US09826753B2
A molding container including a lid that can be smoothly pulled out of a molded frozen dessert with no damage to the molded frozen dessert is provided. A frozen dessert container assembling method of assembling: a main body capable of containing a frozen dessert; a first lid including a first peripheral edge portion and a protrusion that forms an inner space on the inner radius side of the first peripheral edge portion; and a second lid including a second peripheral edge portion and a cover portion is provided. This method includes the steps of: feeding the main body; causing the protrusion of the first lid to be contained in the main body and fitting the first peripheral edge portion and an opening of the main body to each other; and covering the inner space of the first lid with the cover portion of the second lid and fitting the first peripheral edge portion and the second peripheral edge portion to each other.
US09826750B2
Disclosed herein are embodiments of a composition for use in forming films or coatings that prevent damage in foodstuffs, including plants, fruits, and vegetables. The disclosed compositions comprise a cellulose nanomaterial and can further comprise a nanoscale mineral compound and one or more additional components. Also disclosed are films or coatings made using the disclosed compositions, as well as methods for making the disclosed compositions and methods for using the disclosed compositions.
US09826736B2
A disinfectant wipe and disinfectant composition which exhibits exceptional antimicrobial activities as a result of the synergistic combination of a quaternary ammonium salts and 1,2-alkandiol is provided. The wipe is pre-impregnated with a disinfectant composition which comprises a quaternary ammonium salt, a 1,2-alkanediol with 5-10 carbon atoms, a glycol ether, a surfactant, a pH regulating agent, and water, and optionally alcohol. A method of preparation and a process for disinfecting a surface with the wipe composition are also provided.
US09826725B2
A level winding mechanism for a dual-bearing reel includes a worm shaft, a guide member and a slide member. The guide member has a tubular shape and is disposed radially outside of the worm shaft. The slide member has a first through hole and an accommodation recess. The first through hole enables the guide member to penetrate therethrough. The accommodation recess is formed on the inner surface of the first through hole. The slide member is configured to slide along the guide member.
US09826719B1
A hanging assemblage holding plants and feed for a bird and protecting the bird and the feed from a rodent. The hanging assemblage includes a feeder assembly, a planter assembly, and a protective assembly. The feeder assembly holds the feed for the bird. The planter assembly extends replaceably upwardly from the feeder assembly and holds the plants 12. The protective assembly is affixed around the planter assembly, is spaced over the feeder assembly, and protects the bird and the feed from the rodent.
US09826716B2
Provided is an absorbent article for pets that can prevent side leakage of urine.In an absorbent article for a pet including a liquid permeable inner layer sheet, a liquid impermeable outer layer sheet, and an absorbent core provided between the inner layer sheet and the outer layer sheet, the absorbent core is provided only on a region closer to a belly facing region than a cutting line in which the tail of the pet is inserted, the cutting line being positioned in an intermediate region, and a body facing surface of the inner layer sheet has an area, at least overlapping the absorbent core in plan view, in which a recessed-and-protruded region is positioned, the recessed-and-protruded region including ridges and grooves that are alternately arranged side by side in a lateral direction while extending in a longitudinal direction.
US09826712B2
A pet fountain assembly that includes a cover with a drinking bowl formed therein that straddles a sidewall of a basin that can be user-provided enclosing a pump within a pumping chamber defined therebetween. The cover has a downwardly extending sidewall divided by openings that can be generally U-shaped or V-shaped into a plurality of supports on which the cover. In a preferred embodiment, one of the supports is disposed outboard the basin sidewall resting on the ground and another one of the supports is disposed inboard the basin sidewall resting on a bottom of the basin providing a water passage enabling water from the basin to reach the pump. The inboard support can provide an overflow spillway as well as define a shroud disposed between the pump and water in a lower drinking bowl of the basin. The basin can include an outwardly offset seat that locates the pump.
US09826710B1
A portable, trapping system for capturing and non-lethally retaining a large number of large animals, such as wild horses or feral hogs. A specialized trailer aligns and secures deployable corral components for transportation. The corral comprises a modular fence erected on-site from multiple fence panels that are hinged together by pinning. The fence panels are configured with voids to prevent animal climbing. A gate with a remotely actuated trap door is similarly pinned between adjacent fence panels. The gate threshold is concealable. Stakes secure panels to the ground, forming a stable enclosure. The trailer comprises a rigid confining frame structure adapted to constrain and transport corral components. When the corral is disassembled, multiple individual fence panels are slidably captivated between spaced apart upper and lower ceiling and floor channels, being maintained in a parallel and stable configuration. Separate upper and lower aligned channels constrain the gate assembly during transportation.
US09826700B1
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH694028. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH694028, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH694028 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH694028.
US09826694B1
A novel maize variety designated X08H838 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X08H838 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X08H838 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. This invention relates to the maize variety X08H838, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X08H838. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X08H838.
US09826693B2
The invention relates to the wheat cultivar designated BZ9W09-2075. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the wheat cultivar BZ9W09-2075. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the wheat cultivar BZ9W09-2075 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing wheat plants by crossing the wheat cultivar BZ9W09-2075 with itself or another wheat cultivar and plants produced by such methods.
US09826691B2
The invention relates to the novel cotton variety designated 14R914B2XF. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants, plant parts and derivatives of the cotton variety 14R914B2XF. Also provided by the invention are methods of using cotton variety 14R914B2XF and products derived therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing cotton plants by crossing the cotton variety 14R914B2XF with itself or another cotton variety and plants and seeds produced by such methods.
US09826690B2
A plant or a part thereof, the plant being a Cucurbita pepo hybrid having more than one flower/fruit per node as in Cucurbita pepo subsp. texana, the fruit of the plant having the phenotype of that of Cucurbita pepo subsp. pepo.
US09826689B2
A system and method for creating a botanical extract. The system comprising a grow light optimized to stimulate growth of the selected plant and an extractor using supercritical CO2 to obtain the extract.
US09826685B2
The present invention refers to vertical roller devices to assist the supply of stems to sugar cane harvester, which are installed on the front side (A) of the harvester, fastened to the row dividers and which work in pairs, with elements on the right and on the left, which can consist of one or more pairs. The devices are designed to continuously propel and to guide the sugar cane stems to the inside of the harvester. The devices with vertical rollers (6) are formed by hydraulic motors (6a), finned cylinders (6b), upper fixing support members (6c) and lower fixing support members (6d). In the case of a single row, the devices are installed in the harvesters in accordance with to (B) and, in the case of two or more rows, in accordance with (C) on the inner faces (2) of the row dividers. The distance between the elements of the respective pairs decreases from the front to the inside of the harvester, guaranteeing continuous directional pressure on the cane mass as the vertical roller devices convey the cut canes towards the inside of the harvester, eliminating the jamming of stems, and maintaining a constant flow in the front part of the harvester and a consequent increase in harvest yield.
US09826684B2
There is provided a remote server that receives a machine type, an operating day, a position, a load factor, an engine rotational speed, a traveling speed, and a fuel consumption amount. The remote server identifies a working position based on the position, selects past operating days of an operation status corresponding to a current load factor of the same machine at the same working position, identifies a minimum fuel consumption amount out of fuel consumption amounts corresponding to the selected past operating days, and compares a current fuel consumption amount with the past minimum fuel consumption amount. If the current fuel consumption amount is larger than the past minimum fuel consumption amount, the remote server transmits an engine rotational speed and a traveling speed during a working period of the minimum fuel consumption amount, to a predetermined communication terminal corresponding to information for machine identification.
US09826678B2
A method of mowing multiple areas includes training a robotic mower to mow at least two areas separated by a space, including moving the robotic mower about the areas while storing data indicative of location of boundaries of each area relative to boundary markers, training the robotic mower to move across the space separating the areas, and initiating a mowing operation. Training the robotic mower to move across the space separating the areas includes moving the robotic mower to a traversal launch point of a first of the areas and moving the robotic mower to a traversal landing point of a second of the areas. The mowing operation causes the robotic mower to move to the traversal launch point, move from the traversal launch point across the space to the traversal landing point, and then mow the second of the areas.
US09826673B1
A method for controlling an agricultural vehicle includes receiving, via a processor, a first signal from a user interface indicative of a value of at least one parameter. The method also includes determining, via the processor, a path of the agricultural vehicle toward a guidance swath based at least in part on the at least one parameter. In addition, the method includes outputting, via the processor, a second signal to a display of the user interface indicative of instructions to present a graphical representation of the path of the agricultural vehicle. Furthermore, the method includes controlling the agricultural vehicle, via the processor, based at least in part on the at least one parameter upon receiving at least a third signal from the user interface indicative of acceptance of the value of the at least one parameter.
US09832914B2
A structure and a device may include an electromagnetic wave generator configured to generate electromagnetic waves; a shielding structure configured to surround at least a portion of the electromagnetic wave generator; and a metal layer provided on inner surfaces of upper and side portions of the shielding structure, wherein the metal layer having a predetermined surface roughness.
US09832913B2
A method of operating a cooling apparatus is described that allows flexible cooling lines connecting an inlet manifold to an outlet manifold to be safely added or removed during operation of the cooling apparatus without causing unstable two-phase flow. The method can include providing a cooling apparatus having an inlet manifold, an outlet manifold, and a bypass extending from the inlet manifold to the outlet manifold. Each manifold can include a plurality of connection ports, such as quick-connect couplers, to accommodate adding and removing cooling lines between the inlet manifold and the outlet manifold. The method can include providing a flow rate of single-phase liquid coolant to the inlet manifold and setting a pressure regulator in the bypass to provide a certain flow rate through the bypass. The flow rate through the bypass can be determined as a function of an average flow rate through each of the cooling lines.
US09832912B2
Disclosed is system, method, and rack stand portion for the advantageous cooling of computer equipment 305. The rack stand 200 includes a hollow body 210, 212 that may be formed of cartridges 2416. Gas from an airflow source 5204 is guided into the rack stand body and then into a sealed case of the computer equipment. Air flow is then guided out of the computer equipment for recirculation, exhaust, or other purpose.
US09832909B2
An electronic equipment cooling device is provided, which has housing in which heat-generating components are housed, and which can cool surfaces of the housing. A blower fan blows air toward the surfaces via a chamber room. An inclined flat plate-like partition portion is provided inside the chamber room so as to distribute a desired amount of air corresponding to a heat generating ratio of the respective surfaces.
US09832906B2
Technologies for midplane docking systems for connecting adjacent levels of docks are provided herein. An extendable connection system includes: a connector cable, the connector cable having a first end and a second end; a male connector, the male connector connected to the first end of the connector cable, the male connector including male connecting mechanism; and a female connector, the female connector connected to the second end of the connector cable and including a female connecting mechanism adapted to connect with the male connecting mechanism, wherein the male connector is extendable relative to the female connector.
US09832904B1
A patch panel assembly mounts in a rack on a side of the rack other than the front side of the rack and other than the back side of the rack and fits within a volume of space not occupied by rack slots of the rack. In some embodiments the patch panel assembly includes brackets that articulate into out of the volume of space in the rack in which the patch panel assembly is mounted to allow access to patch cable connectors coupled in the brackets of the patch panel assembly.
US09832897B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to integrated modular display systems. In one embodiment, a modular multi-panel display system includes a mechanical support structure, and a plurality of display panels detachably mounted to the mechanical support structure so as to form an integrated display panel. Each LED panel includes an LED array and an LED driver coupled to the LED array. Each panel further includes a power supply unit disposed outside the housing and electrically coupled to the receiver circuit. The mechanical structure is configured to provide mechanical support to the plurality of display panels without providing hermetic sealing. Each of the plurality of display panels is hermetically sealed.
US09832880B2
An electronic apparatus and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The electronic device of the present invention comprises: a substrate with a first surface and a second surface; an electronic unit layer disposed on the first surface of the substrate; a residue layer disposed on the second surface of the substrate, wherein a material of the residue layer comprises: a compound containing at least one functional group selected from the group consisting of aryl, nitro and ketone.
US09832873B2
A circuit board structure includes an inner circuit structure and a first build-up circuit structure. The inner circuit structure includes a core layer having an upper surface and a lower surface, a first patterned circuit layer disposed on the upper surface, a second patterned circuit layer disposed on the lower surface and a conductive through hole connecting the first and the second patterned circuit layers. The first build-up circuit structure at least has a cavity and an inner dielectric layer. The inner dielectric layer has an opening connecting the cavity and exposing a portion of the first patterned circuit layer. A hole diameter of the opening is smaller than a hole diameter of cavity. A height difference is between an inner surface of the inner dielectric layer exposed by the cavity and a top surface of the first patterned circuit layer exposed by the opening.
US09832870B2
A resin composition capable of achieving a printed wiring board or the like excellent in heat dissipation properties, water absorption properties, copper foil peel strength, and heat resistance after moisture absorption is provided. A prepreg, a laminate, a metal foil clad laminate, a printed wiring board and the like, which use the resin composition are also provided. The resin composition of the present invention having at least an epoxy resin, a cyanate ester compound, and an inorganic filler, wherein the inorganic filler includes at least a surface-treated silicon carbide of a silicon carbide powder having at least a part of the surface treated with an inorganic oxide.
US09832864B2
A liquid ejection head includes a circuit board having a wire pattern divided into a plurality of portions in order to provide the circuit board with very reliable bonding.
US09832863B2
Some forms relate to a stretchable computing device that includes a stretchable body; a first electronic component embedded within the stretchable body; a second electronic component embedded within the stretchable body; and wherein the first electronic component and the second electronic component are connected by stretchable electrical connectors that include vias. The stretchable electrical connectors are non-planar and/or may have a partial zig-zag shape and/or a partial coil shape. In some forms, the stretchable computing device further includes a textile attached to the stretchable body.
US09832860B2
Techniques are disclosed for forming a package substrate with integrated stiffener. A panel of package substrates are provided. An adhesion layer is then formed on each package substrate of the panel of package substrates. A panel of stiffeners are then attached to the panel of package substrates by the adhesion layer, each stiffener corresponding to a respective package substrate. The panel of package substrates is then singulated into individual package substrates with integrated stiffeners. The stiffeners on the singulated package substrates include tabs that extend to the edges of the package substrates.
US09832855B2
An optical source for a photolithography tool includes a source configured to emit a first beam of light and a second beam of light, the first beam of light having a first wavelength, and the second beam of light having a second wavelength, the first and second wavelengths being different; an amplifier configured to amplify the first beam of light and the second beam of light to produce, respectively, a first amplified light beam and a second amplified light beam; and an optical isolator between the source and the amplifier, the optical isolator including: a plurality of dichroic optical elements, and an optical modulator between two of the dichroic optical elements.
US09832852B1
A method and apparatus for control of a dose of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiation generated by a laser produced plasma (LPP) EUV light source. Each laser pulse is modulated to be of a width that is determined to be sufficient to allow for extraction of a suitable uniform amount of energy in the laser source gain medium; in some embodiments the suitable uniform amount of energy to be extracted may be selected to avoid self-lasing. The EUV energy created by each pulse is measured and total EUV energy created by the fired pulses determined, and a desired energy for the next pulse is determined based upon whether the total EUV energy is greater or less than a desired average EUV energy times the number of pulses. The energy of the next pulse is modulated, either by modulating its magnitude or by modulating the amplification of the pulse by one or more amplifiers, but without decreasing the determined width of the laser pulse.
US09832849B2
Emergency light devices, systems and methods that provide instant light in a power outage or other situations. One or more sensors monitor the flow of electricity, and when the flow of electricity is stopped or no longer present, an emergency light device power monitoring device instantly communicates via wireless communication technology to emergency light device(s) to instantly turn on the emergency light device(s). The emergency light device(s) can be a portable and/or permanent unit of varying shapes and sizes, and can be attached to any object, or may stand alone, with some or all of its parts being replaceable, interchangeable, or upgradeable.
US09832848B2
A lighting system includes: a lighting device; a lighting controller; and a system controller. The system controller includes: a timer; a schedule storage for storing schedule information; a first communication circuit; and an instruction controller which causes a first communication circuit to transmit control information which includes an instruction associated with time indicated by a counter value. The lighting controller includes: a sensor which detects a person in a space where the lighting device is disposed, and brightness of the space; a second communication circuit; and a dimming controller which switches to one of modes that is indicated in the control information from another of the modes and executes the one of the modes, where the modes include (a) a human detection mode, (b) a brightness detection mode, and (c) a dimming level fixed mode.
US09832844B2
An addresser for configuring an electronic ballast/lighting control device in a network of electronic ballasts/lighting control devices; said addresser comprises a first connection to allow the receipt of communication from a controller; a second connection to allow communication from the addresser to an individual electronic ballast/lighting control device; an interface for communicating with a programming device; and means for configuring the communication between said first and second connections dependent upon the communication received from said programming device.
US09832841B2
In one example, a wall plate may have or include an electrical circuit. The electrical circuit may include a switch and a light sensor supported on a base in the form of a circuit board. A switch cover may cover the light sensor and selectively move with respect to the base through a first range of motion. The switch cover may actuate the switch, when moving through the first range of motion. Additionally, the switch cover may be transparent or semitransparent to enable light to pass through and reach the light sensor regardless of where the switch cover is within the first range of motion.
US09832833B1
An apparatus comprising a communication circuit and a processing circuit. The communication circuit may be configured to connect to a network based on a communications protocol. The processing circuit may be configured to control a light based on a pre-defined condition. The processing circuit may determine a location of the apparatus based on an identifier. The processing circuit may synchronize to a universal clock via the network. The processing circuit may determine a local time based on (a) the universal clock and (b) the location, both received from a device connected to the apparatus through the network. The processing circuit may receive input from the device. The processing circuit may calculate the pre-defined condition based on (a) the local time and (b) the input from the device. The processing circuit may determine whether the pre-defined condition has been met.
US09832823B2
Various embodiments may relate to a load driving circuit and an illumination apparatus including the same. The load driving circuit includes a Single-Ended Primary Inductor Converter (SEPIC) converter adapted to convert an input system voltage into a DC output voltage, and a BUCK converter 200 adapted to regulate a current and provide the regulated current to a load. The load driving circuit further includes a first diode and a second diode which are connected so that the SEPIC converter and the BUCK converter share one switch. According to various embodiments, it is possible to obtain constant current output characteristics and high power factor with a simple circuit structure and a low cost.
US09832815B2
A method and system for managing communication in a Multi-User Reusing One time Slot (MUROS) based communication network is provided. The method includes selecting a first communication device from a plurality of communication devices in the communication network, determining a Timing Advance (TA) associated with the first communication device and identifying a type of the first communication device, identifying a second communication device from the plurality of communication devices based on a TA associated with the second communication device, a type of the second communication device, the TA of the first communication device, and the type of the first communication device, and pairing the first communication device and the second communication device in a first time slot for establishing communication with the plurality of communication devices.
US09832813B2
An exemplary object of the present invention is to provide a communication system capable of efficiently and equally allocating communication opportunities. A communication system according to the present invention includes: a connection control apparatus (20) that allows, when a connection request message that requests a connection to a network (40) received from a communication apparatus (10) included in a plurality of communication apparatuses in which a synchronous communication is limited corresponds to a message that requests a temporary communication, the communication apparatus (10) to be temporarily connected to the network (40); and a communication timing control apparatus (30) that transmits a communication allowable timing notification message indicating a communication timing to the communication apparatus (10) while the communication apparatus (10) is allowed to be temporarily connected to the network (40).
US09832807B2
A method and device for mode switching includes: a first base station sending a message including mode switching information to a first User Equipment (UE) to trigger the first UE to perform mode switching according to indication information of a mode in the mode switching information. The problem of poorer service continuity caused by mode switching inflexibility in the related is solved, and the effect of improving overall throughput of a system is further achieved.
US09832801B2
The present invention relates to a method for performing device-to-device (D2D) communication in a wireless communication system. Particularly, the method comprises the step of discovering, by a first device performing channel hopping and D2D communication, a second device for which a new D2D communication is to be performed, wherein: the first device discovers the second device on the basis of a first channel hopping sequence in a first time interval within a total discovery period which is a channel hopping period, and is configured to perform channel hopping on the basis of a second channel hopping sequence in a second time interval within the total discovery period; and the total discovery period of the first device is determined on the basis of the second channel hopping sequence in the second time interval and the number of repetitions of the second channel hopping sequence.
US09832799B2
A mobile communication system according to the embodiment supports cellular communication in which a data path passes through a network and D2D communication that is direct device-to-device communication in which a data path does not pass through the network. A frequency division multiplexing scheme is applied to the cellular communication and a code division multiplexing scheme is applied to the D2D communication. The network assigns a spread code having orthogonality to a user terminal in response to a request from the user terminal. The user terminal performs the D2D communication by using the spread code assigned by the network.
US09832796B2
A method for providing increased backhaul capacity in an ad-hoc mesh network is disclosed. The method involves attaching a mobile base station in an ad-hoc mesh network to a macro cell; measuring at least one of a backhaul signal quality with the macro cell and a throughput to the macro cell; reporting information, including a signal quality parameter, a physical position of the mobile base station, a cell identifier of the macro cell, and the measured throughput, to a coordinating node; determining if the connection between the mobile base station and the macro cell is currently in use by the ad-hoc mesh network, and whether the link exceeds a minimum quality threshold; and sending, to the mobile base station, an instruction to advertise a connection from the mobile base station to the macro cell to other nodes in the ad-hoc mesh network.
US09832793B2
The method includes: an intercepting station detecting a first radio signal of a third-party station and updating a local network allocation vector and/or response indication deferral; triggering a channel contention access procedure when determining that a second radio signal of the third-party station meets a spatial orthogonal condition, and then completing data transmission within updated time. In the case that the network allocation vector or response indication deferral is not 0, the third-party station ignoring or resetting the network allocation vector or the response indication deferral when determining that a sector transmission in a transmission initiated by the station is orthogonal with a transmission space to be carried out by itself, the third-party station initiating a contention and starting the spatial orthogonal transmission within a duration indicated by the updated network allocation vector or the response indication deferral.
US09832791B2
The present invention relates to wireless networks and more specifically to systems and methods for selecting available channels free of radar signals from a plurality of 5 GHz radio frequency channels. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a standalone multi-channel DFS master that includes a switch and embedded processor that are programmed to switch a 5 GHz radio transceiver to a first channel of the plurality of 5 GHz radio channels, cause a beacon generator to generate a beacon in the first channel of the plurality of 5 GHz radio channels, cause a radar detector to scan for the radar signal in the first channel of the plurality of 5 GHz radio channel, and then repeat these steps for each of the other channels of the plurality of 5 GHz radio channels during a single beacon transmission duty cycle.
US09832790B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to transmit data in a connectionless mode are disclosed. An example method includes identifying, at a node in a wireless network, that a user equipment has indicated that the user equipment will communicate data without establishing a bearer with the wireless network. A random access channel (RACH) message transmitted to the node from the user equipment is accessed by the node. A preamble from the RACH message is extracted as the data. The data is inspected to identify a destination address of the data. The data is relayed to the destination address.
US09832788B2
Mechanisms for operating a wireless user equipment device, to determine the state of data scheduling activity. Such activity state (and other information such as measurements of signal interference and/or channel condition) may be used to dynamically control the selection of a high-power high-performance receiver vs. a low-power basic receiver. A first mechanism involves transitioning to a high activity state and starting a timer upon each occurrence of scheduled subframe. A transition to the low activity state occurs whenever the timer expires. A second mechanism involves filtering a sequence of binary-valued indicators corresponding respectively to a sequence of time intervals. Each indicator indicates whether a subframe is scheduled during the corresponding time interval. The filter output is compared to a threshold to determine high/low activity state. The temporal width of the filter impulse response may be increased to support fast initial response without harming the accuracy of activity-state determination in the steady state.
US09832787B2
Techniques are described for attention management. In one embodiment, a computer program product comprising a computer-readable storage medium has program code embodied therewith. The program code is executable by a computing device to build a communication history between two or more users, perform an analysis of the communication history for a pattern of communication between the two or more users, and generate an assessment based on the analysis. The communication history may include data from multiple different communication systems.
US09832780B2
According to embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a radio base station (20) and a corresponding method for estimating the quality of the uplink control channel. The method comprises measuring (32, 42) a quality parameter of the uplink data channel, and using (38, 50) this to estimate the quality of the uplink control channel. In one embodiment, measurements of the uplink control channel are taken and their reliability determined. If the reliability is low (i.e. below a threshold, or below the respective measurements taken on the uplink data channel), then measurements on the data channel are used instead of those made on the control channel to estimate the control channel quality.
US09832778B2
A method in a terminal device for In-Device Coexistence, IDC, interference handling is provided, the terminal device being configured to be in a communications network. The terminal device proactively detects an IDC interference between an in-device external wireless system and a cellular system, wherein said proactive detection occurs prior to a start of said IDC interference. Then, the terminal device sends, to a network node, an indication of IDC interference based on the proactively detecting. A terminal device, a network node and a method therein for IDC interference handling are also provided.
US09832773B1
A system and method of scheduling communication in a wireless communication network are provided. A first access node can determine a scheduling scheme based on data addressed to wireless devices in communication with the first, second, and third access nodes. The data addressed to the wireless devices in communication with the first access node can be transmitted during a first subframe of the scheduling scheme where the first access node does not transmit data addressed to the wireless devices in communication with the first access node during a second subframe of the scheduling scheme. The second and third access nodes can be instructed to assign data addressed to wireless devices that do not meet a signal condition threshold to be transmitted during the first subframe and to assign data addressed to wireless devices that meet the signal condition threshold to be transmitted during the second subframe.
US09832769B2
A half-duplex wireless network device is structured to transmit and receive information over a unique pattern of one or more transmission slots and one or more reception slots within each of a sequence of communication frames to accomplish virtual full-duplex communication.
US09832768B2
A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes a step of transmitting, by a radio base station DeNB, a first downlink signal in a first subframe to a relay node RN, a step of transmitting, by the relay node RN, a second downlink signal in a second subframe to a mobile station UE, a step of notifying, by the relay node RN, the radio base station DeNB of information indicating “Half duplex inband Relay Node”, and a step of transmitting, by the radio base station DeNB, a transmission timing of R-PDCCH and R-PDSCH in a Un subframe to the relay node RN according to the notification.
US09832760B2
A method for receiving data by a receiving station by using a multi-user multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO) in a wireless local area network system, the method includes receiving, via a transceiver in the receiving station, a physical layer convergence procedure (PLCP) protocol data unit (PPDU) from a transmitting station, the PPDU including a bundled interface field, a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) index field and a data field, wherein the bundled interface field indicates a number of a plurality of spatial streams allocated to the receiving station among a plurality of receiving stations, and indicates a total number of spatial streams allocated to the plurality of receiving stations that receive the PPDU, and wherein the MCS index field indicates a same MCS index used for modulating and coding the plurality of spatial streams allocated to the receiving station; and demodulating and decoding, via a processor in the receiving station and by using an MCS scheme indicated by the MCS index field, the data field received via the plurality of spatial streams indicated by the bundled interface field.
US09832753B2
A notification handling system determines a notification type for a notification received at a first device of a group of associated devices. The system determines at least a second device from the group that has a capability related to the notification type and accordingly routes the notification to the second device. The second device may be paired to the first device via a wireless link. The notification handling system also augments the notification with additional information for the second device based on the capability of the second device. The augmented information is obtained by extracting data from the notification and augmenting the notification based on the extracted data. The notification handling system may also send or receive a global notification dismissal that dismisses the notification from all associated devices that may have received the notification.
US09832751B2
Venue information is stored, the venue information including a first location portion of the venue and a second location portion of the venue. An actual presence of a location sensing mobile device is identified within the venue, the actual presence identified based on beacon signals received from a beacon associated with the first location portion of the venue. A first drone associated with the first location portion of the venue is selected based on the actual presence. First sensor data is received from the first drone. A virtual presence of the location sensing mobile device is received, the virtual presence being different from the actual presence. A second drone associated with the second location portion of the venue is selected based on the virtual presence. Second sensor data is received from the second drone. The first and second sensor data is transmitted to the location sensing mobile device.
US09832739B2
A system and method in a distributed amplifier system for correcting for RF losses between head end and coverage nodes by measuring RF losses in both directions; generating gains for amplifiers in both the head ends and coverage nodes; generating maximum output power limits; and adjusting the generated gains and output power limits based on downlink signal strength of cellular signals at a donor antenna.
US09832738B2
Method and apparatus for controlling a transmit power of a mobile station are disclosed. Mobile stations in direct communication on a cross link (XL) receive control parameters from a base station. A first mobile station (a receiving mobile station) may calculate a correction parameter for power offset for transmissions from a second mobile station (a transmitting mobile station) to the first mobile station, and send it to the second mobile station. The correction parameter may be generated within the maximum and minimum limits. The second mobile station may calculate a transmit power level for a transmission to the first mobile station based on the correction parameter, measurements on resources allocated for cross links for mobile station-to-mobile station direct communications, an interference measurement received from the first mobile station, and a path loss to the first mobile station.
US09832732B2
In a communication system in which a base station and a terminal communicates, the base station and the terminal communicates efficiently. There is provided the terminal which communicates with the base station, the terminal including: a reception unit 605 which detects a transmission power control (TPC) command in a downlink control information (DCI) format and obtains a power correction value from the TPC command; and a transmission power control unit 6015 which sets transmission power of an uplink signal based on a power correction value obtained from a first TPC command when the terminal is in a first state and sets transmission power of the uplink signal based on a power correction value obtained from a second TPC command when the terminal is in a second state.
US09832731B2
The present invention relates to methods and arrangements in a wireless communication system, and in particular to uplink outer loop power control.A Node B identifies if a UE from which the Node B receives data is in a predetermined set of power challenged situations. The Node B transmits to the RNC an indication to hold the SIR target of the UE if the UE has been identified to be in a power challenged situation. As a consequence, the uplink outer loop power control (OLPC) procedure in the RNC will not change the SIR target of the UE. This implies that the output power level of the UE remains unchanged as long as the UE remains in the power challenged situation. Thus, user and network performance are improved in the wireless communication system.
US09832726B2
The present disclosure relates to transmitting assistance information from a first node to a second node. In one embodiment, a first node includes a wireless transmitter and a wireless receiver. In response to transmitting a preference indicator for a first configuration to a second node via the wireless transmitter or receiving a reconfiguration request associated with the preference indicator for the first configuration, the first node starts a timer set to a value that defines an amount of time before the first node is permitted to transmit a preference indicator for a second configuration to the second node. The first node then blocks transmission of the preference indicator for the second configuration to the second node until the timer has expired. In this manner, excessive signaling of preference indicators from the first node to the second node is avoided.
US09832718B2
When a portable information terminal operates in an unused state, a predetermined access point is searched for. As a result, when the predetermined access point is detected, a connection to the predetermined access point is established, and a predetermined data communication process is performed.
US09832714B2
The embodiments described herein relate generally to a method and system for using mobility management entity (MME) or Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN) pooling features depending on whether it is a 3G or 4G network and adding an enhancement in the User Equipment (UE) whereby it uses location information (e.g., broadcast Public Land Mobile Network Identity (PLMN ID), Tracking Area (TA), Cell Identification, Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates or the like) to decide from which MME or SGSN it should obtain services.
US09832710B1
A method and system for controlling broadcast of system identification. A base station may broadcast in one or more timeslots of a control channel, as a System Identifier (SID) of the base station, a particular SID, but may broadcast in one or more other timeslots of the control channel, as a SID of the base station, a different SID. In addition, when a mobile station registers to be served by the base station, the base station may determine which slot(s) of the control channel the mobile station will monitor and may broadcast in the determined slot(s) a SID that may help to keep the mobile station from transitioning to be served by a different base station.
US09832709B2
Embodiments herein disclose a method in a terminal (10) for enabling access to a radio communications network, wherein the terminal (10) is served in a cell of the radio communications network. The terminal (10) receives an indicator from a base station (12), which indicator indicates a set of settings to use in the cell, and the settings relate to access of the radio communications network.
US09832708B2
A system (10) and method (30) comprises a detector that is configured to enable a mode of a first device (14) and/or to enable a mode of a second device (15) responsive to a detection that a proximity criterion is satisfied between the first device and an entity (Entity 1) and responsive to at least one of a position, velocity and a Time-of-Day and where the second device is not the entity and is not associated with the entity, and where the entity is not involved in providing a communications service to the first and/or second device.
US09832694B2
UE 100 performs, in a mobile communication system in which a small cell is arranged within a coverage of a macro cell, a cell reselection on the basis of neighboring cell information broadcast from the macro cell. The UE 100 acquire, in a connected state in which the UE 100 is connected to the macro cell, from a server 400 that manages small cell information on the small cell, the small cell information via the macro cell. The neighboring cell information broadcast from the macro cell is information on a neighboring cell other than the small cell. The UE 100 performs, in an idle state, the cell reselection on the small cell on the basis of the small cell information acquired from the server 400.
US09832687B2
When a mobile station requests circuit services notifications through a packet switched network, a mobile switching center sets a forwarding indicator. When the MSC detects an event indicative of a change in the status of the mobile station, the MSC sends an event notification to the packet switched network if the forwarding indicator is set to true. In the packet switched network, the base station can use the event notifications to manage communication resources used for packet data communications with the mobile station.
US09832679B2
A window regulator for improving the performance of communications networks is described. In a communications network, data is sent downstream from a sender to a receiver, and acknowledgements are sent back upstream. When data is received at the receiver, the data is placed in a buffer and an acknowledgement of receipt may be sent. If no acknowledgement is received by a sender after a certain period of time, the sender retransmits the data. The receiver communicates how much data the receiver is willing to receive at any given time by sending an advertised window to the sender. The window regulator sets the size of the advertised window based on measurements of capacity in the network to improve the amount and rate of data sent downstream while avoiding loss of data and subsequent retransmissions.
US09832677B2
Wireless communication traffic can be offloaded from a user equipment (UE) to two wireless points of access. For example, user equipment (UE) is connected to a radio access network (RAN) using a radio access technology (RAT) such as a long term evolution (LTE) network. The UE can determine which network capabilities are available for traffic offloading and adapt to the capabilities presented. In one embodiment, the UE can determine whether the network supports three different configurations and configure traffic offloading to operate within the network conditions: (1) RAN rules without access network detection and selection function (ANDSF), (2) ANDSF in conjunction with RAN rules or (3) enhanced ANDSF with RAN assistance.
US09832676B2
A mobile communication device is provided with a first wireless module, a second wireless module, and a controller module. The first and second wireless modules perform wireless transmissions and receptions to and from a telecommunication network and an AP using a cellular technology and an SRW technology, respectively. The controller module receives, from the telecommunication network via the first wireless module, at least one RAN rule and information concerning an amount of the data traffic to be offloaded and a level of granularity of the data traffic to be reported for offloading. Also, the controller module receives a first traffic offloading request from the telecommunication network via the first wireless module in response to determining that one of the RAN rule is satisfied, and offloads data traffic indicated by the first traffic offloading request from the telecommunication network to the AP via the second wireless module.
US09832670B1
A correlating mixed signal spectrum analyzer receiver is provided that automatically correlates signals in a mixed-signal environment with a large number of waveforms having different characteristics corresponding to different protocols and modulation types, with the receiver utilizing either parallel correlators or sequential correlations to automatically accommodate the different waveforms such that in any given testing cycle, the spectrum analyzer runs through a comprehensive list of waveforms to detect the existence of corresponding signals. Frequency drift compensation and the utilization of multiple receivers for providing time difference of arrival calculations is described.
US09832669B2
Resource use by applications used by user equipment (UE) is adaptively controlled. A UE can comprise a modem-network kernel component that can be well partitioned from modem operations and can facilitate adaptively controlling use of functional blocks for applications of the UE, and enhancing use of network resources in connection with use of applications by the UE. The kernel component can operate in a protected area of the baseband and can utilize APIs and interfaces available to it by existing modem stacks and UE operating systems. The kernel component can interact with the communication network to adaptively present network enabler functions to other parts of the system. The kernel component can facilitate managing secure communication with the communication network to facilitate proper cross-layer optimization practices, including capabilities for compression and decompression, rate shaping, and event notification associated with the communication network and UE subsystems.
US09832665B2
Disclosed is a method whereby a terminal sends and receives signals between itself and a serving cell in a wireless communication system. More specifically, the invention comprises the steps of: receiving information relating to a default bandwidth and an allocation bandwidth from the serving cell; and, if the terminal is positioned at a cell edge, either sending an uplink signal to the serving cell or receiving a downlink signal from the serving cell on the basis of the allocation bandwidth, and, here, the allocation bandwidth is either smaller than or the same as the default bandwidth.
US09832664B2
An apparatus for receiving reverse link signals from a plurality of subscriber units in a multi-path environment is described. The apparatus includes a receiver in a base station that receives a first plurality of reverse link signals and a second plurality of reverse link signals in a time interval. Each reverse link signal of the first plurality of reverse link signals is derived from at least a common pseudo noise (PN) sequence and unique orthogonal sequence and each reverse link signal of the second plurality of reverse link signals is derived from a unique pseudo noise (PN) sequence. The apparatus also includes a a processor that determines a timing offset associated with at least one reverse link signal to align a timing of the at least one reverse link signal with reverse link signals from other subscriber units.
US09832663B2
A system that allows for performance indicators such as a success rate of a broadcast message or latency between a sender and mobile station of a broadcast message, during emergency broadcasts to a wireless transmit/receive unit, such as a mobile phone.
US09832662B2
The disclosure claims a method and a device for determining a Radio Link Failure (RLF) reason, wherein a UE has an RLF in a first eNB where the UE is located, and successfully establishes a RRC with a second eNB. The method includes that: the UE sends RLF information to the first eNB, wherein the RLF information includes at least one of the following: the ambient signal quality information recorded by the UE when the RRC is established successfully, the location information of the UE when the RLF occurs, and the location information of the UE when the RRC is successfully established; the first eNB determines the RLF reason according to the RLF information. The disclosure solves the problem that the RLF reason cannot be judged accurately in the conventional art, and enables the network side to obtain more accurate and comprehensive information.
US09832660B2
In switching a radio base station (SeNB) from a radio base station (SeNB#1) to a radio base station (SeNB#2) in an “Inter-node UP aggregation”, the occurrence of transmission delay of downlink data to a mobile station (UE) is avoided. A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes: stopping, by the radio base station (SeNB#1), scheduling of downlink data to the mobile station (UE), and sending an “SeNB change command” to the mobile station (UE), when receiving an “SeNB change request ack” from the radio base station (SeNB#2); notifying, by the mobile station (UE), a radio base station (MeNB) of at least one of already received downlink data and unreceived downlink data; and resending, by the radio base station (MeNB), the mobile station the downlink data that is not received by the mobile station (UE) in response to the notification.
US09832653B2
Certain embodiments herein are directed to determining an allocation of wireless spectrum, which may include one or more frequencies for communicating content, among operator networks that provide wireless (for example, cellular) services to their customers. Information associated with a supply of wireless spectrum and a demand for wireless spectrum may be analyzed to determine an allocation of the wireless spectrum. Various techniques may be used to determine the allocation, such as various types of auctions, mathematical or statistical techniques, and/or heuristic approaches that may consider various factors. Upon determining an allocation of the wireless spectrum, configuration information associated with the wireless spectrum may be determined and sent to one or more devices associated with respective operator networks, where the configuration information may be used to configure the operator network to utilize the allocated wireless spectrum.
US09832643B2
A system and method for automatically verifying a telephone number proffered by a user of an application. During registration or installation of the application, client software is installed on the user's mobile device (e.g., a smart phone, a tablet computer). One of a pool of telephone numbers for outgoing calls is selected, and a call is initiated to the proffered number by the system. The software executing on the user's device detects the incoming call, extracts caller identification data (i.e., the originating telephone number), formats a data communication (e.g., an http request) to include the data, and sends it to the system. The system receives the data communication and compares the data with the originating number. If they match, the user's telephone number is verified. The outgoing call from the system may be canceled before it rings at the device if the data communication is received in time.
US09832639B2
Described herein are systems, devices, techniques and products for managing the dynamic assignment of media access control (MAC) addresses to wireless network devices, such as by identifying a dynamically assigned MAC address before, after, or during a wireless association process and communicating the dynamically assigned MAC address to a wireless network device. Also disclosed are systems, devices, techniques and products for preventing a denial of service attack on a wireless access point's association table, such as by requiring devices that associate with a wireless access point to respond to a query from the wireless access point shortly after association.
US09832637B2
A connection information sharing system is applied in a mesh network environment which has at least one controlled device within. A connection information sharing method thereof includes the steps of: performing a transferring process, including: integrating a connection data to an integration data; converting the integration data to generate a connection code; performing a receiving process, including: reading the connection code; restoring the connection code to the integration data; and establishing a connection with the at least one controlled device via the integration data.
US09832633B2
A method for allowing the management of permissions, notifications and reporting pertaining to a wireless device and the physical location of the device obtained via automatic location identification (ALI) technologies. A location preferences management system and method is provided for wireless users utilizing a mobile application requesting location fixes via any telecommunication technology. The location management system provides these mobile users with a comprehensive understanding of the location permissions and notifications and hence the location transactions associated with their wireless device and with the ability to manage it in a way that makes sense for their personal or business needs.
US09832622B2
Techniques to allow for optimizing an image based on an operational context. An operational context including at least one attribute of a client associated with a user of a social networking system is determined. An optimized image is created based on the operational context for provision to the user. The determining the operational context may comprise receiving a client identifier and determining the at least one attribute of the client based on the client identifier. The determining the operational context may comprise receiving location coordinates and determining quality of a data connection based on the location coordinates. The determining the operational context may comprise determining at least one usage trend in at least one geographic locality. The optimized image is provided to an image repository associated with the at least one geographic locality. The operational context may comprise at least one user-defined setting.
US09832621B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a real-time voice transmission method and an associated mobile terminal. The method includes: starting collecting voice signal in response to a first user instruction; while collecting the voice signal: encoding and compressing the collected voice signal into voice data; identifying the voice data as a voice data segment and adding a transmission sequence identifier to the voice data segment when the length of voice data reaches a preset data length; generating and displaying a first visual indicator after sending the voice data segment to a voice server; stopping collecting the voice signal in response to a second user instruction; identifying remaining voice data as a last voice data segment and adding a last transmission sequence identifier to the last voice data segment; and generating and displaying a second visual indicator after sending the last voice data segment to the voice server.
US09832618B2
An intelligent transport system includes an access point which puts a plurality of channels under control and casts various information and a vehicle-mounted device which directly communicates with the access point or is mounted on a vehicle which performs multi-hop communication, the access point includes broadcast means which broadcast a content of the information to be casted to a plurality of channels as service information, and the vehicle-mounted device includes channel switching means which perform a channel switching so that a desired service can be received on the basis of the service information.
US09832613B2
There is provided a solution for detecting and filtering inaccurate measurement results used for positioning a mobile device. A method comprises as performed by an apparatus: determining locations of a plurality of fixed positioning nodes; receiving a measurement report from a mobile device, the measurement report comprising a plurality of measurement values measured by the mobile device, wherein each measurement value comprises a reference signal time difference indicating a radio propagation time difference between the mobile device and two different positioning nodes; determining, on the basis of threshold comparison, that at least one of the plurality of measurement values is associated with an inaccurate measurement; modifying, autonomously by the apparatus, said at least one of the plurality of measurement values; and computing a location of the mobile device on the basis of a plurality of measurement values resulting from said modifying.
US09832610B2
When individual persons or vehicles move through a transportation network, they are likely to be both actively and passively creating information that reflects their location and current behavior. In this patent, we propose a system that makes complete use of this information. First, through a broad web of sensors, our system collects and stores the full range of information generated by travelers. Next, through the use of previously-stored data and active computational analysis, our system deduces the identity of individual travelers. Finally; using advanced data-mining technology, our system selects useful information and transmits it back to the individual, as well as to third-party users; in short, it forms the backbone for a variety of useful location-related end-user applications.
US09832608B1
Methods, systems, and techniques for wireless device detection, information, tracking, and authentication within a platform are provided. Example embodiments provide a Wireless Device Detection, Tracking, and Authentication System and methods, which enables users to detect wireless devices, obtain stored information about wireless devices, and authenticate wireless devices for a variety of purposes including determining similarity of devices based upon prior network connections, pinpointing the location of the device, verifying the cryptographic signature of the device, obtaining metadata associated with the device, and controlling the device to perform a particular action such as alerts and notifications. An example WDDTAS platform includes a server, one or more edge sensors communicatively connected to wireless/wired devices with or without software to configure the device to perform as an electronic tag and connected to electronic smart tags, and a persistent data repository.
US09832606B1
Technology is described for modifying user service environments. A geographical location of a mobile device may be received. The geographical location of the mobile device may trigger a modification to a user service environment that is associated with the mobile device. The user service environment may be modified based on the geographical location of the mobile device.
US09832605B1
Systems and methods for developing, deploying, providing, and/or operating location-based services are disclosed. A computer system receives a search request for location information associated with a wireless device. The search request is received from a requesting party, such as an investigator or law enforcement officer. The search request includes an indication of exigent circumstances. A service provider associated with the wireless device is identified. A notification message is generated comprising information associated with the search request. The notification message is provided to at least one notification party, who is other than the requesting party. When approval is received from the notification party, location information is obtained from the service provider. The location information may be provided to the notification party. When approval is received from the notification party, the location information is provided to the requesting party.
US09832604B1
Locating a mobile device in the event of an emergency may be based on common location techniques, such as GPS and geolocation. Additional location techniques may be performed in a sample method of operation which includes receiving a call for assistance from a mobile device, retrieving location information associated with a mobile communication signal associated with the mobile device, retrieving environmental factors associated with an estimated location of the mobile device, and determining the mobile device location based on the mobile communication signal and the environmental factors.
US09832599B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method of sharing data between devices, comprising determining an event at each of first and second devices, determining a time of the event at each of the first and second devices based on data wirelessly received at the first and second devices, and associating the first and second devices via a communication protocol to enable data communication therebetween if a time derived from an identifier of at least one of the devices used in the association is within a predetermined window of the time of the event at the other device.
US09832593B2
A method, in a user equipment device, for managing use of applications installed on the user equipment device is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a request from a user to launch an application, checking whether the user equipment device is roaming, and, if the user equipment device is roaming, consulting a user roaming profile and preventing launch of the application if the user roaming profile indicates that launch of the application is not permitted while roaming. Also disclosed are a computer program product for carrying out the above method and a user equipment device configured to carry out the above method.
US09832585B2
The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for processing an audio signal, and more particularly, to a method and an apparatus for processing an audio signal, which synthesize an object signal and a channel signal and effectively perform binaural rendering of the synthesized signal.To this end, provided are a method for processing an audio signal, which includes: receiving an input audio signal including a multi-channel signal; receiving truncated subband filter coefficients for filtering the input audio signal, the truncated subband filter coefficients being at least some of subband filter coefficients obtained from binaural room impulse response (BRIR) filter coefficients for binaural filtering of the input audio signal and the length of the truncated subband filter coefficients being determined based on filter order information obtained by at least partially using reverberation time information extracted from the corresponding subband filter coefficients; obtaining vector information indicating the BRIR filter coefficients corresponding to each channel of the input audio signal; and filtering each subband signal of the multi-channel signal by using the truncated subband filter coefficients corresponding to the relevant channel and subband based on the vector information and an apparatus for processing an audio signal by using the same.
US09832584B2
The invention relates to Higher-Order Ambisonics (HOA) Content Loudness Level Adjustment. A method for adjusting a loudness level of a HOA audio signal on a transmitting side comprises steps of measuring loudness of only the W-channel of the HOA audio signal, and leveling HOA master gain for all channels of the HOA signal according to the measured loudness of the W-channel.
US09832583B2
Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems, methods, and computer readable media for steering a camera and enhancing audio captured by microphones at unspecified positions. In a particular embodiment, a method provides receiving audio captured by the plurality of microphones at a location and receiving video captured of a scene that includes the plurality of microphones captured by a first camera at a first camera position. The method further provides identifying the plurality of microphones in the scene and determining physical positions of the plurality of microphones at the location relative to the first camera position. The method then provides adjusting the audio based on the physical positions of the plurality of microphones.
US09832581B1
An electronic device includes an audio player and a processing unit. The processing unit includes a detection module, a timer module, and a control module. The detection module is used to detect an output volume produced currently when the audio player produces sound and to determine whether the output volume conforms to a volume control standard. The timer module is signally connected with the detection module and used to calculate the cumulative time during which the output volume produced by the audio player conforms to the volume control standard when the output volume conforms to the volume control standard and to determine whether the cumulative time equals the control time. The control module is signally connected with the timer module and used to control the audio player to decrease the volume of an output sound or to stop outputting sound when the cumulative time equals the control time.
US09832578B2
A battery-powered mobile device allows concurrent wireless transception of control data via standard Bluetooth low energy (BLE) and proprietary audio streaming, using the same physical layer of the radio. Following each BLE connection event, an enhanced link layer clocks a remaining duration of the current idle time period. Requests provided to the enhanced link layer include time slot information for the proprietary audio bursts. The enhanced link layer determines, based on the time slot information, whether each requested burst can be completed during the remaining duration of the current idle time period, appropriately linking payload information of each packet with the BLE control data stack or with a proprietary audio stack, with the BLE control data having priority over the proprietary audio requests.
US09832576B2
A partner microphone unit comprising a) a multitude microphones for picking up a sound from the environment providing corresponding electric input signals, each comprising a target signal component and a noise signal component; b) a multi-input unit noise reduction system for providing an estimate Ŝ of the target sound s comprising the person's voice and comprising a multi-input beamformer filtering unit coupled to said input units and configured to determine filter weights for providing a beamformed signal, wherein signal components from other directions than a direction of the target signal source are attenuated, whereas signal components from the direction of the target signal source are left un-attenuated; c) antenna and transceiver circuitry for establishing an audio link to another device; and wherein the multi-input beamformer filtering unit comprises an adaptive beamformer is provided.
US09832568B2
An audio mixing console labeling system may include an audio mixing console having a processor and configured to receive an audio signal at a first input port from one of a microphone and a musical instrument, the first input port being associated with a first channel of the audio mixing console, receive a label signal including a channel label to be assigned to the first channel from a remote device, and assign the channel label to the first channel in response to receiving the audio signal at the first input port.
US09832562B2
A hearing aid includes: an input transducer for provision of an audio signal in response to sound; a hearing loss model for calculation of a hearing loss as a function of a signal level of the audio signal; and a probabilistic hearing loss compensator that is configured to process the audio signal into a hearing loss compensated audio signal in such a way that the hearing loss is restored to normal hearing in accordance with the hearing loss model.
US09832554B2
A magnetic floating speaker includes a seat having a shell and a magnetic floating controller and a lower magnet both received in the shell. A floating member floating and located above the seat has a cover, a bass unit, two full range units and an upper magnet all received in the cover. The magnetism of the upper magnet and the lower magnet is mutually exclusive. The bass unit is surrounded by said two full range units and faces to a first direction, said two full range units face to a second direction and a third direction respectively which located at two sides of the first direction, the second direction and the third direction each forms an acute angle with the first direction respectively.
US09832543B1
A system and method for processing a plurality of channels, for example audio channels, in parallel is provided. For example, a plurality of telephony channels are processed in order to detect and respond to call progress tones. The channels may be processed according to a common transform algorithm. Advantageously, a massively parallel architecture is employed, in which operations on many channels are synchronized, to achieve a high efficiency parallel processing environment. The parallel processor may be situated on a data bus, separate from a main general purpose processor, or integrated with the processor in a common board or integrated device. All, or a portion of a speech processing algorithm may also be performed in a massively parallel manner.
US09832542B2
A jack module includes a chassis, a frame, and jacks. The jack module is configured to releasably hold any of a plurality of types of jacks. Each jack is configured to releasably mount to the frame. The frame is configured to couple to the chassis so that rear portions of the jacks extend rearwardly from the chassis. The jack module mounts to a rear of a patch panel frame by coupling the jack module to a faceplate mounted at a front of the patch panel frame.
US09832509B2
A method for controlling a mobile device is provided. The method includes displaying list information including a first source device and a second source device, receiving a signal for selecting a specific source device using the list information, generating content to be distributed when the specific source device is the first source device, grouping at least one display device communicable with the specific source device into a group and displaying graphic data corresponding to the group or graphic data corresponding to each display device belonging to the group, receiving a signal for selecting at least one display device using the graphic data, and transmitting the generated content to the at least one selected display device.
US09832500B2
The disclosed virtual theater system includes capture devices for capturing video and audio of a live event and converting the video and audio into a data stream. The system also includes a production center for receiving the data stream and compressing the data stream to generate a compressed data stream, for determining the number of one or more viewing devices subscribed or reserved to view the live event, and for determining data bandwidth consumption characteristics of the one or more viewing devices. Also included is a server for receiving the compressed data stream, the number of one or more viewing devices, and the data bandwidth consumption characteristics from the production center over a network. The server also duplicates and divides the compressed data stream out to the one or more viewing devices depending on the number of viewing devices subscribed or reserved (cyberseats reserved) to view the live event.
US09832499B2
The present invention provides a cable TV broadband access system with distributed deployment and centralized control, which comprises: a system terminal end, configured to receive and transmit uplink and downlink service data, and receive and respond to access control data and management control data; a system access end, configured to implement data format transformation and data forwarding or processing for said uplink and downlink service data, said access control data and said management control data of said system terminal end, and transmit, receive and respond to management control data of said system access end; a system head end, configured to implement management control and access control for said system access end and said system terminal end, and process, converge and forward said uplink and downlink service data. Said system uses a system architecture with three-stage distributed deployment and centralized control comprising a system terminal end, a system access end and a system head end, and it can not only realize the end-to-end control management and QoS priority assurance of the broadband data service, but can also realize easy network deployment, low comprehensive cost and high management efficiency.
US09832489B2
A set-top box with an interactive portal and system and method for use of the same are disclosed. In one embodiment of the set-top box, the set-top box is deployed to provide an interactive portal in a hospitality establishment having multiple rooms, such as a hotel. The set-top box is associated with a room and includes a housing that secures a television input, a television output, a processor, a transceiver, and memory therein in an interconnected bus architecture. The set-top box generates a guest interactive portal as well as a housekeeping interactive portal for a guest and housekeeper, respectively. Each of the portals provides relevant feedback on the condition of the room to a server associated with the hotel.
US09832488B2
The invention concerns a test stream generator for generating a compressed video stream for testing a video decoder, the generator including: a context-aware pseudo-random generator (202) adapted to generate pseudo-random values of syntax elements based on decoding context data; a decoding process module (206, 206′) adapted to process the syntax element values and to generate the decoding context data and binarization context data; and a binarizer module (204) adapted to encode the syntax element values based on the binarization context data in order to generate the compressed video stream.
US09832484B2
A video display system is configured to receive a sequence of image frames. Each frame is divided into a set of blocks. A center of mass is calculated for each block in a first frame and is saved for all blocks in the first frame. A center of mass is calculated for each block in a second frame. Motion between the first frame and the second frame is detected by comparing the center of mass of each block in the second frame to the center of mass of the corresponding block in the first frame, in which a still block is detected when a corresponding block in the first frame and the second frame have a same center of mass, and in which motion in a block is detected when a corresponding block in the first frame and the second frame have a different center of mass.
US09832480B2
A moving picture coding method includes: coding, using a motion vector, a current block to be coded; generating a plurality of predictive motion vectors; and coding the motion vector using one of the predictive motion vectors, and when a co-located block included in a coded picture and co-located with the current block has two reference motion vectors and reference directions of the two reference motion vectors are the same, a first prediction vector is generated using a first reference motion vector and a second prediction vector is generated using a second reference motion vector in the generating of a plurality of predictive motion vectors.
US09832478B2
One exemplary video encoding method has the following steps: determining a size of a parallel motion estimation region according to encoding related information; and encoding a plurality of pixels by at least performing motion estimation based on the size of the parallel motion estimation region. One exemplary video decoding method has the following steps: decoding a video parameter stream to obtain a decoded size of a parallel motion estimation region; checking validity of the decoded size of the parallel motion estimation region, and accordingly generating a checking result; when the checking result indicates that the decoded size of the parallel motion estimation region is invalid, entering an error handling process to decide a size of the parallel motion estimation; and decoding a plurality of pixels by at least performing motion estimation based on the decided size of the parallel motion estimation region.
US09832462B2
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for setting a reference picture index of a temporal merging candidate. An inter-picture prediction method using a temporal merging candidate can include the steps of: determining a reference picture index for a current block; and inducing a temporal merging candidate block of the current block and calculating a temporal merging candidate from the temporal merging candidate block, wherein the reference picture index of the temporal merging candidate can be calculated regardless of whether a block other than the current block is decoded. Accordingly, a video processing speed can be increased and video processing complexity can be reduced.
US09832458B2
A multi view image display device is provided, which includes a depth estimator configured to estimate depth of an input image, a renderer configured to perform rendering of multi view image based on the estimated depth, a display configured to display the rendered multi view image, and a controller configured to control the rendering of the multi view image by controlling the number of rendering viewpoints according to a depth value of at least one object region included in the input image.
US09832456B2
To extend the working range of depth from defocus (DFD) particularly on small depth of field (DoF) images, DFD is performed on an image pair at multiple spatial resolutions and the depth estimates are then combined. Specific implementations construct a Gaussian pyramid for each image of an image pair, perform DFD on the corresponding pair of images at each level of the two image pyramids, convert DFD depth scores to physical depth values using calibration curves generated for each level, and combine the depth values from all levels in a coarse-to-fine manner to obtain a final depth map that covers the entire depth range of the scene.
US09832455B2
An automatic range finding method is applied to measure a distance between a stereo camera and a reference plane. The automatic range finding method includes acquiring a disparity-map video by the stereo camera facing the reference plane, analyzing the disparity-map video to generate a depth histogram, selecting a pixel group having an amount greater than a threshold from the depth histogram, calculating the distance between the stereo camera and the reference plane by weight transformation of the pixel group, and applying a coarse-to-fine computation for the disparity-map video.
US09832449B2
Methods and apparatus for allowing a user to switch viewing positions and/or perspective while viewing an environment, e.g., as part of a 3D playback/viewing experience, are described. In various embodiments images of the environment are captured using cameras placed at multiple camera positions. During viewing a user can select which camera position he/she would like to experience the environment from. While experiencing the environment from the perspective of a first camera position the user may switch from the first to a second camera position by looking at the second position. A visual indication is provided to the user to indicate that the user can select the other camera position as his/her viewing position. If a user input indicates a desired viewing position change, a switch to the alternate viewing position is made and the user is presented with images captured from the perspective of the user selected alternative viewing position.
US09832436B1
An image projection system includes an infrared ray projection apparatus that projects a pattern image for shape measurement toward a projection target, an imaging device that captures the pattern image, a calculation device that acquires three-dimensional shape information of the projection target based on the captured pattern image and converts a content image into a projection content image corresponding to the projection target based on the three-dimensional shape information, and a visible light projection apparatus that is disposed in a different position from the infrared ray projection apparatus and projects the projection content image toward the projection target, in which the calculation device, based on images of a visible light image projected by the visible light projection apparatus and a non-visible light image projected by the infrared ray projection apparatus, executes processing of associating each pixel of the non-visible light image with each pixel of the visible light image.
US09832433B2
A laser light source is provided. The laser light source includes: a laser device; a first color wheel and a second color wheel, on both of which there are corresponding color regions, wherein the laser device emits laser which illuminates the first color wheel and the second color wheel sequentially, and exits from the color regions on the second color wheel; a first marker and a second marker arranged respectively on the first and the second color wheels; a first sensor configured to detect the first marker, and to generate a first sense signal; a second sensor configured to detect the second marker, and to generate a second sense signal; and a control unit configured to synchronize the first color wheel and the second color wheel.
US09832430B2
A device having built-in digital data means is powered by an unlimited power source for a lamp-holder, LED bulb, or light device connected to unlimited power source by prongs or a base that can be inserted into a socket that would otherwise receiving a bulb. The device may take the form of a webcam having auto tracking functions and retractable prongs that plug directly into a wall outlet.
US09832429B2
A camera is attached to a first vehicle and directed away from the first vehicle in order to capture images of object that are near or which approach the first vehicle, including a second vehicle configured to receive and process image data. Data representing images that are captured by the camera of the first vehicle are transmitted to a second vehicle. The image data from the first vehicle is used to provide images of the exterior of the second vehicle from the perspective of the first vehicle.
US09832427B2
A camera that includes a capture unit, a calculation unit, an object information acquisition unit, and an evaluation unit. The capture unit generates an image by capturing an area in which an evaluation-use object is present. The calculation unit analyzes the image, and thereby detects the evaluation-use object in the image and calculates meaningful information from the evaluation-use object in the image. The object information acquisition unit acquires and stores object information that is meaningful to a user and derived from the evaluation-use object. The evaluation unit performs an evaluation that includes comparing the meaningful information and the object information, and thereby calculating a degree of matching between the meaningful information and the object information, the evaluation determining whether or not a desired result is obtained from the image.
US09832422B2
Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems and methods for selectively recording high quality media in a videoconference. In a particular embodiment, a method provides receiving a plurality of video streams from a plurality of videoconferencing clients. The method further provides streaming video at a first quality level for the plurality of video streams to a first videoconferencing client of the plurality of video conferencing clients. At a first point in time while streaming the video, the method provides identifying a first video stream of the plurality of video streams that should be recorded at a higher quality level than the first quality level and recording the first video stream at the higher quality level from the first point in time.
US09832418B2
A method for displaying content between loops of a looping media item is provided herein. The method includes receiving a request for a primary media item and determining that the requested primary media item is a looping media item. The method further includes steps of identifying, by a processing device, a secondary media item for the primary media item and of providing the primary media item and the secondary media item for presentation between loops of the primary media item.
US09832417B2
The disclosed methods and systems provide for the registry and authorization of media on a media player. The method involves maintaining a registry of registered media. Media to be played by the media player is compared to the maintained registry of registered media. If media is registered, authorization it then required to play the registered media.
US09832414B2
A system and circuit for television power state control are disclosed. In one embodiment, a power management circuit is coupled to a television and interposed between a video feed and an image display engine as well as between an audio feed and a speaker. The power management circuit selectively alternates the television between three states: powered ON/operating state (first state); power standby state (second state); and no/low power state (third state). Utilized with a television in a commercial application, the system and circuit are employed to provide accelerated turn-on time to receive an image for user interaction, while providing sufficient control to maintain energy power savings.
US09832413B2
Features of various implementations are used to enable delivery of matched functionality, content and/or services, as a part of an interactive television suite of technologies. In some implementations, a content delivery process is enabled so that communication between the primary TV receiver and a supplemental set-top box is reduced in order to avoid the need for one or more provider-specific APIs. For example, one aspect of the disclosure is a method of identifying a media program by capturing display data from the media program, and extracting text from the display data in response to determining that the display data includes the text overlay, wherein the extracted text is associated with the media program. In some implementations, a supplemental set-top box is configured to operate a primary TV receiver, without a provider-specific API, in order to determine the channel line-up available to a particular subscriber through the primary TV receiver.
US09832411B2
A transmission system includes: a first timing signal generation unit; a second timing signal generation unit; a timing adjustment unit; a transmission processing unit; a first valid data generation unit which receives a first timing signal, receives only data according to valid timing of the first timing signal in a first image signal from a process signal to generate a first valid image signal, and receives only data according to valid timing of the first timing signal in a second image signal and a second timing signal from the process signal to output the received second image signal and the received second timing signal; and a second valid data generation unit which receives the second timing signal from the first valid data generation unit and receives only data according to valid timing of the second timing signal in the second image signal to generate a second valid image signal.
US09832402B2
Row and column noise calibration and correction includes obtaining pixel values from a row/column of calibration pixels and from a corresponding row/column of bright pixels. Defective calibration pixels are detected based on the pixel values of the row/column of calibration pixels. For example, calibration pixels with pixel values outside a predetermined range may be detected as defective. The pixel values of defective calibration pixels may be removed from the pixel data, or a corrected pixel value substituted in lieu thereof. An average of the pixel values of the row/column of calibration pixels is used to correct the pixel values of the corresponding row/column of bright pixels.
US09832392B2
Two parties have three distinct viewpoints of their relationship, from which assumptions emerge and working hypotheses about how to manage their relationship. The system, device, and method described herein include using a mobile device for understanding face-to-face human interactions. The process includes using a mobile device for recording an interaction with one or more other persons, whereby one or more of the participants use the mobile device to describe their viewpoints of the interaction. The participants can use the mobile device to receive immediate feedback for analysis, to compare viewpoints, to examine how the viewpoints are arrived, and to explore the viewpoints' consequences for the participants' relationship.
US09832389B2
An apparatus includes an image conversion unit suitable for converting a short exposure block according to an exposure ratio; a motion and saturation detection unit suitable for receiving a long exposure block and an L short exposure block converted by the image conversion unit, and detecting motion and saturation; a radiance map generation unit suitable for fusing the long and L short exposure blocks using a guided filter, and generating a radiance map; a luminance acquirement unit suitable for acquiring luminance of the radiance map, and generating luminance using the L short exposure block or respectively generating luminance using the long and L short exposure blocks; and a dynamic range compression unit suitable for performing global tone mapping using the luminance acquired by the luminance acquirement unit, and compressing a dynamic range.
US09832373B2
A digital recording device is configured to automatically capture digital images. In the digital recording device, a camera module operating in a live preview mode generates a video stream comprising digital images. A content analyzer generates a trigger signal based on an initial image-capturing template. The camera module captures and stores digital images responsive to receiving the trigger signal. A user interface component receives from a user one or more selections among the stored digital images, a template adjuster adjusts at least one target pose specified by the image-capturing template based on the one or more user selections, wherein the content analyzer generates the trigger signal based on the adjusted image-capturing template.
US09832368B1
A camera invocation gesture to access a first camera on a mobile device is received by the mobile device. Responsive to receiving the camera invocation gesture, a second camera on the mobile device is utilized to ascertain a context associated with whether a user likely intends to take a picture. If the mobile device ascertains that the user likely intends to take a picture, the mobile device can be placed in an operational picture mode in which pictures can be or can continue to be taken and saved on the mobile device. If the mobile device ascertains, from the context associated with the second camera, that the user likely does not intend to take a picture, then any pictures that are or were taken can be saved and the user can be prompted as to whether they wish to delete the pictures.
US09832365B2
The present invention relates to the field of digital pathology and in particular to whole slide scanners. A tilted autofocus image sensor images an oblique cross-section of the slide. For focusing multiple sequential overlapping images, which have been taken by the tilted sensor, are compared. The axial position of the tissue layer can be determined from the polar error signal resulting from this differential measurement.
US09832362B2
An image-capturing apparatus of the present disclosure includes a focus lens, an image sensor that captures an object image formed via the focus lens and generates image data, and an image processor that calculates a value relating to an in-focus position in a state of setting resolution of an object distance according to a first moving amount of the focus lens based on (i) first image data generated by the image sensor when the focus lens is at a first position and (ii) second image data generated by the image sensor when the focus lens is moved from the first position by a first moving amount and located at a second position.
US09832358B2
The related art has the problem of difficulty in providing the maximum number of actually superimposable images from an image-capturing apparatus to an external apparatus to which superimposition images are to be set, so that normal superimposition image setting cannot be performed from the external device.An image-capturing apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive a request to acquire information on setting of superimposition information; and a transmission unit configured, when the reception unit receives an acquisition request, to transmit a maximum number of superimposition settings that the image-capturing apparatus can perform and a maximum number of settings for each kind of superimposition information.
US09832357B2
A time of flight camera system is described. The time of flight camera system includes an illuminator. The illuminator has a movable optical component to scan light within the time-of-flight camera's field of view to illuminate a first region within the field of view that is larger than a second region within the time-of-flight camera's field of view that is illuminated at any instant by the light. The illuminator also includes an image sensor to determine depth profile information within the first region using time-of-flight measurement techniques.
US09832354B2
A bubble for a surveillance camera has at least one planar transparent region. The at least one planar transparent region is aligned with an optical axis of a camera head of the surveillance camera. In a preferred embodiment, the bubble can include at least one bubble section having one or more window cutouts. The at least one planar transparent region can be one or more planar window elements that are installed within the one or more window cutouts of the bubble section.
US09832351B1
Pseudorandom overlapped block processing may be provided. First, a first temporal sequence of video frames corrupted with noise may be received. Next, matched frames may be producing by frame matching video frames of the first temporal sequence according to a first stage of processing. Then the matched frames may be denoised according to a second stage of processing. The second stage of processing may commence responsive to completion of the first stage of processing for all the video frames of the first temporal sequence. The second stage of processing may comprise overlapped block processing. The overlapped block processing may comprise pseudorandom overlapped block processing having no successive pixels both horizontally and vertically that are one-sized in transforms.
US09832350B2
An image processing method includes performing first halftone processing and second halftone processing. The second halftone processing is performed, for a second kind of color in advance among a plurality of colors constituting an original image, in units of blocks each consisting of a plurality of pixels that constitute the original image and the second kind of color is converted into an amount of second kind of ink corresponding to the second kind of color among the plurality of inks. The first halftone processing is performed, for the first kind of color, for each pixel that constitutes the original image or each pixel group having a smaller number of pixels than the block and the first kind of color is converted into an amount of first kind of ink corresponding to the first kind of color among the plurality of inks.
US09832343B2
An image processing apparatus acquires first and second image data respectively representing first and second image. The first and second image respectively includes first and second target image. The apparatus generates, based on the first image data, corrected image data representing a corrected image including a first corrected target image having a slant end. The apparatus identifies a blank region in contact with the slant end from the corrected image and generates complemented image data representing a complement image by performing, on the corrected image data, a complement process in which pixel values of pixels in the blank region are determined. The apparatus generates arranged image data representing an arranged image in which a first arrangement target image and a second arrangement target image are arranged, by using the complemented image data. The first and second arrangement target images concern the first and second target images, respectively.
US09832335B2
An image forming apparatus that is capable of reducing unpleasant noise accompanying a preparation operation when a job without a print operation is performed. A second control unit controls an image forming unit. A plurality of lines connecting a first control unit and the second control unit include a first line for transmitting a clock to the second control unit from the first control unit, a second line for communicating a command including a start bit according to the clock, and a third line for controlling a state of the second control unit by the first control unit. The second control unit makes the image forming unit perform a preparation operation when the start bit is in a first state after releasing the sleep state, and makes the image forming unit not perform the preparation operation when the start bit is in a second state after releasing the sleep state.
US09832334B2
An electronic apparatus includes a processor for which log information is obtained, a signal monitor configured to monitor monitored signals and detect a change in a changed monitored signal of the monitored signals, and a data acquirer configured to capture groups of signals associated with the monitored signals. The monitored signals include signals for controlling a start of the processor and signals indicating status of power supply to the electronic apparatus. When the change in the changed monitored signal is detected by the signal monitor, the data acquirer stores values of one of the groups of signals associated with the changed monitored signal as a portion of the log information in a storage device.
US09832332B2
In an image reader, a controller control, during a period from a timing when a detector detects an open state of a cover to a timing when the detector detects a closed state of the cover, a document detector to detect whether a document sheet is present or absent every time a prescribed time period is elapsed, and stores in a memory each set of first data indicating absence or presence of the document sheet. The controller determines a first size of the document sheet in a main scanning direction. The controller determines a second size of the document sheet in a sub scanning direction on the basis of the sets of first data. The controller determines a reading range on the basis of the first and second sizes. The reading section reads the determined reading range on the line-to-line basis to obtain an image of the document sheet.
US09832331B2
An image reading apparatus includes first and second image reading units, and first and second transparent guides disposed along a conveyance path and guiding a document passing through a conveyance path. The first and second transparent guides are disposed to oppose to each other across the conveyance path. The image reading apparatus also includes a grounding portion provided on one of the first and second transparent guides and a conductive portion electrically connecting the first and second transparent guides with each other.
US09832323B2
An image processing apparatus includes a platen, a fixed-document detection unit, a determination unit, and a processing-target selection unit. The determination unit determines whether the document on the platen is a left document or not when the document on the document tray and the document on the platen are detected, upon acceptance of the document-reading-starting instruction by the instruction accepting unit. The processing-target selection unit sets image data obtained by a conveyed-document reading unit as a processing target when the determination unit determines that the document on the platen is the left document, and inquires which image data obtained by the conveyed-document reading unit and a fixed-document reading unit, to be set as the processing target of the user when the determination unit determines that the document on the platen is not the left document.
US09832322B1
Techniques to transform network resource requests to zero rated network requests are described. Some embodiments are particularly directed to techniques transform network resource requests on a cellular network to zero rating by replacing the destination of the request with a zero-rated source for the network resource. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may comprise a data store and a network access component. The data store may be operative to store a plurality of zero-rating rewrite rules. The network access component may be operative to receive a network request from an application component on the mobile device, the network request for access to a network resource; compare the network resource to the plurality of zero-rating rewrite rules to identify a zero-rating rewrite rule matching the network resource; transform the network request to a zero-rated network request for the network resource using the identified zero-rating rewrite rule; and perform the zero-rated network request. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09832318B1
Systems and methods provide a resident of a controlled-environment facility with voice messaging. The facility provides the resident with voice communication services. In response to a request by a resident for a voice communication with a non-resident, a call request to the non-resident may be initiated. In certain scenarios, the non-resident is unable to accept the call request. If a voice message is authorized, the resident is allowed to record a voice message for the non-resident. Certain restrictions may limit the resident to selecting from automated voice messages. A notification of the recorded voice message is dispatched to the non-resident. The notification identifies a unique link that directs the non-resident to a voice message retrieval system that allows the resident to retrieve and listen to the voice message recorded by the resident. The voice message recording remains under the control of the controlled-environment facility based on applicable security policies and procedures.
US09832316B1
A method of routing a customer to a desired representative of a call center includes, in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure, receiving a communication from the customer. The method also includes identifying, within a database saved to a server, a customer account associated with the customer, and identifying data indicative of one or more life event entries saved to the customer account and corresponding with one or more life events of the customer. The method also includes applying the identified data indicative of the one or more life event entries to a history-based statistical models, where each history-based statistical model represents a corresponding call routing channel. The method also includes assigning a probability score for each history-based statistical model, where each probability score represents a likelihood that the corresponding call routing channel represented by the history-based statistical model is desired by the customer. The method also includes routing, via a switch, the customer to the desired representative via the call routing channel associated with the desired representative.
US09832314B2
A middleware device opens, based on an assistance call from a mobile device, a first leg of a websocket with a system associated with a call center customer representative, and sends a SMS text message to the mobile device that includes a first authentication token. The middleware device receives, while attempting to establish a second leg of the websocket between the first middleware device and the mobile device, a second authentication token from the mobile device, authenticates the mobile device based on the second authentication token, and opens the second leg of the websocket between the middleware device and the mobile device based on whether the authentication is successful. The middleware device receives a captured display screen from the mobile device via the second leg of the websocket, and sends the captured display screen to the system associated with the customer representative via the first leg of the websocket.
US09832300B2
A method and apparatus for contextually managing contact priorities based on travel includes an electronic device configured to determine a travel destination remote from a home location for the electronic device and to determine a set of individuals who will be located at the travel destination. The electronic device is further configured to temporarily make one or more contacts for the set of individuals preferred contacts while traveling and to enable a limited-interruption mode on the electronic device while traveling, wherein an audible alert on the electronic device is enabled for preferred contacts and disabled for non-preferred contacts while the limited-interruption mode is enabled.
US09832272B2
To efficiently generate geographic content for display on client devices, a method includes determining a current status of a client device and determining a current status of a network connection between the client device and a network server. The method includes determining, based at least on one of (i) the determined current status of the client device or (ii) the determined current status of the network connection, whether a task related to generating geographic content for display on the client device should be executed on the client device or on the network server. The method also includes causing either the client device or the network server to execute the task, in accordance with the determination of where the task should be executed.
US09832270B2
A system and method for determining I/O performance headroom that accounts for a real-world workload is provided. In some embodiments, a computing device is provided that is operable to identify a data transaction received by a storage system and directed to a storage device. The computing system identifies an attribute of the data transaction relating to a performance cost of the data transaction and queries a performance profile to determine a benchmark performance level for the storage device. The computing system determines a benchmark performance level for the storage system based on the benchmark performance level for the storage device and compares a metric of the performance of the data transaction with the storage system benchmark performance level to determine remaining headroom of the storage system.
US09832269B2
A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and storage controller computing device that establishes an application interface and a source interface to a programmable switch. A flow table of the programmable switch is updated to insert routing actions associated with the application and source interfaces. Next, when an application request received from an application is locally serviceable is determined. When the determination indicates the application request is not locally serviceable, a migration request for data associated with the application request is sent to the programmable switch from the source interface and a destination address of a source storage server is used. Additionally, a migration response to the migration request including the data from the source storage server is received from the source interface. The data is then stored locally in a destination storage server and thereby is migrated from the source storage server.
US09832265B2
Described herein is a computer implemented method for operating a collaboration system to synchronize integrations installed on a client device with integrations stored by the collaboration system. The method comprises: receiving a synchronization request from the client device and, for a given integration included in the synchronization request: retrieving a system integration token and comparing a client integration token received in the request with the system integration token. Responsive to determining that the client and system integration tokens do not match, the method further comprises determining the client to be out of date with respect to the given integration and sending an integration update to the client device.
US09832252B2
A method includes receiving a request from a first user at a first device to set up a communication session with a second user at a second device, in response to the request, directing the first device to authenticate the first user with a third party authentication service, receiving an authentication result corresponding to the first user, verifying the authentication result using information from the third party authentication service, and in response to verifying the authentication result, establishing the communication session on behalf of the first user.
US09832251B2
Streaming content with an electronic device includes incrementally downloading content data at a first quality level from a content server over a network. Triggered by receipt of a notification indicative of predicted network congestion, the electronic device requests and downloads a next increment of the content data at a second quality level lower than the first quality level from the content server.
US09832249B2
Disclosed are various embodiments for facilitating streaming of media content. Video content is retrieved over a network from one or more client devices capturing video content. Data items associated with the plurality of video content are also retrieved. A list order for the plurality of video content is determined according to at least a portion of the retrieved data items, and a user interface is encoded for display where the user interface contains a plurality of items corresponding to the plurality of video content, the items being positioned within the user interface according to the list order.
US09832247B2
The video processing (VP) tasks may be moved from a client device such as a smart phone, tablet, or a laptop to a cloud processing device provided in a cloud to save conserve power in the client device. In one embodiment, the cloud processing device may process the video data based on the optimized video processing parameters, which may be generated using one or more modified VPPs. The modified VPPs may be provided by the client device based on the size (small, medium, and large, for example) of the screen of the client device. Further, the cloud processing device may support an automatic adaption mode (AAM) in which the cloud processing device may process the video data based on the availability of the network bandwidth value provided by the client device.
US09832244B2
A method and apparatus for dynamic quality adjustment of digital media based on changing streaming constraints is provided. A digital media server sends a digital media stream according to a set of streaming constraints to a requesting client. Audio and visual information may be sent to a requesting client together in a single stream, or separately in multiple streams. A client sends a request over a control network to the digital media server indicating information of a particular type is no longer desired. In response to receiving the signal, the video server ceases transmission of that particular type of information to the signaling client, thus relaxing streaming constraints. As a result of the techniques described herein, an improved quality digital presentation is available for the client and, consequently, when a viewer signals that a particular type of information is not desired, that particular type of information is not transmitted to the client, which thereby reduces the streaming constraints on a video streaming service, and improved quality digital media information may be sent to any client using the freed-up portion of the bandwidth previously allocated to the signaling client.
US09832237B2
A technique for facilitating online collaboration among users of client machines allows multiple users to work together and concurrently on a set of documents. In response to a request from a user, a server opens a document in a software application running on the server and virtualizes the software application to the client machines. Multiple users can then operate the software application from the respective client machines to edit the document via remote control. The server multiplexes pointer input from the client machines to provide pointer input to the software application from one user at a time. Multiplexing of pointer input takes place seamlessly and automatically in response to user activity with respect to the virtualized software application.
US09832229B2
A multi-tier platform supports a messaging platform. An intermediate layer interacts with a web layer and registered sources of data components, where a registered source may be an application executing on the computer system or an external source of an external service provider. A data request is received at the web layer and is passed to the intermediate layer for requested data, which may comprise one or more data components. The intermediate layer determines the authoritative source for a data component and whether the data component comprises static or dynamic data. If data component comprises dynamic data, the intermediate layer functions as a messaging platform by generating a message to the registered source to access the dynamic data. If the data component comprises static data, the intermediate layer accesses the static data stored at the intermediate layer. The intermediate layer then returns the requested data via the web layer.
US09832227B2
A method in one example implementation includes receiving information related to a network access attempt on a first computing device with the information identifying a software program file associated with the network access attempt. The method also includes evaluating a first criterion to determine whether network traffic associated with the software program file is permitted and then creating a restriction rule to block the network traffic if the network traffic is not permitted. The first criterion includes a trust status of the software program file. In specific embodiments, the method includes pushing the restriction rule to a network protection device that intercepts the network traffic associated with the software program file and applies the restriction rule to the network traffic. In more specific embodiments, the method includes searching a whitelist identifying trustworthy software program files to determine the trust status of the software program file.
US09832225B2
In some embodiments, techniques for computer security comprise preventing and/or mitigating identity theft such as phishing.
US09832220B2
A method for enhancing security in a cloud computing system by allocating virtual machines over hypervisors, in a cloud computing environment, in a security-aware fashion. The invention solves the cloud user risk problem by inducing a state such that, unless there is a change in the conditions under which the present invention operates, the cloud users do not gain by deviating from the allocation induced by the present invention. The invention's methods include grouping virtual machines of similar loss potential on the same hypervisor, creating hypervisor environments of similar total loss, and implementing a risk tiered system of hypervisors based on expense factors.
US09832219B2
An incident response system and method for tracking data security incidents in enterprise networks is disclosed. An Incident Manager application (IM) stores incident objects and incident artifacts (IAs) created in response to the incidents, where the incident objects include the information for the incident and the IAs are associated with data resources (e.g. IP addresses and malware hashes) identified within the incident objects. In response to creation of the IAs, the IM issues queries against one or more external threat intelligence sources (TISs) to obtain information associated with the IAs and augments the IAs with the obtained information. In examples, the IM can identify known threats by comparing the contents of IAs against TIS(s) of known threats, and can identify potential trends by correlating the created incident objects and augmented IAs for an incident with incident objects and IAs stored for other incidents.
US09832216B2
Described herein are embodiments of a system and method for network data characterization and/or classification that overcome the defects of the prior art. These and other advantages are achieved by a method for network data characterization. The method includes receiving network events, wherein at least some of the events include content, converting the received content into data messages, in which at least some of the data messages include the content and metadata describing an event and the content, routing the data messages to a plurality of analyzers based on specified message criteria to which each analyzer subscribes, each of one or more analyzers that received the routed data messages analyzing the content within the data messages in order to characterize the content, in which the one or more analyzers include at least one machine-learning analyzer that classifies the content with a confidence percentage that indicates the probability that the content is malign or the confidence that a prediction that the content is malign is correct, outputting the characterization results of the one or more analyzers, and comparing the output characterization results against a plurality of criteria to determine subsequent action to take based on the characterization results.
US09832215B2
A method of inspecting content intended for a workstation to detect content that performs malicious exploits, including receiving the content for inspection at an inspection server using a processor and memory, loading a virtual machine at the inspection server with an operating system and processes for activating the content, wherein the operating system and processes are similar to those executed at the intended workstation, activating the content in the virtual machine, tracing activity of the virtual machine to form trace data by using features of the processor, wherein upon occurrence of an exception control is transferred to an analyzer that analyzes the trace data based on a context of the exception; and a notification is provided if suspicious activity is detected.
US09832201B1
Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for creating reusable resource-centric threat models and identifying controls for securing resources within a network. The present invention is configured to determine that an internal resource in a network requires protection from unauthorized external access; electronically receive information associated with the internal resource within the network; determine one or more threat vectors associated with the internal resource; electronically retrieve from a controls library, a control template associated with a resource category matching the resource category of the internal resource; and apply the control template to the internal resource.
US09832195B2
Organizations maintain and generate large amounts of documentation and entities of these organizations often need to collaborate on generating and reviewing this information. There is a need to maintain and store this documentation remotely in such a way that the entities of these organizations may collaborate with each other. A document management a collaboration system is provided to enable entities to collaborate with each other. Furthermore, developers may interface with the document management and collaboration system to provide add-in services and components to the document management and collaboration system. These add-in service and components may expand the capabilities of the documents and collaborations enabled by the document management and collaboration system.
US09832183B2
A portable apparatus is removably and communicatively connectable to a network device to communicate authentication or authorization credentials of a user in connection with the user logging into or entering into a transaction with a network site. The apparatus includes a communications port to connect and disconnect the apparatus to and from the network device and to establish a communication link with the network device when connected thereto. A processor receives a secure message from the network security server via the port. The message has a PIN for authenticating the user to the network site, and is readable only by the apparatus. The processor either transfers, via the port, the received PIN to an application associated with the network site that is executing on the network device or causes the apparatus to display the received PIN for manual transfer to the application associated with the network site.
US09832157B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and system for providing notification of events. Specifically, embodiments disclosed herein describe a method and system for generating dynamic messages based on events and transmitting the dynamic messages to various users over a social networking platform. Embodiments include receiving product data and comparing the product data to a set of predefined trigger parameters. If it is determined that the product data satisfies one or more of the trigger parameters, a dynamic message is generated. In certain embodiments, the content of the dynamic message is based, at least in part, on the product data. The generated dynamic message is then automatically transmitted to a set of recipients over the social networking platform.
US09832152B2
Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems receive an instruction to establish a rule to take an action on each email message received from a first email address, determine that the first email address is associated with contact data, determine that the contact data is associated with a second email address, and apply the rule to take the action on each email message received from the second email address.
US09832144B2
A method and device are described for implementing instant communication. Information indicating that a first user is logged into an instant communication interface is obtained. On-line users are displayed to the first user in response to the login of the first user. A first user selects an object to follow from the on-line users and, information about the selected object to follow is received in response to the first user selecting the object to follow from the on-line users. The first user may be set into a first instant communication room in which the selected object to follow resides, for performing instant communication. The device includes: an obtaining module, a displaying module and a processing module. In this manner communication between strangers is facilitated and the efficiency of making friends is enhanced.
US09832141B1
Aspects of the disclosure will be described with regard to the processing of DNS queries by a DNS service based on multiple network addresses associated with a single network entity (e.g., a service provider). The DNS service may respond to each DNS query for identifying network addresses associated with the service provider with a respective unique network address from a pool of network addresses. Based on the uniqueness of network addresses, DNS queries and subsequent communications between respective client computing devices and the service can be correlated.
US09832140B2
A system monitors first traffic and identifies associations between applications that generated or received the traffic and parameters such as domain names, a remote host, and a local host referenced in the traffic. Subsequent traffic is monitored and determined to be generated by or addressed to an application according to such parameters in the subsequent traffic, such as remote host, local host, domain name, or port number. The subsequent traffic is associated with an application without requiring deep packet inspection (DPI). In particular, an application may be associated with a session based on evaluation of a single packet of the session.
US09832133B2
A first network node, for supporting transport of data in a wireless communication network. One or more first data transmission connections, for first data flows, are established between the first network node and one or more service providing entities. One or more second data transmission connections, for second data flows associated with the first data flows, are established between the first network node and one or more wireless terminals via a target node. The first network node obtains a buffer measure that is indicative of a buffering degree at the target node for a first group of the second data flows. The first network node controls, based on the obtained buffer measure, a transmission pace between the first network node and the target node for a second group of the second data flows.
US09832108B2
A method, apparatus and computer program product for providing quick designated router transitions in broadcast networks is presented. An Alternate Designated Router (ADR) in a network detects node failure of a Designated Router (DR) prior to other nodes of the network detecting the failure of the DR. In response to the detecting node failure of the DR, the ADR floods the network with a link state packet of a pseudonode within the network. At least one other node of the network detects failure of the DR. The at least one other node computes routes to take into account the failure of the DR by the at least one other node of the network, wherein there is minimal traffic loss since the pseudonodes link state packet is already present before the computing routes takes place.
US09832105B2
A method and apparatus for analyzing IP data flows for the determination of an alternate routing path for network traffic between a known first network and a destination within an unknown second network on the Internet. An initial path between the first network and the destination exists. The IP address of the destination is determined and looked up in an Internet database. An alternative route to the destination is determined based on information from the Internet database in order to avoid an interconnecting transit network.
US09832098B2
A method for connecting, by a central control unit (CCU), a booting switch to a network. The network includes switches controlled by the CCU using control data packets that are transmitted via communications paths in the network. User packets are transmitted through the network using the same communications paths. A switch uses forwarding rules stored in a pipeline to forward packets in the network. A local port in each switch provides access to the pipeline. The paths in the network for the control data packets are established by storing forwarding rules configured by the CCU in the pipelines of the switches. At least one switch contains a connecting port via which the booting switch is connected to the network. The forwarding rules in the booting switch are stored by the CCU using a temporary path, which contains the existing path and a connecting path.
US09832093B1
A method of operating a data processing system to generate a jitter-injected signal from an input signal that is a function of time is disclosed. A time offset corresponding to a first time is generated according to a jitter specification that specifies the offset as a function of time. The jitter-injected signal at the first time is generated by evaluating the input signal at a time equal to a sum of the time offset and the first time. If the jitter specification only provides offsets at signal crossing times, interpolation is used to derive time offsets at non-signal crossing times.
US09832092B2
A method and a network entity for evaluating a link between a first and a second network node are disclosed. The link is configured to carry data packets between the network nodes via a third network node. The link comprises a first segment and a second segment. The network entity obtains an indication of a measurement tool to be used in a measurement session for evaluation of the link. The network entity selects a mathematical model based on the indication. The network entity generates measurement values by executing the measurement session. The network entity determines a first and a second value relating to lost data packets of the first and second segments, respectively, based on the measurement values and the selected mathematical model. The network entity identifies at least one of the first and second segments based the first and second values.
US09832086B2
Provided is an initiator apparatus that, when issuing access requests for remote access via wireless communication to a storage section that processes only one access request at a time, can easily detect timeouts with one timer irrespective of the number of access requests issued via wireless communication. In this apparatus, an access-request processor (102) sends one or more access requests to a target apparatus (110) provided with a storage section that processes only one access request at a time and receives access acknowledgments for the access requests from the target apparatus (110). Until all the access requests are completed, a timeout detector (103) resets the timer operation and starts it again each time an access request is sent or an access acknowledgment is received, and detects a timeout when the timer operation exceeds a timeout period.
US09832085B1
A method for solving an under-determined inverse problem or network inference/tomography problem in per-flow size, delay, loss and throughput inference in a computer network, through a system is presented. The method includes the following steps, which are not necessarily in order. First, establishing the computer network having a plurality of nodes wherein the per-flow size, the delay, the loss and the throughput inference are unknown. An original observation or routing matrix determines how flows are appeared on the links and construct the measurements. Next, performing a learning phase to obtain an optimal observation matrix or pseudo-optimal observation matrix. After that, performing a computer controller adaptive measurement and inference phase to estimate the set of unknowns using the measurement quantities, and a function of one of the set consisting of: the optimal observation matrix, the original observation matrix, or both.
US09832076B2
The disclosure is related to managing a resource change in a machine to machine (M2M) network. Managing the resource change in M2M network by creating an abstract M2M entity object associated with a resource change, and creating an M2M entity object instance by embodying the abstract M2M entity object according to each application development environment.
US09832070B2
A communication terminal communicates protocol data units across a first virtual interface and a shared interface. The first virtual interface corresponds to an upper layer protocol and a first logical network. The shared interface corresponds to a lower layer protocol. The terminal also communicates protocol data units across a second virtual interface and the shared interface, with the second virtual interface corresponding to the upper layer protocol and a second logical network. The first logical network can be a wide area network that includes devices within a premises and devices outside a premises, and the second logical network may be a local area network that only includes devices within the premises.
US09832064B2
In MIMO a wireless node's receive chain demodulation function is enhanced to include phase tracking using very high-throughput long training fields (VHT-LTFs) embedded in a frame preamble. Single stream pilot tones are added during transmission of VHT-LTFs. A receiver estimates the channel using the pilot tones in a first set of VHT-LTFs, and estimates the phase of the pilot tones using a second set of VHT-LTFs. The phase estimation receiver estimates the channel using the pilot tones in a first set of VHT-LTFs. The phase estimation is continuously applied to other received data tones throughout the VHT-LTFs of data symbols. Phase errors due to PLL mismatches and phase noise are reduced at reception, leading to better signal to noise ratio for different levels of drift and frequency offset.
US09832061B2
A broadcast signal receiver is disclosed. A broadcast signal receiver according to the present invention comprises a synchronization/demodulation module carrying out signal detection and OFDM demodulation on a received broadcast signal; a frame parsing and deinterleaving module parsing and deinterleaving a signal frame of the broadcast signal; a demapping and decoding module converting data of at least one Physical Layer Pipe (PLP) of the broadcast signal into a bit domain and performing FEC decoding on the converted data; and an output processing module receiving data of the at least one PLP and outputting the received data into a data stream.
US09832049B2
A communication network includes relaying apparatuses, each including redundant-route ports providing communication routes between the relaying apparatuses. The relaying apparatus determines whether a first frame received via a usual port is highly important. The first frame being highly important is transmitted via the respective redundant-route ports; the first frame being not highly important is transmitted via one redundant-route port. The relaying apparatus receives a second frame being highly important via the respective redundant-route ports; the second frame has a transmission destination corresponding to an apparatus connected with the relaying apparatus via the usual port. The relaying apparatus makes determination whether or not all the second frames received via the respective redundant-route ports accord with each other. With affirmative determination, one of the second frames is transferred to the transmission destination. With negative determination, all the second frames are cancelled.
US09832042B2
Transferring data in a network is disclosed. Transferring includes receiving a Provider Backbone Transport (PBT) frame, identifying a plurality of location specific identifiers in the PBT frame, mapping the PBT frame to a service based at least in part on the plurality of location specific identifiers, formatting the PBT frame according to the service to obtain a service frame, and transferring the service frame to a network associated with the service.
US09832040B2
According to an example, in a method for redirecting virtual machine traffic a virtual switch may be implemented in a physical server. In addition, a packet sent from a first virtual machine to a second virtual machine may be detected, in which the first virtual machine and the second virtual machine are in the same virtual local area network (VLAN), and in which the packet has a first VLAN label that identifies the VLAN. Moreover, the first VLAN label may be replaced with a second VLAN label in the packet, in which the second VLAN label differs from the first VLAN label, and the packet may be sent to an uplink switch, in which the uplink switch may send the packet to a network security module.
US09832036B2
A vehicular interface may include an electromechanical interface between a handheld electronic device and subsystems on a vehicular bus or network. In an illustrative embodiment, the interface may operate in a “master mode” when a handheld device, such as a tablet computer or smart-phone, is not inserted therein. In this mode the interface may serve as a master controller and accesses and controls various subsystems on a vehicle (such as engine control subsystems, media controllers, navigation systems, sensors and transducers) as a master controller. In one embodiment, when a tablet device is inserted into the interface, the interface may automatically switch to “slave mode” in which it acts as an adapter or interface between the tablet device and the vehicular subsystems.
US09832032B2
A method for enabling a user terminal to receive packet data in a mobile communication system supporting a packet data service. In the method, a radio network controller receives a session start message from a core network, determines whether or not a frequency area (FA) including the user equipment supports the MBMS service, and transmits a notification message, which contains cell reselection information used when the user equipment moves into an FA supporting the MBMS service, to the user equipment when the user equipment is located in an FA, which does not support the MBMS service.
US09832029B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to a policy control method and device. The method includes: receiving, by a PCRF, NAT entry information sent by a NAT device; obtaining, by the PCRF, a first PCC rule according to the NAT entry information, where the first PCC rule is a PCC rule including an IP address to be translated by the NAT device; and sending, by the PCRF, the first PCC rule to a gateway device, so that the gateway device executes the first PCC rule. According to the embodiments of the present invention, it can be ensured that the gateway device correctly executes the PCC rule.
US09832028B2
A power-over-Ethernet (PoE) apparatus is provided with PSE controllers that are cooperable to manage a global power budget of the PoE apparatus automatically. Information indicative of the global power budget is conveyed to a group of PSE controllers. The PSE controllers cooperate collectively to allocate the global power budget among themselves automatically and autonomously. This is accomplished in simple fashion without using a separate, programmed microcontroller. Each PSE controller also manages its own local power budget, allocating available local power among its own power sourcing ports.
US09832026B2
System and method for establishing a secure communication between a plurality of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, includes provisioning a first and a second IoT devices by providing a unique identification, a digital identity token and a cryptographic key to each of the first and second IoT devices; authenticating the second IoT device by the first IoT device; inviting the second IoT device by the first IoT device to establish a communication line with the first IoT device; establishing a secure communication line between the first IoT device and the second IoT device by authenticating the communication line between the first IoT device and the second IoT device and issuing a digital certificate to the communication line between the first IoT device and the second IoT device; establishing secure communication lines between the first IoT device, the second IoT device and a plurality of more devices; and grouping the first IoT device, the second IoT device and the plurality of more devices into different groups based on a predetermined criteria.
US09832025B2
A policy server that is associated with a secure element owner receives a request, from a service provider, to provision access, by an application, to the secure element. The policy server creates, in response to the request, a policy ticket, for the service provider, that defines privileges for the service provider to create a security domain or a new profile within the secure element. The policy server provides, to a service provider trusted service manager (TSM), the policy ticket and a signed certificate, the signed certificate corresponding to a root certificate that is inserted into a Controlling Authority Security Domain (CASD) portion of the secure element prior to receiving the request. When the CASD receives the policy ticket and signed certificate from the service provider TSM, the CASD validates based on the root certificate and provisions access to the secure element based on information in the policy ticket.
US09832012B2
A method can include a digital oversampler oversampling an input data stream, a rate generator selecting a frequency that is not less than an expected frequency of the input data stream, a rate generator clock of the rate generator outputting a clock signal that has the selected frequency, determining whether a sample receiver has received at least one sample of the input data stream from the digital oversampler, and, responsive to a determination that the sample receiver has received at least one sample of the input data stream from the digital oversampler, incrementing a sample counter by each received sample. The method can also include a sample rate converter accumulating samples from the sample receiver at the rate of a “toothless” clock signal, determining whether an output of the sample counter is greater than zero, and, responsive to a determination that the output of the sample counter is greater than zero, an AND gate passing the “toothless” clock signal to the sample rate converter.
US09832004B2
The present invention brings about an effect of reducing a deterioration in communication quality that may occur in a communication circuit that can communicate in different communication modes. A communication circuit (100) of an aspect of the present invention includes a control section (109) that (i) controls a reception filter (194) such that respective passbands of a transmission filter (103) and the reception filter (104) are different from each other in a case where a full-duplex communication is made in a FDD mode, and (ii) controls the reception filter (104) such that at least part of the passband of the transmission filter (103) and at least part of the passband of the reception filter (104) overlap each other in a case where a full-duplex communication is made in a TDD mode.
US09831989B2
Provided are a method for setting a starting position in a time domain of a data channel in a wireless communication system and a device using the method thereof. The method comprises the steps of: receiving position information notifying the position at which data channels start in a plurality of subframes; receiving a control channel in a first downlink subframe; and receiving at least one data channel scheduled by the control channel in the plurality of the downlink subframes, wherein the position at which the data channel starts in the plurality of the downlink subframes is determined on the basis of the position information.
US09831976B2
An optical transmission apparatus for transmitting wavelength-multiplexed light, the optical transmission apparatus includes: an optical transmitter configured to transmit light of a third wavelength to be arranged between a first wavelength and a second wavelength adjacent to the third wavelength in the wavelength-multiplexed light, and a controller configured to control a bandwidth of the light of the third wavelength to be arranged in a first bandwidth narrower than a spacing between the first wavelength and the second wavelength.
US09831964B2
Methods and systems for improving adjacent channel rejection performance in a wireless signal by a radio device in a mobile network. In one embodiment, a mobile radio network includes a first radio device (e.g., a subscriber), a second radio device, and a fixed radio apparatus (e.g., a base station or repeater). The first radio device receives a first channel signal having a first frequency offset with respect to a reference frequency. The first channel signal is associated with the second radio device. The first radio device measures the first frequency offset, determines a second frequency offset for a second channel signal, and transmits the second channel signal with the second frequency offset.
US09831963B2
A MIMO communication method of performing MIMO communication between a base station having a plurality of antennas and each of a plurality of terminals covered by the base station using uplink data slots and downlink data slots that are alternately placed on a time axis. The method includes, in the base station, despreading a received signal that is transmitted from each of the plurality of terminals demodulating the transmission data transmitted from a respective terminal on the basis of the value of the estimated channel; decoding a received signal included in the uplink data slots, estimating a current channel between each of all antennas of the base station and the respective terminal; and comparing the stored value of the estimated channel with a value of the estimated current channel and updating the stored value of the estimated channel to the value of the estimated current channel.
US09831957B2
A self-equalizing photo-detector (SEPD) includes, in part, a multitude of optical splitters and photo detectors, and at least one optical delay element. The first optical splitter splits an optical signal into second and third optical signals. The optical delay element delays the second optical signal to generate a fourth optical signal. The second optical splitter splits a signal representative of the fourth optical signal to generate fifth and sixth optical signals. The first photo detector receives the third optical signal via a first optical path, has an anode terminal coupled to an output terminal of the detector and a cathode terminal coupled to a first supply voltage. The second photo detector receives the sixth optical signal via a second optical path, has an anode terminal coupled to a second supply voltage and a cathode terminal coupled to the output terminal of the detector.
US09831947B2
Systems and methods for determining margin in an optical network include changing powers of signals from one or more transmitters; measuring noise at one or more receivers each communicatively coupled to the one or more transmitters; and determining margin between the one or more transmitters and the one or more receivers based on the associated measured noise. The changing, the measuring, and the determining are performed in-service while the one or more transmitters are each transmitting data-bearing signals.
US09831942B2
A method for receiving, by circuitry of an optical node adapted for wavelength multiplexing and wavelength switching, over an OSC an optical signal comprising overhead information indicative of status of at least one of an optical layer in an OTN; terminating the optical signal; notifying software of the status of the optical layer; detecting, based on the status of the optical layer, a uni-directional or bi-directional failure of a working path between the optical node and a second optical node, wherein the working path carries data traffic from the first optical node to the second optical node in the OTN when there is no failure in the working path; and switching, triggered by the uni-directional or bi-directional failure of the working path, to select the data traffic from a protection path, wherein the protection path carries data traffic between the optical node and the second optical node.
US09831941B2
A method and apparatus for a wireless receiver are described herein. A user equipment (UE) may process control information in a first time slot of a transmission time interval (TTI) having a plurality of time slots. The UE may, in response to the control information including valid resource assignment information for the UE, receive data in the first time slot and another time slot of the TTI. The UE may, in response to the control information not including valid resource assignment information for the UE, discontinue reception in the TTI. The UE may discontinue reception for another time slot of the TTI. The circuitry may be further configured to receive a transmission indicating that a base station will discontinuously transmit to the UE. The control information may be processed prior to processing any of the data symbols of the TTI.
US09831939B2
At least one satellite provides access to an internet via one or more spatial beams of the satellite, each beam covering a respective area of a geographic region and thereby providing said internet access to a plurality of respective users in the respective area. A plurality of bandwidth pools are allocated, from which bandwidth is used by the respective users in using the internet access. The sizes of two or more of these bandwidth pools are then dynamically adapted by temporarily re-allocating currently unused bandwidth from one or more of the pools to one or more others of the pools, automatically in response to current demand for the internet access from at least one of the two or more pools.
US09831936B2
Disclosed is a method for applying non-orthogonal multiple access in a multi-hop relay system constituted by a base station, a relay, a first user terminal, and a second user terminal, including: receiving, by the first user terminal, a first data signal which the first user terminal needs to receive and a second data signal which the second user terminal needs to receive from the base station through a first phase; receiving, by the first user terminal, a third data signal from the base station through a second phase when the second data signal is relayed through the second phase by the relay; and removing an interference signal included in the third data signal received through the second phase by using the second data signal which the first user terminal receives through the first phase.
US09831930B2
The teachings herein present a method and apparatus that implement and use a factorized precoder structure that is advantageous in terms of performance and efficiency. In particular, the teachings presented herein disclose an underlying precoder structure that allows for certain codebook reuse across different transmission scenarios, including for transmission from a single Uniform Linear Array (ULA) of transmit antennas and transmission from cross-polarized subgroups of such antennas. According to this structure, an overall precoder is constructed from a conversion precoder and a tuning precoder. The conversion precoder includes antenna-subgroup precoders of size NT/2, where NT represents the number of overall antenna ports considered. Correspondingly, the tuning precoder controls the offset of beam phases between the antenna-subgroup precoders, allowing the conversion precoder to be used with cross-polarized arrays of NT/2 antenna elements and with co-polarized arrays of NT antenna elements.
US09831927B2
In a telecommunication system, a method of controlling and implementing uplink transmission schemes specifically for user equipment having multiple input/multiple output (MIMO) capability, comprising: initializing said scheme at a network element; forwarding a message from said network element to said terminal indicating said scheme; transmitting uplink signals according to said scheme. It may comprises selecting a pre-coding arrangement such as a Transmitted Precoding Matrix Indicator or other scheduling grant information.
US09831925B2
A transmission antenna includes a closed-loop core having at least two electrically-conductive windings arranged on the closed-loop core. The windings are each electrically-actuated to generate a magnetic flux along the closed-loop core in opposing directions. The transmission antenna may generate a polarized magnetic field within a plane of the closed-loop core and provide broadband transmission of a polarized signal having a relatively flat frequency response. The transmission antenna is electrically-small, and the frequency of the polarized signal is nearly independent of the size of the closed-loop core. Multiple polarized signals may be provided, each being independently and continuously controlled through actuation of the windings. The direction of the polarized signal may also be varied. Additional windings for receiving a signal may simultaneously be employed on the closed-loop core. A method for transmitting a polarized signal with the transmission antenna is also provided.
US09831922B1
A system for determining tread wear of a tire includes a first wireless communication chip located at an inner surface of the tire and a second wireless communication chip located at an outer surface of the tire. The second chip resides in a slot extending through a housing located in a groove in a tread of the tire. The second chip moves in the slot toward the bottom of the groove in response to the tread wear. Methodology entails transmitting a first signal from a first chip, receiving the first signal at the second chip, transmitting a second signal from the second chip in response to receipt of the first signal, receiving the second signal at the first chip, computing a time delay between transmission of the first signal and receipt of the second signal, and determining tread wear of the tire in response to the time delay.
US09831919B2
An exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure illustrates a transmission interface device, and the transmission interface device comprises an antenna body. The antenna body comprises at least one electric coupling body and at least one magnetic coupling body at least covering or surrounding portion of the electric coupling body. When the antenna of the electronic device is close to the antenna body, the antenna body and the antenna of the electronic device selectively generate an electric coupling effect, a magnetic coupling effect, or a strong electromagnetic coupling effect, such that the transmission interface device can wirelessly charge the electronic device, or alternatively the transmission interface device and the electronic device can perform a power or data transmission.
US09831915B2
A transmitter for transmitting data signals to at least one communications device over a wired network on a plurality of carriers is provided, wherein the carriers are located in frequencies being allocated by one or more radio services, wherein each of the radio services is allocated to one or a plurality of frequency bands, the transmitter comprising a symbol generator configured to generate symbols based on the data signals; a processor configured to generate copies of the symbols and to determine an allocation of the copies onto the plurality of carriers, wherein a first copy and a second copy of each symbol are allocated to carriers located in frequency bands that are allocated to different radio services; and a modulator configured to modulate the copies of the symbols on the carriers in accordance with the determined allocation.
US09831908B2
Embodiments of the invention provide telecommunications methods that facilitate sharing of spreading codes. According to one of the embodiments, a first telecommunications apparatus first selects a plurality of second telecommunications apparatuses to share at least one spreading code. Then, the first telecommunications apparatus uses each of the at least one spreading code to perform spreading operations for the second telecommunications apparatuses by turns repetitively.
US09831898B2
Transmitter noise cancellation may be applied on a channel by channel basis to active channels of an incoming radio frequency signal received at a receiver. A noise cancellation filter may be provided for each active channel in a predetermined signal band. Applying noise cancellation on a per active channel basis instead of to the entire receive band may substantially reduce the filtering requirement and number of filter coefficients or taps to save power and reduce manufacturing costs. Channelized transmitter noise cancellers, multi transmitter-receiver cross coupling cancellers, and hybrid full signal band and channelized transmitter noise cancellers are also provided.
US09831897B2
A directional coupler includes rectangular waveguides each including: a pair of protruding sections which are provided on a first narrow wall or a second narrow wall, which are provided symmetrically with respect to an opening, and which protrude from one of the first and second narrow walls toward the other; and other protruding section which protrudes from the second narrow wall toward the opening.
US09831894B2
Provided is a data compression apparatus. The data compression apparatus includes a header information extraction extracting block header information on compressed data from I/Q data block generated by dividing data on a block basis, a block scaling unit generating an I/Q data scaling block by performing block scaling on the I/Q data block based on the block header information, and a compressed data generation unit generating compressed data by using a block header based on the block header information and the I/Q data scaling block.
US09831893B2
An information processing device includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and the processor configured to: generate compressed data, in sets of a prescribed size, in respect of one set of object data, in accordance with each of a plurality of compression methods; and select compressed data of the compression method which has completed compression of the object data first, among the plurality of compression methods.
US09831891B2
A counter includes a sampling unit suitable for sampling a logic state of a least significant bit (LSB) during a counting hold section, the counting hold section is present between first and second ramp sections; and a toggling control unit suitable for, in response to a clock and a sampling signal outputted from the sampling unit, generating the LSB according to a first voltage level of a counting target signal during a second part of the first ramp section and generating the LSB according to a second voltage level of the counting target signal during a first part of the second ramp section.
US09831890B2
A semiconductor device configured to perform an A/D conversion of a wide range of signals is provided. A semiconductor device includes: an input voltage detection unit configured to detect an analog input voltage; a reference voltage setting unit configured to set a reference voltage based on the detected input voltage; an amplifier configured to amplify a difference between the input voltage and the reference voltage; an ADC configured to perform an A/D conversion of an amplified signal; and an arithmetic processing unit configured to calculate a digital voltage corresponding to the input voltage based on a result of the A/D conversion and the reference voltage.
US09831884B2
Noise and distortion reduction in a signal processed through analog circuitry includes providing noise reduction circuitry to reduce signal noise generated by at least one analog circuit element. The noise reduction circuitry is adaptively configured to adjust a rate to apply noise reduction to the signal without introducing unwanted distortion. Distortion reduction circuitry is adaptively configured to adjust a rate to apply distortion reduction to the signal without introducing unwanted noise. The signal is processed through the analog circuitry using the adaptively configured noise reduction circuitry and adaptively configured distortion reduction circuitry to reduce both noise and distortion in the signal.
US09831882B1
The invention concerns an apparatus comprising an analog circuit and a digital circuit. The analog circuit may be configured to generate an enable signal in response to (i) a comparison of a width of an up pulse and a pre-determined width and (ii) a comparison of a width of a down pulse and the pre-determined width. The up pulse and the down pulse may be generated in response to a comparison of a feedback signal and a reference signal. The enable signal may be active when both the comparisons are within a pre-determined threshold. The digital circuit may be configured to generate an output signal representing a lock status between (i) the feedback signal and (ii) the reference signal. The lock status may be determined (a) during a decision window based on a number of pulses of the reference signal and (b) when the enable signal is active.
US09831873B2
Electronic logic gates that operate using N logic state levels, where N is greater than 2, and methods of operating such gates. The electronic logic gates operate according to truth tables. At least two input signals each having a logic state that can range over more than two logic states are provided to the logic gates. The logic gates each provide an output signal that can have one of N logic states. Examples of gates described include NAND/NAND gates having two inputs A and B and NAND/NAND gates having three inputs A, B, and C, where A, B and C can take any of four logic states. Systems using such gates are described, and their operation illustrated. Optical logic gates that operate using N logic state levels are also described.
US09831867B1
A half bridge GaN circuit is disclosed. The circuit includes a low side circuit, which has a low side switch, a low side switch driver configured to drive the low side switch, a first level shift circuit configured to receive a first level shift signal, and a second level shift circuit configured to generate a second level shift signal. The half bridge GaN circuit also includes a high side circuit, which has a high side switch configured to be selectively conductive according to a voltage level of a received high side switch signal, and a high side switch driver configured to generate the high side switch signal in response to the level shift signals. A transition in the voltage of the high side switch signal causes the high side switch driver to prevent additional transitions of the voltage level of the high side switch signal for a period of time.
US09831864B2
A first portion of a programmable switched capacitor block includes a first plurality of switched capacitors and a second portion of the programmable switched capacitor block includes a second plurality of switched capacitors. A first switch associated with the first plurality of switched capacitors as well as a second switch associated with the second plurality of switched capacitors may be configured based on a type of analog function that is to be provided. The configuring of the first analog and the second analog block may include the configuring of the first switch associated with the first plurality of switched capacitors when the analog function operates on a first single ended signal and the configuring of both the first and second switches when the analog function operates on a differential signal.
US09831851B2
A BAW component, a lamination for a BAW component, and a method for manufacturing a BAW component are provided. A lamination for a BAW component includes a first layer with a first piezoelectric material and a second layer with a second piezoelectric material that is different than the first piezoelectric material. The first and the second piezoelectric material can be Sc doped AlN and AlN, respectively.
US09831848B2
An elastic wave device includes a supporting substrate, a high-acoustic-velocity film stacked on the supporting substrate and in which an acoustic velocity of a bulk wave propagating therein is higher than an acoustic velocity of an elastic wave propagating in a piezoelectric film, a low-acoustic-velocity film stacked on the high-acoustic-velocity film and in which an acoustic velocity of a bulk wave propagating therein is lower than an acoustic velocity of a bulk wave propagating in the piezoelectric film, the piezoelectric film is stacked on the low-acoustic-velocity film, and an IDT electrode stacked on a surface of the piezoelectric film.
US09831845B2
There is provides a single conversion receiver and a communication system having wide occupied frequency bands and good receiving sensitivity. The single conversion receiver includes: a first bandpass filter that lets only a desired band of a received RF signal pass through; a first mixer that converts the RF signal passing through the first bandpass filter into a first intermediate frequency signal; a second bandpass filter that lets only a band of a desired frequency channel of the first intermediate frequency signal pass through; a quadrature demodulator that converts the first intermediate frequency signal to baseband signals composed of an I phase and a Q phase; an oscillator that generates a first local signal 2^M times the center frequency of the second bandpass filter (where M is an integer); a fractional-N PLL frequency synthesizer that generates a second local signal with a frequency non-integer times the first local signal and supplies the second local signal to the first mixer; and a first frequency divider that divides the frequency of the first local signal by (2^M) to generate a third local signal and a fourth local signal having 90 degree phase difference from the third local signal, and supplies the third local signal and the fourth local signal to the quadrature demodulator.
US09831841B2
Switchable base feed circuit for radio-frequency (RF) power amplifiers. In some embodiments, an RF power amplifier (PA) circuit can include a transistor having a base, a collector, and an emitter, with the transistor being configured to amplify an RF signal. The PA circuit can further include a bias circuit configured to provide a base bias signal to the base of the transistor. The PA circuit can further include a switchable base feed circuit implemented between the bias circuit and the base of the transistor. The switchable base feed circuit can be configured to provide a plurality of different resistance values for the base bias signal between the bias circuit and the base of the transistor. Such a PA circuit can be implemented in products such as a die, a module, and a wireless device.
US09831833B1
A power amplifier including a power amplifier stage. The power amplifier stage may be configured to receive a signal, amplify the signal at saturation with substantially zero amplitude-phase (AM-PM) distortion, and output the amplified signal as an output signal. The power amplifier may be a single stage power amplifier or a multi-stage power amplifier.
US09831829B2
The performance of photosensitive devices over time may be tested by configuring a photosensitive device test system that includes a light source plate that exposes photosensitive devices within a container to a specified light intensity. The light intensity may be adjusted by a programmable power source according to one or more thresholds. A test may last for a set duration with performance measurements being taken at predetermined intervals throughout the duration. Feedback from the photosensitive device test system may be recorded to determine whether to increase light intensity, to stop testing, to continue testing, and whether one or more environmental conditions should be altered. Measurements may be sent to a client for analysis and display to a user.
US09831827B2
A photovoltaic inspection system is provided, the photovoltaic inspection system detecting a failure by eliminating ON/OFF operation of a switch or others at the time of inspection or checkup as much as possible, reducing an influence of a temperature distribution as a whole with a small effort, and detecting a local deterioration in a photovoltaic module or string. According to a typical embodiment, in a photovoltaic system having a plurality of photovoltaic strings formed of one or a plurality of photovoltaic modules arranged to be aligned, a photovoltaic inspection system which detects the failure in the photovoltaic strings includes: a current detector which measures each of a first output current of a first photovoltaic string and a second output current of a second photovoltaic string; and a monitoring unit which calculates a second temperature property of the second photovoltaic string based on a value of the first output current and a value of the second output current and which determines whether the second photovoltaic string has the failure or not based on the second temperature property.
US09831818B2
A system and apparatus are disclosed including PV modules having a frame allowing quick and easy assembling of the PV modules into a PV array in a sturdy and durable manner. In examples of the present technology, the PV modules may have a grooved frame where the groove is provided at an angle with respect to a planar surface of the modules. Various couplings may engage within the groove to assemble the PV modules into the PV array with a pivot-fit connection. Further examples of the present technology operate with PV modules having frames without grooves, or with PV modules where the frame is omitted altogether.
US09831809B1
A system and method for sensing rotor position of a three-phase permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) includes a controller coupled with the PMSM and causing a plurality of voltage pulses to be applied thereto. A timer and/or an analog-to-digital converter is coupled with the PMSM and measures a plurality of values (measured values) from a three-phase inverter coupled with the PMSM. Each measured value may correspond with one of the plurality of voltage pulses and includes a current value or time value corresponding with an inductance of the PMSM. One or more logic elements calculates, based on the measured values and on one or more position algorithms, a position of a rotor of the PMSM relative to a stator of the PMSM. The system is configured to calculate the position of the rotor when the rotor is in a stopped configuration and when the rotor is in a rotating configuration.
US09831803B2
Nano-electromechanical systems (NEMS) devices that utilize thin electrically conductive membranes, which can be, for example, graphene membranes. The membrane-based NEMS devices can be used as sensors, electrical relays, adjustable angle mirror devices, variable impedance devices, and devices performing other functions.
US09831802B1
A driving apparatus includes an inverter and a controller. The inverter converts, based on pulse width modulation (PWM) signals, an input voltage into output voltage signals that are used to drive a multi-phase load. The controller includes: a sequence generating module generating a first switching sequence and at least one second switching sequence based on duty cycle values; a selecting module selecting, to serve as a selected switching sequence, one of the first and second switching sequences that is determined to make phase currents which flow through the multi-phase load due to the output voltage signals have lowest total harmonic distortion; and an output generating module generates the PWM signals based on the selected switching sequence.
US09831798B2
A power conversion apparatus includes power conversion circuitry that converts first power supplied from a power source into AC power corresponding to second power of a power system, and control circuitry that instructs, at a time that is determined based on a voltage across a capacitor disposed between the power system and the power conversion circuitry, the power conversion circuitry to start applying an AC voltage to the capacitor.
US09831790B2
A DC-to-DC converter includes a voltage converter having: a capacitance; at least one inductor configured to store energy and exchange stored energy with the capacitance; and a switching element configured to switch on and off a current flowing through the inductor and change direction of the current at each switching. The inductor includes a variable inductor whose inductance decreases with increase in the current.
US09831784B2
An electronic half-bridge ZETA converter may include a transformer, wherein a half-bridge is connected to the primary winding of transformer, and wherein a respective capacitance and a respective diode are associated with the half-bridge switches. Moreover, the converter includes a ZETA converter which is connected to secondary winding of transformer, so that the ZETA converter includes a first inductance, which includes the magnetization inductance of transformer, and a second inductance. Finally, the converter includes a control unit which drives the half-bridge switches with four time intervals that are repeated periodically. Specifically, during the fourth time interval the first and the second switch are opened, so that the capacitance associated with said second switch is charged and the capacitance associated with said first switch is discharged, enabling a zero voltage switching.
US09831783B2
An apparatus includes a first circuit board including first components including a load, and a second circuit board including second components including switching power devices and an output inductor. Ground and output voltage contacts between the circuit boards are made through soldered or connectorized interfaces. Certain components on the first circuit board and certain components, including the output inductor, on the second circuit board act as a DC-DC voltage converter for the load. An output capacitance for the conversion is on the first circuit board with no board-to-board interface between the output capacitance and the load. The inductance of the board-to-board interface functions as part of the output inductor's inductance and not as a parasitic inductance. Sense components for sensing current through the output inductor are located on the first circuit board. Parasitic inductance of the board-to-board interface has less effect on a sense signal provided to a controller.
US09831770B2
Downsizing of an inductor is achieved while reducing radiation noise of an inductor current. A boosting power supply unit is, for example, provided in an ECU mounted in a vehicle or the like. The boosting power supply unit has a boosting coil, a switching element and a current control unit 16. The current control unit 16 controls the switching element 12 to turn on and off by using a clock signal CK1 with a higher frequency than a pulse signal SPL in a clamping period when the inductor current flowing in the boosting coil is clamped at a preset peak setting current, and controls the switching element to turn on and off by using the pulse signal SPL in periods other than the clamping period. By controlling the switching element to turn on and off in this manner, the inductor current flowing in the boosting coil is controlled.
US09831768B2
Systems and methods that provide control circuits having multiple sub-control inputs that control operation of a power electronics device (e.g., a power converter). Each of the multiple sub-control inputs are output from a separate sub-control circuit that includes a feedback circuit having an input tied to a common control node. The common control node is coupled to an input of a controller (e.g., a PWM controller). Outputs of each of the sub-control circuits are coupled to the common control node by a respective switch (e.g., diode, transistor, etc.) so that each of the sub-control circuits may be selectively coupled to the common control node to provide a control signal to a controller. Since components of each of the feedback compensations circuits are biased at a regulation voltage instead of a higher power supply voltage, the control circuit may switch between control modes with minimal delay.
US09831766B2
A charge pump includes a current source circuit, a current sink circuit and a switch circuit. The switch circuit is coupled between the current source circuit and the current sink circuit, and is arranged for generating a first current at a first output terminal and generating a second current at a second output terminal according to a first control signal and a second control signal, wherein each of the first current and the second current is generated from the current source circuit.
US09831762B2
Described is a soft-start scheme for a voltage regulator. The apparatus comprises: a first voltage regulator to provide regulated voltage to an output node coupled to a load, the first voltage regulator operable to be in open loop via a bypass unit, the first voltage regulator including a comparator; and a second voltage regulator, coupled to the first voltage regulator, operable to be in closed loop, via the bypass unit, to provide a reference voltage for the comparator of the first voltage regulator.
US09831761B2
A speedy discharging circuit is applied to a power supply. The speedy discharging circuit is electrically connected to the power supply. The power supply includes a power output side and an output side capacitor. The output side capacitor is electrically connected to the power output side. The speedy discharging circuit includes an energy consuming unit, a switch unit and a switch control unit. The energy consuming unit is electrically connected to the power output side and the output side capacitor. The switch unit is electrically connected to the energy consuming unit. The switch control unit is electrically connected to the switch unit. When the switch control unit receives a sleep signal, the switch control unit turns on the switch unit, so that the output side capacitor discharges to the energy consuming unit.
US09831759B2
A voltage source converter includes at least one limb connected between DC terminals, the or each limb including: a phase element including switching elements to interconnect a DC electrical network and an AC electrical network; an auxiliary sub-converter configured to be controllable to act as a waveform synthesizer to modify a first DC voltage presented to the DC electrical network; and a tertiary sub-converter connected in parallel with the electrical block and controllable to act as a waveform synthesizer to modify a second DC voltage presented to a DC side of the phase element, the tertiary sub-converter (39) including at least one energy storage device. The voltage source converter includes a controller configured to selectively control the or each tertiary sub-converter to synthesize at least one tertiary voltage component so as to transfer energy to or from that tertiary sub-converter and thereby regulate an energy level of that tertiary sub-converter.
US09831757B2
Provided is a voltage regulator configured to suppress a variation of an output voltage so as to stably operate even when a power supply voltage varies. The voltage regulator includes a control circuit having an input terminal connected to a drain of an output transistor, and an output terminal connected to an error amplifier circuit. The control circuit is configured to cause a boost current to flow through an error amplifier circuit when the output voltage varies beyond a predetermined value.
US09831755B2
The present disclosure relates to a voice coil motor. The voice coil motor includes a base, an adjustment member, a first elastic member, a lens holder, a coil, at least one magnet, and a second elastic member. The base defines a through hole. The adjustment member is arranged in the through hole and is able to move along a central axis of the through hole relative to the base. The first elastic member is fixed on the base. The lens holder is fixed on the first elastic member. The coil is arranged surrounding an outer surface of the lens holder. The at least one magnet is arranged at an outer side of the coil. The second elastic member including an inner ring, the lens holder is fixed on the inner ring opposite to the first elastic member.
US09831750B2
A stator coil lacing machine includes a carriage pivotably connected to a frame. The carriage supports a needle assembly and cord guide assembly. The needle assembly includes a needle, a needle rotation actuator that rotates the needle about its longitudinal axis, and a needle translation actuator that moves the needle along its longitudinal axis. The cord guide assembly includes a cord guide shaft, a cord guide wag actuator that rotates the cord guide shaft about its longitudinal axis, and a cord guide lift actuator that rotates the cord guide shaft about an axis transverse to its longitudinal axis. A carriage actuator pivots the carriage relative to the frame. The carriage actuator, the needle rotation actuator, the needle translation actuator, the cord guide wag actuator, and the cord guide lift actuator cooperate in a manner that results in lacing of the stator coil.
US09831745B2
An electric machine is supplied with air for cooling purposes. The electric machine has a housing (40) with cooling ducts for cooling air. To improve and/or simplify the cooling of the electric machine, air-distributing ducts (71) are formed in the housing (40) and emerge from a common air supply duct (70).
US09831738B2
A rotating electric machine includes a cover formed in a cylindrical shape and extending in an axial direction to cover the controller section, a lid section disposed inside of the cover body to seal the cover body, a first sealing member compressed between the lid section and the cover, and a second sealing member compressed in a different direction than the first sealing member between the cover and the first frame or the second frame. The rotating electric machine also includes a tab formed on an outer periphery of the first frame or the second frame, and a claw extending from the one end of the cover body and engageable with the tab to hold the sealing members in a compressed state. As a result, the rotating electric machine is sealed from dust and water.
US09831732B2
The present invention relates to a wound stator and wires for the same. The wound stator for an alternating-current generator comprises: a stator, having a plurality of radial grooves arranged at an inner circumference of the stator; and a plurality of wires for the stator. Each wire comprises: a first end, a second end, and a plurality of wave-shaped coils located between the first end and second end. Each wave-shaped coil is formed of straight portions and curved portions that alternate with each other. The straight portions of each wire are sequentially embedded in corresponding grooves of the stator so that each of the grooves is embedded with the wires.
US09831728B2
An electric motor includes a yoke having a cylindrical section, two pairs of permanent magnets disposed at an inner circumferential surface of the cylindrical section to oppose each other, and an armature rotatably supported further inside in a radial direction than the permanent magnets, wherein at least a pair of first flat sections opposing each other in the radial direction are formed at the cylindrical section, and the permanent magnets are disposed at positions distant from the first flat sections.
US09831717B2
An uninterruptible power supply (UPS) and methods of operation are provided. The UPS includes a transformer configured to receive power from a utility. The transformer includes a primary winding, a secondary winding, and a tertiary winding. The UPS also includes a rectifier coupled to the secondary winding and an inverter coupled to an output of the rectifier, wherein a connection between the rectifier and the inverter defines a DC link. The inverter is configured to output a first regulated voltage configured to be provided to a load. The UPS further includes a voltage-boost converter coupled to the tertiary winding and is configured to output a second regulated voltage to be combined with the first regulated voltage.
US09831716B2
An apparatus according to various embodiments may detect the state of an external switch. An apparatus according to various embodiments may activate or deactivate an appliance based on the state of the external switch. An apparatus according to various embodiments may activate or deactivate an appliance based on the state of the external switch, even in the absence of grid power.
US09831710B2
An electric power transmitting apparatus and a method for controlling electric power transmission that switches a connection state of a coupling electrode in accordance with the shape and the size of an electric power receiving apparatus, and a position where the electric power receiving apparatus is placed.
US09831706B2
The present invention is directed to techniques and apparatus for generating power using multi-spectrum energy. An apparatus includes an electrical device and a power source, the power source comprising a multi-spectrum power generation system in electrical communication with the mobile electrical device, the multi-spectrum power generation system including a photovoltaic electrical power generator, and a microelectromechanical power generator; a primary power storage system in electrical communication with the electrical device; and a controller system in data communication with the multi-spectrum energy power generator systems to regulate electrical communication between the power storage system and the power generation system. In an alternative embodiment, the multi-spectrum power generation system may further a thermoelectric power generator.
US09831704B2
Disclosed herein is a power feeding device including: power transmitting section which transmits electric power by way of a magnetic field; a set of first and second electrodes which are spaced from each other; a power supply which applies a voltage between the first and second electrodes; and a detector which detects whether foreign matter is present on the power transmitting section or not based on the voltage applied by the power supply.
US09831697B2
An apparatus for performing multi-loop power control in an electronic device is provided, where the apparatus may include at least one portion (e.g. a portion or all) of the electronic device. More particularly, the apparatus may include a first amplifier that is positioned in a first feedback loop of the electronic device and coupled to a power control terminal of the electronic device, and a second amplifier that is positioned in a second feedback loop of the electronic device and coupled to the power control terminal. For example, the apparatus may further include a compensation circuit that is coupled to the first amplifier and the second amplifier. In another example, the apparatus may further include a selection control circuit that is coupled to the first amplifier and the second amplifier. An associated method such as an operational method of the above apparatus is also provided.
US09831694B2
A method for operating a microradio is provided. The method includes storing first parasitic energy received during a first charging cycle, powering a receiver with the stored first parasitic energy during a listening period, receiving a wireless control signal during the listening period, storing second parasitic energy received during a second charging cycle, selectively powering a transmitter with the stored second parasitic energy, and transmitting a signal responsive to the received wireless control signal.
US09831691B2
This power storage system is provided with a secondary cell pack and a system protection unit having a system protection function of cutting off the secondary cell pack from the outside of the power storage system. This secondary cell pack is provided with a secondary cell and a cell protection unit having a cell protection function of cutting off the secondary cell from the outside of the secondary cell pack. The cell protection unit further monitors a state value that indicates the state of the secondary cell and controls implementation of the system protection function and the cell protection function on the basis of the state value.
US09831685B2
A wireless power transmitter according to an exemplary embodiment in the present disclosure may include a transmitting core; a transmitting coil provided on the transmitting core and transmitting power wirelessly; and a magnetic body provided on the transmitting core and allowing a virtual line which is normal to a surface of the magnetic body to form an acute angle with the transmitting core.
US09831683B2
A power transmission apparatus includes the following elements. A position detection coil detects a signal from a power reception coil of a power reception apparatus installed on an installation surface. A position detection circuit determines from the detected signal that the power reception apparatus is installed on the installation surface. A reception circuit receives a wireless signal transmitted from the power reception apparatus via the position detection coil. A switch circuit switches electrical connection of the position detection coil between the position detection circuit and the reception circuit. A power transmission control circuit switches electrical connection of the position detection coil from the position detection circuit to the reception circuit if it is determined that a voltage or a current of the detected signal has been smaller than a reference value for a predetermined period, and causes the reception circuit to receive the wireless signal via the position detection coil.
US09831677B2
A software abstraction layer for energy generation and/or storage systems. In one embodiment, a method is provided that can comprise receiving, by a site gateway, one or more standardized operating parameters for a physical component of an energy storage system, and translating, by the site gateway, the one or more standardized operating parameters into one or more vendor specific parameters, where the one or more vendor specific parameters are specific to a vendor-defined communication protocol supported by the physical component. The physical component can then be controlled using the one or more vendor specific parameters.
US09831671B2
A power supply device for supplying power to a load by combining a secondary battery and a capacitor includes a switching element which switches the supply of power to the load from the capacitor, a DC-DC converter which enables a voltage of the capacitor to be stepped up and supplied to the load and a control unit which enables power to be supplied to the load by pulse-controlling the switching element, controlling the DC-DC converter to output a pulse current alternately with the switching element and combining the alternately output pulse currents if the voltage of the capacitor drops below a minimum voltage capable of driving the load.
US09831670B2
Plural electric power supplies are connected in parallel to an output bus. The plural supplies include a primary power supply and a redundant switching power supply. The primary power supply is configured to provide output current to a load when the primary power supply is operating normally. The redundant supply is configured to remain online while not providing output current to the load when the primary power supply is operating normally, but to begin providing output current to the load when the primary power supply is not operating normally.
US09831663B2
An electrical switching apparatus includes a plurality of poles each comprising separable contacts, an operating mechanism structured to open and close the separable contacts and to trip open the separable contacts in response to a fault condition, and a housing enclosing the separable contacts. The housing includes an interior, an exterior, and a plurality of receptacles extending from the exterior toward the interior. A surge protection assembly includes a plurality of modules, wherein each of the modules is removably disposed in a corresponding one of the receptacles of the housing. Each of the modules provides independent surge protection for a corresponding one of the poles of the electrical switching apparatus.
US09831655B2
The present invention is directed to an enclosure for protecting a cable connection. The enclosure includes an unsupported sheet sealing member contained within an inner shell and an exoskeleton. The inner shell defines a central axis for the enclosure. The sheet sealing member is attached along two longitudinal edges of the inner shell and wherein the rigid exoskeleton is configured to snap onto the inner shell in a direction transverse to the central axis to secure the enclosure around the cable connection.
US09831648B1
A cover assembly for providing a moisture resistant installation of a receptacle or similar electrical component within a floor box and flush with a newly poured concrete floor surface. The cover assembly includes a floor box, a leveling ring, a mounting plate, and a cover plate with a flip-lid hinged to the cover plate. Sealing means are provided integral with the cover plate for sealing against the floor surface and for sealing the flip-lid to the cover plate to provide a moisture resistant installation of the receptacle. The sealing means includes a lid gasket integral with the flip-lid and a plate gasket integral with the cover plate.
US09831645B2
A spring loaded, bistable connect/disconnect mechanism for a motor control center (MCC) unit 20, provides a secure and quick means to connect and disconnect the stab 30 of a MCC unit to a vertical power bus 24. The low profile mechanism comprises a series of flat links 6, 7, and 11 and an over-center spring 8 in the top of the MCC unit, for efficient use of space. The mechanism provides an additional force to quickly connect and disconnect the stabs to and from the power bus. The mechanism enables safe insertion and removal of the MCC unit from an MCC section, by incorporating interlocks 5 to prevent the MCC unit from being inserted when the stabs are extended and to prevent the MCC unit from being removed when the stabs are extended. Interlocks prevent the extension or retraction of the stabs when the handle is in an ON position.
US09831641B2
Embodiments of a system and method are described. In one embodiment, the system generates ions for use in treating vegetation to optimize growth of the vegetation. The system includes an ion generation region having a pair of dissimilar metal plates. The ion generation chamber receives a liquid and routes the liquid past the dissimilar metal plates to capture ion transfer between the dissimilar metal plates. The ions form a charged solution. The system also includes a collection region having a collection bed for storing the charged solution, and a fertigation region for dispersing the liquid. Other embodiments of the system are also described.
US09831610B2
A connector can include a housing and a conductive shield and a pair of latching members. The latching members have free ends with engagement teeth formed on them which are separated by an intervening notch. The sidewalls of this notch can be flat and can define a hard stop surface for engagement with an opposing board connector. The free ends further include ramped surfaces leading to the engagement notch to form cam surfaces that depress the latching members when the cable connector is mated to a board connector. The latching members may include locating tabs that are captured in vertical movement by the housing.
US09831600B1
Variable-force contacts that may provide a large and stable contact force in a mated state, may provide a large difference in contact force between the mated and an unmated state, and may reduce stray flux in an unmated state. Examples may replace physical springs with magnetic force for improved reliability. These examples may position the magnets to reduce stray flux in an unmated state.
US09831599B2
Electrical connectors, electrical modules, and systems are provided. In one aspect, an electrical connector includes a housing defining a side surface, an electrical conductor supported by the housing and including an engagement portion proximate the side surface of the housing. The engagement portion is adapted to engage another electrical conductor of another electrical connector. The connector also includes a magnet supported by the housing proximate the side surface of the housing, a projection extending from the side surface of the housing, and a receptacle defined in the side surface of the housing. In other aspects, an electrical module includes at least one of these electrical connectors. In further aspects, a system includes a plurality of these modules and the modules are selectively couplable together.
US09831593B1
A network jack assembly network connection identification system comprising an identifier receiving cavity extending inward from a surface of a plug body section of the jack and an identifier element designed for insertion into the identifier receiving cavity. The identifier receiving cavity is accessible through any of a sidewall, a top wall, a bottom wall, or a front wall of the plug body section. The cavity may include a lens enabling viewing of the identifier element. The identifier can be a partially or completely colored surface of the identifier element, a shaped feature of the identifier element, etc. The identifier can be a sheet of material, a pin, or any other suitable insertable component. In one variant, the identifier can be formed during installation by reshaping material designated therefore, such as a wax. Alternatively, the identification solution can be applied to a wall plate.
US09831588B2
An electrical connector with improved high frequency performance. The connector has conductive elements, forming both signal and ground conductors, that have multiple points of contact distributed along an elongated dimension. The ground conductors may be formed with multiple beams of different length. The signal conductors may be formed with multiple contact regions on a single beam, with different characteristics. Signal conductors may have beams that are jogged to provide both a desired impedance and mating contact pitch. Additionally, electromagnetic radiation, inside and/or outside the connector may be shaped with an insert electrically connecting multiple ground structures and/or a contact feature coupling ground conductors to a stiffener. The conductive elements in different columns may be shaped differently to reduce crosstalk.
US09831580B2
An apparatus electrically connects a motor's on-board stator circuit board to multiple circuits on a controller circuit board using an edge connector on the controller circuit board that engages opposing pads on an edge of the stator circuit board. The edge connector includes tuning-fork-like conductors each with pairs of protruding arms positioned to both engage the pads for electrical contact and also frictionally engage the pads for mechanical retention. A related method of assembly uses the edge-connect system for quick, reliable and sure assembly even under blind assembly conditions.
US09831577B2
A board connector (M) includes a housing (10) formed from first and second separately formed moldings (11, 12). The first molding (11) includes a terminal holding portion (13) and a base-side peripheral wall (20). The second molding (20) is tubular and includes a tip-side peripheral wall (28) with a supporting shaft (31) and ribs (32) projecting integrally in from an inner surface of the tip-side peripheral wall (28). The base-side peripheral wall (20) and the tip-side peripheral wall (28) are assembled to form a receptacle (14) projecting forward from an outer peripheral edge of the terminal holding portion (13). A supporting shaft (31) and ribs (32) are formed integrally with the receptacle (14) and project from an inner wall surface of the receptacle (14).
US09831573B2
An electrical board-to-board connector including a flexible cable assembly having a low profile or dimensionally reduced configuration. The connector body of a cable assembly may be widened to provide the structural rigidity sufficient to support an array of solder lead connections. Other support elements may be omitted from the cable assembly, which results in a reduced height dimension. The flexible cable assembly may also include a cowling used to retain the cable assembly against a circuit board. The cowling may also be configured to reduce the dimensions or dimensional footprint of the connection.
US09831563B2
In one embodiment, a sub-reflector assembly for a reflector antenna has (i) a waveguide transition at a waveguide end of the sub-reflector assembly and configured to fit within a waveguide, (ii) a dielectric radiator connected to the waveguide transition and extending both laterally and back towards the waveguide end of the sub-reflector assembly, and (iii) a sub-reflector connected to the dielectric radiator. By configuring the dielectric radiator to extend both laterally and back towards the dielectric end of the assembly, radiated energy from the waveguide is directed such that the sub-reflector assembly can be used with shallow reflector dishes (e.g., F/D ratio greater than 0.25) and still achieve sufficiently high directivity.
US09831562B2
The invention relates to a lens antenna. The invention also relates to an antenna system for transmitting and receiving electromagnetic signals comprising at least one antenna according to the invention. The invention further relates to a method of manufacturing an antenna according to the invention. The invention moreover relates to a method for use in wireless communications by using an antenna according to the invention. The invention additionally relates to a RF transceiver of a wireless communications device comprising at least one antenna according to the invention. The invention further relates to an electronic device comprising an RF transceiver according to the invention.
US09831561B2
A reflective antenna apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a feeder which receives an electromagnetic wave from a transmitter and distributes the electromagnetic wave to the antenna apparatus; a sub reflector which has a step formed to generate an orbital angular momentum (OAM) mode electromagnetic wave; and a main reflector which has a step formed to generate the same electromagnetic wave as the OAM mode generated by the sub reflector and cancels the OAM mode electromagnetic wave generated by the sub reflector and an OAM mode electromagnetic wave generated by the main reflector to radiate the electromagnetic waves to a far field.
US09831554B2
An antenna apparatus includes a pair of antenna units that are symmetrical with respect to a symmetrical axis. Each of the antenna units has a substantially annular shape with an opening, and includes a high-frequency radiating part, a low-frequency radiating part which is spaced apart from the high-frequency radiating part, and a conductor part which interconnects the high-frequency radiating part and the low-frequency radiating part. The high-frequency radiating part, the low-frequency radiating part and the conductor part are divided into at least five metal conductors which are connected in sequence and each of which has a convex quadrilateral shape.
US09831552B2
An approximately planar antenna assembly can be formed or used, such as comprising a printed circuit board assembly. In an example, the approximately planar antenna assembly can include a dielectric material and a conductive loop comprising an outer loop portion having a first conic section an inner loop portion having a second conic section located within a footprint of the first conic section. The planar antenna assembly can be configured to support wireless transfer of information in at least two ranges of operating frequencies, such as two or more respective ranges used for cellular communications.
US09831549B2
Systems and methods for high power microwave combining and switching are provided. In at least one implementation a system includes a plurality of inputs, wherein there are M inputs in the plurality of inputs and a plurality of phase shifters, wherein there are N phase shifters in the plurality of phase shifters and N is a multiple of two times M, wherein a signal received through the plurality of inputs is divided and coupled to N/M phase shifters. The system further includes an N:N Butler matrix coupled between outputs of the N phase shifters in the plurality of phase shifters and a plurality of outputs.
US09831546B2
A multi-antenna device includes a grounding plate, a first antenna and a second antenna. The first antenna includes a first feed element that is grounded to the grounding plate via a first feed point. The second antenna includes a second feed element that is grounded to the grounding plate via a second feed point. Polarization planes of the first and second antennas intersect at a predetermined angle.
US09831539B2
A coaxial waveguide conversion device according to the present invention includes a first member; a second member provided so as to be opposed to the first member; and a conductor plate provided so as to be sandwiched between the first member and the second member. A waveguide is formed in the first member and the second member to a depth that penetrates the first member and does not penetrate the second member. The conductor plate includes an opening having a shape corresponding to a shape of an aperture plane of the waveguide; a conductor surface portion provided around the opening; an antenna portion; a waveguide short-circuit portion connecting the antenna portion with the conductor surface portion; a coaxial wiring portion provided at one end of the antenna portion; and a coaxial line short-circuit portion connecting another end of the antenna portion with the conductor surface portion.
US09831537B2
Processes for separating and recycling battery and electrochemical cell materials are disclosed.
US09831530B2
An electrode assembly includes a composite body which includes an active material layer containing an active material constituted by a transition metal oxide, a solid electrolyte layer (solid electrolyte portion) containing a solid electrolyte, and a multiple oxide molded body (multiple oxide portion) containing at least one of a metal multiple oxide represented by the following general formula (1): Ln2Li0.5M0.5O4 (wherein Ln represents a lanthanoid, and M represents a transition metal) and a derivative thereof, and a current collector which is provided on one face (one of the faces) of the composite body by being bonded to the active material layer, wherein in the composite body, the multiple oxide molded body, the active material layer, and the solid electrolyte layer are formed in contact with each other in this order from the side of the one face of the composite body.
US09831518B2
Embodiments described herein relate generally to electrochemical cells having high rate capability, and more particularly to devices, systems and methods of producing high capacity and high rate capability batteries having relatively thick semi-solid electrodes. In some embodiments, an electrochemical cell includes an anode and a semi-solid cathode. The semi-solid cathode includes a suspension of an active material of about 35% to about 75% by volume of an active material and about 0.5% to about 8% by volume of a conductive material in a non-aqueous liquid electrolyte. An ion-permeable membrane is disposed between the anode and the semi-solid cathode. The semi-solid cathode has a thickness of about 250 μm to about 2,000 μm, and the electrochemical cell has an area specific capacity of at least about 7 mAh/cm2 at a C-rate of C/4. In some embodiments, the semi-solid cathode slurry has a mixing index of at least about 0.9.
US09831510B2
An exemplary fuel cell system includes a cell stack assembly having a plurality of cathode components and a plurality of anode components. A first reactant blower has an outlet situated to provide a first reactant to the cathode components. A second reactant blower has an outlet situated to provide a second reactant to the anode components. The second reactant blower includes a fan portion that moves the second reactant through the outlet. The second reactant blower also includes a motor portion that drives the fan portion and a bearing portion associated with the fan portion and the motor portion. The motor portion has a motor coolant inlet coupled with the outlet of the first reactant blower to receive some of the first reactant for cooling the motor portion.
US09831507B2
A hydrogen gas supply device supplies hydrogen gas to a fuel cell stack and includes an electromagnetic pressure regulating valve that regulates the pressure of the hydrogen gas to low pressure. The electromagnetic pressure regulating valve includes a housing, and a valve passage connecting a primary port and a secondary port is formed in the housing. A valve body controls an opening degree of the valve passage and is provided in the housing. A high-pressure sealing member and low-pressure sealing member are provided on an outer periphery of the valve body. The high-pressure sealing member and the low-pressure sealing member are provided in this order from one end side of the valve body to the other end side thereof. The electromagnetic pressure regulating valve further includes a housing pressure equalizing passage connecting the secondary port and a buffer chamber formed between the high-pressure sealing member and the low-pressure sealing member.
US09831502B2
An electrode includes a first free-standing carbon network, an active material deposited above the first free-standing carbon network, and a second free-standing carbon network covering the active material. The first and second carbon networks are a binder, a conductive additive and a current collector to the electrode.
US09831498B2
A secondary battery capable of improving cycle characteristics is provided. An anode includes: an anode active material layer on an anode current collector, the anode active material layer including a plurality of anode active material particles, in which the average particle area of the plurality of anode active material particles observed from a surface of the anode active material layer is within a range of 1 μm2 to 60 μm2 both inclusive.
US09831495B2
The present invention provides a negative electrode active material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, including negative electrode active material particles containing a silicon compound expressed by SiOx where 0.5≦x≦1.6, the negative electrode active material particles at least partially coated with a carbon coating, the carbon coating exhibiting a peak at 2θ=25.5° having a half width of 1.5° to 4.5° in an X-ray diffraction spectrum measured after separating the carbon coating from the negative electrode active material particles, the carbon coating exhibiting scattering peaks at 1330 cm−1 and 1580 cm−1 in Raman spectrum obtained by Raman spectrometry measured after separating the carbon coating from the negative electrode active material particles, wherein a ratio of an intensity of the scattering peak at 1330 cm−1 to that at 1580 cm−1 satisfies 0.7
US09831494B2
A negative-electrode active material is provided, the negative-electrode active material including: a lamellar polysilane having a structure in which multiple six-membered rings constituted of a silicon atom are disposed one after another, and expressed by a compositional formula, (SiH)n, as a basic skeleton; and the negative-electrode active material containing copper in an amount of from 0.01 to 50% by mass. To contain copper results in upgrading electron conductivity. Consequently, an electric storage apparatus using the negative-electrode active material for one of the negative electrodes has upgraded rate characteristic, and also has augmented charged and discharged capacities.
US09831482B2
A system includes a lid disposed over battery cells in a battery module. The lid includes flexible fingers, and each of the flexible fingers aligns with a corresponding one of the battery cells. Each of the flexible fingers is configured to exert a downward force against the corresponding one of the battery cells, and the flexible fingers are configured to accommodate varying heights of the battery cells.
US09831481B2
A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The separator includes a substrate layer and a surface layer formed on at least one principal plane of the substrate layer, the surface layer contains polyvinylidene fluoride and an inorganic material particle, and an amount of deformation against pressure of the surface layer is larger than that of the substrate layer.
US09831478B2
A battery unit (1) for a motor vehicle has at least one first battery module (10) and at least one second battery module (12) in a battery housing (14). The first battery module (10) has at least one first electrical connection (16), and the second battery module (12) has at least one second electrical connection (18). The battery housing (14) has an opening (20) and an electrically conductive element (22) can be inserted through the opening (20) for electrically conductively connecting the first electrical connection (16) to the second electrical connection (18).
US09831471B2
The method for producing an organic EL display panel includes, in the given order, the steps of: forming a first light-emitting layer by forming a film from a luminescent material of a first luminescent color in a first pixel; performing the etching treatment to remove, while leaving the first light-emitting layer to remain, a thin film of the luminescent material of the first luminescent color which adhered to the second pixel in the step; forming a second light-emitting layer by forming a film from a luminescent material of a second luminescent color different from the first luminescent color in the second pixel; and performing the etching treatment to remove, while leaving the second light-emitting layer to remain, a thin film of the luminescent material of the second luminescent color which adhered to the first pixel in the step.
US09831467B2
The present invention relates to an encapsulated semiconductor device (20) provided on a flexible substrate (1), a method of providing an at least partially encapsulated semiconductor device (20) on a flexible substrate (1) and a software product for providing an at least partially encapsulated semiconductor device (20) on a flexible substrate (1). In a preferred embodiment, an encapsulation method is presented in which the organic layer (3) of an inorganic/organic/inorganic multilayer barrier (5) on a plastic foil (1) as a substrate is removed at the edges of an OLED (13). The edges are subsequently sealed with a standard TFE process to encapsulate the OLED (13). This enables cuttable OLEDs (20) that are cut out of a larger plastic substrate (1) and gives a method to reduce side leakage in OLEDs (20) that have been manufactured in a roll-to-toll process.
US09831465B2
A method for producing an optoelectronic component may include forming an optoelectronic layer structure having a first adhesion layer, which comprises a first metallic material, above a carrier, providing a covering body with a second adhesion layer, which comprises a second metallic material, applying a first alloy to one of the two adhesion layers, the melting point of the first alloy being so low that the first alloy is liquid, coupling the covering body to the optoelectronic layer structure in such a way that both adhesion layers are in direct contact with the liquid first alloy, and reacting at least part of the liquid first alloy chemically with the metallic materials, as a result of which at least one second alloy is formed, which has a higher melting point than the first alloy, wherein the second alloy solidifies and fixedly connects the covering body to the optoelectronic layer structure.
US09831461B2
The present invention provides a display substrate, which includes an anode layer, a cathode layer and a luminous layer that is provided between the anode layer and the cathode layer, the anode layer including a plurality of anodes and the luminous layer including a plurality of luminous regions, wherein the display substrate further includes at least one assisting electrode, the assisting electrode being insulated and spaced from the anode, and the assisting electrode contacting with the cathode layer in parallel, such that a total resistance of the assisting electrode and the cathode layer connected in parallel is smaller than a resistance of the cathode layer alone. The IR drop in the cathode of the display substrate provided by the present invention is relatively small, such that loss of electric signals is relatively small in the cathode layer and the assisting electrode, thereby obtaining a relatively higher image quality.
US09831460B2
An optical device (10) has 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) that constitutes the joining structure is constituted by a transparent conductive material and the like. In addition, the second conductive film (130) that constitutes the joining structure is constituted by a metal material. A transition region, in which the transparent conductive material and the metal material are mixed, exists between the first conductive film (110) and the second conductive film (130). The transparent conductive material includes, for example, a conductive polymer.
US09831458B2
There is provided an organic light emitting diode (OLED) comprising an organic electroluminescent layer formed between a first electrode and a second electrode, characterized in that one of the first and second electrodes comprises a nano-meter metallic layer having a plasmonic photonic crystal structure formed thereon, and wherein the plasmonic photonic crystal structure is configured to interact with surface plasmon polaritons generated at a surface of the ne electrode thereby providing for transmission of electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength of between 350 nm to 750 nm from the OLED.
US09831456B2
A light-emitting element which at least includes a monomolecular layer including a luminescent center material with a fluorescent light-emitting property, and a monomolecular layer including a host material with a carrier (electron or hole)-transport property and a band gap larger than a band gap (note that a band gap refers to the energy difference between a HOMO level and a LUMO level) of the luminescent center material, between a pair of electrodes, in which the monomolecular layer including the host material and the monomolecular layer including the luminescent center material share the same interface, is provided.
US09831447B2
Novel metal complexes containing azole fused pyridine ligands useful for providing more efficient and more stable phosphorescent emitter for OLED applications are disclosed.
US09831445B2
A condensed cyclic compound and an organic light-emitting device, the compound being represented by Formula 1 below:
US09831441B2
The invention relates to an electronic device containing at least one compound of formula (I) or (II) in an organic layer. The invention further relates to a method for producing the electronic device and the use of a compound of formula (I) or (II) in an electronic device.
US09831439B2
According to an embodiment of the present invention, an organic light-emitting device includes: a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; and an emission layer between the first electrode and the second electrode. The organic light-emitting device includes a hole transport zone between the first electrode and the emission layer and includes an auxiliary layer, wherein the auxiliary layer includes at least one auxiliary material represented by Formula 1 below, and wherein the emission layer includes at least one light-emitting material represented by Formula 2 below.
US09831435B2
A composite material which includes an organic compound and an inorganic compound and has a high carrier-transport property is provided. A composite material having a good property of carrier injection into an organic compound is provided. A composite material in which light absorption due to charge-transfer interaction is unlikely to occur is provided. A composite material having a high visible-light-transmitting property is provided. A composite material including a hydrocarbon compound and an inorganic compound exhibiting an electron-accepting property with respect to the hydrocarbon compound is provided. The hydrocarbon compound has a substituent bonded to a naphthalene skeleton, a phenanthrene skeleton, or a triphenylene skeleton and has a molecular weight of 350 to 2000, and the substituent has one or more rings selected from a benzene ring, a naphthalene ring, a phenanthrene ring, and a triphenylene ring.
US09831428B2
Memory cell architectures and methods of forming the same are provided. An example memory cell can include a switch element and a memory element. A middle electrode is formed between the memory element and the switch element. An outside electrode is formed adjacent the switch element or the memory element at a location other than between the memory element and the switch element. A lateral dimension of the middle electrode is different than a lateral dimension of the outside electrode.
US09831425B2
A memory using mixed valence conductive oxides is disclosed. The memory includes a mixed valence conductive oxide that is less conductive in its oxygen deficient state and a mixed electronic ionic conductor that is an electrolyte to oxygen and promotes an electric field effective to cause oxygen ionic motion.
US09831424B2
A nanoporous (NP) memory may include a non-porous layer and a nanoporous layer sandwiched between the bottom and top electrodes. The memory may be free of diodes, selectors, and/or transistors that may be necessary in other memories to mitigate crosstalk. The nanoporous material of the nanoporous layer may be a metal oxide, metal chalcogenide, or a combination thereof. Further, the memory may lack any additional components. Further, the memory may be free from requiring an electroformation process to allow switching between ON/OFF states.
US09831422B2
A magnetic memory device includes a first magnetic structure on a substrate, a second magnetic structure between the substrate and the first magnetic structure, and a tunnel barrier between the first and second magnetic structures. At least one of the first and second magnetic structures includes a perpendicular magnetic layer on the tunnel barrier, and a polarization enhancement layer interposed between the tunnel barrier and the perpendicular magnetic layer. Here, the polarization enhancement layer contains cobalt, iron, and at least one of the elements of Group IV, and the polarization enhancement layer has a magnetization direction perpendicular to or substantially perpendicular to a top surface of the substrate.
US09831416B2
A piezoelectric member that achieves a high sound speed includes a silicon-containing substrate and a piezoelectric layer. The piezoelectric layer is disposed on the silicon-containing substrate. At least a surface layer of the piezoelectric layer on a side opposite to the silicon-containing substrate is made of BxAl1-xN (0
US09831413B2
An ultrasound probe of the present disclosure includes an ultrasound element unit 1, to which a flexible substrate 7 is connected, the flexible substrate 7 including lamination of a ground layer 7e and a signal layer 7a via an insulation layer 7c. The flexible substrate 7 includes a bending part and a flat part. The signal layer 7a includes a linear first signal line and a linear second signal line that are adjacent to each other. The ground layer 7e at the bending part includes a linear first ground line and a linear second ground line that are adjacent to each other. The first signal line and the first ground line are opposed to each other, and the second signal line and the second ground line are opposed to each other.
US09831410B2
Described herein is a unit for conversion of thermal energy including: —a first heat-exchange unit defining a first flow path for a first thermovector fluid; and—a second heat-exchange unit defining a second flow path for a second thermovector fluid. The second flow path is obtained by a plurality of cartridge elements each including at least one element made of thermoelectric material. The second heat-exchange unit includes a first manifold element and a second manifold element, each including a connection interface to said plurality of cartridge elements, which is configured for providing a hydraulic connection with inlet orifices and outlet orifices of the cartridge elements, and an electrical connection to first electrodes and second electrodes of said plurality of cartridge elements electrically connected to the elements made of thermoelectric material.
US09831407B2
Disclosed herein are a light emitting device package, a backlight unit, an illumination apparatus, and a method of manufacturing a light emitting device package capable of being used for a display application or an illumination application. The light emitting device package includes: a flip-chip type light emitting device having a first terminal and a second terminal installed therebeneath; a substrate having a first electrode formed at one side of an electrode separating space and a second electrode formed at the other side thereof; a first conductive bonding member installed on the first electrode of the substrate so as to be electrically connected to the first terminal of the light emitting device; a second conductive bonding member installed on the second electrode of the substrate so as to be electrically connected to the second terminal of the light emitting device; a reflection encapsulant molded and installed on the substrate so as to form a reflection cup part reflecting light generated in the light emitting device and filled in the electrode separating space to form an electrode separating part; and a filler filled between the reflection cup part and the first and second conductive bonding members.
US09831402B2
A light emitting device includes a supporting base member which has an external electrode, at least one light emitting element disposed on at least a portion of an upper surface of the supporting base member. A sealing member encloses the light emitting element and has an outermost periphery larger than the supporting base member in a plan view. The supporting base member has at least one recess. The sealing member is filled in at least a portion of the recess and is formed so as to expose an electrode surface of the external electrode.
US09831400B2
A light-emitting apparatus includes: a substrate; a plurality of LED chips disposed on the substrate and including a plurality of blue LED chips which emit blue light and a plurality of red LED chips which emit red light; and a sealing member that contains a yellow phosphor and seals the plurality of LED chips together. The plurality of LED chips include: a first LED chip group made up of the blue LED chips; a second LED chip group made up of the red LED chips and disposed around the first LED chip group in an annular shape centered on an optical axis; and a third LED chip group made up of the blue LED chips and disposed around the second LED chip group in an annular shape centered on the optical axis.
US09831393B2
The present invention is directed to LED packages and LED displays utilizing water resistant packages with improved structural integrity and customizable attributes. In some embodiments, the improved structural integrity is provided by various features in the lead frame that the casing material encompasses to improve the adhesion between the lead frame and the casing for a stronger, water resistant package. Moreover, in some embodiments the improved structural integrity and water resistance is further provided by cavity features that improve adhesion between the cavity and a protective encapsulant. Some embodiments also provide for packages with a greater overall height than the length of their side-exposed solder pins, which improves gel coverage of the side-exposed solder pins between adjacent packages.
US09831392B2
To provide a cover glass for light emitting diode package, which is capable of preventing deterioration in transmittance characteristics during use for a long period of time, and a light emitting device. The cover glass for light emitting diode package has a basic composition comprising, by mass % as calculated as oxides, from 55 to 80% of SiO2, from 0.5 to 15% of Al2O3, from 5 to 25% of B2O3, from 0 to 7% of Li2O, from 0 to 15% of Na2O, from 0 to 10% of K2O (provided Li2O+Na2O+K2O=from 2 to 20%), from 0 to 0.1% of SnO2 and from 0.001 to 0.1% of Fe2O3, it does not substantially contain As2O3, Sb2O3 and PbO, and it has an average thermal expansion coefficient of from 45 to 70×10−7/° C. in a temperature range of from 0 to 300° C.
US09831378B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor light emitting device is provided. The method includes forming a first region of a lower semiconductor layer on a substrate, etching an upper surface of the first region using at least one gas used in forming the first region, in-situ in a chamber in which a process of forming the first region has been performed, forming a second region of the lower semiconductor layer on the first region, forming an active layer on the lower semiconductor layer, and forming an upper semiconductor layer on the active layer.
US09831375B2
A silicon carbide Schottky diode solid state radiation detector that has an electron donor layer such as platinum placed over and spaced above the Schottky contact to contribute high energy Compton and photoelectrical electrons from the platinum layer to the active region of the detector to enhance charged particle collection from incident gamma radiation.
US09831372B2
Barrier infrared detectors configured to operate in the long-wave (LW) infrared regime are provided. The barrier infrared detector systems may be configured as pin, pbp, barrier and double heterostructrure infrared detectors incorporating optimized p-doped absorbers capable of taking advantage of high mobility (electron) minority carriers. The absorber may be a p-doped Ga-free InAs/InAsSb material. The p-doping may be accomplished by optimizing the Be doping levels used in the absorber material. The barrier infrared detectors may incorporate individual superlattice layers having narrower periodicity and optimization of Sb composition to achieve cutoff wavelengths of ˜10 μm.
US09831369B2
A photovoltaic power generation system that includes a solar panel is described herein. The solar panel includes a photovoltaic sub-module, which includes a group of microsystem enabled photovoltaic cells. The group includes a first string of photovoltaic cells, a second string of photovoltaic cells, and a differing photovoltaic cell. Photovoltaic cells in the first string are electrically connected in series, and photovoltaic cells in the second string are electrically connected in series. Further, the first string of photovoltaic cells, the second string of photovoltaic cells, and the differing photovoltaic cell are electrically connected in parallel. Moreover, the differing photovoltaic cell is used as a bypass diode for the first string of photovoltaic cells and the second string of photovoltaic cells.
US09831358B2
A photoelectric conversion device including a photoelectric converter, a transparent cover, an insulating material layer and a photonic crystal layer is provided. The photoelectric converter is adapted to receive a light. The transparent cover is disposed on a side of the photoelectric converter. The insulating material layer is disposed between the photoelectric converter and the transparent cover. The photonic crystal layer is disposed between the insulating material layer and the transparent cover, wherein the material of the photonic crystal layer is different from the material of the insulating material layer.
US09831341B2
The present disclosure provides many different embodiments of an IC device. The IC device includes a gate stack disposed over a surface of a substrate and a spacer disposed along a sidewall of the gate stack. The spacer has a tapered edge that faces the surface of the substrate while tapering toward the gate stack. Therefore the tapered edge has an angle with respect to the surface of the substrate.
US09831340B2
A semiconductor structure is disclosed. The semiconductor structure includes: a substrate of a first conductivity; a first region of the first conductivity formed in the substrate; a second region of the first conductivity formed in the first region, wherein the second region has a higher doping density than the first region; a source region of a second conductivity formed in the second region; a drain region of the second conductivity formed in the substrate; a pickup region of the first conductivity formed in the second region and adjacent to the source region; and a resist protective oxide (RPO) layer formed on a top surface of the second region. An associated fabricating method is also disclosed.
US09831334B2
An electronic device can include a semiconductor layer, an insulating layer overlying the semiconductor layer, and a conductive electrode. In an embodiment, a first conductive electrode member overlies the insulating layer, and a second conductive electrode member overlies and is spaced apart from the semiconductor layer. The second conductive electrode member has a first end and a second end opposite the first end, wherein each of the semiconductor layer and the first conductive electrode member are closer to the first end of the second conductive electrode member than to the second end of the second conductive electrode member. In another embodiment, the conductive electrode can be substantially L-shaped. In a further embodiment, a process can include forming the first and second conductive electrode members such that they abut each other. The second conductive electrode member can have the shape of a sidewall spacer.
US09831330B2
There are disclosed herein various implementations of a bipolar semiconductor device having a deep charge-balanced structure. Such a device includes a drift region having a first conductivity type situated over an anode layer having a second conductivity type. The device also includes a control trench extending through an inversion region having the second conductivity type into the drift region, and bordered by a cathode diffusion having the first conductivity type. In addition, the device includes a deep sub-trench structure situated under the control trench. The deep sub-trench structure includes one or more first conductivity regions having the first conductivity type and one or more second conductivity region having the second conductivity type, the one or more first conductivity regions and the one or more second conductivity regions configured to substantially charge-balance the deep sub-trench structure. In one implementation, the bipolar semiconductor device is an insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT).
US09831322B2
A Fin-FET fabrication approach and structure are provided using channel epitaxial regrowth flow (CRF). The method includes forming a Fin-FET structure including a Si line on a substrate, shallow trench isolation (STI) oxide on both sides of the Si line on the substrate, and a poly wall on top of and across the STI oxide and the Si line, wherein the Si line is higher than the STI oxide from the substrate. The method further includes thinning the STI oxide and the Si line while maintaining about the same height ratio of the Si line and the STI oxide, and forming a spacer wall adjacent to both sides of the poly wall and further adjacent to Si and STI oxide side walls under the poly wall uncovered due thinning the STI oxide and the Si line.
US09831321B2
A semiconductor device and method of fabricating thereof is described that includes a substrate including at least one fin, at least one gate stack formed on a top surface of the at least one fin, a first inter-layer dielectric (ILD) layer formed on the top surface of the at least one fin, and a strained layer formed at least on a top surface of the at least one gate stack, wherein the strained layer is configured to provide a strain force to the at least one gate stack.
US09831317B1
Structures including a vertical field-effect transistor and fabrication methods for a structure including a vertical field-effect transistor. A vertical field-effect transistor includes a source/drain region located in a section of a semiconductor layer, a first semiconductor fin projecting from the source/drain region, a second semiconductor fin projecting from the source/drain region, and a gate electrode on the section of the semiconductor layer and coupled with the first semiconductor fin and with the second semiconductor fin. The structure further includes a contact located in a trench defined in the section of the semiconductor layer between the first semiconductor fin and the second semiconductor fin. The contact is coupled with the source/drain region of the vertical field-effect transistor.
US09831316B2
A semiconductor device includes an element portion and a gate pad portion on the same wide gap semiconductor substrate. The element portion includes a first trench structure having a plurality of first protective trenches and first buried layers formed deeper than gate trenches. The gate pad portion includes a second trench structure having a plurality of second protective trenches and second buried layers. The second trench structure is either one of a structure where the second trench structure includes: a p-type second semiconductor region and a second buried layer made of a conductor or a structure where the second trench structure includes a second buried layer formed of a metal layer which forms a Schottky contact. The second buried layer is electrically connected with the source electrode layer.
US09831314B2
One or more techniques or systems for controlling a profile of a surface of a semiconductor region are provided herein. In some embodiments, an etching to deposition (E/D) ratio is set to be less than one to form the region within the semiconductor. For example, when the E/D ratio is less than one, an etching rate is less than a deposition rate of the E/D ratio, thus ‘growing’ the region. In some embodiments, the E/D ratio is subsequently set to be greater than one. For example, when the E/D ratio is greater than one, the etching rate is greater than the deposition rate of the E/D ratio, thus ‘etching’ the region. In this manner, a smooth surface profile is provided for the region, at least because setting the E/D ratio to be greater than one enables etch back of at least a portion of the grown region.
US09831311B2
A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor layer; a first electrode that is in ohmic contact with part of the semiconductor layer; an insulating film that is formed over from the semiconductor layer to the first electrode and has an opening area on an inner side of a first edge of the first electrode; a second electrode that is located at a position different from the first electrode and is formed on at least one of the insulating film and the semiconductor layer; and a third electrode that is made of an identical component with a component of the second electrode and is formed on the first electrode through the opening area and is also formed over from the first electrode to an inner side of the first edge on the insulating film.
US09831306B2
Self-aligned gate edge and local interconnect structures and methods of fabricating self-aligned gate edge and local interconnect structures are described. In an example, a semiconductor structure includes a semiconductor fin disposed above a substrate and having a length in a first direction. A gate structure is disposed over the semiconductor fin, the gate structure having a first end opposite a second end in a second direction, orthogonal to the first direction. A pair of gate edge isolation structures is centered with the semiconductor fin. A first of the pair of gate edge isolation structures is disposed directly adjacent to the first end of the gate structure, and a second of the pair of gate edge isolation structures is disposed directly adjacent to the second end of the gate structure.
US09831292B2
An organic light-emitting display apparatus includes: an organic light-emitting device including a plurality of sub-pixels respectively emitting lights of different colors; a color filter formed on the organic light-emitting device in a region corresponding to each of the sub-pixels; a spacer color filter formed in the color filter between red, green, and blue color filters at locations corresponding to non-emitting areas; and a substrate provided on the color filter to encapsulate the organic light-emitting device.
US09831291B2
An organic light emitting display device includes first and second electrodes facing each other on a substrate, a charge generation layer formed between first and second electrodes, a first light emitting unit including a first emission layer formed between the first electrode and the charge generation layer, a hole transport layer supplying holes from the first electrode to the first emission layer, and a second light emitting unit including a second emission layer formed between the second electrode and the charge generation layer, a hole transport layer supplying holes from the charge generation layer to the second emission layer, wherein a total thickness of the hole transport layer of the first light emitting unit is greater than that of the hole transport layer of the second light emitting unit.
US09831290B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes first conductive layers extending in a first direction and stacked in a second direction intersecting the first direction, a first semiconductor layer extending in the second direction and including a material having one of a first conductivity type and a second conductivity type, a first insulation layer disposed inside the first semiconductor layer, a second conductive layer disposed inside the first insulation layer, and a variable resistance layer disposed between the first conductive layers and the first semiconductor layer.
US09831281B2
A focal plane array assembly includes a readout integrated circuit with a contact array surface, a photodiode array with a contact array surface facing the readout integrated circuit contact array surface, and an anisotropic conductive film disposed between contact array surfaces. The anisotropic conductive film includes conductive bodies that interconnect the photodiode array with the readout integrated circuit and an adhesive that couples the photodiode array to the readout integrated circuit.
US09831278B2
A solid-state image sensor includes a plurality of pixels for focus detection, each of the pixels including a photoelectric converter arranged in a semiconductor substrate, a microlens, and a light blocking portion arranged between the semiconductor substrate and the microlens to cover part of the photoelectric converter. A face in the pixel, which is parallel to a surface of the semiconductor substrate and on which the light blocking portion is arranged, includes a first opening and a second opening in addition to the light blocking portion. The light blocking portion includes a separator that has a light blocking property and is arranged between the first opening and the second opening. The second opening is larger in area than the first opening, and the light blocking portion is larger in area than the first opening.
US09831274B2
A metal oxide film including a crystal part and having highly stable physical properties is provided. The size of the crystal part is less than or equal to 10 nm, which allows the observation of circumferentially arranged spots in a nanobeam electron diffraction pattern of the cross section of the metal oxide film when the measurement area is greater than or equal to 5 nmφ and less than or equal to 10 nmφ.
US09831271B2
A local interconnect is formed in contact with an upper surface of an impurity diffusion region and extends to below a potential supply interconnect. A contact hole electrically couples the local interconnect to the potential supply interconnect. The local interconnect, which is formed in contact with the upper surface of the impurity diffusion region, is used for electrically coupling the impurity diffusion region to the potential supply interconnect.
US09831270B2
According to one embodiment, a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device includes first and second connectors, first and second conductive layers, a first insulating region, and a memory portion. The first connector extends in a first direction. The first conductive layer is electrically connected to the first connector, and includes a first planar region, a first overlap region, a first side surface region, and a first crossing side surface region. The second connector extends in the first direction. The second conductive layer is electrically connected to the second connector, and includes a second planar region, a second overlap region, a second side surface region, and a second crossing side surface region. The first insulating region is provided between the first and second conductive layers. The memory portion is connected to the first and second planar regions.
US09831254B1
An anti-fuse structure is provided that contains multiple breakdown points which result in low resistance after the anti-fuse structure is blown. The anti-fuse structure is provided using a method that is compatible with existing FinFET device processing flows without requiring any additional processing steps.
US09831241B2
Isolation structures are formed to laterally surround a gate material block such that each sidewall of the gate material block abuts a corresponding sidewall of the isolation structures. Sidewalls of the gate material bock define ends of gate structures to be subsequently formed. The isolation structures obstruct lateral growth of a semiconductor material during a selective epitaxial grown process in formation of source/drain regions, thereby preventing merging of the source/drain regions at the ends of gate structures. As a result, a lateral distance between each sidewall of the gate material block and a corresponding outermost sidewall of an array of a plurality of semiconductor fins can be made sufficiently small without causing the electrical shorts of the source/drain regions.
US09831239B1
Provided is a negative capacitance FinFET device including a FinFET device including a gate stack, a drain electrode and a source electrode formed on a substrate and a ferroelectric negative capacitor connected to the gate stack of the FinFET device and having a negative capacitance. The FinFET device has an extension length (Lext) from a side-wall of the gate stack to the drain electrode or the source electrode and the extension length is set such that a size of a hysteresis window in the negative capacitance FinFET device is 1 V or less.
US09831233B2
An integrated circuit device for protecting circuits from transient electrical events is disclosed. An integrated circuit device includes a semiconductor substrate having formed therein a bidirectional semiconductor rectifier (SCR) having a cathode/anode electrically connected to a first terminal and an anode/cathode electrically connected to a second terminal. The integrated circuit device additionally includes a plurality of metallization levels formed above the semiconductor substrate. The integrated circuit device further includes a triggering device formed in the semiconductor substrate on a first side and adjacent to the bidirectional SCR. The triggering device includes one or more of a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) or an avalanche PN diode, where a first device terminal of the triggering device is commonly connected to the T1 with the K/A, and where a second device terminal of the triggering device is electrically connected to a central region of the bidirectional SCR through one or more of the metallization levels.
US09831231B2
An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit (FIG. 3C) is disclosed. The circuit includes a bipolar transistor (304) having a base, collector, and emitter. Each of a plurality of diodes (308-316) has a first terminal coupled to the base and a second terminal coupled to the collector. The collector is connected to a first terminal (V+). The emitter is connected to a first power supply terminal (V−).
US09831225B2
A system includes a semiconductor die mounted on a packaging substrate, a signal redistribution layer that is formed within the packaging substrate, a power plane that is formed on a surface of the packaging substrate, and a ground plane that is formed within the packaging substrate. The power plane couples the semiconductor die to a capacitor disposed on the packaging substrate and the ground plane is disposed between the power plane and the signal redistribution layer. An advantage of the disclosed system is that loop inductance between power and ground paths to a packaged semiconductor die is reduced, thereby lowering the impedance of the packaged semiconductor die system and signal noise associated with the packaged semiconductor system.
US09831224B2
A package includes a first package including a device die, a molding compound molding the device die therein, a through-via penetrating through the molding compound, and a first plurality of Redistribution Lines (RDLs) and a second plurality of RDLs on opposite sides of the molding compound. The through-via electrically couples one of the first plurality of RDLs to one of the second plurality of RDLs. The package further includes a second package bonded to the first package, a spacer disposed in a gap between the first package and the second package, and a first electrical connector and a second electrical connector on opposite sides of the spacer. The first electrical connector and the second electrically couple the first package to the second package. The spacer is spaced apart from the first electrical connector and the second electrical connector.
US09831218B1
Embodiments herein describe techniques for wafer to wafer stacking of integrated circuit chips (e.g., dice) to form stacked IC devices. In one example, a stacked IC device is provided that includes a first wafer, a second wafer, and first conductive bridge. The second wafer is stacked on and secured to the first wafer. The second wafer has a plurality of IC dice that are communicatively coupled to a plurality of IC dice formed on the first wafer. The first conductive bridge has a first end that is sandwiched between the first and second wafers. The first conductive bridge shorts exposed pads of dice formed in the exclusion zones of the first and second wafers.
US09831214B2
Semiconductor device packages, packaging methods, and packaged semiconductor devices are disclosed. In some embodiments, a package for a semiconductor device includes through-vias, an integrated circuit die mounting region, and a material disposed around and between the through-vias and the integrated circuit die mounting region. An interconnect structure is disposed over the material, the through-vias, and the integrated circuit die mounting region. The interconnect structure includes a dummy feature disposed proximate one of the through-vias.
US09831210B2
An electronic device includes an electrode including Cu, a solder including Sn and provided above the electrode, and a joining layer including In and Ag and provided along a boundary between the electrode and the solder. The joining layer including In and Ag prevents Cu—Sn alloy, such as Cu6Sn5, from being formed at the boundary between the electrode and the solder, and prevents generation of voids and cracks resulting from the Cu—Sn alloy. The electrode and the solder are joined with sufficient strength by the joining layer.
US09831207B2
A method of forming a package on a package structure includes applying a no-reflow underfill (NUF) layer over a substrate, wherein the substrate has at least one first bump and a plurality of second bumps surrounding the at least one first bump. The method further includes bonding a semiconductor die to the at least one first bump. The method further includes bonding an interposer frame to the plurality of second bumps, wherein the interposer frame surrounds the semiconductor die, wherein the semiconductor die is disposed in an opening of the interposer frame.
US09831201B2
The subject matter contained herein discloses methods for forming a vertical metallic pillar overlying an under bump metal pad further overlying a semiconductor substrate, and applying a discrete solder cap on a top surface of the pillar, wherein the metallic pillar is defined by at least one photoresist layer. The method includes heating a multi-element metallic paste containing a variable amount of metallic powder, a melting point depressant and a flux such that the metal powder sinters to form the metallic pillar and simultaneously adheres the metallic pillar to the underbump metal pad.
US09831199B2
An electronic device includes a first electronic part, a second electronic part opposite the first electronic part, and a bonding portion between the first electronic part and the second electronic part. The bonding portion contains a solder containing a substance whose crystal structure reversibly changes in temperature rise and fall processes which accompany the operation of the electronic device or electronic equipment including the electronic device. A change in the crystal structure of the substance contained in the solder promotes recovery and recrystallization of the solder in the temperature rise and fall processes which accompany the operation of the electronic device or the electronic equipment. As a result, the coarsening of crystal grains in the solder is suppressed.
US09831198B2
An active component of an integrated voltage regulator (IVR) circuit is deployed within an IC device for regulating an operating voltage thereof. An interposer interconnects the IC device with a power source. A passive inductive component of the IVR circuit is deployed upon a surface of the IC device or the interposer. The inductive component has a magnetic core and a winding (e.g., wire-bond), wound about the magnetic core.
US09831190B2
Between an adhesive surface of a heat spreader lid and a top surface of a semiconductor package, in addition to a spreader adhesive layer, several warpage control adhesive layers are also provided. The warpage control adhesive layers are disposed on corner areas of the adhesive surface of the heat spreader lid to reduce high temperature warpage of the semiconductor device package.
US09831189B2
An integrated circuit package includes a packaging substrate, which has an electrically conductive grid formed on a dielectric layer, and an integrated circuit die electrically coupled to the electrically conductive grid at one or more locations. In this embodiment, the electrically conductive grid includes a plurality of electrically conductive portions, wherein each portion is electrically coupled to at least one other portion, and a plurality of void regions that are electrically non-contiguous and substantially free of electrically conductive material. One advantage of the integrated circuit package is that a packaging substrate that is reduced in thickness, and therefore rigidity, can still maintain planarity during operation. The electrically conductive grid formed on a dielectric layer in the packaging substrate can replace a power plane or a ground plane in the packaging substrate, thereby reducing stressed produced as a result of thermal expansion mismatch between materials in the packaging substrate.
US09831185B2
A chip package includes a chip, a laser stop layer, a first through hole, an isolation layer, a second through hole and a conductive layer. The laser stop layer is disposed above a first surface of the chip, and the first through hole is extended from a second surface to the first surface of the chip to expose the laser stop layer. The isolation layer is below the second surface and in the first through hole, and the isolation layer has a third surface opposite to the second surface. The second through hole is extended from the third surface to the first surface, and the second through hole is through the first through hole to expose the laser stop layer. The conductive layer is disposed below the third surface and extended into the second through hole to contact the laser stop layer.
US09831179B2
A semiconductor device includes a plurality of line patterns formed apart from one another on a substrate, the plurality of line patterns having a first width and extending parallel to one another in a first direction. A first line pattern of the plurality of line patterns may include a wider portion having a second width in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction that is greater than the first width. One or more second line patterns may be located adjacent to the first line pattern and include a conformal portion conformally formed about the wider portion of the first line pattern. One or more third line patterns may be located adjacent to the second line pattern and include an end portion near the conformal portion of the one or more second line pattern.
US09831177B2
An apparatus comprises a through via formed in a substrate. The through via is coupled between a first side and a second side of the substrate. The through via comprises a bottom portion adjacent to the second side of the substrate, wherein the bottom portion is formed of a conductive material. The through via further comprises sidewall portions formed of the conductive material and a middle portion formed between the sidewall portions, wherein the middle portion is formed of a dielectric material.
US09831174B1
Devices and methods of fabricating integrated circuit devices for forming low resistivity interconnects are provided. One method includes, for instance: obtaining an intermediate semiconductor interconnect device having a substrate, a cap layer, and a dielectric matrix including a set of trenches and a set of vias; depositing a barrier layer along a top surface of the semiconductor interconnect device; depositing and annealing a metal interconnect material over a top surface of the barrier layer, wherein the metal interconnect material fills the set of trenches and the set of vias; planarizing a top surface of the intermediate semiconductor interconnect device; exposing a portion of the barrier layer between the set of trenches and the set of vias; and depositing a dielectric cap. Also disclosed is an intermediate device formed by the method.
US09831166B2
Even when a stiffener is omitted, the semiconductor device which can prevent the generation of twist and distortion of a wiring substrate is obtained. As for a semiconductor device which has a wiring substrate, a semiconductor chip by which the flip chip bond was made to the wiring substrate, and a heat spreader adhered to the back surface of the semiconductor chip, and which omitted the stiffener for reinforcing a wiring substrate and maintaining the surface smoothness of a heat spreader, a wiring substrate has a plurality of insulating substrates in which a through hole whose diameter differs, respectively was formed, and each insulating substrate contains a glass cloth.
US09831163B2
A circuit substrate includes a core substrate having a cavity, a metal block accommodated in the cavity of the core substrate, a first build-up layer including an insulating resin layer and laminated on a first surface of the core substrate such that the insulating resin layer is covering a first surface of the metal block in the cavity, and a second build-up layer including an insulating resin layer and laminated on a second surface of the core substrate such that the insulating resin layer is covering a second surface of the metal block in the cavity. The second build-up layer includes via conductors connected to the second surface of the metal block and common lands connecting the via conductors in parallel.
US09831160B2
A semiconductor device includes: opposed first and second metal plates; a plurality of semiconductor elements each interposed between the first metal plate and the second metal plate; a metal block interposed between the first metal plate and each of the semiconductor elements; a solder member interposed between the first metal plate and the metal block and connecting the first metal plate to the metal block; and a resin molding sealing the semiconductor elements and the metal block. A face of the first metal plate, which is on an opposite side of a face of the first metal plate to which the metal block is connected via the solder member, is exposed from the resin molding. The first metal plate has a groove formed along an outer periphery of a region in which the solder member is provided, the groove collectively surrounding the solder member.
US09831158B2
A semiconductor device includes a lead frame; a semiconductor chip mounted on the lead frame; and an encapsulation resin, wherein a convexo-concave portion including a plurality of concave portions is provided at a covered portion of the lead frame that is covered by the encapsulation resin, wherein the planer shape of each of the concave portions is a circle, the diameter of which is greater than or equal to 0.020 mm and less than or equal to 0.060 mm, or a polygon, the diameter of whose circumcircle is greater than or equal to 0.020 mm and less than or equal to 0.060 mm, and wherein a ratio S/S0 is greater than or equal to 1.7 where “S” is a surface area of the convexo-concave portion that is formed at a flat surface whose surface area is “S0”.
US09831155B2
A chip package includes at least one integrated circuit die. The integrated circuit die includes a substrate portion having an internal plane between a front side and a back side, an electrical interconnect portion on the front side, a plurality of first connection terminals on an upper surface of the electrical interconnect portion, a plurality of second connection terminals on the back side of the substrate portion, a plurality of connection wirings electrically connecting the first connection terminals and the second connection terminals, a chip selection terminal between the internal plane of the substrate portion and the upper surface of the electrical interconnect portion, and a chip selection wiring connected to the chip selection terminal and one of the second connection terminals and the first connection terminals. At least one of the chip selection wiring and the plurality of connection wirings includes a tilted portion with respect to the back side of the substrate portion.
US09831154B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor structure. The structure includes a first substrate; a first dielectric layer having a first surface in proximity to the first substrate and a second surface away from the first substrate; a first interconnect penetrating the first surface of the first dielectric layer; and a protection layer extending along a portion of a sidewall of the first interconnect. A thickness of the protection layer is in a range of from about 0.02 μm to about 0.2 μm.
US09831152B2
A control terminal 14 of a semiconductor device has a recessed portion 14c. A resin case 15 is provided with a fixing member 152 engaging with and fixing a recessed portion 14c of a control terminal 14. The fixing member 152 is constituted by a resin block portion 154 having a step portion engaging with the recessed portion 14c, a nut-housing portion 153, and a beam portion 155 integrated by linking the resin block portion 154 and the nut-housing portion 153. A resin case main body 151 to which the fixing member 152 is fixed is provided with a hollow portion enabling insertion of the resin block portion 154. The nut-housing portion 153 of the fixing member 152 and the resin block portion 154 are attached to the resin case main body 151 from one direction.
US09831150B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a first electronic component, a heat-conducting layer, a covering portion, and a heat-transporting portion. The first substrate has a first face and the second substrate has a second face and a third face. The first electronic component has a fourth face and a fifth face. The heat-conducting layer covers the third face and the fifth face. The covering portion covers at least the heat-conducting layer. The heat-transporting portion thermally connects the heat-conducting layer and the first substrate, and is located outside the second substrate and outside the covering portion.
US09831148B2
A method includes adhering a voltage regulator die over a carrier through a die-attach film, with the die-attach film being in the voltage regulator die and encircles metal pillars of the voltage regulator die, encapsulating the voltage regulator die in an encapsulating material, and planarizing the encapsulating material. A back portion of the voltage regulator die is removed to expose a through-via in a semiconductor substrate of the voltage regulator die. The method further includes forming first redistribution lines over the encapsulating material and electrically coupled to the through-via, replacing the die-attach film with a dielectric material, forming second redistribution lines on an opposite side of encapsulating material than the first redistribution lines, and bonding an additional device die to the second redistribution lines. The voltage regulator die is electrically coupled to the additional device die.
US09831141B1
Wafers, chips, or dies that contain fill cells with structures configured to obtain in-line data via non-contact electrical measurements (“NCEM”). Such NCEM-enabled fill cells may target/expose a variety of open-circuit, short-circuit, leakage, or excessive resistance failure modes, including GATE-snake-open and/or GATE-snake-resistance failure modes. Such wafers, chips, or dies may include Designs of Experiments (“DOEs”), comprised of multiple NCEM-enabled fill cells, in at least two variants, all targeted to the same failure mode.
US09831139B2
A test structure for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes a test element, a first pad connected to the test element, and a second pad connected to the test element. A first wire is connected to the test element, and the first wire and the test element are part of a first layer disposed on a semiconductor substrate. A second wire is connected to the first wire, and is part of a second layer disposed on the semiconductor substrate, and the second layer is different from the first layer.
US09831137B2
The defect imaging apparatus including a chamber having a stage to which a substrate having at least one process defect and at least one reference defects defined at a given area is secured, a position controller configured to obtain an imaging error from a detected actual position and a conversion position of the reference defect and correct a conversion position of the process defect by the imaging error, and generate an irradiation position corresponding to an actual position of the process defect, an image signal generator configured to generate an image signal of the process defect by irradiating an electron beam to the irradiation position and detecting charged particles from the irradiation position in response to the irradiated electron beam, and an imaging device configured to generate a defect image of the process defect by processing the generated image signal may be provided.
US09831136B2
Methods for determining a target thickness of a conformal film with reduced uncertainty, and an integrated circuit (IC) chip having a conformal film of the target thickness are provided. In an embodiment, a first critical dimension of a structure disposed on a wafer is measured. Said structure has at least one vertical surface. A first conformal film is deposited over the structure covering each of a horizontal and the vertical surface of the structure. A second critical dimension of the covered structure is then measured. The target thickness of the conformal film is determined based on difference between the first CD measured on the structure and the second CD measured on the covered structure.
US09831127B2
A method of processing a semiconductor substrate is provided. The method may include forming a film over a first side of a semiconductor substrate, forming at least one separation region in the semiconductor substrate between a first region and a second region of the semiconductor substrate, arranging the semiconductor substrate on a breaking device, wherein the breaking device comprises a breaking edge, and wherein the semiconductor substrate is arranged with the film facing the breaking device and in at least one alignment position with the at least one separation region aligned with the breaking edge, and forcing the semiconductor substrate to bend the first region with respect to the second region over the breaking edge until the film separates between the breaking edge and the at least one separation region.
US09831125B2
According to one embodiment, a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a silicon film on an upper surface side, a lower surface side, and a side surface side of an air gap, while leaving part of the air gap between the silicon film formed on the upper surface side and the silicon film formed on the lower surface side. The method includes forming a metal film on a side surface of the slit. The method includes forming a plurality of metal silicide layers between the second layers by causing reaction between the metal film and the silicon film. The method includes removing unreacted part of the metal film formed on the side surface of the slit.
US09831123B2
One method disclosed herein includes performing a plurality of conformal deposition processes to form first, second and third layers of material within a contact opening, wherein the first layer comprises a contact insulating material, the second layer comprises a metal-containing material and the third layer comprises a conductive cap material, wherein the third layer is positioned above the second layer. The method further includes forming a contact ion implant region that is positioned at least partially in at least one of the first, second or third layers of material, forming a conductive material above the third layer and removing portions of the layers of material positioned outside of the contact opening.
US09831118B1
Techniques for fabricating a memory device which has reduced neighboring word line interference, and a corresponding memory device. The memory device comprises a stack of alternating conductive and dielectric layers, where the conductive layers form word lines or control gates of memory cells. In one aspect, the memory device is provided with a reduced dielectric constant (k) in locations of a fringing electric field of the control gate. For example, portions of the dielectric layers can be replaced with a low-k material. One approach involves recessing the dielectric layer and providing a low-k material in the recess. Another approach involves doping a portion of the blocking oxide layer to reduce its dielectric constant. Another approach involves removing a portion of the blocking oxide layer. In another aspect, the memory device is provided with an increased dielectric constant adjacent to the control gates.
US09831115B2
A cost effective process flow for manufacturing semiconductor on insulator structures is parallel is provided. Each of the multiple semiconductor-on-insulator composite structures prepared in parallel comprises a charge trapping layer (CTL).
US09831107B2
A method and processing system are provided for independent temperature and hydration control for an etching solution used for treating a wafer in process chamber. The method includes circulating the etching solution in a circulation loop, maintaining the etching solution at a hydration setpoint by adding or removing water from the etching solution, maintaining the etching solution at a temperature setpoint that is below the boiling point of the etching solution in the circulation loop, and dispensing the etching solution into the process chamber for treating the wafer. In one embodiment, the dispensing includes dispensing the etching solution into a processing region proximate the wafer in the process chamber, introducing steam into an exterior region that is removed from the wafer in the process chamber, and treating the wafer with the etching solution and the steam.
US09831100B2
Provided are methods for fabricating transistors using a gate last approach. These methods involve etching of titanium nitride and titanium carbide structures while preserving high k-dielectric structures. The titanium carbide structures may also include aluminum. Etching may be performed in one or more etching solutions, each including hydrogen peroxide. Titanium nitride and titanium carbide structures can be etched simultaneously (non-selectively) in the same etching solution that also includes hydrochloric acid, in addition to hydrogen peroxide, and maintained at about 25° C. and 85° C. In some embodiments, titanium nitride structures and titanium carbide structures may be etched separately (selectively) in different operations and using different etching solutions. The titanium nitride structures may be etched in a diluted hydrogen peroxide solution maintained at about 25° C. and 85° C. The titanium carbide structures may be etched in a solution that also includes ammonium hydroxide, in addition to hydrogen peroxide, and maintained at about 25° C.
US09831099B2
Embodiments of the invention describe a method and apparatus for multi-film deposition and etching in a batch processing system. According to one embodiment, the method includes arranging the substrates on a plurality of substrate supports in a process chamber, where the process chamber contains processing spaces defined around an axis of rotation in the process chamber, rotating the plurality of substrate supports about the axis of rotation, depositing a first film on a patterned film on each of the substrates by atomic layer deposition, and etching a portion of the first film on each of the substrates, where etching a portion of the first film includes removing at least one horizontal portion of the first film while substantially leaving vertical portions of the first film. The method further includes repeating the depositing and etching steps for a second film that contains a different material than the first film.
US09831092B2
A semiconductor device includes a control gate electrode and a memory gate electrode which are formed over the main surface of a semiconductor substrate in a memory cell region, and a first electrode and a second electrode which are formed over the main surface of the semiconductor substrate in a shunt region. The first electrode is formed integrally with the control gate electrode, and the second electrode is formed integrally with the memory gate electrode. The second electrode includes a first section formed along the side wall of the first electrode, and a second section extending along the main surface of the semiconductor substrate. Also, the height of the upper surface of the first electrode with respect to the main surface of the semiconductor substrate is generally same to the height of the upper surface of the first section of the second electrode.
US09831079B2
A method of injecting ions into an electrostatic trap, comprising: generating ions in an ion source; transporting the ions from the ion source to an ion store downstream of the ion source; releasing the ions from the ion store to an ion guide downstream of the ion store; and accelerating the ions from the ion guide as a pulse into an orbital electrostatic trap for mass analysis, wherein the average velocity of the ions as the ions exit from the ion guide is substantially higher than the average velocity of the ions as they exit from the ion store, wherein there is a delay between releasing the ions from the ion store and accelerating the ions from the ion guide. Also an apparatus suitable for the method.
US09831074B2
The present invention provides an apparatus including a bipolar collimator disposed in a physical vapor deposition chamber and methods of using the same. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a chamber body and a chamber lid disposed on the chamber body defining a processing region therein, a collimator disposed in the processing region, and a power source coupled to the collimator.
US09831072B2
The present disclosure concerns sputter targets and sputtering methods. In particular, sputter targets and methods of sputtering using conventional sputter targets as well as sputter targets described herein, for highly uniform sputter deposition, are described.
US09831069B2
Heretofore, silicon nitride film formed by low pressure plasma CVD has been used for an antireflection film of a solar battery. But it is difficult to reduce the production cost of a solar battery, because, in a low pressure process, facility cost and process cost are expensive. As disclosed, a nitride film is formed by atmospheric pressure plasma CVD using dielectric barrier discharge generated by a plasma head where a plurality of plasma head unit parts is installed in parallel to generate plasma by applying electric field or magnetic field via a dielectric member. Stable glow discharge is formed even under atmospheric pressure by dielectric barrier discharge. And nitride film deposition under atmospheric pressure and low cost production of a solar battery is materialized by using dielectric barrier discharge and by reacting different plasmas generated from plasma supply openings laying side-by-side.
US09831068B2
A method activates the inner surface of a substrate tube via plasma etching with a fluorine-containing etching gas. An exemplary method includes the steps of (i) supplying a supply flow of gas to the interior of a substrate tube, wherein the supply flow includes a main gas flow and a fluorine-containing etching gas flow, (ii) inducing a plasma via electromagnetic radiation to create a plasma zone within the substrate tube's interior, and (iii) longitudinally reciprocating the plasma zone over the length of the substrate tube between a reversal point near the supply side and a reversal point near the discharge side of the substrate tube. The flow of the fluorine-containing etching gas is typically provided when the plasma zone is near the supply side reversal point.
US09831053B2
An electrical contact switch chamber is disclosed. The electrical contact switch chamber includes two contacts, a wall having a base and sides surrounding the two contacts, and at least one insulation slot having an opening extending transversely relative to a direction between the contacts. The at least one insulation slot is disposed along a portion of the wall between the two contacts.
US09831050B2
A tamper-resistant or tamper-evident keypad device for use in secure transactions. The keypad comprises multiple security mechanisms to prevent tampering to the device, and thus access to users' private information. The keypad is made of resilient materials and contains a tamper-resistant collar for housing the keypad's connector interface. The keypad comprises a multi-layered printed circuit board with at least two internal security-shield layers comprising switch trace protection, as well as additional security layers for tamper protection. The keypad comprises a silicon-rubber keypad actuator that engages tamper switches on the flexible security circuit. The keypad comprises metal discs mounted on the front or rear face of the flexible circuit and an optional dome layer.
US09831048B2
The invention relates to a switching-operation arrangement for a motor vehicle, having a movable actuating surface. The actuating surface has an extent along a first axis and a second axis, which are located perpendicularly to one another. The actuating surface interacts with a displacement means such that the actuating surface can be moved linearly, in the direction of a third axis (z), by at least one distance from a starting position into an actuating position, the third axis (z) being located perpendicularly to the first and second axes. The actuating position is in the form of a switching position and acts with switching action on a switching element or a sensor. The displacement means includes a guide means for guiding the actuating surface along the first axis and at least one braced-in elastic element for guiding the actuating surface along the second axis.
US09831045B2
According to the invention there is provided a component including a supercapacitor and a method of producing same. The component comprises a first (12) and second (14) electrode and a separator structure (16) which separates the two electrodes and contains a liquid or gel electrolyte. The first and second electrode structures are each formed from a composite material (10) which includes electrically conductive fibers and electrochemically active material in a binder matrix and the supercapacitor is formed to be structurally inseparable from the rest of the component. Further, the component forms a structural capacitor. The obtained structural capacitor could be used in aircraft structure to save weight.
US09831039B2
A thin film capacitor comprises: a laminated body that has a base electrode, a dielectric layer and an upper electrode layer; a protective layer covering the base electrode, the dielectric layer and the upper electrode layer, and includes a first through-hole that reaches the base electrode, and a second through-hole that reaches the upper electrode layer; a first extraction electrode in the first through-hole and electrically connected with the base electrode; a second extraction electrode in the second through-hole and electrically connected with the upper electrode layer; a first terminal electrode on the protective layer, and connected with the base electrode through the first extraction electrode; and a second terminal electrode on the protective layer, and connected with the upper electrode layer through the second extraction electrode. Young's modulus of the protective layer is equal to or higher than 0.1 GPa and equal to or lower than 2.0 GPa.
US09831035B2
A capacitor comprises a first winding member, where the first winding member comprises a first dielectric layer and a first conductive layer. A second winding member comprises a second dielectric layer and second conductive layer. The first winding member is interleaved, partially or entirely, with the second winding layer. A dielectric package is adapted to at least radially contain or border the first winding member and the second winding member. A first metallic member has a generally planar, radially extending surface for electrically and mechanically contacting an upper portion the first conductive layer. A second metallic member has a generally planar, radially extending surface for electrically and mechanically contacting a lower portion of the second conductive layer.
US09831023B2
An electrical component is disclosed, wherein the electrical component comprises: a body; a conductive element disposed in the body, wherein at least one portion of a terminal part of the conductive element is exposed outside of the body; a metal foil having an adhesive material on the bottom surface thereof, the metal foil being adhered on the body through the adhesive material and covering a first portion of the terminal part of the conductive element, wherein a second portion of the terminal part of the conductive element is not covered by the metal foil; and a metal layer, overlaying on the metal foil and covering the second portion of the terminal part of the conductive element, wherein the metal layer is electrically connected to the second portion of the terminal part of the conductive element for electrically connecting with an external circuit.
US09831014B2
A heat-resistant electric wire including a core wire and a coating that covers the core wire. The coating is formed from a modified fluorine-containing copolymer that is obtained by irradiating a copolymer with radiation at an exposure of 250 kGy or lower at a temperature of not higher than the melting point of the copolymer. The copolymer is at least one copolymer selected from a copolymer including a tetrafluoroethylene unit and a perfluoro(alkyl vinyl ether) unit and a copolymer including a tetrafluoroethylene unit and a hexafluoropropylene unit.
US09831013B2
A cable set includes a line run having a multiplicity of lines. A protective sheath surrounds the line run. A taping is disposed between the line run and the protective sheath. The taping surrounds the line run and has nubs projecting outward to the protective sheath. At least some of the nubs pass through the protective sheath. A winding tape for winding around a line run for producing a cable set and a method for producing a cable set are also provided.
US09831001B2
A test system may include: a vector storage unit suitable for storing a first test vector corresponding to a first test operation; a test target suitable for performing a test operation corresponding to the test vector stored in a vector storage unit; a comparison unit suitable for comparing a first test result to an expected value to output a first test result value, wherein the first test result is transferred from the test target as a result of the first test operation based on the first test vector; and a vector control unit suitable for modifying the first test vector to generate a second test vector corresponding to a second test operation.
US09831000B2
An integrated circuit includes a memory and a memory test circuit, which when invoked to test the memory, is configured to generate one or more March tests applied to the memory. The memory test circuit is further configured to construct a table including a first index, a second index, and a first March test of the one or more March tests. The first index is associated with one or more families each characterized by a different length of the one or more March tests. The second index is associated with one or more mechanisms each characterized by a different property of the one or more March tests. The memory test circuit is further configured to generate a second March test from the first March test.
US09830998B2
A non-volatile storage system includes a three dimensional structure comprising vertical columns of memory cells and a managing circuit in communication with the vertical columns. The managing circuit applies one or more patterns of stress voltages to the vertical columns, with different voltages applied to each vertical column of pairs of adjacent vertical columns being tested for shorts. The managing circuit tests for a short in the pairs of adjacent vertical columns after applying the one or more patterns of stress voltages. In one embodiment, the test may comprise programming a memory cell in each vertical column with data that matches the pattern of stress voltages, reading from the memory cells and determining whether data read matches data programmed. The applying of the stress voltages and the testing can be performed as part of a test during manufacturing or in the field during user operation.
US09830990B2
Proposed as a configuration, a controlling method, and a testing method for a ferroelectric shadow memory are (1) a bit line non-precharge method, in which no precharging of a bit line is performed during a read/write operation; (2) a plate line charge share method, in which electric charge is shared between plate lines that are driven sequentially during store/recall operation; (3) a word line boost method, in which the potential on a word line is raised during a write operation; (4) a plate line driver boost method, in which the driving capacity of a plate line driver is raised during a store/recall operation; and (5) a testing method for detecting a defect in a ferroelectric capacitor by arbitrarily setting a potential on a bit line from outside a chip.
US09830988B2
Described is an apparatus which comprises: a complementary resistive memory bit-cell; and a sense amplifier coupled to the complementary resistive memory bit-cell, wherein the sense amplifier includes: a first output node; and a first transistor which is operable to cause a deterministic output on the first output node.
US09830984B2
A semiconductor memory device includes: a memory cell array including a plurality of word lines; a word line driving unit suitable for activating a first word line among the plurality of word lines corresponding to an input address signal; an activation time detection unit suitable for enabling a detection signal by detecting an activation time of the first word line; an address latch unit suitable for latching an address information for a second word line corresponding to the first word line in response to the detection signal; and an address output unit suitable for providing the word line driving unit with the latched address information for the second word line during a refresh operation.
US09830982B2
A method for operating a neuromorphic memory circuit. The method includes accumulating a dendrite LIF charge over time on a conductive dendrite LIF line. A first transmitting operation transmits an axon LIF pulse on a conductive axon LIF line. A first switching operation switches on a LIF transistor by the axon LIF pulse such that the LIF transistor provides a discharge path for the dendrite LIF charge through a programmable resistive memory element when the axon LIF line transmits the axon LIF pulse. A second transmitting operation transmits a dendrite STDP pulse if the dendrite LIF charge falls below a threshold voltage. A third transmitting operation transmits an axon STDP pulse on a conductive axon STDP line. A second switching operation switches on a STDP transistor by the axon STDP pulse. The STDP transistor provides an electrical path for the dendrite STDP pulse through the programmable resistive memory element when the axon STDP line transmits the axon STDP pulse.
US09830981B2
A neuromorphic memory circuit including a programmable resistive memory element, an axon LIF line to transmit an axon LIF pulse, and a dendrite LIF line to build up a dendrite LIF charge over time. A first transistor provides a discharge path for the dendrite LIF charge through the programmable resistive memory element when the axon LIF line transmits the axon LIF pulse. An axon STDP line transmits an axon STDP pulse. The axon STDP pulse is longer than the axon LIF pulse. A dendrite STDP line is configured to transmit a dendrite STDP pulse after voltage at the dendrite LIF line falls below a threshold voltage. A second transistor is coupled to the axon STDP line and the programmable resistive memory element. The second transistor provides an electrical path for the dendrite STDP pulse through the programmable resistive memory element when the axon STDP line transmits the axon STDP pulse.
US09830974B1
An SRAM circuit that includes a biasing circuit adapted to selectively bias the transistors of the SRAM array to lower the threshold voltage of selected transistors. The SRAM circuit includes well voltages and positive voltages that are selectively different, and substrate voltages and ground voltages that are selectively different.
US09830966B2
A method and apparatus for deterministically switching a free layer in a spin orbit torque magnetoresistive random access memory (SOT-MRAM) cell is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, an SOT-MRAM memory cell is provided. The SOT-MRAM memory cell includes a magnetic tunnel junction, a ferromagnetic bias layer, and an antiferromagnetic layer. The magnetic tunnel junction includes a free layer having primarily two bi-stable magnetization directions, a reference layer having a fixed magnetization direction, and an insulating tunnel barrier layer positioned between the free layer and the reference layer. The ferromagnetic bias layer is configured to provide spin orbit torque via anomalous Hall effect and simultaneously configured to provide a magnetic bias field on the free layer to achieve deterministic switching. The antiferromagnetic layer is positioned below the ferromagnetic bias layer and is configured to pin a magnetization direction of the ferromagnetic bias layer in a predetermined direction.
US09830962B2
A memory apparatus may include a bit line sense-amplifier coupled to first and second bit lines; a first precharge unit suitable for coupling the first and second bit lines in response to a bit line equalization signal; a sense-amplifier power control unit suitable for providing a plurality of powers to the bit line sense-amplifier in response to a power control signal; and a second precharge unit suitable for individually changing each voltage level of the first and second bit lines based on a precharge control signal.
US09830946B2
The invention relates to a method for source data adaptation and rendering. The method comprises receiving source data; processing the source data to determine rendering parameters; wherein the processing comprises obtaining processing-free temporal segments either by applying wide angles at periodic intervals to the source data or rendering a predetermined region of the source data; determining content characteristics of a visual frame; and utilizing content characteristics for controlling the obtained processing-free temporal segments; signaling the rendering parameters for playback; and adapting the rendering parameters to render the processing-free temporal segments from the source content.
US09830945B2
The system and corresponding process includes a system for producing a mechanical image of original audio source media and a system for encoding the mechanical image information into a digital file. A processing system recovers the mechanical image information from the digital file at a receiving end. Audio processing is used to produce the original audio source material without the standard losses associated with digital encoding of audio material.
US09830937B1
A laser is configured to emit light along a substrate-parallel plane along a first surface of the laser. An etched facet is on an emitting end of a lasing cavity and an etched mirror is on another end of the lasing cavity. An etched shaping mirror redirects light received from the etched facet in a direction normal to the substrate-parallel plane. A slider comprises an optical input coupler configured to couple the light from the laser into a waveguide of the slider. At least one protrusion is disposed on the laser and at least one recession is disposed on the slider, the at least one protrusion and the at least one recession configured to align the laser with the slider to allow the light to be coupled into the optical input coupler.
US09830929B1
A matrix is generated that stores sinusoidal components evaluated for a given sample rate corresponding to the matrix. The matrix is then used to convert an audio signal to chroma vectors representing of a set of “chromae” (frequencies of interest). The conversion of an audio signal portion into its chromae enables more meaningful analysis of the audio signal than would be possible using the signal data alone. The chroma vectors of the audio signal can be used to perform analyzes such as comparisons with the chroma vectors obtained from other audio signals in order to identify audio matches.
US09830894B1
Finger-tracking systems and methods for virtual instruments playback. The described system tracks the position of user's ten fingers on a projection surface and can be used to play virtual instruments such as virtual piano, drums, and bells. The system tracks the movement of user's ten fingers while keeping them free of encumbrance or excessive postural constraints. More specifically, in one or more embodiments, a coded light based projector is used to send out location signal onto a flat surface, and ten light sensors are mounted on user's fingers to receive these signals and locate user's fingers. Based on their locations and relative distance to a fixed point, a printed music instrument can be used for virtual instrument music playback. With the described tracking system, various embodiments of virtual music instruments may be implemented, including a system and method for virtual piano playing as well as virtual Chinese bell playing on printed keyboard and printed Chinese bell set.
US09830892B1
A frog, and a bow with a frog, for stringed musical instruments is disclosed. The frog is made with a body from stabilized wood. The speed of sound through the frog body is enhanced resulting in more beautiful music.
US09830881B2
A computer implemented method and apparatus for quantifying color perception. The method comprises generating a color lattice, wherein the color lattice represents a mapping of a non-perceptual color space to a perceptual color space; accessing an image, wherein the image comprises a plurality of pixels; and generating a perceptual DNA for the image based on the color lattice.
US09830873B2
Provided is a liquid crystal display including: a liquid crystal panel assembly including a plurality of pixels; a data driver applying data voltages to a plurality of data lines connected to the plurality of pixels; and a signal controller generating image data signals to provide the generated image data signals to the data driver, in which the plurality of pixels includes a reactive mesogen (RM) alignment layer formed on a display panel, and the signal controller generates the image data signals by adjusting the data voltage with the maximum gray applied to the blue pixel to be decreased by a predetermined level.
US09830868B2
A display device including a first common electrode, an active device array substrate, a display medium layer and a power system is provided. The active device array substrate includes a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of data lines, a plurality of transistors, a plurality of pixel electrodes and a second common electrode. Each of the transistors is electrically connected to one scan line and one data line, and the pixel electrodes are electrically connected to the transistors, respectively. The second common electrode and the pixel electrodes form a plurality of storage capacitors. The display medium layer is disposed between the first common electrode and the active device array substrate. The power system is electrically connected to the first common electrode and the second common electrode through two separated conductive routes, respectively. A reset method of a display device is also provided.
US09830866B2
According to an aspect, a display device includes an image display panel; a planar light source including a light guide plate and an edge-lit light source that has light sources; and a controller. The controller sets luminance determination blocks by virtually dividing the image display panel in a light-source-arrangement-direction, identifies a luminance determination block with a highest luminance in the incidence direction, among luminance determination blocks at a same position in the light-source-arrangement-direction, identifies a luminance determination block the luminance of which is to be corrected by referring to luminance information of the light sources, and controls a light quantity of each of the light sources in such a manner that luminance of the identified luminance determination block is achieved.
US09830857B2
Methods of compensating for common unwanted signals present in pixel data measurements of a pixel circuit in a display having a plurality of pixel circuits each including a storage device, a drive transistor, and a light emitting device. First pixel data is measured from a first pixel circuit through a monitor line. Second pixel data from the first pixel circuit or a second pixel circuit is measured through the monitor line or another monitor line. The first measured pixel data or the second measured pixel data or both are used to clean the other of the first measured pixel data or the second measured pixel data of common unwanted signals to produce cleaned data for parameter extraction from the first pixel and/or second pixel.
US09830853B2
Brightness irregularities that develop in a light emitting device due to is persion among pixels in the threshold values of TFTs used for supplying electric current to light emitting devices become obstacles to improved image quality of the light emitting device. As an image signal input to a pixel from a source signal line, a desired electric potential is applied to a gate electrode of a TFT for supplying electric current to an EL device, through a TFT having its gate and drain connected to each other. A voltage equal to the TFT threshold value is produced between the source and the drain of the TFT 105. An electric potential in which the image signal is offset by the amount of the threshold value is therefore applied to the gate electrode of the TFT. Further, TFTs are disposed in close proximity to each other within the pixel, so that dispersions in the TFT characteristics do not easily develop. A desired drain current can thus be supplied to the EL device even if there is dispersion in the threshold values of the TFTs among pixels, because this is offset by the threshold value of the TFT.
US09830837B2
A label having a silicone-free (water-based) release coating and compatible adhesive patch is provided. The label includes a thermally coated substrate having a silicone-free substrate overlaid thereon of a first surface. A second surface includes a microsphere adhesive layer.
US09830826B2
A driving assistance apparatus includes an arrangement memory that stores a past captured image around a target parking region, a captured image acquisition section that acquires a present captured image around the target parking region at parking or departing with respect to the target parking region, and an obstacle specification section that specifies a non-stationary obstacle around the target parking region, based on a difference between the past captured image stored in the arrangement memory, and the present captured image acquired by the arrangement acquisition section. A report section performs a report indicating presence of a non-stationary object when approaching closely the non-stationary object.
US09830821B2
A communication system comprises a pointable range finder to calculate a distance between the vehicle and an object, a recorder for recording a status of the vehicle and a control device. The range finder sends a signal to the control device corresponding to the vehicle's distance from the object and the control device operates the recorder in a manner dependent upon the signal from the range finder. The recorder is able to record the event if the vehicle is an unsafe distance from the object. The unsafe distance is able to be a programmed distance. In some embodiments, the unsafe distance increases with an increase in speed of the vehicle. In some embodiments, the unsafe distance is determined by a programmable constant. In these embodiments, the unsafe distance is determined according to a speed of the vehicle, the vehicle's distance from an object and a pre-defined safe zone threshold value.
US09830817B2
A method and a system for optimizing and evaluating a bus station is disclosed, wherein the method includes: acquiring bus map information and information of moving trajectories of bus users; acquiring human flow moving trajectory dispersion information of the bus users after they leave the bus station according to the bus map information and the information of the moving trajectories of the bus users; and optimizing and evaluating the bus station according to the human flow moving trajectory dispersion information of the bus users. The above technical scheme can accurately perform statistics on passenger flow data related to the bus station, thereby optimizing and evaluating the bus station.
US09830811B2
A readily replaceable accessible pedestrian signal station is described including a bottom base plate and a sacrificial base plate.
US09830807B2
An audible alarm detector constituted of: a microphone generating an electronic signal from an audible signal; a phase locked loop locking onto a frequency component present in the generated electronic signal to output a demodulated signal; and a pattern detector for comparing the demodulated signal against each template of a known set of templates, each template representing a standard pulse stream, wherein upon detection that the demodulated signal matches one of the known templates, the audible alarm detector is arranged to output an alarm detected signal indicating a presence of one of the standard pulse streams.
US09830803B2
A remote alarm method, including the following steps: during a predetermined time, at least one of the wireless remote alarm devices sends a push signal including the corresponding representative data; the processor analyzes the output, and suppose the corresponding representative data is not included, then the corresponding representative data will be added therein and the wireless push transmitter will be driven to continuously send the updated push signal including the added corresponding representative data; when the main alarm device receives the updated push signal, the processor thereof compares it with all of the corresponding representative data in the closed group to check the inclusion of each corresponding representative data in the closed group; and in case of lacking any corresponding representative data, the alarm indicator can be driven to send an alarm signal.
US09830795B2
A multi-sensory sensor comprises at least a first and a second sensor element, wherein the multi-sensory sensor is adapted for attachment to a movable structure in a building. The multi-sensory sensor is operatively associated with a controller that is configured to receive input from said first sensor element, wherein the input is indicative of a movement of the movable structure. The controller is further configured to receive input from the second sensor element, and indirectly identify a human behavioral action in the building based on a combination of the input from the first sensor element and the input from the second sensor element. It is further configured to determine a function to be taken based on the identified action, and cause the function to be taken to be executed. In one embodiment the first sensor is a movement sensor element for sensing a movement and the second sensor element is an audio sensor element for sensing audio.
US09830773B2
A gaming apparatus which, for each of a plurality of plays of a primary game: randomly generates one of a plurality of different primary game outcomes, displays the generated primary game outcome, and displays any award associated with the displayed primary game outcome. If a bonus triggering event occurs, the gaming apparatus: determines a first part of a constant value, causes the determined first part of the constant value to be provided to a first player, determines a second part of the constant value, wherein the determined first part of the constant value and the determined second part of the constant value form the constant value, and causes the determined second part of the constant value to fund a designated award.
US09830769B2
Electronic gaming machines including a plurality of real world controller modules, wherein each real world controller module is constructed to provide a gambling game; a game world controller, wherein the game world controller is constructed to: connect to a selected real world module; receive a conveyance of actions taken by a player, during the player's consumption of one or more elements of an entertainment game; trigger a commitment of a wager of real world credits in the selected real world controller module's gambling game; receive a gambling outcome of the wager of real world credits; increment in the entertainment game using the communications network, the one or more elements of the entertainment game when real world credits are won; and decrement in the entertainment game using the communications network, the one or more elements of the entertainment game when real world credit is lost.
US09830765B2
A method and a system for improving a user's experience with a graphical user interface corresponding to a gaming environment, executes a software product corresponding to the game, on the computing hardware of an electronic device. The interface renders multiple graphical objects and user selectable options corresponding to the graphical object. The user selects one or more selectable option, and eventually, performs a touching or a swiping operation through multiple points on the display screen of the graphical object. The touching or swiping operation leads to deploying of multiple resources corresponding to the selected option, at different locations on the interface. For controlling the different deployed resources, the user can swipe through different regions of the display screen, based on his/her desire. The number of resources deployed at the different locations on the screen depends on certain parameters, including the pressure applied by the user on the screen, during performing the touching or swiping operations.
US09830762B1
The method according to some embodiments comprises a coin processing machine depositing a plurality of the coins from the coin processing machine through an upper opening of a generally rigid and elongated tubular body of a coin receptacle sleeve and into the coin sleeve until a top level of coins within the sleeve is adjacent to a top of a coin bag; and continuing to deposit additional coins through the upper opening and into the sleeve until a top level of coins within the sleeve is adjacent a full coin height level and above the top of the coin bag.
US09830761B2
An electronic key having the following features. The electronic key has a key housing and a switch housing in the key housing. The switch housing has an inherently rigid frame having at least one first breakout, and a flexibly deformable membrane which is arranged on the frame in order to close the at least one breakout and to forward a force having effect from the outside on the membrane in the region of the breakout to an electrical switch element arranged within the frame. An electronic key having the required amount of stiffness is thus created, in which sensitive electronic components located therein are also protected from environmental influences. If the deformable membrane is not only used for button-related functions, but also for forming an ejection section for an emergency key or as a rattle protection for the emergency key, a multifunctional switch housing can thus be created simply.
US09830753B2
A network of collection, charging and distribution machines collect, charge and distribute portable electrical energy storage devices (e.g., batteries, supercapacitors or ultracapacitors). Locations of collection, charging and distribution machines having available charged portable electrical energy storage devices are communicated to or acquired by a mobile device of a user, or displayed on a collection, charging and distribution machine. The locations are indicated on a graphical user interface on a map on a user's mobile device relative to the user's current location. The user may use their mobile device select particular locations on the map to reserve an available portable electrical energy storage device. The system nay also warn the user that the user is near an edge of the pre-determined area having portable electrical energy storage device collection, charging and distribution machines. Reservations may also be made automatically based on information regarding a potential route of a user.
US09830741B2
Techniques are disclosed for processing graphics objects in a stage of a graphics processing pipeline. The techniques include receiving a graphics primitive associated with the graphics object, and determining a plurality of attributes corresponding to one or more vertices associated with the graphics primitive. The techniques further include determining values for one or more state parameters associated with a downstream stage of the graphics processing pipeline based on a visual effect associated with the graphics primitive. The techniques further include transmitting the state parameter values to the downstream stage of the graphics processing pipeline. One advantage of the disclosed techniques is that visual effects are flexibly and efficiently performed.
US09830740B2
A graphic processing unit includes a geometry processing unit and a rendering processing unit. The geometry processing unit is configured to receive vertexes and to generate at least one primitive using the vertexes. The rendering processing unit is configured to convert the generated at least one primitive into fragments, to perform fragment shading on the converted fragments, and to perform anti-aliasing on the fragments on which the fragment shading has been performed. The rendering processing unit performs the anti-aliasing on first color data and second color data that is different from the first color data using different operations from each other.
US09830739B2
In one aspect, a computer-implemented method for efficiently rendering and displaying multiple images on an electronic device having an automultiscopic display may generally include detecting, with the electronic device, a position of at least one eye relative to the automultiscopic display. The automultiscopic display may include an array of multipixels, with each multipixel including a plurality of sub-multipixels. In addition, the method may include rendering a viewpoint-specific image for each detected eye position and selectively coloring at least one sub-multipixel within one or more of the multipixels such that colors associated with the rendered viewpoint-specific image are only displayed within a multipixel display zone defined for each of the one or more multipixels with respect to each detected eye position.
US09830729B2
A graphic processing unit, a graphic processing system comprising the same, and a rendering method using the same. The graphic processing unit includes a geometry processing unit configured to receive a vertex and to output a primitive and information about texture patches corresponding to the primitive using the vertex, and a rendering processing unit configured to convert the output primitive into a fragment and to perform fragment shading on the converted fragment, wherein the texture patch indexed by the texture patch information is pre-loaded to the rendering processing unit before the fragment shading is performed.
US09830728B2
Examples of systems and methods for augmented facial animation are generally described herein. A method for mapping facial expressions to an alternative avatar expression may include capturing a series of images of a face, and detecting a sequence of facial expressions of the face from the series of images. The method may include determining an alternative avatar expression mapped to the sequence of facial expressions, and animating an avatar using the alternative avatar expression.
US09830727B2
In some implementations, faces based on image data from a camera of a mobile device are detected and one or more of the detected faces are determined to correspond to one or more people in a set of people that are classified as being important to a user. In response to determining that one or more of the detected faces correspond to one or more people in the set of people that are classified as being important to the user, quality scores are determined for the one or more detected faces that are determined to correspond to one or more people that are classified as important to the user. Multiple images with the camera are captured based on the quality scores such that, for each face determined to correspond to a person that is classified as important to the user, at least one of the multiple images includes an image of the face having at least a minimum quality score. A composite image is generated that combines the multiple images.
US09830725B2
A system for simultaneous visual data presentation is provided having a processor and memory with instructions for execution by the processor for: receiving attended data; receiving unattended data; and generating presentation data. The presentation is suitable for simultaneous presentation of the attended data and the unattended data in a manner in which the unattended data at least partially overlaps the attended data and the unattended data does not interfere with the attended data by replacing, erasing, or suppressing the attended data, and vice versa. The presented unattended data gives cues that the user can sense and provide information to the user while attending to the presented attended data, without attending to the presented unattended data.
US09830716B2
The present invention relates to an image processing device and method enabling noise removal to be performed according to images and bit rates. A low-pass filter setting unit 93 sets, from filter coefficients stored in a built-in filter coefficient memory 94, a filter coefficient corresponding to intra prediction mode information and a quantization parameter. A neighboring image setting unit 81 uses the filter coefficient set by the low-pass filter setting unit 93 to subject neighboring pixel values of a current block from frame memory 72 to filtering processing. A prediction image generating unit 82 performs intra prediction using the neighboring pixel values subjected to filtering processing, from the neighboring image setting unit 81, and generates a prediction image. The present invention can be applied to an image encoding device which encodes with the H.264/AVC format, for example.
US09830714B2
In a graphics processing system pixel data and vertex coordinate information from a previous frame is buffered and provided to the current frame. A decision is made in the current frame whether pixel data from the previous frame may be reused. In one implementation if the speed of pixels in a tile is less than a quasi-static speed threshold a decision is made whether or not to reuse a fraction of pixels from the previous frame.
US09830706B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for generating georeference information with respect to aerial images. In particular, in one or more embodiments, systems and methods generate georeference information relating to aerial images captured without ground control points based on existing aerial images. For example, systems and methods can access a new set of aerial images without ground control points and utilize existing aerial images containing ground control points to generate a georeferenced representation corresponding to the features of the new set of aerial images. Similarly, systems and methods can access a new image without ground control points and utilize an existing georeferenced orthomap to produce a georeferenced orthomap corresponding to the features of the new image. One or more embodiments of the disclosed systems and methods permit users to obtain georeference information related to new images without the need to place ground control points or collect additional georeference information.
US09830694B2
A method is provided for defining operations for acquiring a multi-exposure image of a workpiece including first and second regions of interest at different Z heights. The multi-exposure image is acquired by a machine vision inspection system including strobed illumination and a variable focal length lens (e.g., a tunable acoustic gradient index of refraction lens) used for periodically modulating a focus position. During a learn mode, first and second multi-exposure timing values for instances of strobed illumination are determined that correspond with first and second phase timings of the periodically modulated focus position that produce sufficient image focus for the first and second regions of interest. Data indicative of the multi-exposure timing difference is recorded and is subsequently utilized (e.g., during a run mode) to define operations for acquiring a multi-exposure image of first and second regions of interest on a current workpiece that is similar to the representative workpiece.
US09830693B2
A display control apparatus, including a histogram constructer configured to construct a histogram based on a gray value of each pixel of an input image signal, a maximum value determiner configured to determine a maximum value of an output image signal based on the input image signal, and a mapping curve determiner configured to determine a mapping curve for generating the output image signal from the input image signal, based on the histogram and the maximum value.
US09830691B2
The present invention relates to a method capable of real-time implementable local tone mapping of high dynamic range images. In one embodiment, the present invention relates to a method capable of accomplishing real-time local tone mapping of high dynamic range images so that they have clear details without, for example, halo artifacts when viewed on standard display devices. In another embodiment, the present invention relates to a method capable of accomplishing real-time local tone mapping of high dynamic range images so that they have clear details without, for example, halo artifacts when viewed on standard display devices where such a method utilizes, in part, a modified Reinhard operator.
US09830685B2
A method for determining at least one three-dimensional image data record of a target area from two sets of projection images recorded with x-ray spectra using different energy maxima. A first set of projection images is recorded via a first X-ray spectrum and different first projection directions and a second set of projection images via a second X-ray spectrum and different second projection directions which differ at least partially from the first projection directions. A three-dimensional anatomy image data record is reconstructed from the first and the second projection images. A three-dimensional spectral image data record is reconstructed by a weighted combination of a first three-dimensional reconstruction image data record reconstructed from the first projection images, and a second three-dimensional reconstruction image data record reconstructed from the second projection images. The anatomy image data record and the spectral image data record are displayed.
US09830684B2
The present invention is directed to a handheld companion device, including: a screen, rigid physical connection means, communication means, adapted for setting up and supporting at least one communication link with at least one external computerized system; and a memory storing computerized methods. The present invention is further directed to related systems and methods for automatically rotating contents displayed on such devices, when rigidly attached on a handheld mobile device.
US09830673B2
A computer-implemented method for managing accounts in a diabetes management system. The method includes receiving, by an account manager, a request to deactivate a first account associated with a healthcare provider. The first account may be associated with a plurality of patient accounts. The account manager may be implemented as computer executable instructions executing on a computer processor of a server device. The method includes removing, by the account manager, access to data associated with the first account. Each of the patient accounts associated with the first account are identified and may be deactivated by the account manager. An electronic notification may be sent to a person associated with each of the identified patient accounts, advising the person that the corresponding patient account has been deactivated. An audit record may be created in a data store, the audit record indicating the deactivation of the first account.
US09830672B2
A message bus is utilized for energy management/control. The publish/subscribe message bus present between site gateways, a central server farm, and other entities, facilitates exchange of messages pertaining to management and control of power generation and/or storage. On-site publishers/subscribers can include, e.g., PV inverters, battery devices, energy meters, etc. Non-site specific publishers/subscribers can include, e.g., web clients, database servers (for logging), and various server components of the message bus. Messages exchanged between publishers and subscribers can include control messages (e.g., begin charging battery X) and measurement messages (e.g., the current charge of battery X is Y). Embodiments may implement logic at a site gateway prioritizing transmission of messages to local site devices. Thus where a gateway cannot simultaneously transmit device control messages and device data acquisition messages (e.g., due to processing burden or congestion), site gateway logic can prioritize transmission of the control messages over the locally-generated data acquisition requests.
US09830631B1
Various embodiments enable an image recognition system reduce the number image match candidates before running a full-fledged pair-wise match on all image match candidates. In order to accomplish this, each inventory image can be assigned to a group. For example, a title for a book sold by an electronic marketplace could be available in multiple languages, in multiple bindings, and the book could be available in print, audio book, or electronic book. Each one of these variations could be associated with its own similarly looking inventory image, each of which could be returned as a valid match to a query image for the book. Accordingly, the inventory images for these variations could be assigned to a group for the book and, instead of geometrically processing an image for each variation, the image match system can process a single image representing all of the variations.
US09830630B2
Example embodiments may provide a system, apparatus, computer readable media, and/or method configured for processing input representing data associated with a first product, the first product comprising a plurality of components, processing input representing a particular one of the components, processing input representing an attribute of the particular component or of the first product, querying a product memory based on the particular component and the attribute to identify a second product.
US09830629B2
Systems and methods for providing energy management utilize wireless wide-area network broadcast signals and a decentralized receiver architecture to allow customers to make informed choices with regard to energy consumption and load shedding for particular appliances. A receiver assembly embedded within an appliance receives a broadcast signal, e.g., an FM subcarrier signal, including tariff data and other electrical grid data. A processor coupled with the receiver controls the appliance in accordance with the received data and in accordance with user-defined preferences. In some embodiments, a transceiver assembly is embedded in one or more appliances in a household. Each transceiver is configured to receive broadcast signals regarding grid data, and to communicate with other appliances and/or a usage meter over a wireless personal area network. Meter data from one or more households may be aggregated and uplinked back to the energy provider or other entities.
US09830622B1
Systems and methods are provided to facilitate donations via mobile communications. In one aspect, a system includes a data storage facility and an interchange having a common format processor and a plurality of converters to interface with a plurality of different controllers of mobile communications. The converters are configured to communicate with the controllers in different formats and with the common format processor in a common format. For a payment to a merchant, the common format processor provides a user interface configured to present charity donation options in response to a phone number being specified in the user interface to identify a fund source. The common format processor uses one of the converters to communicate with a mobile phone at the phone number to confirm the payment to the merchant and a donation to a separate charity organization specified via the user interface.
US09830616B1
A dimensional translator may automatically translate a dimension from an entity to a different dimension of another entity. The dimensional translator may do so by comparing attributes of the input dimension (the dimension to be translated) to attributes of a target data structure. An attribute may include, for example, hierarchy of a data structure, relationships of a data structure, a keyword associated with a data structure, and a data value associated with the data structure. The dimensional translator may automatically determine how a target entity would categorize the item. In particular, a Universal Product Code dimension of an item provided by an entity may be translated into a data structure of a target entity such as a retailer in order to determine how an item identified by the UPC will be categorized by the retailer.
US09830607B1
Panel and census data representing accesses by sets of users with multiple types of media platforms to media content associated with multiple media entities is accessed. An overlap in the accessed panel data that represents users who have accessed media content associated with the media entity with more than one of the multiple types of media platforms is determined. Based on the accessed panel data, the determined overlap in the accessed panel data, and the accessed census data, an overlap function that estimates an overlap in the accessed census data is derived. The derived overlap function is applied to census data associated with a media entity to estimate an overlap in the census data associated with the media entity. The overlap in the census data represents users who have accessed media content associated with the media entity with more than one of the multiple types of media platforms.
US09830598B2
A thin-client access card has a card body with partial or fully emissive magnetic data tracks. An emissive element is disposed in the card body under the location of the legacy magnetic data tracks. An electronic signal conditioner converts audio signals from a mobile device into magnetic data applied to the emissive element. A swipe sensor detects when the thin-client access card is being swiped by a legacy card reader, and triggers an output of magnetic data from the emissive element while proximal to the POS reader head. A cable attaches the thin-client access card as a peripheral to the mobile device with an audio output jack.
US09830589B2
A method for facilitating mobile device payments, multimedia capture, calling, and messaging may include providing a payment, multimedia capture, calling, and messaging interface on a display of a mobile and wearable device and sensing a haptic input of the user via the haptic control associated with one touch payment, one tap payment, and one touch service. In response to the haptic input, a cloud-based application associated with the mobile and wearable device may be activated. The haptic input may be analyzed to determine a duration of the haptic input. Based on the duration of the haptic input, an operation may be selected from the list of predetermined operations to be performed by the cloud-based application. The predetermined operations include at least a payment operation, a multimedia capture operation, a calling operation, and a messaging operation. The method may include operably connecting the mobile and wearable device to a cloud storage.
US09830587B1
A system, method and device for customizing online merchant payments for mobile devices without merchant integration are provided. In an embodiment, a mobile device monitors a state of a web-based session between the mobile device and an online merchant and detects and intercepts a payment form received from an online merchant for entering payment information to complete a purchase transaction with the online merchant. The mobile device displays a list of one or more payment types available for selection to complete the purchase transaction. The user selects and payment type and the mobile device retrieves associated payment information from a server based on the payment type selected by the user. The mobile device populates fields of the payment form with the retrieved payment information, displays the populated payment form to the user for confirmation to complete the purchase transaction, and submits the populated payment form to the online merchant.
US09830581B2
An automated banking machine is operated at least in part to data read from data bearing records. The machine is operative to carry out a financial transfer responsive at least in part to a determination that data read through a card reader of the machine corresponds to a financial account that is authorized to conduct a transaction through operation of the machine. The machine also includes a check acceptor operative to receive checks from machine users. The check acceptor is operative image checks and data resolved from check images is used in operation of the machine to cause financial transfers.
US09830578B2
Embodiments are directed towards generating and managing schedules. In at least one of the various embodiments, these schedules may be configured to schedule team members, rotating which team member is active (“on-call”). In at least one of the various embodiments, these may be employed to determine which resource is responsible to respond and/or resolve incidents that may be reported and/or detected. In at least one of the various embodiments, if a team member is determined to be the on-call or responsible team member, the notification engine may determine the methods for notify the responsible of the incidents. Schedules previews may be updated in real-time as the schedule is edited.
US09830577B2
Provided are embodiments of systems, computer medium and computer-implemented methods for sensing health characteristics of a user using a computer mouse including, a computer medium including program instructions executable by a to cause the steps of: activating set of health sensors integrated within a computer mouse, collecting health sensor data output by the set of health sensors, determining an updated health profile for an employee using the collected health sensor data, updating health information for the employee to reflect the updated health profile for the employee, and displaying the updated health profile for the employee.
US09830571B2
A marketplace may be provided to allow posting of transport jobs and bidding on various aspects of the transport jobs. For example, a carrier may bid on transportation of cargo while fuel providers may bid on the fuel provision. In some arrangements, the carriers may solicit bids for a fueling portion of a transport job that they wish to bid on, have already bid on or have won. Transport may correspond to the physical conveyance of cargo from origin to destination and may include vehicle costs, driver costs, carrier fees and the like. Fuel costs may refer to the cost of fuel and/or pumping fees. A system may automatically generate suggested routes for transport and determine a projected amount of fuel needed for the trip. Additionally, the system may automatically identify potential or projected refueling locations and select refueling stations or providers based thereon.
US09830562B1
A system and method for mobile social networking within a target area are provided. The method provides for mobile social networking. The method includes receiving a social networking profile, and a target area. The social networking profile has at least one user preference. The method also includes broadcasting the social networking profile to one or more members of the social network within the target area. The method further includes searching within the target area for the one or more members having a preference that is the same or similar to the at least one user preference. The method additionally includes enabling contact with the one or more members having the same or similar at least one user preference.
US09830561B2
A method, apparatus, and program product implement visual booking operations to search for travel products and/or present travel recommendations associated with travel products to users based upon visual elements in one or more digital images captured by a wearable or mobile device. Visual elements may be extracted and inferred to identify one or more travel destination locations that are geographically remote from a current location of a user, and the identified travel destination locations may be used to search a travel database to identify at least one travel product for travel from a travel origination location to a travel destination location.
US09830556B2
Briefly, embodiments disclosed herein may relate to formulating synthetic questions, such as in response to a search query, for example. Candidate synthetic questions may be presented to a user who may initiate a search at least in part by selecting one or more candidate synthetic questions, for example, in an embodiment.
US09830554B2
Audio sensors collaborate for geo-location and tracking of multiple users. Different users can be independently geo-located and tracked within the AI environment. Location is determined from two or more AI clients of known locations that detect an event such as a human voice command to connect a call with a specific user. Responsive to classification of the event in view of the estimated location, a command for an AI action, such as connecting a call between users, is received for a response to the event at the AI clients that detected the event, or others.
US09830546B2
A method of personalization for at least two cards (10), each card including a first side, a second side, and a peripheral surface, includes the following steps: forming a pile (20) of at least two cards by stacking the first side or the second side of an article (n) such that the first surface or the second surface of the following card (n+1) is in contact with the first side or the second side of the card (n); aligning, via an alignment device (32, 34) at least one element of the peripheral surface of the card (n) with at least one element of the peripheral surface of the following card (n+1) such that at least one element of the set of peripheral surfaces of each card forms at least one uniform surface; applying, via an application device, at least one product on at least one element of the uniform surface.
US09830539B2
To use resources effectively and run appropriate processes in a configuration having multiple communication interfaces, a print control processor 201 switches a target buffer for processing data between a first receive buffer 24 that stores data received from a POS terminal 10, and a second receive buffer 26 that stores data received from a tablet terminal 13. The print control processor 201 controls a print mechanism 21 based on data stored in the receive buffer that is currently selected as the target buffer, changes the target buffer selection from the first receive buffer 24 to the second receive buffer 26 when control of the print mechanism 21 based on receipt print data stored in the first receive buffer 24 goes to a specific control state, and resets the target buffer selection to the first receive buffer 24 when control of the print mechanism based on the data stored in the second receive buffer 26 ends.
US09830538B2
An image forming apparatus which is capable of efficiently executing print jobs. The image forming apparatus receives a second print job after receiving a first print job and prints a plurality of copies of print data corresponding to the first print job. Whether or not the print data is to be printed by sort printing is determined, and when the print data is to be printed by sort printing, reception of the second print job is restricted until printing of the print data is completed, and when the print data is not to be printed by sort printing, reception of the second print job is not restricted even before printing of the print data is completed.
US09830535B2
A method, system, and machine-readable medium for classifying an image element as one of a plurality of categories, including assigning the image element based on a ratio between an unoccluded perimeter of the image element and an occluded perimeter of the image element and coding the image element according to a coding scheme associated with the category to which the image element is classified. Exemplary applications include image compression, where categories include image foreground and background layers.
US09830528B2
A method may include determining a value indicative of an average intensity of blocks in an image. The blocks include a primary and outer blocks. Each of the outer blocks may have three, five, or more than five pixels. The image may describe an external pixel lying between the primary and at least one of the outer blocks. The external pixel may not contribute to the value indicative of the average intensity of any of the blocks. The image may also describe a common internal pixel lying within two of the blocks. The common pixel may contribute to the value indicative of the average intensity of the two of the blocks. The method may include comparing the value indicative of the average intensity of the primary block to the values of the outer blocks, and quantifying a feature represented by the image by generating a characteristic number.
US09830526B1
Techniques for increasing robustness of a convolutional neural network based on training that uses multiple datasets and multiple tasks are described. For example, a computer system trains the convolutional neural network across multiple datasets and multiple tasks. The convolutional neural network is configured for learning features from images and accordingly generating feature vectors. By using multiple datasets and multiple tasks, the robustness of the convolutional neural network is increased. A feature vector of an image is used to apply an image-related operation to the image. For example, the image is classified, indexed, or objects in the image are tagged based on the feature vector. Because the robustness is increased, the accuracy of the generating feature vectors is also increased. Hence, the overall quality of an image service is enhanced, where the image service relies on the image-related operation.
US09830525B1
A method and system are provided for parallactically synced acquisition of images about a common target from mutually displaced imaging positions. At least first and second imaging devices are disposed respectively at first and second imaging positions. The first imaging device is actuated to acquire a first image with a target of interest disposed at a predetermined relative position within a field of view thereof. The second imaging device is actuated to acquire a second image with the target of interest disposed within a field of view thereof. A target feature finder is executed in a processer to detect the target of interest within the second image. A plurality of user prompts are generated at the second imaging device responsive to detection of the target of interest in the second image. The user prompts include: visual indicia adaptively applied to the second image to visually distinguish the target of interest, and orientation correction alerts adaptively generated to guide angular displacement of the second imaging device to situate the target of interest at the predetermined relative position within its field of view.
US09830522B2
An image recognition approach employs both computer generated and manual image reviews to generate image tags characterizing an image. The computer generated and manual image reviews can be performed sequentially or in parallel. The generated image tags may be provided to a requester in real-time, be used to select an advertisement, and/or be used as the basis of an internet search. In some embodiments generated image tags are used as a basis for an upgraded image review. A confidence of a computer generated image review may be used to determine whether or not to perform a manual image review.
US09830499B2
Disclosed is a method of performing a function of an electronic device. The method includes: detecting a first hovering object in proximity to the electronic device; measuring a first coordinate of at least one point included on a surface of the first hovering object based on detection of the first hovering object; generating first shape information on the first hovering object based on the first coordinate; and setting a function to be executed in accordance with the first shape information.
US09830492B2
Provided in the present disclosure is a fingerprint bookmark system which may be implemented in a vehicle with one or more configurable interior settings. The fingerprint bookmark system may contain a scanner which may be configured to record a fingerprint from a vehicle occupant such that a fingerprint image showing the fingerprint and a duration data for the fingerprint image are recorded by the scanner. The system may contain one or more processors which may be configured to compare the duration data associated with the fingerprint image with a duration threshold. The one or more processors may be configured to initiate a search to obtain a bookmark for the fingerprint shown in the fingerprint image when the duration data is less than the duration threshold. The one or more processors may be further configured to create a new bookmark when the duration data exceeds the duration threshold.
US09830489B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide code readers for reading codes provided as patterns imprinted on objects. Light interacts with a pattern by e.g. being reflected from or transmitted through the pattern, and at least some of the light that has interacted with the pattern is incident on photosensitive element(s) of one or more photodetectors of a code reader. The code reader employs centroid-measuring photodetector(s), i.e. photodetectors that detect light in such a manner that centroid of a pattern can be obtained directly from the photocurrents generated as a result of the photosensitive elements detecting light incident thereon. The code reader is then configured to process the detected light to determine a centroid of the pattern from the detected light and to decode data encoded in the pattern based on a position of the centroid. Such code readers are substantially less complex than camera-based devices and avoid mechanical scanning.
US09830488B2
A mobile bar code scanning device with a pinch-to-window feature includes an embedded camera and a user interface system having a visual display. The user interface system enables the user to access features of the mobile barcode scanning device with touch gestures. The mobile barcode scanning device also includes a barcode scanning application initialized by a user of the mobile barcode scanning device. The mobile barcode scanning device also includes an operating system communicatively coupled to the embedded camera, the barcode scanning application, and the user interface system. The visual display provides a viewfinder for the embedded camera in the barcode scanning application. The user-defined pinch-to-window feature is real-time adjustable in size, orientation, and position by at least a two-point touch gesture.
US09830471B1
In response to a request for data protection of a first resource of a first system, data protection methods are identified to provide data protection for the first resource. One or more of the data protection methods are selected based on one or more data protection objectives of a data protection plan that is associated with the first resource. The data protection objectives collectively specify an expected outcome of the data protection plan. For each of the selected data protection methods, a list of actions to be performed is determined to satisfy expected outcome of the data protection objectives. The list of actions is deployed to the first system and a second system that provides data protection for the first system, including provisioning one or more data protection services in the first and second systems to carry out the list of actions.
US09830468B2
A user interface for a virtual file management system that provides user access to managed content on mobile devices. The system comprises storage domains storing the managed content distributively using file systems, and a data infrastructure that organizes the managed content into a virtual file system. The data infrastructure includes a component that maintains policies defining controls for permissible operations on the managed content, the permissible operations including the file system primitives. A client application including a user interface is hosted on the mobile devices and is coupled to the data infrastructure and the storage domains and includes an enforcement component that retrieves and enforces the policies by applying the controls on the mobile devices.
US09830467B1
A system, method and apparatus that uses a quantum event-based, binary data generation apparatus operating in combination with a single-party or two-party, symmetric and/or asymmetric key storage system to create both random numbers and encryption keys to be used for purposes of encryption and decryption of a user's or organization's file data.
US09830463B2
Systems and methods for privacy-preserving data loss detection include performing a sweep of online information for a candidate data leakage to generate an online data set; performing an analysis of the online data set to determine that the online information is a candidate data leakage; the host encrypting the data communication and providing the host-encrypted data communication to a software agent at the enterprise; in response to receiving the host-encrypted data communication, the software agent encrypting a database of enterprise information and re-encrypting the host-encrypted data communication, and providing the same to the host; the host decrypting a host-encrypted aspect of the re-encrypted data communication to generate a software agent-encrypted data communication; determining whether a match exists between the encrypted database of information and the software agent-encrypted data communication; and based on whether the match exists, the software agent taking a first action or the host taking a second action.
US09830460B2
Methods, apparatus, and systems for characterizing vulnerabilities of an application source code are disclosed. Steps for characterizing vulnerabilities include traversing a representation of the application source code, generating a signature of a potential vulnerability of the application source code, and determining characteristics of the potential vulnerability based on a correlation between the generated signature of the potential vulnerability and previously stored signatures of potential vulnerabilities.
US09830456B2
A trusted processor is pre-booted using a secure pre-boot loader integrated with the trusted processor. The trusted processor verifies whether an external boot loader is valid, and when valid, the trusted processor is booted using the external boot loader, thereby enabling trusted operation of the trusted processor. The trusted processor verifies whether a firmware image for a field programmable device is valid, and when valid, a firmware image loading process for the field programmable device is triggered. When the firmware image loading process is triggered, the firmware image is loaded into the field programmable device and the field programmable device is released to execute of the firmware image. The field programmable device verifies whether an external boot loader for an untrusted processor is valid, and when valid, the untrusted processor is booted using the external boot loader for the untrusted processor, thereby enabling trusted operation of the untrusted processor.
US09830453B1
A system for detecting unusual code operating in a browser agent comprises a processor and a memory. The processor is to: determine that a block of code is running on a web page; parse the block of code into a parsed template; obtain indicia associated with the block of code; and determine that the parsed template is unusual based at least in part on the parsed template and the indicia. The memory is coupled with the processor and is configured to provide the processor with instructions.
US09830444B2
A device to process information is provided. According to an embodiment, a display unit is configured to display computer-generated objects. A processor is configured to receive selection input effective to select a particular computer-generated object from amongst the computer-generated objects. Manipulation input corresponding to detected motions is received. The particular computer-generated object is moved and rotated in its entirety in response to the manipulation input and in accordance with the detected motions. Each of the detected motions has a corresponding time period. A password is generated using the detected motions and the time periods. A user is authenticated by use of the generated password and an identified unrevealed authentication. The authentication of the user includes an indication of an authentication failure when the detected motions are different from an expected input and any of the corresponding time periods are outside of an allowable time range.
US09830443B2
The invention relates to a device for controlling access to a machine, comprising a portable object having a signal transmission member and a device for locking and unlocking a machine. The member for controlling the device is capable of triggering, once the second transceiver of the device has received the signal, the transmission of a signal to a wireless radio receiver supported by the portable object, and comprises a control member for triggering, when the wireless radio receiver has received the second signal, the transmission of a signal, the control member being connected to a calculator member for computing a distance between the portable object and the device using the signals, the portable object comprising a member for independently powering the transmission member, the receiver and the control member thereof. The device comprises a further calculator member for computing an incoming angle of the first signal and/or the third signal such as to trigger, when the angle is within a given angular range and when the distance is lower than a predetermined value, the unlocking of the machine and to trigger, when the distance is higher than a predetermined value, the locking of the machine.
