The rigid electrical raft may be attached to a fan case of the engine, and the predetermined load may be that which results from a fan blade being released from the hub. This ensures that the rigid electrical raft is protected from the load.
US09788432B2
Polymer materials make useful materials as electrode array bodies for neural stimulation. They are particularly useful for retinal stimulation to create artificial vision. Regardless of which polymer is used, the basic construction method is the same. A layer of polymer is laid down. A layer of metal is applied to the polymer and patterned by wet etch to create electrodes and leads for those electrodes. The base polymer layer is activated. A second layer of polymer is applied over the metal layer and patterned to leave openings for the electrodes, or openings are created later by means such as laser ablation. Hence the array and its supply cable are formed of a single body.
US09788424B2
A wiring substrate comprises an insulating substrate and an external electrode on the insulating substrate. The insulating substrate comprises a lateral surface comprising a cutout. The cutout extends to a lower surface of the insulating substrate. The external electrode extends from an inner surface of the cutout to the lower surface of the insulating substrate. The insulating substrate comprises a protrusion at a lower end portion of the inner surface of the cutout. The protrusion protrudes from the inner surface of the cutout toward the lateral surface of the insulating substrate.
US09788418B2
Provided herein is a method for manufacturing a conductive transparent substrate, the method including forming a plurality of main electrodes on the substrate such that the main electrodes are distanced from one another; and forming a connecting electrode that electrically connects two or more main electrodes such that the plurality of main electrodes are grouped into a plurality of group electrodes that are electrically disconnected from one another, thereby producing a conductive transparent substrate with excellent transmittance in a process of high yield.
US09788417B2
An example embodiment includes optoelectronic module. The optoelectronic module may include a lens assembly, a module board, heat-generating components, and a thermally conductive plate. The lens assembly may be secured to the module board. The module board may include a printed circuit board (PCB). The heat-generating components may be mounted to the PCB. The thermally conductive plate may be secured to a surface of the module board. The thermally conductive plate may define an opening that receives at least a portion of the lens assembly. The thermally conductive plate may be configured to absorb at least a portion of thermal energy generated during operation of the heat-generating components and to transfer the thermal energy away from the heat-generating components.
US09788399B1
A system and method is described for minimizing the effects of a laser light flash in a cockpit area of an aircraft. At least one sensor is configured to detect a laser light flash of a predetermined color. At least one light source is mounted in the cockpit area and configured to output light of the predetermined color upon activation. Finally, a controller is coupled to the at least one sensor, the at least one light source, and a cockpit ambient light control circuit. The cockpit ambient light control circuit is configured to control an intensity output of cockpit ambient lighting. The controller is configured to activate the at least one light source and to cause the cockpit ambient light control circuit to turn off or dim the intensity output of the cockpit ambient lighting upon detection of a laser light flash of the predetermined color.
US09788394B2
A lighting system has a first lighting unit for providing general lighting and a second lighting unit for providing directed lighting. The lighting units are controlled based on sensed light conditions, in order to maintain an intensity and/or color contrast between the general lighting and the directed lighting.
US09788393B1
A method, executed by a computer, includes receiving extent information for a light zone and a desired emitted light level for a light source proximate to the light zone where the light source is a programmable light source, determining that the light source projects light onto the light zone, and adjusting, by one or more processors, the light source to emit the desired emitted light level. A computer system and a computer program product corresponding to the method area also disclosed herein.
US09788382B2
Systems and methods for maintaining the illumination intensity of one or more LEDs above a minimal intensity level. The systems and methods may include: (1) a current regulator for regulating the current in a circuit; (2) a voltage source for applying current to a circuit; (3) an LED with a minimal intensity level that correlates to a set-point temperature; and (4) a thermal sensor that is in proximity to the LED and adapted to sense a temperature proximal to the LED. The thermal sensor may transmit a signal to the current regulator if the sensed temperature exceeds the set-point temperature. Thereafter, the current regulator may take steps to regulate the current in order to maintain the LED illumination intensity above the minimal intensity level.
US09788366B2
An apparatus may include a curing apparatus and an electrical coupler. The curing apparatus may include one or more electrical components related to curing a composite material inside a vacuum chamber at least partially defined by a flexible wall. The electrical coupler may be connected to the curing apparatus. The coupler may include a first set of one or more electrical contacts electrically connected to the one or more electrical components of the curing apparatus inside the vacuum chamber. The coupler may be configured to hermetically extend through a hole in the flexible wall. Such extension may dispose the first set of one or more electrical contacts in a space outside of the vacuum chamber for electrical interconnection of the one or more electrical components of the curing apparatus inside the vacuum chamber with circuitry disposed in the space outside of the vacuum chamber.
US09788361B2
Techniques for setting transmission parameters in a shared communication medium are disclosed. A communication method in accordance with the present disclosure may include, for example, receiving in accordance with a first RAT a first management frame indicating a first BSSID and a second management frame indicating a second BSSID different from the first BSSID, calculating a timestamp difference between a first management frame timestamp included in the first management frame and a second management frame timestamp included in the second management frame, the first BSSID and the second BSSID to a first grouping associated with a first physical access point based on the timestamp difference, and selecting one or more operating channels or setting one or more parameters of a DTX communication pattern based on the assigning, the DTX communication pattern defining activated periods and deactivated periods of communication.
US09788349B2
Disclosed herein are example embodiments for multi-modality communication with auto-activation. By way of example but not limitation, user interaction with a device may be determined to correspond to a second communication modality based, at least partly, on one or more parameters relating to utilization of the device. The device may activate at least one feature that causes a communication corresponding to a first communication modality to comprise a multi-modality communication corresponding to the first communication modality and to the second communication modality.
US09788343B2
A wireless communication base station device, terminal device, and method have reduced signaling while maintaining high scheduling gain. A judgment unit pre-stores a correspondence between the number of code words and the number of clusters to reduce the maximum value for the number of clusters allocated to each terminal as the number of code words increases, and thus determines the maximum value for the number of clusters based on the number of code words acquired. Based on the number of code words for a transmission signal from a terminal, an estimated value for the reception quality, and the maximum value for the number of clusters that is output by the judgment unit, a scheduling unit schedules the allocation of the transmission signal transmitted by each terminal to a transmission band frequency (frequency resource) so as not to exceed the maximum value for the number of clusters.
US09788342B2
The present invention relates to a method for a terminal to receive downlink control information in a wireless communications system and an apparatus therefor. More specifically, the method is characterized by comprising a step for receiving downlink control information (DCI) indicating whether to retransmit an uplink or not, wherein DCI is defined to simultaneously transmit whether to retransmit the uplink for each of the plurality of terminals.
US09788339B2
A method and apparatus for supporting a device-to-device (D2D) communication between user equipments (UEs) are provided. The method of a device-to-device (D2D) communication between user equipments (UEs), the method includes: receiving, at a transmission (Tx) UE, resource assignment information transmitted from an evolved NodeB (eNB), the resource assignment information being associated with a D2D discovery signal to be transmitted in a discovery period; determining, at the Tx UE, that a D2D discovery signal associated with a first discovery type and a D2D discovery signal associated with a second discovery type are to be transmitted in a first subframe included in the discovery period; and in the first subframe, transmitting the D2D discovery signal associated with the second discovery type and dropping the D2D discovery signal associated with the first discovery type.
US09788336B2
A microwave base station estimates a first position of a terminal station that has transmitted millimeter-wave signal quality information and a second position of a terminal station that has transmitted a data bandwidth reservation request and transmits the millimeter-wave signal quality information and the first position or the data bandwidth reservation request and the second position to a control station, and the control station stores the millimeter-wave signal quality information and the first position in a database in association with each other and determines, for the terminal station that has transmitted the data bandwidth reservation request, a millimeter-wave base station with which communication is to be performed, a first directivity, and a second directivity by referring to the database by using the second position, and allocates a radio resource based on the determined millimeter-wave base station, first directivity, and second directivity.
US09788332B2
In order to avoid interference efficiently and control the amount of radio resources that are not used for interference avoidance, the present invention provides a radio base station connected to a neighbor radio base station via inter-radio base station interface. The radio base station has: a radio communication section that performs radio communication with a user terminal using a UL/DL configuration indicating a configuration of uplink and downlink subframes in a radio frame; an interference detecting section that measures and detects interference that the radio base station suffers from; and a selecting section that uses an interference detection result as a basis to determine which to apply to each subframe, between a resource allocation-unrestricted scheme and an inter-cell uplink/downlink orthogonalization scheme.
US09788331B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method for analyzing a wide frequency band with respect to signal power levels in specified narrow frequency bands, detecting narrow band signal power levels received in the specified narrow frequency bands, determining an average composite wideband power level from the narrow band signal power levels, determining an adaptive threshold, tracking narrow band interferers according to the adaptive threshold and the average composite wideband power level, and transmitting a report descriptive of the narrow band interferers. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09788330B2
Disclosed are a method and device for processing and indicating downlink data. The method for processing the downlink data includes: a user equipment (UE) receiving multiple sets of resource indication information configured for the UE by a base station and transmitted by the base station via a high-layer signaling; the UE receiving a subframe transmitted by the base station, acquiring downlink grant indication information in the subframe; the UE selecting from the multiple sets of resource indication information the resource indication information matching the downlink grant indication information, wherein the resource indication information is used for indicating a resource location having interference present, or, the resource location having interference present and interference information corresponding to the resource location; and the UE processing on the resource location the interference of the downlink data transmitted to the UE. The disclosure allows the implementation of coordinated transmission among different nodes to one UE.
US09788324B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to the field of communications, and disclose a carrier status indication method and a device, which can reduce a delay of indicating an activated state or a deactivated state of a carrier, and improve efficiency of indicating the activated state or deactivated state of the carrier. A specific solution is as follows: determining, by a base station, a carrier status of a carrier, where the carrier status is an activated state or a deactivated state; indicating first carrier information to user equipment by using a downlink physical control channel, where the first carrier information includes the carrier status of the carrier, and the first carrier information is used to enable the user equipment to perform communication on the carrier according to the carrier status. The present invention is applied in a carrier switching process.
US09788323B2
Methods relating to managing operations of small cells are provided. One method includes receiving, from a management system configured to manage one or more operations of a plurality of small cells, a plurality of fractional frequency reuse (FFR) patterns for a frequency range. Each FFR pattern is configured to define a plurality of cell groupings, each including one or more of the plurality small cells. Each of the plurality of cell groupings is configured to transmit downlink transmissions over a different one of a plurality of frequency bands within the frequency range. The method further includes selecting a first FFR pattern from among the plurality of FFR patterns received from the management system and transmitting downlink transmissions in accordance with the first FFR pattern.
US09788321B2
The invention provides method and apparatus for resource allocation in wireless communication network. The method comprises: determining each UE in each cell of a cluster to be a CE UE or CC UE according to pilot signal strength reported by the UE; dividing available frequency band into two non-overlapping frequency bands of CE frequency band and CC frequency band based on the number of CC UEs and the number of CE UEs in the cluster; assigning non-overlapping portion from the CE frequency band to each cell based on at least one number associated with CE UEs in each cell; assigning at least one resource block (RB) from the CC frequency band to each CC UE in each cell; and assigning at least one RB from the assigned non-overlapping portion from the CE frequency band to each cell of the cluster to each CE UE in the corresponding cell.
US09788320B2
A method, apparatus, and computer program for scanning for a secondary cell are provided. According to an embodiment, an apparatus operates in a primary cell of a cellular communication system, wherein the primary cell includes a primary component carrier associated with a bandwidth. The apparatus synchronizes scanning for a candidate secondary cell to radio transmissions in the primary cell, the secondary cell including a secondary component carrier expanding bandwidth beyond the bandwidth of the primary cell.
US09788314B2
A base transceiver station (BTS) includes dedicated memories to store uplink real-time (RT) data received by way of an antenna of the BTS and downlink RT data generated by processors of the BTS. The dedicated memories serve a dedicated number of processors, which prevents over-run and under-run of antenna buffers and provides deterministic data flow necessary to stream time-critical uplink and downlink RT data. Thus, a high and dedicated bandwidth for the uplink and downlink RT data is ensured.
US09788306B2
In one method, a base station sends configuration notification information to a terminal, so as to notify the terminal to set at least one radio frame meet a first subframe configuration, where the first subframe configuration includes N−1 downlink subframes, one special subframe, and zero uplink subframe. In another method, third radio frame configuration information is sent to a terminal, and second dynamic subframe indication information is sent to the terminal, so that at least one fourth radio frame is set to meet a third subframe configuration, or is set to meet a fourth subframe configuration, or at least one fifth radio frame is set to meet a fourth subframe configuration, where the third subframe configuration includes zero downlink subframe, zero special subframe, and N uplink subframes, and the fourth subframe configuration includes zero downlink subframe, one special subframe, and N−1 uplink subframes.
US09788305B2
A wireless networking system is disclosed. The wireless networking system includes an application layer associated with one or more applications having a wireless bandwidth requirement. A first wireless transceiver resource associated with an actual MAC layer and PHY layer is employed. The first wireless transceiver resource has a first bandwidth availability up to a first actual bandwidth. A second wireless transceiver resource associated with the actual MAC layer and the PHY layer is employed. The second wireless transceiver resource has a second bandwidth availability up to a second actual bandwidth. A processing layer evaluates the wireless bandwidth requirement and the first and second bandwidth availabilities of the wireless transceiver resources. The processing layer includes a bandwidth allocator to allocate at least a portion of each of the first and second actual bandwidths to virtual MAC and virtual PHY layers, and to satisfy the application layer wireless bandwidth requirement.
US09788303B2
Wireless communication devices may directly communicate within groups of wireless communication devices using Layer-2 communications to implement “push-to-talk” type applications. In one implementation, a method may include generating a floor request signaling message to take control of a communication channel for a group. After transmitting data relating to the communications, a floor release signaling message may be generated and transmitted a number of times.
US09788300B2
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for narrow band internet of things (NB-IoT) paging optimization are provided. One method includes, when extended discontinuous reception (eDRX) is not configured for a user equipment (UE), applying a maximum repetition number of each coverage enhancement (CE) mode for paging transmission and associating a different repetition number with each paging occasion (PO). When extended discontinuous reception (eDRX) is configured for the user equipment, the method includes associating each paging occasion (PO) with a different repetition number.
US09788299B2
A system may be configured to receive traffic that is destined for a user device, determine a type of content associated with the traffic, determine, based on the type of content, a base station paging scheme, and locate the user device by using the base station paging scheme. In some implementations, a system may include a traffic content analyzer device to analyze header information of a data packet to identify a type of content of the data packet, and output a message that is based on the identified type of content; and a mobile management entity device to receive the message from the traffic content analyzer device, and locate an intended recipient of the data packet by paging one or more base stations using a paging scheme that is based on information in the message.
US09788287B2
A mobile communication system according to the present invention supports D2D communication that is direct device-to-device communication in which a data path does not pass through a core network, The mobile communication system has a user terminal that exists on a cell managed by a base station and a plurality of user terminals that include the user terminal and perform a process of discovering a partner terminal in the D2D communication or the D2D communication, in which a maximum value of transmission power used by the user terminal for the discovering process or the D2D communication is calculated so that the maximum value becomes larger according to the number of the plurality of user terminals, and the user terminal performs the discovering process or the D2D communication so that the transmission power does not exceed the maximum value.
US09788283B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and user equipment, UE, in a wireless communication network of performing power scaling on uplink transmission to a receiving radio access node, RAN. In particular, the disclosure relates to a method and user equipment for power scaling on uplink transmissions on a multi-radio access bearer, multi-RAB, wherein a Dedicated Physical Data Channel, DPDCH, and enhanced Data Channels, E-DCHs are configured for uplink transmission from the UE to the receiving RAN. The method comprises determining a total UE transmit power exceeding a predetermined maximum power limit value. The total UE transmit power is reduced to the predetermined maximum power limit value by reducing one or more E-DPDCH gain factors by an equal scaling factor. When a predetermined minimum E-DPDCH gain factor, ‘smallest quantised βed,k value’, is reached for all E-DPDCH gain factors βed,k, and DTX is applied for all E-DPDCHs, the method comprises applying DTX on E-DPCCH.
US09788275B2
A method of and device for reducing current consumption is provided. The method includes providing, by a first processor to a second processor, information indicating a state of a display of the electronic device or a display of an external electronic device configured to communicate with the electronic device; receiving, by the second processor, data external to the electronic device; and determining, by the second processor, whether to transmit the data or a result of processing the data to the first processor based on at least a part of the information.
US09788273B2
A method and a wireless network system are provided for paging reception optimization in a first terminal. The method includes establishing, by the first terminal, a Device-to-Device (D2D) communication with a second terminal; receiving, by the first terminal, paging information from the second terminal; receiving, by the first terminal, a paging message from a network; and sending a paging notification to the second terminal upon receiving a paging message for the second terminal.
US09788271B2
The present invention provides a DRX control method and system in which power consumption of a mobile station can be reduced and an increase in the load of a network can be suppressed. A source base station forwards Dormancy Context, which is information for controlling the activity level of a mobile station that performs inter base station handover, to a target base station and, immediately after the mobile station completes handover, the target base station performs DRX control of the mobile station using the Dormancy Context.
US09788265B2
Method for managing the accessibility of an uplink channel, of the control channel and/or data channel type, for a communications network infrastructure with a plurality of pieces of radio equipment (SU1; SU2; SU3), in which the accessibility to the uplink channel is transmitted on a downlink channel of the network infrastructure to the pieces of radio equipment by means of status symbols indicating if access to the uplink channel is authorized during a timeslot. The method comprises: a receiving of a message on the uplink channel coming from a piece of radio equipment (SU1), the message comprising an indicator in order to indicate a length type of the message; a reading of the indicator indicating the type of length and when the message is of the long type: a determining of the length L of the message received using a processing of a header block; a determining of the number Nb of subsequent timeslots corresponding to the determined length L, and a modification of at least one status symbol of the Nb subsequent timeslots determined.
US09788259B2
The present invention relates to the field of network communication technologies, and discloses a method, a device, and a system for establishing an on-demand route. The method includes: determining that a stable route needs to be established; establishing the stable route and recording a route entry corresponding to the stable route in a route table; determining an effective time of the stable route, in which the effective time of the stable route is longer than the effective time of another common route; and performing an aging operation on the route entry according to the effective time of the stable route. With the present invention, requirements of different applications on the delay may be satisfied, and the consumption of the network bandwidth may be reduced.
US09788248B2
The present disclosure provides a method for supporting UE access control. A base station is informed by a ProSe Function via a MME or informed by the MME of information indicating whether a UE is authorized for a D2D service. The base station performs an access control to the UE according to the information indicating whether the UE is authorized for the D2D service. The present disclosure further provides a method in which a source base station informs a target base station of the information indicating whether the UE is authorized for a D2D service. The target base station performs an access control according to the information.
US09788235B2
A network device may make a determination that a first backhaul connection, which serves a first base station, is congested and that a second backhaul connection, which serves a second base station, is not congested. This determination may be made based on a first periodic data cap imposed on the first backhaul connection, a traffic load on the first backhaul connection, a second periodic data cap imposed on the second backhaul connection, and a traffic load on the second backhaul connection. In response to the determination, the network device may configure a value of a cellular communication parameter utilized by one or both of the base stations. The configuration may comprise periodic adjustments of the value of the cellular communication parameter. The periodic adjustments may cause one or more mobile devices to be handed-over between the first base station and the second base station.
US09788227B2
Methods and apparatuses are described. A method of configuring a Radio Resource Control (RRC)_Connected wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) for wireless local area network (WLAN) cell measurement includes receiving, by the WTRU, an RRCConnectionReconfiguration message. The RRCConnectionReconfiguration message includes a measurement configuration that includes at least one WLAN measurement object on which the WTRU is to perform measurement and at least one measurement reporting configuration including at least an indication that measurement reporting is to be at least one of periodic and event-triggered. At least one measurement is performed on the at least one WLAN measurement object. A measurement report is provided based on the at least one measurement reporting configuration.
US09788224B2
An embodiment of wireless communication in a wireless sensor network (WSN) comprises selecting amount of information transmission from a sensor node utilizing a transmission parameter, wherein the transmission parameter indicates the amount of sensed information to discard from a transmission. Sensed information from a sensor node is transmitted based on the transmission parameter. Discarded sensor information is reconstructed at a receiver based on received sensor information and utilizing information correlation.
US09788222B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a network establishing method. The method includes: acquiring a first comparison result obtained by comparing a comprehensive performance value of a first device with a comprehensive performance value of a second device, where the performance value of the first device respectively indicate one or more aspects of a data exchange capability of the first device, and the performance value of the second device respectively indicate one or more aspects of a data exchange capability of the second device; and setting the first device as a group server or a group client of a primary network according to the first comparison result, where the primary network includes the first device and the second device.
US09788219B1
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for remotely driving mobile web application testing on mobile devices. In use, a secure connection is established between a test manager residing on a test management system and a mobile web application residing on a mobile device associated with a user, the secure connection being established to remotely drive one or more automated tests of the mobile web application residing on the mobile device by the test manager residing on the test management system. Additionally, a test scenario is sent from the test manager residing on the test management system to a test driver runtime component of the mobile web application residing on the mobile device, the test scenario including one or more steps for automatically testing the mobile web application residing on the mobile device. In response to the test driver runtime component executing the one or more steps for automatically testing the mobile web application residing on the mobile device, a report is received from the test driver runtime component of the mobile web application residing on the mobile device by the test manager residing on the test management system, the report including results of automatically testing the mobile web application residing on the mobile device.
US09788217B2
Systems and methods presented herein provide for improving communications when encountering aggressive communication systems. In one embodiment, a communication system comprises a wireless access point operable to link a first user equipment (UE) to a WiFi network via a contention based mode that directs the WAP to share radio frequency spectrum with other WAPs. The communication system also comprises a communication processor operable to query at least the first UE to determine aggressive radio frequency (RF) band activity by another communication system in range of the WAP, to determine that the aggressive RF band activity by the other communication system is pushing communication with the first UE via the WAP below a threshold level, and based on the determination, direct the WAP to switch to a contention free mode to communicate with the first UE in contention free mode.
US09788215B2
Collaborative computing and electronic records are disclosed. An entity that may be able to help achieve an objective is discovered and a connection to the entity established. A meta-language is used to exchange with the entity a description of the objective and a description of the entity. The meta-language is used to negotiate with the entity a contract to help achieve the objective. In the event a contract to help achieve the objective is reached, performing a self-configuration in accordance with the contract.
US09788211B2
An embodiment logical function architecture for next-generation 5G wireless networks may include a control plane comprising a software defined topology (SDT) logical entity configured to establish a virtual data-plane logical topology for a service, a software defined resource allocation (SDRA) logical entity configured to map the virtual data-plane topology to a physical data-plane for transporting service-related traffic over the wireless network, and a software defined per-service customized data plane process (SDP) logical entity configured to select transport protocol(s) for transporting the service-related traffic over a physical data-plane of the wireless network. An embodiment virtual service specific serving gateway (v-s-SGW) for next-generation 5G networks may be assigned specifically to a service being provided by a group of wirelessly enabled devices, and may be responsible for aggregating service-related traffic communicated by the group of wirelessly enabled devices.
US09788204B2
An exemplary method includes a user authentication system detecting a touch input on a lock screen of a mobile device while the lock screen displays a notification of an incoming voice call, determining a total distance of movement of the touch input across the lock screen, determining, based on the determining of the total distance, that the touch input satisfies an end-user-defined authentication key requirement, and facilitating, based on the determining that the touch input satisfies the end-user-defined authentication key requirement, a pick-up of the incoming voice call. Corresponding systems and methods are also described.
US09788199B2
This invention shows a method for operating a voice communications network that comprises dynamically associating a private number with at least one public number of a circuit-switched voice communication network, authenticating a user of a private number without reliance on a static reproducible data code, receiving an incoming call to the public number and routing the incoming call from a caller to the private number. The method also shows the generation of an outgoing call from the private number and passing the outgoing call through the public number while generating calling party information to a target which preserves the privacy of the caller, and altering an associating of the private number and at least one public number. The system therefore acts as a proxy with authentication by means of dynamic code security. The caller and the user of the private number share seamless round-trip telephone communications while preserving the anonymity of the user of the private number. The system functionality is advantageously presented as a restricted option space defined by a “skin”, which provides a consistent and purposeful set of functionality useful for a predetermined population of users.
US09788188B2
According to at least one example embodiment, hub breakout roaming enables providing data access to a user network device, subscribed with a home network and roaming into a visited network, by a hub breakout system through the visited network. Upon receiving a request for data access from the visited network, the hub breakout system assigns an IP address to the user network device. The hub breakout system then routes data packets, associated with the data access requested by the user network device, to and from at least one corresponding data source, using the assigned IP address. The data source includes the Internet, a private network associated with home network, or any other service provider entity.
US09788186B2
Embodiments of an enhanced node B (eNB), user equipment (UE) and methods of signaling for proximity services and device-to-device (D2D) discovery in an LTE network are generally described herein. In some embodiments, the eNB may transmit signaling to indicate D2D discovery zone configuration to proximity service (ProSe) enabled UEs. The signaling may indicate time and frequency resources and a periodicity of a discovery zone and may indicate operational parameters for the discovery zone. The resources of the D2D discovery zone may be allocated for D2D discovery signal transmission by the ProSe-enabled UEs.
US09788182B2
A system for wireless communication comprising a plurality of wireless stations; each station configured to receive and transmit communications on at least one channel, each station comprising at least one processor and at least one memory operatively connected to the at least one processor; the at least one processor being configured to sense communications on the at least one channel and to wait a predetermined number of units of delay before transmitting a communication on the channel; the predetermined number of units of delay before transmission of the next communication being operatively associated with communications by the respective units. A method for controlling access in a wireless communication system comprising providing a wireless network comprising a plurality of communication units configured to transmit and/or receive communications over a channel; each communication unit being operatively associated with a delay counter and a memory containing reservations for a communication unit to transmit.
US09788180B2
A method and apparatus for echoing media via a mobile device are disclosed herein. According to an embodiment, the method can include displaying automatically to a user, on the mobile device, a list of one or more respective identifiers of one or more other users experiencing respective media within a selectable geographic area. The user is then allowed to select whether to play one or more of the respective media on the mobile device, and can connect with the one or more other users via a social networking site. As a result, the user can network with previously unknown people, based on a common taste in music or other media, for example, as well as a geographic location.
US09788177B2
Disclosed are an apparatus and method of performing automated administrative operations on a mobile device. One example method may include determining via a hosted server that an action needs to be performed by a mobile device under management. The method may further include generating a message via the hosted server, the message includes the action, and transmitting the message to the mobile device under management, and receiving a result message from the mobile device under management responsive to the transmitted message, the result message indicating that the action has been satisfied.
US09788163B2
A method of increasing accuracy of location determination of mobile devices within a location-based subgroup starts with server receiving location data and proximity information from each of the mobile devices. Location data received from first mobile device includes first mobile device's fixed location. Proximity information received from first mobile device includes an identification of mobile devices within a proximity sensitivity radius of first mobile device's location. Server forms subgroup of mobile devices based on proximity information from each of the mobile devices. Subgroup may include first mobile device and mobile devices that have provided proximity information that identifies first mobile device are being within the proximity sensitivity radiuses of the mobile devices, respectively. Server may then refine the fixed location of the first mobile device, which includes identifying an intersection of the proximity sensor sensitivity of each of the mobile devices that are in subgroup. Other embodiments are described.
US09788162B2
In one embodiment, a method includes by an RF transceiver of a wireless communications device associated with a first user of an online system, receiving an RF reference signal from each antenna of a plurality of antennas coupled to the RF transceiver. The method also includes, by a processor of the wireless communications device, determining, for each antenna of the plurality of antennas, at least one characteristic of the RF reference signal. The method further includes, by the processor of the wireless communications device, characterizing, based on the at least one determined characteristic, at least one aspect of an environment around the device to determine that an object is approaching the device. The method also includes, by the processor of the wireless communications device, retrieving from the online system, based on determining that the object is approaching the device, information associated with the first user.
US09788151B2
A system and method for locating a mobile device is disclosed. In a first embodiment, a system of provisioning multiple-tired location services is disclosed. The system includes a plurality of ultra-wideband devices forming a first level of a wireless infrastructure network and a plurality of location capable beacon devices forming a second level of the wireless infrastructure network. In a second embodiment, a method of providing location based services using location capable beacon devices is disclosed. In other embodiments a system for generating real-time safety alerts is further disclosed.
US09788148B2
A non-transitory storage medium encoded with a computer readable information processing program executable by a computer of an information processing apparatus, causing one or more processors to perform an obtaining module obtaining information on a state of the information processing apparatus or on a state of surroundings of the information processing apparatus, a setting module setting a communication condition for wireless communication based on the obtained information, and a data communication module carrying out at least one of transmission and reception of data through wireless communication with another information processing apparatus within coverage by using the set communication condition.
US09788143B2
A mobile communication terminal receives, from a first communication terminal, first terminal identification information for identifying the first communication terminal, controls a display to display type information indicating a type of the first terminal identification information as being selectable by a user, and transmits the first terminal identification information to a counterpart mobile communication terminal, in response to a user selection of the type of the first terminal identification information.
US09788134B2
A method for processing audio signals for creating a three dimensional sound environment includes: receiving at least one input signal from at least one sound source; creating a simulated signal at least partly based on the received at least one input signal, the simulated signal representing a simulation of at least one input signal reflecting from the ground or a floor; and creating an output signal at least partly on the basis of the simulated signal and the at least one received input signal, the output signal including a plurality of audio channels; at least two channels of the audio channels of the output signal representing signals for sound transducers above a listener's ear level at a nominal listening position, and at least two channels of the audio channels of the output signal representing signals for sound transducers below a listener's ear level at a nominal listening position.
US09788130B2
A power supply system used in a hearing assistance device including a housing including a battery storage region, a first removable battery holder including a first latch having a first latch configuration and configured to fit within the battery storage region and to hold at least one battery, and a second removable battery holder including a second latch having a second latch configuration that is different that the first latch configuration and configured to fit within the battery storage region and to hold at least one battery.
US09788125B2
Disclosed are various embodiments of systems, devices, components and methods for reducing feedback between a transducer and a microphone in a magnetic bone conduction hearing aid. Such systems, devices, components and methods include providing encapsulation compartments for the transducer and/or the microphone, and providing an acoustically-isolating housing for the microphone that is separate and apart from the main housing of the hearing aid.
US09788123B2
A double-voice coil moving-coil loudspeaker comprises a bracket. A U-shaped cup with a circular groove is fixed in the bracket. A vibrating diaphragm is fixed on the bracket at the position of the U-shaped cup. A large voice coil and a small voice coil distributed in a concentric circle are arranged on the vibrating diaphragm. A circular large magnet and a circular small magnet distributed in a concentric circle are arranged in the U-shaped cup. A circular big washer and a circular small washer are respectively arranged on an upper surface of the large magnet and the small magnet. The big voice coil and the small voice coil are respectively arranged in a gap formed by the U-shaped cup and the big washer and a small gap formed between the U-shaped cup and the small washer. The U-shaped cup is provided with air vents. The air vents of the U-shaped cup are communicated with a gap between the big washer and the smaller washer and a gap between the big magnet and the small magnet. The invention has the benefit of improving sound quality while reducing the cost of manufacturing.
US09788118B2
Entertainment systems are provided including a plurality of spatial sound speakers embedded in a headrest of a passenger seat and associated with a media player of the entertainment system. A spatial sound controller associated with the plurality of spatial sound speakers of the media player is also provided. The spatial sound controller is configured to provide simulated surround sound associated with the media player to a defined target region. The plurality of spatial sound speakers are adjusted to a position of a passenger seated in the passenger seat based on external input associated with the passenger.
US09788110B2
The present invention relates to a desktop speakerphone array processor for microphones which produces high quality sound. The microphone array has a front direction defined by the line of sight from a microphone inlet of the second microphone towards a microphone inlet of the first microphone, the array processor being connected to receive a front microphone signal from the first microphone, a rear microphone signal from the second microphone and an audio output signal representing a speaker sound emitted from a sound driver arranged near the first and second microphones and in the rearwards hemisphere with respect to the front direction of the microphone array, the array processor being configured to provide a first array signal having a first directivity pattern with a main lobe oriented in the front direction of the microphone array in dependence on the front microphone signal, the rear microphone signal and the audio output signal. The array process has a filter configured to filter the rear microphone signal using a first set of filter coefficients and a subtractor configured to subtract the filtered signal from the front microphone signal and to provide the result in a difference signal. The filter controller repeatedly performs a cross-power analysis based on the audio output signal, the front microphone signal and the rear microphone signal and to determine the first set of filter coefficients in dependence on the result of the cross-power analysis.
US09788089B2
An optical add-drop apparatus dropping a signal in input optical fibers in an optical cross-connect apparatus or adding a signal into output optical fibers from the cross-connect apparatus, optical cross-connect portions of the cross-connect apparatus connected such that a cross-connect portion internal connection output port is directly connected to an internal connection input port of another cross-connect portion and is indirectly connected via the other cross-connect portion to an internal connection output port of a further cross-connect portion, the add-drop apparatus having: photocouplers connected to part or all of the input fibers connected to each cross-connect portion; and drop signal receiving apparatuses each having optical switches each receiving and alternately selecting a signal output from photocouplers connected to respective different cross-connect portions of the cross-connect portions out of the photocouplers, the drop signal receiving apparatuses selecting a signal of a wavelength for each signal respectively output from the optical switches.
US09788082B2
A terminal device has a network interface that forces network connection when not connected to a network. The terminal device that has a network interface includes a connection check unit that makes a check as to whether the terminal device is connected to a network, and an invalidation unit that, when the connection check unit judges that the terminal device is not connected to the network as a result of the check, invalidates a function included in the terminal device.
US09788077B1
Techniques for improved rendition switching in association with adaptive bitrate streaming are described herein. The disclosed techniques may allow switching between segments at P-frames in addition to IDR-frames. By allowing switching at P-frames, the disclosed techniques may improve efficiency by, for example, reducing end-to-end latency without causing an undesirable decrease in image quality and image fidelity. In some examples, switching to a lower image quality rendition (e.g., lower bitrate, lower resolution, etc.) may be accomplished using P-frame switching, IDR-frame switching or both. Also, in some examples, switching to a higher image quality rendition (e.g., higher bitrate, higher resolution, etc.) may be accomplished using only IDR-frame switching.
US09788071B2
A method providing searchable streaming video broadcasts via an interactive media server, the interactive media server generates a live broadcast video stream for each of a plurality of interactive media sessions and a video provider server providing a connection to the live broadcast video stream for viewing, the method comprising receiving an interactive media events stream for each interactive media session from the interactive media server, generating statistics data for each interactive media session based upon the events stream, and generating a searchable index of a directory of the live broadcast video streams, the searchable index including a plurality of entries, each entry including (a) a link to the live broadcast video stream for a corresponding interactive media session provided by the video provider server, and (b) metadata associated with the corresponding interactive media session, the metadata generated based upon the statistics data for the corresponding interactive media session.
US09788070B2
Disclosed is a content-view supporting system to recommend to a user a clear result of searched contents, based on a group of similar users' favorite programs, through a user-basis collaborative filtering process. The system selects similar users whose program view history is similar to that of a recommended user, maps the program view history in a collaborative filtering matrix registers, in the collaborative filtering matrix, a virtual user whose program view history includes a group of hit programs obtained based on a search condition served for realizing a predetermined search topic. The system also counts the numbers of reservations or views achieved by each user according to program content based on the program view history, in the collaborative filtering matrix, which counted numbers are set as matching numbers, and outputs a search result representing a recommendation list of the contents arrayed in the descending order of matching number.
US09788068B2
A multimedia mobile personalization system allows a user to record and play multimedia content on a set top box at a location other than his home using the user's preferences from his home DVR.
US09788063B1
A video hosting system is provided for storing and managing broadcasts. A user device communicates with the video hosting system to create or join a broadcast. The user device transmits video to the video hosting system for inclusion in the broadcast that may be joined by video transmitted by other user devices. Users of user devices may also search for nearby broadcasts to join. The video hosting system associates a time and place for broadcasts and limits users from joining a broadcast who do not correspond to the time and place of the broadcast. Users of the video hosting system may search for and view videos associated with a broadcast and compile portions of videos associated with a broadcast to create a compilation.
US09788060B2
A system for aggregation and organization of multimedia data acquired from a plurality of sources can include a data collection element, a multimedia segmentation element, a memory, an extraction element, and a user interface. The data collection element can be configured to receive multimedia data. The multimedia segmentation element can be coupled to the data collection element and can be configured to separate the multimedia data into a plurality of multimedia data segments. The memory can be configured to store hierarchical category information having a plurality of categories. The extraction element can be coupled to the multimedia segmentation element and the memory and can be configured to associate at least one of the plurality of categories with each of the plurality of multimedia data segments.
US09788034B1
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for processing a traffic log having an optional-promotion log entry. An example method involves (i) accessing a stored television-broadcasting traffic log, wherein the traffic log includes multiple ordered log entries including at least a first log-entry and a second log-entry; (ii) making a first determination that the first log-entry corresponds to a show-segment video-component (VC) of a live news program; (iii) making a second determination that the second log-entry corresponds to an initial show-segment VC of a show, wherein the show is scheduled to follow the live news program; (iv) identifying, among log entries scheduled between the first log-entry and the second log-entry, a set of optional-promotion log entries, each such optional-promotional log entry having a duration; (v) determining a cumulative duration of the optional-promotion log entries in the identified set; and (vi) providing the determined cumulative-duration to an output device for presentation.
US09788032B2
This document describes techniques and apparatuses for determining a future portion of a currently presented media program. The techniques and apparatuses can receive current media reactions of one or many people to a currently presented media program and determine later portions to present in the media program based on the media reactions. In some embodiments, for example, a program can be presented live, reactions can be received during the live presentation, and the program altered on-the-fly and in real time based on those reactions. Further, the alterations can be general or tailored to a group or a particular person.
US09788020B2
The present technique relates to a file generation apparatus, a file generating method, a file reproduction apparatus, and a file reproducing method capable of enabling a user to enjoy an HDR image.HDR information designated by HDR designating information is acquired from a file storing a track of a stream including the HDR information which is configured with feature information representing features of luminance of an HDR (high dynamic range) image having a dynamic range higher than that of an STD (standard) image and conversion information representing a conversion rule of converting the one of the STD image and the HDR image into the other and a target track including the HDR designating information designating the HDR information which is to be applied to the target track of interest in the HDR information of the track. The present technique can be applied to the case of acquiring HDR information which is to be applied to an image of a subtitle or the like stored in, for example, an MP4 file.
US09788017B2
A method for performing video analytics includes receiving at a source end video data including first video data relating to an event of interest. Using video analytics, other than a data compression process, pre-processing of the video data is performed at the source end to reduce the bandwidth requirement for transmitting the video data to below a bandwidth limit of a Wide Area Network (WAN) over which the video data is to be transmitted. The pre-processed video data is transmitted to a central server via the WAN, where other video analytics processing of the pre-processed video data is performed. Based on a result of the other video analytics processing, a signal is generated for performing a predetermined action, in response to an occurrence of the event of interest at the source end.
US09788009B2
A coding efficiency increase is achieved by using a common signalization within the bitstream with regard to activation of merging and activation of the skip mode. One possible state of one or more syntax elements within the bitstream may signalize for a current sample set of a picture that the sample set is to be merged and has no prediction residual encoded and inserted into the bitstream. A common flag may signalize whether the coding parameters associated with a current sample set are to be set according to a merge candidate or to be retrieved from the bitstream, and whether the current sample set of the picture is to be reconstructed based on a prediction signal depending on the coding parameters associated with the current sample set, without any residual data, or to be reconstructed by refining the prediction signal depending on the coding parameters associated with the current sample set by means of residual data within the bitstream.
US09788007B2
Systems and methods for encoding a decoding video data are disclosed. The method for decoding video data can include receiving a bitstream having a plurality of layers of video data. The plurality of layers of video data can include a base layer and a video parameter set (VPS). The VPS can indicate a plurality of output layer sets (OLS) and profile, tier, and level (PTL) information for each OLS of the plurality of OLSs, including the 0th OLS. The method for decoding can also include selecting an OLS from the one or more layers as a target OLS, and decoding the target OLS based on PTL information signaled in the VPS.
US09788000B2
The present invention provides an image encoding apparatus carrying out inter-color prediction, comprising a residual block acquisition module obtaining a residual block with respect to a first color component and a residual block with respect to a second color component from a difference between an input block and a prediction block; an inter-color component prediction module carrying out inter-color component prediction by generating a residual signal reflecting a difference between a residual block with respect to the first color component and a residual block with respect to the second color component; a transform module generating a transformat coefficient by carrying out transformation with respect to the residual signal; a quantization module generating quantized data by carrying out quantization with respect to the transform coefficient; and an entropy encoding module carrying out entropy encoding by removing statistical redundancy of the quantized data.
US09787991B2
Video analytics may be used to assist video encoding by selectively encoding only portions of a frame and using, instead, previously encoded portions. Previously encoded portions may be used when succeeding frames have a level of motion less than a threshold. In such case, all or part of succeeding frames may not be encoded, increasing bandwidth and speed in some embodiments.
US09787987B2
Approaches for dynamic pre-filtering of digital video based on video complexity and output bit rate. An adaptive video preprocessor determines a current video complexity of the digital video and an output bit rate. Thereafter, the adaptive video preprocessor dynamically updates the strength of one or more preprocessing filters based on the current video complexity and the output bit rate for the digital video. The adaptive video preprocessor may update the strength of a preprocessing filter based, at least in part, upon selected values of a video quality preference category. A video quality preference category may be assigned natural language values which may each be translated into a particular strength value for at least one of the one or more preprocessing filters.
US09787980B2
An auxiliary information map (10) is upsampled to form an upsampled auxiliary information map (20). Multiple reference pixels (23) in the upsampled auxiliary information map (20) are selected for a current pixel (21) in the upsampled auxiliary information map (20) based on texel values of texels in an associated texture (30). An updated pixel value is calculated for the current pixel (21) based on the pixel values of the selected reference pixels (23).
US09787978B1
There are disclosed various methods, apparatuses and computer program products for testing a display. In some embodiments an image sensor captures a rendered image from the display to form a captured image, the image sensor having a second resolution greater than the first resolution. The captured image is analyzed to find difference of orientation of the rendered image with respect to an orientation of the image sensor. A rotated image is formed on the basis of the analyzed difference of orientation to obtain orientation for the rotated image to correspond with the orientation of the image sensor. The rotated image is resampled to form a resampled image having the first resolution.
US09787975B2
A method of displaying a stereoscopic image includes outputting a left-eye image to a first and a second display block of a display panel during an N-th frame. Light is provided to the first display block during a first period of the N-th frame and light is provided to the second display block during a second period of the N-th frame. A right-eye image is output to the first and second display blocks of the display panel during an M-th frame. Light is provided to the first display block during a first period of the M-th frame and light is provided light to the second display block during a second period of the M-th frame.
US09787973B2
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a switching liquid crystal unit, a display, and a controller. The switching liquid crystal unit includes optical elements switching an aperture pattern including an aperture portion and a light-shielding portion. The display overlaps the switching liquid crystal unit and displays parallax images including right and left eye images. The controller acquires positional information relating to a position of a viewer, and controls a position of the aperture pattern. The controller switches the aperture pattern from a first aperture pattern to a second aperture pattern so that a right eye always views the right eye image and a left eye always views the left eye image, and starts the switching before the viewer moves to an optimal switching position where a luminance viewed from the first aperture pattern is substantially equal to a luminance viewed from the second aperture patterns.
US09787970B2
The present invention concerns the field of stereoscopic photography devices and more precisely calibration thereof.The invention proposes a method for calibrating a stereoscopic photography device that calculates a set of correction parameters for the images. These parameters are classed according to an order of importance. The first-order correction parameters are estimated first, the second-order correction parameters secondly. Advantageously, the first-order parameters are refined by taking account of the estimation values of the second-order parameters. Advantageously, a measurement of the relevance of the scene is carried out before the actual calibration.
US09787963B2
In an example, the present invention provides an optical engine apparatus. The apparatus has a laser diode device, the laser diode device characterized by a wavelength ranging from 300 to 2000 nm or any variations thereof. In an example, the apparatus has a lens coupled to an output of the laser diode device and a scanning mirror device operably coupled to the laser diode device. In an example, the apparatus has an un-patterned phosphor plate coupled to the scanning mirror and configured with the laser device; and a spatial image formed on a portion of the un-patterned phosphor plate configured by a modulation of the laser and movement of the scanning mirror device.
US09787956B2
An image projection apparatus includes an image generator configured to use light emitted from a light source to generate an image; a movable member in which the image generator is disposed, the movable member being movably supported; a fixed member being fixed and configured to movably support the movable member; and a mover configured to move the movable member. The mover includes a first pair of actuators facing each other in a first direction across the image generator, and a second pair of actuators facing each other in the second direction across the image generator. The first pair of actuators causes a driving force to operate on the movable member in a direction parallel to a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The second pair of actuators causes a driving force to operate on the movable member in a direction parallel to the first direction.
US09787954B2
Provided are a pixel interpolation apparatus, imaging apparatus, program, and integrated circuit that appropriately perform pixel interpolation on an image signal obtained by a single-chip image sensor with a four-color array filter whatever array pattern the four-color array filter has. An imaging apparatus includes an imaging circuitry, a signal processing circuitry, and a pixel interpolation processing circuitry. The apparatus calculates a degree of correlation for pairs in two orthogonal directions for an image signal obtained by the imaging circuitry including a single-chip image sensor having a four-color array filter using pixel data in an area around a target pixel, and performs pixel interpolation using the correlation degree as a determination criterion. When a color component pixel with a color identical to a color of a color component pixel subjected to pixel interpolation is not located in the direction having the high correlation, the pixel interpolation apparatus obtains a change ratio in a direction orthogonal to the direction having the high correlation by using a pixel value resulting from color space conversion in the direction orthogonal to the direction having the high correlation, and performs pixel interpolation processing based on the change ratio.
US09787950B2
A fuel authorization system enables data to be exchanged between vehicles and a fuel vendor, to verify that the vehicle is authorized to receive fuel. Each fuel island is equipped with a camera and a short range radio (RF) component. Participating vehicles are equipped with fuel authorization component including an IR transmitter and a RF component that can establish a data link with the fuel island's RF unit. When the camera senses a vehicle in the fuel lane, an RF query is sent to the vehicle. Participating vehicles respond with an IR transmission. An RF data link is then established between the enrolled vehicle and the fuel vendor to verify that the vehicle is authorized to receive fuel. Once the verification is complete, the fuel dispenser is enabled. In some embodiments, the IR data link is not required, as the camera can distinguish between multiple fuel lanes.
US09787943B2
A system and method providing gesture controlled video conferencing includes a local capture device detecting movements of a user in a local environment and an audio/visual display. A processor is coupled to the capture device and a remote capture device and a remote processor at a remote environment via a network. The local processor includes instructions to render a representation of the remote environment on the display responsive to the remote processor and remote capture device. The processor also tracks movements of a local user in a space proximate to the local capture device. Responsive to a user gesture detected at the local capture device, the audio or visual signals provided by the remote capture device are altered to change the representation of the remote location is altered locally.
US09787941B1
A method of device to device communication is provided. The method may include obtaining a request for a communication session at a communication system from a first device. The method may further include obtaining profile data of a user associated with the first device and in response to obtaining the request, selecting a second device of multiple second devices to participate in the communication session using the profile data. In some embodiments, the method may also include establishing the communication session between the first device and the second device using the communication system and generating transcript data of the second device audio. The method may also include sending the transcript data and the second device audio to the first device for presentation of the transcription of the second device audio by the first device in substantially real-time with presentation of the second device audio by the first device.
US09787939B1
Video conferencing is performed using near-end and far-end devices at near-end and far-end sites, respectively. Each device has a display surface and a video camera. The view of the far-end scene displayed by the near-end device is selected as a function of the position of the near-end user relative to the near-end device. As the near-end user moves toward the left, the view pans toward the right of the far-end scene. As the near-end user moves toward the right, the view pans toward the left of the far-end scene.
US09787934B2
A wireless input-output device may gather touch input from a user. The touch input may be wirelessly transmitted to external wireless equipment such as a computer. The wireless device has a touch sensor and a solar cell that converts ambient light into electrical power. Wireless communications circuitry transmits the touch input to the external equipment using the electrical power from the solar cell. Energy storage devices such as a capacitor and a battery can be charged using the electrical power. The wireless device may have a transparent cover layer. The touch sensor may be a transparent touch sensor that is located between the cover layer and the solar cell or the solar cell may be a transparent solar cell that is located between the transparent cover layer and the touch sensor.
US09787929B2
An imaging element having a layered structure including a first chip having a pixel portion in which pixels for photoelectrically converting an optical image of an object and generating a pixel signal are arranged two-dimensionally and a second chip in which a drive means of the pixel portion is arranged, and having a first output path to output the pixel signals of at least a first pixel group in the pixel portion and a second output path to output the pixel signals of a second pixel group, comprises the a conversion means for converting the pixel signals of the first and second output paths into digital signals and a control information generation means for generating control information of a photographing operation of the object by using the digital signal converted by the conversion means, wherein at least a part of the conversion means is arranged in the first chip.
US09787926B2
A solid-state image apparatus includes a pixel unit including a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix, a plurality of amplifiers each provided to each of columns of the pixel unit, and each configured to amplify a signal output from a pixel in the corresponding one of the columns, a plurality of comparison units each provided to each of the plurality of amplifiers, and each configured to compare a level of an output signal from a corresponding one of the plurality of amplifiers with a predetermined threshold value and a control unit configured to control a gain of each of the plurality of amplifiers based on a result of comparing of a corresponding one of the plurality of comparison units.
US09787925B2
An imaging device including an image sensor; an image data generation portion that generates image data on the basis of output data from the image sensor; a display portion that displays the image data within a display scanning period in a display cycle that is N times the sensor cycle (N>=2); and a display control portion that, when a partial image constituting the image and corresponding to a predetermined one of the lines forming the image has become ready for display on the basis of partial image data constituting the image data and representing the partial image, performs control of causing the display portion to start display of partial images constituting the image and corresponding to one frame, at a rate of once every N iterations of the imaging operation by the image sensor.
US09787918B2
An imaging device (100) for acquiring and displaying images in real-time, the imaging device comprising i) an imaging sensor (110) comprising a radiation sensitive array (120) for acquiring an image (142), ii) a readout circuit (140) connected to the radiation sensitive array for reading out the image, iii) a signal processor (160) for processing the image for obtaining a processed image (162), and iv) a display (180) for displaying the processed image, the radiation sensitive array being arranged in rows of sensor pixels and the display being arranged in rows of display pixels, and wherein the readout circuit is a rolling shutter circuit for sequentially reading out the rows of sensor pixels for sequentially providing subsets of pixels, the signal processor is configured for, on availability of one of the subsets of pixels, processing the subset of pixels for providing a processed subset of pixels, and the display is configured for, on availability of the processed subset of pixels, displaying the processed subset of pixels on a thereto corresponding subset of display pixels for displaying the processed image sequentially on the rows of display pixels.
US09787914B2
An uncooled high-resolution 12 micron pixel pitch 3D-stacked component thermal camera including an electronics board, a camera circuit card assembly (CCA) with an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), a synchronous dynamic random access memory (SDRAM), flash memory, a spacer, a wafer level packaged Focal Plane Array (FPA) wafer with a lens housing attach ring on the FPA, and a window.
US09787910B2
In a method for detecting light sources operated in pulsed mode using a camera, the camera records a series of images, and the time interval between two successive recordings of individual images is varied while the series of images is recorded.
US09787907B2
A substance detection device includes an illuminator that illuminates a monitoring range with light at a first wavelength and light at a second wavelength at different timings, an image capturer that obtains a first actual image by capturing an image of the monitoring range which is illuminated by the light at the first wavelength and obtains a second actual image by capturing an image of the monitoring range which is illuminated by the light at the second wavelength, and an image processor that acquires a difference in lightness of corresponding pixels between the first actual image and the second actual image that are obtained by the image capturer, compares the acquired difference in lightness of the corresponding pixels with a reference value, and detects a specific substance that is present in the monitoring range based on a result of the comparison.
US09787904B2
Methods and apparatuses for capturing images used for generating three-dimensional (3D) models of rooms are described herein. User location indicators and image location indicators are displayed on a display of a mobile computing device, such as, but not limited to, a smartphone, a tablet computing device, or a laptop computer. Images and corresponding orientation information are obtained for each of a plurality of walls of each of a plurality of rooms using a camera and at least one sensor of the mobile computing device. The obtained images and corresponding orientation information are transferred from the mobile computing device to a remote system that is configured to generate 3D models of rooms based on images. The mobile computing device receives data that enables the mobile computing device to display a 3D model of the room(s) that was/were imaged.
US09787886B2
A blurless image capturing system sequentially acquires images with little blur, even in a situation where a camera moves. An image capturing camera unit and a mirror unit are both capable of continuous movement in at least a one-dimensional direction. The image capturing camera unit acquires an image of a physical object present within an object region by directing line of sight direction towards the object region by means of the mirror unit. The mirror body changes the line of sight from the image capturing camera unit. The drive unit changes an angle of the mirror body in a given angular velocity in accordance with movement of the image capturing camera unit and the mirror body In this way it is possible to keep the line of sight from the image capturing camera unit directed towards a physical object for a given time. The drive unit directs the line of sight from the image capturing camera unit towards another object region by driving the mirror body. The control unit controls operation of the drive unit.
US09787881B2
A camera assembly (10) for the inspection of passageways, particularly wellbores, and designed to operate in high temperature environments. A camera assembly for the inspection of wellbores comprises an elongate housing (12) having a first end (30) and a second end (42) and, extending between the ends, a side wall comprising an inner wall (22) and an outer wall (24), with a vacuum formed between the inner and outer walls; an elongate relay lens (52) having a first end (56) and a second end (62), the relay lens being located within the housing; an optically transparent window (46) located at the first end of the relay lens; an image sensor (48) located at the second end of the relay lens for capturing an image of an object viewable through the relay lens and window; and a light source (16) arranged to emit light from the housing, for illuminating the viewable object.
US09787874B2
Determination information is obtained to determine a degradation characteristic of sharpness of an image formed by an image forming apparatus. One of a plurality of recovery processing parameters used to recover sharpness of an image is selected based on the determination information, and characteristics of the plurality of recovery processing parameters are different from each other. Recovery processing of sharpness is performed on image data using the selected recovery processing parameter. When the degradation characteristics of sharpness are visually and substantially the same, the same recovery processing parameter is selected.
US09787871B2
Methods and systems for the in-situ creation of a halftone noise screen layer by layer. Each layer produced is a white noise uniform distributed screen, statistically similar to one generated by a uniform noise function. The generation of each layer, however, is driven by a screen state which is an error based metric on the mean screen threshold. The set of screens produced are not independent of each other; adjacent layers are negatively correlated, while non-adjacent layers are completely uncorrelated. The result of this screen creation is that for any color the variation of coverage across the viewed surface is smaller than the variation produced by randomly generated screen planes. The algorithm is computationally inexpensive and eliminates the need to store multiple screens in memory.
US09787867B2
An image forming apparatus that functions as a client of a distributed file system is provided, in which the image forming apparatus includes: a distributed file system process part for mounting a file system of a server apparatus on the image forming apparatus to enable the image forming apparatus to access the file system of the server apparatus as the distributed file system of the image forming apparatus; and a storing process part for accessing the file system of the server apparatus and storing, in the file system, information that is stored in a storage unit used by the image forming apparatus.
US09787866B1
An image scanning method is applied in an image scanning device which includes an input tray and a paper feeding sensor. The method detects whether there are papers on the input tray in step one. If there are papers, step two is executed. Otherwise, the method ends and an error is reported. In step two, papers are separated and fed. Whether the papers contact the paper feeding sensor is detected in step three. The method executes step four if the papers contact the paper feeding sensor, and ends the method with an error message otherwise. In step four, the method scans and detects whether an image of a fed edge of each of the papers is abnormal. If the image is abnormal, the method ends and an error is reported. Otherwise, scanning continues.
US09787862B1
Content proxy may be obtained. Content may include video captured by an action camera. Content proxy may include metadata information obtained contemporaneous with the content and stored in a session container. Content proxy may include lower data rate version of the content (thumbnails). Content proxy information may be viewed and/or analyzed in order to obtain one or more highlights. Content portion corresponding to the highlight may be obtained. Multiple versions of content proxy obtained by multiple cameras may be used to identify, display, and/or share content portions in a multi-camera/multiuser applications.
US09787857B2
A display control apparatus is configured to display on a display unit a user interface screen for an image data generating apparatus configured to generate image data using an image sensor. The display control apparatus includes a setting acquiring unit which is configured to acquire a setting value for generating the image data, a display determining unit which is configured to determine whether to display an update reception screen based on the acquired setting value, a display control unit which is configured to display the update reception screen on the display unit if the display determining unit determines to display the update reception screen, and is configured not to display the update reception screen on the display unit if the display determining unit determines not to display the update reception screen, and an instruction receiving unit which is configured to receive the update instruction through the update reception screen.
US09787849B2
A method of managing responder agency resources includes receiving information relating to one or more events, occurrences, or locations. Responders from two or more different jurisdictions are dispatched to the events, occurrences, or locations. One or more of the responders is dispatched through a web-enabled user device over the internet. Some of the responders may be dispatched through a system of a responder agency of one jurisdiction. Other responders may be dispatched through a system of a responder agency of another jurisdiction.
US09787847B2
Methods for operating a meeting coordinator to initiate a teleconference meeting using an automated teleconferencing system, having corresponding meeting coordinators and computer-readable media, comprise: generating a roster of meeting participants comprising meeting invitees; accessing calendaring information concerning the teleconference meeting, the calendaring information including a time of the meeting; a meeting location; identities of the meeting invitees; and contact information for the meeting invitees; and transmitting at least some of the calendaring information to the teleconferencing system to enable the system to connect remotely-located meeting invitees.
US09787843B2
A method and an electronic device for controlling call-forwarding of the electronic device corresponding to first call address information is provided. The electronic device includes transmitting, to at least one of a server or a second electronic device corresponding to second call address information, a call-forwarding request to forward, to the electronic device, at least one of incoming calls or messages addressed to the second call address information of the second electronic device; and providing the at least one of the requested incoming calls or messages addressed to the second call address information.
US09787840B1
Various embodiments of the invention provide methods, systems, and computer program products for generating a roster template used in scheduling agent resources to conduct a first campaign and a second campaign involving two different channels of communication. Specifically, forecasts are generated for the first and second campaigns and agent resources needed to handle communications forecasted for each campaign are identified. A roster template is generated that includes one or more shifts to schedule based on the agent resources identified for the first campaign and evaluated to identify whether a deficiency exists with respect to the one or more shifts not meeting the agent resources identified for the second campaign. If so, the one or more shifts are revised so as not to cause a second deficiency with respect to the first campaign.
US09787838B1
A system and method for analysis of interactions with a customer service center, comprising receiving a plurality of customer service interactions, receiving a word cloud computed for the plurality of customer service interactions, consolidating similar or synonymous words into word sets, constructing a weighted graph of the word sets, generating a query for the interaction topic based on a corresponding subset of word sets, selecting at least one representative interaction from the retrieved customer service interactions, and displaying at least a portion of the representative interaction for the selected identified topic.
US09787831B1
Apparatuses and methods are disclosed for automatically connecting to a relay service and establish a captioning communication session during a call between a hearing-impaired user and a far-end user. The apparatus includes communication elements configured to receive captions from a relay service, and a processor configured to automatically connect to the relay service and establish a captioning communication session during a call responsive to a determination that a connection to the relay service failed during a time in which the hearing-impaired user desired captions to be enabled. A method includes determining captions are desired by the hearing-impaired user at a first time to be enabled for display to the communication device during a call, detecting a failed connection to the relay service at a second time, and automatically connecting with the relay service and establishing a new captioning communication session at a third time during the call.
US09787829B1
A Personal-CFC system and method is described for controlling a multiplicity of telephones, for providing extended feature sets globally to all such telephones and for routing of media-rich calls between such telephones and multimedia equipment. The Personal-CFC is a software program that is easily embedded in various devices and it requires no hardware. For example, a mobile Personal-CFC system can be incorporated into a PDA or PC. The end user can use the Personal-CFC system to control other telephones, such as conference telephones, that do not belong to the end user.
US09787825B1
A multi-channel audio communication system is configured to receive highly correlated input audio signals, generated as an example by multiple microphones at a far-end site. Each input audio signal is cyclically stepped through a range of discrete delay amounts, between upper and lower limits, using a step size that is a fraction of the sample period of the input audio signals. Delay cycles applied to the different input audio signals are configured to have different phases, thereby reducing the inter-signal correlation of the input audio signals. The delayed input audio signals are then played by loudspeakers. Microphone output, which may contain sound generated by the loudspeakers, is then subjected to multi-channel acoustic echo cancellation.
US09787824B2
A method of processing telephone sound is disclosed. Before the telephone sound is transmitted, the frequencies of high frequency consonants are lowered. If the recipient has severe hearing impairment, the frequencies of the high frequency consonants are lowered again.
US09787812B2
One or more embodiments of techniques or systems for privacy management are provided herein. In one or more embodiments, privacy management may be provided by adjusting the way a system provides notifications, handles communications, or executes applications based on the presence or positioning of one or more occupants within a vehicle. In other words, a vehicle may provide notifications in a first manner when merely a driver is present but provide notifications in a second manner (e.g., different than the first manner) when an additional occupant is detected. Sensors may be utilized to detect the presence or positioning of occupants and communications or applications may be managed accordingly. In this manner, privacy management is provided, thus enhancing security of applications or communications utilized by occupants of a vehicle, such as a driver, for example.
US09787805B2
A computer includes a WAN driver that causes data to be transmitted from a guest domain to a computer to use a first protocol, a WANonTCP/IP driver and a TCP/IP driver that add identification information of the guest domain to the data and cause the data to use a second protocol, and a LAN driver that transmits the data to the line accommodation apparatus using the second protocol. The line accommodation apparatus includes a line GW control unit that acquires the identification information of the guest domain from the data, extracts a line card corresponding to the identification information, and causes the received data to use a third protocol; a line card driver that transmits the data to the computer via the extracted line card using the third protocol.
US09787800B2
Systems and methods for the remote update and distribution of software, firmware, and/or data in a network of moving things. Such a network of moving things may include a large number of network units that may autonomously report conditions affecting operation of the network unit to a server system, and may communicate with the server system to check for available updates of any of software, firmware, and data for operating the network units.
US09787793B2
A cache server receives content and an instruction indicating an event associated with the content that causes a processor to invoke a call out to an adjunct device. The instruction further indicates an operation that the adjunct device is to perform. The cache server detects the event associated with the content, halts a flow of the content in response to detecting the event associated with the content, passes via the call out the content to the adjunct device to perform the operation, receives from the adjunct device a response and resulting data from the operation, and performs an additional operation on the resulting data based on the response from the adjunct device.
US09787780B1
The operation efficiency of a large scale distributed computing system across the world wide web is critical to any enterprise or ISP or ASP operation due to a larger number of various different computing units involved. The introduction of a service pool construction protocol can help enterprise, ISP and ASP to achieve a high degree of automation for creating and managing different service pools of for the larger number of computing units in the large scale distributed computing system.
US09787779B2
Techniques are presented for managing a deployment pipeline using an inheritable and extensible source code template—generally referred to as a live pipeline template (LPT). As described, live pipeline templates may be used to manage deployment pipelines which, in turn, are used to launch, maintain, and update the services and systems used to host and provide computing services.
US09787775B1
A system and method for the management of client computing device DNS queries and subsequent resource requests within a content delivery network service provider domain are provided. The management of the DNS queries can include the selection of computing devices corresponding to various Point of Presence locations for processing DNS queries. Additionally, the management of the content requests can include the selection of computing devices corresponding to resource cache components corresponding to various Point of Presence locations for providing requested content. The selection of the computing devices can incorporate logic related to geographic criteria, testing criteria, and the like.
US09787766B2
Methods and apparatus relating to routing and caching systems for reducing traffic and the bandwidth used by decentralized peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing networks is described. The peer-to-peer network operates over an underlying network including first and second network portions. The method includes routing a peer-to-peer message in one of said network portions with an intended destination in the other of said network portions to a gateway between peer-to-peer modes residing on said first and second network portions. The method further includes controlling transport of said message at said gateway to limit propagation of said message into said other of said network portions.
US09787764B2
A device may receive, from a load balancing device, configuration information that identifies a set of nodes for which a status is to be determined. The device may generate a data structure. The data structure may store information that identifies a status of the set of nodes. The device may transmit a status request to one or more nodes. The device may determine the status of the one or more nodes based on transmitting the status request. The device may update the data structure based on determining a change in status of the one or more nodes. The device may provide, to the load balancing device, information that identifies the change in status of the one or more nodes based on updating the data structure.
US09787754B2
A method provides a service to a client by using a browser of a virtual server. The method includes steps of: (a) the virtual server creating a specific tab of a browser corresponding to a specified client, when the virtual server detects that the specified client accesses the virtual server; and (b) the virtual server acquiring a webpage screen from an address designated by the virtual server or a webpage screen requested by a user of the specified client, loading the webpage screen through the specific tab, encoding the webpage screen as a video or a still image, transmitting the encoded webpage screen to the specified client, and allowing the specified client to decode the encoded webpage screen to thereby display it through a screen of the specified client.
US09787749B2
Methods and systems for providing an elegant and efficient multi-protocol eventing layer are disclosed. The multi-protocol eventing layer includes a converged container capable of handling multiple types of protocols to manage events while using an open source database. Accordingly, the multi-protocol eventing layer efficiently provides real-time or near real-time eventing to a plurality of devices for scalability and performance enhancement.
US09787738B2
Systems, methods and computer readable memory devices for delivering a presentation are provided. In one example, a method includes establishing a wireless network access point that creates a closed wireless network. An encrypted communication session is established via the closed wireless network with a plurality of client computing devices that each comprise a display. Each of the client computing devices is communicatively coupled to a virtual network server on the host computing device. A resource locator is sent to the client computing devices, with the resource locator including a network location of an audio/video file stored on the host computing device. A request is received for the resource locator from the client computing devices. In response, audio/video data is streamed from the audio/video file to the plurality of client computing devices.
US09787737B1
A computer-implemented method includes receiving by one or more computer systems, a request from a client system of a consumer for a live, real-time video having specified attributes of a performance embedded in the live, real-time video; searching by the one or more computer systems a database of attributes of performances associated with live, real-time videos; and causing by the one or more computer systems a connection between the client system of the consumer with a system of a provider of a live, real-time video captured performance based on the specified attributes included in the request for the live, real-time video.
US09787735B2
Systems, devices, and methods for streaming video data being recorded once an operator user equipment is in the location specified by a requester user equipment based on selecting the operator user equipment from a determined set of one or more user equipment that may be based on a received acknowledgement message from the operator user equipment that the request was accepted and a set of criteria. In some embodiments, determining by the computing device the set of one or more user equipment to send the request to may be based on the received request and connectivity status. Additionally, the streaming may be based on a request from the requester user equipment being sent to a computing device for dispatching the operator user equipment.
US09787732B2
Aspects of the present disclosure disclose system, apparatus and methods for providing an integrated web conferencing. In various aspects, the disclosure is directed to integrating a VoIP client for audio conferencing with a web client. In particular, the system provides for integrating a web portion of a web conference with an audio portion of the web conference. More specifically, the system, apparatus and methods provide for connecting a VoIP client to an audio conferencing portion of the system to facilitate communications between client and server.
US09787718B2
A method, process, and associated systems for policy-based development and runtime control of mobile applications. Security objects that describe or enforce security policies are embedded into the source code of an enhanced application while the application is being developed. When a user attempts to launch the enhanced application on a mobile device, the security objects are updated to match a latest valid version of the objects stored on an enterprise server. The security objects may be further updated at other times. Global security policies, which affect the entire enterprise and which may deny the application permission to launch, are enforced by a global security policy stored within one of the updated security objects. If the application does run, application-specific security policies contained in the updated security objects modify application behavior at runtime in order to enforce application-specific security policies.
US09787717B2
An approach is provided for managing a message in a transfer from a computer. A level of security protecting the transfer of the data is determined. The level of security is determined to satisfy or not satisfy a threshold level. If the level of security satisfies the threshold level, the computer is connected and the message is transferred using the level of security. If the level of security does not satisfy the threshold level, then based on the level of security, an action to change the level of security is determined so that the changed level of security satisfies the threshold level. The action changes a method of network layer encryption for the transfer and/or a protocol specifying whether application layer encryption is utilized for the transfer. The action is executed to connect the computer and transfer the message using the changed level of security.
US09787716B2
A power-saving control apparatus includes a memory storing first to Nth different authentication codes, determines, every time a signal including an authentication code is received, whether the authentication code in the received signal is a valid code which matches one of the authentication codes in the memory, outputs an operation signal to a main apparatus when the authentication code in the received signal is determined to be the valid code, and generates a new authentication code, when (a) the number of times the authentication code in each received signal matches a first authentication code of the authentication codes in the memory is equal to a predetermined value or (b) the authentication code in the received signal matches a second or subsequent authentication code of the authentication codes in the memory, to delete one of the authentication codes in the memory, and to store the new authentication code in the memory.
US09787711B2
A security device may receive information identifying a set of conditions for providing countermeasure code to a client device. The security device may receive information identifying an action to be performed when the countermeasure code is executed by the client device, and may determine the countermeasure code to be provided to the client device when the set of conditions is satisfied. The security device may receive a request from the client device, and may determine a response to the request. The response may include response code for serving content of a web page to the client device. The security device may determine that the set of conditions has been satisfied, and may insert the countermeasure code into the response code. The security device may provide the response code and the countermeasure code to the client device, and the countermeasure code may cause the client device to perform the action.
US09787709B2
In one embodiment, a system for the realization of operational risk in a network includes an interface to receive a change request to update a network application, the network application utilizes a network device. The system may then use a processor communicatively coupled to the interface to generate a change risk score associated with the change request, wherein the change risk score includes a service tier risk score, a time risk score, a day risk score, a security risk score, and a mobile device risk score. The processor may determine whether the change risk score is within a high-risk level, and if so, implement a change counter measure.
US09787703B2
A method of operating a mobile router installed in a vehicle is provided. The vehicle comprises a vehicle network bus coupled to a plurality of electronic control units. The mobile router comprises: a wireless wide area network interface a wireless local area network interface; an interface to the vehicle network bus; a processor; and a memory comprising a plurality of programs. The plurality of programs comprises an intrusion detection program executable by the processor. The method of operating a mobile router comprises: monitoring data on the vehicle network bus; utilizing the intrusion detection program to detect one or more anomalies in the monitored data; and generating an alert upon detection of one or more of anomalies.
US09787700B1
According to one embodiment, a system features analysis circuitry and detection circuitry. The analysis circuitry features a first processing unit and a first memory that includes a filtering logic configured to produce a second plurality of objects from a received first plurality of objects. The second plurality of objects is a subset of the first plurality of objects. The detection circuitry is communicatively coupled to and remotely located from the analysis circuitry. The detection circuitry includes a second processing unit and a second memory. The second memory includes a virtual execution logic to process content within at least a first object of the second plurality of objects. The virtual execution logic is configured to monitor for behaviors, during the processing of the first object, and determine whether any or all of the monitored behaviors correspond to activities indicative that the first object is associated with a malicious attack.
US09787695B2
A computing device may be configured to work in conjunction with another component (e.g., a server) to better determine whether a software application is benign or non-benign. This may be accomplished via the server performing static and/or dynamic analysis operations, generating a behavior information structure that describes or characterizes the range of correct or expected behaviors of the software application, and sending the behavior information structure to a computing device. The computing device may compare the received behavior information structure to a locally generated behavior information structure to determining whether the observed behavior of the software application differs or deviates from the expected behavior of the software application or whether the observed behavior is within the range of expected behaviors. The computing device may increase its level of security/scrutiny when the behavior information structure does not match the local behavior information structure.
US09787688B2
Techniques are disclosed for identifying roles with similar membership and/or entitlement information in an identity management system of an enterprise. A role defined in an identity management system may be associated with membership information and entitlement information. The membership information may identify one or more members who has been assigned the role. The entitlement information may determine how members of the role can interact with a target system within the enterprise. The entitlement information may include a list of actions that members of the role can perform on the target system. Embodiments allow for identifying roles that have similar membership and/or entitlement information. If an existing role already gives similar entitlement(s) to similar member(s), the role may be prevented from being created. Thus, embodiments prevent creating and maintaining redundant roles.
US09787687B2
A method for providing access to media content is performed at a device with a processor and memory storing instructions for execution by the processor. The method includes receiving, from a client device, a request for access to a media item. The method further includes obtaining user information associated with a user identifier corresponding to the request. Obtaining the user information includes, if the user identifier corresponds to a first type of user identifier, retrieving the user information from a database; and if the user identifier corresponds to a second type of user identifier different from the first type of user identifier, extracting the user information from the user identifier. The method further includes performing a media access operation based on the request and the user information associated with the user identifier.
US09787684B2
Methods and systems for controlling a network access control system that includes a server encrypting a first identifier that can be related to a registered user and communicating the encrypted first identifier to the mobile device. The lock device receives, from the mobile device, a first data set that includes at least the encrypted first identifier. The lock device may encrypt the first data set to generate a second data set and communicates the encrypted second data set to the mobile device. The server receives a third data set that includes at least the encrypted second data set and a second identifier that can also be related to the registered user. The server extracts from the communicated third data set the first and second identifiers, and the extracted first and second identifiers are compared to verify that the second identifier is indeed related to the first identifier.
US09787680B2
Methods and apparatuses for authentication and/or provisioning of wireless network devices, and in particular, methods and apparatuses for authentication and/or provisioning of wireless network devices that are communicating with and may be monitored and/or controlled by a remote (e.g., cloud) server.
US09787679B2
In a teleconference system, it is determined whether address information of a terminal apparatus operated by a conference participant is included in a particular range. When the address information of the terminal apparatus is within the particular range, first authentication information corresponding to the conference participant is transmitted from a first communicator of the security server to an authentication server. The first authentication information is acquired from the terminal apparatus through the first communicator. The authentication server authenticates usage of a function through a network corresponding to the particular range. When the address information of the terminal apparatus is outside the particular range, second authentication information corresponding to the conference participant is transmitted from the first communicator to the conference management server. The second authentication information is acquired from the terminal apparatus through the first communicator. The conference management server authenticates connection to a conference server that controls the teleconference.
US09787678B2
A proxy device intercepts requests from client devices to access message data through a message data device, such as accessing e-mail messages through a mail server implementing post office protocol (POP) or other messaging protocol. The proxy device determines to authenticate of a client device when, for example, the client device, is located within certain areas that differ from a geographic region associated with a message account holder. Authentication of the client device may include collecting additional information, such as a universal identifier that may be used by the client device to access various services. The proxy device may further forward a notification message to the client device indicating the access to the message data is pending until the client device is authenticated. If the client device is successfully authenticated, the proxy device forwards the request to the message data device to enable the client device to access the message data.
US09787672B1
A method and system for emulating a smartcard which includes receiving a one time password and a container PIN for a container, validating the container PIN, upon validating the container PIN, and sending a request to validate the one time password to an authentication server based on a credential ID and a user ID, wherein the request includes the credential ID, the user ID, and the one time password. Upon validation of the one time password by the authentication server, a response is received from the authentication server, and the response includes at least one of: at least a portion of a private key or an authorization to access a at least a portion of the private key stored locally.
US09787667B2
A apparatus and a method for attested sensor data reporting, wherein a challenge is received from an online service; sensor data is read; and a sensor data signature based on the sensor data is created and sent to the online service.
US09787661B2
A first network device of a first communication network obtains a challenge, generates a first PFS parameter, obtains a first verification code for the first PFS parameter, and sends the challenge, the first PFS parameter and the first verification code to a communication device, which in turn receives the challenge, the first PFS parameter and the first verification code, forwards the challenge or a derivative thereof to an identity module, receives at least one result parameter as response from the identity module, determines, based on the result parameter, whether the first PFS parameter is authentic, and if the determination is positive generates and sends the second PFS parameter to the first network device, which in turn verifies the second PFS parameter.
US09787657B2
Techniques for managing privileged accounts via a privileged access management service are provided. In some examples, the service may be configured with a plug-in framework for accessing secure resources. In some aspects, a log-in request that includes authentication information and corresponds to the service may be received. Session access to at least one secure resource may be provided when a user is authenticated. In some examples, a request to perform an action associated with the secure resource may be received during the session. Additionally, in some examples, the plug-in framework may be implemented to determine whether the user is allowed to perform the action. Further, performance of the action may be allowed or denied during the session based on the determination.
US09787655B2
Disclosed are various embodiments for controlling access to data on a network. Upon receiving a request comprising a device identifier and at least one user credential to access a remote resource, the request may be authenticated according to at least one compliance policy. If the request is authenticated, a resource credential associated with the remote resource may be provided.
US09787654B2
Authenticating issues involving the re-authenticating of a first device that was previously authenticated are resolved by use of a second device which receives a notification of the failed authentication. The second device sends a response to the notification which is operable to facilitate re-authentication of the primary device and without requiring the user to provide credentials at the first device prior to obtaining the re-authentication at the primary device and/or without requiring the primary device to obtain a code to be entered into the secondary device and/or prior to the primary device being notified of a failure condition associated with the primary device.
US09787651B2
A method and a device for setting up a session key between a source entity and a target entity in a communication network comprises a plurality of communicating entities. The method, which relies on the use of symmetrical cryptographic primitives, provides each entity in the session with protection against denial of service attacks by setting up a session in four or five message exchanges.
US09787642B2
Flux domain is generally an active threat vector, and flux domain behaviors are continually changing in an attempt to evade existing detection measures. Accordingly, new and improved techniques are disclosed for flux domain detection. In some embodiments, an online platform implementing an analytics framework for DNS security is provided for facilitating flux domain detection. For example, the online platform can implement an analytics framework for DNS security based on passive DNS traffic analysis, disclosed herein with respect to various embodiments.
US09787639B1
Methods and systems for granular segmentation of data networks are provided herein. Exemplary methods include: receiving from a metadata source event metadata associated with a workload; identifying a workload type using the event metadata; determining a high-level declarative security policy using the workload type; launching a compiler to generate a low-level firewall rule set using the high-level declarative policy and the event metadata; and configuring by a plurality of enforcement points a respective network switch of a plurality of network switches to process packets in accordance with the low-level firewall ruleset, the network switches being collectively communicatively coupled to a plurality of workloads, such that network communications between a first group of workloads of the plurality of workloads and the workload are not permitted, and between a second group of workloads of the plurality of workloads and the workload are permitted.
US09787629B2
A social networking system allows a user to insert media information into content posted by the user, where the media information identifies a media item that the user is consuming while composing the posted content. When a user of a social networking system composes content via a composer interface, the user may select an option on the composer interface to record audio using a microphone on the user's device. A media item is identified from the recorded audio and information about the identified media item is added to the user's posted content. The system may also update information about the identified media item and the composing user.
US09787627B2
An information processing apparatus according to embodiments includes: a comment acquisition unit for acquiring a comment of a viewer for a program from an external posting site to which a comment, which is feedback on the content of a program, is instantly posted; and a comment displaying unit for displaying the comment acquired by the comment acquisition unit in a live information display area located below an image display screen for displaying an image of the program. The comment displaying unit scroll-displays, in a horizontal direction, a comment acquired by the comment acquisition unit in either a first lane or a second lane of the live information display area.
US09787613B2
Continuing to integrate more aggregate bandwidth and higher radix into switch devices is an economic imperative because it creates value both for the supplier and customer in large data center environments which are an increasingly important part of the marketplace. While new silicon processes continue to shrink transistor and other chip feature dimensions, process technology cannot be relied upon as a key driver of power reduction. Transitioning from 28 nm to 16 nm is a special case where FinFET provides additional power scaling, but subsequent FinFET nodes are not expected to deliver as substantial of power reductions to meet the desired increases in integration. The disclosed switch architecture attacks the power consumption problem by controlling the rate at which power-consuming activities occur.
US09787612B2
Processing packets in a system that includes a plurality of interconnected processing cores is described. The processing includes receiving packets into one or more queues, associating at least some nodes in a hierarchy of nodes with at least one of the queues, and at least some of the nodes with a rate, mapping a set of one or more nodes to a processor core based on a level in the hierarchy of the nodes in the set and at least one rate associated with a node not in the set, and processing the packets in the mapped processor cores according to the hierarchy.
US09787610B2
A receiving network node (210) configured to select from received packets differing by time of initial transmission from a sending network node (230), and accepting for transmission, based on initial transmission time, the selected packets to an application layer (740). An internetworked processor node configured to: (a) read a sequence number and an originator identifier of a received packet message (810); (b) compare a stored highest sequence number associated with the originator identifier with the received packet sequence number (820); (c) if the received packet sequence number is less than or equal to the stored highest sequence number associated with the originator identifier, then discard (840) the received packet; and (d) if the received packet sequence number is greater than the stored highest sequence number associated with the originator identifier, then deliver (860) the message of the received packet to an application based on an upper layer protocol.
US09787609B2
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for facilitating transmission of data. A method and apparatus may detect one or more items of data that were transmitted with at least one error or unsuccessfully delivered to a device. The method and apparatus may enable retransmission of the items of data in at least one transport block. The method and apparatus may enable transmission of one or more items of new data in the at least one transport block such that a size of the new data does not exceed a variable size limit of a transport block size. The variable size limit may be dependent on one or more sizes of one or more transport blocks. The method and apparatus may determine that the variable size limit comprises a size smaller than a size of the at least one transport block.
US09787606B2
Systems, methods and apparatus regarding network configuration and network switches including an in-line Network Console Access (NETCONA) Device having a NETCONA Management Module, a NETCONA WAN-side Port, a NETCONA LAN-side Port, and at least one NETCONA Serial Console Access Port. The NETCONA Device may share a single IP address for “out-of-band” access to network appliances at a network edge point. The NETCONA Device uses packet forwarding to transparently transfer data between a WAN and a LAN. Data packets having console access information are forwarded to the NETCONA Management Module for processing. An exemplary network system includes an in-line NETCONA Device and at least one Network Appliance; wherein the Network Appliance includes a Network Appliance Serial Console Access Port; and wherein the NETCONA Serial Console Access Port is coupled with the Network Appliance Serial Console Access Port to enable Serial Console Access. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US09787602B2
A system performs operations including detecting a request to present a game application, receiving a resources identifier from a second communication device, determining from the resources identifier that the second communication device has one of a computing resource, a presentation resource, or both, selecting a configuration from a plurality of configurations according to an identity of the gaming application and the resources identifier, selecting according to the configuration at least one resource from one of the computing resource, the presentation resource, or both of the second communication device, and delegating processing by the first communication device of a portion of the gaming application according to the at least one resource of the second communication device.
US09787601B2
A method intended to aid in the reservation of resources within a packet-switched communication network (CR) comprising a number N of relaying nodes (S1-S4). This method consists i), in determining for some at least of the N nodes (S1-S4) at least one resource reservation plan Pik defined by a plan identifier associated with a stream identifier and at least two ports, and ii) in memorizing for each of the N nodes (S1-S4) the various plans Pik relating to them.
US09787595B2
Embodiments of an Evolved Node-B (eNB) to support packet-switched (PS) services according to EPS bearers are disclosed herein. The eNB may receive an EPS bearer setup message from an MME for an establishment of an EPS bearer for a PS service between a User Equipment (UE) and a PGW. The EPS bearer setup message may include an attention indicator for the PS service that indicates whether traffic for the PS service is attended or unattended at the UE. The eNB may further transmit traffic packets to and receive traffic packets from the UE 102 as part of the PS service. In addition, the eNB may use the attention indicator as part of congestion control in the network.
US09787592B2
A packet transfer system includes a transmitter apparatus, a processing apparatus, a first transfer apparatus and a second transfer apparatus. The transmitter apparatus transmits a data packet including data and quality information associated with a transfer rate of the data. The first transfer apparatus performs a transfer process of the data packet received from the transmitter apparatus. The second transfer apparatus is connected to the first transfer apparatus through first and second routes, and transfers a data packet received from the first transfer apparatus. The first route is used for transferring a data packet including first quality information associated with a first transfer rate. The second route is used for transferring a data packet including second quality information associated with a second transfer rate. The second transfer apparatus releases the first route when reception of a data packet including the first quality information has been terminated.
US09787590B2
A network node includes one or more network adapters and a bonding driver. The one or more network adapters are configured to communicate respective data flows over a communication network by applying a transport layer protocol that saves communication state information in a state of a respective network adapter. The bonding driver is configured to exchange traffic including the data flows of an application program that is executed in the network node, to communicate the data flows of the traffic via one or more physical links of the one or more network adapters, and, in response to a physical-transport failure, to switch a given data flow to a different physical link or a different network path, transparently to the application program.
US09787588B2
The present disclosure discloses a software defined network SDN-based data processing system, and the system includes: a source data node, configured to receive a first data packet, and send to a corresponding source control node; the source control node, configured to receive the first data packet, where the first data packet carries a destination address of the first data packet; and determine a destination control node; and the destination control node, configured to receive the first data packet, and generate a second data packet and a matching policy rule. According to a software defined network-based data processing system in an embodiment of the present disclosure, the collaboration capability between nodes is improved so as to reduce the redundancy of multi-node processing in a network device, thereby improving the service processing efficiency of the network. The present disclosure further discloses a software defined network-based data processing method and device.
US09787587B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for secure bi-directional message routing between services running on a different nodes in a computer cluster. According to some embodiments, a multi-tenant computer cluster is accessed online via a controller. The controller, acting as central management system, may establish secure independent connections with each of the many nodes. Messages from the controller to any given node, and vice versa, are wrapped in a routing envelope and transferred over an independent and secure virtual private network tunnel. This allows the plurality of nodes to be centrally managed and utilized as a cluster while not being allowed to communicate with each other.
US09787582B1
A computer implemented method, system, and program product comprising presenting, via cloud router, clouds as a single cloud to a client, wherein the client communicates with the single cloud via a client API of the cloud router.
US09787580B2
In an OpenFlow network, a “proactive type” is attained and hardware (HW) performance problem is solved. Specifically, in the OpenFlow network, each of a plurality of switches executes, on a reception packet that meets a rule of an entry registered in its own flow table, an operation based on an action defined in the entry. A controller registers an entry, in which an identifier unique to a path calculated based on a physical topology of a network composed of the plurality of switches is set as a rule and an output from a predetermined output port as an action, in each of the plurality of switches before communication is started among the plurality of switches.
US09787578B2
Example embodiments of the systems and methods of IPv6 mapping disclosed herein involve computing an IPv6 source and/or destination address based on the type of service being used by the user, which is derived from the digits input to the device by the user or system, and the destination phone number input by the user. The mapping is done in second half (for example, 64 bits) of the IPv6 address (the interface ID). The first half of the IPv6 address is a defined subnet (known as a “prefix” in IPv6 terms) for phone number routing. The subnet comprises a global routing prefix and a subnet identification. The interface ID is split into three sections: an identifier, a country code, and an end point number.
US09787575B2
A method for configuring a network device. The method includes writing a route for a destination IP prefix to the forwarding information base (FIB), and after writing the route, obtaining a set of routes and writing the set of routes to a routing information base (RIB). The method further includes, after writing the set of routes to the RIB and after the expiration of a timer: identifying, in the RIB, a set of ECMP routes from the plurality of routes for the destination IP prefix, processing the set of ECMP routes for the destination IP prefix, and updating the FIB of the network device based on set of processed ECMP routes.
US09787572B2
An example method for facilitating conflict avoidant traffic routing in a network environment is provided and includes detecting, at a network element, an intent conflict at a peer network element in a network, and changing a forwarding decision at the network element to steer traffic around the conflicted peer network element. The intent conflict refers to an incompatibility between an asserted intent associated with the traffic and an implemented intent associated with the traffic. In specific embodiments, the detecting includes mounting rules from the peer network element into the network element, and analyzing the mounted rules to determine intent conflict. In some embodiments, a central controller in the network deploys one or more intentlets on a plurality of network elements in the network according to corresponding intent deployment parameters.
US09787568B2
A physiological test credit method determines if test credits are available to the monitor and checks if a Wi-Fi connection is available. If test credits are less than a test credit threshold, the monitor connects to a test credit server, processes server commands so as to download test credits and disconnects from the server. In various embodiments, the monitor is challenged to break a server code, the server is challenged to break a monitor code. The server validates monitor serial codes, and saves monitor configuration parameters.
US09787564B2
Methods and systems for determining latency in a communication network may be provided. A plurality of commands may be sent in the communication network. A response may be received for each of the plurality of commands from the communication network. A pipeline round trip time may be calculated for each of the plurality of commands based on a time of the response for each of the plurality of commands. A total round trip time for the plurality of commands may be calculated based on the calculated pipeline round trip time. A time saving may be calculated for at least one of the plurality of commands serviced locally.
US09787555B2
An activation control apparatus stores, in a memory, first association information that associates, for each one of a plurality of applications, application identification information for identifying an application with terminal identification information for identifying a communication terminal permitted to debug the application. In response to an activation request for activating a first application from a first communication terminal, the activation control apparatus determines whether the first communication terminal is provided with a debugger. When the first communication terminal is provided with a debugger, the activation control apparatus further determines whether the first communication terminal is permitted to debug the first application using the first association information, and rejects the activation request when the first communication terminal is not permitted to debug the application. When the first communication terminal is not provided with a debugger, the activation control apparatus accepts the activation request.
US09787542B2
A central device includes an information replacing unit. When the information replacing unit detects, on the basis of contact information acquired from an electric coupler provided in a coupled vehicle in a formation B having a train-information management device that manages vehicle information in accordance with the Ethernet® protocol, that a formation A that includes a train-information management device that manages vehicle information in accordance with the ARCNET protocol is coupled to the formation B, then the information replacing unit replaces vehicle information from the formation A with vehicle information in accordance with the Ethernet® protocol; outputs the replaced vehicle information to the formation B; replaces the vehicle information from the formation B with the vehicle information in accordance with the ARCNET protocol; and outputs the replaced vehicle information to the formation A.
US09787535B2
A method and system for configuring security devices on a security network. A mobile computing device reads spatially-encoded optical machine-readable indicia, decodes the indicia, and extracts encoded configuration information for the security devices. The configuration information from the indicia is then transmitted to a monitoring station, which uses the configuration information to configure communication with the security devices on the security network.
US09787529B1
The disclosed method for tunneling socket calls across operating systems may include (1) intercepting a socket call issued by an application running on a first operating system, (2) determining that the socket call is directed to a network interface that is (A) accessible to a second operating system installed on a virtual machine running on the first operating system and (B) inaccessible to the first operating system and then, in response to determining that the socket call is directed to the network interface, (3) tunneling the socket call to the second operating system installed on the virtual machine, and (4) executing the socket call within the second operating system to initiate at least one networking action with respect to the network interface on behalf of the application. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US09787526B2
Method and apparatus for providing Mobile internet protocol (IP) service through a network address translation gateway. In one example, a gateway between a local area network (LAN) and a wide area network (WAN) is provided. A foreign agent (FA) module is configured to advertise a care-of address (CoA) on the LAN and process registration and mobile IP communication traffic on the LAN and the WAN side of the gateway. A control module is configured to identify the registration and the mobile IP communication traffic on the LAN and the WAN. The control module sends mobile IP traffic to the FA and other traffic to a network address translation (NAT) module. In this manner, network address translation of mobile IP traffic is advantageously omitted. This allows the IP-in-IP tunnels used by mobile IP to pass through the gateway.
US09787520B2
A signal receiver with adaptive software information adjustment of a communication system is provided. The signal receiver receives a modulated signal comprising a plurality of packets, and includes: a demodulating circuit, configured to demodulate the modulated signal to generate a plurality of sets of soft information corresponding to each packet; a software information adjusting circuit, coupled to the demodulating circuit, configured to adjust the sets of soft information according to a distribution of the sets of soft information corresponding to each packet; a quantizer, coupled to the soft information adjusting circuit, configured to quantize the adjusted sets of soft information to generate a plurality of sets of data; and a decoder, coupled to the quantizer, configured to decode the data.
US09787508B2
A computing system includes: an inter-device interface configured to receive communication signal for communicating between a device and a further device; a communication circuit, coupled to the inter-device interface, configured to: calculate an initial offset estimate based on the communication signal, dynamically generate a dynamic candidate set based on the initial offset estimate, and determine a level offset for the communication signal for communicating between the device and the further device.
US09787505B2
A data receiver includes a plurality of samplers, each of the samplers amplifies a difference between a first reference voltage and an input voltage and amplifies a difference between a second reference voltage and the input voltage. Operational paths of the samplers are differently controlled according to a level of second data corresponding to the second reference voltage, and first data corresponding to the first reference voltage is past data preceding current data and the second data is past data preceding the first data in the sampler.
US09787496B2
A communication system includes two or more ring networks in which nodes are connected in a ring shape, carries out ERP for each of the ring networks, sets one of the ring networks as a major ring that detects a failure in a shared link, and sets the other ring networks as sub rings. A shared node, which terminates the shared link, includes: a failure monitoring unit that respectively detects, concerning two or more of the ring networks that share the shared link, failures in the ring networks; a switching processing unit that determines, on the basis of a detection result of the failures, the ring network set as the major ring; and ERP processing units that store, when the switching is performed by the switching processing unit, identification information after the switching in an R-APS frame and transfer or transmit the frame.
US09787494B2
The invention relates to a method for transmitting messages in a computer network, and to a computer network of this type. The computer network comprises computing nodes (101-105), said computing nodes (101-105) being interconnected via at least one star coupler (201) and/or at least one multi-hop network (1000), wherein each computing node (101-105) is connected via at least one communication line (110) to the at least one star coupler (201) and/or the at least one multi-hop network (1000), and wherein the computing nodes (101-105) exchange Ethernet messages with one another and with the at least one star coupler (201) and/or the at least one multi-hop network (1000). A set of two or more components are directly connected to one another in each case by two or more communication lines (110, 111), wherein each component in the set is either a computing node (101-105) or a star coupler (201), and sending components in the set of components send to at least two of the two or more communication lines (110, 111) at least a proportion of the Ethernet messages that are to be sent, and receiving components in the set of components then accept and/or forward at least a proportion of the Ethernet messages received via the two or more communication lines (110, 111) only if at least two identical messages are received via at least two different communication lines.
US09787483B2
A method for routing forwarding is provided. The method includes: a controller sends pre-generated routing flow tables to an Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (UTRAN) NodeB (eNB) and an Access Gateway (AGW) respectively; and the eNB and the AGW distribute data according to the received routing flow tables respectively. The controller sends the routing flow tables to the eNB and the AGW, so that the extended OpenFlow protocol can be applied to an Evolved Packet System (EPS), network upgrading cost is lowered, network upgrading can be simplified, and a network upgrading period can be shortened.
US09787482B2
According to one aspect, embodiments of the invention provide a method for providing power to a distributed sensor system, the method comprising providing power from at least one port of an interface unit to a first port of a first sensor unit of at least one of a plurality of sensor strings, powering up the first sensor unit, forwarding power from a second port of the first sensor unit to a first port of a second sensor unit of the at least one of the plurality of sensor strings, powering up the second sensor unit, monitoring the plurality of sensor strings for a fault condition, and in response to detecting a fault condition in a first sensor string of the plurality of sensor strings, providing power from a second one of the plurality of sensor strings to the first sensor string.
US09787469B2
A method for encrypting data based on all-or-nothing encryption. Data to be encrypted and an encryption key are provided. The data is divided into an odd number of blocks, wherein each of the odd number of blocks has the same size. The blocks are encrypted with the encryption key to obtain an intermediate ciphertext that includes the encrypted blocks. The intermediate ciphertext is linearly transformed based on additive contravalence operations to obtain a final ciphertext.
US09787467B2
Apparatus and methods for adjusting a gain of an electronic oscillator, such as a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO), are disclosed. In one aspect, an apparatus for compensating for VCO gain variations includes a charge pump controller. The charge pump controller can be configured to select a VCO gain model based on a comparison of a VCO gain indicator and a threshold value stored in a memory, obtain VCO gain model parameters from the memory corresponding to the selected VCO gain model, and compute a charge pump current control value using the VCO gain model parameters. The charge pump current control value can be used to compensate for VCO gain variations.
US09787466B2
A method for filtering noise. The method may include obtaining an output signal from a phase locked loop (PLL) device. The method may include determining, using a digital phase detector and the output signal, an amount of PLL error produced by the PLL device. The method may include filtering, using a delay element and a digital filter, a portion of the amount of PLL error from the output signal to produce a filtered signal in response to determining the amount of PLL error produced by the PLL device.
US09787457B2
A signal interface unit in a radio system includes an external device interface configured to receive a downlink asynchronous radio carrier signal for a radio frequency carrier from an external device; a clock conversion unit communicatively coupled to the external device interface and configured to re-clock the downlink asynchronous radio carrier signal to a master clock of the radio system from the clock of the external device; and an antenna side interface configured to communicate at least one of the re-clocked downlink asynchronous radio carrier signal and a downlink digitized radio frequency signal based on the re-clocked downlink asynchronous radio carrier signal to an antenna unit.
US09787456B2
According to one embodiment, a method of operating a wireless terminal may include configuring a first group of component carriers, and while configured with the first group of component carriers, communicating a first MAC CE including a first bit map having a first bit map size with bits of the first bit map corresponding to respective component carriers of the first group of component carriers. The method may also include configuring a second group of component carriers wherein the first and second groups of component carriers are different. While configured with the second group of component carriers, a second MAC CE may be communicated, wherein the second MAC CE includes a second bit map having a second bit map size with bits of the second bit map corresponding to respective component carriers of the second group of component carriers. Moreover, the first and second bit map sizes may be different.
US09787453B2
In an ad hoc network a feedback radio resource maps from a data radio resource to at least one frequency sub-band which the data resource excludes. The feedback resource is also spaced in time from the data resource by a predetermined interval. Feedback (ACK/NACK) for data received in the data resource is then sent in the feedback resource. In various embodiments the sub-band is one or more edges of the data resource channel, or edges of a component carrier. The predetermined interval may be a function of how much of the data resource is occupied by data. The data transmitting device delays sending its data by a time offset from the end of a previous transmission on that channel, or if it does not know the end time it delays until the predetermined interval plus the length of the feedback resource have lapsed. Various synchronization aspects are also disclosed.
US09787452B2
A method is presented for receiving aperiodic channel state information (CSI). A base station (BS) transmits a CSI request field which is set to trigger a CSI report to a user equipment (UE). The BS receives CSI through a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) from the UE. The CSI request field has a value among a plurality of candidate values. The plurality of candidate values comprises a first value which triggers an aperiodic CSI report for a first set of reference signals and a second value which triggers an aperiodic CSI report for a second set of reference signals.
US09787449B2
A method for triggering an aperiodic sounding reference symbol, includes: receiving a Downlink Control Information (DCI) indicating a transmission of an aperiodic Sounding Reference Symbol (SRS) from a base station which configures a resource used for transmission of the aperiodic SRS; maintaining the resource for transmitting the aperiodic SRS when there is at least one of a loss of uplink synchronization when a timer relating to the uplink synchronization expires and a failure in transmission of a scheduling request transmitted more than a predetermined number of times; and executing a random access procedure.
US09787444B2
Embodiments of an enhanced node B (eNB) and methods for network-assisted interference cancellation with reduced signaling in a 3GPP LTE network are generally described herein. In some embodiments, the number of transmission options is reduced by introducing a smaller signaling codebook. In some embodiments, higher-layer feedback from the UE to the eNodeB is established to inform the eNB about certain NA-ICS capabilities of the UE. In some embodiments, the number of signaling options is reduced by providing only certain a priori information. In some embodiments, correlations in the time and/or frequency domain are exploited for reducing the signaling message. In some embodiments, differential information is signaled in the time and/or frequency domain for reducing the signaling message.
US09787440B2
Disclosed in a method of discontinuous data reception in a mobile communication system. The method includes: receiving downlink data and decoding the received downlink data by the UE; when the decoding is not successful, starting a timer for receiving retransmitted data; when the downlink data has been received by a configured downlink assignment, operating a downlink carrier, through which the downlink data has been received, in an active time; and when the downlink data has been received by a dynamic transmission resource and the downlink carrier, through which the downlink data has been received, is different from a downlink carrier, through which a scheduling command for the downlink data has been received, operating the downlink carrier, through which the scheduling command for the downlink data has been received, and the downlink carrier, through which the downlink data has been received, in an active time.
US09787438B2
The present invention relates to a transmission time interval (TTI) bundling method in wireless access systems and to an apparatus for same. In particular, the TTI bundling method includes the following steps: a terminal receives information indicating the bundling size value from a base station; the terminal automatically re-transmits packets through a predetermined number of TTIs following four TTIs without the reception of Acknowledgement/Negative-ACK (ACK/NACK) information for the packets from the base station; the terminal receives the ACK/NACK information for the packets from the base station; and the terminal retransmits packets in a Hybrid Automatic Repeat and Request (HARQ) scheme when receiving the NACK, wherein the predetermined number of TTIs is determined according to the bundling size value.
US09787434B2
A communication device and associated method is provided. The communication device includes: a controller; a packet buffer, configured to store a current packet segment and a previous packet segment of an incoming packet; and a plurality of cyclic redundancy check (CRC) circuits, wherein each CRC circuit is individually fed with a portion of the current packet segment and/or a portion of the previous packet segment in a respective cycle of the incoming packet, and an initial value, wherein the plurality of CRC circuits are arranged in parallel.
US09787429B2
A device implementing a forward error correction data transmission system may include at least one processor circuit. The at least one processor circuit may be configured to perform line encoding on a data stream received from a media access control (MAC) module, and periodically insert alignment markers after every number of blocks of the data stream, where the alignment markers are determined based at least in part on a data rate of an associated port. The at least one processor circuit may be further configured to transcode the data stream, where each alignment marker remains contiguous in the transcoded data stream. The at least one processor circuit may be further configured to add parity information to the transcoded data stream. The at least one processor circuit may be further configured to transmit the transcoded data stream over at least one physical lane of the associated port.
US09787428B2
The invention describes a method of performing re-synchronizations on a DSL line to optimize the synchronization rate of the line. The line is monitored over a period of time, and a stable SNR margin is determined, below which the line is observed to lose synchronization. Historical synchronization rates and associated SNR margins for the line are recorded, and the highest stable synchronization rate is determined as the historical synchronization rate that does not have any associated SNR margins below the stable SNR margin. The method attempts to optimize the synchronization rate of the line towards this highest stable synchronization rate. To do this, the current target SNR margin imposed by DLM is identified, for example, by interrogating the DLM system or by noting the SNR margin on the line immediately after the most recent synchronizations. Assuming the current synchronization rate on the line is less than the highest stable rate, then the synchronization rate is optimized by triggering a synchronization of the line when the SNR margin is greater than the target SNR margin plus an additional predetermined amount. The result should be an increase in the synchronization rate, and can be repeated until the synchronization rate reaches the highest stable synchronization rate.
US09787426B2
A system architecture for managing resources in a communication network comprises in combination at least the following elements: a plurality of radio equipments working in a given frequency band and with identical frequency hopping rules; the radio equipments are managed by a master device; and a radio equipment comprises at least: a radiocommunication module that carries the radiocommunications; a module suitable for tapping, monitoring and intercepting radio signals in the environment and for recording them locally in a database; a module suitable for disrupting non-authorized communications; and a local “3 in 1” management module receiving the orders emitted by the master device, the management module being suitable for controlling the various modules of the radio equipment; a radio-router module; and a tapping and monitoring module.
US09787414B2
A radio channel generator has a radio channel model predistorted on the basis of a predetermined chamber model. An emulator receives the weights of the radio channel model predistorted on the basis of the chamber model. A transmitter feeds a communication signal to the emulator. The emulator weights the communication signal with the radio channel model predistorted on the basis of the chamber model. The over-the-air antennas receive the weighted communication signal and transmit it to a device under test. The chamber model is based on a simulation or a measurement. The chamber model takes into account undesired interactions in the over-the-air chamber for cancelling them during the radio channel emulation.
US09787413B2
Circuits, systems and methods that utilize two transducers, of which at least one is a piezoelectric transducer, adapted and coupled to receive and/or generate signals in the forms of sound waves, mechanical vibrations, and/or electromagnetic energy. In one version, two transducers each receive and/or generate separate vibrational energy signals that bear information. Two or more transducers coupled to a switching circuit may send or receive piezo-electrical circuit output signals that include a carrier wave having different frequencies that are within separate frequency ranges. Two or more transducers may generate output signals that are simultaneously processed by or multiplexed by a switching circuit.
US09787405B2
Described are various embodiments of a dual optical modulator, system and method. In one embodiment, an optical modulator modulates an input optical signal having a designated optical frequency. The modulator comprises first and second tunable modulators operable around the optical frequency and operatively disposed between a bus waveguide path and an opposed waveguide path. The modulator further comprises a relative optical phase-shifter optically coupled between the tunable modulators so to impart a relative optical phase shift between the bus waveguide path and the opposed waveguide path. The tunable modulators are respectively driveable to modulate a respective resonance thereof in complimentary directions relative to the optical frequency and thereby resonantly redirect a selectable portion of the input optical signal along the opposed waveguide path such that the relative optical phase shift is imparted thereto for output. Embodiments of an optical modulation method and an IQ modulator are also described.
US09787399B2
An inline optoelectronic converter configured to convert electrical signals to optical signals and to convert optical signals to electrical signals. The converter is external to the avionic computer and connected to the avionic computer at a location spaced apart from the avionic computer. The converter is configured to be integrated into an existing wiring bundle of the avionic computer. Also disclosed is a method of retrofitting an avionic computer by connecting an optoelectronic converter to the computer. The method comprises connecting the converter to an existing wiring bundle of the avionic computer at a location spaced apart from the avionic computer.
US09787398B2
An OBI manager provides the reduction/elimination of optical beat interference (OBI). As will be described in more detail below, the OBI manager identifies OBI partners through an identification process performed via an RFoG network. An OBI partner may be two optical networking units (ONUs) that may interfere with one another when transmitting in the same time slot. Once the OBI partners are identified, the OBI manager may perform a mitigation process to mitigate possible OBI. For example, the OBI manager may organize the OBI partners to reduce OBI, such as by guaranteeing no OBI partners transmit at the same time.
US09787392B2
A method of operating a satellite communication network is disclosed. The network includes a plurality of satellites interconnected by a plurality of satellite-to-satellite communication links. Each of the plurality of satellites is configured to communicate with at least one ground station using respective ground-satellite communication links. The method includes transmitting a routing table to each of the satellites. Each routing table has a list of destination satellites, and defines at least two possible routes leading to it. An alert message identifying a problem communication link is transmitted to a subset of the plurality of satellites. In response to receiving the alert message, subsequent data packets are routed through the communication network by the satellites using their respective routing table to avoid the problem communication link.
US09787386B2
An access point of a wireless communication network forms beams by applying a weightset for a beamforming weights matrix to signal streams. The Equivalent Isotropic Radiated Power (EIRP) that is emitted from an array of antenna elements at the access point is controlled by calibrating the transmission phase and gain of a respective transmit chain for each antenna element, providing a polar radiation model for an antenna element of the array, and determining a weightset for the weighting matrix subject to a constraint that a maximum total EIRP for the beams in combination in any azimuth direction is maintained within a predetermined EIRP limit, based at least on a spatial separation of the antenna elements, the polar radiation model and the calibrated transmission phase and gain of each respective transmit chain.
US09787375B2
Spatial spreading is performed in a multi-antenna system to randomize an “effective” channel observed by a receiving entity for each transmitted data symbol block. For a MIMO system, at a transmitting entity, data is processed (e.g., encoded, interleaved, and modulated) to obtain ND data symbol blocks to be transmitted in NM transmission spans, where ND≧1 and NM>1. The ND blocks are partitioned into NM data symbol subblocks, one subblock for each transmission span. A steering matrix is selected (e.g., in a deterministic or pseudo-random manner from among a set of L steering matrices, where L>1) for each subblock. Each data symbol subblock is spatially processed with the steering matrix selected for that subblock to obtain transmit symbols, which are further processed and transmitted via NT transmit antennas in one transmission span. The ND data symbol blocks are thus spatially processed with NM steering matrices and observe an ensemble of channels.
US09787362B2
A transmitter path of a power line communication (PLC) device is described. In an embodiment, the transmitter path may include an amplifier, a capacitor coupled to the amplifier, a shared transformer coupled to the capacitor, and a plurality of line interface coupling circuits coupled to the shared transformer, where each of the line interface coupling circuits is configured to be connected to a different phase of an electrical power circuit.
US09787361B2
Embodiments of the invention provide multiple cyclic prefix lengths for either both the data-payload and frame control header or only the data payload. Frame control header (FCH) and data symbols have an associated cyclic prefix. A table is transmitted in the FCH symbols, which includes a cyclic prefix field to identify the cyclic prefix length used in the data payload. A receiver may know the cyclic prefix length used in the FCH symbols in one embodiment. In other embodiments, the receiver does not know the FCH cyclic prefix length and, therefore, attempts to decode the FCH symbols using different possible cyclic prefix lengths until the FCH symbols are successfully decoded.
US09787348B2
Two circular rings or discs which are somewhat rotatable with respect to one another. They are connected by a foldable cover which houses a spring inside. The spring, when collapsed, pushes the discs away from each other while the foldable cover is semi-flexible. When the accessory is collapsed, the foldable cover folds over itself, whereas when the accessory is expanded, the foldable cover becomes unfolded with a smaller-circumference center ridge which is less flexible or non-flexible, and situated between two larger circumference areas. Flanges on the inner and outer rings abut each other, keeping the spring collapsed and discs locked into each other in some embodiments. When the rings are rotated with respect to one another, the flanges become unlocked and the spring separates the discs such that one or both of the foldable cover or spring become the limiting factor in how far apart the discs spread from another.
US09787347B1
Disclosed herein is a metal frame for a device being equipped with a wireless charging transmitter or receiver including a plurality of perforation holes configured in at least one partial area of the metal frame, wherein the perforation hole has a diameter ranging from sub nm to several μm, and wherein an average distance between an arbitrary point A on a circumferential surface of a perforation hole, among the plurality of perforation holes, and an arbitrary point B on a circumferential surface of another perforation hole being adjacent to the perforation hole is equal to or less than a skin depth corresponding to a metallic material of the metal frame, and wherein point A and point B respectively correspond to points indicating a longest distance between the circumferential surfaces of each perforation hole to which point A and point B belong.Accordingly, the metal frame is expected to perform wireless charging by including at least a wireless charging receiver, i.e., enabling wireless charging to be carried out smoothly despite equipping a mobile device with a metal frame for its outer feature instead of a plastic frame, wherein the metal frame provides an excellent texture of premium quality and outstanding durability as compared to the plastic frame.
US09787346B2
An electronic device includes a pliable casing that enables the electronic device to be configured in at least two different shapes. The two different shapes include a first shape that aligns the electronic device to a second electronic device having a set physical shape and a second shape that has at least one different physical configuration of the casing relative to the first shape. Electronic circuitry is located within the pliable casing that operates to provide at least one functional feature associated with the electronic device. A display screen is embedded in the pliable casing and displays data or images corresponding to the functional feature. A communication mechanism enables information exchange with the host device when the electronic device is brought in communication range of the host device.
US09787340B2
A zero power radio frequency (RF) activated wake up device is provided. The device is based on a high-Q MEMS demodulator that filters an amplitude-modulated RF tone of interest from the entire spectrum while producing a much higher voltage signal suitable to trigger a high-Q MEMS resonant switch tuned to the modulation frequency of the RF tone.
US09787334B2
A high frequency power amplifier includes a first high frequency amplifier, a final high frequency amplifier, and a tunable filter. The tunable filter is connected between the first high frequency amplifier and the final high frequency amplifier. The first high frequency amplifier and the final high frequency amplifier are each a multimode/multiband power amplifier. The tunable filter is regulated such that its pass band includes the frequency band of a transmission signal and its attenuation band includes the frequency band of a reception signal in a communication band used in transmission and reception. The pass band and the attenuation band are switched by the tunable filter in accordance with the communication band used in transmission and reception.
US09787332B2
A compression engine may be designed for more efficient error checking of a compressed stream, to include adaptation of a heterogeneous design that includes interleaved hardware and software stages of compression and decompression. An output of a string matcher may be reversed to generate a bit stream, which is then compared with an input stream to the compression engine as a first error check. A final compressed output of the compression engine may be partially decompressed to reverse entropy code encoding of an entropy code encoder. The partially decompressed output may be compared with an output of an entropy code generator to perform a second error check. Finding an error at the first error check greatly reduces the latency of generating a fault or exception, as does performing computing-intensive aspects of the compression and decompression with software instead of specialized hardware.
US09787330B2
A controller has an error correction capability by including: a state monitoring unit that analyzes a state of a monitoring target and outputs state information; an error correction processing unit that switches error correction codes so that a correction rate for the respective states becomes a value within a predetermined range; and a correction rate calculation unit that calculates the correction rate for the respective states based on the correction result by the error correction processing unit.
US09787329B2
An apparatus for data coding includes an encoder and a decoder. The encoder is configured to receive input data including one or more m-bit data groups that are associated with respective group indices, to generate a code word that includes the input data and an m-bit redundancy that depends on the data groups and on the respective group indices, and to send the code word over a channel. The decoder is connected to the channel and is configured to produce a syndrome that equals zero when the code word is error-free, and when the code word contains a single error caused by the channel, is indicative of an erroneous group in which the single error occurred, and of a location of the single error within the erroneous group, and to recover the input data by correcting the single error at the location in the erroneous group.
US09787325B2
Disclosed are an encoder, a transmitting device, a coding method and a transmission method with which the transmission amount is reduced and a deterioration in transmission efficiency is suppressed while improving reception quality when QC-LDPC or a like block coding is used. A puncture pattern setting unit searches for a puncture pattern for each integral multiple of the number of columns or for each divisor of the number of columns of a sub block matrix that forms a check matrix (H) of a QC-LDPC code, and a puncture unit (data reduction unit) switches the puncture pattern for each integral multiple of the number of columns or for each divisor of the number of columns of the sub block matrix that forms the check matrix of the QC-LDPC code.
US09787321B1
Techniques of data compression involve ordering the points of a point cloud according to distance along a space-filling curve. Advantageously, a space-filling curve has the property that points close in distance along the curve are close together in Euclidean space. Thus, differences between points ordered by distance along such a curve, e.g., a Hilbert curve, will be close. When the curve is fractal, i.e., self-similar at all levels, the differences will be small even when the points are very unevenly clustered throughout the point cloud. Such small differences will provide greatly improved compression to the resulting delta-encoded set of points.
US09787313B1
An example pulse generation circuit includes a parallel-to-serial circuit configured to convert parallel data to serial data according to parallel clock signal and a serial clock signal, the serial data comprises a sequence of pulses; a clock generator configured to generate a clock signal; and a phase controller configured to generate the serial clock signal from the clock signal based on a phase control signal.
US09787302B2
A source driver circuit can include: (i) a control transistor having a control terminal and first and second power terminals, where the control transistor is coupled between a power terminal of a main switching transistor and ground; (ii) a power supply capacitor coupled between the control terminal of the main switching transistor and ground, where the power supply capacitor is configured to receive a bias voltage that is substantially constant; (iii) a freewheeling diode having a cathode coupled to a control terminal of the main switching transistor, and an anode coupled to the second power terminal of the main switching transistor; and (iv) the control transistor being controllable to be periodically turned on and off to control the main switching transistor to correspondingly follow on and off states of the control transistor.
US09787297B2
A waveform conversion unit (42) of a numerically controlled oscillator has a cosine table (101) and a sine table (102) in which parameters for cosine wave and sine wave signal generation are stored, a correction mechanism (50) for generating correction values according to the phase of an inputted phase signal, an adder (111) for generating a cosine wave signal from a parameter in the cosine table (101) and a correction value, and an adder (112) for generating a sine wave signal from a parameter in the sine table (102) and a correction value. The correction mechanism (50) uses waveform data which is a kind of parabolic data and whose phase interval is more minute than the phase interval of the parameters in each table (101), (102) to generate correction values for correcting cosine wave and sine wave signals to be found by linear interpolation.
US09787294B2
A pulse converter circuit includes a logic circuit to which a first signal is input and from which a second signal is output. The logic circuit includes a p-channel transistor which determines whether a voltage of the second signal is set to a first voltage depending on a voltage of the gate; and an n-channel transistor which determines whether the voltage of the second signal is set to a second voltage, which is higher than the first voltage, depending on a voltage of the gate. The p-channel transistor includes a semiconductor layer containing an element of a group 14. The n-channel transistor includes an oxide semiconductor layer.
US09787284B2
A waveform shaping filter according to one embodiment includes a first resistor, a first transistor, a first capacitor, and a first amplifier. The first resistor includes one end to which a signal current is input and the other end. The first transistor includes a first terminal connected to the other end of the first resistor, a second terminal, and a control terminal. The first capacitor includes one end connected to the other end of the first resistor and the other end. The first amplifier includes an input terminal connected to the one end of the first resistor and an output terminal connected to the control terminal of the first transistor.
US09787282B2
A piezoelectric thin film resonator includes: a substrate; a piezoelectric film provided on the substrate; a lower electrode and an upper electrode that sandwich at least a part of the piezoelectric film and face with each other; and an inserted film that is inserted in the piezoelectric film, is provided on an outer circumference region in a resonance region in which the lower electrode and the upper electrode sandwich the piezoelectric film and face with each other, is not provided in a center region of the resonance region, and has a cutout in the resonance region.
US09787280B2
There is provided an acoustic resonator including: a resonance part including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a piezoelectric layer interposed between the first and second electrodes; and a substrate provided below the resonance part, wherein the substrate includes at least one via hole penetrating through the substrate and a connective conductor formed in the via hole and connected to at least one of the first and second electrodes. Therefore, reliability of the connective conductor formed in the substrate may be secured.
US09787258B2
Circuits, methods and devices are disclosed, related to fast turn-on of radio-frequency (RF) amplifiers. In some embodiments, an RF amplifier circuit includes an amplification path implemented to amplify an RF signal, where the amplification path includes a switch and an amplifier. In some embodiments, each of the switch and the amplifier are configured to be ON or OFF to thereby enable or disable the amplification path, respectively. In some embodiments, the RF amplifier circuit includes a compensation circuit coupled to the amplifier, where the compensation circuit is configured to compensate for a slow transition of the amplifier between its ON and OFF states resulting from a signal applied to the switch.
US09787253B2
A Doherty amplifier (10) according to the present invention includes: a distribution unit (11) that distributes input signals; a main amplifier (12) that amplifies a first distributed signal output from the distribution unit (11); a transmission line unit (13) that transmits the first distributed signal amplified by the main amplifier (12); a peak amplifier (14) that amplifies a second distributed signal output from the distribution unit (11); a transmission line unit (15) that transmits the second distributed signal amplified by the peak amplifier (14); a synthesizing unit (16) that synthesizes the first distributed signal and the second distributed signal, and outputs a synthesized signal; and an impedance transformation unit (17) that performs an impedance transformation of the synthesized signal output from the synthesizing unit (16). The impedance transformation unit (17) includes a plurality of λ/4 transmission lines connected in series.
US09787243B2
A controller for a brushless direct-current motor having an upstream converter, which has a half-bridge having a pair of switching means for each phase winding of the motor, includes a measuring device or has a signal connection to a measuring device. The measuring device is associated with a half-bridge and by means of the measuring device, the induced voltage, the counterelectromotive force of a phase winding, can be detected for rotor position detection in the current-free state, for which purpose the controller, in an operating mode that causes the braking and in which the switching means cause a short circuit of the phase windings, briefly opens the switching means associated with the measuring device in order to determine a rotor motion.
US09787237B2
A fault tolerant control system for a multi-phase permanent magnet assisted synchronous reluctance motor utilizes vector control to provide safe operation under various phase loss fault conditions. Specifically, the vector control of the present invention utilizes a fault tolerant algorithm that receives a torque input and an electrical current feedback signal from the motor. Thus, in the presence of a fault condition, the vector control applies the optimal torque angle to the motor, while reducing the phase currents to an optimized value to lessen the saturation effect in the motor, so as to ensure that the motor delivers maximum torque output in the presence of such faults. As such, the control system allows the motor to operate safely with high reliability, which is highly desirable, such as in electric vehicles and the aerospace industry.
US09787235B2
A method for operating a generator for an internal combustion engine of a vehicle having a starting operating mode and a start-stop operating mode, a torque of the generator being delimited in the starting operating mode, including: detecting an operating mode of the vehicle, and deactivating a delimitation of the torque of the generator if the detected operating mode corresponds to the start-stop operating mode.
US09787234B2
A drive controller of an instrument controls a stepping motor to rotate a pointer of the instrument attached to a rotation shaft of the stepping motor, the pointer rotatable between a zero scale position and a maximum scale position. The drive controller controls the stepping motor to perform a sweeping operation in which the pointer is swung from the zero scale position to the maximum scale position and returned back to the zero scale position, wherein the drive controller controls the stepping motor, during the sweeping operation, to accelerate to a predetermined speed by outputting a rated torque signal to the stepping motor and controls the stepping motor to rotate at the predetermined speed by outputting a decreased torque signal to the stepping motor, the decreased torque signal being lower than the rated torque signal.
US09787225B2
A device includes a housing configured with a working element and a motor configured for urging motion of the working element. The device further includes a power control module. The power control module is configurable for being in electrical connection with at least one of the motor, a first power source configuration and a second power source configuration. The first power source configuration is configurable for being electrically connected to a battery assembly having a DC power output. The second power source configuration is configurable for being electrically connected to a power inverter, the power inverter configured for receiving an AC power and further configured for outputting a DC power to the second power source configuration. The power control module includes an automatic power selection configuration for automatically selecting the second power source configuration when the second power source configuration receives DC power from the power inverter.
US09787222B2
Provided is an electrostatic attraction apparatus in which a first insulating layer is formed on a base in an electrostatic chuck. A first portion of the first insulating layer extends on a first face of the base and a second portion of the first insulating layer extends on at least a portion of a second face of the base. An attraction electrode is formed on the first portion of the first insulating layer. A second insulating layer is formed on the first portion of the first insulating layer and the attraction electrode. A conductor pattern extends from the attraction electrode and provides a power supply terminal on the second portion of the first insulating layer. A contact part of a terminal member urged by an urging unit is in contact with the power supply terminal. The terminal member is connected with a wiring line connected to a supply power.
US09787215B2
A power supply device includes a board that includes an input terminal and an output terminal, and converters disposed on the board. The converters are connected with each other in parallel and convert an input voltage input to the input terminal, and output the converted voltage to the output terminal. Each of the converters includes respective one of voltage conversion functional units including respective one of input parts and respective one of output parts, respective one of input line parts connected to respective one of the input parts. Respective one of output line parts connected to respective one of the output parts, and respective one of current adjustment functional units provided in respective one of the output line parts for balancing currents output from the each of the converters provided in respective one of the output line parts.
US09787209B2
An uninterruptible power supply system (UPS) includes an interconnect circuit configured to receive three-phase AC input power from an AC power source and a plurality of UPS subsystems each coupled to the interconnect circuit. A first UPS subsystem includes first and second single-phase AC-to-DC converters. At least one second UPS subsystem includes third and fourth single-phase AC-to-DC converters. In a first mode of operation, the interconnect circuit is configured to conduct at least one phase of the AC input power to the first UPS subsystem and at least one phase of the AC input power to the second UPS subsystem, and, in a second mode of operation, to disconnect the AC input power from the first UPS subsystem and to conduct at least one phase of the AC input power to the second UPS subsystem.
US09787191B2
An example relates to a method for operating a converter comprising (i) determining whether a valley for switching the converter in a quasi-resonant mode is available within a predetermined time range; (ii) selecting the valley if it is available within the predetermined time range; and (iii) changing the mode for operating the converter if the valley is not available within the predetermined time range.
US09787186B2
An illustrative converter embodiment employs an oscillator comprising a capacitor and a comparator. The capacitor is alternately coupled to a charging current source and a discharging current source, the charging current source operating to charge the capacitor at a first rate and the discharging source operating to discharge the capacitor at a second rate. The comparator asserts an output signal when the capacitor charges to a first threshold voltage and deasserts the output signal when the capacitor discharges to a second threshold voltage. The first rate may be proportional to the input voltage and the second rate may be fixed. The output signal may be applied to the gate of a transistor to alternately apply the input voltage across an inductor and to apply current from the inductor to a capacitance. The duty cycle of the output signal is inversely proportional to the input voltage, or at least approximately so.
US09787184B2
A multiple-phase power circuit includes multiple voltage conversion units, a pulse-width modulation (PWM) signal generator and a surge detection circuit. Each voltage conversion unit converts an input voltage to a driving voltage of a pre-set phase. The pulse-width modulation (PWM) signal generator is coupled to the voltage conversion units to output PWM signals of different phases to the voltage conversion units. The surge detection circuit samples the input voltage and compares the input voltage with a reference voltage. Then the surge detection circuit outputs multiple first control signals. The PWM signal generator further stops outputting the PWM signals of different phases when the PWM signal generator receives the multiple first control signals.
US09787181B2
A sensor device includes a first sensor unit, a control IC configured to switch a power supply route, a power supply, a DC converter, and a regulator configured to regulate the voltage. A power supply route A and a power supply route B is provided as a power supply route from the power supply to the sensor unit and the control IC. In the power supply route A, the sensor unit is not electrically conducted to the power supply, and the control IC is directly connected to the power supply. In the power supply route B, the power supply, the DC converter, and the regulator are connected in series, output of the regulator is supplied to the sensor unit, and output of the DC converter is supplied to the control IC. The control IC switches between the power supply route A and the power supply route B according to an operating state of the sensor unit.
US09787172B2
Methods and systems are disclosed that may be employed to implement adaptive FET drive voltage optimization for voltage regulator (VR) integrated power stages (IPstages) that have different MOSFET RDS(on) characteristics to improve VR efficiency and current-sense accuracy.
US09787170B2
Provided are a solar panel (1), a first DC/DC conversion circuit (13), a DC/AC conversion circuit (21) connected via a DC bus (25), a second DC/DC conversion circuit (17) for controlling bus voltage in the case of power outage, a first control section (14) having two kinds of control modes and controlling the first DC/DC conversion circuit (13), a second control section (18) for controlling the second DC/DC conversion circuit (17), and a third control section (22) for controlling the DC/AC conversion circuit (21). The second control section (18) controls bus voltage in the case of power outage, and the first control section (14) switches the control mode based on information of the second control section (18).
US09787169B2
An embodiment of an electromagnetic actuator, such as a moving magnet actuator (MMA), includes a back iron, a first coil winding, a second coil winding, a mover, and a permanent magnet. The first and second coil windings are connected to the back iron, and have generally annular shapes. The mover moves relative to the back iron during use of the MMA. The permanent magnet is connected to the mover and moves with the mover during use of the MMA. The permanent magnet has a generally annular shape.
US09787167B2
An oscillating motor suitable for use with a personal care appliance is provided. The oscillating motor is configured with a reduced motor envelope as compared to conventional motors in order to be suitable for personal care appliances with smaller handles.
US09787166B2
A manufacturing method of a stator is a method for manufacturing the stator using molds. The stator is constructed so that a stator main body and resin molded portion are integrated. The stator main body includes a terminal portion and a core. The manufacturing method includes: arranging the stator main body such that the terminal portion is located on a top portion of the molds; and filling a cavity with resin. The terminal portion has a gas discharging port configured to discharge gas out of the cavity from inside the cavity in the molds.
US09787159B2
A power tool with a combined printed circuit board (PCB) having a doughnut shape and located coaxially with a motor shaft. The combined PCB is secured to a heat sink on one end of the motor and a metal end piece is positioned on an opposite end of the motor. The metal end cap and heat sink are secured to one another via fasteners to provide a rigid coupling. A tabbed end piece is provided between the heat sink and the motor stator and is also secured into place via the fasteners. The tabbed end piece includes wire support tabs that provide strain relief to motor coil leads. The wire support tabs extend axially from circumferential locations of the tabbed end piece and include channels to guide the motor coil leads to solder contact points on the combined PCB.
US09787146B2
A rotary electrical machine rotor having claw-shaped poles. The machine comprising a plurality of interpolar magnetic assemblies having at least two magnetic assemblies comprising different magnet grades.
US09787142B2
A signal generator generates an electrical signal that is sent to an amplifier, which increases the power of the signal using power from a power source. The amplified signal is fed to a sender transducer to generate ultrasonic waves that can be focused and sent to a receiver. The receiver transducer converts the ultrasonic waves back into electrical energy and stores it in an energy storage device, such as a battery, or uses the electrical energy to power a device. In this way, a device can be remotely charged or powered without having to be tethered to an electrical outlet.
US09787128B2
A wireless charger includes a wireless charging transmitter. The wireless charging transmitter includes a transmission antenna, a driving circuit, a transmission temperature sensor, and a controller. The driving circuit can output a charging signal in a fast charging mode initially. The transmission temperature sensor can detect a transmission temperature value of the transmission antenna. The controller can receive the transmission temperature value from the transmission temperature sensor. The driving circuit is can output the charging signal in a fast charging mode initially. When the transmission temperature value is greater than an overheat value, the controller can control the driving circuit to output in a slow charging mode.
US09787124B2
A charging device includes a plurality of DC charging ports, a detecting circuit and a current output unit. The DC charging ports includes at least one first charging port and at least one second charging port. The output currents provided by the first charging port and the second charging port are lower than or equal to a first current limit and a second current limit, respectively. The detecting circuit is coupled to the DC charging ports to detect the output currents from the DC charging ports. When the current required by the first charging port is lower than the first current limit, the current output unit correspondingly supplies a requested current to the first charging port and distributes a surplus current to the second charging port. A total current limit of the DC charging ports is higher than a supply current limit.
US09787123B2
A charge/discharge control device according to an aspect of the present disclosure is equipped with a system frequency measurer 303 that measures a system frequency, a base frequency updater 304 that updates a base frequency, a frequency bias calculator 305 that calculates a frequency bias indicating the difference between the base frequency and the system frequency, a charge/discharge command value decider 306 that uses the frequency bias to decide a power command value, and a charge/discharge controller 307 that causes a power storage system to charge/discharge power. The base frequency updater 304 determines whether or not reverse operation will occur, and in the case of determining that reverse operation will not occur, updates the base frequency so that the base frequency matches a frequency obtained by applying a low-pass filter to a temporal variation of the system frequency, while in the case of determining that reverse operation will occur, updates the base frequency so that the base frequency matches the system frequency.
US09787121B2
A power supply control method and a portable electronic device using the same are provided. The power supply control method includes following steps: detecting an input voltage and an input current at a power input terminal of the portable electronic device; setting a plurality of detection loads sequentially to control a power adaptor to provide a detection current as the input current for the portable electronic device respectively; calculating an equivalent input impedance of the power input terminal according to the detection current and the corresponding input voltage; calculating an actual output voltage of the power adaptor according to the equivalent input impedance, the input voltage, and the input current; and setting a work load according to the actual output voltage to control the power adaptor to provide a work current as the input current for the portable electronic device.
US09787113B2
Charging apparatuses are provided for charging mobile devices while sterilizing the mobile devices via UV illumination. Such a charging device can include a charging apparatus case having a slot structured to receive a mobile device. The front and rear surfaces of the mobile device are exposed to inner walls of the slot; and at least one UV light source can irradiate UV light onto the front and rear surfaces of the mobile device, which are exposed to the inner walls of the slot.
US09787103B1
The embodiments described herein include a transmitter that transmits a power transmission signal (e.g., radio frequency (RF) signal waves) to create a three-dimensional pocket of energy. At least one receiver can be connected to or integrated into electronic devices and receive power from the pocket of energy. The transmitter can locate the at least one receiver in a three-dimensional space using a communication medium (e.g., Bluetooth technology). The transmitter generates a waveform to create a pocket of energy around each of the at least one receiver. The transmitter uses an algorithm to direct, focus, and control the waveform in three dimensions. The receiver can convert the transmission signals (e.g., RF signals) into electricity for powering an electronic device. Accordingly, the embodiments for wireless power transmission can allow powering and charging a plurality of electrical devices without wires.
US09787093B2
A demand side electric power supply management system is disclosed. The system comprises an islanded power system having a point of coupling to a supply grid. The islanded power system supplies a plurality of electric loads, each of which is associated with a load controller to control the maximum power demanded by that load. A measuring means associated with the point of coupling measures the total power transfer between the grid and the islanded system, and a system controller monitors the measured power transfer relative to a set point and provides a control signal to a plurality of load controllers. Each load controller receives substantially the same control signal and determines the maximum power which the or each load associated with the load controller is allowed to draw from the islanded power system based on information contained in the control signal.
US09787088B2
The present application relates to a near field communication (NFC) device which has an antenna for receiving NFC signals. The NFC device includes a protection system for protecting a transmit/receive system, and other systems, of the NFC device from potentially damaging voltages that may develop at an output of the antenna if the device enters a strong magnetic field. The protection system includes current control devices that are operative to source or sink current depending upon the polarity of a signal at an output of the antenna, to generate a voltage which at least partially negates a positive or negative voltage at the output of the antenna, thereby reducing the peak voltage at the antenna output.
US09787081B2
To protect a connected electrical load from anomalous electricity, an apparatus has a condition sensing unit configured to distinguish a power event type from among power event types from characteristics of an input electricity waveform accepted through an input port. The condition sensing unit indicates the power event type when a corresponding overvoltage criterion is met by characteristics of the input electricity waveform. A power control unit generates, responsive to a power event, a modulation signal that defines at least one amplitude notch in the input electricity waveform in accordance with the power event type. A switching mechanism electrically interposed between the input port and the output port transitions into conducting and non-conducting states in accordance with the modulation signal to superimpose the notch on the input electricity waveform.
US09787073B1
An improved electrical box for use with ICF foam block walls, or the like, and having two main components, namely, a female component which is open at a front end thereof and closed at a rear end thereof and is sized and shaped to receive a male component which is opened at both a trailing front end and a leading rear end thereof. The female and male components having knockouts to accommodate conduit. The male and female components having flanges and mating locking mechanisms to retain the improved electrical box in position on the ICF foam block wall until removal with the use of a removal tool.
US09787070B2
A raintight compression connector has a connector body with first and second portions and a bore extending therethrough for connection to a conduit. An upper sealing ring is dimensioned to contact the connector body to make sealing contact with a conduit. The upper sealing ring has first, second and third regions. The first region has a first sloping surface to contact a recess shoulder in the connector body and the third region has a third sloping surface to contact an inner surface of the connector body. Specific slopes for these sloping surfaces are disclosed. The upper sealing ring can also be used in a raintight compression coupler.
US09787067B2
Disclosed herein is a vacuum circuit breaker. In some embodiments, a vacuum circuit breaker includes a cradle having a rail which forms a travel route; a main body being movably mounted to the cradle and configured to be in a test position or in an operation position; a wheel traveling along the travel route and configured to move the main body to the test position or the operation position; an interlock plate provided in the main body so as to move together with the main body; and a ground interlock device restraining the movement of the main body by restraining the movement of the interlock plate when grounded.
US09787062B2
A vertical cavity surface emitting laser array includes a contact layer formed on a substrate; mesa structures formed on the contact layer, each mesa structure including a first semiconductor multilayer reflector of a first conductivity type, an active region on the first semiconductor multilayer reflector, and a second semiconductor multilayer reflector of a second conductivity type on the active region; a first metal layer formed on the contact layer around the mesa structures, a portion of the first metal layer serving as an electrode pad of the first conductivity type; an insulating film formed on the first metal layer; and a second metal layer formed on the insulating film, a portion of the second metal layer serving as an electrode pad of the second conductivity type. The mesa structures are electrically connected in parallel.
US09787047B2
A sensor includes a sensor element and a conductive wire. The sensing element includes a sensing portion and a terminal wire extending from the sensing portion. The sensing portion has an electrical characteristic that changes in accordance with a change in an atmosphere. The conductive wire is for communicating an electrical signal from the sensor element. The conductive wire includes a plurality of conductors twisted together. The terminal wire and the conductive wire are arranged in a longitudinal direction of the sensor and are connected to each other by welding. The conductive wire includes a first weld portion formed by integrating the plurality of conductors in the longitudinal direction by welding. The terminal wire and the conductive wire are connected to each other through a second weld portion, and the second weld portion is formed only in a region longitudinally overlapping the first weld portion.
US09787046B2
A wire sorting fixture includes a cable support configured to support a multi-wire cable and a wire support configured to support wires of the cable. The wire support has a top surface. The wire support has cradles open at the top surface. The wire support has separating walls between corresponding cradles. A top plate is positioned above the wire support. The top plate is moved toward the wire support to a clamping position after the wires are positioned in the corresponding cradles. The top plate holds the wires between the top plate and the wire support in the clamping position.
US09787034B2
A cage assembly comprises a cage, at least one heat sink, at least one clip and at least one light guide. The cage comprises a front end, a rear end, a top wall positioned between the front end and the rear end and a rear wall positioned at the rear end, the cage is formed with at least one port, the port extends from the front end to the rear end. The heat sink is provided on the top wall of the cage and corresponds to one port. The clip comprises a frame engaged with the top wall and fixing the heat sink and a holding piece extending upwardly from the frame. The light guide has a front section and a rear section, the front section is formed with a first post extending rearwardly, the rear section is formed with two second posts respectively extending forwardly, the first post is inserted into a first hole formed to the holding piece of the clip along a front-to-rear direction, the two second posts are respectively inserted into two second holes formed to the rear wall of the cage along a rear-to-front direction.
US09787033B2
A system according to one embodiment includes opposing slide plates, and opposing guide blocks configured to receive the slide plates therebetween and push the slide plates together during a relative motion between the slide plates and the guide blocks. A system according to another embodiment includes opposing slide plates and a thermal interface material coupled to opposing inner faces of the slide plate. Opposing guide blocks are configured to receive the slide plates therebetween and push the slide plates together during a relative motion between the slide plates and the guide blocks. An interface connector is coupled to at least one of the guide blocks and the slide plates, the interface connector having electrical connectors on opposite ends thereof.
US09787029B1
A high speed connector assembly is disclosed in this invention, including a receptacle connector and a plug connector. Each receptacle terminal of the receptacle connector disposes a first L-type contact piece, and each plug terminal of the plug connector disposes a second L-type contact piece. When the receptacle connector and the plug connector are electrically engaged, an extension section of the first L-type contact piece is pressed on a straight part of the second L-type contact piece, and an extension part of the second L-type contact piece is pressed on a straight section of the first L-type contact piece. So this engagement can form a double-contacts structure to restrain the short pile effect and reduce the crosstalk and loss at high speed signal transmission. A receptacle connector and a plug connector are also disclosed in this invention.
US09787028B2
Apparatus and methods of arranging ground pins and signal pins in a card connector includes arranging a signal pins and ground pins in a card connector into at least six (6) columns divided between a primary side and a secondary side of the connector.
US09787027B2
A power plug connector capable of being plugged in both normal and reverse way, comprising an insulator, a soft tongue plate, a plurality of first terminals and second terminals, and a shielding case; by fixing the soft tongue upon the insulator, the front end of the soft tongue being suspended inside the insertion slot; every rear end of the second terminals respectively connected with the corresponding rear ends of the first terminals; When plug normally, the power plug connector can be smoothly plugged-in, and the first terminals contacts the power socket connector; When plug reversely, the soft tongue plate will bend which allows the product to continue inserting, so the multiple terminals can connect the power socket connector and conducts, thereby realizing normal and reverse plug and avoiding wear and damage to the power plug connector.
US09787025B2
In one example, a cover plate for an electrical receptacle may include a face plate, an engaging feature disposed on the face plate, and a spring clip, wherein the engaging feature disposed on the face plate engages with the spring clip and secures the spring clip in at least two different positions with respect to the face plate.
US09787022B2
Systems and methods for magnetic coupling. One system includes an external computing device and a connector having a conductive end. The system also includes a printed circuit board. The printed circuit board includes a connector side opposite a back side. The connector side has a contact pad with an aperture. The printed circuit board also includes a magnet positioned on the back side of the printed circuit board. The magnet provides a magnetic field configured to provide magnetic attraction forces to a connector contacting the contact pad. The printed circuit board also includes a communication terminal. The system also includes a circuit in communication with the printed circuit board through the connector and contact pad.
US09787017B1
An electrical connector includes an outer contact and a cavity insert. The outer contact has a mating segment, a terminating segment, and a middle segment therebetween. The cavity insert surrounds the middle segment of the outer contact. The cavity insert is defined by an upper shell and a lower shell that couple together at an interface. The upper shell extends along a portion of a perimeter of the outer contact, and the lower shell extends along a remaining portion of the perimeter of the outer contact. The upper shell includes a first strap that extends across the interface. The first strap includes a latching surface that engages a corresponding first catch of the lower shell to couple the upper shell to the lower shell.
US09787015B2
A contact sub-assembly is provided for an electrical connector. The contact sub-assembly includes a printed circuit and an array of mating contacts. Each mating contact includes a terminating end portion and a mating interface. The contact sub-assembly also includes an array of circuit contacts that is discrete from the array of mating contacts. Each circuit contact is engaged with and electrically connected to the printed circuit. Each circuit contact is separably engaged with and electrically connected to the terminating end portion of a corresponding one of the mating contacts such that the array of circuit contacts electrically connects the array of mating contacts to the printed circuit.
US09787003B2
A crimp terminal includes an F-type crimp portion and a C-type crimp portion. The F-type crimp portion has first and second barrel tabs, preferably with an identical length, for crimping a tip end of a complex stranded wire. The F-type crimp portion is adapted to have distal ends of the first and second barrel tabs put together and pushed into the tip end of the complex stranded wire to be crimped. The C-type crimp portion has a third barrel tab for crimping the complex stranded wire. The third barrel tab is wound in a C-form on an outer periphery of the complex stranded wire to be crimped. The arrangement provides a crimp terminal and an electric wire with crimp terminal, that prevents or reduces increases in retained resistance at a crimp portion, and can also prevent an electric wire from slipping out of a crimp terminal.
US09786989B2
Disclosed is an NFC antenna that facilitates a touch operation of a portable electronic instrument. An NFC antenna includes insulating substrates and an antenna coil having a front surface pattern and a back surface pattern formed on antenna surfaces that are present on the same planes. The insulating substrates are molded into an L shape together with a magnetic sheet sandwiched therebetween. The antenna coil is also arranged in the L shape in a similar manner. When the NFC antenna is arranged at a corner of a smart phone, a coil opening faces to a position of a touch corner. NFC can be started in a short time by a touch operation using the touch corner.
US09786987B2
An antenna apparatus is provided with a dielectric substrate, a feed point, a first radiation conductor, a second radiation conductor, and a through-hole conductor. The first radiation element is capacitively coupled to the second radiation element in a portion where the first and second radiation conductors overlaps with each other via the dielectric substrate. At least one of the first and second radiation elements has a meander portion formed in the portion where the first and second radiation elements are capacitively coupled to each other, and an LC resonator is formed of the meander portion, and the portion where the first and second radiation elements are capacitively coupled to each other.
US09786984B2
An antenna having an elongated housing open at one end and defining an interior chamber. A telescoping mast has a carrier attached at a first end and a flexible antenna attached at its other end. The carrier with the attached mast and antenna is movable between a storage position in which the carrier, mast, and antenna are contained within the interior chamber of the housing, and a deployed position in which the mast and attached antenna protrude outwardly from the housing. A spring is positioned between the carrier and the housing which urges the carrier towards its deployed position. A catch mechanism selectively holds the carrier in its stored position and, when released, releases the spring to move the antenna to its deployed position.
US09786978B2
The invention presents a LTCC balun filter using two out-of-phase filtering circuits. The LTCC balun filter is comprised of three half-wavelength resonators and grounds which are located on fourteen metal layers. Vias are utilized to connect different metal parts. The first, fourth, seventh, eleventh and fourteenth metal layers are the ground. The three half-wavelength resonators are on the second, third, fifth, sixth, eighth, ninth, tenth, twelfth and thirteenth metal layers. By adjusting the coupling parts of the three half-wavelength resonators, namely the lengths of the seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth and eleventh layers, as well as the distances between them, the coupling strength between the half-wavelength resonators can be tuned. In addition, the quality factor of the circuit can be improved by tuning the port positions. By using the multi-layer LTCC technology, the present invention has the advantage of compact size, novelty, creativity and practicability.
US09786972B2
In an end surface 32b of the second transmission line forming body 32 forming a second waveguide 30, the height of a central region 33 which includes an opening of the second transmission line 30b is a reference plane. A depressed portion 32e that is depressed to a depth greater than the length of a thread portion of a screw 205 from the reference plane is provided in a region outside the central region 33 and includes a screw hole forming position. A screw hole 32d for fixing an external circuit 200 to be connected is provided at the screw hole forming position in the depressed portion 32e. The height of a region, which is excluding the depressed portion 32e and is further away from the central region 33 than the screw hole forming position, is equal to the reference plane.
US09786971B2
Systems and methods for ferrite redundancy switch networks are disclosed. In one embodiment, a redundant ferrite switch system comprises: a first plurality of circulator modules, a second plurality of circulator modules, and a plurality of components coupled to the first plurality of circulator modules and coupled to the second plurality of circulator modules, wherein the first plurality of circulator modules and the second plurality of circulator modules is able to route a path through the redundant ferrite switch system when more than two components in the plurality of components have failed. The first plurality of circulator modules and the second plurality of circulator modules each comprise, respectively: a plurality of inputs; a plurality of outputs; and a plurality of circulators connecting the plurality of inputs to the plurality of outputs.
US09786966B2
An assembly according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a cold plate including a cooling circuit, a first end cap attached to the cold plate and a first manifold inside the first end cap and configured to fluidly connect a first fluid channel and a second fluid channel of the cooling circuit.
US09786963B2
A vehicle heating/cooling system for a vehicle comprises an internal combustion engine coupled to a closed engine coolant circuit to recirculate engine coolant therethrough; a refrigerant compressor coupled to a closed refrigerant circuit to recirculate refrigerant therethrough, wherein the refrigerant compressor is coupled to the internal combustion engine to be driven thereby; a closed thermally regulated fluid circuit to recirculate thermally regulated fluid therethrough; and a consolidated heating/cooling core coupled to the closed engine coolant circuit, to the closed refrigerant circuit and to the closed thermally regulated fluid circuit.
US09786962B2
A battery pack includes a plurality of battery cells, a protective circuit module (PCM), a temperature sensor and a case. Each battery cell has a terrace portion sealed so that an electrode tab of an electrode assembly is extracted to an outside. The PCM is electrically connected to the plurality of battery cells. The temperature sensor is connected to the PCM to measure a temperature of the battery cells. The case accommodates the plurality of battery cells, the PCM and the temperature sensor. The case includes a mounting portion on which the PCM is mounted, and a temperature sensor support portion protruded to be spaced apart from the mounting portion at a predetermined height is formed in one area of the mounting portion.
US09786958B2
A rechargeable battery includes an electrode assembly including a separator, and a first electrode and a second electrode disposed at opposite sides of the separator, a pouch accommodating the electrode assembly and including a terrace portion, first and second lead tabs extending from the first electrode and the second electrode, respectively, through the terrace portion of the pouch, and a temperature protecting element on the terrace portion. The temperature protecting element has a first surface connected to the first lead tab and to a connection tab partially contacting the terrace portion, and a second surface attached to the terrace portion and extending beyond the terrace portion, such that an insulating tape surrounds the terrace portion and covers the first lead tab, the connection tab, and the second surface of the temperature protecting element.
US09786947B2
Li-ion batteries are provided that include a cathode, an anode comprising active particles, an electrolyte ionically coupling the anode and the cathode, a separator electrically separating the anode and the cathode, and at least one hydrofluoric acid neutralizing agent incorporated into the anode or the separator. Li-ion batteries are also provided that include a cathode, an anode comprising active particles, an electrolyte ionically coupling the anode and the cathode, and a separator electrically separating the anode and the cathode, where the electrolyte may be formed from a mixture of an imide salt and at least one salt selected from the group consisting of LiPF6, LiBF4, and LiClO4. Li-ion battery anodes are also provided that include an active material core and a protective coating at least partially encasing the active material core, where the protective coating comprises a material that is resistant to hydrofluoric acid permeation.
US09786943B2
A fuel cell system comprising an anode compartment which comprises an anode having a copper catalyst layer, a cathode configured as an air cathode and a separator interposed between said anode and said cathode, operable by an amine-derived fuel and oxygen (or air) is disclosed. Further disclosed are fuel cell systems comprising an anode compartment which comprises an anode having a copper catalyst layer, a cathode and a separator interposed between said anode and said cathode, which are operable by a mixture of two types of amine-derived compounds (e.g., ammonia borane, hydrazine and derivatives thereof). Also disclosed are methods of producing electric energy by, and electric-consuming devices containing and operable by, the disclosed fuel cell systems.
US09786931B2
A fuel cell system 100 includes: a fuel cell 1 for generating a power by causing an electrochemical reaction between an oxidant gas supplied to an oxidant electrode 34 and a fuel gas supplied to a fuel electrode 67; a fuel gas supplier HS for supplying the fuel gas to the fuel electrode 67; and a controller 40 for controlling the fuel gas supplier HS to thereby supply the fuel gas to the fuel electrode 67, the controller 40 being configured to implement a pressure change when an outlet of the fuel electrode 67 side is closed, wherein based on a first pressure change pattern for implementing the pressure change at a first pressure width ΔP1, the controller 40 periodically changes a pressure of the fuel gas at the fuel electrode 67.
US09786927B2
To provide a conductive member and a cell stack, where a concave groove of a conductive base substrate can be covered with a cover layer, as well as an electrochemical module and an electrochemical device.
US09786923B2
Provided is a porous electrode substrate having excellent thickness precision, gas permeability and conductivity, handling efficiency, low production costs and a high carbonization rate during carbonization. Also provided are a method for manufacturing such a substrate, a precursor sheet and fibrillar fiber used for forming such a substrate, along with a membrane electrode assembly and a polymer electrolyte fuel cell that contain such a substrate. The method for manufacturing a porous electrode substrate includes step (1) for manufacturing a precursor sheet in which short carbon fibers (A) and carbon fiber precursor (b) are dispersed, and step (2) for carbonizing the precursor sheet, and the volume contraction rate of carbon fiber precursor (b) in step (2) is 83% or lower. The present invention also relates to a porous electrode substrate obtained by such a manufacturing method, a precursor sheet and fibrillar fiber used for forming the substrate, along with a membrane electrode assembly and a polymer electrolyte fuel cell containing the substrate.
US09786920B2
A current collector in the form of a conductive substrate subjected to a special chemical etch to provide the current collector having a multi-thickness structure, is described. The multiple-thickness current collector structure provides an electrochemical cell with increased charge capacity per volume while enabling a robust weld connection thereto. The current collector has a frame and comprises within an inner perimeter of the frame, first strand structures that intersect second strand structures to provide a plurality of openings or interstices bordered by the strands. At least one tab portion having a thicker distal portion spaced from a thinner proximal tab portion that extends from an outer perimeter of the frame.
US09786916B2
Disclosed is an electrode for secondary batteries including an electrode mixture including an electrode active material, binder and conductive material coated on a current collector wherein a conductive material is coated to a thickness of 1 to 80 μm on the current collector and the electrode mixture is coated on a coating layer of the conductive material so as to improve electrical conductivity.
US09786898B2
A secondary battery and a secondary battery array are disclosed. In one aspect, the secondary battery includes an electrode assembly and a battery case accommodating the electrode assembly. The battery also includes a plurality of lead terminals comprising a first pair of lead terminals having opposite polarities and outwardly extending from the electrode assembly to protrude from a first side of the battery case and a second pair of lead terminals having opposite polarities and outwardly extending from the electrode assembly to protrude from a second side of the battery case opposing the first side. The battery further includes a plurality of insulation members respectively extending along the first and second pairs of lead terminals to at least partially cover the lead terminals.
US09786892B2
This present application relates to a battery assembly and an electronic cigarette. The battery assembly comprises a battery including a first battery electrode and a second battery electrode. The battery assembly further includes a first charging electrode and a second charging electrode electrically connected to the first battery electrode and the second battery electrode correspondingly, and the battery assembly defines a first insertion hole and a second insertion hole at positions corresponding to the first charging electrode and the second charging electrode respectively; the first charging electrode and the second charging electrode are electrically connected to an external charger to supply charging power to the battery. By implementing the battery assembly and the electronic cigarette, the electronic cigarette can be directly inserted into the external charger to be charged, and the battery assembly and the atomization assembly do not need to be separated from each other.
US09786884B2
The present invention provides a long separator roll. A method according to the present invention for producing a battery separator roll includes a connecting step of connecting two or more separators (12b and 12c) to each other along a lengthwise direction so that the battery separator roll is produced.
US09786880B2
A cell module assembly is provided. The cell module assembly may include a plurality of cells that generates electrical energy, at least one heat plate interposed between the plurality of cells, to absorb heat from the plurality of cells, the at least one heat plate having a cooling channel defined at both ends thereof, and at least one cartridge to accommodate the plurality of cells and the at least one heat plate, the cooling channel being internally defined in the cartridge.
US09786870B2
A process for the manufacture of a scattering polymer film can include (a) making available a film made of organic polymer, (b) applying, to one of the faces of the said film, a liquid composition (c) heating and/or irradiating the layer of liquid composition to form a cured scattering layer. A scattering polymer film can be obtained by this process. A substrate for OLED can include such a film adhesively bonded to a transparent substrate.
US09786865B2
An optical device includes a joining structure in which a first conductive film (110) and a second conductive film (130) are joined to each other. The first conductive film (110), which constitutes the joining structure, is constituted by a transparent conductive material and the like. The second conductive film (130), which constitutes the joining structure, is constituted by a metal material. A dispersing agent, which is constituted by a material different from the transparent conductive material, exists at a portion of the first conductive film (110) which is located at the periphery of the second conductive film (130).
US09786861B2
Disclosed herein is a white organic light emitting device including various emission layers with improved luminous efficiency, an increased color viewing angle, and low power consumption. The white organic light emitting device includes at least two charge generation layers and at least three stacks between a first electrode and a second electrode. The first stack includes an emission layer having a wavelength range of about 440 to about 470 nm, the second stack includes an emission layer having a wavelength range of about 530 to about 570 nm, and the third stack includes an emission layer having a wavelength range of about 590 to about 620 nm and an emission layer having a wavelength range of about 440 to about 470 nm.
US09786850B2
The present invention generally relates to nanoscale wires and tissue engineering. Systems and methods are provided in various embodiments for preparing cell scaffolds that can be used for growing cells or tissues, where the cell scaffolds comprise nanoscale wires. In some cases, the nanoscale wires can be connected to electronic circuits extending externally of the cell scaffold. Such cell scaffolds can be used to grow cells or tissues which can be determined and/or controlled at very high resolutions, due to the presence of the nanoscale wires, and such cell scaffolds will find use in a wide variety of novel applications, including applications in tissue engineering, prosthetics, pacemakers, implants, or the like. This approach thus allows for the creation of fundamentally new types of functionalized cells and tissues, due to the high degree of electronic control offered by the nanoscale wires and electronic circuits.
US09786848B2
The present disclosure provides methods and compositions for an organic nanofiber-based heterojunction material, comprising nano fibers of an acceptor molecule, the nano fibers coated with a donor molecule, where the acceptor molecule contains a group and the donor molecule contains a companion group, wherein the group and companion group enables strong binding between the acceptor molecule and donor molecule, the strong binding providing for efficient forward electron transfer between the acceptor molecule and donor molecule, and wherein the group and companion group minimize charge carrier recombination between the acceptor molecule and the donor molecule.
US09786847B2
A compound for an organic photoelectric device is represented by Chemical Formula 1, and an organic photoelectric device, an image sensor, and an electronic device include the same.
US09786839B2
Emerging memory chips and methods for forming an emerging memory chip are presented. For example, magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) chip magnetic shielding and vertical stacking capabilities processed at the wafer-level are disclosed. The method includes providing a magnetic shield in the through silicon vias and/or through silicon trenches surrounding or adjacent to magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) array within the MRAM region and also at the front side and back side of the chip. Magnetic shield in the through silicon trenches connects front side and back side magnetic shield. Magnetic shield in the through silicon vias provides vertical stacking, magnetic shielding and electrical connection of the MRAM chips to form 3D IC packages. This magnetic shielding method is applicable for both in-plane and perpendicular MRAM chips. The MTJ array is formed in the MRAM region and in between adjacent inter layer dielectric (ILD) levels of the upper ILD layer in the back end of line (BEOL) of the MRAM chip.
US09786837B2
A mechanism is provided for a thermally assisted magnetoresistive random access memory device (TAS-MRAM). A storage layer has an anisotropic axis, in which the storage layer is configured to store a state in off axis positions and on axis positions. The off axis positions are not aligned with the anisotropic axis. A tunnel barrier is disposed on top of the storage layer. A ferromagnetic sense layer is disposed on top of the tunnel barrier.
US09786833B2
A piezoelectric ceramic has a primary phase constituted by ceramic grains of perovskite crystal structure containing Pb, Nb, Zn, Ti, and Zr, and a secondary phase constituted by ZnO grains present sporadically in the primary phase. The piezoelectric ceramic of high kr and high specific dielectric constant can be sintered at low temperature and exhibit minimal characteristics variations.
US09786829B2
In one aspect, the present invention relates to a thermocouple device comprising a flexible non-planar substrate, a first printed thermocouple element comprising a first metal containing ink composition applied to the flexible non-planar substrate, and a second printed thermocouple element in electrical contact with the first printed thermocouple element making a thermocouple junction. The second printed thermocouple element comprises a second metal containing ink composition with a Seebeck coefficient sufficiently different from the first metal containing ink composition for the first and second printed thermocouple elements to together produce a thermocouple effect. The present application further relates to medical devices comprising the thermocouple and methods of making such devices.
US09786828B2
A method is disclosed for tailoring the thermoelectric response of a thermocouple to that desired by a user. The method comprises the steps of; (a) selecting a first thermoelectric material, (b) selecting a second thermoelectric material having dissimilar thermoelectric properties to the first thermoelectric material, a thermocouple formed from the first thermoelectric material and the second thermoelectric material having a known thermoelectric response, and (c) modifying the chemical composition of at least one of the first thermoelectric material and the second thermoelectric material to produce a thermocouple having a tailored thermoelectric response. In specific embodiments, the chemical composition may be modified by selectively depleting one or more chemical elements from the thermoelectric material or by selectively adding, or increasing the proportion of, one or more elements to the thermoelectric material.
US09786826B2
An LED light-emitting element having reduced the occurrence of illuminance unevenness is provided. A light-emitting element comprising a substrate, an LED element mounted on the substrate, a phosphor resin arranged on the substrate so as to seal the LED element and having an emission surface from which light based on light emitted from the LED element is emitted, a reflective resin arranged around the phosphor resin; and a reflecting frame having an opening and at least part of which is arranged on the reflective resin, wherein the reflective resin is arranged directly under the reflecting frame and on the side surface of the phosphor resin, the ratio of the area of the emission surface to the area of an inside area of the reflecting frame is set to 80% or higher, and in the inside area of the reflecting frame, the reflective resin is exposed around the emission surface.
US09786820B2
A method for manufacturing a device (1) is suggested. The device comprises at least one opto-electronic module (1), and the method comprises creating a wafer stack (2) comprising a substrate wafer (PW), and an optics wafer (OW); wherein a multitude of active optical components (E) is mounted on the substrate wafer (PW), and the optics wafer (OW) comprises a multitude of passive optical components (L). Each of the opto-electronic modules (1) comprises at least one of the active optical components (E) and at least one of the passive optical components (L). The optics wafer (OW) can comprise at least one portion, referred to as blocking portion, which is at least substantially non-transparent for at least a specific wavelength range, and at least one other portion, referred to as transparent portion, which is at least substantially non-transparent for at least said specific wavelength range. 11. The opto-electronic module comprises a substrate member; an optics member; at least one active optical component mounted on said substrate member; and at least one passive optical component comprised in said optics member. The optics member (OW) is directly or indirectly fixed to said substrate member (PW). The opto-electronic modules (1) can have an excellent manufacturability while being small in dimension and having a high alignment accuracy.
US09786818B2
A light emitting diode includes a first electrode, a second electrode and an epitaxial structure. The epitaxial structure is arranged on the first electrode, and electrically connects with the first electrode and the second electrode. The second electrode surrounds periphery of the epitaxial structure to reflect light from the epitaxial structure to emit out from the top of the epitaxial structure. This disclosure also relates to a method for manufacturing the light emitting diode. The light emitting diode and the method help solve the problem of low light efficiency of the light emitting diode.
US09786815B2
A light-emitting device is disclosed. The light-emitting device comprises a substrate; an inorganic semiconductor formed on the substrate, comprising a top surface, wherein the top surface comprises a first region and a second region which are coplanar; a current barrier layer formed on the first region, wherein the current barrier layer comprises an insulating material; and a transparent conductive layer formed on the current barrier layer and contacting the second region; wherein the current barrier layer has a sidewall and a bottom surface facing the first region; wherein an angle between the sidewall and the bottom surface is between 10°-70°.
US09786809B2
A method of forming an electrode pattern includes: forming, on a base material, a seed layer having a pattern corresponding to the electrode pattern; forming an organic material layer on the seed layer; producing an electrode layer transfer sheet by forming an electrode layer on the organic material layer via an electroplating process using the seed layer as a seed; disposing the electrode layer transfer sheet on a substrate on which the electrode pattern is to be formed such that the electrode layer is in contact with the substrate and pressure bonding the electrode layer to the substrate; and in a state in which the electrode layer is pressure bonded to the substrate, removing the base material along with the organic material layer and the seed layer to transfer the electrode layer to the substrate.
US09786807B2
A method to fabricate thin-film photovoltaic devices including a photovoltaic Cu(In,Ga)Se2 or equivalent ABC absorber layer, such as an ABC2 layer, deposited onto a back-contact layer characterized in that the method includes at least five deposition steps, during which the pair of third and fourth steps are sequentially repeatable, in the presence of at least one C element over one or more steps. In the first step at least one B element is deposited, followed in the second by deposition of A and B elements at a deposition rate ratio Ar/Br, in the third at a ratio Ar/Br lower than the previous, in the fourth at a ratio Ar/Br higher than the previous, and in the fifth depositing only B elements to achieve a final ratio A/B of total deposited elements.
US09786803B2
The invention relates to a multi-layer weatherable film structure having an outer layer of a highly weatherable film, a layer having a high thermal deformation temperature, an optional tie layer, and a thin layer of polyolefin or polyamide. The highly weatherable film layer preferably is polyvinylidene fluoride. The polyolefin or polyamide layer is less than 500 microns in thickness, and preferably the whole film structure is less than 750 microns thick. The polyolefinjpolyamide side of the film structure can easily be adhered to many different substances—especially polyolefins and polyamides. This film can be used to provide a highly weatherable protective layer a substrate. One useful application for the film is in a photovoltaic module to protect the back side of the module from weathering and abrasion. The multi-layer film structure can be adhered to a typical polyolefin-based encapsulant layer and used as a backsheet encapsulant in a photovoltaic module.
US09786797B2
An electronic device, includes: a graphene nanoribbon having a first graphene and a second graphene; a first electrode coupled to the first graphene; and a second electrode coupled to the second graphene, wherein the first graphene is terminated on an edge by a first terminal group and has a first polarity and the second graphene is terminated on an edge by a second terminal group different to the first terminal group and has a second polarity different from the first polarity.
US09786794B2
A memory structure includes a memory cell, and the memory cell includes following elements. A first gate is disposed on a substrate. A stacked structure includes a first dielectric structure, a channel layer, a second dielectric structure and a second gate disposed on the first gate, a first charge storage structure disposed in the first dielectric structure and a second charge storage structure disposed in the second dielectric structure. The first charge storage structure is a singular charge storage unit and the second charge storage structure comprises two charge storage units which are physically separated. A channel output line physically connected to the channel layer. A first dielectric layer is disposed on the first gate at two sides of the stacked structure. A first source or drain and a second source or drain are disposed on the first dielectric layer and located at two sides of the channel layer.
US09786786B2
Techniques are disclosed for forming a non-planar quantum well structure. In particular, the quantum well structure can be implemented with group IV or III-V semiconductor materials and includes a fin structure. In one example case, a non-planar quantum well device is provided, which includes a quantum well structure having a substrate (e.g. SiGe or GaAs buffer on silicon), a IV or III-V material barrier layer (e.g., SiGe or GaAs or AlGaAs), and a quantum well layer. A fin structure is formed in the quantum well structure, and an interfacial layer provided over the fin structure. A gate metal can be deposited across the fin structure. Drain/source regions can be formed at respective ends of the fin structure.
US09786785B2
Semiconductor device, method for fabricating the same and electronic devices including the semiconductor device are provided. The semiconductor device comprises an interlayer insulating layer formed on a substrate and including a trench, a gate electrode formed in the trench, a first gate spacer formed on a side wall of the gate electrode to have an L shape, a second gate spacer formed on the first gate spacer to have an L shape and having a dielectric constant lower than that of silicon nitride, and a third spacer formed on the second gate spacer.
US09786781B2
A method and apparatus for use in improving linearity sensitivity of MOSFET devices having an accumulated charge sink (ACS) are disclosed. The method and apparatus are adapted to address degradation in second- and third-order intermodulation harmonic distortion at a desired range of operating voltage in devices employing an accumulated charge sink.
US09786766B2
A semiconductor device includes a gate electrode formed on a sidewall of a structure extending from a semiconductor substrate. A junction region is form in the structure to a first depth from a top of the structure and formed to overlap the gate electrode. A protection layer is formed between an outer wall of the structure and the gate electrode to a second depth less than the first depth from the top of the structure.
US09786752B2
A semiconductor device of the present invention is a semiconductor device selectively including a nonvolatile memory cell on a semiconductor substrate, and includes a trench formed in the semiconductor substrate, an element separation portion buried into the trench such that the element separation portion has a projecting part projecting from the semiconductor substrate, the element separation portion defining an active region in first a region for the nonvolatile memory cell of the semiconductor substrate, and a floating gate disposed in the active region such that the floating gate selectively has an overlapping part overlapping the element separation portion, and the floating gate has a shape recessed with respect to the overlapping part.
US09786751B2
Disclosed are semiconductor structures comprising a field effect transistor (FET) having a low-resistance source/drain contact and, optionally, low gate-to-source/drain contact capacitance. The structures comprise a semiconductor body and, contained therein, first and second source/drain regions and a channel region. A first gate is adjacent to the semiconductor body at the channel region and a second, non-functioning, gate is adjacent to the semiconductor body such that the second source/drain region is between the first and second gates. First and second source/drain contacts are on the first and source/drain regions, respectively. The second source/drain contact is wider than the first and, thus, has a lower resistance. Additionally, spacing of the first and second source/drain contacts relative to the first gate can be such that the first gate-to-second source/drain contact capacitance is equal to or less than the first gate-to-first source/drain contact capacitance. Also disclosed are associated formation methods.
US09786747B2
A wiring substrate includes an insulation layer having an electronic component mounting area, and a wiring layer embedded in the insulation layer, the wiring layer having a first surface exposed from the insulation layer, to which a terminal of an electronic component is to be connected, a second surface opposite to the first surface, which is covered by the insulation layer, and a side surface. The second surface has a roughened surface and the side surface has a roughened surface, and a surface roughness of the second surface of the wiring layer is greater than a surface roughness of the side surface.
US09786739B2
A semiconductor structure is provided that includes a plurality of suspended and stacked nanosheets of semiconductor channel material located above a pillar of a sacrificial III-V compound semiconductor material. Each semiconductor channel material comprises a semiconductor material that is substantially lattice matched to, but different from, the sacrificial III-V compound semiconductor material, and each suspended and stacked nanosheets of semiconductor channel material has a chevron shape. A functional gate structure can be formed around each suspended and stacked nanosheet of semiconductor channel material.
US09786738B2
A semiconductor device including a well resistance element of high accuracy and high withstand voltage and a method of manufacturing the semiconductor device are provided.The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a well region, an input terminal, an output terminal, a separation insulating film, and an active region. The input terminal and the output terminal are electrically coupled to the well region. The separation insulating film is arranged to be in contact with the upper surface of the well region in an intermediate region between the input terminal and the output terminal. The active region is arranged to be in contact with the upper surface of the well region. The separation insulating film and the active region in the intermediate region have an elongated shape in plan view. In the intermediate region, a plurality of separation insulating films and a plurality of active regions are alternately and repeatedly arranged.
US09786737B2
A semiconductor device including at least one fin extending upward from a substrate and a gate on the substrate, wherein the gate includes outer sidewalls, wherein the fin extend through a width of the gate. A spacer material can be adjacent to the outer sidewalls of the gate, wherein a top surface of the spacer material is below the top surface of the gate and above the top surface of the fin. The semiconductor device can also include an epitaxial semiconductor layer over the fins on each side of the spacer material. A low-k dielectric material can be deposited above each epitaxial semiconductor layer. The semiconductor device also includes a dielectric top layer forming a top surface of the transistor, wherein the dielectric top layer seals an air gap between the top surface of the fins and the dielectric top layer.
US09786734B2
A structure such as an integrated circuit device is described having a line of material with critical dimensions which vary within a distribution substantially less than that of a mask element, such as a patterned resist element, used in manufacturing the line of material.
US09786733B2
Structures and methods of forming moisture barrier capacitor on a semiconductor component are disclosed. The capacitor is located on the periphery of a semiconductor chip and includes an inner plate electrically connected to a voltage node, an outer plate with fins for electrically connecting to a different voltage node.
US09786732B2
An organic light-emitting display apparatus includes a substrate including a first region configured to realize an image, and a second region through which an external light penetrates; a first electrode provided in the first region; an auxiliary electrode provided in the second region; a pixel defining layer provided in at least the first region and including a first opening exposing at least a part of the first electrode and a second opening exposing at least a part of the auxiliary electrode; a second electrode provided throughout the first region and the second region, facing the first electrode, and electrically connected to the auxiliary electrode; and an intermediate layer provided in at least the first region, provided above the first electrode and below the second electrode, and including an organic emission layer.
US09786728B2
Discussed is an organic light emitting display device that may include a first pixel on a substrate; a switching transistor with a first active layer provided inside the first pixel; a driving transistor with a second active layer provided inside the first pixel; a first light shielding layer overlapping the second active layer; and a second light shielding layer overlapping the first active layer, wherein the first light shielding layer is connected with the driving transistor, and the second light shielding layer is electrically insulated from the first light shielding layer.
US09786721B1
The utility model provides an OLED display panel, by disposing a color filter layer on an array substrate, an alignment process of an upper with a lower substrate can be omitted, the manufacturing process of the OLED display panel can be simplified, and a thin film packaging can be carried out on the color filter layer so that the OLED display panel can become more lightweight and thin.
US09786712B2
There is provided a radiation image pickup unit including: a plurality of pixels each configured to generate a signal charge based on a radiation; a device substrate including a photoelectric conversion element for each pixel; a wavelength conversion layer provided on a light incident side of the device substrate, and configured to convert a wavelength of the radiation into other wavelength; and a partition wall separating the wavelength conversion layer for each pixel. The radiation image pickup unit is configured to allow a gap between the wavelength conversion layer and the device substrate to be equal to or larger than a threshold or equal to or smaller than the threshold, the threshold being preset based on a spatial frequency of an image pickup target.
US09786706B2
There is configured a solid-state imaging unit including: a semiconductor base 21 having one surface serving as a circuit formation surface and another surface serving as a light receiving surface; a photoelectric conversion section 22 provided in the semiconductor base 21; a reflection layer 24 provided on the circuit formation surface above the photoelectric conversion section 22; and an insulating section 23 arranged in the reflection layer 24.
US09786705B2
Various embodiments are directed to an image sensor that includes a first sensor portion and a second sensor portion coupled to the first sensor portion. The second sensor portion may be positioned relative to the first sensor portion so that the second sensor portion may initially detect light entering the image sensor, and some of that light passes through the second sensor portion and is be detected by the first sensor portion. In some embodiments, the second sensor portion may be configured to have a thickness suitable for sensing visible light. The first sensor portion may be configured to have a thickness suitable for sensing IR or NIR light. As a result of the arrangement and structure of the second sensor portion and the first sensor portion, the image sensor captures substantially more light from the light source.
US09786698B2
A liquid crystal display device is disclosed. The liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate opposite of the first substrate, and a TFT layer on the first substrate. The TFT layer includes a gate electrode metal layer, and a source/drain electrode metal layer, where the source/drain electrode metal layer overlaps the gate electrode metal layer. The display device also includes an alignment film layer on a side of the first substrate that faces the second substrate, and on a side of the second substrate that faces the first substrate. The display device also includes at least one protrusion on at least a part of a side of at least one of the gate electrode metal layer and the source/drain electrode metal layer that faces the first substrate, where the protrusion is configured to reflect incident light from a side of the first substrate.
US09786692B2
The invention provides a scan driving circuit for an oxide semiconductor thin film transistor and a NAND logic operation circuit thereof. The NAND logic operation circuit includes: a first inverter and a second inverter applied to a pull-down holding circuit of a GOA circuit, and multiple transistors. The invention uses the combination of NFTF and inverter to replace a function of original PMOS elements and thereby achieves characteristics similar to that of the original CMOS NAND operation circuit. Accordingly, the invention can solve the design problem of IGZO TFT single type of device logic operation circuit and thus is more suitable for integrating a large scale digital integrated circuit on a liquid crystal display device.
US09786684B2
An apparatus comprises field-effect transistor (FET) structures stacked horizontally and vertically in a three-dimensional memory array architecture, gates extending vertically and spaced horizontally between the plurality of FET structures, and a ferroelectric material separating the FET structures and the gates. Individual ferroelectric FETs (FeFETs) are formed at intersections of the FET structures, the gates, and the ferroelectric material. Another apparatus comprises a plurality of bit lines and word lines. Each bit line has at least two sides that are coupled with a ferroelectric material such that each bit line is shared by neighboring gates to form a plurality of FeFETs. A method of operating a memory array comprises applying a combination of voltages to a plurality of word lines and digit lines for a desired operation for a plurality of FeFET memory cells, at least one digit line having the plurality of FeFET memory cells accessible by neighboring gates.
US09786682B1
The invention is related to a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device having a barrier pattern. The method includes alternately forming first sacrificial layers and insulating layers forming channel patterns penetrating the first sacrificial layers and the insulating layers, and forming a slit penetrating the first sacrificial layers and the insulating layers. In order to form the barrier pattern, the method also includes forming openings by removing the first sacrificial layers through the slit, and respectively forming conductive layers in the openings. The conductive layers include first barrier patterns having inclined inner surfaces and metal patterns in the first barrier patterns.
US09786675B2
A non-volatile memory device includes gate electrodes stacked on a substrate, a semiconductor pattern penetrating the gate electrodes and connected to the substrate, and a charge storage layer between the semiconductor pattern and the gate electrodes. The charge storage layer includes a first charge storage layer between the semiconductor pattern and the gate electrodes, a second charge storage layer between the first charge storage layer and the semiconductor pattern, and a third charge storage layer between the first charge storage layer and the gate electrodes. An energy band gap of the first charge storage layer is smaller than those of the second and third charge storage layers. The first charge storage layer is thicker than the second and third charge storage layers.
US09786658B2
This method comprises the following steps: a) providing a first structure successively comprising a first substrate, a first electronic device, and a first dielectric layer; a second structure successively comprising a second substrate, an active layer, a second dielectric layer, and a polycrystalline semiconductor layer, the active layer being designed to form a second electronic device; b) bombarding the polycrystalline semiconductor layer by a beam of species configured to form an amorphous part and to preserve a superficial polycrystalline part; c) bonding the first and second structures; d) removing the second substrate of the second structure; e) introducing dopants into the amorphous part, through the exposed active layer; f) thermally activating the dopants by recrystallization of the amorphous part.
US09786651B2
An electrostatic discharge device includes a power clamping circuit and an isolation circuit. The power clamping circuit includes a first Zener diode and a second Zener diode. A cathode of the first Zener diode is coupled to a first power supply line. An anode of the first Zener diode is coupled to an anode of the second Zener diode. A cathode of the second Zener diode is coupled to a second power supply line. The isolation circuit includes a first isolation diode and a second isolation diode. A cathode of the first isolation diode is coupled to the first power supply line. An anode of the first isolation diode is coupled to a cathode of the second isolation diode and a circuit being protected. An anode of the second isolation diode is coupled to the second power supply line.
US09786644B2
Provided is a method of fabricating a semiconductor package. The method include providing a lower package with an inner solder ball, providing a conductive material on the inner solder ball to form an outer solder ball enclosing the inner solder ball, providing an upper package with an upper solder ball, on the lower package, performing a first process at a first temperature to join the upper solder ball to the outer solder ball, and performing a second process at a second temperature to unite the upper, inner, and outer solder balls into a connection terminal.
US09786640B2
A transistor arrangement comprising an electrically conductive substrate; a semiconductor body including a transistor structure, the transistor structure including a source terminal connected to said substrate; a bond pad providing a connection to the transistor structure configured to receive a bond wire; wherein the semiconductor body includes an RF-return current path for carrying return current associated with said bond wire, said RF-return current path comprising a strip of metal arranged on said body, said strip configured such that it extends beneath said bond pad and is connected to said source terminal of the transistor structure.
US09786636B2
An Integrated Circuit device, including: a base wafer including single crystal, the base wafer including a plurality of first transistors; at least one metal layer providing interconnection between the plurality of first transistors; a first wire structure constructed to provide power to a portion of the first transistors; a second layer of less than 2 micron thickness, the second layer including a plurality of second single crystal transistors, the second layer overlying the at least one metal layer; and a second wire structure constructed to provide power to a portion of the second transistors, where the second wire structure is isolated from the first wire structure to provide a different power voltage to the portion of the second transistors.
US09786634B2
The present disclosure provides a method for interconnecting components. First and second substrates are provided. First and second components are respectively provided on the first and second substrates, in which the second component is not in contact with the first component. Then, a joint component is formed between the first and second components by passing a flow of a fluid comprising ions of a conductive material between the first and second components and electrolessly plating the first and second components by the conductive material so that the joint component is electrically connected between the first and second components. The present disclosure also provides related interconnection structures and a fixture for forming a related microchannel structure.
US09786621B2
A package structure includes a chip attached to a substrate. The chip includes a bump structure including a conductive pillar having a length (L) measured along a long axis of the conductive pillar and a width (W) measured along a short axis of the conductive pillar. The substrate includes a pad region and a mask layer overlying the pad region, wherein the mask layer has an opening exposing a portion of the pad region. The chip is attached to the substrate to form an interconnection between the conductive pillar and the pad region. The opening has a first dimension (d1) measured along the long axis and a second dimension (d2) measured along the short axis. In an embodiment, L is greater than d1, and W is less than d2.
US09786618B2
A semiconductor structure includes a die including a die pad disposed over the die; a conductive member disposed over and electrically connected with the die pad; a molding surrounding the die and the conductive member; and a redistribution layer (RDL) disposed over the molding, the conductive member and the die, and including a dielectric layer and an interconnect structure, wherein the interconnect structure includes a land portion and a plurality of via portions, the land portion is disposed over the dielectric layer, the plurality of via portions are protruded from the land portion to the conductive member through the dielectric layer, and each of the plurality of via portions at least partially contacts with the conductive member.
US09786610B2
A semiconductor package is provided, which includes: a circuit structure having a first bottom surface and a first top surface opposite to the first bottom surface; at least a semiconductor element disposed on the first top surface of the circuit structure and electrically connected to the circuit structure; an encapsulant formed on the first top surface of the circuit structure to encapsulate the semiconductor element, wherein the encapsulant has a second bottom surface facing the first top surface of the circuit structure and a second top surface opposite to the second bottom surface; and a strengthening layer formed on the second top surface of the encapsulant, or formed between the circuit structure and the encapsulant, or formed on the first bottom surface of the circuit structure, thereby effectively preventing the encapsulant from warping and the semiconductor element from cracking.
US09786606B2
A method of forming a semiconductor structure in a semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) substrate and semiconductor structure so formed are provided. The SOI substrate includes a semiconductor layer; a bulk semiconductor region underlying the semiconductor layer; and an insulation layer between the two. The structure includes first and second openings each having sidewalls, each of the first opening and the second opening formed substantially simultaneously and extending from a top surface of the semiconductor layer through the semiconductor layer and through the insulation layer to the conductive region; an insulating material adapted to provide electrical insulation to at least a portion of the side walls of the first opening; a semiconductor material at least partially filling the first opening, the semiconductor material defining an ohmic contact trench providing electrical contact with the semiconductor region; and an insulating material disposed in the second opening and defining a device isolation trench.
US09786604B2
A method of forming a metal layer may include forming an opening in a substrate; forming a liner over sidewalls of the opening; filling the opening with a first metal; etching a top surface of the first metal to form a recessed top surface below a top surface of the substrate; and exposing the recessed top surface of the first metal to a solution, the solution containing a second metal different from the first metal, the exposing causing the recessed top surface of the first metal to attract the second metal to form a cap layer over the recessed top surface of the first metal.
US09786593B1
A semiconductor device with a ring structure surrounding a through silicon via (TSV) electrode and a method for forming the same are disclosed. The method includes receiving a substrate including a back side and a front side having a conductor thereon, forming a via hole in the substrate and exposing the conductor, forming a groove extending from the back side into the substrate and surrounding the via hole, forming a first material layer in the via hole, and forming a second material layer in the groove. The groove filled with the second material layer forms the ring structure, while the via hole filled with the first material layer forms the TSV electrode.
US09786590B2
A semiconductor package may be provided. The semiconductor package may include a substrate formed with one or more connection pads. The semiconductor package may include a semiconductor device including at least one bump. The semiconductor package may include an anisotropic conductive fabric including conductive fibers and configured to electrically couple the at least one connection pad to the at least one bump.
US09786589B2
A method for manufacturing a package structure carries out in following way. A flexible circuit board is provided. The flexible circuit board defines a bent area and a laminated area. The flexible circuit board includes a first dielectric layer, a first conductive pattern and a bearing layer located at opposite sides. The bearing layer corresponds to the laminated area. A second dielectric layer and a second conductive pattern are formed on the first conductive pattern. A third dielectric layer and a third conductive pattern are formed on the bearing layer. All of the second and third dielectric layers, and the second and third conductive pattern corresponds to the laminated area. A first solder resist layer is formed on the second conductive layer. The first solder resist layer defines a plurality of openings, a portion of the second conductive pattern is exposed from the openings defining a plurality of first pads.
US09786586B1
A semiconductor package includes an interconnect component surrounded by a molding compound. The interconnect component comprises a first RDL structure. A second RDL structure is disposed on the interconnect component. A plurality of first connecting elements is disposed on the second RDL structure. A polish stop layer covers a surface of the interconnect component. A plurality of second connecting elements is disposed on and in the polish stop layer. At least one semiconductor die is mounted on the second connecting elements.
US09786569B1
A method includes receiving a device having a first layer and a second layer over the first layer, the first layer having a first overlay mark. The method further includes forming a first resist pattern over the second layer, the first resist pattern having a second overlay mark. The method further includes performing a first overlay measurement using the second overlay mark in the first resist pattern and the first overlay mark; and performing one or more first manufacturing processes, thereby transferring the second overlay mark into the second layer and removing the first resist pattern. The method further includes performing one or more second manufacturing processes that include forming a third layer over the second layer. After the performing of the one or more second manufacturing processes, the method includes performing a second overlay measurement using the second overlay mark in the second layer and the first overlay mark.
US09786567B2
An embodiment method includes providing a standardized testing structure design for a chip-on-wafer (CoW) structure, wherein the standardized testing structure design comprises placing a testing structure in a pre-selected area a top die in the CoW structure, and electrically testing a plurality of microbumps in the CoW structure by applying a universal testing probe card to the testing structure.
US09786557B1
Techniques relate to contacts for semiconductors. First gate contacts are formed on top of first gates, second gate contacts are on second gates, and terminal contacts are on silicide contacts. First gate contacts and terminal contacts are recessed to form a metal layer on top. Second gate contacts are recessed to be separately on each of the second gates. Filling material is formed on top of the recessed second gate contacts and metal layer. An upper layer is on top of the filling material. First metal vias are formed through filling and upper layers down to metal layer over first gate contacts. Second metal vias are formed through filling and upper layers down to metal layer over terminal contacts. Third metal vias are formed through filling and upper layers down to recessed second gate contacts over second gates. Third metal vias are taller than first.
US09786556B2
According to an embodiment, a manufacturing method of a semiconductor device includes forming, on a film to be processed, a plurality of first core material patterns and a plurality of second core material patterns. Each of the second core material patterns is drawn from an end portion of the corresponding first core material pattern. The manufacturing method includes forming an opening pattern having one or a plurality of openings in the second core material pattern so that a first distance and a second distance are less than a predetermined distance. The first distance is a distance between an edge of the second core material pattern at a side of an adjacent first core material pattern and the opening pattern. The second distance is a distance between an edge of the second core material pattern at a side of an adjacent second core material pattern and the opening pattern.
US09786548B2
Some embodiments include methods of forming voids within semiconductor constructions. In some embodiments the voids may be utilized as microstructures for distributing coolant, for guiding electromagnetic radiation, or for separation and/or characterization of materials. Some embodiments include constructions having micro-structures therein which correspond to voids, conduits, insulative structures, semiconductor structures or conductive structures.
US09786531B2
A gas purge unit includes an intake nozzle 28, a pivotable body 31, and an O-ring 35. The intake nozzle 28 has a nozzle opening 26 flowing out a cleaning gas. The pivotable body 31 is arranged in a ring shape to surround a cylindrical projection 28b of the nozzle 28, and is provided with a contact part 34 formed on a tip portion of the pivotable body 31 to be able to detachably contact with the intake port 5. The ring-shaped O-ring 35 is held to be compressively elastically deformable along a longitudinal direction of the cylindrical projection 28b between a rear end of the pivotable body 31 and a base portion 28a of the nozzle 28.
US09786522B2
A substrate treatment method is performed by a substrate treatment apparatus including a substrate holding unit which holds a substrate, and a hot plate which heats the substrate from below. The method includes: a treatment liquid supplying step of locating the hot plate at a retracted position at which the hot plate is retracted below the substrate holding unit and, in this state, supplying a treatment liquid to an upper surface of the substrate held by the substrate holding unit; a protection liquid film forming step of forming a liquid film of a protection liquid to cover an upper surface of the hot plate in the treatment liquid supplying step; and a substrate heating step of heating the substrate by the hot plate with the hot plate being located adjacent to a lower surface of the substrate or in contact with the lower surface of the substrate.
US09786517B2
Introducing an underfill material over contact pads on a surface of an integrated circuit substrate; and ablating the introduced underfill material to expose an area of the contact pads using temporally coherent electromagnetic radiation. A method including first ablating an underfill material to expose an area of contact pads on a substrate using temporally coherent electromagnetic radiation; introducing a solder to the exposed area of the contact pads; and second ablating the underfill material using temporally coherent electromagnetic radiation. A method including introducing an underfill material over contact pads on a surface of an integrated circuit substrate; defining an opening in the underfill material to expose an area of the contact pads using temporally coherent electromagnetic radiation; introducing a solder material to the exposed area of the contact pads; and after introducing the solder, removing the sacrificial material.
US09786516B2
An electronic device includes at least one chip and an insulating body embedding the chip. The electronic device further includes a heat-sink in contact with the chip. The heat-sink includes a plate having a first thickness. A recess is provided in the plate that defines a central portion of the plate having a second thickness less than the first thickness. The chip is mounted to the central region of the heat-sink within the recess. The insulating body includes a surface, such as a mounting surface, including an opening exposing at least a portion of the heat-sink. The device may further include a reophore extending through a side surface of the insulating body, that reophore being in contact with the heat sink.
US09786511B2
A plasma etch resist material modified by an inorganic protective component via sequential infiltration synthesis (SIS) and methods of preparing the modified resist material. The modified resist material is characterized by an improved resistance to a plasma etching or related process relative to the unmodified resist material, thereby allowing formation of patterned features into a substrate material, which may be high-aspect ratio features. The SIS process forms the protective component within the bulk resist material through a plurality of alternating exposures to gas phase precursors which infiltrate the resist material. The plasma etch resist material may be initially patterned using photolithography, electron-beam lithography or a block copolymer self-assembly process.
US09786505B2
A semiconductor structure includes a substrate, at least one active semiconductor fin, at least one insulating structure, a gate electrode, and a gate dielectric. The active semiconductor fin is disposed on the substrate. The insulating structure is disposed on the substrate and adjacent to the active semiconductor fin. A top surface of the insulating structure is non-concave and is lower than a top surface of the active semiconductor fin. The gate electrode is disposed over the active semiconductor fin. The gate dielectric is disposed between the gate electrode and the active semiconductor fin.
US09786489B1
A method of cleaning post-etch residues on a copper line includes providing a copper line which is divided into a first region and a second region. A dielectric layer is formed on the copper line. After that, the dielectric layer is etched to form openings in the dielectric layer. A number of openings within the first region is more than a number of openings in the second region. During the etching process, a potential difference is formed between the first region and the second region of the copper line. Finally, the dielectric layer and the copper line are cleaned by a solution with a PH value. The PH value has a special relation with the potential difference.
US09786469B2
A grid assembly for cryo-electron microscopy may be fabricated using standard nanofabrication processes. The grid assembly may comprise two support members, each support member comprising a silicon substrate coated with an electron-transparent silicon nitride layer. These two support members are positioned together with the silicon nitride layers facing each other with a rigid spacer layer disposed therebetween. The rigid spacer layer defines one or more chambers in which a biological sample may be provided and fast frozen with a high degree of control of the ice thickness.
US09786468B2
An object of the invention is to provide a charged particle beam apparatus capable of performing high-precision measurement even on a pattern in which a width of edges is narrow and inherent peaks of the edges cannot be easily detected. In order to achieve the above object, there is proposed a charged particle beam apparatus including an opening portion forming member having a passage opening of a charged particle beam and a detector for detecting charged particles emitted from a sample or charged particles generated by causing the charged particles to collide with the opening portion forming member, the charged particle beam apparatus including: a deflector for deflecting the charged particles emitted from the sample; and a control device for controlling the deflector, the control device performing pattern measurement with the use of a first detected signal in which a signal of one edge is emphasized relatively more than a signal of another edge among a plurality of edges on the sample and a second detected signal in which the signal of the another edge is emphasized relatively more than the signal of the one edge among the plurality of edges.
US09786467B2
A phase plate capable of suppressing electrification and a method of fabricating the plate are provided. The phase plate is for use in an electron microscope and includes a phase control layer provided with a through-hole and at least one conductive layer covering and closing off the through-hole. The conductive layer is formed on at least one of a first surface and a second surface of the phase control layer, the second surface being on the opposite side of the first surface. The phase control layer produces a given phase difference between electron waves transmitted through the phase control layer and electron waves transmitted through the through-hole.
US09786462B2
Provided is a master controller that can be adopted in a variety of vehicles in which different current capacities are required for the master controller. A master controller includes a handle (3), cams (2a to 2f) interlocking with the handle (3), cam switches (1a to 1f) connected to or disconnected from the cams (2a to 2f) in accordance with the position of the handle (3), and a relay circuit (6) that outputs output signals in accordance with input signals input through the cam switches (1a to 1f).
US09786459B2
Normally closed microelectromechanical switches (MEMS), methods of manufacture and design structures
Normally closed (shut) micro-electro-mechanical switches (MEMS), methods of manufacture and design structures are provided. A structure includes a beam structure that includes a first end hinged on a first electrode and in electrical contact with a second electrode, in its natural state when not actuated.
US09786455B2
A device is described wherein an actuator (3, 4; 103, 104) drives a member, such as a rack (6) meshed with a pinion (5), between two stable positions. For this purpose, elements for stopping the movable member are provided, which cooperate with elements present on the outer housing (2, 21), in which the actuator and the movable member (5, 51) are arranged, for holding at least one of said stable conditions. The device of the invention ensures low energy consumption because the actuator (3) only operates for moving the movable member from one stable position to the other.
US09786451B2
According to one embodiment, a remote control device for a toilet device includes an operation button and a power generator. The operation button is capable of a push operation and is configured to operate an equipment in response to the push operation. The power generator is configured to generate a power by being pressed in response to the push operation. A direction of the pressing is parallel to a wall surface on which the remote control device is placed.
US09786450B2
A membrane switch in which a first conductive part is formed on a first substrate, a second conductive part is formed on a second substrate, and the substrates are layered via a spacer such that the conductive parts face each other with a space therebetween, and an organic material showing piezoelectricity is filled, or disposed in the space such that an air gap is present, are useful for obtaining an output signal corresponding to an applied pressure.
US09786447B2
A mounting assembly for a circuit breaker mechanism includes a base and a mid-cover disposed adjacent the base. Also included is a first pair of mounting posts comprising a first mounting post and a second mounting post extending from the base, the first pair of mounting posts each protruding through the mid-cover. Further included is a first mount hole defined by the first mounting post and a second mount hole defined by the second mounting post. Yet further included is a first pin extending through the first mount hole, the second mount hole and a circuit breaker mechanism frame to retain the circuit breaker mechanism to the base.
US09786446B2
A switch includes a first arm that is rotatably supported, a first contact member that is provided at a free end of the first arm, a second arm that is rotatably supported, and a second contact member that is provided at a free end of the second arm and is to come into contact with the first contact member. After the first contact member and the second contact member have come into contact with each other, a point of contact between the first contact member and the second contact member is displaced with rotational motions of the first arm and the second arm.
US09786435B2
A method for producing a multilayer ceramic capacitor that includes preparing a dielectric ceramic material by mixing a perovskite compound, a Re compound, a Mn compound, a Mg compound, and a Si compound. The perovskite compound contains Ba and Ti and has 1.2×1015 or more and 4.5×1015 or less Ba vacancies per gram. Re in the Re compound is at least one element selected from Y, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, and Yb. Green sheets containing the dielectric ceramic material are then formed. Inner electrode patterns are then formed on some of the green sheets. An unsintered capacitor body is then formed by stacking the green sheets, some of which have the inner electrode patterns formed thereon. Sintering of the unsintered capacitor body is then conducted.
US09786426B2
Various embodiments may relate to a component arrangement, including a carrier, wherein at least one electronic component is formed in the carrier, a first metallization layer over the carrier, wherein the first metallization layer has a first metallic coupling structure, which is electrically coupled to the at least one electronic component, a second metallization layer over the first metallization layer, wherein the second metallization layer has a second metallic coupling structure, wherein the first metallic coupling structure is coupled to the second metallic coupling structure by means of at least one via, and a plurality of additional vias, which extend at least between the first metallization layer and the second metallization layer and are electrically conductively coupled to one another in such a way that they form a coil, which has a coil region which is at an angle to the main processing surface of the carrier.
US09786425B2
A case unit for containing an annular magnetic core and a coil, which comprises a first case having an annular portion having an annular space for receiving the annular magnetic core, around which the coil is wound, and pluralities of legs extending from the annular portion to one side; and a second case engaging the first case, such that it enters gaps between the annular portion and legs of the first case, and covers part of the annular portion from the one side; a first fixing portion of each leg of the first case and each second fixing portion of the second case being overlapped and fixed to a substrate.
US09786423B2
A system for generating an asymmetric magnetic field. The system includes a drive circuit and a stacked winding structure coupled to the drive circuit. The stacked winding structure includes a plurality of winding layers. The plurality of winding layers includes a first winding layer including a first conductive winding having first turns and a second winding layer including a second conductive winding having second turns ion. The plurality of winding layers is arranged to produce a first magnetic field at a first side of the stacked winding structure and a second magnetic field at a second side of the stacked winding structure when the drive circuit electrically drives the plurality of winding layers. The first magnetic field is greater than the second magnetic field.
US09786413B2
The invention relates to a coding system comprising at least one assembly of a plurality of individual wires, wherein one end of each individual wire is connected to a common adapter which is to be connected to an I/O module of an automation device for coupling an external device to a control unit of an automation system, and wherein the assembly of individual wires is bundled into at least two cables emanating from the common adapter, and is color-coded.
US09786406B2
The present invention provides a composition having an interior hydrophobic space encapsulated by at least one non-derivatized cellulose molecular layer surrounded by a hydrophilic medium. The invention also provides methods for making an oil-in-water dispersion or water-in-oil dispersion by mixing a hydrophilic medium, a hydrophobic composition and non-derivatized cellulose solution in an ionic liquid or pure non-derivatized cellulose hydrogel.
US09786401B2
A collimating system (100) for collimating radiation received under different angles for performing tomography is described. The collimating system (100) comprises a static collimator (110) comprising a plurality of collimating apertures (112), shutters (120) for separately and temporarily shutting at least two of said collimating apertures (112), wherein the shutters (120) having a shutting element (122) for blocking said at least two collimating apertures (112), and at least one collimating element (140) distinct from the shutting element (122) for collimating radiation passing through non-shut collimating apertures (112) in a direction so as to control overlap between radiation stemming from different non-shut collimating apertures (112). The invention also relates to an imaging system comprising such a collimating system, a method for collimating and a corresponding controller and software related products.
US09786399B2
A method and apparatus for collecting and storing the energy emitted by radioisotopes in the form of alpha and or beta particles is described. The present invention incorporates aspects of three different energy conversion and storage technologies, those being: Nuclear alpha and or beta particle capture for direct energy conversion and storage, rechargeable electrochemical storage cells and capacitive electrical energy storage.
US09786395B2
A system for removing thermal energy generated by radioactive materials is provided. The system comprises an air-cooled shell-and-tube heat exchanger, comprising a shell and plurality of heat exchange tubes arranged in a substantially vertical orientation within the shell, the heat exchange tubes comprising interior cavities that collectively form a tube-side fluid path, the shell forming a shell-side fluid path that extends from an air inlet of the shell to an air outlet of the shell, the air inlet at a lower elevation than the air outlet; a heat rejection closed-loop fluid circuit comprising the tube-side fluid path, a coolant fluid flowing through the heat rejection closed-loop fluid circuit, the heat rejection closed-loop fluid circuit thermally coupled to the radioactive materials; and the air-cooled shell-and-tube heat exchanger transferring thermal energy from the coolant fluid flowing through the tube-side fluid path to air flowing through the shell-side fluid path.
US09786389B2
A memory system includes: a first memory device including a first memory and a first memory controller suitable for controlling the first memory to store data; a second memory device including a second memory and a second memory controller suitable for controlling the second memory to store data; and a processor suitable for executing an operating system (OS) and an application, and accessing data storage memory through the first and second memory devices.
US09786387B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array in which a plurality of memory cells are arranged. The semiconductor memory device includes an error correcting code (ECC) circuit configured to generate parity data based on main data, write a codeword including the main data and the parity data in the memory cell array, read the codeword from a selected memory cell row to generate syndromes, and correct errors in the read codeword on a per symbol basis based on the syndromes. The main data includes first data of a first memory cell of the selected memory cell row and second data of a second memory cell of the selected memory cell row. The first data and the second data are assigned to one symbol of a plurality of symbols, and the first memory cell and the second memory cell are adjacent to each other in the memory cell array.
US09786377B2
A memory device includes a memory cell array including a plurality of memory cell groups, and a decoder circuit configured to control selection of the memory cell groups. The decoder circuit includes an address decoder circuit configured to activate the decoder circuit based on an input address, a plurality of information retention circuits, each of which corresponds to one of the memory cell groups and outputting a signal that indicates whether or not the corresponding memory cell group is defective, a transistor having a gate connected to each of the outputs of the information retention circuits, and a signal output circuit configured to output a control signal for selecting or not selecting the memory cell groups based on an on/off state of the transistor.
US09786371B1
Provided herein are a power-on reset circuit and a semiconductor memory device including the same. The power-on reset circuit may include: a voltage dividing circuit suitable for dividing an external power supply voltage to output a reference voltage, an output node control circuit suitable for controlling a potential level of an output node to an external power supply voltage level or a ground power supply voltage level in response to the reference voltage, and a buffer circuit suitable for buffering the potential level of the output node to output a power-on reset signal. In the voltage dividing circuit, a potential level of the reference voltage in a power up period is different from a potential level of the reference voltage in a power down period.
US09786370B2
According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, a device comprises a latching circuitry, where the latching circuitry comprises at least one correlated electron random access memory (CeRAM) element. The latching circuitry further comprises a control circuit coupled to the at least one CeRAM element. The control circuit is configured to receive at least one control signal. Based on the at least one control signal, perform at least one of storing data into the latching circuitry and outputting data from the latching circuitry.
US09786367B2
A method for reading an electronic memory device including N memory cells Ci with 1≧i≧N and N≧2, each cell Ci having a resistance Ri, the method including for each cell Ci, determining a set Ei of resistance values capable of being associated with the resistance Ri of the cell Ci; for each combination of N variables Vi, each variable Vi taking successively each resistance value among the predetermined set Ei, applying a mathematical function to the combination to obtain a resulting resistance value; for each combination of N variables Vi, associating a logic state of the electronic memory device with the resulting resistance value obtained previously, according to a comparison of the resulting resistance value with a same threshold resistance value; associating a resistance value with each resistance Ri to obtain a particular combination of N variables Vi; determining the logic state of the electronic memory device.
US09786364B1
Disclosed herein is an electronic device including a bit line and a complementary bit line, first and second cross coupled inverters, a first pass gate coupled between the complementary bit line and the first inverter, and a second pass gate coupled between the bit line and the second inverter. The electronic device also includes third and fourth cross coupled inverters, a third pass gate coupled between the complementary bit line and the third inverter, and a fourth pass gate coupled between the bit line and the fourth inverter. The first, second, and fourth inverters are powered between a supply node and a reference node, and the third inverter is powered between a floating node and the reference node. The first pass gate and third pass gate are coupled in parallel.
US09786360B2
A memory bank of a semiconductor memory device includes: a plurality of memory cells; first and second local bit lines; a differential amplifier configured to amplify a potential difference between the first and second local bit lines; a connector to which a global data line is connected; a first output circuit configured to selectively output, according to a potential level of the first local bit line, a first potential to the connector; and a second output circuit configured to selectively prevent, according to a potential level of the second local bit line, a potential of the connector from being affected by an output of the first output circuit and being equal to the first potential.
US09786359B2
An embodiment static random access memory (SRAM) array includes a writable SRAM cell disposed in a first row of the SRAM array and an SRAM read current tracking cell in the first row of the SRAM array. The SRAM current tracking cell includes a first read pull-down transistor and a first read pass-gate transistor. The first read pull-down transistor includes a first gate electrically connected to a first positive supply voltage line; a first source/drain electrically connected to a first ground line; and a second source/drain. The first read pass-gate transistor includes a third source/drain electrically connected to the second source/drain and a fourth source/drain electrically connected to a read tracking bit line (BL). The read tracking BL is electrically connected to a read sense amplifier timing control circuit.
US09786356B2
A method of operation of a memory device includes, for each operating frequency of multiple operating frequencies, determining a target voltage level of a supply voltage. For example, a first target voltage level for a first operating frequency of the multiple operating frequencies is determined. The method includes accessing first data from the memory device while the memory device is operating at the first operating frequency and is powered by the supply voltage having a first voltage level. The method includes determining a first number of errors associated with the first data. The method further includes, in response to the first number of errors satisfying a threshold, adjusting the supply voltage to a second voltage level that is greater than the first voltage level.
US09786354B2
A memory module that includes: a printed circuit board having a connecting terminal; memory chips arranged on the printed circuit board; data buffers disposed on a first surface of the printed circuit board and corresponding to the memory chips; and resistance units disposed on a second surface of the printed circuit board and corresponding to the data buffers.
US09786339B2
A system for dual mode operation having power saving and active modes in a stacked circuit topology having logic preservation is provided. The system includes a pre-charge circuit and a sleep mode control circuit for providing a signal to disable a plurality of circuit elements and switching a mode of the system, the sleep mode control circuit being coupled to the pre-charge circuit and further being coupled to a logic function circuit, wherein the plurality of circuit elements comprise logic gates and transistor devices. The system also includes a keeper circuit coupled to the global bitline, and the logic function circuit coupled to a solar bitline, wherein the logic function circuit preserves a state of the solar bitline, the state of the global bitline determines the state of the solar bitline. The system includes an effective pull-up transistor coupled to the sleep mode control circuit and the logic function circuit.
US09786333B2
A multi-time programmable memory (MTPM) memory cell and method of operating. Each MTPM bit cell including a first FET transistor and a second FET transistor having a first common connection, and said second FET transistor and a third FET transistor having a second common connection, said first and second connected FET transistors programmable to store a first bit value, and said second FET and said third connected FET transistors programmable to store a second bit value, wherein said first FET transistor exhibits a low threshold voltage value (LVT), said second FET transistor exhibits an elevated threshold voltage value HVT and said third FET transistor exhibits a threshold value LVT lower than HVT. The MTPM cell enables two bits of information to be stored as default bit values like an electrical fuse. To store opposite bit values, the LVT transistors are programmed such that their threshold voltage is higher than that of HVT.
US09786332B2
Semiconductor device assemblies with semiconductor device packages configured to operate in mirror mode are disclosed herein. In one embodiment a semiconductor device assembly includes a first semiconductor device package attached to a front side of a support substrate, and a second semiconductor device package attached to a back side of the support substrate. The first device package includes a plurality of first package contacts having a first arrangement of corresponding pin assignments, and the second device package includes a plurality of second package contacts and a switch circuit operably coupled to the second package contacts. The switch circuit is configured to receive a switch signal via the support substrate, and to assign the second package contacts to either the first arrangement of corresponding pin assignments or a second arrangement of corresponding pin assignments based on the switch signal.
US09786326B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and a device for playing multimedia. The method may comprise: obtaining at least one of audio data and subtitle data of a first preset time length before a pause position of a multimedia; determining a starting position of a complete semantic statement according to at least one of the audio data and the subtitle data; and continuing to play the multimedia according to the starting position when an instruction of continuing to play the multimedia is detected or a condition of continuing to play the multimedia is met.
US09786325B2
A system for visualizing data includes storage means, and a video source arranged for dividing first data to be visualized in one or more banner areas in a plurality of chunks and arranged for outputting the plurality of chunks of the first data to be displayed and for outputting second data to be visualized as a background. A display for visualizing the first and second data is adapted for having information scrolling in the banner areas of the display. A scroll engine is arranged for receiving the first and second data from the video source, and for grabbing chunks of the first data of the plurality of chunks and for storing the grabbed chunks in the storage means. The scroll engine comprises multiplexing means for multiplexing the second data with stored chunks of the first data, and is arranged for forwarding the multiplexed first and second data to the display.
US09786323B2
An information processing device includes: a recording unit that records a flag representing that actual state information as an actual state of contents, which is referred to by reproduction information, is referred to by other reproduction information; a search unit that searches for the actual state information that is deletable by using the flag, in a case where deletion of the reproduction information is instructed; and a deletion unit that deletes the reproduction information of an object to be deleted and the deletable actual state information, in a case where the deletion of the reproduction information is instructed.
US09786322B2
An automatic playback overshoot correction system predicts the position in the program material where the user expects to be when the user stops the fast forward progression of the program material. The system determines the position where the program material was stopped and transitions to the new mode that the user selected, starting at the stopped position with an overshoot correction factor subtracted from it. The system uses a prediction method to correctly place the user within the program upon transition out of fast forward mode and determines if the speed of the fast forward mode and then automatically subtracts a time multiple to the frame where the transition was detected and positions the user at the correct frame. The time multiple is fine tuned if the user is consistently correcting after the fast forward mode stops.
US09786319B1
This disclosure describes codes and techniques for magnetic recording. The coding schemes decrease bit error rates by decreasing total transitions in the encoded binary data compared to conventional codes. Additionally, instead of relying on a single coding scheme, an encoder and decoder are configured to switch between different coding schemes. By so doing, a variety of the coding schemes allows the encoded binary data to have a smaller bit error rate than a single coding scheme and have a maximum run-length less than or equal to a maximum run-length limitation of a magnetic disk.
US09786317B2
A recording apparatus including: a recording unit configured to record on a recording medium a file that includes sequentially obtained data; a repair unit configured to repair a predetermined file that needs to be repaired out of files recorded on the recording medium; and a control unit configured to control the recording unit so that recording of data is stopped in response to a drop of a free capacity of the recording medium to a predetermined capacity during recording of the data, the control unit being configured to determine the predetermined capacity based on a data amount necessary to repair the predetermined file that is recorded on the recording medium, to thereby control the recording unit so that the recording of the data is stopped in response to a drop of the free capacity of the recording medium to the predetermined capacity during the recording of the data.
US09786316B2
An apparatus for two-dimensional magnetic recording includes an array reader comprising a number of read sensors configured to read data from at least one track on a storage medium, a number of two-dimensional equalizer circuits each comprising inputs for receiving signals derived from each of the read sensors, each comprising an equalized output, and a number of iterative inter-track interference cancellation circuits, each operable to cancel inter-track interference in a different one of the equalized outputs from the two-dimensional equalizer circuits.
US09786311B2
An apparatus includes a waveguide that delivers energy from an energy source, a write pole located proximate the waveguide at a media-facing surface, and a near-field transducer located proximate the write pole in a down track direction. The near-field transducer includes an enlarged portion and a peg extending from the enlarged portion towards the media-facing surface. The peg comprises a taper facing away from the write pole, and the taper causes a reduced down track dimension of the peg near the media-facing surface.
US09786304B1
A method for fabricating a near-field transducer (NFT) for a heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) write apparatus is described. The HAMR write apparatus is coupled with a laser for providing energy and has a media-facing surface (MFS) configured to reside in proximity to a media during use. The method includes providing a stack on an underlayer. The stack includes an endpoint detection layer, an optical layer and an etchable layer. The optical layer is between the etchable and endpoint detection layers. The etchable layer is patterned to form a mask. A portion of the optical layer is removed. A remaining portion of the optical layer has a bevel at a bevel angle from the MFS location. The bevel angle is nonzero and acute. The NFT is provided such that the NFT has an NFT front surface adjoining the bevel and at the bevel angle from the MFS location.
US09786283B2
A speech media transcription system comprises a playback device arranged to play back speech delimited in segments. The system is programmed to provide, for a segment being transcribed, an adaptive estimate of the proportion of the segment that has not been transcribed by a transcriber. The device is arranged to play back that proportion of the segment, optionally after having already played back the entire segment. Additionally, a segmentation engine is arranged to divide speech media into a plurality of segments by identifying speech as such and using timing information but without using a machine conversion of the speech media into text or a representation of text.
US09786256B2
Methods and devices for generating Graphical User Interface (GUI) for displaying are provided, wherein the GUI is generated based on a plurality of windows. The method for generating GUI includes the step of: separately drawing a plurality of pictures into the plurality of windows by a first graphical processing unit; and selecting the first graphical processing unit or a second graphical processing unit according to a predefined rule to compose the plurality of windows with pictures into a frame buffer, such that the GUI is obtained; wherein the first graphical processing unit and the second graphical processing unit are different.
US09786249B2
A display system includes a processor coupled to receive image data from an image source and a frame timing circuit. The processor is coupled to output the image data and first sync signals, where each one of the first sync signals is output after M number of pixel values of the image data are output from the processor. The frame timing circuit is coupled to the processor to receive the image data and the first sync signals. The frame timing circuit is coupled to output X number of pixel values of the image data and second sync signals to a display, where the X number of pixel values is an integer multiple of the M number of pixel values of the image data. Each one of the second sync signals is output after X number of pixel values of the image data are output from the frame timing circuit.
US09786247B2
A wearable display device of the present invention includes: a wearable part configured for placement on a portion of a human body; a flexible display unit connected to the wearable part through a coupling part; at least one curvature changer configured to alter a curvature of at least a portion of the flexible display unit; and a curvature holder configured to maintain the curvature of the at least a portion of the flexible display unit once the curvature is altered by the at least one curvature changer.
US09786246B2
An apparatus for viewing augmented reality images in a hands-free manner includes a tracker base in which various interchangeable trackers may be placed. The interchangeable trackers include an image specialized to an application framework running on a device with an image capture device in range of the image. An arm connects to and extends from the tracker base, and includes a clasp for holding the device. With the augmented reality application running, the device provides a display of the augmented reality images associated with the image on the interchangeable tracker in a hands-free manner. The tracker base spins, providing different viewpoints of the augmented reality images. The tracking element and the image capture device are held in a fixed spatial relationship with respect to one another, resulting in a stable image. The apparatus provides interactions in a multi-system environment by invoking commands between the device and an external multimedia component.
US09786240B2
A scan driving circuit is provided. The scan driving circuit for driving cascaded scan lines includes a scan driving circuit, a latch module, a driving-signal generation module, an output control module, a high gate voltage source, and a low level gate voltage. The scan driving circuit of the present invention conducts a driving operation for the latch module by a first cascade signal and a second cascade signal, so that a clock signal is not required to be processed with a phase inversion, and thereby the scan driving circuit has less overall power consumption.
US09786238B2
According to the array substrate provided by this disclosure, in a row of sub-pixels, sub-pixels in the odd columns and even columns are separately coupled to different gate lines, i.e., making the sub-pixels coupled to the same gate line are not adjacent to each other. In this way, during row scanning drive, an up-down twist charging may be implemented, and the sub-pixels cause no interference to each other.
US09786235B2
The present invention provides a pixel structure and a liquid crystal display panel. The pixel structure comprises a plurality of pixel units arranged in array, and each pixel unit comprises a white sub pixel (W), a red sub pixel (R), a green sub pixel (G) and a blue sub pixel (B); in respective pixel units, the white sub pixel (W), the red sub pixel (R), the green sub pixel (G) and the blue sub pixel (B) are aligned with the same order along a horizontal direction; a driving mode of the pixel structure is row inversion; as showing an image of the same frame, in pixel units of each column, polarities of sub pixels of every two adjacent columns are opposite; in the sub pixels of every two adjacent columns, polarities of sub pixels of the same color are opposite to make that polarities of every two adjacent sub pixels of the same color in the pixel units of the same row are opposite. It is capable of reducing the horizontal crosstalk of the sub pixels of the same color in the pixel units of the same row to ensure the image display effect.
US09786231B2
A display device includes a drive control unit that changes a frequency of a drive signal based on a brightness of a light source of a backlight when a duty ratio of the drive signal is in a first range or is in a third range, the drive signal being a pulse signal for driving the light source. The drive control unit fixes the frequency of the drive signal to a predetermined frequency when the duty ratio of the drive signal is in a second range.
US09786230B2
According to the present invention there is provided a projection device, which is configured to project an image which is co-operable with images projected by one or more other projection devices, wherein the projection device comprises a detector operable to detect characteristics of images projected on a display surface by the projection device and one or more other projection devices, and a controller operable to adjust the projection device and/or to adjust one or more of the other projection devices, based on the characteristics of the images detected by the detector, such that the images projected by each projection device co-operate on the display surfaces.
US09786226B2
A display panel module, organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display and method of driving the same are disclosed. In one aspect, the module includes a display panel divided into a first portion and a second portion and a plurality of scan and data lines divided into groups arranged in the first and second potions. The module further includes a first scan driver configured to sequentially apply scan signals to each of the first and second scan line groups. The first scan driver is further configured to substantially simultaneously apply the scan signals to corresponding scan lines of the first and second scan line groups. The module also includes a first data driver configured to output first data voltages to the first data line group and a second data driver configured to output second data voltages to the second data line group with the same timing as the first data driver.
US09786223B2
A system is provided for controlling an array of pixels in a display in which each pixel includes a light-emitting device and a reference voltage source that controllably supplies a reference voltage having a magnitude that turns off the light-emitting device. While the reference voltage is coupled to a drive transistor, a control voltage is supplied to the gate of the drive transistor to cause the drive transistor to transfer to a node common to the drive transistor and the light-emitting device, a voltage that is a function of the threshold voltage and mobility of the drive transistor. During an emission cycle, the current conveyed through the light emitting device via the drive transistor is controlled by a voltage stored in the storage capacitor, which is a function of the threshold voltage and mobility of the drive transistor so that the current supplied to the light-emitting device remains stable.
US09786213B2
A display device including a display portion, a source driver, a gate driver and a controller, wherein the controller is configured to control the source driver and the gate driver based on a control mode for displaying the frame image on the display portion, in a basic control mode, the controller is configured to display a frame image on the display portion by causing the gate driver to progressively scan gate signal lines, in a low frequency control mode, the controller is configured to determine whether a regional signal is on in a specific region corresponding to specific gate signal lines, when it is determined that the regional signal is off, the controller is configured to display a sub-frame image on the display portion by causing the gate driver to perform interlaced scanning of the gate signal lines every K lines in the first frame frequency F1.
US09786196B2
A training apparatus is generally provided. The apparatus generally includes a user platform for support of a user in furtherance of select manipulation of a workpiece, and a deck assembly adjacent the user platform. The deck assembly is characterized by a frame, an endless belt interior of the frame, and a drive assembly, portions of which are operatively supporting the endless belt for select travel in relation to the frame. The endless belt has a user visible surface bearing indicia about which the work piece is to be traversed by a platform supported user during travel of the endless belt in relation to the frame. The drive assembly includes a controller for control of either or both of the endless belt travel direction in relation to the frame and the endless belt travel rate in relation to the frame.
US09786192B2
An autonomous vehicle can transition between operational modes. The readiness of a vehicle driver for a transition can be assessed, particularly when transitioning from a first operational mode to a second operational mode that has a greater degree of manual involvement than the first operational mode. It can be determined whether an operational mode transition event has occurred while the vehicle is operating in the first operational mode. Responsive to determining that an operational mode transition event has occurred, an audial sample from a vehicle driver can be collected. It can be determined whether the vehicle driver is ready or non-ready to provide the greater degree of manual involvement for the second operational mode based on the collected audial sample.
US09786191B2
Various embodiments associated with a commencement sound and a conclusion sound are described. The commencement sound can be a firing sound, such as a sound of a bullet exiting a rifle. The conclusion sound can be an impact sound, such as a sound of the bullet impacting a concrete wall. These sounds can replicate what it sounds like to have an experience around someone without actually subjecting that person to the experience.
US09786190B2
The present invention relates to a simulation device having a replaceable sensory module, which comprises: a first platform for performing a translational motion with reference to a first three-dimensional coordinate axis; a second platform which is coupled to the first platform and performs a rotational motion with reference to at least one axis among second three-dimensional coordinate axes; and a sensory module coupled to the second platform and arranged to support a user to enable the user to sense a motion provided by the first and second platforms.
US09786174B1
There is provided a parking system comprising a parking lot device and a parking vehicle device configured for an enhanced management of power consumption such that the parking lot device uses self-generated energy and conducts tasks requiring a lower power consumption level and wherein the parking vehicle device uses the vehicle battery and is configured to conduct tasks requiring a higher power consumption level, where both the PLD and the PVD are configured to work in a coordinated manner to sleep and wake up only when required in order to minimize power consumption.
US09786170B2
Embodiments are disclosed for scheduling and presenting notifications, via an in-vehicle computing system, to a driver of a vehicle. In some embodiments, a method for an in-vehicle computing system includes receiving data regarding a notification for presentation to a driver of a vehicle. The method further includes, based on a driver profile, adjusting a timing of presenting the notification to the driver via the in-vehicle computing system, wherein the driver profile is generated based on past driving behavior associated with the driver.
US09786166B2
In a method for checking the plausibility of a wrong-way driving of a motor vehicle when entering a unidirectional roadway, a traversing of a stop line or a solid line of a junction of the unidirectional roadway is detected and/or at least one item of directional information of a roadway of the junction, which is located ahead of the motor vehicle, is collected, and a probability of a wrong-way driving is ascertained based on the detection. The method is performed by a control and detection unit for checking the plausibility of a wrong-way driving.
US09786163B2
A system and method for controlling vehicles and for providing assistance to operated vehicles is discussed and described herein.
US09786156B2
A control panel is used to monitor events within a security system or other automation system. In the event an intruder enters a physical location, the intruder may attempt to damage the control panel to disrupt its operation. One or more sensors of the control panel may detect disruption in the operation of the control panel. Example sensors may detect an impact force, sudden acceleration, removal from a mounted location, or disruption of communication with an input/output element, such as a display device. When an event is detected at the control panel itself, the control panel can send a signal to a remote service provider, and the remote service provider can follow-up with the customer. The control panel and/or remote service provider may also determine when the control panel loses partial or complete power loss to identify the disruption as a potential crash-and-smash entry.
US09786152B1
The septic overflow warning system includes a sensor unit that is adapted to secure itself to a tank lip of a septic tank. The sensor unit includes a float that is adapted to be moved up or down depending upon the waste level inside of the septic tank. Moreover, the float is slideably positioned on a sensor rod that is in wired connection with an alarm module. The alarm module includes a plurality of lights thereon. The plurality of lights collectively indicates the status of the volume of the septic tank via the float. The alarm module is powered via at least one solar cell.
US09786145B2
A portable item reporting device (200) is configured to be attached to and in substantial collocation with a portable item (100), or to be integrated into a portable item (100). The device (200) includes environmental sensors (210) to monitor item location, movement, ambient light, sounds, temperature, etc. The device (200) is configured to store usage expectation data (600) indicative of historical and/or expected item usage and environments when the item (100) is in normal use/storage associated with an authorized user (AU). The device (200) monitors current environmental conditions (104) surrounding and pertaining to the item. If the current environment (104) is inconsistent with expected conditions (600), the device (200) assesses that the item (100) is displaced (503.0), meaning either that the item (100) is in abnormal use or abnormal storage, or is under the control of an unauthorized user (UU) who is other than the authorized user (AU). Based on the assessment the device initiates a signal (372) or message (374) to an authorized user (AU) of the item (100), indicating that the item (100) usage/storage is displaced (503.0) or otherwise anomalous (503.2).
US09786141B2
A package delivery notification and protection device includes a package sensor including a placement surface. The package sensor is configured to generate a sensor signal indicating whether a package has been placed on or removed from the placement surface. Wireless communications circuitry is configured to communicate over a wireless network and processing circuitry is coupled to the package sensor and to the wireless communications circuitry to communicate over the wireless network. The processing circuitry is configured to send a delivery notification over the wireless network responsive to the sensor signal indicating a package has been placed on the placement surface. The package delivery notification and protection device may include and alarm that the processing circuitry activates upon unauthorized removal of a delivered package from the placement surface.
US09786138B1
A method and system for detecting an intruder is provided. The method includes monitoring received signal strength in a wireless router and creating a profile of the received signal strength as monitored during a learn mode. The method includes comparing activity of the received signal strength in the wireless router, during an intruder detection mode, to the profile and issuing a notification, based on the comparing, wherein at least one step of the method is performed by a processor.
US09786124B2
In one embodiment, the gaming device and method disclosed herein provides a player one or more modifiers to apply to different components or characteristics of a game. In one such embodiment, the gaming device enables a player to selectively apply or associate a plurality of modifiers to a single game component or apply the plurality of modifiers across the plurality of game components. For each game component with at least one applied modifier, the gaming device disclosed herein modifies said game component based on each applied modifier. The gaming device generates any awards based on any modified game components and any unmodified game components and provides any generated awards to the player.
US09786123B2
A system employs a server computing system with an integrated database and wireless communications devices, for example, handheld personal digital assistants (PDAs). The server computing system may also communicate with fully automated data collection systems associated with some gaming tables and/or with the casino's legacy data collection systems and databases. The server computing system may communicate with various non-gaming related casino systems, such as point-of-sale terminals and/or accounting systems, related to the various guest facilities, for example, allowing player comps to be freely exchanged for services and merchandise. The wireless communications devices permit remote wagering.
US09786119B2
A method for synchronizing a casino game playable at a plurality of gaming devices is provided. The method includes receiving, by a server having at least one processor, an indication of a wager from at least one of the plurality of gaming devices, obtaining, by the server, indications of communication latency from the server to at least a first gaming device and a second gaming device of the plurality of gaming devices, and sending, by the server, game outcome determinations to at least the first and second gaming devices, the sending including sending a first game outcome determination to the first gaming device through wired communication channels, and sending a second game outcome determination to the second gaming device through at least one wireless communication channel, wherein sending the first and second game outcome determinations is based at least in part on the indications of communication latency.
US09786109B2
In accordance with various example embodiments, a method of receiving a protocol in the receiver, wherein the legacy protocol includes non-biphase encoded information, decoding the legacy protocol using a biphase decoder to produce a detected code, and correlating the detected code with a known code to verify the non-biphase encoded information.
US09786108B2
A device is disclosed. The device includes a processor and a memory. The memory is coupled to the processor and having programming instructions to operate a vehicle via Near Field Communication (NFC). The device also includes a NFC controller coupled to a short range antenna, a passive NFC tag and a secure memory coupled to the NFC controller for storing a security code.
US09786104B2
This disclosure relates to a system and method for detecting vehicle events. Some or all of the system may be installed in a vehicle, operate at the vehicle, and/or be otherwise coupled with a vehicle. The system includes one or more sensors configured to generate output signals conveying information related to the vehicle. The system receives contextual information from a source external to the vehicle. The system detects a vehicle event based on the information conveyed by the output signals from the sensors and the received contextual information.
US09786103B2
A computer implemented method for determining a yaw angle estimate or vehicle heading direction is presented. A data server may receive a plurality of telematics data originating from a client computing device and determine a first primary movement window from the telematics data. The data server may also determine a potential range of yaw angles from the plurality of telematics data from the first primary movement window and generate an equality that evaluates the potential range of yaw angles. The data server may further maximize the count of acceleration events of the telematics data from the first primary movement window to further generate one or more refined yaw angle estimates. The data server stores the one or more yaw angle estimates on a memory.
US09786101B2
Images of items are evaluated. A first image of the item, having a view of two or more of its surfaces, is captured at a first time. A measurement of at least one dimension of one or more of the surfaces is computed and stored. A second image of the item, having a view of at least one of the two or more surfaces, is captured at a second time, subsequent to the first time. A measurement of the dimension is then computed and compared to the stored first measurement. The computed measurement is evaluated based on the comparison.
US09786096B2
A system for parametric modeling of a three-dimensional object has a processor running a software program operable to configure the object by defining a zone comprising a root of a tree hierarchy, the zone having a three-dimensional region defining an outer dimension of the object to be modeled; a part comprising a child of the zone, the part also having a component object to be modeled, wherein the component object is an element of the object; and a variable comprising a child of the part, wherein variable has data defining characteristics of the zone or part. A user interface can display a representation of the three-dimensional object.
US09786087B1
Systems, devices, and techniques are provided for management of animation collisions. An animation that may collide with another animation is represented with a sequence of one or more animation states, wherein each animation state in the sequence is associated with or otherwise corresponds to a portion of the animation. In order to manage animation collisions, a state machine can be configured to include a group of states that comprises animation states from a group of animations that may collide and states that can control implementation of an animation in response to an animation collision. In one aspect, a state machine manager can implement the group of states in order to implement an animation and manage animation collisions.
US09786084B1
System and methods for computer animations of 3D models of heads generated from images of faces is disclosed. A 2D captured image that includes an image of a face can be received and used to generate a static 3D model of a head. A rig can be fit to the static 3D model to generate an animation-ready 3D generative model. Sets of rigs can be parameters that each map to particular sounds. These mappings can be used to generate a playlists of sets of rig parameters based upon received audio content. The playlist may be played in synchronization with an audio rendition of the audio content.
US09786079B2
Systems and methods are described for generating and using a flexible scene framework to render dynamically-generated content within contextual scenes to personalize a customer's web experience.
US09786076B2
A template image is found and a target image is combined with a combining area of the found template image. The template image found has first template image analysis information, which is of a type identical with that of first target image analysis information in target image analysis information consisting of the brightness, contrast, saturation, hue, color balance and spatial frequency of the target image, and for which the degree of resemblance is equal to or greater than a first threshold value, and moreover has second template image analysis information, which is of a type identical with that of second target image analysis information in target image analysis information, and for which the degree of resemblance is less than a second threshold value.
US09786075B2
Architecture that extracts (analyzes and selects) a set of images from repositories or sources imagery to create one-dimensional (1D) and two-dimensional (2D) image manifolds (or image packets—also referred to as “synth” packets). The repositories of map imagery can include aerial views and terrestrial views (from points on the earth surface). The manifolds facilitate fluid translation between manifold images thereby providing a fluid user interactive navigation experience for viewing the location.
US09786066B2
Clusters of pixels are defined for image compression and decompression. The image information used to define the clusters may include pixel values at predetermined positions relative to a pixel or related motion vectors, gradients, texture etc. During compression of images, image information relative to pixels is examined to determine the cluster to which it belongs. Thus pixels can be classified according to the cluster for their image information. In an embodiment the definitions of the clusters are selected dynamically, dependent on image content. For each cluster a control parameter set is computed for a post-processing operation, such as filter coefficients for filtering or statistical data for locally generating texture. The control parameter set is selected dependent on the image content so that, when the post-processing operation is applied to the image after decompression it will improve image quality for the pixels that are classified as belonging to the cluster.
US09786063B2
Provided is a method of computing precise disparity using a stereo matching method based on developed census transform with an adaptive support weight method in area based stereo matching. The method includes a step of setting an adaptive support weight window centered on a specific point of a left image and setting adaptive support weight windows with the same size with respect to one point positioned within a maximum disparity prediction value about a specific point of the left image in a right image.
US09786058B2
Various aspects of a method and a system for segmentation of vascular structure in a volumetric image dataset are disclosed herein. The method comprises initial segmentation of an input volumetric image dataset to obtain a main vessel structure and a plurality of broken segments. A weighted path is computed between the main vessel structure and a broken segment of the plurality of broken segments. The computation of the weighted path is based on at least one or more parameters associated with a first voxel of the broken segment and a second voxel of the main vessel structure. A valid, weighted path is determined between the main vessel structure and a broken segment of the plurality of broken segments, based on the computed weighted path and one or more pre-specified conditions. Based on the determined valid, weighted path, an output volumetric image dataset is generated by performance of a final segmentation on a gradient field.
US09786056B2
The present disclosure provides methods to process and/or display data collected using 3D imaging probes. The methods include: a) methods for mapping a single 2D frame onto a 3D representation of a volume; b) methods for dynamically updating portions of a 3D representation of a volume with a high temporal resolution, while leaving the remainder of the volume for contextual reference; c) methods for registering volumetric datasets acquired with high temporal resolution with volumetric datasets acquired with relatively low temporal resolution in order to estimate relative displacement between the datasets; and d) methods for identifying structures within a volume and applying visual cues to the structures in subsequent volumes containing the structures.
US09786048B2
A system and method of imaging tissue includes administering a contrast agent having charged gold nanoparticles in suspension into a vessel of the subject, such that the nanoparticles are carried into the tissue; and performing microwave imaging of the tissue after administering the contrast agent. In embodiments, the nanoparticles have a tissue-selective protein tag. In embodiments, images are taken prior to administering the contrast agent, and further images may be taken during an agent—washout period after imaging with contrast agent. The contrast agent is injectable, with the nanoparticles suspended as a colloid in a biocompatible, isotonic, carrier. In particular embodiments, the nanoparticles have median diameter of less than fifty nanometers, or less than five nanometers, and may have a tissue-selective protein tag. A microwave imaging system has injection apparatus with the gold-nanoparticle agent, and is configured to take, and difference, pre and post contrast images as well as washout images.
US09786045B2
It is judged whether or not an average gray level of an image of a wafer W that is an inspection target and that has been imaged by the light receiving part 2 is in the defect detectable range. A control processing part 6a is configured to modify an exposure time in imaging the wafer W and to obtain an image of the wafer W again by the light receiving part 2 in the case in which it is decided that an average gray level of an image of the wafer W is not in a defect detectable range, and an image processing part 6b is configured to carry out a defect inspection based on an image of the wafer W in the case in which it is decided that an average gray level of the image of the wafer W is in the defect detectable range.
US09786039B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and system for processing an image extracted from a document. The image processing system detects one or more edges of the image and determines a missing edge in the image by comparing color gradients of the edges. The missing edges are recreated by cloning image pixels based on data pixels of an edge, opposite to the missing edge, amongst the one or more edges to obtain a reconstructed image. Outer corner points in the reconstructed image are identified based on quadratic corner points, wherein the quadratic corner points are determined based on the one or more edges and the reconstructed edge. Further, the image processing system performs an image perspective correction on the reconstructed image, based on the outer corner points, to obtain a processed image.
US09786038B2
An image sequence includes consecutive video images each exhibiting at least one image region having a number of pixels, where each pixel includes at least one intensity value. For each image a motion measure value is determined indicative of temporal change of a video content of the image region and varying the intensity values of the pixels of the image region relative to the associated intensity values from video image to video image, a measure for the variation of the intensity values being dependent on the motion measure value determined and the change in the intensity values relative to the associated intensity values being greater the larger the motion represented by the motion measure value.
US09786031B2
A method for distorting a digital image comprising receiving the coordinates of one or more than one image reference point defined by a user within the digital image, receiving one or more than one spatial offset assigned by the user and associated with the coordinates of the one or more than one defined image reference point, providing a mixing function algorithm embodied on a computer-readable medium for distorting the digital image, calculating an offset matrix by applying the mixing function algorithm based on the one or more than one spatial offset and the coordinates of the one or more than one defined image reference point; and distorting the digital image by application of the offset matrix. A graphic tag may be associated with each of the defined image reference points and displayed over the digital image, and the assignment of the spatial offset may be accomplished by movement of the graphic tag with the pointing device. Abstract image reference points may be used to limit distortion.
US09786023B2
Methods and systems for pharmacy location are described. In one embodiment, a plurality of pharmacy network associations of a member is determined. The pharmacy network associations are associated with a drug benefit plan of the member. A pharmacy within a pharmacy network association of the plurality of pharmacy network associations is capable of fulfilling a prescription for a prescription drug. A location associated with the member is accessed. A display is generated based on the determination of the pharmacy network associations and the location of the member. The display includes a first indicator and a second indicator. A first network pharmacy of a first pharmacy network association is associated with the first indicator on the display. A second network pharmacy of a second pharmacy network association is associated with the second indicator on the display. Additional methods and systems are disclosed.
US09786021B1
Described are methods and systems for retrieving and serving the regulatory history of a property. For example, an identification of data sources for permits and approvals is stored in a computer system. Property identifiers from the data sources are stored in the computer system. The system identifies the types of permit and approval data available from each of the data sources for each of the property identifiers. A determination can be made of the completeness of the regulatory history available for each property associated with each of said property identifiers. The system receives a request for the regulatory history of at least one of the properties associated with the property identifiers. A web page may be populated with a list of the regulatory history for the property.
US09786010B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media are disclosed for determining a homeowners insurance quote from a captured image of a dwelling. The captured image includes geotagged information, and the address of the dwelling is determined by reverse geocoding this information. An insurance premium quote may then be generated based on the reverse geocoded address and any additional risk assessment factors, such as the building characteristics. Verification of the address may also be performed by accessing one or more databases, which may store information including addresses, coordinates, and images associated with the address. The building characteristics may be retrieved from one or more of the databases to allow for quote generation with minimal user intervention. Matching properties having comparative quotes near the dwelling address may also be generated.
US09786009B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for pricing an insurance premium based on telematics data. The system includes a communications interface and a business logic processor in communications with the communications interface. The communications interface receives telematics data collected by a telematics acquisition device configured at a dealership for collecting telematics data of a vehicle sold by the dealership. The communications interface also receives vehicle data indicating the make and model of the vehicle sold and vehicle owner data related to the purchaser of the vehicle sold. The business logic processor determines an insurance quote for the purchaser based on the received telematics data, vehicle data, and vehicle owner data. The communications interface transmits the insurance quote for the purchaser of the vehicle. The business logic processor also manages a predetermined incentive that is provided to the purchaser in return for allowing the telematics data acquisition device to collect telematics data.
US09785999B2
A method and apparatus are herein disclosed for allowing suppliers to generate an invoice from a purchase order without requiring them to log in or pre-register with a networked application. Implementation is provided by having a first user provide a first document to a networked application. An electronic notification is dispatched to a receiver for the first document with a unique link to a data entry page within the networked application. The data entry page is sandboxed with limited functionality within the networked application, but accepts data from the receiver to be sent directly into the first user's system.
US09785996B2
A method of substituting digital alternative media for a requested media selection to a customer is provided. The method includes receiving a request related to the requested media selection through a user interface from the customer, identifying an associated content provider, and determining the alternative media selection at the associated content provider that corresponds to the requested media selection. The method also includes receiving a unique customer identifier and identifying the associated content provider based on the unique customer identifier. The method further includes mapping the media article to the alternative media selection based on metadata. The requested media selection may be available or may be unavailable due to being out-of-stock or reserved to another customer in an article dispensing machine embodiment. The associated content provider may be linked to the customer based on a subscription. The digital alternative media selection may be accessed by an audio/visual display interface.
US09785995B2
A method comprises displaying visual representations of a plurality of product alternatives each including at least one attribute variant to a respondent, receiving from the respondent an indication of a preferred one of the plurality of product alternatives, transmitting a request to the respondent to identify at least one attribute variant of a non-preferred product alternative that is preferred by the respondent to the corresponding attribute variant of the preferred one of the plurality of product alternatives and receiving a response from the respondent identifying at least one attribute variant of a non-preferred product alternative that is preferred by the respondent to the corresponding attribute variant of the preferred one of the plurality of product alternatives.
US09785986B2
A method for automating an onboarding process for a developer onto a service delivery hub operated by a network operator includes providing the developer with information relating to use of the service delivery hub, receiving data relating to the developer, approving the developer, certifying an application provided by the developer, and configuring the application for use. A method for synchronization with the service delivery hub is also provided.
US09785976B2
A social networking system generates an advertisement, a recommended budget, and recommended targeting criteria for an object maintained by the social networking system for presentation to social networking system users. Information associated with the object by the social networking system is used to generate elements of the advertisement, the recommended budget, and the recommended targeting criteria. Different budgets, each associated with a predicted return on investment, may be determined, allowing an advertiser to select a budget based on the return the advertiser receives from presentation of the advertisement. Additionally, an advertiser may modify the recommended targeting criteria, recommended budget, or elements of the generated advertisement to customize presentation or distribution of the advertisement.
US09785973B2
A method for loading a layout with advertising item data is provided. Layout header data is parsed. A layout item object is then built. Global layout variables are replaced with values. Local layout variables are replaced with data from content objects. Displayed data is then created.
US09785971B2
A mechanism is provided for prioritizing advertisements for a location. The mechanism identifies one or more person at the location and identifies a set of advertisements associated with a set of products for the location. The mechanism determines a score for the one or more persons indicating their likelihood to promote or detract from each of the set of products. The mechanism prioritizes the advertisements in the set according to the aggregate scores of the one or more persons for the products of the advertisements. The mechanism identifies a target person at the location to which the advertisement is to be directed and wherein determining a score of the one or more persons excludes or weights the target person.
US09785963B2
A wireless device is enabled to provide offers. The wireless device receives card data for a financial account card and stores the card data in a memory associated with the wireless device. Responsive to using the card data in a transaction at a first merchant location, the wireless device receives transaction line-item data from a computing system associated with the first merchant location. The wireless device determines merchant information for a second merchant location and determines an offer associated with the second merchant location based on the line-item data and the merchant information for the second merchant. The wireless device presents the offer when the wireless device is near the second merchant location.
US09785952B2
A system for classifying and managing keywords across multiple campaigns comprises a classification manager, a bid management system, a web analytics tool and a search engine. The classification manager interfaces with the bid management system and the web analytics tool to provide user interfaces for reviewing data about specific keywords across multiple campaigns. The classification manager includes a classification keyword repository, a classification creation module, a classification measurement module and a classification user interface module for generating the user interface. This is particularly advantageous because statistics corresponding to keywords can be classified across multiple campaigns to provide greater flexibility in the analysis of web data. The present invention also includes a novel method for the classification of keywords across multiple campaigns.
US09785948B1
A method for online task advising comprises loading a customizable script, the script comprising a task definition. A task instance is created based, at least in part, on the task definition. The task instance comprises a plurality of steps and each step comprises a description and a status. The status of one of the steps is updated based, at least in part, on a received command from a client, an associated one or more actions, or another step.
US09785945B2
A system and a method for determining whether a refund has been issued by at least one of multiple parties having potential responsibility for issuing a refund. Issuance of multiple refunds to a claimant or claimants, or chargebacks to acquirers when a refund has been issued is prevented. The system includes an electronic storage device that has a database of data concerning transactions, including data as to whether a refund has been issued, an access path that allows access to and supplementing of data concerning a transaction, and a processor for assembling the data concerning the transaction so that access is provided to the multiple parties granted selected access to the data.
US09785944B2
A system for providing real-time risk mitigation for an authorization system. The system receives authorization requests from multiple merchants (or their respective acquirers) and processes such requests. Each processed request is then forwarded to its corresponding issuer for further authorization. Each processed request includes an authorization message. The authorization message can include a risk score, a number of reason codes, and a number of condition codes. The use of the risk score, reason codes and condition codes allows issuers to make better informed decisions with respect to providing authorizations.
US09785933B2
Techniques are provided for a method of installment payment transactions associated with a credit card account. An installment service having one or more servers receives a credit card transaction. An installment payment amount for the transaction is calculated. Based on the calculated payment amount, an installment payment offer is presented to a confirmation device.
US09785918B2
An issue tracking system capable of predicting the likelihood that an outcome of interest will occur during the lifecycle of an active support ticket. The likelihood can be represented as a severity index score. The issue tracking system can apply a predictive algorithm on attributes of the active support ticket to generate the severity index score. The predictive algorithm to use can depend on the outcome of interest while the correlation factors used to configure the predictive algorithm can depend on support tickets that have already been completed.
US09785916B2
Techniques are provided for integrating rich media into a scalable, multi-user, web-based calendar system having multiple interconnected web-based interfaces. Rich media refers to digital media that exhibit either, or a combination, of dynamic or interactive properties, including video content, audio content, graphical content, hyperlinks, or browser-based applications to such content, that are associated with a particular calendar event. Rich media events are created and stored in a central repository, and are accessible for adding to users' own calendar events. Rich media calendar events include display templates that define display characteristics for the rich media calendar event. Display templates also provide rich media applications for rendering and displaying the rich media content in the event. Delivery schedules are employed to automatically control the display of rich media calendar events.
US09785905B2
A method, arrangement and computer program product for determining overall equipment effectiveness of a robot cell including at least one industrial robot involved in producing products. The arrangement includes an effectiveness determination device, which in turn includes an overall equipment effectiveness determining unit that obtains ideal robot operations data of the robot cell, obtains actual robot operations data of the robot cell, and determines the overall equipment effectiveness based on the ideal robot operations data and the actual robot operations data.
US09785898B2
Systems and methods for determining product arrangement are provided. The method includes: receiving one or more images, the one or more images reflecting a retail arrangement of at least one product, processing, with a processor executing code, the one or more images to: (a) identify the at least one product, and (b) determine the retail arrangement of the at least one product, computing, based on (a) an identification of the at least one product and (b) a determination of a retail arrangement of the at least one product, one or more performance indicators, the one or more performance indicators reflecting compliance with one or more retail arrangement guidelines established with respect to the at least one product, and providing feedback based on the one or more performance indicators. Other embodiments of the various aspects include corresponding systems, apparatus, and computer program products.
US09785885B1
A system, method and computer program product for achieving a collective task. The system comprises a plurality of elements representative of a first hierarchy level, each element comprises a plurality of sub-elements. The system comprises also an arbitration module for selecting one of the sub-elements of each element at a point in time based on a global clock, wherein each sub-element relates to one list element of an ordered circular list, and a combination module adapted for a combination of sub-actions performed by a portion of the sub-elements of one of the elements over a predefined period of time, wherein each sub-element performs one of the sub-actions.
US09785882B2
A wireless communication device includes an antenna resonance circuit and a wireless IC element. The antenna resonance circuit includes a loop-shaped antenna that performs wireless communication by generating a magnetic field and series inductors connected in series to the loop-shaped antenna. The antenna resonance circuit has a resonant frequency corresponding to a carrier frequency. The wireless IC element is connected to the antenna resonance circuit and processes transmission and reception signals. An inductance value of the series inductors is larger than an inductance value of the loop-shaped antenna, and the series inductors are covered with a magnetic material.
US09785881B2
A method and system for producing electronic label are disclosed. The electronic label includes a first substrate and a second substrate. Layout information associated with the electronic label is developed. The layout information is automatically processed to develop print commands, circuit layout information, and component placement information therefrom. Information is printed on the first substrate in accordance with the print information and a conductive trace is deposited on the second substrate in accordance with circuit layout information. Components are placed on the deposited conductive trace in accordance with the component placement information.
US09785876B2
Data can be encoded in an optical code by a method and a system using combinations of visually distinguishable features. In some cases, the data is represented using a ratio of two or more features.
US09785874B2
An information processing apparatus includes a first unit and a second unit supplied with power that can be interrupted individually, a power supply switch configured to be operated by a user, to turn off a power supply of the information processing apparatus, a controller configured to perform shutdown processing of the information processing apparatus thereby interrupting supply of power to the first unit and the second unit, upon turning off of the power supply switch, a first timer unit configured to interrupt the supply of the power to the first unit, after a lapse of a first predetermined time after turning off the power supply switch, and a second timer unit configured to interrupt the supply of power to the second unit, after a lapse of a second predetermined time after turning off the power supply switch. The second predetermined time is longer than the first predetermined time.
US09785872B2
An image processing apparatus which prevents a printing process from taking long. The image processing apparatus is connected to a printing apparatus having a storage unit and transfers image data to the printing apparatus. A size of predetermined image data when a speed at which the predetermined image data is stored in the storage unit and a speed at which the predetermined image data stored in the storage unit is printed are the same is obtained as a threshold size. A size of the image data stored in the storage unit in a compressed form is estimated. A compression method for use in compressing the transferred image data is selected from a plurality of compression methods based on the threshold size and the estimated size of the image data. The image processing apparatus notifies the printing apparatus of the determined compression method.
US09785867B2
According to an embodiment, a device includes a detector, first and second recognizers, an estimator, a second recognizer, and an output unit. The detector is configured to detect a visible text area including a visible character from an image. The first recognizer is configured to perform character pattern recognition on the visible text area, and calculate a recognition cost according to a likelihood of a character pattern. The estimator is configured to estimate a partially-hidden text area into which a hidden text area estimated to have a hidden character and the visible text area are integrated. The second recognizer is configured to calculate an integrated cost into which the calculated cost and a linguistic cost corresponding to a linguistic likelihood of a text that fits in the entire partially-hidden text area are integrated. The output unit is configured to output a text selected or ranked based on the integrated cost.
US09785864B2
To improve a search accuracy in template matching based on a coarse-to-fine search method, a first pyramid is generated by hierarchizing a plurality of template images having different resolutions from each other in order of the resolution, a second pyramid is generated by hierarchizing a plurality of search target images having different resolutions from each other corresponding to the same resolutions as the template images in the first pyramid in order of the resolution, and a search process of searching for a feature image included in the template image of the first pyramid from the search target image in the second pyramid in a hierarchy of the same resolution. When the first pyramid is generated, the number of stages of the first pyramid is set such that a size of the feature image included in each of the template images is not smaller than a previously set threshold.
US09785862B2
Systems and methods for generating a tactile representation of an object are provided. A method for generating a tactile representation of an object, comprises obtaining a microscopic image of a surface of the object, processing data corresponding to the image to generate a roughness pattern for the object based on the image, calibrating the roughness pattern with a predetermined material, and simulating the roughness pattern on an electronic device.
US09785857B2
A positioning server is connected to a collection of access points, base stations, NFC stations, and image or video cameras and the collected data is used for positioning objects. A plurality of electronic devices are paired with an object by tracking the position of the object based on imaging and the position of electronic devices based on RF signals in vicinity of the object. Once a device is paired with an object, the propagation channel profile measured through the electronic device is used to develop and tune a database of channel profiles versus location. This database is used based on signature/profile matching and correlation for positioning devices and objects that do not have pairing or have poor image-based positioning accuracy or reliability. When a device is detected that cannot be paired with any object, or a device that is unpaired from a previously associated object, a theft or loss alert is generated.
US09785849B2
A method and system is provided for identifying a page layout of an image that includes textual regions. The textual regions are to undergo optical character recognition (OCR). The system includes an input component that receives an input image that includes words around which bounding boxes have been formed and a text identifying component that groups the words into a plurality of text regions. A reading line component groups words within each of the text regions into reading lines. A text region sorting component that sorts the text regions in accordance with their reading order.
US09785833B1
A method for efficiently grouping electronic documents that are likely textual near-duplicates includes processing first and second electronic documents to determine respective sets of character sequence counts. The processing may include, for each document, identifying a plurality of non-contiguous character sequences expressed within the document text, with each character sequence including at least one character from each of at least two different words in the text, and determining character sequence counts for each unique character sequence within the identified character sequences. The method also includes generating one or more similarity metrics, at least by comparing the sets of character sequence counts determined for the first and second electronic documents. The method may also include using the similarity metric(s) to calculate a similarity score, and assigning, based on the similarity score, the second electronic document to a same document group as the first electronic document.
