US09844074B2
A wireless access node and method are described herein for improving a bandwidth utilization efficiency of a common downlink (DL) channel when transmitting device-related information included in one or more messages to a wireless device or a group of wireless devices, wherein the one or more messages have one or more transport block formats that meet a coverage class need of the wireless device or the group of wireless devices. In addition, a wireless device and method are described herein for improving a bandwidth utilization efficiency of the common DL channel by receiving one or more messages including device-related information on the common DL channel from the wireless access node, wherein the one or more messages have one or more transport block formats that meet a coverage class need of the wireless device.
US09844072B2
Various aspects described herein relate to communicating in a wireless network. An uplink resource grant can be received from a network entity for communicating in the wireless network. A transmission time interval (TTI) for an uplink transmission within a subframe based on the uplink resource grant can be determined, wherein the TTI comprises one or more symbols which are a subset of a plurality of symbols in the subframe. Communications can be transmitted to the network entity over resources specified in the uplink resource grant during the TTI.
US09844065B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for optimizing the reach of a message beacon device. The method may include identifying a plurality of transceivers associated with the message beacon device, analyzing each identified transceiver on the basis of a resource consumption associated with the identified transceiver, an interference of the identified transceiver with a different transceiver of the plurality of identified transceivers, a reach of the identified transceiver, or a combination thereof, selecting a transmission set from the plurality of identified transceivers based on the analysis of each identified transceiver, and transmitting a message beacon using each selected transceiver in the transmission set.
US09844063B1
A method, system, and medium are provided for dynamically enabling and disabling cyclic prefix within a long-term evolution (LTE) channel. A base station receives channel quality indication (CQI) reports indicating levels of ISI within the LTE channel. The base station determines whether the levels of ISI within the LTE channel are greater than, equal to, or less than a predetermined threshold level of ISI for the LTE channel. Based on the determination, the base station either enables or disables cyclic prefix within the LTE channel. In addition to levels of ISI, numbers of roaming users or cell edge users utilizing the LTE channel may affect whether cyclic prefix is enabled or disabled within the LTE channel.
US09844059B2
A wireless terminal configured for use in a mobile vehicle comprises a transmitter (64), a receiver (66), and processor circuitry (42). The transmitter (64) is configured to transmit a series (50) of vehicle data messages (52) over a vehicle (V2X) communication radio interface (15). The receiver (66) is configured to receive a message (56) from a stationary infrastructure unit (36) over the vehicle (V2X) communication radio interface (15). The processor circuitry (42) is configured to: generate the vehicle data messages of the series (50); set a default transmission rate for transmission of at least some of the vehicle data messages of the series; make a determination regarding content of the message received from the stationary infrastructure unit (36); and thereafter in accordance with the determination, set a modified transmission rate for transmission of at least another vehicle data message of the series and thereby modify utilization of the vehicle (V2X) communication radio interface (15).
US09844054B2
An evolved node (eNB) operable to transmit a Time Division Duplex (TDD) uplink-downlink (UL-DL) reconfiguration in a heterogeneous network (HetNet) is disclosed. The eNB can receive, from a user equipment (UE), a UE capability report that indicates the UE supports a TDD UL-DL reconfiguration functionality. The eNB can transmit, to the UE, a configuration to enable TDD UL-DL reconfiguration at the UE. The eNB can transmit, to the UE, a TDD UL-DL reconfiguration signal in a downlink control information (DCI) message. The UE can be configured to update a TDD UL-DL configuration of the UE based on the TDD UL-DL reconfiguration signal transmitted on a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in preconfigured downlink or special (DL/S) subframes by the eNB.
US09844053B2
Provided is a distributed scheduling method and apparatus for resource allocation for Device-to-Device (D2D) communication. The method includes sending, by a Mobile Station (MS) including data to transmit, a first resource reservation message through at least one first slot among a plurality of slots constituting a resource reservation unit in a resource reservation channel; and when a second resource reservation message sent by another MS is not sensed in a slot with a higher priority than the first slot in the resource reservation unit, transmitting the data through a transmission resource unit corresponding to the resource reservation unit in a data transmission channel. The resource reservation channel corresponds to the transmission resource unit, and the plurality of slots has mutually cyclic priorities.
US09844048B2
A radio communication system 1 according to an embodiment comprises: a pico cell base station PeNB provided in a communication area of a macro cell base station MeNB and having transmission power lower than transmission power of the macro cell base station MeNB. A resource division ratio is determined with respect to radio resources to be usable as a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), indicating a ratio of macro cell unusable PDSCH resources and macro cell usable PDSCH resources. The radio resources are assigned to a radio terminal connected to the macro cell base station MeNB, out of the macro cell usable PDSCH resources determined according to the determined resource division ratio. The resource division ratio is determined according to expected throughputs of each of cell edge terminals of the macro cell base station MeNB and the pico cell base station PeNB.
US09844041B2
A mobile station device includes an information acquisition unit that is configured to and/or programmed to acquire information, which specifies a system bandwidth and a carrier frequency of a second downlink carrier component different from a first downlink carrier component, transmitted using RRC signaling via a physical downlink shared channel within the first downlink carrier component and a communication unit that is configured to communicate with the base station device by aggregate use of both the first downlink carrier component and the second downlink carrier component, where the first downlink carrier component and the second downlink carrier component have different carrier frequencies and each of the first downlink carrier component and the second downlink carrier component has its own downlink system bandwidth.
US09844029B2
A mobile station device executes processing on uplink control information by effectively using uplink resources when transmitting the uplink control information. The mobile station device generates a plurality of ACK/NACK sequences by interleaving and dividing ACKs/NACKs for a plurality of cells in a plurality of subframes, and separately encodes the plurality of ACK/NACK sequences. Also, the mobile station device interleaves a plurality of ACKs/NACKs and a scheduling request together.
US09844027B2
Provided is a radio communication terminal which is capable of measuring quality in communication with a handover destination with high accuracy. The radio communication terminal is capable of communicating with a base station or a relay node, and includes: a receiver which receives control information including information relating to measurement of measuring quality of a neighbor cell; an extractor which extracts information on a subframe where the measurement should be performed, which is a subframe where only transmission of a signal from the relay node connected to the base station is performed, from the information relating to the measurement; a measurement section which performs the measurement, on a subframe basis, based on the extracted information on the subframe where the measurement should be performed; and a transmitter which transmits a result of the measurement to the base station or the relay node.
US09844023B2
A user's set top box detects the ringing of a telephone, mobile device or other type of audible notification of an incoming contact and, in response, sends a command causing a current audio level of the television programming or other media currently being played to decrease such that the audible notification can be heard by the user. A device silencing manager on the set top box may detect the audible notification occurring by the sound waves of the audible notification from the mobile device picked up by a microphone of the receiving device. Additionally or alternatively, a device silencing manager on the set top box may wirelessly receive, either directly or indirectly from the mobile device, an electronic notification of the audible notification.
US09844021B2
The present invention concerns a femtocell device and method at a femtocell device comprising a first interface for communicating to a macrocell and a second interface for communicating to a broadband network, the method comprising the steps of, when communication to the broadband network is inactive, receiving a paging message from the macrocell destined to a mobile device connected to the femtocell device, and notifying the mobile device to redirect to the macrocell.
US09844013B2
A method and a user equipment (UE) are described for transmitting power headroom (PH) information. The UE generates PH information, and transmits the PH information to a base station. The PH information includes a first field including a plurality of indicators, each of the plurality of indicators indicating the presence of a second field indicating a PH level of a corresponding secondary cell (SCell). The PH information further includes a type-1 PH field and a type-2 PH field for a primary cell (PCell). Each of the plurality of indicators is set to 0 or 1. An indicator, which has been set to 1, indicates that the second field exists for the corresponding SCell, and an indicator, which has been set to 0, indicates that the second field does not exist for the corresponding SCell.
US09844009B2
A wireless device transmits a power headroom report media access control control element (PHR MAC CE). The PHR MAC CE comprises a presence field comprising a plurality of presence bits. The presence field is of a fixed size of one octet when up to seven of the one or more secondary cells are each configured with a cell index having a value between one and seven. The presence field is of a fixed size of four octets when the one or more secondary cells comprise more than seven secondary cells with configured uplinks.
US09843998B2
A disclosure of the present invention provides a method in which user equipment (UE) selects a network and performs traffic routing. The method may comprise the steps of: receiving first RAN (radio access network) supporting information; receiving second RAN supporting information; and applying the first RAN supporting information or the second RAN supporting information for selecting a network and routing traffic. Here, when the first RAN supporting information has been received by a Home PLMN, if the UE is registered in a visited PLMN, and if the second RAN supporting information is received by the visited PLMN, the second RAN supporting information may be used.
US09843991B2
The present invention provides a method for controlling access of a terminal if the terminal accesses from a wireless LAN network to a mobile communication network, when the mobile communication network (for example, UMTS, LTE and the like) and the wireless LAN network are linked in a wireless communication system. Furthermore, the present invention provides a method for transmitting information on connectable peripheral wireless LAN networks. Thus, the present invention can reduce a load of a network since the network can control the access of a terminal, and can reduce unnecessary power consumption and solve a connection delay problem by providing a valid wireless LAN network list to the terminal.
US09843984B2
Operational and environmental efficiency in virtual radio access networks (VRANs) can be improved by offloading data traffic and/or control signaling between physical transmit points (TPs) of a virtual TP. This may allow one or more physical TPs of the virtual TP to be muted in the downlink or uplink direction, thereby reducing energy consumption. The offloading may be performed during relatively short time-intervals such that physical TP are muted for one or more transmission time intervals (TTIs) before being re-activated. The offloading may also be implemented over longer time-intervals in accordance with a traffic engineering (TE) policy. Further it is possible to re-activate a de-activated downlink transmitter of physical TP by monitoring wireless signals via an activated receiver of the physical TP.
US09843977B2
A wireless communication device (WCD), network node, and methods for determining whether to steer traffic from a first access point to a second access point according to an access network selection policy. The WCD obtains at least one input parameter for use in an algorithm that is part of the access network selection policy, obtains a random value, and determines whether to steer traffic from the first access point to the second access point based at least in part on the at least one obtained input parameter and the obtained random value. The at least one input parameter may be determined by the network node and signaled to the WCD. The network node may signal an indication to the WCD to cause the WCD to apply a random value when determining whether to steer traffic in accordance with the access network selection policy.
US09843972B2
In a cellular communication system, a coverage area configuration transition includes incrementally expanding a compensation service area to include at least a portion of an area covered by the energy saving service area. For example, the compensation service area can be expanded to cover a first cell edge of an energy saving service area, and any UE devices located within the first cell edge can be handed over to the compensation service area. After the UE devices in the first cell edge are handed over, the energy saving service area can be reduced such that a second cell edge is created. The process of handing over the additional UE devices to the compensation service area and reducing the energy saving service area can be repeated as many times as necessary to handover all of the UE devices being served by the energy saving service area.
US09843968B2
In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus, comprising at least one processing core configured to determine that a service access session has commenced, the at least one processing core configured to cause a network procedure to be triggered to cause attachment of the apparatus to change from a first radio access technology to a second radio access technology, and a transmitter configured to cause, during the service access session, a first settings message and a second settings message to be transmitted to a network in accordance with the second radio access technology, wherein the first settings message comprises an indication that the service access session is in progress.
US09843964B2
Disclosed is a method of managing congestion by a Policy Control and Charging Rules Function (PCRF). The method includes receiving at least one piece of video flow related information; receiving, from an evolved Node B (eNB), congestion state information for the eNB and at least one User Equipment (UE); determining a data transmission rate of at least one video flow on the basis of the received congestion state information and the received video flow related information; and adjusting the data transmission rate of the at least one video flow on the basis of the determined data transmission rate.
US09843963B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a load balance method and relevant apparatuses to implement load balance between base stations in a communications network that includes an LTE base station. The method in an embodiment of the present invention includes: obtaining, by a radio resource management RRM server, load information reported by base stations, where the base stations include a Long Term Evolution LTE base station; determining an overloaded base station in the base stations; determining a target base station according to the load information, where the target base station is a base station to share a load of the overloaded base station; and instructing the overloaded base station and the target base station to perform load balance.
US09843956B2
A prioritized cell identification and measurement method is disclosed. The method classifies frequency layers to be monitored and measured by an user equipment into normal- and reduced-performance groups. Several different embodiments are described. Where appropriate, the corresponding signaling design is also suggested. User equipment can adopt one or several of these embodiments, and can change configurations in a semi-static manner based on operating conditions.
US09843952B2
Example methods disclosed herein include analyzing session records determined for wireless sessions associated with wireless devices operating in a wireless system to detect a service quality for a specified protocol type in a specified geographic coverage area of the wireless system. In some examples, the specified protocol type is defined by a first user input variable, and the specified geographic coverage area is defined by a second user input variable. Example methods disclosed herein also include reporting the service quality for the specified protocol type in the specified geographic coverage area to a first wireless device operating in the wireless system.
US09843947B2
A wireless edge device is operable in a wireless network and configured to communicate with other wireless devices in the wireless network. The wireless edge device includes a processor configured to receive an input to switch from a low power consumption normal operation mode to a site survey mode, a transceiver configured to (i) transmit data packets periodically or asynchronously to a wireless device of the wireless network, and (ii) receive the data packets returned by the wireless device, and a visual indicator. The processor is further configured to evaluate quality and/or reliability of the received data packets, to provide a signal to the visual indicator indicative of signal strength at the wireless edge device based on the evaluation of quality and/or reliability of the received data packets, and to switch from the site survey mode to the low power consumption normal operation mode after a predetermined time.
US09843946B2
A method for a mobile communication device to reduce call recovery time associated with a cell update procedure is provided. The method includes the steps of: detecting an Access Stratum (AS) abnormality when making a call in a third-generation (3G) cellular network; decreasing one or more parameters, which are obtained from the 3G cellular network, associated with the cell update procedure in response to detecting the AS abnormality; and applying the decreased parameters for the cell update procedure to enable an early cell reselection procedure.
US09843938B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more specifically, disclosed are a method and an apparatus for virtualizing an antenna. A method for reconfiguring an antenna of a terminal in the wireless communication system, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: the terminal transmitting an antenna reconfiguration request to a base station; the terminal receiving from the base station information indicating authorization of the antenna reconfiguration request; the terminal transmitting antenna reconfiguration information to the base station when the information indicating authorization indicates the authorization of the antenna reconfiguration request; and the terminal receiving from the base station information confirming the completion of reconfiguration.
US09843918B2
A device-to-device (D2D) discovery method, an eNodeB and a user equipment are disclosed. The method includes: a user equipment acquiring discovery signal resources allocated by an eNodeB (eNB) to the user equipment, wherein the discovery signal resources include time-frequency domain resources used for sending or monitoring a discovery signal; and when the user equipment performs a D2D discovery operation, sending or monitoring the discovery signal according to acquired discovery signal resources to perform D2D discovery.
US09843916B2
An emergency routing apparatus may include receiving a request for help from a portable device and processing the request to contact an appropriate emergency call center. The emergency call center may be determined based on location of the mobile device that is received with the request for help. If a connection can be established over a first communication link, the request for help may be transmitted to the emergency call center over the first communication link. If a connection cannot be established over the first communication link, another communication link may be used to transmit the request for help to the emergency call center. Transmitting the request for help over the other communication link may include dialing a phone number of the emergency call center and playing a message with the request for help over the other communication link.
US09843912B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses may use machine-to-machine communication to provide customized media in response to an autonomous detection of an event, such as a celebration, emergency, or security event. A method may include receiving a request in response to an autonomous detection of an event, whereby the request includes information about the event. Media appropriate for the event may be determined based on the information about the event. The media appropriate for the event may be further adapted according to information on a destination device and users of the destination device. Instructions are then provided to deliver the media appropriate for the event to the destination device.
US09843909B2
Message forwarding by communication devices is conditionally and/or automatically controlled. A network message management component and/or handset message management component can monitor messages (e.g., short message service (SMS) messages) communicated between user equipment (UE) in a communication network, identify and/or intercept a message for which one or more forwarding conditions have been specified by the message originator, target, or forward target, and conditionally and/or automatically route the message to the target and/or forward target in accordance with predefined message routing rules based at least in part on the conditions specified by the originator, target, or forward target. The predefined message routing rules can be implemented by the network and/or the UEs, and can relate to the UE identifiers, time, priority, cost, operation state, size, desired automatic response messages, or other desired factors, associated with the message.
US09843908B2
A method, a client device, a server and a system for intelligent recognizing contents of short message are provided. The method includes the following steps: sending a short message verification request from a client device to a provider's server, to request a verification authenticity of information read by an application; receiving a short message fed back by the provider's server according to the short message verification request; recognizing the fed back short message and extracting key information thereof according to a pre-set message analysis template, and automatic entering the key information to the application.
US09843901B2
A technique for identifying at least one mobile terminal travelling in a vehicle is disclosed, wherein the vehicle comprises a connected device. In a method aspect, the method comprises initializing a list of identifiers, IDs, of at least one candidate mobile terminal currently travelling in the vehicle, obtaining a current first position of the connected device and a current second position of the at least one candidate mobile terminal, comparing the current first position and the current second position so as to determine whether the current first and second positions match, and iteratively refining the list of IDs depending on the match of the current first and second positions by repeating the steps of obtaining and comparing until a predetermined condition is met.
US09843889B2
Apparatus and method for managing connections of a plurality of devices by a Near Field Communication (NFC) Controller (NFCC) through NFC. The method includes setting identification information of an entity, the entity being requested from an NFC device for a connection with the NFC device; and setting a logical link between the NFC device and the entity based on the identification information.
US09843887B2
A base station comprises: a transmitter configured to transmit, to a user terminal, a measurement request for requesting a measurement of a reception intensity of a signal transmitted from another user terminal that performs D2D communication; a receiver configured to receive, from the user terminal, measurement information indicating the reception intensity measured on the basis of the measurement request; and a controller configured to determine on the basis of the measurement information whether or not the user terminal is able to perform the D2D communication. The controller controls to instruct the D2D communication to be performed when determining that the user terminal is able to perform the D2D communication.
US09843886B2
The disclosure is related to providing interconnectivity between a plurality of user devices. A wireless interconnectivity device connects to a first user device of the plurality of user devices over a first local wireless network, connects to a second user device of the plurality of user devices over a second local wireless network, receives a request from the first user device to transfer data from the first user device to the second user device, determines whether or not a third user device has granted permission to transfer the data from the first user device to the second user device, and transfers the data from the first user device to the second user device based on the third user device having granted permission to transfer the data from the first user device to the second user device.
US09843881B1
A content presentation system including a display screen and an array of speakers behind the display screen is described herein. In some examples, speaker-associated screen areas, the volume of a sound, and a screen location of a sound source may be used to determine one or more speakers that are associated with the sound. For example, the volume of a sound and the screen location of a sound source may be used to determine a sound range for the sound that may be used to associate one or more speakers with the sound. In some examples, upon determination of the sound range, one or more speaker-associated screen areas that are wholly or partially included within the sound range may then be identified. Each speaker that is represented by an identified speaker-associated screen area may then be associated with the sound.
US09843879B2
An acoustic apparatus and a method thereof in a mobile terminal are provided. More particularly, an apparatus and a method for establishing a multi-sound system that provides sounds of sense of reality by connecting with players existing in the neighborhood and reproducing channels of contents using a plurality of players when reproducing the contents including multi-sound channels are provided. The apparatus includes a control player, a server player, and a client player. The control player selects players that reproduce respective channels using information of the channels forming the multi-sound channel contents. The server player analyzes the contents to be reproduced by the players to provide the information regarding the channels to the control player. The client player reproduces the channels of the relevant contents under control of the control player.
US09843871B1
A pair of binaural hearing devices can dynamically assess and select a channel from a plurality of frequency channels suitable for ear-to-ear communication with each other. In various embodiments, the hearing aids can each initiate a channel assessment by calibrating a channel quality threshold and transmitting a packet including the channel quality threshold to the other hearing aid. The other hearing aid can then receive the packet, measure the quality parameter on the packet, and compare the measured value of the quality parameter to the received channel quality threshold to determine whether the channel is suitable for the ear-to-ear communication.
US09843870B2
An apparatus for drying a hearing aid and a hearing aid and a system formed by a hearing aid and a charging device. The apparatus has an energy storage device in the hearing aid, an energy transfer unit and a charging controller. The charging controller charges the energy storage device with energy taken in from the energy transfer unit. The apparatus furthermore has a temperature sensor in the hearing aid and the charging controller is designed to control a charging process in such a way that a thermal loss in the apparatus produces a predefinable temperature pattern in the hearing aid.
US09843869B2
A thermoacoustic device includes a substrate, a first electrode and a second electrode, at least two supporting members, and a first carbon nanotube film. The substrate includes a surface. The first electrode and the second electrode are located on the surface of the substrate and spaced from each other. The at least two supporting members are spaced from each other and respectively located on surfaces of the first electrode and the second electrode. The at least two supporting members include a plurality of carbon nanotubes parallel with each other and substantially perpendicular to the surface of the substrate. The first carbon nanotube film is supported by the at least two supporting members and has a portion between the at least two supporting members suspended above the substrate. The supporting members electrically connect the first carbon nanotube film with the first electrode and the second electrode.
US09843866B2
A piezoelectric bone conduction receiver and a portable electronic device are disclosed. The piezoelectric bone conduction receiver comprises: a piezoelectric bone conduction receiver driving unit functioning as an acoustic vibration element, a piezoelectric driving and signal processing circuit connected with the piezoelectric bone conduction receiver driving unit, and a driving signal switching module, wherein the piezoelectric bone conduction receiver driving unit comprises at least two piezoelectric bone conduction receiver driving modules which can be independently driven in operation, the at least two piezoelectric bone conduction receiver driving modules are connected to the driving signal switching module which is connected with the piezoelectric driving and signal processing circuit, and the driving signal switching module is configured to control phases of piezoelectric driving signals output by the piezoelectric driving and signal processing circuit to the piezoelectric bone conduction receiver driving modules, so that the phases of the piezoelectric driving signals received by the piezoelectric bone conduction receiver driving modules are same or opposite.
US09843861B1
A pair of earphones have microphone arrays each providing a plurality of microphone signals. A processor receives the microphone signals and applies a first set of filters to a subset of the plurality of microphone signals from each of the arrays, the first set of filters inverting the signals below a cutoff frequency, and provides the first-filtered signals and the remainder of the microphone signals from each of the arrays to a second set of filters. The processor uses the second set of filters to combine the signals to generate a far-field signal that is more sensitive to sounds originating a short distance away from the earphones than to sounds close to the earphones above the cutoff frequency, and omnidirectional below the cutoff frequency, determines a level of wind noise present in the microphone signals, and adjusts the cutoff frequency as a function of the determined level of wind noise.
US09843852B2
A shock mount for a microphone comprises a first frame member having an upper ring-shaped frame member and a lower ring-shaped frame member. The lower frame member has a microphone mount for receiving a microphone. The shock mount also has a second frame member comprising a ring. The first frame member is suspended from the second member by wire rope or other substantially non-elastic flexible material, and the wire rope is configured to help reduce the amount of vibration encountered by the first frame member. A method comprises providing a first frame member and a second frame member and suspending the first frame member from the second frame member by wire rope or other substantially non-elastic flexible material and mounting a microphone on the first frame member to help reduce the amount of vibration encountered by the first frame member and the microphone.
US09843844B2
In one example, a device includes one or more processors configured to receive a first segment of media data, wherein the media data of the first segment comprises a stream access point, receive a second segment of media data, wherein the media data of the second segment lacks a stream access point at the beginning of the second segment, and decode at least a portion of the media data of the second segment relative to at least a portion of data for the first segment. In this manner, the techniques of this disclosure may be used to achieve a Low Latency Live profile for, e.g., dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP (DASH).
US09843843B2
A master node in a multimedia content network includes a processor, a content interface coupled to the processor and configured to receive, from a media source, a multimedia stream including a multimedia program, a network interface coupled to the processor and configured to provide an interface to a broadband network, processor executable instructions for performing operations including: identifying a group of subordinate nodes available to analyze a multimedia program, assigning different analysis tasks for the multimedia program to the available subordinate nodes, receiving analysis results from the subordinate nodes; and modifying electronic programming guide information for the multimedia program based on the analysis results.
US09843840B1
A server includes an input node to receive video streams forming a panoramic video. A module forms a suggested field of view in the panoramic video. An output node sends the suggested field of view to a client device.
US09843831B2
Embodiments utilize a camera on a universal remote control to automatically detect which device the remote is pointed at by the user. The image captured by the camera is compared to a database of images of known or preconfigured devices that can be controlled by the universal remote control. If the image captured by the camera matches an image in the database, then the universal remote control loads a specific key map for the preconfigured device from the database.
US09843823B2
Systems and methods consistent with the present innovations are directed to implementations involving creation, viewing, playing, sharing and/or utilization of information modules, such as mixed-media modules. Various embodiments relating to aspects of server processing, media searching, user interface and/or other features are disclosed.
US09843821B2
A method and apparatus for inter-view ARP (advanced residual prediction) are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a first inter-view reference block of a first inter-view reference picture in a first reference view is determined using a current MV (motion vector) of the current block in an inter-view direction. A first MV associated with the first inter-view reference block is derived. If the first MV points to a second inter-view reference picture in a second reference view, the derived MV is set to a default derived MV. A second temporal reference block in the second temporal reference picture corresponding to the current block is identified using the derived MV. An inter-view residual predictor corresponding to the difference between a second inter-view reference block in the first reference view and the second temporal reference block is generated and used as a predictor for the current inter-view residual of the current block.
US09843820B2
A method and apparatus for three-dimensional video coding or multi-view video coding are disclosed. Embodiments according to the present invention derive a unified disparity vector from depth information for Inter mode and Skip/Direct mode. The unified disparity vector is derived from a subset of depth samples in an associated depth block corresponding to the current block using a unified derivation method. The unified derivation method is applied in Inter mode, Skip mode, or Direct mode when a disparity vector derived from depth data is required for encoding or decoding. The unified disparity vector can also be applied to derive a disparity vector for locating a corresponding block, and thus an inter-view motion vector candidate can be determined for Skip mode or Direct mode.
US09843818B2
According to an embodiment, an image coding method is for coding an image including a luminance component and color difference components. The method includes acquiring a reference image; and generating a predicted image by interpolating the luminance component and the color difference components in the reference image according to a motion vector. If a size of a block, which is designated as a unit of the interpolation, is equal to or smaller than a predetermined first threshold value, the generating includes inhibiting a bi-directional prediction, and performing only a uni-directional prediction to generate the predicted image according to the motion vector.
US09843817B2
The present invention is directed to an image information decoding apparatus adapted for performing infra-image decoding based on resolution of color components and color space of an input image signal. An intra prediction unit serves to adaptively change block size in generating a prediction image based on a chroma format signal indicating whether resolution of color components is one of 4:2:0 format, 4:2:2 format, and 4:4:4 format, and a color space signal indicating whether color space is one of YCbCr, RGB, and XYZ. An inverse orthogonal transform unit and an inverse quantization unit serve to also change orthogonal transform technique and quantization technique in accordance with the chroma format signal and the color space signal. A decoding unit decodes the chroma format signal and the color space signal to generate a prediction image corresponding to the chroma format signal and the color space signal.
US09843816B2
A system and method for coding video data in pattern mode for display stream compression (DSC) is disclosed. In one aspect, the method includes determining that a first pattern in a current block of video data is not in a pattern database comprising a plurality of patterns, and adding the first pattern to the pattern database. The first pattern may be associated with a first index identifying a location of the first pattern in the pattern database. The method further includes coding the current block in pattern mode at least in part via signaling (i) the first pattern determined not to be in the pattern database and (ii) the first index identifying the location of the first pattern in the first database.
US09843814B2
Disclosed are an image encoding/decoding method and device supporting a plurality of layers. The image decoding method supporting the plurality of layers comprises the steps of; receiving a bitstream comprising the plurality of layers; and decoding the bitstream so as to acquire maximum number information about sublayers with respect to each of the plurality of layers.
US09843811B2
A method for rotating macro-blocks of a frame of a video stream. A degree of rotation for the video stream is accessed. A macro-block of the video stream is accessed. The macro-block is rotated according to the degree of rotation. The macro-block is repositioned to a new position within the frame, wherein the new position is based on the degree of rotation.
US09843808B2
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for intra prediction. The intra prediction method for a decoder, according to the present invention, comprises the steps of entropy-decoding a received bitstream, generating reference pixels to be used in the intra prediction of a prediction unit; generating a prediction block from the reference pixels on the basis of a prediction mode for the prediction unit and reconstructing an image from the prediction block and a residual block, which is obtained as a result of entropy encoding, wherein the reference pixels and/or the prediction block pixels are predicted on the basis of a base pixel, and the predicted pixel value can be the sum of the pixel value of the base pixel and the difference between the pixel values of the base pixel and the generated pixel.
US09843801B2
An apparatus for coding video information according to certain aspects includes a memory unit and a processor in communication with the memory unit. The memory unit stores video information of a reference layer. The processor determines a value of a video unit based at least in part on a prediction value and an adjusted residual prediction value associated with the reference layer. The adjusted residual prediction value is equal to a residual prediction from the reference layer multiplied by a weighting factor that is different from 1.
US09843797B2
An imaging system may include an array of image pixels and column readout circuits coupled to each column. The column readout circuits may include test data injection circuitry and converter circuitry coupled to column memory via switching circuits. The injection circuitry may enable the switching circuits so that pixel data is stored on the column memory as rows of an image frame. The injection circuitry may disable the switching circuits and may inject test bits onto the column memory while the switching circuits are disabled. The column memory may store the test bits as one or more rows of the image frame interspersed among rows of the pixel data. Verification circuitry coupled to the column readout circuits may process the test data bits in the image frame to verify proper functionality of some or all of the imaging system without disrupting normal imaging operations by the imaging system.
US09843795B1
A photo booth system including a photo booth and a management system for providing self-diagnostic and health reporting. In some cases, the photo booth and/or the management system may initiate a diagnostic test to determine the photo booth's operational state. In some cases, the management system may select and/or dispatch a maintenance personnel to the photo booth if the booth is experiencing an issue.
US09843793B2
A method for reducing crosstalk in stereoscopic displays comprises providing a first first-eye image, a compensated image of the first first-eye image, a first other-eye image, and a compensated image of the first other-eye image; displaying each of the images at least once during a single frame flash sequence, wherein the first first-eye image is displayed to a first eye, the compensated image of the first first-eye image is displayed to another eye, the first other-eye image is displayed to the another eye, and compensated image of the first other-eye image is displayed to the first eye; wherein the compensated images can be displayed simultaneously and/or at least one of the compensated images or eye images can be displayed more than one time during a single frame flash sequence.
US09843792B2
A multi-view display controller determines view angles for each view of a multi-view media content for each viewer watching a multi-view display. The view angles determined for a viewer collectively define a viewer cone that displays the views onto the viewer. Media data of the multi-view media content is output together with information of the determined view angles to the multi-view display in order to allow each viewer to have the same experience of displayed media content regardless of where the viewer is positioned relative to the multi-view display.
US09843780B2
A projector includes alight source unit including a light source, a luminescent wheel having light source segments receiving light from the light source to emit different wavelength ranges of light, a color wheel separate from the luminescent wheel that has a first transmission area transmitting light, in visible light, existing in a certain range of wavelengths and a second transmission area transmitting light existing in a range of wavelengths broader than that of the light transmitted through the first transmission area and on to which the different wavelength ranges of light from the luminescent wheel are shone, and a control module controlling not only the luminescent wheel and the color wheel so that they are synchronized with each other but also the light source so that the light emitted from the light source is sequentially shone on to the light source segments.
US09843779B2
A MEMS device includes a fixed structure and a mobile structure with a reflecting element coupled to the fixed structure through at least a first deformable structure and a second deformable structure. Each of the first and second deformable structures includes a respective number of main piezoelectric elements, with the main piezoelectric elements of the first and second deformable structures configured to be electrically controlled for causing oscillations of the mobile structure about a first axis and a second axis, respectively. The first deformable structure further includes a respective number of secondary piezoelectric elements configured to be controlled so as to vary a first resonance frequency of the mobile structure about the first axis.
US09843773B2
Certain embodiments provide a set top box, comprising: a processing entity configured to obtain data for a channel stacking switch, to obtain a security data element and to formulate a message for the channel stacking switch by combining the security data element with the data; a communications interface configured to send the message to channel stacking switch. Other embodiments provide a channel stacking switch, comprising: a communication interface configured to receive a message from a set top box; a processing entity configured to determine whether or not the message is legitimate and to take an action that depends on whether or not the message is legitimate. Still further embodiments provide a satellite signal receiving system comprising a channel stacking switch and at least one set top box in secure communication with the channel stacking switch.
US09843767B2
In one embodiment, a method includes sending, to client computing devices that are each associated with a particular user identifier, conversation-group information that identifies a conversation group. The conversation-group information includes a user identifier of a first user of the conversation group. The user identifier of the first user is associated with a first one of the client computing devices. The conversation-group information also includes a server identifier of a streaming server for the conversation group. The method includes receiving, from the first one of the client computing devices, a first audio stream and a first video stream. The method includes receiving, from each of one or more of the client computing devices other than the first one of the client computing devices, a request to access the conversation group. The method includes receiving, from each of one or more of the client computing devices other than the first one of the client computing devices, a second audio stream and a second video stream.
US09843761B2
A videoconferencing system includes at least one processor and at least one camera. The endpoint can capture one or more images with the camera. The system can locate a region of interest within an image, such as the area surrounding the face of a person participating in a videoconference. If the face area or other region of interest is too dark, the system can brighten the region to make it more visible. The system can determine whether the face is too dark by comparing the captured image to previously captured images, or comparing the luma values and other data making up the face to predetermined values, or both. The system can check the modified image for over-brightening or saturation, and further adjust the image as needed. The brightening of the face area is done in such a way that the brightened region is unobtrusive to the viewer.
US09843753B2
An imaging system includes an image sensor and a row-period compensator. The image sensor includes an array of photosensitive pixels and electrical circuitry for controlling the array of photosensitive pixels and for reading accumulated electrical charge therefrom. The electrical circuitry is at least partially powered from a positive power rail and a negative power rail. The row-period compensator is for compensating for a change in current drawn by the electrical circuitry during at least part of a row-period of the image sensor, and the row-period compensator is electrically coupled between the positive and negative power rails. A method for compensating for a change in current drawn by electrical circuitry of an image sensor includes controlling a magnitude of compensation current drawn by a row-period compensator, to compensate for a change in current drawn by the electrical circuitry of the image sensor.
US09843744B2
A process and system capture infrared light that is reflected or emitted from a device to precisely locate the device. The process and system project visible light from a light source toward the device such that the light is precisely targeted at the device. Preferably the visible light passes through an atmosphere containing particulate matter rendering the visible light as a beam that appears to emanate from the device rather than from the light source.
US09843732B2
Provided is a mobile terminal including: a setting unit that is configured to set a reference image; an imaging unit that captures multiple subordinate images associated with the reference image that is set; a controller that brings the multiple captured subordinate images into a group based on the reference image and stores the group, and determines a display position on the reference image, of each of the subordinate images brought into the group, according to the preset reference; and a display unit, on whose entire screen the reference image is displayed and a graphic object corresponding to each of the subordinate images brought into the group is output to the determined display position, when a group image view mode is activated.
US09843726B2
A device includes one or more image sensors that capture live video data and a memory that stores the captured live video data. The device includes circuitry that determines an angle-of-view for one or more frames of the live video data and generates wide angle video data that has a larger angle-of-view than the one or more frames of the live video data. The circuitry determines one or more angles-of-view not represented in the wide angle video data by the live video data. The circuitry generates make-up image data captured at a later time than the live video data, wherein the make-up image data has an angle-of-view corresponding to at least one of the one or more angles-of-view that are not represented in the wide angle video data by the live video data. The circuitry updates the wide angle video data to include the make-up image data.
US09843711B2
According to one embodiment, an image processing device includes an imaging element, a lens and an image processor. Light passes through the lens toward the imaging element. A relative position of the imaging element and the lens is changeable. The image processor acquires a first image and a second image. The image processor derives a first stored image by adding at least a portion of the second image to the first image. The first image is captured by the imaging element when the relative position is in a first range. The second image is captured by the imaging element when the relative position is in a second range different from the first range.
US09843710B2
A focusing adjustment apparatus includes a recording unit, a focusing adjustment unit, a calculation unit, and a calculation unit. The recording unit records a recording signal output from an image sensor. The focusing adjustment unit adjusts focusing on an object image entering the image sensor based on information about an image-forming position in a first evaluation band of the recording signal. The calculation unit calculates the image-forming position in the first evaluation band of the recording signal by correcting, using a correction value, an image-forming position in a second evaluation band of a focusing adjustment signal obtained from the image sensor. The calculation unit changes the correction value using information about the first evaluation band of the recording signal.
US09843709B2
Provided is an intermediate unit including a first connect unit, a second connect unit, and an information bridge unit. The first connect unit is for connecting a camera unit having a first resolution in one of a spatial direction and a temporal direction. The second connect unit is for connecting a camera control unit for a camera unit having a second resolution lower than the first resolution in one of the spatial direction and the temporal direction. The information bridge unit is interposed between the first connect unit and the second connect unit and configured to bridge information exchanged between the camera unit and the camera control unit.
US09843706B2
An optical apparatus includes plural optical lens groups, an optical sensor and a casing. After a light beam passes through any of the plural optical lens groups, a travelling direction of the light beam is changed. Moreover, after the light beam passes through at least one of the plural optical lens groups, the light beam is sensed by the optical sensor and converted into an image signal by the optical sensor. The plural optical lens groups and the optical sensor are accommodated and fixed within the casing. The optical apparatus has a single optical lens module, and is able to implement different optical function simultaneously. Consequently, the overall volume of the optical apparatus is minimized, and the fabricating cost of the optical apparatus is reduced.
US09843699B2
In a copy system includes an image recording apparatus and a reading apparatus. A controller of the image recording apparatus performs: controlling a recording device to record a particular code indicating communication information identifying a communication device of the image recording apparatus; receiving image data; and controlling the recording device to record at least one image based on the received image data. A controller of the reading apparatus performs: controlling a reading device to read at least one document to create image data; and analyzing the created image data and determining whether the created image data contains the particular code on a page-by-page basis. When determining that the created image data contains the particular code. The controller of the reading apparatus performs: obtaining the communication information indicated by the particular code; and transmitting a portion of the created image data to a destination identified by the communication information.
US09843696B2
An image forming apparatus includes a control unit configured to control writing or reading data to or from a storage unit and a cooling unit configured to cool the control unit and the storage unit, in which the control unit reads temperature information from the storage unit, and changes a timing of when to read the temperature information next from the storage unit and a cooling level of the cooling unit in conjunction with each other.
US09843695B2
An information processing system includes an acquisition unit that acquires internal information of an information processing apparatus, an acquisition unit that acquires, from a user, an execution request for a process to be executed, and a process executing unit that executes the process in accordance with the execution request. In a case where the acquired internal information indicates a symptom of a malfunction occurrence in the information processing apparatus, and where the requested process is determined to affect the malfunction occurrence, the process executing unit executes a restriction process in which execution of the requested process is restricted.
US09843690B2
An information processing apparatus includes a first display controller, a second display controller, an image display controller, and a first switching unit. The first display controller performs control such that a first screen is displayed on a display. The first screen is a screen that shows a specified destination and includes a first image for accepting an operation for inputting a character string representing a destination. The second display controller performs control such that a second screen is displayed. The second screen is a screen that shows a specified destination. The image display controller performs control, in response to a predetermined operation performed while the second screen is displayed, such that a second image for accepting an operation for inputting a character string representing a destination is displayed on the display. The first switching unit switches between the first screen and the second screen.
US09843678B2
Visual assistance systems and related methods are disclosed. A visual assistance system includes a visual assistance service configured to receive and display images from a user device on an electronic display for a live assistant. The visual assistance service is also configured to transmit assistant audio from the live assistant conveying information derived by the live assistant's review of the images. A visual assistance system comprises a user device configured to capture and transmit the images to the visual assistance service. The user device is also configured to receive the assistant audio from the visual assistance service, and reproduce the assistant audio to a user of the user device. The user is registered with the visual assistance service as having at least a minimum level of visual disability. A method of operating the visual assistance system includes receiving the images from, and transmitting the assistant audio to the user device.
US09843675B2
A receiving unit receives positional information of a terminal device. A storage unit stores a list in which a plurality of correspondence relationships between an area and an identifier are included. An adjusting unit adjusts the correspondence relationship included in the list. A first selection unit selects, from the adjusted list, an identifier corresponding to the received positional information. A first transmission unit transmits the selected identifier to the terminal device. An input unit inputs information on an area to be called. A second selection unit selects, from the adjusted list, an identifier corresponding to the input information. A second transmission unit transmits a call signal including the selected identifier.
US09843671B2
Caller name (CNAM) query results obtained from a traditional CNAM service are sent during call processing on a carrier network to the subscriber's mobile handset over a Short Message Service (SMS) channel on a mobile carrier network. A call page is received at a network carrier associated with a recipient of the received call page. A caller name (CNAM) query is performed, and the result of the performed CNAM query is sent to the recipient device before sending the call page to the recipient device. The CNAM query result is displayed on a display of the recipient device.
US09843664B2
A touch-panel cellular phone specifies an invalid area not accepting a user's input operation on a touch panel in advance. The cellular phone detects a user's touch area on the touch panel so as to execute a function pre-assigned to the touch area not encompassed by the invalid area. Additionally, it is possible to reduce and display menu icons in the display area precluding the invalid area on the touch panel. Thus, it is possible to prevent an error operation when a user holding a cellular phone inadvertently touches the touch panel.
US09843659B2
A mobile electronic device includes: a housing; an acoustic-component contained in the housing; a sound hole formed in the housing, the sound hole being configured to allow communication between an inside and an outside of the housing; a non-breathable waterproof film disposed inside the housing, the waterproof film being configured to cover the sound hole; a compressible member compressed by being pressed against the housing during assembly of the acoustic-component to the housing, the compressible member being configured to form an acoustic-component chamber together with at least the waterproof film, the acoustic-component chamber being configured to hermetically seal the acoustic-component; and an opening configured to allow communication between an inside and an outside of the acoustic-component chamber within the housing, the opening being configured to allow air in the acoustic-component chamber to escape to the outside before the opening is closed in the process of compressing the compressible member.
US09843658B2
A user terminal apparatus is provided. The user terminal apparatus includes: a flexible display including: a main area; and a sub area comprising a curved portion and extending from the main area to a side portion of the user terminal apparatus; a housing configured to enclose the flexible display; a sound output hole provided between the flexible display and the housing and configured to output a sound from a call function; and a sound input hole configured to receive an input sound.
US09843649B1
Systems and methods for selecting content based on an event associated with a device identifier are provided. One or more processors can receive a request to serve content. The processors can identify a device identifier associated with the request. The processors can determine, from the device identifier, an event for which to serve content. The processors can determine, from the request, a length of time between a time the request to serve content is received and a time at which the event is scheduled to occur. The processors can select, based on the determined length of time and event parameters associated with the event, content for display and provide the selected content for display at a computing device associated with the device identifier.
US09843644B2
A user participation-based measurement information utilization system and a user participation-based measurement information utilization server and method. The user participation-based measurement information utilization server includes a measurement information collection unit for collecting user measurement information corresponding to at least one of sensor information and wireless communication heterogeneous infrastructure measurement information from a terminal of a user, on which a measurement information utilization application is installed, a pattern update unit for updating a user pattern corresponding to the user in a measurement information correlation database (DB) in accordance with the user measurement information based on a time at which the user measurement information is collected, and a service provision unit for providing measurement information utilization service to the user based on one or more similar patterns having a correlation with the user pattern among multiple patterns included in a measurement information list.
US09843643B2
A system for monitoring consumer activity on a website is described herein. The system includes a memory device and an activity sessionization server. The memory device is configured to store a webpage list including a plurality of webpage records and an activity session list including a plurality of activity session records. Each of the activity session records including a webpage URL and a session ID. The activity sessionization server retrieves a webpage record from the webpage list, determines if the retrieved webpage record includes a referral URL, identifies a matching activity session record that includes a corresponding webpage URL that matches the referral URL of the retrieved webpage record, determines a corresponding session ID associated with the matching activity session record, and associates the corresponding session ID with the current activity session record.
US09843641B2
Systems and methods include a distributed system that uses a declarative language to separate application logic from the network technology used to communicate. For example, in a system with a plurality of processing nodes, each processing node may include at least one processor, a networking layer for communicating with other processing nodes, and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the processing node to perform operations. The operations may include receiving a processing plan using the networking layer and analyzing the processing plan to determine a service to perform and a number of inputs anticipated for the service. The operations may also include performing the determined service. The processing plan defines a processing tree comprising a subset of the plurality of processing nodes, the processing tree having unidirectional communication from the root to a final level of the tree.
US09843640B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving a write request from a publisher comprising a channel name wherein the channel identified by the channel name comprises an ordered plurality of messages stored in buffers, each buffer having a predetermined time-to-live and being assigned to a respective node, identifying a first node and a first buffer stored on the first node based on the channel name of the request that has available storage for storing messages and wherein the first buffer has a time-to-live that has not expired, and sending a write grant to the publisher wherein the grant comprises identification of the first node and the first buffer, and wherein the publisher is configured to send messages to the first node for storage in the first buffer based on the grant until the first buffer is full or its time-to-live has expired.
US09843639B2
A method and apparatus for inter-device communication processing is described. The method includes acquiring first sensing data collected by a first sensor arranged at a first electronic device and second sensing data collected by a second sensor arranged at a second electronic device; determining a first track on the basis of the first sensing data; determining a second track on the basis of the second sensing data; judging the first track and the second track match, and acquiring a first judgment result; when the first judgment result indicates that the first track and the second track match, executing a command related to data transmission to establish between the first electronic device and the second electronic device a transmission channel used for data transmission and/or perform data transmission between the first electronic device and the second electronic device.
US09843638B2
An information processing system includes: an information processing apparatus; and a terminal device configured to communicate with the information processing apparatus using a connection established between the information processing apparatus and the terminal device. The information processing apparatus notifies the terminal device of scheduled time of release of the connection, and the terminal device determines whether or not current time has passed the scheduled time notified from the information processing apparatus at the time of transmitting a request to the information processing apparatus and, in a case where the current time is determined to have passed the scheduled time, before transmitting the request to the information processing apparatus, transmits a connection request for establishing a connection with the information processing apparatus to the information processing apparatus.
US09843629B2
In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for supporting an object-based stateful protocol (for example, T3 protocol) in a multitenant application server environment. The system includes a domain with a plurality of server instances, and a plurality of partitions thereon, wherein two or more partitions can spread across a first server instance and a second server instance of the plurality of server instances. Each of the first and second server instances can include a single remote java virtual machine (RJVM) that manages connections established through a single server channel on that server instance using the object-based stateful protocol. The application server instance initiating the connections can associate each connection with a particular partition using a token, and use a smart stub to recover a failed connection. A standalone Java application can similarly initiate connections to an application server instance.
US09843625B2
A system and computer-implemented method for aggregating and providing data from one or more enterprise systems to one or more mobile devices is provided. The system comprises one or more enterprise systems configured to store data pertaining to one or more enterprises. The system further comprises a middleware server, in communication with one or more mobile devices, configured to connect with the one or more enterprise systems based on a predefined information architecture. Further, the middleware server is configured to extract the data from the one or more connected enterprise systems. Furthermore, the middleware server is configured to transform the extracted data into one or more mobile compatible formats. In addition, the middleware server is configured to send the transformed data to the one or more mobile devices. The system further comprises one or more mobile devices configured to locally store and render the transformed data.
US09843608B2
A method is provided for synchronous sharing of a document between a first and a second terminal. The method includes: transmission of a message to the second terminal comprising the coordinates of at least one contact point defined on the basis of the document to be shared; upon the opening of a viewing time window defined by the intersection of a first and of a second time window defined respectively for the first and the second terminal and each being bounded by the receipt, originating from the terminal, of a sharing agreement message triggered by an action on the at least one contact point and the receipt of an abandonment message triggered by the stopping of the action on the at least one contact point, of transmission of the document and of a command to display the document to the second terminal; and transmission of a command to delete the document upon the closing of the viewing time window.
US09843598B2
The disclosed embodiments provide a system that facilitates the processing of network data. During operation, the system provides a risk-identification mechanism for identifying a security risk from time-series event data generated from network packets captured by one or more remote capture agents distributed across a network. Next, the system provides a capture trigger for generating additional time-series event data from the network packets on the one or more remote capture agents based on the security risk, wherein the additional time-series event data includes one or more event attributes.
US09843597B2
Techniques for monitoring a controller area network bus are described herein. In one example, a system comprises a processor that is to detect a message from a source electronic control unit in a vehicle and calculate a location of the source electronic control unit based on at least two arrival times, the arrival times indicating a distance between a first monitor and the source electronic control unit. The processor can also detect that the message corresponds to a function controlled by a second electronic control unit and generate a warning that the message from the source electronic control unit is malicious.
US09843595B2
Systems and methods for providing security services during a power management mode are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method comprises detecting with a mobile security system a wake event on a mobile device, providing from the mobile security system a wake signal, the providing being in response to the wake event to wake a mobile device from a power management mode, and managing with the mobile security system security services of the mobile device. Managing security services may comprise scanning a hard drive of the mobile devices for viruses and/or other malware. Managing security services may also comprise updating security applications or scanning the mobile device for unauthorized data.
US09843594B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method for detecting anomalous messages in automobile networks may include (1) receiving automobile-network messages that are expected to be broadcast over an automobile network of an automobile, (2) extracting a set of features from the automobile-network messages, and (3) using the set of features to create a model that is capable of distinguishing expected automobile-network messages from anomalous automobile-network messages. The disclosed computer-implemented method may further include (1) detecting an automobile-network message that has been broadcast over the automobile network, (2) using the model to determine that the automobile-network message is anomalous, and (3) performing a security action in response to determining that the automobile-network message is anomalous. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US09843585B2
Methods and apparatus for large scale distribution of electronic access control clients. In one aspect, a tiered security software protocol is disclosed. In one exemplary embodiment, a server electronic Universal Integrated Circuit Card (eUICC) and client eUICC software comprise a so-called “stack” of software layers. Each software layer is responsible for a set of hierarchical functions which are negotiated with its corresponding peer software layer. The tiered security software protocol is configured for large scale distribution of electronic Subscriber Identity Modules (eSIMs).
US09843568B2
Various methods are provided for facilitating a reduction in the number of required search operations during account creation. One example method may comprise causing creation of a user account object configured for storage in a database, the user account object comprising user personal information, causing creation of a user linked account object configured for storage in the database, the user linked account object comprising user credential information, the user linked account object linked the user account object, generating, via processor, an identification field of the user linked account object, generation of the identification field comprising: receiving at least identification information and an account type; accessing a realm; and utilizing a hash function to generate a composite key as a function of the identification information, the account type, and the realm.
US09843562B1
Private anonymous electronic messaging between a message originator and a message recipient within an organization encourages open communication which can provide information to the organization that might otherwise be secreted from the organization, and can allow the message originator to obtain desired help (e.g., counseling). By profiling of the message originator based on current and previous electronic messaging within the system as well as external organizational information (e.g., behavioral or financial information), the system can assess concerns yet act as a gateway to protect the message originator's true identity through escalating levels of concern unless a genuine concern about the health, well-being, and/or safety of the message originator, others, or the organization is indicated, in which case the system can reveal the true identity of the message originator as appropriate.
US09843560B2
Automatically validating a firewall rule for provisioning in a computer system. One or more firewall rules for provisioning on a server is received from a user device. Based on predefined firewall rules, whether to approve one or more of the firewall rules and deny one or more of the firewall rules is determined. Responsive to determining that one or more of the firewall rules are denied, additional validation of one or more of the firewall rules that are denied are performed. A firewall rule learning engine is updated with a result of the additional validation. Based on the result of the additional validation, the firewall rule learning engine updates the predefined firewall rules. One or more of the firewall rules that are approved on the server may be provisioned.
US09843559B2
Disclosed are method and system for determining the validity of a command line, comprising the steps of: maintaining a first IP address database including first IP address information or at least one terminal specification information associated with the first IP address information, in which the first IP address information includes IP address information of a proxy server or that of a terminal using a dynamic IP address; receiving a command line from a terminal of a user; extracting a request content, second IP address information, or second terminal specification information included in the command line; generating log information including the request content, the second IP address information, the second terminal specification information or input time point information with respect to the input time point of the command line recording the log information associated with the command line in a log database; identifying the terminal by referring to the first IP address database and the log database; and determining the validity of the command line in association with the identified terminal.
US09843555B2
Methods and apparatus for providing ubiquitous and configurable communications between users is provided. Ubiquity and other features are provided using a common identifier linking two or more users. In one embodiment, a common identifier is automatically provided when call forwarding is directed to a designated phone number. In another embodiment, a user can cause a common identifier to be created linking the user with a user of their choice by sending a text message to a designated address. This Abstract is provided for the sole purpose of complying with the Abstract requirement rules that allow a reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the disclosure contained herein. This Abstract is submitted with the explicit understanding that it will not be used to interpret or to limit the scope or the meaning of the claims.
US09843553B2
Provided are a method and device for sending message. The method includes that: a mapping table is established; a message is received from a receiver; the mapping table is searched to obtain a Route Identification (RID) of an Access Service Node (ASN) of a sender corresponding to the message according to the message; and the message is sent to the ASN according to the found RID of the ASN. By the technical solution, the problem of non-uniformity of access manners for uplink and downlink data streams in a related technology is solved, and a proper access manner can be selected for the downlink data stream.
US09843548B2
A system includes at least one first service device. Each first service device has one or more processors, a service instant messaging (IM) application, and at least one first service. The service IM application, when executed at the one or more processors of the at least one first service device, is configured to receive at least one command instant message, where the at least one command instant message comprises at least one first command associated with the at least one first service, extract the at least one first command from the at least one command instant message, and send the extracted first command to the at least one first service such that the at least one first service performs a corresponding first function based on the extracted first command.
US09843530B2
A queue management method, system, and recording medium include a queue examining device configured to examine a reverse flow queue from a forwarder for an acknowledged packet and a dropping device configured to drop a packet in a forward flow queue if the packet in the forward flow queue includes the acknowledged packet in the reverse flow queue.
US09843529B2
In one embodiment, a method includes selecting a flow from a head of a first control queue or a second control queue. The method also includes providing service to the selected flow. Moreover, the method includes decreasing a service credit of the selected flow by an amount corresponding to an amount of service provided to the selected flow. In another embodiment, a computer program product includes a computer readable storage medium having program code embodied therewith. The embodied program code is readable/executable by a device to select, by the device, a flow from a head of a first control queue or a second control queue. The embodied program code is also readable/executable to provide, by the device, service to the selected flow, and decrease, by the device, a service credit of the selected flow by an amount corresponding to an amount of service provided to the selected flow.
US09843525B2
A method of controlling data packet congestion in a data packet network comprises determining a reference flow condition that results in data packet congestion at a node of a data packet network, and identifying a data packet flow having a flow condition substantially equal to the reference flow condition. For such an identified data packet flow the following actions are taken causing a data packet to be dropped from the identified data packet flow, allowing a predetermined number of data packets from the identified data packet flow to proceed, and dropping data packets from the identified data packet flow subsequent to the predetermined number of data packets, until the packets that were not dropped have been delivered to the egress ports of the network.
US09843524B2
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for handling data being communicated over lossless Ethernet that is sensitive to delays. Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) is one example of an environment where data may be subject to unacceptable delays. The method involves designating certain data as low latency data that is sensitive to delays in transmission. The low latency data is then transmitted in such a manner that the receiving devices are aware that they are receiving low latency data. If a delay in the transmission of low latency is detected, commands are issued that pause or slow standard data in order to free up bandwidth for the low latency data. The commands may be, for example, backward congestion notifications and priority flow control. Low latency data is exempted from backward congestion notifications and priority flow control. Priority 7 priority group 15 may be reserved exclusively for low latency data.
US09843516B2
The communication node includes an entry memory adapted to store a preset number of the control information entries, each stipulating the processing applied to a packet received, in association with the user information, and a packet processor that references the entry memory to process the packet received. The communication node also includes an entry management section that exercises control so that, on the basis of a preset reference, the proportion of the number of the control information entries for one user stored in the entry memory to the number of the control information entries storable in the entry memory will not surpass a preset value.
US09843513B2
An example method includes exchanging targeted hello messages to establish a targeted neighbor connection between a first routing device and a second routing device, wherein one of the routing devices comprises a central routing device, and wherein another one of the routing devices comprises an ingress routing device. The example method further includes processing a source-active register message that specifies a source address and an identifier that are collectively associated with a multicast stream, and wherein the source-active register message further indicates whether the multicast stream is active or withdrawn. After processing the source-active register message, the example method further includes processing a list-of-receivers register message that specifies an egress routing device and at least the identifier that is associated with the multicast stream, wherein the list-of-receivers register message further indicates whether or not the egress routing device requests receipt of data associated with the multicast stream.
US09843506B2
In a distributed control system including a central communication device, terminal communication devices to which target devices to be controlled are connected, and a network including multiple communication paths connecting the central communication device and terminal communication devices, each terminal communication device includes a calculation input/output performance storage unit storing input/output performance of a calculation unit for controlling the target devices to be controlled and a control input/output performance storage unit storing the performance of the input/output control units of the target devices to be controlled, and the central communication device collects input/output performance information previously stored in these storage units, determines communication paths of the terminal communication units and a packet division method in such a manner that an amount of a communication data of a network and response performance requested of the distributed control system are satisfied, on the basis of the collected input/output performance information and sets the determination results in the terminal communication devices.
US09843505B2
A computer-implemented method includes sending a first request message to a first server associated with a first access network indicative of a request for an indication of whether the first server is configured to support prioritization of tunneled traffic, receiving a first response message from the first server indicative of whether the first server is configured to support prioritization of tunneled traffic, establishing one or more first tunnels with a security service when the first response message is indicative that the first server is configured to support prioritization of tunneled traffic, sending first flow characteristics and a first tunnel identifier to the first server; and receiving the first flow characteristics for each first tunnel from the first server at a first network controller. The first network controller is configured to apply a quality of service policy within the first access network for each tunnel in accordance with the flow characteristics.
US09843503B1
A method for dynamic routing is provided. Status information of a multichannel video and data distribution service (MVDDS) channel from customer premises equipment (CPE) is received. The status information is evaluated to determine if data destined for the CPE over the MVDDS channel should be routed over a secondary channel. Data destined for the CPE is route over the secondary channel when the data is determined to be routed over the secondary channel.
US09843470B1
A portable data center is configured to be supported by any suitable self-propelled motor vehicle, and transported to a client location, such that a large volume of data can be transmitted to, and stored on, computing devices of the portable data center via a hard wire communication link. The portable data center can then be transported to a data center building so as to store the data received at the client location on one or more computing devices housed in the data center building.
US09843466B2
A method for disabling a sequence group hopping by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the method includes receiving a cell-specific sequence group hopping parameter from a base station, wherein the cell-specific sequence group hopping parameter is used to enable the sequence group hopping for a plurality of UEs, including the UE, in a cell; receiving a UE-specific sequence group hopping parameter from the base station, wherein the UE-specific sequence group hopping parameter is used to disable the sequence group hopping for the UE; and disabling the sequence group hopping by the UE-specific sequence group hopping parameter.
US09843461B2
In various exemplary embodiments, a system architecture and associated method to provide value-added content in an electronic communications environment occurring over a communications link between a first electronic system provider and a third-party cloud provider is disclosed. The system architecture comprises an electronic communications interface to allow translation between the first electronic system provider, additional electronic system providers, and an end-user to the third-party cloud provider. The electronic communications interface further provides the first electronic system provider with at least a portion of the content within communications streams from the additional electronic system providers and the end-user via the communications link. A visual generator provides display regions to the end-user with the value-added content from the first electronic system provider that is related to the at least a portion of the content of at least one of the communications streams.
US09843454B2
Techniques for contextual mobile data access are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus may comprise a mobile device with a local gateway utility. The local gateway utility may be operative to receive a network request on a device, determine that the network request corresponds to a context-specific data plan for the device, the context-specific data plan authorizing performance of the network request through a zero-rated proxy server, and perform the network request for the application using the zero-rated proxy server as an intermediary. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09843453B2
A method for authorizing I/O (input/output) commands in a storage cluster is provided. The method includes generating a token responsive to an authority initiating an I/O command, wherein the token is specific to assignment of the authority and a storage node of the storage cluster. The method includes verifying the I/O command using the token, wherein the token includes a signature confirming validity of the token and wherein the token is revocable.
US09843452B2
A certificate authority service receives a request to issue a long-duration digital certificate from an entity for validation purposes between the entity and the service. Upon issuance of the long-duration digital certificate, the entity submits a request to the service for issuance of a short-duration digital certificate that includes a shorter validity period than the long-duration digital certificate. The service may utilize the long-duration digital certificate to validate the entity and, upon validating the entity, issues the short-duration digital certificate to the entity. The entity may subsequently utilize the short-duration digital certificate to enable a user client to authenticate the entity and securely communicate with the entity.
US09843448B1
The present disclosure provides details of a system and method for customizing an inmate communication notification. Such a system provides an inmate different customized notification messages to be played to different called parties. The system includes a list of different contacts, and each of the contacts can be associated with one or more contact numbers. Each contact number is associated with one or more customized notification messages. The customized notification messages include terms, phrases, and sentences that draws the called party's attention and sound familiar to the called party. The customized notification messages include customized text files, audio files, and video files. An inmate chooses one or more customized notification messages to be played to a called party.
US09843444B2
Disclosed is a communication apparatus for executing processing for sharing an encryption key between itself and another party's communication apparatus, wherein the communication apparatus executes the processing, respectively at least one time, as an authenticating apparatus and an authenticated apparatus. The communication apparatus determines which encryption key of an encryption key provided by this communication apparatus and an encryption key provided by the other party's communication apparatus is the encryption key used in common by this communication apparatus and the other party's communication apparatus, and decides, in accordance with result of the determination, which of this communication apparatus and the other party's communication apparatus is to be made the authenticating apparatus first.
US09843440B2
An encryptor/decryptor, an electronic device including the encryptor/decryptor, and a method of operating the encryptor/decryptor are provided. The method of operating the encryptor/decryptor includes distributing an input plaintext stream to a plurality of encryption/decryption cores by pieces of plaintext data; performing a first operation by a first encryption/decryption core from among the plurality of encryption/decryption cores; and encrypting the plaintext data to ciphertext data or decrypting the ciphertext data to the plaintext data by each of the plurality of encryption/decryption cores by using a result of performing the first operation in the first encryption/decryption core.
US09843439B2
A system for managing holdover. The system may include a local oscillator device. The system may include a phase locked loop (PLL) device coupled to the local oscillator device and a reference clock source. The PLL device may obtain a reference clock signal from the reference clock source to produce an extracted clock signal. The system may include a drift monitoring device coupled to the local oscillator device and the PLL device. The drift monitoring device may determine an amount of oscillator drift within the local oscillator device using the extracted clock signal and an oscillator signal from the local oscillator device. The system may include a drift compensation device coupled to the drift monitoring device and the PLL device. The drift compensation device may transmit a drift compensation signal to the PLL device based on the amount of oscillator drift.
US09843430B2
Provided are a method and an apparatus for a user equipment, which is allocated a plurality of serving cells, receiving acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) in a wireless communication system. The method comprises: transmitting uplink data through a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH); and receiving ACK/NACK with respect to the uplink through a physical hybrid-ARQ indicator channel (PHICH), wherein a serving cell that receives the ACK/NACK is selected from one or more serving cells, which the user equipment monitors to detect an uplink grant that schedules the PUSCH.
US09843429B2
The prevent invention relates to a method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving data. The method for receiving control data by a terminal can include the steps of: a terminal receiving redundant information on a first control channel from a base station; the terminal receiving a first subframe from the base station and first blind decoding being performed on the first subframe in order to monitor the first control channel; the terminal receiving a second subframe from the base station and second blind decoding being performed on the second subframe on the basis of the redundant information and the first blind decoding information in order to monitor a second control channel.
US09843417B2
A method of estimating a spatial filter matrix is provided. A conjugate of a received first signal defines a conjugate first signal. A Kronecker product of the defined first signal and a received second signal define a differential measurement signal. The computations are repeated for a plurality of first and second signals sufficient to compute an estimate of a channel matrix from the differential measurement signals. A spatial filter matrix is computed from the computed estimate of the channel matrix. The computed spatial filter matrix is used in a data communication phase between the first plurality of antennas and the second plurality of antennas.
US09843409B2
Embodiments herein provide a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) method for a communication system in general, and more particularly to an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) based communication system to serve more than one receivers on the same resources. The method includes selecting, by a transmitter, a plurality of precoder matrices for a plurality of receivers from a predefined codebook of precoders, where the plurality of precoder matrices is dynamically cycled within an allocated resource. Further, the method includes transmitting, by the transmitter, a symbol vector precoded with the plurality of precoder matrices over MIMO channel associated with the plurality of receivers.
US09843407B2
A radio communication device capable of randomizing both inter-cell interference and intra-cell interference. In this device, a spreading section primarily spreads a response signal in a ZAC sequence set by a control unit. A spreading section secondarily spreads the primarily spread response signal in a block-wise spreading code sequence set by the control unit. The control unit controls the cyclic shift amount of the ZAC sequence used for the primary spreading in the spreading section and the block-wise spreading code sequence used for the secondary spreading in the spreading section according to a set hopping pattern. The hopping pattern set by the control unit is made up of two hierarchies. An LB-based hopping pattern different for each cell is defined in the first hierarchy in order to randomize the inter-cell interference. A hopping pattern different for each mobile station is defined in the second hierarchy to randomize the intra-cell interference.
US09843406B2
Provided are a receiver, a transmitter and a radio communication method capable of using non-orthogonal multiple access while suppressing cost increase and processing delay. A mobile station 200A receives non-orthogonal signals, also receives a reference signal to be used for interference cancellation, and extracts the non-orthogonal signal addressed to the mobile station 200A from the received non-orthogonal signals by demodulating and cancelling the radio signal addressed to another mobile station. In addition, the mobile station 200A demodulates the extracted non-orthogonal signal addressed to the mobile station 200A on the basis of the reference signal. The reference signal is multiplexed in the same radio resource block as a resource block allocated to the non-orthogonal signals, and is multiplexed in the radio resource block only when at least one signal is scheduled in the radio resource block.
US09843402B1
A method and apparatus for generating a probability density function eye are provided. The method preferably includes the steps of acquiring an input waveform, performing a clock data recovery in accordance with the input waveform to determine one or more expected transition times and defining a plurality of unit intervals of the input waveform in accordance with the one or more expected transition times. One or more values of one or more data points may then be determined in accordance with the input waveform in accordance with the one or more expected transition times, and a category for each unit interval in accordance with its state and its position within the input waveform may also be determined. One or more histograms may then be generated for the determined one or more values for each category of unit intervals.
US09843401B2
A system and process that incorporates teachings of the subject disclosure may include, for example, an interference monitor configured to detect occurrences of unintended signals within a communications link. A communications link may carry a down-converted format of a satellite signal from an earth terminal to an integrated receiver and decoder for further network distribution. Depending upon the nature of any such detected unintended signals, the communications link can be “swapped out” for a redundant communications link carrying a down-converted format of the same satellite signal obtained by way of a redundant earth terminal. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09843399B2
Radiation receiver apparatus with a radiation receiver and a radiation entrance face, wherein the radiation receiver includes an active region that detects radiation with a target wavelength in the near-infrared, an optical element is arranged between the radiation entrance face and the radiation receiver, an optical axis of the optical element extends through the radiation receiver, the optical element is shaped and arranged relative to the radiation receiver such that, of radiation incident on the radiation entrance face at an angle of greater than or equal to 40° to the optical axis, at most 10% is incident on the radiation receiver, and a visible light filter is formed between the radiation receiver and the radiation entrance face.
US09843396B2
An optical transmitter includes an optical modulator that is driven by a driving signal, an acquisition part, and a controller. The acquisition part obtains a relationship between a fluctuation of a parameter to adjust the driving signal and a fluctuation of a state of output light from the optical modulator due to the fluctuation of the parameter. The controller controls an amplitude of the driving signal on the basis of the obtained relationship.
US09843387B2
When necessary process times in a reception apparatus for a determination on a change area, a determination on the color of the change area, and a decoding of bit data stream exceed a predetermined time from a frame acquiring timing, and a process delay would occur, an image generator acquires a frame. In addition, a decoder temporarily stores the frame in a memory, and thereafter at a predetermined timing performs the determination on the change area, the determination on the color of the change area, and the decoding of the bit data stream.
US09843381B2
A method of transmitting a signal of a base station in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes transmitting a first signal to the relay station through the transmission period in a subframe including a transmission period and a guard time for transmission/reception switching of a relay station, and transmitting a second signal to a macro user equipment through the guard time. Accordingly, a signal can be effectively transmitted in the wireless communication system employing the relay station.
US09843379B2
A method and apparatus is disclosed to restrict the delivery of video, audio, and/or data to unauthorized end users in a satellite communications system. The satellite communications system includes one or more satellite receiving antennas, commonly referred to as a satellite dish, to receive downlink communications signals from one or more satellites. The transmission received by the one or more satellite receiving antennas is converted by an outdoor unit (ODU) for transmission to one or more indoor units (IDUs). The ODU receives control information from one or more satellites from the downlink communications signals, commonly referred to as in-band, and/or from out-of-band communications signals. The ODU may use the control information to restrict access to one or more communications channels embedded within the downlink communications signals to the unauthorized end users.
US09843374B2
A transmitter includes first generator to generate pilot source signal by modulating pilot sequence, second generator to generate data source signal with time length longer than that of pilot source signal by modulating data sequence, first cyclic shifter to perform cyclic shift of first shift amount to pilot source signal to generate first pilot signal, second cyclic shifter to performs cyclic shift of second shift amount to data source signal to generate first data signal, third cyclic shifter to perform cyclic shift of third shift amount to pilot source signal to generate second pilot signal, fourth cyclic shifter to perform cyclic shift of fourth shift amount to data source signal to generate second data signal, first transmit antenna to transmit first pilot signal and first data signal, and second transmit antenna to transmit second pilot signal and second data signal.
US09843368B2
Disclosed is a transmission scheme for transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal over the same frequency at the same time. According to the transmission scheme, a precoding weight multiplying unit multiplies a baseband signal after a first mapping and a baseband signal after a second mapping by a precoding weight and outputs the first modulated signal and the second modulated signal. In the precoding weight multiplying unit, precoding weights are regularly hopped.
US09843362B2
An information processing device includes: a communication control unit which performs short-range wireless communication with an IC tag; a base antenna; and a terminal to which an extension antenna device can be connected, the extension antenna device includes: extension antennas; and a terminal which, by being connected to the terminal to which an extension antenna device can be connected, connects the extension antennas and the information processing device to each other, and the communication control unit performs the short-range wireless communication with the IC tag via at least any of the base antenna 19 and the extension antennas.
US09843357B2
A method for transmitting signals over a power line network, wherein within the power line network at least one transmitter and at least one receiver communicate via at least two channels, each channel including a respective feeding port of at least one transmitter and the respective receiving port of the at least one transmitter and transmitter including at least two feeding ports. The method: determines a channel characteristic of each of the channels; applies a feeding port selection criterion based on the channel characteristic; and selects an excluded feeding port among the at least two feeding ports based on the feeding port selection criterion, wherein the excluded feeding port is not used during further communication. A corresponding power line communication modem can implement the method.
US09843352B2
The disclosure generally relates to a method, apparatus and system for identifying non-compliant radio emissions and for enforcing compliance. In one embodiment, the disclosure relates to a dynamic radiation control of a radio by measuring a signal attribute for an outbound signal having a protocol; comparing the signal attribute with a predefined mask, the predefined mask governed by at least one of a radio location or a signal protocol; and determining whether to transmit the outbound signal.
US09843347B2
Methods and systems for Interference management are described. Methods and systems can be used for minimizing interference among communication and/or electronic devices. Interference data can be gathered/received from interference sources such as weather and natural patterns, various electronic devices, and one or more network protocols. The interference data can be used to generate interference patterns of each interference source in an interference map. The interference map can be used to determine how a particular interference pattern can affect a system. The interference map can also be used to evaluate a new source of interference (e.g., cordless phones, weather conditions) to determine how a system can be affected. The interference data can also be associated with an interference signature (e.g., an interference pattern, a fingerprint) for an interference source in a database. The database can be used based on the interference signature to identify known and/or unknown interference sources.
US09843346B1
A digital frontend circuit for a radio frequency (RF) comprises a digital predistortion (DPD) block, a plurality of sub-sample delay elements, and a selection circuit. The DPD block for computing predistorted transmit signals according to a Volterra series approximation model. The DPD block has an input for receiving input samples at a first sample rate and an output for providing the predistorted transmit signals at the first sample rate. Each of the sub-sample delay elements provides a delay to an input sample as specified by the Volterra series approximation model, where each of the delays is based on a fraction of the first sample rate. The selection circuit selects one of the plurality of sub-sample delay elements in response to a selection signal from the digital predistortion block. The selection signal for selecting a delay as specified by the Volterra series approximation model.
US09843344B2
The present invention aims to provide a digital variable capacitance circuit, a resonant circuit, an amplification circuit, and a transmitter having a high performance. A digital variable capacitance circuit 50 according to this embodiment is a digital variable capacitance circuit including a plurality of unit capacity cells 51-0 to 51-n connected in parallel between two output terminals OUTP and OUTN, in which the unit capacity cell 51 comprises: a first capacitor Cu1 having one end connected to one output terminal OUTP; a second capacitor Cu2 that is connected in series with the first capacitor Cu1 between the two output terminals; and an NMOS transistor M1 that is connected in parallel with the second capacitor Cu2 and is controlled in accordance with a digital control signal.
US09843340B2
A semiconductor device according to the present invention has a capacitance DAC (Digital-to-Analog Converter) circuit and a comparator.The capacitance DAC circuit includes: first capacitors to which input signals are given and each of which has a capacitance value corresponding to a weight of a bit to be converted; and second capacitors to which common voltages are given and whose sum of capacitance values is equivalent to that of the first capacitors. Further, the second capacitors include: a redundant bit capacitor having a capacitance value corresponding to a weight of a redundant bit; and adjustment capacitors each having a capacitance value obtained by subtracting the capacitance value of the redundant bit capacitor from the sum of the capacitance values of the second capacitors.
US09843335B2
The present disclosure pertains to systems and methods for monitoring a plurality of analog-to-digital converters. In one embodiment, a plurality of input channels may each be in communication with a different phase of a three-phase electric power delivery system. The input channels may be configured to receive analog signals from the different phases. A composite signal subsystem may be configured to generate a composite signal based on the plurality of input channels. An analog-to-digital converter subsystem may be configured to produce a digitized representation of each of the plurality of input channels and a digitized representation of the composite signal. An analog-to-digital converter monitor subsystem may identify an error in the analog-to-digital conversion based on the digitized representation of the composite signal and the digitized representations of the plurality of input channels.
US09843329B2
A frequency divider circuit can achieve multi-modulus operation. The frequency divider includes clocking transistor devices, memory transistor circuits, write transistor devices, and a current source bias. The clocking transistor devices receive a differential input signal having a first frequency at an input of the frequency divider. The memory transistor circuits store signals based on the differential input signal from the clocking transistor devices. The write transistor devices make a divided frequency signal available at an output terminal. The current source bias is coupled to the clocking transistor devices. The current source bias applies a bias current to adapt the frequency divider to a common-mode at the input of the frequency divider.
US09843323B2
A sensing apparatus and method are provided for determining an input point of a touch. A sensing loop unit includes at least one loop. Each of the at least one loop includes two sub-loops separated by a predetermined distance. An area determination loop unit determines one of the two sub-loops of each of the at least one loop that corresponds to the input point. A controller determines a plurality of candidates of the input point based on a first input signal from the sensing loop unit, and determines the input point from among the plurality of candidates of the input point based on a second input signal from the area determination loop unit.
US09843317B2
The present disclosure provides a method and a device for processing PWM data, so as to reduce the size of the PWM data. The method includes: dividing pulse widths in the PWM data into at least one pulse width group; determining a convergence pulse width for each of the at least one pulse width group, herein each of the at least one pulse width group converges around a same pulse width, respectively; replacing each of the at least one pulse width group with the corresponding convergence pulse width; and representing the PWM data by using the convergence pulse widths. Through the technical solution, the size of the PWM data may be reduced, transmission speed of the PWM data may be improved, and the space for storing the PWM data may be decreased.
US09843310B2
A duty cycle calibration circuit includes a first signal-generating circuit, receiving a clock signal to generate a first signal and a second signal, wherein the second signal and the first signal are the inverse of each other and synchronous. The calibration circuit also includes a first transmission gate, supplying a supply voltage to an adjustment signal according to the first signal and the second signal, and a fourth transmission gate, coupling the inverse of the adjustment signal to a ground according to the first signal and the second signal.
US09843307B2
A method includes receiving a signal from a remote transmitter via an electrically-tunable antenna having a tunable element. An adjustment, to be applied to a response of the electrically-tunable antenna, is calculating by analyzing the received signal. The response of the electrically-tunable antenna is adapted by controlling the tunable element responsively to the estimated adjustment.
US09843303B2
Switchable and/or tunable filters, methods of manufacture and design structures are disclosed herein. The method of forming the filters includes forming at least one piezoelectric filter structure comprising a plurality of electrodes formed on a piezoelectric substrate. The method further includes forming a fixed electrode with a plurality of fingers on the piezoelectric substrate. The method further includes forming a moveable electrode with a plurality of fingers over the piezoelectric substrate. The method further includes forming actuators aligned with one or more of the plurality of fingers of the moveable electrode.
US09843299B2
A multilayer electronic component includes: a body including one or more ceramic layers or magnetic layers; an inductor part including coil portions disposed in the body to be perpendicular to a lower surface of the body; a plurality of internal electrodes disposed in the body to be perpendicular to the lower surface of the body; and an input terminal, an output terminal, and a ground terminal disposed on the lower surface of the body, wherein the body includes a capacitor part comprising at least one among the plurality of internal electrodes and at least one among the coil portions with at least one of the ceramic layers or magnetic layers interposed therebetween.
US09843297B2
A balanced differential transimpedance amplifier with a single-ended input operational over a wide variation in the dynamic range of input signals. A threshold circuit is employed to either or a combination of (1) generate a varying decision threshold to ensure a proper slicing over a wide range of input current signal levels; and (2) generate a bias current and voltage applied to an input of a transimpedance stage to cancel out a dependence of the transimpedance stage voltage input on input current signal levels.
US09843288B2
A method detecting a parallel arc in a photovoltaic device, including N (N=1 or N>1) photovoltaic modules, connected to a charge device having a capacitive behavior for the modules, the method including: a) detecting, across main terminals of the device, evolution of voltage over time, at least during formation of the electric arc; b) identifying a negative voltage variation between a first zone with stable voltage and a second zone with stable voltage for a duration of at least 5 μs, which immediately follows the voltage variation, and c) determining whether the voltage variation is between a maximum value Vmax, greater than or equal to 100 V, and a minimum value Vmin, less than or equal to 30 V, with a fall time of this variation between a minimum duration Tmin greater than or equal to 0.01 μs and a maximum duration Tmax less than or equal to 10 μs.
US09843284B2
A system for controlling fault tolerance may include a first controller connected to a driver, a first switch connected in parallel to the first controller, a first capacitor connected in parallel to the first switch, a second switch connected in parallel to the first capacitor and different from the first switch, a first power supply connected in parallel to the first capacitor and connected in series to the second switch, and a second capacitor connected to the first switch and a ground of the first power supply and different from the first capacitor. When the first controller is broken down, the second switch may be turned off to interrupt power supply from the first power supply, and the first switch may be turned on to discharge electric charges charged in the second capacitor.
US09843279B2
A motor control system includes an inverter and a plurality of current sensors each positioned in-line between the inverter and a phase coil of the motor. Each current sensor measures the current provided to each phase coil of the motor and provides a signal indicative of each phase current to a controller. In some embodiments, the currents sensors are provided as one or more current sense integrated circuits. A protection circuit protects the current sense integrated circuit from ground bounce by coupling a diode and an opposite facing Zener diode in series between the power supply pin and the ground pin of the integrated circuit.
US09843278B2
Aspects of a power conversion system can include a capacitor which stores direct current power, an inverter, and a pair of direct current terminals of which are connected to two ends of the capacitor and to the alternating current terminals of which an alternating current motor acting as a load is connected. Also included can be an upper and lower arm portion of which the connection point of semiconductor switches connected in series is connected to the neutral point of the motor, a direct current power source connected in parallel to the upper and lower arm portion and a switch connected between one of the direct current terminals of the inverter and one end of the upper and lower arm portion. The other direct current terminal of the inverter can be connected to the other end of the upper and lower arm portion.
US09843249B2
An apparatus including an array of coils wherein each coil of the array of coils is wound around a core region for containing a fluid; an external magnet assembly mounted outside of the array of coils and movable over the array of coils; and an internal magnet assembly mounted inside the core region around which the coils of the array of coils are wound, wherein the internal magnet assembly is aligned with and magnetically coupled to the external magnet assembly so that the external and internal magnet assemblies move together along the array of coils in response drive signals applied to the coils within the array of coils.
US09843231B2
A rotating electric machine includes an annular stator core with stator teeth. Each of the stator teeth has a pair of protruding portions that are formed at a distal end of the stator tooth so as to protrude from a main body of the stator tooth respectively toward opposite circumferential sides. Each of the stator teeth has a distal end surface radially facing a rotor. The circumferential lengths of the distal end surfaces of all the stator teeth are equal to each other. The stator teeth are classified into first and second groups. The protruding portions formed in the stator teeth of the first group are first protruding portions and the protruding portions formed in the stator teeth of the second group are second protruding portions. The first protruding portions have a different cross-sectional shape perpendicular to an axial direction of the stator core from the second protruding portions.
US09843226B2
Disclosed are a wireless power transfer apparatus, and a method of changing a frequency in the wireless power transfer apparatus, in which the magnetic field intensity in a specific frequency band is decreased by periodically changing the frequency of a wireless power signal, so that it is possible to spread a frequency spectrum. To this end, a wireless power transfer apparatus includes a power transmission unit and a control unit. The power transmission unit generates a wireless power signal for transferring wireless power based on a carrier signal. The control unit determines a sweep frequency range and sweep period for the carrier signal and controls the power transmission unit to periodically change the frequency of the wireless power signal by periodically changing the frequency of the carrier signal based on the determined sweep frequency range and sweep period.
US09843210B2
A method for transmitting data and a wireless charging equipment using the same are disclosed. When the wireless charger transmits data, an output current of the wireless charger is controlled at a preset current value so that there is a higher variation in amplitude of a current or a voltage on an inductive element to thereby enable a signal receiver to demodulate the signal. At the end of data transmission, the output current is resumed consistent with a driving current of the load at the moment. The present disclosure can address the problem of impossible normal communication in the wireless charger at the circumstance of a very low driving current of the load without any increase in cost and complexity of the circuit.
US09843204B2
Embodiments of the systems and methods of direct cell attachment for battery cells disclosed herein operate without the protection FETs and the protection IC, thereby enabling the direct attachment of battery cells to the system without compromising safety. A charger IC comprises a switching regulator whose output is used to charge the battery through a pass device. In example embodiments of the disclosed systems and methods of direct cell attachment, a combination of switching FETs and the pass device are used as a protection device instead of the charge and discharge FETs. During normal operation, the pass device may be used to charge the battery using the traditional battery charging profile. Under fault condition, the switching FETs and pass device may be driven appropriately to protect the system.
US09843203B2
A battery control system, which controls operation of a plurality of batteries connected to an electric power system, the battery control system comprises: detecting means that detects a delay period of each battery of said plurality of batteries which represents a period that has elapsed after the battery control system supplies said each battery with an execution command for charging or discharging said each battery until said each battery operates according to the execution command; measuring means that measures a frequency rate-of-change of electric power of the electric power system; selecting means that selects adjustment batteries for adjusting the electric power of the electric power system from said plurality of batteries based on the frequency rate-of-change and the delay period of said each battery of said plurality of batteries; and command means for supplying the execution command to the adjustment batteries.
US09843190B2
A power system management device which manages a system state in a power system includes a system state candidate calculation unit for calculating state amounts of the system state based on an objective function from system characteristic information indicating characteristic information of a system structure, an inter-state distance calculation unit for calculating an inter-state distance representing a similarity of values between state amounts of the system state calculated by the system state candidate calculation unit, and a variability evaluation value calculation unit for calculating a variability evaluation value in which a variability of the system state is evaluated, based on an objective function value calculated from the state amount of the system state calculated by the system state candidate calculation unit and the inter-state distance calculated by the inter-state distance calculation unit. The system state is selected based on the calculated variability evaluation value.
US09843189B2
A battery energy storage system control system, including: logic coupled to a photovoltaic station and an energy storage system and executing a photovoltaic station capacity firming algorithm operable for making a combined output of the photovoltaic station and the energy storage system substantially constant such that power swings on an associated feeder system are avoided; logic coupled to the photovoltaic station and the energy storage system and executing a voltage support algorithm operable for holding point of common coupling voltage and phase values substantially equal to substation voltage and phase values via power injection or removal; and logic coupled to the photovoltaic station and the energy storage system and executing an energy time shift algorithm operable for storing energy during periods of relatively low demand and providing energy during periods of relatively high demand.
US09843182B2
Systems (100), power modules (108), and methods for using in controlling a converter (110) coupled between a power generator (104) and an electric grid (102). A power module (108) includes the converter (110) configured to supply the output from the power generator (104) to the electric grid (102) and a controller (112) coupled to the converter (110) and configured to disable the converter (110) in response to a grid fault event, to identify the type or the grid fault event after a first predetermined interval from disabling the converter (110), and to enable switching of the converter (110), when the type of the grid fault event is identified as a low voltage condition.
US09843177B2
Provided is a protection tube with latch in which a latch that is formed engageable with an attachment hole of a panel is molded integral with a protection tube that receives an electric wire, and a manufacturing apparatus of the protection tube with latch. The protection tube with latch includes a latch to be engaged with the attachment hole of the panel having the electric wire wired therein disposed on an outer peripheral face of the protection tube that is formed tubular and receives the electric wire.
US09843173B2
A switchgear apparatus (1) comprising a switching unit (2) comprising one or more electric poles (21), a truck assembly (4), on which said switching unit is mounted, said truck assembly being movable with respect to a supporting frame (3), actuation means (5) for moving said truck assembly, said switching unit being reversibly movable between an insertion position (A), at which said switching unit is electrically connected to an electric line, and a withdrawal position (B), at which said switching unit is electrically disconnected from said electric line and an electro-mechanical signalling arrangement (6) that is mounted on said truck assembly, said electromechanical signalling arrangement interacting with said actuation means to provide electric signals indicative of the position of the switching unit at said insertion position (A), at said withdrawal position (B) or at an intermediate position (C) that is different from said insertion position and said withdrawal position.The electro-mechanical signalling arrangement comprises an auxiliary contact device (7) of the rotational type and a first and second signalling mechanism (8, 9) to actuate said auxiliary contact device.
US09843167B2
An electrically-conductive seal portion of a spark plug includes a large-diameter seal portion, a small-diameter seal portion having an outer diameter smaller than an outer diameter of the large-diameter seal portion, and a tapered seal portion disposed between the large-diameter seal portion and the small-diameter seal portion. An insulator includes a flange portion, a first middle-body portion having an outer diameter smaller than an outer diameter of the flange portion, a second middle-body portion having an outer diameter smaller than an outer diameter of the first middle-body portion, and a leg portion having an outer diameter that tapers toward a tip end of the spark plug. The tapered seal portion is disposed inside the first middle-body portion.
US09843161B2
A quantum cascade laser includes a substrate including first and second regions arranged along a first axis; a stacked semiconductor layer disposed in the second region, the stacked semiconductor layer having an end facet located on a boundary between the first and second regions, the stacked semiconductor layer including a core layer and a cladding layer that are exposed at the end facet thereof; and a distributed Bragg reflection structure disposed in the first region, the distributed Bragg reflection structure including a semiconductor wall and a covering semiconductor wall that covers the end facet of the stacked semiconductor layer. The semiconductor wall and the covering semiconductor wall are made of a single semiconductor material. The semiconductor wall provides first and second side surfaces. The covering semiconductor wall provides an end facet that is located away from the first and second side surfaces of the semiconductor wall.
US09843134B1
A cable seal is provided for attachment to a cable connector. The cable seal generally includes a base portion and a breakaway portion. The breakaway includes a tooth which is positioned under the cable release lever to prevent removal of the cable connector from a communications port. If removal of the cable seal is desired, a breakaway portion of the cable seal is permanently detached from the remainder of the cable seal evidencing access to the port has been gained.
US09843131B2
A cable connector and methods for the assembly thereof are disclosed. The cable connector eliminates potential for short events during plug insertion, provides good contact resistance, and can support high speed data transactions. The cable connector further includes a rotating lock design that provides a secure connection.
US09843126B1
Connector housing assemblies configured to maintain the TPA in a pre-stage condition during shipment and to facilitate the engagement of the female housing into the male housing are provided. The female housing includes a second slot for receiving a female TPA. The female housing includes a female TPA support disposed adjacent the second slot extending a predetermined distance above the female TPA so as to prevent the female TPA from being pushed into the second slot from a top down load. The male housing includes a hood configured to receive the female TPA support so as to allow the female housing to be seated within the male housing. A lip may be disposed on a proximal end of the female housing. The lip extends above a top surface of the female housing a sufficient length so as to accommodate the push of a finger or thumb.
US09843111B2
A wireless electronic device includes dual radiating antennas, with each of the dual radiating antennas including a first radiating element and a second radiating element. The wireless electronic device includes power dividers, a respective one of which is associated with a respective one of the dual radiating antennas and is configured to divide the power of a signal into a first portion of the power and a second portion of the power. The first portion of the power is applied to a respective first radiating element and the second portion of the power is applied to the respective second radiating element. The wireless electronic device is configured to resonate at a resonant frequency corresponding to the first radiating element and/or the second radiating element of at least one of the plurality of dual radiating antennas when excited by a signal transmitted by at least one of the plurality of dual radiating antennas.
US09843107B2
In an exemplary embodiment, a phased array antenna comprises multiple subcircuits in communication with multiple radiating elements. The radio frequency signals are independently adjusted for both polarization control and beam steering. In a receive embodiment, multiple RF signals of various polarizations are received and combined into at least one receive beam output. In a transmit embodiment, at least one transmit beam input is divided and transmitted through multiple radiating elements, with the transmitted beams having various polarizations. In an exemplary embodiment, the phased array antenna provides multi-beam formation over multiple operating frequency bands. The wideband nature of the active components allows for operation over multiple frequency bands simultaneously.
US09843106B2
An integrated fan out (InFO) antenna includes a reflector on a surface of a substrate; and a package. The package includes a redistribution layer (RDL) arranged to form an antenna ground, and a patch antenna over the RDL, wherein the RDL is between the patch antenna and the reflector. The InFO antenna further includes a plurality of connecting elements bonding the package to the reflector. Each connecting element of the plurality of connecting elements is located inside an outer perimeter of the reflector. The InFO antenna is configured to output a signal having a wavelength.
US09843105B2
An embodiment of an integrated stripline feed network for a linear antenna array comprises a power distribution network coupled to the linear antenna array; a feed signal input/output component coupled to the power distribution network; wherein the input/output component receives a feed signal and splits the feed signal for distributing to a plurality of antenna elements of the linear antenna array through the power distribution network. The integrated stripline feed network is configured to be integrated into a support body of the linear antenna array, wherein, the support body structurally supports the linear antenna array.
US09843088B2
In antenna device, a coil conductor of an antenna coil module and a conductor layer at least partially overlap. A current flows in the conductor layer to block a magnetic field generated by a current flowing in the coil conductor. A current flows along the periphery of a slit and around the periphery of the conductor layer due to a cut-edge effect. Since magnetic flux does not pass through the conductor layer, magnetic flux attempts to bypass the conductor layer along a path in which the conductor opening of the conductor layer is on the inside and the outer edge of the conductor layer is on the outside. As a result, the magnetic flux generates large loops that link the inside and the outside of a coil conductor of an antenna on a reader/writer side to couple an antenna device and the antenna on the reader/writer side.
US09843076B2
A temperature regulation and management system is provide that has an inner wall and an outer wall forming a space for accommodating a phase change material (PCM) with the space between the walls, in one or both of the walls, or a combination of such locations. The inner wall is in contact with an object that requires temperature regulation within a specified operating range, such as a vehicle battery pack. The inner wall and the outer wall are both formed from sheet molding compound (SMC), or the outer wall if formed of a filled polyurethane.
US09843071B2
An all-solid-state battery including a cathode layer, an anode layer, and an electrolyte layer arranged between the cathode layer and the anode layer, the electrolyte layer including a first solid electrolyte layer including a sulfide solid electrolyte, and a second solid electrolyte layer other than the first solid electrolyte layer, the electrolyte layer including the sulfide solid electrolyte. Also provided is a method for manufacturing an all-solid-state battery including the steps of (a) making a cathode layer, (b) making an anode layer, (c) making an electrolyte layer including a first solid electrolyte layer including a sulfide solid electrolyte and a second solid electrolyte including the sulfide solid electrolyte, and (d) layering the cathode layer, the electrolyte layer, and the anode layer, such that the electrolyte layer is arranged between the cathode layer and the anode layer.
US09843067B2
An electrode assembly for use in a battery may include a mandrel and one or more insulative portions. The insulative portions may be formed about and may extend from one or more end regions of a battery mandrel. Further, insulative portions may electrically insulate one or more elements of the electrode assembly from each other.
US09843063B2
A fuel cell includes: a membrane electrode assembly including an electrolyte membrane, catalyst layers stacked on both sides of the electrolyte membrane, and two or more porous bodies having different moduli of elasticity and provided on a surface of one of the catalyst layers; a separator defining a gas flow passage between the separator and the membrane electrode assembly; and a frame body surrounding an outer periphery of the electrolyte membrane. A porous body adjacent to the separator out of the two or more porous bodies includes an outer edge portion including an outer extending portion extending to overlap with the frame body. An elastic body is provided between the outer extending portion and the frame body.
US09843059B2
A fuel cell system for a vehicle with a fuel cell that generates electricity through a supply of anode gas and cathode gas is provided. The fuel cell system includes an idle stop execution unit configured to stop an idling of the fuel cell system according to a vehicle running state, a compressor control unit configured to execute a stop control on a cathode compressor during the idle stop, and an external air introduction control unit configured to restrain an introduction of external air to the fuel cell during the idle stop, wherein the external air introduction control unit is configured to release restraining the introduction of external air according to a voltage in the fuel cell during the idle stop.
US09843055B2
A separator that is used for a fuel cell includes: a separator center area that is arranged to face a power generation area of the membrane electrode assembly; an outer peripheral portion that is extended from the separator center area to outer periphery; a first manifold hole and a second manifold hole that are provided in the outer peripheral portion; a fluid flow path that is arranged to extend from the first manifold hole through the separator center area to the second manifold hole; and a gasket that is provided on the outer peripheral portion to surround an area of the fluid flow path and outer circumferences of the first and second manifold holes. The gasket is divided into first gasket portions that are provided adjacent to ends of the separator center area and are extended along respective side edges at the ends, and second gasket portions that are provided to surround the outer circumferences of the first manifold hole and the second manifold hole, respectively. The first gasket portions have a larger width than a width of the second gasket portions.
US09843051B2
Catalyst particles includes a catalyst material and carbon particles supporting the catalyst material. The catalyst particles has a water content of 4.8 mass % or more and 20 mass % or less. A manufacturing method of catalyst particles includes exposing catalyst particles, which are carbon particles supporting a catalyst material, to a humidified atmosphere, prior to dispersing the carbon particles and a polymer electrolyte in a solvent for a catalyst ink.
US09843048B2
Embodiments of the invention provide batteries, electrodes, and methods of making the same. According to one embodiment, a battery may include a positive plate having a grid pasted with a lead oxide material, a negative plate having a grid pasted with a lead based material, a separator separating the positive plate and the negative plate, and an electrolyte. A nonwoven glass mat may be in contact with a surface of either or both the positive plate or the negative plate to reinforce the plate. The nonwoven glass mat may include a plurality of first coarse fibers having fiber diameters between about 6 μm and 11 μm and a plurality of second coarse fibers having fiber diameters between about 10 μm and 20 μm.
US09843043B2
A lithium ion battery having a cathode and an anode, the cathode includes a material having an olivine or spinel structure, the anode includes a coating of a composite lithium powder coated with a complex lithium salt, such as LiPF6, LiBF4, LiClO4, LiAsF6, LiF3SO3, and mixtures thereof. A separator is disposed between the anode and the cathode, and a non-aqueous electrolyte solution in contact with the cathode, the anode, and the separator. The anode can include a carbon material. A layer of a composite lithium powder coated with a complex lithium salt can be disposed between the anode and the separator.
US09843036B2
A method for manufacturing an alkaline battery includes assembling an alkaline battery with a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator, and an electrolyte. The positive electrode includes cobalt and a positive electrode active material particle, which has a main component that is nickel hydroxide. The positive electrode active material particle has a coating layer that includes cobalt oxyhydroxide. At least one of the positive electrode, the negative electrode, and the electrolyte includes a tungsten element. The method further includes charging the assembled alkaline battery so that the cobalt in the positive electrode is deposited as cobalt oxyhydroxide on a surface of the positive electrode active material particle.
US09843030B2
A polyolefin multilayer microporous membrane is disclosed. The polyolefin multilayer microporous membrane has at least three layers, the membrane comprising a first microporous layer composed of a polyethylene resin containing an ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene (surface layers) and a second microporous layer composed of a polyolefin rein containing a high-density polyethylene and polypropylene (intermediate layer), wherein (I) the pin puncture strength is at least 25 g/μm, (II) the coefficient of static friction with respect to a metal foil is at least 0.40, and (III) the meltdown temperature is at least 180° C.
US09843017B2
A highly reliable display device. A first flexible substrate and a second flexible substrate overlap each other with an element positioned therebetween. A periphery of the overlapped first and second substrates is covered with a high molecular material having a light-transmitting property. The high molecular material is more flexible than the first substrate and the second substrate. As the element, for example, an EL element can be used.
US09843013B2
In an organic EL display device (electroluminescent device) including an organic EL element (electroluminescent element), a sealing film is provided to seal the organic EL element. The sealing film includes a first inorganic layer, a first organic layer, a second inorganic layer, a second organic layer, and a third inorganic layer (uppermost inorganic layer), which are arranged in this order. The first and second organic layers are formed so that the thickness of the end portions gradually decreases from the thickness of the central portions. The third inorganic layer is provided to cover the end portions of each of the first inorganic layer, the first organic layer, the second inorganic layer, and the second organic layer.
US09843005B2
An amine derivative represented by compound (1) of following Formula 1:
US09842985B2
Provided are a barium titanate-based piezoelectric ceramics having satisfactory piezoelectric performance and a satisfactory mechanical quality factor (Qm), and a piezoelectric element using the same. Specifically provided are a piezoelectric ceramics, including: crystal particles; and a grain boundary between the crystal particles, in which the crystal particles each include barium titanate having a perovskite-type structure and manganese at 0.04% by mass or more and 0.20% by mass or less in terms of a metal with respect to the barium titanate, and the grain boundary includes at least one compound selected from the group consisting of Ba4Ti12O27 and Ba6Ti17O40, and a piezoelectric element using the same.
US09842977B2
An electrical circuit board assembly (ECBA) preferably having at least one LED component and having a substrate that includes a plurality of raised pads formed such that open channels are formed therebetween, and such that the upper surfaces of the pads are preferably substantially coplanar. Such intra-pad channels facilitate heat transfer and cooling of the substrate and the ECBA. Further, such raised pads provide for alternate methods of electrically conductive track manufacturing so as to avoid the necessity of chemical etching which requires the use of hazardous toxic chemicals. Such alternate methods of electrically conductive track construction include adhesive conductive sheet application, conductive ink screen printing, and conductive ink painting.
US09842975B2
A light emitting device package including a package body including a first cavity and a second cavity, a pad disposed on a bottom surface of the first cavity, a light emitting device disposed on the second cavity electrically connected to the pad, a heat dissipation member inserted into the package body, the heat dissipation member including a body and expanded portions disposed at a partial edge region of the body and electrode patterns disposed at the package body, wherein the package body has an upper portion and a lower portion disposed under the upper portion, wherein the first cavity including side surfaces and a bottom surface, wherein the second cavity provided in the bottom surface of the first cavity.
US09842968B2
A method for manufacturing a light emitting diode (LED) die includes providing an LED die including a substrate, an N type semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a P type semiconductor layer grown on the substrate in sequence. The N type semiconductor layer, the active layer, and the P type semiconductor layer are etched to define a plurality of recesses and a groove. An insulating layer to cover side surfaces of the recesses and the P type semiconductor layer is formed and a portion of the insulating layer is etched to define an opening to expose a top portion of the P type semiconductor layer. A pair of electrodes is formed and the LED die is cut along the groove to obtain an individual LED die.
US09842966B2
There is provided a nanostructure semiconductor light emitting device including a base layer formed of a first conductivity-type semiconductor, a first insulating layer disposed on the base layer and having a plurality of first openings exposing partial regions of the base layer, a plurality of nanocores disposed in the exposed regions of the base layer and formed of the first conductivity-type semiconductor, an active layer disposed on surfaces of the plurality of nanocores positioned to be higher than the first insulating layer, a second insulating layer disposed on the first insulating layer and having a plurality of second openings surrounding the plurality of nanocores and the active layer disposed on the surfaces of the plurality of nanocores, and a second conductivity-type semiconductor layer disposed on the surface of the active layer positioned to be higher than the second insulating layer.
US09842964B2
A method for producing a semiconductor layer sequence is disclosed. In an embodiment the includes growing a first nitridic semiconductor layer at the growth side of a growth substrate, growing a second nitridic semiconductor layer having at least one opening on the first nitridic semiconductor layer, removing at least pail of the first nitridic semiconductor layer through the at least one opening in the second nitridic semiconductor layer, growing a third nitridic semiconductor layer on the second nitridic semiconductor layer, wherein the third nitridic semiconductor layer covers the at least one opening at least in places in such a way that at least one cavity free of a semiconductor material is present between the growth substrate and a subsequent semiconductor layers and removing the growth substrate.
US09842960B2
According to an example embodiment, a method of manufacturing a nanostructure semiconductor light-emitting device includes forming nanocores of a first-conductivity type nitride semiconductor material on abase layer to be spaced apart from each other, and forming a multilayer shell including an active layer and a second-conductivity type nitride semiconductor layers on surfaces of each of the nanocores. At least a portion the multilayer shell is formed by controlling at least one process parameter of a flux of source gas, a flow rate of source gas, a chamber pressure, a growth temperature, and a growth rate so as to have a higher film thickness uniformity.
US09842957B1
The disclosure provides a solar cell design featuring p-or-n type GaAs with alternating p-n junction regions on the back-surface of the cell, opposite incident solar irradiance. Various layers of p-or-n type GaAs are interfaced together to collect charge carriers, and a thin layer of AlGaAs is applied to the front and back surfaces to prevent recombination of charge carriers. In some embodiments, the layered an doped structure generally provides an AlGaAs window layer of about 20 nm doped to about 4×(1018) cm−3, a GaAs absorption layer of about 2000 nm doped to about 4×(1017) cm−3, a GaAs emitter layer of about 150 nm and doped to 1×(1018) cm−3, an AlGaAs heterojunction layer of about 40 nm doped to about 3×(1018) cm−3, and a GaAs emitter-contact layer of about 20 nm doped to about 1×(1019) cm−3. Additionally, AlGaAs BSF layer and GaAs BSF-contact layers each have a depth of about 20 nm and are doped to about 4×(1018) cm−3 and 1×(1019) cm−3 respectively. The emitter layer, heterojunction layer, and emitter-contact layer are doped to a conductivity type opposite the absorption layer.
US09842947B2
A photovoltaic device cell comprising a first light transmissive electrical contact, an active region, a second light transmissive electrical contact, and a layered structure enclosing the active region, the layered structure being formed of two parts, a first part underlying the first light transmissive electrical contact and a second part overlying the second electrical contact and wherein the constants of the layers in these layered structures are interdependent such that light is localized within the active region.
US09842946B2
The semiconductor device comprises a semiconductor substrate (1), a photosensor (2) integrated in the substrate (1) at a main surface (10), an emitter (12) of radiation mounted above the main surface (10), and a cover (6), which is at least partially transmissive for the radiation, arranged above the main surface (10). The cover (6) comprises a cavity (7), and the emitter (12) is arranged in the cavity (7). A radiation barrier (9) can be provided on a lateral surface of the cavity (7) to inhibit cross-talk between the emitter (12) and the photosensor (2).
US09842945B2
A photovoltaic module, and method of making, is disclosed in which a flexible circuit is electrically coupled to a plurality of photovoltaic cells, where the photovoltaic cells are electrically coupled in series to form a series of cells. Each photovoltaic cell has free-standing metallic articles coupled to the top and bottom surfaces of a semiconductor substrate. A cell interconnection element of each photovoltaic cell is electrically coupled to a free-standing metallic article of an adjacent photovoltaic cell, where the interconnection elements of the initial and final cells in the series serve as contact ends for the series of cells. Contact tabs of the flexible circuit are electrically coupled to the contact ends of the series of cells, and a junction box is electrically coupled to a junction box contact region of the flexible circuit.
US09842944B2
A solid source-diffused junction is described for fin-based electronics. In one example, a fin is formed on a substrate. A glass of a first dopant type is deposited over the substrate and over a lower portion of the fin. A glass of a second dopant type is deposited over the substrate and the fin. The glass is annealed to drive the dopants into the fin and the substrate. The glass is removed and a first and a second contact are formed over the fin without contacting the lower portion of the fin.
US09842940B2
A semiconductor device with favorable electrical characteristics is provided. The semiconductor device includes an insulating layer, a semiconductor layer over the insulating layer, a source electrode layer and a drain electrode layer electrically connected to the semiconductor layer, a gate insulating film over the semiconductor layer, the source electrode layer, and the drain electrode layer, and a gate electrode layer overlapping with part of the semiconductor layer, part of the source electrode layer, and part of the drain electrode layer with the gate insulating film therebetween. A cross section of the semiconductor layer in the channel width direction is substantially triangular or substantially trapezoidal. The effective channel width is shorter than that for a rectangular cross section.
US09842930B2
A semiconductor device includes a first gate stack and a second gate stack over a substrate, an isolation structure in the substrate, a first epitaxial (epi) material in the substrate between the first gate stack and the isolation structure, and a second epi material in the substrate between the first gate stack and the second gate stack. The first gate stack is between the isolation structure and the second gate stack. The first epi material includes a first upper surface having a first crystal plane. The second epi material includes a second upper surface having a second crystal plane and a third upper surface having a third crystal plane, and first crystal plane is different from both the second crystal plane and the third crystal plane.
US09842923B2
In one embodiment, a high electron mobility device structure includes heterostructure with a Group III-nitride channel layer and a Group III-nitride barrier layer that forms a two-dimensional electron gas layer at an interface between the two layers. At least one current carrying electrode includes a recess-structured conductive contact adjoining and making Ohmic contact with the two-dimensional electron gas layer. The recess-structured conductive contact has at least one side surface defined to have a rounded wavy shape.
US09842919B2
A linear active cell region is formed from a plurality of divided active cell regions arranged apart from each other in a second direction (y direction). The linear hole collector cell region is formed from a plurality of divided hole collector cell regions arranged apart from each other in the second direction (y direction). A P-type floating region is formed in a semiconductor substrate between the linear active cell region and the linear hole collector cell region adjacent to each other in a first direction (x direction), between the divided active cell regions adjacent to each other in the second direction (y direction), and between the divided hole collector cell regions adjacent to each other in the second direction (y direction).
US09842916B2
The invention provides an oxide semiconductor layer that has less cracks and is excellent in electrical property and stability, as well as a semiconductor element and an electronic device each including the oxide semiconductor layer. The invention provides an exemplary method of producing an oxide semiconductor layer, and the method includes the precursor layer forming step of forming, on or above a substrate, a layered oxide semiconductor precursor including a compound of metal to be oxidized into an oxide semiconductor dispersed in a solution including a binder made of aliphatic polycarbonate, and the annealing step of heating the precursor layer at a first temperature achieving decomposition of 90 wt % or more of the binder, and then annealing the precursor layer at a temperature equal to or higher than a second temperature (denoted by X) that is higher than the first temperature, achieves bonding between the metal and oxygen, and has an exothermic peak value in differential thermal analysis (DTA).
US09842906B2
A MOSFET cell of a semiconductor device includes a polysilicon gate electrode and an n+-source region formed in an upper portion of an n−-drift layer. An interlayer insulating film covers the gate electrode. An Al source electrode extends on the interlayer insulating film. An Al gate pad is connected to the gate electrode. A barrier metal layer that prevents diffusion of aluminum is interposed between the source electrode and the interlayer insulating film, and between the gate pad and the gate electrode.
US09842902B1
An SGT is produced by forming a first insulating film around a fin-shaped semiconductor layer, forming a pillar-shaped semiconductor layer in an upper portion of the fin-shaped layer, forming a second insulating film, a polysilicon gate electrode covering the second insulating film, and a polysilicon gate line, forming a diffusion layer in an upper portion of the fin-shaped layer and a lower portion of the pillar-shaped layer, forming a metal-semiconductor compound in an upper portion of the diffusion layer in the fin-shaped layer, depositing an interlayer insulating film, exposing and etching the polysilicon gate electrode and gate line, depositing a first metal, forming a metal gate electrode and a metal gate line, and forming a third metal sidewall on an upper side wall of the pillar-shaped layer. The third metal sidewall is connected to an upper surface of the pillar-shaped layer.
US09842889B2
What is disclosed is a pixel array architecture for displays being based on a matrix of subpixels arranged in a rectilinear matrix oriented at an angle relative to a horizontal direction of the display, exhibiting a reduced pixel pitch for the subpixels.
US09842875B2
A pixel in an image sensor can include a photodetector and a storage region disposed in one substrate, or a photodetector disposed in one substrate and a storage region in another substrate. A buried light shield is disposed between the photodetector and the storage region. A sense region, such as a floating diffusion, can be adjacent to the storage region, with the buried light shield disposed between the photodetector and the storage and sense regions. When the photodetector and the storage region are disposed in separate substrates, a vertical gate can be formed through the buried light shield and used to initiate the transfer of charge from the photodetector and the storage region. A transfer channel formed adjacent to, or around the vertical gate provides a channel for the charge to transfer from the photodetector to the storage region.
US09842872B2
A solid-state imaging apparatus includes: a solid-state imaging device photoelectrically converting light taken by a lens; and a light shielding member shielding part of light incident on the solid-state imaging device from the lens, wherein an angle made between an edge surface of the light shielding member and an optical axis direction of the lens is larger than an incident angle of light to be incident on an edge portion of the light shielding member.
US09842871B2
Object is to prevent deterioration in pixel characteristics due to dark-time white spot defects in a pixel. Generation of these dark-time white spot defects is attributable to diffusion of electrons and Fe (iron) from the vicinity of an interface between a semiconductor substrate and an element isolation region obtained by filling a trench formed in the upper surface of the semiconductor substrate with an insulating film. A semiconductor layer is formed by forming, in the upper surface of a semiconductor substrate, a trench for filling it with an element isolation region surrounding a photodiode formation region; and carrying out plasma doping to introduce B (boron) into the side wall and bottom surface of the trench.
US09842867B2
The present disclosure provides an array substrate and a method of manufacturing the same, and a display panel comprising the array substrate, for reducing a drop or height difference between surfaces of portions of a passivation layer located on either side of a source/drain electrode lead wire and a surface of a portion of passivation layer located on an upper surface of the source/drain electrode lead wire so as to increase an aperture ratio of the display panel. The method comprises: forming a source/drain electrode lead wire and a passivation layer successively on a base substrate, the passivation layer at least covering the source/drain electrode lead wire; and thinning a portion of the passivation layer located on the source/drain electrode lead wire such that a surface of the portion is higher than those of other portions of the passivation layer, at the time of patterning the passivation layer to form a via hole therein.
US09842865B2
The present disclosure discloses a mask plate, a method of manufacturing a corresponding array substrate, and an array substrate, used in the technical field of liquid crystal displays. The mask plate comprises a non-transparent area and a transparent area. The non-transparent area has an intermediate vertical trunk, an intermediate horizontal trunk, and branches extending from the intermediate vertical trunk and the intermediate horizontal trunk. The intermediate vertical trunk and the intermediate horizontal trunk form certain angles with the branches, respectively. The transparent area has a first transparent portion provided between the branches. The first transparent portion is provided with an optical interference unit, which is used for processing light with a first intensity into light with a second intensity, the first intensity being higher than the second intensity. A second transparent portion is used for directly introducing light with the first intensity to form a contact hole on an array substrate to be formed through the mask plate. The present disclosure further comprises a method of manufacturing an array substrate using the mask plate, and an array substrate thus manufactured. According to the present disclosure, both the aperture ratio of a pixel unit and transmittance of the liquid crystal panel can be improved.
US09842863B2
To provide a novel display device. The display device includes a pixel portion, a driver circuit portion that is provided outside the pixel portion, and a protection circuit that is electrically connected to one of or both the pixel portion and the driver circuit portion and includes a pair of electrodes. The pixel portion includes pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix and transistors electrically connected to the pixel electrodes. The transistor includes a first insulating layer containing nitrogen and silicon, and a second insulating layer containing oxygen, nitrogen, and silicon. The protection circuit includes the first insulating layer between the pair of electrodes.
US09842862B2
A manufacturing method of an anti-interference flexible electronic structure formed by a carrier separation process comprises the steps of: providing a carrier; attaching a flexible substrate to the carrier; forming a plurality of touch-sensing units coplanarly on the flexible substrate, wherein a first interval region is formed between the adjacent touch-sensing units; coplanarly forming at least a first anti-interference spot within the first interval region, wherein a distance is between the first anti-interference spot and the adjacent touch-sensing unit; and separating the flexible substrate from the carrier.
US09842854B2
According to one embodiment, a first stacked body in which first insulation layers and second insulation layers are alternately stacked is formed, a first hole penetrating through the first stacked body is formed, a sacrifice film is embedded in the first hole, the sacrifice film is protruded from the first stacked body to form a protrusion portion on the first stacked body, a second stacked body in which third insulation layers and fourth insulation layers are alternately stacked is formed on the first stacked body, and a second hole penetrating through the second stacked body is formed.
US09842850B2
An integrated circuit (IC) using high-κ metal gate (HKMG) technology with an embedded silicon-oxide-nitride-oxide-silicon (SONOS) memory cell is provided. A logic device is arranged on a semiconductor substrate and comprises a logic gate. The logic gate is arranged within a high κ dielectric layer. A memory cell is arranged on the semiconductor substrate and comprises a control transistor and a select transistor laterally adjacent to one another. The control and select transistors respectively comprise a control gate and a select gate. The control transistor further comprises a charge trapping layer underlying the control gate. The control and select gates are a first material, and the logic gate is a second material. A high-κ-last method for manufacturing the IC is also provided.
US09842832B2
A microelectronic package of the present description may comprises a first microelectronic device having at least one row of connection structures electrically connected thereto and a second microelectronic device having at least one row of connection structures electrically connected thereto, wherein the connection structures within the at least one first microelectronic device row are aligned with corresponding connection structures within the at least one second microelectronic device row in an x-direction. An interconnect comprising an interconnect substrate having a plurality of electrically isolated conductive traces extending in the x-direction on a first surface of the interconnect substrate may be attached to the at least one first microelectronic device connection structure row and the at least one second microelectronic device connection structure row, such that at least one interconnect conductive trace forms a connection between a first microelectronic device connection structure and its corresponding second microelectronic device connection structure.
US09842831B2
A semiconductor package includes a semiconductor die having an active surface and a bottom surface opposite to the active surface; a plurality of bond pads distributed on the active surface of the semiconductor die; an encapsulant covering the active surface of the semiconductor die, wherein the encapsulant comprises a bottom surface that is flush with the bottom surface of the semiconductor; and a plurality of printed interconnect features embedded in the encapsulant for electrically connecting the plurality of bond pads. Each of the printed interconnect features comprises a conductive wire and a conductive pad being integral with the conductive wire.
US09842830B1
A package can include first and second semiconductor devices stacked in a first direction. The first semiconductor device can include a first circuit formed on the first semiconductor device that provides a first potential greater than a ground potential at a first circuit output, and a second circuit coupled to receive the first circuit output. The second semiconductor device can include a first through via providing a first electrical connection between a first side and a second side of the second semiconductor device, and a third circuit. The first circuit output can be electrically connected to the first through via at the first side of the first semiconductor device and the third circuit can be electrically connected to the first through via at the second side of the first semiconductor device to receive the first potential.
US09842821B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor chip, wiring that is included in the semiconductor chip and has a coupling part between parts with different widths, a pad being formed above the wiring and in a position overlapping the coupling part, a bump being formed on the pad, a buffer layer being formed in a position between the coupling part and the pad so as to cover the entire couple part, and inorganic insulating layers being formed between the wiring and the buffer layer and between the buffer layer and the pad, respectively. The buffer layer is made of a material other than resin and softer than the inorganic insulating layer.
US09842816B2
A representative device includes a patterned opening through a layer at a surface of a device die. A liner is disposed on sidewalls of the opening and the device die is patterned to extend the opening further into the device die. After patterning, the liner is removed. A conductive pad is formed in the device die by filling the opening with a conductive material.
US09842811B1
A heat-dissipating semiconductor package includes a substrate, a chip, a first encapsulation body, a second encapsulation body and a heat sink. The substrate has an inner surface. The chip is disposed on the inner surface of the substrate. The first encapsulation body is formed on the inner surface of the substrate and encapsulates the chip. The second encapsulation body is formed on the first encapsulation body and a periphery area of the inner surface to encapsulate sidewalls and a top surface of the first encapsulation body and cover the periphery area of the inner surface. Wherein, the Young's modulus of the second encapsulation body is less than the Young's modulus of the first encapsulation body. The heat sink is attached to the second encapsulation body. Thereby, the design of the heat-dissipating semiconductor package utilizes multiple encapsulation bodies to reduce the package warpage after installing the heat sink.
US09842806B2
Semiconductor devices and methods of manufacturing semiconductor devices. One example of a method of fabricating a semiconductor device comprises forming a conductive feature extending through a semiconductor substrate such that the conductive feature has a first end and a second end opposite the first end, and wherein the second end projects outwardly from a surface of the substrate. The method can further include forming a dielectric layer over the surface of the substrate and the second end of the conductive feature such that the dielectric layer has an original thickness. The method can also include removing a portion of the dielectric layer to an intermediate depth less than the original thickness such that at least a portion of the second end of the conductive feature is exposed.
US09842799B2
A semiconductor package includes a lower package with a lower substrate and a lower semiconductor chip. A heat dissipation part is provided adjacent to a side of the lower package and covers a portion of the lower semiconductor chip, and an upper package is on the lower package and is laterally spaced apart from the heat dissipation part.
US09842790B2
A system and method for providing a conductive line is provided. In an embodiment the conductive line is formed by forming two passivation layers, wherein each passivation layer is independently patterned. Once formed, a seed layer is deposited into the two passivation layers, and a conductive material is deposited to fill and overfill the patterns within the two passivation layers. A planarization process such as a chemical mechanical polish may then be utilized in order to remove excess conductive material and form the conductive lines within the two passivation layers.
US09842788B2
A semiconductor device and method of reducing the risk of underbump metallization poisoning from the application of underfill material is provided. In an embodiment a spacer is located between a first underbump metallization and a second underbump metallization. When an underfill material is dispensed between the first underbump metallization and the second underbump metallization, the spacer prevents the underfill material from creeping towards the second underbump metallization. In another embodiment a passivation layer is used to inhibit the flow of underfill material as the underfill material is being dispensed.
US09842780B2
A method for ensuring wafer level reliability is provided. The method involves: forming a gate oxide layer having a thickness of less than 50 Å on a semiconductor substrate; forming a PMOS element having a channel length of less than 0.13 μm on the semiconductor substrate; and assessing hot carrier injection (HCl) for the PMOS element.
US09842775B2
A semiconductor device has a conductive via in a first surface of a substrate. A first interconnect structure is formed over the first surface of the substrate. A first bump is formed over the first interconnect structure. The first bump is formed over or offset from the conductive via. An encapsulant is deposited over the first bump and first interconnect structure. A portion of the encapsulant is removed to expose the first bump. A portion of a second surface of the substrate is removed to expose the conductive via. The encapsulant provides structural support and eliminates the need for a separate carrier wafer when thinning the substrate. A second interconnect structure is formed over the second surface of the substrate. A second bump is formed over the first bump. A plurality of semiconductor devices can be stacked and electrically connected through the conductive via.
US09842774B1
A semiconductor device includes a substrate and a through substrate via structure. The substrate has a through via hole. The through substrate via structure is disposed in the through via hole. The through substrate via structure disposed in the through via hole includes a liner structure and a metal layer. The liner structure includes at least two insulation liners and at least one conductive shielding layer disposed between the insulation liners, in which the insulation liners and the at least one conductive shielding layer conformally cover a sidewall and a bottom of the through via hole. The metal layer covers the liner structure and fills the through via hole.
US09842771B2
A semiconductor device is disclosed, which includes: a substrate having a plurality of connecting pads; a semiconductor component having a plurality of bonding pads formed on a surface thereof and corresponding to the connecting pads and a UBM layer formed on the bonding pads; a plurality of conductive elements each having a first conductive portion and a second conductive portion sequentially formed on the UBM layer, wherein the second conductive portion is less in width than the first conductive portion; and a plurality of solder balls formed between the second conductive portions and the connecting pads for connecting the semiconductor component and the substrate, thereby preventing solder bridging from occurring between the adjacent conductive elements and reducing stresses between the conductive elements and the UBM layer.
US09842770B1
A reflow enhancement layer is formed in an opening prior to forming and reflowing a contact metal or metal alloy. The reflow enhancement layer facilitates the movement (i.e., flow) of the contact metal or metal alloy during a reflow anneal process such that a void-free metallization structure of the contact metal or metal alloy is provided.
US09842769B2
Methods for depositing a contact metal layer in contact structures of a semiconductor device are provided. In one embodiment, a method for depositing a contact metal layer for forming a contact structure in a semiconductor device is provided. The method comprises performing a cyclic metal deposition process to deposit a contact metal layer on a substrate and annealing the contact metal layer disposed on the substrate. The cyclic metal deposition process comprises exposing the substrate to a deposition precursor gas mixture to deposit a portion of the contact metal layer on the substrate, exposing the portion of the contact metal layer to a plasma treatment process, and repeating the exposing the substrate to a deposition precursor gas mixture and exposing the portion of the contact metal layer to a plasma treatment process until a predetermined thickness of the contact metal layer is achieved.
US09842760B1
A method for fabricating semiconductor device is disclosed. First, a substrate having a fin-shaped structure thereon is provided, a spacer is formed adjacent to the fin-shaped structure, and the spacer is used as mask to remove part of the substrate for forming an isolation trench, in which the isolation trench includes two sidewall portions and a bottom portion. Next, a plasma doping process is conducted to implant dopants into the two sidewall portions and the bottom portion of the isolation trench.
US09842747B2
Substrate liquid processing apparatus, exhaust switching unit and substrate liquid processing method
A substrate liquid processing apparatus includes a liquid processing unit that processes a substrate with processing liquids, an exhaust pipe, individual exhaust pipes corresponding to at least one of the processing liquids and an exhaust switching unit. Further, the exhaust switching unit comprises an exhaust gas inlet chamber and switching mechanisms. The switching mechanisms correspond to the individual exhaust pipes, respectively, and each of the switching mechanisms includes an exhaust gas suction opening communicating with the exhaust gas inlet chamber; an outlet opening communicating with a corresponding one of the individual exhaust pipes; an exterior air suction opening; and a valve body that switches a communication state of the exhaust gas suction opening, the outlet opening and the exterior air suction opening between a state where the exhaust gas suction opening communicates with the outlet opening and a state where the exterior air suction opening communicates therewith.
US09842743B1
A method of etching a shallow trench is disclosed in the present invention. By removing the photoresist layer immediately at the end point of the hard mask layer etching and further using the improved process conditions etch the top of the substrate at the same time of the hard mask layer over-etching, such as a lower bias power, a higher pressure and a bigger polymer gases flow rate, the present invention has formed a smooth morphology on the top of the shallow trench. Therefore, the sharp corner appeared in the prior art is avoided by changing the start point of the silicon substrate etching, so as to fundamentally eliminate the leakage current caused by the sharp corner.
US09842742B2
A method for thinning samples including the steps of: a) providing at least one sample having a front and a rear face, b) providing a frame substrate having a first face and a second face opposite the first, including a through-opening which opens into the first and second face, which is configured to receive the sample, c) positioning the sample so it is disposed in the through-opening, the front face being oriented to the same side as the first face, and d) thinning the frame substrate and the sample simultaneously from the first face and the front face, respectively, so that at the end of thinning, the faces extend substantially in the same plane, the thinning being carried out using a grinder, the frame substrate and the sample being disposed on a rotary disk held in place by aspiration, the flanks of the sample remaining free during the thinning.
US09842728B2
An ion transfer tube assembly, a mass spectrometry system, and a method for providing an ion stream to an ion detection device are described that include using an ion transfer tube and an additional conduit connected to a small high-flow low vacuum pump and a valve. In an implementation, an ion transfer tube assembly includes an ion transfer tube assembly having an intermittent inlet for delivering an ion stream to an ion detection device that employs example techniques in accordance with the present disclosure includes an ion transfer tube, where the ion transfer tube is coupled to a first conduit; a second conduit coupled to the ion transfer tube and the ion detection device; and a third conduit coupled to the second conduit, where the third conduit includes a valve and is coupled to a pump.
US09842725B2
Systems and methods for determining ion energy are described. One of the methods includes detecting output of a generator to identify a generator output complex voltage and current (V&I). The generator is coupled to an impedance matching circuit and the impedance matching circuit is coupled to an electrostatic chuck (ESC). The method further includes determining from the generator output complex V&I a projected complex V&I at a point along a path between an output of a model of the impedance matching circuit and a model of the ESC. The operation of determining of the projected complex V&I is performed using a model for at least part of the path. The method includes applying the projected complex V&I as an input to a function to map the projected complex V&I to a wafer bias value at the ESC model and determining an ion energy from the wafer bias value.
US09842723B2
When contamination or local electrification is generated during acquisition of a low-magnification image, if a high-magnification image contains both a portion in which the contamination or local electrification is generated and a portion in which the contamination or local electrification is not generated, a region whose image quality has changed due to the contamination or local electrification is erroneously recognized as a defect. Thus, defect detection fails or it may be impossible to correctly determine the feature quantity of a defect. The invention provides a defect observation system that acquires sample images at a low magnification and a high magnification, and sets the position or size of the field of view of the high-magnification image or the electron beam irradiation range during acquisition of the low-magnification image no that the image acquired at the high magnification does not contain the outer edge of the image acquired at the low magnification.
US09842716B2
A set of circuit interrupters and electrical enclosures that are configured to permit an electrical enclosure having a current rating to have connected therewith a circuit interrupter having a current carrying rating no greater than the current rating. However, a current interrupter having a current carrying rating less than the current rating of the electrical enclosure potentially may be connected therewith. Such electrical interruption equipment employs threaded studs on bus bars that are of varying sizes and/or are separated by varying distances in order to resist an electrical enclosure having a current rating from being electrically connected with a circuit interrupter having a current carrying rating greater than the current rating. Alternatively or additionally, the circuit interrupter and/or the electrical enclosure may have interference elements that physically interfere with the mounting and/or the electrical connection of a circuit interrupter having a current carrying rating with an electrical enclosure having a current rating less than the current carrying rating.
US09842712B2
A switching device is provided. The switching device includes a housing including a base and a switching device cover coupled to the base, a line side terminal positioned on a line side of the housing, a load side terminal positioned on a load side of the housing, wherein the line side is opposite the load side, a first terminal cover coupled to the switching device cover proximate the line side, and a second terminal cover coupled to the switching device cover proximate the load side, wherein the first terminal cover is movable between a closed position and an open position, wherein the first terminal cover is attached to said switching device cover in both the closed and open positions, and wherein the second terminal cover is attached to the switching device cover in both the closed and open positions.
US09842706B2
Disclosed are a method of manufacturing a flexible thin-film type super-capacitor device and a super-capacitor device manufactured by the same. The flexible thin-film type super-capacitor device comprises a base film which has flexibility; a separator which is interposed between the base films; and an active material which is formed on the base film. Thus, flexibility is given since thickness is very thin while maintaining high electrical conductivity and high binding property. In addition, economic feasibility is high and mass production is possible. Further, it is possible to stably and efficiently contain a highly corrosive material.
US09842704B2
A solid electrolytic capacitor including a capacitor element and an anode lead assembly is provided. The capacitor element includes a sintered, porous anode body; a dielectric layer overlying the sintered, porous anode body; and a cathode overlying the dielectric layer that includes a solid electrolyte. The anode lead assembly includes an anode lead tape having an embedded portion positioned within the anode body and an external portion extending from a surface of the anode body in a longitudinal direction, where the width of the anode lead tape is greater than the height of the anode lead tape. Meanwhile, a carrier lead wire is positioned external to the anode body and includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion has a substantially planar surface that is connected to the substantially planar surface of the external portion of the anode lead tape.
US09842702B1
Fabricating a capacitor includes performing an oxide formation operation on a sheet of material. The oxide formation operation forms an anode metal oxide on an anode metal. A thermal compression is performed on the sheet of material after the oxide formation operation is performed. The thermal compression applies thermal energy to the sheet of material while applying pressure to the sheet of material. After the thermal compression, the capacitor is assembled such that at least one electrode in the capacitor includes at least a portion of the sheet of material.
US09842700B2
A capacitor element includes first through sixth surfaces, a first-side outer electrode at a first end portion of the first surface and on portions of the third, fifth, and sixth surfaces, a second-side outer electrode at a second end portion of the first surface and on portions of the fourth, fifth, and sixth surfaces, a center outer electrode at a portion of the first surface between the first-side outer electrode and the second-side outer electrode and on portions of the fifth and sixth surfaces, and two outermost conductor layers of first and second conductor layers are disposed at both outermost ends in the width direction, a first of the two outermost conductor layers next to one of the first conductor layers with an inner dielectric layer therebetween is connected to the center outer electrode, and a second of the pair of outermost conductor layers next to one of the second conductor layers with an inner dielectric layer therebetween is connected to the first-side outer electrode and the second-side outer electrode.
US09842699B2
A multilayer ceramic capacitor may include: ceramic body including a plurality of dielectric layers and a plurality of internal electrodes, external electrodes including a connecting portion and band portion, terminal electrodes including upper and lower horizontal portion and vertical portion connecting end portion of the upper and lower horizontal portion and the conductive adhesive layers disposed to the upper surface of the band portion and upper horizontal portion.
US09842698B2
A multilayer ceramic capacitor having a multilayer ceramic element with internal electrodes opposed to each other and dielectric ceramic layers interposed therebetween, and external electrodes on a surface of the multilayer ceramic element and electrically connected to the internal electrodes. The external electrodes contain a first non-precious metal as a first conductive component, and glass containing BaO and/or SrO, where a total content of the BaO and/or the SrO is 34 mol % or more. The internal electrodes have a second non-precious metal different from the first non-precious metal included in the external electrodes. A glass layer is formed at interfacial parts between the ceramic layers and the external electrodes, and a diffusion length thereof is within a range of 1 μm to 5 μm from joint interfaces between the external electrodes and the internal electrodes at the joints.
US09842689B2
A method of manufacturing electromagnet coils for use in a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system is provided. The method comprises forming a coil representation of a coil surface for the electromagnet coils; setting a plurality of performance metric requirements for a plurality of performance metrics for the electromagnet coils, the plurality of performance metrics including a magnetic field-shape metric and an eddy-field metric; forming a performance functional, based on the coil representation and the plurality of performance metrics, for generating a current density pattern over the coil surface; optimizing the performance functional based on the plurality of performance metric requirements; generating a current density pattern over the coil surface based on the minimized performance functional; and obtaining coil windings from the current density pattern.
US09842685B2
A system includes a first resonator coupled to an energy source and a second resonator located a distance from the first resonator and coupled to the first resonator to provide near-field wireless energy transfer between the first resonator and the second resonator. The first resonator and the second resonator are non-radiative structures having a resonant frequency. The system also includes an artificial magnetic conductor (AMC) having the resonant frequency and arranged within the system to shape the near-field of at least one of the first resonator and the second resonator. The AMC includes a layer of unit cells arranged in a periodic pattern enabling the AMC to reflect the near-field. Each unit cell of the AMC includes a plurality of electronic components.
US09842684B2
A device for testing a wireless power network is disclosed. The network includes at least one power source, at least one load, and multiple resonators configured to couple wireless power from the at least one power source to the at least one load. The device includes: a user interface for receiving input from a user and providing information to the user; a measurement module for measuring, whether directly or indirectly, at least one operational characteristic of the wireless power network and information about the geometric arrangement of the multiple resonators in the wireless power network; a memory for storing design specifications about the wireless power network; and an electronic processor configured to calculate information about a performance of the wireless power network based on the measured operational characteristic, the information about the geometric arrangement of the multiple resonators, and the stored design specifications, and further configured to provide the performance information to the user through the user interface.
US09842683B1
A magnetic assembly includes a bobbin and first and second cores. Each core has a main body. At least one of the cores has first and second outer legs and a center leg extending from the main body. The bobbin includes a first channel on a first end flange and a second channel on a second end flange. Each channel includes a plurality of crushable ribs that extend into the channel. The first and second cores are inserted into the respective first and second channels to engage and crush the crushable ribs. The crushed ribs frictionally engage the main bodies of the two cores to retain the two cores in a fixed relationship with the bobbin without requiring tape or glue. In one embodiment, both cores are E-cores. In another embodiment, one core is an extended E-core and the other core is an I-core.
US09842679B2
The present invention provides a POSS-containing in-situ composite nanogel with magnetic responsiveness and the method for preparing the same, wherein POSS-containing macromolecule capable of polymerizing and metal-coordination complexing is synthesized to complex with iron salt, Fe2+/Fe3+ salts are in-situ deposited via chemical coprecipitation, and crosslinking agent and initiator are added to induce polymerization so that POSS-containing nanogel ranges with magnetic responsiveness is obtained. The present invention is of professional design, feasible technique and simple operation, and prepared nanogel magnetic particles are well dispersed with excellent magnetic responsiveness, which possesses a good application prospect in medical diagnosis, sensor, catalyst carrier and biomaterial.
US09842671B2
A seal structure for multicore cable includes a multicore cable configured such that a plurality of first to fourth wires are surrounded by a sheath and drawn out from an end part of the sheath, and a rubber plug including a sheath fitting portion to be externally fitted to the end part of the sheath and a wire penetrating portion having a plurality of first to fourth through holes, through which the plurality of first to fourth wires drawn out from the end part of the sheath are respectively passed. Sheath side lips to be held in contact with an outer periphery of the sheath are provided on an inner periphery of the sheath fitting portion. First to fourth wire side lips to be respectively held in close contact with outer peripheries of the plurality of first to fourth wires are provided on inner peripheries of the plurality of first to fourth through holes.
US09842668B2
A composition for a transparent electrode according to the present invention comprises (A) a carbon nanotube dispersing solution and (B) a metal nanowire solution having a zeta potential with the same polarity as the carbon nanotube dispersing solution, and a transparent electrode coated with the composition for the transparent electrode has superior transmittance, electrical conductivity and transparency.
US09842665B2
Disclosed herein are laser scanning systems and methods of their use. In some embodiments, laser scanning systems can be used to ablatively or non-ablatively scan a surface of a material. Some embodiments include methods of scanning a multi-layer structure. Some embodiments include translating a focus-adjust optical system so as to vary laser beam diameter. Some embodiments make use of a 20-bit laser scanning system.
US09842662B2
A data retention reliability screen of integrated circuits including ferroelectric random access memory (FRAM) arrays. Sampled groups of cells in the FRAM array are tested at various reference voltage levels, after programming to a high polarization capacitance data state and a relaxation time at an elevated temperature. Fail bit counts of the sample groups at the various reference voltage levels are used to derive a test reference voltage, against which all of the FRAM cells in the integrated circuit are then tested after preconditioning (i.e., programming) and another relaxation interval at the elevated temperature, to determine those cells in the integrated circuit that are vulnerable to long-term data retention failure.
US09842656B2
A semiconductor memory device and a verification method which can verify data taken inside external terminals are provided. The semiconductor memory device of the invention includes external input/output terminals for inputting or outputting data, a memory array 110 and a page buffer/sensing circuit 170. The page buffer/sensing circuit 170 holds input data inputted from the external input/output terminals and the held input data can be programmed to the memory array 110. Further, the semiconductor memory device includes comparing circuit 132. The comparing circuit 132 compares input data held in the page buffer/sensing circuit 170 and the input data read from the page buffer/sensing circuit 170.
US09842648B1
A memory apparatus includes a write driver, a sense amplifier and a reference voltage setting circuit. The write driver programs a set data or a reset data into a memory cell. The sense amplifier generates an output signal by sensing data stored in the memory cell. The reference voltage setting circuit sets a set reference voltage having a lowest level to satisfy a set data distribution, and sets a set-up reset reference voltage from the set reference voltage.
US09842646B2
In an example, a memristor apparatus with variable transmission delay may include a first memristor programmable to have one of a plurality of distinct resistance levels, a second memristor, a transistor connected between the first memristor and the second memristor, and a capacitor having a capacitance, in which the capacitor is connected between the first memristor and the transistor. In addition, application of a reading voltage across the second memristor is delayed by a time period equivalent to the programmed resistance level of the first memristor and the capacitance of the capacitor.
US09842638B1
Dynamically controlling voltage for access (i.e., read and/or write) operations to magneto-resistive random access memory (MRAM) bit cells to account for process variations is disclosed. An MRAM bit cell process variation measurement circuit (PVMC) is configured to measure process variations in MTJs that affect MTJ resistance, which can change write current at a given fixed supply voltage applied to an MRAM bit cell. The MRAM bit cell PVMC may also be configured to measure process variations in logic circuits representing process variations in access transistors employed in MRAM bit cells. These measured process variations in MTJs and/or logic circuits are used to dynamically determine a supply voltage for access operations to MRAM.
US09842637B2
A magnetic memory device and a method of fabricating the same are provided. The method includes forming a first magnetic layer on a substrate, forming a tunnel barrier layer on the first magnetic layer, and forming a second magnetic layer on the tunnel barrier layer. The forming of the tunnel barrier layer includes forming a first metal oxide layer on the first magnetic layer, forming a first metal layer on the first metal oxide layer, forming a second metal oxide layer on the first metal layer, and performing a first thermal treatment process to oxidize at least a portion of the first metal layer.
US09842635B2
A spin transistor memory according to an embodiment includes: a first semiconductor region, a second semiconductor region, and a third semiconductor region, each being of a first conductivity type and disposed in a semiconductor layer; a first gate disposed above the semiconductor layer between the first semiconductor region and the second semiconductor region; a second gate disposed above the semiconductor layer between the second semiconductor region and the third semiconductor region; and a first ferromagnetic layer, a second ferromagnetic layer, and a third ferromagnetic layer disposed on the first semiconductor region, the second semiconductor region, and the third semiconductor region respectively.
US09842634B2
Write-assist circuits for memory bit cells (“bit cells”) employing a P-type Field-Effect transistor (PFET) write port(s) are disclosed. Related methods and systems are also disclosed. It has been observed that as node technology is scaled down in size, PFET drive current (i.e., drive strength) exceeds N-type Field-Effect transistor (NFET) drive current for like-dimensioned FETs. In this regard, in one aspect, it is desired to provide bit cells having PFET write ports, as opposed to NFET write ports, to reduce memory write times to the bit cells, and thus improve memory performance. To mitigate a write contention that could otherwise occur when writing data to bit cells, a write-assist circuit provided in the form of negative wordline boost circuit can be employed to strengthen a PFET access transistor in a memory bit cell having a PFET write port(s).
US09842630B2
A memory component includes a memory bank comprising a plurality of storage cells and a data interface block configured to transfer data between the memory component and a component external to the memory component. The memory component further includes a plurality of column interface buses coupled between the memory bank and the data interface block, wherein a first column interface bus of the plurality of column interface buses is configured to transfer data between a first storage cell of the plurality of storage cells and the data interface block during a first access operation and wherein a second column interface bus of the plurality of column interface buses is configured to transfer the data between the first storage cell and the data interface block during a second access operation.
US09842627B2
A device includes a first strap cell, a first data line, and a second data line. The first strap cell is arranged between a first row of memory cells and a second row of memory cells in a memory array. A first portion of the first data line is configured to transmit data to or from a first memory cell in the first row of memory cells. The second data line and a second portion of the first data line are configured to transmit data to or from a second memory cell in the second row of memory cells.
US09842624B2
Image stitching is described for multiple camera video by placing seams for objects in the scene. An object of interest is identified within an overlap between two images each from a different adjacent camera of a multiple camera system. An identified object of interest is placed within an identified one of the two images. A seam is placed between the two images so that the object of interest is within the identified image and not within the other of the two images. The two images are joined at the placed seam and the two joined images are rendered as a single image joined at the placed seam.
US09842621B1
An apparatus determines that phase errors have exceeded a threshold when reading data previously recorded to a heat-assisted recording medium. In response to the phase errors exceeding the threshold, remedial action is taken to prevent loss of data due changes in power applied to heat the heat-assisted recording medium when recording.
US09842613B2
Methods that include forming at least a portion of a near field transducer (NFT) structure; depositing a material onto at least one surface of the portion of the NFT to form a metal containing layer; and subjecting the metal containing layer to conditions that cause diffusion of at least a portion of the material into the at least one surface of the portion of the NFT; and devices formed thereby.
US09842602B2
The present disclosure provides methods and apparatuses that enable an apparatus to identify sounds from short samples of audio. The apparatus may capture an audio sample and create several audio signals of different lengths, each containing audio from the captured audio sample. The apparatus my process the several audio signals in an attempt to identify features of the audio signal that indicate an identification of the captured sound. Because shorter audio samples can be analyzed more quickly, the system may first process the shortest audio samples in order to quickly identify features of the audio signal. Because longer audio samples contain more information, the system may be able to more accurately identify features in the audio signal in longer audio samples. However, analyzing longer audio signals takes more buffered audio than identifying features in shorter signals. Therefore, the present system attempts to identify features in the shortest audio signals first.
US09842596B2
Techniques for adaptive processing of media data based on separate data specifying a state of the media data are provided. A device in a media processing chain may determine whether a type of media processing has already been performed on an input version of media data. If so, the device may adapt its processing of the media data to disable performing the type of media processing. If not, the device performs the type of media processing. The device may create a state of the media data specifying the type of media processing. The device may communicate the state of the media data and an output version of the media data to a recipient device in the media processing chain, for the purpose of supporting the recipient device's adaptive processing of the media data.
US09842581B2
A transmitter for an acoustic logging tool includes an elongated housing, an acoustic energy generator, and a driver. The elongate housing defines a hollow interior and supports an acoustic energy generator, which includes four mutually orthogonally orientated bender bars that are electrically driveable to flex within the hollow interior in order to generate pressure-derived waves in a fluid surrounding the transmitter in use. The housing includes one or more transmissive windows via which flexing of the bender bars gives rise to propagation of one or more said waves in a said fluid. The driver electrically drives the bender bars to flex so as selectively to generate monopole, dipole, or quadrupole waves in a said fluid, with the poles of the dipole and quadrupole when generated selectively being aligned with normals to pairs of the bender bars or rotated 45° relative thereto.
US09842580B1
A humbucker pickup device for active and passive guitars including a matched pair of elongated coil assemblies with two sets of ferrous pole pieces also includes two elongated, transversely polarized permanent magnets positioned between and parallel to the coils. The magnets are beside each other with opposite poles facing each other. The magnets and said two sets of pole pieces create two narrow magnetic fields under each string to interact with it at two points. The humbucker device includes an improved differential amplifier built from two or three operational amplifiers. Alternatively, the device may include a steel plate positioned between the magnets and extending to the strings for weakening a wide magnetic field between pole pieces of the different sets. Both embodiments, with and without the plate, are described.
US09842579B1
A percussion instrument, in particular electronic percussion instrument, includes at least one main attack element having at least one main attack surface and with a position detecting unit which is at least provided to detect an attack position of the main attack surface. The position detecting unit comprises at least two position detecting elements which are arranged decentrally with respect to the main attack surface, at least when the main attack surface is viewed perpendicularly.
US09842578B2
Electronic musical instruments as disclosed, include sensors to digitize and alter the sound using FSR sensors in the mouthpieces and other elements of the instrument to mimic the variations available in analog instruments.
US09842573B2
An apparatus for Gaussian filtering includes an image buffer for generating mask region data which includes pixel values of pixels located on a mask in an input image, and a Gaussian filter core for arranging the mask region data to generate pixel array values referring to an index array corresponding to a size of the mask, and applying Gaussian filtering to the pixel array values to generate Gaussian filtering values.
US09842564B2
A method and system is provided for wireless transmission of audio/video information via different wired AV interface formats. A method and system for wireless communication of audio/video AV information between AV devices includes receiving audio/video (AV) information from a first AV module via a first wired AV interface in a first AV device, applying interface dependent processing to the AV information, and transmitting the processed AV information from a wireless transceiver over a wireless channel to a wireless receiver of a second AV device. The second AV device includes a second wired AV interface and the first AV interface is of a different type than the second interface device.
US09842563B2
A receptacle having a programmable, interactive visual display affixed to a surface of the receptacle. The receptacle includes the visual display, a programmable memory, and a controller. The memory stores data corresponding to one or more display images and/or text, and the controller controls the display for displaying the image/text data from the memory. The receptacle may further include an input mechanism for receiving at least one input, and the controller may control the display of images/text data in response to the input. The memory can also store at least one game or other program, and the controller can execute the game or other program from the memory, operate the game or other in response to one or more inputs received via the input mechanism, and control the display based on the requirements of the game or other programs. The display may include an audio component for producing audible sound.
US09842560B2
Provided are a source driver and a display device. The source driver may include: a gamma voltage generation unit configured to select and provide one or more of the gamma voltages in response to a first power down signal; an output buffer unit configured to provide a data voltage to a output terminal in response to a second power down signal; and a selection unit configured to provide the gamma voltage to the output terminal.
US09842555B2
According to one embodiment, a lateral electric-field type of liquid crystal display device includes a display panel and a controller, wherein a frame frequency falls within a range of 1 Hz to 10 Hz, an off-leak current of each of the TFTs has a value of 1×10−15 A or less, a resistivity of a liquid crystal and a resistivity of an alignment film both fall within one of a first range and a second range, the first range being 1×1013 to 5×1013 Ω·cm, the second range being 5×1013 to 5×1014 Ω·cm, and a relationship of “R1× C1≈R2×C2” is satisfied, where R1 is a resistance and C1 is a capacity with respect to each pixel, R2 is a resistance and C2 is a capacity with respect to each pixel.
US09842553B2
A method of driving a display panel includes: generating a data signal having a difference between a number of positive frames and a number of negative frames; and displaying an image according to the data signal.
US09842551B2
A touch screen display may include gate line driver circuitry coupled to a display pixel array. The display may be provided with intra-frame pausing (IFP) capabilities, where touch or other operations may be performed during one or more intra-frame blanking intervals. In one suitable arrangement, a gate driver circuit may include multiple gate line driver segments each of which is activated by a separate gate start pulse is that received through a demultiplexing circuit. In another suitable embodiment, the gate driver circuit may include analog or digital gate driver units that include control circuits for selectively (dis)charging internal nodes in the gate driver circuit so as to balance the amount of stress that is experienced by a drive transistor in gate driver units at or near an IFP row and the amount of stress that is experienced by the remaining gate driver units.
US09842550B2
A display device includes a backlight unit, a display panel, and a controller. The backlight unit comprises a plurality of first light sources in a first direction and a plurality of second light sources in the first direction. The display panel is spaced apart from the backlight unit in a third direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction and comprising an edge portion defined along at least one side thereof and a plurality of pixels. The controller generates an edge image data corresponding to a plurality of edge pixels disposed in the edge portion among the pixels, the edge image data is generated on the basis of a first angle between the third direction and a first imaginary line connecting the edge pixels and the first light sources and a second angle between the third direction and a second imaginary line connecting the edge pixels and the second light sources.
US09842546B2
Discussed is an organic light emitting display device. The organic light emitting display device in one embodiment includes a plurality of pixels configured to each include an organic light emitting device which emits light with a data current, and a pixel circuit that includes a driving transistor which supplies the data current, which is based on a difference voltage between a data voltage and a reference voltage, to the organic light emitting device, a plurality of data lines configured to respectively supply a plurality of the data voltages to the plurality of pixels, a plurality of gate lines configured to supply a gate signal to the pixels, and a plurality of reference lines connected to at least one of the pixels, and configured to supply the reference voltage to the connected pixel. The reference voltage is varied according to data of a pixel connected to a corresponding reference line.
US09842540B2
A driving method of a semiconductor device for compensating variation in threshold voltage and mobility of a transistor is provided. A driving method of a semiconductor device including a transistor and a capacitor electrically connected to a gate of the transistor includes a first period where voltage corresponding to threshold voltage of the transistor is held in the capacitor, a second period where a total voltage of video signal voltage and threshold voltage is held in the capacitor holding the threshold voltage, and a third period where charge held in the capacitor in accordance with the total voltage of the video signal voltage and the threshold voltage in the second period is discharged through the transistor.
US09842539B2
A pixel control circuit includes an organic light emitting diode, a driving transistor, a driving circuit, a discharge circuit and a compensation circuit. The driving transistor is used to turn on or turn off the organic light emitting diode. The discharge circuit is used to control the electrical connection between the organic light emitting diode and an initial voltage to timely provide a discharge path for the organic light emitting diode. The compensation circuit is used to compensate a conducting current for the organic light emitting diode when the organic light emitting diode emits light so that the conducting current is independent of a threshold voltage of the driving transistor. The driving circuit is used to control the electrical connection between a predetermined voltage and the driving transistor to make the organic light emitting diode emit light.
US09842537B2
A display device includes: a display unit including a plurality of pixels, each of the pixels including: an OLED; and a driving transistor to supply current to an anode of the OLED according to a voltage applied to a gate of the driving transistor and a power supply voltage; a scan driver to supply scan signals to the pixels; an initialization driver to supply initializing signals to the pixels; a data driver to supply data signals to the pixels; light emission drivers to supply first and second light emission signals to the pixels; and a power supply to supply the power supply voltage and an initialization voltage to the pixels, wherein the initialization voltage is supplied to the anode during a first period, and the power supply voltage corresponding to a threshold voltage of the driving transistor is supplied to the gate during a first sub-period of the first period.
US09842534B2
A display device includes a controller, an image processor, and a pixel array. The controller generates an image control signal and a position control signal. The image processor generates a frame image based on an image signal and the image control signal. The position control signal includes position information where the frame image is located. The pixel array includes base pixels and addition pixels. The pixel array displays the frame image in the base pixels and the addition pixels based on the position control signal. A number of the base pixels corresponds to a resolution of the frame image. The addition pixels are different from the base pixels.
US09842533B2
The present disclosure provides a display device, a device and a method for gamma compensation. The device for gamma compensation includes: a flexure recording module, provided in a flexible display panel, and configured to acquire a flexure count of the flexible display panel; a parameter inquiring module, connected to the flexure recording module, and configured to inquire a corresponding gamma correction value from a comparison table involving a correspondence between flexure counts of the flexible display panel and gamma correction values according to the flexure count of the flexible display panel; and a voltage output module, connected to the parameter inquiring module, and configured to provide a gamma compensation voltage to the flexible display panel according to the gamma correction value.
US09842531B2
The invention discloses a gate driving circuit and a display device. The gate driving circuit includes first to eighth dock signal lines and first to Nth stage first shift registers, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 9. The first to eighth clock signal lines are configured to provide first to eighth clock signals, respectively. The ith stage first shift register is coupled to one of the first to eighth clock signal lines and receives one of the first to eighth clock signals, a first input signal and a second input signal and outputs an ith stage first output signal, where i is any integer from 1 to N.
US09842517B1
An identification bracelet is provided. The identification bracelet includes an elongated body, and an end of the body includes a securement portion, which includes an adhesive. A cover having a release section and a gripping section is disposed at the end of the body such that, in an initial configuration, the release section of the cover is engaged with the adhesive of the securement portion. The gripping section is connected to the release section and can be utilized to disengage the cover from the adhesive of the securement portion. When the cover is disengaged, the securement portion is narrower than the rest of the body, resulting in the identification bracelet having a tapered closure.
US09842516B2
In accordance with one aspect of the present disclosure, a greeting card is disclosed that includes a plurality of panels connected such that the greeting card is reconfigurable between a closed configuration and an open configuration, at least one object positioned between the plurality of panels that is reconfigurable between a collapsed configuration and an expanded configuration, and an attachment member connecting the at least one object to the plurality of panels such that the at least one object can be detached from the plurality of panels. In various embodiments, the greeting card may further include a locking member that is configured and dimensioned to maintain the expanded configuration of the at least one object.
US09842515B1
An apparatus for simulating an animal body cavity for training surgical techniques therein comprises a housing defining an internal cavity with an externally-facing opening therein for access by a trainee to the internal cavity. A cover made of a flexible material which is penetrable by a surgical instrument conceals the opening. At least one internal anatomy and at least one camera are positioned within the internal cavity.
US09842512B2
A device and method of tapering medication in a post-operative patient is provided. The system includes a stationary base having indicia thereon representative of a defined period of time; a first circular wheel concentrically positioned on the stationary base, the first circular wheel representative of a first medication being taken by a patient; and a pin coupling the substantially circular wheel to said stationary base to permit the wheel to rotate 360 degrees about said base. The method of tapering medication includes gradually increasing the time intervals that medication is administered to a post-operative patient.
US09842505B2
Systems, methods, and devices are provided for providing flight response to flight-restricted regions. The location of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) may be compared with a location of a flight-restricted region. If needed a flight-response measure may be taken by the UAV to prevent the UAV from flying in a no-fly zone. Different flight-response measures may be taken based on the distance between the UAV and the flight-restricted region and the rules of a jurisdiction within which the UAV falls.
US09842502B2
A system includes a detection module, a control module, an input module, and a determination module. The detection module is configured to obtain information from one or more detectors corresponding to a condition of a transportation network. The control module is configured to issue control messages using the information obtained. The input module is configured to receive a request for the control module to enter a test mode corresponding to an alteration of at least one of an input or an output of the control module from an operational mode. The determination module is configured to determine if an authorization condition corresponding to a physical state of one or more functional activity module of the transportation network is satisfied. The control module is transferred to the test mode if the authorization condition is satisfied and maintained in the operational mode if the authorization condition is not satisfied.
US09842500B1
A warning system for an automated vehicle includes an object-detector, a location-detector, a transceiver, and a controller. The object-detector is used to determine a separation-distance to a target-vehicle from a host-vehicle. The location-detector is used to provide global-positioning-system-coordinates (GPS-coordinates) of the target-vehicle. The transceiver is used to transmit a proximity-warning to the target-vehicle. The controller is in communication with the object-detector, the location-detector, and the transceiver. The controller is configured to operate the transceiver to transmit the proximity-warning when the separation-distance between the host-vehicle and the target-vehicle is less than a distance-threshold. The proximity-warning includes the GPS-coordinates of the target-vehicle and the separation-distance.
US09842499B2
A method of controlling a Wi-Fi device in a vehicle, which includes determining, via a controller of the Wi-Fi device, an abnormal state of the vehicle; adding, via the controller, vendor specific data in a management frame to be transmitted to a different Wi-Fi device in a different vehicle via Wi-Fi Direct based on the determined abnormal state; transmitting, via a wireless communication unit of the Wi-Fi device, the generated vendor specific data to the different Wi-Fi device, wherein the management frame comprises at least one of a probe request frame, a probe response frame, a service request frame and a service response frame, and wherein the management frame is transmitted before an authenticated connection is established between the Wi-Fi device and the different Wi-Fi device.
US09842498B2
A method, a computer program product, and an apparatus for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus adjusts a number of sets of identifiers in a plurality of sets of identifiers based on traffic information. In addition, the apparatus selects an identifier from a set of identifiers of the plurality of sets of identifiers based on the traffic information. Furthermore, the apparatus communicates using resources associated with the selected identifier. The traffic information may include at least one of direction of travel, map information, velocity, whether approaching an intersection, whether departing an intersection, location, a number of vehicles within a particular area, information from other vehicles, type of intersection, whether the intersection includes stop lights or stop signs, at least one computed value based on acquired traffic information, or information from other wireless devices.
US09842497B2
A system and method for communicating with traffic detectors. A location of a vehicle is determined. A search is performed continuously for any of a number of traffic detectors in a wireless environment. A communication session is established with one of the number of traffic detectors in response to entering a range of one of the number of traffic detectors. A message associated with the one of the number of traffic detectors is communicated to the vehicle while the vehicle is within the range of one or more traffic detectors.
US09842481B1
Apparatus and method to collect device information published in past times via a network of gateways
Gateways transfer data between publishers and subscribers. Upon receiving an acquisition request for acquiring device-information from a subscriber, a first gateway stores, as routing-information, a matching condition for transferring device-information and a transfer-destination address, and transfers the acquisition request. Upon receiving device-information issued by a publisher, the second gateway stores the device-information in association with a reception time of the device-information, adds, to the routing information, a matching result including a source address of the device-information and the reception time, and transfers the device-information through gateways to the first gateway, according to the routing information. When the acquisition request includes a time condition related to past time, the first gateway generates an accumulating area for accumulating device-information, and when device-information is acquired in response to the acquisition request, accumulates the acquired device-information in the accumulating area, and transmits the accumulated device-information to the subscriber after a predetermined time has elapsed.
US09842475B2
An illuminated cash drawer with the illumination mounted on the inside surface of the top of the case in which the drawer is located.
US09842462B2
In one embodiment, a system, apparatus, and method for social gaming may include a gaming machine configured to play a game of chance and produce game information. A social gaming server can be configured to communicate with the gaming machine, may establish a remote gaming session between the gaming machine and a user device, and may distribute the portion of the game information to the user device.
US09842460B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide a gaming machine whose casing is made compact with a reduced number of components of a radiation mechanism. A slot machine comprising a casing 411 accommodating therein a security cage SK having therein a APX motherboard AM and having a shelf board R21, wherein the APX motherboard has a control unit (not-shown CPU), and a fan configured to cool the control unit; an air hole 411i is formed on a side surface of the casing 411; the shelf board R21 has a hollow portion; and the hollow portion serves as an air intake duct which, with an aide of a negative pressure generated in the security cage SK by the fan, supplies an external air from the air hole 411i to the security cage SK.
US09842459B2
A method and apparatus for providing hybrid bingo games to online players. A bingo server receives electronic indications of actual bingo balls drawn by a person or a ball drawing machine from a set of actual bingo balls and eliminates electronic bingo ball values from an electronic set of bingo ball values corresponding to the actual bingo balls stored in a memory. The game server further randomly selects electronic bingo ball values from the electronic set of bingo ball values stored in memory, less any electronic ball values corresponding to actual bingo balls already drawn by the person or ball drawing machine. Finally, electronic bingo ball values not already drawn by the live person or ball drawing machine are provided to the online players.
US09842450B2
A banknote handling apparatus 100 includes: a taking-in unit 10 which takes banknotes in one by one; a transport unit 70 which transports each banknote from the taking-in unit 10; a recognition sensor 20 which obtains information related to the fitness of the banknote transported by the transport unit 70; and a memory unit 55 which stores a threshold value for an unfit note factor for determining the fitness of a banknote. A control unit 50 of apparatus 100 determines the fitness of the banknote by comparing the threshold value and a detected value of the unfit note factor based on the information obtained by the recognition sensor 20, and counts the number of times the unfit note factor has been used to determine the banknote as an unfit note. An output unit 35 outputs the unfit note factor and the number of times of reason.
US09842444B2
A system and method for remotely communicating with a vehicle using a mobile communication device and a sleeve associated with the mobile communication device. The sleeve including a transceiver, the transceiver enabling communication between the mobile communication device and the vehicle. The mobile communication device provides commands to the vehicle through the sleeve.
US09842429B2
Systems and methods are provided for navigating a three-dimensional model using deterministic movement of an electronic device. An electronic device can load and provide an initial display of a three dimensional model (e.g., of an environment or of an object). As the user moves the electronic device, motion sensing components can detect the device movement and adjust the displayed portion of the three-dimensional model to reflect the movement of the device. By walking with the device in the user's real environment, a user can virtually navigate a representation of a three-dimensional environment. In some embodiments, a user can record an object or environment using an electronic device, and tag the recorded images or video with movement information describing the movement of the device during the recording. The recorded information can then be processed with the movement information to generate a three-dimensional model of the recorded environment or object.
US09842428B2
A method for dynamically configuring a graphics pipeline system. The method includes determining an optimal pipeline based on: estimating one or more of memory power consumption and computation power consumption of storing and regenerating intermediate results based on graphics state information and one or more factors; determining granularity for the optimal graphics pipeline configuration based on the graphics state information and the one or more factors; collecting runtime information for primitives from graphics pipeline hardware including factors from tessellation or using graphics state information for determining geometry expansion at an output of one or more shader stages; and determining intermediate results to save from a previous processing pass by comparing memory power consumption needed to save the intermediate results with computation power as well as memory power needed for regenerating the intermediate results in one or more later tile rendering passes.
US09842419B2
The disclosure discloses a method and device for display a picture, relates to the field of electronic information and is intended to address the problems of a long modeling period of time and inefficient modeling when the picture is three-dimensionally displayed. Particularly the method includes: obtaining at least one picture sequence number, wherein a picture sequence number corresponds to a picture; substituting the at least one picture sequence number into a preset set of equations to calculate location information of at least one picture, wherein the preset set of equations is a set of equations created in a virtual three-dimensional coordinate system, and location information of a picture corresponds to a picture sequence number; and displaying the at least one picture according to the location information of the at least one picture. The disclosure is applicable to display of a picture.
US09842417B2
In a method for simplifying point clouds of an object using a computing device, a point cloud of the object is obtained from a scanning device connected to the computing device, and the point cloud is meshed into triangulated grids. The triangulated grids are selected from the point cloud, and a number of simplification passes to simplify the triangulated grids is received from an input device. The triangulated grids of triangles are classified according to a shape of each grid and a location of each grid in the point cloud. Each type of triangulated grid is simplified to obtain simplified grids by performing a loop triangular grid function with the number of simplification passes. The simplified grids are smoothed and the cloud model of the object can be displayed.
US09842416B2
A system for animated painterly picture generation comprises a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the system to: determine a first set of brush strokes, each brush stroke being based on a two-dimensional vector; generate a first frame from the first set of brush strokes; perturb the first set of brush strokes to create additional sets of brush strokes; and generate additional frames from the additional sets of brush strokes, wherein the first frame and the additional frames form a sequence of frames that are time-coherent.
US09842406B2
Provided are a system and method for determining at least one color of a foreground and a computer readable recording medium therefor. The system includes: a motion detector configured to detect a motion region from an image of an area; and a color determiner configured to determine at least one color of the foreground included in the motion region based on a difference between at least one color of the motion region and at least one color of a background which is a region outside the motion region in the image, for displaying the foreground color with the foreground at a display device.
US09842400B2
A disparity determination method and apparatus are provided. The disparity determination method includes receiving first signals of an event from a first sensor disposed at a first location and second signals of the event from a second sensor disposed at a second location that is different than the first location, and extracting a movement direction of the event, based on at least one among the first signals and the second signals. The disparity determination method further includes determining a disparity between the first sensor and the second sensor, based on the movement direction, a difference between times at which the event is sensed by corresponding pixels in the first sensor, and a difference between times at which the event is sensed by corresponding pixels in the first sensor and the second sensor.
US09842385B2
An image processor receives an input image with enhanced dynamic range to be displayed on a target display which has a different dynamic range than a reference display. After optional color transformation (110) and perceptual quantization (115) of the input image, a multiscale mapping process (120) combines linear (125) and non-linear (130) mapping functions to its input to generate first (127) and second (132) output images, wherein the first and second output images may have a different dynamic range than the first image. A frequency transform (135, 140), such as the FFT, is applied to the first and second output images to generate first (137) and second (142) transformed images. An interpolation function (145) is applied to the first and second transformed images to generate an interpolated transformed image (147). An inverse transform function (150) is applied to the interpolated transformed image to generate an output tone-mapped image (152). The output tone-mapped image is post-processed to be displayed on the target display.
US09842377B2
A first user input is received when a client program executed by a client computing device is in a first state. The first user input is sent to a server computing device to render a view of a virtual scene. A state change from the first state in the client program due to a second user input or a program event is identified. One or more gaps in a server-rendered current view due to the state change are determined. A rendering of the one or more gaps is selected from among the server-rendered current view, a server-rendered predicted view and one or more prior-rendered views. A current view is rendered using a simplified model of the virtual scene by rendering the one or more gaps from the selected rendering. The current rendered view is visually presented via a display of the client computing device.
US09842374B2
Disclosed is a portable, wearable device for measuring parameters including blood oxygenation, galvanic skin response, skin temperature, pulse rate, blood pressure, and exertion level, and diagnosing stress and other conditions which cause stress-like physiological responses based on the results of the monitoring and on patient input of feelings and symptoms. Specific queries and advice on stress reduction, related disease management, and stress and disease education is also provided to the patient through the device.
US09842361B2
A user and a merchant register an account with a payment processing system and each receive a unique identifier. When the registered user enters a search query for a product, the search engine system locates a product that matches the search query and that is associated with a registered merchant. The search engine system then confirms that the user and the merchant are registered, and creates a unique product identifier for the product. After associating the unique product identifier with the product, the search engine presents the product to the user with a direct purchase option. If the user selects a direct purchase option, the search engine system communicates with the payment processing system and merchant system to facilitate and verify the purchase transaction. The merchant then provides the product to the user.
US09842354B2
A multistage online auction for electronic advertising is described including simulation. A first stage auction occurs internally within a demand-side platform where multiple advertiser clients compete to determine whose advertisement is submitted to at least one external auction site. Within the internal auction, an advertiser client optionally simulates their participation. All bidders enter a bid and campaign targeting parameters. A simulating bidder's campaign is processed in real time just as those of real bidders. Ad placement opportunities received from an external auction site are filtered for each campaign producing a list of targetable impressions. For each targetable impression, the client placing the highest real bid has their ad and bid submitted to the second stage external auction. A simulating bidder receives a report on targetable impressions for their campaign. A targetable impression for a simulated bid that is higher than any real bid is reported as a winnable impression.
US09842351B2
Systems and methods are presented for standardizing delivery of products in an online marketplace using one or more locker systems. In some embodiments, a system of lockers is presented. The locker system may be configured to store one or more products sold in an online marketplace. The locker system may also include a processor coupled to the one or more lockers and configured to generate access code information for a buyer to enable access to a locker storing the product. One or more sensors may be coupled to the one or more lockers and configured to examine the product for a level of product quality. A transmitter of the system may be configured to transmit the access code information to the buyer. The system can later accept the access code information inputted from the buyer and open the locker storing the product after receiving the access code information.
US09842337B2
To assist in patent searching a description includes a consumer purchasing behavior profiling system having aspects including consumer profiles formed and updated based on a variety of data. Advertisers access to send targeted advertising messages to the consumers. Aspects include advertising information together with incentive level and mix being correlated with the consumer profile to produce a measure of the applicability of the ad to that consumer and the probability of converting that consumer. Other aspects include determining the mix of ad information, incentive level and type, and product offering that will be required to convert an ad viewer to a buyer. Aspects focus on using wireless devices with consumers. Other aspects reside in methods of using electronic coupons distribution and redemption to collect additional data points necessary to understand the consumer's purchasing decision process and factors that influence the purchasing decision.
US09842331B2
Techniques for processing an image of a check captured using a mobile device are provided. The check image is processed to determine whether the check can be deposited at a bank via a mobile deposit process. The system can identify regions of the check—such as the endorsement area—to determine if the check has been properly endorsed. The system can be implemented on a mobile device and/or a server, where the mobile device routes the check image to the server for processing. If the check cannot be deposited, a rejection is forwarded in real time to the mobile device for possible correction.
US09842325B2
Embodiments are directed to monetary transaction system for conducting monetary transactions between transaction system subscribers and other entities. In one scenario, the monetary transaction system includes a mobile device that runs a monetary transaction system application. The monetary transaction system also includes a subscriber that has a profile with the system. The subscriber indicates a transaction that is to be performed with the monetary transaction system. The system further includes a monetary transaction system processor that performs the transactions specified by the subscriber including communicating with a monetary transaction database to determine whether the transaction is permissible based on data indicated in the subscriber's profile. The monetary transaction system also includes at least one entity that is to be involved in the specified transaction, where the entity has a profile with the monetary transaction system. This entity may be a person, a retail store, an agent or other entity.
US09842318B2
Systems and methods are provided to specify a location of a planned event via a selection of a listing that has location information. For example, in response to a search request a listing may show a business entity at a geographic location; and the user may select the listing as a way to specify the location of a new event or an existing event. In some embodiments, one event can have multiple listings specifying multiple locations.
US09842315B1
The sources of emails sent from mobile devices using wireless email protocols can be identified. In one embodiment, the invention includes receiving a simple mail transfer protocol (SMTP)-formatted email sent from a mobile device as an HTTP request. An SMTP-compliant header identifying the mobile device is examined, that was inserted into the HTTP request using information contained in one or more HTTP headers of the HTTP request. Then, an email data loss prevention (DLP) policy specific to mobile devices is applied to the received email.
US09842314B2
The present disclosure describes a talent-identification system that can be used by companies to assist in the recruitment process for new employees. Additionally, the system can be used by job seekers to determine ideal career fields and industries. The system employs an array of neuroscience-based tests to assess a user's career propensities, after which the system can provide career recommendations to the user or report on employment suitability of the user to a company.
US09842312B1
A workroom is automatically established for each job created and is associated with a unique email address. The workroom allows members to hold live meetings, communicate in real-time, including via email, upload/manage/share files, and automatically provide transcripts of communication. The workroom also allows team members to launch work trackers directly from the workroom. A work tracker collects work information and directly generates one or more status reports based on the work information collected. A status report includes a back-end version viewable and modifiable by a service provider and a front-end version viewable by a buyer. The status report directly generates an invoice based on the information from the status report. The invoice is submitted to the buyer and allows the buyer to directly pay the service provider.
US09842304B2
A network system and a method are disclosed for accessing functionalities or medical data within the framework of a diagnostic findings process. An on-premises server farm, a data center and a plurality of mobile terminal devices are provided for that purpose. The on-premises system is connected to the data center via a local network connection. The mobile network devices are connected to the data center via a mobile communications connection. The data center is a virtualization of the local on-premises server farm. The mobile communications connection to the data exchange is activated as soon as the mobile device leaves the transmit and/or receive range of the respective hospital (off-premises).
US09842302B2
A plant asset failure prediction system and associated method. The method includes receiving user input identifying a first target set of equipment including a first plurality of units of equipment. A set of time series waveforms from sensors associated with the first plurality of units of equipment are received, the time series waveforms including sensor data values. A processor is configured to process the time series waveforms to generate a plurality of derived inputs wherein the derived inputs and the sensor data values collectively comprise sensor data. The method further includes determining whether a first machine learning agent may be configured to discriminate between first normal baseline data for the first target set of equipment and first failure signature information for the first target set of equipment. The first normal baseline data of the first target set of equipment may be derived from a first portion of the sensor data associated with operation of the first plurality of units of equipment in a first normal mode and the first failure signature information may be derived from a second portion of the sensor data associated with operation of the first plurality of units of equipment in a first failure mode. Monitored sensor signals produced by the one or more monitoring sensors are received. The first machine learning agent is then and activated, based upon the determining, to monitor data included within the monitored sensor signals.
US09842299B2
A system, method and user interface are described for providing a personal assistant functionality using a predictive, adaptive, dichotomous (two choices) decision engine that proactively prompts the user for decisions on matters deemed relevant by the decision engine based on past user decisions and activities.
US09842294B2
Constraint programming is used to solve problems that have many variables and that have many possible solutions. An interactive constraint solver application provides additional information to a user if a conflict arises between two choice-constraints so that the additional information can be used to resolve the conflict according to a model-constraint set up by an application developer. The additional information identifies a priority group, or queue, to which the constraint was added. Depending on the particulars included in the additional information, and the model-constraints, the conflict is resolved by the interactive constraint solver application.
US09842280B2
A system for evaluating a classifier of an image signal processor (ISP) includes (i) a microprocessor and (ii) memory storing training images, the microprocessor being capable of sending each training image to the ISP. The system includes machine-readable instructions stored within the memory and executed by the microprocessor capable of: (i) selecting a subset of images based upon a divider position, (ii) controlling the ISP to classify each image as belonging or not belonging to an object class, (iii) determining a positive-match count, (iv) determining an error count based upon the positive-match count and total number of training images belonging to the object class, (v) repeating, for other divider positions, steps of selecting, controlling, and determining to identify an optimal divider position and a minimum-error count; and (vi) determining the classifier's optimality by comparing the optimal divider position to a predetermined optimal divider position and a predetermined minimum-error count.
US09842271B2
The present application provides a method of corner detection and an image processing system for detecting corners in an image. The preferred implementation is in software using enabling and reusable hardware features in the underlying vector processor architecture. The advantage of this combined software and programmable processor datapath hardware is that the same hardware used for the FAST algorithm can also be readily applied to a variety of other computational tasks, not limited to image processing.
US09842259B2
Provided is a captured image recognition device that enables the performance of an image recognition function to be sufficiently evinced. A field-of-view splitting estimation unit (31) estimates the splitting of the field of view of a camera unit (20) using a captured image (S1). On the basis of the estimated splitting of the field of view, a candidate application selection unit (32) selects, from among a plurality of image recognition applications, candidates for an image recognition application that is favorable or able to execute processing with respect to a current captured image. An image recognition processing unit (40) executes the image recognition application selected by a user from among the candidate applications. As a result, the performance of an image recognition function can be sufficiently evinced as a result of it being possible to execute an image recognition application that is suitable to the current captured image.
US09842254B1
The systems and/or processes described herein may calibrate an inertial measurement unit (IMU) of an electronic device in part by using images captured by one or more cameras of the electronic device. In this regard, an IMU of an electronic device may comprise a gyroscope, an accelerometer, a magnetometer, or any other type of motion sensor or rotational sensor.
US09842251B2
A method for image processing by: obtaining an original image including a bulleted list; determining a list bounding box enclosing the bulleted list; determining line bounding boxes nested within the list bounding box enclosing lines of the bulleted list; identifying bullets based on the line bounding boxes; identifying indentations based on the bullets; and generating a bulleted list object for the bulleted list in the original image based on the indentations.
US09842250B2
Systems and methods are provided for authenticating a user of a computing device. The system comprises one or more memory devices storing instructions, and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to provide, to a computing device associated with a user, an indication of a prescribed authentication parameter. The system also receives image data including an image of the user of the computing device captured using an image sensor of the computing device. The system determines an identity of the user based on an analysis of the received image data, determines whether the received image data includes a feature corresponding to the prescribed authentication parameter, and authenticates the user based at least in part on whether the received image data includes the feature corresponding to the prescribed authentication parameter.
US09842248B2
The present invention is a method of processing a video image in an electronic video processor including the steps of receiving an input image having an input field of view, generating a processed image from the input image, and having an output field of view smaller than the input field of view, searching for a predetermined pattern within the input image, providing an indication when the predetermined pattern is found in the input image, and zooming the processed image to the input field of view and highlighting the predetermined pattern in the processed image in response to the indication.
US09842242B1
The present invention relates to a method for determining a finger movement event on a fingerprint sensor. The method comprises to acquire signals indicative of the portion of finger detecting structures that may be touched by a finger. Based on the ratio between the signals and a total signal level, the position of the finger on the fingerprint sensing device can be determined at two different time instances. Based on the positions which may be the same, a finger movement event may be determined. The invention also relates to a corresponding fingerprint sensing device.
US09842237B2
A device and method for identifying an object at least partially covered by a transparent material. The abstract of the disclosure is submitted herewith as required by 37 C.F.R. §1.72(b). As stated in 37 C.F.R. §1.72(b): A brief abstract of the technical disclosure in the specification must commence on a separate sheet, preferably following the claims, under the heading “Abstract of the Disclosure.” The purpose of the abstract is to enable the Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and gist of the technical disclosure. The abstract shall not be used for interpreting the scope of the claims. Therefore, any statements made relating to the abstract are not intended to limit the claims in any manner and should not be interpreted as limiting the claims in any manner.
US09842233B2
A switchable radio-frequency identification tag device. The device includes a first RFID module positioned on a first plane, at least one un-tuned antenna section positioned on a second plane, a shorting bar positioned on the second plane; and a sliding mechanism configured to move between a first position and a second position. The first plane is positioned parallel to the second plane. The first RFID module is coupled to the at least one un-tuned antenna section to form a tuned RFID tag in the first position. The first RFID module is coupled to the shorting bar in the second position.
US09842218B1
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request from a user to access particular content. The method also includes determining at least one topic of the particular content. In addition, the method includes determining one or more need-to-access values for the user in relation to the particular content, wherein the one or more need-to-access values are based, at least on in part, on a comparison of the least one topic to one or more topics associated with logged user-initiated communication events of the user. Further, the method includes accessing a self-service access policy applicable to the particular content. Also, the method includes ascertaining, from the self-service access policy, need-to-access criteria applicable to the particular content. Additionally, the method includes, responsive to a determination that the one or more need-to-access values fail to satisfy the need-to-know criteria, denying access by the user to the particular content.
US09842210B2
The present disclosure provides a network architecture and verification platform for analyzing the various modules of a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware image. In one embodiment, the disclosed network architecture and verification platform obtains various UEFI firmware images, such as UEFI firmware image residing on a client device or a UEFI firmware image hosted by a hardware manufacturer. The network architecture and verification platform may then segregate the various UEFI firmware modules that make up the UEFI firmware image, and subject the modules to different types of analysis. By analyzing the UEFI firmware modules individually, the network architecture and verification platform builds a repository of Globally Unique Identifiers (GUIDs) referenced by a given UEFI firmware module, which may then be referenced in future analyses to determine whether any changes, and the extent of such changes, have been made to an updated version of the given UEFI firmware module.
US09842200B1
A content hosting service provides an interface for enabling content owners to upload controlled video and specify conditions for monitoring and hosting it on the hosting service. Plural fingerprints are extracted from the controlled video and used to detect use of the controlled video on pages of the hosting service. The fingerprint extraction and evaluation enables extent of copying to be determined. The interface also allows owners to specify context in which controlled video may be used. Results of monitoring are provided in a graphical user interface that depicts matches of the controlled video and extent of copying of the controlled video in matching monitored video.
US09842194B2
A method for estimating parameter values includes acquiring image data with an imaging apparatus, deriving a parameter model function from the image data, generating a N-dimensional grid, wherein N is a number of values of one or more non-linear terms of the derived model function, pre-calculating the one or more non-linear terms given the parameter model function and the designated values of the non-linear parameters, calculating one or more remaining model terms of the parameter model function, and displaying at least one of the one or more non-linear terms and remaining linear model terms.
US09842190B2
A system for displaying a set of interrelated objects comprises an initializer (1) for identifying a plurality of interrelated objects, a first information filter (2) for selecting a first subset of the plurality of interrelated objects for display based on a first information filter setting, a first displayer (3) for displaying the first subset of the plurality of interrelated objects on a first display area, a user interface (7) for enabling a user to select a region of the first display area for enlargement by visually indicating the region in the first display area, wherein the user can select the region independently of locations of the displayed objects in the first display area, a second information filter (4) for selecting a second subset of the plurality of interrelated objects for display based on a second information filter setting, wherein the second information filter is arranged for selecting objects corresponding to the selected region with an increased level of information detail compared to the first information filter, and a second displayer (5) for displaying the second subset of the plurality of interrelated objects on a second display area.
US09842179B2
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having stored therein a program for causing a computer to execute a process is provided. The process includes: generating a second characteristic model from a plurality of first characteristic models by using a maximum value and a minimum value of a prescribed parameter in the plurality of first characteristic models; executing simulation by using the second characteristic model; calculating a plurality of first margins for an evaluation item according to a result of the simulation; calculating a plurality of second margins for the evaluation item with respect to each of the first characteristic models; calculating a ratio of each of the plurality of second margins to a maximum margin of the plurality at first margins; and ranking the plurality of first characteristic models according to the ratio.
US09842172B2
The present disclosure provides a method, a client device and a server of accessing network information through a graphic code. The method comprises: receiving an access request from a client, where the access request includes information of a graphic code; querying and obtaining, in a server, display information and action instruction that is configured in correspondence with the information of the graphic code in the access request; and performing a corresponding action in the display information according to the action instruction information to obtain an access result of the graphic code. The disclosed method simplifies operations of a user without waiting for the user's step-by-step operation requests, and further simplifies a handling process of the server. In addition, this method of directly returning an access result of a graphic code to a client fulfills an intention of a publisher of the graphic code.
US09842171B2
The invention relates to a solution in which advertisement icons displayed together with map information relate to the displayed map information. In one embodiment of the invention, some or all of the advertisement icons are from service providers situated within the geographical area displayed by the map information.
US09842168B2
Identification of user intents may be provided. A plurality of network applications may be identified, and an ontology associated with each of the plurality of applications may be defined. If a phrase received from a user is associated with at least one of the defined ontologies, an action associated with the network application may be executed.
US09842167B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for processing image content items. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a set of search query suggestions for a query, each search query suggestion being based on the search query; for each search query suggestion, receiving data identifying a respective set of resources determined to be responsive to the search query suggestion; for each respective set of resources, generating a representative resource set depicting a subset of the respective set of resources; providing to the user device, in response the search query, a search results page resource including instructions that cause the user device to render a search results page that includes: a set of search results that identify resources that are determined to be responsive to the search query; for each search query suggestion, a search query suggestion grouping including: data describing the search query suggestion, and data depicting the representative resource set.
US09842155B2
The application describes systems and methods for preventing the distribution of large volumes of electronic data by loading selected sensitive files with pad data to increase the size of the files such that file transfer, distribution, or downloading to removable media storage devices is more cumbersome. In one aspect, a file loading system comprises a datastore for storing a plurality of data files where each of the plurality of data files includes information and a processor arranged to: access the plurality of data files in the datastore, and load a data pad into one or more of the plurality of data files to increase the size of the one or more of the plurality of data files.
US09842153B2
A technique is introduced that enables one or more mechanisms to collect storage and transfer utilization metrics for an account in a distributed data storage system that are more scalable and robust than conventional ways. The technique includes a method comprising, for each of the nodes, of collecting storage utilization data for a one account. The method further includes, for each proxy server, collecting transfer utilization data for the one account. The method further includes, at the controller, generating a cluster account interval (CAI) data based on a raw storage data file and an aggregated transfer data file. The CAI data include storage and transfer utilization data over a predetermined time span.
US09842152B2
A system, apparatus, and method for managing data storage and data access for semi-structured data systems.
US09842140B2
A method for providing an output data stream in a network system comprises receiving a request for a desired output data stream and identifying at least one input data stream on the basis of the desired output data stream. The method further comprises identifying at least one relationship between the at least one identified input data stream and the desired output data stream, determining at least one operator on the basis of the at least one identified relationship and creating a query for generating an output data stream corresponding to the desired output data stream. The query is created by applying the at least one operator to the at least one identified input data stream.
US09842131B2
The present invention relates to a system and method for supporting contact reminding and includes: a contact history database for storing information on a contact history; an unregistered contact point obtaining unit for obtaining an unregistered contact point which has not been registered with an address database, based on the contact history stored in the contact history database; and a contact point recommending unit for calculating contact statistics for a preset certain period by using the contact histories of the obtained unregistered contact points, determining, as a recommended contact point, an unregistered contact point from which contact has not been received recently, based on the calculated contact statistics of the unregistered contact points and the number of times that contact has been made for a recent certain period, and informing a user of the determined recommended contact point.
US09842130B2
Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, devices and/or systems for manipulating hierarchical sets of data are disclosed.
US09842119B1
Techniques for providing an automatically configured placeholder element that can be used during asset modeling and migration planning when a configuration element is not available. For example, a method comprises the following steps. A determination is made that an actual element to be used in a configuration change associated with a data storage system is unavailable. A logical placeholder element is created in a representation of a state of the data storage system to substitute for the unavailable actual element, and a configuration of the logical placeholder element in the representation of the state of the data storage system is based on one or more settings in the unavailable actual element. At least one of configuration and migration planning is performed using the logical placeholder element, and the logical placeholder element is merged with the actual element in the representation of the state of the data storage system once the actual element becomes available.
US09842118B2
A method for updating and formatting a local file is described. An update file, having a newer version of the local file, is accessed from a server over a network and a list of new hash values corresponding to data blocks of the update file is retrieved. Divisions between the data blocks are located when a value of a rolling checksum reaches a particular value, the data blocks being of variable size. New hash values of the update file are compared with local hash values of the local file. For each of the new hash values not having a matching local hash value, the corresponding data block is downloaded from the server and written to a new file. For each of the new hash values having a matching local hash value, the corresponding block is copied from the local file to the new file.
US09842110B2
Content Based Similarity Detection. A computer implemented method includes computing a hash of each word in a collection of books to produce a numerical integer token using a reduced representation and computing an Inverse Document Frequency (IDF) vector comprising the number of books the token appears in, for every token in the collection of books. The method also includes creating a token occurrence count vector for each book in the collection and normalizing the token occurrence count vector using the IDF vector to create a Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF) vector. Further, the method includes reducing each TF-IDF vector by using random projections to obtain a final signature representing each book in the collection, reducing each TF-IDF vector by using random projections to obtain a final signature representing each book in the collection and using a trained machine learning algorithm, determining whether each of the list of candidate books is similar to the target book.
US09842108B2
A system, computer program product, and process are provided for an automated escalation agent. A receiver receives a request for language interpretation from a first language to a second language. Further, a database stores data associated with a plurality of language interpreters associated with a computer implemented language interpretation platform. A processor searches the database and determines that no online language interpreter is available to perform language interpretation at a time of the request and that escalates the request to determine if an offline language interpreter is available to initiate the language interpretation within a predetermined time period measured from the time of the request. An automated escalation agent module searches the database according to notification criteria, and sends at least one notification including the request to a plurality of offline language interpreters that meet the notification criteria.
US09842099B2
A client receives data from a server that includes a dashboard generated at the server by converting each of a spreadsheet file and a dashboard structure file into a text-based, language-independent data interchange format. In addition, the dashboard includes at least one component dependent on at least one prompt. Thereafter, the at least one prompt is asynchronously rendered in a graphical user interface at the client. Data is later received that includes answers to one or more prompts. At least one query is subsequently executed based on the received answers. After results of the executed at least one query is received, the component having a corresponding received answer is rendered in the dashboard. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
US09842098B2
In some embodiments, a publication system comprises at least a user interface module and a data transmitting module, operating on one or more computer processors, to cause, by the user interface module, a presentation of a first information field to a user as part of a graphical user interface in a portable electronic device, and to receive information entered or data identified in the first information field; by the data transmitting module, to commence automatically transmitting the information entered or data identified over a network in response to the user interface module detecting that the user has navigated away from the first information field and before information has been entered into a second information field; and wherein the user interface module is further to detect that the user has modified the first information field, and the data transmitting module is further to abort transmitting the information or data over the network in response to detecting that the user has modified the first information field.
US09842097B2
Methods and other embodiments associated with a web browser extension are described. One example browser extension includes a web form capture logic that identifies a web page that includes a form and an editable field on the form. The capture logic may acquire information about the field and about the form. This acquisition may include interacting with a user through a graphical user interface. The browser extension may also include a template logic to create a form-fill template based on the acquired information and a web form storage logic to store the template. The template may be referenced when a subsequent web page view involves a form-fill operation.
US09842091B2
According to one general aspect, a method may include executing, by a processor of a computing device, a web browser presentation environment. The method may also include presenting at least one web page within a context of the web browser presentation environment, wherein presenting within the web browser presentation environment includes maintaining a first presentation data structure that includes a web browser presentation data structure portion and a common presentation data structure portion. The method may further include receiving a request to move the presentation of the web page from the web browser presentation environment to an emulation-based presentation environment. The method may include moving the presentation of the web page from the web browser presentation environment to the emulation-based presentation environment, wherein moving includes maintaining a second presentation data structure that includes an emulation-based presentation data structure portion and the common data structure portion.
US09842082B2
In one embodiment, a processor includes a plurality of cores each including a first storage to store a physical identifier for the core and a second storage to store a logical identifier associated with the core; a plurality of thermal sensors to measure a temperature at a corresponding location of the processor; and a power controller including a dynamic core identifier logic to dynamically remap a first logical identifier associated with a first core to associate the first logical identifier with a second core, based at least in part on a temperature associated with the first core, the dynamic remapping to cause a first thread to be migrated from the first core to the second core transparently to an operating system. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09842073B2
System, methods and apparatus are described that facilitate transmission of data, particularly between two devices within an electronic apparatus. Information is transmitted in N-phase polarity encoded symbols. Drivers may be adapted or configured to align state transitions on two or more connectors in order to minimize a transition period between consecutive symbols. The drivers may include circuits that advance or delay certain transitions. The drivers may include pre-emphasis circuits that operate to drive the state of a connector for a portion of the transition period, even when the connector is transitioned to an undriven state.
US09842072B2
Systems and methods for implementing a user mode virtual serial communications port emulator are disclosed herein. According to an aspect, a method for a virtual serial communications port emulator includes using at least one processor and memory for creating a virtual serial communication port (VCP) driver in a user mode of an operating system. The method further includes emulating a physical serial communication port using the VCP driver. In addition, the method includes converting outgoing data from an application executed on the at least one processor and memory via the VCP driver into a format complying with a protocol associated with a VCP device server. The method also includes converting incoming data from the VCP device server complying with the protocol into a second format understood by the application, wherein the VCP driver is communicated with using an unpublished universally unique identifier (UUID).
US09842063B2
A method includes retrieving a plurality of secure data packages from storage units. The method further includes separating the secure data packages into masked keys and encrypted data units in accordance with a data intermingling pattern. The method further includes generating deterministic values from the encrypted data units and generating encryption keys based on the masked keys and the deterministic values. The method further includes decrypting the encrypted data units using the encryption keys to produce data units. The method further includes recovering a first portion of the data from a threshold number of the data units.
US09842062B2
Some embodiments provide, for a particular device in a set of related devices, a method for backing up data synchronized between the devices. The method receives a command to create a backup for a subset of data synchronized between a subset of the devices, which is a subset of all data synchronized between the devices. The method identifies the subset of synchronization data from the set of all synchronization data. The subset of synchronization data is tagged as pertaining to a particular set of criteria for synchronization between only the subset of devices. The method stores a backup of the subset of synchronization data in a backup storage encrypted in such a way that requires a recovery key associated with any one of the devices in the subset of devices to access the backup while preventing access to the backup with recovery keys of any of the other devices.
US09842055B2
A processor includes a mapping module that maps architectural virtual processor identifiers to non-architectural global identifiers and maps architectural process context identifiers to non-architectural local identifiers. The processor also includes a translation-lookaside buffer (TLB) having a plurality of address translations. For each address translation of the plurality of address translations: when the address translation is a global address translation, the address translation is tagged with a representation of one of the non-architectural global identifiers to which the mapping module has mapped one of the virtual processor identifiers; and when the address translation is a local address translation, the address translation is tagged with a representation of one of the non-architectural local identifiers to which the mapping module has mapped one of the process context identifiers.
US09842052B2
A central processing unit (CPU) forming part of a computing device, initiates execution of code associated with each of a plurality of objects used by a worker thread. The CPU has an associated cache that is split into a plurality of slices. It is determined, by a cache slice allocation algorithm for each object, whether any of the slices will be exclusive to or shared by the object. Thereafter, for each object, any slices determined to be exclusive to the object are activated such that the object exclusively uses such slices and any slices determined to be shared by the object are activated such that the object shares or is configured to share such slices.
US09842046B2
A method of an aspect includes receiving an instruction indicating a first source packed memory indices, a second source packed data operation mask, and a destination storage location. Memory indices of the packed memory indices are compared with one another. One or more sets of duplicate memory indices are identified. Data corresponding to each set of duplicate memory indices is loaded only once. The loaded data corresponding to each set of duplicate memory indices is replicated for each of the duplicate memory indices in the set. A packed data result in the destination storage location in response to the instruction. The packed data result includes data elements from memory locations that are indicated by corresponding memory indices of the packed memory indices when not blocked by corresponding elements of the packed data operation mask.
US09842036B2
Methods and apparatus for controlled recovery of error information between two (or more) independently operable processors. The present disclosure provides solutions that preserve error information in the event of a fatal error, coordinate reset conditions between independently operable processors, and implement consistent frameworks for error information recovery across a range of potential fatal errors. In one exemplary embodiment, an applications processor (AP) and baseband processor (BB) implement an abort handler and power down handler sequence which enables error recovery over a wide range of crash scenarios. In one variant, assertion of signals between the AP and the BB enables the AP to reset the BB only after error recovery procedures have successfully completed.
US09842035B2
A semiconductor system includes one or more core chips including a plurality of memory banks; one or more replacement storage units; and a base chip suitable for: first detecting a memory bank having an access frequency that satisfies a first condition, second detecting whether an utilization rate of the first detected memory bank satisfies a second condition, and replacing the second detected memory bank with one among the replacement storage units.
US09842032B2
The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a method including receiving a request to create a live snapshot of a state of a virtual machine including a memory and an original disk file. The method further includes copying, by a hypervisor, data from the memory to a storage device to form a memory snapshot. The method further includes pausing the virtual machine and creating a new disk file at a reference point-in-time. The original disk file is a backing file of the new disk file. The method further includes resuming the virtual machine. The virtual machine is to perform disk operations using the new disk file after the reference point-in-time. The method further includes copying the original disk file to a disk snapshot file. The method further includes providing the live snapshot including the disk snapshot file and the memory snapshot.
US09842024B1
In an embodiment of the invention, a method is presented to operationally integrate one or more RAID control mechanisms into a flash electronic disk controller. The method includes incorporating one or more RAID features into a flash electronic disk by adding one or more RAID components in a flash controller, wherein the flash electronic disk includes a RAID control module to control the one or more RAID components; receiving a read or write operation command at a flash controller from a host; translating the read or write operation command into a command format understood by one or more flash controllers; translating the command format into an instruction format understood by one or more flash memory devices; and accessing one or more memory locations in the one or more flash memory devices according to the instruction format to perform a read or write operation for the host.
US09842008B2
A cache affinity and processor utilization technique efficiently load balances work in a storage input/output (I/O) stack among a plurality of processors and associated processor cores of a node. The storage I/O stack employs one or more non-blocking messaging kernel (MK) threads that execute non-blocking message handlers (i.e., non-blocking services). The technique load balances work between the processor cores sharing a last level cache (LLC) (i.e., intra-LLC processor load balancing), and load balances work between the processors having separate LLCs (i.e., inter-LLC processor load balancing). The technique may allocate a predetermined number of logical processors for use by an MK scheduler to schedule the non-blocking services within the storage I/O stack, as well as allocate a remaining number of logical processors for use by blocking services, e.g., scheduled by an operating system kernel scheduler.
US09842002B2
A mechanism for node selection for a new application in a multi-tenant cloud hosting environment is disclosed. A method of the invention includes receiving a request to host a software application on one of a plurality of nodes of a cloud computing infrastructure, each node configured to host multiple software applications. A set of available nodes from the plurality of nodes can be identified on which the software application can be hosted and the capacity of each identified node to host additional software applications can be determined. Then, a node is selected to host the software application using the determined capacities.
US09842001B2
A method for system level acceleration includes managing, by a system level acceleration server, an accelerator program running on an accelerator machine on behalf of a client, receiving, by the system level acceleration server, a communication from the client, interacting, by the system level acceleration server, with the accelerator program on behalf of the client according to the communication from the client, and generating, by the accelerator machine, a deliverable for provision to the client based upon an output of the accelerator program.
US09841995B2
Provided is a method and apparatus for an adaptive context switching for a fast block input/output. The adaptive context switching method may include: requesting, by a process, an input/output device to perform an input/output of data; comparing a Central Processing Unit (CPU) effectiveness based on whether the context switching is performed; and performing the input/output through the context switching to a driver context of the input/output device, or directly performing, by the process, the input/output based on a comparison result of the CPU effectiveness.
US09841994B2
The present invention relates to the implementation for implementing multi-tasking on a digital signal processor. For that purpose blocking functions are arranged such that they do not make use of a processor's hardware stack. Respective function calls are replaced with a piece of inline assembly code, which instead performs a branch to the correct routine for carrying out said function. If a blocking condition of the blocking function is encountered, a task switch can be done to resume another task. While the hardware stack is not used when a task switch might have to occur, mixed-up contents of the hardware stack among function calls performed by different tasks are avoided.
US09841980B2
Providing a user interface (UI) on a web page. A toolbar section is defined on the web page. The web page includes a content section being different and separate from the toolbar section, and the content section displays additional content of the web page. One or more groups are specified to include one or more action controls associated therewith. Each of the specified groups has a group identifier associated therewith. The one or more action controls are displayed according to the specified groups in the toolbar section of the web page. Each of the one or more displayed action controls includes properties associated therewith, and the included properties define at least one of the following: a name of the action control, a link of the action control, the group identifier of the action control, and a classification identifier of the action control.
US09841974B2
A processor including a register file having a plurality of registers, and configured for out-of-order instruction execution, further includes a renamer unit that produces generation numbers that are associated with register file addresses to provide a renamed version of a register that is temporally offset from an existing version of that register rather than assigning a non-programmer-visible physical register as the renamed register.
US09841953B2
The disclosed embodiments provide a system that facilitates controlling and customizing the process of generating a software program image. During operation, the system receives a set of files for building a software program, wherein at least one of the files in the set is an intermediate code file that was at least partially compiled from a source code file of the software program. The system then applies a plurality of pluggable transforms to a plurality of states of the set of files to produce a particular subsequent state of the set of files. The system then produces a runtime-image of the software program from at least the particular subsequent state of the set of files, the runtime-image including one or more files for execution by a virtual machine and one or more output resources to be accessed by the one or more executed files.
US09841942B2
A method of augmenting an ambiently experienced audio content is provided, the method comprises recording an acoustic audio signal from the ambiently experienced audio content; receiving a wireless signal comprising a first audio signal and a second audio signal, the wireless signal received using a first wireless communication system, wherein the first audio signal comprises sound that is also audible within the ambiently experienced audio content and the second audio signal comprises sound that is substantially inaudible within the ambiently experienced audio content; comparing the first audio signal with the acoustic audio signal to determine a delay between the acoustic audio signal and the first audio signal; delaying the second audio signal by the determined delay; and reproducing the delayed second audio signal at an audible volume, such that it is substantially synchronized with the ambiently experienced audio content. A device and system for augmenting the ambiently experienced audio content are also provided.
US09841932B2
A page included in a preview page is deleted from an output target document. A logical page corresponding to the deleted page and logical pages corresponding to undeleted pages are represented in different formats on a display unit. A preview page representing one of the undeleted pages is displayed on the display unit. The deleted page is restored as an output target page in the output target document.
US09841931B2
A method for allocating storage for a virtual machine includes receiving a request to allocate a block of disk storage on a physical disk to a virtual disk associated with the virtual machine. The method also includes identifying a plurality of available blocks on the physical disk, each of the plurality of available blocks defining a radial distance from a center axis of a platter of the physical disk. The method further includes determining which of the plurality of available blocks has a greatest radial distance from the center axis of the platter and, based on the determining, selecting an allocation block from the plurality of available blocks, the allocation block having the greatest radial distance from the center axis of the platter. The method also includes allocating the allocation block to the virtual machine.
US09841928B2
A storage control apparatus forms a RAID by plural storage media and stores and holds data on a file-by-file basis. A number-of-writable-times management unit manages the number of writable times for each storage medium. A write-destination management unit manages data write destinations in the storage media. When updating write object data whose write destination is one of storage media constituting a group (first storage medium), a relocation unit relocates the write object data by setting a write destination to a second storage medium which is different from the first storage medium. A write-destination update unit updates the data write destinations in the storage media managed by the write-destination management unit according to the relocating. Through the relocating, the storage control apparatus is able to control the number of writable times which decreases along with data writing.
US09841925B2
A method begins by a processing module of a dispersed storage network (DSN) unit of a plurality of DSN units sending a write request to DSN memory, where the write request includes a range of DSN addresses. The method continues with the DSN unit receiving an error message indicating that another DSN unit of the plurality of DSN units has current write permission to the DSN memory to the range of DSN addresses. The method continues with the DSN unit performing a scoring function using one or more properties of the range of DSN addresses and one or more properties of each of at least some of the plurality of DSN units to produce a scoring resultant, interpreting the scoring resultant to determine a re-write requesting protocol for resending the write request to the DSN memory, and resending the write request in accordance with the re-write requesting protocol.
US09841923B2
While in active state, a first storage apparatus including first and second storage areas copies data stored in the first storage area to the second storage area, copies data stored in the first storage area to a third storage area so that data is synchronized between the first and third storage areas, and copies data stored in the second storage area to a fourth storage area so that data is synchronized between the second and fourth storage areas. When a second storage apparatus including the third and fourth storage areas has transitioned from standby to active state and thereby gets to receive access to the third storage area, instead of to the first storage area, from an external information processing apparatus, the second storage apparatus copies data stored in the third storage area to the fourth storage area, based on setting information stored in a storage unit.
US09841920B2
Methods and apparatus to provide heterogeneous memory die stacking for energy efficient computing are described. In one embodiment, a Phase Change Memory with Switch (PCMS) die is coupled to a Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) die and a Central Processing Unit (CPU) die. CPU checkpointing state data is stored in the PCMS die first before transferring the checkpointing data to a backup media at a later and more extended time. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
US09841917B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for configuring a non-volatile memory (“NVM”). In some embodiments, each block of the NVM can include a block table-of-contents (“TOC”), which can be encoded (e.g., run-length encoded) and dynamically-sized. Thus, as user data is being programmed to a block, the size of a block TOC can be concurrently recalculated and increased only if necessary. In some embodiments, the NVM interface can use a weave sequence stored in the context information and at least one weave sequence associated with each page of a block to determine whether to replay across the pages of the block after system boot-up.
US09841913B2
A memory system for a network device is described. The memory system includes a main memory configured to store one or more data elements. Further, the memory system includes a link memory that is configured to maintain one or more pointers to interconnect the one or more data elements stored in the main memory. The memory system also includes a free-entry manager that is configured to generate an available bank set including one or more locations in the link memory. In addition, the memory system includes a context manager that is configured to maintain metadata for a list of the one or more data elements.
US09841912B1
A first tree data structure is used to track an allocation state for each block included in a first set of storage blocks. Upper level nodes in a given tree present the allocation state of connected lower level nodes in the given tree, such that each allocation state indicates whether any associated storage blocks are free. A second tree data structure is used to track an allocation state for each block included in a second set of storage blocks. The first tree data structure and the second tree data structure each have a number of leaf nodes corresponding to a maximum number of blocks that can be included in a superset of storage blocks, wherein the first set of storage blocks and second set of storage blocks are included in the superset of storage blocks. An allocation bitmap associated with the superset of storage blocks is used to track allocation states of storage blocks in the superset, wherein each leaf node of a specified tree is associated with a plurality of associated locations in the allocation bitmap.
US09841911B2
A Green NAND Device (GND) driver application queries AC line and battery status and then stores an image of processor states and caches and a resume routine to DRAM when power failure occurs. A DRAM image is then stored to flash memory for a persistent mode when battery power is available. The image in DRAM may be a partial image that includes entries, flushed caches, processor contexts, ramdisks, write caches, and a resume context. Endurance of flash memory is increased by a Super Enhanced Endurance Device (SEED) SSD. In a power down mode, the GND driver limits DRAM use and only caches in DRAM data that can be deleted on power down. Host accesses to flash are intercepted by the GND driver and categorized by data type. Paging files and temporary files cached in DRAM are optionally written to flash.
US09841907B2
A first storage system is configured as a proxy for a logical volume stored on a second storage system. Upon receiving a response from a second storage system verifying an availability of a logical volume for an input/output (I/O) request, the I/O request is conveyed to an identified port, a result of the I/O request is received from the identified port, the result is conveyed to a host computer.
US09841906B2
Various zone forwarding management techniques disclosed herein generally provide efficient methods of data caching, steering, mapping, and migration to reduce write amplification and command latency. In one implementation, a zone-forward storage medium management method includes receiving commands to write data sets to target LBAs included in a consecutive sequence of LBAs, selectively mapping the sequence of LBAs to a plurality of contiguous physical zones, and selectively writing the data sets to the physical zones. Various techniques may be used to migrate valid data of the plurality of physical zones to one physical zone.
US09841903B2
An application execution method for improving the operation speed of the application in executing or in the middle of running the application is provided. The application execution method includes detecting a launch of an application, preloading Input/Outputs (I/Os) requested at the launch based on profile data with I/Os requested at a previous launch of the application, and updating the profile data based on at least one of the I/Os requested at current and previous launches of the application.
US09841900B2
A storage control apparatus, that controls a storage apparatus that includes a storage drive in which a plurality of logical volumes are set, includes a storage unit that stores load information for each of the plurality of logical volumes, and a control unit that determines to-be-rebuilt volumes, which are targets to be rebuilt, from the plurality of logical volumes, sequentially selects a logical volumes for which a volume-specific taken time is estimated, determines, for each selected logical volume, a volume-specific start time at which a rebuild will be started, estimates, by using the volume-specific start time and the load information about the selected logical volume, the volume-specific taken time for rebuilding the selected logical volume, and totals the volume-specific taken time estimated for each selected logical volume to calculate a total taken time taken for rebuilding the to-be-rebuilt volumes.
US09841899B2
A method for execution by one or more processing modules of a dispersed storage network (DSN) includes receiving a data access request for at least one data segment stored in the DSN. A vault associated with data access request is identified along with one of a plurality of sub-vaults associated with the vault. Access information corresponding to the one of the plurality of sub-vaults is retrieved to determine whether the access request is allowed. When the access request is allowed, a sub-vault directory associated with the one of the plurality of sub-vaults is retrieved to identify a DSN address corresponding to the data access request, and fulfilling the data access request based on the DSN address.
US09841896B2
A plurality of touch operation areas which are allocated to a plurality of measurement items for a mobile terminal are set in a touch-panel-type operating unit 40. A list of sections of the touch operation areas and a list of measurement item names for each section are displayed on a screen of a display unit 30. A switching button for switching the measurement item which has been invalidated among the measurement items to a valid state is displayed to inform an operator that the measurement item has been invalidated. The measurement results of the measurement item which has been validated are displayed in the sections to inform the operator that the measurement item has been validated.
US09841892B2
A position detection device capable of preventing an operation that is not intended by an operator from being detected as an input is provided. The position detection device includes: a detecting section that detects an indicator that performs an operation with respect to a screen, and a target different from the indicator; an imaging section that images a range including the screen to form a captured image; and a control section that detects a motion of the indicator based on data on the captured image of the imaging section to determine whether or not to detect an operation based on the indicator as an input.
US09841885B2
A user interface apparatus includes a first display unit that is configured to display a plurality of first items, a wheel input unit that is positioned proximate a first side of the first display unit, a button input unit that is positioned within a circumference of the wheel input unit, and a second display unit that is positioned within the circumference of the wheel input unit. The wheel input unit is rotatable and is configured to, based upon being rotated, output a scroll command to scroll the plurality of first items. The button input unit is configured to, based upon being pressed, output a selection command to select a first item from the plurality of first items. The second display unit is configured to display the selected first item.
US09841872B2
Improved techniques for facilitating emergency access to one or more contacts stored on a portable electronic device are disclosed. One or more contacts on the portable electronic device are designated as emergency contacts. While the portable electronic device is password-locked, a request to display the one or more emergency contacts on the password-locked portable electronic device is received. Without requiring a password, the one or more emergency contacts are displayed on the portable electronic device.
US09841870B2
An apparatus is provided for implementation of a system for integrated visualization and analysis of a complex system such as an aircraft composed of a plurality of elements. The apparatus may receive data for a physical instance of the complex system, and this data may include a list of the plurality of elements that reflects a relationship between at least some of them. The apparatus may generate a visual presentation of a digital three-dimensional (3D) model of the complex system. The apparatus may generate a layout of document components depicting elements of the plurality of elements, with the layout including one or more two-dimensional (2D) images depicting at least some of the elements. And the apparatus may integrate the data, visual presentation of the 3D model and layout to produce a visual definition of the complex system.
US09841859B2
A sensor device includes electrodes disposed in a detection region having plural segments such that the electrodes do not overlap each other. The plural segments are arranged in a matrix shape with plural, three or more rows and plural, three or more columns. Each of the electrodes is located on certain segments out of the plural segments. The certain segments are located certain rows out of the plural rows and certain columns out of the plural columns. When each of the segments in the detection region is operated, the electrodes output signals different from each other correspondingly to each of the plural segments. The sensor device can easily detect the operated position with a simple configuration.
US09841856B2
A touch panel may include a substrate including a sensing area and a connecting area, a circuit pattern integrally formed on the substrate, and a driving chip on the connecting area of the substrate. The circuit pattern may include a sensing circuit pattern in the sensing area and a connecting circuit pattern in the connecting area. A width of the sensing area measured may be greater than a width of the connection area and the circuit pattern may extend from the sensing area to the connecting area. Moreover, the substrate may be a flexible substrate having a flexible characteristic.
US09841847B2
A projection device according to the present disclosure includes a sensor unit (for example, a camera), a detection unit, a controller and a projection unit. The sensor unit detects an object. The detection unit detects a moving object (for example, a person), a first object, and a second object based on a signal output from the sensor unit. The controller generates a projection image such that a first image corresponding to the first object is projected on a first projection region and a second image corresponding to the second object is projected on a second projection region. In this case, the first image is determined based on a position of the moving object, and the second image is determined without depending on a position of the moving object. The projection unit projects the projection image.
US09841845B2
A touch screen, a positioning method thereof and a touch display device. The touch screen includes a touch area; a plurality of emitters disposed on a first side of the touch area; a plurality of receivers disposed on a second side of the touch area opposite to the first side of the touch area; and direction changing units disposed in the light ray-emitting directions of at least part of the emitters and configured to change emitting directions of light rays emitted by the emitters so that the light rays with different emitting directions are emitted at different time periods and the light rays with the different emitting directions are received by different receivers. The touch screen has an increased resolution.
US09841844B2
An image display device includes an image display component, a projection component that forms an optical image corresponding to an image displayed by the image display component, a distance measurement component having a detector that detects an indicator for performing an touch operation relative to the optical image to acquire distance information from the detector to the indicator, and a controller that determines whether or not the indicator has performed the touch operation relative to the optical image based on the distance information and relative movement information between the distance measurement component and at least one of the image display component and the projection component.
US09841842B2
An input device may include an image sensor having an imaging surface that includes an array of pixels, and an optical waveguide layer carried by the imaging surface and having an exposed user surface and a first refractive index associated therewith. The input device may also include a substrate between the optical waveguide layer and the image sensor and having a second refractive index associated therewith that is lower than first refractive index. A collimation layer may be between the image sensor and the substrate. A light source may be configured to transmit light into the optical waveguide so that the light therein undergoes a total internal reflection. The optical waveguide may be adjacent the imaging surface so that an object brought into contact with the exposed user surface disturbs the total internal reflection resulting in an image pattern on the imaging surface.
US09841840B2
A capacitance sensing system can filter noise that presents in a subset of electrodes in the proximity of a sense object (i.e., finger). A capacitance sensing system can include a sense network comprising a plurality of electrodes for generating sense values; a noise listening circuit configured to detect noise on a plurality of the electrodes; and a filtering circuit that enables a filtering for localized noise events when detected noise values are above one level, and disables the filtering for localized noise events when detected noise values are below the one level.
US09841837B2
The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and method for recognizing a user input. The apparatus comprises a sensor configured to sense an acoustic wave signal generated by knocking a surface of a medium, an extractor configured to separate an initial pulse signal from the acoustic wave signal and extract signal characteristic of the separated initial pulse signal, and a controller configured to recognize a knocking gesture based on the signal characteristic extracted by the extractor and generate a corresponding control signal.
US09841829B1
An extension rod assembly includes a first rod that may be gripped by a user in a vehicle. A second rod is provided and the second rod is hingedly coupled to the first rod. The second rod is selectively positioned in a deployed position having the second rod being oriented colinear with the first rod. In this way the second rod may selectively manipulate an object that is out of reach of the user. The second rod is selectively positioned in a folded position having the second rod being oriented coextensive with the first rod. A stylus is coupled to the second rod engage buttons. A hook is coupled to and extends laterally away from the second rod. The hook is manipulated to engage and selectively move the object.
US09841826B2
An automatic test method for a computer includes the following steps: reading a keyboard signal or mouse signal and a delay time in an event file in a system test directory; sending the keyboard signal or mouse signal to a to-be-tested system according to the delay time; the to-be-tested system that operates according to the keyboard signal or mouse signal sending at least one response; and verifying the response by comparing the response, which is in the form of a character string, with a character string in a correct text file in the system test directory, or sending an image acquisition signal to the to-be-tested system according to the at least one response, to acquire a screenshot, converting the screenshot into a screenshot image file, and verifying the screenshot image file corresponding to the to-be-tested system by comparing the screenshot image file with a correct screenshot image file in the system test directory.
US09841822B2
The disclosure provides a method and device detecting a moving signal indicative of a movement of a mobile terminal by a vibration sensor embedded in the mobile terminal and executing a conditional assembly operation on a touch screen of the mobile terminal in response to detection of the moving signal.
US09841819B2
A system providing various improved perceptions techniques for haptic feedback above interactive surfaces that require no contact with either tools, attachments or the surface itself is described. A range of receptors in a perceiving member which is part of the human body is identified to create substantially uniformly perceivable feedback. A vibration frequency that is in the range of the receptors in the perceiving member is chosen and dynamically altered to create substantially uniformly perceivable feedback throughout the receiving member.
US09841817B2
Systems and methods are disclosed of a touch screen display wherein the surface of the touch screen display comprises a sculpted and/or contoured portion. The sculpted/contoured portion gives a user a tactile sense of a portion of the touch screen where commands may be actuated and/or data may be selected. The touch screen display may further be in communication with a physical switch where additional pressure by the user may be used to actuated a command associated with a selected portion of the display. Such a switch may be a piezo structure or other type of physical switch that may also be incorporated into a smart device/controller. Other embodiments may comprise haptic and/or audio feedback upon detection of the user's presence at a desired part of the touch screen display.
US09841815B2
An apparatus and method for differentiation of a touch input in a touch sensitive device are provided. The method includes extending an object of a plurality of objects, each of the plurality of objects having a different corresponding identity, determining an identity of the extended object, communicating the identity of the extended object to the touch sensitive device, and, when the object touches the touch sensitive device, performing a function of the touch sensitive device according to the identity of the extended object.
US09841813B2
A human-machine interface (HMI) system used to indicate a vehicle-feature based on glance-direction of an occupant of the vehicle includes a camera and a controller. The camera is used to capture a sequence-of-images of an occupant of a vehicle. The controller is configured to determine a plurality of glance-directions from the sequence-of-images, define a plurality of glance-zones based on the plurality of glance-directions, one glance-zone for each glance-direction, define an intersection-zone based on an intersection of two or more of the glance-zones, determine an outlier-count based on how many of the plurality of glance-zones do not intersect with the intersection-zone, and select a vehicle-feature in the vehicle indicated by the occupant, said vehicle-feature located at a location inside the vehicle that corresponds to the intersection-zone, said vehicle-feature indicated by the operator when the outlier-count during the pause-interval is less than a paused-threshold.
US09841811B2
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus of utilizing an eye detection apparatus in a medical application, which includes calibrating the eye detection apparatus to a user; performing a predetermined set of visual and cognitive steps using the eye detection apparatus; determining a visual profile of a workflow of the user; creating a user-specific database to create an automated visual display protocol of the workflow; storing eye-tracking commands for individual user navigation and computer interactions; storing context-specific medical application eye-tracking commands, in a database; performing the medical application using the eye-tracking commands; and storing eye-tracking data and results of an analysis of data from performance of the medical application, in the database. The method includes performing an analysis of the database for determining best practice guidelines based on clinical outcome measures.
US09841799B2
Some embodiments relate to a method of using a network to control a power management system. The method includes using the network to access a generator controller that is part of the power management system. The method further includes using the network to exchange communications with the generator controller in order to permit the generator controller to control other electronic components that are part of the power management system.
US09841798B2
The invention relates to a method for the secured digital transmission of current measurement values and to a battery (1) and a battery controller (10) which are suitable for carrying out the method. The method has the steps of detecting (S1, S2) an amplitude of a battery current (IB) in a battery (1) using a first and a second sensor (2, 3), generating (S3, S4) a first and a second bit sequence, each of which describes the detected amplitude, generating a mirrored second bit sequence (21) by reversing (S5) a sequence of the bits provided by the second bit sequence (20), simultaneously transmitting (S6) the first bit sequence via a first data bus (5) and the mirrored second bit sequence (21) via a second data bus (6) to a battery controller (10), generating a second bit sequence (20) by reversing (S7) a sequence of the bits provided by the mirrored second bit sequence (21) after the simultaneous transmission (S6), and finally detecting (S8) a possible error in the first bit sequence or the second bit sequence (20) by comparing the first bit sequence (20) with the second bit sequence (21). Transmission faults are thus detected in particular in a transmission path between the sensors of the battery and the battery controller, said faults being caused by a common disturbance. Additionally, faults can also be detected which are caused by a disturbance that only affects one of the sensors or a part of the transmission path.
US09841796B2
A method and apparatus for preventing dark current in a battery management system (BMS) are provided. A battery control apparatus may include a voltage regulator configured to regulate a voltage of a driving power supplied from a power supply to a processor, a first switch, located between the power supply and the voltage regulator, configured to switch on and off a connection between the power supply and the voltage regulator, and a second switch configured to control the first switch based on an input of a driving signal to operate the processor.
US09841790B2
A latch and release mechanism for a computer component may allow release of the component with reduced force and easier access through a cam lever that rotates around a pivot point, such as a pin, to translate rotational motion into a force to unlock the drive from a bay of a chassis. Additionally, the cam lever may be configured to provide a force that ejects the drive from the bay nearly simultaneously with the unlocking of the drive. Thus, a user can remove a drive from a bay with a small application of a single type of force to the cam lever of a latch and release mechanism.
US09841788B2
An operation device includes: a first substrate on which a wiring pattern is formed; an input unit that is mountable on the first substrate, and includes a member to be operated, a first wireless communication module that outputs a signal in accordance with operation of the member to be operated, and a first terminal that contacts the wiring pattern and supplies a power source to the first wireless communication module; and a position defining member that defines a position of the input unit on the first substrate.
US09841787B2
A portable computing device is disclosed. The portable computing device includes a retention member that provides a force to a flexible circuit disposed in a top portion and a bottom portion of the portable computing device. The retention member limits movement of the flexible circuit when, for example, the flexible circuit receives a force in response to the top portion pivoting with respect to the bottom portion. The bottom portion of the portable computing devices includes a bottom case having multiple terraced regions. The terraced regions allow the bottom portion to receive additional internal components, such as one or more battery packs, a main logic board, and/or one or more speaker modules. The battery packs are secured to the terraced region via adhesive rings. Although the terraced regions require additional material removed from the bottom case, the internal components secured to the bottom case provide structural support.
US09841777B2
A voltage regulator for digital loads combines a closed loop regulation circuit with an open loop topology. A transistor and a bank of transistors share the same voltage source VDD and gate control current. Each of the bank of transistors is sized to match different current load requirements and one or more may be switched in or out as appropriate when the digital load transitions from one operating mode to another. The regulator has good DC load regulation and unconditional stability regardless of output capacitance.
US09841775B2
Systems and methods for ultra-precision regulated voltage are provided. In one embodiment, a voltage regulated power supply device comprises: a precision reference voltage generator comprising a current regulator network supplying current into a voltage reference node, and a voltage regulator network applying a voltage potential to the voltage reference node, wherein at least one of the current regulator network or the voltage regulator network comprise a random variance statistical mitigation architecture; and a power amplifier coupled to voltage reference node, where the voltage reference node provides a constant voltage reference to the power amplifier.
US09841774B2
Low cost storage for write once read rarely data is described. In an embodiment a storage device comprises a plurality of hard disk drives connected to a server via an interconnect fabric. The storage device comprises a cooling system which is only capable of cooling a first subset of the hard disk drives and a power supply system which is only capable of powering a second subset of the hard disk drives and in some examples, the interconnect fabric may be only capable of providing full bandwidth for a third subset of the hard disk drives. Each subset may comprise only a small fraction of hard disk drives. A control mechanism, which may be implemented in software, is provided which controls which hard disk drives are active at any time in order that the constraints set by the cooling and power supply systems and interconnect fabric are not violated.
US09841771B2
A tray is provided between a supply air port member and an exhaust port member. A peripheral edge portion of an opening portion of an exhaust port of the exhaust port member that faces an output chamber side is a conical guiding portion. A spherical body is disposed between the guiding portion and an inner bottom face of a tray. The inner peripheral wall of the tray fits slidably into the outer peripheral surface of the end portion of the exhaust port member positioned within the output chamber. The other end of the poppet valve is caused to contact the outer bottom face of the tray. Thus, the exhaust port and the spherical body are centered automatically at the position of the center of the exhaust port, regardless of the position of the shaft axis of the poppet valve, so that there will be essentially no sliding friction.
US09841765B2
Systems and methods for curb detection for parking are disclosed. An example vehicle parking assist system includes a processor and memory. An example program stored in the memory is configured to move a vehicle using a set of maneuvers to park the vehicle in a parking space based on an estimated location of a curb. The example program is also configured to compare a first yaw rate to a reference yaw rate to detect when the vehicle contacts the curb. Additionally, the example program is configured to move the vehicle using an adjusted set of maneuvers based on an actual location of the curb.
US09841761B2
A system is provided comprising a control station for remotely controlling unmanned aerial vehicles (“UAV”). The control station is configured to display vehicle status data received from each UAV, including displaying a location of each UAV in a single interface. Through the single interface, the control station may receive a control command input associated with one of the UAVs. The control station may transmit the received control command, or a command derived therefrom, to the respective UAV. The single interface may provide for a user to view and control flight operation of each of the UAVs independently through the single interface.
US09841752B2
A method for controlling an automated manufacturing tool for semiconductor fabrication is provided, including the following method operations: receiving, over a network, a request from a client, the request defining an action for an automated manufacturing tool; authenticating the request; and, in response to receiving the request, triggering performance of the action by the automated manufacturing tool.
US09841751B2
To provide a numerical-control machining-program creation device that creates a numerical-control machining program including turning machining based on shape data of a workpiece. The numerical-control machining-program creation device generates a turning-machining removal shape indicating a shape to be removed by turning machining based on a turning sectional shape, extracts a turning groove shape from the turning-machining removal shape, and creates the numerical-control machining program for turning machining based on a shape obtained by separating the turning groove shape from the turning-machining removal shape.
US09841747B2
In a numerical control device for performing a control axis switch, each of a plurality of control axis units includes an axis movement amount conversion unit configured to convert a movement amount of a servo motor into a movement amount corresponding to each of the control axis units of the plurality of control axis units, an axis position data storage unit, and a control object axis position data storage unit configured to store an axis position of a control object at a time when the control object is separated from a single drive unit, and an axis position stored in the axis position data storage unit is configured to be updated by using the movement amount of the servo motor, regardless of whether or not the control object is connected by a control axis switch unit to the control axis unit.
US09841743B2
A portable electronic key for use with an electronic locking device comprises a wireless communications module, a processor, and a software application configured to transmit, receive, and respond to electronic messages related to access control information. The electronic messages are formatted according to a request-response protocol. The wireless communications module is configured to use a standardized communication protocol to establish a wireless communications link with a networking device operably associated with a remote administration device located away from the portable electronic key. The software application periodically exchanges, via the wireless communications link, request-response messages related to access control information with a server application of the remote administration device. The processor responds to the exchange of request-response messages by performing at least one of modifying access control information of the portable electronic key or providing access control information of the portable electronic key to the remote administration device.
US09841739B2
A motion controller device and a communication method for the motion controller device are provided to reduce the large number of man-hours that are required for making communication settings and wiring design in large-scale systems. The motion controller device and communication method improve the degree of freedom for communication line connections by switching the two transmission paths on the transmitting and receiving sides of the communication ports contained within a central communication device and a terminal communication devices for full duplex communications. The motion controller device and communication also ensure the response performance required in the devices being controlled by way of the terminal communication device that autonomously and dynamically switches the communication paths according to the volume of communication data on the communication line along this type of network.
US09841731B2
To reduce an influence of stray light and stably record/reproduce high-quality data in holographic recording/reproduction. A holographic memory device includes an optical system that guides a reference beam to an optical information recording medium at a desired angle of incidence, a control part that controls the angle of incidence of the reference beam generated in the optical system, and a lens part that images the reference beam in a desired position of the optical information recording medium. Further, at least a first light beam at a first angle and a second light beam at a second angle different from the first angle are output from the optical element, and the optical element is provided so that the first light beam may propagate within an effective diameter of the lens part and the second light beam may propagate to an outside of the effective diameter of the lens part.
US09841728B2
A process cartridge comprises a guide member, a photosensitive drum having an axis L1, and a coupling member having an axis L2 and at least one projection. Relative positioning of the coupling member and the guide member is changeable between (i) a first relative position in which a tip of the at least one projection is a first distance away from an end of the guide member as measured in the direction of the axis L1 and (ii) a second relative position in which the tip of the at least one projection is a second distance away from the end of the guide member as measured in the direction of the axis L1, wherein the first distance is greater than the second distance.
US09841725B2
An image-forming device includes a main casing, a belt accommodated in the main casing, developing units arranged along the belt, a drawer configured to detachably support the developing units, the drawer configured to move to a position inside the main casing and to a position outside the main casing, and the drawer having a leading end and a trailing end in a pulling direction from the inside position to the outside position; and a guide configured to guide the drawer and to move between a first position and a second position when the drawer is at the inside position, the second position being farther from the belt than the first position from the belt. When the guide is at the second position, the guide is configured to be tilted downward relative to a horizontal direction such that the leading end is lower than the trailing end.
US09841720B2
An image forming apparatus, including a body with an aperture, a processing unit movable between an inside position and an outside position, and a transfer unit, is provided. The processing unit includes first and second drum cleaners to remove waste toner from first and second photosensitive drums respectively; and a waste toner conveyer including a conveyer tube longitudinally extending in a movable direction of the processing unit, a port, a conveyer screw located inside the conveyer tube, and a shutter movable between an opening position and a closed position to open and close the port. The transfer unit includes a belt unit with a belt arranged to contact the first photosensitive drum and the second photosensitive drum, and a belt cleaner including a container with an opening which communicates with the port of the conveyer tube when the processing unit is in the inside position.
US09841691B2
A method of manufacturing an electrostatic latent image developing toner made of a binding resin made of an amorphous resin and a crystalline resin, and toner particles containing a releasing agent and a coloring agent, the method includes: adding a monomer for forming the amorphous resin, in an aqueous medium, under presence of the fine particles containing the crystalline resin, and performing polymerization to obtain coated resin fine particles that are fine particles containing the crystalline resin, the fine particles being coated with the amorphous resin; and flocculating and fusing at least fine particles containing the amorphous resin, the coated resin fine particles, and fine particles containing the coloring agent, in an aqueous medium, under presence of a flocculating agent, to obtain the toner particles, wherein a surfactant having concentration of one to five times critical micellar concentration is added to the aqueous medium in the polymerization.
US09841686B2
An exposure method includes exposing a substrate to form a first pattern on a first layer, measuring a first alignment value of the first pattern, generating first correction data by using the first alignment value, storing the first correction data and exposing the substrate to form a second pattern on a second layer disposed on the first layer by using the first correction data.
US09841675B2
Disclosed are a photosensitive resin composition for a color filter that includes (A) a colorant including a cyanine dye represented by the following Chemical Formula 1, (B) an acrylic-based binder resin, (C) a photopolymerizable monomer, (D) a photopolymerization initiator, and (E) a solvent, and a color filter using the same. In the above Chemical Formula 1, each substituent is the same as described in the detailed description.
US09841669B2
The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a conductive mesh pattern, a mesh electrode manufactured by the same, and a laminate.
US09841659B2
A stabilizing assembly for an optical device includes a base plate having a blade curved to fit against a person's torso, a strap extending outwardly from the base plate; a socket defined in the base plate and a mounting screw spaced from the socket. The blade extends below the base plate and an adjustment member is located on the underside of the base plate a distance from a lower end of the blade. The optical device is engageable with the stabilizing assembly in two ways. Firstly, the blade is inserted between the person's torso and a waistband or belt. The strap is passed around the person's neck and an end of a monopod engaged with the optical device is inserted into the socket. Secondly, the optical device is directly engaged with the mounting screw and the assembly is placed on the ground supported by the blade and adjustment member.
US09841654B2
An optical crystal can be mounted to a mounting block configured to receive the crystal. A base portion on the mounting block utilizes two walls forming a corner and a single biasing spring clip to secure the crystal. The spring clip applies forces in two different directions substantially orthogonal to the two walls. The spring clip is based off a symmetrical geometry which applies nearly the same force application in both directions. The spring also features bend regions that contact the crystal in such a way as to reduce the presence of point loads or stress risers. The length of contact along the crystal is maximized, allowing for proper force distribution and a sufficient surface are contact for static holding capabilities.
US09841650B2
A liquid crystal display device having an alignment layer stopper which is formed external to a display area to suppress the generation of an electric field between signal lines and the alignment layer stopper, wherein the alignment layer stopper includes a second conductive layer SP formed above the first substrate when the alignment layer stopper is formed by coating and a first conductive layer SH formed below the second conductive layer SP through an insulating film and arranged in such a manner that its marginal parts in the longitudinal direction of the second conductive layer SP are exposed when viewed from the plane direction from the second conductive layer SP, and the first conductive layer SH is formed in a thin film layer between signal lines arranged in the side parts of the display area and the second conductive layer SP.
US09841646B2
A liquid crystal display includes a first substrate in which a pixel region is defined by a gate line and a data line intersecting the gate line, the pixel region being arranged in a matrix with other pixel regions, a pixel electrode disposed in the pixel region, and a shielding electrode disposed between the pixel electrode and another pixel electrode, wherein the shielding electrode is electrically connected to the data line and a different voltage from a voltage applied to the data line is applied to the shielding electrode.
US09841644B2
A liquid crystal display having an outer layer such as a thin-film transistor layer and an inner layer such as a color filter layer may be mounted in a metal device housing. Transparent conductive coating material may be formed on display layers. The transparent conductive coating material may include a layer on the upper surface of the thin-film transistor layer, a layer on the lower surface of the color filter layer, and an edge coating that extends between the upper surface layer and lower surface layer. Electrostatic discharge protection structures for the display may include a conductive elastomeric gasket that couples the upper surface layer to an inner surface of the housing, a conductive tape that couples the lower surface layer to the inner surface, and a conductive material on the inner surface that contacts the edge coating.
US09841643B2
A liquid crystal display device includes: a first substrate; a second substrate; and a liquid crystal layer of a horizontal orientation type that is sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first substrate includes a first electrode pair that applies a first horizontal electric field to the liquid crystal layer, an insulating layer provided on the first electrode pair, and a second electrode pair that is provided on the insulating layer and that applies a second horizontal electric field to the liquid crystal layer. The first electrode pair includes first and second linear electrodes provided with a gap therebetween. The second electrode pair includes third and fourth linear electrodes provided with a gap therebetween. In a plan view of the first substrate, the third and fourth linear electrodes extend in a direction perpendicular with respect to the first and second linear electrodes.
US09841642B2
Embodiments of a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) device are disclosed. The LCD includes a backlight to illuminate a display panel with a plurality of sub-pixels, which include a first sub-pixel having a first color filter, a second sub-pixel having a second color filter having a different color from the first color filter, and a third sub-pixel having a third color filter having a different color from the first color filter and the second color filter.The LCD display panel includes a plurality of drain lines formed between the plurality of sub-pixels, the plurality of drain lines arranged as a first type of drain line set and a second type of drain line set, where the first type of drain line set includes only a single drain line positioned between two adjacent sub-pixels, and the second type of drain line set includes only two drain lines positioned between two adjacent sub-pixels.
US09841640B2
A pixel unit array is provide. The pixel unit array comprises a plurality of pixel units including a plurality of first pixel units and a plurality of second pixel units alternately arranged in a pixel direction. Each pixel unit comprises a first electrode, a second electrode and an insulating layer between the first electrode and the second electrode. The second electrode further includes a first part and a second part connected to the first part. The first part includes an N number of first stripe-shaped electrodes, and the second part includes an M number of second stripe-shaped electrodes. The first part in the second electrode has a width of a1, the second part in the second electrode has a width of a2, and a1
US09841639B2
Embodiments of the invention provide an array substrate, a display panel and a display device. The array substrate comprises a pixel electrode layer. The pixel electrode layer comprises a first pixel electrode layer, a second pixel electrode layer and an insulation layer (104) provided between the first pixel electrode layer and the second pixel electrode layer, the insulation layer (104) insulates the first pixel electrode layer from the second pixel electrode layer, and a pixel electrode (1031) of the first pixel electrode layer and a pixel electrode (1032) of the second pixel electrode layer are alternately arranged.
US09841634B2
A three-dimensional (3D) display apparatus, display module, and a manufacturing method thereof, are provided. The 3D display apparatus includes a display module including a first display panel configured to display a two-dimensional (2D) image, a second display panel disposed in front of the first display panel and spaced apart from the first display panel, and configured to display another 2D image that when combined with the 2D image displayed by the first display panel generates a 3D image, and a spacing panel comprising a rear surface on which the first display panel is attached and a front surface on which the second display panel is attached, the spacing panel providing an amount of space between the first display panel and the second display panel.
US09841632B2
Provided are a liquid crystal display panel, a composite substrate, and a method for fabricating the composite substrate. The composite substrate includes: a substrate, a carbon nanotube layer, a polarizing material and a photoalignment matrix material. The carbon nanotube layer is adhered to a surface of the substrate with the photoalignment matrix material; the carbon nanotube layer includes multiple carbon nanotubes extending in a same direction; the polarizing material is mixed into the photoalignment matrix material, and a molecule arrangement direction of the polarizing material is the same as the extending direction of the carbon nanotube. Multiple grooves arranged in parallel may be formed between carbon nanotubes since the extending direction of the carbon nanotube is the same, and the groove may be used for an initial alignment of liquid crystal molecules.
US09841628B2
The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device including a backlight module and a liquid crystal panel including a color film substrate, an array substrate, and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the color film substrate and the array substrate, the backlight module is a blue light source; the array substrate includes a glass substrate and a color layer provided on the glass substrate and a polarized layer laminated on the color layer. The polarized layer is disposed adjacent to the liquid crystal layer. The color layer includes a blue light filter layer and a color unit layer which is laminated on the blue light filter layer and on the back of the surface of the polarized layer. The color unit layer includes a plurality of color units, and each of the color units includes a red color quantum rod layer, a green quantum rod layer and a transparent color filter layer. The present invention also discloses an electronic equipment.
US09841626B2
A LCD includes a liquid crystal panel, a backlight module opposite to the liquid crystal panel, at least one quantum rod film and at least one wavelength film. The quantum rod film is between the liquid crystal panel and the backlight module, and the wavelength film is between the quantum rod film and the liquid crystal panel. Light beams generated by the backlight module pass through the quantum rod film and the wavelength film in sequence to arrive the liquid crystal panel. By adopting the quantum rod film, the saturation of the LCD may be greatly enhanced.
US09841620B2
The present invention provides a GOA circuit based on LTPS semiconductor thin film transistor to control the voltage levels of the first node, the second node and the third node (Q(n), P1(n), P2(n)) with the forward scan direct current control signal (U2D) and the backward scan direct current control signal (D2U). The clock signal (CK(M)) is merely in charge of the output of the GOA unit of corresponding stage, which can effectively reduce the loading of the clock signal. It ensures that the entire loading of the clock signal after the GOA units of multiple stages are coupled to promote the output stability of the GOA circuit, and to realize the forward-backward scan of the GOA circuit.
US09841619B2
Provided is an optical body capable of arbitrarily and quickly controlling the optical characteristics of incident light. A refractive index variable layer (8) formed of PLZT or other material and a magneto-optical material layer (9) formed of garnet or other material are provided side by side between a first reflective layer (3) and a second reflective layer (5). If linearly polarized light is made incident from the side of the first reflective layer (3), the incident light interacts with the magneto-optical material layer (9) and is converted into a right-circularly polarized light component and a left-circularly polarized light component. A very small retardation occurring between both the right- and left-circularly polarized light components is amplified through multiple reflections between the pair of reflective layers (3, 5) and is controlled according to a controlled refractive index of the refractive index variable layer (8).
US09841613B2
An eyeglass of a 3D glasses, a fabrication method thereof and a 3D glasses are provided. The eyeglass of the 3D glasses comprises: a substrate (2), configured to have a 3D function; and a lens (1) having a converging or diverging function, laminated on the substrate. The eyeglass of the 3D glasses and the 3D glasses have a myopic or hyperopic function simultaneously.
US09841612B2
A component of a frame for eyeglasses includes a body made of composite material, the peculiarity of which relates to the body having at least one first region and at least two second regions. The first region includes a three-dimensional shape with at least two dimensions that are larger than the dimensions of the at least two second regions. Thus, the configuration defines, along the body, portions with different flexibilities.
US09841609B1
An assembly method of a SMA assembly, includes disposing a lens holder unit on a SMA unit, the lens holder unit being provided with a first spring, a lens holder and a coil that are mounted on the first spring, with the first spring pressed against a mounting surface of the SMA unit; and bonding the first spring of the lens holder unit with the mounting surface of the SMA unit. The assembly process is simplified, the coating and soldering space become big to facilitate the bonding process, and the joining force between the SMA unit and the lens holder unit is enhanced.
US09841608B2
An inner focus lens includes sequentially from an object side, a first lens group having a positive refractive power; a second lens group having a negative refractive power; and a third lens group having a negative refractive power. The second lens group is moved along an optical axis, whereby focusing from a focus state for an object at infinity to a focus state for a minimum object distance is performed. A lens group configured by a lens other than a lens that is disposed farthest on the object side is moved in a direction orthogonal to the optical axis to shift an image. The inner focus lens satisfies a conditional expression (1) 0.15≦(1−βp)×βr≦4.50, where βp is transverse magnification of the orthogonally moved lens group and βr is composite transverse magnification of a lens group disposed farther on an image side than the orthogonally moved lens group.
US09841606B2
An embodiment according to the invention provides an optical filter that combines narrow spectral bandwidth and high rejection of out-of-band radiation with a wide acceptance angle. These filters are based on the nanoscale engineering of materials (“metamaterials”) that possess predefined birefringence determined by a combination of their geometry and material composition. These metamaterials are combined into a functional optical filter that can exhibit true zero crossing, with acceptance angle effectively decoupled from bandwidth, at practically any wavelength of interest.
US09841597B2
Provided is an anti-reflection film, which is formed on substrate, the anti-reflection film having a laminated layer structure including, in order from the substrate: a first layer to a sixth layer each formed of a dielectric thin film; and a seventh layer formed by a wet process, in which the first to the sixth layers are formed of three kinds of mediums having different refractive indices from one another, and in which, when refractive indices of the three kinds of mediums at wavelength of 550 nm are defined as nL, nM, and nH, the first layer is formed of a medium having nM, the sixth layer is formed of a medium having nH, a layer formed of a medium having nL and a layer formed of a medium having off are spaced away from each other, and nL, nM, and nH are appropriately set.
US09841595B1
An electrowetting element comprises a first fluid and a second fluid immiscible with the first fluid. A support plate includes a support plate surface in contact with at least one of the first or second fluids. The support plate includes an electrode for applying a voltage to control a configuration of the first and second fluids and a reflective surface. A first layer positioned between the reflective surface and the support plate surface has a first layer optical thickness substantially equal to a quarter multiple of a reference wavelength.
US09841591B2
A microscope is a microscope that switches an observation method between the bright-field observation and the fluorescence observation. The microscope includes an objective that irradiates a sample with excitation light and converts fluorescence from the sample into a parallel light flux, a beam splitter that splits fluorescence and excitation light from each other, and a collective lens that is arranged in such a manner that it is freely set in and removed from an optical path between the beam splitter and the objective, that has a positive power, and that is set in the optical path for fluorescence observation and is removed from the optical path for bright-field observation.
US09841586B2
A single focal length lens system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having positive optical power and a second lens unit including a lens element that moves in a direction of an optical axis with respect to an image surface in focusing from an infinity in-focus condition to a close-object in-focus condition. The first lens unit includes an aperture diaphragm and a lens element A located on the object side of the aperture diaphragm. A lens element B having positive optical power and a lens element C having negative optical power are located on the image side of the aperture diaphragm. Abbe numbers of the lens elements A, B, and C to the d-line and partial dispersion ratios of the lens elements A, B, and C for the g-line and the F-line satisfy a predetermined relation.
US09841581B2
A photographic lens optical system includes first to fifth lenses sequentially arranged in a direction away from an object. The first lens may have a negative refractive power, the second lens may have a positive or negative refractive power, the third lens may have a positive refractive power, the fifth lens may have a negative refractive power, and the fifth lens may have a positive refractive power. The first and fifth lenses may be spherical lenses. The fifth lens may be a biconvex lens. The second to fourth lenses may be aspherical lenses. An aperture stop may be between the second and third lenses. The photographic lens optical system may satisfy the inequality −2.3
US09841577B2
An optical element unit is provided comprising an optical element group for projecting light along an optical axis of the optical element group and a housing having an inner housing part partly defining a first space and a light passageway between the inner housing part and a second space. The inner housing part receives the optical element group. The optical element group comprises an ultimate optical element located in the region of the light passageway. A load-relieving device is provided adjacent to the ultimate optical element, the load relieving device partly defining the first space and the second space and at least partly relieving the ultimate optical element from loads resulting from pressure differences between the first space.
US09841571B1
An optical coupling system and method are provided for coupling light from a light source into an optical fiber that reduce back reflection of light into the light source and provide controlled launch conditions that improve forward optical coupling. The optical coupling system comprises at least one flat surface having perturbations formed therein over at least a portion of the flat surface that intersects an optical pathway. The perturbations have a lateral width and a height that are preselected to increase forward optical coupling efficiency and to decrease back reflection of the light beam from the optical fiber end face into the light source. The perturbations improve forward optical coupling by creating a complex light beam shape that is preselected to better match a spatial and angular distribution of a plurality of light modes of the optical fiber.
US09841564B1
A wavelength division multiplexing device with reduced signal loss and lower cost includes a casing, focusing lenses, and light splitters. The casing has walls defining slots. The focusing lenses are in an array. The light splitter includes prisms and filters. Each filter has opposite ends, ends being received in slot of the second sidewall and slot of the fourth sidewall. The prisms are positioned at the bottom plate and correspond to the focusing lenses. Each prism has an inner inclined surface facing the corresponding filter and signal light is selectively refracted and directed, to extract light of a particular wavelength and allow the through transmission of unextracted light towards subsequent light splitters.
US09841561B2
A SOI bent taper structure is used as a mode convertor. By tuning the widths of the bent taper and the bend angles, almost lossless mode conversion is realized between TE0 and TE1 in a silicon waveguide. The simulated loss is <0.05 dB across C-band. This bent taper can be combined with bi-layer TM0-TE1 rotator to reach very high efficient TM0-TE0 polarization rotator. An ultra-compact (9 μm) bi-layer TM0-TE1 taper based on particle swarm optimization is demonstrated. The entire TM0-TE0 rotator has a loss <0.25 dB and polarization extinction ratio >25 dB, worst-case across the C-band.
US09841555B2
Optical transmission systems and methods are disclosed that utilize a QSM optical fiber with a large effective area and that supports only two modes, namely the fundamental mode and one higher-order mode. The optical transmission system includes a transmitter and a receiver optically coupled by an optical fiber link that includes at least one section of the QSM optical fiber. Transmission over optical fiber link gives rise to MPI, which is mitigated using a digital signal processor. The QSM optical fiber is designed to have an amount of DMA that allows for the digital signal processor to have reduced complexity as reflected by a reduced number of filter taps as compared to if the DMA were zero.
US09841554B2
A panel light wall assembly comprising a support frame structure including at least first and second substantially straight and parallel support frame members spaced apart on opposite sides of a light panel receiving space, a light panel assembly including a rectilinear assembly frame including first, second, third and fourth substantially straight elongated assembly frame members, a light source mounted to the first assembly frame member, a planar light guide member forming an edge and mounted to the assembly frame with the edge adjacent the light source and a fastener interacting with at least one of the first and second support frame members to secure the light panel assembly with at least a portion of the light panel assembly received within the panel receiving space and a second portion extending outside and to one side of the panel receiving space with the light guide member and light source located within the panel receiving space.
US09841548B2
An electronic device may have control circuitry coupled to input-output devices such as a display. A flexible input-output device may be formed from an elastomeric substrate layer. The substrate layer may have signal paths to which components are mounted. Openings may be formed in the elastomeric substrate layer between the signal paths to create a stretchable mesh-shaped substrate. The electrical components may each include an interposer having solder pads soldered to the elastomeric substrate. Electrical devices such as micro-light-emitting diodes may be soldered to the interposers. The electrical components may also include electrical devices such as sensors and actuators. A stretchable lighting unit may have a stretchable light guide illuminated by a stretchable light source.
US09841537B2
In embodiments of the invention, an apparatus may include a display comprising a plurality of pixels and a computer system coupled with the display and operable to instruct the display to display images. The apparatus may further include a microlens array located adjacent to the display and comprising a plurality of microlenses, wherein the microlens array is operable to produce a light field by altering light emitted by the display to simulate an object that is in focus to an observer while the display and the microlens array are located within a near-eye range of the observer.
US09841531B2
A three-dimensional simulating device for the stratum stability in natural gas hydrate exploitation includes a three-dimensional model located in an environmental control unit, an axial pressure control unit, and a post-processing unit. An inner cavity of the three-dimensional model is divided into a sealed simulating cavity and a sealed axial pressure sealing cavity by an axial pressure sealing piston arranged in the inner cavity. A vertical well and a horizontal well stretch into the simulating cavity. The axial pressure control unit, the environmental control unit, and a plurality of sensors in the three-dimensional model are electrically connected to the post-processing unit. This simulating device simulates the external environment and combines in-situ synthesis and decomposition of a hydrate with stratum stability, thereby achieving high reliability and high accuracy, comprehensively evaluating mechanical characteristic change of the stratum and the stratum stability to provide guidance in natural gas hydrate exploitation.
US09841530B2
In one aspect, a process for characterizing a range of materials based on the scattering and stopping of incident cosmic ray charged particles passing through each material includes: determining a scattering metric and a stopping metric for each material within the range of materials exposed to cosmic ray charged particles; computing a ratio of the scattering metric to the stopping metric to obtain a scattering-to-stopping ratio for each material within the range of materials for the material; and establishing a scattering-stopping relationship for the range of materials based on the determined pairs of the scattering-to-stopping ratio and the associated scattering metric for the range of materials.
US09841529B2
Methods and systems are provided that enable logging while drilling NMR measurements to be made with magnets placed outside of the drill collar and magnetically permeable members to control the magnetic field gradient. A set of magnets can be disposed on and/or embedded on a drill collar, with an antenna disposed axially therebetween. Alternatively, a set of magnets and an antenna disposed therebetween can be disposed on a sleeve that is slid onto a recess in a drill collar. Additionally, a permeable member can be axially positioned between the set of magnets for affecting the depth of investigation.
US09841527B2
A method of processing electromagnetic signal data includes: disposing a downhole tool in a borehole in an earth formation, the downhole tool including at least one electromagnetic transmitter; performing a downhole electromagnetic operation, the operation including transmitting an electromagnetic pulse from the transmitter into the formation and measuring a time domain transient electromagnetic (TEM) signal over a selected time interval following a transmitter turn-off time; transforming the measured time domain TEM signal into a frequency domain TEM signal measured; and applying an inversion technique to the transformed frequency domain TEM signal to estimate one or more formation parameters.
US09841525B2
Systems, tools and techniques for measuring downhole parameters are provided. The techniques involve providing a downhole tool with a sensing apparatus. The sensing apparatus has at least one source positionable about the downhole tool, at least one sensor electrode positionable about a front face of the downhole tool for measuring electrical signals from the source, and a raised insulating cover positionable along the front face of the downhole tool for defining at least one contact surface. The raised insulating cover extends over at least a portion of the sensor electrode whereby the sensor electrode is positionable adjacent to the subterranean formation for electrically coupling thereto without direct contact therewith.
US09841524B2
A metal object detection device includes a plurality of detection coils, a capacitor configuring a resonant circuit in cooperation with each of at least two of the detection coils, a first series connection body, a second series connection body, a voltage applying unit, and a processing unit. The voltage applying unit applies an AC voltage to both ends of each of the first series connection body and the second series connection body. The processing unit performs a process for detecting the metal object on the basis of a potential difference between a connection point included in the first series connection body and a connection point included in the second series connection body.
US09841521B2
Variable depth multicomponent sensor streamer. At least some of example embodiments including perform a geophysical survey by: setting a first target depth for first depth positioning device of a sensor streamer, the first depth positioning device associated with a first sensor of the sensor streamer, the first sensor at a first offset, and the first target depth based on tension in the sensor streamer proximate the first sensor; setting a second target depth for a second depth positioning device of the sensor streamer, the second depth positioning device associated with a second sensor of the sensor streamer, the second sensor at a second offset greater than the first offset, the second target depth based on tension in the sensor streamer proximate the second sensor, and the second target depth greater than the first target depth; towing the sensor streamer through the water; and obtaining data from the sensors.
US09841520B2
So-called “Popcorn shooting”, and especially continuous Popcorn shooting, combined with simultaneous source shooting allows considerable flexibility in producing high-resolution data and in creating source arrays. Using a combination of simultaneous source de-blending and Popcorn reconstruction it is possible to construct using post acquisition processing arrays of any desired length by constructing a popcorn pattern that takes into account the vessel speed and physical arrangement of guns behind the towing vessel.
US09841515B2
A system (10) and a method (150) identify non-functioning pixels in positron emission tomography (PET) imaging. Data describing scintillation events localized to a plurality of pixels (22, 32) of a PET scanner (12) is received. A count map histogram is generated from the received data. The count map histogram maps each of the pixels (22, 32) to a count of scintillation events localized to the pixel (22, 32). One or more non-functioning pixels are identified from the count map histogram.
US09841511B2
Systems and devices are provided that relate to a gas-filled radiation detector with an internal optical fiber. The internal optical fiber may detect photons emitted during ionization avalanche events triggered by incident radiation. Such a radiation detector may include a housing, a fill gas within the housing, and an optical fiber within the housing. The fill gas may interact with radiation through an ionization avalanche that produces light. The optical fiber within the housing may capture the light and transmit the light out of the housing.
US09841509B2
A process for fabricating an organic x-ray detector is presented. The process includes forming a multilayered structure that includes disposing a first electrode layer on a thin film transistor array, disposing an organic absorber layer on the first electrode layer, and disposing a second electrode layer on the organic absorber layer. The process further includes disposing a scintillator layer on the second electrode layer and thermally treating the multilayered structure after the step of disposing the second electrode layer. An organic x-ray detector fabricated by the process is further presented. An x-ray system including the organic x-ray detector is also presented.
