US09894615B2
A method, system, and device provide power-efficient communications within the context of available power. Transmission and receipt data rates are scalable in accordance with output power available from a power source. Data is transmitted at a data rate determined, at least in part, by the available output power.
US09894613B2
A passive entry-passive start portable device detection system. A portable device includes a transceiver. At least one vehicle-based transceiver broadcasts an interrogation signal. The transceiver of the portable device transmits a response signal in response to the interrogation signal. A controller determining at least a range of the portable device as a function of the time-of-flight of the interrogation and response signals. The controller controls a measurement duty cycle of the interrogation signal as a function of the determined range.
US09894611B2
A portable device control method and a device, where the method includes establishing, by a first device, a connection to a second device when the first device discovers the second device, where the first device is a device that controls a specific application of the second device, determining, by the first device, that a user is in a first scene mode, determining, by the first device according to a preset execution policy of a first application corresponding to the first scene mode, an execution device of the first application corresponding to the first scene mode, where the first application is any specific application corresponding to the first scene mode, and sending, by the first device, an instruction message for executing the first application to the second device when the execution device is the second device such that the second device executes the first application.
US09894601B2
A vehicle carrier swap system includes a controller that, in response to a notification indicating first public land mobile network (PLMN) access signal quality is less than a threshold and successful registration with a second PLMN selected from a set of PLMNs made available by at least two subscriber identity modules associated with non-roaming partner carriers according to a priority defined by the carriers, provides network access using the second PLMN.
US09894600B1
A method, system, and medium are provided for adaptively providing network access to mobile devices. The mobile devices have a first interface for a wireless access network and a second interface for a personal area network. The wireless access network connects the mobile devices to a base station, and the personal area network connects the mobile device to other mobile devices that are part of the personal area network. Wireless access conditions are generated by the base station and communicated over the wireless access network to mobile devices that generate network access requests. Additionally, the mobile devices may transmit the wireless access conditions over the personal are network to other mobile devices that are within a predetermined distance. The mobile devices detect that the wireless access conditions in the wireless access network have degraded and adaptively select alternate routes to complete the network access requests.
US09894595B2
A signal transmitting method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes channel-coding broadcasting channel information by using a first scrambling code in a first frame within a broadcasting channel information updating period including a plurality of frames, and channel-coding the broadcasting channel information by using a second scrambling code in a second frame within the broadcasting channel information updating period. The second scrambling code is different from the first scrambling code.
US09894587B2
This invention relates to the use of frequency synchronization accuracy as an additional quality metric for mobile call handover between base stations. Call handover is of major importance within any mobile network; without checking frequency synchronization before handover dropped calls and interrupted communication can result.
US09894584B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for efficiently controlling a handover process and a Radio Link Failure (RLF) process. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, an operating method of a User Equipment (UE) includes starting a first timer while a second timer regarding a radio link failure (RLF) is running, and if one of the first timer and the second timer expires, performing a radio resource control (RRC) connection re-establishment. When the handover and the RLF concurrently occur in the mobile communication system, the embodiments of the present disclosure can minimize the service interruption time by conducting the handover instead of the Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection re-establishment due to the RLF.
US09894582B2
The embodiments of the present invention provide a congestion control implementation method and apparatus, where the method includes: determining one or more user equipments for which single radio voice call continuity (SRVCC) offloading needs to be performed; sending an SRVCC offload message to an E-UTRAN NodeB serving the one or more user equipments, so that when triggering an SRVCC handover procedure, the E-UTRAN NodeB switches the one or more user equipments from a Long Term Evolution (LTE) domain to a circuit switched (CS) domain. When the SRVCC handover procedure is completed, the one or more user equipments can be switched from VoLTE user equipments to VoCS user equipments. In this way, LTE cell load can be alleviated and QoS of the one or more user equipments can be guaranteed.
US09894580B1
Disclosed aspects relate to access point selection. A set of beacon frame transmission data for a set of access points may be collected by a computing device. The computing device may use the set of beacon frame transmission data for the set of access points to determine to establish a connection utilizing a first access point of the set of access points. The computing device may establish the connection utilizing the first access point.
US09894571B2
Methods, apparatus and computer program products are disclosed for enhancing mobility robustness optimization in self optimizing networks. Neighbor relation information indicating relations between a handover source cell and candidate handover target cell(s), each including a first counter indicating events of an unsuccessful handover of a user equipment from the handover source cell to one candidate handover target cell, and a second counter indicating events of connection re-establishment attempt of the user equipment to the candidate handover target cell after an unsuccessful handover to another cell. A first candidate handover target cell to which handover of the user equipment was unsuccessful and a second candidate handover target cell to which the user equipment has re-established a connection, out of the candidate handover target cells, are determined. The first counter and/or the second counter of the neighbor relation information concerning the determined first and second candidate handover target cells is updated.
US09894555B2
Provided is an information processing method including a setting process of, when a service is provided to a first wireless terminal device having a first access right to access a base station related to a first communication service provider via a radio line, setting a second access right to access a base station related to a second communication service provider to the first wireless terminal device, and a service providing process of providing the service to the first wireless terminal device to which the second access right is set through the base station related to the second communication service provider.
US09894554B2
A packet data network gateway and a UE mobility management system are disclosed. In the packet data network gateway, a context management unit is configured to: when the P-GW is selected as the UE's target P-GW, create a context for the UE and store the UE's context information from S-GW and a source P-GW to which the UE is currently attached; an identity management unit is configured to: assign a location identity including the UE's routing information to the UE. The present invention reselects a P-GW for the UE to attach, thereby eliminating the circuitous routing in the process of the UE connecting and using services, saving transmission bearer resources, reducing transmission delay of data packet, and ensuring that the UE is still reachable after changing the attached P-GW, thus neither the UE nor the peer end is aware of the movement of the UE in the IP level.
US09894547B2
A user equipment (UE) provides a capability-type indication for each of one or more UE capabilities. Each indication corresponds to a capability type, the type being one of a persistent capability or a second-type capability. Information corresponding to the capability-type indication may be provided to an eNB associated with the UE by RRC signaling. The UE provides a capability-change indication for each of one or more UE capabilities that has changed capability type. Information corresponding to the capability-change indication may be provided to an eNB by lower layer signaling, RRC signaling, or a combination thereof. Capability change information may be sent to the eNB autonomously by the UE, or in response to an inquiry from the eNB. The inquiry from the eNB may be triggered by the UE.
US09894543B2
A method and network node (400) for supporting evaluation of usage of a radio network feature in radio communication between wireless devices (402) and the network node. The network node (400) retrieves (4:1) statistical information regarding the usage of the radio network feature, and reports (4:5) the statistical information to an Operation and Maintenance, O&M, node (404). The O&M node then uses (4:6) the statistical information for evaluating how measured performance (4:3) of the radio network is related to the usage of the radio network feature.
US09894532B2
In a wireless communications network providing a machine-type communications (MTC) service, a portion of a frequency spectrum is allocated to a MTC device to communicate between a base station and other MTC devices. MTC system information is transmitted/received from/to the MTC device through the portion of the frequency spectrum and may include channel information. The portion of the frequency spectrum may be used for a Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless communication network.
US09894526B2
Operating state information is received at an on-board telematics control unit (TCU) from an on-board diagnostic (OBD) system of a vehicle. The TCU transmits an indication of vehicle state over at least a wireless data link component of a communications network for delivery to a mobile computing device. The mobile computing device receives the indication of vehicle state and utilizes the indication of vehicle state at a mobile application program. In one example, the mobile application program presents vehicle state information via a graphical display of the mobile computing device. In another example, the mobile application program augments a functionality of the mobile computing device responsive to the indication of vehicle state.
US09894520B2
Methods and systems for caching of remote server MAC authentication to enable fast roaming are provided. According to one embodiment, a wireless network controller of a wireless local area network (WLAN) receives an authentication request relating to a wireless client device from a wireless access point (AP) managed by the wireless network controller. It is determined whether a prior authentication result associated with the client is present in a cache of the controller. The client is permitted to access the WLAN via the AP when the prior authentication result is present and indicates the client was previously successfully authenticated. The authentication request is issued to a remote authentication device associated with the WLAN to determine a current authentication status of the client. Responsive to receipt of the current authentication status, information regarding the current authentication status is stored by the controller within the cache.
US09894516B2
A method and apparatus allocates an IP address between terminals in a wireless communication network in which terminals directly communicate with each other in a wireless scheme without an AP. The method for allocating an Internet Protocol (IP) address of a wireless terminal capable of performing P2P communication, includes a discovery step of discovering at least one external terminal capable of performing the P2P communication and connecting with the at least one discovered external terminal by the wireless terminal; and a negotiation step of negotiating and determining with the external terminal which external terminals become a group owner and a group client in a P2P group, respectively by the wireless terminal. One of the discovery step and the negotiation step includes transmitting an IP address to be allocated to the group client to the external terminal from the wireless terminal.
US09894514B2
Method for discovering a mobile host that roams across wireless networks, each wireless network comprising a mobile router and the mobile routers being coupled to a gateway. The method includes receiving a packet comprising an address of the mobile host within one of the wireless networks; and determining whether the address of the mobile host resolves to be within a subnet of mobile hosts manageable by the mobile router of the one wireless network. When both the address of the mobile host resolve to be within the subnet of mobile hosts manageable by the mobile router of the one wireless network, the method further includes adding the address of the mobile host to a table of registered mobile hosts for the mobile router of the one wireless network, the packet comprising a dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) lease request for the mobile host.
US09894513B2
Embodiments are directed towards collecting information regarding the implementation of dynamic frequency selection and automatic channel selection by one or more wireless communication devices using the U-NII radio band. And to use the collected information to determine if other communication devices are coupled to communicate with each other via a wireless connection or a wired connection, or to modify the automatic channel selection mechanism used by one or more wireless communication devices.
US09894508B2
A macrocell base station includes a storage to store information of a plurality of virtual areas obtained by dividing a macrocell and information of small cells associated with the plurality of virtual areas, and a controller to perform a process of specifying the virtual area where the terminal is located, the specifying using a distance between the macrocell base station and the terminal residing in the macrocell, and a process of generating cell search information for the small cell that is to be transmitted to the terminal, the generating using the small cell information associated with the information of the specified virtual area.
US09894503B2
A method and apparatus for managing call information is provided. The method includes: receiving reception notification data from a server that indicates call information is received, receiving the call information from the server according to the reception notification data in response to an input of a manager and displaying the call information and an initial process state of the call information on a screen of the display.
US09894494B2
A system, apparatus and method for configuring a wireless sound reinforcement system detects a controller and two or more wireless adapters using an electronic device. The controller has a plurality of input channels and output channels. Each wireless adapter is associated with an entertainment device. Channel information about each input channel and output channel is obtained from the controller. Device information is obtained from each entertainment device via the wireless adapter. A network address is assigned to each input channel, output channel and wireless adapter. Each entertainment device is mapped to at least one of the input channels and/or output channels. The device information and channel mappings for the entertainment devices are provided to the controller.
US09894488B2
Disclosed are an open type POI service system using an SNS method and a method thereof. The open type POI system includes an SNS media studio server which opens a POI to a user and registers an interest location designated by a user as an open type POI. Therefore, the SNS media studio server includes a database which stores an open type POI related to a user, and supplies the open type POI to another user who is related to the user by connection of the open type POI and SNS.
US09894484B1
Embodiments provide techniques, including systems and methods, for determining an estimated target pickup location for a corresponding transport request at a particular location, such as associated with a particular geohash. A requestor may send a request that is associated with a location that does not reflect the requestor's intent regarding where they would like to be met by the provider (i.e., “picked up”). GPS inaccuracies may cause the request location to inaccurately indicate where the requestor will be; for example, the request location may be inside a building while the requestor is waiting on a curb around a far side of the building. The target pickup location allows for a requestor and a provider to meet more efficiently, reducing delay for the provider and improving the efficiency of the system by preventing provider system resources from being taken from other service areas and decreasing provider downtime upon matching.
US09894482B2
A system for determining location information for a wireless device is described. The system includes a UE, a LE and multiple LMUs. The LE sends, to the LMUs, reception instructions with characteristics of the signal transmission from the UE and each LMU receives, from the LE, the reception instructions. The UE sends a signal transmission. Each LMU receives the transmitted signal from the UE, determines locating information based at least in part of the received signal and sends the locating information to the LE. The LE receives the locating information regarding the transmitted signal and determines a location of the UE based at least in part on the received locating information. Methods, apparatus and computer readable media are also described.
US09894481B2
In a wireless communication device, an example method of transmitting location data for a location of the wireless communication device includes using a short-range radio communication protocol to receive, without prior interrogation, radio signals from any nearby autonomously transmitting radio-transmitting device, detecting the location data in a radio signal from a nearby autonomously transmitting radio-transmitting device, wherein the radio signal is the strongest radio signal that includes location data, measuring a received signal level of the radio signal from the autonomously transmitting radio-transmitting device, and transmitting the location data and the received signal level of the radio signal to a third party.
US09894475B2
In some implementations, methods for selecting a set of beacons that are to be monitored by a mobile device may be employed. Specifically, an optimal set of beacons to monitor may be provided to a mobile device depending on particular groups of beacons that are in proximity to the mobile device, the distance from the mobile device to each of the particular groups of beacons, and the mobile device's position/movements as provided by a tracking service such as GPS. These techniques may ensure that the mobile device is not blind to the closest and/or most relevant beacons.
US09894465B2
A method and a user equipment (UE) configured for dual priority for controlling a backoff timer are discussed. The method according to an embodiment includes transmitting a first non access stratum (NAS) request message without an access point name (APN) including a low priority indicator set to a first value to a network node; receiving a reject message for the NAS request message from the network node; initiating a session management (SM) backoff timer in response to the reject message; and transmitting a second NAS request message including the low priority indicator set to a second value to the network node while the SM backoff timer is running. The first value of the low priority indicator indicates that the UE is configured for NAS signaling low priority. The second value of the low priority indicator indicates that the UE is not configured for NAS signaling low priority.
US09894463B2
A terminal system may be connected to a communication network and multiple network access devices (NADs). The terminal system may include a computer system and a database. The computer system may read information from the database regarding associations between the NADs and media and applications to be run on the computer system and/or the NADs. Based on the read information the computer system can control access of: a) at least one of the NADs to a media and/or b) at least one of the applications to a media and/or c) at least one of the applications to at least one of the NADs. The information can include provider rules for associations between providers and NADs for providers providing services via the communication network and/or constraints on associations between NADs and applications.
US09894460B1
In general, the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products for receiving a voice query at a mobile computing device and generating data that represents content of the voice query. The data is provided to a server system. A textual query that has been determined by a speech recognizer at the server system to be a textual form of at least part of the data is received at the mobile computing device. The textual query is determined to include a carrier phrase of one or more words that is reserved by a first third-party application program installed on the computing device. The first third-party application is selected, from a group of one or more third-party applications, to receive all or a part of the textual query. All or a part of the textual query is provided to the selected first application program.
US09894453B2
Microphone systems and methods of determining absolute sensitivities of a MEMS microphone. The microphone system includes a speaker, a MEMS microphone, and a controller. The speaker is configured to generate an acoustic pressure. The MEMS microphone includes a capacitive electrode, a piezoelectric electrode, and a backplate. The capacitive electrode is configured to generate a first capacitive response based on the acoustic pressure and generate a first mechanical pressure based on a capacitive control signal. The piezoelectric electrode is coupled to the capacitive electrode. The piezoelectric electrode is configured to generate a first piezoelectric response signal based on the acoustic pressure and generate a second piezoelectric response signal based on the first mechanical pressure. The controller is configured to generate the capacitive control signal and determine an absolute sensitivity of the capacitive electrode based on the first capacitive response, the first piezoelectric response signal, and the second piezoelectric response signal.
US09894452B1
An off-head detection system for an in-ear headset comprises an input device that receives an audio signal, a feed-forward microphone signal, and a driver output signal; an expected-output computation circuit that predicts a value of the driver output signal based on a combination of the audio signal and the feed-forward microphone signal from the signal monitoring circuit, and off-head data from the off-head model; and a comparison circuit that compares the observed output signal provided to the driver and the computed expected output to determine an off-head state of the in-ear headset.
US09894434B2
A conference system including a microphone array unit having a plurality of microphone capsules arranged in or on a board mountable on or in a ceiling of a conference room. The microphone array unit has a steerable beam and a maximum detection angle range. The conference system further includes a processing unit which is configured to receive the output signals of the microphone capsules and to steer the beam based on the received output signal of the microphone array unit. The processing unit is configured to control the microphone array to limit the detection angle range to exclude at least one predetermined exclusion sector in which a noise source is located.
US09894428B1
A portable audio input/output device may include an assembly enclosure that contains electrical and mechanical components of the device. A substantially cylindrical frame may encircle the assembly enclosure and may be surrounded by a tube of seamless material. A top end of the tube of seamless material may fold over a top end of the substantially cylindrical frame, and a bottom end of the tube of seamless material may fold over a bottom end of the substantially cylindrical frame. A cover assembly may couple to a top end of the assembly enclosure and secure the top end of the seamless fabric. A charging foot may be coupled to a bottom end of the assembly enclosure and secure the bottom end of the seamless fabric.
US09894420B2
A content hosting system allows content providers to create channels of video content and make them available to users in a marketplace. Users can search or browse for channels of interest, and selectively subscribe to channels. Users can also pay for the right to view premium videos in each channel. The system ranks channels according to the value provided. Generally, users will seek out and subscribe to the highest ranked channels that provide the greatest value. The ranking function allows different providers to compete for the subscriptions of users. Providers can observe their channel's reception in the market by analyzing rankings and usage statistics to adjust channels to maximize channel performance. The system operator can also create bundled channels containing videos from multiple providers, and the resulting subscription revenue can be distributed to the various providers of the videos in the channel.
US09894415B2
A system for passive collection of media experience data to increase efficiencies in identifying and delivering desired media content. Behavioral data measured with a wearable device and camera sensors, including physical activity and physiological data, may be captured during a media content presentation and analyzed with media contextual and experiential data to measure media experience data and render media connectedness values between a subject and the presented media content. A system may operate on a network with access to a web service program and utilize mechanized learning and artificial intelligence to compare the previously analyzed media experience data with contextual data associated with media content available on searchable databases. The system may share media experience data and analyzed results with a social network group which can use the media connectedness value data intelligence to refine search methods for media content. The system's learning capabilities, for managing the described ongoing data collection ecosystem, will increasingly improve interpretive and analytic insights of a subject, their preferred choices media content, and the optimal conditions and environment for presenting specific media content with little or no input from the subject.
US09894406B2
Content receivers may simultaneously record multiple instances of content for multiple programming channels based on content provider instructions. Systems and methods utilize the content receivers to record these multiple instances from at least a single transponder. In some instances, multiple transponders may have a common control word so that content carried on each such transponder may be simultaneously received, decoded and recorded. Further, a single demodulator may be associated with multiple tuners, so that the single demodulator processes all content received from transponders with common control words and/or other encryption mechanisms.
US09894399B2
Example systems and methods to determine media effectiveness are disclosed. An example system includes a synchronizer to time shift first neuro-response data gathered from an audience member exposed to media a first amount to align the first neuro-response data with second neuro-response data simultaneously gathered from the audience member to form aligned data, the first neuro-response data representing a first response to a first sensory component of the media and the second neuro-response data representing a second response to a second sensory component of media. The synchronizer is to time shift the second neuro-response data a second amount. The first amount is based on a first cognitive delay of a brain of the audience member and the second amount is based on a second cognitive delay of the brain. The example system includes an analyzer to determine an effectiveness of the media based on the aligned data.
US09894387B2
The present technology relates to an image processing apparatus and method that are capable of enhancing encoding efficiency while suppressing a decrease in the efficiency of encoding processing. The image processing apparatus includes an encoding mode setter that sets, in units of coding units having a hierarchical structure, whether a non-compression mode is to be selected as an encoding mode for encoding image data, the non-compression mode being an encoding mode in which the image data is output as encoded data, and an encoder that encodes the image data in units of the coding units in accordance with a mode set by the encoding mode setter. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an image processing apparatus.
US09894382B2
A motion vector predictor determination method includes: checking if motion vector data of at least one first neighbor unit adjacent to a block and motion vector data of at least one second neighbor unit adjacent to the block are identical to each other; and when a checking result indicates that the motion vector data of the at least one first neighbor unit is identical to the motion vector data of the at least one second neighbor unit, assigning a motion vector predictor determined for a first sub-block within the block to a second sub-block within the block. The motion vector data of the at least one first neighbor unit is involved in determining the motion vector predictor of the first sub-block, and the motion vector data of the at least one second neighbor unit is not involved in determining the motion vector predictor of the first sub-block.
US09894381B1
Encoding and decoding is accomplished herein using a multi-reference picture buffer. Decoding includes receiving an encoded video stream, determining an expected error value representing possible frame errors, decoding a plurality of reference frames from the video stream, adding each of the plurality of reference frames to the reference picture buffers up to a maximum number of reference picture buffers, and determining an encoded video stream error value representing actual frame errors based on the decoded plurality of reference frames. If the encoded video stream error value is greater than the decoded expected error value, an error is signaled.
US09894380B2
Provided is an apparatus for encoding a moving picture that determines a quantization step size of a previous coding block according to scan order as the quantization step size predictor of the current coding block when a quantization step size of a left coding block of a current coding block and a quantization step size of an above coding block of the current coding block are unavailable and determines an available motion vector encountered first when retrieving motion vectors in the order of motion vector of a first predetermined position and motion vector of a second predetermined position in a reference picture as a temporal motion vector candidate. Therefore, it is possible to reduce the amount of coding bits required to encode motion information and the quantization step size of the current prediction block.
US09894376B2
When an encoding mode corresponding to one of blocks to be encoded into which an image is divided by a block dividing part 2 is an inter encoding mode which is a direct mode, a motion-compensated prediction part 5 selects a motion vector suitable for generation of a prediction image from one or more selectable motion vectors and also carries out a motion-compensated prediction process on the block to be encoded to generate a prediction image by using the motion vector, and outputs index information showing the motion vector to a variable length encoding part 13, and the variable length encoding unit 13 variable-length-encodes the index information.
US09894362B2
The present disclosure relates to an image processing device and a method capable of suppressing the reduction of an image quality due to encoding/decoding. The image processing device includes: a quantization unit that when orthogonal transform processing is skipped with respect to a current block, quantizes all components of the current block using one weighting coefficient and when the orthogonal transform processing is performed on the current block, quantizes each component of the current block using a quantization matrix; an encoding unit that encodes the coefficient of the current block which is quantized by the quantization unit; and a transmission unit that transmits the coded data of the current block which is obtained by being encoded by the encoding unit. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an image processing device.
US09894354B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for video encoding and decoding using a motion matrix. An apparatus includes a video encoder for encoding a picture in a video sequence using a motion matrix. The motion matrix has a rank below a given threshold and a sparse representation with respect to a dictionary. The dictionary includes a set of atoms and basis vectors for representing the picture and for permitting the picture to be derived at a corresponding decoder using only the set. The dictionary formed from a set of reference pictures in the video sequence.
US09894353B2
A method of encoding video using intra prediction mode dependent quantization matrix includes: calculating an array of quantizers for each size of block unit (100); encoding the arrays of quantizers into header of compressed video stream (102); selecting one scanning order based on a selected intra prediction mode among a plurality of scanning orders (112); scanning the array of quantizers to obtain a block of quantizers based on the selected scanning order (114).
US09894352B2
Provided is a moving picture coding method for performing arithmetic coding on a quantization parameter to be used in quantizing a current block that is to be coded and is included in a current picture to be coded, the quantization parameter including a parameter indicating a sign and a parameter indicating an absolute value, the method including: binarizing the parameter indicating the absolute value without requiring information on a maximum value of the absolute value; binarizing the parameter indicating the sign without requiring information on a maximum value of the sign; and performing bypass arithmetic coding, using a fixed probability, sequentially on (i) a latter half of the binarized parameter indicating the absolute value and (ii) the binarized parameter indicating the sign.
US09894350B2
Camera and/or lens calibration information is generated as part of a calibration process in video systems including 3-dimensional (3D) immersive content systems. The calibration information can be used to correct for distortions associated with the source camera and/or lens. A calibration profile can include information sufficient to allow the system to correct for camera and/or lens distortion/variation. This can be accomplished by capturing a calibration image of a physical 3D object corresponding to the simulated 3D environment, and creating the calibration profile by processing the calibration image. The calibration profile can then be used to project the source content directly into the 3D viewing space while also accounting for distortion/variation, and without first translating into an intermediate space (e.g., a rectilinear space) to account for lens distortion.
US09894341B2
Provided is a video providing method and a video playing method for a three-dimensional (3D) video, and an apparatus for performing the methods. The video providing method may transmit a reconstruction mode for reconstructing a low-resolution additional video having lower resolution than a high-resolution reference video.
US09894337B2
Disclosed are improved methods, systems and devices for color night vision that reduce the number of intensifiers and/or decrease noise. In some embodiments, color night vision is provided in system in which multiple spectral bands are maintained, filtered separately, and then recombined in a unique three-lens-filtering setup. An illustrative four-camera night vision system is unique in that its first three cameras separately filter different bands using a subtractive Cyan, Magenta and Yellow (CMY) color filtering-process, while its fourth camera is used to sense either additional IR illuminators or a luminance channel to increase brightness. In some embodiments, the color night vision is implemented to distinguish details of an image in low light. The unique application of the three-lens subtractive CMY filtering allows for better photon scavenging and preservation of important color information.
US09894330B2
An information processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit, a setting unit, and a correction unit. The obtaining unit obtains a first image including a first overlap area having a first end side portion and a second image including a second overlap area having a second end side portion. The setting unit sets a first reference line that forms a first division area in the first overlap area and a second reference line that forms a second division area in the second overlap area. The correction unit executes corrections for the first overlap area, the first division area, and the second division area with the first reference line, the first end side portion, and the second end side portion respectively, the corrections being based on shapes of the first and second overlap areas and based on projection of the first image and the second image.
US09894320B2
An information processing apparatus for transmitting image data to an information terminal, the information processing apparatus being capable of performing communication with the information terminal via a network is disclosed. The information processing apparatus includes a determination unit configured to determine persons from the image data captured by an imaging unit; a speaker estimating unit configured to estimate a speaker among the persons captured in the image data; a measurement unit configured to measure a speech time of the speaker estimated by the speaker estimating unit; an acquisition unit configured to obtain from the image data, based on the speech time measured by the measurement unit, a speaker image including the speaker that continuously speaks for a certain duration; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the speaker image obtained by the acquisition unit to the information terminal.
US09894315B2
An image capturing apparatus comprises: an image sensor configured to sense an image and output image data; an image processing unit configured to perform image processing on the image data; an output unit configured to output the processed image data to an external image processing apparatus; an input unit configured to input first processing information used in image processing performed by the external image processing apparatus on the image data; and a recording unit configured to record the first processing information, second processing information used for converting image data into standard image data, and at least one of the image data processed by the image processing unit and the unprocessed image data, in association with the stated image data.
US09894313B1
A video signal processing method includes: dividing a current frame which is to be processed into a plurality of blocks which are predetermined rectangular blocks; calculating, for each of the plurality of blocks divided into in the dividing, a feature quantity relating to luminance of pixels in the block; calculating first correction data, based on a feature quantity calculated from each of first blocks located above a first horizontal boundary in the current frame and a feature quantity calculated from each of one or more blocks located below a first horizontal boundary in a previous frame which has been processed immediately before the current frame; and correcting luminance of pixels in each of the first blocks in the current frame, based on the first correction data calculated in the calculating.
US09894312B2
A system and method includes a language processing module converting an electrical signal corresponding to an audible signal into a textual signal. The system further includes a command generation module converting the textual signal into a user receiving device control signal. A controller controls a function of a user receiving device in response to the user receiving device control signal.
US09894311B2
In a wireless transmission system, a transmitter sends a plurality of data packets to a receiver. The transmitter identifies channel quality indicators corresponding to properties of a communication channel between the transmitter and the receiver. During operation, the transmitter adjusts one or more parameters that affect the Quality of Service (QoS) of data transmission between the transmitter and receiver to enable data transmission at different quality levels over a range of channel quality levels. In one embodiment, the transmitter sends data packets corresponding to video from a camera to the receiver.
US09894294B2
The present invention relates to reading-out sensor array pixels. In particular, the present invention provides an approach according to which only a region of interest with arbitrary geometry may be read out from the sensor array, thus leading to substantial time savings. In order to achieve this, a circuitry is provided for automatic determining of a ROI and reading out the ROI from the sensor array. The circuitry includes a fast reading-out circuitry which is less precise but faster than the accurate reading-out circuitry for reading-out the pixels of the sensor array. The fast reading-out circuitry reads out the pixels with low-level precision and determines by the processing of the fast read-out pixels the ROI which is then provided to an in-pixel ROI programming circuit for storing the ROI identification and by means thereof to the accurate reading-out circuit which then reads out only the pixels determined to belong to the ROI. The accurate read-out circuit is slower than the fast read-out circuit.
US09894291B2
A moving image acquiring part acquires a moving image. A still image accumulating part stores still images. An image processing part calculates gains obtained by previously storing based on the costs of extraction of still images from a moving image, and extracts some still images with higher gains from among the still images composing the moving image and stores into the still image accumulating part. A request processing part retrieves a still image requested by a request source from the still image accumulating part and transmits to the request source and, when the still image requested by the request source is not stored in the still image accumulating part, extracts the still image requested by the request source from the moving image acquired by the moving image acquiring part and transmits to the request source.
US09894290B2
A lens unit, having a photographing lens, an aperture, and an aperture drive mechanism for opening and closing the aperture, comprising a memory that stores characteristics of the aperture drive mechanism, an aperture drive section that drives the aperture drive mechanism, and an aperture control section that controls the aperture drive section so that rate of change of light amount that passes through the aperture as a result of opening and closing operations of the aperture becomes constant, based on the characteristics of the aperture drive mechanism.
US09894288B2
Images are combined with high accuracy, and a high-definition image that is superior in the sensitivity and the saturation characteristics is formed. An image forming method includes detecting a difference between a plurality of images by comparing respective high-resolution areas included in the plurality of images; based on the difference, adjusting position information associated with the plurality of images, respectively; and combining respective low-resolution areas of the plurality of images in which the pieces of position information is adjusted.
US09894287B2
The present invention discloses a terminal. The terminal includes: a first camera, a second camera, a processor, the processor is connected to both the first camera and the second camera, the first camera and the second camera are located on a same side of the terminal, the first camera is configured to acquire an image in a first region; the processor is configured to: analyze the image acquired by the first camera, determine, according to an analysis result, exposure used when the second camera acquires an image in a second region; the second camera acquires the image in the second region according to the exposure that is determined by the processor and is used when the second camera acquires the image in the second region; the processor is configured to synthesize the images into a high dynamic image.
US09894286B2
This invention provides a system and method for enabling control of an illuminator having predetermined operating parameters by a vision system processor/core based upon stored information regarding parameters that are integrated with the illuminator. The parameters are retrieved by the processor, and are used to control the operation of the illuminator and/or the camera during image acquisition. In an embodiment, the stored parameters are a discrete numerical or other value that corresponds to the illuminator type. The discrete value maps to a corresponding value in look-up table/database associated with the camera that contains parameter sets associated with each of a plurality of values in the database. The data associated with the discrete value in the camera contains the necessary parameters or settings for that illuminator type. In other embodiments, some or all of the actual parameter information can be stored with the illuminator and retrieved by the camera processor.
US09894284B2
To obtain an appropriate exposure condition even in second photographing when generating an image with an expanded dynamic range. An exposure control unit controls an imaging element including a normal pixel for generating an image signal and a low-sensitivity pixel for generating a low-sensitivity image signal and having lower photoelectric conversion sensitivity to visible light than the normal pixel under a predetermined exposure condition and causes the imaging element to output the image signal and the low-sensitivity image signal. A low-sensitivity histogram generating unit generates a low-sensitivity histogram indicating an appearance frequency distribution of the low-sensitivity image signal based on the low-sensitivity image signal. A short-time exposure condition calculating unit calculates a short-time exposure condition with an exposure time shorter than the exposure condition based on the generated low-sensitivity histogram. A short-time exposure control unit controls the imaging element under the calculated short-time exposure condition and causes the imaging element to output a short-time exposure image signal as an image signal generated by the normal pixel. A combining unit combines the image signal and the short-time exposure image signal.
US09894271B2
A pattern inspection apparatus according to an embodiment includes an image capture and an output part. The image capture captures an image of a second pattern of an inspection target object obtained by enlarging the inspection target object having a first pattern. The output part outputs position information of the first or second pattern corresponding to divergent portions between a reference data generated from design data of the first pattern and a captured data generated by the image capture, other than prediction positions of first defects occurring when the inspection target object is enlarged.
US09894266B2
A system and method and computer program product for cognitive recording and sharing of live events. The system includes: a sensing and transmitting device that can sense the biometric signatures of an individual; a processing unit that analyses the sensed signal and initiate a set of actions; a recording device or the like to record the event; and a networked sharing device configured to subsequently share recorded event content. The system further identifies individuals' pre-cognitive inputs and additional external and internal factor input signals that are precursors to cognitive affirmation of an emotional response. These inputs will be identified, correlated, and used in training the system for subsequent identification and correlation between input factors and resulting emotional state. External factors may include: recognized emotional states, biometric inputs, and/or precognition inputs of other individuals in proximity to the subject individual. Other factors may include an individual's context.
US09894261B2
Described herein are systems and methods for presenting DVM system information. In overview, a hierarchical tree structure is used to display DVM system elements (such as cameras). The tree structure is defined by a plurality of nodes arranged in hierarchical levels. Each level in the tree structure corresponds to an element characteristic. The nodes for each level correspond to element characteristic values. For example, one level might correspond to “camera status”, and the nodes at that level each define camera status values (e.g. operational or non-operational). A tree customization module allows a user to customize the tree structure by designating element characteristics for levels in the tree structure.
US09894259B2
Movable image capture devices and methods for images from behind a display screen are disclosed. According to an aspect, a method includes determining a position of a displayed target image on a display screen. The method also includes using an image capture device positioned behind the display screen for capturing images positioned in front of the display screen. The method also includes moving the image capture device behind the display screen to a position near the position of the displayed target image based on the determined position of the displayed target image.
US09894256B2
An illuminator includes: a body with an opening, for receiving optical means; illuminating means arranged around the opening in a frontal face of this body and commandable to illuminate a space in front of the frontal face, electronic control means of the illuminator; heat dissipating means; connecting means for removably fixing the illuminator at least to the optical apparatus. The body of the illuminator includes a rear face opposite the frontal face which includes a plurality of distinct functional case elements positioned around the opening for receiving at least the electronic control means and/or which defines the heat dissipating means and/or the connecting means, in such a manner as to enable an operator, when the optical apparatus is associated with the illuminator, to access the optical means to dismantle the optical means from the apparatus and/or adjust optical adjusting means of the optical means.
US09894246B2
A printing device includes a user interface, a print module and a locked print module. The locked print module is configured to examine a plurality of print data received by the printing device to determine whether locked printing is specified for any electronic documents contained in the plurality of print data. If locked printing is specified for any of the electronic documents contained in the plurality of print data, then the corresponding print data is stored on the printing device and not processed for printing. The locked print module is further configured to verify password data with respect to user identification data. If the password data is not successfully verified with respect to the user identification data, then the locked print module causes print data that is both stored on the printing device and associated with the user identification data to be deleted from the printing device.
US09894243B2
A non-transitory computer-readable medium has instructions to control an information processing device to perform monitoring, the instructions causing the information processing device to perform operations including: performing a notification acquisition processing; performing a switching processing of setting a mode flag with one of a first value indicating the first mode and a second value indicating the second mode; performing, in a case where the first value is set to the mode flag, a first monitor processing including: a first reception processing of receiving first status information; and a first display processing of displaying the status indicated by the first status information; and performing, in a case where the second value is set to the mode flag, a second monitor processing including: a second reception processing of receiving second status information; and a second display processing of displaying the status indicated by the second status information.
US09894236B2
A photoelectric transducer includes: a plurality of pixels arranged in one direction for each of colors of light to be received, and configured such that light is converted into an electrical signal in each of the plurality of pixels; a parallel processor configured to perform parallel processing on a plurality of electrical signals obtained through conversion in the pixels in synchronization with a spread-spectrum clock for each of pixel groups, each of the pixel groups including a predetermined number of pixels; and a corrector configured to correct an offset level of each of the plurality of electrical signals having undergone the parallel processing performed by the parallel processor, using one of values, each of the values being common within one of the pixel groups.
US09894235B2
A multifunctional printer comprising a printer section, an auto-document feeder, a scanner section, and a finisher, wherein a finisher path leads from the auto-document feeder into the printer section and converges with a print path into a shared finisher path leading to the finisher, such that documents scanned with the auto-document feeder can be conveyed to the finisher such that it can perform a finishing operation on the documents.
US09894227B2
An information processing apparatus includes a reading unit, an edge extraction unit, a feature point search unit, a document area size calculation unit, a user operation unit, and a multi-feed determination unit. The reading unit optically reads a document to generate image data. The edge extraction unit extracts an edge of the document from the image data. The feature point search unit searches edge data of the edge extracted by the edge extraction unit for a feature point. The document area size calculation unit calculates a document area size from the feature point found by the feature point search unit. The user operation unit is used by a user to specify a document size. The multi-feed determination unit compares the document area size calculated by the document area size calculation unit with the user-specified document size so as to determine whether multi-feed of the document has occurred.
US09894225B2
A setting device sets a print page to be clear-coated. When print data is obtained, the setting device displays a preview of a print page image represented by the print data (step S1040). The setting device further receives a designation for a print page image of which preview is displayed, and sets a print page corresponding to the print page image of which designation has been received as a print page to be clear-coated (step S1050).
US09894220B2
A display system has a (1) camera that includes a lens and outputs an image data; (2) a first display that includes a first display screen on which (i) a first image, based on the image data output by the camera, containing a part of a person is displayed and (ii) information indicating a position where the camera has output the image data is displayed; and (3) a second display that includes (i) a receiver which receives the image data transmitted from the camera and (ii) a second display screen that displays a second image based on the image data. The second display can be carried by the person while receiving the image data.
US09894218B2
An image forming apparatus includes a scanner configured to acquire scan data by scanning a scan target, an electrostatic discharge (ESD) detector configured to detect an ESD when the scan data is acquired, and a data processor configured to process the scan data acquired when the ESD is detected according to an operation state of the scanner.
US09894213B2
A controller for the conference session generates a speaker signal for speakers in a conference room. The controller correlates the speaker signal with network timing information and generates speaker timing information. The controller transmits the correlated speaker signal and timing information to a mobile device participating in the conference session. The mobile device generates an echo cancelled microphone signal from a microphone of the mobile device, and transmits the echo cancelled signal back to the controller. The controller also receives array microphone signals associated with an array of microphones at known positions in the room. The controller estimates a relative location of the mobile device within the conference room. The controller dynamically selects as audio output corresponding to the mobile device location either the echo cancelled microphone signal from the mobile device or an echo cancelled array microphone signal associated with the relative location of the mobile device.
US09894202B2
A system for assuring agent connection for outbound calls placed in an automated outbound calling campaign includes an outbound dialing server, a digital data repository coupled to the outbound dialing server, the data repository storing outbound dialing records for automated outbound dialing, and software executing on the outbound dialing server from a non-transitory physical medium, the software providing a first function for determining for a specific outbound dialing record if the connection to a live agent must be an assured connection, a second function for dialing and engaging an agent via an internal call for reservation of the agent, and a third function for bridging the call connections forged between the system and the agent and the system and the outbound party upon answer of the outbound call.
US09894199B1
A system for authenticating the identity of a caller (i) receiving one or more online credentials of a caller initiating a phone call, where the one or more online credentials include one or more pieces of biometric information associated with the caller, and the one or more online credentials are received from a mobile device associated with the caller; (ii) requesting one or more additional online credentials associated with the mobile device; (iii) receiving the one or more additional online credentials; (iv) receiving telephone authentication information associated with the phone call; (v) authenticating the caller based, at least in part upon, the one or more online credentials, the one or more additional credentials, and the telephone authentication information; (vi) generating authentication status information based on the authentication of the caller; and (vii) transferring the authentication status information and the phone call to a call recipient.
US09894197B1
A method and computer system for managing data consumption for a device. A processor unit detects a trigger event for the device. The processor unit sends a message to stop consuming data from the device by a group of data consumers when the trigger event occurs.
US09894194B2
Mobile devices such as mobile phones typically have two speakers, one for use in a hand-set mode and one for use in a hands-free mode. A mobile device (1100) is described operable to switch between a hand-set mode and a hands-free mode, the mobile device includes a receiver speaker (10) operable in the hand-set mode and the hands-free mode of the mobile device, and a hands-free speaker (12) operable in the hands-free mode of the mobile device. The mobile device is operable in hands-free mode to route at least one audio signal to the receiver speaker and the hands-free speaker. Using the hands-free speaker and the receiver speaker may improve the sound quality without increasing the cost.
US09894184B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products for smart upload automation in which actions are automatically performed on a set of digital assets against a target item. In one embodiment, a system includes a network, a server machine, a client machine and a data storage device, each of which is coupled to the network. The client machine designates digital assets and a target item against which the assets will be uploaded. The digital assets are uploaded by the client machine to the data storage device via the network. The server machine automatically performs actions on the digital assets without intervention by the client machine, where the actions are associated with or in some way defined by the target item. The actions may include setting metadata values of the digital assets based upon metadata associated with the target item, or generating different renditions of the digital assets.
US09894177B2
A method is provided for managing a social network of devices. The method provides a non-transitory memory, a network interface, and a social network application. Network-connected local devices create user accounts in the social network and populate a user profile listing device characteristics. Some examples of device characteristics include model and serial number. A central server is then able to access the user profiles in the social network, and cross-reference user profiles to a first device characteristic. The central server sends queries via the social network to selected local devices matching the first device characteristic and receives responses to the queries via the social network from the selected local devices. Further, the central server may maintain a database, stored in a central non-transitory memory, of queries and responses cross-referenced to the local devices. A system is also provided for managing devices using a social networking application.
US09894161B2
A method and CPE for promoting a portal website base on an MAC address are provided. The method includes: after a WAN connection is established successfully, CPE query a pre-established address association table; when a corresponding MAC address terminal in the address association table is connected with the CPE, the CPE set a portal website redirection rule to the IP address of the corresponding MAC address terminal; and when the terminal accesses an external network, the CPE promote the portal website according to the set portal website redirection rule. The present invention can realize the promotion of a portal website at selectable intervals, and improve the promotion frequency and flexibility of the portal website.
US09894157B2
A method includes identifying a plurality of DST client modules affiliated with data for storage in the DST network. A corresponding subset of a plurality of DST execution units are identified for each of the plurality of DST client modules. The data is encoded into a plurality of slices based on at least one dispersal parameter, the number of the plurality of slices corresponding to a number of the plurality of DST execution units included in a superset formed from the union of each subset of a plurality of DST execution units corresponding to each of the plurality of DST client modules. The plurality of slices are sent for storage in the superset formed from the union of each subset of a plurality of DST execution units.
US09894153B2
Methods and systems are provided herein for initiating real-time, peer-to-peer communication from a collaborative session. Real-time, peer-to-peer communication includes sharing content such as media content over a peer-to-peer connection such as peer-to-peer conferencing, for example. More particularly, from within the collaborative session where a plurality of clients collaboratively interact with a remotely-accessed application, for example, the systems and methods enable discovery of the clients actively participating in the collaborative session (e.g., peer nodes) and enable establishment of peer-to-peer connection(s) between pairs of the clients.
US09894152B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to facilitate the generation of an interface showing content being consumed by a group of devices. A central device may gather secondary streams of content consumed by each device within the group of devices, and the secondary streams may be used to generate an interface comprising thumbnails showing content consumed by the device associated with the respective thumbnail. Secondary streams of content may be generated at the central device or may be retrieved by the central device from a client device serviced by the central device.
US09894138B2
Natural language management of online social network connections may comprise receiving natural language data associated with a user's social network interactions. The natural language data associated with a user's social network interactions is analyzed and features used in the user's social network interactions are determined based on the analysis. The contexts in which the features are used in the user's social network interactions may be also determined. Point values to the features used in the user's social network interactions are assigned. A fingerprint of the user is created at least based on the features and the point values. The created fingerprint may be compared with information associated with online communities, and based on the comparison, one or more of the online communities may be recommended as user's potential social network connections.
US09894135B1
Disclosed are various embodiments for generating a network page having a data density that corresponds to a network page load time for a client in communication with an electronic commerce system. In one embodiment, the electronic commerce system determines a network page load time for a client and draws an association between the client and a data density based at least in part on the network page load time. The electronic commerce system generates a network page having the data density and serves the network page for the client.
US09894132B2
A data storage method and system of the portable terminal for storing data efficiently through a synchronization service are provided. The data storage method of a portable terminal includes determining whether a residual storage space of a data storage region of the portable terminal is equal to or less than a predetermined threshold value, performing, when the residual storage space is equal to or less than the threshold value, a packet data protocol context activation procedure, determining whether a new data save command is detected, storing, when the new data save command is detected, the new data in the residual storage space, and increasing the residual storage space to be equal to or greater than the threshold value by at least one of deleting synchronization-complete data among synchronization-enabled data stored in the portable terminal and transferring synchronization-incomplete data to a predetermined synchronization service server.
US09894127B2
A media backend server deployed within an IPTV system and operated by a hosting operator enables tiered reselling of IPTV services to a hosted operator. The media backend server receives a web service call for a plurality of media content from a branch server operated by the hosted operator. The media backend server proxies the web service call to a head end server to retrieve media metadata for at least a portion of the media content. In addition, the media backend server provides filtered media metadata corresponding to media content purchased by the hosted operator from the hosting operator to the branch server.
US09894119B2
Scalable architectures, systems, and services are provided herein for generating jobs by applying user-specified metadata rules to metadata events. More specifically, the scalable architecture described herein uses metadata to drive automations and/or polices in a cloud-based environment. In one embodiment, the architecture integrates a metadata service with an event-based automation engine to automatically trigger polices and/or automations based on metadata and/or changes in metadata changes. The metadata service can include customizable and/or pre-build metadata templates which can be used to automatically apply a metadata framework (e.g., particular fields) to files based on, for example, the upload or placement of a particular file in a particular folder. The architecture also provides for advanced metadata searching and data classification.
US09894115B2
A system uses portable processing devices that communicate with external devices. A portable processing device having a camera transmits, to a server, an identification information request message including an image acquired by the camera; receives, from the server, identification information related to an object shown in the image; in response to user selection of the object, transmits, to the server, a data request message requesting data corresponding to the identification information of the selected object; receives, from the server, a first data corresponding to the identification information; edits the first data to provide a second data in response to user input information; and transmits the second data to the server enabling the server to update the first data to provide the second data item.
US09894109B2
Messages sent from an initiating device to a called device to establish a telephonic communication session between the initiating device and the called device are received at a network device. One of a first network or a second network is selected to establish a first communication path of the telephonic communication session. The first network comprises an Internet Protocol network to which the initiating device and the called device are connected, and the second network comprises a public switched telephone network. Messages are sent to the called device via the one of the first network or the second network to establish the first communication path. A second communication path is established between the initiating device and the called device through another of the first network or the second network. At least a subset of data also being sent over the first communication path is sent via the second communication path.
US09894105B2
This disclosure relates generally to call monitoring techniques, and more particularly to method and system for identifying faulty communication calls. In one embodiment, a method comprises generating communication call record information for a communication call upon determining release of the communication call on a signaling plane. The method further comprises receiving a notification that media plane resources are still active after release of the communication call on the signaling plane. The method further comprises requesting for and receiving media activity of the communication call on the media plane in response to active media plane resources. The method further comprises identifying the faulty communication call based on the communication call record information and the media activity of the communication call.
US09894103B2
Some embodiments provide novel methods for processing remote-device data messages in a network based on data-message attributes from a remote device management (RDM) system. For instance, the method of some embodiments identifies a set of RDM attributes associated with a data message, and then performs one or more service operations based on identified RDM attribute set.
US09894102B2
A network node receives rules from a plurality of different domain entities. Each domain entity has a different priority level, and each rule defines an action to be performed be a device in response to a predetermined event. The network node prioritizes the rules based on the priority levels of their respective domain entities, checks for conflicts between the prioritized rules, and generates a policy based on the prioritized rules.
US09894074B2
A method and system for extracting an access control list having a predetermined format from packets collected for a predetermined period of time, without requiring TCP flag information. By an information collection unit, network packets and network traffic logs are collected. By the information collection unit, a network traffic log including Media Access Control (MAC), Internet Protocol (IP), and port information is extracted from each network packet. By an information analysis unit, an access control list is generated based on the network traffic log.
US09894071B2
Queries regarding access permissions of users and rights to directories in a complex enterprise are executed in near real-time, using lookups to tables that form a condensed database maintained for each file server. User information is condensed by arranging users in user groups having common data access rights. Directory permissions storage is condensed by showing only distinctive permissions to a directory in a table entry, and referencing inherited permissions of parent directories. The tables indicate recursive and ancestral relationships among the user groups and directories. They are developed and updated in advance of any queries. A consolidated view of the query results is presented on a single display screen. Using the tables results can be obtained without exhaustive searches of large file system tables.
US09894067B1
Techniques for using short-term credentials with access roles across regions are described herein. A request to assume a role associated with resources in a first region is received by a user in a second region. The request, which is digitally signed with credential associated with the user in the second region causes the generation of a short-term session credential that includes a session key and that can be used to assume the role. The user in the second region then assumes the role and, accordingly, can use the short-term session credentials to access the resources in the first region.
US09894060B2
There is provided a method device for facilitating remote access capability. An exemplary device comprises a connection module for connecting the device to a remote location. The exemplary device also comprises a smartcard comprising a secure identification and/or authentication component. The exemplary device additionally comprises a control module, at least part of which is comprised in the smartcard, interfacing with the connection module and with a component of the device, the control module being adapted to access the component in conjunction with a communication between the control module and the remote location via the connection module.
US09894057B2
Method, system and infrastructures for managing certificates for platform providers are described. A platform provider provides a platform to host a plurality of virtual sites designated individually with custom specified hostnames. According to one aspect of the present invention, traffic originating from a web browser to a designated website with a hostname is directed to a server (herein “control server”) designed for serving a corresponding certificate to establish a secure session between the browser and the designated website being hosted on a server (herein “platform server”) operated by a platform provider. In operation, the corresponding certificate may be retrieved from a cache in or accessible by the control server, or the control server is caused to generate a certificate based on the access request from the browser after a verification process.
US09894051B2
Technical solutions are described for extending shrouding capability of a virtual server hosting system. An example method includes receiving a request to deploy a shrouded virtual server using a predetermined set of hardware components, and using a shrouded mode. The method also includes adding a guest server to the hosting system, the guest server including the predetermined set of hardware components. The method also includes deploying a preconfigured hypervisor on the guest server, where the preconfigured hypervisor is deployed in an immutable mode that disables changes to security settings of the preconfigured hypervisor. The method also includes deploying, by the preconfigured hypervisor, a preconfigured boot image as an instance of the virtual server on the preconfigured hypervisor. The method also includes sending an identifier of the virtual server for receipt by the client device.
US09894036B2
A cyber threat attenuation system. The system comprises a cyber threat data store, a plurality of sensor control points (SCPs), wherein at least one SCP is located in each local area network (LAN) segment of an enterprise network, and an analytics correlation system (ACS). Each SCP comprises a plurality of sensor applications that analyze data packets transported by the LAN segment in which the SCP is located and transmits a notification identifying the transmitting sensor, an identity of the source of the data packet, an identity of the destination of the data packet, and a notification reason to the data store. The ACS comprises an application that determines unusual data packet traffic in the enterprise network and transmits a notification comprising information about the unusual data packet traffic and an identity of a host computer associated with the unusual data packet traffic to the data store.
US09894027B2
An electronic device includes an input unit configured to receive user input; a communication unit configured to transmit and receive message; and a controller configured to set an outgoing message to at least one notifications of a plurality of message notifications according to the user input received by the input unit, and to notify of reception of an incoming message to a user by at least one notifications of the plurality of message notifications included in the incoming message.
US09894024B2
In one embodiment, a geographic-positioning component records a first location of a mobile device. The geographic-positioning component determines on a periodic basis a current location of the mobile device. The geographic-positioning component determines whether the current location is outside a geographic region defined at least in part by the first location and a radius, the radius being adjusted from a pre-determined value based on a detected velocity of the mobile device; time of day information; a battery level of the mobile device; or an error of the first location measurement or the current location measurement. If the current location is outside the geographic region, the geographic-positioning component causes a client application of the mobile device to send the current location to a remote server.
US09894010B2
Various implementations disclosed herein enable client devices to share a network resource in order to produce more evenly distributed perceptual playback quality levels within each subscription tier. Sharing of a network resource is facilitated by providing client devices with one or more QoE distribution indicator values, which enables client device participation in the allocation of the network resource. In some implementations, a client device method includes determining a local QoE level value, and then modifying a representation selection of media content data based on the local QoE and one or more QoE distribution indicator values. The local QoE level value characterizes perceptual playback quality of media content data received by the client device using the shared network resource. The QoE distribution indicator values characterize at least in part the relative QoE values associated with a plurality of client devices sharing the shared network resource with the client device.
US09894005B2
A method in a network element that includes multiple interfaces for connecting to a communication network includes receiving from the communication network via an ingress interface a flow including a sequence of packets, and routing the packets to a destination of the flow via a first egress interface. A permission indication for re-routing the flow is received in the ingress interface. In response to receiving the permission indication, subsequent packets of the flow are re-routed via a second egress interface that is different from the first egress interface. Further re-routing of the flow is refrained from, until receiving another permission indication.
US09894002B1
Techniques are described for applying double experimental (EXP) quality of service (QoS) markings to Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) packets. According to the techniques, an edge router of an MPLS network is configured to map a Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP) marking for customer traffic to at least two EXP fields of at least two different labels included in a MPLS packet encapsulating the customer traffic. In this way, the edge router may map the full DSCP marking across the first and second EXP fields to provide full resolution QoS for the customer traffic over the MPLS network. The techniques also include a core router of an MPLS network configured to identify a QoS profile for a received MPLS packet based on a combination of a first EXP field of a first label and a second EXP field of a second label included in the MPLS packet.
US09894000B2
The method for forwarding a data packet in a network generally has the steps of: forming at least two transit data packets including replicating at least payload data, sequence data and destination data of the data packet; and forwarding the at least two transit data packets along different network paths. The different network paths can lead to an egress node based on the destination data. At the egress node, the received data packets can be compared to stored data to determine whether the transit data packets having the same sequence data have both been received. The received data packets can then be transmitted to the data destination only when it is determined that they are the first one of the pair of transit data packets to be received.
US09893998B2
IHS packet transfer systems and methods include a chassis housing a source IHS and a destination IHS. A component interconnect system in the chassis communicatively couples the source IHS and the destination IHS and includes a routing table that includes a destination IHS IP address of the destination IHS and a subnet associated with a component interconnect system domain. The routing table also includes a destination IHS memory address in the destination IHS, and a destination IHS port identifier for a port that is connected to the destination IHS. The component interconnect system provides a routing engine that receives, from the source IHS, a data packet that includes the destination IHS IP address and, in response, uses the routing table and the destination IHS IP address to retrieve the destination IHS memory address and the destination IHS port identifier for providing the data packet to the destination IHS.
US09893994B2
Disclosed example routing methods include accessing a control packet originating from a first internal router, translating the destination address of the control packet from a first value to a second value, and identifying a first one of a plurality of outgoing interfaces of a meta-router based on the second value of the destination address, the outgoing interfaces of the meta-router in communication with respective incoming interfaces of a splitter. Disclosed example methods also include forwarding the control packet to the first one of the outgoing interfaces of the meta-router after translating the destination address of the control packet from the second value back to the first value, and routing the control packet from the splitter to an external router based on which one of the incoming interfaces of the splitter receives the control packet from the meta-router.
US09893985B2
In one embodiment, a device that is protected against a power outage event in a network receives metrics used by a first node in the network to select a routing link to a second node in the network. The device stores the metrics used by the first node to select the routing link to the second node. The device selects a set of one or more of the metrics to provide to the first node during network formation after a power outage event in the network. The device provides the selected set of one or more of the metrics to the first node, wherein the first node uses the provided set to reestablish connectivity to the network.
US09893981B2
A multi-hop heterogeneous wireless network is partitioned into a set of subnetworks including a first subnetwork having a first sink node and a second subnetwork having a second sink node. A node forms parts of the first and the second subnetworks and has different modes of operations (MOP) depending on the subnetwork. For example, the node has a first MOP specifying a type of the routing in the first subnetwork and a second MOP specifying a type of the routing in the second subnetwork. The node determines the MOD based on available routing resource of the node that is independent from the subnetwork and based on required routing resource that varies among the subnetworks. The node routs packets in the first subnetwork according to the first MOP and routing packets in the second subnetwork according to the second MOP.
US09893977B2
A system and method can support virtual machine live migration in a network. A virtual switch can be associated with a plurality of virtual functions (VFs), and wherein each said virtual function (VF) is associated with a separate virtual interface (VI) space. At least one virtual machine that is attached with a said virtual function (VF) can be associated with a virtual interface (VI), e.g. a queue pair (QP) in an Infiniband (IB) architecture. Furthermore, said at least one virtual machine operates to perform a live migration from a first host to a second host with said virtual function (VF) attached.
US09893975B2
An in-line network tap includes a network tap chip that is configured to analyze or otherwise process data packets as the data packets are transmitted within a network. The network tap chip can be embedded within a communication cable, such as an Ethernet or USB cable, either within the flexible cable portion of the cable or within a connector on either end of the communication cable. Alternatively, the network tap chip can be embedded within a transceiver. The in-line network tap can perform various processing including monitoring network performance, facilitating remote troubleshooting, data buffering, and intrusion detection and prevention.
US09893972B1
Systems and methods are described providing detailed input/output (I/O) metric information that is collected and gathered by an agent of the storage volume. An I/O request is received by a storage volume, and the agent associates primary and secondary identifiers with that I/O request. For example, a trace may be associated with that I/O request. The agent may store this I/O metric information in a ring buffer. Further, after collection and aggregation, statistics may be published by an I/O metric service that further processes the data provided by the agent. Advantageously, interdependent relationships associated with the I/O request or I/O operations of that request may be included in those statistics. This may allow an operator to evaluate the performance of I/O requests for a network.
US09893970B2
A method for detecting loss of sensitive information in partial data streams may include identifying partial data streams containing segments lost while capturing network traffic at a network computing device, determining characteristics of content of the partial data streams, padding content portions of the lost segments in the partial data streams, and scanning the partial data streams for sensitive information according to at least one data loss prevention (DLP) policy.
US09893967B1
Described is a graph measure that generalizes average path length for measuring network efficiency. A reachability measure for a graph representing a network is determined. The reachability measure is a generalized measurement related to an average path length of the graph which provides a measure of a number of short paths in the graph. The reachability measure is applied to an existing network infrastructure to provide a metric for the efficiency of the existing network infrastructure. The existing network infrastructure can then be improved based on the reachability measure.
US09893957B2
A resource delivery network and method for distributing content in the network is disclosed herein. The network comprises a plurality of servers arranged in tiers and partitioned. Each server includes a resource store with a set of resources for distribution to a successive tier. Updates to each successive tier are provided by a pull-forward client on servers in the tier. This forward propagation mechanism maximizes resource availability at edge servers in the network. Resources transmitted to the edge tier servers may be transformed, combined, and rendered without taxing lower tier servers. Transformation and pre-rendering of data can be performed by low priority CPU tasks at each layer of the system.
US09893950B2
A network system includes a plurality of sub-network planes and global switches. The sub-network planes have a same network topology as each other. Each of the sub-network planes includes edge switches. Each of the edge switches has N ports. Each of the global switches is configured to connect a group of edge switches at a same location in the sub-network planes. In each of the sub-network planes, some of the N ports of each of the edge switches are connected to end nodes, and others of the N ports are connected to other edge switches in the same sub-network plane, other of the N ports are connected to at least one of the global switches.
US09893945B2
A process system for constructing network structure deployment diagram and the method thereof and a computer program product storing a network structure deployment analysis program are provided to analyze the network structure deployment of a target network. At first, a request instruction is sent by the process system for constructing the network structure deployment diagram to acquire network flow status messages. Interconnection relationship between the connection ports is analyzed by matching the acquired network flow status messages of the connection ports to generate the network structure deployment diagram of the target network. Accordingly, the invention utilizes the flow data messages of the connection ports in the network to create the network structure deployment diagram with advantages of easy implementation and high operation efficiency etc., and is especially suitable for large network systems with a large amount of network terminals.
US09893940B1
The following description is directed to topologically aware network device configuration. In one example, components to be configured within a network can be mapped to one or more redundancy groups within a network topology of the network. The components to be configured can be selectively configured within the network so that network traffic continues during the configuration. Selectively configuring the components can include choosing an order to configure the components based on configuration rules and the mapping of the components to the one or more redundancy groups.
US09893938B1
A properties server includes memory configured to store group properties and global properties used to control operation of the communication devices, and a processor configured to manage the group properties and the global properties responsive to modifications made by an administrator, and to transmit the group properties and the global properties to the communication devices. A communication device includes a processor configured to communicate with a properties server to receive a set of properties that includes at least one group property and at least one global property, and memory operably coupled with the processor. The memory is configured to locally store properties used by the processor to operate the communication device, the locally stored properties being configured to be modified responsive to the set of properties received from the properties server. Related devices, communication systems, and methods are also described.
US09893931B2
A connection recovery method includes searching, by a first terminal, for a recovery candidate corresponding to an interrupted connection; selecting, by the first terminal, one found recovery candidate as a first recovery candidate; sending, by the first terminal, a negotiation request to a second terminal; receiving, by the first terminal, a matching success message returned by the second terminal; and transmitting, by the first terminal, data to the second terminal according to the first connection information.
US09893922B2
A system and method for orthogonal time frequency space communication and waveform generation. The method includes receiving a plurality of information symbols and encoding an N×M array containing the plurality of information symbols into a two-dimensional array of modulation symbols by spreading each of the plurality of information symbols with respect to both time and frequency. The two-dimensional array of modulation symbols is then transmitted using M mutually orthogonal waveforms included within M frequency sub-bands.
US09893920B2
A signal processing circuit comprising a clip-generation-block. The clip-generation-block is configured to receive an input-signal; and determine a clip-signal that comprises only values of the input-signal that exceed a clipping-threshold. The signal processing circuit also comprises a scaling-block configured to apply a scaling-factor to the clip-signal in order to generate a scaled-clip-signal, wherein the scaling-factor is greater than one; and an adder configured to provide a clipped-signal based on a difference between the scaled-clip-signal and the input signal.
US09893917B2
In a first mode of dedicated control channel (DCCH) operation, a wireless terminal is allocated more segments than in a second mode. The wireless terminal uses different information bit to modulation symbol mapping in the different modes. On a per DCCH segment basis, the same number of modulation symbols are communicated in either mode but more information bits are conveyed in the second mode. Information bits for a DCCH segment are partitioned into two subsets. The two subsets are used to generate another set, each of the two subsets and the another set are input to the same mapping function to generate three equal size sets of modulation symbols which are transmitted via the DCCH segment. Uplink tone hopping is used such that one of the equal size sets of modulation symbols for the DCCH segment uses the same tone but a different set uses a different tone.
US09893906B2
Apparatuses, computer readable media, and methods for multicast negative acknowledgements using high-energy long-training fields for feedback are disclosed. An apparatus of a wireless device is disclosed. The apparatus includes memory and processing circuitry coupled to the memory where the processing circuitry configured to: encode one or more packets in accordance with multicast or broadcast, cause to be transmitted the one or more packets to one or more stations, and decode feedback from the one or more stations. The feedback may be received simultaneously on a same resource block for each packet of the one or more packets. Each packet may be represented by one resource block of the one or more resource blocks. The resource blocks may be thirty-six resource blocks per 20 MHz subchannel with nine resource blocks in a frequency domain by four spatial streams.
US09893900B2
A network apparatus coupled to a plurality of nodes. The nodes are clustered into a plurality of groups. The network apparatus includes a storage component and a controller. The storage component is configured to store a plurality of group numbers corresponding to the groups and a plurality of node numbers corresponding to the nodes. The controller is configured to transmit a broadcast packet to all of the nodes. The broadcast packet includes a local network broadcast message. The local network broadcast message includes operating information. The local network broadcast message corresponds to at least one of the group numbers and the node numbers. Each of the nodes determines whether to dismiss the operating information of the broadcast packet according to the local network broadcast message of the broadcast packet.
US09893897B2
Technologies are provided in example embodiments for analyzing an encrypted network flow. The technologies include monitoring the encrypted network flow between a first node and a second node, the network flow initiated from the first node; duplicating the encrypted network flow to form a copy of the encrypted network flow; decrypting the copy of the encrypted network flow using a shared secret, the shared secret associated with the first node and the second node; and scanning the network flow copy for targeted data.
US09893890B2
A method of decrypting an encrypted message. The method comprises storing a wearer decryption code in a memory of a wearable mobile device having a head-worn augmented display which generates an augmented reality view for a wearer of the wearable mobile device, capturing using the wearable mobile device a video sequence including at least one frame imaging a visible code using an image sensor of the wearable mobile device, processing the video sequence to identify the visible code, decrypting the visible code using the wearer decryption code to create an decrypted content, and presenting the decrypted content on top of at least some of the visible code in the augmented reality view.
US09893887B2
A dynamic licensing method, implemented in an integrated system, includes, responsive to an end user requesting a third-party application through the integrated system; determining a license key, for the third-party application, in the integrated system using a public key associated with the integrated system; receiving an encrypted validation result from a system associated with the third-party application that validates the license key using a private key and software provided with the integrated system, wherein the system returns the encrypted validation results to the third-party application which provides the encrypted validation results to the integrated system; and decrypting the encrypted validation results using previously allocated session key and determining whether to run the third-party application based on the validation results.
US09893875B2
A phase discontinuity mitigation implementation within a phased lock loop (PLL) improves throughput of a radio access technology. The throughput is improved by maintaining a phase of the PLL while powering off some devices of the PLL, such as a local oscillator (LO) frequency divider. In one instance, when the PLL is powered down, one or more portions of a delta sigma modulator for the PLL are clocked with a reference clock for the PLL. This implementation maintains phase continuity when the first phase lock loop turns back on.
US09893872B2
Disclosed is a method including communicating, by a mobile device, with a base station via first and second component carriers having different frequency bands and time division duplexing (TDD) configurations. The method may include receiving one or more downlink transmissions via the second component carrier. The method may include selecting a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) timing sequence based on the TDD configurations of the first and second component carriers. The method may include transmitting one or more positive acknowledgment and/or negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) signals, associated with the one or more downlink transmissions, according to the selected HARQ timing sequence. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US09893866B2
Disclosed are an apparatus for Channel State Information-Reference Signal (CSI-RS) allocation and a method for CSI-RS transmission using the same in a wireless communication system. A CSI-RS for each antenna port is allocated to REs or subcarriers on a basis of a symbol or symbol axis in a subframe or Resource Block (RB), and is allocated in such a manner that a distance between neighboring CSI-RS allocation REs or subcarriers may be 3 REs or subcarriers. Accordingly, in the range of following CSI-RS transmission overhead, CSI-RSs are allocated to a time-frequency resource domain in such a manner so as to have perfect orthogonality or quasi-orthogonality according to cells or cell groups. Then, the CSI-RSs, which have been allocated to the time-frequency resource domain, are transmitted.
US09893863B2
A system and method for allocating adequate uplink radio resources for delivery acknowledgement information of a downlink shared data channel when downlink control information is transmitted using an enhanced downlink control channel is disclosed. A radio base station configures a plurality of enhanced PDCCH sets, which are each formed to include a plurality of enhanced control channel elements (eCCEs) allocated to the enhanced downlink control channel, for a user terminal, the radio base station transmits, to the user terminal, the downlink control information, to which resource identifiers (ARIs) are added, the resource identifiers being different between the plurality of enhanced PDCCH sets, and the user terminal determines radio resources for an uplink control channel that are used to transmit delivery acknowledgment information of the downlink shared data channel, based on offset values that are associated with the resource identifiers (ARIs).
US09893862B2
Embodiments of the present application provide an aggregation frame design method and apparatus, the method includes: selecting, by a transmit end from N different hash function groups, one group that has a same sequence number as that of each receive end, mapping a MAC address of each receive end into a number X, and denoting the number X; obtaining M first sequences of each receive end, and performing a bitwise OR operation on the M first sequences to obtain an identification sequence of each receive end; obtaining N identification sequences of N receive ends, performing a bitwise OR operation on the N identification sequences to obtain a Bloom sequence, and encoding and modulating the Bloom sequence to map the Bloom sequence onto an OFDM symbol; and forming an aggregation frame by using a pilot signal, the OFDM symbol, the N identification sequences, and data of the N receive ends.
US09893861B2
Disclosed are a method for determining and indicating a transmission resource, and a terminal and a base station. The method comprises: a base station and a UE agreeing that at least one subframe of a set number of wireless frames is used as a reference subframe, and considering that all REs in the reference subframe which are probably occupied by a ZP/NZP CSI-RS are REs unable to be used for EPDCCH transmission; and the base station sending to a UE configuration information about REs in other subframes which are occupied by the ZP/NZP CSI-RS in the reference subframe, so that the UE can determine REs in other subframes, which are probably occupied by the ZP/NZP CSI-RS but are in fact not occupied by the ZP/NZP CSI-RS as REs used for the EPDCCH transmission, thereby increasing the number of REs used for EPDCCH transmission, and reducing the system overheads.
US09893859B2
A transmission of information from a secondary to a primary node occurs in a plurality of transmission instances which are logical time durations. A secondary node receives an allocation of periodic transmission instances for a scheduling request indicator (SRI) and an allocation if periodic transmission instances for a sounding reference signal (SRS). In a particular transmission instance allocated for the transmission of both SRS and SRI, the secondary node transmits the SRI without transmitting the SRS if the SRI indicates a pending scheduling request; otherwise, the secondary node transmits the SRS without transmitting the SRI.
US09893858B2
According to some embodiments, a method of operating a wireless device in a wireless system comprises allocating a first uplink sub-channel to the wireless device in a first subframe associated with the wireless device. The first uplink sub-channel comprises a portion of an uplink system bandwidth, and portions of the uplink system bandwidth outside of the first uplink sub-channel are not available for transmission in the first subframe by the wireless device. The method further comprises determining a first sounding reference signal (SRS) sub-channel. The first SRS sub-channel comprises a portion of the first uplink sub-channel in frequency domain, and the SRS sub-channel is available for transmitting SRS in the first subframe by the wireless device.
US09893849B2
In a base station, a control unit and a data size regulation unit control the data size of downstream assignment control data and upstream assignment control data in the PDCCH signal based on the communication format used between the base station and a terminal, the number of base station antennas (M) (nonnegative number), the number of terminal antennas (N) (nonnegative number), the bandwidth of the downstream band, and the bandwidth of the upstream band. Specifically, the control unit determines it is unnecessary to adjust the aforementioned data size when the selected communication format is first established between multiple antennas and when where there are multiple for one of M and N and only one for the other. The quality of downstream assignment control data is prevented from degrading, while preventing the number of blind determinations from increasing on the receiving side of the downstream control channel signal.
US09893843B2
Methods for rate matching with soft buffer size setting at the transmitter and soft channel bits storage at the receiver for superposition coding are proposed. In the superposition coding scheme, a transport block intended to one UE needs to be decoded by another UE's receiver. However, the soft buffer sizes per code block of the two receivers may not be the same since the size depends on the UE category. The base station can signal the soft buffer size used at the transmitter for rate matching to the UEs for superposition decoding. A UE stores information bits associated with an interfering signal in its soft buffers in accordance with the soft buffer size used at the transmitter for rate matching. As a result, the UE can decode and subtract the interfering signal from the desired signal for superposition coding.
US09893842B2
A technique of processing an Automatic Repeat Request (ARQ) transmission is disclosed. As to a method aspect of the technique, the method comprises the steps of requesting a retransmission of a transport block; receiving the retransmission of the transport block; and detecting modulation symbols. The retransmission is requested in response to an error-detecting code indicating an error in the transport block as received in at least one previous transmission. The modulation symbols are detected based on at least a part of the received retransmission and information from the at least one previous transmission. At least in some embodiments, a detection rate is thus improved.
US09893839B2
An approach includes detecting failure of an error detection scheme relating to transmission of data units of a transport block. A negative acknowledgement message is generated in response to the detection of the failure. The negative acknowledgement message is forwarded to a radio link controller for discarding one or more of the data units.
US09893838B2
Systems and methods for FEC encoding, for example for 10GEPON are provided. For the upstream or downstream, multiple FEC encoding and decoding profiles are implemented that include various levels of FEC encoding. Then, for a given ONU, a selection between these FEC encoding profiles is made. The OLT can instruct the ONU which FEC encoding profile to use for upstream, and which FEC decoding profile to use for downstream.
US09893833B2
An optical device includes an optical port array having first and second optical inputs for receiving optical beams and a first plurality of optical outputs associated with switching functionality and a second plurality of optical outputs associated with channel monitoring functionality. A dispersion element receives the optical beam from an input and spatially separates the beam into a plurality of wavelength components. The focusing element focuses the wavelength components. The optical path conversion system receives the plurality of wavelength components and selectively directs each one to a prescribed one of the optical ports. The photodetectors are each associated with one of the optical outputs in the second plurality of optical outputs and receive a wavelength component therefrom. The controller causes the optical path conversion system to simultaneously direct each of the wavelength components to a different one of the optical outputs of the second plurality of optical outputs.
US09893826B2
Network elements within a network are configured to retain clock traceability over an asynchronous interface. The network elements can generate and process multi-frames that include two different types of traffic, each synchronized to a different respective clock source. Each of the multi-frames is synchronized to the clock source of one of the traffic types and further includes a timestamp to enable the original clock signal of the other traffic type to be reconstructed at the receiving network element.
US09893803B2
In an example, the present invention includes an integrated system on chip device. At least a pair of laser devices are associated with a channel and coupled to a switch to select one of the pair of laser devices to be coupled to an optical multiplexer to provide for a redundant laser device.
US09893794B2
Switching network for diversity receivers. In some embodiments, a receiver can include an input node and an output node, and a first amplification path having a first amplifier implemented between the input node and the output node. The receiver can further include a second amplification path having a second amplifier implemented between the input node and the output node. The receiver can further include a switch implemented to selectively couple the first amplification path and the second amplification path.
US09893790B2
In wireless communications, an access point may send a trigger frame to multiple stations. The trigger frame's payload may include a first content and a second content, where the first content is associated with a legacy signal field of an uplink frame, and the second content is associated with a non-legacy signal field of the uplink frame. In response to the trigger frame, one or more stations may generate the uplink frame(s) based on the trigger frame and transmit the uplink frame(s) to the access point. The uplink frame(s) may include a legacy signal field and a non-legacy signal field. The legacy field may include a length of the uplink frame(s) that is based on the first content. The non-legacy signal field may include a remaining transmission opportunity (TXOP) duration that is generated based on the second content. Other methods, apparatus, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US09893785B2
Apparatus, computer readable media, and methods for enhanced beamforming training in a wireless local area network are disclosed. An apparatus of a access point or station is disclosed. The apparatus including processing circuitry where the processing circuitry is configured to encode an EBRP packet comprising a first portion comprising an indication of a first number of transmit antenna training settings (N-TX), and an indication of a second number of receive training subfields per N-TX settings (N-RX), and a second portion comprising a third number of training subfields. The third number may be less than or equal to N-TX times N-RX. The processing circuitry may be configured to cause the first portion of the EBRP packet to be transmitted and cause the second portion to be transmitted, where two or more of the third number of training subfields are to be transmitted simultaneously using different antennas and orthogonal sequences.
US09893783B2
Data in a mobile communications system is transmitted on at least one channel between at least one base station with multiple antennas and at least one user equipment. A base station applies precoding to the data based on a set of predefined codebooks. A first tracking mode with a first codebook from the set of predefined codebooks is used for the precoding, and at least a second tracking mode with at least a second codebook from the set of predefined codebooks is used for the precoding. The base station switches between the first tracking mode and the second tracking mode depending on at least one condition of the channel.
US09893777B2
A method for operating a base station includes allocating at least one respective CSI-RS port to each of a plurality of user equipments (UEs), precoding the at least one respective CSI-RS port with a first respective precoding matrix for each of the plurality of UEs, transmitting the at least one respective CSI-RS port precoded with the first respective precoding matrix through a channel to each of the plurality of UEs, receiving an index of a second respective precoding matrix from each of the plurality of UEs, wherein the second respective precoding matrix is determined according to the at least respective one CSI-RS port precoded with the first precoding matrix as received through the channel by each of the plurality of UEs, and precoding respective transmission data with the first respective precoding matrix and the second respective precoding matrix to each of the plurality of UEs.
US09893773B2
A communication method uses a distributed cell-free network of spatially independent service antennas. According to the method, pilot sequences are allocated to a user population of access terminals by an allocation procedure that imposes local relative orthogonality of pilot sequences. Channel coefficients for access terminals are determined by measuring allocated pilot sequences as received by each of the service antennas. In embodiments of the invention, the determination of channel coefficients is performed independently and the resulting channel coefficients are locally stored at the respective service antennas. At each service antenna, a processor independently uses locally stored channel coefficients to precode forward link signals or to at least partially decode reverse link signals.
US09893771B2
A frequency shift keying (FSK) demodulation component having of a sampler that receives an FSK modulated signal, samples the received FSK modulated signal, and outputs the sampled signal. The FSK demodulation component further includes a low pass filter that filters the sampled signal, and a frequency shift detector that detects shifts in frequency of the low pass filtered sampled signal. The FSK demodulation component then outputs an indication of the detection of shifts in frequency of the low pass filtered sampled signal.
US09893770B2
A base station for gathering data from localized sensors is described. An example apparatus includes a sensor to be operatively coupled to field equipment, the sensor having a radio frequency transmitter to send a signal to a base station, the base station having a radio frequency interface to receive the signal from the sensor and a first controller to collect data from the signal and store the data in a memory. The apparatus further includes a second controller operatively coupled to the first controller to relay the data to an asset management system and a local control panel operatively coupled to the base station to send additional data to the base station, wherein the first controller stores the additional data in the memory.
US09893759B1
A wireless relay mitigates Radio Frequency (RF) interference. A receive antenna receives RF signals over a receive frequency band. An RF receiver processes the received signals to detect and transfer RF interference levels. The processing circuitry transfers control data to a tunable RF isolator that indicates the size of a guard band between the receive frequency band and a transmit frequency band. The guard band size is selected based on the RF interference levels for the receive frequency band at the receive antenna. The tunable RF isolator attenuates RF frequencies in the tunable guard band from corresponding RF transmit signals. A transmit antenna transfers the RF transmit signals over the transmit frequency band.
US09893753B2
A mobile terminal may include a SIM card holder having a button structure a tray and a cover. One end of the cover may be rotatably connected to the tray by a rotation shaft structure, and another end of the cover may include a button contact. The mobile terminal design may combine the SIM card holder and the button to reduce one side button part for the mobile terminal, which may allow the mobile terminal to become light and thin, and may save cost. Since one button may be removed from the mobile terminal, the external design of the product may be simplified such that the appearance of the product may be simpler and more beautiful.
US09893751B2
An antenna circuit which includes, a resonant circuit which is configured by at least first and second capacitors, and antenna coils; a transmitter-receiver circuit which has a transmission terminal and a reception terminal; and an adjustment circuit which adjusts an impedance between the resonant circuit and the transmitter-receiver circuit, in which a combination of capacitances of the first and second capacitors is set in a predetermined range of a composite capacitance of the first and second capacitors, and a signal from a terminal which is provided between the first and second capacitors is input to the reception terminal.
US09893749B2
Methods and devices are provided for processing a received communication signal by a UE using an analog complex filter and using a single analog-to-digital converter (ADC). A control channel of the communication signal may be decoded to determine the frequency range in which a payload channel is located. The UE may then demodulate only the frequency range containing the payload channel. A complex representation of the received payload channel may be provided to the analog complex filter, with the payload channel shifted to a non-zero frequency IF. The analog complex filter may attenuate any portion of the complex representation that falls near −IF. The UE may then convert only one component path of the filtered complex representation to a digital signal. A complex representation of the digital signal may then be generated, with the payload channel shifted to DC.
US09893748B2
An analog predistorter (APD) core module including a radio frequency delay module, an envelope module, and a contact matrix module. The radio frequency delay module is configured to receive a feed-forward radio frequency signal, generate multiple radio frequency delay signals with different delays according to the feed-forward radio frequency signal, and output each radio frequency delay signal to the contact matrix module. The envelope module is configured to receive the feed-forward radio frequency signal, perform envelope detection on the feed-forward radio frequency signal to obtain multiple envelope signals with different delays, and output each envelope signal to the contact matrix module. The contact matrix module is configured to receive each radio frequency delay signal, each envelope signal, and a predistortion coefficient from an exterior source, and generate a predistortion signal according to the predistortion coefficient, each radio frequency delay signal, and each envelope signal.
US09893743B2
An LNB downconverter comprising: two LNBs configured to receive their respective satellite signals: the first and second LNB being configured to output, four IF signals of different polarization and frequency range to a respective first and second Cross-bar Switch (CBS); wherein the first and second CBS, are configured to accept four RF inputs, and routing them, to any of four outputs, as configured by a Controller: wherein outputs of CBSs are connected to respective Satellite Channel Routers (SCRs) configured by the Controller to shift the frequency of their input signals to fixed intermediate frequencies; wherein outputs of SCRs are connected to respective Band Pass Filters (BPFs) whereas the fixed intermediate frequencies of SCRs are different and wherein the band passed by each BPF is non-overlapping; an Adder adding the signals on different frequencies, output by each BPF, to form a single output signal comprising data from both satellite signals.
US09893740B1
Various embodiments of the present technology may comprise a method and apparatus for an analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The ADC may convert an analog signal to a digital signal utilizing a two-phase conversion process to convert the signal into coarse bits and fine bits. The ADC may generate a time-residue signal and utilize the time-residue signal to determine the fine bits.
US09893735B2
A phase locked loop circuit (30, 100, 110) includes a controllable oscillator (42) for generating an output signal of desired frequency responsive to a control signal, a first phase detection circuit (32, 102, 112) for generating an output indicative of phase differential responsive to the output signal and a first edge of a reference signal and a second phase detection circuit (34, 104, 114) for generating an output indicative of phase differential responsive to the output signal and a second edge of a reference signal. The control signal to the controllable oscillator (42) is driven by the outputs of the first and second phase detections circuits.
US09893726B1
A level shifter circuit is disclosed. A level shifter circuit includes a static pull-down circuit that causes an output node to be pulled low responsive to an input circuit receiving a first logic value on an input node. The input node is coupled to receive a signal from circuitry in a first voltage domain, while the output node is configured to provide a corresponding signal into a second voltage domain. The static pull-down circuit is implemented with a passgate having a pair of transistors coupled in series. The level shifter circuit further includes a dynamic pull-up circuit that, when active, causes the output node to be pulled high responsive to the input circuit receiving a second logic value on the input node. The dynamic pull-up circuit includes third and fourth transistors coupled in series between the output node and a supply voltage node of the second voltage domain.
US09893718B1
A transmission driver impedance calibration circuit and method. A circuit is disclosed that includes: a controller for controlling a set of switches; a comparator having an output that is coupled to the controller; and a first comparator input coupled to: a first selectable node coupled between a first p-type adjustable resistor segment (PSEG) and an external resistor; and a second selectable node coupled between a pair of internal resistors; and a second comparator input coupled to: a third selectable node coupled between a second PSEG and a tcoil resistor, the tcoil resistor being further coupled in series to a n-type adjustable resistor segment (NSEG); and a fourth selectable node coupled between the tcoil resistor and the NSEG.
US09893717B1
A multi-band, electro-mechanical programmable impedance tuner for the frequency range between 10 and 200 MHz uses cascades of three or more continuously variable mechanical capacitors interconnected with sets of low loss flexible or semi-rigid cables; for each frequency band a different set of cables and capacitors are used. The cables and/or variable capacitors inside each tuning block are switchable manually or remotely. Multi-section variable capacitors are also used. Instantaneous impedance tuning is effectuated by changing the state of the capacitors using electrical stepper motors. The tuner is calibrated using a vector network analyzer and the data are saved in the memory of the control computer, which then allows tuning to any user defined impedance within the tuning range. Reflection factor values between 0 and higher than 0.9 can be obtained using this tuner at all frequency bands.
US09893711B2
A piezoelectric device is provided with a rectangular crystal piece having driving electrodes on front and back main faces thereof, and a base member having two electrode pads near one short side of the crystal piece. The crystal piece is supported on the base member by two support portions near one short side thereof, and by an auxiliary support portion on the other short side thereof. A position of the auxiliary support portion relative to the other short side, where L is a distance between two short sides, and H is a distance from the other short side to a peripheral edge of the auxiliary support portion nearest to the other short side, is set to a position at which the distance H stays in a range of distances in which a maximum tensile stress acting on the auxiliary support portion and a maximum von Mises stress of the crystal piece are within predetermined ranges.
US09893707B2
Circuits, devices and methods are disclosed, including a phase shifter configured to provide a bypass state, a single first-handed quarter-wave state, a double first-handed quarter-wave state, or a single second-handed quarter-wave state utilizing two or less inductors. In some implementations, a phase shifter is disclosed to provide a first node and a second node, a first switchable path having a first inductance and a second inductance arranged in series between the first and second nodes, a capacitive grounding path implemented on each side of each of the first and second inductances, at least one of the capacitive grounding paths configured as a switchable capacitive grounding path, and a reconfiguring circuit assembly configured to allow the phase shifter to provide a plurality of quadrant phase shifts utilizing the first and second inductances and the at least one switchable capacitive grounding path.
US09893702B2
A notch filter including an inductor-capacitor tuning circuit is disclosed. The inductor-capacitor tuning circuit may determine a frequency response of the notch filter in accordance with an associated resonant frequency. In some exemplary embodiments, the inductor-capacitor circuit may include a differential inductor divided at a symmetry point and a variable capacitor coupled to the differential inductor at the symmetry point.
US09893695B2
Mechanisms for controlling an audio level of an HDMI audio system are provided, the mechanisms comprising: causing audio data to be presented by an HDMI audio system at a current system volume level; receiving a requested volume level from a second screen device; and controlling a system volume level by: (a) determining the current system volume level; (b) determining a change in volume based on a difference between the requested volume level and the current system volume level; (c) determining a direction in which to cause the system volume level to change; (d) sending a volume control message to the system using a consumer electronic control bus connected to the system indicating whether to increase or decrease the system volume level based on the determined direction of system volume change; and (e) repeating (a)-(d) until the current system volume level reaches a predetermined value.
US09893693B2
A mobile device comprising an antenna, a receiver coupled to the antenna, and a transmitter coupled to the antenna, wherein the receiver, the transmitter, or both comprise a low noise amplifier comprising an adjustable gain and a variable impedance controller, and wherein the low noise amplifier is configured to sink current and to adjust a shunt resistance substantially simultaneously. Included is a method comprising receiving an electrical signal, substantially simultaneously adjusting an input impedance and a gain factor, amplifying the electrical signal, thereby producing an amplified signal, and outputting the amplified signal.
US09893692B2
A circuit comprises a Sallen-Key filter, which includes a source follower that implements a unity-gain amplifier; and a programmable-gain amplifier coupled to the Sallen-Key filter. The circuit enables programmable gain via adjustment to a current mirror copying ratio in the programmable-gain amplifier, which decouples the bandwidth of the circuit from its gain settings. The programmable-gain amplifier can comprise a differential voltage-to-current converter, a current mirror pair, and programmable output gain stages. The Sallen-Key filter and at least one branch in the programmable-gain amplifier can comprise transistors arranged in identical circuit configurations.
US09893687B2
A power amplifier die includes a semiconductor substrate, a power amplifier implemented on the semiconductor substrate, a radio-frequency input configured to receive a radio-frequency input signal having a radio-frequency component and a DC bias component, a bias circuit implemented on the semiconductor substrate, the bias circuit coupled to the power amplifier, and a bias tee circuit implemented on the semiconductor substrate, the bias tee circuit configured to receive the radio-frequency input signal and pass at least a portion of the DC component to the bias circuit and at least a portion of the radio-frequency component to the power amplifier.
US09893684B2
Radio-frequency (RF) power amplifiers driven by boost converter. In some embodiments, a power amplification system can include a supply system configured to provide a high-voltage (HV) supply signal based on a battery voltage, and a power amplifier (PA) configured to receive the HV supply signal and amplify an RF signal. The power amplification system can further include an output path configured to route the amplified RF signal to a filter. Such an output path can be substantially free of either or both of an impedance transformation circuit and a band selection switch.
US09893683B2
A circuit for amplifying a source signal generated by a signal source having a first impedance includes a transmission line transformer (TLT) having a first, a second, a third, and a fourth port wherein the TLT is coupled to receive the source signal at the first port and configured to output a corresponding impedance matched signal at the second port, the second port is coupled to the third port of the TLT, the circuit also including a TLT load having a first terminal coupled to the fourth port of the TLT and a second terminal coupled to a reference potential. The circuit additionally includes an amplifier device responsive to the impedance matched signal to generate an amplified signal.
US09893681B2
A method and circuit are provided for implementing enhanced CMOS inverter based optical Transimpedance Amplifiers (TIAs). A transimpedence amplifer (TIA) includes a photo-detector, and the TIA is formed by a first TIA inverter and a second TIA inverter. The first TIA inverter has an input from a cathode side of the photo-detector and the second inverter has an input from an anode side of the photo-detector. A replica TIA is formed by two replica inverters, coupled to a respective input to a first operational amplifier and a second operational amplifier. The first operational amplifier and the second operational amplifier have a feedback configuration for respectively regulating a set voltage level at the cathode side of the photo-detector input of the first inverter and at the anode side of the photo-detector input of the second inverter.
US09893675B2
In a device for controlling a motor mounted on a system with different operation modes, a controller unit calculates an input value for the motor based on an output value of the motor and a target value depending on operation modes of the system, and instructs a driver circuit of the motor to apply the input value to the motor. An estimation unit estimates an amount of rise in temperature of the motor by applying the input value for the motor to a thermal model of the motor. A notification unit compares a value estimated by the estimation unit with a threshold value. When the estimated value exceeds the threshold value, the notification unit sends a request for change of operation mode to the system.
US09893674B2
A motor control device includes: a power failure detection unit that detects a power failure; a voltage detection unit that detects a DC link voltage; a switch unit which connects a motor to an amplifier or a resistance; a voltage comparison unit which compares a DC link voltage with a threshold value; a limit value setting unit which sets a torque limit value in accordance with a result of comparison; a torque command limit unit which limits a torque command when a power failure is detected; a prediction value calculation unit which calculates, using an angular velocity, a torque prediction value of the motor when the motor is connected to the resistance; and a torque comparison unit which compares the torque limit value with the torque prediction value, in which in accordance with a result of comparison, the switch unit connects the motor to the amplifier or the resistance.
US09893672B2
An apparatus for temperature-dependent control of an electric motor includes a control device for adjusting the power output of the electric motor, and means for detecting the temperature of a component of the electric motor, wherein the control device reduces the power of the electric motor in the case of a component temperature above a temperature threshold, and wherein the temperature detection means distinguish between self-heating and external heating, wherein the control device counteracts only the self-heating by reducing the power.
US09893668B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to an a method, apparatus and computer program product for controlling the operation of a drive unit comprising a plurality of switching modules arranged to receive a DC electricity supply and generate an AC electricity supply for driving a load from the received DC electricity supply, the AC electricity supply being generated by the switching of the plurality of switching modules between a conducting state and a non-conducting state. The method comprises receiving one or more characteristics associated with each of the switching modules, comparing, for each switching module of the plurality of switching modules, a characteristic of the switching module with an equivalent characteristic associated with one or more other switching modules of the plurality of switching modules, and controlling a time period during which one or more of the plurality of switching modules are in the conducting state in accordance with a result of the comparison.
US09893665B2
A system includes a permanent magnet motor having a rotor and a stator. The rotor and the stator have a configuration that causes the motor to generate a back-electromagnetic force (EMF) waveform that is substantially sinusoidal. The system also includes a motor controller having a sliding-mode observer configured to identify the back-EMF waveform and a position observer configured to estimate at least one characteristic of the motor using the identified back-EMF waveform. The stator may include multiple teeth projecting towards the rotor and multiple conductive windings, where each conductive winding is wound around a single tooth. The rotor may include multiple magnetic poles, where each magnetic pole has a span of about 60° or less. The sliding-mode observer may be configured to receive current measurements associated with three-phase signals and voltage commands generated by the motor controller. The position observer may include a proportional-integral (PI) regulator.
US09893664B2
Method and systems are provided for adjusting an engine torque in response to changes in a desired engine torque. In one example, a method may comprise responsive to increasing desired engine torques, monotonically decreasing an alternator torque to a first level from a second level when not injecting fuel to engine cylinders, and stepping up the alternator torque from the first level to the second level while initiating engine combustion, and then monotonically decreasing the alternator torque from the second level to the first level in response to the alternator torque reaching the first level. In this way, a method may comprise adjusting a load exerted on an engine by an alternator mechanically coupled to said engine during both cylinder combustion, and during non-fueling conditions.
US09893662B1
A servomotor control device includes a torque command creation part for creating a torque command value for driving a servomotor. The torque command creation part includes a proportional gain part and an integral gain part. An integral gain is set as a value calculated by multiplying an initial value, by a ratio J/Jm of total inertia of a machine relative to rotor inertia of the servomotor, and a value set smaller than the square of a velocity gain magnification according to delay time of the velocity control loop. A proportional gain is a value calculated by adding a value according to a difference in calculation cycle between the integral term and the proportional term, and the integral gain, to a value calculated by multiplying an initial value by the ratio J/Jm and the velocity gain magnification.
US09893660B2
Various embodiments of an electric motor and electronic control for an electric motor are disclosed. An exemplary electric motor comprises a single-phase brushless permanent magnet electric motor. In exemplary embodiments, the electronic motor control is configured to commutate an electric motor at a frequency other than line frequency, perform pulse width modulation, and drive the electric motor with a drive waveform that approximates the counter-electromotive force of the motor.
US09893650B2
A driving circuit for a vibration type actuator includes an inductor and a capacitor which are connected in series to an electric-mechanical energy conversion element, in which, in a case where a series resonance frequency based on the inductor and the capacitor is set as fs, and a resonance frequency in a vibration mode other than vibration used for driving of the vibrator is set as fu, 0.73·fu
US09893649B2
The method of converting high voltage AC lines into bipolar high voltage DC systems makes use of the three transmission lines (referred to as the positive pole, the negative pole, and the modulating pole) in an existing high voltage AC system as transmission lines in a bipolar high voltage DC system. When current from the power source is up to the thermal current limit of the transmission lines, the transmission lines operate in two-wire mode, where current is delivered in the positive pole and returned in the negative pole, the modulating pole being open. When power source current exceeds the thermal current limit, operation is in three-wire mode, alternating for predetermined periods between parallel configuration of the positive pole and the modulating pole to divide current for delivery to the load, and parallel configuration of the negative pole and the modulating pole, dividing the return current.
US09893647B2
A resonance inverter includes a first coil provided between an input terminal and a switch element, a first capacitor provided between the drain and the source of the switch element, a second capacitor serially connected between the drain and the source of the switch element, and a second coil. A drain-source voltage of a switch element can be effectively lowered, by setting a serial resonance frequency based on the second coil and the second capacitor to a value higher than twice of a driving frequency, and lower than 2.75 times thereof.
US09893639B1
A synchronous rectifier control circuit and the control method thereof for controlling a switching power supply which includes a transformer, a first switch transistor and a second switch transistor. According to one embodiment to the present invention, the control circuit comprises a conducting detection module, a voltage averaging module, a voltage-second balance module and a logic-controlled module. The conducting detection module is comprised of a first reference potential and a conduction signal. The voltage averaging module includes an averaged circuit and outputs a second reference potential. The voltage-second balance module includes a first reference current, a second reference current, a voltage-second balance switch, a voltage-second balance comparator and a timing capacitor, and outputs a reset signal. The logic-controlled module includes a logic circuit to control the second switch transistor to turn on or off.
US09893625B2
Disclosed herein is a DC/DC power supply apparatus, which includes a plurality of power boards, a control board and a main board. The plurality of power boards are coupled in parallel with one another, and each power board includes a carrier circuit board and a power device disposed on the carrier circuit board. The control board includes a feedback control circuit and a PWM generator circuit; the feedback control circuit is configured to receive one or more feedback signals from the power boards; the PWM generator circuit outputs a PWM control signal to the power boards based on the feedback signal. The main board is electrically coupled to the power boards and the control board.
US09893620B2
An object of this invention is to obtain a control apparatus and a control method for a DC/DC converter, with which a DC/DC converter can be controlled with superior stability and responsiveness while reducing the size of a storage medium. A calculation value is calculated in accordance with a specific control method using a differential voltage between a target output voltage and an output voltage, whereupon a control calculation value is calculated from the calculation value and an input voltage.
US09893612B2
A voltage generation circuit includes a voltage detection unit configured to detect a voltage level of an internal voltage and generate a detection signal, a first voltage control unit configured to be applied with a driving voltage and generate a voltage control signal in response to the detection signal, a voltage generation unit configured to generate the internal voltage in response to the voltage control signal, and a second voltage control unit configured to change a voltage level of the driving voltage in response to a voltage generation enable signal and the detection signal.
US09893607B1
A low drop-out voltage regulator (LDO) includes an LDO unit, a switch circuit, a charge pump, and an initiation circuit. The switch circuit is coupled to a voltage input terminal and outputs a selected input voltage. The LDO unit receives the selected input voltage from the switch circuit and generates a regulated output voltage. The charge pump is coupled to the LDO unit to receive the regulated output voltage, and generate a control signal that is provided to the switch circuit. The initiation circuit receives the input voltage and generates an initiation voltage that greater than the regulated output voltage. The initiation voltage is provided to the charge pump circuit, along with the regulated output voltage. The initiation voltage drives the charge pump circuit when the regulated output voltage is not large enough to drive the charge pump circuit.
US09893605B2
A method and a device provide intrinsically safe redundant current supply of field devices with a common current-limiting resistor in the mesh of the field device, wherein the field device is connected via a connection line to field-device connection terminals of the current supply device consisting of at least two current supply units. The output voltage and/or the output current of each current supply unit is reduced as a function of the voltage across the field-device connection terminals.
US09893598B2
A magnet temperature estimation device includes: a voltage detector (1) for detecting a voltage at a time when a winding is energized; a high-order component detector (2) for detecting a high-order component of the voltage; a reference database (3) for storing in advance, as a table, a correspondence relationship between the high-order component and two or more parameters, which include a magnet temperature and another one or more parameters, as parameters affecting the voltage from which the high-order component is detected; a parameter value detector (4) for detecting a value of the another one or more parameters; and a magnet temperature estimator (5) for estimating a magnet temperature corresponding to the high-order component detected by the high-order component detector based on the another one or more parameters detected by the parameter value detector and the table stored in the reference database.
US09893596B2
A magnetic alignment system is disclosed, including a magnet array (10), a motor rotor (20), a fixed tooling (30) and a force sensor (40). The motor rotor (20) is disposed over the magnet array (10) and is connected via the force sensor (40) to the fixed tooling (30) that is positionally fixed relative to the magnet array (10). By varying an angle of a three-phase current supplied to a specific one of three-phase coil assemblies in the motor rotor (20) within an angular range for magnetic alignment and measuring a force generated by the specific one of three-phase coil assemblies using the force sensor (40), an angle of magnetic alignment for the specific one of three-phase coil assemblies is determinable based on the angle of three-phase current that causes the specific one of three-phase coil assemblies to generate a maximum force.
US09893594B2
Provided is an armature for a rotating electrical machine, which is capable of improving heat dissipation performance of an edgewise coil to enhance efficiency of the rotating electrical machine. The armature for a rotating electrical machine includes: a core including a yoke section and a tooth section that protrudes from the yoke section; an edgewise coil to be inserted onto the tooth section through intermediation of an insulating member, the edgewise coil being formed by winding a rectangular wire having a rectangular conductor cross-section through edgewise bending; and a heat transfer member filled into a gap between the tooth section and the edgewise coil. The armature has different gaps formed at two regions between the tooth section and a long side of the edgewise coil.
US09893589B2
The present invention concerns an electric machine (1), in particular an alternator, intended to be coupled to a driving or driven machine, in particular a heat engine, comprising: —a coupling flange (20) for coupling to the driving or driven machine, housing a fan (30) driven by the rotor, said flange comprising: —a rear portion (21) linked to a fixed portion (10) of the electric machine, —an interfacing front portion (22) interfacing with the driving or driven machine, said interfacing front portion being mounted on the rear portion (21), the front portion (22) having a central opening, the fan having a diameter greater than that of the central opening, —at least one air deflector secured to the flange (20).
US09893588B2
A motor includes a housing, a stator holder, a stator, and a flow path for a cooling fluid. The cooling flow path is provided between the housing and the stator holder. A coil of the stator is covered by a resin portion. The stator holder may include a holder cylindrical portion and a holder flat plate portion.
US09893583B2
A stator for a rotating electric machine, including an annular stator core having a plurality of slots circumferentially arranged in the stator core, and a stator winding wound around the stator core and comprised of a plurality of U-shaped conductor segments inserted in the slots and connected to each other. Each conductor segment includes a conductor and a bilayer insulative coating comprised of an insulating layer covering a peripheral surface of the conductor and a protective layer covering a peripheral surface of the insulating layer. The protective layer is formed of a material having a Young's modulus that is equal to or greater than a Young's modulus of the insulating layer at room temperature and less than the Young's modulus of the insulating layer in high temperature environments caused by heat generation of the stator winding.
US09893579B2
A dynamoelectric machine includes a rotor having a rotor core and permanent magnets, and a stator having teeth. The permanent magnets are arranged in magnet sets. Each magnet set includes one or more of the permanent magnets. The rotor core has a cylindrical periphery and slits. Each of the slits is positioned radially between one of the magnet sets and the cylindrical periphery. Each tooth includes a tooth surface facing the cylindrical periphery. The tooth surface includes an inner portion extending substantially parallel to the cylindrical periphery of the rotor core, and beveled portions positioned on opposing sides of the inner portion of the tooth surface. An air gap between each beveled portion of the tooth surface and the cylindrical periphery of the rotor core is greater than an air gap between the inner portion of the tooth surface and the cylindrical periphery of the rotor core.
US09893567B2
A dual-mode receiver is provided that includes an electromagnetic resonator having one or more inductive elements that are arranged to form a receiver coil and a network of passive components arranged to form a matching network. The electromagnetic resonator includes a first selective frequency defined in a low frequency range and a second selective frequency defined in a high frequency range allowing for a rectification circuit to operate in both the high frequency range and low frequency range making maximum use of active circuits.
US09893559B2
An electronic device includes a housing having at least one solar panel arranged to generate electrical energy for delivery to a battery within the housing, wherein the at least one solar panel is foldable about the housing.
US09893556B2
A power receiving control circuit is provided that receives AC coil current IRX from a reception coil and that supplies DC output voltage VOUT. A rectifier circuit rectifies the coil current IRX. A linear regulator receives a rectified voltage VRECT across a smoothing capacitor, and generates the output voltage VOUT stabilized to a predetermined target level. A controller has predetermined control characteristics configured as a relation between the value of a charging current ICHG and the target value of the rectified voltage VRECT. The controller detects the value of the charging current ICHG, and transmits information which indicates electric power to be transmitted from a wireless power supply apparatus, with reference to the control characteristics. The controller is configured to be capable of changing the control characteristics.
US09893551B2
Systems, methods, computer-readable storage mediums including computer-readable instructions and/or circuitry for control of transmission to a target device with communicating with one or more sensors in an ad-hoc sensor network may implement operations including, but not limited to: receiving electrical power via at least one structurally integrated electrically conductive element; and powering one or more sensing operations of one or more sensors via the electrical power.
US09893542B2
This disclosure relates to systems and methods for charging a battery. An example embodiment includes receiving information about an initial state of charge of a battery. If an initial state of charge is less than a predetermined threshold and if a charger is electrically coupled to the battery, a charger may be configured to charge the battery according to a preferred charge rate higher than a default charge rate. A charging duration is determined based on a type of the battery, the initial state of charge, a target state of charge, and the charge rate. A controller may determine a partial charge condition based on at least one of: providing electrical current to the battery at the charge rate for the charging duration or receiving information indicative of a state of charge of the battery reaching the target state of charge.
US09893533B2
An EMS server (14) calculates an estimated value of an integrated power consumption at an expiration of a reference time, based on a current value of power consumption of at least one load device located in a consumer's facility and a remaining time in the reference time. The EMS server (14) controls the load device in accordance with the estimated value of the integrated power consumption and a response time. The response time refers to a time required to complete a change in power consumption of the load device in response to a change in a setting of the load device.
US09893532B2
A power mesh system and method comprising at least three polyphase power devices of a plurality of polyphase power devices, each having a phase connection for each phase, where each polyphase power device has each phase connection coupled to at least one phase connection of another polyphase power device to form a two dimensional array of power devices.
US09893529B1
Various examples are provided that are related to coupling dynamics for, e.g., power systems with iterative discrete decision making architectures. In one example, a method includes determining an output power adjustment using a frequency difference associated with a generator of a first area of a power system and price signals corresponding to power generation in the first area and in a second area coupled to the first area by a tie-line; and providing a power command based upon the output power adjustment to a control system of the generator. In another example, a power system control system includes first and second agents configured to control power generation of a first area and a second area of a power system, respectively. The second agent can control power generation of the second area using frequency differences of generators in the second area and price signals of the first and second areas.
US09893527B2
A power storage system includes a power generation element that performs environmental power generation, a first storage battery that receives power generated by the power generation element and supplies the power to a load device, a second storage battery that has a capacitance smaller than that of the first storage battery and is connected in series with the first storage battery, a first switcher that is connected in parallel to the second storage battery, short-circuits both terminals of the second storage battery in a closed state, and releases a short-circuited state of the second storage battery in an open state, and a switching unit that controls the opened and closed states of the first switcher.
US09893525B1
A high-power conversion system includes a switching circuit and at least one reactor, the at least one reactor being electrically connected to the switching circuit, and the core of the at least one reactor being electrically connected to a potential point of the high-power conversion system.
US09893524B2
The present invention provides coordinated control methods of generator and SVC for improving power plant active power throughput and controller thereof. The method comprises: measuring the required input parameters for the generator and SVC control; judging the system topology and the control mode of SVC to determine the operation mode; and calculating the control reference based on the operation mode to control the generator and/or SVC. The proposed methods and coordinated controllers enable the SVC to share the required reactive power output of the power plant, convert the generator into “unity-power-factor-generator”, and therefore extend the active power output capability of the power plant.
US09893518B2
An ESD protection circuit used to protect a protected circuit coupled between a first node and a second node against an ESD event. The ESD protection circuit has a discharging circuit and a control circuit. The discharging circuit selectively provides a current path for discharging a current from the first node to the second node. The control circuit controls the discharging circuit to switch on the current path during an ESD event. The control circuit further controls the discharging circuit to switch off the current path during the normal operation of the protected circuit.
US09893515B2
A power switchgear includes: a vacuum switch tube in a ground tank; a movable side conductor which passes through the ground tank to connect to one side of the vacuum switch tube, and extends to the upper side of the tank; a fixed side conductor which passes through the ground tank and connects to another side of the vacuum switch tube, and extends to the upper side of the tank. A conical insulator is placed on an opening of the ground tank, and a tip end is inserted in the ground tank; an insulation cylinder is placed at a rear end of the conical insulator to cover the inside of a concave portion of the conical insulator, and protrudes outside the ground tank; and a surge suppression apparatus inside the insulation cylinder has a terminal in the conical insulator and connected to a main circuit of the vacuum switch tube.
US09893508B2
A step-down circuit has a switch connected in series between a direct current power supply and a load. A switch control circuit is configured to turn the switch off when the voltage across the load is higher than a predetermined first threshold and turn the switch on when the voltage across the load is lower than the first threshold. An energy storage unit is charged by the power supply when the switch is on and supply power to the load when the switch is off. An overcurrent protection circuit turns the switch off when the input current of the switch is higher than a predetermined second threshold.
US09893507B2
A connector is used for terminating an electrical cable, such as a metal clad cable, cord grip, and tray cable, and provides a compression fitting to secure and ground the cable. The connector includes a connector body, a compression nut, and a compression grommet retained therebetween. A gripping member and/or a grounding member is embedded within the grommet for creating a mechanical grip with the cable and providing a grounding pathway, respectively. Tightening the compression nut to the connector body correspondingly compresses the grommet to create a watertight seal with the cable so that no fluid, dirt or debris can pass through the connector. Such tightening also urges the gripping member to form a mechanical grip with the cable for securing the cable and maintaining the watertight seal. Moreover, the grounding member may include an electrically conductive grounding ball that forms the grounding path between the connector and the armor portion of the cable upon tightening the compression nut to the connector body.
US09893499B2
An energized parts guard is disclosed which includes a panel of substantially rigid, electrically insulative material wherein the substantially rigid panel further includes a first one or more apertures and a second one or more apertures. The first one or more apertures are so dimensioned to accept one or more circuit breakers inserted into the first one or more apertures such that there is less than a 12.5 mm gap between the panel and the circuit breaker on at least two sides of the one or more circuit breakers. The second one or more apertures are positioned to facilitate access to at least one terminal of each of the one or more circuit breakers when the one or more circuit breakers are inserted into the first one or more apertures.
US09893498B2
A pair of electrode lugs clamp a bar at side surfaces of the bar so as to be electrically connected to the bar. The electrode lugs respectively include a first contact portion and a second contact portion having different front-back lengths. The bar is clamped such that the first contact portion having a short front-back length L1 opposes a back end portion of the bar within a range of the second contact portion having a front-back length L2. The back end surface of the bar is brought into contact with and welded to a front end surface of a metal shell by resistance butt welding. Since the first contact portion of one lug is short and is close to the abutting surfaces, heat dissipation can be reduced and heat concentration can be increased.
US09893496B2
A method of manufacturing a spark plug (20) for being threaded into a cylinder head (28) of an internal combustion engine is provided. The spark plug (20) includes a shell (24) with threads (26) disposed at a predetermined rotational position (a) relative to a shell outer surface (64) and ground electrode (34). The position of the threads (26) relative to the ground electrode (34) places the ground electrode (34) in a desired position in the combustion chamber (22) and relative to components of the engine, thus allowing the ground electrode (34) to provide a robust and reliable ignition. When multiple spark plugs (20) are formed, the threads (26) in each of the shells (24) are repeatedly and accurately formed at the predetermined rotational position (α) by locating the ground electrode (34), threads (26), and dies (76) of a thread forming apparatus (102) in specific locations.
US09893493B2
A surface emitting quantum cascade laser includes an active layer, a first semiconductor layer, and first electrode. The active layer has a plurality of quantum well layers stacked therein. The active layer is capable of emitting laser light by inter-subband transition. The first semiconductor layer is provided on the active layer and having a first surface provided with a plurality of pits so as to constitute a two-dimensional lattice. The first electrode is provided on the first semiconductor layer and having a periodic opening. Each pit is asymmetric with respect to a line parallel to a side of the lattice. The laser light is emitted in a direction generally perpendicular to the active layer from a pit exposed to the opening.
US09893491B2
A micromechanically produced optical device includes: a carrier for carrying the micromechanically produced device; a diffraction grating for diffracting light; a plate for carrying the diffraction grating; and deflectors for deflecting the plate in relation to the carrier, the deflectors comprising bearings for movably bearing the plate and a driver for moving the plate; the deflectors being configured for rotational deflection of the plate and for translational deflection of the plate.
US09893482B2
A branched electrical system is adapted for providing multiple users with access to high and/or low voltage electrical power in work areas or high density seating areas, such as stadium or theater seating, work rooms, lecture halls, and public transportation vehicles. The system includes a main line and a plurality of branch lines, each branch line having at least one high voltage or low voltage electrical receptacle that is accessible to a user located at the seating, such as for powering a portable electronic device. The branch lines may be coupled to the main line via a splice or other electrical-mechanical connection.
US09893479B1
A right-angled electrical plug includes a first plug terminal and a second plug terminal longitudinally spaced apart from one another. First and second electrical wires are interconnected with the first and second plug terminals respectively. A housing configured to secure the first and second plug terminals has a generally planar surface from which the first and second plug terminals project and has a portal through which the first and second electrical wires exit the housing. The surface has a first lateral edge that is closer to the portal than a second lateral edge opposite the first lateral edge. A first distance between the first lateral edge and the first plug terminal is at least two times less, and is preferably is at least three time less, than a second distance between the second lateral edge and the second plug terminal. The right-angled electrical plug may conform to NEMA 5-15P standards.
US09893477B2
A housing for an electrical connector has a connector for reversibly receiving flexible arms of a clamping element in a locking manner. Further, an assembly has the housing and a clamping element having at least two flexible arms, between which a receiving space is defined, in which the connector of the housing are reversibly held in a locking manner.
US09893476B2
An electronic device system can include an electronic device. The electronic device can include a receptacle, and a device logic driving status unit configured to generate a status signal indicating activity of the electronic device, and a communications cable. The communications cable can include a first plug configured to connect to the receptacle and receive the status signal, wherein the first plug includes a status indicator configured to indicate activity of the electronic device based on the status signal.
US09893455B1
A plug comprises power contacts and a plug trip contact. During a plugging action between the plug and a receptacle, the plug trip contact makes a trip connection with mating contacts in the receptacle. Electrical power to the receptacle allows a current through the trip connection, which causes disconnection of the power to the receptacle. A receptacle comprises receptacle power contacts and receptacle trip contacts. During a plugging action between the receptacle and a plug, trip contacts in the receptacle makes a trip connection with a mating contact in the plug. Electrical power to the receptacle allows a current through the trip connection, which can cause disconnection of the power to the receptacle. The receptacle can be included in an enclosure having a trip breaker with a trip mechanism. An electrical system can have an electrical device with a line cord connected to a plug having the trip contact.
US09893443B2
A switch element is provided for directly inserting into a circuit board, wherein the switch element comprises a switch element circuit and a plurality of plug contacts, wherein the plug contacts comprise a connection portion, which is connected to the switch element circuit, and a fastening portion, wherein the fastening portion is adapted such that it is directly insertable into the circuit board, and wherein the fastening portion comprises a safety element which is adapted such that an unintentionally detaching of the plug connection is prevented.
US09893441B2
It is aimed to prevent a reduction of contact reliability. A card edge connector (A) includes a first housing (10) formed with a board accommodation space (16) open forward, terminal fittings (17) provided in the first housing (10) and formed with resilient contact portions (18) projecting toward the board accommodation space (16), a second housing (20) including a circuit board (23) to be inserted into the board accommodation space (16) from front of the first housing (10), and guide slopes (36) made of synthetic resin, provided to cover a leading edge of the circuit board (23) in an inserting direction into the board accommodation space (16) and inclined with respect to the inserting direction into the board accommodation space (16).
US09893435B2
An antenna apparatus and method for use of the same are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the antenna comprises a single physical antenna aperture having at least two spatially interleaved antenna arrays of antenna elements, the antenna arrays being operable independently and simultaneously at distinct frequency bands.
US09893433B2
The present disclosure provides an array antenna. The array antenna includes a cavity power divider that receives an input signal and performs power division to output a first power-divided signal. The array antenna also includes a final-stage power dividing, coupling, and radiating unit that includes a dielectric substrate and a first and a second metal surface layer. A coupling slot array is formed on the second metal surface layer to receive the first power-divided signal. A radiating slot array corresponding to the coupling slot array is formed on the first metal surface layer; Several plated through-hole units are provided on the dielectric substrate, where the plated through-hole units go through the first and second metal surface layers vertically, and a range corresponding to each plated through-hole unit encloses a coupling slot and a radiating slot corresponding to the coupling slot.
US09893427B2
An antenna-like matching component is provided, comprising one or more conductive portions formed on a substrate. Shapes and dimensions of the one or more conductive portions are determined to provide impedance matching for one or more antennas coupled to the matching component.
US09893425B2
An antenna structure includes a baseplate, a first radiator plate, a second radiator plate, and a third radiator plate. The baseplate has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The first radiator plate is disposed on the first surface. The second radiator plate is disposed on the first surface. The third radiator plate is disposed on the second surface. A slot is defined between the first radiator plate and the second radiator plate, and the second radiator plate is coupled to the first radiator plate and the third radiator plate.
US09893419B2
An antenna device includes a first insulating base portion including a spiral antenna pattern, and a second insulating base portion including at least two conductor wires. An insulating layer configured to insulate the conductor wires from the antenna pattern is provided between a first end and a second end of the antenna pattern in a planar view. The insulating layer includes a cut or an opening allowing at least one of the first end and the second end of the antenna pattern to be exposed toward the conductor wires. Electrode portions of the conductor wires are electrically and mechanically connected to the first end and the second end, respectively, of the antenna pattern by a conductive material in the cut or the opening of the insulating layer. The second insulating base portion is more flexible than the first insulating base portion.
US09893413B2
An integrated, externally-mounted Automated Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) device comprising in one embodiment a 1030 MHz transmitter, a 1030 MHz antenna, a 1090 MHz receiver, a 1090 MHz antenna, a GNSS receiver, at least one GNSS antenna, a 978 MHz transmitter, and a 978 MHz antenna, wherein these components are integrated into a single enclosure, and wherein the GNSS antenna is placed at least partially into a projection extending out from the main enclosure body, such that the GNSS antenna has improved visibility to GNSS signals originating from altitudes above the current altitude of aircraft when the ADS-B device is mounted on the bottom of an aircraft.
US09893408B2
A directional coupler includes: a first to a fourth port; a main line connecting the first and second ports; a first to a fourth subline section electromagnetically coupled to the main line; a first to a third matching section; and a stack. The first subline, first matching, third subline, third matching, fourth subline, second matching, and second subline sections are arranged in this order between the third and fourth port. The first and second matching sections include an inductor connecting two subline sections located on opposite sides of the matching section. Each of one or more conductor layers used to form the inductor includes two connection portions for electrical connection to respective other elements, and a line portion connecting the two connection portions. The inductor excluding the connection portions does not include potions that overlap each other when viewed in the stacking direction of the stack.
US09893398B2
A quick connect coupler assembly for connecting a first waveguide portion to a second waveguide portion is provided. The coupler assembly includes: a first coupler component affixed to the first waveguide portion and a second coupler component affixed to the second waveguide portion. The first coupler component has a plurality of perturbations, while the second coupler component has a plurality of slots and a radially disposed guide or channel. The perturbations align with and pass through the slots into the guide or channel such that the perturbations rotatably move about the guide or channel in a radial direction from an unlocked to a locked position.
US09893397B2
The present invention provides a metal-air cell that allows pieces of an electrode active material that have fallen off to contribute to a discharge reaction and thus has high power generation efficiency.The metal-air cell according to the present invention includes an electrolyte cell containing an electrolyte, a metal electrode disposed in the electrolyte cell and serving as an anode, and an air electrode serving as a cathode. The metal electrode includes a current collector and an electrode active material part disposed on the current collector and made of an electrode active material. The current collector includes a supporting part supporting the electrode active material part and a receiving part disposed between a bottom of the electrolyte cell and the electrode active material part. The receiving part includes a projection projecting in the electrolyte cell beyond a side surface of the electrode active material part toward a sidewall of the electrolyte cell.
US09893392B2
A heat exchanger for use with at least two battery modules, each of the battery modules comprising at least one battery cell housed within a rigid container, the heat exchanger defining an internal fluid passage for a heat exchanger fluid and having at least one compliant region that is configured to be compressed to facilitate thermal contact between the heat exchanger and the two battery modules.
US09893383B2
An improved alkali metal halide cell including an anode module having at least (i) one planar module including a porous assembly and (ii) that encloses an active anode material in an anode reservoir; and a cathode having active cathode material; where the porous assembly is coated with a thin ion-conducting layer that separates the active anode material enclosed within the anode module from the cathode material, and the anode and cathode are contained in a housing having one or more compartments.
US09893381B2
Provided are a nonaqueous electrolyte for secondary batteries containing an electrolyte having high solubility in ethylene carbonate, propylene carbonate, dimethyl carbonate, diethyl carbonate, ethyl methyl carbonate, or a like solvent and capable of forming a good-quality film on the positive and the negative electrode interface and a nonaqueous secondary battery having the nonaqueous electrolyte. Specifically, an electrolyte for secondary batteries containing a lithium salt as a solute and a nonaqueous solvent is provided, the nonaqueous solvent containing a monofluorophosphoric ester salt having general formula 1 or 2, in which symbols are as defined in the description.
US09893378B2
The non-aqueous electrolyte solution of the present invention is a non-aqueous electrolyte solution comprising acetonitrile and a lithium salt, wherein the anion of the lithium salt has a LUMO (lowest unoccupied molecular orbital) energy in the range of −2.00 to 4.35 eV, and a HOMO (highest occupied molecular orbital) energy in the range of −5.35 to −2.90 eV.
US09893375B2
Disclosed is a module system for a microbial fuel cell used in the field of a microbial fuel cell, in which a plurality of unit cells electrically connected to each other in series cannot share an anode part solution. In the module system for the microbial fuel cell, the unit cells are electrically connected to each other in series, so that power is produced in a commercial scale. An anode part is given to each individual cell, so that voltage drop does not occur. The unit cells share an anode part solution together, so that the module system for the microbial fuel cell is simply designed. The module system for the microbial fuel cell is applicable when effectively producing power in the commercial scale.
US09893369B2
Described embodiments include a system and a method. A system includes a controllable electrochemical cell configured to output pulsed electric power. The controllable cell includes an electrolyte, and a first working electrode configured to transfer electrons to or from the electrolyte. The system includes a second working electrode configured to transfer electrons to or from the electrolyte. The system includes a gating electrode spaced-apart from the second working electrode and configured if biased relative to the second working electrode to modify an electric charge, field, or potential in the space between the electrolyte and the second working electrode. The system includes a control circuit configured to establish a nonlinear voltage-current property of the controllable cell in response to an externally originated trigger signal.
US09893356B2
The cathode active material for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to an aspect of the present disclosure mainly comprises a compound represented by a composition formula: LixNay(LiαNaβMn1−α−β)O2, where x, y, α, and β satisfy 0.75≦x≦1.0, 0
US09893337B2
Electrode assemblies for use in electrochemical cells are provided. The negative electrode assembly includes negative electrode active material and an electrolyte chosen specifically for its useful properties in the negative electrode. Such properties include reductive stability and ability to accommodate expansion and contraction of the negative electrode active material. Similarly, the positive electrode assembly includes positive electrode active material and an electrolyte chosen specifically for its useful properties in the positive electrode. These properties include oxidative stability and the ability to prevent dissolution of transition metals used in the positive electrode active material. A third electrolyte can be used as separator between the negative electrode and the positive electrode. A cell is constructed with a cathode that includes a fluorinated electrolyte which does not penetrate into the solid-state polymer electrolyte separator between it and the lithium-based anode. Such an assembly improves charge transport properties without compromising the strength and durability of the separator.
US09893336B2
A biaxially stretched microporous film includes band-like polyethylene material having a film width of not less than 300 mm wherein distribution of physical properties in the film width direction and the thickness variation is less than 1.00 μm and air permeability variation is not greater than 50 seconds/100 mL. The polyethylene microporous film has excellent planarity and uniformity of physical properties required when used in a large-area configuration as a separator film of a lithium ion battery for automobiles or consumer electronics.
US09893335B2
A portable electrical energy storage device is provided with a frame that includes a plurality of receptacles for receiving a portion of a portable electrical energy storage cell. A cap is provided over the plurality of receptacles and the portion of the portable electrical energy storage cells received in the frame. In some embodiments, a passageway extends between adjacent receptacles. Disposed within the passageway is a plug which exhibits more resistance to thermal energy migration than other portions of the frame that define the adjacent receptacles.
US09893334B2
The invention relates to a frame device (18) for accommodating storage cells (12) of an energy storage module (10), in particular a battery module, comprising—two plate-like closure elements (20) which form two ends (22, 24) of the frame device (18) that are opposite one another along an axis (14), —connection elements (30) which are arranged on mutually opposite sides (26, 28) of the frame device (18) and which extend from one end (22) to the other end (24) of the frame device (18) and mechanically connect the two closure elements (20) over a distance. For connection to the two closure elements (20), provision is made for each of the connection elements (30) to be provided at each of the ends thereof with a pin (42) which is oriented transversely to the axis (14) and which respectively engages in a cutout (40) in one of the closure elements (20) and is releasably fixed there by means of a respective latch-type securing element (32). The invention further relates to a corresponding energy storage module (10).
US09893330B2
The invention discloses a battery box body for a light-fixture which comprises a battery box, wherein the battery box is provided with a battery compartment, a circuit board compartment as well as a battery cover and a circuit board cover which hermetically cover the battery compartment and the circuit board compartment in a matching manner, respectively. A recess capable of avoiding and accommodating a light-fixture is arranged in the outer wall of the battery box in an inwardly concave manner. The battery box structure can be matched and combined with a strip-like light-fixture in use, and the recess on the outer wall of the battery box structure can correspondingly accommodate the light-fixture, so that the battery box and the light-fixture are matched with each other and hung on the wall.
US09893319B2
The invention relates to a radiation-emitting, organic component comprising a radiation-permeable carrier body (1) having a first surface (1a) on a top side of the carrier body (1), a radiation-permeable, structured layer (2) that is arranged on the first surface (1a) and covers same at least in places, a radiation-permeable first electrode (3) that is arranged on the side of the structured layer (2) facing away from the carrier body (1), a layer stack (10) that is arranged on the side of the first electrode (3) facing away from the structured layer (2) and comprises an organic, active region, and a second electrode (6), wherein the active region (10a) can be electrically contacted via the first electrode (3) and the second electrode (6), the structured layer (2) is different from the radiation-permeable carrier body (1), and the structured layer (2) comprises structures (2a) for refracting and/or scattering electromagnetic radiation generated in the active region (100) during operation.
US09893318B2
The present invention relates to an organic light-emitting diode, an array substrate and a preparation method thereof, and a display device. The organic light-emitting diode comprises an anode, a cathode, a light-emitting layer disposed between the anode and the cathode, and a hole injection layer disposed between the anode and the light-emitting layer, wherein the hole injection layer is provided therein with metal nanoparticles, and the frequency of a localized surface plasmon resonance of the metal nanoparticles is matched with the emission wavelength of the light-emitting layer. As the organic light-emitting diode is doped with metal nanoparticles in the hole injection layer and the resonance frequency of the localized surface plasmon of the metal nanoparticles is matched with the emission wavelength of the light-emitting layer, the metal nanoparticles are allowed to generate localized plasma resonance with photons, so that the light extraction efficiency of the organic light-emitting diode is enhanced.
US09893315B2
A display device includes a display device including a substrate, and a display unit disposed on the substrate. An encapsulating unit encapsulates the display unit. The encapsulating unit includes a barrier organic layer. The barrier organic layer includes a plurality of organic materials and a plurality of inorganic materials. The inorganic materials are arranged in free volumes between the organic materials.
US09893309B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose an organic electroluminescent display device and a display apparatus. The display device includes: a base substrate, and a first electrode, an organic light emitting layer and a second electrode arranged sequentially on the base substrate, the organic light emitting layer includes a first light emitting sub-layer and a second light emitting sub-layer arranged in stack, the first light emitting sub-layer having a coverage area less than that of the second light emitting sub-layer; a connecting layer is formed by an electron-transporting material and provided between the first light emitting sub-layer and the second light emitting sub-layer; and projection areas of a pattern of the connecting layer and the first light emitting sub-layer on the base substrate are overlapped with each other. It may suppress abnormal color of light from the organic light emitting layer and improve the luminescence efficiency of the display device.
US09893304B2
An organic metal complex and an organic electroluminescent device including the same are provided. The organic metal complex is represented by the formula of wherein Ar includes 1-naphthyl, 2-naphthyl or benzothienyl, and L includes acetylacetone, N,N-diisopropyl-benzamidinate or N,N-diisopropyl-diisopropyl-guanidinate. The organic electroluminescent device includes a pair of electrodes and an electroluminescent element disposed between the pair of electrodes, wherein the electroluminescent element includes the organic metal complex.
US09893301B2
Heterocyclic compounds, synthetic methods for preparing the same, and organic light-emitting display devices comprising the same are described. The subject heterocyclic compounds may comprise an aromatic ring or a heteroaromatic ring fused with a carbazole, dibenzothiophene, or dibenzofurane derivative, the compounds featuring rigid backbone structures with high glass transition temperatures and high melting points. The subject heterocyclic compounds may exhibit high electrical stability, improved charge transport ability, high heat resistance and improved light-emitting properties when used in organic light-emitting devices. Organic light-emitting display devices prepared according to the present invention exhibit lower driving voltages, increased luminescent efficiencies and longer lifetimes.
US09893298B2
An organic light emitting display device is disclosed. The organic light emitting display device comprises an emitting layer over an anode, the light emitting part having an emitting layer and an electron transporting layer, and a cathode on the light emitting part, wherein each of the emitting layer and the electron transporting layer includes a compound with the same core to facilitate electron transport from the electron transporting layer to the emitting layer.
US09893294B2
Small organic molecule semi-conducting chromophores containing a pyridalthiadiazole, pyridaloxadiazole, or pyridaltriazole core structure are disclosed. Such compounds can be used in organic heterojunction devices, such as organic small molecule solar cells and transistors.
US09893292B2
The present invention relates to novel materials which can be used in organic electronic devices, in particular electroluminescent devices, and are certain derivatives of fused aromatic systems.
US09893290B2
A composition includes a first host compound including moieties represented by Chemical Formulae 1 to 3 that are sequentially bonded with each other, and a second host compound including at least one carbazole group with a substituent having hole characteristics,
US09893284B2
A method of forming an organic material pattern film, the method including: forming partition walls on a first region of a first layer, the partition walls including a photosensitive compound including a resorcinarene, the resorcinarene including a perfluorocarbon group; forming a second layer including an organic material on a second region of the first layer, the second region being defined by the partition walls; removing the partition walls.
US09893283B2
The present invention relates to a vapor deposition device for forming a film on a substrate, including: a vapor deposition chamber; a vapor deposition unit including a vapor deposition mask provided with an opening for pattern formation; and a transport mechanism that is configured to transfer at least one of the substrate and the vapor deposition unit relative to the other in a first direction perpendicular to the normal direction of the vapor deposition mask and that is configured to cause the substrate to rest temporarily at a resting position relative to the vapor deposition unit. The substrate includes a vapor-deposition-target region, and the region does not overlap the opening of the vapor deposition mask when the substrate is at the resting position. The vapor deposition chamber is provided with a first vent and a second vent.
US09893270B2
A method for manufacturing a piezoelectric bulk acoustic wave element by forming a sacrificial layer on a part of a primary surface of a substrate. A piezoelectric film sandwiched between a pair of electrodes is formed on the primary surface of the substrate so as to cover the sacrificial layer, the piezoelectric film being formed from scandium-containing aluminum nitride having a scandium atomic concentration with respect to the total number of scandium atoms and aluminum atoms of more than 24 atomic percent. An etching step of removing the sacrificial layer by etching is performed. Prior to the etching step, a protective film formed from aluminum nitride or scandium-containing aluminum nitride having a lower scandium atomic concentration than that of the piezoelectric film is provided so as to cover at least a part of a portion of the piezoelectric film located in a region in which the sacrificial layer is provided.
US09893268B2
Provided is a piezoelectric element containing no lead therein and having satisfactory and stable piezoelectric properties in a temperature range in which the piezoelectric element is used. In order to attain this, the piezoelectric element includes a substrate, a first electrode, a piezoelectric film, and a second electrode. The piezoelectric film contains barium zirconate titanate, manganese, and bismuth in a charge disproportionation state in which trivalent Bi and pentavalent Bi coexist. The piezoelectric film satisfies 0.02≦x≦0.13, where x is a mole ratio of zirconium to the sum of zirconium and titanium. A manganese content is 0.002 moles or more and 0.015 moles or less for 1 mole of barium zirconate titanate, and a bismuth content is 0.00042 moles or more and 0.00850 moles or less for 1 mole of barium zirconate titanate.
US09893266B2
A piezoelectric film element includes a substrate, and a piezoelectric film including an alkali niobate-based perovskite structure expressed in a composition formula (K1-xNax)NbO3 (0.4≦x≦0.7) formed on the substrate, the piezoelectric film including an etching cross section including a tapered inclined portion which is enlarged toward an outside. The inclined portion includes a slope angle made by a slope connecting an upper surface edge and a bottom surface edge of the piezoelectric film and a bottom surface of the piezoelectric film, and the slope angle is not greater than 70°.
US09893265B2
A crystal resonation device that includes a base plate, a cap, a joining material, and a crystal resonator. The cap is provided on the base plate. The cap forms a sealed space with the base plate. The joining material joins the base plate and the cap. The joining material contains a cured material of thermosetting resin. The crystal resonator is provided on the base plate in the sealed space. The joining material is located in an outer side portion of a wall of the cap joined to the joining material.
US09893261B1
A method for producing an electrically-powered device and/or component that is embeddable in a solid structural component is provided. The electrically powered device includes an attached autonomous electrical power source in a form of a unique, environmentally-friendly structure that is configured to transform thermal energy at any temperature above absolute zero to an electric potential without any external stimulus including physical movement or deformation energy. The autonomous electrical power source component provides a mechanism for generating renewable energy as primary for the electrically-powered device and/or component once an integrated structure including the electrically-powered device is deployed in an environment that restricts future access to the electrical power source for servicing, recharge, replacement, replenishment or the like. The structure of the autonomous electrical power source component converts minimal thermal energy to a usable electrical power potential over a sustained period of time without external disturbance to the power source.
US09893254B1
A structure is presented as a laminar structure having a first electrode, light-emitting diode epitaxial layer, silver reflecting layer, current barrier layer, metallic buffer layer, bonding layer, substrate and second electrode in turn, the silver reflecting layer covering the light-emitting diode epitaxial layer and having a bare region distributed as a pattern, the bare region being filled with a high temperature enduring reflecting material, the current barrier layer being patterned to be distributed over the silver reflecting layer in correspondence with the bare region, the metallic buffer layer separating the current barrier layer while covering the silver reflecting layer, whereby high temperature generated by the current barrier layer is sustained by the reflecting material to prevent the silver reflecting layer from cracking when being contacted with the high temperature of the current barrier layer and then ensure luminous efficiency of the light-emitting diode. Thus, the usage requirement is fulfilled.
US09893252B2
A white LED, which includes a substrate, at least one monochromatic LED chip disposed on the substrate, a reflector cup disposed on the substrate and surrounding the monochromatic LED chip, an encapsulating colloid filled in the reflector cup to seal the monochromatic LED chip, and a first quantum dot structure and a second quantum dot structure sealed in the encapsulating colloid, and light generated by the monochromatic LED chip, light generated by exciting the first quantum dot structure and light generated by exciting the second quantum dot structure are mixed to form a white light. A backlight module having the white LED and a liquid crystal display device having the backlight module is also disclosed.
US09893250B1
A light emitting device includes at least one light emitting element including a plurality of semiconductor layers; and a light transmissive sealing member covering the at least one light emitting element. The light transmissive sealing member comprises a light transmissive sealing resin containing a silicone resin having a siloxane bond scaffold having methyl and phenyl groups as a principal ingredient. The light transmissive sealing resin has a refractive index in a range between 1.45 and 1.52, a durometer type D hardness at 25° C. specified by JIS K 6253 in a range between 20 and 70, and a DMA tan δ-based glass transition temperature (Tg) in a range between 20° C. and 70° C.
US09893248B2
The present invention relates to a substrate for changing the color of a light emitting diode and a method for producing same and, more particularly, to a substrate for changing the color of a light emitting diode and a method for producing same, wherein the substrate may be hermetically sealed so that quantum dots (QD) contained inside may be completely protected from the outside and emission efficiency of the light emitting diode may be enhanced.
US09893239B2
A method of manufacturing a light emitting device includes providing a light emitting element; and forming a protective film on a surface of the light emitting element, wherein the step of forming the protective film includes: (i) providing first quantity of oxygen at the surface of the light emitting element, (ii) combining a first quantity of a first metal with the first quantity of oxygen, (iii) combining a second quantity of oxygen with the first quantity of metal, (iv) combining a first quantity of a second metal, different from the first metal, with the second quantity of oxygen and first quantity of the first metal, and (v) combining a third quantity of oxygen with the first quantity of the second metal.
US09893233B2
A light emitting diode and a manufacturing method therefore are provided. The light emitting diode includes at least: a first light emitting structure, formed on a substrate, in which a first n-GaN layer, a first active layer and a first p-GaN layer are sequentially layered; a first n-type electrode formed on one side of the upper part of the first n-GaN layer; a current diffusion layer, formed on the first light emitting structure, in which at least one hole is arranged; and a second light emitting structure in which a second p-GaN layer, which is formed in a region of a conductive layer in which at least one hole is arranged, and a second active layer and a second n-GaN layer, which are formed on the second p-GaN layer, are sequentially layered.
US09893232B2
The invention provides an optoelectronic semiconductor component and a method for producing an optoelectronic semiconductor component (10), comprising the following steps: A) arranging at least one semiconductor chip (2) on a carrier (1), B) applying an electrically insulating photoresist (3) to a top side (1a) of the carrier (1) and to the semiconductor chip (2), C) curing the photoresist (3) with a baking step, D) patterning the photoresist (3) by exposure, F) developing the photoresist (3), wherein the photoresist (3) is removed at least from a radiation penetration surface (2b) of the semiconductor chip (2), G) again curing the photoresist (3) with a baking step, and H) applying an electrically conductive contact layer (4) to the photoresist (3), wherein the electrically conductive contact layer (4) is in places at a distance (A) from a marginal surface (3a) of the photoresist (3) which faces towards the semiconductor chip (2), wherein the marginal surface (3a) facing towards the semiconductor chip (2) is exposed in places.
US09893217B2
A radio frequency transparent photovoltaic cell includes a back contact layer formed of an electrically conductive material, at least one aperture formed in the back contact layer, and at least one photovoltaic cell section disposed on the back contact layer. An airship includes one or more radio frequency antennas disposed in an interior of the airship. One or more radio frequency transparent photovoltaic cells are disposed on an outer surface of the airship.
US09893203B2
One or more exemplary embodiments disclose a thin film transistor array panel and a manufacturing method thereof including a substrate, a gate line on the substrate, the gate line including a gate electrode, a gate insulating layer on the gate electrode, a semiconductor layer on the gate insulating layer, and the semiconductor layer including an oxide semiconductor, a data wire layer above the semiconductor layer, the data wire layer including a data line, a source electrode coupled to the data line, and a drain electrode facing the source electrode, and a metal phosphorus oxide layer configured to cover the source electrode and the drain electrode.
US09893202B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device has a first step including a step of forming an oxide semiconductor film, a second step including a step of forming a gate insulating film over the oxide semiconductor film and a step of forming a gate electrode over the gate insulating film, a third step including a step of forming a nitride insulating film over the oxide semiconductor film and the gate electrode, a fourth step including a step of forming an oxide insulating film over the nitride insulating film, a fifth step including a step of forming an opening in the nitride insulating film and the oxide insulating film, and a sixth step including a step of forming source and drain electrodes over the oxide insulating film so as to cover the opening. In the third step, the nitride insulating film is formed through at least two steps: plasma treatment and deposition treatment. The two steps are each performed at a temperature higher than or equal to 150° C. and lower than 300° C.
US09893193B2
Thin-film transistor including a gate electrode with a side wall insulating layer and display device
A method of fabricating a thin-film transistor includes: forming an oxide semiconductor layer above a substrate; forming a gate insulating layer above the oxide semiconductor layer; forming a gate electrode above the gate insulating layer; forming a cover layer on the gate electrode; forming a side wall insulating layer on a side wall portion of the gate electrode by heat treatment, after the forming of a cover layer; forming an interlayer insulating layer covering the gate electrode and the oxide semiconductor layer, after the forming of a side wall insulating layer; and forming, above the interlayer insulating layer, a source electrode and a drain electrode electrically connected to the oxide semiconductor layer.
US09893190B2
A fin field effect transistor (fin FET) is formed using a bulk silicon substrate and sufficiently guarantees a top channel length formed under a gate, by forming a recess having a predetermined depth in a fin active region and then by forming the gate in an upper part of the recess. A device isolation film is formed to define a non-active region and a fin active region in a predetermined region of the substrate. In a portion of the device isolation film a first recess is formed, and in a portion of the fin active region a second recess having a depth shallower than the first recess is formed. A gate insulation layer is formed within the second recess, and a gate is formed in an upper part of the second recess. A source/drain region is formed in the fin active region of both sides of a gate electrode.
US09893189B2
Semiconductor structures and methods reduce contact resistance, while retaining cost effectiveness for integration into the process flow by introducing a heavily-doped contact layer disposed between two adjacent layers. The heavily-doped contact layer may be formed through a solid-phase epitaxial regrowth method. The contact resistance may be tuned by adjusting dopant concentration and contact area configuration of the heavily-doped epitaxial contact layer.
US09893176B2
In a general aspect, an apparatus can include a silicon carbide (SiC) trench gate MOSFET with improved operation due, at least in part, to a reduced gate capacitance. In the SiC trench gate MOSFET, a thick gate oxide can be formed on a bottom surface of the gate trench and a built-in channel, having a vertical portion and a lateral portion, can be formed to electrically connect a vertical inversion-layer channel, such as in a channel stopper layer, to a vertical JFET channel region and a drift region.
US09893175B2
An integrated circuit includes a power transistor and a drive circuit. The drive circuit includes at least one drive transistor. The power transistor and the at least one drive transistor are integrated in a common semiconductor body. The power transistor includes at least one transistor cell with a source region, a body region, a drift region, a drain region, and a gate electrode adjacent the body region and dielectrically insulated from the body region by a gate dielectric. The at least one drive transistor includes active device regions integrated in a well-like structure comprising dielectric sidewall layers.
US09893171B2
A method of forming a fin field effect transistor (finFET), including forming a temporary gate structure having a sacrificial gate layer and a dummy gate layer on the sacrificial gate layer, forming a gate spacer layer on each sidewall of the temporary gate structure, forming a source/drain spacer layer on the outward-facing sidewall of each gate spacer layer, removing the dummy gate layer to expose the sacrificial gate layer, removing the sacrificial gate layer to form a plurality of recessed cavities, and forming a gate structure, where the gate structure occupies at least a portion of the plurality of recessed cavities.
US09893165B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a manufacturing method for an array substrate and corresponding manufacturing device, which belong to the technical field of metal oxide semiconductor. The method comprises: forming an active layer, a gate insulating layer and a gate metal layer successively on a substrate; forming a gate pattern with a gate photoresist pattern on the substrate having the gate metal layer; altering a temperature of the gate photoresist pattern, so as to enable the width of the gate photoresist sub-pattern in the gate photoresist pattern to be changed; forming lightly doped drains (LDDs) at two sides of a preset area of the active layer sub-pattern in the active layer of the substrate having the changed gate photoresist pattern, the preset area being a projection area of the gate sub-pattern on the active layer sub-pattern, the length of each of the LDDs being (a−b)/2, wherein a is the width of the gate photoresist sub-pattern in the changed gate photoresist pattern, b is the width of the gate sub-pattern; stripping the changed gate photoresist pattern. The embodiment of the present invention mitigates or alleviates the problem of relatively low control flexibility and relatively poor feasibility to the LDD length, which improves the control flexibility and feasibility to the LDD length, and can be used for manufacturing an array substrate.
US09893156B2
A device includes a transistor formed over a substrate. The transistor includes a source structure, a drain structure, and a gate structure. A dielectric layer is formed over the transistor, and a plurality of vias are electrically connected to the source structure. A metal layer is formed over the dielectric layer. The metal layer includes a field plate over the gate structure, a plurality of contact pads over each via, and a plurality of fingers interconnecting each one of the plurality of contact pads to the field plate.
US09893136B2
An organic light emitting display device includes a substrate on which is included pixel columns extending in a column direction and adjacent to each other in a row direction, data lines extending in the column direction and adjacent to each other and between the pixel columns in the row direction, a power source line extending in the column direction, a scan line extending in the row direction, a switching transistor connected to the scan line and one of the data lines, a driving transistor connected to the switching transistor, an OLED connected to the driving transistor, and a storage capacitor including a first storage capacitor plate and a second storage capacitor plate overlapping the first storage capacitor plate in a thickness direction, connected to the power source line, and having a portion extending in the column direction between and not overlapping the data lines in the thickness direction.
US09893132B2
The present invention provides an OLED display device and a manufacture method thereof, and the OLED display device comprises a first substrate (100), a second substrate (200) spaced and oppositely located with the first substrate (100), a plurality of thin film transistors (101) located at an inner surface of the first substrate (100), a transparent anode (201) located at an inner surface of the second substrate (200), a plurality of partition walls (202) located on the transparent anode (201), transmission holes (203) formed among the partition walls (202), an organic layer (204) located on the transparent anode (201) and in the transmission holes (203), a metal cathode (205) located on the organic layer (204) and the partition walls (202), and the metal cathode (205) is electrically connected to a drain of the thin film transistor (101). The OLED display device possesses a high aperture ratio and high transmittance. The manufacture method of the OLED display device provided by the present invention can manufacture an OLED display device with a high aperture ratio and high transmittance, and promote the yield and the productivity.
US09893129B2
A method for fabricating a COA array substrate, an array substrate and a display device are provided. The fabrication method comprises the following steps: forming a protection layer (12) on the TFT substrate (11); coating a photoresist layer (21) on the protection layer (12), the photoresist layer (12) functioning as a planarized layer (14), wherein the TFT substrate (11) comprises a substrate (111) and a TFT (112); forming a color filter receiving hole (32) in the photoresist layer (21) through a photolithography process; fabricating the color filter layer (31) in the color filter receiving hole (32). The above fabrication method can reduce the complexity and cost of conventional method for fabricating the array substrate.
US09893125B2
Disclosed is an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device for preventing a dark spot (dead pixel). The OLED display device includes a white OLED disposed in each of a plurality of pixels, a driving circuit unit disposed in each of the plurality of pixels, a first color filter disposed between the white OLED and the driving circuit unit, and a second color filter or a third color filter configured to overlap the first color filter between the white OLED and the driving circuit unit.
US09893123B2
An image sensor includes a substrate comprising a first face and a second surface which faces the first surface and on which light is incident, a semiconductor photoelectric conversion device on the substrate, a gate electrode located between the first surface of the substrate and the semiconductor photoelectric conversion device and extending in a first direction perpendicular to the first surface, and an organic photoelectric conversion device stacked on the second surface of the substrate.
US09893121B2
According to one embodiment, a magnetic memory includes a first metal layer including a first metal, a second metal layer on the first metal layer, the second metal layer including a second metal which is more easily oxidized than the first metal, the second metal layer having a first sidewall portion which contacts the first metal layer, and the second metal layer having a second sidewall portion above the first sidewall portion, the second sidewall portion which steps back from the first sidewall portion, a magnetoresistive element on the second metal layer, a third metal layer on the magnetoresistive element, and a first material which contacts a sidewall portion of the magnetoresistive element and the second sidewall portion of the second metal layer, the first material including an oxide of the second metal.
US09893120B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor structure and a method for manufacturing the same. The semiconductor structure includes a bottom electrode via (BEVA), a recap layer on the BEVA, and a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) layer over the recap layer. The BEVA includes a lining layer over a bottom and a sidewall of a trench of the BEVA, and electroplated copper over the lining layer, filling the trench of the BEVA. The recap layer overlaps a top surface of the lining layer and a top surface of the electroplated copper.
US09893118B2
A light emitting device that includes a conductive substrate, an insulating layer on the conductive substrate, a plurality of light emitting device cells on the insulating layer, a connection layer electrically interconnecting the light emitting device cells, a first contact section electrically connecting the conductive substrate with at least one light emitting device cell, and a second contact section on the at least one light emitting device cell.
US09893113B2
A radiation detection apparatus includes a planar detection unit which has a two-dimensional array of elements which obtain electrical signals based on radiation, and detects radiation upon irradiation, a driving circuit which drives switches for causing the elements to output the electrical signals, an obtaining circuit which obtains the electrical signals from the elements in accordance with the switches being driven, a support base on which the driving circuit and the obtaining circuit are arranged, and a conductive member having a part which is arranged in front of the detection unit when viewed from a radiation source which performs irradiation with radiation used for imaging and is electrically connected to ground of the driving circuit and ground of the obtaining circuit.
US09893110B2
A method of manufacturing a solid-state image sensor is provided. The method comprises preparing a structure which is covered by a protective film, depositing a first material by using a first color filter material on the protective film, forming a first color filter from the first material, depositing a second material by using a second color filter material after the forming the first color filter and forming a second color filter from the second material. An upper surface of the protective film has a concave portion. A part of the first material enters the concave portion in the depositing the first material, the first material is patterned so as to form a member in the concave portion from the first material in the forming the first color filter and the second material covers the member in the depositing the second material.
US09893100B2
A semiconductor optical device that integrates photodiodes (PDs) and optical waveguides coupling with the PDs and a method of forming the semiconductor optical device are disclosed. The optical waveguides in a portion in the lower cladding layer thereof provides a modified layer that forms a conduction barrier of the lower cladding layer. The modified layer is formed by converting the conduction type thereof or implanting protons therein. The modified layer prevents the electrical coupling between PDs through the waveguides.
US09893090B2
An array substrate and a fabrication method thereof, and a display device are provided. The array substrate comprises a gate line and a data line intersecting with each other. The data line and the gate line are formed in a same layer on a substrate, the data line is disconnected in a region of the gate line. A connection pattern is formed in the region of the gate line, the connection pattern is insulated from the gate line, and ends of the data line located on both sides of the gate line are electrically connected by the connection pattern.
US09893088B2
A thin film transistor device including: a substrate; a gate electrode; an electrode pair composed of a source electrode and a drain electrode; a channel layer; and a passivation layer. The channel layer is made of an oxide semiconductor. The passivation layer includes a first layer, a second layer, and a third layer layered one on top of another in this order with the first layer closest to the substrate. The first layer is made of one of silicon oxide, silicon nitride, and silicon oxynitride, the second layer is made of an Al compound, and the third layer is made of one of silicon oxide, silicon nitride, and silicon oxynitride.
US09893083B1
A method comprises forming material to be etched over a substrate. An etch mask comprising a silicon nitride-comprising region is formed elevationally over the material. The etch mask comprises an elevationally-extending mask opening in the silicon nitride-comprising region that has a minimum horizontal open dimension that is greater in an elevationally-innermost portion of the region than in an elevationally-outermost portion of the region. The elevationally-outermost portion has a greater etch rate in at least one of HF and H3PO4 than does the elevationally-innermost portion. The etch mask is used as a mask while etching an elevationally-extending mask opening into the material. The silicon nitride-comprising region is exposed to at least one of HF and H3PO4 to increase the minimum horizontal open dimension in the elevationally-outermost portion to a greater degree than increase, if any, in the minimum horizontal open dimension in the elevationally-innermost portion. Other aspects and embodiments, including structure independent of method of manufacture, are disclosed.
US09893078B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a conducting layer and an insulating layer that are disposed above a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of pillars that extend in a direction which crosses a surface of the semiconductor substrate, and a plate that is disposed between the plurality of pillars and extends in the same direction as the pillars. A surface of the plate, which faces the pillars, has convex portions and non-convex portions.
US09893069B2
A semiconductor device includes a device isolation region defining an active region in a substrate, and gate structures buried in the active region of the substrate. At least one of the gate structures includes a gate trench, a gate insulating layer conformally formed on an inner wall of the gate trench, a gate barrier pattern conformally formed on the gate insulating layer disposed on a lower portion of the gate trench, a gate electrode pattern formed on the gate barrier pattern and filling the lower portion of the gate trench, an electrode protection layer conformally formed on the gate insulating layer disposed on an upper portion of the gate trench to be in contact with the gate barrier pattern and the gate electrode pattern, a buffer oxide layer conformally formed on the electrode protection layer, and a gate capping insulating layer formed on the buffer oxide layer to fill the upper portion of the gate trench.
US09893064B2
An integrated circuit device includes a substrate, first and second fin-type active areas which extend in a first direction on the substrate, first and second gate lines on the substrate that extend in a second direction that crosses the first direction, and first and second contact structures. The first and second gate lines intersect the first and second fin-type active areas, respectively. The first contact structure is on the first fin-type active area at a side of the first gate line and contacts the first gate line. The second contact structure is on the second fin-type active area at a side of the second gate line. The first contact structure includes a first lower contact including metal silicide and a first upper contact on the first lower contact. The second contact structure includes a second lower contact including metal silicide and a second upper contact on the second lower contact.
US09893060B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a core device, and an input/output (I/O) device. The core device is disposed on the substrate. The core device includes a first gate electrode having a bottom surface and at least one sidewall. The bottom surface of the first gate electrode and the sidewall of the first gate electrode intersect to form a first interior angle. The I/O device is disposed on the substrate. The I/O device includes a second gate electrode having a bottom surface and at least one sidewall. The bottom surface of the second gate electrode and the sidewall of the second gate electrode intersect to form a second interior angle greater than the first interior angle of the first gate electrode.
US09893052B2
A semiconductor device includes semiconductor fins on semiconductor strips on a substrate. The semiconductor fins are parallel to each other. A gate stack is over the semiconductor fins, and a drain epitaxy semiconductor region is disposed laterally from a side of the gate stack and on the semiconductor strips. A first dielectric layer is over the substrate, and the first dielectric layer has a first metal layer. A second dielectric layer is over the first dielectric layer, and the second dielectric layer has a second metal layer. Vias extend from the second metal layer and through the first dielectric layer, and the vias are electrically coupled to the drain epitaxy semiconductor region.
US09893051B2
Disclosed herein is a light emitting diode chip having ESD protection. An exemplary embodiment provides a flip-chip type light emitting diode chip, which includes a light emitting diode part aligned on a substrate, and a reverse-parallel diode part disposed on the substrate and connected to the light emitting diode part. Within the flip-chip type light emitting diode chip, the light emitting diode part is placed together with reverse-parallel diode part, thereby providing a light emitting diode chip exhibiting strong resistance to electrostatic discharge.
US09893047B2
Disclosed is a process, structure, equipment and apparatus directed to a low cost, high volume approach for the assembly of ultra small die to three-dimensional (3D) or 2.5D semiconductor packages.
US09893043B2
Chip packages and methods of manufacture thereof are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of manufacturing a chip package includes: stacking a second chip on a first chip, wherein a first interconnect including a support structure and a bonding structure is disposed between the first chip and the second chip; bonding the first chip and the second chip via a thermal process applied to the bonding structure of the first interconnect; stacking a third chip on the second chip, wherein a second interconnect including a support structure and a bonding structure is disposed between the second chip and the third chip; bonding the second chip and the third chip via the thermal process applied to the bonding structure of the second interconnect; and reflowing the bond between the first and second chips and simultaneously reflowing the bond between the second and third chips.
US09893035B1
A stacked package structure includes a first package structure having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The first package structure includes a least one first die having a first active region disposed at a bottom of the first die; a first redistribution layer disposed on the top surface of the first die; and a plurality of first bumps disposed on the bottom surface of the first active region.
US09893025B2
A high isolation wideband switch is disclosed. In one aspect, the switch includes an integrated circuit package having an integrated circuit die with a first plurality of leads that is positioned on a package substrate that has a second plurality of leads. The first leads of the integrated circuit die are connected to the second the leads of the package substrate via bond wires and a first electrical coupling occurs between the first leads and the integrated circuit die in response to an RF signal applied to the integrated circuit package. The bond wires have a second electrical coupling in response to the RF signal and the bond wires are arranged such that the second electrical coupling is matched to the first electrical coupling within a selected frequency band so as to reduce the overall electrical coupling of the integrated circuit package for RF signals within the selected frequency band.
US09893024B2
The present disclosure provides a light emitting device including a serially-connected LED array comprising a plurality of LED cells on a substrate. The serially-connected LED array includes a first LED cell, a second LED cell, and a serially-connected LED sub-array comprising at least three LED cells intervening between the first and second LED cell; and a plurality of conducting metals formed on the LED cells to electrically connect the plurality of LED cell in series; wherein among the LED sub-array which are continuously and sequentially connected by the conducting metals, each LED cell connects to a previous LED cell by a first connecting direction and connects to a next LED cell by a second connecting direction, the first connecting direction is not parallel to the second connecting direction.
US09893012B2
A structure and method for fabricating an e-Fuse device in a semiconductor device is described. A method for fabricating an e-Fuse device includes providing a trench structure including an anode region, a cathode region and a fuse element which interconnects the anode and cathode regions in a dielectric material on a first surface of a substrate. The fuse element has a smaller cross section and a higher aspect ratio than the anode and cathode regions. An aspect ratio reducing layer is selectively formed in the anode and cathode regions of the trench while leaving the fuse element region of the trench substantially free of the aspect ratio reducing layer. The trench is filled with copper, both over the aspect ratio reducing layer in the anode and cathode regions and in the fuse element region. The copper is annealed to create a large grained copper structure in the anode and cathode regions and a fine grained copper structure in the fuse element. Another aspect of the invention is an e-Fuse device. The e-Fuse device includes an anode region, a cathode region and a fuse element which interconnects the anode and cathode regions in a dielectric material on a first surface of a substrate. The fuse element has a smaller cross section and a higher aspect ratio than the anode and cathode regions. The anode and cathode regions are comprised of a large grained copper layer and an aspect ratio reducing layer, and the fuse element is comprised of a fine grained copper structure.
US09893009B2
In some embodiments, a semiconductor arrangement comprises a stacked interconnect structure comprising a first interconnect structure and a second interconnect structure. The stacked interconnect structure has a relatively larger aspect ratio than the first interconnect structure or the second interconnect structure, which reduces resistivity and improves performance. In some embodiments, a duplicate interconnect path is inserted into a design layout for a semiconductor arrangement. The duplicated interconnect path provides an additional path between a first net and a second net connected by an interconnect path. Connecting the first net and the second net by the interconnect path and the duplicated interconnect path reduces resistivity and improves performance. In some embodiments, a semiconductor arrangement comprises cell pin operatively coupled to a duplicate cell pin. The cell pin and the duplicate cell pin are operatively coupled to a logic structure to reduce resistivity and improve performance.
US09893008B2
An electronic isolation device is formed on a monolithic substrate and includes a plurality of passive isolation components. The isolation components are formed in three metal levels. The first metal level is separated from the monolithic substrate by an inorganic PMD layer. The second metal level is separated from the first metal level by a layer of silicon dioxide. The third metal level is separated from the second metal level by at least 20 microns of polyimide or PBO. The isolation components include bondpads on the third metal level for connections to other devices. A dielectric layer is formed over the third metal level, exposing the bondpads. The isolation device contains no transistors.
US09893001B2
A semiconductor device includes a quadrilateral package with a first pair of opposed sides and a second pair of opposed sides. Both sides of the first pair of opposed sides are provided with electrical contact leads. Only one side of the second pair of opposed sides is provided with electrical contact leads. The side of the second pair of opposed sides without electrical contact leads is a leadless side. That side is not a molded side of the package, but rather is defined by a cut surface.
US09892996B2
A semiconductor device includes a plurality of die pad sections, a plurality of semiconductor chips, each of which is arranged in each of the die pad sections, a resin encapsulation portion having a recess portion for exposing at least a portion of the die pad sections, the resin encapsulation portion configured to cover the die pad sections and the semiconductor chips, and a heat radiation layer arranged in the recess portion. The heat radiation layer includes an elastic layer exposed toward a direction in which the recess portion is opened. The heat radiation layer directly faces at least a portion of the die pad sections. The elastic layer overlaps with at least a portion of the die pad sections when seen in a thickness direction of the heat radiation layer.
US09892994B2
An integrated circuit chip attachment in a microstructure device is accomplished through the use of an adhesive-based material in which graphene flakes are incorporated. This results in superior thermal conductivity. The spatial orientation of the graphene flakes is controlled, for example by adhering polar molecules to the graphene flakes and exposing the flakes to an external force field, so that the graphene flakes have desired orientations under the integrated circuit chip, alongside of the integrated circuit chip and above the integrated circuit chip.
US09892987B2
The present disclosure relates to a thermally enhanced semiconductor package, which includes a module substrate, a thinned flip chip die over the substrate, a first mold compound component, and a thermally enhanced mold compound component. The first mold compound component resides over the module substrate, surrounds the thinned flip chip die, and extends above an upper surface of the thinned flip chip die to form a cavity over the upper surface of the thinned flip chip die. The thermally enhanced mold compound component includes a lower portion filling a lower region of the cavity and residing over the upper surface of the thinned flip chip die, and an upper portion filling an upper region of the cavity and residing over the lower portion. A first average thermal conductivity of the lower portion is at least 1.2 times greater than a second average thermal conductivity of the upper portion.
US09892986B2
Disclosed herein is a packaged wafer manufacturing method including the steps of forming a groove along each division line on the front side of a wafer, each groove having a depth greater than the finished thickness of the wafer, next removing a chamfered portion from the outer circumference of the wafer to thereby form a step portion having a depth greater than the depth of each groove, next setting a die of a molding apparatus on the bottom surface of the step portion of the wafer in the condition where a space is defined between the die and the wafer, and next filling a mold resin into this space. Accordingly, the device area of the wafer is covered with the mold resin and each groove of the wafer is filled with the mold resin to thereby obtain a packaged wafer.
US09892985B2
One aspect of the present disclosure provides a semiconductor device. In some embodiments, the semiconductor device includes an integrated circuit die, at least one conductive terminal disposed on the integrated circuit die, a frame positioned on the integrated circuit die, wherein the frame substantially exposes the at least one conductive terminal, and at least one conductive bump positioned in the frame, wherein the at least one conductive bump electrically connects the at least one conductive terminal.
US09892979B2
A semiconductor device or article includes a substrate including a feature and divided into a feature region in which the feature is formed and a pad region in which the substrate is substantially unmodified, and a layer of interest applied over the substrate and feature. The pad and feature regions are irradiated and resulting photoelectron intensities are recorded and used to determine a thickness of the layer of interest over the feature. In addition, if the layer of interest includes an atomic species distinct from any in the substrate, an actual dose of the atomic species can be determined.
US09892977B2
A method of generating a fin of a FinFET includes depositing a first hard mask layer on or above a first dummy gate and a second dummy gate, generating first spacers and second spacers by etching the first hard mask layer, removing only the first spacers, depositing a second hard mask layer, generating third spacers and fourth spacers by etching the second hard mask layer, removing the first dummy gate and the second dummy gate, generating first fins using the third spacers, and generating second fins using the second spacers and the fourth spacers.
US09892972B2
A 3D semiconductor device including: a first structure including first single crystal transistors; a second structure including second single crystal transistors, the second structure overlaying the first single crystal transistors, where at least one of the second single crystal transistors is at least partially self-aligned to at least one of the first single crystal transistors; and at least one thermal conducting path from at least one of the first single crystal transistors and second single crystal transistors to an external surface of the device.
US09892969B2
A process of forming an electronic device includes providing a substrate having a major surface; etching a portion of a the substrate to define a trench extending from the major surface, wherein the portion of the trench has a first width, W1, along the major surface and a second width, W2, at a bottom of the portion of the trench, and wherein the first width is greater than the second width; depositing a protective layer along side surfaces of the portion of the trench; etching the substrate to extend a depth of the trench after depositing the protective layer; and removing the protective layer.
US09892964B1
A gap-fill polymer for filling fine pattern gaps, which has a low dielectric constant (low-k) and excellent gap filling properties, may consist of a compound formed by condensation polymerization of a first oligomer represented by the formula 1 and a second oligomer represented by the formula 2.
US09892962B2
A method of forming a wafer level chip scale package interconnect may include: forming a post-passivation interconnect (PPI) layer over a substrate; forming an interconnect over the PPI layer; and releasing a molding compound material over the substrate, the molding compound material flowing to laterally encapsulate a portion of the interconnect.
US09892956B1
An assembly used in a process chamber for depositing a film on a wafer and including a pedestal extending from a central axis. An actuator is configured for controlling movement of the pedestal. A central shaft extends between the actuator and pedestal, the central shaft configured to move the pedestal along the central axis. A lift pad is configured to rest upon the pedestal and having a pad top surface configured to support a wafer placed thereon. A pad shaft extends between the actuator and the lift pad and controls movement of the lift pad. The pad shaft is positioned within the central shaft and is configured to separate the lift pad from the pedestal top surface by a process rotation displacement when the pedestal is in an upwards position. The pad shaft is configured to rotate relative to the pedestal top surface between first and second angular orientations.
US09892947B2
A chamber monitoring system may include a parallel architecture in which a single sensor control system is coupled to a number of different processing chamber control board sensor lines. In an illustrative embodiment, a single rotation sensor such as a tachometer may reside in a central control unit remote from the processing chambers such that rotation data may be processed by a single system and thereafter routed according to a variety of different network communication protocols to the main system controller, a factory interface, or both. In this and other embodiments, pull-up networks in the central control unit and the chamber control boards are matched so as to reduce electrical signal anomalies such as crowbar effects. The central control unit may be programmed via a main system controller to operate according to user defined parameters, which in turn may enable the system to differentiate between certain operating states.
US09892946B1
A processing apparatus includes a spin coating chamber, an ultraviolet curing chamber, a transfer module and an enclosure. The transfer module is assigned with a plurality transfer destinations, in which two of the transfer destinations are respectively located within the spin coating chamber and the ultraviolet curing chamber. The transfer module, the spin coating chamber and the ultraviolet curing chamber are enclosed by the enclosure.
US09892940B2
A spray assembly including a spray pipe with a bottom provided with a plurality of first through holes, each having a nozzle, wherein the nozzle includes a slider with an area larger than the first through hole, to cover the first through hole. The nozzle is connected to the slider and protrudes from the first through hole; the nozzle also includes a locking member to connect the slider to the spray pipe. The slider can move to adjust the position of the nozzle in the first through hole. There also provides a wet etching device including a spray unit, wherein the spray unit includes a plurality of spray assemblies as mentioned above, and a plurality of spray pipes in the plurality of spray assemblies are arranged in parallel with each other or approximately in parallel with each other.
US09892937B2
The present disclosure relates to enhancing the thermal performance of encapsulated flip chip dies. According to an exemplary process, a plurality of flip chip dies are attached on a top surface of a carrier, and a first mold compound is applied over the top surface of the carrier to encapsulate the plurality of flip chip dies. The first mold compound is thinned down to expose a substrate of each flip chip die and the substrate of each flip chip die is then substantially etched away to provide an etched flip chip die that has an exposed surface at the bottom of a cavity. Next, a second mold compound with high thermal conductivity is applied to substantially fill each cavity and the top surface of the second mold compound is planarized. Finally, the encapsulated etched flip chip dies can be marked, singulated, and tested as a module.
US09892931B2
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, an apparatus includes an ionizer. The ionizer is configured to dispatch a reactive ion on a surface. The apparatus also has an implanter and the implanter has an outlet releasing an accelerated charged particle on the surface.
US09892920B1
A method includes providing a first part, a second part and a bonding material between the first part and the second part. The first part and the second part are made of a first material selected from a group consisting of silicon and germanium. The bonding material includes a second material that is different than the first material. The method includes arranging the first part, the bonding material, and the second part in a furnace; and creating a bonded part by heating the first part, the second part and the bonding material to a predetermined temperature for a predetermined period followed by a predetermined solidification period. The predetermined temperature is greater than 1.5 times a eutectic temperature of an alloy including the first material and the second material and less than a melting temperature of the first material.
US09892919B2
A first nickel film is deposited inside a contact hole of an interlayer dielectric formed on an n+-type SiC substrate. Irradiation with a first laser is carried out, forming an Ohmic contact with a silicon carbide semiconductor. A second nickel film and a front surface electrode film are deposited on the first nickel film, forming a source electrode. The back surface of the n+-type SiC substrate is ground, and a third nickel film is formed on the ground back surface of the n+-type SiC substrate. Irradiation with a second laser is carried out, forming an Ohmic contact with the silicon carbide semiconductor. A fourth nickel film and a back surface electrode film are deposited on the third nickel film, forming a drain electrode. By so doing, it is possible to prevent electrical characteristic deterioration of a semiconductor device, and to prevent warping and cracking of a wafer.
US09892914B2
Disclosed is a method of forming a semiconductor device using a self-assembly (DSA) patterning process. The method includes forming a patterned feature over a substrate; applying an orientation material that includes a first polymer and a second polymer over the substrate, wherein the first polymer has a first activation energy and the second polymer has a second activation energy; baking the substrate at first temperature thereby forming a first orientation layer that includes the first polymer; baking the substrate at second temperature thereby forming a second orientation layer that includes the second polymer; and performing a directed self-assembly (DSA) process over the first and the second orientation layers.
US09892909B2
A film forming method for forming a silicon nitride film on a substrate within a vacuum container includes a first process of supplying a gas of a silicon raw material to the substrate to cause the silicon raw material gas to be adsorbed onto the substrate, a second process of subsequently supplying an ammonia gas to the substrate in a non-plasma-converted state to cause the ammonia gas to be physically adsorbed onto the substrate, a third process of subsequently forming a reaction product layer by supplying active species obtained by plasma-converting a plasma-forming gas for forming plasma to the substrate, thereby causing ammonia physically adsorbed onto the substrate to react with the silicon raw material, and forming the silicon nitride film by depositing the reaction product layer by repeating multiple times a cycle including the first process, the second process and the third process.
US09892906B2
A lamp 10 is described which may be used in an automotive headlight 12. The lamp 10 comprises at least one filament 20 within a transparent lamp vessel 16. A color filter portion 30 is provided through which light is emitted with a color change. The lamp vessel 16 further comprises a color transparent portion, through which light is emitted without a color change. The color transparent portion is arranged such that an illumination beam of light 40 is emitted through the color transparent portion to achieve a non-colored illumination. The color filter portion 30 is arranged such that only peripheral and/or scattered portions of light are emitted through the color filter portion to achieve a color appearance of the headlight 12 in operation of the lamp 10.
US09892904B2
There is provided a light-emitting device capable of suppressing a decrease in a light emission amount. A light-emitting device including a container member including a ceramic package provided with a depressed portion serving as a discharge space, and a light transmitting member which is attached to the ceramic package via a joining layer formed of a joining material so as to close the depressed portion; an inert gas encapsulated inside the discharge space; and a couple of discharge electrodes which are disposed in the depressed portion of the ceramic package so as to be spaced from each other, the joining material including glass exhibiting a white color, and oxide ceramic powder.
US09892902B2
Used as an ion beam guiding unit for introducing primary ions to the surface of the sample is an ion optical system of reflectron TOFMS for achieving time focusing including an orthogonal acceleration unit for accelerating the ions in the orthogonal direction, a flight space of a non-electric field, and an ion reflector for forming a reflecting electric field. A dual stage type is used as the ion reflector to superimpose the correction potential showing a predetermined non-linear potential distribution on the potential having a linear gradient of a uniform electric field at the side deeper than the second order focusing position that fulfills the Mamyrin solution, thereby correcting the temporal spread of ion packets emitted from the orthogonal acceleration unit until the deviation of third or higher order in energy, achieving high time focusing.
US09892899B2
An ion manipulation device for guiding or confining ions in an ion processing apparatus. The device has a first circuit board, wherein at least one first electrode for manipulating the path of ions is mounted on a mounting surface of the first circuit board; a second circuit board, wherein at least one second electrode for manipulating the path of ions is mounted on a mounting surface of the second circuit board; at least one bridging electrode for manipulating the path of ions, wherein the at least one bridging electrode is mounted to both the mounting surface of the first circuit board and the mounting surface of the second circuit board, wherein the bridging electrode is configured to hold the first circuit board and the second circuit board apart from each other in a fixed spatial relationship in which the mounting surface of the second circuit board faces towards the mounting surface of the first circuit board.
US09892884B2
An exposure apparatus comprising, a stage configured to receive a substrate, a mark array disposed on the stage and comprising a first mark and a second mark separated from each other by a first distance, a first beam irradiator configured to irradiate a first beam to the first mark, a second beam irradiator being separated from the first beam by a pitch greater than the first distance and configured to irradiate a second beam to the second mark, a detector disposed over the mark array and configured to receive a third beam reflected by the first mark and a fourth beam reflected by the second mark, and a controller configured to control the position of the stage using an output of the detector.
US09892882B1
A magnetron characterized by a supporting cylinder, a field emission cathode, a slow wave structure, and a waveguide. The slow wave structure includes an anode block positioned coaxial with and surrounded by the field emission cathode. The anode block includes sixteen radially-projecting vane panels defining sixteen resonant cavities therebetween. Each of the resonant cavities may comprise a resonant channel portion positioned radially proximate to and axially coextensive with a center axis of the anode block. A void between the anode block and the field emission cathode, along with the resonant cavities, define an interaction region. The waveguide, comprising a cylinder characterized by an exterior layer surrounding an interior void, is capacitively coupled to the slow wave structure and configured to deliver radio frequency (RF) energy extracted from the interaction region by one (or, optionally, two) excitation rings mounted at a downstream end of the anode block.
US09892878B2
A safety switching apparatus for switching-on or switching-off a technical installation has a first input for receiving a first clock signal via a feed line, said first clock signal having a first clock frequency. A failsafe control/evaluation unit processes the first clock signal in a failsafe manner in order to generate an output signal for switching-on or switching-off the technical installation in response to the first clock signal. A clock reference provides a second clock signal having a second clock frequency. A current-increasing circuit having a switching element is arranged for selectively increasing an input current into the first input. The switching element is coupled to the clock reference and selectively activates or deactivates the current-increasing circuit in response to the second clock frequency.
US09892876B2
A tactile switch on a mobile electronic device having a housing is provided. The tactile switch is comprised of a pressure sensitive interface on an exterior portion of the housing, a switch mechanism, and at least one pathway coupled to the pressure sensitive interface and extending from the pressure sensitive interface to the switch mechanism. The switch mechanism is at a remote location from the pressure sensitive interface. The pathway is formed in an interior portion of the housing. The tactile switch further includes a viscous fluid substantially filling the pathway. The tactile switch is configured such that when pressure is applied to the pressure sensitive interface, the viscous fluid exerts pressure on the switch mechanism, causing the switch to make an electrical contact.
US09892875B2
An insulation rod cover is fitted to an end portion of a puffer shaft and the insulation rod cover is fitted to a circuit-breaker side coupling pin coupling between a puffer shaft and an insulation rod, thereby allowing the insulation rod cover to be held at a joint between the puffer shaft and the insulation rod. In a first half of a circuit-breaking operation, the insulation rod cover is positioned in the exhaust cylinder and the exhaust of the hot gas from the puffer shaft is suppressed to increase the pressure of an extinguishing gas to be sprayed onto the arc. In a last half of the circuit-breaking operation, the insulation rod cover is positioned in a guard cylinder to promote the exhaust of the hot gas from the puffer shaft as well as to suppress the flow of the hot gas into the insulation cylinder.
US09892872B2
Disclosed are a disconnecting switch and an earthing switch for a gas insulated switchgear capable of implementing three positions by a single operator and may have a stable interpolarity contact.According to the present invention, the size of a gas-insulated switchgear may be reduced by operating a disconnecting switch and an earthing switch by a single operator, and implementing three positions.
US09892856B2
A ceramic electronic component includes a laminated body including ceramic layers and conductor layers stacked alternately; and first and second external electrodes provided on portions of the laminated body. Each of the first and second external electrodes includes a sintered metal layer provided on the laminated body, a conductive resin layer covering the sintered metal layer, and a plated layer covering the conductive resin layer. The maximum length of the sintered metal layer provided on the second principal surface is shorter than the maximum length of the sintered metal layer provided on each of the first and second side surfaces.
US09892853B2
LTCC devices are produced from dielectric compositions comprising a mixture of precursor materials that, upon firing, forms a dielectric material comprising a matrix of titanates of alkaline earth metals, the matrix doped with at least one selected from rare-earth element, aluminum oxide, silicon oxide and bismuth oxide.
US09892851B2
A DC-DC converter assembly a power stage die of a DC-DC converter attached to a board, an output inductor attached to the board and electrically connected to an output of the power stage die, the output inductor accommodating the power stage die under the output inductor, a plurality of input capacitors attached to the board and electrically connected to input terminals of the power stage die, an output capacitor attached to the board and electrically connected to the output inductor, and a plurality of decoupling capacitors attached to the board and electrically connected to power terminals of the power stage die. A total footprint of the power stage die, the output inductor, the input capacitors, the output capacitor and the decoupling capacitors is at least a third of the combined surface area of the power stage die, the output inductor, the input capacitors, the output capacitor and the decoupling capacitors.
US09892848B2
A detection apparatus includes: a measurement coil disposed in a vicinity of a power reception coil configured to receive power supplied through a magnetic field; a measurement section configured to measure a voltage of the measurement coil as a measurement coil voltage; and a foreign object detection section configured to obtain an electrical characteristic value of at least one of the power reception coil and the measurement coil on the basis of the measurement coil voltage, and to detect a foreign object in the magnetic field if the electrical characteristic value is lower than a predetermined lower limit threshold value.
US09892846B2
Disclosed is a wireless power transmitter. A wireless power transmitter includes a transmission coil for generating a magnetic field by receiving power from a power source, a transmission resonant coil for transmitting power to a receiving coil by using the magnetic field generated from the transmission coil by using resonance, a detection unit for detecting an approach of the receiving coil and a power regulator for adjusting an output of the power source, which supplies the power, based on the approach of the receiving coil detected by the detection unit.
US09892843B2
One object is to provide a laminated inductor having a reduced thickness without reduction in the magnetic characteristic and the insulation quality. The laminated inductor includes a first magnetic layer, an internal conductor, second magnetic layers, third magnetic layers, and a pair of external electrodes. The first magnetic layer has a thickness of 4 to 19 μm, and includes three or more magnetic alloy particles arranged in the thickness direction and an oxide film binding the magnetic alloy particles together and containing Cr. The internal conductor includes a plurality of conductive patterned portions electrically connected to each other via the first magnetic layer. The second magnetic layers are composed of magnetic alloy particles and disposed around the conductive patterned portions. The third magnetic layers are composed of magnetic alloy particles and disposed so as to be opposed to each other in thickness direction.
US09892835B2
The present invention relates to magnetically aligned carbon nanoparticle composites and methods of preparing the same. The composites comprise carbon nanoparticles, host material, magnetically sensitive nanoparticles and surfactant. The composites may have enhanced mechanical, thermal, and/or electrical properties.
US09892830B2
A production method for an electronic component using an exterior packaging material containing a silicone resin comprises a step of dipping an element into an exterior packaging material containing a silicone resin to which aluminum hydroxide or magnesium hydroxide and a nonpolar solvent are added, an additive amount of the aluminum hydroxide or the magnesium hydroxide being controlled to a range of 60 [wt. %] or more to less than 70 [wt. %], a step of drying the exterior packaging material formed on a surface of the element to evaporate the nonpolar solvent and cause a silicone resin component to appear on a surface of the exterior packaging material, and a curing step of curing the exterior packaging material.
US09892829B2
A fuel sender device for a vehicle may include a resistance substrate having a conductor part, a contact plate having a contact point contacting the conductor part, and a float unit moving up and down according to a variation of an oil surface and angularly rotating the contact plate, wherein the fuel sender device includes a variable contact point that allows the contact plate to variably contact the conductor part while moving up and down and rotating according to the variation of the oil surface.
US09892827B2
An MOCVD system fabricates high quality superconductor tapes with variable thicknesses. The MOCVD system can include a gas flow chamber between two parallel channels in a housing. A substrate tape is heated and then passed through the MOCVD housing such that the gas flow is perpendicular to the tape's surface. Precursors are injected into the gas flow for deposition on the substrate tape. In this way, superconductor tapes can be fabricated with variable thicknesses, uniform precursor deposition, and high critical current densities.
US09892824B2
A method for manufacturing power cables may include: providing at least one insulated conductor; and/or arranging a water barrier around the at least one insulated conductor. Arranging the water barrier may include: providing foil having opposite edges; wrapping the foil around the at least one insulated conductor until the edges of the foil overlap; fastening the overlapped edges of the foil to each other with bonding agent to form a corresponding foil seam; and/or depositing a metal coating on the foil at the seam by a thermal spray process. A power cable may include: at least one insulated conductor; at least one first water barrier surrounding the at least one insulated conductor, the at least one first water barrier being wrapped foil having edges overlapped and fastened by bonding agent, the overlapped edges and bonding agent forming a foil seam; and/or a thermal sprayed metal coating on the seam.
US09892815B2
Electrical conductors, electrically conductive structures, and electronic devices including the same
An electrical conductor including a first conductive layer including a plurality of ruthenium oxide nanosheets, wherein the plurality of ruthenium oxide nanosheets include an electrical connection between contacting ruthenium oxide nanosheets and at least one of the plurality of ruthenium oxide nanosheets includes a plurality of metal clusters on a surface of the at least one ruthenium oxide nanosheet.
US09892813B1
A laminated metal consisting of any metallic or semi-metallic base material onto which alternate layers of monocrystalline nickel and monolayer graphene are deposited. The base material can be any metal, such as alloys of steel, copper, aluminum, nickel, palladium, cobalt, platinum, or silicon. The finished material will have one or more layers of nickel/graphene on its surface. In the case of wire, the layers are coaxial to the core material.
US09892812B2
Methods, systems, and devices of Fourier ptychographic X-ray imaging by capturing a plurality of variably-illuminated, low-resolution intensity X-ray images of a specimen and computationally reconstructing a high-resolution X-ray image of the specimen by iteratively updating overlapping regions in Fourier space with the variably-illuminated, low-resolution intensity X-ray images.
US09892807B2
A method, system, and apparatus for the selective transfer of thermoelectrically generated electric power to operation systems of a nuclear reactor system including thermoelectrically converting nuclear reactor generated heat to electrical energy and selectively transferring the electrical energy to at least one operation system of the nuclear reactor system.
US09892804B2
A nuclear reactor control rod with SiC fiber reinforced structure comprises wing sections and a central joint section. Each of the wing sections is a flat plate spreading axially and radially, and includes storage tubes and a wing surface structural member. The storage tubes are arranged in parallel in a flat plane and contain a neutron absorbing member containing the neutron absorbing material. The wing surface structural member is formed by molding of SiC/SiC composite material as to cover surfaces of the storage tubes and formed to have an outward shape of a flat plate. The central joint section and storage tubes are made of SiC/SiC composite material. The central joint section bundles the wing sections together at center. The storage tubes are bundled together with fibers made of SiC or a textile made of SiC.
US09892803B2
A processor includes a plurality of processing cores and a cache memory shared by the plurality of processing cores. The cache memory comprises a size engine that receives a respective request from each of the plurality of processing cores to perform an operation associated with the cache memory. The size engine fuses the respective requests from two or more of the plurality of processing cores into a fused request. To perform the fused request the size engine performs a single instance of the operation and notifies each of the two or more of the plurality of processing cores that its respective request has been completed when the single instance of the operation is complete.
US09892799B1
A read voltage tracking method, a memory storage device and a memory control circuit unit are provided. The method includes obtaining a plurality of test read voltages corresponding to a plurality of voltage adjustment values, and obtaining an optimal read voltage according to the voltage adjustment values. The step of obtaining the test read voltages includes obtaining a second test read voltage by adjusting a first test read voltage according to a first voltage adjustment value, and obtaining a third test read voltage by adjusting the second test read voltage according to a second voltage adjustment value, and the first test read voltage is a preset test read voltage, the first voltage adjustment value is a preset voltage adjustment value, and the first voltage adjustment value is different from the second voltage adjustment value.
US09892798B2
A data storage device receives a write data command and data. The data is stored in a buffer of the data storage device. The data storage device issues a command complete status indication. After the command complete status indication is issued, the data are stored in a primary memory of the data storage device. The primary memory comprises a first type of non-volatile memory and the buffer comprises a second type of non-volatile memory that is different from the first type of non-volatile memory.
US09892791B2
Systems and methods for reducing sensing time for sensing data states stored within a plurality of memory cells are described. In some cases, the ramping of a word line connected to the plurality of memory cells may be delayed until a threshold current corresponding with a particular number of erased memory cells of the plurality of memory cells has been met or exceeded. The threshold current may be compared with a summation of a first set of detection currents corresponding with a first set of memory cells of the plurality of memory cells that have been sensed to be in a conducting state while the word line is set to a voltage level for sensing erased memory cells. The threshold current may be set based on a chip temperature and/or a particular number of bit errors that occurred during a prior sensing operation.
US09892785B2
Phase change material can be set with a multistage set process. Set control logic can heat a phase change semiconductor material (PM) to a first temperature for a first period of time. The first temperature is configured to promote nucleation of a crystalline state of the PM. The control logic can increase the temperature to a second temperature for a second period of time. The second temperature is configured to promote crystal growth within the PM. The nucleation and growth of the crystal set the PM to the crystalline state. The multistage ramping up of the temperature can improve the efficiency of the set process relative to traditional approaches.
US09892783B2
A non-volatile memory device comprises: a memory cell array that includes one or more memory groups each including memory cells, each of the memory cells having variable resistance value to hold a piece of data; a read circuit that, for each of the one or more memory groups, performs a read operation to obtain pieces of time information related to the memory cells in the memory group; and a data generation circuit that generates individual identification information on a basis of order of the memory cells in each of the one or more memory groups, the order corresponding to ascending order or descending order of the pieces of time information related to the memory cells in the memory group. The read circuit obtains each of the pieces of time information on a basis of a discharge phenomenon or charge phenomenon that depends on the resistance value of a corresponding one of the memory cells.
US09892781B2
A dual port static random access memory cell includes a write port portion and a read port portion. The write port further includes a WPU1 and a WPU2; a WPD1 and a WPD2; and a WPG1 and a WPG2. The WPU1, WPU2, WPD1 and WPD2 are configured to form two cross-coupled inverters for data storage, wherein the WPG1 and WPG2 are connected to the two cross-coupled inverters for writing. The read port portion further includes a read pull down device (RPD) and a read pass gate device (RPG) connected to the two cross-coupled inverters for reading. Each of the WPU1 and WPU2 includes a single FinFET. Each of the WPD1, WPD2, WPG1, WPG2, RPD and RPG includes multiple FinFETs. The WPD1, WPD2, WPG1 and WPG2 include a same number of FinFETs. The RPD includes a number of FinFETs greater than a number of FinFETs in the RPG.
US09892780B1
An apparatus includes a first terminal configured to communicate data with an outside of the apparatus, a second terminal configured to receive a first power source potential, a third terminal configured to receive a second power source potential lower than the first power source potential, a fourth terminal configured to be coupled to a calibration resistor, an output buffer including first to third nodes coupled to the first to third terminals respectively, and a replica circuit including fourth and fifth nodes coupled to the second and third terminals respectively, and sixth node coupled to the fourth terminal.
US09892777B2
Methods, systems, and devices for operating a ferroelectric memory cell or cells are described. A first ferroelectric memory cell may be initialized to a first state and a second ferroelectric memory cell may be initialized to a different state. Each state may have a corresponding digit line voltage. The digit lines of the first and second ferroelectric memory cells may be connected so that charge-sharing occurs between the two digit lines. The voltage resulting from the charge-sharing between the two digit lines may be used by other components as a reference voltage.
US09892776B2
Methods, systems, and devices for operating a ferroelectric memory cell or cells are described. A memory array may be operated in a half density mode, in which a subset of the memory cells is designated as reference memory cells. Each reference memory cell may be paired to an active memory cell and may act as a reference signal when sensing the active memory cell. Each pair of active and reference memory cells may be connected to a single access line. Sense components (e.g., sense amplifiers) associated with reference memory cells may be deactivated in half density mode. The entire memory array may be operated in half density mode, or a portion of the array may operate in half density mode and the remainder of the array may operate in full density mode.
US09892764B2
A semiconductor chip includes a first circuit block configured to receive a first power supply voltage through a first power supply terminal of the semiconductor chip, a second circuit block configured to receive a second power supply voltage through a second power supply terminal of the semiconductor chip, and an alternative supply unit that is connected between the first power supply terminal and the first circuit block and receives the first power supply voltage through the first power supply terminal. The alternative supply circuit is configured to apply an alternative power supply voltage generated using the second power supply voltage to the first circuit block in response to a supply of the first power supply voltage being stopped.
US09892760B1
Apparatus and methods for combining metadata with video into a video stream using a 32-bit aligned payload, that is computer storage efficient and human discernable. The metadata is stored in a track in a self-describing structure. Metadata track may be decoded using an identifier reference table that is substantially smaller than typical fourCC identifier tables. The combined metadata/video stream is compatible with a standard video stream convention and may be played using conventional media player applications that reads media files compliant with MP4/MOV container format. The proposed format may enable decoding of metadata during streaming, partitioning of combined video stream without loss of metadata. The proposed format and/or metadata protocol provides for temporal synchronization of metadata with video frames.
US09892755B1
Technology is described for directing media content to a target device. A media content directing request may be received from a source device indicating that the source device intends to direct media content to the target device that is available for media content playback. A list of available target devices for media content playback may be provided to the source device. A playback message may be received from the source device that includes a selection of the target device from the list of available target devices. Communication of the playback message to the target device may be facilitated to initiate playback of media content from a media content playback server as directed by the source device.
US09892751B1
An apparatus, according to one embodiment, includes a first module and a second module each having an array of transducers oriented orthogonal to an intended direction of tape travel thereacross, and an actuator configured to exert a force on one of the modules for causing a relative movement of the first module with respect to the second module for aligning the transducers of the first module with the transducers of the second module in a direction of tape travel thereacross. The first module is movable relative to the second module. Moreover, longitudinal axes of the arrays of the first and second modules are not pivotable from orthogonal to the intended direction of tape travel thereacross. Other systems, methods, and computer program products are described in additional embodiments.
US09892749B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for provisioning storage devices. An example method includes determining a write status of an adjacent track that is adjacent to a target track of a shingled magnetic recording (SMR) disk drive. The method may further include determining an offset for a write head based on the write status of the adjacent track and positioning the write head according to the offset.
US09892747B2
An apparatus according to one embodiment includes a transducer structure having a lower shield and/or an upper shield. A current-perpendicular-to-plane sensor is positioned adjacent the shield(s). An electrical lead layer is positioned between the sensor and the upper or lower shield. The electrical lead layer is in electrical communication with the sensor. A spacer layer is positioned between the electrical lead layer and the upper or lower shield. A conductivity of the electrical lead layer is higher than a conductivity of the spacer layer.
US09892743B2
Embodiments are directed to using a three-dimensional sound space to analyze security surveillance information. According to one embodiment, the three-dimensional sound space can comprise part of a security surveillance system in which sound sources related to security surveillance information can be presented and a user can efficiently navigate even a large number of sound sources in the three-dimensional sound space. Effective audio surveillance relies on the ability of the surveillance personnel to efficiently identify calls that need further analysis and calls that need no further analysis without introducing too many false negative or false positive conditions. Utilization of three-dimensional space described herein can increase the ease with which security analysts review audio content and identify relevant audio content that requires further analysis.
US09892741B2
The present document relates to audio source coding systems. In particular, the present document relates to audio source coding systems which make use of linear prediction in combination with a filterbank. A method for estimating a first sample (615) of a first subband signal in a first subband of an audio signal is described. The first subband signal of the audio signal is determined using an analysis filterbank (612) comprising a plurality of analysis filters which provide a plurality of subband signals in a plurality of subbands from the audio signal, respectively. The method comprises determining a model parameter (613) of a signal model; determining a prediction coefficient to be applied to a previous sample (614) of a first decoded subband signals derived from the first subband signal, based on the signal model, based on the model parameter (613) and based on the analysis filterbank (612); wherein a time slot of the previous sample (614) is prior to a time slot of the first sample (615); and determining an estimate of the first sample (615) by applying the prediction coefficient to the previous sample (614).
US09892740B2
A speech/audio coding apparatus is provided that includes a receiver that receives a time-domain speech input signal and a processor. The processor transforms a time-domain speech input signal into a frequency-domain spectrum, and divides a frequency region of the spectrum in an extended band into a plurality of bands. The processor also sets a limited band for each divided band in the current frame, when a difference between a first frequency with a first maximum amplitude in a spectrum of the divided band in a preceding frame and a second frequency with a second maximum amplitude in a spectrum of the divided band in a current frame is below a threshold. The processor further encodes the spectrum in the limited band within each divided band in the current frame, and does not encode a spectrum outside the limited band within each divided band in the current frame.
US09892737B2
There is provided encoding and decoding methods for encoding and decoding of object based audio. An exemplary encoding method includes inter alia calculating M downmix signals by forming combinations of N audio objects, wherein M≦N, and calculating parameters which allow reconstruction of a set of audio objects formed on basis of the N audio objects from the M downmix signals. The calculation of the M downmix signals is made according to a criterion which is independent of any loudspeaker configuration.
US09892732B1
Systems and methods for providing location based voice recognition include receiving, through a first microphone, an audio signal from a first user that includes an audio command requesting a service that requires user authorization before access to at least a portion of the service is granted. The user authorization is based on voice recognition (e.g., voice authentication and/or voice identification) of the audio signal. The source location of the audio signal is determined and a user location of the first user is determined. If the source location of the audio signal correlates with the user location, voice recognition on the audio signal may be performed. The first user may be authorized to access the service based on the voice recognition performed on the audio signal.
US09892731B2
The present invention relates to implementing a system and method to improve speech recognition and speech enhancement of noisy speech. The present invention discloses a way to improve the noise robustness of a speech recognition system by providing additional input to a Neural Network speech classifier. The additional information characterizes the noise environment of the speech. The present invention further discloses a speech separation system that uses the output of the neural network. The speech separation system employs models for the speech and for the distractor or noise. The neural network is used to identify the most likely combinations of speech and noise. Furthermore, a system for efficiently finding the most likely clean speech log-spectrum value is disclosed.
US09892729B2
A method for controlling voice activation by a target keyword in a mobile device is disclosed. The method includes receiving an input sound stream. When the input sound stream indicates speech, the voice activation unit is activated to detect the target keyword and at least one sound feature is extracted from the input sound stream. Further, the method includes deactivating the voice activation unit when the at least one sound feature indicates a non-target keyword.
US09892728B2
A system and method of updating automatic speech recognition parameters on a mobile device are disclosed. The method comprises storing user account-specific adaptation data associated with ASR on a computing device associated with a wireless network, generating new ASR adaptation parameters based on transmitted information from the mobile device when a communication channel between the computing device and the mobile device becomes available and transmitting the new ASR adaptation data to the mobile device when a communication channel between the computing device and the mobile device becomes available. The new ASR adaptation data on the mobile device more accurately recognizes user utterances.
US09892722B1
A method and computer program product for dynamically balancing the active noise cancellation value at a first and second earphone interface of a headphone device. The method enables determination of a first active noise cancellation value of an anti-noise output signal at a first interface. The method determines a second active noise cancellation value of the anti-noise output signal at a second interface. A comparison is made between the first active noise cancellation value and the second active noise cancellation value. In response to the first active noise cancellation value and the second active noise cancellation value being outside of a predetermined margin of each other, at least one adjustable parameter associated with the anti-noise output signal is dynamically adjusted to balance active noise cancellation values at the first and second headphone nterface.
US09892703B2
A display device includes an output circuit including a differential amplifier circuit, an output amplifier circuit that includes a first transistor of the first conduction type coupled between the first supply terminal and the output terminal, and including a control terminal coupled to the differential amplifier circuit, a first control circuit, an input terminal, an output terminal, and first to third supply terminals to which first to third supply voltages are applied, wherein the third supply voltage is set to a voltage between the first supply voltage and the second supply voltage, or the second supply voltage, and wherein the first control circuit includes a third transistor and a first switch which are coupled in series between the first supply terminal and the control terminal of the first transistor.
US09892699B2
A driver includes a display memory that stores display data, and a control unit that writes the display data in the display memory. The control unit accepts image region information for designating an image region in which an image corresponding to the display data is to be displayed within a display region of a display panel, and instruction information for giving an instruction to display of a frame region which surrounds the image region in the display region, and performs frame write processing for writing given tone data at an address of the display memory corresponding to the frame region, based on the image region information.
US09892697B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel that includes a liquid crystal layer, a first pixel having the liquid crystal layer with a first thickness, a second pixel having a color filter and the liquid crystal layer with a second thickness. The display apparatus also includes a data generating unit configured to generate a first image signal corresponding to the first pixel and a second image signal corresponding to the second pixel in response to an input image signal, a data converting unit configured to convert a gradation value of the first image signal into a conversion gradation value of the first image signal according to refractive index anisotropy and the first thickness of the liquid crystal layer, and a driving unit configured to output to the first pixel a first data voltage corresponding to the compensation gradation value of the first image signal.
US09892690B2
The disclosure shows a control circuit for backlight, a control method and a liquid crystal display device. The control circuit includes a display driving chip used to generate a video frame data enable signal and a first PWM signal; a pulse width modulation control circuit for receiving the video frame data enable signal and the first PWM signal, and modulating a duty ratio of the first PWM signal under the video frame data enable signal control to get a second PWM signal; a backlight driving chip for receiving the second PWM signal, and controlling brightness of the backlight based on the second PWM signal to increase brightness of the backlight during a frame data disable period of the video frame data enable signal. Decreasing brightness in liquid crystal display device caused by leakage characteristic of thin film transistor is solved through the disclosure to achieve consistent brightness.
US09892684B2
A pixel compensation circuit contains first controllable switch's control terminal is connected to first scan line, and first terminal to data line; driving switch's control terminal is connected to second terminals of first and third controllable switches, and second terminal to OLED's anode and fifth controllable switch's first terminal, cathode to ground; second controllable switch's control terminal is connected to lighting control terminal, and first terminal to a voltage terminal; second scan line is connected to control terminals of third to fifth controllable switches, first terminals of the third and second controllable switches are connected; driving switch's first terminal is connected to second controllable switch's second terminal and fourth controllable switch's first terminal, reference voltage terminal is connected to second terminals of fourth and fifth switches; driving switch's control terminal is connected to its first terminal through storage capacitor.
US09892671B2
A method of performing gamma correction for LCD panels includes: dividing the display area of a LCD panel to form n sub-areas of the display area; dividing all grey-scale images into n sets to form n sets of grey-scale images; displaying a first chosen grey-scale image of each set of grey-scale images on the corresponding sub-area of n sub-areas concurrently; detecting the brightness of the first chosen grey-scale image with a photosensor installed on the sub-area; examining if there is grey-scale image pending for detection in the set of grey scale images; extracting a gamma curve of the LCD panel; and correcting the gamma curve of the LCD panel.
US09892663B2
Briefly, an intelligent label is associated with a good, and includes one or more permanent and irreversible electrochromic indicators that are used to report the condition of that good at selected points in the movement or usage of that good. These electrochromic indicators provide immediate visual information regarding the status of the good without need to interrogate or communicate with the electronics or processor on the intelligent label. In this way, anyone in the shipping or use chain for the good, including the end user consumer, can quickly understand whether the product is meeting shipping and quality standards. If a product fails to meet shipping or quality standards, the particular point where the product failed can be quickly and easily identified, and information can be used to assure the consumer remains safe, while providing essential information for improving the shipping process. It will be understood that the label may take many forms, such as a tag attached to the good, integrated into the packaging for the good, integrated into the good itself, or may even be an information area on a prepaid card for example. The label may also include, for example, print information regarding the good, usage or shipping rules, or address and coded information.
US09892657B2
Nutritional substance systems and methods are disclosed enabling the tracking and communication of changes in nutritional, organoleptic, and aesthetic values of nutritional substances, and further enabling the adaptive storage and adaptive conditioning of nutritional substances.
US09892654B2
An illustrated phonics board is provided offering a simplified language learning system using visuals, and moving selectors that are easily manipulated to form simple words. To use, the operator chooses letters from three moving selectors to form a three letter word that shows within a target window. The art on the board provides readily available visual prompts, a quick reference to letters and their phonetic sounds for beginning readers.
US09892644B2
A vehicle drive assist system includes: a lane line recognizing unit that recognizes left and right lane lines defining a lane along which a vehicle equipped with the drive assist system travels; and a drive assist unit that sets lane departure determination thresholds along the left and right lane lines, and performs a drive assist operation based on a relative position of the vehicle to the lane departure determination threshold. The drive assist unit sets a left lane departure determination threshold on the basis of an inner edge of unmelted snow when a left lane line of a traveling lane is recognized based on a front-view image of the vehicle, captured by the lane line recognizing unit, but a right lane line which is covered with the unmelted snow cannot be recognized.
US09892642B1
Tracking movements of mobile devices may provide insight into parking space availability for transports deemed to be associated with those mobile devices. One example method of operation may include identifying a transport speed of a particular transport vehicle is moving above a first threshold speed, identifying a first change in direction of the transport and confirming a new transport speed after the first change in direction is less than a second threshold speed. The method may also include initiating a monitoring event to track movement of the transport responsive to the first change in direction of the transport or the confirmed new transport speed.
US09892641B2
The regulatory sign or traffic information presented on a roadway is detected by capturing an image of ahead of a vehicle, and also the regulatory information is detected by receiving a signal transmitted from outside the vehicle. When the regulatory information is detected from the signal transmitted from outside the vehicle, that regulatory information is notified. When no regulatory information is detected from the signal transmitted from outside the vehicle, the regulatory information detected by capturing the image of ahead of the vehicle is notified.
US09892633B2
Reflection interference control can comprise: determining, according to identification information comprised in a light signal from a reflection surface to a field of view of a user, that a reflection interference phenomenon exists on the reflection surface; and generating a control signal for lowering the level of the reflection interference. For example, by using the characteristic that a light source identifier is modulated in a light signal transmitted by a light source in the existing wireless optical communication, whether a reflection interference phenomenon exists can be determined according to identification information comprised in a light signal received by a field of view of a user from a reflection surface, and reflection interference is automatically controlled if it is determined that the reflection interference phenomenon exists, which is simple and quick and does not require user intervention.
US09892627B2
Systems and methods for reducing false alarms and providing a central station with information regarding occupants in a monitored region using a GPS location of a mobile device are provided. Some methods can include receiving a first signal indicative of a detected alarm condition in the monitored region, responsive to receiving the first signal, transmitting a second signal to the mobile device, receiving a third signal from the mobile device indicative of the GPS location of the mobile device, and based on a location of the monitored region and the third signal indicative of the GPS location of the mobile device, determining a likelihood of whether the detected alarm condition is real or false. Additionally or alternatively, some methods can include receiving the signal from the mobile device indicative of the GPS location of the mobile device at predetermined periodic time intervals and irrespective of the detected alarm condition in the monitored region.
US09892624B2
A portable device for increasing road traffic safety, detecting emergencies and emitting an alarm call for a person. The portable device includes a communication device, a position-determining system, an evaluation unit and a vibration generator. The portable device communicates, by way of the communication device, with at least one further communication device of at least one external system. The person is warned by the vibration generator of a dangerous situation determined by the evaluation unit in combination with the position-determining system and the communication device. The dangerous situation is a collision of the person wearing the portable device with the at least one external system that includes the at least one further communication device. This collision is determined by way of a behavior prediction algorithm. When the, or a further dangerous situation arises, the portable device emits an alarm call by way of the communication device.
US09892619B2
Disclosed is a feeding-bottle sterilization reminding method, comprising the following steps: acquiring the temperature information of a current aqueous solution, and performing temperature compensation according to the temperature information; acquiring the resistance value of the aqueous solution after temperature compensation, and judging if the resistance value is within a preset threshold value, and if yes, reminding users to change water. The feeding-bottle sterilization reminding method provided in the invention is easy to operate, by collecting the water quality data in a real-time manner and comparing them with the database, and it will give a warning when the water quality is found unacceptable, to remind users to change water timely. In addition, a feeding-bottle sterilization reminding device is further disclosed in the invention.
US09892616B2
An electronic overload inspection and warning system for a roundsling having a strand positioned within a plurality of core strands and a cover. The system includes a wireless sensor system mountable to the roundsling. The wireless sensor system includes at least one strain gauge electrically connected with a wireless transmitter. The strain gauge measures strain on the strand. The system also includes a wireless base station and a carrier element. The wireless base station includes a wireless receiver configured to wirelessly communicate with multiple deployed wireless sensor systems. The carrier element is secured to the strand. The strain gauge is secured to the carrier element.
US09892607B2
A firearm mounted firing alert system for generating and transmitting alerts upon the discharge of a firearm to which it is attached. The firearm mounted firing alert system includes a device housing which includes an adhesive surface, a lighting element, a sensor set, a microcontroller, and a power source. The sensor set may embody a contact sensor for generating a contact alert whenever contact with the metallic surface of a firearm is lost, a vibration sensor for generating a vibration alert in response to a discharge vibration and a sound sensor for generating a sound alert in response to a discharge sound. Upon receiving these sensor alerts, the microcontroller transmits a notification over a networking interface to any device which has been preset to receive such notifications as well as cause the lighting element to illuminate.
US09892598B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide a gaming machine that offers wider applicability and more enjoyment. To this end, a slot machine 1 configured to run a normal game and a free game which develops from the normal game, includes a storage device storing a free game payout table and a normal game payout table, wherein a maximum payout obtainable in the normal game is higher than a maximum payout obtainable in the free game, and a chance of winning the maximum payout in the normal game is higher than a chance of winning the maximum payout in the free game.
US09892594B2
Gaming systems, devices and methods are set forth which provide for the selection and application of modifiers to game outcomes. The modifiers confer different functionalities to base game symbols or an augmenting functionality to alter or provide an outcome. Different sets of modifiers may be accessed randomly or under different conditions and events.
US09892589B2
Various embodiments directed to systems and methods that enable cross platform persistent gaming sessions using a mobile device in a mobile device-enhanced system are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method may include enabling a cross platform gaming session in a system that includes a gaming machine that presents a game, and a computing device distinct from the gaming machine, both in communication with one another. The method may include associating the computing device with the gaming machine. The computing device may have one or more displays. The method may include receiving, by the computing device, reformatted graphical data from the gaming machine. The method may include presenting the game on the one or more displays of the computing device using the reformatted graphical data.
US09892580B2
Examples of techniques for automatically operating an electronic lock based on a user profile of a user are disclosed. In one example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a computer-implemented method may include receiving an indication of the user changing a state of the electronic lock. The method may further include storing information associated with the user changing the state of the electronic lock. The method may further include generating, by a processor, the user profile based on the information associated with the user changing the state of the electronic lock. The method may further include determining, by the processor, that the state of the electronic lock should be changed based on the user profile. The method may further include automatically changing the state of the electronic lock when it is determined to change the state of the electronic lock based on the user profile.
US09892578B1
A vehicular garage door operating assembly, a vehicle and a method of opening or closing a garage door. The assembly includes an electronic control unit, a receiver, a garage door remote control, and a gear status indicator. Upon receipt of at least a signal pertaining to a spatial position of the vehicle, a signal pertaining to a positional status of the garage door and a signal indicating that a change in vehicular gear selection, the garage door remote control selectively transmits an instruction signal for automatic opening or closing the garage door without manual intervention by the driver. In this way, when an egress maneuver by the vehicle relative to the garage is being initiated such as by a shift in gears, this is detected along with whether the vehicle is situated within the garage and whether the garage door is closed, the garage door may be automatically moved to an open position to permit egress of the vehicle from the garage. In one exemplary form, the garage door can be made to automatically open when the vehicle is situated within a garage and the vehicular gear selection is changed from PARK to REVERSE once the vehicle has been started.
US09892571B2
A data processing unit for monitoring the performance of at least one undercarriage which is used for braking and/or steering an aircraft, wherein the data processing unit is configured to: receive data representative of operating characteristics of the undercarriage(s) and use that data to calculate a maximum achievable braking force and/or yaw moment to be generated by the undercarriage(s). Also a method for monitoring the performance of at least one aircraft undercarriage which is used for braking and/or steering an aircraft, the method including: receiving data representative of operating characteristics of the undercarriage(s); and using that data to calculate a maximum achievable braking force and/or yaw moment to be generated by the undercarriage(s).
US09892568B2
A method is disclosed for determining the cost of operating a vehicle over a defined period of time. The method proceeds by establishing, on a database, a schedule of anticipated future repairs for a plurality of vehicle types, the repair schedule including the cost of the repairs and the approximate mileage at which the anticipated future repair(s) are expected to become necessary. A processor, in communication with the database, receives information identifying a particular of vehicle, and the present mileage associated with that particular vehicle. Using the vehicle type information, the vehicle's present mileage information and the repair schedule, the processor then computes the approximate total future repair costs for maintaining the vehicle over a defined period of time.
US09892561B2
A method for generating a final image from an initial image including an object suitable to be worn by an individual. The presence of the object in the initial image is detected. A first layer is superposed on the initial image. The first layer includes a mask at least partially covering the object in the initial image. The appearance of at least one part of the mask is modified. The suppression of all or part of an object in an image or a video is enabled. Also, a process of augmented reality intended to be used by an individual wearing a vision device on the face, and a try-on device for a virtual object.
US09892554B2
A tessellation method is described which uses vertex tessellation factors. For a quad patch, the method involves comparing the vertex tessellation factors for each vertex of the quad patch to a threshold value and if none exceed the threshold, the quad is sub-divided into two or four triangles. If at least one of the four vertex tessellation factors exceeds the threshold, a recursive or iterative method is used which considers each vertex of the quad patch and determines how to further tessellate the patch dependent upon the value of the vertex tessellation factor of the selected vertex or dependent upon values of the vertex tessellation factors of the selected vertex and a neighbor vertex. A similar method is described for a triangle patch.
US09892553B2
An apparatus and method for providing an image-based indoor map. The apparatus for providing an image-based indoor map includes an indoor map request reception unit for receiving an indoor map request for a building having multiple floors from a terminal of a user, an indoor map acquisition unit for acquiring an indoor map corresponding to the building in response to the indoor map request from an indoor map database (DB), and an indoor map provision unit for providing the terminal of the user with information about at least one of multiple image indoor maps, in which multiple floors and Levels of Detail (LoDs) of each image are taken into consideration, and Points of Interest (POIs) for respective multiple floors, based on the indoor map.
US09892551B2
The avionics display system is for displaying a scene in an aircraft cockpit. The avionics display system includes a central processing unit CPU, a graphics processing unit GPU operably coupled to the CPU, and a display. The GPU comprises at least one vertex shader, and the CPU is configured to provide vertex data representing at least one graphics primitive to the at least one vertex shader and to call the at least one vertex shader in order to render the at least one graphics primitive, representing at least a part of the scene, into a frame buffer. The display is operably coupled to the frame buffer and displays the scene. The system architecture of the avionics display system simplifies the coding process for the developer and also speeds up image processing in comparison to conventional systems.
US09892549B2
Systems, methods and articles of manufacture for rendering an image. Embodiments include selecting a plurality of positions within the image and constructing a respective linear prediction model for each selected position. A respective prediction window is determined for each constructed linear prediction model. Additionally, embodiments render the image using the linear prediction models using the constructed linear prediction models, where at least one of the constructed linear prediction models is used to predict values for two or more of a plurality of pixels of the image, and where a value for at least one of the plurality of pixels is determined based on two or more of the constructed linear prediction models.
US09892544B2
An apparatus and method for load balancing in a ray tracing architecture. For example, one embodiment of a graphics processing apparatus comprises: an intersection unit engine to test a plurality of rays against a plurality of primitives to identify a closest primitive that each ray intersects; an intersection unit queue to store work to be performed by the intersection unit engine; and an intersection unit offload engine to monitor the intersection unit queue to determine a pressure level on the intersection unit engine, the intersection unit offload engine to responsively offload some of the work in the intersection unit queue to intersection program code executed on one or more execution units of the graphics processor.
US09892541B2
A method for a programmable primitive setup in a 3D graphics pipeline is introduced to contain at least the following steps. Information about first and third primitives is obtained from a buffer. The information about all or a portion of the first primitives is packed and sent to an SS (Setup Shader) thread. Information about a second primitive to be clipped is packed and sent to a GBS (Guard-Band-clipping Shader) thread. The information about all or a portion of the third primitives is packed and sent to an AS (Attribute Shader) thread.
US09892537B2
A healing component that heals foreground pixels with background pixels is provided. In some embodiments, the healing component is programmed or otherwise configured to respond to a single healing request by identifying a plurality of regions within a selected area and healing each region of the plurality of regions independently of other regions.
US09892531B2
A method and system for providing charting data visualizations of associated data sets is described. The method includes rendering a graphical user interface that includes one or more data interface regions. The one or more data interface regions are configured to detect and analyze a data interface component encoded with and representing data attributes which are mapped and bound to elements of a chart data visualization. Upon detecting the receipt of the graphical data interface component into the one or more data interface regions, the graphical data interface component is analyzed to determine the data attributes and the mapping. Based on the analysis of the data attributes and the data set, a data chart is rendered on a display and dynamically updated based on user interaction with the charting data visualization.
US09892529B2
Systems and processes are described below relating to evaluating a dependency graph to render three-dimensional (3D) graphics using constraints. Two virtual 3D objects are accessed in a virtual 3D space. A constraint relationship request is received, which identifies the first object as a parent and the second object as a child. The technique verifies whether the graphs of the objects are compatible for being constrained to one another. The first object is evaluated to determine its translation, rotation, and scale. The second object is similarly evaluated based on the translation, rotation, and scale of the first object. An image is rendered depicting at least a portion of the first virtual 3D object and at least a portion of the second virtual 3D object.
US09892523B2
The apparati, methods, and computer program products disclosed herein can be used to nondestructively detect undissolved particles, such as glass flakes and/or protein aggregates, in a fluid in a vessel, such as, but not limited to, a fluid that contains a drug.
US09892514B2
Some embodiments include a method of operating a calibration server for a camera module. The method can include: receiving, by the computing server, a first training image taken by the camera module in a mobile device and a corresponding image-context attribute from the mobile device; aggregating, by the computing device, the first training image into a set of contextually similar images based on the image-context attribute; computing a calibration parameter model based on the set of contextually similar images utilizing dimension reduction statistical analysis; and scheduling to update the calibration parameter model to configure an image processor to adjust a raw photograph of the camera module according to the calibration parameter model.
US09892512B2
Disclosed is a medical image processing device for generating an image in which a difference in color between an abnormal part where a gastric mucosa is atrophied, and a normal part is enhanced.A B/G ratio is determined from B and G image signals, and a G/R ratio is determined from the G and R image signals. In a feature space formed from the B/G ratio and the G/R ratio, first processing is performed for moving the coordinates of a second range to a reference range including the origin in a state where the coordinates of first and third ranges are maintained. In order to make the first range and the third range distant from each other, second processing is performed for moving the first and third ranges. A first special image is generated based on the B/G ratio and the G/R ratio after the first and second processing.
US09892509B2
A system and method are provided for obtaining an improved visualization of bone objects comprised in a projection X-ray image. The projection X-ray image comprises bone objects which at least in part overlap. According to the system and method, a number of the bone objects are delineated by a contour, thereby obtaining a number of delineated bone objects. For each of the number of delineated bone object, a bone suppression technique is applied to the image to obtain respective bone image data individually showing the respective delineated bone object while suppressing shadows of obstructing objects. The bone image data generated for each of the number of delineated bone objects is used to generate an output image in which the bone objects do not overlap. An advantage of the system and method is that a non-overlapping, shadow-suppressed, presentation of the bone objects may be created from an X-ray image which was obtained by projectional radiography.
US09892508B2
An apparatus including a processor; a viewing device operatively connected to the processor; a memory storing a software program that when executed on the processor causes the processor to perform the following operations: defining a user interface on the viewing device, retrieving and visualizing, in the user interface, a datum, or a plurality of data, relative to a same examination site; for retrieving a first image of a first support, of a first type, for microbiological culture, relative to a first microbiological sample coming from the examination site and enabling selective viewing of the first image in the user interface; retrieving a second image of a second support of a second and different type, for microbiological samples, relative to a second microbiological sample coming from the examination site and enabling selective viewing of the second image, to enable the user to make a combined use and evaluation, of the data and of the images.
US09892505B2
The Invention relates to a method for determining vital parameters of a human body by means of a device (10) with at least one optical recording unit (11) and a computinig unit (12), said method comprising the following steps: recording a sequence of Individual image data of a single limited area of the skin (30) of the human body by means of the optical recording unit (11); evaluating the image data, including determining a pulse wave transit time; and determining vital parameters of the human body from the image data by means of the computing unit (12). The invention further relates to a method for authenticating a person and to a method for identifying a reaction of a person.
US09892500B2
A method for measuring a critical dimension of a mask pattern, including generating a mask pattern using an optically proximity-corrected (OPC) mask design including at least one block; measuring a first critical dimension of a target-region of interest (target-ROI) including neighboring blocks having a same critical dimension (CD), in the mask pattern; determining a group region of interest including the target-ROI and at least one neighboring block adjacent to the target-ROI; measuring second CDs of the neighboring blocks of the group region of interest; and correcting a measuring value of the first CD using a measuring value of the second CDs.
US09892495B2
Disclosed are an image processing device, an imaging device, an image processing method, and an image processing program capable of, when recovering a deteriorated image due to a point spread function of an optical system, effectively performing phase recovery and suppressing the occurrence of artifact due to frequency recovery processing. The image processing device includes a phase recovery processing unit which subjects image data acquired from an imaging element by capturing an object image using an optical system to phase recovery processing using a phase recovery filter based on a point spread function of the optical system, a gradation correction processing unit which subjects image data subjected to the phase recovery processing to nonlinear gradation correction, and a frequency recovery processing unit which subjects image data subjected to the gradation correction to frequency recovery processing using a frequency recovery filter based on the point spread function of the optical system.
US09892494B2
Methods, devices and computer readable instructions to generate region-of-interest (ROI) tone curves are disclosed. One method includes obtaining a statistic for an entire image such as, for example, a luminance statistic. The same statistic may then be found for a specified ROI of the image. A weighted combination of the statistic of the entire image and the statistic of the ROI yields a combined statistic which may then be converted to a ROI-biased tone curve. The weight used to combine the two statistics may be selected to emphasize or de-emphasize the role of the ROI's statistic in the final tone curve.
US09892492B2
A restoration processing section 38 performs restoration processing using a restoration filter based on a point spread function for image data. An outline enhancement processing section 39 performs sharpening processing using a sharpening filter for image data. A sharpness restoration control section 37 acquires a total sharpness restoration rate based on the restoration rate (restoration strength magnification U) of the image data based on the restoration processing and the sharpening rate (sharpening strength magnification V) of the image data based on the sharpening processing, acquires one of the restoration rate and the sharpening rate, and calculates the other one of the restoration rate and the sharpening rate based on the total sharpness restoration rate.
US09892483B2
A timing controller capable of communicating with a host via a Mobile Industry Processor Interface (MIPI) interface and communicating with a display via a display interface, includes a detection circuit that detects whether at least one of the MIPI interface and the timing controller is operating normally, and generates a detection signal, and an interrupt generation circuit that transmits the detection signal as an interrupt to the host via an exclusive line.
US09892478B2
In one aspect, assembly of multi-part food packaging is checked by reference to payloads of steganographically-encoded digital watermarks printed across plural components of the packaging. Marking all surfaces of the packaging components allows arbitrary orientation of feed stock in assembly equipment, and wide latitude in placement of inspection cameras along the packaging line. In another aspect, a scanner at a retail checkout station is alert to any gap detected in steganographic encoding on retail product packaging and, if found, alerts an operator to possible presence of an adhesive label with a misleading barcode. A great variety of others features and arrangements are also detailed.
US09892477B2
Data processing systems and methods for retrieving data regarding a plurality of data privacy campaigns and for using that data to assess a relative risk associated with the data privacy campaign. In various embodiments, the system may be adapted to: (1) display one or more visual summaries of one or more data flow diagrams that visually depicts key features of the data flow, such as whether data is confidential and/or encrypted; (2) allow for multiple users to be assigned responsibility for populating different respective questions that are required to define the data flow; (3) automatically assess and display a relative risk associated with each campaign; and (4) automatically set, monitor, and facilitate the timely completion of an audit schedule for each campaign.
US09892440B2
A process for protecting against fraudulent transactions entails comparing a first serial code with a second serial code, as well as comparing a first user identification with a second user identification. An additional comparison between a first stock keeping unit code and a second stock keeping unit code can also be made. If any of the compared data items do not match, then a notice of denial is issued for the transaction. Exceptions can be made, for example by comparing a first listing timestamp with a second listing timestamp to determine that a second transaction is occurring within a defined time period such as a return period. Data is recognized by an optical reader utilizing optical character recognition, with read data being saved to a data record. Serial codes can be directly printed on products or instead applied as a tamper evident sticker.
US09892439B2
There are provided systems and methods for utilizing a vehicle to determine an identity of a user. A user may establish a vehicle as associated with the user, such as a vehicle owned by the user or used by the user. The vehicle may include a vehicle device that may be configured to establish connections with other devices using short range and network communications. In various embodiments, the other devices may be devices at merchant locations. Thus, a merchant at the merchant location may be informed about settings, preferences, and/or parameters for use of the vehicle established by the user. The merchant may receive these parameters even if another user is utilizing the vehicle, thus, establishing rules for use of the vehicle by the other user. In other embodiments, the other devices may be devices in other vehicles, allowing the users to communicate and set waypoints during trips.
US09892435B2
Systems and methods are described relating to accepting an indication of at least one attribute of an individual; accepting sensor data about the individual; presenting a set of health care options at least partially based on the accepting sensor data about the individual; and providing a matching system for procurement of at least one selected health service option.
US09892434B2
A system and a method are provided for generating a digital receipt for purchases made utilizing a digital wallet or with other payment procedures. The digital receipt is stored in the cloud in a digital receipts repository for later retrieval. The digital receipt can be standardized to facilitate data processing of the data contained in data fields of the digital receipt. The data fields are text/field searchable and actionable so that the receipts and the data therein can be viewed in any manner desired by the user of the digital wallet. A computer readable non-transitory storage medium can store instructions of a program, which when executed by a computer system, enables the recall of the digital receipt from the repository.
US09892423B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media configured to receive an advertisement including an image. A fraud assessment value for the advertisement can be determined. An image assessment value for the image can be determined. The fraud assessment value and a threshold value for fraud assessment can be compared. The image assessment value and a threshold value for image assessment can be compared. Fraud associated with the advertisement can be determined based on comparison of the fraud assessment value and the threshold value for fraud assessment and comparison of the image assessment value and the threshold value for image assessment.
US09892415B2
Merchant accounts associated with sales of counterfeit or other prohibited goods may be automatically discovered by identifying websites that have traits characteristic of those that sell prohibited goods. Automated browsing sessions are established with the respective websites, in which communication traffic, page identifiers, and page contents are captured for analysis. During each of the automated sessions, a website is automatically navigated to locate and visit a payment-processing page associated with a known payment processor. The captured data from the session is analyzed to identify a merchant account established with the payment processor for receiving proceeds from sales of prohibited goods. In some cases, the captured data is analyzed to identify a common merchant and/or page identifier that was encountered in multiple sessions. Multiple otherwise unrelated websites may thereby be grouped together as being likely associated with a common merchant account.
US09892413B2
System, method, and computer program product to implement four factor authentication rule-based intelligent bank cards, by receiving valid authentication information for a card associated with an account, verifying that a captured image of a person presenting the card matches an image of an authorized user of the account, analyzing the captured image to detect an emotion of the person, and performing a predefined operation to control access to the account upon determining that the detected emotion satisfies an emotion rule associated with the account.
US09892410B2
Pre-paid negotiable instruments are issued in response to a request at a host system from the holder of a stored-value account. The request is made through an IVR system or a web interface, and the host allocates funds from the account and provides a balance remaining after the negotiable instrument is issued. The instrument is printed with a transaction number or other identifier at an issuing system, and is then sent to the account holder. The account holder activates the instrument after receipt. The payee receives the instrument and authorizes the instrument by providing the transaction number or identifier to the host. When authorized, payment is guaranteed to the payee from the issuer.
US09892408B2
A transaction system and method of performing a transaction by using a peripheral device are provided. The method includes receiving transaction information from an external device, searching for a peripheral device when the transaction information is received, and performing the transaction with a transaction server by using information received from the searched peripheral device and the transaction information.
US09892401B2
A transaction processing server acts as an identity aggregator and enables transactions between a user computing device and plurality of merchant servers. The transaction processing server receives a request from the user computing device to conduct the financial transaction with a merchant server. The transaction processing server determines a plurality of user identifiers identifying a user account associated with the user computing device at each of a plurality of online systems, where a first identifier is a transaction processing server identifier identifying a user account at the transaction processing server and a second identifier is a merchant identifier identifying a user account at the merchant server. Financial information is retrieved using the plurality of user identifiers. The transaction processing server transmits the merchant identifier and the financial information of the user to the merchant server, which conducts the transaction with the user computing device using the financial information.
US09892400B1
Technology is disclosed for generating and sending invitations to recipients who have not enrolled in or associated with a convenient money transfer service that does not require any account login and/or creation activities. The disclosed technology enables a sender to transfer a specified amount of currency to one or more recipients through a payment application. The system verifies, based on the sender's existing contact information, whether the recipients have existing accounts associated with the payment application. The system then generates an invitation list. The system relies on the invitation list to send invitations to those recipients who haven't been associated with the payment application to download the payment application, enroll in payment service associated with the payment application, and/or associate their payment information with the payment application. The technology enables the sender to manually select recipients from a provided candidate list of contacts so as to initiate an invitation process.
US09892393B2
A system and method for selling software products over a network. The system includes a server computer with access to software products. The system is configured to allow a user to purchase a subscription for the periodic acquisition of selected software products. In one embodiment, as part of the subscription, the user pays an amount during selected billing intervals. In return, the system issues to the user a number of credits for downloading at no additional charge at least one of the software products during a credit interval, which may be equal in length to the billing interval. In one embodiment, the system debits a number of credits in response to fulfilling a user's purchase request. The system may be also configured to deduct credits that are not used within selected credit intervals.
US09892392B2
A system and method for selling software products over a network. The system includes a server computer with access to software products. The system is configured to allow a user to purchase a subscription for the periodic acquisition of selected software products. In one embodiment, as part of the subscription, the user pays an amount during selected billing intervals. In return, the system issues to the user a number of credits for downloading at no additional charge at least one of the software products during a credit interval, which may be equal in length to the billing interval. In one embodiment, the system debits a number of credits in response to fulfilling a user's purchase request. The system may be also configured to deduct credits that are not used within selected credit intervals.
US09892387B2
A method for providing web transaction feedback includes a client device receiving a response indicating a success or a failure of a user operation pertaining to a potential web transaction. The client device then provides a web transaction feedback to the user using a human interface element capable of causing the client device to perform a set of motions and/or emit a range of temperatures. The set of motions is comprised of at least a first sub-set of the set of motions indicating the success of the user operation and at least a second sub-set of the set of motions indicating the failure of the user operation. The range of temperatures is comprised of at least a first temperature of the range of temperatures indicating the success of the user operation and at least a second temperature of the range of temperatures indicating the failure of the user operation.
US09892381B2
There is provided a method of representing new email messages on a communication device having a display. This method comprises setting a new message flag when an email message is received by the device; and displaying a new message indicator on the display when the new message flag is set. The new message indicator can be displayed on a home screen on the display. The new message flag can be unset when a messages screen is selected on the device. A computer readable memory having recorded thereon instructions to carry out this method is also provided, as well as a device comprising such memory.
US09892378B2
Devices, systems and methods for tracking and auditing shipment items are provided by capturing video of the shipment items handled in a facility. In certain embodiments, tracking devices are disclosed that can be integrated in a platform for material handling vehicle and manufacturing systems. In certain embodiments, tracking devices can provide tracking and auditing of shipment items by using a method of capturing video of shipment items as they are being handled. In certain embodiments, tracking devices can be coupled to video cameras. The video to be captured may be determined based on the information collected and/or commands received in relation to the items. In some embodiments, the method can create metadata and associate video and item information for shipment items handled in a facility. The video and metadata can be accessed through a communication network at a later time for tracking, auditing and other purposes.
US09892374B2
A system for virtual event planning is disclosed. The system comprises a processor and memory that further includes computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to implement a user interface module for generating and/or accessing a virtual event, a virtual production facility for virtually customizing and displaying the contribution of one or more contributors and/or participants of the virtual event, and an interaction module for providing user controlled interaction between the one or more contributors and/or participants.
US09892364B2
The invention discloses the technology of brain-like computing virtualization. Brain-like computing means the computing technology to mimic human brain and generate human intelligence automatically with computer software. Here the unconscious engine and conscious engine are used to define human left and right brain, while the virtualization technology is used for software to run on future hardware, such as quantum computer and molecular computer. The applied domain areas include quantum gate and adiabatic quantum simulation, brain-like autonomic computing, traditional multi-core-cluster performance service, software development/service delivery systems, and mission-critical business continuity/disaster recovery.
US09892363B2
A system for collecting vehicle data includes a mobile device comprising a plurality of sensors, a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to perform operations including obtaining a plurality of movement measurements from at least one of the plurality of sensors in the mobile device, determining a plurality of transportation modes using the plurality of movement measurements, and determining a mode transition using the plurality of transportation modes. The operations also include determining a transition probability using the mode transition. The operations further include creating a transition model using the transition probabilities, determining that the transition model indicates that a probability that the second transportation mode comprises driving is above a threshold, obtaining a plurality of driving movement measurements from at least one of the plurality of sensors, and determining the vehicle data using the driving movement measurements.
US09892353B1
Features are disclosed for collecting wireless identifier signals such as from RFID tags to accurately determine the location of items associated with the wireless identifier. Carefully coordinating when to begin and end collection of the signals and analysis of the signals and signal characteristics (e.g., received signal strength) allow a carried item to be identified and its location determined. Additional features are described to further validate the location of the item.
US09892352B2
Systems and methods for predicting, identifying, and/or confirming the presence of an object in a predefined space include communication between the object and a sensor having a detection range. The detection range of the sensor is limited to a predefined space or direction that may be less than its maximum detection range.
US09892345B2
A method includes obtaining from an online social media site a plurality of instances of images of objects associated with a person; analyzing with a data processor the plurality of instances of the images with a plurality of predetermined style classifiers to obtain a score for each image for each style classifier; and determining with the data processor, based on the obtained scores, a likely preference of the person for a particular style of object. The plurality of instances of images of objects associated with the person can be images that were posted, shared or pinned by person, and images that the person expressed a preference for. In a non-limiting embodiment the object is clothing, and the style can include a fashion style or fashion genre including color preferences. A system and a computer program product to perform the method are also disclosed.
US09892341B2
Systems and methods that allow transfer and display rules to be defined based on one or more of several attributes, such as a particular user, site, device, and/or image/series characteristic, as well as whether individual images and/or image series are classified as thin slices and/or based on other characteristics, and applied to medical images in order to determine which images and/or image data are analyzed, downloaded, viewed, stored, rendered, processed, and/or any number of other actions that might be performed with respect to medical image data. The system and methods may include image analysis, image rendering, image transformation, image enhancement, and/or other aspects to enable efficient and customized review of medical images.
US09892337B1
Some aspects of the invention relate to a mobile apparatus including an image sensor configured to convert an optical image into an electrical signal. The optical image includes an image of a vehicle license plate. The mobile apparatus includes a license plate detector configured to process the electrical signal to recover information from the vehicle license plate image. The mobile apparatus includes an interface configured to transmit the vehicle license plate information to a remote apparatus and receive a refinancing offer in response to the transmission.
US09892334B2
The invention teaches a multiple reference optical coherence tomography scanner that provides a subdermal fingerprint scan, covers an area of approximately 16 mm-17 mm×10 mm in less than a second, and fits into a slim profile of less than 6 mm in thickness, thereby fitting within the slim consumer electronics such as the iPhone and similar consumer electronics. Various embodiments are taught.
US09892330B2
The present application relates to a system for location measurement and night-time forward vehicle detection using a single multi-exposure camera and method thereof which use a long exposure and short exposure frame images among four exposure methods of a multi-exposure camera and applies a binarization method which use a local adaptive threshold value, and also applies a BLOB (Binary Large Objects) matching method which detects an identical candidate BLOB from a different exposure frame image thereby, enables further accurate detection and location measurement of a forward vehicle during night-time drive.
US09892328B2
Computerized methods are performable by a driver assistance system while the host vehicle is moving. The driver assistance system includes a camera connectible to a processor. First and second image frames are captured from the field of view of the camera. Corresponding image points of the road are tracked from the first image frame to the second image frame. Image motion between the corresponding image points of the road is processed to detect a hazard in the road. The corresponding image points are determined to be of a moving shadow cast on the road to avoid a false positive detection of a hazard in the road or the corresponding image points are determined not to be of a moving shadow cast on the road to verify detection of a hazard in the road.
US09892326B2
A computer implemented method for detecting an object in a crowded scene utilizing an image capturing device. The method includes receiving an image of a predetermined area. From the image, the existence of selected portions as representing an entity of a selected class is determined. Each selected portion is assigned an initial confidence value that the selected portion is an entity representative of a selected class. Each selected portion is evaluated with each other to determine a context confidence value. The context confidence value and initial confidence value are utilized to determine which of the one or more selected portions are entities of a selected class.
US09892315B2
Techniques for behavior detection in electronic examinations may be realized as a method including: collecting sensor data of an examinee taking an electronic examination, the sensor data including visual image data of the examinee taken over time; automatically detecting from the collected sensor data a pattern of behavior correlated with potential misconduct; and providing an alert to an administrator of the electronic examination based on the detected pattern of behavior. The techniques may further be realized as a system configured to collect visual image data of the examinee and one or more processors configured to carry out the method.
US09892314B2
A method and device for determining an associated user are provided. The method includes: acquiring a face album including face sets of multiple users; determining a target user in the face album; selecting, from the face album, at least one associated-user candidate of the target user; acquiring attribute information of the at least one associated-user candidate, and determining an associated user of the target user according to the attribute information; and setting tag information for the associated user.
US09892311B2
An unauthorized visitor system collects an image of a person detected in a room of a patient. The system identifies reference points on the person's face, for example, points along the cheeks, jowls, and/or brow. The system may compare the reference points to reference points of images associated with registered visitors. The system then determines, based on the comparison, if the person is a registered visitor. One or more designated recipients may be alerted if the person is not a registered visitor or if the person breaches a patient identification zone established around a particular patient. The system may also register the person in a database of visitors.
US09892306B2
A device and method for direct optical recording of live skin areas, particularly of fingerprints or handprints, is disclosed. A novel possibility for direct optical recording of human skin prints with forensic quality where interference through ambient light is excluded is achieved in that, from a skin area to be recorded, image data of a calibration image generated under homogeneous illumination from an areal source and ambient light that may be present are read out from the sensor array, an adapted illumination pattern is calculated by means of the stored calibration image such that, through application of the adapted illumination pattern, a two-dimensionally structured illumination pattern is generated to minimize the influence of the ambient light and to homogenize the illumination at least of the deposited skin print, wherein an illumination array is controlled in individual light-emitting elements or in groups of light-emitting elements with the calculated illumination pattern.
US09892296B2
A method and system for facilitating cost effective, reliable, system redundant, self-driving vehicles involves the employment of specialized lane marking components that permit unprecedented sensor feedback, and in particular, a system and method that enables accurate lane marking recognition despite adverse weather conditions, which presently pose problems experienced by self-driving systems that rely upon vision based camera systems.
US09892289B2
Devices, methods, and software are disclosed for reading RFID tags located in defined spatial locations. In one illustrative embodiment, a system can comprise a processor, a memory, and an RFID reading device including at least one radio frequency (RF) antenna. The system can be configured to read a first plurality of RFID tags attached to items disposed within a first spatial zone and read a second plurality of RFID tags attached to items disposed within a second spatial zone. The system can be further configured to produce a list of identifiers of RFID tags which belong to the second plurality of RFID tags and do not belong to the first plurality of RFID tags. In some embodiments, the system can be further configured, responsive to successfully decoding decodable indicia attached to an item, to match the item to an RFID tag belonging to the list.
US09892288B2
A process for optimizing the manufacture of decorative multilayer coatings for attachment to surfaces, including using a roll-to-roll printer to print a decorative layer on a surface of a film layer, wherein the decorative layer includes cutting lines and a first indication, using a curable roller coater to coat a layer on the surface above the print layer, using a laminator to laminate a mask over the print layer, using a cutter to cut the print layer into a cut print, and entering the cut print layer into a line printer to read the first indication and print a second indication on the cut print.
US09892286B2
To provide for a physical security mechanism that forms a complete envelope of protection around the cryptographic module to detect and respond to an unauthorized attempt at physical access, a tamper sensing encapsulant generally encapsulates the cryptographic module. The tamper sensing encapsulant includes a first shape actuation layer associated with an electrically conductive first trace element and a second shape actuation layer associated with an electrically conductive second trace element. The first shape actuation layer is positioned against the second shape actuation layer such that the first trace element and the second trace element do not physically touch at an operating temperature of the cryptographic module and do physically touch when the first shape actuation layer and the second shape actuation layer are thermally loaded. Upon first trace element and the second trace element touching, a circuit is formed that disables the cryptographic module.
US09892283B2
A microprocessor and method are provided for securely decrypting and executing encrypted instructions within a microprocessor. A plurality of master keys are stored in a secure memory. Encrypted instructions are fetched from an instruction cache. A set of one or more master keys are selected from the secure memory based upon an encrypted instruction fetch address. The selected set of master keys or a decryption key derived therefrom is used to decrypt the encrypted instructions fetched from the instruction cache. The decrypted instructions are then securely executed within the microprocessor. In one implementation, the master keys are intervolved with each other to produce a new decryption key with every fetch quantum. Moreover, a new set of master keys is selected with every new block of instructions.
US09892279B2
A system for generating an access control policy comprises a user interface (1) for enabling a user to indicate a topic (10) and a set of permissions (15). A document analyzer (2) analyzes the content of a plurality of documents (11) to find a set of documents (13) relating to the topic (10). A property finder (5) analyzes the content of a plurality of documents (11) to find at least one distinguishing property (12) of documents relating to the topic (10). A document selector (6) selects the set of documents (13), based on the distinguishing property (12). An associating subsystem (3) associates the set of permissions (15) with the set of documents (13) to obtain an access control policy (4).
US09892278B2
Personal information is retrieved from at least one data source and personal information associated with a first individual is identified. A document is generated that is a version of a first document, wherein the personal information associated with the first individual cannot be discerned.
US09892277B2
A device and a method for encoding a data column are disclosed. A schema inquiry unit inquires into a schema of an original table which is a data table for performing encoding in a database in which a plurality of data tables are stored. A backup performing unit generates schema information of a backup table on the basis of the schema of the original table, generates a backup table by using the schema information of the backup table so as to copy data of the original table into the backup table, changes the original table by adding a backup column to the original table, and inactivates constraint conditions included in the changed original table so as to copy original columns included in the changed original table into the backup column. An encoding unit encodes data of an encoding target column, a column in which encoding is to be performed in the changed original table, and enters the data in each field of the original columns of the changed original table. Then, when the encoding for the data of the encoding target column is completed, the backup performing unit deletes the backup column from the changed original table and activates the constraint conditions.
US09892272B2
A flexible software library in which the software modules are defined as an abstract intermediate representation. The flexible library allows security transformation and performance attribute selections to be made by the end-user, rather than the library creator. Furthermore, since the flexible library contains an abstract representation of the software modules, the library can also be provisioned to contain an arbitrary number of named instances, representing specific sets of values for security and performance decisions, along with the corresponding native object-code resulting from those decisions. This permits distribution of software modules in a completely platform-independent manner while avoiding the disclosure of proprietary information, such as source-files.
US09892264B2
The present invention facilitates the dynamic provisioning of computing and data assets in a commodity computing environment. The invention provides a system and method for dynamically provisioning and de-provisioning computing resources based on multi-dimensional decision criteria. By employing specialized computing components configured to assess an asset and requestor of an asset, a provisioning engine is able to transform the input from the computing components into a specific configuration of computing resource provisioning and security controls. According to the rules and policies applying to a security domain, the provisioning engine may dynamically allocate computing resources in a manner that is both safe and efficient for the asset.
US09892259B2
A security protection system is provided. The system includes: a vulnerability identification device, to collect patch file information, identify a vulnerability of a to-be-fixed object corresponding to the patch file information and generate vulnerability protection information according to the vulnerability; and a vulnerability protection device, to protect the vulnerability of the to-be-fixed object corresponding to the patch file information according to the vulnerability protection information. A security protection method is provided in the present disclosure. The present disclosure may provide effective protection to the computer actively and timely and protect the vulnerability of the computer from illegal utilization.
US09892249B2
A system for authorizing an operation is provided. The system may acquire motion data collected by a wearable device. A mobile terminal may determine whether the motion data matches with a physical motion for verification. If the motion data matches with the physical motion for verification, the mobile terminal may be authorized to perform a predetermined operation corresponding to the physical motion for verification. Thus, a user's identity may be verified based on the wearable device that collects motion data.
US09892243B2
An information processing apparatus comprises: storage unit that stores a first converted value converted by a one-way function in association with user identification information; input unit that receives, from a user, input of the user identification information and authentication information; holding unit that holds the authentication information input by the user; authentication unit that executes user authentication by converting, by the one-way function, the authentication information input by the user into a second converted value and checking the second converted value against the first converted value stored in the storage unit in association with the user identification information input by the user; and control unit that, based on success of the user authentication, causes the storage unit to store the authentication information held by the holding unit in place of the first converted value stored in the storage unit.
US09892238B2
A system for monitoring a process determined by a set of process data in a multidimensional process data domain pertaining to process input-output data, the system comprising: means for acquiring a plurality of historic process data sets; means for obtaining a transformation from the multidimensional process data domain to a model data domain of lower dimension by performing multivariate data analysis; and means for transforming a current process data set to a model data set to monitor the process.
US09892233B2
Visualization of a functional sequence of a medical apparatus includes accepting a mathematical model describing at least the medical apparatus, and accepting a log file. The log file includes at least one value of at least one electrical signal of the medical apparatus during the functional sequence. At least one state variable of the medical apparatus is determined as a function of the mathematical model and the log file, and the at least one state variable of the medical apparatus is visualized.
US09892231B2
An assertion acceptance value matrix (300) indicates the reliability of assertions, particularly assertions or decisions whether records match or do not match, made by other medical institutions in a federation of medical institutions with different patient record systems and some common patients. Records from different institutions with a high likelihood of matching or not matching are automatically matched or not matched. Those that are ambiguous are manually reviewed. The assertion acceptance value matrix is used to reduce or expedite the manual review.
US09892228B2
A method for generating an orthotic device is disclosed. The method includes receiving data from a client device of a patient, the data comprising patient information and image data representative of a body part of the patient. The method further includes generating, based on the image data, three-dimensional model data representative of the body part, and generating parametric CAD model data of the orthotic device based on the three-dimensional model data and the patient information. The parametric CAD model data is transmitted to a three-dimensional printer, wherein the three-dimensional printer is to generate the orthotic device based on the parametric CAD model data.
US09892224B2
A method of forming a set of masks for manufacturing an integrated circuit includes determining a presence of a first via layout pattern and a power rail layout pattern in an original layout design. The first via layout pattern and the power rail layout pattern overlap each other. The first via layout pattern is part of a first cell layout of the original layout design. The power rail layout pattern is shared by the first cell layout and a second cell layout of the original layout design. The method further includes modifying the original layout design to become a modified layout design and forming the set of masks based on the modified layout design. The modifying the original layout design includes, if the first via layout pattern and the power rail are present in the original layout design, replacing the first via layout pattern with an enlarged via layout pattern.
US09892216B2
An information processing apparatus includes a simulator configured to simulate a process to be executed by an apparatus based on an operation procedure defined in first definition information, and one or more status changers each configured to detect arrival of a time specified in second definition information by monitoring an event generated based on the simulated process, and to change a status of the simulator to a status specified in the second definition information based on the detected time. In the information processing apparatus, the simulator simulates a process to be executed by the apparatus in accordance with a request from a program to cause the apparatus to execute the process in the status changed by the status changer.
US09892211B2
In a searchable cipher system, the security of ciphertext, the optimization of the size of ciphertext and the optimization of the network traffic are not examined enough. A registration client deposits encrypted data acquired by compressing the size of a search tag created for a search by a stochastic encryption using a mask by a hash value and an output value of a homomorphic function in a server, a search client similarly stochastically encrypts a search keyword and transmits it to the management server as a search keyword acquired by encrypting only a part of the encrypted data, the search client requests the management server to search data to be searched without making the management server release a mask by random numbers of the encrypted data and the encrypted keyword, the search client detects a wrong search in a search result, and decrypts the search result.
US09892195B2
An efficient method and system is provided for promptly providing recommended information on a product or service giving consideration to a site user trend. It comprises a recommended information providing server for managing information on users and user terminals used by users to access the recommended information providing server. The recommended information providing server has an information management section for managing transmission network information for specifying a channel for transmitting information among the plurality of user terminals. The transmission network information includes settings of users similar in trends to a target user as virtual users. Upon receiving event information (e.g., purchase of product A) from a user terminal of a user set as a virtual user, the recommended information providing server references the transmission network information, specifies a destination (target user) of the recommended information, and sends the recommended information to a user terminal of the destination via a user agent section.
US09892191B2
Processing a query for a database includes: receiving a portion of a query from a client device in a server implemented by at least one processor, the portion of the query comprising an incomplete component; determining that the incomplete component is one of multiple predefined types with the server; providing the incomplete component to an auto-complete function specific to the determined type of the incomplete component; receiving in the server a suggestion for completing the query from the auto-complete function, the suggestion being specific to the type of the incomplete component; and providing the suggestion from the server to the client device.
US09892190B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, for automatically generating search suggestions based on history data for multiple native application on a user device.
US09892183B2
A computer system, comprising a plurality of computers coupled to one another via a network, the computer system being configured to execute a task using a database constructed from the plurality of computers, the plurality of computers including a first computer and a second computer, the second computer being configured to execute: data replication for receiving the recovery request, for reading data, and for transmitting the read data to the first computer as first replicated data; and update processing for determining, in a case where a command to update the data is received in a recovery state, the sequence number of the update command, for updating predetermined data, and for transmitting the updated predetermined data as second replicated data, the first computer or the second computer being configured to control a write order of the first replicated data and the second replicated data by the first computer.
US09892182B2
A distributed data warehouse system maintains data blocks on behalf of clients, and stores primary and secondary copies of data blocks on different disks or nodes in a cluster. The data warehouse system may back up data blocks in a key-value backup storage system. In response to a query targeting a data block previously stored in the cluster, the data warehouse system may determine whether a consistent, uncorrupted copy of the data block is available in the cluster (e.g., by applying a consistency check). If not (e.g., if a disk or node failed), the data warehouse system may automatically initiate an operation to restore the data block from the backup storage system, using a unique identifier of the data block to access a backup copy. The target data may be returned in a query response prior to restoring primary and secondary copies of the data block in the cluster.
US09892176B2
An approach is provided for parsing one or more communications to determine location details and to make those details available to one or more applications that can enable a user to determine how and when to get to a particular location. A parsing platform causes, at least in part, a parsing of one or more communications to determine one or more indicators of at least one location, wherein the one or more communications are associated with at least one application. The parsing platform causes a storage of the one or more indicators in at least one database based, at least in part, on the at least one application. The parsing platform further causes, at least in part, a granting of access to the at least one database to at least one other application for determining the at least one location based, at least in part, on the one or more indicators.
US09892175B2
A mechanism for providing a preview of a data set. The search system finds a data set relevant to the search query. For any given data set, the search system extracts only a sample of elements from the data set. The sample of elements provided to the requestor includes elements for which there is a match on the search query, and elements that have no hit, but are proximate to an element that has a hit. The user obtains a view constructed of the sample of elements provided by the search system. The user is also provided with navigation controls that correspond to the most search-relevant portions of the view. Controls associated with those portion(s) may then be selected to thereby move the preview of the data set so that the portion or corresponding hit for that portion is in view.
US09892173B2
Aspects of invention may allow an operator to recognize that a search corresponding to search conditions set in a search folder does not function when such case occurs. In one embodiment, an information processing apparatus may include a search unit that conducts a search that corresponds to each of one or a plurality of search conditions set in a search folder, and searches for at least one folder element of the search folder. The apparatus also includes a search status confirmation unit that confirms the search status for each search condition in the search unit, and a folder-content display unit (e.g., search folder display unit) that displays, when the search status confirmation unit confirms that the search corresponding to the one or plurality of search conditions set in the search folder does not function, information indicating a malfunction.
US09892172B2
Embodiments are provided for date and time handling. In some embodiments, a timestamp and a location of creation for a content item is received, a time zone offset is retrieved for the location, the timestamp is converted into a local date and time using the time zone offset, and the local date and time and the time zone offset are used to create a value for a temporal identifier, and the temporal identifier is stored for the content item.
US09892171B2
A system, method, and machine readable medium for creating a personalized recommendation of an item by creating a topic vector based on a plurality of search queries, at least one of a plurality of users associated with the search queries or a plurality of items associated with the search queries; interring a topical preference for a user based on a search query by the user; and recommending at least one item based on the topical preference and the topic vector.
US09892169B2
Embedded content suitability scoring is provided. A plurality of containers of a document is identified. Each container includes a portion of content of the document. A source for a container of the plurality of containers of the document is identified by matching the content of the container to the content of the source. A suitability score for the container is determined based, at least in part, on the content of the container and the content of the source. A suitability category for the container is determined based, at least in part, on the suitability score. The document is presented along with markup of the container that is based, at least in part, on the suitability category.
US09892168B1
Tracking and prediction of societal event trends using amplified signals extracted from social media
Described is a system for tracking and predicting social events. The system filters a time series of data obtained from a social media source. Enhanced filtered signals (EFS) are extracted from the filtered time series data based on an amplification signal obtained via a summation of signals relevant to a process of interest in the filtered time series data. A level of human social activity in the social media source is monitored by comparing the extracted EFS to an event database to detect an increase in a number of social activity events in the social media source compared to the event database.
