US09839169B2
A printed board transport apparatus includes a first conveyor which transports a printed board between a working portion and printed board loading/unloading portions of a working apparatus, and a second conveyor installed in the printed board loading/unloading portions. The first conveyor has a function of rotating a first transport member, and a function of moving in a direction parallel to the transport direction. The second conveyor transports the printed board by rotating a second transport member. After the length of a downstream portion of the printed board, which is placed on a conveyor on the downstream side, has reached a support length, the first conveyor moves toward the working portion by changing the rotational speed of the first transport member to a rotational speed for conveyor movement.
US09839163B2
A modular server rack cooling structure for cooling at least one server in at least one server rack of a data center assembly includes at least a first supporting member and at least a first heat exchanger. The first heat exchanger is coupled to the first supporting member, which is configured to position the first heat exchanger in heat transfer relationship with the at least one server. The first heat exchanger is not attached to the at least one server rack. The modular server rack cooling structure is also applied to a system that includes at least a first rack and at least a second rack disposed opposite from one another to form a hot aisle or a cold aisle. A method is disclosed for installing additional heat exchangers on the support structure of a modular server rack cooling structure to meet increased cooling capacity requirements without requiring additional space.
US09839160B2
A water-based computing system is described. In one embodiment, the system comprises a plurality of interconnected computer nodes each placed in a waterproof container floating in a body of water. Each computer node is configured to generate power for use thereof and for the other interconnected computer nodes.
US09839151B2
An electronic device according to the present invention comprises a main body including a pair of body chassis, a pair of cover panels disposed to cover the front face and the back face of the main body, a switch unit disposed on the side part of the main body, an operation button which is held between the pair of cover panels and has a pusher projecting therefrom, a housing recess which is formed on at least one of the body chassis and recessed on a joint surface with the other body chassis to form a housing chamber for the switch unit, a through hole penetrating the one body chassis from the side face toward the housing recess, and a bag-like waterproof packing member which is attached to the through hole and recessed toward the switch unit to house the pusher of the operation button. The pusher of the operation button passes through the through hole toward the switch unit, and the end of the waterproof packing member is pressed against the switch unit to fixedly hold the switch unit inside the housing recess.
US09839144B2
An electronic device and a display module used therein are provided. The display module includes a display panel, a backlight module and a sensing antenna. The backlight module has a light exit surface and a reflective plate opposite to the light exit surface, and the display panel is stacked on the light exit surface. The sensing antenna is disposed on a surface of the reflective plate opposite to the light exit surface and has a body and two signal connecting terminals connecting the body. The electronic device includes the display module, a system circuit module, and a conductive device. The system circuit module is disposed on a back side of the display module and has a signal connecting parts corresponding to and connecting the signal connecting terminals.
US09839136B2
The present disclosure relates, according to some embodiments, to the fabrication of a flexible circuit board, which includes forming a base layer comprising polyimide, forming a polyimide layer on the base layer, the polyimide layer having a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other, the first surface being peelably adhered in contact with the base layer, forming a metal layer on the second surface of the polyimide layer, and peeling the base layer from the polyimide layer with the metal layer remaining on the second surface of the polyimide layer.
US09839117B2
In an electronic device having a compact form factor, such as a head mounted display device, flexible printed circuits may be utilized to provide interconnects between EMI-generating peripheral components and other components in the device such as those populated on main circuit boards. Coverlays utilized to protect circuit traces and ground planes in the flexible printed circuits are configured with openings that can expose ground planes at various locations throughout the electronic device. Electrical pathways are formed by conductive foam, conductive adhesives, and/or other conductive materials between the exposed ground planes and a device ground to establish multiple ground loops throughout the device that shunt EMI energy that is generated by electronic components and circuits during device operation. The coverlay openings can be positioned on the flexible printed circuits so that the lengths of the ground loops are minimized to enhance overall EMI emission management performance.
US09839116B2
A circuit card assembly includes a heat sink, a locking mechanism, a first thermal path, and a second thermal path. The heat sink couples to a circuit board and has an upper surface and a lower surface. The heat sink has a channel extending downward along the upper surface of the heat sink. The locking mechanism is disposed within the channel and includes a plurality of solid wedges movably arranged within the channel. Movement of the wedges is effective to secure the circuit card assembly to a holder. The first thermal path extends from the circuit board through the heat sink to the lower surface of the heat sink and removes thermal energy from the circuit board. The second thermal path is formed from the circuit board, through the heat sink, and then through the wedges to the holder. The second thermal path removes thermal energy from the circuit board that is greater than a leakage amount.
US09839104B2
An electric fence control unit includes a signal generator, a first signal receiver, a second signal receiver, a signal processing and control unit, and a communications interface. The signal generator generates and transmits an adjustable power signal along a conduction path of the electric fence. The signal receivers sample signal outputs at a driven end and at an open end of the fence line. The signal processing and control unit receives and analyzes the first signal output and the second signal output. The communications interface transmits results from processing the first signal output and the second signal output to a service center. The power signal is adjustable to any capacity power level between a maximum power level and a minimum power level to match a load of the electric fence. Methods of monitoring the electric fence, including adjusting a power level of the adjustable power signal, are also disclosed.
US09839099B2
The present disclosure provides light switch modules and methods of implementing a light switch module for a lighting control system. The light switch modules include a light switch actuator including an actuation surface. The light switch actuator is movable to connect an electrical flow path and to activate a tactile display housed in the light switch actuator. One or more tactile motions are applied on the actuation surface of the light switch actuator for selecting a lighting setting from among a plurality of lighting settings using the tactile display.
US09839098B2
According to one aspect of the present invention, a light assembly of a vehicle is provided herein. The light assembly includes an array of light sources and a plurality of light-directing elements, each configured to direct light received from the light sources in an associated direction. A sensor arrangement is configured to sense a user-supplied action and a controller determines which light sources to activate in response to the sensed user-supplied action.
US09839097B2
The present application relates to a method for controlling a lamp based on a switching action. By applying the present application, switching of a working state of a lamp can be realized by controlling the switching-on and switching-off states of the lamp using a single switch. In the present method, if a switching-on action is detected, the lamp is switched on, and if a switching-off action is detected, the lamp is switched off; another switching-on action performed within a period t0 after the switching-off action is detected is defined as a quick switching-off-and-on operation. The steps of the present method may be realized by functional modules, which may be implemented by a computer program stored in a computer-readable storage medium.
US09839093B1
A self-healing overtemp circuit is described and illustrated comprising a temperature sensing circuit, a voltage sensing circuit, and optionally, a current sensing circuit. The self-healing overtemp circuit is designed to ramp down power in an LED lighting system (or other electrical circuit) in response to a sensed or impending thermal runaway (and optionally, overcurrent) event. Said thermal runaway and overcurrent events may be a result of failure of one or more components (e.g., driver, active cooling means) of the lighting system. The self-healing overtemp circuit further comprises means of restoring power to said LEDs in a manner that avoids (i) a perceivably bright flash of light or (ii) increased risk of component failure.
US09839086B2
A method is described for adjusting the brightness of at least one LED according to a changing supply voltage provided to the at least one LED includes acquiring a parameter which indicates the changing supply voltage; and providing, on the basis of the acquired parameter, a control voltage of the at least one LED for adjusting an LED current such that the at least one LED has a predefined relative brightness change over the predefined voltage range. A control unit and an LED lamp which implement the method described here are also discloses. Furthermore, an LED lighting apparatus and a medical diagnostic device having the LED lamp disclosed here are described.
US09839080B2
A DC-DC converter has a pulse width control circuit producing a sequence of pulses, with an on time, an off time and a switching frequency. The on time as well as the switching frequency are both varied in dependence on a dimming setting.
US09839071B2
2 Wireless devices capable of supporting multiple wireless configuration profiles are presented. A wireless device determines an environmental context, which is used to select a profile traversal method. A profile selection module configures itself to traverse available profiles according the traversals method to identify an acceptable profile. Once identified, the wireless device's communication port is configured to operate according to the profile.
US09839070B1
In a wireless communication system, a plurality of communication devices performs transmission and reception, each communication device including a signal processing unit/transmitting unit, a MAC layer processing unit and an IP layer processing unit. The IP layer processing unit includes an ad hoc network processing unit, an address information management unit, a relay information storage unit and an ARP information storage unit. The ARP information storage unit stores an adaptive address code information table and the relay information storage unit stores a relay information table.
US09839069B2
A sensor sampling system comprises a field unit to receive at least one analysis parameter from a base station and a signal representing a machine parameter monitored by a machine sensor. The field unit analyzes the signal based on the at least one machine parameter to generate a representation of the machine parameter, and wirelessly transmits the representation of the machine parameter for reception by the base station.
US09839065B2
A base station may establish a radio resource control (RRC) connection with a first user device. The base station may determine a bearer attribute of a bearer associated with the RRC connection and the first user device. The base station may determine that the bearer attribute satisfies a set of conditions, and may analyze multiple bearer attributes associated with multiple established RRC connections. The base station may select a terminable RRC connection, of the multiple established RRC connections, based on analyzing the multiple bearer attributes. The terminable RRC connection may be associated with a second user device that is different from the first user device, and the terminable RRC connection may be different from the RRC connection. The device may terminate the terminable RRC connection based on selecting the terminable RRC connection.
US09839051B2
A method of managing a handover of a connection of a mobile device between a first access node and a second access node in a communications system, the method comprising: sending information from the communications system to the mobile device; selecting one of a plurality of access methods for accessing the second access node based on said information; and accessing the second access node using the selected access method.
US09839048B2
Control channel quality based scheduling of radio transmissions For controlling radio transmission in a mobile network, a node (100) of the mobile network determines a channel quality of a downlink control channel of a cell (10) of the mobile network, as experienced by a certain user equipment (50-1) in the cell (10). Depending on the determined channel quality of the downlink control channel, the node (100) schedules at least one radio transmission on a data channel of the cell (10). On the downlink control channel, the node (100) indicates radio resources allocated for the scheduled at least one radio transmission.
US09839047B2
Provided are channel sounding and scheduling methods for interference alignment in a wireless LAN. The sounding method includes transmitting a RTS frame, the RTS frame including an OIA candidate AP list that includes identification information of a plurality of access points, transmitting a CTS poll frame for triggering transmission of a CTS frame to a second access point which is a first access point in the OIA candidate AP list, and receiving a CTS frame which is a response to the CTS poll frame from the second access point. Therefore, communication performance of the wireless LAN can be improved.
US09839038B2
The present invention relates to wireless networks and more specifically directed to providing or acquiring an exemplary country code identifier or regulatory domain for a non-limiting device operating in a reduced functionality radio frequency (regulatory) mode based on exemplary location factors and exemplary confidence rankings. One embodiment includes an exemplary regulatory domain selection component configured to weigh location factors associated with a device, based on reliability associated with the location factors, and configured to determine an overall confidence of a country code identifier or a regulatory domain for the device. Another embodiment includes a device configured to operate in a reduced functionality radio frequency (regulatory) or world-wide compliant mode until a regulatory domain can be determined through a trusted cloud service which can be configured to weigh one or more location factors or data sources to facilitate providing or acquiring an exemplary country code identifier or regulatory domain for the device.
US09839033B2
A method and apparatus are described including defining a neighbor set for each access point, selecting a first clock in a first access point, the selected clock having a highest accuracy as a grand master clock, advising neighboring access points to synchronize with the selected grand master clock and transmitting a message to schedule a quiet period based on the grand master clock. Also described are a method and apparatus including receiving a beacon message, inspecting clock descriptors in the beacon message, selecting a best master clock responsive to the inspection and transmitting a message to schedule a quiet period based on the selected best master clock.
US09839031B2
A method, an apparatus and a computer-readable storage medium for accessing a wireless sensor network with a multimode user equipment. The method includes a user equipment receiving broadcasted wireless sensor network information; requesting access information for the wireless sensor network from a base station of a mobile data network; receiving the access information from the base station; and accessing the wireless sensor network using said access information.
US09839029B2
A radio base station capable of reducing the impact of interference and improving the efficiency of the use of radio resources even when different DL/UL configurations are employed between neighboring transmitting/receiving points is disclosed. The radio base station can communicate with user terminals via time division duplex and is able to change and control DL/UL configurations, has a subframe type determining section that classifies subframes into fixed subframes or flexible subframes, in accordance with the relationship between the DL/UL configurations that are employed in the radio base station and the DL/UL configurations that are employed in other radio base stations, and a frequency allocation control section that applies mutually different frequency allocation methods to the fixed subframes and the flexible subframes.
US09839020B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and apparatus for receiving control information through an enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH), the method includes receiving a subframe which includes one or more EPDCCH physical resource block (PRB) sets, and attempting to decode one or more EPDCCH candidates in each of the EPDCCH PRB sets. When the transmission areas of the EPDCCH PRB set and a first signal overlap with each other, information relating to the EPDCCH candidate or information relating to the decoding is determined to be different according to one or both of EPDCCH PRB set type and/or cell identity (ID).
US09839019B2
A method of allocating radio resources for uplink transmissions in a wireless telecommunications system, the method including: a first terminal device communicating a request for an allocation of radio resources to a base station; the base station determining there is an association between the first terminal device and a second terminal device based on their having similar predicted traffic profiles for uplink data; and the base station establishing a radio resource allocation for the second terminal device based on the resources requested by the first terminal device, and consequently transmitting radio resource allocation messages to allocate radio resources to the first and the second terminal devices for respective uplink transmissions based on the request for an allocation of radio resources received from the first terminal device.
US09839014B2
A method is presented of reporting control information in a wireless communication system in which M downlink time divisional duplex (TDD) subframes are associated with an uplink TDD subframe. A user equipment (UE), supporting at least one cell including a primary cell, receives a radio resource control (RRC) message indicating resource allocation information used for a first PUCCH format. The UE receives a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) and a second PDSCH in one of the M downlink TDD subframes, wherein the second PDSCH is received with a downlink assignment index (DAI). The UE selects a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) format among a plurality of PUCCH formats including the first PUCCH format and a second PUCCH format, and transmits a positive-acknowledgement (ACK)/negative-acknowledgement (NACK) signal for the first and second PDSCHs by using the selected PUCCH format.
US09839011B2
A user equipment (UE) receiving, from a base station (BS), a higher layer signal including first information used for configuring more than one sets of one or more downlink component carriers (DCCs). The UE receives, using a PDCCH in a first subframe, from the BS, downlink control information (DCI) including second information indicating a trigger for a transmission of channel state information (CSI), the transmission of the CSI being triggered for one set of the more than one sets of one or more DCCs, the DCI being used for scheduling of a PUSCH in one uplink component carrier. The UE transmits, using the PUSCH in a second subframe, to the BS, the CSI for the one set of the more than one sets of one or more DCCs in a case that the DCI including the second information indicating the trigger for the transmission of the CSI is received.
US09838998B2
The present invention provides a method for processing paging from a server managing mobility in a mobile communication network. The method comprises: receiving from a network node a notification with respect to downlink data to be relayed to user equipment; transmitting a paging signal with respect to the user equipment to one or more base stations; receiving a context request with respect to the user equipment from a different server; recognizing that the paging will fail if the context request with respect to the terminal is received before receiving a reply to the paging; relaying a context reply to the different server depending on the recognition; and transmitting a processing request message with respect to the downlink data to the network node.
US09838992B2
Providing hospitality via a mobile device is described herein. One method includes determining, by a mobile device, a hospitality preference of a user of the mobile device for a particular location, storing the hospitality preference in a memory of the mobile device, and modifying, by the mobile device, an operation of at least one system device associated with the particular location to provide the hospitality preference responsive to a distance between the mobile device and the particular location exceeding a particular threshold.
US09838991B1
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system that manages utilization of mobile subscriber identity information including enabling reuse of such information by a different communication device and/or re-authorizing use by a communication device that previously was authorized to utilize the information. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09838987B2
A method may be provided for a device to device (D2D) transmitter to distinguish between different D2D synchronization signals, D2DSSs. The method may include transmitting a device to device synchronization signal (D2DSS) for a first service to a D2D receiver; and associating a first set of D2DSS physical layer parameters to the D2DSS for the first service. A second set of D2DSS physical layer parameters are associated to a D2DSS for a second service so that the D2DSS for the first service is distinguishable from the D2DSS for the second service.
US09838961B2
Embodiments of a communication station and method for communicating in a wireless network are generally described herein. In some embodiments, the communication station may be configured to communicate orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) symbols on channel resources in accordance with an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) technique during a control period. The channel resources may comprise one or more minimum bandwidth units. Each minimum bandwidth unit may have a predetermined bandwidth and may be configured in accordance with one of a plurality of subcarrier allocations for one of a plurality of interleaver configurations.
US09838956B2
A method and a node identification system for identifying at least one unknown mobile node in a communications network using details related to at least one known mobile node and organization of the details related to the at least one known mobile node. The method includes capturing details related to the at least one unknown mobile node and identifying an organization of the captured details related to the at least one unknown mobile node, comparing the details related to the at least one known mobile node and the organization of the details related to the at least one known mobile node with the captured details related to the at least one unknown mobile node and the organization of the captured details related to the at least one unknown mobile node, and determining a type of the at least one unknown mobile node based on the comparing.
US09838942B2
A technique for implementing AP-local dynamic switching involves Layer 2 switching. This may be accomplished by providing data associated with wireless stations to an AP sufficient to enable the AP to determine whether traffic from a particular wireless station should be locally switched. Alternatively, the wireless station may be able to determine whether to locally switch traffic based upon the traffic itself. For example, it may be desirable to AP-locally switch voice traffic to avoid latency, which is particularly detrimental to voice transmissions such as voice-over-IP. Traffic that is not to be switched locally is Layer 2 tunneled upstream.
US09838941B2
A near field communication (NFC) router of a mobile device receives a first message from an external NFC device and, in accordance with a first active rule, processes the first message as being targeted to a first host processing device of the mobile device. When the NFC router receives a second message from the external NFC device and detects a bit pattern in the second message indicating that the first host processing device is not an intended target of the second message, the NFC router activates a second rule. When the NFC router receives a further first message from the external NFC device, the NFC router processes the further first message as being targeted to a target host processing device in accordance with the second active rule.
US09838938B2
A method and an apparatus for assigning data to split bearers in dual connectivity is provided. The apparatus includes a master evolved Node B (MeNB) of a user equipment (UE) configured to receive information of available buffer decided and transmitted by a secondary eNB (SeNB) through an X2 interface between the MeNB and the SeNB, determine whether the information is about available buffer for a UE or for an evolved radio access bearer (E-RAB) established on the SeNB based on an indicator in the information or a bearer that transported the information, and adjust the amount of data assigned to the SeNB according to the information of the available buffer. The apparatus can accommodate eNBs implemented in various manners, make full use of the bandwidth of data bearers, and reduce delay in data transmission.
US09838937B2
A method and an apparatus for assigning data to split bearers in dual connectivity is provided. The apparatus includes a master evolved Node B (MeNB) of a user equipment (UE) configured to receive information of available buffer decided and transmitted by a secondary eNB (SeNB) through an X2 interface between the MeNB and the SeNB, determine whether the information is about available buffer for a UE or for an evolved radio access bearer (E-RAB) established on the SeNB based on an indicator in the information or a bearer that transported the information, and adjust the amount of data assigned to the SeNB according to the information of the available buffer. The apparatus can accommodate eNBs implemented in various manners, make full use of the bandwidth of data bearers, and reduce delay in data transmission.
US09838935B2
A method and an apparatus for assigning data to split bearers in dual connectivity is provided. The apparatus includes a master evolved Node B (MeNB) of a user equipment (UE) configured to receive information of available buffer decided and transmitted by a secondary eNB (SeNB) through an X2 interface between the MeNB and the SeNB, determine whether the information is about available buffer for a UE or for an evolved radio access bearer (E-RAB) established on the SeNB based on an indicator in the information or a bearer that transported the information, and adjust the amount of data assigned to the SeNB according to the information of the available buffer. The apparatus can accommodate eNBs implemented in various manners, make full use of the bandwidth of data bearers, and reduce delay in data transmission.
US09838934B2
A method for opening radio pipeline capability and a collaborative controller are disclosed. In an embodiment the method includes receiving, by an access network collaborative controller, a request message from a capability opening gateway, wherein the request message carries a service requirement of a first user equipment UE, and controlling, by the collaborative controller, a first radio pipeline device according to the request message so that a radio pipeline resource allocated to the first UE meets the service requirement.
US09838929B2
A radio communication system and a handover control method are provided that can reduce abnormal disconnections of communication attributable to handover to from another cell an own cell. Provided are a handover suppression section (102) that, when receiving from a base station (30A) managing a first cell (35A) a request for handover to a second cell (35B), suppresses the handover in accordance with the degree of handover suppression, a handover failure detection section (13) that detects a handover failure caused by the handover suppression, and a handover suppression optimization section (203) that adjusts the degree of handover suppression based on the rate of handover failure occurrence.
US09838926B2
An apparatus is provided which includes a first connection unit configured to provide connection to a user equipment, and a processor configured to detect whether a handover of the user equipment is required, and, if a handover is required, to establish mobility information regarding the mobility state of the apparatus as mobility information of the user equipment, and to send the mobility information to at least one network element involved in the handover of the user equipment.
US09838903B2
A wireless communication method and system are provided in which an uplink data stream that has uplink data associated with a user device is received. Channel performance data based at least in part on a portion of the uplink data stream is determined. A determination is made whether the channel performance data meets a predetermined performance level. The portion of the uplink data stream is discarded when the channel performance data does not meet the predetermined performance level. The portion of the uplink data stream is tagged for additional processing when the channel performance data meets the predetermined performance level.
US09838898B2
A wireless device determines (300) that wireless transmissions to a network are not possible. The wireless device suspends (310) passing of measurement report messages to a lower layer of the wireless device for transmission to the network by the wireless device if the wireless device determines that wireless transmissions to the network are not possible. In an example, while passing of measurement report messages to the lower layer of the wireless device is suspended, the wireless device buffers (320) less than a predetermined number of measurement report messages.
US09838897B2
Provided is a method for reporting by a terminal in a wireless communication system. The method comprises: acquiring measurement results; starting to acquire location information related to the measurement results; determining whether measurement results satisfy reporting conditions; starting a delay timer; and if the location information is acquired before the delay timer expires, transmitting a reporting message comprising the measurement results and the acquired location information via a network.
US09838892B2
A method of notifying estimated QoEs (Quality of Experiences) for applications between a mobile terminal and a plurality of application servers that provide services of the applications, may measure first QoEs for the applications between the apparatus and the mobile terminal, measure second QoEs for the applications between the apparatus and the application server, estimate the estimated QoEs for the applications, based on the first and second QoEs for the applications, and notify the estimated QoEs to the mobile terminal.
US09838891B2
A mesh network topology assessment mechanism is provided including a plurality of first wireless routers, coupled together over a multi-hop mesh network, and a second wireless router. The second wireless router is coupled to the first wireless routers and, responsive to a message having a link assessment mode, introduces a unique delay into forwarding of the message to a next one of the plurality of first wireless routers in route to a destination device. The second wireless router has a store-and-forward controller, having a unique delay time corresponding to the unique delay, where the unique delay time is substantial and thus provides for creation of measurable latency in the message sent between an origination device and the destination device.
US09838886B2
An active distributed antenna system and a relay unit thereof are disclosed. The relay unit includes: at least two access units, first combiners and optical units; a number of first radio frequency switches, second radio frequency switches and second power dividers corresponding to the first combiners respectively; a second combiner and a first power divider; wherein each of the first combiners is coupled at one end to at least one of the access units, and the other end is coupled to the movable terminal of the first radio frequency switch; one end of the second combiner is coupled to the first stationary terminal of each of the first radio frequency switches respectively, and the other end is couple to the first power divider; the other end of the first power divider is coupled to the first stationary terminal of each of the second radio frequency switches respectively; the second stationary terminal of each second radio frequency switch is coupled to the second stationary terminal of a corresponding first radio frequency switch, and the movable terminal of each second radio frequency switch is coupled to one second power divider; and the other end of each second power divider is coupled to at least one optical unit. The SISO mode and the MIMO mode are compatible in the relay unit according to the present invention, so the network construction is at a low cost.
US09838882B1
Dynamic frequency selection (DFS) is often a requirement for a wireless local area network (WLAN) apparatus to prevent the apparatus from interfering with other systems that have a priority to a radio frequency (RF) channel. When DFS is executed, the WLAN apparatus ceases WLAN operations on the channel and searches for an open channel to resume WLAN operations. Often a WLAN apparatus misinterprets signals from another system as operating on the channel when actually the received signals are signals leaked into the channel from a system transmitting on a different channel. Presented herein are methods and apparatuses for preventing unnecessary DFS operations resulting from misinterpreted signals through the use of a signal to noise ratio determined from a pulse spectral density of the received signal.
US09838877B2
Embodiments of the present invention delineate systems and methods for dynamically assessing and mitigating risk of an insured entity. Additional embodiments of the present invention delineate systems and methods for providing a user of a mobile device with information relevant to a position of a mobile device, wherein such information may describe one of a risk and an opportunity within a predetermined distance of a location for the mobile device.
US09838874B2
A terminal device including: a communicator configured establish a phone call with another terminal device having a remote control right to an external device, and to receive state information of the external device from the another terminal device; a display configured to display a mirroring screen corresponding to a screen displayed on the external device based on the received state information; and a controller configured to, in response to a user manipulation command being input on the mirroring screen, transmit a control command for the external device corresponding to the input user manipulation command to the another terminal device.
US09838873B2
A device receives capability information associated with a next hop device of a wireless local area network (WLAN). The device also determines, based on the capability information, whether the next hop device is capable of implementing security for traffic, where the security includes a media access control (MAC) security standard and a layer 2 link security standard. The device further creates, via the MAC security standard, a secure channel with the next hop device when the next hop device is capable of providing security for traffic.
US09838870B2
The disclosed apparatus may include (1) a reply-reception module, stored in memory, that receives, from a satellite device, an authentication reply that includes an original authentication message digitally signed by the aggregation device using a private key of the aggregation device and that is digitally signed by the satellite device using a private key of the satellite device, (2) a forwarding module, stored in memory, that forwards the authentication reply to a network management server, (3) a validation-reception module, stored in memory, that receives, from the network management server in response to forwarding the authentication reply, a validation message, and (4) an authentication module, stored in memory, that authenticates the satellite device based at least in part on receiving the validation message. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
US09838869B1
Embodiments of the disclosure relate generally to methods and systems for delivering digital or media content to a mobile device and associating the digital rights for the content with an identifier of the mobile device or user of the mobile device. In some embodiments, a clearing house may store the digital rights for the content and provide authorization for delivery requests from the mobile device. In some embodiments, the mobile device may receive the content via communication with one or more of: the clearing house, a media provider, and/or a transport provider.
US09838860B2
A method for efficient wireless communications performed by a communications apparatus includes determining a cell according to a low priority list; and performing an attach procedure to try to attach to the cell for establishing an emergency call through the cell. The low priority list comprises information regarding a public land mobile network (PLMN) identity (ID), tracking area (TA) code, a cell ID and/or a closed subscriber group (CSG) ID of at least one attempted cell through which the communications apparatus has attempted but failed to establish an emergency call.
US09838852B2
Embodiments herein relate to a method performed in a first network node for handling one or more signaling procedures of a wireless device in a wireless communication network. The first network node, receiving a first message from a second network node indicating an initiation of a signaling procedure for the wireless device; selecting a processing module for handling the signaling procedure; retrieving context of the wireless device; storing the retrieved context on the selected processing module; assigning a TRID to the signaling procedure, pointing to the selected processing module, which TRID being valid for an interval; and transmitting a second message to the second network node and/or another network node, which second message is associated with the signaling procedure and comprises the assigned TRID.
US09838851B2
A subframe processing method and device are disclosed. The subframe processing method includes: if data packets that are not received by an evolved NodeB (eNB) include at least two consecutive Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS) data packets to be scheduled in a Dynamic Schedule Period (DSP) by the eNB, setting a subframe of the eNB that is used to transmit Dynamic Schedule Information (DSI) corresponding to the DSP to null. When the eNB finds that consecutive MBMS data packets are lost and/or that a type 0 Protocol Data Unit (PDU) group is lost, a subframe used to transmit the DSI may be set to null, thereby preventing the eNB from transmitting incorrect DSI which may interfere with other eNBs and cause incorrect data receiving of a user equipment (UE).
US09838850B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure related to methods and systems of determining the floor and location of a device in an indoor space having multiple floors. A map importing module takes a floor map of an indoor space and processes it for further use. A calibration module creates a fingerprint map of the indoor space described by the floor map. A floor localization module searches the fingerprint map of each floor to determine the most likely location for each floor. A floor detection module determines the floor and location by comparing the most likely locations for each floor and utilizing device movement history data.
US09838847B2
Disclosed are apparatus and methods for providing outputs; e.g., location estimates, based on trained Gaussian processes. A computing device can determine trained Gaussian processes related to wireless network signal strengths, where a particular trained Gaussian process is associated with one or more hyperparameters. The computing device can designate one or more hyperparameters. The computing device can determine a hyperparameter histogram for values of the designated hyperparameters of the trained Gaussian processes. The computing device can determine a candidate Gaussian process associated with one or more candidate hyperparameter value for the designated hyperparameters. The computing device can determine whether the candidate hyperparameter values are valid based on the hyperparameter histogram. The computing device can, after determining that the candidate hyperparameter values are valid, add the candidate Gaussian process to the trained Gaussian processes. The computing device can provide an estimated location output based on the trained Gaussian processes.
US09838837B2
A wireless computing device may scan a frequency set. A first group of base stations may use the frequencies in the frequency set. Based on information relating to one or more base stations in the first group of base stations, the wireless computing device may estimate its location. The wireless computing device may further select a frequency subset of the frequency set. A second group of base stations may use the frequencies of the frequency subset. Based on information relating to one or more base stations in the second group of base stations, the wireless computing device may again estimate its location. If the two estimated locations are within a threshold distance of one another, the wireless computing device may perform, during a subsequent location-estimating operation, an additional frequency scan using the frequency subset.
US09838835B2
Techniques for providing and using a text beacon are disclosed. In one particular embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method comprising the steps of receiving a communication from an initiating client device to initiate a beacon, the communication designating at least one recipient for the beacon and at least one trigger condition for the beacon; sending a communication to a recipient client device associated with the at least one designated recipient, the communication designating the initiating client device; receiving a request for location information associated with the beacon; determining that the request for location information matches the at least one trigger condition for the beacon; and responding to the request for location information by sending position information, based at least on determining that the request matches the trigger conditions for the beacon.
US09838830B2
Systems and Methods disclosed herein relate to an application programming interface (API) server that receives, from an API client device connected to the system, one or more requests to perform an activity. The activity includes reading, editing by making additions, deletions, modifications or any combination thereof, or both reading and editing, to at least one portion of a data model comprising information related to one or more smart-devices, one or more smart-device environment structures comprising the smart-devices, or both; perform the activity based upon the one or more requests; log the activity, by storing a responsible party for the activity, based upon a vendor, user, or other party or entity associated with the API client device; and present at least a portion of the log.
US09838828B2
The present invention relates generally to wireless networking, and more particularly to methods and apparatuses for providing flexible WiFi docking with minimal overhead. According to certain aspects, embodiments of the invention include methods and apparatuses that allow a WD to select peripherals in a configuration that is useful for the WD from a Topology point of view. According to certain other aspects, embodiments of the invention include methods and apparatuses that allow peripherals to be used as part of the Docking Session, but does not require using all the peripherals all the time. According to certain additional aspects, embodiments of the invention include methods and apparatuses that allow for dynamically switching the use of peripherals with minimal overhead. According to still further additional aspects, embodiments of the invention include methods and apparatuses for signaling user authentication functionality for certain peripherals to be used in a docking session.
US09838826B2
Improved tools for authoring and rendering audio reproduction data are provided. Some such authoring tools allow audio reproduction data to be generalized for a wide variety of reproduction environments. Audio reproduction data may be authored by creating metadata for audio objects. The metadata may be created with reference to speaker zones. During the rendering process, the audio reproduction data may be reproduced according to the reproduction speaker layout of a particular reproduction environment.
US09838820B2
The present disclosure relates to an acoustic control apparatus applied to a loudspeaker system including first to Mth loudspeakers. In one implementation, the apparatus includes first to Mth control filters. The first to Mth control filters convolve a first input sound signal with first to Mth control filter coefficients to generate first to Mth sound signals. The first to Mth loudspeakers produce sounds based on the first to Mth sound signals. The second to Mth control filter coefficients are calculated based on the first control filter coefficient and at least one first acoustic transfer function set from the first to Mth loudspeakers to at least one first one-ear position, such that a spatial average of at least one sound pressure of the sounds at the at least one first one-ear position comes close to 0.
US09838817B2
A loudspeaker diaphragm, comprising a dome portion located at central position and a suspension ring portion located at edge position; the dome portion and/or the suspension ring portion comprise silk fabric and thermoplastic polyurethane combined with the silk fabric; and the silk fabric is coated with thermosetting adhesive. The method for manufacturing the loudspeaker diaphragm comprises following steps: a. coating the silk fabric with a thermosetting adhesive under a high temperature, and drying the silk fabric; b. hot pressing and combining the silk fabric and thermoplastic polyurethane to form a membrane; c. pressing the membrane to form the dome portion and/or the suspension ring portion. The dome portion, or both the dome portion and the suspension ring portion of the loudspeaker diaphragm comprise silk fabric coated with a thermosetting adhesive and thermoplastic polyurethane. Thus formed loudspeaker diaphragm has good rigidity and damping characteristic, thus improving acoustic performance of the diaphragm.
US09838816B2
Provided are a speaker module and a manufacturing method therefor. The speaker module comprises a housing and a speaker unit comprising a vibrating diaphragm component and a magnetic circuit component. A front acoustic cavity and a rear acoustic cavity are formed between the speaker unit and the housing. An elastic element is provided on the housing and coupled to the end surface of an open end of the front or rear acoustic cavity. Use of the speaker module can reduce a step of manual fitting of the elastic element, ensure precision and stability, so that the elastic element is not prone to fall off, and tightness between sound outlet hole of the speaker module and sound hole of mobile phone can be ensured. The manufacturing method for the speaker module also can be extended to manufacturing of other structures requiring injection of a soft or rigid material into another material.
US09838811B2
An electronic device may play audio content to a user through a pair of earphones. The audio content may be content that is stored locally on the electronic device or may be streaming content that is provided by an online service. Control circuitry in the electronic device may monitor ear presence sensor structures in the earphones to determine whether the earphones are present in the ears of the user. In response to determining that the earphones have been removed from the ears of the user, the control circuitry may communicate with the online service provider. Communicating with the online service provider may include sending media streaming control commands to the online service provider. The media streaming control commands may, for example, include media streaming pause commands that instruct the online service provider to pause the audio content in response to the earphones being removed from the ears of the user.
US09838798B2
A long stroke speaker is provided in the present disclosure. The long stroke speaker includes a shell having a receiving space, a first vibration system and a second vibration system connected with the shell respectively, and at least one magnetic circuit system. The receiving space comprises a first acoustic cavity and a second acoustic cavity communicated with each other. The magnetic circuit system(s) is(are) disposed in the first acoustic cavity and/or the second acoustic cavity. The vibration direction of the first vibration system intersects with the vibration direction of the second vibration system.
US09838797B2
A speaker comprises at least four diaphragms, inner connecting rods, outer connecting rods, and a cavity sealing housing. Diaphragms spaced apart from each other respectively form a set of diaphragms. The two sets of diaphragms move relative to each other. Connecting points are provided on rigid domes of each of the diaphragms. The inner connecting rods are connected to the diaphragms via the connecting points on the domes. The inner connecting rods respectively connected to the two sets of diaphragms are connected one to another via different outer connecting rods. Cavities of the speaker are formed between adjacent diaphragms. Cavities spaced apart from each other jointly form a front acoustic cavity. The cavities adjacent to the front acoustic cavity form a rear acoustic cavity. The cavity sealing housing seals the front acoustic cavity/rear acoustic cavity, thus allowing separation of the front and rear acoustic cavities of the speaker.
US09838795B2
A speaker includes a vibration system including a vibrating diaphragm and a flat voice coil for driving the vibrating diaphragm; a magnetic circuit system including a first magnet group, a second magnet group and a third magnet group, lined up in turn along the vibration direction of the vibration system; and a housing for accommodating the vibrational system and the magnetic circuit system. The first magnet group includes a first magnet and the second magnet with opposite magnetic poles thereof faced each other. The second magnet group includes a third magnet and a fourth magnet with N-pole of the third magnet close to S-pole of the fourth magnet. The third magnet group includes a fifth magnet and a sixth magnet with opposite magnetic poles thereof faced each other.
US09838784B2
Systems and methods for improving performance of a directional audio capture system are provided. An example method includes correlating phase plots of at least two audio inputs, with the audio inputs being captured by at least two microphones. The method can further include generating, based on the correlation, estimates of salience at different directional angles to localize a direction of a source of sound. The method can allow providing cues to the directional audio capture system based on the estimates. The cues include attenuation levels. A rate of change of the levels of attenuation is controlled by attack and release time constants to avoid sound artifacts. The method also includes determining a mode based on an absence or presence of one or more peaks in the estimates of salience. The method also provides for configuring the directional audio capture system based on the determined mode.
US09838770B2
Seamless earbud structures and methods for making the same are disclosed. Seamless earbud structures can be constructed using an insert molding construction method, which overmolds a cosmetic material over two sub-enclosures that are mated together. The two sub-enclosures form a housing that can encompass a driver assembly (e.g., woofer and tweeter), a conductor bundle, and provide one or more acoustic volumes. The housing has a non-occluding member and a neck member, and has a seamless or nearly seamless construction. The cosmetic material is insert molded around the housing to provide a smooth and seamless surface disposed around the periphery of the housing.
US09838762B2
In one example, a method for optimizing operational parameters of a hardware implemented telemetry system is provided. The operational parameters can include a performance characteristic, an energy use, data creation, and a cost. The operation parameters are monitored. The method further includes adjusting a balance between the operational parameters in accordance with a predetermined operational guideline.
US09838756B2
Provided is a method and apparatus for outputting an additional image independently of a reference image in a broadcasting receiver including a communicator to receive a stream of an additional image of a three-dimensional (3D) broadcast in non-real time, and receive a stream of a reference image of the 3D broadcast in real-time and a processor to generate a 3D image of the 3D broadcast based on the stream of the additional image and the stream of the reference image.
US09838746B2
Exemplary media clip systems and methods provide end users of a media distribution service, such as a mobile television distribution service, with one or more media clip tools for creation, editing, sharing, accessing, and/or consumption of clips of media programs distributed by way of the media distribution service.
US09838745B2
A method and system provides information and purchasing services for products placed in multimedia content. Product metadata coordinated in time with the multimedia content may be used to determine the product and obtain product information. A user may send a notification at a time when the product occurs in the multimedia content, and the time may be used to coordinate the product metadata. Product information may be provided to the user. The user may be given the option to purchase the product. Validation of the user may occur in order to authorize the purchase.
US09838741B2
Provided is a method of a receiver to receive a broadcast service. The method includes: receiving a content; obtaining information on an adjunct service of the broadcast service from the content; transmitting a trigger request according to the information on the adjunct service; receiving at least one trigger in response to the request; and performing a trigger action on a trigger target object at a trigger time on the basis of the received at least one trigger, wherein the received at least one trigger is located in a specific time segment.
US09838736B2
Systems and methods for controlling a plurality of devices in a home automation system may include providing a device proxy for a device connected to the home automation system and setting a new value in a value box of the device proxy, whereby the value box corresponds to at least one of a sensor, control, and metadata of the device. The systems and methods may further include determining one or more rules associated with the device proxy and running the determined one or more rules, whereby the determined one or more rules are indicative of interactive relationships between the device proxy and one or more other device proxies corresponding to one or more other devices connected to the home automation system.
US09838731B1
Video clips may be automatically edited to be synchronized for accompaniment by audio tracks. A preliminary version of a video clip may be made up from stored video content. Occurrences of video events within the preliminary version may be determined. A first audio track may include audio event markers. A first revised version of the video clip may be synchronized so that moments within the video clip corresponding to occurrences of video events are aligned with moments within the first audio track corresponding to audio event markers. Presentation of an audio mixing option may be effectuated on a graphical user interface of a video application for selection by a user. The audio mixing option may define volume at which the first audio track is played as accompaniment for the video clip.
US09838724B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing a media distribution network for live streaming are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes directing live video content from a sender device to a first video processing node hosted on a first server within a network, wherein the first server is located within a given geographical proximity of the sender device; determining locations within the network for hosting additional video processing nodes within a given geographical proximity of a receiver device; transmitting the live video content from the first video processing node to an additional video processing node within the network by implementing (i) a multicast overlay network over the network and (ii) a data transfer protocol between the video processing nodes in conjunction with the multicast overlay network; and transmitting the live video content from the additional video processing node to the receiver device associated with the additional video processing node.
US09838714B2
Provided is an apparatus and method for encoding/decoding a moving picture based on adaptive scanning. The moving picture apparatus and method can increase a compression rate based on adaptive scanning by performing intra prediction onto blocks of a predetermined size, and scanning coefficients acquired from Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) of a residue signal and quantization differently according to the intra prediction mode. The moving picture encoding apparatus includes: a mode selector for selecting and outputting a prediction mode; a predictor for predicting pixel values of pixels to be encoded of an input video based on the prediction mode to thereby output a residue signal block; a transform/quantization unit for performing DCT onto the residue signal block and quantizing the transformed residue signal block; and an encoder for adaptively scanning and encoding the quantized residue signal block based on the prediction mode.
US09838709B2
In a moving picture encoding apparatus, a primary candidate reference motion vector-setting unit sets N primary candidate reference motion vectors. A degree of reliability calculation unit calculates the reliability of each primary candidate reference motion vector, which represents effectiveness in predicting a motion vector of a block to be decoded, using coded or decoded image information. A reference motion vector determination unit selects M (M
US09838691B2
The present invention relates to a video encoding method and apparatus for setting and encoding quantization parameters, and to a video decoding method and apparatus for decoding and setting quantization parameters in a video encoding and decoding apparatus which uses blocks having various sizes and depths as encoding and decoding units.
US09838683B2
In one method embodiment a method of processing of a bitstream is disclosed. The method may include receiving at a processing device a bitstream comprising a first portion of compressed pictures having a first picture resolution format and a second portion having a second picture resolution format during transmission over a given channel, wherein the first compressed picture of the second portion of compressed pictures is the first compressed picture in the video stream after the last compressed picture of the first portion of compressed pictures; determining by the processing device a first number of picture buffers in a decodable picture buffer (DPB) for decoding the first portion of the compressed pictures; allocating a linear memory corresponding to the first number of picture buffers for decoding of the first portion of the bitstream; determining a second number of picture decode buffers in the DPB for decoding the second portion of the compressed pictures, wherein the second number of picture decode buffers are determined based on a ratio of picture size of pictures from the first portion and the second portion; and reusing the linear buffer for decoding the second portion without deallocating and reallocating the linear memory.
US09838681B2
Provided is an apparatus that includes an inverse scanning unit configured to an inverse scan pattern to the quantized coefficient components to generate a quantized block, an inverse quantization unit configured to generate a quantization parameter and to inverse-quantize the quantized block to generate a transformed block, an inter prediction unit configured to derive motion information and to generate a prediction block, and an adder configured to generate a reconstructed block. The transform unit is larger than a 4×4 block, each of the quantized coefficient components are inversely scanned in the unit of subset to generate multiple subsets, and the multiple subsets are inversely scanned to generate the quantized block. Accordingly, the coding efficiency of the motion information is improved by including various motion vector candidates. Also, the amount of coding bits of the residual block is reduced by applying diagonal scan pattern to each subset.
US09838679B2
A TDR technique for performing in-service distance-to-fault measurements in cable TV networks is disclosed. Using a cable network tester configured to generate chirped probe pulses and to perform pulse-matched filtering and averaging of received echoes, network faults may be detected without interfering with the downstream reception. The probe pulse transmission may be timed to take advantage of the error correction coding in the network.
US09838675B2
A 3D laser projection systems and methods are disclosed herein. A laser projection system includes a left projector head and a right projector head, wherein a first video projected onto a movie screen by the left projector head has a first polarization and a second video projected onto the movie screen by the right projector head has a second polarization different from the first polarization. The laser projection system can include a laser light generator located a first defined distance away from the left projector head and a second defined distance from the right projector head and coupled to the left projector head and the right projector head with fiber optic cables that transmit light from the laser light generator to the left projector head and the right projector head. The laser light generator includes a laser diode configured to output light and to transmit it to the fiber optic cables.
US09838668B2
An imaging system and methods for using an imaging system where the operator is able to variably adjust the parallax distance for enhanced stereo performance are disclosed. In addition, by coordinating the parallax distance with the optical settings of the camera, artificial 3D experiences can be created that give a user the perception of observing a scene from a distance different than that actually employed. The imaging system may also include a plurality of stereo camera supersets, wherein a first one or more stereo camera supersets are positioned at a different height relative to a first stereo camera superset. Novel specific uses of the camera system, such as in capturing events of interest are described. Useful techniques for extracting or encoding wide field of view images from memory are also disclosed.
US09838664B2
Provided is an image processing method including acquiring an original image and position information indicating a position of a viewer in a depth direction with respect to a display unit, acquiring crosstalk information indicating a crosstalk characteristic of the display unit, causing a processor to generate an index map that includes control information indicating a correspondence between respective pixels and a respective viewpoints based on the position information on the basis of the acquired position information and crosstalk information in a manner that, among first viewpoint images different from each other based on the original image corresponding to the respective viewpoints set in advance, one of the first viewpoint images is observed while crosstalk is negated at a position indicated by the position information, and outputting second viewpoint images corresponding to respective pieces of the control information in the index map based on the original image and the index map.
US09838661B2
A photographic scene replacement system includes a photographic scene with a detectable pattern. The system operates to capture a digital photograph of a subject and the photographic scene having the detectable pattern with a digital camera when the subject is arranged between the digital camera and the photographic scene. The system also operates to process the digital photograph at least in part by automatically detecting the detectable pattern in the digital photograph, to distinguish the subject from the photographic scene in the digital photograph.
US09838652B2
A LED Light device having built-in camera unit is powered by AC or-and DC power source for a lamp-holder, LED bulb, flashlight, garden, entrance door light or other LED light device connected to power source by (1) prongs or (2) male-base has conductive wires can be inserted into a female-socket which connect with power source or (3) wired. The device has built-in camera unit has plurality functions to make different products and functions. The LED light device has at least one of (a) camera or DV to take minimum MP4 format image, (b) digital data memory kits or cloud storage station, (c) wireless kits, Bluetooth or USB set for download function, (d) motion/moving/other sensor, (e) assembly for contact Wifi, 3G/4G/5G network or even settle-lite channel, (f) system to transmit or-and receiving wireless signal, (g) APP or other platform software to operation related device, (h) LED lighting, (h) other electric or mechanical parts & accessories to get desired function(s) for the said LED light device. The said motion/moving sensor unit has desired part or all of digital data related module or circuit(s) or backup power and unit may in separated housing with light source assembly so people can upgrade the non-camera device to has built-in camera and digital device for their old non-camera security light.
US09838648B2
A mobile device includes a processor and a memory coupled to the processor. The memory includes instructions that are executable by the processor to perform operations including receiving, via a first network associated with a wireless service, an offer for a content item that is deliverable via a multimedia service. The operations also include sending information indicating acceptance of the offer via the wireless service to a server associated with the multimedia service. Based on the information indicating acceptance of the offer, the server sends the content item to a device associated with the multimedia service account.
US09838644B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for generating a video clip and associated closed-captioning (CC) data. An example method involves accessing a first video clip demarcated into frames; accessing CC data demarcated into CC blocks, identifying a starting frame from among the frames; determining a first set of frames that are within a range of the starting frame; determining a first set of CC blocks that correlate to the first set of frames; receiving a selection of a starting position from among the first set of CC blocks; identifying an ending frame among the frames; using the ending frame to identify an ending position; and generating a second video clip and associated CC data, wherein the second video clip includes the frames spanning from the starting frame to the ending frame, and wherein the generated CC data includes the CC blocks spanning from the starting position to the ending position.
US09838639B2
A transmission apparatus includes: a video-signal transmission section transmitting a video signal to an external apparatus by a differential signal through a plurality of channels through a transmission line; and an information transmission section transmitting image-quality adjustment information corresponding to the video signal transmitted by the video-signal transmission section to the external apparatus through a communication path formed by a pair of differential transmission lines included in the transmission line.
US09838633B2
A photoelectric conversion device includes a photoelectric converter, a transistor having a gate to which a voltage corresponding to charges generated by the photoelectric converter is supplied, a control line connected to a first main electrode of the transistor, and a readout unit configured to read out a signal corresponding to a voltage of the gate, and a voltage controller configured to change a voltage of the control line. The readout unit generates a digital signal corresponding to the voltage of the gate, based on a current flowing through a second main electrode of the transistor during a period in which the voltage controller changes the voltage of the control line.
US09838623B2
A pixel cell includes a photodiode disposed in a semiconductor material to accumulate image charge in response to light. A global shutter transistor is disposed in the semiconductor material and is selectively resets the image charge in the photodiode in response to a global shutter control signal. A global shutter control signal generator circuit is coupled to generate the global shutter control signal to have a first value, a second value, and a third value. The first value of the global shutter control signal is coupled to turn on the global shutter transistor to reset the photodiode. The third value of the global shutter control signal is coupled to control the global shutter transistor to be in a low leakage off mode. The second value of the global shutter control signal is between the first and third values and is turns off the global shutter transistor.
US09838619B2
A radiation imaging apparatus, comprising a sensor array in which a plurality of sensors are arranged, each includes a first holding unit for holding a first signal obtained with a first sensitivity and a second holding unit for holding a second signal obtained with a second sensitivity, a row selecting unit for selecting each sensor on a row basis, a signal readout unit for reading out a signal from each of the selected sensors, and a control unit configured to perform first control to control the sensor array so as to make the first holding units hold the first signals and make the second holding units hold the second signals, and perform second control to control the row selecting unit so as to make the signal readout unit read out the first and the second signals.
US09838616B2
An image processing method and an electronic apparatus are described. The image processing method is applied to an electronic apparatus and includes performing a photometry to current environment; determining a unit shutter speed according to a result of the photometry, a specified photosensitivity and a specified aperture value; and capturing, when a first operation is detected, a plurality of images sequentially by using the specified photosensitivity, the specified aperture value and the unit shutter speed and synthesizing the plurality of images until a second operation is detected.
US09838601B2
Described herein are methods and devices that employ a plurality of image sensors to capture a target image of a scene. As described, positioning at least one reflective or refractive surface near the plurality of image sensors enables the sensors to capture together an image of wider field of view and longer focal length than any sensor could capture individually by using the reflective or refractive surface to guide a portion of the image scene to each sensor. The different portions of the scene captured by the sensors may overlap, and may be aligned and cropped to generate the target image.
US09838595B2
The present invention belongs to the technical field of video recording and provides a video generating method and apparatus of a video generating system, the video generating system comprises a system target orientating camera, a target tracking camera and a panorama camera, the method comprises: when it is judged that a target object included in the image collected by the target tracking camera is a person, and the person lies within a scope of a lens of the target tracking camera, switching the target tracking camera such that it serves as a video generating source and generating a video according to images collected by the target tracking camera; when it is judged that the target object included in an image collected by the target tracking camera is a person, and the person lies out of the scope of the lens of the target tracking camera, or it is judged that the target object included in an image collected by the target tracking camera is not a person, switching the panorama camera such that it serves as the video generating source and generating a video according to the images collected by the panorama camera. Automatic control for switching among different cameras to collect images and generate videos is achieved, so that accurate tracking for any target object and accurate switching among different cameras can be done, and automatic switching among different cameras during a video generating process is realized; in this way, there is no need to perform operation and manual intervention after installation and debugging are accomplished.
US09838594B2
Methods and apparatuses for irregular-region based automatic image correction are disclosed. In one aspect, the method is operable by an imaging device including a touch sensor, for performing image correction. The method can include obtaining a first image of a scene and receiving, via the touch sensor, a touch input indicating a selected region of the first image and having a shape that corresponds to a shape of the selected region. The method can also include determining statistics indicating visual properties for the selected region, adjusting at least one image correction parameter of the imaging device based on the determined statistics and the shape of the touch input, and obtaining a second image of the scene based on the adjusted at least one image correction parameter of the imaging device.
US09838583B2
A method for verifying a lighting setup used for inspecting a micro defect. The method includes simulating a scene including a micro defect, light source and imaging device. A position of the light source and imaging device is then optimized to form an optimized simulated setup for viewing micro defect. A shadow calibration reference (SCR) having a simulated shadow field is then rendered in a location. Next, a physical imaging device and light source are positioned based on information from the optimized simulated setup to form an optimized physical setup. A physical SCR based on information from the SCR rendering is fabricated. Next, an image is captured of a physical SCR in a corresponding location associated with each SCR rendering. The optimized physical setup is verified if at least one shadow parameter from the SCR rendering is substantially similar to a corresponding shadow parameter in a corresponding image.
US09838566B2
In an image forming apparatus: a report reading portion reads image data of a print report that has already been printed; a memory stores report data of a current time point; a format determining portion determines whether or not the read print report and the report data match in format; a change search portion, when the print report and the report data match in format, determines whether or not changed information is included in the report data by comparing the report data with the print report for each item, the changed information being information that has been changed from corresponding information in the print report; and a change output portion, when the changed information is included in the report data, re-prints the changed information in a vicinity of pre-change information on the print report, the pre-change information corresponding to the changed information.
US09838565B2
An information processing apparatus capable of reliably switching a session. An IP fax as an information processing apparatus is connected to another IP fax. The IP fax establishes an audio session with the other IP fax. After establishing the audio session, the IP fax receives capability information indicating capabilities of the other IP fax therefrom. After receiving the capability information, the IP fax requests the other IP fax to switch the audio session to a T.38 session. Then, the IP fax switches the audio session to the T.38 session.
US09838562B2
An information system includes a multifunction apparatus and a first server which are linked to each other over a network. The multifunction apparatus includes a reading section, an information obtaining section, a first transmitter, and a memory. The reading section reads the image of an original document. The information obtaining section obtains a destination information from the first server, the destination information indicating a destination to which the image is transmitted. The first transmitter transmits the image to the destination. The first server includes a memory and a second transmitter. The memory stores the destination information therein. The second transmitter transmits the destination information in the memory to the multifunction apparatus.
US09838559B2
An illumination apparatus includes: a light source; a rod-like light guide having an incident surface that enters light from the light source that is disposed on one side in a main-scan direction, a diffusing surface that diffuses light that enters from the incident surface, and an emission surface that linearly emits light towards a bill; and a reflection member having a reflection surface that reflects light diffused by the diffusing surface to the light guide. The light guide has a locking projection that is locked in the reflection member on one side in the main-scan direction. The reflection member has a locking hole in which the locking projection is locked. A cut-out portion at which one part is cut out is formed in the locking hole.
US09838556B2
An image processing apparatus includes circuitry to authenticate a first user, a display to display an initial screen to the first user, after the first user is authenticated, and a communication device to wirelessly communicate with a portable terminal device operated by the first user to control a display of the portable terminal device to display an additional initial screen based on display contents of the initial screen. The circuitry further determines whether at least one of the image processing apparatus and the portable terminal device is not in use. Based on a determination indicating that the at least one of the image processing apparatus and the portable terminal device is not in use, the circuitry determines whether any user is present at the image processing apparatus, using a detector that detects human presence at the image processing apparatus to generate a first determination result.
US09838542B1
Methods and systems for call processing are described. A call from a caller intended for a first party is received at a call processing system, which stores call signaling information associated with the call. A greeting is played to the caller, and a voice communication is received and recorded. At least a first portion of the voice communication is transmitted in substantially real time to a terminal associated with the first person. At least a portion of the voice communication is converted to text and the text is stored and transmitted to a terminal associated with the first party. When a search query is received from the first party, the system searches the data store to determine if there is matching call having related matching call information. If there is a matching call, related information may be provided to the first party.
US09838541B2
A method and apparatus are provided for presenting content to a caller and/or a called party in association with a telephone call or other communication connection. Content may be presented pre-ring (before the called party's telephone rings), in-call, and/or post-call, and may be related to a party participating in the call or may be related to a third party. Presentation of specified content may include assisted sharing, wherein both parties view the same content and one guides or assists the other. A received call may be split into signal and voice channels, with the signal channel used to notify a call controller of the call and the voice channel being directed to an agent selected by the call controller to handle the call.
US09838538B1
Various embodiments of the invention provide methods, systems, and computer program products for using real-time speech analytics to navigate a call that has reached a machine or service. In various embodiments, a call leg is established from a call handler handling the call to a speech analytics system configured to analyze the call to detect keywords. As the speech analytics system monitors the call, the speech analytics system sends an event to the call handler upon detecting a keyword. In turn, the call handler carries out some action based on the event that is configured to advance the progress of the call. Accordingly, if the call handler determines a live party has been reached on the call as result of the action, the call handler connects the call with a second live party to converse with the live party reached on the call.
US09838529B2
A position of a mobile terminal in the interior of a motor vehicle is sensed by a sensor device. The sensed position is taken as a basis for a control device of the motor vehicle to ascertain whether the mobile terminal adopts a position within a predetermined safety area to be kept clear between a predetermined interior equipment component of the motor vehicle, for example an airbag, and a user of the motor vehicle. When such a position within the safety area is adopted or exists, prevention of use of the mobile terminal within the safety area is brought about by a safety check device. In this case, a restraining device can return or restrain the mobile terminal from the safety area, for example.
US09838524B2
A method and an apparatus for controlling an operation of a mobile terminal are preferably includes: cancelling a touch screen off mode and checking a set mode mapped to a certain key when input of the certain key is sensed while the mobile terminal is in the touch screen off mode. A screen is then displayed for executing the set mode, and displaying and processing of a signal input through a touch screen is performed. The method and apparatus provide an advantage by reducing procedures required by conventional devices in which a user process to execute a desired mode in a mobile terminal when the mobile terminal is in a touch screen off mode. By registering a function to be executed by input of one touch button key while in a touch screen off mode according to user tastes, the present invention accelerates utilization of the mobile terminal.
US09838512B2
The disclosed embodiments provide a system that processes network data. During operation, the system obtains, at a remote capture agent, a first protocol classification for a first packet flow captured by the remote capture agent. Next, the system uses configuration information associated with the first protocol classification to build a first event stream from the first packet flow at the remote capture agent, wherein the first event stream comprises time-series event data generated from network packets in the first packet flow based on the first protocol classification. The system then transmits the first event stream over a network for subsequent storage and processing of the first event stream by one or more components on the network.
US09838498B2
A system and method of providing direct data access between a non-volatile cache and a NIC in a computing system. A system is disclosed that includes a processing core embedded in a controller that controls a non-volatile cache; and a direct access manager for directing the processing core, wherein the direct access manager includes: a switch configuration system that includes logic to control a switch for either a remote direct access mode or a host access mode, wherein the switch couples each of the NIC, a local bus, and the non-volatile cache; a command processing system that includes logic to process data transfer commands; and a data transfer system that includes logic to manage the flow of data directly between the non-volatile cache and the NIC.
US09838496B2
A method for efficiently acquiring data from a plurality of proximate devices including a mobile ad-hoc network (manet); selecting one of the mobile devices as a harvest node to transmit data to a repository for storing data; responsive to detecting a first data stream and a second data stream from a respective first mobile device and a second mobile device, determining that the data from the first and second data streams have a threshold similarity; utilizing a node in the manet to compress portions of the first data stream and the second data stream to produce a compressed data stream according to a first compression technique, wherein data from the first data stream and the second data stream are present in the compressed data stream; and transmitting the compressed data stream to the repository by the harvest node.
US09838490B2
A communication apparatus includes a memory and a processor. The processor is configured to perform operations including: storing group IDs; acquiring device IDs and calculation data items from a plurality of calculation devices, respectively, each device ID and each calculation data item being in association with each other; registering names in association with the acquired device IDs; and transmitting (i) the registered names corresponding to the acquired device IDs, in association with the stored group IDs, to a server and (ii) the calculation data items corresponding to the acquired device IDs, in association with the stored group IDs, to a server.
US09838489B2
Information on a click stream associated with a user and meta tags commonly used by search engines can be used to profile a user. The click stream may comprise network addresses and timestamps and may be the only source of user information used for the profile. The meta tags may contain metadata that correspond to the network addresses in the click stream, including network address categorization for these network addresses. The profile obtained for the user may be an existing profile that represents a person or a theoretical individual having attributes similar to or most closely match the user. Based at least in part on the profile, information regarding an item may be provided to the user or the item may be offered to the user. Information may be filtered before being displayed to the user.
US09838485B2
A system and method for generating a geofeed based on one or more geofeed parameters including altitude parameters, ambient condition parameters, and orientation parameters is provided. A geofeed includes a collection of content, aggregated from various content providers, that is relevant to one or more geographically definable locations. The generated content may include, for example, video, audio, images, text, hyperlinks, and/or other content that may be relevant to a geographically definable location. The content providers may include, for example, social media platforms, online knowledge databases, individual content creators, and/or other providers that can distribute content that may be relevant to a geographically definable location. The system may filter content into the geofeed and/or out of the geofeed based on one or more geofeed parameters and/or display the geofeed comprising the filtered content.
US09838477B2
Various embodiments are generally directed to techniques for reducing the time required for a node to take over for a failed node or to boot. An apparatus includes an access component to retrieve a metadata from a storage device coupled to a first data storage module of a first node during boot, the metadata generated from a first mutable metadata portion and an immutable metadata portion, and the first metadata specifying a first address of a second data storage module of a second node; a replication component to contact the second data storage module at the first address; and a generation component to, in response to failure of the contact, request a second mutable metadata portion from a network protocol module of the first node and generate a second metadata from the second mutable metadata portion and the immutable metadata portion, the second mutable metadata portion specifying a second address of the second data storage module.
US09838472B2
A method for electing a master blade in a virtual application distribution chassis (VADC), includes: sending by each blade a VADC message to each of the other blades; determining by each blade that the VADC message was not received from the master blade within a predetermined period of time; in response, sending a master claim message including a blade priority by each blade to the other blades; determining by each blade whether any of the blade priorities obtained from the received master claim messages is higher than the blade priority of the receiving blade; in response to determining that none of the blade priorities obtained is higher, setting a status of a given receiving blade to a new master blade; and sending by the given receiving blade a second VADC message to the other blades indicating the status of the new master blade of the given receiving blade.
US09838462B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, an apparatus, and a system for data transmission. A network device receives a first multicast protocol packet sent by a network virtualization edge, NVE, for joining a multicast group, obtains first information, establishes an NVE interface of the multicast group according to the first information, and determines second information according to the first information, wherein the first information comprises a correspondence between each NVE connected to the network device and a multicast group to which each NVE belongs, and the second information comprises each multicast group in which the network device is involved; and sends the second information to a NVO3 manager, so that the NVO3 manager establishes a unicast tunnel interface of the multicast group between the network device and the at least one another network device according to the second information.
US09838461B2
Systems and methods to download digital data files are provided. A particular method includes sending authentication data and a request to download a digital data file from a portable computing device to a remote network device via a first network access point. A first portion of the digital data file is received at the portable computing device. The first portion does not include a remaining portion of the digital data file. Communication is established between the portable computing device and a second network access point after communication is lost between the portable computing device and the first network access point and before the remaining portion of the digital data file is received. The remaining portion of the digital data file is received at the portable computing device without sending a second request related to downloading the digital data file.
US09838454B2
Information describing a rule to be applied to a traffic stream is received at an edge network device. The traffic stream is received at the edge network device. A schema is applied to the traffic stream at the edge network device. It is determined that a rule triggering condition has been met. The rule is applied to the traffic stream, at the edge network device, in response to the rule triggering condition having been met. At least one of determining that the rule triggering event has taken place or applying the rule is performed based on the applied schema.
US09838451B2
The multimedia client-server system provides a multimedia client program with a set of features and a server system that creates feature access information that determines which features are to be made available to a particular user. The server system may send the feature access information to the user such that the information is accessible to the multimedia client program. The multimedia client program may dynamically control the user's access to the program's feature set by using the feature access information to validate and verify the user. In addition, the feature access information may be accessible to the server system, such that the server system may periodically update the feature access information, such as, for example, when the user accesses the server system to download multimedia content.
US09838450B2
Techniques are provided for dynamically creating index files for streaming media based on a determined chunking strategy. The chunking strategy can be determined using historical data of any of a variety of factors, such as Quality of Service (QoS) information. By using historical data in this manner, index files can be generated using chunking strategies that can improve these factors over time.
US09838439B2
A telecommunications network includes a network service computing device and a host routing device. The host routing device includes a switch. The host routing device is coupled with a remote network and a PSTN. The remote network is coupled to a plurality of communication devices. The network service computing device is in communication with a database. The database includes a plurality of tags associated with VoIP lines. The tags identify the physical location where a plurality of VoIP lines are being operated. The tags determine routing and billing of calls made from each of the VoIP lines. Using a tag as a main routing identifier, instead of just an actual phone number, increases the probability that calls made from the VoIP line are properly routed and correctly billed through the telecommunications network.
US09838438B2
Disclosed is a communication system and, more particularly, a communication system using heterogeneous networks to support voice calls by combining private mobile networks, Mobile Network Operators (MNOs), and Public Switched Telephone Networks (PSTNs) even when an application for voice talk has not been installed on the mobile terminal.
US09838429B1
Securely granting access to a target system to a user is disclosed. A plurality of security policies is requested from a plurality of distributed policy systems. A plurality of security policies is obtained from the plurality of distributed policy systems. A temporary grant of access that is an aggregate of the plurality of security policies is granted. The temporary access grant is implemented for the user.
US09838423B2
Provided are methods and systems for mitigating a DoS attack. A method for mitigating a DoS attack may commence with receiving, from a client, a request to initiate a secure session between the client and a server. The method may continue with determining whether the client is on a whitelist. Based on a determination that client is absent from the whitelist, a pre-generated key may be sent to the client. The method may include determining validity of the established secure session. The determination may be performed based on further actions associated with the client. Based on the determination that the secure session is valid, a renegotiation of the secure session may be forced. The method may further include generating a new key using a method for securely exchanging cryptographic keys over a public channel. The new key is then sent to the client.
US09838421B2
A method, operated by a Software Defined Networking (SDN) controller associated with an Autonomous System (AS) with one or more peering points, each peering point with an associated router communicatively coupled to the SDN controller, the method for detecting and defending against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, and the method includes receiving data from the one or more peering points; detecting malicious traffic at the one or more peering points; determining a peer quality measurement for the one or more peering points; and communicating the peer quality measurement and other data associated with the malicious traffic to one or more other SDN controllers, associated with Autonomous Systems connected through the one or more peering points, to facilitate convergence of the peer quality measurement back to a nominal level.
US09838396B2
Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems receive a request from a first user of a social networking system, during a first time period, to share a content item with a plurality of second users that are connected to the first user via a set relationship. A snapshot of the plurality of second users during the first period of time is created. During a second time period that is subsequent to the first time period, a request to view content items is received from a third user that became connected to the first user via the set relationship after the first time period. The content item shared during the first time period is excluded from content items shared with the third user in response to determining that the content item is associated with the PLS and that the third user is not in the PLS.
US09838395B2
The present disclosure relates to enhancing load processing for facilitated assignment or modification of access-right data. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to enhancing load processing and data storage using hierarchical data structures that can store various iterations of resource objects. In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method, system, and/or computer-program product tangibly embodied in a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium for enhanced load processing using hierarchical data structures may be provided.
US09838387B2
A system and method are presented that provide authentication tokens to a local device from a remote server. The authentication token incorporates standard token content, and also includes additional token components that are needed by the local device. The additional token components incorporate user preferences information, initialization data, or other useable information needed by the local device. In contrast to standard processes, which must return a security token to the local device before any useful data can be exchanged, the disclosed embodiment inserts useable data into the returned token and eliminates the time required to obtain this data through a separate data request.
US09838386B2
An information processing system includes terminal devices of a first network; and an information processing device of a second network. A first terminal device includes a unit for retrieving device information of electronic devices and the information processing device of the second network; and a unit for transmitting an output request to the information processing device. A second terminal device includes a unit for retrieving device information of the electronic devices and the information processing device; and a unit for transmitting a retrieval request to the information processing device, and for retrieving electronic data. The information processing device includes a unit for retrieving the output request and the retrieval request; a unit for transmitting the output request and the retrieval request to the electronic device, and for receiving the electronic data; and a unit for providing the electronic data to the second terminal.
US09838382B2
A cloud computing system includes a cloud system managing unit, a plurality of sets of devices, where a set of devices includes one or more devices having a common aspect, and a plurality of authentication servers, where an authentication server is associated with one of the plurality of sets of devices based on the common aspect. The cloud computing system functions to establish trust between a corresponding one of the plurality of authentication servers and the one or more devices of one of the plurality of sets of devices, between the corresponding one of the plurality of authentication servers and the cloud system managing unit, and between the cloud system managing unit and the one or more devices. The cloud system managing unit configures the cloud computing system based on the trust between the cloud system managing unit and devices of the plurality of sets of devices.
US09838365B2
In an ad hoc peer-to-peer type network during peer discovery, information relating to users of various devices is broadcast to other devices in the network, which can compromise privacy of the users. Instead of announcing a public identifier that might be known by a multitude of individuals, the user device announces a private identifier that might be known to, or determined by, a select few individuals. The individuals selected can be given a key to determine the private identifier associated with a public identifier, or vice versa, wherein that key can have a validity range or a period of time, after which the key expires. Prior to the expiration of the key, the selected individuals, through their respective devices, can detect a corresponding user and/or device by the current private identifier being announced, thus mitigating the number of people that are aware of the user's presence.
US09838358B2
An e-mail firewall applies policies to e-mail messages between a first site and second sites in accordance with administrator selectable policies. The firewall includes a simple mail transfer protocol relay for causing the e-mail messages to be transmitted between the first site and selected ones of the second sites. Policy managers enforce-administrator selectable policies relative to one or more of encryption and decryption, signature, source/destination, content and viruses.
US09838347B2
Communication services enable users to communicate electronically using various modes of communication. Conversations between groups of users are common, where emails, other communications, and data are exchanged repeatedly over a period of time. Provision of tags in communication environments may enable the users to organize, search for, and share content of the conversations more efficiently, improving communication and collaboration among the users. For example, a tag module of a communication service may associate a communication with one or more tags such that the tags are persisted with the communication as the communication is exchanged, and transmit the communication to participants of the conversation. The tag module may also provide automatic classification, suggestion, and/or completion of the tags. The tags may be displayed in conjunction with the communication through communication user experiences associated with the participants, where the participants may interact with the tags for search and organization purposes.
US09838339B2
A runtime state of a virtual port associated with a virtual machine (“VM”) is persisted as the VM is migrated from a source host to a destination host. In certain embodiments, a virtual switch forwards network frames between the VM and the physical network interface via the virtual port. During migration of the VM, the runtime state of the virtual port is transferred to the destination host and applied at the second host to a virtual port associated with a second virtual switch at the destination host. The runtime state of the virtual port at the source host is then cleared, and the second virtual switch at the destination host forwards network frames between the migrated VM and the physical network interface of the destination host using the virtual port at the second host.
US09838338B2
A system and method can support packet switching in a network environment. A networking device, such as a network switch, which includes a crossbar fabric, can be associated with a plurality of input ports and a plurality of output ports. Furthermore, the networking device can detect a link state change at an output port that is associated with the networking device. Then, the networking device can notify one or more input ports, via the output port, of the link state change at the output port.
US09838323B2
A technique for selecting a network node from a plurality of nodes employing anycast addressing based on a priority. The plurality of nodes is configured with an anycast address. At each node, the anycast address is associated with a unique priority value that represents a priority associated with the node. Traffic destined for the anycast address is forwarded to the node whose priority value indicates the highest priority. If the node becomes unavailable, traffic destined for the anycast address is forwarded to a node whose priority value indicates the next highest priority, and so on.
US09838320B2
Packet metering systems and methods optimize utilization of green or committed tokens. The packet metering method includes receiving a packet of size B in an interval; and marking a color of the packet as green for committed, yellow for excess, or red for discard, based on the size B, a current committed token bucket for the interval, a current excess token bucket, and an overflow counter used to preserve unused green tokens from previous intervals while preserving Committed Information Rate (CIR) and Committed Burst Size (CBS) for the interval.
US09838319B2
A network component is provided for facilitating communication of traffic between a destination server and a client over a network comprising the plurality of network paths. The network component comprising memory for storing computer-readable instructions and a processor configured to implement the computer-readable instructions. The computer-readable instructions operable to implement the following: exchange control parameters with the client via a control channel using one or more of the plurality of network control paths; encapsulate the traffic for transmission to the client; decapsulate the traffic received from the client; and schedule traffic to the client via one or more of the plurality of network paths using logic common with the client based on network parameters. A client configured to work with the network component is also described, as is a communication system including both the client and network component.
US09838311B2
There is disclosed a node for routing data packets in a flow. The node generally comprises a receiver which is configured to receive a command to reroute the flow from a first source route to a second source route. The node also includes a processor for determining that a period of time between first and second consecutive data packets of the flow exceeds a threshold value and a transmitter configured to transmit the second data packet on the second source route in response to the determination. Alternatively, the determination of a period of time between first and second consecutive data packets of the flow can be made by a network controller which can instruct a given node to perform the rerouting of the flow in a manner to route only the second and following consecutive data packets along the second source route.
US09838304B2
A method for operating a Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS) device comprising storing a data structure correlating a plurality of border gateway protocol (BGP) attribute tags to packet header data, receiving a packet via a network of connected devices, determining a BGP attribute tag of the packet according to packet header data of said packet, determining an action to apply to the packet based on the data structure and the BGP attribute tag, and applying the action to the packet, wherein the action includes routing the packet in accordance with a BGP.
US09838302B1
Methods and apparatus for handling failure of traffic forwarding (TF) systems in networks that include multiple zones each including a TF system between a production network and a border network. A TF system advertises routes in its zone and handles egress of packets from sources on the local production network onto the border network. TF systems may also advertise low-priority routes in other zones. If a TF system in a zone fails, sources in the zone may make connection requests to the low-priority routes. Instead of egressing the packets onto the border network, the requests on the low-priority routes are responded to with reset messages. Thus, the sources do not have to wait for a connection timeout, and packets for destinations in the zone are not egressed onto local border networks in other zones and sent through thin pipes between the local border networks.
US09838301B2
A system and method for predicting the geographic location of an Internet Protocol (IP) address are disclosed. A particular embodiment of the system and method includes receiving a model to predict a geographic coordinates position of a network device given traceroute information corresponding to an Internet Protocol (IP) address of the network device; receiving traceroute information corresponding to an Internet Protocol (IP) address of one or more beacons without requiring the geographic location of the one or more beacons associated with the traceroute information; generating, by use of a processor, an output model representing one or more predicted geographic coordinates corresponding to the network device based on the model and the traceroute information; and returning a result including the predicted geographic coordinates of the network device.
US09838298B2
A CB device receives a first packet sent from another device through a stacking port. In response to determining, based on source port information carried in the first packet, that the first packet entered the stacking system from a PE device and the first packet is a non-unicast packet, the switch module performs mirroring processing to the first packet to obtain a mirrored packet, and transmits the first packet and the mirrored packet to a packet buffering module of the CB device. In response to determining that a second packet from the packet buffering module entered the stacking system from the PE device and the second packet is the non-unicast packet, the second packet is forbidden from being forwarded through a first-level stacking port of the CB device.
US09838297B2
A transmitting end-point computes a current transmission rate for each respective outbound half-route of outbound half-routes of a route set between transmitting and receiving end-points. The transmitting end-point receives, from the receiving end-point via a respective inbound half-route of the route set, a transmission rate limit for each respective outbound half-route, the transmission rate limit computed by the receiving end-point from routing headers of messages received by the receiving end-point on the respective outbound half-route, wherein the transmission rate limit for each respective outbound half-route places an upper bound on the current transmission rate for transmissions issued on the respective outbound half-route.
US09838291B2
A method of assigning a core to process a packet in a data network and a device using the same are provided in the present invention. The method comprises: extracting a traffic flow identifier from a packet in a traffic flow of a link in the data plane; performing a HASH function calculation on the traffic flow identifier to generate a HASH result V; performing a logical AND calculation on the HASH result V and a preconfigured array size parameter to generate a lookup index; using the lookup index to find a worker index in a preconfigured worker array that represents one of N cores assigned to process the packet; and processing the packet by the assigned one of N cores.
US09838280B2
Processing devices receive a file having entries having data items separated by delimiters. Each data item has an ordinal position. The processing device(s) cause display of a table, having rows and columns, in a graphical user interface. Each data items of a particular entry appears in a respective column of the same row. Each column corresponds to the ordinal position of its respective data item. User input is received designating, for each respective column, a field name and an entity definition component type to which the respective column pertains, and stores for each of the data items of the particular entry a value of an element of an entity definition. The element has the element name designated for the respective column in which the data item appeared, and is associated with an entity definition component having the type designated for the respective column in which the data item appeared.
US09838279B2
The disclosed methods and systems include collecting routing data from a plurality of network routers, and correlating the routing data across routers and across time to obtain network data. The network data can be streamed to a user in real-time and the user can interactively query the data. In one embodiment, interactive routing analyzes, drill-down, and forensics can be performed using a repository of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) update traffic. Alarms can be set to detect selected routing problems. In setting the alarms, the message data for each router can be processed in timestamp order. Current message data from each router can be compared with previous message data to determine a condition status. An alarm can be provided when the condition status meets a temporal correlation criterion and/or a spatial correlation criterion. Based on the computed instability metrics for individual network prefixes and on a common property of those prefixes, a group instability metric for a group of network prefixes can be computed.
US09838278B2
Systems and methods classify unknown devices communicating over a packet-switched network based on traffic-borne characteristics comprising packet parameters, flow parameters, and/or operating-system parameters. Embodiments utilize “self-learning” to optimize the level of classification accuracy.
US09838276B2
Some embodiments provide a forwarding element that inspects the size of each of several packets in a data flow to determine whether the data flow is an elephant flow. The forwarding element inspects the size because, in order for the packet to be of a certain size, the data flow had to already have gone through a slow start in which smaller packets are transferred and by definition be an elephant flow. When the forwarding element receives a packet in a data flow, the forwarding element identifies the size of the packet. The forwarding element then determines if the size of the packet is greater than a threshold size. If the size is greater, the forwarding element specifies that the packet's data flow is an elephant flow.
US09838275B2
In one embodiment, a method includes, by a cloud services system, determining a baseline actual hardware performance utilization of a plurality of hardware computing devices for a plurality of applications in accordance with an initial mapping that maps a plurality of hardware resource classes to the plurality of applications, where each of the hardware computing devices is associated with one of the plurality of hardware resource classes, determining a lower-cost configuration in which each application is assigned to the hardware class having a lowest equivalent cost for that application, and, when the sum of the lowest equivalent costs for each application assigned to a particular hardware class by the lower-cost configuration is less than a threshold value, moving one or more applications from their initially-assigned hardware classes in the initial mapping to the particular hardware class.
US09838274B2
A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for controlling access to a node deployed in a cloud environment. A new node, based upon a common image, is created in a cloud computing environment. A unique set of randomized system parameters are then generated for the new node, which is then mapped to a set of generic system parameters. A request to access the new node is intercepted, which contains the generic system parameters. The intercepted access request is then parsed to extract the set of generic system parameters, which are then replaced with the unique set of randomized system parameters associated with the target node to generate a modified access request. The modified access request is then forwarded to the target node.
US09838272B2
Systems and methods for service enhancement discovery in a Software Defined Networking (SDN) network include obtaining network measurements for one or more candidate services in the network; utilizing the network measurements to determine one or more service enhancements for the one or more candidate services; determining a cost and a benefit for each of the service enhancements for the one or more candidate services; and providing the service enhancements for the one or more candidate services based on associated cost and associated benefit of each of the service enhancements.
US09838270B2
A management apparatus for executing a management application for managing network devices on a network, configured to register, as a function of the plug-in for adding a service to the management application, remote tasks having different priorities in an execution waiting task queue according to the priorities, and to sequentially execute the first one of the remote tasks registered in the execution waiting task queue.
US09838265B2
According to one aspect of the present invention there is provided a system, method, and computer program product for communicating information in a communication network using network function virtualization (NFV-based communication network), the method including: sending a communication from a first entity of the NFV-based communication network, the first entity being a sender, and receiving the communication by a second entity of the NFV-based communication network, the second entity being a receiver, where the communication includes: an identification of the sender of the communication, and an identification of the receiver of the communication, an identification of a function associated with the NFV-based communication network, and an authorization associating one or more of the sender and the receiver with the function.
US09838263B2
A method for identifying a polling communication pattern within a sequence of communication entities includes grouping the communication entities into a plurality of clusters according to a criterion. Clusters are removed from the plurality according to at least one of a time pattern analysis, cluster size, and cluster duration. The clusters remaining are identified as having a polling communication pattern.
US09838241B2
The subject system allows electronic devices in an infrastructure network to discover direct peer-to-peer services, such as screencasting, access to peripheral devices, etc., that can be provided over the infrastructure network. Since the electronic devices already have a layer two (link layer) connection with each other over the infrastructure network, pre-association device and/or service discovery protocols, such as those provided by Wi-Fi Direct and the like, are not available to the electronic devices. Thus, the subject system provides a post-association mechanism that allows the electronic devices to query, advertise, discover, and access direct peer-to-peer services over the infrastructure network. Furthermore, the subject system extends access of the direct peer-to-peer services to wired networks, such as Ethernet networks, Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA) networks, powerline networks, and the like.
US09838238B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for reconfiguring a receiver bandwidth by a UE (User Equipment) in the wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving a message related to SCell activation or deactivation command; determining whether the receiver bandwidth can be reconfigured before a specific time of a HARQ feedback transmission for the message; and reconfiguring the receiver bandwidth before the HARQ feedback transmission for the message if the receiver bandwidth can be reconfigured before the specific time.
US09838226B2
Methods and apparatus for the scrambling of control symbols. In one embodiment, the control symbols are associated with an HDMI interface, and the methods and apparatus are configured to scramble the symbols to as to mitigate the effects of electromagnetic interference (EMI) created by the transmission of otherwise unscrambled sequences of symbols which may contain significant “clock pattern” or other undesirable artifact.
US09838219B2
The present disclosure discloses a method and network device for providing VLAN mismatch detection in networks. Specifically, a network device monitors a plurality of packets received by a first device from a second device to identify a first set of VLAN identifiers indicated by at least one of the plurality of packets. The network device receives from a third device at least one packet tagged with a particular VLAN identifier, whereas the at least one packet to be forwarded by the first device to the second device. The network device then determines whether the particular VLAN identifier is included in the first set of VLAN identifiers indicated by at least one of the plurality of packets received by the first device from the second device. If the particular VLAN identifier is not included in the first set of VLAN identifiers, the network device presents a notification.
US09838217B2
A Common Public Radio Interface (CPRI) link involves using a protocol stack having a CPRI layer and an emulation layer to emulate a point to point link, to enable the CPRI link to operate over a packet switched network. The emulation layer can be a pseudowire emulation which encapsulates multiple CPRI frames in a packet with overhead. A multiplexing layer such as Internet Protocol (IP) or Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) can be used, for sending the packet over an Ethernet network. The usual need for a point to point infrastructure for the CPRI link can be avoided and the CPRI link can be implemented over more complex but usually cheaper packet networks, thus reducing costs or enabling more widespread application over existing packet networks. This applies whether the packet network is dedicated to the CPRI link, or shared with other packets. It can be useful for distributed radio base stations.
US09838213B2
A communication system and method including the steps of receiving a first request to initiate a guaranteed quality of service flow in a network, broadcasting a second request from a Network Coordinator to a plurality of nodes connected to the network and receiving a first response to the second request from at least one ingress node. The method further includes receiving a second response to the second request from at least one egress node indicating whether the at least one egress node has available resources to receive the guaranteed quality of service flow and allocating resources for the guaranteed quality of service flow if the at least one ingress node has available resources to transmit, and the at least one egress node has available resources to receive, the guaranteed quality of service flow.
US09838200B2
There is provided a computer program which, when executed by a processor of an information processing device, causes the processor to function as a secret splitting module and a control module. The secret splitting module is configured to recover secret data from at least two pieces of split data using secret splitting and the control module is configured to control reading out or writing each piece of the split data. Secret data is maintained within a virtual drive. The control module is further configured to read out first split meta-data from a first storage device, read out second split meta-data from a second storage device, cause the secret splitting module to recover virtual drive meta-data at least from the first and second split meta-data, and generate the virtual drive based on the recovered virtual drive meta-data. Corresponding method and system are also provided.
US09838190B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a channel timing method and apparatus for multiflow transmission, where the method includes: configuring time reference information of a non-time reference cell in a case of multiflow transmission; and sending the time reference information to the non-time reference cell, so that the non-time reference cell obtains a high speed dedicated physical control channel (HS-DPCCH) timing by using the time reference information. According to the foregoing solution, time reference information of a non-time reference cell is configured at a higher layer, and is sent to a user equipment, so that the user equipment obtains a high speed dedicated physical control channel (HS-DPCCH) timing by using the time reference information, so that the UE can obtain correct timing relationships between the HS-DPCCH in the non-time reference cell and an uplink DPCH, and between the HS-DPCCH and an HS-PDSCH.
US09838189B2
Disclosed are an inter-cell coordinated interference measurement method and node, wherein, the method is applied to each node performing a coordinated interference measurement, and includes: receiving first measurement resource information transmitted by other network nodes via a backhaul link to a present node for coordinated interference measurement; determining second measurement resource information used by the present node for interference measurement according to the first measurement resource information transmitted by the coordinated network nodes, and instructing relevant coordinated network nodes to correspondingly configure a resource in accordance with the second measurement resource information of the present node; wherein the second measurement resource includes an interference measurement resource and/or a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS); and performing interference measurement on the second measurement resource.
US09838176B2
A method and an apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals thereof are disclosed. The apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals, the apparatus comprises an encoder for encoding service data corresponding to each of a plurality of data transmission path, wherein each of the data transmission path carries at least one service component, a frame builder for building at least one signal frame included in a super frame, wherein each of signal frames includes the encoded service data and the encoded signaling data, a modulator for modulating the at least one signal frame by an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex) scheme, wherein each of the modulated signal frame includes a preamble having basic transmission parameters, wherein a length of the preamble is extendable and a transmitter for transmitting the broadcast signals carrying the at least one modulated signal frame.
US09838172B2
Disclosed is a base station apparatus in which a configuration section (102) configures, within a data assignable region for a terminal apparatus (200), a first search space and a second search space each being a candidate to which control information is assigned, each of the first search space and the second search space including a plurality of control channel elements, and a signal assignment section (105) assigns control information to each of the first search space and the second search space. In addition, the configuration section (102) allocates numbers to a plurality of first control channel elements included in the first search space in an ascending order, and allocates numbers larger than or identical with the numbers allocated to the first control channel elements to a plurality of second control channel elements included in the second search space.
US09838171B2
Methods of data allocation and signal receiving, a wireless transmitting apparatus, and a wireless receiving apparatus are provided based on orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) technology. The wireless transmitting apparatus obtains a data stream and allocates the data stream to a first sub-carrier set. Each of the first sub-carrier set and a second sub-carrier set has sub-carriers with opposite frequencies to each other, respectively. The second sub-carrier is emptied or allocated according the data stream allocated to the first sub-carrier set. The data stream is converted into an OFDM signal transmitted through a transmitting module. The wireless receiving apparatus includes a single branch receiver for receiving a radio frequency (RF) signal and outputting a baseband signal. Subsequently, the data stream is restored from the baseband signal.
US09838170B2
A method for transmission by a transmitting node in a communication network using a plurality of non-orthogonal carriers, including obtaining, by a processor in the transmitting node, an information element data set comprised of a first number of elements, applying, by the processor, a transform matrix to the information element data set to obtain an output samples data set comprised of a second number of elements, the transform matrix being based on a non-linear function applied to a non-orthogonal frequency division matrix comprised of a plurality of columns wherein each column is associated one of the plurality of non-orthogonal carriers, and transmitting the output samples data set from a transmitter in the transmitting node.
US09838167B2
The present invention relates to a method for allocating communication resources in a multi-user cellular communication system, wherein communication resources are divided in time periods and frequency sub-bands, wherein part of the communication resources are used for frequency-localized communication channels, and part of the communication resources are used for frequency distributed channels. The method further comprises the steps of: classifying part of the frequency sub-bands as frequency sub-bands carrying frequency-distributed channels, classifying the remaining part of the frequency sub-bands as frequency sub-bands carrying frequency-localized channels. The present invention also relates to a system, a transmitter and a communication system.
US09838166B2
A method and system for transmitting data is provided. The method includes receiving by a first interface device, data. The data is divided into a plurality of data packets and stored within an internal buffer. A first group of data packets are transmitted to a network node communicatively coupled to the first interface device. The first group of data packets are transmitted from the first communication device to a second interface device via a first communication network. A second group of data packets are transmitted to a first communication device communicatively coupled to the first interface device. The second group of data packets are transmitted from the first communication device to the second interface device via a second communication network associated with the first communication device.
US09838163B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method for performing an HARQ process by a first D2D terminal in a wireless communication system, and an apparatus for the same, the method comprising the steps of: receiving data from a second D2D terminal; transmitting an HARQ response for the data to the second D2D terminal; and when the HARQ response is NACK, receiving a retransmission signal for the data from a base station.
US09838157B2
A receiver for receiving data in a broadcast system includes a broadcast receiver that receives, via the broadcast system, a receiver input data stream including plural channel symbols represented by constellation points in a constellation diagram. A demodulator demodulates the channel symbols into codewords and a decoder decodes the codewords into output data words. A broadband receiver obtains redundancy data via a broadband system, the redundancy data for a channel symbol including one or more least robust bits of the channel symbol or a constellation subset identifier indicating a subset of constellation points including the constellation point representing the channel symbol. The demodulator and/or the decoder is configured to use the redundancy data to demodulate the respective channel symbol and to decode the respective codeword, respectively.
US09838151B1
Wavelet transformation based anti-jam processing methods and systems are disclosed. An anti-jam processing method may include: generating a wavelet transformation for a unit of a received signal; weighting each element in the wavelet transformation to generate a weighted wavelet transformation; evaluating jammer suppression performances of a plurality of time and frequency resolution levels defined for an inverse wavelet transformation; selecting a particular time and frequency resolution level among the plurality of time and frequency resolution levels; and applying the inverse wavelet transformation to the weighted wavelet transformation, wherein the inverse wavelet transformation is applied based on the particular time and frequency resolution level selected.
US09838143B2
A system for delivering optical power over an optical conduit includes at least one optical power source delivering multiple optical power forms, at least one of the optical power forms being a modulated optical power form. The system includes an optical power receiving device that is directly driven by the at least one modulated optical power form.
US09838135B1
Embodiments are directed to a driver circuit for an electro-absorption modulator (EAM). Particular embodiments may employ a single differential electrical driver supplying complementary positive and negative voltage signals to two respective EAMs. DC bias for the EAMs is provided at a common node in the middle. An optical source is split and fed to each of the EAMs. The EAM receiving the positive voltage signal functions to communicate the optical data as output. The other EAM receiving the negative voltage is a dummy device providing a balance load for the differential driver circuit. Signal swing is determined by a termination resistor Rt located between parallel rails of the differential driver circuit. EAM properties such as swing and signal integrity can be traded off by choosing a different value for the termination resistor. In certain embodiments, the optical output of the dummy EAM may be used for device monitoring purposes.
US09838128B1
A system and method are presented for coupling OAM optical beams to optical fibers. The system may include, for instance, an OAM beam generator, for receiving one or more of a plurality of input signals, and generating a different OAM mode signal for each input signal. The OAM beam generator may further be operative to adjust a location and/or an exit angle of the one or more OAM mode signals before sending the one or more OAM mode signals to a beam combiner that combines the one or more OAM mode signals into a combined mode OAM transmission. The system may further include a controller in communication with at least one crosstalk estimate sensor and the at least one OAM beam generator, the controller operative to optimize the crosstalk estimate by receiving the crosstalk estimate for one of the OAM mode signals, and sending control instructions instructing the OAM beam generator to adjust a location and/or an exit angle of the one or more OAM mode signals to reduce the crosstalk estimate.
US09838105B2
Embodiments of the present patent application relate to a MIMO detection method and apparatus for a transmit signal. The method includes removing one group of column vectors from an original channel matrix to generate a corresponding first channel matrix and multiplying a conjugate transpose matrix of a first matrix by the first channel matrix to obtain an equivalent channel matrix, and multiplying the conjugate transpose matrix of the first matrix by an original received signal vector to obtain an equivalent received signal vector. The method also includes calculating a Euclidean distance between the equivalent received signal vector and a first vector to obtain a Euclidean distance set. The method also includes obtaining a second transmit signal vector set by using the Euclidean distance set, and detecting a transmit signal vector according to the original received signal vector, the original channel matrix, the second transmit signal vector and the second transmit signal vector set.
US09838100B2
Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method for improving reception of transmissions with first adjacent interference signals, the method including selecting one or more time samples from each of two or more antennas; generating a lower first adjacent interference (LFAI) signal, a desired signal, and an upper first adjacent interference (UFAI) signal for each of the time samples; calculating a lower weighting co-efficient based on the LFAI signal; calculating a middle weighting co-efficient based on the desired signal; calculating a upper weighting co-efficient based on the UFAI signal; combining the lower weighting co-efficient with a filtered LFAI signal into a weighted lower signal; combining the middle weighting co-efficient with a filtered desired signal into a weighted middle signal; combining the upper weighting co-efficient with a filtered UFAI signal into a weighted upper signal; and combining the weighted lower signal, the weighted middle signal, and the weighted upper signal.
US09838098B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more specifically, to a method and an apparatus for transmitting an RS (Reference Signal) from a transmission end. The present invention relates to an RS transmission method and an apparatus therefore, comprising the steps of: confirming RS resources which are defined according to each layer; and transmitting the precoded RS for the layers to a receiving end through a multiple antenna, wherein the RS resource includes a 1st index for indicating an RS resource pattern group in which the precoded RS is mapped within a resource block and a 2nd index for indicating a code resource for multiplexing the precoded RSs within the RS resource pattern group.
US09838088B2
In a general aspect, a portable electronic device can include a digital display including a first electrically conductive plane. The first electrically conductive plane can be configured to neutralize electromagnetic radiation produced by the digital display. The portable electronic device can also include a data transmission device configured to transmit data by intracorporeal current. The data transmission device can include a first electrode that is configured to be capacitively coupled with a body of a user and a second electrode that includes the first electrically conductive plane. The first electrically conductive plane can be electrically coupled with an electrical ground of the data transmission device. The portable electronic device can further include a printed circuit including a second electrically conductive plane. The second electrically conductive plane can be included in the second electrode of the data transmission device.
US09838086B2
A communication arrangement may include a communication device, which may include an application processor, a mobile radio circuit, and a near-field communication (NFC) circuit configured according to an NFC technology for transmission of data and energy for operating a circuit external to the communication device. The arrangement may include a flexible carrier mounted detachably on the communication device. The carrier may include a radio circuit, an NFC circuit configured according to an NFC technology, a circuit coupled to the NFC circuit and the radio circuit, which is configured to be operated with energy which is received by means of the NFC circuit according to the NFC technology, the circuit configured for converting data coded in accordance with the NFC technology into data coded in accordance with the radio technology, or for converting data coded in accordance with the radio technology into data coded in accordance with the NFC technology.
US09838082B2
Technology is described for proximity based communications. A proximity boundary can be defined with dimensions defined, in part, by a communication range of one of a first Short Range Communication (SRC) device and a second SRC device. The first SRC device and the second SRC device can be configured to communicate using near field magnetic induction (NFMI). A proximity signal can be communicated in the proximity boundary between the first SRC device and the second SRC device, wherein at least one of the first and second SRC devices includes at least two antennas to provide magnetic induction diversity. A security permission can be provided to enable selected data to be communicated from one or more of the first SRC device and the second SRC device using NFMI when the proximity signal is detected between the first SRC device and the second SRC device.
US09838078B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving, by each of a plurality of receivers, one of a plurality of electromagnetic waves, each electromagnetic wave of the plurality of electromagnetic waves guided by a different one of a plurality of twin-lead transmission lines, each twin-lead transmission line sharing a wire, and each electromagnetic wave of the plurality of electromagnetic waves including a different one of a plurality of communication signals, and obtaining, by each of the plurality of receivers, one of the plurality of communication signals. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09838072B1
A transceiver to communicate in a vehicle via a single twisted-pair Ethernet cable includes a transmitter to transmit signals via the single twisted-pair Ethernet cable and a receiver to receive signals via the single twisted-pair Ethernet cable. The transceiver includes an equalizer, a signal-to-noise ratio estimator, and a controller. The equalizer includes a notch filter and a slicer. The equalizer receives an input signal received by the transceiver via the single twisted-pair Ethernet cable. The notch filter cancels electromagnetic interference from the input signal and to output a filtered signal. The slicer slices the filtered signal. The signal-to-noise ratio estimator estimates a signal-to-noise ratio based on an output of the slicer. The controller controls a rate of adapting the equalizer by controlling a rate of change of tap values of the notch filter based on the signal-to-noise ratio.
US09838048B2
A band pass filter is implemented utilizing Channelized Active Noise Elimination (CANE) in combining Finite Impulse Response (FIR) filtering into a radio frequency (RF) transmitter, or transmission path. The FIR filtering is performed in a combination of multiple conversion paths of delay units, vector modulators and PAs so that the low pass characteristics of the FIR filter are upconverted on the adjacent frequency of the carrier to form a band pass filter at the output of the transmitter. Use of CANE avoids the need of high sampling rates, while also eliminating the need of either broad bandwidth delay lines or modulated power amplifiers. The technique is well-suited for suppression of the quantization noise generated in RF transmitters with bitstream modulations such as the Envelope Delta Sigma Modulation (EDSM).
US09838045B1
A system and method for storing compressed data in a memory system includes identifying user data to be compressed and compressing pages of user data to form data extents that are less than or equal to the uncompressed data. A plurality of compressed pages are combined to a least fill a page of the memory. The data may be stored as sectors of a page, where each sector includes a CRC or error correcting code for the compressed data of that sector. The stored data may also include error correcting code data for the uncompressed page and error correcting code for the compressed page. When data is read in response to a user request, the sector data is validated using the CRC prior to selecting the data from the read sectors for decompression, and the error correcting code for the uncompressed page may be used to validate the decompressed data.
US09838044B1
The present disclosure includes apparatus, systems, and techniques relating to noise-predictive detector adaptation. A described technique includes operating a decoder system to decode codewords that are based on a received encoded signal by processing the codewords and exchanging information between path and code decoders, operating the path decoder to use estimation parameters to produce first and second paths based on a codeword of the codewords, operating the code decoder to produce a decoded path based on the codeword; determining a winning path of first and second paths based on whether the decoded path matches the first path or the second path; and updating, based on one or more error terms and the winning path, the estimation parameters to favor selection of the winning path by the path decoder and to disfavor selection of a losing path of the first and second paths by the path decoder.
US09838036B2
A storage which, in operation, stores a first minimum value and a second minimum value each time a plurality of data are input. Round-robin comparison circuitry which, in operation, makes a magnitude comparison among the plurality of data. First selection comparison circuitry and second selection comparison circuitry which, in operation, make a magnitude comparison between the first minimum value and each of the plurality of data and a magnitude comparison between the second minimum value and each of the plurality of data, respectively. Judgment circuitry which, in operation, judges a new first minimum value and a new second minimum value on the basis of a comparison result from the round-robin comparison circuitry and comparison results from the first and second selection comparison circuitry.
US09838030B1
Provided are, among other things, systems, apparatuses methods and techniques for automatically adjusting the noise-transfer-function of a modulator which is designed to attenuate the level of unwanted noise and/or distortion in a particular frequency band, without similarly attenuating the level of a desired signal in the same frequency band. One such apparatus includes a processing block for generating and injecting an explicit reference signal, and a processing block for detecting the amplitude of that reference signal.
US09838027B2
An analog-to-digital (AD) convertor includes: a capacitance digital-to-analog (DA) convertor circuit; a comparator circuit coupled to the capacitance DA convertor circuit; and a calibration circuit that calculates a correction value for the AD convertor, wherein the capacitance DA convertor circuit includes a first capacitor, a second capacitor, n number of capacitors (n being integer equal to or larger than 3), each of the capacitors from first to n-th to be activated based on input digital data, wherein each of the first and second capacitors is designed for having a first capacitance value, wherein the n-th capacitor is designed for having twice the capacitance value of the (n−1)-th capacitor, wherein the calibration circuit calculates the correction value based on first and second results of the AD convertor, and wherein the first result is generated using the n-th capacitor and the second result is generated using the capacitors from first to (n−1)-th.
US09838023B2
A slow-clock calibration method, a slow-clock calibration unit, a clock circuit and a mobile communication terminal are provided. The calibration method includes: obtaining a current temperature of the crystal; searching a unique frequency-divide coefficient corresponding to the current temperature from a preset data base; if the coefficient is found in the data base, inputting the unique coefficient into a frequency divider; if the coefficient is not found in the data base, obtaining an actual sleep length of the mobile communication terminal, if the actual sleep length is not equal to a required sleep length, calculating a required frequency-divide coefficient and updating the data base with the required frequency-divide coefficient, and if the actual sleep length of the mobile communication terminal is equal to the required sleep length, updating the data base with a current frequency-divide coefficient. Accordingly, slow-clock calibration is realized with reduced crystal costs.
US09838022B2
A semiconductor device includes an oscillator that oscillates at a specific frequency, a semiconductor integrated circuit that integrates a temperature sensor that detects a peripheral temperature, and a controller that is electrically connected to the oscillator and that corrects temperature dependent error in the oscillation frequency of the oscillator based on the temperature detected by the temperature sensor and a sealing member that integrally seals the oscillator and the semiconductor integrated circuit.
US09838018B2
An additively manufactured apparatus having a gas filled sealed cavity containing at least two additively manufactured cathodes and an additively manufactured anode spaced from the cathodes such that a continuous electric discharge of the gas stimulated between at least one of the cathodes and the anode provides a Boolean function output at the anode corresponding to electrical input signals at two of the cathodes.
US09838001B2
A programmable discrete input module is described. In one or more implementations, the programmable discrete input module comprises a pulse width modulation module configured to generate a pulse width modulated signal based upon an input signal and a pulse width modulation module configured to generate a demodulated pulse width signal. An isolator is configured to isolate the pulse width modulation module and the pulse width demodulation module and to generate isolated modulated pulse width signal based upon the pulse width modulated signal for the pulse width demodulation module to generate the demodulated pulse width signal. The programmable discrete input module also includes a first comparator and a second comparator for comparing the demodulated pulse width signal with a respective programmable reference and a digital filter configured to filter a comparison signal output by the first comparator or the second comparator to generate a discrete input signal.
US09838000B1
Various methods and devices that involve pulsed signals are disclosed. An example minimum pulse-width (MPW) circuit comprises a first and second logic circuit. A first input of the first logic circuit is connected to an input of the MPW circuit. A first input of the second logic circuit is communicatively coupled to an output of the first logic circuit. The MPW circuit also comprises a MPW filter circuit communicatively coupled to an output of the second logic circuit, a one-shot circuit communicatively coupled to an output of the minimum pulse-width filter circuit and located on a first feedback path, and another one-shot circuit communicatively coupled to the output of the minimum pulse-width filter circuit and located on a second feedback path. A second input of the first logic circuit is on the first feedback path. A second input of the second logic circuit is on the second feedback path.
US09837998B2
The present disclosure provides a detailed description of techniques for implementing a low power buffer with dynamic gain control. More specifically, some embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a buffer having a gain boost configuration and a current shunt circuit to control the gain of a respective gain boosting transistor of the gain boost configuration. The current shunt circuit and resulting gain are dynamically controlled by a gain control signal such that the buffer gain can be adjusted to within an acceptable range of the target gain for the current operating and device mismatch conditions. In one or more embodiments, the gain boost configuration with dynamic gain control can be deployed in a full differential implementation. Both analog and digital dynamic calibration and control techniques can be used to provide the gain control signals to multiple current shunt circuits and multiple buffers.
US09837993B2
Aspects of this disclosure relate to voltage generators, such as negative voltage generators. In certain configurations, a negative voltage generator includes a charge pump controllable by a clock signal and configured to provide a negative voltage at an output node, an oscillator configured to activate based on an enable signal and to provide the clock signal to the charge pump, a comparator configured to generate the enable signal based on comparing a feedback voltage with a reference value, a voltage divider electrically connected between a positive voltage node and the output node and configured to generate the feedback voltage at a feedback node, and a start-up capacitor electrically connected between the positive voltage node and the feedback node and configured to control a settling time of the feedback voltage.
US09837982B2
A vibrating element includes a piezoelectric substrate having an excitation section adapted to excite a thickness-shear vibration, and provided with a step section in each of side surfaces on both ends, and a peripheral section having a thickness smaller than a thickness of the excitation section, and the peripheral section has at least one projection section disposed on both principal surfaces in an area where a vibratory displacement when the excitation section excites a vibration is sufficiently attenuated.
US09837965B1
Various methods and circuital arrangements for biasing one or more gates of stacked transistors of an amplifier are possible where the amplifier is configured to operate in at least an active mode and a standby mode. Circuital arrangements can reduce bias circuit standby current during operation in the standby mode while allowing a quick recovery to normal operating conditions of the amplifier. Biasing an input transistor of the stacked transistors can be obtained by using a replica stack circuit.
US09837964B2
The disclosure discloses an amplifier system and a device The amplifier system includes: at least two stages of amplifiers which are sequentially connected, wherein a static working current value of an Nth-stage amplifier in the at least two stages of amplifiers is a value obtained by decreasing a first value by a first pre-set multiple, and a static working current value of an (N−1)th-stage amplifier in the at least two stages of amplifiers is a value obtained by increasing a second value by a second pre-set multiple; the first value is a recommended static working current value corresponding to the Nth-stage amplifier, wherein N is any integer greater than or equal to 2; and the second value is a recommended static working current value corresponding to the (N−1)th-stage amplifier. The solution effectively improves power amplification efficiency in a case of guaranteeing a linearity of a power amplification link.
US09837957B2
The diagnostic method for a photovoltaic power system includes: a step of storing measured values of voltage and current outputted by a photovoltaic cell array, and identifying a first time period and a second time period with a lower solar radiation amount than in the first time period; a step of calculating the number of faulty photovoltaic cells on the basis of the measured values in the first time period; a step of calculating the number of faulty photovoltaic cells on the basis of the measured values in the second time period; and a step of comparing the number of faulty photovoltaic cells as calculated for the first time period, and the number of faulty photovoltaic cells as calculated for the second time period, and identifying a series resistance of the photovoltaic cells and a value indicating a degree of loss resulting from a fault in the photovoltaic cells.
US09837949B2
A motor driving device includes: a rectifier that rectifies an AC current and outputs a DC current to a DC link; an inverter unit that converts the DC current to an AC current for a motor; an initial charging unit that initially charges a smoothing capacitor with the DC current that flows through a charging resistor; a storage unit that stores a load capability of the charging resistor; a power calculation unit that calculates an amount of power generated in the charging resistor in response to the DC current flowing therethrough; and an opening/closing unit that shuts off the DC current from flowing in the smoothing capacitor when the amount of power reaches the load capability during an initial charging period and allows the DC current to flow in the smoothing capacitor after the shutoff when the amount of power is smaller than or equal to a threshold value.
US09837931B2
A steady state control method for a three-phase double-mode inverter. Off-grid steady state control is composed of outer loop power droop control, voltage feed-forward quasi-resonant control, and inner current loop dead-beat control. Therefore, the response speed of the inverter is raised, and the influence caused by the load fluctuation of a micro-grid is inhibited. Based on the off-grid steady state control, grid-connected steady state control introduces phase lead control to the power droop control. Therefore, the output voltage of the inverter is always slightly ahead of the power grid voltage, which avoids the energy pour backward phenomenon of the inverter due to a phase error, and realizes stable and reliable running in the grid-connected mode.
US09837929B2
A discharge duty that is a duty at which a switch is conductive takes a value obtained by dividing a product of a crest value of a single-phase AC voltage and a square of a cosine value of a phase of the single-phase AC voltage by a both-end voltage across a capacitor. A sum of a product of a rectifying duty that is a duty at which a converter is conductive and a rectified voltage output from the converter and a product of the both-end voltage and the discharge duty varies in a period that is a half of the period of the single-phase AC voltage.
US09837927B2
A power supply device includes a main unit and a power switching module. The main unit includes a primary circuit board, a transformer including a primary and a secondary coil, a primary-side circuit and a secondary-side circuit. The power switching module includes a separate PCB formed with at least two connection pads and two conductive tracks, and at least one power switching element disposed on the PCB and having two terminals respectively connected to the two connection pads through the two conductive tracks. The power switching module is in the form of a separate PCB that is electrically connected to the primary- or secondary-side circuits through the two connection pads.
US09837925B1
The present disclosure provides a capacitor-less AC/DC converter power supply system. The power supply system includes one or more rectifier cells having inductive and synchronous elements, and removing any capacitive filter elements thus ensuring a very high Mean Time Before Failure (MTBF) on the rectifier stage. The output voltage and current generated by the one or more inductive cells is a DC signal having a ripple amount dependent upon the number of cells implemented.
US09837922B2
A method is disclosed in one embodiment for discharging DC link capacitors. In one form the method includes switching a first half bridge of a first converter unit to a positive state, in which its AC output is connected with its positive DC output, and simultaneously switching a second half bridge of a second converter unit to a negative state, in which its AC output is connected with its negative DC output, such that a DC link capacitor of the first converter unit and a DC link capacitor of the second converter unit are interconnected oppositely to each other and discharged via the electrical filter.
US09837919B2
Some embodiments include an electric power conversion apparatus, which may include a transformer, a first converter connected to a primary side of the transformer, a second converter connected to a secondary side of the transformer, a first capacitor connected to the first converter, a second capacitor connected to the second converter, and a control unit for controlling the first converter and the second converter, wherein the control unit may determine operation ranges with respect to a plurality of modulation methods, may determine a modulation method including an output electric power value of the electric power conversion apparatus among the operation ranges of the plurality of modulation methods, and may output control signals of the first converter and the second converter based on the determined modulation method, wherein the control signals correspond to an instruction value.
US09837918B2
A converter circuit includes an inverter and a controller. The inverter is configured to receive an input voltage and to convert the input voltage into a primary-side alternating-current (AC) voltage in a first inversion mode or a second inversion mode. Each of a first switch unit and a second switch unit in the inverter includes switches. When the converter circuit works in the first inversion mode, the controller controls switches of the first switch unit and the second switch unit to cooperatively switch on and switch off periodically according to an output voltage corresponding to the primary-side AC voltage. When the converter circuit works in the second inversion mode, the controller controls the first switch unit to operate independently, in which the switches of the first switch unit switch on and switch off periodically.
US09837914B1
Disclosed is a method of dynamical adjustment for a power supply. The method takes aim at lowering the minimum bulk capacitor voltage to the maximum extent through increasing the switching frequency or the OCP (Over-Current Protection) trip point during the holdup time so that the holdup time can get prolonged or the bulk capacitor can get downsized provided that all other parameters remain unchanged. In general, the proposed method is applicable to a wide variety of power converters.
US09837913B1
A resonant power converter is provided with capacitive switching mode protection. The converter produces output current and voltage according to an operating frequency, which is desirably maintained above a resonant frequency for the power converter. A controller regulates the operating frequency based on an output current relative to a reference value, which may be provided via a dimming interface. A capacitive switching mode is determinable, based on a positive relationship in a detected direction of change in an output value relative to a detected direction of change in the operating frequency. When the capacitive switching mode is determined, a preceding operating frequency is enacted and the controller disables regulation of the operating frequency therefrom. Inductive mode switching is determinable with a negative relationship between detected direction of change in the output value relative to direction of change in the operating frequency, wherein regulation of operating frequency is renewed.
US09837904B2
In one implementation, a voltage converter includes a driver providing a gate drive for a power switch and a sense circuit coupled across the power switch. The gate drive provides power to the sense circuit, and the sense circuit provides a sense output to the driver corresponding to a current through the power switch. In one implementation, the sense circuit includes a high voltage (HV) sense transistor coupled between a first sense input and a sense output, a delay circuit configured to be coupled to the gate drive to provide power to the HV sense transistor when the gate drive is high, and a pull-down transistor configured to couple the sense output to a second sense input when the gate drive is low.
US09837895B2
A power supply, and a method of operation thereof, includes: a power source; a microcontroller for comparing a first sense potential with a second sense potential for generating a potential booster enable; and a relative isolation unit for isolating the first sense potential from the second sense potential; and a potential booster for controlling an output potential, the potential booster controlled by the potential booster enable from the microcontroller.
US09837893B2
A charge pump includes: a first diode that is connected to a first node; a second diode that is connected to a second node; a pump capacitor that is connected to a third node to which the first diode and the second diode are connected; a power supply capacitor that is connected to the pump capacitor; a third diode that is connected between the pump capacitor and the power supply capacitor; and a zener diode that is connected in parallel to the third diode and the power supply capacitor. A power supply device decreases a ripple of an output current using a ripple reduction signal.
US09837885B2
An actuator may include a drive coil, a drive magnet part, a coil holding body and a magnet holding body. The coil holding body may include a tube part around which the drive coil is wound, and the drive magnet part may include two drive magnet pieces whose opposed faces are magnetized in the same magnetic pole. The coil holding body may be linearly and relatively movable to the magnet holding body. The magnet holding body may include an opening part formed in one of the two end face parts structuring the magnet holding body. The coil holding body may include a protruded part which is protruded to an outer side through the opening part, the protruded part may formed so as to extend over the tube part, and a flat part in a flat face shape may be formed in the protruded part.
US09837881B2
In a method for producing an individual-segment rotor for an electric machine, a shaft is arranged in a mold and a plurality of laminated core segments, which are at a distance from one another, are arranged on the circumference of the shaft in a distributed manner in the mold. The laminated core segments each have a fixing contour for a form closure for radially fixing the laminated core segment on the shaft. In addition, a permanent magnet is arranged between each pair of laminated core segments. An intermediate space between the shaft and each fixing contour of the laminated core segments is filled with a curable nonmagnetic material. The curable nonmagnetic material forms a form closure with respect to the radial direction with each fixing contour, and therefore each laminated core segment is retained on the shaft by the form closure.
US09837876B2
A motor apparatus for a vehicle includes a motor unit, an inverter unit, a case, and a pump. The case has a motor space, an inverter space, and a cooling passage, the motor space accommodating the motor unit, the inverter space accommodating the inverter unit, the cooling passage being configured to let cooling medium flow through the cooling passage to cool the motor unit and the inverter unit. The pump is configured to forward the cooling medium to the cooling passage, and is disposed in a surrounding space within the motor space, the surrounding space being at a periphery of a rotation angle sensor fixed to a shaft of the motor unit.
US09837875B2
Induction motor capable of being housed in a tubular actuator and method of assembling this motor. This motor (1) comprises: (i) a stator (2), (ii) a rotor assembly, (iii) a bowl (9) capable of protecting a bundle formed at one end (7) of the stator (2), the bowl (9) comprising an internal skirt (13), (iv) means of supporting the rotor assembly allowing the rotor assembly to rotate with respect to the stator (2), the support means comprising a bearing (21) positioned inside the internal skirt (13), the bearing (21) comprising a region that rests twice, axially and radially, against the stator (2).
US09837874B2
Provided is a flywheel energy storage device including a radial magnetic gear, the radial magnetic gear includes an inner rotor, an outer rotor and N1 first magnetic pole adjustment sheets embedded in a first magnetic pole adjustment sheet base; a disc-type magnetic gear electric motor includes a first stator disc, a first rotor disc, a second stator disc, a second rotor disc and a third rotor disc, the first stator disc with the first rotor disc form a first disc-type electric motor, the second stator disc with the second rotor disc form a second disc-type electric motor, and a disc-type magnetic gear is formed by the first rotor disc, the second rotor disc and the third rotor disc, and the first disc-type electric motor, the second disc-type electric motor and the disc-type magnetic gear are couple with one another to form the disc-type magnetic gear electric motor.
US09837870B2
A water-resistant electric motor having an end bell with a passage that prevents the formation of a vacuum between the shaft seal and the shaft bearing. The passage extends from the interior region of the motor through the end bell bypassing the bearing to communicate with a gap between the seal and the bearing. The motor housing includes a vent to expose the motor's interior region and the gap to atmospheric pressure or to a source of higher-pressure air or gas to prevent water from being sucked into the motor's interior.
US09837863B2
A portable terminal is provided. The portable terminal includes a back surface on which a battery-mounting groove is formed; and a receiving-side resonant antenna arranged around the battery-mounting groove on the body. The receiving-side resonant antenna is arranged parallel to at least three sides of the battery-mounting groove.
US09837857B2
A rectenna includes an antenna configured to receive a radio wave, a rectifier circuit configured to rectify the radio wave received by the antenna, a transmission line connected to the antenna and the rectifier circuit, and a modulation input circuit including a variable capacitance element. The variable capacitance element is connected at one end to a portion of the transmission line between an antenna connecting portion at which the antenna is connected to the transmission line and a rectifier circuit connecting portion at which the rectifier circuit is connected to the transmission line, and is configured such that the capacitance thereof varies in accordance with the voltage of a modulated signal wave input to the other end of the variable capacitance element.
US09837852B1
An electronic device with a e-paper display that internally integrates photovoltaic cells and are not apparent from the exterior of the device. A light source of the device injects light into a light guide to front-light the e-paper. Light that leaks from edges of the light guide is captured by the photovoltaic cells. The plastic light guide is also impregnated with a photoluminescent material that absorbs near infrared energy that is incident on a face of the display and re-emits it isotropically to be guided by the light guide to the photovoltaic cells. By combining multiple techniques to illuminate hidden photovoltaic cells, the utility of the hidden cells is maximized.
US09837849B2
A charging apparatus (102), system (100) and method (500) are provided for charging and/or powering a wearable electronic device, such as electronic eyeglasses. The charging apparatus comprises an acoustic horn, a piezoelectric transducer, and charger circuitry for converting ultrasonic waves received at the horn into a charging signal. The charging signal is used for charging and/or powering the wearable electronic device while the device is being worn.
US09837848B2
A wireless charging system is provided that includes a charger portion that receives one or more portable elements for charging wirelessly. The charger portion controls the amount of power needed to charge the one or more portable elements. An inband communication module receives inband communications with the one or more portable elements using a random access mode. The charger portion utilizes the inband communications to determine how much power is needed, via energy based reporting, to charge the one or more portable elements that avoids conveying identification information.
US09837839B2
A portable device and method of supplying power to the portable device may provide a sterile environment that may protect the health and safety of patients on whom the device is employed. The portable device may be charged inside of the sterile environment. The portable device may be charged using at least one chargeable battery that may be arranged internal and/or external to a portion of the portable device, or internal and/or external to the portable device. A power supply may be connected to the at least one chargeable battery and power the portable device for use. The portable device may be charged up to 100% and/or or fully charged prior to opening the sterile environment.
US09837836B2
A charging method and a portable electronic device using the same are provided. The charging method includes following steps: detecting a battery voltage and a charging current of a battery module; determining whether the portable electronic device operates at a constant voltage (CV) charging mode; executing an impedance calculation at the CV charging mode to obtain a first battery voltage corresponding to a first predetermined current and a second battery voltage corresponding to a second predetermined current; calculating a compensation impedance according to the predetermined current and the battery voltages; setting a maximum charging voltage according to the compensation impedance and executing a CV charging to the battery module accordingly; determining whether a current variation of the charging current is larger than a threshold value; re-executing the impedance calculation; updating a setting value of the maximum charging voltage when the current variation is larger than the threshold value.
US09837831B2
A feedback controlled coil driver with ASK modulation is disclosed. A class E coil driver drives an LC circuit to generate a magnetic signal via the inductor. A modulation capacitor is coupled to the LC circuit to modulate the coil driver signal. The voltage across the coil driver switch is sampled. The difference between the sampled voltage and a reference voltage is integrated and compared to a ramp voltage to obtain an optimal on time for the coil driver switch such that coil current is maximized.
US09837829B2
The wireless power transmitter includes a substrate; a first blocking unit disposed over the substrate and formed of a metallic material; a second blocking unit over the first blocking unit; and a wireless transmission unit mounted on at least one of the first blocking unit and the second blocking unit, wherein the wireless transmission unit includes: a first wireless transmission unit including a first transmission coil; a second wireless transmission unit including a second transmission coil; and a control unit to control such that AC power is output to a transmission coil of one of the wireless transmission units according to a power transmission scheme.
US09837821B2
Systems that allow energy allocation for energy storage cooperation are disclosed, with specific methods outlined concerning allocating energy stored by an energy storage device between a utility provider, a customer, and/or a third party. The methods may include allocating a portion of stored energy for a utility provider's benefit which may be gained as a result of a part of the allocated energy being dispatched into a utility network and allocating another portion of energy stored in the energy storage device for the benefit of the customer. Additional embodiments disclose the dispatching of the energy stored, signals used to bring about a dispatch, the nature of the relationship between the utility provider, the customer, and the energy stored, methods for making energy available to a utility provider without a prearranged reservation of the energy, penalties for misallocating energy, apparatus for allocating energy and causing dispatch, and more.
US09837818B2
Aspects of the invention relate to system and method of storing off-peak electricity. The system includes an energy storage device electrically coupled to an electricity grid of at least one electricity provider, where the energy storage device has a storing capacity and is chargeable or dischargeable, upon demand, and a controller configured to control operation of the energy storage device such that the energy storage device is charged with the off-peak electricity at an off-peak time each day when a demand for electricity is low from the electricity grid, and is discharged at a peak time each day when the demand for electricity is high, to provide an amount of the stored electricity, to the at least one electricity provider.
US09837816B2
A semiconductor device includes a current control unit whose conductance is variable and a control unit configured to control the conductance of the current control unit. The current control unit is connected to a direct current power source in parallel with a load for the direct current power source, through a capacitor. The control unit sets the current control unit to a first conductance when the direct current power source and the load are not in a conduction state, and sets the current control unit to a second conductance larger than the first conductance when the direct current power source and the load are in the conduction state.
US09837812B2
An example method of operating a power distribution system including a plurality of source and tie circuit protection devices coupled between at least one source and a protection zone is disclosed. The protection zone includes a distribution bus and a plurality of feeder circuit protection devices coupled between the distribution bus and a plurality of loads. The method includes determining an electric current flowing through each source and tie circuit protection device, determining whether any of the feeder circuit protection devices is outputting a ZSI blocking signal, and controlling operation of the plurality of source and tie circuit protection devices according to an enhanced partial differential protection scheme based on a combination of the determined currents through the source and tie circuit protection devices and the determination of whether any of the feeder circuit protection devices is outputting a ZSI blocking signal.
US09837809B2
The present provides an arc detection apparatus that includes: a current sensor configured to sense the first current that flows through the first line of a system in which the influence of noise according to the operation is detected in the first frequency band; a frequency data creator configured to digitally process sensed values of the first current in the first time period and the second time period, respectively, in order to thereby create the first frequency data and the second frequency data for the first frequency band; and an arc determination unit configured to determine the possibility of the generation of an arc of the system according to comparison data between the first frequency data and the second frequency data.
US09837808B2
The present invention relates to a superconducting power system which is capable of effectively absorbing an axial force caused by the contraction of a superconducting cable when the superconducting cable is cooled and in which the superconducting cable is installed in the form of minimizing unnecessary waste of an installation space, and a method of installing a superconducting cable.
US09837797B2
An ignition plug includes an insulator that includes a through hole; a center electrode; a metal shell that holds the insulator; a bar-shaped ground electrode body; an electrode tip that is disposed along a side surface of the ground electrode body opposing a discharge surface of the center electrode; and a welding portion that is disposed between the ground electrode tip and the ground electrode body. Over ¼ of a range from a first end to a second end of the ground electrode tip, a length L1 of the ground electrode tip and a length L2 of the welding portion in the direction satisfy (L2/L1)≧0.25.
US09837789B2
An air-cooled laser device having a heat radiating structure capable of effectively radiating heat generated by a laser diode module and also radiating heat generated by a heating component other than the laser diode module, without being increased in size. The laser device has: laser diode modules; a heat-receiving plate horizontally-arranged, to which the laser diode modules are thermally connected; at least one L-shaped heat-transferring member extending inside the heat-receiving plate and bending at a right angle outside heat-receiving plate; a plurality of heat radiating fins attached to a vertical portion of the heat-transferring member so that each fin extends in a horizontal direction; and an axial fan for sending air to an upper space of the heat-receiving plate through between the fins. The air after flowing between the fins cools a heating component other than the laser diode module, positioned in the upper space, without changing the flow direction.
US09837788B2
A method and system for amplifying optical signals includes generating idler signals for input signals using an optical pump at a first non-linear element (NLE). An intermediate stage including a Raman amplifier performs pump amplification using the output from the first NLE along a single optical path. Optical power monitoring of the input signals may be used for power equalization. The intermediate stage may include a wavelength selective switch for a certain degree of phase modulation. The phase-sensitive amplified signal is generated at a second NLE using the optical pump. Optical power monitoring of the input signals may be used for power equalization and other control functions to achieve low-noise operation.
US09837778B2
An automatic-robotic-system-for-cable assembly is provided. The system is configured to detect the inner-wire placement. The detected inter-wire is conveyed toward a connector's relevant pad. In addition the robotic system is configured to associate the inner wire to the connector's relevant pad.
US09837775B2
Provided is a commutator of a motor including a body and hooks forming coil-receiving spaces between the body and inner surfaces of the hooks, wherein the hooks include recesses concavely formed on the inner surfaces of the hooks, and coils are seated on the recesses. Thus the present disclosure provides an advantageous effect of increasing fixing force of the hooks.
US09837762B2
A plug connector part for a plug connector includes a housing part; a plug portion arranged on the housing part for plug-connection to another plug connector part; and a latching element, which is arranged in a movable manner on the housing part, including a latching portion for locking to the other plug connector part, the latching element being movable between a first, locking position for establishing locking between the plug connector part and the other plug connector part and a second, unlocking position for unlocking the plug connector part from the other plug connector part. A handle is arranged on the housing part, and has a handle piece with a securing element arranged on the handle piece so as to be movable in a securing direction to act on the latching element in a securing position to prevent the latching element from moving out of the first, locking position.
US09837756B2
A wire cover of an electrical connector is provided and includes a main body and a hood. The main body includes a wire receiving section extending therein. The hood projects from a side of the main body. The hood includes a first wire receiving section disposed along a side of the hood and extending transversely with respect to the main body and a reinforcing rib provided on an opposite side wall of the hood.
US09837750B2
An electrical connector including: a magnetic element having a cavity; a contact protector movably accommodated in the cavity, the protector defining a front end and a plurality of slots through the front end; a plurality of contacts accommodated in the slots, each contact being retractable and having a front end located in the front end of the contact protector; and an elastic element urging the contact protector to extend the front end thereof out of the cavity.
US09837728B2
A covered conductive wire is configured by covering a conductive wire with an insulating cover portion. The conductive wire is formed of an aluminum-based material, for example. A crimping portion includes a cover crimping portion for crimping the cover portion of the covered conductive wire, and a conductor crimping portion for crimping a portion of the conductive wire that is exposed when the cover portion is removed at the tip portion of the covered conductive wire. It is possible to use polyvinyl chloride and/or a non-halogen member, for example, for the cover portion of the covered conductive wire, and a plasticizer, filler, stabilizer, or the like is compounded as needed. A material that shrinks by a factor of 7% or less after being allowed to stand for 120 hours at a high temperature of 120° C. is used for this cover portion.
US09837723B2
A configurable deflection system for an incident microwave frequency beam exhibiting a wavelength contained in a band of wavelengths corresponding to the microwave frequencies, comprising: a first and a second diffractive dielectric component suitable for each performing a rotation about a rotation axis Z, the deflection system being suitable for generating a microwave frequency beam by diffraction of the incident microwave frequency beam on the first and second components, the microwave frequency beam being oriented according to an angle that is a function of the angular positioning between the first and said second diffractive components, the first and second components respectively exhibiting a first and second periodic structure of first and second periods according to a first and second axis, the first and second structures respectively comprising a plurality of first and second primary microstructures formed respectively on a first and second substrate of first and second substrate refractive indices.
US09837719B2
Provided herein is a patch antenna including a multilayered substrate on which a plurality of dielectric layers are laminated; at least one metal pattern layer disposed between the plurality of dielectric layers outside a central area of the multilayered substrate; an antenna patch disposed on an upper surface of the multilayered substrate and within the central area; a ground layer disposed on a lower surface of the multilayered substrate; a plurality of connection via patterns penetrating the plurality of dielectric layers to connect the metal pattern layer and the ground layer, and surrounding the central area; a transmission line comprising a first transmission line unit disposed on the upper surface of the multilayered substrate and located outside the central area, and a second transmission line unit disposed on the upper surface of the multilayered substrate and located within the central area; and an impedance transformer located below the second transmission line unit within the central area of the multilayered substrate.
US09837717B2
An arrangement for modifying a printed circuit antenna of the type used in mobile communication devices includes introducing one or more discontinuities into a printed circuit pattern of the antenna so that it is not activated at undesired frequencies. Examples of discontinuities include localized narrowing the printed circuit strip, localized widening of the printed circuit strip and localized changing of the shape of the printed circuit strip.
US09837715B2
An antenna device includes a first antenna element and a second antenna element. The first antenna element operates at a first predetermined frequency band. The second antenna element operates at a second predetermined frequency band that is different from the first predetermined frequency band. The first antenna element includes a base end portion, a front end portion, a folded portion, a first side portion disposed between the base end portion and the folded portion, and a second side portion disposed between the folded portion and the front end portion. A direction of a current vector in the first side portion is equal to a direction of a current vector in the second side portion. The second antenna element is disposed adjacent to the first antenna element.
US09837712B2
Antenna array calibration for wireless charging is disclosed. In one aspect, an initial calibration sequence is performed each time a wireless charging station is powered on. The initial calibration sequence utilizes a reference antenna element, which is an antenna element randomly selected from a plurality of antenna elements in the wireless charging station, to determine relative receiver phase errors between the reference antenna element and each of the other antenna elements in an antenna array. In another aspect, a training sequence is performed after completing the initial calibration sequence to determine total relative phase errors between the reference antenna element and each of the other antenna elements in the antenna array. Adjustments can then be made to match respective total relative phase errors among the plurality of antenna elements to achieve phase coherency among the plurality of antenna elements for improved wireless charging power efficiency.
US09837701B2
A semiconductor package includes a package substrate, a semiconductor device, an antenna substrate and a package body. The semiconductor device is disposed on an upper surface of the package substrate. The antenna substrate is disposed on the semiconductor device and includes a core layer, a grounding layer formed on a lower surface of the core layer, and an antenna layer formed on an upper surface of the core layer and electrically connected to the grounding layer through a conductive via of the core layer. The package body encapsulates the semiconductor device and the antenna substrate.
US09837699B2
A window antenna wherein a pair of embedded wires are laminated inside a glazing and a connector is attached to the joined end of the wires and to a signal input. A first segment of the embedded antenna wire is oriented parallel to the window frame to form a coupled transmission line divider. The power divider with coupled transmission lines affords adding more than one wire to the window antenna for wideband and multiband application while also providing a feed to the antenna to form a diversity antenna system.
US09837697B2
A radio frequency transmission arrangement comprises a ground plate having an aperture comprising a slot with an elongate cross-section and substantially parallel sides, and a first and second transmission line. The thickness of the ground plate is greater than a width of the slot. The first transmission line comprises a first elongate conductor on a first side of the ground plate and has an end terminated with a first termination stub. The second transmission line comprises a second elongate conductor on the opposite side of the ground plate and has an end terminated with a second termination stub. The first transmission line is arranged to cross the slot at a point adjacent to the first termination stub, and the second transmission line is arranged to cross the slot at a point adjacent to the second termination stub.
US09837696B2
A transmission line structure for transmitting radio signals includes a first transmission line, a first ground region, and a second transmission line. The first transmission line is arranged on a first layer of a circuit board. The first transmission line includes a first signal line and a second signal line. The first ground region is arranged between the first and second signal lines. The first and second signal lines do not contact the first ground region. The second transmission line is arranged on a second layer of the circuit board, and the second layer is different from the first layer. The second transmission line does not contact the first transmission line, and the second transmission line interleaves with the first signal line, the second signal line and the first ground area.
US09837676B2
A single cell C includes a membrane electrode assembly M in which an electrolyte membrane 1 is interposed between a pair of electrode layers 2, 3, and a pair of separators 4 that form gas channels C between the pair of separators 4 and the membrane electrode assembly M, wherein the electrode layers 2, 3 include first gas diffusion layers 2B, 3B of a porous material disposed at the side facing the electrolyte membrane 1 and second gas diffusion layers 2C, 3C that are composed of a metal porous body having arrayed many holes K, and a part of the first gas diffusion layers 2B, 3B penetrates the holes K of the second gas diffusion layers 2C, 3C to form protrusions T. Accordingly, the surface of the electrode layers 2, 3 has a fine uneven structure. As a result, an improvement in liquid water discharging function and an improvement in power generating function were achieved at the same time.
US09837671B2
A bipolar fuel cell plate (300) for use in a fuel cell comprising a plurality of flow field channels (704) and a coolant distribution structure (708) formed as part of the fluid flow field plate. The coolant distribution structure is configured to direct coolant droplets (701) into the flow field channels. The coolant distribution structure comprises one or more elements (710) associated with one or more flow field channels, the elements having a first surface (712) for receiving a coolant droplet and a second surface (714) having a shape that defines a coolant droplet detachment region for directing a coolant droplet into the associated field flow channel.
US09837648B2
A rechargeable battery includes: an electrode assembly having a first electrode and a second electrode; an electrode terminal electrically connected to the electrode assembly; a case that receives the electrode assembly; a cap plate at an opening of the case, the cap plate closing and sealing the case and having a vent hole configured to discharge an internal pressure of the case; and a vent module including a vent portion, the vent portion including a buffer portion configured to buffer an impact that is transferred to the vent hole, and a fracture portion that closes and seals the vent hole, wherein the fracture portion is configured to be fractured by the internal pressure.
US09837647B2
A battery module (19) having a number of electrically interconnected battery cells (10), wherein the individual battery cells (10) are temperature-controlled by means of a temperature control fluid (70). Between the battery cells (10), there extends a duct system (30, 62, 66, 68) through which the temperature control fluid (70) flows. The duct system (30, 62, 66, 68) is separated completely from a degassing system (16, 54) of the battery cells (10).
US09837644B2
A battery assembly includes a housing defining a plenum having an inlet, and a row of battery cells disposed within the housing. Each adjacent pair of the cells defines a gap in fluid communication with the plenum. The gaps proximate to the inlet are narrower than the gaps distant from the inlet to promote generally equalized flow of fluid through the gaps.
US09837643B2
A film covered battery has a battery element equipped with a plurality of electrode plates laminated via separators, and an exterior film for hermetically sealing the battery element. A cover film is attached to a hollow present in predetermined regions set on a surface of the exterior film. The predetermined regions are regions obtained by removing overlap regions from projected regions obtained by projecting the electrode plates to the surface of the exterior film, the overlap regions being regions where the projected regions overlap with members interposed between the electrode plates at the outermost layers and the exterior film. It is possible to cover the hollow on the surface, without increasing the thickness of the film covered battery.
US09837641B2
A method of forming a thin film, the method including: disposing a resist portion on a substrate, the resist portion including: a first region including a first upper surface; and a second region including a second upper surface, the first upper surface disposed higher than the second upper surface and forming a step; disposing a first protection layer covering the resist portion; exposing the first upper surface; removing the first region; disposing a first thin film on the substrate; disposing a second protection layer covering the first thin film; exposing the second upper surface; removing the second region; disposing a second thin film on the substrate; and removing the first protection layer and the second protection layer.
US09837636B2
A substrate for an organic light-emitting device (OLED) with enhanced light extraction efficiency, a method of manufacturing the same and an OLED having the same, in which the light extraction efficiency is enhanced, thereby reducing the phenomenon of color shift in which color changes depending on the position of a viewer within the viewing angle. The transparent substrate used in an OLED includes an anode, an organic light-emitting layer and a cathode which are stacked on each other, the transparent substrate comprising a porous layer in at least one portion of one surface thereof that adjoins the organic light-emitting device, a refractive index of the porous layer being smaller than a refractive index of the transparent substrate.
US09837634B2
A flexible display encapsulation layer may be used to encapsulate and protect organic light-emitting diodes and a thin-film transistor layer on a flexible display. The flexible encapsulation layer may include a lateral dispersion layer that exhibits an anisotropic moisture diffusion characteristic. Lateral diffusion in the lateral dispersion layer is larger than vertical dispersion in a direction that runs perpendicular to the display. An inorganic conformal coating layer may cover the lateral diffusion layer and may serve as a pinhole filling layer. The pinhole filling layer may be covered with a moisture barrier layer that serves to prevent moisture from penetrating the display. A polymer protective layer may cover the moisture barrier layer and may be relatively insensitive to bending induced stress as the display is flexed.
US09837630B2
An organic EL panel includes a first substrate, a first electrode disposed on the first substrate, an organic layer including a light emitting layer and disposed on the first electrode, a second electrode disposed on the organic layer, and an auxiliary electrode stacked on the first electrode. The auxiliary electrode includes a linear portion and a curved portion, and the curved portion has a greater line width than the linear portion.
US09837625B2
The organic electroluminescent element prevents degradation of phosphorescent luminescent organic metal complexes in a light emitting layer, has a long life, and has superior color stability during continuously drive. The organic electroluminescent element has a blue light emitting layer with a phosphorescent light emitting organometallic complex (A) with a local maximum phosphorescent light emission wavelength on the short wave side of 480 nm or less, a phosphorescent light emitting organometallic complex (B), and a host compound. The content of complex (A) is greater than the content of the complex (B). The complex (A) and the host are such that a single layer made from complex (A) and the host compound, the value for the ratio ((D)/(C)) of the percent of remaining luminescence (C) which UV irradiation with a wavelength of 365 nm and the percent of remaining luminescence (D) with UV irradiation by a HgXe light source is 0.75-0.95.
US09837623B2
A compound represented by Chemical Formula 1, an organic optoelectronic device including the same, and a display device including the organic optoelectronic device are provided. The structure of the compound represented by Chemical Formula 1 is described in the present specification.
US09837619B2
Discussed is a delayed fluorescence compound including a first electron donor moiety of indolo-[3,2,1-j,k]carbazole; a second electron donor moiety selected from indolo-[3,2,1-j,k]carbazole, carbazole, or triphenylamine; and an electron acceptor moiety selected from dibenzothiophene sulfone or diphenyl sulfone, wherein the first and second electron donor moieties are combined to the electron acceptor moiety, and the electron acceptor moiety is combined to a third position or a sixth position of the first electron donor moiety.
US09837618B2
The present invention relates to a novel indole-based compound having excellent hole injection and transport capabilities, light-emitting capabilities, and the like, and an organic electroluminescence device which includes the indole-based compound in one or more organic material layers thereof so as to improve characteristics such as light-emitting efficiency, driving voltage, and lifespan.
US09837613B2
The invention relates to novel polymers containing repeating units based on benzo[2,1,3]thiadiazole-5,6-dicarboxylic acid bis-ester, monomers and methods for their preparation, their use as semiconductors in organic electronic (OE) devices, especially in organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices, and to OE and OPV devices comprising these polymers.
US09837606B2
A memory structure includes a first dielectric layer, having a first top surface, over a conductive structure. A first opening in the first dielectric layer exposes an area of the conductive structure, and has an interior sidewall. A first electrode structure, having a first portion and a second portion, is over the exposed area of the conductive structure. The second portion extends upwardly along the interior sidewall. A resistance variable layer is disposed over the first electrode. A second electrode structure, having a third portion and a fourth portion, is over the resistance variable layer. The third portion has a second top surface below the first top surface of the first dielectric layer. The fourth portion extends upwardly along the resistance variable layer. A second opening is defined by the second electrode structure. At least a part of a second dielectric layer is disposed in the second opening.
US09837597B2
A piezoelectric drive element includes piezoelectric layers, electrode layers between the piezoelectric layers, and electrode layers as the surfaces of the laminated layers. The piezoelectric layers are arranged on the upper side and on the lower side with reference to the center in the thickness direction, and are polarized in opposite directions. The thicknesses of piezoelectric layers at the center which have the least displacement are the thickest. The thicknesses of the piezoelectric layers above and under the thickest piezoelectric layers decrease gradually in an outward direction. A piezoelectric sound-generating body is constructed by affixing the piezoelectric driving element to a support plate and supporting the piezoelectric driving element with a frame.
US09837596B2
A piezoelectric element exhibiting a small leakage current density and high reliability as compared with a KNN thin film piezoelectric element in the related art is provided. The piezoelectric element is characterized by including a lower electrode, a piezoelectric layer primarily made from potassium-sodium niobate, which is a perovskite type compound represented by a general formula ABO3, and an upper electrode, wherein the piezoelectric layer is present between the lower electrode and the upper electrode, and the piezoelectric layer has the value determined by dividing the maximum value of intensity of a diffraction peak, where the angle of 2θ is within the range of 21.1°≦2θ≦23.4° in the X-ray diffraction pattern (2θ/θ), by the intensity of a diffraction peak, where 2θ is within the range of 30.1°≦2θ≦33.3°, of 0.04 or less.
US09837592B2
A ceramic substrate is provided, including: a board having a first surface and a second surface opposing the first surface; first electrical contact pads disposed on the first surface; second electrical contact pads disposed on the second surface; conductive pillars disposed in the board and connecting the first surface and the second surface to electrically connect the electrical contact pad and the second electrical contact pad; a first heat conductive pad disposed on the first surface; a second heat conductive pad disposed on the second surface; and a heat conductive pillar disposed in the board and connecting the first surface and the second surface to contact and be coupled with the first heat conductive pad and the second heat conductive pad, wherein the heat conductive pillar has a width greater than or equal to widths of the conductive pillars and greater than or equal to 300 micrometers.
US09837591B2
A radiation-emitting semiconductor device includes at least one semiconductor chip having a semiconductor layer sequence having an active region that produces radiation; a mounting surface on which at least one electrical contact for external contacting of the semiconductor chip is formed, wherein the mounting surface runs parallel to a main extension plane of the semiconductor layer sequence; a radiation exit surface running at an angle to or perpendicularly to the mounting surface; a radiation-guiding layer arranged in a beam path between the semiconductor chip and the radiation exit surface; and a reflector body adjacent to the radiation-guiding layer in regions and in a top view of the semiconductor device covers the semiconductor chip.
US09837588B2
A light-emitting device package and a lighting apparatus including the light-emitting device package are provided. The light-emitting device package may include a body, a light-emitting device provided on the body, a phosphor layer provided on the body and the light-emitting device, and a lens provided on the phosphor layer that refracts and reflects light discharged from the light-emitting device and having a lens body. The lens body may include a side portion, a recess having a curved surface and provided at a center of an upper surface of the lens body, and an edge portion having a convex rounded shape and provided between the recess and the side portion.
US09837587B2
A light-emitting device includes a pair of light-transmissive insulator sheets disposed opposite to each other and two types of light-transmissive electroconductive layers disposed on a common one of or separately on one and the other of the pair of light-transmissive insulator sheets, and at least one light-emitting semiconductor each provided with a cathode and an anode which are individually and electrically connected to the two types of the light-transmissive electroconductive layers. The electrical connection and mechanical bonding between the members are improved by a light-transmissive elastomer which is between the pair of light-transmissive insulator sheets. A method in which a light-emitting semiconductor element and a light-transmissive electroconductive member are subjected to vacuum hot-pressing.
US09837585B2
Disclosed is a light-emitting device which comprises: a light-emitting element for emitting a first light in a blue wavelength band; a first wavelength converter for converting the first light into a second light; a second wavelength converter for converting the first light into a third light; and a third wavelength converter for converting the first light into a fourth light, wherein the first to fourth lights have central wavelengths which satisfy the following relationship: [Expression 1] λ1<λ2<λ3<λ4 (wherein λ1 is the central wavelength of the first light; λ2 is the central wavelength of the second light; λ3 is the central wavelength of the third light; and λ4 is the central wavelength of the fourth light.).
US09837584B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a bluish green phosphor represented by Formula 1 below. In particular, the bluish green phosphor and a light emitting device package including the same may have improved luminescence characteristics and properties due to influence of cations and anions included in a composition formula: AaBbOcNdGeDfEg:REh [Formula 1] wherein A is at least one selected from the group consisting of Be, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba and Ra elements, B is at least one selected from the group consisting of Si, Ge and Sn elements, G is any one of C, Cl, F and Br elements, D is one element or a mixture type of two or more elements selected from Li, Na and K, E is at least one selected from the group consisting of P, As, Bi, Sc, Y and Lu, RE is at least one selected from the group consisting of Eu, Ce, Sm, Er, Yb, Dy, Gd, Tm, Lu, Pr, Nd, Pm and Ho, 0
US09837579B2
In a method for producing a semiconductor light emitting device: a semiconductor lamination of first and second semiconductor layers having different conductive types is formed; a portion of the semiconductor lamination is removed to expose an area of a surface of the first semiconductor layer; a conductor layer connecting the first and second semiconductor layers is formed; a first electrode is formed on the exposed areas of the first semiconductor layer and a second electrode is formed on an upper surface of the second semiconductor layer; a barrier layer covering at least one of the first and second electrodes is formed; and a connection part in the conductor layer connecting the first and second semiconductor layers is removed.
US09837573B2
The method comprises the steps of providing a semiconductor device comprising a semiconductor layer (1) with at least one radiation sensor (6) and a dielectric layer (2), arranging a web (3) comprising a plurality of recesses (4) on the dielectric layer, and introducing ink of different colors (A, B, C) in the recesses by inkjets (I).
US09837566B2
A photodiode includes a semiconductor substrate, a crystalline layer on the semiconductor substrate, an insulating pattern layer on the crystalline layer to define a plurality of holes exposing a top surface of the crystalline layer, a seed layer in the plurality of holes and directly on the crystalline layer, and a light absorption layer on the seed layer and the insulating pattern layer.
US09837562B2
There is provided a capacitive coupled electodeless plasma apparatus for processing a silicon substrate. The apparatus includes at least one inductive antenna driven by time-varying power sources for providing at least one electrostatic field; and a chamber for locating the silicon substrate. There is also provided a method for processing a silicon substrate using capacitively coupled electrodeless plasma.
US09837558B2
A concentrator photovoltaic module 1M includes a vessel-shaped housing 11 composed of a metal and a flexible printed wiring board 12 provided so as to be in contact with an inner surface of the housing 11. The flexible printed wiring board 12 includes an insulating layer 124, an insulating substrate 121a, a pattern 121b, a plurality of power generation elements 122, and an insulting layer 126. The insulating layer 124 is in contact with a bottom surface 11a of the housing 11. The insulating substrate 121a is provided on the insulating layer 124 and has flexibility. The pattern 121b is composed of a conductor and is provided on the insulating substrate 121a. The plurality of power generation elements 122 are mounted on the pattern 121b. The insulating layer 126 is provided so as to cover an entire surface of the pattern 121b except for portions where the power generation elements 122 are mounted.
US09837550B2
A thin film transistor substrate includes a gate electrode disposed on a substrate; a semiconductor layer disposed on the substrate that partially overlaps the gate electrode and includes an oxide semiconductor material; and a source electrode and a drain electrode disposed on the semiconductor layer, where the drain electrode is spaced apart from the source electrode. The source electrode and the drain electrode each include a barrier layer and a main wiring layer, the a main wiring layer is disposed on the barrier layer, and the barrier layer includes a first metal layer disposed on the semiconductor layer, and a second metal layer disposed on the first metal layer.
US09837549B2
According to one embodiment, an oxide semiconductor includes indium, gallium, and silicon. A concentration of the silicon in the oxide semiconductor is not less than 7 atomic percent and not more than 11 atomic percent.
US09837545B2
A transistor using an oxide semiconductor, which has good on-state characteristics is provided. A high-performance semiconductor device including the transistor capable of high-speed response and high-speed operation is provided. The transistor includes the oxide semiconductor film including a channel formation region and low-resistance regions in which a metal element and a dopant are included. The channel formation region is positioned between the low-resistance regions in the channel length direction. In a manufacturing method of the transistor, the metal element is added by heat treatment performed in the state where the oxide semiconductor film is in contact with a film including the metal element and the dopant is added through the film including the metal element by an implantation method so that the low resistance regions in which a metal element and a dopant are included are formed.
US09837543B2
The invention provides an oxide semiconductor target including an oxide sintered body including zinc, tin, oxygen, and aluminum in a content ratio of from 0.005% by mass to 0.2% by mass with respect to the total mass of the oxide sintered body, in which the content ratio of silicon to the total mass of the oxide sintered body is less than 0.03% by mass.
US09837541B1
A semiconductor device includes: a gate structure on a substrate; a first doped region adjacent to one side of the gate structure; a second doped region adjacent to another side of the gate structure; and fin-shaped structures on the substrate. Preferably, a number of the fin-shaped structures covered by the gate structure is different from a number of the fin-shaped structures overlapping the first doped region or the second doped region.
US09837539B1
A finFET device and a method of forming are provided. The method includes forming a first dielectric layer over a transistor. The method also includes forming a second dielectric layer over the first dielectric layer. The method also includes forming a first opening in the second dielectric layer to expose at least a portion of a gate electrode of the transistor. The method also includes forming a second opening in the first dielectric layer to expose at least a portion of a source/drain region of the transistor. The second opening is connected to the first opening, and the first opening is formed before the second opening. The method also includes forming an electrical connector in the first opening and the second opening.
US09837532B2
A laterally diffused metal oxide semiconductor device includes: a substrate (10); a buried layer region (32) in the substrate; a well region (34) on the buried layer region (32); a gate region on the well region; a source region (41) and a drain region (43) which are located at two sides of the gate region; and a super junction structure. The source region (41) is located in the well region (34); the drain region (34) is located in the super junction structure; the gate region comprises a gate oxide layer and a gate electrode on the gate oxide layer; and the super junction structure comprises a plurality of N-columns and P-columns, wherein the N-columns and the P-columns are alternately arranged in a direction which is horizontal and is perpendicular to the direction of a connecting line between the source region and the drain region, each N-column comprises a top-layer N-region (23) and a bottom-layer N-region which are butted vertically, and each P-column comprises a top-layer P-region (24) and a bottom-layer P-region which are butted vertically.
US09837515B2
A performance of a semiconductor device is improved. A semiconductor device includes two element portions and an interposition portion interposed between the two element portions. The interposition portion includes a p-type body region formed in a part of a semiconductor layer, the part being located between two trenches, and two p-type floating regions formed in two respective parts of the semiconductor layer, the two respective portions being located on both sides of the p-type body region via the two respective trenches. A lower end of the p-type floating region is arranged on a lower side with reference to a lower end of the p-type body region.
US09837511B2
A method for fabricating semiconductor device includes the steps of: providing a substrate having at least a fin-shaped structure thereon and the fin-shaped structure includes a top portion and a bottom portion; forming a gate structure on the fin-shaped structure; forming a cap layer on the top portion of the fin-shaped structure not covered by the gate structure; performing an annealing process to drive germanium from the cap layer to the top portion of the fin-shaped structure; removing the cap layer; and forming an epitaxial layer around the top portion of the fin-shaped structure.
US09837507B1
A field effect transistor includes a channel layer made of a semiconductor and a metal gate structure. The metal gate structure includes a gate dielectric layer, a barrier layer formed on the gate dielectric layer, a work function adjustment layer formed on the barrier layer and made of one of Al and TiAl, a blocking layer formed on the work function adjustment layer and made of TiN, and a body metal layer formed on the blocking layer and made of W. A gate length over the channel layer is in a range from 5 nm to 15 nm, and a thickness of the first conductive layer is in a range of 0.2 nm to 3.0 nm. A range between a largest thickness and a smallest thickness of the first conductive layer is more than 0% and less than 10% of an average thickness of the first conductive layer.
US09837503B2
A semiconductor device includes a pillar-shaped semiconductor having an impurity concentration of 1017 cm−3 or less. A first insulator surrounds the pillar-shaped semiconductor and a first metal surrounds a portion of the first insulator at a first end of the pillar-shaped semiconductor. A second metal surrounds a portion of the first insulator at a second end of the pillar-shaped semiconductor, and a third metal surrounds a portion of the first insulator in a region between the first and second metals. The first metal and the second metal are electrically insulated from the third metal. Source/drain regions are defined in the pillar-shaped semiconductor due to a work function difference between the pillar-shaped semiconductor and the first and second metals.
US09837500B2
Provided is a semiconductor device. In some examples, the semiconductor device includes an fin active region protruding from a substrate, gate patterns disposed on the fin active region, a source/drain region disposed on the fin active region between the gate patterns, and contact patterns disposed on the source/drain region. The source/drain region may have a protruding middle section, which may form a wave-shaped upper surface of the source/drain region.
US09837494B2
A method for producing a Group III nitride semiconductor comprising forming mesas on a main surface of a substrate, and growing Group III nitride semiconductor in a c-axis direction thereof, wherein the plane most parallel to the side surfaces of the mesas or the dents among the low-index planes of growing Group III nitride semiconductor is a m-plane (1-100), and when a projected vector obtained by orthogonally projecting a normal vector of the processed side surface to the main surface is defined as a lateral vector, an angle between the lateral vector and a projected vector obtained by orthogonally projecting a normal vector of the m-plane of the growing Group III nitride semiconductor to the main surface is 0.5° or more and 6° or less.
US09837492B2
In a vertical MOSFET in which bottom portions of each gate electrode formed in a ditch are extended toward the drain region, the on resistance is reduced while preventing voltage resistance reduction and switching speed reduction caused by a capacitance increase between the gate and drain. A vertical MOSFET includes first ditches, second ditches, and gate electrodes. The first ditches are formed in an upper surface portion of an epitaxial layer formed over a semiconductor substrate and extend in a second direction extending along a main surface of the semiconductor substrate. The second ditches are formed in bottom surface portions of each of the first ditches and are arranged in the second direction. The gate electrodes are formed in the first ditches and second ditches. The gate electrodes formed in the first ditches include lower electrodes arranged in the second direction.
US09837484B2
A semiconductor device comprises a first conductive layer. A second conductive layer is formed over the first conductive layer. A semiconductor component is disposed over the first conductive layer. The second conductive layer lies in a plane between a top surface of the semiconductor component and a bottom surface of the semiconductor component. A third conductive layer is formed over the semiconductor component opposite the first conductive layer. The semiconductor device includes a symmetrical structure. A first insulating layer is formed between the first conductive layer and semiconductor component. A second insulating layer is formed between the semiconductor component and third conductive layer. A height of the first insulating layer between the first conductive layer and semiconductor component is between 90% and 110% of a height of the second insulating layer between the semiconductor component and third conductive layer. The semiconductor component includes a passive device.
US09837479B2
Embodiments of the invention disclose an array substrate and a fabrication method thereof, and a display device. The array substrate comprises a plurality of pixel units disposed on a base substrate, and the pixel unit comprises a thin-film transistor structure region and a display region other than the thin-film transistor structure region. A thin-film transistor structure is formed in the thin-film transistor structure region, an organic light-emitting diode is formed in the display region, and the thin-film transistor structure is configured to drive the organic light-emitting diode. A light-shielding layer is formed above the thin-film transistor structure in the thin-film transistor structure region, and the light-shielding layer is configured to block a blue light from entering the thin-film transistor structure.
US09837469B1
An example system includes a processing circuit coupled to a memory system and an interface coupled between the processing circuit and a device. The memory system includes a resistive memory array comprising multiple memory structures. Each memory structure comprises a resistive memory cell and is associated with a P-I-N diode. The processing circuit is to access the resistive memory array responsive to a signal received from the device via the interface.
US09837464B2
BSI image sensors and methods. In an embodiment, a substrate is provided having a sensor array and a periphery region and having a front side and a back side surface; a bottom anti-reflective coating (BARC) is formed over the back side to a first thickness, over the sensor array region and the periphery region; forming a first dielectric layer over the BARC; a metal shield is formed; selectively removing the metal shield from over the sensor array region; selectively removing the first dielectric layer from over the sensor array region, wherein a portion of the first thickness of the BARC is also removed and a remainder of the first thickness of the BARC remains during the process of selectively removing the first dielectric layer; forming a second dielectric layer over the remainder of the BARC and over the metal shield; and forming a passivation layer over the second dielectric layer.
US09837451B2
An EL display having high operating performance and reliability is provided. LDD regions 15a through 15d of a switching TFT 201 formed in a pixel are formed such that they do not overlap gate electrodes 19a and 19b to provide a structure which is primarily intended for the reduction of an off-current. An LDD region 22 of a current control TFT 202 is formed such that it partially overlaps a gate electrode 35 to provide a structure which is primarily intended for the prevention of hot carrier injection and the reduction of an off-current. Appropriate TFT structures are thus provided depending on required functions to improve operational performance and reliability.
US09837447B2
A thin film transistor array panel according to an exemplary embodiment of the invention includes: an insulating substrate; a gate line disposed on the insulating substrate and including a gate pad portion; a data line insulated from and crossing the gate line, and including a source electrode and a data pad portion; a drain electrode facing the source electrode; an organic insulating layer disposed on the data line and the drain electrode, and including a first contact hole; a common electrode disposed on the organic insulating layer, and including a second contact hole; a passivation layer disposed on the common electrode, and including a third contact hole; and a pixel electrode disposed on the passivation layer, and being in contact with the drain electrode, in which the third contact hole is disposed to be adjacent to one surface of the first contact hole for improvement of an aperture ratio and a stable electrode connection.
US09837444B2
A display device is described that has reduced resistance in one or more of the gate, common, data electrical lines that control the operation of the pixels of the display device. Reduced resistance is achieved by forming additional metal and/or metal-alloy layers on the gate, common, and/or data lines in such a manner so that the cross-sectional area of those lines is increased. As a consequence, each such line is formed so as to be thicker than could otherwise be achieving without causing defects in the rubbing process of an alignment layer. Additionally, no widening of these lines is needed, thus preserving the aspect ratio of the device. The gate insulating and semiconducting layers that in part make up the thin film transistors that help control the operation of the pixels of the device may also be designed to take into account the increased thickness of the lines.
US09837442B2
An object is to improve reliability of a semiconductor device. A semiconductor device including a driver circuit portion and a display portion (also referred to as a pixel portion) over the same substrate is provided. The driver circuit portion and the display portion include thin film transistors in which a semiconductor layer includes an oxide semiconductor; a first wiring; and a second wiring. The thin film transistors each include a source electrode layer and a drain electrode layer. In the thin film transistor in the driver circuit portion, the semiconductor layer is sandwiched between a gate electrode layer and a conductive layer. The first wiring and the second wiring are electrically connected to each other in an opening provided in a gate insulating film through an oxide conductive layer.
US09837438B2
A GaN transistor with polysilicon layers for creating additional components for an integrated circuit and a method for manufacturing the same. The GaN device includes an EPI structure and an insulating material disposed over EPI structure. Furthermore, one or more polysilicon layers are disposed in the insulating material with the polysilicon layers having one or more n-type regions and p-type regions. The device further includes metal interconnects disposed on the insulating material and vias disposed in the insulating material layer that connect source and drain metals to the n-type and p-type regions of the polysilicon layer.
US09837430B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes a substrate; a stacked body provided on the substrate, the stacked body including a plurality of electrode layers, a plurality of insulating layers, the plurality of insulating layers having a side surface, a plurality of first conductive films provided between the plurality of electrode layers and the plurality of insulating layers, the plurality of first conductive films having a side surface, and a blocking insulating film, the blocking insulating film including a first portion and a second portion; and a semiconductor film. The first distance between the semiconductor film and the side surface of the plurality of first conductive films is shorter than a second distance between the semiconductor film and the second portion.
US09837429B2
A three-dimensional (3D) semiconductor memory device that includes a peripheral logic structure including peripheral logic circuits disposed on a semiconductor substrate and a first insulation layer overlapping the peripheral logic circuits, and a plurality of memory blocks spaced apart from each other on the peripheral logic structure. At least one of the memory blocks includes a well plate electrode, a semiconductor layer in contact with a first surface of the well plate electrode, a stack structure including a plurality of electrodes vertically stacked on the semiconductor layer, and a plurality of vertical structures penetrating the stack structure and connected to the semiconductor layer.
US09837427B2
Deterioration in reliability is prevented regarding a semiconductor device. The deterioration is caused when an insulating film for formation of a sidewall is embedded between gate electrodes at the time of forming sidewalls having two kinds of different widths on a substrate. A sidewall-shaped silicon oxide film is formed over each sidewall of a gate electrode of a low breakdown voltage MISFET and a pattern including a control gate electrode and a memory gate electrode. Then, a silicon oxide film beside the gate electrode is removed, and a silicon oxide film is formed on a semiconductor substrate, and then etchback is performed. Accordingly, a sidewall, formed of a silicon nitride film and the silicon oxide film, is formed beside the gate electrode, and a sidewall, formed of the silicon nitride film and the silicon oxide films, is formed beside the pattern.
US09837425B2
A semiconductor device with split gate flash memory cell structure includes a substrate having a first area and a second area, at least a first cell formed in the first area and at least a second cell formed in the second area. The first cell includes a first dielectric layer formed on the substrate, a floating gate (FG), a word line and an erase gate (EG) formed on the first dielectric layer, an interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer, an inter-gate dielectric layer and a control gate (CG). The FG is positioned between the word line and the EG, and the ILD layer is formed on the word line and the EG, wherein the ILD layer has a trench exposing the FG. The inter-gate dielectric layer is formed in the trench as a liner, and the CG formed in the trench is surrounded by the inter-gate dielectric layer.
US09837422B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes: etching a semiconductor substrate and forming a plurality of bodies separated from one another by a plurality of trenches; forming a protective layer with open parts to expose both sidewalls of each of the bodies; forming buried bit lines in the bodies by silicidizing exposed portions of the bodies through the open parts; and forming a dielectric layer to gap-fill the trenches and define air gaps between adjacent buried bit lines.
US09837410B1
Semiconductor devices are fabricated with vertical field effect transistor (FET) devices having uniform structural profiles. Semiconductor fabrication methods for vertical FET devices implement a process flow to fabricate dummy fins within isolation regions to enable the formation of vertical FET devices with uniform structural profiles within device regions. Sacrificial semiconductor fins are formed in the isolation regions concurrently with semiconductor fins in the device regions, to minimize/eliminate micro-loading effects from an etch process used for fin patterning and, thereby, form uniform profile semiconductor fins. The sacrificial semiconductor fins within the isolation regions also serve to minimize/eliminate non-uniform topography and micro-loading effects when planarizing and recessing conductive gate layers and, thereby form conductive gate structures for vertical FET devices with uniform gate lengths in the device regions. The sacrificial semiconductor fins are subsequently removed and replaced with insulating material to form the dummy fins.
US09837409B2
A method for integrating a vertical transistor and a three-dimensional channel transistor includes forming narrow fins and wide fins in a substrate; forming a first source/drain (S/D) region at a base of the narrow fin and forming a gate dielectric layer and a gate conductor layer over the narrow fin and the wide fin. The gate conductor layer and the gate dielectric layer are patterned to form a vertical gate structure and a three-dimensional (3D) gate structure. Gate spacers are formed over sidewalls of the gate structures. A planarizing layer is deposited over the vertical gate structure and the 3D gate structure. A top portion of the narrow fin is exposed. S/D regions are formed on opposite sides of the 3D gate structure to form a 3D transistor, and a second S/D region is formed on the top portion of the narrow fin to form a vertical transistor.
US09837404B2
At least one method, apparatus and system are disclosed for forming a fin field effect transistor (finFET) having an oxide level in a fin array region within a predetermined height of the oxide level of a field region. A first oxide process is performed for controlling a first oxide recess level in a field region adjacent to a fin array region comprising a plurality of fins in a finFET device. The first oxide process comprises depositing an oxide layer over the field region and the fin array region and performing an oxide recess process to bring the oxide layer to the first oxide recess level in the field region. A second oxide process is performed for controlling a second oxide recess level in the fin array region. The second oxide process comprises isolating the fin array region, depositing oxide material, and performing an oxide recess process to bring the oxide level in the fin array region to the second oxide recess level. The first oxide recess level is within a predetermined height differential of the second oxide recess level.
US09837401B2
Semiconductor devices, transistors, and methods of manufacture thereof are disclosed. In one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a gate dielectric disposed over a workpiece, a gate disposed over the gate dielectric, and a spacer disposed over sidewalls of the gate and the gate dielectric. A source region is disposed proximate the spacer on a first side of the gate, and a drain region is disposed proximate the spacer on a second side of the gate. A metal layer is disposed over the source region and the drain region. The metal layer extends beneath the spacers by about 25% or greater than a width of the spacers.
US09837392B2
An LED lighting apparatus includes an LED substrate, a LED chip, a sealing resin member, and a reflecting face. The LED substrate has a main surface. The LED chip is mounted on the main surface of the LED substrate. The sealing resin member is made of a material that transmits light from the LED chip. The sealing resin member covers the LED chip. The sealing resin member has a shape bulging in the direction in which the main surface faces. The reflecting face surrounds the sealing resin member.
US09837388B2
A display device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include a lower substrate disposed with a line electrode at an upper portion thereof, a plurality of semiconductor light emitting devices electrically connected to the line electrode to generate light, a wavelength converter disposed on the semiconductor light emitting device to convert a wavelength of light generated from the semiconductor light emitting device, and a conductive adhesive layer comprising conductors configured to electrically connect the lower substrate to the semiconductor light emitting device and a body configured to surround the conductors, wherein the semiconductor light emitting device has a composition formula of InxAlyGa1-x-yN (0≦x≦1, 0≦y≦1, 0≦x+y≦1).
US09837385B1
A package includes a chip, a wire, a mold layer and a redistribution layer. The chip includes a conductive pad. The wire is bonded to the conductive pad of the chip. The mold layer surrounds the first chip and the wire. The redistribution layer is disposed on the mold layer and contacts an exposed portion of the wire.
US09837380B2
A semiconductor device includes a device carrier, a first semiconductor chip mounted on the device carrier and a second semiconductor chip mounted on the device carrier. Further, the semiconductor device includes a first contact clip bonded to a first electrode of the first semiconductor chip, a second contact clip bonded to a first electrode of the second semiconductor chip and an insulating connector configured to hold the first contact clip and the second contact clip together.
US09837379B2
A package includes a first molding material, a lower-level device die in the first molding material, a dielectric layer over the lower-level device die and the first molding material, and a plurality of redistribution lines extending into the first dielectric layer to electrically couple to the lower-level device die. The package further includes an upper-level device die over the dielectric layer, and a second molding material molding the upper-level device die therein. A bottom surface of a portion of the second molding material contacts a top surface of the first molding material.
US09837378B2
A three-dimensional (3D) integrated circuit (IC) package is disclosed that contains a plurality of encapsulated layers stacked upon each other without the use of a substrate(s). Each of the encapsulated layers contains an encapsulating material, a die, an interconnecting interface, and vertical vias. The encapsulating material forms the surfaces of an encapsulated layer and encapsulates the die. The interconnecting interface provides an interface at a surface of the encapsulated layer for the die to electrically connect to other dies or external components. The vertical vias provide a conduction path between interconnecting interfaces of different encapsulated layers.
US09837377B2
A semiconductor device includes a composite chip mounted over the a wiring substrate, the composite chip including a first area and a second area that is provided independently from the first area, the first area including a first circuit formed in the first area, and the second area including a second circuit formed in the second area.
US09837376B2
A semiconductor device structure and a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of this disclosure provide a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device that comprises ordering and performing processing steps in a manner that prevents warpage deformation from occurring to a wafer and/or die due to mismatching thermal coefficients.
US09837375B2
A semiconductor device has a semiconductor wafer including a plurality of semiconductor die and a plurality of contact pads formed over a first surface of the semiconductor wafer. A trench is formed partially through the first surface of the semiconductor wafer. An insulating material is disposed over the first surface of the semiconductor wafer and into the trench. A conductive layer is formed over the contact pads. The conductive layer can be printed to extend over the insulating material in the trench between adjacent contact pads. A portion of the semiconductor wafer opposite the first surface of the semiconductor wafer is removed to the insulating material in the trench. An insulating layer is formed over a second surface of the semiconductor wafer and side surfaces of the semiconductor wafer. The semiconductor wafer is singulated through the insulating material in the first trench to separate the semiconductor die.
US09837356B1
Interconnect structures are provided that include an intermetallic compound as either a cap or liner material. The intermetallic compound is a thermal reaction product of a metal or metal alloy of an interconnect metallic region with a metal of either a metal cap or a metal layer. In some embodiments, the metal cap may include a metal nitride and thus a nitride-containing intermetallic compound can be formed. The formation of the intermetallic compound can improve the electromigration resistance of the interconnect structures and widen the process window for fabricating interconnect structures.
US09837353B2
A semiconductor structure is disclosed that includes a semiconductor structure includes an active area, a first conductive line, a conductive via, a first conductive metal segment coupled to the conductive line through the conductive via, a second conductive metal segment disposed over the active area, and a local conductive segment configured to couple the first conductive metal segment and the second conductive metal segment.
US09837348B2
A device includes a dielectric layer, a passive device including a portion in the dielectric layer, and a plurality of voids in the dielectric layer and encircling the passive device.
US09837334B2
Cooling devices for SOI wafers and methods for forming the devices are presented. A substrate having a top surface layer, a support substrate and an insulator layer isolating the top surface layer from the support substrate is provided. At least one device is disposed in the top surface layer of the substrate. The IC includes a cooling device. The cooling device includes a doped layer which is disposed in a top surface of the support substrate, and a RDL layer disposed within the support substrate below the doped layer for providing connections to hotspots in the doped layer to facilitate thermoelectric conduction of heat in the hotspots away from the hotspots.
US09837332B2
A heat spreading lid including a lid body and a wing portion having a thermal interface material disposed on the wing portion such that the wing portion flexibly moves with the thermal interface material independently from the lid body.
US09837329B2
The present application relates to a cured product and the use thereof. When the cured product, for example, is applied to a semiconductor device such as an LED or the like, the decrease in brightness may be minimized even upon the long-term use of the device, and since the cured product has excellent cracking resistance, the device having high long-term reliability may be provided. The cured product has excellent processability, workability, and adhesive properties or the like, and does not cause whitening and surface stickiness, etc. Further, the cured product exhibits excellent heat resistance at high temperature, gas barrier properties, etc. The cured product may be, for example, applied as an encapsulant or an adhesive material of a semiconductor device.
US09837323B2
The present disclosure provides a method for forming a semiconductor structure. The method includes providing a semiconductor substrate; forming a first active region, a second active region, a third active region, and a fourth active region in the semiconductor substrate; and forming a middle-voltage P well region (MVPW) in each of the first active region and the second region simultaneously and forming a middle-voltage N well (MVNW) region in each of the third active region and the fourth active region simultaneously.
US09837320B2
First and second transistors with different electrical characteristics are supported by a substrate having a first-type dopant. The first transistor includes a well region within the substrate having the first-type dopant, a first body region within the well region having a second-type dopant and a first source region within the first body region and laterally offset from the well region by a first channel. The second transistor includes a second body region within the semiconductor substrate layer having the second-type dopant and a second source region within the second body region and laterally offset from material of the substrate by a second channel having a length greater than the length of the first channel. A gate region extends over portions of the first and second body regions for the first and second channels, respectively.
US09837319B2
An asymmetric high-k dielectric for reduced gate induced drain leakage in high-k MOSFETs and methods of manufacture are disclosed. The method includes performing an implant process on a high-k dielectric sidewall of a gate structure. The method further includes performing an oxygen annealing process to grow an oxide region on a drain side of the gate structure, while inhibiting oxide growth on a source side of the gate structure adjacent to a source region.
US09837306B2
An interconnection structure includes a first dielectric layer, a bottom conductive feature present in the first dielectric layer, a second dielectric layer present on the first dielectric layer, an aluminum-containing etch stop layer present between the first dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer, an upper conductive via present at least in the second dielectric layer and electrically connected to the bottom conductive feature, and at least one aluminum-containing fragment present at least at a bottom corner of the upper conductive via.
US09837301B2
A method for producing hybrid substrates which can be incorporated into a semiconductor production line involves: forming an ion-injection region (3) by injecting ions from the surface of a silicon substrate (1); adhering the ion-injection surface of the silicon substrate and the surface of a sapphire substrate (4) to one another directly or with an insulating film (2) interposed therebetween; and then obtaining a hybrid substrate (8) having a silicon thin-film (semiconductor layer; 6) on the sapphire substrate (4), by detaching the silicon substrate (1) in the ion-injection region (3). This method is characterized in that the adhering to the silicon substrate (1) occurs after the sapphire substrate (4) is heat-treated in advance in a reducing atmosphere.
US09837300B2
A semiconductor substrate and a base substrate are prepared; an oxide film is formed over the semiconductor substrate; the semiconductor substrate is irradiated with accelerated ions through the oxide film to form a separation layer at a predetermined depth from a surface of the semiconductor substrate; a nitrogen-containing layer is formed over the oxide film after the ion irradiation; the semiconductor substrate and the base substrate are disposed opposite to each other to bond a surface of the nitrogen-containing layer and a surface of the base substrate to each other; and the semiconductor substrate is heated to cause separation along the separation layer, thereby forming a single crystal semiconductor layer over the base substrate with the oxide film and the nitrogen-containing layer interposed therebetween.
US09837293B2
Embodiments of mechanisms for charging a gas into a cassette pod are provided. A method for charging a gas into a cassette pod includes loading at least one semiconductor wafer into a housing of the cassette pod after the at least one semiconductor wafer is processed by a processing apparatus. The method also includes removing the cassette pod from the processing apparatus by a transporting apparatus to a predetermined destination. The method further includes charging a gas into an enclosure in the housing of the cassette pod from a gas supply assembly disposed on the housing.
US09837284B2
A method of etching exposed silicon oxide on patterned heterogeneous structures is described and includes a gas phase etch using plasma effluents formed in a remote plasma. The remote plasma excites a fluorine-containing precursor in combination with an oxygen-containing precursor. Plasma effluents within the remote plasma are flowed into a substrate processing region where the plasma effluents combine with water vapor or an alcohol. The combination react with the patterned heterogeneous structures to remove an exposed silicon oxide portion faster than an exposed silicon nitride portion. The inclusion of the oxygen-containing precursor may suppress the silicon nitride etch rate and result in unprecedented silicon oxide etch selectivity.
US09837282B1
A semiconductor structure includes a semiconductor substrate with a first region and a second region defined thereon. The first region is disposed adjoining the second region in a first direction. The semiconductor substrate includes fin structures, first recessed fins, and a bump. The fin structures are disposed in the first region. Each fin structure is elongated in the first direction. The first recessed fins are disposed in the second region. Each first recessed fin is elongated in the first direction. A topmost surface of each first recessed fin is lower than a topmost surface of each fin structure. The bump is disposed in the second region and disposed between two adjacent recessed fins in the first direction. A topmost surface of the bump is higher than the topmost surface of each first recessed fin and lower than the topmost surface of each fin structure.
US09837278B2
A semiconductor structure includes a die including a top surface and a sidewall, and a molding surrounding the die and including a top surface, a sidewall interfacing with the sidewall of the die, and a curved surface including a curvature greater than zero and coupling the sidewall of the molding with the top surface of the molding.
US09837275B2
This invention involves a fabrication method of fast recovery diode, which includes following steps: growing a sacrificial oxide layer on a surface of an N− substrate; forming a P type doped field-limiting ring region on the substrate; forming a P type doped anode region on the substrate; removing the sacrificial oxide layer; annealing the substrate to form a PN junction; implanting oxygen into the surface of the substrate by ion implantation; annealing the substrate to form a silicon dioxide layer on the surface of the substrate; removing the silicon dioxide layer; forming an anode electrode and a cathode electrode of the fast recovery diode. The method eliminates the curved parts near the silicon surface of the profile of PN junction, decreases electric field intensity at the surface of the substrate, therefore increases the breakdown voltage and reliability of the fast recovery diode.
US09837273B2
A method of forming fine patterns of semiconductor devices is disclosed. The method comprises forming a hard mask layer on an etch target, which includes first and second regions. The hard mask layer may further have first and second preliminary mask patterns formed on the same. Furthermore, a spacer layer may be formed on the first and second preliminary mask patterns. The spacer layer and the first and second preliminary mask patterns may be partially removed to form first and second spacers on sidewalls of the first and second preliminary mask patterns, respectively. The second spacer in the second region may have a top surface higher than a top surface of the first spacer in the first region. The height differences between the spacers allow forming of first and second patterns in the first and second regions, and thereby forming fine patterns of semiconductor devices.
US09837263B2
A process for depositing a silicon carbon nitride film on a substrate can include a plurality of complete deposition cycles, each complete deposition cycle having a SiN sub-cycle and a SiCN sub-cycle. The SiN sub-cycle can include alternately and sequentially contacting the substrate with a silicon precursor and a SiN sub-cycle nitrogen precursor. The SiCN sub-cycle can include alternately and sequentially contacting the substrate with carbon-containing precursor and a SiCN sub-cycle nitrogen precursor. The SiN sub-cycle and the SiCN sub-cycle can include atomic layer deposition (ALD). The process for depositing the silicon carbon nitride film can include a plasma treatment. The plasma treatment can follow a completed plurality of complete deposition cycles.
US09837255B2
Applications of ion-ion reaction chemistry are disclosed in which proton transfer reactions (PTR) are used to (1) simplify complex mixture analysis of samples introduced into a mass spectrometer, and (2) improve resolution and sensitivity for the analysis of large proteins in excess of 50 kDa by removing charge and reducing the collisional cross section.
US09837253B2
The invention is directed at sputter targets including 50 atomic % or more molybdenum, a second metal element of titanium, and a third metal element of chromium or tantalum, and deposited films prepared by the sputter targets. In a preferred aspect of the invention, the sputter target includes a phase that is rich in molybdenum, a phase that is rich in titanium, and a phase that is rich in the third metal element.
US09837245B2
Disclosed herein is a micro stage using a piezoelectric element that can be reliably operated even in a vacuum environment. In a particle column requiring a high precision, for example, a microelectronic column, the micro stage can be used as a stage with micro or nano degree precision for alignment of parts of the column, or for moving a sample, and so on.
US09837243B2
An ion pump and a charged particle beam device each includes two opposite flat-plate cathodes, an anode with a cylindrical shape having openings that face the respective flat-plate cathodes, a voltage application unit configured to apply a potential higher than potentials of the flat-plate cathodes to the anode, a magnetic field application unit configured to apply a magnetic field along an axial direction of the cylindrical shape of the anode, and a cathode bar arranged within the anode. The surface of the cathode bar is formed with a material that forms a non-evaporative getter alloy film on the anode or the flat-plate cathodes.
US09837238B2
A photocathode designs that leverage the grazing incidence geometry yield improvements through the introduction of recessed structures, such as cones, pyramids, pillars or cavities to the photocathode substrate surface. Improvements in yield of up to 20 times have been shown to occur in grazing incidence geometry disclosed herein due to a larger path length of the X-ray photons which better matches the secondary electron escape depth within the photocathode material. A photocathode includes a substrate having a first side and a second side, the first side configured to receive x-ray energy and the second side opposing the first side. A structured surface is associated with the second side of the substrate such that the structured surface includes a plurality of recesses from the second side of the substrate into the substrate.
US09837233B2
A rotating dual break point contact includes a rotor support, a first shaft, a second shaft, a third shaft, a first connection rod, a second connection rod, a contact bridge and a contact spring. The contact bridge is provided in the rotor support, and the contact bridge rotates relative to the rotor support by means of the first shaft, the second shaft, the third shaft, the first connection rod and the second connection rod. The contact bridge rotates between an initial pressure position and a maximum repulsion position. A single contact spring is mounted on one side of the contact bridge and is located in the rotor support.
US09837225B2
An electrical snap on switch includes a pair of associated contact elements, the contact elements include a fixed contact element and a movable contact element arranged facing the fixed contact element and that may come into contact with the fixed contact element for establishing a first conductive path. The snap on switch may also include a snap-action switching device that includes a tilting driving member pivotally mounted around a horizontal axis between an upper position and a lower position. The movable contact element is a movable portion of an elastically deformable conductive blade. The driving member includes a cam, which cooperates with a cam follower portion of the blade to deform or relax the blade, to cause the movable contact to come into contact, or out of contact, with the fixed contact element, therefore to realize switching.
US09837224B2
A load or a generator is connected to an energy line, e.g. a ring feeder of an energy distribution network by using a switching system. For this purpose, the switching system has a thyristor circuit, which is connected in parallel to a disconnect switch and connects the transformer of the switching system to an energy line. Thereby an efficient disconnect switch can be realized, which can be dimensioned depending on the power of the load or generator.
US09837223B2
A touch panel includes: a body connected to wiring drawn out to the outside of the touch panel; a sheet member to which decoration printing is added; an adhesive that pastes the sheet member on the body and is the same size as the sheet member; and a non-adhesion film formed between the adhesive and the wiring.
US09837221B2
A key switch includes a baseplate, a circuit layer, a keycap and a support rod. The baseplate has a hook and a first through hole neighboring to the hook. The circuit layer includes a first sublayer disposed above the baseplate and having a second through hole, and a second sublayer disposed above the first sublayer and having a third through hole; a portion of the second sublayer extends over the second through hole and forms a first resilient portion; the first resilient portion has four sides, two of which connect to the second sublayer; and the first resilient portion is neighboring to the hook. The keycap is disposed above the baseplate and can move upward and downward in respect to the baseplate. The support rod has a first portion and a second portion; the first portion movably connects to the keycap and the second portion engages the hook.
US09837215B2
A multilayer ceramic capacitor may include a ceramic body including a plurality of dielectric layers; a first internal electrode disposed in the ceramic body and exposed to a first side surface in a width direction of the ceramic body and a second internal electrode disposed in the ceramic body and exposed to the first side surface in the width direction of the ceramic body; and first to third external electrodes disposed on the first side surface in the width direction of the ceramic body.
US09837213B2
In an embodiment of a ceramic electronic component, an external electrode 12 of a capacitor 10 has one first planar part SEa of roughly rectangular profile positioned on a surface that specifies the length dimension of the ceramic chip 11, as well as four second planar parts SEb of roughly rectangular profile positioned on both surfaces that specify the height dimension, and both surfaces that specify the width dimension, of the ceramic chip 11 and also continuing to the first planar part SEa. The second planar part SEb is constituted by a baked metal film 12a formed on the exterior surface of the ceramic chip 11 and a plated metal film 12b formed on the exterior surface of the baked metal film 12a via an adhesive force mitigation film 12c.
US09837211B2
A thin film capacitor comprises a base material, a dielectric layer provided on the base material, and an upper electrode layer provided on the dielectric layer. The dielectric layer includes a plurality of columnar crystals that extend along a normal direction with respect to a surface of the upper electrode layer. The columnar crystal has a perovskite crystal structure represented by AyBO3. An element A is at least one of Ba, Ca, Sr, and Pb, and an element B is at least one of Ti, Zr, Sn, and Hf. Further, y≦0.995 is satisfied, and the dielectric layer contains 0.05 to 2.5 mol of Mg per 100 mol of AyBO3.
US09837210B2
A laminated ceramic capacitor having internal electrodes configured such that Sn is dissolved in Ni, and, in a region of each of the internal electrodes at a depth of 2 nm from a surface thereof facing a ceramic dielectric layer, a CV value representing variation of a Sn/(Ni+Sn) ratio (ratio of number of atoms) is less than or equal to 32%. As a conductive paste for forming the internal electrodes, a conductive paste containing a Ni powder and a tin oxide powder which is represented by SnO or SnO2 and has a specific surface area of more than or equal to 10 m2/g as determined by a BET method is used, or a conductive paste containing a Ni—Sn alloy powder is used, or a conductive paste containing a Ni—Sn alloy powder and a tin oxide powder which is represented by SnO or SnO2 and has a specific surface area of more than or equal to 10 m2/g is used.
US09837205B2
An electromagnetic connector is disclosed that is configured to form a first magnetic circuit portion comprising a first core member and a first coil disposed of the first core member. The electromagnetic connector is configured to mate with a second electromagnetic connector, where the second electromagnetic connector is configured to form a second magnetic circuit portion comprising a second core member and a second coil disposed of the second core member. The first core member and the second core member are configured to couple the first coil to the second coil with a magnetic circuit formed from the first magnetic circuit portion and the second magnetic circuit portion when the electromagnetic connector is mated with the second electromagnetic connector. The magnetic circuit is configured to induce a signal in the first coil when the second coil is energized.
US09837197B2
A linear actuator (20, 20′, 20″) comprises a plunger receptacle (22); a coil (24); a magnetic plunger (26); a magnetic base (28); a return spring (30); and a lock spring (32, 32′). The coil (24) is wound about at least a portion of an exterior surface of the plunger receptacle (22). The magnetic plunger (26) is at least partially disposed within a cavity at least partially formed by an interior surface of the plunger receptacle (22) for linear motion along a plunger axis (34). The magnetic base (28) is radially disposed relative to the plunger (26). The return spring (30) is disposed to bias the plunger (26) to a plunger extended position. The lock spring (32, 32′) is configured and oriented to lock the plunger (26) in the plunger extended position when power is not applied to the coil (24) but to be attracted to the magnetic base (28) and thereby permit movement of the plunger (26) to a plunger retracted position when the power is applied to the coil (24).
US09837172B2
A pointer needle for an indication device of a motor vehicle has a transparent optical waveguide that receives light propagating along a direction of propagation at a light-entry side, and emits the light in an emission direction at a light-exit side. The optical waveguide has a scattering side opposite to the light-exit side, the scattering side having steps arranged offset to one another across the propagation direction. When the steps are irradiated by light, the pointer needle provided in the indication device can clearly be perceived in the dark.
US09837163B2
One embodiment includes obtaining programming order information for the memory area from a first table based on address information. The programming order information indicates an order in which the memory area was programmed. The embodiment further includes determining an estimated elapsed time by accessing a second table based on the obtained programming order information. The estimated elapsed time indicating time that has elapsed since the portion of the memory area was last programmed. The embodiment includes controlling the memory based on the estimated elapsed time.
US09837159B2
Provided herein is a semiconductor memory device including a memory cell array including a drain select transistor and a plurality of memory cells, a voltage generator configured to apply a program voltage, first and second pass voltages, and a drain control voltage to the memory cell array, a control logic configured to control the voltage generator so that during a program operation, after the program voltage is applied to a selected one of the plurality of memory cells, the program voltage applied to the selected memory cell is discharged while the first pass voltage or the second pass voltage is applied to memory cells adjacent to the selected memory cell.
US09837158B2
A nonvolatile memory device includes a memory cell, and a switching unit. The memory cell includes a cell transistor having a floating gate and a coupling capacitor connected to the floating gate. The switching unit is coupled between the coupling capacitor and a bias terminal, and switches on or off based on the comparison result between a cell current flowing through the memory cell with a reference current during a program operation for programming the memory cell.
US09837153B1
Technology is described for selecting a group of reversible-resistance memory cells in which to store data based on information regarding switching the reversible-resistance memory cells from a first resistance state in which the reversible-resistance memory cells are in immediately after fabrication to a second resistance state for the first time after fabrication. Information regarding switching the reversible-resistance memory cells from the first resistance state to the second resistance state for the first time after fabrication may provide insight into factors including, but not limited to, endurance and data retention. In one aspect, a control circuit is configured to select a group of reversible-resistance memory cells in which to store data based on both the difficulty in switching from the first resistance state to the second resistance state for the first time after fabrication and a temperature of the data to be stored in the memory system.
US09837150B2
A nonvolatile memory device includes a nonvolatile memory cell and a variable resistive load portion. The variable resistive load portion is coupled between a bit line of the nonvolatile memory cell and a supply voltage line. The variable resistive load portion is suitable for changing a resistance value between the bit line and the supply voltage line according to a level of a supply voltage applied to the supply voltage line.
US09837138B1
A semiconductor device may be provided. The semiconductor device may include an input signal generator configured to enable an input signal although a reset signal is disabled after a clock enable signal is enabled. The semiconductor device may include a self-refresh enable signal generator configured to generate a self-refresh enable signal based on the input signal.
US09837136B2
A memory module, including a plurality of memory cells and a plurality of signal lines for communicating with a processing device. The memory module is configured such that following reception of a command and upon encountering a first condition while processing the command, the memory module limits a voltage on a first signal line of the plurality of signal lines to be no more than an intermediate voltage greater than voltage levels corresponding to a binary zero state and less than voltage levels corresponding to a binary one state for a period of time for indicating an occurrence of the first condition.
US09837135B2
A method for addressing memory device data arranged in rows and columns indexed by a first number of row address bits and a second number of column address bits, and addressed by a row command specifying a third number of row address bits followed by a column command specifying a fourth number of column address bits, the first number being greater than the third number or the second number being greater than the fourth number, includes: splitting the first number of row address bits into first and second subsets, and specifying the first subset in the row command and the second subset in a next address command when the first number is greater than the third number; otherwise splitting the second number of column address bits into third and fourth subsets, and specifying the fourth subset in the column command and the third subset in a previous address command.
US09837130B2
In accordance with some embodiments of the present disclosure, a circuit structure is provided. The circuit structure comprises a first transistor, a second transistor, a storage node and a word-line. Each of the two transistors comprises a gate, a source and a drain. The storage node is connected to the gate of the first transistor. The word-line is connected to the gate of the second transistor. The first and second transistors are serially connected. The first and second threshold voltages are respectively associated with the first and second transistors, and the first threshold voltage is lower than the second threshold voltage.
US09837129B2
Multiple integrated circuits (ICs) die, from different wafers, can be picked-and-placed, front-side planarized using a vacuum applied to a planarizing disk, and attached to each other or a substrate. The streets between the IC die can be filled, and certain techniques or fixtures allow application of monolithic semiconductor wafer processing for interconnecting different die. High density I/O connections between different IC die can be obtained using structures and techniques for aligning vias to I/O structures, and programmably routing IC I/O lines to appropriate vias. Existing IC die can be retrofitted for such interconnection to other IC die, such as by using similar techniques or tools.
US09837113B2
A stationary portion of a spindle motor includes a stator portion and an outside surface. The stator portion includes a stator core and coils. The outside surface extends in an axial direction parallel or substantially parallel to a central axis, and is centered on the central axis. The spindle motor includes a fixing portion at which an inside surface of the stator core and the outside surface are fixed to each other. The fixing portion includes a first press fit portion, a second press fit portion, and a gap arranged therein. The gap is located between the first press fit portion and the second press fit portion. The second press fit portion is located above the first press fit portion. At least a portion of the second press fit portion is located above a middle of the stator core in the axial direction.
US09837105B2
A magnetoresistive element according to an embodiment includes: a first magnetic layer, a second magnetic layer, and an intermediate layer disposed between the first magnetic layer and the second magnetic layer, the intermediate layer including: a first layer containing oxygen and at least one element of Cu, Au, and Ag; and a second layer containing Mg and oxygen, the second layer being disposed between the first layer and the second magnetic layer.
US09837089B2
A device for signal processing includes a receiver and a high-band excitation signal generator. The receiver is configured to receive a parameter associated with a bandwidth-extended audio stream. The high-band excitation signal generator is configured to determine a value of the parameter. The high-band excitation signal generator is also configured to select, based on the value of the parameter, one of target gain information associated with the bandwidth-extended audio stream or filter information associated with the bandwidth-extended audio stream. The high-band excitation signal generator is further configured to generate a high-band excitation signal based on the one of the target gain information or the filter information.
US09837084B2
A speech-synthesizing device includes a hierarchical prosodic module, a prosody-analyzing device, and a prosody-synthesizing unit. The hierarchical prosodic module generates at least a first hierarchical prosodic model. The prosody-analyzing device receives a low-level linguistic feature, a high-level linguistic feature and a first prosodic feature, and generates at least a prosodic tag based on the low-level linguistic feature, the high-level linguistic feature, the first prosodic feature and the first hierarchical prosodic model. The prosody-synthesizing unit synthesizes a second prosodic feature based on the hierarchical prosodic module, the low-level linguistic feature and the prosodic tag.
US09837083B1
A voice controlled assistant has a housing to hold one or more microphones, one or more speakers, and various computing components. The housing has an elongated cylindrical body extending along a center axis between a base end and a top end. The microphone(s) are mounted in the top end and the speaker(s) are mounted proximal to the base end. The microphone(s) and speaker(s) are coaxially aligned along the center axis. The speaker(s) are oriented to output sound directionally toward the base end and opposite to the microphone(s) in the top end. The sound may then be redirected in a radial outward direction from the center axis at the base end so that the sound is output symmetric to, and equidistance from, the microphone(s).
US09837082B2
An interactive server and a controlling method thereof are provided. The method of controlling an interactive server includes receiving data corresponding to a user voice from a user terminal, determining an utterance type of the user voice, in response to determining that the utterance type of the user voice is an integrated utterance type, generating a search response and a chatting response in response to the user voice and generating an integrated response by combining the generated search response and the generated chatting response, and transmitting the generated integrated response to the user terminal.
US09837064B1
A communication device includes a loudspeaker to transmit sound into a room. A signal having a white noise-like frequency spectrum spanning a frequency range of human hearing is generated. Auditory thresholds of human hearing for frequencies spanning the frequency range are stored. Respective levels of background noise in the room at the frequencies are determined. The white noise-like frequency spectrum is spectrally shaped to produce a shaped frequency spectrum having, for each frequency, a respective level that follows either the auditory threshold or the level of background noise at that frequency, whichever is greater. The shaped frequency spectrum is transmitted from the loudspeaker into the room.
US09837054B1
HEADPIECE TUNER is integrated into the nut arrangement of a traditional headless musical instrument featuring lever-based individual string clamps, a removable nut, a truss rod adjustment feature and multi-function cross bar handle. A Magnetic Tuner comprising at least one of two magnetic elements secured to a tremolo, in fulcrum tremolos, moveable therewith about the tremolo pivot axis, in a mechanism operable to provide a first force of tension comprising the traditional tremolo coil spring biasing element and/or, in the case of coil spring integrated tremolo stabilizers, provide a second force of tension to enforce the tremolo at the equilibrium point or initial position.
US09837052B2
A display device is mounted on and/or inside the eye. The eye mounted display contains multiple sub-displays, each of which projects light to different retinal positions within a portion of the retina corresponding to the sub-display. The projected light propagates through the pupil but does not fill the entire pupil. In this way, multiple sub-displays can project their light onto the relevant portion of the retina. Moving from the pupil to the cornea, the projection of the pupil onto the cornea will be referred to as the corneal aperture. The projected light propagates through less than the full corneal aperture. The sub-displays use spatial multiplexing at the corneal surface. Various electronic devices interface to the eye mounted display.
US09837049B2
A visible light communication system includes: an illumination device which emits visible light including identification information; an information presentation apparatus which presents information to a person in a range illuminated by the visible light; an information terminal which receives visible light identification information; and an information recording medium which holds pairing information associating the identification information identifying the illumination device with connection information required for connection via wireless communication with the information presentation apparatus. When the information terminal is illuminated by the visible light, the information terminal refers to the pairing information held in the information recording medium to identify the connection information associated with the identification information included in the visible light, and establishes connection with the information presentation apparatus based on the identified connection information.
US09837045B2
A display device includes a display panel; and a display panel driver driving the display panel. The display panel driver includes: a processing circuit configured to perform digital arithmetic processing on R, G and B grayscale values of input image data to calculate R, G and B grayscale values of output image data, respectively, and a control point data generation circuit configured to: generate first control point data indicating the shape of a desired gamma curve; calculate Re, G and B control point data indicating input-output curves of digital arithmetic processing performed on the R, G and B grayscale values of the input image data by correcting the first control point data in response to the input image data. The processing circuit is configured to calculate the R, G and B grayscale values of the output image data in response to the R, G and B control point data.
US09837043B1
A mobile device has a display, one or more processors, and first memory storing instructions for execution by the one or more processors. The mobile device is configured to dock in a headset to form a head-mounted display. A near-field-communication (NFC) channel is established with a tag in the headset, the tag including second memory that stores one or more configuration parameters for the headset. The one or more configuration parameters are received from the tag via the NFC channel. Using the one or more configuration parameters for the headset, the mobile device renders virtual-reality images and displays the rendered virtual-reality images.
US09837036B2
A gate driving circuit including: a plurality of stages outputting signals to gate lines, the stages includes a first transistor of which one end and a control terminal are connected, one end and the control terminal are connected with a first input terminal, and the other end is connected to a second node, a second transistor including a control terminal connected to a first node, connected with a clock input terminal, and the other end connected to a first output terminal, a first capacitor of which one end is connected to the first node, the other end is connected to the other end of the second transistor and the first output terminal, and a third transistor of which one end is connected to the other end of the first transistor, the other end is connected with the first node, and a control terminal is connected to a third node.
US09837035B2
A liquid crystal display including a display panel having data link lines, data lines, scan lines, and pixels connected to the data lines and the scan lines, a source drive integrated circuit configured to supply data voltages to the data lines via the data link lines, and a scan driver configured to provide scan signals to the scan lines. A p-th (p is a positive integer) data link line is connected to a (p+1)-th data line, and a (p+1)-th data link line is connected to a p-th data line.
US09837031B2
An apparatus and method for driving an LCD device is disclosed to obtain rapid response speed and to enhance picture quality, in which the apparatus includes a liquid crystal panel that includes liquid crystal cells formed in areas defined by gate and data lines; a gate driver that supplies a scan pulse to the gate lines; a timing controller that modulates source data supplied from the external to modulated data for a rapid response speed of liquid crystal cell, and generates discrimination signals by comparing source data of a current frame with uppermost and lowermost gray scales of source data based on whether source data of a current frame is the same as source data of a previous frame or not; and a data driver that converts the modulated data into a video signal by using a plurality of gamma voltages including a first modulation voltage that is higher than an maximum gamma voltage or a second modulation voltage that is lower than a minimum gamma voltage, and supplies the video signal to the data lines.
US09837028B2
A liquid crystal display panel and a liquid crystal display comprising the same are disclosed. The liquid crystal display panel comprise: a plurality of pixels configured in an array, which is formed by a plurality of data lines and a plurality of scan lines that are arranged perpendicularly with respect to the plurality of data lines. The plurality of scan lines comprise: at least two scan lines arranged in correspondence with each line of pixels, the at least two scan lines being alternately connected to each successive pixel located in a corresponding line, wherein each line of pixels is scanned in a plurality of individual time periods. During each time period, when pixel drive signals are input into pixels connected to one of the at least two scan lines via corresponding data lines, the sum of the variation of the pixel drive signals and the variation of input signals of data lines corresponding to pixels connected to the rest of the at least two scan lines equals 0, so that a common electrode voltage will not deviate from a pre-determined voltage. As a result, the phenomenon of deviation generated due to couplings of the common-electrode voltage to data lines can be largely relieved, thus eliminating the phenomenon of horizontal crosstalk caused thereby in the prior art.
US09837025B2
An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display and method of driving the same are disclosed. In one aspect, the OLED display includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels and a data driver configured to apply a data signal to the display panel in one of two-dimensional (2D) and stereoscopic display modes. The display also includes a controller configured to convert an image signal to 2D image data for the pixels at each of N×k sub-fields in the 2D display mode and convert the image signal to stereoscopic image data for the pixels at each of N sub-fields in the stereoscopic display mode, where N and k are integers greater than 1. The display further includes a frame memory configured to store the 2D image data in the 2D display mode and the stereoscopic image data in the stereoscopic display mode.
US09837023B2
In a pixel circuit, TFTs are connected and driven such that a threshold voltage Vth of a TFT, which is a drive transistor, can be held in a threshold holding capacitor having a capacitance value c1, voltages, including a data potential Vdata representing an image to be displayed, can be held in a data holding capacitor having a capacitance value c2, and charges in the data holding capacitor and the threshold holding capacitor are redistributed at the time of light emission. As a result, a potential obtained by multiplying the data potential Vdata by c1/(c1+c2) is provided to a gate potential of the TFT.
US09837020B2
Embodiments of systems and methods for power control in an Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) display device are described. In an embodiment, a method includes monitoring a level of current draw from an Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) display device. The method may also include comparing the level of current draw to a threshold value. Additionally, a method may include throttling system power consumption in response to the level of current draw exceeding the threshold value.
US09837019B2
A pixel circuit, an organic electroluminescent display panel and a display device, in a reset and compensation phase, a charge control module of the pixel circuit makes a data signal end and the first input end of a reset control module switch on, and the reset control module resets the control end and a output end of a drive module and compensates reference voltage; in a data writing phase, the charge control module writes the data signal inputted by the data signal end to the first input end of the reset control module; in a light-emitting phase, a light-emitting control module makes the output end of the drive module and the input end of the light emitting device switch on and drives the light emitting device to emit light by integrating the data signal inputted into the drive module with the reference voltage signal compensated into the drive module, which realizes the effect that the drive current driving the light emitting device to emit light is irrelevant to the power supply voltage signal, eliminates the influence on luminous brightness of the light emitting device caused by IR drop of the power supply voltage signal inputted into the pixel circuits, and further guaranteeing the display effect of the display panel.
US09837013B2
Aspects of the present invention are related to systems and methods for compressing display non-uniformity correction data and for using compressed display non-uniformity correction data. A correction image may be compressed by fitting a data model to the correction image data and encoding the model parameter values. A correction image may be decomposed into two images: an image containing the vertically and horizontally aligned structures of the correction image and a smoothly varying image. The smoothly varying image may be compressed by fitting a data model to the smoothly varying image data. Multiple correction images may be compressed by determining eigenvectors which describe the distribution of the multiple correction images. Projection coefficients may be determined by projecting each correction image the determined eigenvectors, and an eigen-image associated with an eigenvector may be compressed. Correction data for a display may be reconstructed from parameter values stored on a display system. A plurality of correction images may be reconstructed from encoded eigen-images stored on a display system.
US09837010B2
A display apparatus is disclosed. The display apparatus may include a mode determining unit, which determines an operation mode of the display apparatus between a first mode and a second mode; a display unit, which includes n scan lines including first through nth scan lines; data lines; and pixels, wherein a pixel is associated with a respective scan line and a respective data line; a gate driver to output scan signals to the scan lines; and a source driver to output data signals to the data lines in synchronization with the scan signals, wherein the gate driver substantially simultaneously outputs the scan signals to an ith scan line and a (k+i)th scan line among the scan lines in the first mode, and k is a positive integer, n is equal to 2k, and i is a positive integer smaller than or equal to k.
US09837007B2
Disclosed is an in-cell touch liquid crystal display (LCD) apparatus comprising: an active area in which a plurality of pixels are provided; and a pad area in which an auto probe test pattern is disposed, wherein the auto probe test pattern comprises a common voltage enable signal line; a common voltage switching unit; a data enable signal line through which a data enable signal is applied; and a data switching unit that is coupled to the data enable signal line and configured to be turned on by the data enable signal and output a data voltage. The common voltage enable signal line and the data enable signal line are disposed separately from each other.
US09837005B2
A detection circuit and a detection method for liquid crystal display are provided. The detection circuit comprises a gate driver for providing row scan signal to liquid crystal cell to be detected; a signal source for providing polarity inversion signal to source driver; a source driver for performing digital-analog conversion on received display data signal according to preset reference voltage and polarity inversion signal, generating pixel voltage signal, and sending pixel voltage signal to liquid crystal cell to be detected. The polarity inversion signal comprises column polarity inversion signals each of which polarity inversion signal is continuous high level signal or continuous low level signal. The polarity inversion mode is a column inversion, which makes white dot of damaged area of alignment film is more prominent during detection process, so it would be easy for the operator to recognize it and avoid the issue of missing detection.
US09837004B2
An apparatus for warning a slippery surface is provided that includes a light emitting device, a mounting unit and a light-refracting liquid or powder to be added to a cleaning solution or other fluid causing a slippery surface. The apparatus is used for the purpose of alerting people in the vicinity of a potential safety hazard of the existence of such safety hazard. The light emitted from the light emitting device is directed toward the slippery surface imbued with light-refracting liquid or powder for the purpose of showing persons the existence of a slippery surface or hazardous condition.
US09837000B2
A sign apparatus of the present disclosure includes a light source operable to emit light, a front panel having a front portion and a side portion, and a rear panel attached to the front panel and having a back portion, a side portion and a rim portion. The rear panel and the front panel define a cavity where the light source is housed. The side portion of the front panel extends between the cavity and the side portion of the rear panel, and the rim portion of the rear panel is configured to follow a contour of the front panel, extend beyond a periphery of the front panel, and have opaque properties.
US09836999B2
A backlighting system for a cabinet sign may include a plurality of panels. Each panel includes a plurality of light emitting diodes (“LEDs”) attached to the panel. The diode has a box sign depth factor of less than about 1.4. An integrated circuit may also be located on the panel. A wire physically connects adjacent panels.
US09836988B2
A remotely actuated emergency medical services training apparatus designed to simulate a moving ambulance. The apparatus is comprised of a mock up of the rear of an ambulance positioned on a set of suspension parts controlled by a computer. A lower base and an upper base are connected via a set of air springs, shock absorbers, and sway braces. The upper base is connected to the mock up of the ambulance. Air springs which move the upper base relative to the lower base are controlled by a set of programmed instructions resident on the computer or manually by a joystick controller connected to the computer. Each component of the apparatus is sized to be easily transported through typically dimensioned doorways and hallways such that assembly and disassembly within the confines of a typical classroom is possible.
US09836986B2
Methods, systems, and devices for dynamic response entry are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a dynamic response entry system can include a user device that can be a proctor device or a testee device. The testee device can display a list to a testee for a predetermined time period. After the passing of the predetermined time period, the displaying of the list to the testee can be terminated. The testee can provide response to one or several questions, which responses can be input into the proctor device. The input responses can be evaluated and categorized and displayed according to the evaluation and categorization.
US09836984B2
Embodiments provide techniques for dynamically creating a story for playback using a plurality of storytelling devices. Embodiments identify a plurality of storytelling devices available to participate in a storytelling experience. User input associated with the storytelling experience is received. Embodiments further include retrieving a story template based at least in part on the identified plurality of storytelling devices. Additionally, embodiments dynamically create a first story by mapping actions from the retrieved story template to storytelling devices in the plurality of storytelling devices, based at least in part on the received user input, such that the plurality of storytelling devices will perform a respective one or more actions during playback of the first story based on the mapped actions from the retrieved story template.
US09836980B2
Systems, methods, and computer readable media to improve the operation of graphics systems are described. In general, collision avoidance techniques are disclosed that operate even when the agent lacks a priori knowledge of its environment and is, further, agnostic as to whether the environment is two-dimensional (2D) or three-dimensional (3D), whether the obstacles are convex or concave, or whether the obstacles are moving or stationary. More particularly, techniques disclosed herein use simple geometry to identify which edges of which obstacles an agent is most likely to collide. With this known, the direction of an avoidance force is also known. The magnitude of the force may be fixed, based on the agent's maximum acceleration, and modulated by weighting agents.
US09836975B2
An apparatus and method for implementing an exception to a parking restriction, the exception being a parking area defined by one or more coordinates, includes monitoring an area including the parking area; detecting a vehicle in the monitored area; determining whether the detected vehicle is positioned within the parking area; and determining whether the vehicle has permission to park in the parking area. The parking area is not marked on the road.
US09836974B2
An operation management center divides an operation area in which an on-demand bus operates into a plurality of predetermined sub-areas, and searches for candidate routes on which the on-demand bus travels for each divided sub-area. The center sets one of the retrieved routes as a basic route, and sets, as adjustment time for each divided sub-area, time required when the bus passes through a location separated from the basic route. Thus, by setting such adjustment time for each sub-area, and by using the adjustment time set for each sub-area, the center can determine an operation plan that takes into account an additional request while reducing an impact on the determined operation plan.
US09836971B2
Systems for heads-up display of transit industry vehicle information is provided. Information originating from various transit agency systems and arriving at transit industry vehicles may be selectively displayed on a heads-up display. Control and configuration of the information displayed on a heads-up display may be determined by a transit agency and may relate to data displayed on on-board mobile data terminals.
US09836963B1
A mobile device configured to receive telematics data from another vehicle when the mobile device is traveling in a moving vehicle and take corrective action when a travel event exists may be provided. The mobile device may receive telematics data associated with an originating vehicle, analyze the telematics data, and determine or identify that a travel event associated with the originating vehicle exists and, when the travel event is determined to exist, determine whether the travel event is relevant to the moving vehicle or a route that the moving vehicle is presently traveling, and if so, direct corrective action such that safer vehicle travel for the moving vehicle is facilitated based upon the telematics data that is collected by the originating vehicle. An insurance provider may collect an insured's usage of the vehicle safety functionality to calculate, update, and/or adjust insurance premiums, rates, discounts, points, or programs.
US09836959B1
A pedestrian safety system for a restaurant having a drive-through lane for an automobile, a pickup window, and a pedestrian door. The system includes lane sensors proximate the pickup window that generate lane data indicate of the proximity and motion of an automobile. A controller is in data communication with the lane sensors and programmed to determine proximity and motion status data regarding an automobile in the drive through lane. A pedestrian visual alert member is positioned proximate the pedestrian door of the restaurant and includes Stop, Go, and Caution indicator lamps. An appropriate lamp is energized by the controller depending if the lane sensors detect an automobile moving downstream in the drive-through lane, stopped at the pick-up window, or the lane is clear. The system may also include pedestrian sensors inside the restaurant and a lane visual alert member having indicator lamps to indicate a status of pedestrian traffic.
US09836956B2
A trainable transceiver for controlling a device includes an antenna configured to receive power from a power source, at least one orientation sensor, and a control circuit coupled to the antenna and the at least one orientation sensor. The control circuit is configured to determine an orientation of the antenna based on data from the at least one orientation sensor. The control circuit is further is configured to control the amount of power received by the antenna based on the determined orientation of the antenna. The trainable transceiver is configured to be capable of controlling the device based on at least one signal characteristic stored in memory and determined based on a signal received from an original transmitter.
US09836953B2
Hazard detector for providing a pre-alarm of a developing hazardous condition can include a detection module that detects a hazard level of smoke or carbon monoxide, a light source that generates light, a speaker that generates an audible sound, a horn that generates an audible alarm that a higher volume than the speaker, and a processing module. The processing module can receive the detected hazard level and compare it with the pre-alarm threshold and the emergency threshold. The processing module can determine that the hazard level is greater than the pre-alarm threshold and less than the emergency threshold and cause an audible pre-alarm speech to be generated via the speaker that warns of the developing hazardous condition.
US09836946B2
This application generally relates to systems and methods for authenticating a bulk quantity of a consumable product with a corresponding product. More specifically, the invention associates a bulk quantity of the consumable product with a product parameter such as a consumption rate of the consumable product within the corresponding product; provides and authorizes a key and/or reader with the bulk quantity and consumption rate data to a specific corresponding product wherein the bulk quantity and consumption rate data are correlated to a maximum consumption quantity value; monitoring consumption of the consumable product within the corresponding product until the maximum consumption quantity value is reached; and providing an event output to the corresponding product when the maximum consumption quantity value is realized.
US09836942B2
A person support apparatus supports a person in a laying-down or a seated position. One or more body-mounted sensors detect changes in the position of the person relative to a reference. A control system receives output from the body-mounted sensor or sensors through a remote coupling. The control system uses patient position information obtained from the body-mounted sensors to determine whether the person has experienced a change-in-position and/or a change-in-activity event. Alternatively or in addition, the position of the person situated on a person support apparatus is detected using one or more sensors that are not body-mounted, but rather are coupled to the person support apparatus or to another component of a patient support system. The patient position information is used to estimate the patient's torso angle. The estimated torso angle is used to assess the patient's condition.
US09836936B1
An object tracking system including an RFID reader having at least one antenna positioned along an entranceway of an object storage facility. A processor communicates with RFID reader and runs software to perform the steps of: (i) monitoring the phase angle of a target RFID tag; and (iii) returning an indicator of whether the target RFID tag is or is not moving based at least in part on whether the phase angle has changed.
US09836935B2
The present invention discloses a point of sale (POS) structure that is includes an Electronic Article Surveillance (EAS) system.
US09836931B1
A method may include obtaining sensor data from sensors of a primary device, determining a sensor pattern based on the sensor data, generating a response based on the sensor pattern, and sending a signal over a network to a secondary device to trigger an action of the secondary device. The signal may be based on the sensor pattern.
US09836930B2
A device for communicating a physical touch is disclosed. The device including: an array of pistons numbering greater than 25 per square inch, each piston having a contact surface; an actuator array to independently move each piston; and a controller to determine a depth position of each piston in the array of pistons, wherein each of the pistons comprises a cylinder and a pin disposed in the cylinder. The device may be used with a communication system including a high speed data transmission and sensory system to reproduce the sensation of touch by translating an actuation of the array pins. The actuation may be affected by a controlled continuous transfer of a fluid between pressure zones. Additional sensory effects including texture, softness, humidity, chemistry and temperature may be transmittable through the device.
US09836920B2
Systems and method for providing a gambling hybrid game having manual triggering of gambling events is disclosed. The systems and method involve providing a proposition of a gambling event to a user and receiving an input accepting the proposition from a user. The gambling event that is associated with the proposition is then resolved. The results of the gambling event are then determined and the wagers are resolved. The results of the gambling event are then used to change variables in a set of game variables that are applied in the game.
US09836914B2
A gaming system is disclosed which comprises a plurality of display positions disposed in a display area, a symbol selector arranged to select a plurality of symbols for display at respective display positions, and an outcome evaluator arranged to determine whether the selected symbols correspond to a winning outcome with reference to at least one of a plurality of defined win lines. Each of the defined win lines comprises at least one display position, and at least some of the win lines comprise differing numbers of display positions. A corresponding method of gaming is also disclosed.
US09836910B1
A line of intricate, home-based vending machines specially designed for housing and organizing a multitude of shoes and boots. Design intent of this product is to provide a more convenient, as well as accessible, means of storing, maintaining, and accessing footwear, particularly in residences where storage space is limited.
US09836903B2
A door lock mechanism is disclosed that includes door lock and alarm features. The mechanism includes a controller and a sensor useful to detect motions that are representative of attempted access through a door to which the door lock mechanism is attached. The controller can set an alarm condition if a measured motion, such as a measured acceleration, meet and/or exceeds a threshold. If an appropriate access control credential is provided through a user device then the alarm condition may not be set by the controller. The door lock mechanism can be coupled to a remote station via a communications link if needed, such as a radio frequency link. The remote station can additionally be in communication with the door lock mechanism via a network. The remote station can be used to send and receive messages regarding door lock mechanism status, configuration, etc.
US09836896B2
In accordance with one embodiment, an access control system is disclosed. The access control system comprises an access control panel including a touchable surface, a multi-dimensional touch sensor under the touchable surface, and a processor coupled to the multi-dimensional touch sensor. The multi-dimensional touch sensor captures a multi-dimensional motion signal including a micro-motion signal component representing neuro-mechanical micro-motions of a user touching the multi-dimensional touch sensor. The processor performs signal processing of the multi-dimensional motion signal to obtain the micro-motion signal component; and extracts unique values of predetermined features from the micro-motion signal component to form a neuro-fingerprint (NFP) that uniquely identifies the user. The NFP can be used as a gatekeeper to control entry into homes, offices, buildings, or other real properly typically protected by access control.
US09836893B2
Herein described is at least a system, method, and/or non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for computing locomotive health based on input parameters such as locomotive defect data and locomotive inspection data. Examples of locomotive health attributes for which values may be computed include an overall health attribute, a power level health attribute, a defect severity health attribute, a trail only health attribute, and a health reason attribute. Furthermore, various events may be defined that may trigger computation of the locomotive health attribute values.
US09836891B2
A shape data generation method includes: generating a target shape of transformation from plural tomographic images of an object; specifying, from among plural vertices of a first shape that is a reference shape of the object, plural first vertices, each first vertex of which satisfies a condition that a normal line of the first vertex passes through a point that is located on the target shape and is located on a boundary of the object in any one of the plural tomographic images; identifying, for each of the plural first vertices, a second vertex that internally divides a segment between the first vertex and the point; transforming the first shape so as to put each of the plural first vertices on a corresponding second vertex; setting a shape after the transforming to the first shape; and executing the first specifying and the subsequent processings a predetermined number of times.
US09836890B2
Systems and methods for image based location estimation are described. In one example embodiment, a first positioning system is used to generate a first position estimate. A set of structure façade data describing one or more structure façades associated with the first position estimate is then accessed. A first image of an environment is captured, and a portion of the image is matched to part of the structure façade data. A second position is then estimated based on a comparison of the structure façade data with the portion of the image matched to the structure façade data.
US09836886B2
There is provided a client terminal including a determination unit configured to determine whether an overhead view image is associated with a position indicated by a user, and a display control unit configured to perform control so that the overhead view image is displayed on a display unit in accordance with a determination result obtained by the determination unit.
US09836870B2
A perspective-correct communication window system and method for communicating between participants in an online meeting, where the participants are not in the same physical locations. Embodiments of the system and method provide an in-person communications experience by changing virtual viewpoint for the participants when they are viewing the online meeting. The participant sees a different perspective displayed on a monitor based on the location of the participant's eyes. Embodiments of the system and method include a capture and creation component that is used to capture visual data about each participant and create a realistic geometric proxy from the data. A scene geometry component is used to create a virtual scene geometry that mimics the arrangement of an in-person meeting. A virtual viewpoint component displays the changing virtual viewpoint to the viewer and can add perceived depth using motion parallax.
US09836858B2
A method for generating a combined projection image from a medical inspection object, includes steps of capturing a set of initial projection images; reconstructing a first and a second three-dimensional volume from the set of initial projection images; generating a first re-projection image from the first three-dimensional volume and a second re-projection image from the second three-dimensional volume; weighting the first re-projection image and the second re-projection image; and combining the weighted first re-projection image and second re-projection image for generating the combined projection image.
US09836845B2
Methods and apparatus for determining location of objects surrounding a user of a 3D rendering and display system and indicating the objects to the user while the user views a simulated environment, e.g., on a headmounted display, are described. A sensor, e.g. camera, captures images or senses the physical environment where the user of the system is located. One or more objects in the physical environment are identified, e.g., by recognizing predetermined symbols on the objects and based on stored information indicating a mapping between different symbols and objects. The location of the objects relative to the user's location in the physical environment is determined. A simulated environment, including content corresponding to a scene and visual representations of the one or more objects, is displayed. In some embodiments visual representation are displayed in the simulated environment at locations determined based on the location of the objects relative to the user.
US09836839B2
Embodiments disclosed herein are directed to systems and methods for determining a presence and an amount of an analyte in a biological sample. The systems and methods for determining the presence of an analyte utilize a plurality of images of a sample slide including multiple fields-of-view having multiple focal planes therein. The systems and methods utilize algorithms configured to color and grayscale intensity balance the plurality of images and based thereon determine if the plurality of images contain the analyte therein.
US09836834B2
A method is provided for calculating a region of interest in a second image using an initial region of interest in a first image. The first and second images are linked by a spatial transformation function. The method includes steps of (i) generating a first polygonal mesh enclosing the initial region of interest in the first image; (ii) computing a second polygonal mesh in the second image by applying the spatial transformation function to the first polygonal mesh, and (iii) identifying image elements within the second image, that belong to the area enclosed by the second polygonal mesh. Also provided are a computer program and a system.
US09836828B2
Near-to-eye displays within head mounted devices offer both users with and without visual impairments enhanced visual experiences either by improving or augmenting their visual perception. Unless the user directly views the display without intermediate optical elements then the designer must consider chromatic as well as other aberrations. Within the prior art the optical train is either complex through additional corrective elements adding to weight, cost, and size or through image processing. However, real time applications with mobile users require low latency to avoid physical side effects. Accordingly, it would be beneficial to provide near-to-eye displays mitigating these distortions and chromatic aberrations through pre-distortion based electronic processing techniques in conjunction with design optimization of the optical train with low weight, low volume, low complexity, and low cost. Further, it would be beneficial to exploit consumer grade low cost graphics processing units rather than application specific circuits.
US09836824B2
A system includes obtaining de-noised reconstructed image data and edge improving a sub-set of the de-noised reconstructed image data corresponding to edges of structure represented in the de-noise reconstructed image data. A system (100) includes an edge detector (202) that detects an edge map of edge locations within de-noised reconstructed image data, a noise image data generator (204) that generates noise image data by subtracting the reconstructed image data by the de-noised reconstructed image data, a noisy edge image data generator (206) that generates noisy edge image data by multiplying the noise image data and the edge map, and an edge improver (208) that generates edge improved de-noised image data by adding the noisy edge image data and a product of a weight and the de-noised reconstructed image data.
US09836821B2
An image quality enhancing apparatus which make a learning-type image quality enhancing method utilizing a sparse expression practical are provided. The apparatus calculates, from the feature quantity of an image, coefficients of low-image-quality base vectors expressing a feature quantity with a linear sum and generates the image with the image quality enhanced by calculating a linear sum of high-image-quality base vectors using the calculated coefficient. When calculating the coefficient, the number of base vectors with non-zero coefficients is determined, the determined number of base vectors is selected, and a solution of a coefficient matrix is calculated by assuming the coefficients of the base vectors other than the selected base vectors are zero. The amount of processes necessary for obtaining a sparse solution of a coefficient matrix can be reduced by adjusting the number of base vectors with non-zero coefficients, and a practical image quality enhancing apparatus can be realized.
US09836820B2
A method upsamples an image using a non-linear fully connected neural network to produce only global details of an upsampled image and interpolates the image to produce a smooth upsampled image. The method concatenates the global details and the smooth upsampled image into a tensor and applies a sequence of nonlinear convolutions to the tensor using a convolutional neural network to produce the upsampled image.
US09836814B2
A display control apparatus includes a receiver that receives a recognition result of a change in environment around a vehicle, and a controller that controls an image generation apparatus to generate an image corresponding to a presentation image to be displayed on the display medium. The controller generates and outputs a control signal to the image generation apparatus to control the image generation apparatus based on the recognition result so as to deform the presentation image radially on the display medium such that the deformed presentation image moves toward at least one of sides of the display medium and disappears sequentially to the outside of the display medium across edges of the display medium.
US09836807B2
A phase estimation method estimates the phase of signal components using a point spread function. The method obtains a point spread function that expresses complex frequencies at a non integer location in terms of integral frequencies, for a complex frequency of a signal at a non integer location in a complex frequency domain. It obtains complex frequencies of the signal for the integral frequencies, and computes a sum of products of the complex frequencies of the signal at the integral frequencies with the corresponding complex values of the point spread function to provide an estimate of phase of the signal at the non integer location.
US09836804B2
Ranking and displaying comparable properties entails receiving appraisal information comprising a subject property and appraiser-chosen comparable properties corresponding to the subject property. Property data corresponding to a geographical area is accessed, in support of determining model-chosen comparable properties based upon the appropriateness of each of the comparable properties as comparables for the subject property. A map image is displayed for the geographical area, along with indicators on the map image indicative of the subject property, at least one of the appraiser-chosen comparable properties, and at least one of the model-chosen comparable properties.
US09836803B2
A network system is provided. The network system includes: at least one component selected from an energy receiving unit receiving energy and an energy management unit managing the energy receiving unit. The energy receiving unit or the energy management unit receives energy rate related information; an energy usage amount or a usage rate of when the component is controlled on the basis of at least the energy rate related information is less than that of when the component is controlled without the basis of at least energy rate related information; if the energy rate related information is high cost information, a function of one component constituting the energy receiving unit is limited; and an operating time or an output of the energy receiving unit is adjusted in correspondence to the limited function of one component.
US09836800B2
In one embodiment, a system may include a processing device to incrementally unlock, for an account corresponding to a member of an electronic social networking system, member actions based on a score. One member action may be unlocked in response to the score reaching a first threshold, and another member action may be unlocked in response to the score reaching a second different threshold. A remote device that is associated with the account may be updated with one or more graphical user interfaces. Each graphical user interface may be to enable a corresponding one of the member actions of that are incrementally unlocked. Other embodiments may be disclosed or claimed.
US09836798B2
Particular embodiments of the present invention are directed to providing an application programming interface allowing developers to create a single version of a social networking application configured to execute on more than one social network, wherein such execution may be customized with respect to each particular social network in which the social networking application may execute. The same or alternative embodiments may also provide an application programming interface for saving and/or retrieving social networking application data in and/or from a common data store, allowing aggregation of data specific to the cross-network social networking application such that the data is available across multiple social networks.
US09836795B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for processing data in connection with insurance information submissions. The system may be configured to receive entity data relating to an entity for which insurance coverage is sought, and query an interface of a third-party platform based on the entity data. The system may then be configured to receive third-party platform interface data from the third-party platform, analyze the data to determine a web site address for a web page on the third-party platform relating to the entity, and retrieve third-party platform web site data from the web page on the third-party platform indicative of content related to the entity. The system may be configured to pre-fill insurance forms relating to the entity based on the third-party platform data.
US09836784B2
A method of delivering advertising in an online environment includes determining a context of a user operating a client computer to interact with an e-commerce website, where the determined context representing an intent of the user to locate a product for purchase, defining a relation between one or more of a plurality of advertisements and the product based on at least one of a plurality of relevance types, and displaying, to the user, at least one of the advertisements having the relation to the product.
US09836770B2
An application on a user device sends a request for promotional material to a server while the application is active on a user device. The application receives the promotional material from the server and stores the promotional material in a data store on the user device. A management client on the user device receives a user interaction with the promotional material and sends data representing the user interaction to the server independent of web-browser technology.
US09836767B2
Methods and systems to facilitate real time communications and commerce via answers presented to questions. One embodiment includes one or more web servers to receive from a second user an answer to a question of a first user, and to present the answer with a communication reference of a connection provider to a third user; a session border controller of the connection provider to interface with a packet switched network; and one or more telecommunication servers of the connection provider coupled with the session border controller to connect the third user to the second user for real time communications in response to a request made via the communication referenced. One embodiment includes: receiving from a second user an answer to a question of a first user; and presenting to a third user the answer with a reference for requesting fee-based content from or real time communications with the second user.
US09836766B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for personalizing landing pages. In one aspect, a method includes generating, by one or more servers belonging to a first domain and for a request, a personalized landing page that includes the personalized landing page data, wherein the landing page belongs to the first domain, and the landing page includes at least one link to a resource of the first party that belongs to the second domain; and providing, by the one or more servers, the personalized landing page to the user device, wherein the personalized landing page, when processed by the user device, generates a personalized landing page environment that belongs to the first domain.
US09836759B2
Rewards programs in which rewards are awarded for a series of transactions using a universal transaction associating identifier to associate transactions in common within each rewards program in a reward processing system. The system includes resource providers, a rewards program rule implementer having access to a rewards program database, and an implementer processor. The implementer processor receives transaction data whenever a transaction occurs using the universal transaction associating identifier, determines when a consumer has performed the transactions satisfying rules requirements, and identifies and awards a reward, including vouchers, for the consumer. The reward processing system generates a universal transaction associating identifier from a plurality of identification sources and provides for objects containing the universal transaction associating identifier. The reward processing system issues and redeems vouchers exchangeable for rewards. The system targets consumers and transmits messages adaptive to system elements, including rules requirements and the universal transaction associating identifier.
US09836758B2
A method for creating a control group for campaign measurements includes: storing a plurality of consumer profiles, each profile including data related to a consumer including an account identifier, spend behavior, and microsegment associated with the consumer; receiving a plurality of measurement profiles, each profile including data related to a consumer including a specific account identifier and indication of participation or non-participation in a campaign; associating each consumer profile with a measurement profile where the included account identifier corresponds to the specific account identifier of the measurement profile; identifying a campaign group, the campaign group including consumer profiles, each profile including a common microsegment and spend behavior and associated with a measurement profile indicating participation in the campaign; and identifying a control group, the control group including consumer profiles, each profile including the common microsegment and spend behavior and associated with a measurement profile indicating non-participation in the campaign.
US09836756B2
Various systems and methods for tracking and analyzing emotional engagement of people while shopping are described herein. A system for tracking and analyzing emotional engagement of people while shopping includes an image processing module to: access image data from an electronic data storage, the image data including a person in a retail environment; and detect the person in the image data; an emotion detection module to determine an emotion expressed by the person; an object detection module to determine an object with which the person is interacting; and a marketing module to: select a sales action based on the emotion and the object; and execute the sales action.
US09836753B2
A computing system for encouraging the performance of a task comprises association data, a proxy module, a display module, and a reward module. The association data associates tags with stimuli related to performing tasks. The proxy module is configured to receive encoded data, to identify tags in the encoded data that have associated stimuli in the association data, and to generate modified encoded data that includes data representative of at least one of the stimuli. The display module is configured to receive the modified encoded data, to display information based at least in part on the modified encoded data, and to provide at least one mechanism for a user to perform a task related to at least one of the stimuli. The reward module is configured to reward a user for performing tasks related to the stimuli.
US09836740B1
A method and apparatus for an RFID tag device that uses dynamic identifiers for transactions rather than a fixed identifier. An associated device communicates with the RFID tag device and obtains dynamic identifiers for transactions and provides the dynamic identifiers to the RFID tag device. The RFID tag device is protocol-agile and can be configured to operate using different protocols to complete transactions.
US09836738B2
A payment card transaction clearing system includes a payment card network. A file distribution system coupled to the payment card network includes a split processor configured to receive a batch of payment card transaction records from the payment card network, and split the batch of payment card transactions into one or more split files according to one or more processing agreements. A split monitor processor is configured to send the one or more split files to the payment card network.
US09836735B2
The invention relates to a method for performing authenticated bank card payment transaction, comprising registering a user (12) having a communication device (10) suitable for data communication through a communication channel (25) and comprising data storage (14) and data input interface (26). The method comprises the steps of: providing the user (12) with a transaction initiating program (16) executable on the communication device (10), assigning to the user (12): a user pin code (12b) and a unique identifier (18) of the user (12); allowing the user (12) via the program (16) to input transaction data (40), bank card data (22), the user pin code (12b) and the unique identifier (18), allowing the user (12) via the program (16) to generate and transmit through a communication channel (25) a transaction data package (50) comprising the transaction data (40), bank card data (22), the user pin code (12b) and the unique identifier (18), receiving the transmitted data package (40) and opening it, authenticating the user (12) on the basis of the unique identifier (18) and the pin code (12b), and transmitting the transaction data (40) and the bank card data (22) to a transaction performing unit (34).
US09836734B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for providing an electronic receipt for a vending machine transaction. Upon conclusion of a vending machine transaction a screen on the vending machine displays an optically encoded electronic receipt. The optically encoded electronic receipt may encode a transaction identifier and may additionally encode details of the transaction. The vending machine may also transmit transaction data to a server. A user computing device may scan the optically encoded electronic receipt and retrieve a transaction identifier. Using the transaction identifier, the user computing device may request transaction data from the server either directly or by way of a server owned or controlled by a different entity. Additional content, such as advertisements may be transmitted with or for display with transaction data.
US09836727B1
The disclosed embodiments include systems and methods for executing a point of sale deposit. In one embodiment, a system may include one or more memory devices storing software instructions, and one or more processors configured to execute the software instructions to receive transaction information related to a point of sale deposit from a client device, and generate a pending deposit transaction based on the transaction information. The one or more processors may be further configured to execute the software instructions to receive a first transaction token from the client device, receive a second transaction token from a third-party device, match the first transaction token to the second transaction token, and complete the pending deposit transaction based on the match.
US09836726B2
A system and a method for conducting credit card transactions through a mobile device of a user. The mobile device comprises an image acquisition unit and a mobile application operated by the mobile device. The system enables acquiring an image of a client's credit card, using the image acquisition unit; analyzing data of the image; outputting details of the credit card from the analysis; verifying the output details, wherein the verification is further carried out through the mobile application; verifying authorization of inputted monetary transaction, wherein the mobile application enables verifying the authorization by communicating with the billing center, associated with at least one credit company associated with the credit card over at least one communication network, wherein the communication is carried out by the mobile application using the mobile device; and conducting monetary transactions using the verified credit card details.
US09836725B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for determining travel information. One of the methods includes obtaining flight information for each of a plurality of users, the flight having a flight identifier and associated with a particular scheduled departure time and departure location; based on the scheduled departure time, obtaining location information for user devices associated with each user of the plurality of users; determining that the respective user devices associated with a first group of users of the plurality of users, has a location associated with the departure location; determining that the respective mobile devices associated with users of the first group are no longer in communication a mobile network; and using the respective times at which the user devices are determined to no longer be in communication with the mobile network along with the scheduled departure time to determine a departure time.
US09836724B2
Email viewing techniques are described. In implementations, a determination is made regarding one or more types of content that are included in an email through examination of metadata that describes the one or more types of content. The determination is made responsive to selection of an email in a user interface for output. A choice is made from one of a plurality of views for the email based on the determination; and the email is output in a user interface using the chosen view.
US09836718B2
Systems and methods of processing items. Items in a distribution network or process may be scanned at every handling point in the distribution network, and each scan is recorded in a central repository. The scan information can be used to generate real-time access to data, analytical tools, predictive tools, and tracking reports.
US09836714B2
Systems, methods and computer program products for determining costs of vehicle repairs and times to major repairs. In one embodiment, a system includes a computer processor, a data storage device, and an output device. The processor receives information from a user identifying a vehicle of interest. The processor retrieves repair data items that have characteristics common to the vehicle of interest from a database stored in the data storage device. The processor determines repairs that are expected to be necessary for the vehicle of interest based on the retrieved repair data items, and determines the costs associated with the identified expected repairs. The processor provides output to the user indicating the repair costs and/or the times at which the repairs are likely to be necessary. The output may be in graphical and/or numerical form.
US09836708B2
Systems and methods of dynamically identifying supported items in an application are described. In one example, an analytics engine receives an indication of available client data, a user's enterprise role, and/or a user's security level. The analytics engine identifies a first subset of supported semantic items (e.g., business topics, business topics, measures, etc.) and a second subset of unsupported semantic items. For example, a semantic item may be supported if corresponding client data is available for analysis and the user's role/security level enable access to the client data. The analytics engine may send data including the supported semantic items and excluding the unsupported semantic items to an application.
US09836705B2
A vehicle system includes a navigation system, a communication interface, and a processing device. The navigation system determines a first vehicle location. The communication interface receives social network information over a communication network. The social network information includes a second vehicle location. A processing device determines the proximity of the first vehicle location to the second vehicle location and generates a message based on the proximity.
US09836698B2
Methods and systems transform a given single-qubit quantum circuit expressed in a first quantum-gate basis into a quantum-circuit expressed in a second, discrete, quantum-gate basis. The discrete quantum-gate basis comprises standard, implementable quantum gates. The given single-qubit quantum circuit is expressed as a normal representation. The normal representation is generally compressed, in length, with respect to equivalent non-normalized representations. The method and systems additionally can map normal representations to canonical-form representations, which are generally further compressed, in length, with respect to normal representations.
US09836691B1
A computer-implemented method that includes receiving, by a processing unit, an instruction that specifies data values for performing a tensor computation. In response to receiving the instruction, the method may include, performing, by the processing unit, the tensor computation by executing a loop nest comprising a plurality of loops, wherein a structure of the loop nest is defined based on one or more of the data values of the instruction. The tensor computation can be at least a portion of a computation of a neural network layer. The data values specified by the instruction may comprise a value that specifies a type of the neural network layer, and the structure of the loop nest can be defined at least in part by the type of the neural network layer.
US09836687B1
A transaction card includes a card body that may comprise a card body comprising a ceramic material, the card body including a primary surface and a first mating surface. A card backer comprises a metallic material and includes a secondary surface and a second mating surface. A portion of the first mating surface and a portion of the second mating surface are coupled together.
US09836683B2
An electronic device including an electronic assembly and an enclosure. The electronics assembly including a host interface and a direct user input interface. The direct user input interface remains exposed when the device is connected to a host via the host interface. The enclosure, substantially in the form factor of a microSD device, forms the outer boundary of the electronic device, overmolded on the electronics assembly.
US09836679B2
A scanner camera is presented with a controller that selectively illuminates white and/or colored light sources, during each particular color illumination of an object being imaged, the camera captures a monochrome image of that particular color illuminated object. One or more of the images are processed by the controller to obtain information about the object being imaged.
US09836666B2
Embodiments are provided to search for a dictionary image corresponding to a target image. The method includes detecting keypoints in a set of dictionary images. The set of dictionary images includes at least one dictionary image having a plurality of pixels. At least one random pair of pixels is selected among the detected keypoints of the dictionary image on the basis of candidate coordinates for pixels distributed around the detected keypoints of the dictionary image. A feature vector of each keypoint of the dictionary image is calculated, including calculating a difference in brightness between the selected pairs of pixels of the dictionary image. The calculated difference in brightness is an element of the feature vector. Keypoints of a target image are detected.
US09836665B2
In order to reduce the labor and processing load required during list production and list verification without requiring a specialized reading apparatus, and achieve sufficient identification performance, this management system includes a list storage means that stores a list of objects to be managed, an identification image generating means that detects, from an input image, an identifying part of the objects to be managed and generates the identification image in which the identifying part detected is depicted at a predetermined orientation and size in an image region, an identification image recording means that, when a first image capturing the identifying part of an object to be managed is inputted, records an identification image generated from the first image in the list of objects to be managed as the identification image of a designated identification unit and an identification image verification means that, when a second image capturing the identifying part of an object to be managed is inputted, uses an identification image generated from the second image as a key image, and verifies the key image against respective identification images recorded in the list of objects to be managed.
US09836656B2
A device is provided for the expanded representation of a surrounding region of a vehicle, the device having an imaging component for the visual representation of the surrounding region. Information from a road model is additionally able to be superimposed on the visual representation of the surrounding region.
US09836655B2
An information processing apparatus including a memory storing instructions, and at least one processor configured to process the instructions to obtain an orientation, size, and position of a first subject in a first image, and an orientation, size, and position of a second subject in a second image, generate an estimated position of the first subject in the second image based on the orientation, size, and position of the first subject in the first image and the orientation and size of the second subject in the second image, calculate a distance between the estimated position of the first subject in the second image and the position of the second subject in the second image; and determine whether or not the first subject is the second subject based on the distance.
US09836652B2
A mechanism is provided for indicating an area of an object that is considered dangerous to a user via a head mounted display (HMD) system. The object being used by the user and one or more areas of the object that are considered dangerous are identified. Responsive to identifying one or more areas of the object that are considered dangerous, an overlay for each of the one or more areas of the object that are considered dangerous is generated. The overlay for each one or more areas of the object that are considered dangerous is displayed via a display layer of the HMD system so that the one or more areas of the object that are considered dangerous are identified as an overlay to the object that is being seen by the user through the HMD system.
US09836647B2
An iris biometric recognition module includes technology for capturing images of an iris of an eye of a person, whether the person is moving or stationary, and whether the person is located near the iris image capture device or at a distance from the iris image capture device. The iris biometric recognition technology can perform an iris matching procedure for, e.g., authentication or identity verification purposes. The iris biometric recognition module can be incorporated into, for example, a door lock assembly and other access controlled devices, mechanisms, and systems.
US09836642B1
Approaches are described which enable a computing device (e.g., mobile phone, tablet computer) to utilize one or more facial recognition techniques to control access to the device and to detect when artificial representations of a user, such as a picture or photograph, are being used in an attempt to gain access to the device. Evidence indicative of artificial representations may include lack of changes in facial skin color between multiple images captured by a camera, ability to track one or more features of the human face while the camera is rotated or moved, presence of secular reflections caused by an illumination device, absence of shadows in the image, and others.
US09836641B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating numeric embeddings of images. One of the methods includes obtaining training images; generating a plurality of triplets of training images; and training a neural network on each of the triplets to determine trained values of a plurality of parameters of the neural network, wherein training the neural network comprises, for each of the triplets: processing the anchor image in the triplet using the neural network to generate a numeric embedding of the anchor image; processing the positive image in the triplet using the neural network to generate a numeric embedding of the positive image; processing the negative image in the triplet using the neural network to generate a numeric embedding of the negative image; computing a triplet loss; and adjusting the current values of the parameters of the neural network using the triplet loss.
US09836628B1
In an approach for identifying an object using an electromagnetic tag, an electromagnetic signal is received by a sensor, wherein the electromagnetic signal originates from an electromagnetic tag affixed to an object, and wherein the electromagnetic signal passes through a physical propagation channel. A processor searches a database for an electromagnetic signature corresponding to the electromagnetic signal, wherein the database comprises, at least, object information associated with the electromagnetic signature. A processor determines the electromagnetic signal corresponds to the electromagnetic signature. A processor presents the object information associated with the electromagnetic signature.
US09836621B2
One or more systems and/or methods for storing personal information within a first device and/or for providing personal information from the first device to the second device are provided. The first device (e.g., a smartphone) may identify a user interface (e.g., a movie streaming website) populated with user specified data (e.g., a password). The user specified data may be evaluated to identify personal information of the user (e.g., a movie streaming website password). The personal information may be stored within the first device. Responsive to determining that a second device (e.g., a smart television) displays a personal information input field (e.g., a movie streaming website password input field), an input event comprising the personal information may be provided from the first device to the second device. The input event may invoke the second device to input the movie streaming website password into the movie streaming website password input field.
US09836613B2
Methods and apparatuses are presented for obfuscating the locations of terrestrial wireless transceivers, including wireless access points and femtocells. According to some embodiments, a method may receive, by a mobile device, data for a terrestrial wireless transceiver, wherein the data includes location coordinates of the terrestrial wireless transceiver, and wherein the location coordinates include an error term. Additionally, the method may include determining the error term based on the data. Furthermore, the method may include determining a corrected location of the terrestrial wireless transceiver by removing the error term from the location coordinates. In some instances, the data can further include a unique identifier associated with the terrestrial wireless transceiver, and wherein the error term is further determined based on the unique identifier.
US09836610B2
An apparatus is provided for protecting a basic input/output system (BIOS) in a computing system. The apparatus includes a BIOS read only memory (ROM), an event detector, and a tamper detector. The BIOS ROM has BIOS contents that are stored as plaintext, and an encrypted message digest, where the encrypted message digest comprises an encrypted version of a first message digest that corresponds to the BIOS contents, and where and the encrypted version is generated via a symmetric key algorithm and a key. The event detector is configured to generate a BIOS check interrupt that interrupts normal operation of the computing system upon the occurrence of an event, where the event includes one or more occurrences of a change in virtual memory mapping. The tamper detector is operatively coupled to the BIOS ROM and is configured to access the BIOS contents and the encrypted message digest upon assertion of the BIOS check interrupt, and is configured to direct a microprocessor to generate a second message digest corresponding to the BIOS contents and a decrypted message digest corresponding to the encrypted message digest using the symmetric key algorithm and the key, and is configured to compare the second message digest with the decrypted message digest, and configured to preclude the operation of the microprocessor if the second message digest and the decrypted message digest are not equal. The microprocessor includes a dedicated crypto/hash unit disposed within execution logic, where the crypto/hash unit generates the second message digest and the decrypted message digest, and where the key is exclusively accessed by the crypto/hash unit. The microprocessor further has a random number generator disposed within the execution logic, where the random number generator generates a random number at completion of a current BIOS check, which is employed by the event detector to randomly set a number of occurrences of the event that are to occur before a following BIOS check.
US09836600B2
A multi-stage event detector for monitoring a system, the multi-stage event detector including: a process generator operable to generate main and sub-processes, each main and sub-process being operable to generate and initiate a detection agent each of which is operable to be triggered by detecting the occurrence of a trigger event and to report back to its generating process or sub-process upon being so triggered. Each process or sub-process is operable to respond to receipt of a report from a triggered detection agent by reporting the detection of a multi-stage event to an overall controller.
US09836597B2
Systems and methods prevent or restrict the mining of content on a mobile device. For example, a method may include identifying a mining-restriction mark in low order bits or high order bits in a frame buffer of a mobile device and determining whether the mining-restriction mark prevents mining of content. Mining includes non-transient storage of a copy or derivations of data in the frame buffer. The method may also include preventing the mining of data in the frame buffer when the mining-restriction mark prevents mining.
US09836592B2
Example implementations relate to fingerprint scans with power buttons. For example, a computing device may include a power button and a processor. The power button receives a user input associated with an activation of the power button to turn on the computing device and scans a fingerprint associated with the user input while the computing device is initialized in response to the activation. The processor determines whether the fingerprint matches an authorized fingerprint from a database of stored fingerprints, identifies an account associated with the fingerprint when the fingerprint matches the authorized fingerprint, and provides a desktop environment associated with the account.
US09836583B2
An automated medication adherence system. The automated medication adherence system may comprise: a housing, an electronic interface, a plurality of reservoirs, one or more sensors, and at least one pill delivery and lock-out module. The electronic interface is programmable to accept data relating to a medication, including at least one of a pill identify, a user identity, a dosage schedule, and a side effect. The electronic interface actuates rotation of a reservoir, which is configured to receive, store, and dispense pills, tablets, and capsules of various sizes accurately and precisely. The sensors monitor medication input and output, and alerts a user when medication has been dispensed and needs to be taken.
US09836582B2
A data processing system configured for computer visualization of drugs for drug interaction information retrieval is disclosed. For each of multiple different substances and using a camera within the mobile or other computing device, imagery of at least one external characteristic of a physical body of the substance is acquired. An identity of each of the multiple different substances is determined based upon the at least one external characteristic from the acquired imagery. Drug interaction data is retrieved for each of the multiple different substances using the determined identities. Drug interaction data for at least one of the multiple different substances is correlated with at least one other of the multiple different substances. At least one generic substance and/or cost information of at least one of the multiple different substances is identified. The correlated drug interaction data, the at least one generic substance, and/or the cost information are displayed.
US09836581B2
One method for supporting a patient through a treatment regimen includes: accessing a log of use of a native communication application executing on a mobile computing device by a patient; selecting a subgroup of a patient population based on the log of use of the native communication application and a communication behavior common to the subgroup; retrieving a regimen adherence model associated with the subgroup, the regimen adherence model defining a correlation between treatment regimen adherence and communication behavior for patients within the subgroup; predicting patient adherence to the treatment regimen based on the log of use of the native communication application and the regimen adherence model; and presenting a treatment-related notification based on the patient adherence through the mobile computing device.
US09836580B2
Various systems and methods are provided that graphically allow health insurance company personnel to identify patient diagnoses that are not accounted for by the health insurance company. Furthermore, the various systems and methods graphically allow health insurance company personnel to identify patients that have not submitted claims for documented ailments or conditions. Thus, the health insurance company may be able to improve its chances of receiving transfer payments from other health insurance companies and/or receiving higher star ratings.
US09836571B2
A method may include: specifying a random nets credit (RNC) statistic for nets subject to random noise in a static timing analysis of an initial integrated circuit (IC) design; calculating an upper bound for a delta delay of each net using the RNC statistic; identifying each net with a delta delay that exceeds the upper bound; identifying all nets including fan-in and fan-out cones connected to each net that exceeds the upper bound and performing a higher accuracy timing analysis for all nets that are marked. Using the upper bound for each delta delay of the nets subject to ransom noise, the delta delay of each net subject to a non-random noise, and the delta delay for all identified nets, to adjust the initial IC design, to close timing and generate a final IC design.
US09836558B2
A system for testing an electrical circuit includes a handheld device, and first and second plug-in modules. The handheld device includes a first sensor that senses a current within the electrical circuit, and a second sensor that senses a voltage within the electrical circuit. The first plug-in device is connectable to a first outlet of the electrical circuit and configured to provide an identification number on the electrical circuit. The second plug-in device is connectable to a second outlet of the electrical circuit and configured to display the identification number of the first plug-in device. The handheld device receives the identification number from the first plug-in device and displays the identification number.
US09836552B2
A method of visualizing and interacting with a given term graph for a given group G defined by a set of values d for a set of dimensions D and topic X, may comprise obtaining the term graph associated with the given group G and the topic X; displaying the topic X in a tag cloud; representing each term from the term graph as a tag in the tag cloud, wherein a distance of a given tag from the displayed topic X in the tag cloud represents a distance of a term represented by the given tag from the topic X in the term graph; and visually representing a tag's importance relative to one or more of resources associated with the given group G in the tag cloud.
US09836536B2
Systems and methods for facilitating collaboration between video creators/publishers and users in need of video creations and/or publication of videos are provided. A profile component receives and stores profile information regarding video creators. A video request component receives a request for at least creation of a video, the request indicating one or more characteristics associated with the creation of the video. A search component responds to the request and searches the profile information in connection with identifying one or more of the video creators that can create the video based on a correlation between their respective profile information and the one or more characteristics associated with the video creation.
US09836524B2
Certain implementations of the disclosed technology include systems and methods for internal co-convergence using clustering when there is hierarchy in the data structure. A method is included for clustering hierarchical database records into a first set of clusters having corresponding first cluster identifications (IDs), each hierarchical database record including one or more field values, the clustering based at least in part on determining similarity among corresponding field values of the hierarchical database records. The method includes receiving parent-child hierarchical relationship information for the hierarchical database records, re-clustering at least a portion of the hierarchical database records into a second set of clusters having corresponding second cluster IDs, the re-clustering based at least in part on the received parent-child hierarchical relationship information, and outputting hierarchical database record information, based at least in part on the re-clustering.
US09836519B2
Methods, computer systems, and stored instructions are described herein for densely grouping dimensional data and/or aggregating data using a data structure, such as one that is constructed based on dimensional data. When smaller tables are joined with a larger table, a server may analyze the smaller tables first to determine actual value combinations that occur in the smaller tables, and these actual value combinations are used to more efficiently process the larger table. A dense data structure may be generated by processing dimensional data before processing data from fact table. The dense data structure may be generated by compressing ranges of values that are possible in dimensions into a range of values that actually occurs in the dimensions. The compressed range of values may be represented by dense set identifiers rather than the actual compressed range of values.
US09836515B1
A computer-implemented method for adding active volumes to existing replication configurations may include (1) identifying a new volume to be added to an existing replication configuration that replicates a plurality of volumes to a remote storage device, (2) using interchangeable bitmaps to perform an initial synchronization of the new volume with the remote storage device before replicating the new volume to the remote storage device as part of the existing replication configuration, (3) determining that a replication log associated with the replication configuration is capable of flagging future writes by the application to the new volume without overflowing, and, upon making that determination, (4) replicating the new volume to the remote storage device as part of the existing replication configuration. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US09836514B2
Technologies are generally described for cache based key-value store mapping and replication. In some examples, key-value stores may be mapped for data structure replication through extraction of file breaks in an existing key-value store by iterating through the store and examining changes in cache addresses to detect jumps in address values. Specially formulated queries may be executed to return the values within an address range that spans a physical storage volume in order to recover full key-value sets that are physically grouped at a current data center including record duplicates. Such sets may be used to replicate or inform the key-value sets at a new location or in a new key-value store allowing construction of a replicated database tree structure complete with record duplications that develop as tables are optimized over time.
US09836507B2
A method for dynamically building a column store database from a row store database. The method includes establishing the row store database for storing data, wherein each row includes a plurality of attributes, and wherein data in row store database is current to a temporal point in time. The method includes establishing the column store database including data structured to satisfy received analytic queries. The method includes beginning from an initial state of the column store database, for each subsequently received analytic query, importing a targeted amount of data from a corresponding temporal state of the row store database into the column store database to satisfy the corresponding subsequently received analytic query.
US09836504B2
A data processing system performs query progress estimation based on processed value packets. In the illustrative data processing system, a database query processor comprises a query optimizer that creates a query plan, and a database plan executor that executes the query plan and observes intermediate result streams processed as the query plan is executed. A value packet manager anticipates value packets during query optimization, creates value packets as the intermediate result streams are processed, and compares anticipated value packets with created value packets to determine accuracy of the anticipated value packets and estimate query progress.
