US09954134B2
An optical biosensor, and a method of manufacturing the same, includes a first layer, a second layer stacked on the first layer, a first grating coupler within the first layer and the second layer, and a second grating coupler within the first layer. The first grating coupler is configured to couple a light pattern provided to a front side of the optical biosensor. The second grating coupler is configured to output the light pattern coupled by the first grating coupler to a photoelectric conversion element on a rear side of the optical biosensor.
US09954133B1
A photodetector comprising a region of a p-type phase-change chalcogenide material forming a heterojunction with a region of n-type Silicon; wherein the p-type phase-change chalcogenide material comprises one of GeTe and SbTe.
US09954131B2
Embodiments generally relate to optoelectronic semiconductor devices such as solar cells. In one aspect, a device includes an absorber layer made of gallium arsenide (GaAs) and having only one type of doping. An emitter layer is located closer than the absorber layer to a back side of the device and is made of a different material and having a higher bandgap than the absorber layer. A heterojunction is formed between the emitter layer and the absorber layer, and a p-n junction is formed between the emitter layer and the absorber layer and at least partially within the different material at a location offset from the heterojunction. An intermediate layer is located between the absorber layer and the emitter layer and provides the offset of the p-n junction from the heterojunction, and includes a graded layer and an ungraded back window layer.
US09954128B2
The present disclosure generally relates to a solar cell device that a first Bragg reflector disposed below a first solar cell and a second Bragg reflector disposed below the first Bragg reflector, wherein the first solar cell comprises a dilute nitride composition and has a first bandgap, wherein the first Bragg reflector is operable to reflect a first range of radiation wavelengths back into the first solar cell and the second Bragg reflector is operable to reflect a third range of wavelengths back into the first solar cell, and the first Bragg reflector and the second Bragg reflector are operable to cool the solar cell device by reflecting a second range of radiation wavelengths that are outside the photogeneration wavelength range of the first solar cell or that are weakly absorbed by the first solar cell.
US09954124B1
A silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) device is provided with a SiPM matrix and a temperature compensation circuit fabricated on a substrate. The temperature compensation circuit can include a temperature sensor, a bias adjustment circuit and a current source. The current source can provide a current to the temperature sensor and the temperature sensor can provide a temperature dependent signal to the bias adjustment circuit. The bias adjustment circuit can adjust a bias voltage provided to the SiPM matrix in response to the signal from the temperature sensor in order to maintain a predefined overvoltage value at the SiPM matrix.
US09954116B2
Non-planar semiconductor devices including semiconductor fins or stacked semiconductor nanowires that are electrostatically enhanced are provided. The electrostatic enhancement is achieved in the present application by epitaxially growing a semiconductor material protruding portion on exposed sidewalls of alternating semiconductor material portions of at least one hard mask capped semiconductor-containing fin structure that is formed on a substrate.
US09954113B2
A transistor with favorable electrical characteristics is provided. A transistor with stable electrical characteristics is provided. A semiconductor device having a high degree of integration is provided. Side surfaces of an oxide semiconductor layer in which a channel is formed are covered with an oxide semiconductor layer, whereby impurity diffusion from the side surfaces of the oxide semiconductor into the inside can be prevented. A gate electrode is formed by a damascene process, whereby transistors can be miniaturized and formed at a high density.
US09954104B2
An improved structure and methods of fabrication for finFET devices utilizing a cladding channel are disclosed. A staircase fin is formed where the fin comprises an upper portion of a first width and a lower portion of a second width, wherein the lower portion is wider than the upper portion. The narrower upper portion allows the cladding channel to be deposited and still have sufficient space for proper gate deposition, while the lower portion is wide to provide improved mechanical stability, which protects the fins during the subsequent processing steps.
US09954100B2
A method includes forming a gate spacer along sidewalls of a gate structure, forming a source region and a drain region on opposite sides of the gate structure, wherein a sidewall of the source region is vertically aligned with a first sidewall of the gate spacer, depositing a dielectric layer over the substrate, depositing a conductive layer over the dielectric layer, patterning the dielectric layer and the conductive layer to form a field plate, wherein the dielectric layer comprises a horizontal portion extending from the second drain/source region to a second sidewall of the gate spacer and a vertical portion formed along the second sidewall of the gate spacer, forming a plurality of metal silicide layers by applying a salicide process to the conductive layer, the gate structure, the first drain/source region and the second drain/source region and forming contact plugs over the plurality of metal silicide layers.
US09954098B1
A semiconductor structure and a method of manufacturing the semiconductor structure are provided. The semiconductor structure includes at least a substrate, an isolated structure, a gate, a source, a drain, a deep well, and a body well. The deep well extends under the isolated structure, and the body well is formed in the deep well between the gate and the isolated structure, wherein the body well has a convex region extending under the isolated structure. The deep well has a drive-in region outside the convex region of the body well, and the drive-in region has a lower doping concentration than remainder of the deep well.
US09954095B2
To provide a semiconductor device less affected by noise without making a manufacturing process more complicated and increasing a chip area. The device has a semiconductor substrate having first and second surfaces, a first-conductivity-type drain region on the second surface side in the semiconductor substrate, a first-conductivity-type drift region on the first surface side of a substrate region, a second-conductivity-type base region on the first surface side of the drift region, a first-conductivity-type source region on the first surface of the semiconductor substrate sandwiching a base region between the source and drift regions, a gate electrode opposite to and insulated from the base region, a wiring on the first main surface electrically coupled to the source region, and a first conductive film on the first main surface, opposite to and insulated from the wiring, and electrically coupled to the substrate region.
US09954093B2
A semiconductor device is manufactured by: i) forming a mask on a process surface of a semiconductor layer, elongated openings of the mask exposing part of the semiconductor layer and extending along a first lateral direction; ii) implanting dopants of a first conductivity type into the semiconductor layer based on tilt angle α1 between an ion beam direction and a process surface normal and based on twist angle ω1 between the first lateral direction and a projection of the ion beam direction on the process surface; iii) implanting dopants of a second conductivity type into the semiconductor layer based on tilt angle α2 between an ion beam direction and the process surface normal and based on twist angle ω2 between the first lateral direction and a projection of the ion beam direction on the process surface; and repeating i) to iii) at least one time.
US09954087B2
In a group III nitride-type field effect transistor, the present invention reduces a leak current component by conduction of residual carriers in a buffer layer, and achieves improvement in a break-down voltage, and enhances a carrier confinement effect (carrier confinement) of a channel to improve pinch-off characteristics (to suppress a short channel effect). For example, when applying the present invention to a GaN-type field effect transistor, besides GaN of a channel layer, a composition-modulated (composition-gradient) AlGaN layer in which aluminum composition reduces toward a top gradually or stepwise is used as a buffer layer (hetero buffer). To gate length Lg of a FET to be prepared, a sum a of layer thicknesses of an electron supply layer and a channel layer is selected so as to fulfill Lg/a≥5, and in such a case, the layer thickness of the channel layer is selected in a range of not exceeding 5 times (about 500 Å) as long as a de Broglie wavelength of two-dimensional electron gas accumulated in the channel layer in room temperature.
US09954086B2
A semiconductor device of the present invention is structured such that in a surface layer of a first principal surface of a semiconductor substrate, an n-type drift layer, a p-type base layer, a p-type floating layer, an n-type emitter layer, an emitter electrode, and a trench in which a gate electrode is embedded with a gate insulating film is disposed therebetween are formed from a front surface side. Further, in a surface layer of a second principal surface of the semiconductor substrate, a p-type collector layer and a collector electrode contacting the-type collector layer are formed, and in a direction from the p-type collector layer toward a surface, an n-type selenium-doped field stop layer and an n-type proton doped field stop layer are formed, whereby IGBT turn OFF oscillation, oscillation at diode reverse recovery, and increases in leak voltage can be suppressed, and electrical loss can be reduced.
US09954077B2
A method comprises etching away an upper portion of a substrate to form a trench between two adjacent isolation regions, wherein the substrate has a first crystal orientation and is formed of a first semiconductor material, growing a first semiconductor region in the trench over the substrate, wherein the first semiconductor region is formed of a second semiconductor material and an upper portion of the first semiconductor region has a second crystal orientation and growing a second semiconductor region over the first semiconductor region, wherein the second semiconductor region is formed of a third semiconductor material.
US09954075B2
Memory devices and methods of making memory devices are shown. Methods and configurations as shown provide folded and vertical memory devices for increased memory density. Methods provided reduce a need for manufacturing methods such as deep dopant implants.
US09954072B2
A silicon-carbide semiconductor device that relaxes field intensity in a gate insulating film, and that has a low ON-resistance. The silicon-carbide semiconductor device includes: an n-type silicon-carbide substrate; a drift layer formed on a topside of the n-type silicon-carbide substrate; a trench formed in the drift layer and that includes therein a gate insulating film and a gate electrode; a p-type high-concentration well region formed parallel to the trench with a spacing therefrom and that has a depth larger than that of the trench; and a p-type body region formed to have a depth that gradually increases when nearing from a position upward from the bottom end of the trench by approximately the thickness of the gate insulating film at the bottom of the trench toward the lower end of the p-type high-concentration well region.
US09954069B2
A semiconductor device includes a source/drain region, a barrier layer, and an interlayer dielectric. The barrier layer surrounds the source/drain region. The interlayer dielectric surrounds the barrier layer. As such, the source/drain region can be protected by the barrier layer from oxidation during manufacturing of the semiconductor device, e.g., the formation of the interlayer dielectric.
US09954058B1
A semiconductor structure is provided that contains a plurality of vertically stacked and spaced apart semiconductor nanosheets in which an inner dielectric liner and an air gap are present. Collectively, each inner spacer and air gap combination provides an inner spacer structure that separates a portion of a functional gate structure that surrounds each semiconductor nanosheet from a portion of a source/drain (S/D) semiconductor material structure that is present on each side of the functional gate structure.
US09954047B2
An organic light emitting display (OLED) device includes an organic light emitting diode having an anode and a cathode. The organic light emitting diode is configured to receive a reference voltage. A control transistor includes a first control electrode and a first semiconductor active layer. The control transistor is configured to receive a control signal. A driving transistor includes a second control electrode that is electrically connected to the control transistor, an input electrode that is configured to receive a power voltage, an output electrode that is electrically connected to the anode of the organic light emitting diode, and a second semiconductor active layer that includes a different material from that of the first semiconductor active layer. A shielding electrode is disposed on the second semiconductor active layer, overlapping the driving transistor, and configured to receive the power voltage.
US09954046B2
A display apparatus including: a display region provided with a plurality of pixel portions; wires installed to the respective pixel portions within the display region from an outside of the display region for transmitting a signal to drive the respective pixel portions; connection pads provided on the outside of the display region and serving as input portions to provide the wires with a signal while electrically conducting with the wires; switch elements provided on the outside of the display region in a middle of the wires; and a light shielding covering portion shielding the switch elements from light and formed to cover the connection pads while electrically conducting with the connection pads.
US09954045B2
Provided is an organic EL display device (electroluminescence device) including a TFT substrate (substrate) and an organic EL element (electroluminescence device) provided on the TFT substrate, wherein the organic EL display device includes a sealing layer that seals the organic EL element. The sealing layer is provided with a first, a second, and a third sealing film that are sequentially stacked from the organic EL element side, the first and third sealing films are each formed of an inorganic film, and the second sealing film is formed of an octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane film.
US09954041B2
An organic electroluminescence display device includes a substrate; a thin film transistor that is formed on the substrate; a light emitting region that has a lower electrode, a light emitting layer, and an upper electrode formed for each of a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix shape on the thin film transistor; and a contact hole that is formed on the outside of the light emitting region in one corner portion of the pixel and connects the thin film transistor and the lower electrode for each pixel in a plan view. Only one pair of pixels of four pixels that share an intersection point of boundaries of the pixels arranged in the matrix shape, which are arranged in a diagonal manner have the contact holes at the corner portions having the intersection point.
US09954025B2
An image sensor having pixels that include two patterned semiconductor layers. The top patterned semiconductor layer contains the photoelectric elements of pixels having substantially 100% fill-factor. The bottom patterned semiconductor layer contains transistors for detecting, resetting, amplifying and transmitting signals charges received from the photoelectric elements. The top and bottom patterned semiconductor layers may be separated from each other by an interlayer insulating layer that may include metal interconnections for conducting signals between devices formed in the patterned semiconductor layers and from external devices.
US09954024B2
The present invention relates to a semiconductor device, a solid-state image sensor and a camera system capable of reducing the influence of noise at a connection between chips without a special circuit for communication and reducing the cost as a result. The semiconductor device includes: a first chip; and a second chip, wherein the first chip and the second chip are bonded to have a stacked structure, the first chip has a high-voltage transistor circuit mounted thereon, the second chip has mounted thereon a low-voltage transistor circuit having lower breakdown voltage than the high-voltage transistor circuit, and wiring between the first chip and the second chip is connected through a via formed in the first chip.
US09954016B2
An image sensor array including a carrier substrate; a first group of photodiodes coupled to the carrier substrate, where the first group of photodiodes include a first photodiode, and where the first photodiode includes a semiconductor layer configured to absorb photons at visible wavelengths and to generate photo-carriers from the absorbed photons; and a second group of photodiodes coupled to the carrier substrate, where the second group of photodiodes include a second photodiode, and where the second photodiode includes a germanium-silicon region fabricated on the semiconductor layer, the germanium-silicon region configured to absorb photons at infrared or near-infrared wavelengths and to generate photo-carriers from the absorbed photons.
US09954011B2
Provided is a display device with high resolution, high display quality, or high aperture ratio. A pixel includes three subpixels and is electrically connected to two gate lines. One of the gate lines is electrically connected to a gate of a transistor included in each of the two subpixels, and the other gate line is electrically connected to a gate of a transistor included in the other subpixel. Display elements of the three subpixels are arranged in the same direction. Three pixel electrodes of the three subpixels are arranged in the same direction.
US09954008B2
A liquid crystal cell panel includes a first substrate from which is formed a thin film transistor array substrate, the first substrate including a plurality of unit cells and test terminals which respectively correspond to the unit cells, and a second substrate which faces the first substrate and from which is formed a color filter substrate. The first substrate further includes a first cutting pattern at each of a plurality of corners thereof, and the second substrate includes a second cutting pattern at each of a plurality of corners thereof, the second cutting patterns corresponding one-to-one with the first cutting patterns. Corresponding first and second cutting patterns cross each other in a plan view, and the crossing first and second cutting patterns expose a test terminal adjacent to the crossing first and second cutting patterns to outside the liquid crystal cell panel.
US09954006B2
A TFT array substrate includes a semiconductive oxide layer disposed on an insulating substrate and including a channel portion, a gate electrode overlapping the semiconductive oxide layer, a gate insulating layer interposed between the semiconductive oxide layer and the gate electrode, and a passivation layer disposed on the semiconductive oxide layer and the gate electrode. At least one of the gate insulating layer and the passivation layer includes an oxynitride layer, and the oxynitride layer has a higher concentration of oxygen than that of nitrogen in a location of the oxynitride layer closer to the semiconductive oxide layer.
US09953995B2
A memory array provided on a semiconductor substrate includes: (a) channel structures arranged in multiple layers above the semiconductor substrate, each channel structure extending along a first direction substantially parallel a surface of the semiconductor substrate; (b) gate structures each extending along a second direction substantially transverse to the first direction and each being adjacent one of the channel structures, separated therefrom by a layer of memory material; and (c) conductors provided to connect the gate structures with circuitry fabricated in the semiconductor substrate, wherein at each location where one of the gate structure adjacent one of the channel structures, a portion of the gate structure, a portion of the channel structure and the layer of memory material constitute a memory cell of the memory array. Two or more memory cells sharing a channel structure are connected in series to form a NAND string.
US09953994B2
A semiconductor device, including: a plurality of non-volatile memory cells including a first memory cell and a second memory cell, where the plurality of non-volatile memory cells includes source diffusion lines and drain diffusion lines, at least one of the source diffusion lines and drain diffusion lines are shared by the first memory cell and the second memory cell, where the first memory cell includes a thin tunneling oxide of less than 1 nm thickness, and where the second memory cell includes a thick tunneling oxide of greater than 2 nm thickness.
US09953986B2
Described is a 6T SRAM cell which comprises: a first n-type transistor with a gate terminal coupled to word-line, source/drain terminal coupled to a first bit-line and drain/source terminal coupled to a first node; and a second n-type transistor with a source terminal coupled to a first supply node, a drain terminal coupled to the first node, and a gate terminal for coupling to multiple terminals, wherein the gate terminal includes a capacitor to increase coupling capacitance of the second n-type transistor. Described is a method which comprises: forming a metal gate in a first direction; forming a first spacer in the first direction on one side of the metal gate, the first spacer having a first dimension; and forming a second spacer in the first direction on another side of the metal gate, the second spacer having a second dimension which is substantially different from the first dimension.
US09953984B2
Disclosed herein are methods and related apparatus for formation of tungsten wordlines in memory devices. Also disclosed herein are methods and related apparatus for deposition of fluorine-free tungsten (FFW). According to various embodiments, the methods involve deposition of multi-component tungsten films using tungsten chloride (WClx) precursors and boron (B)-containing, silicon (Si)-containing or germanium (Ge)-containing reducing agents.
US09953974B2
An integrated circuit can include a plurality of first transistors formed in a substrate and having gate lengths of less than one micron and at least one tipless transistor formed in the substrate and having a source-drain path coupled between a circuit node and a first power supply voltage. In addition or alternatively, an integrated circuit can include minimum feature size transistors; a signal driving circuit comprising a first transistor of a first conductivity type having a source-drain path coupled between a first power supply node and an output node, and a second transistor of a second conductivity type having a source-drain path coupled between a second power supply node and the output node, and a gate coupled to a gate of the first transistor, wherein the first or second transistor is a tipless transistor.
US09953970B2
The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor device with an ESD protection structure. The semiconductor device includes a high-voltage power device 101, the ESD protection structure is a NMOS transistor 102, a drain of the NMOS transistor is shared by a source of the power device as a common-drain-source structure 107, substrate leading-out regions of the power device 101 and the NMOS transistor are coupled to the source 106 of the NMOS transistor as a ground leading-out. In the present disclosure, the drain of the NMOS transistor is shared by the source of the power device, so the increased area of the device with the ESD protection structure incorporated is small. In addition, the holding voltage at the source of the high-voltage power device is relatively low, which helps to protect the gate oxide and improve the source reliability.
US09953961B2
A semiconductor device can reduce the number of bonding wires. The semiconductor device includes two or more semiconductor elements each of which has electrodes on a first main surface and a second main surface, an electrode plate that has one surface which is bonded to electrodes on the first main surfaces of the semiconductor elements, with a first bonding material layer interposed therebetween, and extends over the electrodes on the first main surfaces of the two or more semiconductor elements, and a conductive plate that includes a first lead terminal and a semiconductor element bonding portion which is bonded to electrodes on the second main surfaces of the semiconductor elements. A second bonding material layer is interposed therebetween, and is connected to the electrodes on the second main surfaces of the two or more semiconductor elements.
US09953958B2
An electronic component device includes a first electronic component, a second electronic component disposed on and connected to the first electronic component, a first underfill resin filled between the first electronic component and the second electronic component, the first underfill resin having a base part arranged around the second electronic component and a convex portion formed on an upper surface of the base part, a third electronic component disposed on and connected to the second electronic component with being in contact with the convex portion of the base part at a peripheral edge portion thereof, and a second underfill resin filled between the second electronic component and the third electronic component.
US09953954B2
A Wafer-level chip scale package (WLCSP) includes a semiconductor structure and a first bonding pad formed over a portion of the semiconductor structure. The WLCSP further includes a passivation layer formed over the semiconductor structure and the first bonding pad, exposing portions of the first bonding pad. The WLCSP further includes a conductive redistribution layer formed over the passivation layer and the portions of the first bonding pad exposed by the passivation layer. The WLCSP further includes a planarization layer formed over the passivation layer and the conductive redistribution layer, exposing a portion of the conductive redistribution layer. The WLCSP further includes an under-bump-metallurgy (UBM) layer formed over the planarization layer and a conductive bump formed over the UBM layer.
US09953950B2
A semiconductor structure comprising a first semiconductor structure; a second semiconductor structure; and a silicon-nitride layer configured to bond the first semiconductor structure and second semiconductor structure together. The first semiconductor structure comprises a first wafer; a first dielectric layer; a first interconnect structure; and a first oxide layer. The second semiconductor structure comprises a second wafer; a second dielectric layer; a second interconnect structure; and a second oxide layer. The structure further comprises a first nitride layer residing on a top surface of the first oxide layer formed by a nitridation process of the top surface of the first oxide layer; and a second nitride layer residing on a top surface of the second oxide layer formed by the nitridation process of the top surface of the second oxide layer. Further, the silicon-nitride layer comprises the first nitride layer and the second nitride layer.
US09953948B2
A system and method for conductive pillars is provided. An embodiment comprises a conductive pillar having trenches located around its outer edge. The trenches are used to channel conductive material such as solder when a conductive bump is formed onto the conductive pillar. The conductive pillar may then be electrically connected to another contact through the conductive material.
US09953947B2
An anisotropic conductive film whereby electrically conductive particles can be sufficiently captured at each connection terminal while suppressing the occurrence of shorts and conduction reliability can be improved even in cases where connecting finely pitched connection terminals. The anisotropic conductive film has a structure in which electrically conductive particle units in which electrically conductive particles are arranged in a row, or electrically conductive particle units in which electrically conductive particles are arranged in a row and independent electrically conductive particles are disposed in a lattice form in an electrically insulating adhesive layer. The shortest distance La between electrically conductive particles selected from adjacent electrically conductive particle units and the independent electrically conductive particles is not less than 0.5 times the particle diameter of the electrically conductive particles.
US09953939B2
A bump structure includes a contact element formed on a substrate and a passivation layer overlying the substrate. The passivation layer includes a passivation opening exposing the contact element. The bump structure also includes a polyimide layer overlying the passivation layer and an under bump metallurgy (UBM) feature electrically coupled to the contact element. The polyimide layer has a polyimide opening exposing the contact element, and the under bump metallurgy feature has a UBM width. The bump structure further includes a copper pillar on the under bump metallurgy feature. A distal end of the copper pillar has a pillar width, and the UBM width is greater than the pillar width.
US09953927B1
Structures for a liner replacement in an interconnect structure and methods for forming a liner replacement in an interconnect structure. A metallization level is formed that includes a conductive feature. A dielectric layer is formed on the metallization level. The dielectric layer includes an opening that extends vertically through the dielectric layer to the conductive feature. An adhesion layer is formed on area of the conductive feature exposed at a base of the opening. The adhesion layer has a thickness equal to a monolayer or a fraction of a monolayer. Another layer (e.g., barrier layer) of a different composition (e.g., TiN) may be deposited on the adhesion layer before the opening is filled with metal deposited by chemical vapor deposition.
US09953926B2
Described are semiconductor devices and methods of making semiconductor devices with a barrier layer comprising cobalt and manganese nitride. Also described are semiconductor devices and methods of making same with a barrier layer comprising CoMn(N) and, optionally, an adhesion layer.
US09953924B2
Methods of forming a semiconductor device are provided. A method of forming a semiconductor device may include forming a capping layer on a metal pattern and on an adjacent portion of an insulating layer, the capping layer comprising a first etch selectivity, with respect to the insulating layer, on the metal pattern and a second etch selectivity, with respect to the insulating layer, on the portion of the insulating layer. Moreover, the method may include forming a recess region adjacent the metal pattern by removing the capping layer from the portion of the insulating layer. At least a portion of the capping layer may remain on an uppermost surface of the metal pattern after removing the capping layer from the portion of the insulating layer. Related semiconductor devices are also provided.
US09953916B2
A method for fabricating a self-aligned via structure includes forming a tri-layer mask on an ILD layer over a lower metal wiring layer, the tri-layer mask includes first and second insulating layers and a metal layer in between the insulating layers; defining a trench pattern through the first insulating layer and metal layer, the trench pattern having a first width; defining a first via pattern in a lithographic mask over the trench pattern, the first via pattern having a second width that is larger than the first width; growing a metal capping layer on an exposed sidewall of the trench pattern to decrease the first width to a third width that defines a second via pattern; transferring the trench pattern into the ILD layer to form a trench; and transferring the second via pattern through the ILD layer and into the metal wiring layer to form a via.
US09953913B1
An electronics package includes an insulating substrate, a semiconductor device having a top surface coupled to a first side of the insulating substrate, and a pass-through component coupled to the first side of the insulating substrate. The pass-through component includes an insulating core and at least one through-hole structure comprising a conductive body extending through the thickness of the insulating core. A metallization layer is formed on a second side of the insulating substrate and extends through at least one via in the insulating substrate to electrically couple at least one conductive pad on the top surface of the semiconductor device to the at least one through-hole structure. An insulating material surrounds the semiconductor device and the insulating core of the pass-through component.
US09953912B2
Work pieces and methods of forming through holes in substrates are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of forming a through hole in a substrate by drilling includes affixing an exit sacrificial cover layer to a laser beam exit surface of the substrate, positioning a laser beam in a predetermined location relative to the substrate and corresponding to a desired location for the through hole, and forming the through hole by repeatedly pulsing the laser beam into an entrance surface of the substrate and through a bulk of the substrate. The method further includes forming a hole in the exit sacrificial cover layer by repeatedly pulsing the laser beam into the through hole formed in the substrate such that the laser beam passes through the laser beam exit surface of the substrate and into the exit sacrificial cover layer.
US09953905B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a semiconductor element, a terminal and a solder outflow prevention part. The semiconductor element is fixed on one side of the substrate via a first solder layer. The terminal that is fixed on the one side of the substrate via a second solder layer. The solder outflow prevention part is formed between the semiconductor element and the terminal in the one side of the substrate and is configured to prevent the first solder layer and the second solder layer from outflowing. A distance between the solder outflow prevention part and the semiconductor element is longer than a thickness of the first solder layer.
US09953893B2
A method of producing a power electronic assembly and a power electronic assembly including a power electronic module incorporating multiple of semiconductor power electronic switch components, the power electronic module including a base plate with a bottom surface, the power electronic assembly includes further a cooling arrangement for cooling the power electronic module, the cooling arrangement including a cooling surface adapted to be attached against the bottom surface of the base plate of the power electronic module, wherein the power electronic assembly includes further a thermal interface material arranged between the bottom surface of the base plate of the power electronic module and the cooling surface of the cooling arrangement to transfer heat from the power electronic module to the cooling arrangement, the thermal interface material includes a metal foil and a solid lubricant coating.
US09953886B2
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor manufacturing, in particular to a real-time method for qualifying the etch rate for plasma etch processes. A method for testing a semiconductor plasma etch chamber may include: depositing a film on a substrate of a wafer, the wafer including a center region and an edge region; depositing photoresist on top of the film in a pattern that isolates the center region from the edge region of the wafer; and performing an etch process on the wafer that includes at least three process steps. The three process steps may include: etching the film in any areas without photoresist covering the areas until a first clear endpoint signal is achieved; performing an in-situ ash to remove any photoresist; and etching the film in any areas exposed by the removal of the photoresist until a second clear endpoint is achieved. The method may further include determining whether both endpoints are achieved within respective previously set tolerances, and, if both endpoints are achieved within the previously set tolerance, qualifying the plasma etch chamber as verified.
US09953876B1
The present disclosure provides a method of forming a semiconductor device structure including forming a first gate stack comprising a first gate dielectric material and a first gate electrode material over a first active region in an upper portion of a substrate, forming a first spacer structure adjacent to the first gate stack, and forming first raised source/drain (RSD) regions at opposing sides of the first gate stack on the first active region in alignment with the first spacer structure. Herein, forming the first spacer structure includes forming a first spacer structure on sidewalls of the first gate stack, the first gate dielectric extending in between the first spacer and the upper surface portion, patterning the first gate dielectric material, and forming a second spacer over the first spacer and the patterned first gate dielectric material.
US09953875B1
A method of forming a semiconductor device includes forming fin regions on a substrate, forming a patterned polysilicon structure over the fin regions, and etching back portions of the fin regions to form recessed fin regions. The method further includes forming a merged epitaxial region on the recessed fin regions and forming a capping layer on the merged epitaxial region using an etching gas and a deposition gas. The forming of the capping layer may include epitaxially growing a material of the capping layer faster along a first crystal direction of the capping layer than a second crystal direction of the capping layer by adjusting a ratio of a concentration of a first element in the etching gas to a concentration of a second element in the deposition gas, the first and second elements being different from each other, the first and second crystal directions being different from each other.
US09953873B2
Chip structures and fabrication methods for forming such chip structures. A first device structure has a structural feature comprised of a first dielectric material and a second device structure has a structural feature comprised of a second dielectric material. A semiconductor layer has a first section adjacent to the structural feature of the first device structure and a second section adjacent to the structural feature of the second device structure. The first section of the semiconductor layer has a popped relationship relative to the structural feature comprised of the first dielectric material. The second section of the semiconductor layer includes a portion that has a pinned relationship relative to a portion of the structural feature comprised of the second dielectric material.
US09953869B2
A semiconductor interconnect structure that has a first portion included in an upper interconnect level and a second portion included in a lower interconnect level. The semiconductor interconnect structure has a segment of dielectric capping material that is in contact with the bottom of the first portion, which separates, in part, the upper interconnect level from a lower interconnect level. The second portion is in electrical contact with the first portion.
US09953864B2
Semiconductor structures include a patterned interlayer dielectric overlaying a semiconductor substrate. The interlayer dielectric includes a first dielectric layer and at least one additional dielectric layer disposed on the first dielectric layer, wherein the patterned interlayer dielectric comprises at least one opening extending through the interlayer dielectric to the semiconductor substrate. Chemically enriched regions including ions of Si, P, B, N, O and combinations thereof are disposed in surfaces of the first dielectric layer and the at least one dielectric layer defined by the at least one opening. Also described are methods of for forming an interconnect structure in a semiconductor structure.
US09953863B1
A method of forming an interconnect structure is provided. The method includes forming a first dielectric layer, and forming an opening in the first dielectric layer. The method also includes applying a gas to the first dielectric layer adjacent to the opening, where after applying the gas to the first dielectric layer adjacent to the opening, a bottom surface of the opening has been planarized. The method also includes etching the first dielectric layer through the opening to expose a first contact underlying the first dielectric layer, and forming a conductive line in the opening.
US09953859B2
Provided is an SOI wafer manufacturing method that allows production of an SOI wafer having a high gettering ability and a small resistance variance in a thickness direction of an active layer, at high productivity. The SOI wafer manufacturing method includes a first step of implanting light element ions to a surface of at least one of a first substrate and a second substrate to form, on the at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate, a modified layer in which the light element ions are present in solid solution, a second step of forming an oxide film on a surface of at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate, a third step of bonding the first substrate and the second substrate according to a bonding thermal processing, and a fourth step of obtaining an active layer by thinning the first substrate.
US09953854B2
A method of adsorbing a target object on a mounting table is provided. The mounting table is provided within a processing vessel that partitions a depressurizable space in a processing apparatus which processes a processing target object within the space. Further, the processing apparatus serves as a plasma processing apparatus. The method includes mounting the target object on an electrostatic chuck of the mounting table; and applying three AC voltages having different phases to three electrodes of the electrostatic chuck, respectively.
US09953852B2
A liquid processing apparatus of the present disclosure performs a liquid processing by supplying a processing liquid to a substrate that is rotating. A substrate holding unit configured to be rotatable around a vertical axis is provided with a holding surface to attract and hold a bottom surface of the substrate horizontally. A guide unit is formed integrally with the substrate holding unit, disposed around the substrate held in the substrate holding unit, and provided at a position equal to or lower than a height of a top surface of a periphery of the substrate. The guide unit includes a guide surface configured to guide the processing liquid. A rotary cup rotates integrally with the substrate holding unit, and guides the processing liquid towards the cup between the rotary cup and the guide unit.
US09953835B2
A method of doping a substrate. The method may include implanting a dose of a helium species into the substrate through a surface of the substrate at an implant temperature of 300° C. or greater. The method may further include depositing a doping layer containing a dopant on the surface of the substrate, and annealing the substrate at an anneal temperature, the anneal temperature being greater than the implant temperature.
US09953832B2
An epitaxial base is provided. The epitaxial base includes a substrate and a carbon nanotube layer. The substrate has an epitaxial growth surface and defines a plurality of grooves and bulges on the epitaxial growth surface. The carbon nanotube layer covers the epitaxial growth surface, wherein a first part of the carbon nanotube layer is attached to top surfaces of the plurality of bulges, a second part of the carbon nanotube layer is attached to bottom surfaces of the plurality of grooves, the second part of the carbon nanotube layer is separated from the first part of the carbon nanotube layer, and side surfaces of the plurality of grooves are free of carbon nanotubes.
US09953829B2
A semiconductor manufacturing method includes setting a relative position between first through holes of a first plate-shaped part and second through holes of a second plate-shaped part to a first relative position. The method includes supplying a first gas containing a component of the first film onto the semiconductor substrate in a reactor through the first through holes not closed with the second plate-shaped part, to form the first film on the semiconductor substrate. The method includes relatively moving the first plate-shaped part and the second plate-shaped part to change the relative position to a second relative position. The method includes supplying a second gas containing a component of the second film onto the semiconductor substrate through the first through holes not closed with the second plate-shaped part, to laminate the second film on the first film.
US09953826B2
A method for cleaning a substrate includes supplying to a substrate a film-forming processing liquid which includes a volatile component and forms a film on the substrate, vaporizing the volatile component in the film-forming processing liquid such that the film-forming processing liquid solidifies or cures on the substrate and forms a processing film on the substrate, supplying to the substrate having the processing film a strip-processing liquid which strips the processing film from the substrate, and supplying to the processing film formed on the substrate a dissolving-processing liquid which dissolves the processing film after the supplying of the strip-processing liquid.
US09953822B1
A system includes a sample selector device, a chromatographic column selectively connectable to the sample selector device, and a spectrometry analysis device selectively connectable to the sample selector device. The sample selector device is configured to supply multiple individual samples to the chromatographic column to separate components of the individual samples. The sample selector device is also configured to store the separated components of the individual samples. The sample selector device is further configured to supply the separated components of the individual samples to the spectrometry analysis device. In embodiments of the disclosure, the components of the individual samples can be chromatographically separated while the spectrometry analysis device is offline.
US09953819B2
An ion source is provided comprising one or more nebulizers and one or more targets, wherein the one or more nebulizers are arranged and adapted to emit, in use, a stream predominantly of droplets which are caused to impact upon the one or more targets and to ionise the droplets to form a plurality of ions. The ion source further comprises one or more electrodes arranged adjacent to and/or attached to the one or more targets wherein the one or more electrodes comprise one or more apertures, notches or cut-outs wherein at least some of the plurality of ions pass, in use, through the one or more apertures, notches or cut-outs.
US09953818B2
An ion mobility gas detector apparatus including a detector core, an inlet gas path, an exhaust gas path, a source of diluent gas, and at least one or more sensors for measuring temperature, pressure and humidity of gas streams. Further included is a mixing mechanism adapted to mix at least first and second gas streams in response to one or more sensor measurements. A controller is provided for applying drive signals to the detector core.
US09953809B2
An apparatus for coating a film in a container and a method for coating a film are provided. The apparatus includes a cylindrical housing having a containing space penetrating through both ends thereof; a first arc-shaped electrode and a second arc-shaped electrode surrounding and covering an outer side of the cylindrical housing with a gap formed between the first and second arc-shaped electrodes such that the first arc-shaped electrode is free from electrically connected to the second arc-shaped electrode; a first conductive ring and a second conductive ring surrounding on the first and second arc-shaped electrodes, respectively; an upper supporting seat and a lower supporting seat disposed at the both ends of the cylindrical housing, respectively, to form a sealed environment for the containing space; and a valve component furnished at the upper supporting seat and inserted into the container for providing a processing gas in a film-coating process.
US09953800B2
According to one embodiment, in a multi-charged particle beam writing apparatus, a blanking plate includes a plurality of first buffers connected in series, second buffers in a plurality of stages connected in series between the first buffer and a blanker, and an error detection processing circuitry performing error detection on data stored in the first buffer and the second buffers. The blanking control data transfers to the corresponding blanker via the first buffer and the second buffers. In a case where the error detection processing circuitry detects an error, the control processing circuitry retransmits the blanking control data to the blanking plate with regard to a shot having the error detected therein and a shot which comes, in a shot order, after the shot having the error detected therein.
US09953799B2
Provided is an X-ray apparatus including: a target configured to generate an X-ray by collision of electrons or transmission of electrons; a filament configured to release the electrons to the target; a housing that has the filament therein; and a first holding member configured to hold a portion of the target disposed on an outer side of the housing on the outer side of the housing.
US09953790B1
A sensing assembly is for an electrical switching apparatus. The electrical switching apparatus includes a base having a pocket portion, and a bus bar coupled to the base. The sensing assembly includes a housing structured to be coupled to the pocket portion, a power harvester coupled to the housing, a current sensor coupled to the housing, and a voltage sensing circuit located internal with respect to the housing and being structured to be electrically connected to the bus bar.
US09953788B2
An electric circuit breaker including a spring energy store drive having a spring and a manual winding device for manually tensioning the spring. In accordance with an embodiment, the manual winding device includes a rotatable latching disk, a latching pawl arranged next to the disk, and a manual actuating device connected to the latching pawl. The latching pawl is guidable into a latching toothed portion of the disk. The pawl is also capable of moving, owing to an actuation of the actuating device. As a result, the disk is capable of rotating along a preset desired rotation direction for tensioning the spring. The latching toothed portion is asymmetrical and a force transmission from the pawl onto the disk is possible along the desired rotation direction. The disk slides along the pawl when the disk rotates along the desired rotation direction more quickly than the pawl.
US09953779B2
A bypass switch includes: a casing; a vacuum interrupter disposed inside the casing, the vacuum interrupter being disposed such that a movable contact is movable to a fixed contact; a first fixing bus-bar fixed to the casing; a second fixing bus-bar fixed to the casing to be spaced apart from the first fixing bus-bar; a moving pusher connected to the movable contact; a drive source installed in the casing, the drive source pushing the moving pusher to a position at which the movable contact and the fixed contact are contacted with each other; and a multi-contactor disposed to be contacted with the moving pusher. Accordingly, the moving pusher can rapidly contact the movable contact with the fixed contact. Further, the moving pusher can be moved with a small external force. Thus, it is possible to minimize the size of the drive source and the power used in the drive source.
US09953768B2
A photoelectric conversion element, a photoelectric conversion element, a dye-sensitized solar cell and a dye solution, having an electrically conductive support, a photoconductor layer containing an electrolyte, a charge transfer layer containing an electrolyte, and a counter electrode, wherein the photoconductor layer contains semiconductor fine particles carrying a metal complex dye; and wherein the metal complex dye has at least a carboxyl group and a salt of the carboxyl group, the salt being selected from the group consisting of a potassium salt, a lithium salt, and a cesium salt, and the ratio α of the number of the salt of the carboxyl group divided by the total number of the carboxyl group and the salt of the carboxyl group to be found in one molecule of the metal complex dye, lying in the range of 0.1 to 0.9.
US09953762B2
The invention relates to a contactless connector (100), a system including the contactless connector (100) and a corresponding mating connector (200), and a manufacturing method for the contactless connector. In order to enable the contactless connector (100) to transmit/receive power to/from the corresponding mating connector (200), the invention suggest providing at the contactless connector an inner ferrite element (102) and an inductive coupling element (110) arranged to at least partially surround the inner ferrite element. An outer ferrite element (107) of the contactless connector is arranged to at least partially surround the inductive coupling element (110), wherein a front end (108) of the outer ferrite element (107) facing the mating (101) end of the contactless connector is recessed in an axial direction of the contactless connector with respect to a front end (103) of the inner ferrite element (102) facing the mating end. A rear end (109) of the outer ferrite element (107) is magnetically connected to a rear end (104) of the inner ferrite element (102). An inductive coupling support element (601) is arranged around the inner ferrite element (102). The inductive coupling element is a wire wound around the inductive coupling support element (6019 to form a coil comprising a plurality of coil windings (115). The inductive coupling support element (6019 comprises an outwardly extending intermediate disc that divides the coil windings (115) into a first and a second coil winding section. The intermediate disc (602) has a slot (603) forming a coil wire passageway through which the coil wire is routed.
US09953759B2
A coil component includes a component main body, a coil conductor, first and second external terminal electrodes and first and second extended conductor layers The first and second extended conductor layers are extended in directions toward the first main surface from one end portions of the first and second external terminal electrodes in a state of forming uniform and edges, and connect the one end and the other end of the coil conductor and the first and second external terminal electrodes, respectively, with distances larger than distances extending in normal line directions of outer peripheral edges of the circulating conductor layers and equal to or smaller than distances extending in tangent line directions of the outer peripheral edges of the circulating conductor layers.
US09953758B2
A magnetic element is disclosed, and includes a magnetic core, at least one winding set and at least one heat conduction pipe. The magnetic core includes two magnetic columns arranged oppositely, and two magnetic plates arranged oppositely. The magnetic plates respectively cover two opposite end surfaces of each magnetic column to mutually form a closed magnetic flux path with the magnetic columns. Each of the magnetic columns includes a plurality of first magnetic blocks stacked together. Each of the magnetic plates includes at least one second magnetic block. The winding set binds one of the magnetic columns. The heat conduction pipe is disposed internally in one of the magnetic columns.
US09953757B2
In a laminated coil component include coil conductors are respectively included on magnetic layers and a carbon paste is included on a magnetic layer. The coil conductors include a partial coil conductor and a partial coil conductor respectively corresponding to an outer side portion circle and an inner side portion circle defining two circles. A width of the carbon paste at least partially overlaps an interval between the outer side portion circle and the inner side portion circle defining the two circles, and extends circularly along the two circles. The carbon paste is shifted to the interval between the outer side portion circle and the inner side portion circle defining the two circles at the time of pressure-bonding the magnetic layers. The carbon paste vanishes when being calcined to define an air gap.
US09953756B2
An RF transformer is provided. The RF transformer includes a ferrite core and a winding coil structure formed around the ferrite core. The winding coil structure is in electrical contact with a center portion of the ferrite core. The winding coil structure is essentially electrically and physically spaced from external portions of the ferrite core.
US09953743B2
A printed circuit board has a printed wiring board and a semiconductor package mounted on the printed wiring board. The printed wiring board and the semiconductor package are connected with a plurality of solder balls. An underfill material covering the plurality of solder balls is filled between the printed wiring board and the semiconductor package. The underfill material has a relative dielectric constant of 8.6 or more and 54.4 or less. Thus, crosstalk noise generated in wiring in the out-of-plane direction is reduced without increasing the mounting area.
US09953736B2
An aluminum electric wire includes an annealing conductor that is made up of elemental wires made of an aluminum alloy containing 0.90-1.20 mass % Fe, 0.10-0.25 mass % Mg, 0.01-0.05 mass % Ti, 0.0005-0.0025 mass % B, and the balance being Al and has a tensile strength of 110 MPa or more, a breaking elongation of 15% or more, and an electric conductivity of 58% IACS or more, and an insulating material covering the conductor. The wire is produced by casting an aluminum alloy prepared by rapidly solidifying a molten aluminum alloy having the above composition, producing the wires by subjecting the alloy to plasticity processing, producing the conductor by bunching the wires, subjecting the wires or the conductor to annealing at 250° C. or higher, and then covering the conductor with the insulator.
US09953721B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a gate driver circuit, a touch display device and a touch display driving method. The gate driver circuit includes a plurality of GOA unit groups arranged successively and control units arranged between every two adjacent GOA unit groups, each of the GOA unit groups comprising a plurality of shift registers which are cascaded. The control unit is configured to output a start control signal at a high level to a signal input end of a first stage shift register of a next GOA unit group corresponding thereto, after a last stage shift register of a previous GOA unit group corresponding thereto completes driving for a corresponding gate line and a predetermined time elapses, so as to pre-charge the first stage shift register of the next GOA unit group.
US09953717B2
Systems and methods for improving performance of a non-volatile memory by utilizing one or more tier select gate transistors between different portions of a NAND string are described. A first memory string tier may comprise a first set of memory cell transistors that may be programmed to store a first set of data and a second memory string tier may comprise a second set of memory cell transistors that are arranged above the first set of transistors and that may be programmed to store a second set of data. Between the first set of memory cell transistors and the second set of memory cell transistors may comprise a tier select gate transistor in series with the first set of memory cell transistors and the second set of memory cell transistors. The tier select gate transistor may comprise a programmable transistor or a non-programmable transistor.
US09953712B2
A nonvolatile memory device includes a memory cell array having memory cells, a row decoder circuit connected to the memory cells through word lines, a page buffer circuit connected to the memory cells through bit lines, and a control circuit controlling the row decoder circuit and the page buffer circuit to repeatedly perform an erase loop including an erase and an erase verification with respect to the memory cells. The control circuit is configured to select one of an increase and a decrease of an erase voltage according to a result of the erase verification of a current erase loop and apply the controlled erase voltage to the memory cells in the erase operation of a subsequent erase loop.
US09953707B2
According to one embodiment, a memory device includes a sense amplifier including a first input node and a second input node, a first path including a memory cell to be selectively connected to the first input node, and a second path including a reference cell to be selectively connected to the second input node, and is configured to change an input value at the second input node in accordance with the state of the memory cell.
US09953705B2
To provide enhanced data storage devices and systems, various systems, architectures, apparatuses, and methods, are provided herein. In a first example, a resistive random access memory (ReRAM) array is provided. The ReRAM array includes a plurality of memory cells each comprising resistive memory material formed into a layer of a substrate, with resistance properties of the resistive memory material corresponding to data bits stored by the memory cells. The ReRAM array also includes a plurality of interconnect features each comprising conductive material between adjacent memory cells formed into the layer of the substrate, and gate portions coupled onto the memory cells and configured to individually alter the resistance properties of the resistive memory material of associated memory cells responsive to at least voltages applied to the gate portions.
US09953698B2
A fine grained negative wordline scheme for SRAM memories is disclosed. The scheme includes a circuit having a static random access memory (SRAM) cell including at least a wordline coupled to a plurality of NFETs of a transistor array. The circuit further includes a wordline driver including a plurality of inverters coupled between a wordline group decode node, a power supply and the wordline. Overvoltage on the wordline driver and NFETs of the SRAM cell are eliminated by applying a power gating mode and lowering the power supply voltage.
US09953692B1
An in-plane SOT MRAM non-volatile memory cell has enhanced thermal stability due to coercive pinning provided by an adjacent antiferromagnetic layer that has a thickness that is less than a minimum critical thickness needed to provide exchange bias.
US09953686B2
A memory system of a high-speed operation can be realized by reducing an influence of reflection signals etc. caused by branching and impedance mismatching in various wirings between a memory controller and a memory module, and an influence due to transmission delays of data, command/address, and clocks in the memory module. To this end, a memory system comprises a memory controller and a memory module mounted with DRAMs. A buffer is mounted on the memory module. The buffer and the memory controller are connected to each other via data wiring, command/address wiring, and clock wiring. The DRAMs and the buffer on the memory module are connected to each other via internal data wiring, internal command/address wiring, and internal cock wiring. The data wiring, the command/address wiring, and the clock wiring may be connected to buffers of other memory modules in cascade. Between the DRAMs and the buffer on the memory module, high-speed data transmission is implemented using data phase signals synchronous with clocks.
US09953684B2
A method of assembling a data storage device comprises forming an enclosure by overlapping each of a plurality of sidewalls of a cover with a corresponding sidewall of a base part, dispensing a liquid adhesive between the respective sidewalls of the cover and base part in such a quantity at each of a plurality of locations to promote capillary flow of the liquid adhesive to form a continuous film of liquid adhesive between the sidewalls, and curing the continuous film of liquid adhesive to form a hermetic seal between the cover and the base part. Embodiments may include surface treating the sidewall surface(s), which can help promote the capillary flow of the liquid adhesive. The hermetic seal provides for a lighter-than-air gas to be held therein.
US09953677B1
The present disclosure relates to a storage and transfer apparatus for mass transfer of a plurality of data discs to trays of a plurality stacked disc drives. The storage and transfer apparatus may store a plurality of discs with the disc hold pins retracted and the telescopic sections collapsed over each other. In such a configuration, the stored discs may lie in contact with each other. The storage and transfer apparatus may transfer the plurality of discs to the trays of the plurality of stacked disc drives with the discs holding pins extended and the telescopic sections extended relative to each other.
US09953667B2
A head gimbal assembly has a laminate flexure that includes a metallic conductive layer that includes a plurality of electrically conductive traces that are elongated and narrow and electrically connected to the read head, and a metallic structural layer that is stiffer than the conductive layer. A first dielectric layer is disposed between the structural layer and the conductive layer. A second dielectric layer substantially covers the conductive layer in a flexure tail bonding region that overlaps a flexible printed circuit (FPC). The structural layer includes a plurality of flexure bond pads that are aligned with, facing, and bonded to corresponding FPC bond pads. The flexure bond pads in the structural layer are electrically connected to the electrically conductive traces in the conductive layer by vias through the first dielectric layer. In certain embodiments, the flexure tail is folded upon itself in the flexure tail bonding region.
US09953664B1
A novel automatic record player for playing a phonograph record includes a base, a turntable, an upper hub, a lower hub, a tonearm, a drive unit, a pinion, a control cam, a main arm, an auxiliary arm, first and second micro-switches, a clutch member, a first clutch actuating member, a switch activating member, an actuating pin, a synchronizing unit, a position guide, an angular position setting unit, and an elongated member. With the provision of the angular position setting unit, when the clutch member is actuated by the first clutch actuating member, a forward free end of the tonearm can be more precisely positioned on an outermost groove of the phonograph record.
US09953658B2
A data decoding method and device as well as an intelligent cipher key token are provided. The data decoding method includes: receiving a sinusoidal wave via an audio interface, wherein the sinusoidal wave has a waveform with at least one period, and different periods represent different bit values; processing the sinusoidal wave so as to obtain a first square wave, wherein the first square wave carries data to be decoded; determining whether there is a glitch waveform in the first square wave, based on a preset threshold or based on an adaptive threshold, wherein the adaptive threshold is calculated according to synchronization head data carried in the sinusoidal wave; if there is a glitch waveform in the first square wave, eliminating the glitch waveform from the first square wave so as to obtain a second square wave; and decoding the second square wave so as to obtain decoded data.
US09953654B2
A voice command recognition apparatus and method thereof are described. The voice command recognition apparatus includes audio sensors placed at different locations; a context determiner configured to determine user context based on a voice received at the audio sensors, wherein the context comprises a vocalization from a user. A command recognizer in the voice command recognition apparatus is configured to activate to recognize a voice command or remain inactive according to the recognized context.
US09953653B2
Techniques for combining the results of multiple recognizers in a distributed speech recognition architecture. Speech data input to a client device is encoded and processed both locally and remotely by different recognizers configured to be proficient at different speech recognition tasks. The client/server architecture is configurable to enable network providers to specify a policy directed to a trade-off between reducing recognition latency perceived by a user and usage of network resources. The results of the local and remote speech recognition engines are combined based, at least in part, on logic stored by one or more components of the client/server architecture.
US09953650B1
Biofeedback is used to alter subsequent speech of one or more participants engaged in a discussion. Biofeedback signals can range from simplistic (beeps, flashes, vibrations, etc.) to more complicated images, videos, and music. In one aspect, feedback signals can be rendered to the participant(s) based on the extent to which the discussion relates to one or more goals. Signals can be rendered in any suitable manner, including a visual image rendered by a virtual reality headset or other device, an electronically generated auditory sound, other tactilely perceptible vibrations or other movements, preferably in substantially near real-time.
US09953649B2
A system and method for processing multi-modal device interactions in a natural language voice services environment may be provided. In particular, one or more multi-modal device interactions may be received in a natural language voice services environment that includes one or more electronic devices. The multi-modal device interactions may include a non-voice interaction with at least one of the electronic devices or an application associated therewith, and may further include a natural language utterance relating to the non-voice interaction. Context relating to the non-voice interaction and the natural language utterance may be extracted and combined to determine an intent of the multi-modal device interaction, and a request may then be routed to one or more of the electronic devices based on the determined intent of the multi-modal device interaction.
US09953646B2
A computer-implemented method for dynamically presenting a prewritten text in a graphical user interface is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a text artifact, storing the text artifact in a memory device of a computer, retrieving the text artifact, displaying the text artifact on the display screen of the computer, receiving a vocal input, generating a text file representing the words spoken in the vocal input, comparing a predetermined number of the hypothesis words to a predetermined number of the artifact words, determining a match location in the text artifact where a specific number of the predetermined number of hypothesis words match a specific number of the predetermined number of artifact words, and altering the display on the display screen to display the match location on the display screen of the computer.
US09953641B2
An apparatus includes a first microphone disposed near a first seat in a car cabin, the first seat configured to seat a first occupant, a second microphone disposed near a second seat in the car cabin, the second seat configured to seat a second occupant, a processor, and a memory storing a computer program. The computer program, when executed, causes the processor to execute operations including: estimating a first mixed speech using a second signal acquired by the second microphone, the first mixed speech including a first speech that has been uttered by the second occupant and has entered the first microphone, and removing the first mixed speech from a first signal acquired by the first microphone.
US09953635B2
Relative Excitation Features, in all conditions, are far superior to conventional acoustic features like Mel-Frequency Cepstrum (MFC) and Perceptual Linear Prediction (PLP), and provide much more speaker-independence, channel-independence, and noise-immunity. Relative Excitation features are radically different than conventional acoustic features. Relative Excitation method doesn't try to model the speech-production or vocal tract shape, doesn't try to do deconvolution, and doesn't utilize LP (Linear Prediction) and Cepstrum techniques. This new feature set is completely related to human hearing. The present invention is inspired by the fact that human auditory perception analyzes and tracks the relations between spectral frequency component amplitudes and the “Relative Excitation” name implies relative excitation levels of human auditory neurons. Described herein is a major breakthrough for explaining and simulating the human auditory perception and its robustness.
US09953634B1
Provided are methods and systems for passive training for automatic speech recognition. An example method includes utilizing a first, speaker-independent model to detect a spoken keyword or a key phrase in spoken utterances. While utilizing the first model, a second model is passively trained to detect the spoken keyword or the key phrase in the spoken utterances using at least partially the spoken utterances. The second, speaker dependent model may utilize deep neural network (DNN) or convolutional neural network (CNN) techniques. In response to completion of the training, a switch is made from utilizing the first model to utilizing the second model to detect the spoken keyword or the key phrase in spoken utterances. While utilizing the second model, parameters associated therewith are updated using the spoken utterances in response to detecting the keyword or the key phrase in the spoken utterances. User authentication functionality may be provided.
US09953633B2
Various implementations disclosed herein include a training module configured to produce a set of segment templates from a concurrent segmentation of a plurality of vocalization instances of a VSP vocalized by a particular speaker, who is identifiable by a corresponding set of vocal characteristics. Each segment template provides a stochastic characterization of how each of one or more portions of a VSP is vocalized by the particular speaker in accordance with the corresponding set of vocal characteristics. Additionally, in various implementations, the training module includes systems, methods and/or devices configured to produce a set of VSP segment maps that each provide a quantitative characterization of how respective segments of the plurality of vocalization instances vary in relation to a corresponding one of a set of segment templates.
US09953632B2
According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a method for generating a keyword model of a user-defined keyword in an electronic device is disclosed. The method includes receiving at least one input indicative of the user-defined keyword, determining a sequence of subwords from the at least one input, generating the keyword model associated with the user-defined keyword based on the sequence of subwords and a subword model of the subwords, wherein the subword model is configured to model a plurality of acoustic features of the subwords based on a speech database, and providing the keyword model associated with the user-defined keyword to a voice activation unit configured with a keyword model associated with a predetermined keyword.
US09953629B2
A flexible waveguide band is provided for that may be worn by a user around their neck, for example. The flexible waveguide band includes a spine, such as a pliable rod; a plurality of vertebrae mounted on the spine, with each vertebra including at least one waveguide channel guide; and an encapsulating potting material. The flexible waveguide band may also be attached to an acoustic pod, including an acoustic driver that may radiate sound waves into said waveguide channels and exit via a sound outlet opening in the flexible band.
US09953624B2
In some implementations, a computing device can be configured to present a graphical user interface that enables the dynamic authoring of music by a user of the computing device. The computing device can present a grid of cells, where each cell represents a music segment. The cells can be configured to playback the music segment once or playback the music segment in a repeating loop. The user can select (e.g., touch) one or more cells in the grid to cause the corresponding music segment to play. While playing selected cells, the user can provide input selecting various musical effects to apply to the playing music. The user can record a dynamically selected sequence of cells and musical effects to create an original musical product.
US09953623B2
[Problem] To provide a marching drum which ensures forwards and downwards visibility and ensures the field of view during marching. [Solution] [Effect] By eliminating all or some members of the body of the drum, or by adopting transparent members, this marching drum which enables forwards and downwards visibility ensures the performer's field of view during marching.
US09953621B2
A method for shortening image delay includes, but is not limited to refreshing a current frame image from a frame buffer area to the display screen from top to bottom, and notifying an application to draw next frame image when the current frame image is refreshed to a predetermined row. The method further includes updating content in predetermined rows from top of next frame image drawn by the application to the frame buffer area of the system, and replacing content in the predetermined rows of the current frame image that have already been displayed The method further includes updating the content in the remaining rows of next frame image drawn by the application to the frame buffer area, and replacing content in the remaining rows of the current frame image that have already been displayed.
US09953608B2
The present invention relates to a driving circuit of a display panel. A plurality of driving units produce a reference driving voltage according to a gamma voltage of a gamma circuit, respectively. A plurality of digital-to-analog converting circuits receive the reference driving voltages output by the plurality of driving units, and select one of the plurality of reference driving voltage as a data driving voltage according to pixel data, respectively. The plurality of digital-to-analog converting circuits transmit the plurality of data driving voltages to the display panel for displaying images. A voltage boost circuit is used for producing a first supply voltage and providing the first supply voltage to the plurality of digital-to-analog converting circuits. At least a voltage boost unit is used for producing a second supply voltage and providing the second supply voltage to the plurality of driving units.
US09953607B2
It is provided an array substrate and a method for driving the array substrate, and a liquid crystal display panel. The array substrate includes: a plurality of sub-pixels formed on a substrate in a matrix form; a plurality of data lines each configured to provide a signal to one column of sub-pixels of the plurality of sub-pixels; and a plurality of gate lines each configured to provide a gate line signal to one row of sub-pixels of the plurality of sub-pixels, wherein each of the plurality of sub-pixels includes at least two sub-pixel electrodes, and each of the at least two sub-pixel electrodes receives a data signal from the same one of the plurality of data lines via a corresponding switching element.
US09953604B2
Disclosed herein is a display device, including: a display surface; a display functional layer adapted to control the display of a screen viewed from outside the display surface; a drive control section operable to perform display scanning and driving adapted to scan and drive, in the one direction, the plurality of drive electrodes, and also operable to perform, a plurality of times and for M display screens, detection scanning and driving adapted to continuously scan and drive all or part of the plurality of drive electrodes within the period of time; and a plurality of sensor lines arranged in a direction other than the one direction to be separate from each other, which produce an electrical change if an object to be detected comes in contact with or proximity to the display surface while the drive control section performs the detection scanning and driving.
US09953603B2
An object of the present invention is to prevent occurrence of abnormality such as display misalignment at the time of image update even when pause drive is performed in a display device where data signal lines are driven by a plurality of driver ICs. In a liquid crystal display device which includes a master IC (300L) and a slave IC (300R) as driver ICs and performs pause drive, upon detection of refresh start timing by a REF (Half) of the master IC (300L), the master IC (300L) transmits a refresh control signal RfC to the slave IC (300R), and starts refreshing a left active area of a display portion. Upon receipt of a refresh detection signal RfD indicating refresh start timing detected by a REF (Half) of the slave IC (300R), the master IC (300L) transmits the refresh control signal RfC to the slave IC (300R), and starts refreshing the left active area of the display portion. Upon receipt of the refresh control signal RfC, the slave IC (300R) starts refreshing a right active area of the display portion.
US09953595B2
A liquid crystal display device whose power consumption is reduced while image quality is prevented from being degraded is provided. Further, a method for driving a liquid crystal display device whose power consumption is reduced while image quality is prevented from being degraded is provided. The liquid crystal display device includes a transistor whose leakage current in an off state is reduced and a liquid crystal element. The capacitance of a pixel satisfies the formula (1) and the formula (2).
US09953594B2
When a SLEEPIN Command is inputted to the liquid crystal display device, the liquid crystal display device controls a source driver and a gate driver to generate an alternating current voltage and apply the generated alternating current voltage to a liquid crystal layer, in order to eliminate charge storage due to impurity ions distributed unevenly due to a polarity bias caused by a voltage applied to the liquid crystal layer until a point of time when the Command is inputted. In this manner, the liquid crystal display device shifts to a sleep period in a state where the charge storage due to the unevenly distributed impurity ions is eliminated. Therefore, when the liquid crystal display device resumes from the sleep period, generation of an afterimage due to burn-in of liquid crystal and generation of a flicker due to deviation of an optimum common voltage do not occur.
US09953579B2
An acousto-optic element array includes: acousto-optic elements each including an acousto-optic generator, a light supply, and a wave transducer; a gate driver that selects an acousto-optic element to be driven from among the acousto-optic elements; an electrical data driver that is connected to an electrical wire and transmits electrical data to an electro-optic modulator configured to control the acousto-optic generator of the selected acousto-optic element; and a wave data driver that is connected to a waveguide and transmits wave data to the wave transducer of the selected acousto-optic element.
US09953578B2
Disclosed herein is a light emitting period setting method for a display panel wherein the peak luminance level is varied through control of a total light emitting period length which is the sum total of period lengths of light emitting periods arranged in a one-field period, including a step of setting period lengths of N light emitting periods, which are arranged in a one-field period, in response to the total light emitting period length such that the period lengths of the light emitting periods continue to keep a fixed ratio thereamong, N being equal to or higher than 3.
US09953573B2
Organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display and method of setting initialization voltage in the same
An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display is disclosed. In one aspect, the display includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, each of the pixels including an OLED and a driving transistor, the OLED configured to emit light based on an emission current, the driving transistor configured to control the emission current based on a data signal applied to a gate electrode of the driving transistor. The display also includes a power supply configured to apply a driving voltage to the pixels, apply an initialization voltage to a first electrode of the OLED, control the driving voltage within a first range, and control the initialization voltage such that a voltage difference between the driving voltage and the initialization voltage is substantially constant.
US09953564B2
[Object] To provide a technology that can mitigate accurately the ghosting problem.[Solving Means] An image display control apparatus according to the present technology includes a control unit. The control unit switches a first mode for reducing a brightness of an image without inverting the brightness of the image fixedly displayed on a specific area of a screen to a second mode for inverting the brightness of the image and reducing the brightness of the image inverted, and controls a display such that the image is displayed on the area of the screen depending on the mode switched.
US09953563B2
A data line drive circuit provides a voltage according to a detection voltage and to a reference voltage, between the gate and source of a drive transistor in a pixel circuit, and detects a drive current having passed through the drive transistor and outputted external to the pixel circuit. A threshold voltage correction memory stores, for each pixel circuit, data representing a threshold voltage of the drive transistor. A display control circuit controls the reference voltage based on the data stored in the threshold voltage correction memory. By this, even if the threshold voltage of the drive transistor is changed, the drive current can be detected with a high accuracy. The threshold voltage correction memory may store, for each pixel circuit, data representing a difference between the threshold voltage of the drive transistor and the reference voltage.
US09953560B2
The present disclosure provides a display device. A solar cell module is integrated into a body of the display device. A photosensitive control module is configured to detect a brightness value of current ambient light being incident on the display device, and when the detected brightness value meets a predetermined condition, switch a power supply of the display device from a local cell to the solar cell module, so as to supply the electric energy stored in the solar cell module to the display device.
US09953559B2
The present invention provides a source driver for use in a TFT-LCD, comprising: a data register, a data latch, a digital-to-analog converter and an output buffer. A first loading pulse is provided to the output buffer, such that the output buffer starts to output the gray-scale voltages of odd output ends to corresponding TFT sources in response to a second edge of the first loading pulse from the second level to the first level, which second edge immediately follows the first edge, and a second loading pulse is provided to the output buffer, such that such that the output buffer starts to output the gray-scale voltages of even output ends to corresponding TFT sources in response to a second edge of the second loading pulse from the second level to the first level, which second edge immediately follows the first edge. At least the second edge of the first loading pulse is not synchronous with the second edge of the second loading pulse. A driving circuit and a driving method are further provided. The source driver, the driving circuit and the driving method can alleviate adverse consequences resulting from too large difference between display data of two adjacent rows.
US09953556B2
In a method of correcting a desired color of a pixel to be displayed in an optical see-through display, a binned-display profile of prescribed colors arranged to be rendered by the display include background colors added to it so that the desired color can be matched to a closest one of the resulting predicted color profile of colors which are predicted to be perceived by a user. The display is then instructed to display the prescribed color which corresponds with the closest matching predicted color such that an observer substantially perceives the desired color. Typically the desired color is only compared to a subset of the predicted colors for efficiency. Additional corrections may take place to improve contrast of graphical content compared to the background in some instance.
US09953548B2
Removable tension-pneumothorax-simulator cartridge for use with a patient simulating mannequin, comprising a rigid body having a hollow cavity therein, the body having two openings in fluid communication with the cavity, the cavity being shaped and dimensioned so as to be capable of receiving therein through the first opening a 14-gauge 3.25 inch needle; the first opening having an associated first-opening closure releasably secured to the body and airtightly sealing the first-opening and including a first material pierceable by the needle when treating a simulation of a tension pneumothorax in the patient simulating mannequin, the first material being self-sealing such that when the needle is withdrawn the first material self-seals, the body being constructed of a second material not pierceable by the needle; the second opening being structured and dimensioned to releasably engage cooperable structure on the mannequin such that when the cartridge is inserted into the mannequin, the cooperable structure on the mannequin engages and airtightly seals the second opening and provides a channel in fluid communication with the cavity of the body for allowing for the entry of a pressured gas into the cavity for use in the simulation of the tension pneumothorax.
US09953542B2
Systems and methods that continuously adapt aspects of a continuous monitoring device based on collected information to provide an individually tailored configuration are described. The adaptations may include adapting the user interface, the alerting, the motivational messages, the training, and the like. Such adaptation can allow a patient to more readily identify and understand the information provided by/via the device.
US09953538B1
As the number of autonomous vehicles on the road increases, the need to better integrate those vehicles with traffic also increases. As discussed, various entities in common traffic scenarios (e.g., other vehicles, cyclists, pedestrians, etc.) are all accustomed to navigating traffic in particular ways. Embodiments provide techniques, including systems and methods, for autonomous vehicles to identify entities in traffic and communicate messages to those entities based on the autonomous vehicle's planned movements. For example, embodiments allow the use of one or more notification devices distributed across an autonomous vehicle to provide messages to nearby entities. Accordingly, embodiments utilize available sensor data to identify nearby entities and provide messages to these entities.
US09953534B1
Method, apparatus, and computer storage media are disclosed for vehicle collision warnings based on a time-to-collision. An example vehicle includes a sensor to detect an object, a speed sensor to measure a current speed, and a collision alerter. The example collision alerter is to determine a distance to the object and determine a time-to-collision based on the distance and the current speed. Also, the example collision alerter is to emit, in response to the time-to-collision being less than or equal to a first collision threshold, a first alarm associated with the first collision threshold.
US09953522B2
A system and method that enables pedestrians or individuals on smaller conveyances to communicate their location and direction of travel to signal light controllers at an intersection, enables traffic networks to receive this communication and output the detected data to the corresponding intersection traffic-signal controller to allow for individuals not in standard motor vehicles to be detected by traffic detection systems.
US09953516B2
Systems and methods for self-administering a sound test to verify operation of a speaker and/or alarm within a hazard detection system are described herein. The sound test can verify that the audible sources such as the alarm and speaker operate at the requisite loudness and frequencies. In addition, the sound test can be self-administered in that it does not require the presence of a person to initiate or verify that the audible sources are functioning properly.
US09953512B2
A computer-implemented method for remote presence security is described. In one embodiment, an event is detected in relation to a premises. Upon detecting the event, a location of an occupant of the premises is determined in relation to the premises. Upon determining the occupant is a predetermined distance away from the premises, a first type of notification is sent. The first type of notification includes a display of real-time video being captured at the premises.
US09953508B2
This application generally relates to systems and methods for authenticating a bulk quantity of a consumable product with a corresponding product. More specifically, the invention associates a bulk quantity of the consumable product with a product parameter such as a consumption rate of the consumable product within the corresponding product; provides and authorizes a key and/or reader with the bulk quantity and consumption rate data to a specific corresponding product wherein the bulk quantity and consumption rate data are correlated to a maximum consumption quantity value; monitoring consumption of the consumable product within the corresponding product until the maximum consumption quantity value is reached; and providing an event output to the corresponding product when the maximum consumption quantity value is realized.
US09953501B2
A method comprises forming a structure, the structure comprising at least one of a wafer, a panel and a roll to roll structure and forming a plurality of integrated circuit chips from the structure. At least a given one of the plurality of integrated circuit chips or a heterogeneous integrated sub-component thereof forms a smart tag comprising a processor, a non-volatile memory, an internal power source, and a transceiver configured for two-way communication with a reader external to the smart tag. The given integrated circuit chip less than 10 cubic millimeters in size.
US09953500B2
A sensor associated with a security system determines an electrically open circuit. An identifier identifies the open circuit, which may then be used to retrieve video data trained to a surveillance area associated with the sensor.
US09953499B2
A sound amplification apparatus includes one or more microphones that convert collected sound into an audio signal and transmit the audio signal by radio and a sound receiving apparatus that receives the audio signal transmitted from the microphone and amplifies and outputs the sound based on the audio signal. The sound receiving apparatus is configured to perform sound output control in an emergency mode upon receiving an emergency signal transmitted in response to operation of an emergency switch of the microphone. With this configuration, it is possible to perform appropriate sound control in a dangerous situation such as intrusion of a suspicious person.
US09953492B2
An approach for configuring macro buttons for voice system activation in an alarm system by an alarm system operator that simplifies application of multiple activation and deactivation voice messages during fire alarm events and mass notification events.
US09953490B2
Embodiments of this concept are directed to a video poker gaming device that deals five cards to a player and selects five more cards that represent the possible cards used in a later draw. From these ten cards, the gaming device if a winning combination above a threshold amount is possible. If such a winning combination is not possible, in some embodiments, the device automatically ends the game and deals a new hand. If a win over the threshold amount is possible, the gaming device allows the player to hold and draw cards. This increases the speed of play of the poker game and focuses game play on hands where winning combinations are likely.
US09953487B2
A bonus element interleaved wagering system is disclosed. The system includes an interactive controller configured to: determine whether a bonus element of an interactive application provided by the interactive controller has been consumed; receive a wager outcome; determine whether to provide a bonus round; provide the bonus round; communicate, to the application controller, bonus round application telemetry associated with the bonus round; and receive a wager outcome based on the bonus round application telemetry. The system also includes a wager controller constructed to: receive a wager request; determine the wager outcome; communicate the wager outcome. The system also includes the application controller operatively connecting the interactive controller and the wager controller, the application controller constructed to: receive the bonus round application telemetry; communicate, to the wager controller, the wager request based on the bonus round application telemetry; receive the wager outcome; and communicate, to the interactive controller, the wager outcome.
US09953485B2
A gambling hybrid game that provides a reel game having a display with changeable opacity is disclosed. The gambling hybrid game includes an entertainment system engine that provides an entertainment game to a user, a real world engine that provides reel games to the user, and a game world engine that monitors the entertainment game and provides the reel game when appropriate. The real world engine provides the reel game including generating a display of the reel game. During provision of the gambling game, the real world engine determines the state of the game and changes the opacity of the display based upon the state of the game.
US09953481B2
In certain example embodiments, jukebox systems that have associated video servers for displaying video content on one or more displays or groups of displays external to the jukebox and/or directly on the jukebox are provided. Such video servers may effectively off-load at least some of the video processing load from the jukebox device. Accordingly, video content may be provided to complement and/or further enhance the interactive experience that jukeboxes currently provide, while also enabling patrons not directly in front of the jukebox to participate in the interactive process. Content may be distributed to the jukeboxes and/or video servers via a network. In addition to creating a compelling entertainment experience for patrons, it also is possible to create new revenue opportunities for customers. For example, operators and national account customers and advertising partners may provide additional value to venues through the innovative use of managed video content.
US09953479B1
Controlling access to physical compartment using mobile device and transaction authentication system
Techniques are disclosed relating to securing physical compartments and allowing users access via a mobile device configured to use a mobile authentication system. In some embodiments, a locking device for a physical container is configured to unlock only if both a transaction authentication system confirms successful authentication of a mobile device and an auxiliary key is present. The locking device may receive encrypted data from the mobile device via a short-range wireless connection, transmit the data to the transaction authentication system, and receive a message indicating whether authentication was successful. The mobile device may encrypt the data using a replenishment key from the transaction authentication system; therefore the authentication may decrypt the received encrypted data to confirm an identity of the mobile device. In some embodiments, disclosed techniques may allow users to use their mobile device to unlock a safety deposit box without requiring extensive infrastructure investment, e.g., because the existing authentication network may be utilized.
US09953476B2
An illustrative example method of operating a capacitive vehicle entry control device includes: determining a plurality of capacitance values of the vehicle entry control device during a measurement period; determining an average capacitance of the plurality of capacitance values; determining whether the determined average capacitance exceeds an average threshold; determining a range of the plurality of capacitance values; determining whether the determined range exceeds a range threshold; and initiating a vehicle entry process when the determined average capacitance exceeds the average threshold or when the determined range exceeds the range threshold.
US09953474B2
A panel associated with maintaining security of mobile devices. The devices such as mobile phones may be registered with user codes at the panel. If a user wants to access the panel, the user may enter a user code corresponding to a number of the device. The device may have a geo-location app in that the panel can track the device. If the user is within the pre-determined range of a protected location, another check about the user may be effected with a face recognition app. A face scan of the user may be compared with a face of an authorized user. If the user is found to be unauthorized anywhere along the above-noted process, then the user may be deemed to be an intruder, and an alert can be sent to a central monitor station, which may take action to remove any threat associated with the intruder.
US09953469B2
Systems and methods for recommending repair facilities to a user based on repair validation/coaching data are disclosed. In one implementation, a repair facility recommendation system receives repair information from a user regarding damage to an automobile, the repair information received via a graphical user interface rendered on a webpage. The repair facility recommendation system identifies a repair facility verified to repair the damage to the automobile based on the repair information and verification information from a verification module, the verification information comprising evaluation information based on evaluation of technicians performing repairs of automobiles at repair facilities. The repair facility recommendation system then provides information regarding the identified repair facility to the user via the graphical user interface.
US09953468B2
Computer program products, methods, systems, apparatus, and computing entities are provided for segmenting operational data and identifying events of interested in the segmented operational data. With the events of interest identified, a total time between the events of interest can be determined.
US09953467B2
The present disclosure is directed to secure vehicular data management with enhanced privacy. A vehicle may comprise at least a vehicular control architecture (VCA) for controlling operation of the vehicle and a device. The VCA may record operational data identifying at least one vehicle operator and vehicular operational data recorded during operation of the vehicle by the at least one vehicle operator. The device may include at least a communication module and a trusted execution environment (TEE) including a privacy enforcement module (PEM). The PEM may receive the operational data from the VCA via the communication module, may generate filtered data by filtering the operational data based on privacy settings and may cause the filtered data to be transmitted via the communication module. The filtered data may be transmitted to at least one data consumer. The privacy settings may be configured in the PEM by the at least one operator.
US09953464B2
Methods, systems and processor-readable media for portable parking occupancy detection. One or more cameras can be provided on a portable mast for capturing video on parking of a street. Optional attachments to the portable mast can include stabilization base and/or a set of guy ropes for further stabilizing the mast. A power unit can be utilized for delivering power to the system. A video capturing/processing unit either captures and records the video from the camera(s) for offline processing of parking occupancy or processes the videos on-site. Optionally, a wireless communication unit for transmitting either video or processed parking occupancy data to a central location can be employed.
US09953462B2
Technologies are generally described for systems, devices and methods effective to set up image data to be processed by an augmented reality device. In some examples, a processor may generate image data from light reflected from a real object. The image data may represent, or may be a digital representation of, the real object. The processor may analyze a skin stack of augmented reality skins and identify one of the augmented reality skins stored in the memory. The augmented reality skin may include instructions effective to modify some of the image data when the image data includes a feature. The processor may create metadata related to the image data. The metadata may relate to the presence of the feature in the image data. The processor may store the metadata in the memory.
US09953460B2
Techniques for three-dimensional garment simulation using parallel computing are presented herein. An access module can be configured to access a three-dimensional garment model of a garment. The garment model can include garment points that represent a surface of the garment. A processor, having a plurality of cores, can be configured by a garment simulation module to calculate one or more exerted forces on a subset of garment points. Additionally, the garment simulation module can generate cross pairs and apportion the generated cross pairs among the plurality of cores. Moreover, the garment simulation module can determine, using the plurality of vector execution units in parallel based on an organized data layout, whether boundaries of the first subgroup of cross pairs are overlapping based on the one or more exerted forces. Subsequently, the garment simulation module can calculate one or more simulated forces acting on the garment points based on the determination.
US09953457B2
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for performing path space filtering. In use, a set of light transport paths associated with a scene is sampled. Additionally, a plurality of vertices associated with the sampled set of light transport paths is selected, where each selected vertex has an associated throughput and light contribution. Further, an averaged light contribution of each of the selected plurality of vertices is determined, utilizing one or more weights. Further still, the averaged light contribution of each of the selected plurality of vertices is combined after multiplying the averaged light contribution of each of the selected vertices by the associated throughput of the vertex.
US09953453B2
A system for converting biologic particle density data into a motion image of at least one clinical condition such as sepsis, wherein the system comprises a processor programmed to detect a plurality of perturbations of the biologic particle densities associated with the clinical condition, detect or determine features of the perturbations, and detect or determine patterns of the perturbations. The processor can also be programmed to generate an image of the clinical condition comprised of time image components comprising a two dimensional user-facing map, wherein time extends along an axis away from the user facing map such that the map may be scrolled forward or backward over time to view different two dimensional images of the clinical condition.
US09953451B2
An audio media visualization method and system. The method includes receiving by a computing processor, mood description data describing different human emotions/moods. The computer processor an audio file comprising audio data and generates a mood descriptor file comprising portions of the audio data associated with specified descriptions of the mood description data. The computer processor receives a mood tag library file comprising mood tags mapped to animated and/or still objects representing various emotions/moods and associates each animated and/or still object with an associated description. The computer processor synchronizes the animated and/or still objects with the portions of said audio data and presents the animated and/or still objects synchronized with the portions of said audio data.
US09953449B2
A character adjustment method is used for adjusting the character so as to output the character to a second pixel matrix of an output device. The character is designed in a first pixel matrix. The method includes determining a constant, an upper density limit and a lower density limit according to at least one feature value of the output device; performing an interpolation calculation for obtaining a variation parameter according to a density of the character in the first pixel matrix, the constant, the upper density limit and the lower density limit; adjusting the character according to the variation parameter; and outputting the adjusted character to the second pixel matrix by the output device.
US09953448B2
Various aspects of a system and method for image processing are disclosed herein. The method, implemented in an image-processing device, comprises computation of a plurality of boundary-connectedness values associated with a plurality of regions in a plurality of Boolean maps. The plurality of Boolean maps corresponds to a plurality of color channels of an image. The plurality of boundary-connectedness values associated with the plurality of regions is compared with a pre-specified threshold value. A first set of regions is identified from the plurality of regions in the plurality of Boolean maps as a set of foreground regions, based on the comparison.
US09953445B2
An interactive data object map system is disclosed in which large amounts of geographical, geospatial, and other types of data, geodata, objects, features, and/or metadata are efficiently presented to a user on a map interface. The interactive data object map system allows for rapid and deep analysis of various objects, features, and/or metadata by the user. A layer ontology may be displayed to the user. In various embodiments, when the user rolls a selection cursor over an object/feature an outline of the object/feature is displayed. Selection of an object/feature may cause display of metadata associated with that object/feature. The interactive data object map system may automatically generate feature/object lists and/or histograms based on selections made by the user. The user may perform geosearches, generate heatmaps, and/or perform keyword searches, among other actions.
US09953432B2
Motion is detected within a defined proximity of a vehicle or fixed location equipped with a recording system by correlating frame-to-frame changes in the video streams of two or more cameras with converging views.
US09953428B2
An apparatus is described. In an embodiment, the apparatus comprises an illumination unit configured to simultaneously illuminate a first portion of a scene with unstructured light and a second portion of the scene with structured light. The apparatus further comprises a digital image capture unit configured to capture at least one image frame of the illuminated scene.
US09953427B2
A method of processing an image is disclosed. The method comprises decomposing the image into a plurality of channels, each being characterized by a different depth-of-field, and accessing a computer readable medium storing an in-focus dictionary defined over a plurality of dictionary atoms, and an out-of-focus dictionary defined over a plurality of sets of dictionary atoms, each set corresponding to a different out-of-focus condition. The method also comprises computing one or more sparse representations of the decomposed image over the dictionaries.
US09953422B2
For selective local registration based on registration error, a method determines a first registration error between a template image and a source image. The method further warps the source image to compensate for camera motion in response to the first registration error exceeding a registration error threshold. In addition, the method determines a second registration error between the template image and the warped source image. The method generates a pixel difference mask using the template image. The method further selectively performs local registration for the source image based on the pixel difference mask in response to the second registration error exceeding the registration error threshold.
US09953420B2
First and second angles are measured from a nominal camera centerline to respective first and second positions. The first position is determined by the camera locating a first centerpoint in a first board. The second position is determined by the camera locating a second centerpoint in a second board. The first and second angles, and first and second horizontal distances of the camera from the first board and the second board, respectively, are used to obtain a determined vertical distance and a determined angle. The determined vertical distance measures a distance from the second centerpoint to a point determined by an intersection of a first line through the second board and a second line that is parallel to the floor and has an endpoint at the camera. The determined angle measures an angle of between third line extending from the camera in the nominal position and the second line.
US09953419B2
A method for analyzing a microstructure of a porous body is, for example, a method using porous-body data in which positional information providing a position of a voxel of a porous body obtained by three-dimensional scanning is associated with voxel type information including information that allows determination as to whether the voxel is a spatial voxel representing a space or an object voxel representing an object. This method includes (a) a step of defining an imaginary surface that is in contact with at least one object voxel present on a surface of the porous body, and identifying, as opening-related voxels, spatial voxels that are in contact with the imaginary surface and spatial voxels that continuously lie in a linear direction from the imaginary surface; and (b) a step of analyzing a microstructure of the porous body on a basis of the opening-related voxels.
US09953414B2
An image processing apparatus for reconstructing a tomographic image from a plurality of projection images acquires noise data for a plurality of projection images, respectively, acquires noise reconstruction data by executing reconstruction processing based on the acquired noise data, and reconstructs the tomographic image by executing the reconstruction processing based on the projection images and the noise reconstruction data.
US09953405B2
A process of determining features of a fabric. A representation of a portion of a surface of the fabric is formed showing at least one of (i) locations and (ii) sizes of knuckles and pockets in the surface of the fabric. An image is generated of the portion of the surface of the fabric based on the representation. A portion of the image is displayed on a computer screen. An outline is drawn around at least one of the knuckles in the image. Guidelines are drawn such that the guidelines (i) pass through the center of the at least one outlined knuckle, (ii) pass through the other knuckles, or (iii) form shapes that surround areas of the image that correspond to where the pockets are formed between the knuckles. The outline and the guidelines are drawn using an image analysis program.
US09953403B2
A stereoscopic camera and associated method for capturing a stereoscopic image pair are provided. As an example, a stereoscopic camera includes first and second lenses defining parallel optical axes. The stereoscopic camera also includes first and second image sensors for receiving optical signals from the first and second lenses. The first and second fields of view are defined so as to overlap to define a first area of coincidence when the first and second lenses are spaced apart by a first distance. The first and second lenses are configured to be repositioned to be spaced apart by a second distance with the first and second image sensors being correspondingly repositioned to alter a space therebetween such that the first and second fields of view overlap to define a second area of coincidence when the first and second lenses are spaced apart by the second distance.
US09953401B2
The present invention provides apparatuses and systems for determining block averages in film grain simulation including determining block averages during a display process and determining block averages during a decoding process. The apparatuses and systems of the present invention exhibit different characteristics in terms of memory requirements and computational cost. More specifically, the first apparatus and system use no external memory, but require either extra reads of the blocks, or internal memory in the display pipeline, while the second apparatus and system require extra memory bandwidth and extra external memory (e.g., RAM).
US09953400B2
Techniques and architectures for video stabilization can transform a shaky video to a steady-looking video. A path smoothing process can generate an optimized camera path for video stabilization. With a large smoothing kernel, a path smoothing process can remove both high frequency jitters and low frequency bounces, and at the same time can preserve discontinuous camera motions (such as quick panning or scene transition) to avoid excessive cropping or geometry distortion. A sliding window based implementation includes a path smoothing process that can be used for real-time video stabilization.
US09953394B2
This disclosure relates generally to correlation filters, and more particularly to designing of correlation filter. In one embodiment, a system for designing a correlation filter in a multi-processor system includes a multi-core processor coupled to a first memory and one or more co-processors coupled to one or more respective second memories. The multi-core processor partitions each of a plurality of frames associated with media content into a plurality of pixel-columns, and systematically stores said pixel-columns width-wise in a plurality of temporary matrices by a plurality of threads of the multi-core processor. The plurality of temporary matrices are transferred by the multi-core processor to one or more respective second memories in a plurality of streams simultaneously in an asynchronous mode. A plurality of filter harmonics of the correlation filter are computed by performing compute operations involving at least the plurality of temporary matrices, to obtain the correlation filter.
US09953389B2
In one embodiment information regarding device activity of first subscriber to a transportation service is received. A backend server determines independent of a pending transportation request from the first passenger and based at least on the information regarding the device activity of the first subscriber, to send a driver towards a location based on the location of the first subscriber.
US09953379B2
Techniques for annotation-based voting for online content are provided. In one aspect, a method for voting for online content is provided which includes associating content selected by a voter from a first content set with a user profile of the voter; identifying the selected content in a second content set upon the second content set being accessed by one or more users socially connected to the voter; and visually accenting the selected content in the second content set. The method may include retrieving profile information for the voter; and associating the profile information for the voter with the selected content in the second content set. The method may further include displaying the profile information for the voter along with the selected content in the second content set.
US09953374B2
A work management system (1) includes: an image capturing device (20) worn by a worker; and a server device (60). The image capturing device (20) includes: an image capturing section (21) for capturing an image of a work range of the worker; and a communication section (30) for transmitting, to the server device (60), at least one of (i) the image captured by the image capturing section (21) and (ii) generated information generated in accordance with the image. The server device (60) includes a control section (70) for managing the at least one of the image and the generated information which one is received from the communication section.
US09953367B2
The disclosed embodiments include methods and systems for providing account and event status notifications. The disclosed embodiments include, for example, a device including a memory storing software instructions and one or more processors configured to execute the software instructions to perform operations. In one aspect, the operations may include obtaining information identifying an event and a deadline specified by a user. The obtained information may link the event and deadline to corresponding user-specified temporal intervals. The operations may also include determining whether a current date falls within a time period prior to the deadline, the time period being established by the first temporal interval. When the current date falls within the time period, the operations may generate first notification information that, when presented via a client device in accordance with a user-specified indicator type, notified the user that the current sate falls within the first time period.
US09953364B2
A first display control unit displays, on a display unit, a first screen relating to a list of selection candidates serving as candidates to be selected by a user. The first display control unit displays the first screen on which a plurality of the same or similar selection candidates are aggregated into one representative selection candidate. A display object setting unit sets, as a display object to be displayed on a second screen that is displayed when the user selects the representative selection candidate, any one of the plurality of selection candidates that are aggregated into the representative selection candidate based on information on at least two selection candidates among the plurality of selection candidates. A second display control unit displays, on the display unit, when the user selects the representative selection candidate, the second screen relating to the selection candidate set as the display object.
US09953362B2
A shopping system may include a mobile shopping aid sized to support thereon or therewithin one or more items to be purchased. A holder may be connected to the mobile shopping aid to travel therewith. The holder may be sized and shaped to hold a mobile computing device. The holder may have a front aperture enabling an owner of the mobile computing device to view a display screen of the mobile computing device while the mobile computing device is being held by the holder. The holder may also have a back aperture enabling a back-facing camera of the mobile computing device to scan one or more barcodes while the mobile computing device is being held by the holder. The system may also include an anti-theft program or module programmed to initiate an alarm protocol in the event that the mobile computing device is untimely removed from the holder.
US09953359B2
A computer-implemented method is disclosed herein. The method includes the step of receiving, with a processing device of a commerce server, one or more shopping list signals from an electronic computing device to establish a shopping list of a plurality of items offered for sale in a retail store. The method also includes the step of receiving, with the processing device, one or more consumer signals from a first augmented reality device and a second augmented reality device. Each augmented reality device can be worn by a consumer as the consumer shops in the retail store. The method also includes the step of transmitting, with the processing device, a first procuring signal containing data associated with the shopping list to the first augmented reality device and a second procuring signal containing data associated with the shopping list to the second augmented reality device, such that the consumers can cooperatively shop for items on the shopping list.
US09953358B1
This disclosure relates to selectively filtering seed behavior, e.g., user activity used to generate item recommendations, based on the availability of item classifications. Seed behaviors and catalog items may be associated with categories in an electronic catalog, and a particular seed behavior may be used to generate user recommendations if it is more recent than a user's last purchase in the category of the seed behavior. For example, a user's activity in the TV category, e.g., viewing various TV models, may not be used to generate recommendations if the activity occurred prior to the user's purchase of a TV. As a result, additional TVs may not appear in the user's recommendations following the purchase of a TV. However, if classification information is unavailable relating to the purchase, seed behavior may be filtered across a set of categories, not just the TV category to reduce the chance of less effective recommendations.
US09953352B2
Systems and methods for administering merchant funded third-party administered rewards programs are provided. The system receives information about a transaction made using a payment device and determines whether the payment device is enrolled in the rewards program. If the payment device is enrolled in the rewards program, the system determines if the transaction qualifies for a reward. If the transaction qualifies for the reward, the system determines a rewards value for the transaction. Thereafter, the system determines a prepaid payment token associated with the payment device and instructs an issuer of the prepaid payment token to load the rewards value onto the prepaid payment token.
US09953347B2
A method of dynamically binding supplemental content to live video content includes receiving the live video content at a device and identifying a description of the live video content. The method also includes obtaining the supplemental content based on the description, where the supplemental content provides additional information about one or more products or services related to the live video content. The method further includes dynamically binding the supplemental content to the live video content and positioning the supplemental content in association with the live video content using a supplemental interactive display.
US09953346B2
Advertisement content is received at a processor that manages inventory of a smart home appliance from an advertising distribution device within a home network. A determination is made to add an advertised item of the advertisement content to a spoke shopping cart based upon commodity data of the managed inventory of the smart home appliance. The advertised item is added to the spoke shopping cart.
US09953343B2
Auto-detecting an action on a merchant service and rendering an offer button to display an offer redeemable based on the action. A user accesses a merchant service and an indication of the action is communicated to an offer system that maintains an account for the user. The offer system determines whether the user has an offer applicable to a purchase with the merchant. The user device presents an offer button rendered to indicate that the first offer is available for redemption by the user. The user initiates an action on the merchant service and the user device communicates an indication of the action to the offer system. The offer system determines if the user has a second offer applicable to a purchase with the merchant based on the action taken by the user and the offer button is rendered to indicate that the second offer is available for redemption.
US09953342B1
Social media networking applications, web sites, and services creates implicit relationships between users based on their interest or participation in real-world and optionally virtual or online activities in addition to explicitly defined peer relationships. User profiles, activity entities, and expressions may be associated with metadata to assist in searching and navigation. Metadata is implicitly associated with user profiles, activity entities, expressions, or other data entities based on user behavior using metadata collector. A metadata collector is a poll, survey, list, questionnaire, census, test, game, or other type of presentation adapted to solicit user interaction. A metadata collector is associated with metadata elements. When users interact with a metadata collector, their user profiles and the data entities included in their interactions become associated with the metadata elements of the metadata collector. These metadata element associations may then be used for any purpose.
US09953338B1
A method is provided. The method includes receiving a request for one or more ads, the request including a first identifier for a first content source, wherein a first set of content is available from the first content source, responsive to the request, determining whether a second set of content is available from a second content source, wherein the second set of content is a structured content version of the first set of content, converting the first identifier for the first content source to a second identifier for the second content source if the second set of content is available from the second content source, receiving the second set of content from the second content source using the second identifier, and selecting the one or more ads using at least some content from the second set of content from the second content source.
US09953335B2
Devices, computer-implemented methods, and computer-readable media for a redemption header for merchant offers, such as online coupons, are provided. In some embodiments, an offers website may provide offers, such as online coupons, in a browser executing on a user device. When a user selects an online coupon, the browser is redirected to a merchant website associated with the online coupon and a coupon code value is copied to a clipboard. Additionally, a redemption header having the coupon code and instructions is added in the merchant webpage. A webpage element for the redemption header, such as an inline frame, is created in the merchant webpage and the redemption header is provided based on an offer identifier stored in a browser-accessible storage item such as a cookie.
US09953334B2
The ELECTRONIC COUPON ISSUANCE AND REDEMPTION APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS (“ECIR”) transforms user coupon purchase and redemption request inputs via ECIR components into coupon issuance, transaction, and analytics outputs. In some embodiments, the ECIR may receive an inventory request from a coupon program manager, including at least a virtual coupon issue criteria. The ECIR may generate one or more account identifiers, and transmit the account identifiers to the coupon program manager. The ECIR may receive, from the coupon program manager, an issue request along with the purchase information, which may include one or more purchase identifiers corresponding to one or more buyers. The ECIR may determine when the received purchase information satisfies the virtual coupon issue criteria. when it satisfies the criteria, the ECIR may issue one or more virtual coupons having the one or more account identifiers, and transmit the issued virtual cards to the coupon program manager.
US09953330B2
Methods, apparatus and computer readable media to generate electronic mobile measurement census data
Methods and apparatus to generating electronic mobile measurement census data are disclosed. Example disclosed methods involve, when a panelist associated with a client device is determined to be an audience member of the media on the client device, associating demographic information of the panelist with a logged impression associated with the media. The disclosed methods also include when the panelist associated with the client device is determined not to be the audience member of the media at the client device, determining probability scores for respective household members residing in a household with the panelist, the probability scores indicative of probabilities that corresponding ones of the household members are the audience member of the media at the client device, and associating demographic information of one of the household members that has a highest probability score with the logged impression associated with the media.
US09953329B2
A system and method for providing previews of search results and, more particularly, to a system and method for providing preview results for search systems integrating multiple collections. The method includes providing search results associated with a first collection based on at least one search term and providing a customizable preview of search results for the at least one search term. The customizable preview of search results is associated with at least a second collection different from the first collection.
US09953324B2
Authentication includes determining that a cardholder payment account is associated with a mobile device. Authentication includes receiving an indication of physical possession of a payment card. Authentication includes receiving a purchase request for an authorization of an exchange of funds from the cardholder account to the merchant. Authentication includes receiving a randomized transaction identifier to the request for the authorization of the exchange. Authentication includes transmitting to the mobile device, information associated with the request. Authentication includes transmitting to the mobile device, a request for confirmation of the authorization from the cardholder from the account of the cardholder to the merchant. Authentication includes receiving an indication, facilitated by the cardholder, that the exchange is authorized. Authentication includes authorizing the exchange of from the payment account of the cardholder to the merchant.
US09953317B2
This invention discloses a novel system for securing and using payment token data in a system for processing electronic payment transactions that does not require down-time for rekeying encryption keys when the keys are rotated.
US09953313B2
A method for generating and distributing a plurality of financial child products to a group of recipients that can then be used for payment transactions by each recipient. The method includes receiving a selection of a core account that provides financial backing for the financial child products, and receiving a list of recipients that defines the group of recipients to which the financial child products are distributed. The method further includes generating the financial child products, where each financial child product is structured with one or more control parameters that define user restrictions for the financial child product, and causing the financial child products to be distributed to at least one recipient included in the list of recipients. Advantageously, since creating, distributing, and redeeming of the financial child products is performed using existing legacy networks, financial institutions only need to minimally modify legacy payment processing infrastructure to support these distributed payment products.
US09953311B2
Systems and methods for facilitating payment transactions using quick-response (QR) codes are provided. A first machine readable code encoding first data generated by an access device is scanned by a communication device. The communication device generates a cryptogram based on the first data encoded within the first machine readable code. The communication device then obtains financial credentials data from a payment application being executed on the communication device. A second machine readable code encoding second data comprising the financial credentials data and the cryptogram is then generated. The second machine readable code is displayed on a display of the communication device, wherein the second machine readable code is scanned by the access device.
US09953310B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for providing a plurality of virtual secure elements (virtual SEs) to mobile devices with secure elements (SEs). A method generates and forwards a certificate authority security domain (CASD) key for a plurality of virtual SEs to an SE supplier that created the CASD. The method receives a card serial number (CSN) and a card production life cycle (CPLC) key from the SE supplier and forwards these to a mobile device maker. An updated CSN and CPLC data is received from the device maker with an International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) and an issuer security domain key (ISD key) is added to the CSN and CPLC data by a master secure element issuer trusted service manager (master SEI TSM). An application is provisioned to the device that retrieves the CSN, CPLC data, and the IMEI, which are used for to verify and activate the virtual SE.
US09953309B2
A third party payment system is provided which allows a user to conduct transactions through payment accounts stored on the third party payment system. The user can enroll in the third party payment system and create an account with registered payment accounts. The user can access the payment accounts via a mobile device and load the payment data associated with a payment account to the mobile device. The user can then utilize the mobile device to provide payment during a transaction.
US09953298B2
A computerized method for cross-domain collaborative revision management of a common product. The method comprises: Monitoring a plurality of local revisions for each of a plurality of projects associated with the common product, each of the plurality of projects managed in one of a plurality of domain-specific configuration management tools; creating a collaborative baseline within a collaborative relationship hub synchronizing between a group of the plurality of local revisions selected from each of the plurality of projects; and assembling instructions of generating the common product according to the collaborative baseline.
US09953297B2
Sharing online with granularity is described, including providing content for presenting to a user; receiving input from the user indicating identification of a portion of the content; associating with another user a notice of availability of the content; receiving a request from the another user, the request identifies the content; and providing the content for presenting to the another user, such that at least a part of the portion of the content is positioned for presenting without navigation input from the another user.
US09953293B2
A running of an application resource of a first site of at least two sites is stopped from accessing a storage device of the first site. A running of a replication resource is brought to a stop. The replication resource is configured to control a replication of data between the storage device on the first site on which data from the running application resource on the first site are stored to the storage device on the second site. A replication request is submitted to the automation engine for changing a replication direction to run from the second site to the first site. The application resource is started on the second site only after changing the replication direction to start from the storage device on the second site instead of from the storage device of the first site.
US09953292B2
A method performed by a physical computing device communicatively coupled to a computer network for creating an aggregate report of a presence of a user of the physical computing device on the network includes periodically searching the network with the physical computing device for content related to the user authored by a source other than the user, the searching being based on a unique set of identifiers associated with the user, dynamically updating the unique set of identifiers based on contextual trends within content returned as a result of the searching, and aggregating content published by the user to the network with the content returned as a result of the searching to form the aggregate report of the presence of the user on the network.
US09953289B2
A server-implemented method for automatically registering an asset tag in a database is disclosed. One or more asset tag collision reports are received from at least one mobile device connected to the server, each report including a tag identifier of the asset tag that is wirelessly broadcast by the asset tag. A location of the asset tag is determined based on the one or more received asset tag collision reports. A first asset is selected from a set of unregistered assets that are identified as being deployed in the indoor facility based on determining that there is a match between the location of the asset tag and location information associated with the first asset. The asset tag is then registered in association with the first asset in the database.
US09953285B2
A method of residential or small and medium business (SMB) demand response (DR) coordination may include receiving a DR event notification from a DR server. The DR event notification may include DR event information pertaining to a DR event and curtailment information. The method may also include communicating a notification acknowledgement to the DR server. The notification acknowledgement may indicate reception of the DR event notification. The method may include displaying a curtailment request pertaining to the DR event. The curtailment request may be based on the curtailment information included in the DR event notification and may include some portion of the DR event information. The method may also include receiving a user input including a DR event participation confirmation or a DR event participation refusal. The method may further include communicating a participation signal representative of at least a portion of the user input to the DR server.
US09953276B2
The present disclosure describes methods and systems that monitor the utilization of computational resources. In one implementation, a system periodically measures the utilization of computational resources, determines an amount of computational-resource wastage, identifies the source of the wastage, and generates recommendations that reduce or eliminate the wastage. In some implementations, recommendations are generated based on a cost of the computational-resource wastage. The cost of computational-resource wastage can be determined from factors that include the cost of providing a computational resource, an amount of available computational resources, and the amount of actual computational-resource usage. Methods of presenting and modeling computational-resource usage and methods that associate an economic cost with resource wastage are presented.
US09953274B2
Techniques herein attempt to provide actors with more flexible and satisfactory experiences regarding obtaining tickets for an event. A learning model may identify attributes indicative of whether a particular actor (e.g., attempting to purchase tickets to an event) possesses a desirable characteristic (e.g., is likely to attend the event). Each actor can then be evaluated to estimate whether she is a good actor (possesses the characteristic). If so, favored opportunities may be made available, such as the opportunity to buy high-demand tickets. An actor may further have the opportunity to hold or reserve tickets for a period time, during which other actors cannot purchase them. A fee for holding or reserving tickets (and/or maintaining the hold or reserve) can be dynamically set based on market factors. Opportunities to modify seat assignments to allow a group of friends to sit together may also be provided.
US09953260B1
Methods and systems for feature extraction of LIDAR surface manifolds. LIDAR point data with respect to one or more LIDAR surface manifolds can be generated. An AHAH-based feature extraction operation can be automatically performed on the point data for compression and processing thereof. The results of the AHAH-based feature extraction operation can be output as a compressed binary label representative of the at least one surface manifold rather than the point data to afford a high-degree of compression for transmission or further processing thereof. Additionally, one or more voxels of a LIDAR point cloud composed of the point data can be scanned in order to recover the compressed binary label, which represents prototypical surface patches with respect to the LIDAR surface manifold(s).
US09953259B2
A MOS RF surveillance and/or identification tag, and methods for its manufacture and use. The tag generally includes an interposer, an antenna and/or inductor on the interposer, and integrated circuitry on the interposer in a location other than the antenna and/or inductor. The integrated circuitry generally has a lowest layer in physical contact with the interposer surface. The method of manufacture generally includes forming a lowest layer of integrated circuitry on an interposer, forming successive layers of the integrated circuitry on the lowest layer of integrated circuitry, and attaching an electrically conductive functional layer to the interposer. Alternatively, an electrically conductive structure may be formed from a functional layer attached to the interposer. The method of use generally includes causing and/or inducing a current in the present tag sufficient for it to generate, reflect or modulate a detectable electromagnetic signal, detecting the signal, and optionally, processing information conveyed by the detectable electromagnetic signal. The present invention advantageously provides a low cost RFID tag capable of operating at MHz frequencies that can be manufactured in a shorter time period than conventional RFID tags that manufacture all active electrical devices on a conventional wafer.
US09953254B2
A scannable code is used to facilitate copy and paste of content, wherein context information associated with the content is serialized and encoded directly into the scannable code. When the scannable code is decoded, the content is pasted into a desired location in a manner that is consistent with the context information.
US09953253B2
An identity card, comprising a card body and a physical unclonable function arranged within the card body, wherein the physical unclonable function comprises a first light influencing layer and a second light influencing layer.
US09953242B1
The techniques described herein may identify images that likely depict one or more items by comparing features of the items to features of different regions-of-interest (ROIs) of the images. When a user requests to identify images that depict a particular item, the techniques may determine a region-of-interest (ROI) size based on the size of the requested item. The techniques may then search multiple images using the ROI size.
US09953234B2
A compressor conduit layout system is disclosed which includes a handheld device operating in conjunction with a computer based application to obtain data of a conduit system and display a model of the system. The handheld device can include a range finder, a designator used to designate a point of interest so that the range finder can determine a distance between the point of interest and the handheld device, as well as a sensor(s) useful to determine an orientation of the handheld device. The computer based application can include a pallet-and-canvas type application which displays a computer model of the conduit system. The compressor conduit layout system can use or can alternatively include an indoor positioning system useful to determine the position of the handheld device.
US09953229B2
A method and a system for traffic light detection are provided. The method may include: obtaining a color image; calculating pixel response values for pixels of the color image, respectively, where each of the pixel response values may be calculated using R, G, and B values of a corresponding pixel directly, such that pixel response values of red traffic light pixels are substantially distributed on a first side of a predetermined range and pixel response values of green traffic light pixels are substantially distributed on a second side of the predetermined range which is opposite to the first side; identifying pixels whose pixel response values are distributed on the first side or the second side as candidate pixels; identifying candidate blobs based on the candidate pixels; and verifying whether the candidate blobs are traffic lights. Efficiency and reliability may be improved.
US09953228B2
According to an embodiment, an information presenting apparatus to be mounted in a vehicle includes hardware circuitry. The hardware circuitry is configured to acquire driving information including a speed and a steering angle of the vehicle. The hardware circuitry is configured to calculate, based on the driving information, an own vehicle region indicating a region in which the vehicle moves. The hardware circuitry is configured to acquire target object position information indicating a position of a target object present in surroundings of the vehicle. The hardware circuitry is configured to generate a pair of target object information and presentation information when the position of the target object is included in the own vehicle region. The target object information identifies the target object present at the position of the target object. The presentation information indicates information that encourages the target object to perform a certain action.
US09953218B2
For automatically adjusting camera settings responsive to photographic subject matter, an apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes an image sensor, a processor, an image module that receives sensor input of photographic subject matter, a subject matter module that identifies a nature of the photographic subject matter, and a configuration module that alters a camera setting, in response to determining the nature of the photographic subject matter. In some embodiments, the apparatus also includes an image center module that identifies a central region of the sensor input, wherein the subject matter module performs, on the central region of the sensor input, one or more analyzes selected from the group consisting of: optical character recognition, facial recognition, color distribution analysis, and light level analysis.
US09953212B2
The present disclosure relates to an album display method, an album display apparatus and a storage medium, which pertain to the graphics and image technical field. The method includes: uploading a plurality of photographs stored in the smart device to a server, receiving face identification information for at least two of the plurality of photographs from the server, wherein the at least two photographs are identified to include faces by the server using a face recognition algorithm, the face identification information includes a photograph identifier and an album identifier for one of a plurality of face albums, and the plurality of face albums are generated by grouping the at least two photographs based on faces identified in the at least two photographs, adding the at least two photographs to their corresponding face albums based on the face identification information, and displaying the plurality of face albums. By clustering photographs based on faces in the photographs to obtain different face albums, the present disclosure enables photographs in a mobile terminal to be managed and displayed according to different faces. Accordingly, the problem in related techniques that an album program manages and displays photographs solely depending on sources, times or places of the pictures is addressed, and the effect that the album program could manage and display photographs according to faces is achieved.
US09953211B2
An image recognition apparatus, method and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are disclosed. An image recognition apparatus may include a memory storing instructions, and at least one processor configured to process the instructions to, determine an occlusion pattern of a face in a facial image representing the face by comparing the facial image with a standard facial image representing a standard face, and identify the facial image using a region determined by the occlusion pattern in the facial image.
US09953206B2
A fingerprint sensor package includes a substrate, a fingerprint sensor chip, and a flexible printed circuit board (FPC). The substrate includes a first portion and a second portion. A line layer is disposed on the first portion. The fingerprint sensor chip is disposed on the substrate. The fingerprint sensor chip is electrically connected to the FPC by the line layer. The package is simple, reliable, and easy for manufacturing process, reducing materials and processing costs.
US09953192B2
An RFID tag is equipped with an energy sensor for receiving an appropriate energy signal or registering an appropriate temperature/environmental level. The RFID tag only responds to a query from an RFID reader if the sensor receives the appropriate stimulation.
US09953190B2
A portable storage system. The portable storage system comprises a portable storage device having a flash memory element and a loss-prevention unit. The portable storage system further comprises Master and Slave proximity elements. One of the proximity elements is physically connected with the portable storage device, while the other is physically connected with the loss-prevention unit. The Master proximity element is configured to wirelessly determine the presence of the Slave proximity element within a predefined range.
US09953185B2
In various implementations, a plurality of non-private n-grams that satisfy a privacy criterion may be identified within a search log of private search queries and corresponding post-search activity. A plurality of query patterns may be generated based on the plurality of non-private n-grams. Aggregate search activity statistics associated with each of the plurality of query patterns may be determined from the search log. Aggregate search activity statistics associated with each query pattern may be indicative of search activity associated with a plurality of private search queries in the search log that match the query pattern. In response to a determination that aggregate search activity statistics for a given query pattern satisfy a performance criterion, a methodology for generating data that is presented in response to search queries that match the given query pattern may be altered based on aggregate search activity statistics associated with the given query pattern.
US09953183B2
A method includes receiving at a processor, an indication of a user touching a point on a data entry device, receiving at the processor, an indication of a user gazing in a direction, and comparing via the processor the touched point and the gazing direction to a known touch point and gaze direction to verify the user is an authorized user.
US09953177B2
Digital images are monitored by enabling access to a digital image, receiving a notification associated with the digital image from a first user, and regulating access of the first user to the digital image based on the notification received from the first user.
US09953172B2
As disclosed herein a computer system for secure database backup and recovery in a secure database network has N distributed data nodes. The computer system includes program instructions that include instructions to receive a database backup file, fragment the file using a fragment engine, and associate each fragment with one node, where the fragment is not stored on the associated node. The program instructions further include instructions to encrypt each fragment using a first encryption key, and store, randomly, encrypted fragments on the distributed data nodes. The program instructions further include instructions to retrieve the encrypted fragments, decrypt the encrypted fragments using the first encryption key, re-encrypt the decrypted fragments using a different encryption key, and store, randomly, the re-encrypted fragments on the distributed data nodes. A computer program product and method corresponding to the above computer system are also disclosed herein.
US09953161B2
Disclosed are a method, device and system for processing notification bar message, the method comprising: triggering an interception program pre-injected in a notification bar message process; and the interception program, when capturing a notification bar message satisfying a preset rule, intercepting the notification bar message satisfying the preset rule, and sending a prompt message. The disclosure can timely recognize and block a notification bar advertisement.
US09953160B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products for applying multi-level clustering at scale to unlabeled data for anomaly detection and security are disclosed. A computer-implemented method may include receiving transactional data associated with a plurality of user accounts, analyzing the transactional data of the accounts in view of a clustering model, associating each of the accounts with one of multiple peer groups from the clustering model, detecting anomalous account behavior in a peer group in view of a scatteredness score computed for each account in the peer group where each scatteredness score is computed based on a neighborhood of accounts in the peer group determined for each respective account of the peer group, and creating a report comprising account and scatteredness score information for one or more of the accounts in the peer group associated with detected anomalous account behavior.
US09953155B2
There is presented a system and method for coordinating asset entitlements, the system comprising a server including a processor and a memory and accessible by multiple domains over a network, and an asset entitlement database searchable by the server, wherein an entry of the asset entitlement database links a domain transcendent user identification (ID) of a user and at least one asset entitlement acquired by the user from any of the domains. In one embodiment, the server is configured to receive an asset entitlement inquiry from one of the domains, search the asset entitlement database for asset entitlements acquired by the user from any of the domains, generate a search result identifying the asset entitlements acquired by the user from the domains, and send data corresponding to the search result to the domain from which the asset entitlement inquiry was received.
US09953153B2
A method of providing a degree of authentication for a content link presented to peer user(s) by a sharing user via the Internet. The method includes, at a server, associating the content link with authentication data provided by the sharing user, and storing the associated content link and authentication data in a storage location. A redirection link that links to the stored associated content link and authentication data is presented to a peer user via a user interface of a client computer of the peer user. Upon submission of an access request from the client computer to the redirection link, the content link and the authentication data is delivered to the client computer. The authentication data is presented to the peer user via the user interface and the peer user is able to choose, via the user interface, to submit an access request to the content link.
US09953148B2
A system and method for unlocking devices associated with a carrying bag are provided. In example embodiments, biometric information of a user from a biometric reader is received by an authentication system. The biometric reader is located on a pull mechanism of a sliding fastening device for a carrying bag. The user is authenticated by verifying the validity of the biometric information. The authenticated user is associated with the carrying bag. Based on a set of pre-defined permissions, one or more devices associated with the carrying bag are unlocked.
US09953138B2
Minimizing improper dosage of a drug admixture (including a single primary drug component and at least one second drug component). For each drug component in the drug admixture, receiving a name of the drug component along with its dosage unit, a maximum dose warning level and a maximum concentration warning level. Receiving a concentration for each of the single primary drug component and the at least one secondary drug component; and a dose setting of only the primary drug component. Automatically calculating a dose of each of the at least one secondary drug component. Generating an alert when: (i) the received dose setting of the primary drug component or calculated dose setting of the at least one secondary drug component exceeds the dose warning level; or (ii) the received concentration of the primary drug component or the at least one secondary drug component exceeds the concentration warning level.
US09953136B2
A system for displaying and editing data for a medical device is provided. The system includes at least one viewing application for execution on a user appliance, which application is set up to display medical image data records that are kept in cloud storage in a public cloud. In respect of its component architecture, the viewing application includes a View layer, a ViewModel layer, a Model layer, and a driver layer. In this case, the ViewModel layer defines a common set of functions for the display and editing of 2D image data and 3D image data.
US09953133B2
Identification of regions-of-interest within cell maps is disclosed. In certain embodiments, identification of the regions-of interest is based on the use of a plurality of biomarkers, which may be used to generate a multiplexed image of a tissue sample. Based on the identified regions, cells may be extracted and localized sequence data may be generated specific to the regions-of-interest.
US09953130B2
Systems and method for identifying long deletions can obtain sequencing information for a plurality of amplicons in and around a potential region from a nucleic acid sample. The sequencing information can include a plurality of reads that can be mapped to a reference sequence. Using information, such as where reads map to a reference sequence and relative abundance of reads for the amplicons, structural variants can be identified and a determination can be made if the nucleic acid sample is homozygous or heterozygous for the structural variant.
US09953126B2
According to one embodiment, a design method of layout formed by a sidewall method is provided. The method includes: preparing a base pattern on which a plurality of first patterns extending in a first direction and arranged at a first space in a second direction intersecting the first direction and a plurality of second patterns extending in the first direction and arranged at a center between the first patterns, respectively, are provided; and drawing a connecting portion which extends in the second direction and connects two neighboring first patterns sandwiching one of the second patterns, and separating the one of the second patterns into two patterns not contacting the connecting portion.
US09953124B2
In an approach for generating a file, a computer generates a modified layout for an integrated circuit. The computer receives a draft layout for an integrated circuit. The computer identifies a resonator, wherein the resonator comprises a capacitor connected to ground and an inductor connected to a clock grid. The computer creates alternative resonator wiring of the received draft layout associated with the identified resonator. The computer generates a modified draft layout based on the created alternative resonator wiring for the integrated circuit.
US09953122B2
An integrated circuit (IC) design method is disclosed. The method includes: using a computer to perform synthesis upon a register transfer level (RTL) IC design to generate a gate level netlist; performing place and route (P&R) upon the gate level netlist to generate a layout; determining a sink current distribution information of the layout; and generating a voltage (IR) drop/electro-migration (EM) analysis result of the layout according to the sink current distribution information; wherein the layout includes a cell having a cell height that is N times higher than a single cell height, where N is an integer and greater than 1, and the cell corresponds to N power/ground (P/G) rail sets; wherein the sink current distribution information includes a proportion of a sink current flowing through each of the N power/ground (P/G) rail sets with respect to the cell when operated. Associated non-transitory computer-readable medium is also disclosed.
US09953118B2
The present invention provides a modeling method of a SPICE model series of a Silicon On Insulator (SOI) Field Effect Transistor (FET), where auxiliary devices are designed and fabricated, electrical property data is measured, intermediate data is obtained, model parameters are extracted based on the intermediate data, a SPICE model of an SOI FET of a floating structure is established, model parameters are extracted by using the intermediate data and data of the auxiliary devices, a macro model is complied, and a SPICE model of an SOI FET of a body leading-out structure is established. The modeling method provided in the present invention takes an influence of a parasitic transistor of a leading-out part in a body leading-out structure into consideration, and model series established by using the method can more accurately reflect actual operating conditions and electrical properties of the SOI FET of a body leading-out structure and the SOI FET of a floating structure, thereby improving fitting effects of the models.
US09953110B2
A system for constructing a virtual 3D model of one or more objects within a scene, where the virtual 3D model contains one or more flat faces on each object constructed. In some embodiments, the system may include at least one processing device configured to: receive, through a data interface, data describing a set of measurements of observed portions of the one or more objects in the scene, where the set of measurements was performed by one or more measurement devices; receive, through a data interface or user input device, one or more shape definitions, where the shape definitions define the possible shapes of a virtual 3D model of an object, and where the virtual 3D model of an object is to be constructed from the measurement data, and where the shapes contain one or more regions with primitive geometries.
US09953108B2
A computer-implemented method and system of computer-aided design products for dynamically manipulating an assembly of objects in a three-dimensional scene. The system and method provide the assembly of objects with information relative to kinematic joints linking objects of the assembly. The system and method provide a dynamic manipulating tool (DM) embedded in the scene. The DM tool includes a reference with three-axes allowing for each axis a degree of freedom in translation and a degree of freedom in rotation. Next the system and method attach said dynamic manipulating tool (DM) to one object of the assembly, and select a degree of freedom of the dynamic manipulating tool (DM) attached to the object of the assembly. The system/method apply a load according to said selected degree of freedom and calculates and displays in real-time the result of a dynamic simulation of said load applying.
US09953106B2
Systems, software, and methods are described herein dynamically generate traversal code for a graph analytics environment. In one example, a method of dynamically generating traversal code for a graph analytics environment includes, in one or more processing systems, identifying a query expression for a relational analytics environment. The method further includes generating the traversal code for the graph analytics environment based on the query expression, and executing the traversal code in the graph analytics environment on a graphical database. The method also provides communicating results of the traversal code to the relational analytics environment.
US09953101B1
Some embodiments provide customizable home screens on an electronic device that enable a user of the electronic device to switch between the different home screens. In some embodiments, each home screen corresponds to a setting or profile (e.g., home profile, work profile, sleep profile, workout profile, commute/road trip setting, sports arena setting, etc.) that may be activated upon triggering the corresponding home screen (e.g., by user input, upon a cue, upon a set time). Upon triggering a particular home screen (e.g., road trip setting), the device of some embodiments displays a set of application icons (e.g., weather application, road condition/traffic application, navigator, gas station application) and activates a set of functionalities (vibrate plus ring mode, Bluetooth®) associated with the home screen. This allows the user to have ready access to useful applications and a bundle of functionalities activated on the device for the particular setting or profile.
US09953100B2
A method for automatically operating an Oracle Forms application, the method comprising: intercepting, using a Listener component of the Oracle Forms application, a communication between the Oracle Forms application and an Oracle Forms server, and storing the intercepted communication; identifying, in the intercepted communication, data associated with at least one user input field of the Oracle Forms application; replacing, in the intercepted communication, the identified data with new data corresponding to the user input field of the Oracle Forms application, to produce a new communication; and transmitting the new communication to the an Oracle Forms server, using a Dispatcher component of the Oracle Forms application, thereby causing the Oracle Forms application to operate automatically.
US09953099B2
A transparent data access interface/layer for repackageable virtualized transparent access to heterogeneous business process data sources, internally maintained or outsourced, is disclosed. This data access interface provides substantially real time customer/client specific, i.e. transparent, access to a customer/client generic enterprise storage and data processing architecture, such as an architecture operated by a business process outsourcing organization (“BPO”), which includes multiple disparate/heterogeneous data sources, having disparate formats and access methodologies, storing and processing customer/client specific data for multiple customers, while also permitting similarly transparent access across the enterprise storage architecture, e.g. across multiple customers/clients, such as for BPO-internal processing and reporting requirements. The data stored in the data sources may include data collected/received from the customer of the BPO, such as data identifying the BPO's customer's customers/clients and/or business processing rules or algorithms, data received/collected from the customers/clients of the BPO's customer, such as transactional data, e.g. insurance claims, etc., data calculated or computed by the BPO based on stored or collected data, data representative of business processing rules developed by the BPO, such as rules for maintaining customer specific service level agreements, or combinations thereof.
US09953097B2
A method and system receives at a server a search request and processes the search request to determine a context of the search request, then determines, based on the context, a network route to an application server having the closest geographic proximity, with respect to the server, to the most relevant database associated with the context.
US09953096B2
A computer implemented method and system for organizing file location bookmarks of navigations within corresponding applications. A plurality of navigation histories relating to an application are captured, in response to a user navigating a file system using an application and selecting resource locations within corresponding directories of the file system for saving. The selected locations of the navigation history are displayed on a user interface (UI) of the computer. The selected locations of the navigation history are updated and displayed, responsive to the selections of the user.
US09953095B1
Systems and methods for enabling delivery of deidentified production data are described. The production data can include a set of alias records, which include deidentified data, and can be generated from corresponding real records of actual users. Enabling delivery of deidentified production data can include fulfilling production data requests via a production data feed, a bulk request, or other suitable delivery technique.
US09953094B2
A matching method includes: accumulating log information indicating histories of operations performed on devices by users; receiving a request for information regarding use of a first device from an information requester being one of the users and using the first device; analyzing log information of the first device from among the log information accumulated in the accumulating; identifying, as an information provider candidate, at least one of the users using a second device by using the log information of the first device analyzed in the analyzing and log information of the second device being of the same type as the first device; notifying the information provider candidate of the request from the information requester; and notifying the information requester of provided information which is information regarding use of the first device and provided by the information provider candidate in response to the request.
US09953091B1
Disclosed is a computer implemented method of facilitating social networking. The method may include presenting a plurality of events and dates to a user based on at least one personal characteristic of the user. Further, the method may include receiving, a plurality of date-interest indicators and event-interest indicators representing one of approval, disapproval and possibility. Furthermore, the method may include determining a plurality of compatibility levels between the user and the plurality of dates. Additionally, the method may include generating a prioritized plurality of dates and events based on the plurality of date-interest indicators and event-interest indicators. Further, the method may include receiving, a selection of one or more of an event and a date. Additionally, the method may include presenting one or more of the prioritized plurality of dates and the prioritized plurality of events based on the selection of one or more of the event and the date.
US09953088B2
A user request is received from a mobile client device, where the user request includes at least a speech input and seeks an informational answer or performance of a task. A failure to provide a satisfactory response to the user request is detected. In response to detection of the failure, information relevant to the user request is crowd-sourced by querying one or more crowd sourcing information sources. One or more answers are received from the crowd sourcing information sources, and the response to the user request is generated based on at least one of the one or more answers received from the one or more crowd sourcing information sources.
US09953087B2
A topic feed is generated for publication or distribution to a set of followers or recipients who have elected to receive the topic feed from the user or based on the subject matter content of a topic input in the topic feed. The topic feed is distributed and includes the topic input. Experts in subject matter can be identified based on the user's topic input and/or text in the topic feed that the followers interact with.
US09953086B2
Media files may be prioritized based on user behavior data and social data associated with individual media files. A process of prioritizing media files may include accessing user behavior data associated with individual media files in a set of media files that are stored on a client device of a user or in a cloud-based storage location associated with the user, accessing social data associated with one or more media files of the set of media files that are determined to have been shared on a media file sharing service, and ranking the set of media files based at least in part on the user behavior data and the social data.
US09953085B1
Systems and methods for a feed upload for search entity based content selection include receiving a feed. The feed has feed items that include identification data, a feed item type, and an online action. The identification data and item type are used to identify a unique search entity that corresponds to a named entity in the physical world. An entity-action pair is generated based on the identified search entity.
US09953079B2
A computer system for improving the presentation of social media data from multiple social network feeds is provided. The computer system may include aggregating social media content received from the multiple social network feeds. The computer system may also include generating filtered data by eliminating repetitive data from among the received aggregated social media content. The computer system may further include analyzing the filtered data for determining at least one data category and presenting a digest of social media content based on the determined at least one data category.
US09953077B2
Detecting overnegation in text is provided. A plurality of word lists are compiled. An input text is received. One or more combined weightings are determined, wherein each combined weighting is based, at least in part, on a portion of the input text and the plurality of word lists. A total overnegation score of the input text is generated based, at least in part, on a statistical aggregation of the one or more combined weightings. In response to determining that the total overnegation score exceeds a pre-determined threshold, it is determined that the input text contains a logical error. In response to the total overnegation score exceeding a pre-determined level, one or more actions are executed.
US09953073B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for editing aggregated data based on edit requests that are received. An electronic edit file is automatically updated to include a newly-received edit. The edit file includes anchor points that each point to one of a plurality of aggregate data objects. The anchor points are used to determine one of the objects to which the edit file corresponds. The edit file is then applied to update data in this object including making the new edit.
US09953063B2
A method is disclosed of providing a providing a content discovery platform for optimizing social network engagements. The method is implemented in one or more servers programmed to execute the method. The method comprising retrieving social media data from registered users on one or more social networks, wherein the social media data includes one or more URLs associated with one or more articles, respectively, computing a social importance score for each URL of the one or more URLs, and ranking the one or more URLs by social importance score.
US09953062B2
Systems and methods for providing for display hierarchical views of content organization nodes associated with captured content and for determining organizational identifiers for captured content are disclosed. A method includes providing a hierarchical taxonomy including a plurality of nodes. The method further includes receiving a plurality of captured content items. The method further includes associating a plurality of content organization nodes from the plurality of nodes with the plurality of captured content items. Each of the plurality of captured content items is associated with at least one of the plurality of content organization nodes. The method further includes providing for display a hierarchical view including the plurality of content organization nodes. The hierarchical view includes, for each of the plurality of content organization nodes, a graphical representation that the content organization node is associated with at least one of the plurality of captured content items.
US09953060B2
Personalized activity data gathering based on multi-variable user input and multi-dimensional schema
A personalized activity data retrieval system and method provides users a platform to search activity data based on multi-variable user input. The present invention provides a search method where the system searches a database to gather activity information based on user interests and user attributes. A customization of search results are applied multi-dimensionally to customize the search result based on user interest and user attributes. As such, the search results are personalized to meet the user's search objective. Searches conducted with the same topic can be returned with different results for different users having varying attributes. Search results are more progressive such that they are more usable and the granularity of the customization increases.
US09953057B2
To perform a join operation on database objects, data structures contained in a first database object are distributed across database partitions in accordance with a partitioning scheme. Data structures of the first database object are associated with respective indices computed complementarily to the partitioning scheme. Other indices are computed from the respective data structures of a second database object. The join operation is performed at each of the database partitions on the data structures in the respective first and second database objects having the indices and the other indices in common.
US09953053B2
A method, computer program product, and system for resolving a potential in-doubt condition of a distributed transaction, is provided. A processor receives a request to commit a transaction for a distributed transaction protocol that includes an applied process, the transaction includes a transfer of a commit decision from a coordinating node to a participating node. The processor checks the service status of the connection to the participating node, and finding the service status of the connection out of service or unavailable, the processor instructs the coordinating node to back-out (rollback) the transaction. Additionally, locality meta-data is used as an indication of reliability of the connection to the participating node, and in response to determining the participating node locality to be a remote network connection, the processor instructs the coordinating node to abort the applied process and send a standard distributed transaction protocol message over unreliable connections.
US09953042B1
Among other things, in one aspect, in general, a system for managing data in a data storage system includes a plurality of index nodes each storing a map of entries, each entry of the map including an identifier corresponding to a particular portion of data stored in the data storage system, and metadata indicating a location where the particular portion of data is stored in the data storage system, and one or more supernodes configured to return an identification of an index node that recently submitted a request for a particular identifier associated with at least one of the portions of data.
US09953031B2
A method includes receiving a corpus comprising a set of pre-segmented texts. The method further includes creating a plurality of modified pre-segmented texts for the set of pre-segmented texts by extracting a set of semantic terms for each pre-segmented text within the set of pre-segmented texts and applying at least one domain tag for each pre-segmented text within the set of pre-segmented texts. The method further includes clustering the plurality of modified pre-segmented texts into one or more conceptual units, wherein each of the one or more conceptual units is associated with one or more templates, wherein each of the one or more templates corresponds to one of the plurality of modified pre-segmented texts.
US09953006B2
Methods, systems, and computer storage mediums including a computer program product for managing data in a computing network are provided. One method includes registering a plurality of buffers with a work queue in a server and assigning ownership to each of the plurality of buffers to a different working thread in a plurality of working threads. The method further includes continuously polling, by a polling thread, the work queue to determine when work requests are received by the work queue, upon receipt of each work request, determining which buffer among the plurality of buffers each work request is associated, and performing each work request on each respective associated buffer by a working thread among the plurality of working threads that owns each respective associated buffer. One system includes a processor for performing the above method and one computer storage medium includes computer code for performing the above method.
US09953005B2
Methods and structure for devices that implement multiple versions of the Serial Attached Small Computer System Interface (SAS) protocol. One exemplary embodiment comprises a SAS device that includes at least one physical link (PHY) that supports a specified generation of SAS protocols, and at least one PHY that supports a different generation of SAS protocols and that does not support the specified generation of SAS protocols. The SAs device also includes an Input/Output (I/O) processor able to select a PHY to service a SAS connection, based on the generation of SAS protocols supported by the PHY.
US09952998B2
A Thunderbolt sharing console includes a high speed switch electrically coupled to at least one Thunderbolt host, a MCU coupled to the high speed switch, and a Thunderbolt interface chip coupled to the high speed switch, wherein the MCU can be used to control the high speed switch for determining which one of the at least one Thunderbolt host is coupled to the Thunderbolt interface chip.
US09952996B2
In some embodiments, the present disclosure provides techniques for concurrently exchanging USB 2.0 information, SuperSpeed information, and four lanes of DisplayPort information via a single USB Type-C connection. In some embodiments, this may be accomplished in part by multiplexing signals such as the USB 2.0 signals and the DisplayPort AUX signal to fewer than a standard number of conductors in order to free up other conductors for the third and fourth lanes of DisplayPort information. In some embodiments, a standard USB Type-C receptacle, plug, and cable are used. In some embodiments, a modified receptacle, plug, and/or cable are provided.
US09952990B2
A method is provided for handling interrupts in a processor, the interrupts including regular interrupts having a range of priorities and a pseudo non-maskable interrupt (PNMI) that is of a higher priority than any of the regular interrupts. The method includes obtaining an interrupt vector corresponding to a received interrupt, and if the received interrupt is a PNMI, executing a PNMI interrupt handler. If the received interrupt is a regular interrupt, the method further comprises reading a mask flag that indicates whether regular interrupts are enabled in an interrupt controller and further: if the mask flag indicates that regular interrupts are enabled, enabling interrupts in the processor so that a PNMI can be received while handling the regular interrupt, executing, a regular interrupt handler, and disabling interrupts in the processor; and if the mask flag indicates that regular interrupts are disabled, saving the interrupt vector for subsequent handling.
US09952989B2
Embodiments of input/output hub unit are disclosed for aggregating interrupts received from multiple endpoint devices. The input/output hub may include an interface unit and one or more communication units. Each communication unit may be configured to receive messages from a corresponding endpoint device. The interface unit may be configured to update a first pointer within a first data structure responsive to a request from a given one of the communication units. The interface unit may be further configured to stored data in a second data structure responsive to updating the first pointer, reading a second pointer and the first pointer, and sending an interrupt responsive to a determination that the first and second pointers are equal.
US09952985B2
A method and a system in which a second device provides a service along with an external device via a first device is provided. The method includes, when a service connection to at least one external device has failed, searching for the first device that will relay service data for the external device, transmitting a relay request signal to the first device, and transmitting the service data for the external device to the first device, wherein the transmitted service data is converted by the first device, and wherein the converted service data is provided to the external device.
US09952980B2
Systems and methods for deferring registration for Direct Memory Access (DMA) operations. An example method may comprise: receiving a memory region registration request identifying a memory region for a direct memory access (DMA) operation; generating a local key for the memory region; receiving a DMA work request referencing the local key; and responsive to determining that an amount of pinned memory is below a threshold, registering the memory region for DMA transfer.
US09952979B1
Systems and methods for a direct memory access (DMA) operation are provided. The method includes receiving a host memory address by a device coupled to a computing device; storing the host memory address at a device memory by a DMA engine; receiving a packet at the device for the computing device; instructing the DMA engine by a device processor to retrieve the host memory address from the device memory; retrieving the host memory address by the DMA engine without the device processor reading the host memory address; and transferring the packet to the computing device by a DMA operation.
US09952973B2
A method and apparatus for reducing write-backs to memory is disclosed herein. The method includes determining whether a read/write request entering a lower level cache is a cache line containing modified data, and responsive to determining that the read/write request is not a cache line containing modified data, manipulating age information of the cache line to reduce a number of write-backs to memory.
US09952969B1
There are disclosed techniques for use in managing data storage in a data storage system which comprise a data storage device and a cache memory. In one example, a method comprises the following steps. An I/O request is received and a durability requirement of the I/O request data associated with the I/O request is determined. Based on the durability requirement of the I/O request data, the I/O request data is classified. The classified I/O request data is stored in the cache memory.
US09952966B2
When a controller receives a new command from a main controller during overwrite-deletion processing for a specific storage apparatus, the received command is stored at least until completion of the overwrite-deletion processing when the received command is a command to the specific storage apparatus. Alternatively, progression of overwrite-deletion process is stored and priority processing of the received command is executed. On the other hand, when the received command is not a command to the specific storage apparatus, processing for the command is executed.
US09952965B2
A method, program product, and computer system is provided for test case self-validating. A probe builder, instruments one or more source code modules with a test probe. The test probe placement is based on at least one criterion including: an application program interface (API), a component, a test case name, a product release, and a product feature. The probe builder registers the test probe in a probe database. The registered test probe has record in the probe database that includes a probe identifier, a probed command, a probed file name, a line number, the test case name, and a location of an executable binary containing the test probe. The probe builder compiles the instrumented source code modules into one or more binary executable modules. The test case generator creates a test case that includes at least one registered test probe. The test case validator validates the test case.
US09952962B2
According to an embodiment of the present invention, an artifact is received, and unstructured content of the artifact is parsed and analyzed to identify data for one or more of missing structured content of the artifact and inaccurate structured content of the artifact. The identified data is then added to the artifact. Embodiments of the present invention can be used, for example, to provide data for missing and inaccurate structured content in artifacts of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) frameworks, and improve accuracy of structured information that used to run queries and create reports.
US09952960B1
A method of analyzing a hazard of a software control system which is operated by a computer and based on STPA (System Theoretic Process Analysis) is provided. The method includes determining an attribute and function demands of the system, analyzing tasks of the system based on the determined attribute and the function demands, generating specification of a relation between the tasks using CTT (Concur Task Tree) method, the CTT method representing a hierarchical relation of a control flow between the tasks, determining at least one of the hazard of the system based on the specification and generating a safety constraint of the system based on the determined hazard. The determining at least one of the hazard of the system uses a guide word mapping table of CTT based STPA.
US09952957B2
A method for dynamically modifying a characteristic for an electronic device. The method includes activating by a processor a first profile having a first characteristic setting and a first state for an input/output (IO) device. Once the first profile is activated, receiving an input by a sensor and communicating the input to the processor. The method then includes activating by the processor a second profile having a second characteristic setting and a second state for the IO device. The second profile modifies a component of the IO device to include a second characteristic setting and a second state.
US09952956B2
Apparatuses, methods, systems, and computer program products are disclosed for calculating a clock rate of a processor. A baseline data module receives a first set of performance data associated with a processor. The performance data is generated using a hardware element that captures performance data for the processor. The hardware element is external to the processor. An update data module receives a second set of performance data associated with the processor a predefined time interval after the first set of performance data is received. The second set of performance data corresponds to the first set of performance data. A rate module calculates a clock rate for the processor based on the first set of performance data and the second set of performance data.
US09952952B2
Multi-reliability regenerating (MRR) erasure codes are disclosed. The erasure codes can be used to encode and regenerate data. In particular, the regenerating erasure codes can be used to encode data included in at least one of two or more data messages to satisfy respective reliability requirements for the data. Encoded portions of data from one data message can be mixed with encoded or unencoded portions of data from a second data message and stored at a distributed storage system. This approach can be used to improve efficiency and performance of data storage and recovery in the event of failures of one or more nodes of a distributed storage system.
US09952950B1
A data storage system includes a plurality of Data Storage Devices (DSDs) that each includes at least one disk for storing data. Data is received for storage in a data stripe across the plurality of DSDs with each DSD of the plurality of DSDs storing a different portion of the data stripe. A strip size is determined for each portion of the data stripe based on a radial location where the portion of the data stripe will be stored on the at least one disk of its respective DSD. The data stripe is stored across the plurality of DSDs with each portion of the data stripe arranged in a radial location on the at least one disk of its respective DSD so that, when the data stripe is accessed, the radial locations of access in the plurality of DSDs progress in the same radial direction.
US09952942B2
Embodiments enable distributed data processing with automatic caching at multiple system levels by accessing a master queue of data processing work comprising a plurality of data processing jobs stored in a long term memory cache; selecting at least one of the plurality of data processing jobs from the master queue of data processing work; pushing the selected data processing jobs to an interface layer including (i) accessing the selected data processing jobs from the long term memory cache; and (ii) saving the selected data processing jobs in an interface layer cache of data processing work; and pushing at least a portion of the selected data processing jobs to a memory cache of a first user system for minimizing latency in user data processing of the pushed data processing jobs.
US09952934B2
Disclosed methods and systems leverage resources in a storage management system to partially synchronize primary data files based on synchronizing selected portions thereof without regard to changes that may be occurring in other non-synchronized portions. Accordingly, a number of primary data files may be partially synchronized by synchronizing designated portions thereof via auto-restore operations from backup data. This approach relies on storage management resources to designate portions of source data that is to be kept synchronized across any number of targets; detect changes to the designated portions; back up changes to secondary storage; and distribute the changes from secondary storage to the associated targets, with minimal impact to the primary data environment. The approach may be mutually applied, so that changes in any one of an associated group of source data files may be likewise detected, backed up, and distributed to the other members of the group.
US09952928B1
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method comprising performing an operation on a first flash drive of a plurality of flash drives configured in a parallel flash drive architecture, wherein the operation occupies a flash controller corresponding to the first flash drive, sending a signal to a processor coupled with the parallel flash drive architecture to indicate that the flash controller is occupied, and writing data to two or more of the plurality of flash drives, other than the first flash drive, by striping the data amongst the two or more of the plurality of flash drives in response to the signal to the processor. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US09952926B2
A decoding method, a memory storage device and a memory control circuit unit are provided. The decoding method includes: reading memory cells based on a default hard-decision voltage level and decoding the obtained hard-bit information; if the decoding fails, reading the memory cells based on default soft-decision voltage levels and then decoding the obtained soft-bit information; if the decoding still fails, reading the memory cells based on first test voltage levels to obtain first soft-bit information and reading the memory cells based on second test voltage levels to obtain second soft-bit information; obtaining a first estimating parameter and a second estimating parameter according to the first soft-bit information and the second soft-bit information, respectively; and updating the default hard-decision voltage level according to the first estimating parameter and the second estimating parameter. As a result, a decoding efficiency can be improved.
US09952925B2
Examples of the present disclosure provide apparatuses and methods for error code calculation. The apparatus can include an array of memory cells that are coupled to sense lines. The apparatus can include a controller configured to control a sensing circuitry, that is coupled to the sense lines, to perform a number of operations without transferring data via an input/output (I/O) lines. The sensing circuitry can be controlled to calculate an error code for data stored in the array of memory cells and compare the error code with an initial error code for the data to determine whether the data has been modified.
US09952924B2
A memory device has a plurality of memory units, an error correction processor, and a memory controller. The memory units include semiconductor memories, and read and write in parallel. The error correction processor converts input content data into recording data which includes the content data and an error correction code. The error correction processor decodes the content data by performing conversion including error correction of recording data read out of the memory units. The memory controller writes recording data divided into a number of data into an area of areas extending over the memory units. The memory controller reads the divided recording data from the area. The memory controller determines that writing into the area has been completed normally if the number of the semiconductor memories of which abnormality has been detected is less than or equal to a number of abnormalities correctable by the error correction processor.
US09952915B2
Embodiments described herein are directed to methods, and systems for generating event processing language code in a development environment using an event processing compiler. A query in event processing language is received in a development environment. The query can be associated with sample data from input files or an input data source. An event processing compiler compiles the query, where the compiler transforms the query from event processing language code to a development environment script language code. In particular, the event processing language code transforms the code based on event processing attributes that are intricately aligned in syntax and semantic between the event processing language and the development environment script language. The query as a development environment script is executed using sample data. Executing the query generates output comprising final results data, intermediate results data, and provides for display warnings when mismatches exist between the results data and output specifications.
US09952912B2
A method of executing an algorithm in a parallel manner using a plurality of concurrent threads includes generating a lock-free barrier that includes a variable that stores both a total participants count and a current participants count. The total participants count indicates a total number of threads in the plurality of concurrent threads that are participating in a current phase of the algorithm, and the current participants count indicates a total number of threads in the plurality of concurrent threads that have completed the current phase. The barrier blocks the threads that have completed the current phase. The total participants count is dynamically updated during execution of the current phase of the algorithm. The generating, blocking, and dynamically updating are performed by at least one processor.
US09952910B2
Managing a virtual computer resource on at least one virtual machine. The managing of the virtual computer resource on the at least one virtual machine is by controlling execution of the virtual computer resource on the at least one virtual machine by a virtual machine instance, such as a firmware facility, of a trusted part of a computer system. The virtual machine instance is unique in the computer system.
US09952903B2
Among other things, one or more techniques and/or systems are provided for controlling resource access for background tasks. For example, a background task created by an application may utilize a resource (e.g., CPU cycles, bandwidth usage, etc.) by consuming resource allotment units from an application resource pool. Once the application resource pool is exhausted, the background task is generally restricted from utilizing the resource. However, the background task may also utilize global resource allotment units from a global resource pool shared by a plurality of applications to access the resource. Once the global resource pool is exhausted, unless the background task is a guaranteed background task which can consume resources regardless of resource allotment states of resource pools, the background task may be restricted from utilizing the resource until global resource allotment units within the global resource pool and/or resource allotment units within the application resource pool are replenished.
US09952899B2
The present disclosure relates to automatically generating execution sequences from workflow definitions. One example method includes receiving a workflow definition including a plurality of operations, each of the plurality of operations including input attributes each associated with an input value and output attributes each associated with an output value; determining an execution sequence for the workflow defining relationships between the plurality of operations, the determining based at least in part on the one or more input attributes and associated input values, and the output attributes and associated output values for each operation, and at least in part on one or more semantic rules defining dependencies of each of the plurality of operations; and generating a directed acyclic graph representing the execution sequence including nodes each representing an operation from the plurality of operations, and vertices each representing a relationship between the plurality of operations defined by the execution sequence.
US09952897B2
One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for suspending logically related processes associated with an application, determining whether to resume a suspended process based upon one or more wake policies, and/or managing an application state of an application, such as timer and/or system message data. That is, logically related processes associated with an application, such as child processes, may be identified and suspended based upon logical relationships between the processes (e.g., a logical container hierarchy may be traversed to identify logically related processes). A suspended process may be resumed based upon a set of wake policies. For example, a suspended process may be resumed based upon an inter-process communication call policy that may be triggered by an application attempting to communicate with the suspended process. Application data may be managed while an application is suspended so that the application may be resumed in a current and/or relevant state.
US09952881B2
A virtual assistant system includes a mobile device to receive an input command corresponding to a function to be performed at one or more external services, to translate the input command into a semantic atom representing the command, and to transmit the semantic atom, and an assistant server configured to receive the transmitted semantic atom, the assistant server including a plurality of plugins, each plugin corresponding to a respective one of the external services and configured to generate a proprietary language command corresponding to the received semantic atom for each external service in which the function is to be performed.
US09952871B2
An apparatus comprises a processing pipeline comprising out-of-order execution circuitry and second execution circuitry. Control circuitry monitors at least one reordering metric indicative of an extent to which instructions are executed out of order by the out-of-order execution circuitry, and controls whether instructions are executed using the out-of-order execution circuitry or the second execution circuitry based on the reordering metric. A speculation metric indicative of a fraction of executed instructions that are flushed due to a mis-speculation can also be used to determine whether to execute instructions on first or second execution circuitry having different performance or energy consumption characteristics.
US09952868B2
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a graphics processing system. The graphics processing system includes a screen-space pipeline and a tiling unit. The screen-space pipeline is configured to perform visibility testing and fragment shading. The tiling unit is configured to determine that a first set of primitives overlaps a first cache tile. The tiling unit is also configured to first transmit the first set of primitives to the screen-space pipeline with a command configured to cause the screen-space pipeline to process the first set of primitives in a z-only mode, and then transmit the first set of primitives to the screen-space pipeline with a command configured to cause the screen-space pipeline to process the first set of primitives in a normal mode. In the z-only mode, at least some fragment shading operations are disabled in the screen-space pipeline. In the normal mode, fragment shading operations are enabled.
US09952863B1
Techniques are disclosed relating to capturing information related to instructions executing on in a processor. In one embodiment, an integrated circuit is disclosed that includes an execution pipeline configured to execute a sequence of instructions. The integrated circuit includes monitoring circuitry configured to monitor the execution pipeline for occurrences of an event associated with the sequence of instructions, and in response to detecting a particular number of occurrences of the event, capture a value of a program counter corresponding to an instruction of the sequence of instructions that is associated with an occurrence of the event. The monitoring circuitry stores the captured value of the program counter in a distinct capture register and signals an interrupt indicating that the captured value of the program counter is retrievable from the capture register. In some embodiments, a debugging application may retrieve the value and present it to a developer attempting perform code profiling.
US09952857B2
Method and systems for tagging code include building a code structure based description unit association model (CDAM) that associates code units with respective description units and organizes the code units in a hierarchical structure. The CDAM is filtered to remove un-meaningful description units through cross-validation between code units. Feature tags are generated based on a weighted sum of term frequencies in the description units of the CDAM to associate features with respective code units.
US09952855B2
In an approach for testing a software application on a target system, a computer provides a test framework being executed on a test framework system, the system being coupled with the target system via network and receives a test scenario by the test framework, the scenario including information regarding a software application to be tested, the target system on which said software application should be executed and regarding one or multiple protocols supported by the target system. The computer interprets information included in said scenario by said test framework and deriving properties associated with at least one software application to be generated based on said information interpretation. The computer then generates an executable software application in a programming language, said application being adapted to the target system by using said derived software application properties. The computer triggers execution of said application thereby obtaining test results, and evaluates said results.
US09952852B2
Deployment and servicing tasks associated with multi-tier, distributed applications, application environments and data centers are automated so that a person does not have to manually perform these tasks. All of the information describing and defining the distributed service is modeled and stored in a re-useable service template that can be used to drive an automated system to programmatically deploy and manage the service over time. Deployment and servicing of a distributed application can be automated using re-useable models that capture hardware and workload definitions. The re-useable models in the form of service templates enable delta-based servicing of the application. The service can be deployed to one or more physical machines, one or more virtual machines or to a combination thereof. A default deployment plan can be customized with instance-specific customizations of service parameters.
US09952848B2
A mobile device includes a user interface allowing a user to enter search parameters. A query wrapper module generates a query wrapper based on the entered search parameters. A search system communication module transmits the query wrapper to a search system and receives a set of results from the search system. A first result corresponds to a first applet. A results presentation module displays the set of results to the user. An access mechanism module, in response to the user selecting the first result, selectively triggers an applet request to be sent to an applet distribution system. The applet request instructs the applet distribution system to transmit the first applet to the mobile device. The first applet includes native code for execution on an operating system of the mobile device. The first applet from the applet distribution system is executed.
US09952837B1
A system and method supports reusing model components or component artifacts in a first modeling environment where the model components or artifacts were created in a second environment. An interface to the model components or artifacts from the first modeling environment is analyzed, and compared to an interface from the second environment. A wrapper object is constructed to convert between differences identified among the two interfaces. Utilizing the wrapper object, the model components or component artifacts are reused in the second environment.
US09952836B2
A system that generates source code of a Web application program. A typical embodiment includes a dictionary table for each language environment that uses identification information on the input/output item as a key to retain, as dictionary data, information made up of initial values of parameters of a parts object, and a dictionary processing unit that acquires the dictionary data corresponding to the identification information on the input/output item from the dictionary table of a specified language environment, and a response processing unit that uses the identification information on the input/output item corresponding to the parts object contained in a processing result as the key to acquire the information on the parameters of the parts object from the dictionary table of the specified language environment and to allow the screen to display a label control and/or an input/output control.
US09952832B2
A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and a template management computing device that assists with generating smart architecture templates includes identifying one or more technical keywords from received data associated with one or more business requirements by comparing the received data associated with the one or more business requirements against information stored in a technical keyword database. Next, one or more template configuration files are identified based on the identified one or more technical keywords. The architecture template is generated for the received data associated with the one or more business requirements using the determined one or more template configuration files. The generated architecture template is provided wherein the provided application is template is ready to be deployed in a development and a testing environment.
US09952825B2
Examples described herein involve determining an audio processing algorithm for a playback device to apply when playing audio content in a playback zone. Determining the audio processing algorithm may involve causing the playback device to play a first audio signal in the playback zone, receiving data indicating a second audio signal detected by a microphone of the playback device. Based on the second audio signal and a characteristic of the playback device, an audio processing algorithm may be determined. The audio processing algorithm may be calculated, or identified in a database based on an acoustic characteristic of the playback zone. The acoustic characteristic of the playback zone may be determined based on the second audio signal and the characteristic of the playback device. The audio processing algorithm may then be applied by the playback device.
US09952824B2
A system and method of providing for the control of a music player to a device driver. One embodiment of the system comprises an electronic music player that is connected to a plurality of music renderers via device drivers via a music renderer controller. The music renderer controller comprises a device integration application program interface for providing a standard interface for communicating with each of the device drivers. Each of the device drivers manage a selected music renderer. The device drivers can display a graphical interface for displaying notifications, customized controls, links to websites, or any other type of information desired by the manufacturer of the device driver. The device drivers can also customize the interfaces of the music render to rename textual elements that are displayed by the device driver. Furthermore, the device drivers can command the music player to suspend and resume playback of music items during selected periods.
US09952822B2
The display device includes a display unit including a screen configured to display information; a support column having a tubular shape and being configured to support the display unit at a top end portion of the support column; and a support base configured to support the support column and including a tubular portion that is insertable into and removable from a bottom end portion of the support column. The display device is configured such that the support column is reinserted into the tubular portion of the support base, to thereby enable the screen of the display unit to be faced at a plurality of angles having a tubular axis of the tubular portion as a center.
US09952816B2
A data processing apparatus to acquire a job from an external apparatus via a network and process the job includes a storage unit, a selection unit, and a processing unit. The job includes a data and setting information to process the data. The storage unit stores a plurality of processing modules. The selection unit selects a plurality of processing modules to be used in processing the data, from the plurality of processing modules, based on setting information included in the job. The processing unit causes the selected plurality of processing modules to sequentially perform processing on the data. In a case where processing is to be sequential performed by a first processing module and then a second processing module included in the selected plurality of processing modules, the processing unit inputs information processed by the first processing module into the second processing module.
US09952808B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to intra-block organized storage placement. One embodiment includes obtaining a file in a file system. The file is separated into multiple blocks. The multiple blocks are separated into at least two correlated sub-blocks. Intra-file block organized storage placement on different memory devices is determined for the at least two correlated sub-blocks in a file system metadata layout.
US09952807B1
A method, system, and computer program product for identifying the location of a Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) of a Virtual Machine (VM) on one or more LUNs on a storage medium, replicating the one or more LUNs storing the VMFS, and exposing the replicated one or more LUNs.
US09952804B2
In an approach for resolving terminated transactions in a transactional memory environment, a processor initiates a hardware transaction in a computing environment, wherein the hardware transaction accesses a memory location, and wherein the hardware transaction includes a transaction begin indicator and a transaction end indicator. A processor detects a conflicting access of the memory location while executing the hardware transaction. A processor aborts the hardware transaction based on the conflicting access of the memory location. Hardware determines that the conflicting access of the memory location is a transient condition. A processor reinitiates the hardware transaction.
US09952803B1
Described are techniques for configuring data storage. Criteria identifying limits is received for a plurality of storage tiers for one or more logical devices. The storage tiers include a first storage tier and one or more other storage tiers where the first storage tier is higher performing than the other storage tiers. First processing is performed to determine a first set of data portions of the logical devices to be stored on physical devices of the first storage tier subject to limits included in said criteria. First processing includes determining scores for data portions of the logical devices. Each score is calculated using one or more metrics including a first metric weighted based on an expected I/O size. The data portions are ranked in accordance with the scores. The first set of data portions stored in the first storage tier is selected based on the score ranking.
US09952801B2
Embodiments are generally directed to accelerated address indirection table lookup for wear-leveled non-volatile memory. A embodiment of a memory device includes nonvolatile memory; a memory controller; and address indirection logic to provide address indirection for the nonvolatile memory, of the address indirection logic to maintain an address indirection table (AIT) in the nonvolatile memory, the AIT including a plurality of levels, and copy at least a portion of the AIT to a second memory, the second memory having less latency than the first memory.
US09952799B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to multiple parallel lookups using a pool of shared memories by proper configuration of interconnection networks. The number of shared memories reserved for each lookup is reconfigurable based on the memory capacity needed by that lookup. The shared memories are grouped into homogeneous tiles. Each lookup is allocated a set of tiles based on the memory capacity needed by that lookup. The tiles allocated for each lookup do not overlap with other lookups such that all lookups can be performed in parallel without collision. Each lookup is reconfigurable to be either hash-based or direct-access. The interconnection networks are programmed based on how the tiles are allocated for each lookup.
US09952794B2
A storage device or storage system includes a transient compression layer that is established based on a level of finishedness of the capacity of the storage device or storage system. Data may be compressed and written to the transient compression layer until the capacity is sufficiently finished, after which the compressed data may be destaged and written to the capacity. The transient compression layer may be established on a hard disc media of the storage system or in a SSD of the storage system.
US09952790B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, at a first host, a security profile related to a first data socket descriptor indicating risk to data security of a second host. The method also includes, in response to the risk indicated by the security profile, performing by the first host, at least one action selected from a group of actions. The group of actions includes a cache flush on a cache of the first host according to a cache flush policy, cache locking on data stored in the cache of the first host, data redaction on data of a payload prior to being sent by the first host, memory locking of data stored in an in-memory database of the first host, and encryption of data stored in the in-memory database of the first host or encryption of selected data fields of a payload prior to being sent from the first host.
US09952783B2
A data processing method and apparatus, and a shared storage device, where the method includes receiving, by a shared storage device, a copy-on-write request sent by another storage device, where the copy-on-write request includes data on which copy-on-write is to be performed and a logical unit identifier and snapshot time point of the data; storing the data; and searching, according to the logical unit identifier and snapshot time point of the data, a preset shared mapping table for a corresponding entry, and storing, in the corresponding entry, mapping entry information of the data, where the mapping entry information includes the logical unit identifier and snapshot time point of the data and a storage address that is of the data and in the shared storage device, which can improve efficiency of snapshot data processing.
US09952779B2
A controller includes an interface and a processor. The interface is configured to communicate with multiple memory devices over a link. The processor is configured to select at least first and second memory devices for writing, and to write at least first and second data units in sequence to the first memory device over the link, while avoiding writing to any of the other memory devices until transferal of the at least first and second data units over the link has been completed, to write at least one data unit to the second memory device after transferring the at least first and second data units to the first memory device, and, in response to verifying that the first memory device is ready to receive subsequent data, to write to the first memory device at least a third data unit.
US09952765B2
A layout of a transaction log enables efficient logging of metadata into entries of the log, as well as efficient reclamation and recovery of the log entries by a volume layer of a storage input/output (I/O) stack executing on one or more nodes of a cluster. The transaction log is illustratively a two stage, append-only logging structure, wherein the first level is non-volatile random access memory (NVRAM) embodied as a NVlog and the second stage is disk, e.g., solid state drive (SSD). During crash recovery, the log entries are examined for consistency and scanned to identify those entries that have completed and those that are active, which require replay. The log entries are walked from oldest to newest (using sequence numbers) searching for the highest sequence number. Partially complete log entries (e.g., log entries in-progress when a crash occurs) may be discarded for failing a checksum (e.g., a CRC error). Old value/new value logs may be used to implement roll-forward or roll-back semantics to replay the log entries and fix any on-disk data structures, first from NVRAM and then from on-disk logs.
US09952752B1
Methods and systems are provided for presenting a user with a recommendation intent query in response to the user indicating that he or she recommends content. The recommendation intent query allows a user to designate (e.g., select, indicate, identify, choose, etc.) one or more components, subjects, characteristics, properties, etc., of the content to which the user's recommendation should be attributed. Therefore, the user's intent with regard to the recommendation can be determined, and a more detailed social annotation about the recommendation can be provided to other users in a social network. The recommendation intent query is in the form of a user interface containing a list of components, subjects, and characteristics of the recommended content, one or more of which may be designated by the user as being the intended target(s) of his or her recommendation.
US09952749B2
A method, system and computer program product for facilitating access to a resource represented in an image at a later time. A screen capture of an image displayed on a computing device is implemented. Metadata, including the resource location, resource navigation and positional metadata, regarding the source data of the screen capture image is generated. The generated metadata is then embedded into the screen capture image. The screen capture image with the embedded metadata is then transmitted to a different user. By embedding the metadata into the screen capture image, the user receiving the screen capture image will be able to reproduce the state of the source environment when the image was captured using the embedded metadata thereby opening the resource represented in the image.
US09952748B1
The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a method that includes storing one or more first content items and a second content item that belong to a collection at a content hosting system. The method further includes receiving one or more interactions with the first content items from one or more first user accounts. The method further includes selecting, by a processing device, the second content item and providing a recommendation to a second user account to view the second content item based on the second content item belonging to the same collection as the first content items and on the interactions with the first content items.
US09952745B2
A method of modifying attributes of list elements in a layout space of the list as the list scrolls in a user interface is disclosed herein. The method comprises determining a series of location values of each list element for a duration of a scroll event. Additionally, for each list element, at each determined location value of that list element, the attributes of that list element are determined by evaluating a set of spline curves associated with that list element based on that location value. The list elements are re-rendered in accordance with the determined attributes for the duration of the scroll event.
US09952744B2
The locations of electronic devices in an institutional facility are determined based on crowdsourced location reporting by users in an institutional setting and responding to device location queries.
US09952739B2
A user-configurable modular audio control surface comprises master modules for controlling global surface properties and channel modules for controlling one or more individual audio channels. The modules are disposed in a two-dimensional spatial arrangement such that any module can occupy a location within the control surface not occupied by another module. The modules are connected to each other and to external platforms hosting media applications and plug-ins via a network. Control surface users can interact with external applications via remote graphical user interfaces displayed on modules within the surface, and can automate multiple external applications using an automation system built into the surface. Automation line graphs and metadata for both internal and external applications are displayed over the corresponding waveform displays that can include audio ahead of a current playback location.
US09952732B2
There is provided a capacitive touch device including a touch panel, a detection circuit and a processing unit. The touch panel includes a plurality of drive electrodes and a plurality of receiving electrodes configured to form a coupling electric field with an external touch panel, and the receiving electrodes are respectively configured to output a detection signal. The detection circuit is coupled to one of the receiving electrodes and configured to modulate the detection signal with two signals to generate two detection components. The processing unit is configured to obtain a phase value according to the two detection components to accordingly decode transmission data.
US09952726B2
A touch module includes a plurality of sensing electrodes partly crossing with each other and a plurality of signal lines electronically connected to a corresponding sensing electrode from amongst the plurality of sensing electrodes. Each sensing electrode includes a main sensing portion, a first sub-sensing portion, and a second sub-sensing portion. The first sub-sensing portion and the second sub-sensing are symmetrically located on opposite surfaces of the main sensing portion. The first sub-sensing portion includes a first solid portion. The second sub-sensing portion includes a second solid portion. The first sub-sensing portion defines a first receiving portion in a middle of first sub-sensing portion for receiving the second receiving portion of the adjacent and crossed sensing electrode. The second sub-sensing portion defines a second receiving portion from edges of the second sub-sensing portion for receiving the first receiving portion of the adjacent and crossed sensing electrode.
US09952722B2
The present invention provides a transmitter which is configured to transmit an electrical signal to a capacitive touch sensitive device according to a transmitter status in response to a trigger event detected. As a result, the capacitive touch sensitive device can calculate the transmitter status and a relative position between the transmitter and the capacitive touch sensitive device. The electrical signal is mixed by signals having a plurality of frequencies.
US09952719B2
A touch system that employs interference effects is disclosed. The touch system includes first and second waveguides that have first and second optical paths that define an optical path difference. The first and second waveguides are configured so that a touch event deforms at least one of the waveguides in a manner that causes the optical path difference to change. The change in the optical path difference is detected by combining the light traveling in the two waveguides to form interfered light. The interfered light is processed to determine the occurrence of a touch event. The time-evolution of the deformation at the touch-event location can also be determined by measuring the interfered light over the duration of the touch event.
US09952717B2
A touch sensing display device that compensates for common voltage differences. The display device includes a first touch channel, a second touch channel, and an integrated circuit. The integrated circuit includes a first input terminal to receive a common voltage and a second input terminal to receive a supply voltage, a first touch pad coupled to the first touch channel of the display device, and a second touch pad coupled to the second touch channel of the display device. The integrated circuit also includes a first touch driving circuit coupled to the first touch pad to generate a compensated common voltage based on the supply voltage and to output the compensated common voltage onto the first touch pad. The integrated circuit also includes a second touch driving circuit coupled to the second touch pad, the second touch driving circuit to output the common voltage onto the second touch pad.
US09952716B2
One driving electrode or one set of driving electrode of a touch screen are designated as a base electrode or base electrodes. When the base electrode or base electrodes are provided by a driving signal, the detected signal from the sensing electrodes is designated as a level signal. The level signal is used to adjust the detected signal when other non-base electrodes are provided by the driving signal, whereby the detected image from the touch screen can be leveled.
US09952706B2
A flexible apparatus with a bending interaction guide is provided. The flexible apparatus includes a sensor which senses a bending that deforms the shape of the flexible apparatus, and a controller which performs a controlling operation corresponding to the bending, when a previously set bending is sensed. The controller adds and provides the bending interaction guide based on a bending set with respect to each of the objects that are displayed on a screen.
US09952697B2
A touch module and a manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. The touch module includes a substrate, at least one first touch electrode, and at least one second touch electrode. The first touch electrode is embedded into the substrate. The second touch electrode is embedded into the substrate. A height of the first touch electrode relative to a first surface of the substrate is different from a height of the second touch electrode relative to the first surface of the substrate, such that the first touch electrode and the second touch electrode are insulated from each other.
US09952692B2
A sensor device and a method of fabricating the same are provided. The sensor device includes a substrate, a plurality of first electrodes, a plurality of second electrodes, a plurality of sensor units, and a contact layer. The first electrodes and the second electrodes are located on at least one of surfaces of the substrate. The first electrodes are arranged along a first direction and extended along a second direction, and the second electrodes are arranged along the second direction and extended along the first direction. A plurality of intersection regions are formed by a projection of the first electrodes and the second electrodes onto the substrate. The sensor units are electrically connected to each of the first electrodes and each of the second electrodes respectively. The contact layer is located on at least the first electrodes or the second electrodes.
US09952691B2
A touch panel may include: a sensing electrode part including a plurality of first sensing electrodes and a plurality of second sensing electrodes insulated from the first sensing electrodes and crossing the first sensing electrodes; an opening part in the sensing electrode part; and a dummy pattern adjacent to the sensing electrode part.
US09952672B2
A computer apparatus is associated with a graphical display presenting at least one GUI-component adapted to be manipulated based on user-generated commands. An event engine is adapted to receive an eye-tracking data signal that describes a user's point of regard on the display. Based on the signal, the event engine produces a set of non-cursor controlling event output signals, which influence the at least one GUI-component. Each non-cursor controlling event output signal describes a particular aspect of the user's ocular activity in respect of the display. Initially, the event engine receives a control signal request from each of the at least one GUI-component. The control signal request defines a sub-set of the set of non-cursor controlling event output signals which is required by the particular GUI-component. The event engine delivers non-cursor controlling event output signals to the at least one GUI-component in accordance with each respective control signal request.
US09952669B2
Systems and methods that dynamically render etching inputs are provided, and include a touch surface having a sensor and configured to detect user input, and a non-transitory memory, wherein the non-transitory memory includes instructions for capturing an etching input that is applied to an image or video file, determining a haptic effect that corresponds to the etching input, the haptic effect depending on a type of etching input, and transmitting a modified image or modified video file that includes the etching input and the haptic effect.
US09952665B2
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth technique for displaying an image based on eye vergence. The technique includes determining a first distance from one or more eyes of a user to a display location, and determining, based on eye gaze vectors associated with the eyes of the user, an eye convergence distance. The technique further includes causing the image to be displayed when the eye convergence distance is substantially the same as the first distance, or causing a display of the image to be terminated when the eye convergence distance is not substantially the same as the first distance.
US09952657B2
An apparatus includes a display controller configured to control a display state of a transparent display based on a sensor output that contains information regarding an object separated from the apparatus.
US09952656B2
Disclosed are a method and corresponding apparatus to enable a user of a display system to manipulate holographic objects. Multiple holographic user interface objects capable of being independently manipulated by a user are displayed to the user, overlaid on a real-world view of a 3D physical space in which the user is located. In response to a first user action, the holographic user interface objects are made to appear to be combined into a holographic container object that appears at a first location in the 3D physical space. In response to the first user action or a second user action, the holographic container object is made to appear to relocate to a second location in the 3D physical space. The holographic user interface objects are then made to appear to deploy from the holographic container object when the holographic container object appears to be located at the second location.
US09952648B2
A digital filtering device is provided that makes it possible to reduce the size and power consumption of circuitry for filtering using FFT and IFFT. The digital filtering device includes a first filtering unit for receiving first data in a first sequence, performing a first filtering process including a fast Fourier transformation process and an inverse fast Fourier transformation process on the first data, and outputting second data in the first sequence.
US09952644B2
Methods and apparatus relating to device power management state transition latency advertisement for faster boot time are described. In some embodiments, a storage unit stores a value corresponding to a requisite transition delay period for a first agent to exit from a low power consumption state. The first agent writes the value to the storage unit and a second agent waits for the requisite transition delay period (after the first agent initiates its exit from the low power consumption state) before the second agent attempts to communicate with the first agent via a link. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
US09952642B2
Systems and methods for operating a display by dynamically determining a refresh rate for the display. In certain implementations, a processor determines a number of pixels having medium grayscale levels from a histogram for the image. If the number does not exceed a threshold, the processor sets a refresh rate for the display to a first refresh rate. In certain implementations, if the number exceeds a threshold, the processor may set the refresh rate for the display to a second refresh rate. Moreover, the first refresh rate may be lower than the second threshold. In some implementations, the image may be analyzed by subdividing the image into blocks and determining a refresh rate based on grayscale levels or distributions in the blocks. Based on the analysis of the blocks, a corresponding refresh rate may be selected.
US09952632B2
An electrical device includes a coupling member, a supporting member, a movable member, and a sloped face. The coupling member is provided at a first casing, and is formed with a rotation shaft provided with a protruding portion at an outer peripheral portion thereof. The supporting member is provided at a second casing, and is formed with a shaft hole into which the rotation shaft is inserted. The movable member is provided at the radial direction outside of the rotation shaft and has a restricted movable range about the circumferential direction. The sloped face is formed at a contact portion of the movable member with the protruding portion, and is sloped toward the side closest to the rotation shaft on progression from the rear side toward the front side in the rotation direction when the protruding portion makes contact with the movable member.
US09952613B1
A system and method for reducing the data transmitted from an energy management system is described. The system and method include a critical event evaluator receiving data from a plurality of data sources, where the critical event evaluator monitors the data for critical events requiring immediate transmission to a monitoring center. A schedule comb and a delta comb receive the data from the plurality of data sources, the schedule comb operable to reduce the data according to data schedule rules stored in a data definition database and the delta comb reduce the data by eliminating data values that have not changed since a previous transmission. The schedule comb and delta comb produce a reduced data set. A queue stores the reduced data set, which is transmitted when the queue reaches a trigger size or a critical event is found.
US09952592B2
A mobile terminal including a display unit; a wireless communication unit configured to wirelessly communicate with a flying object; and a controller configured to receive an input for setting at least one member of a created group of members to be a target, and remotely control the flying object to obtain an image of the at least one member set as the target.
US09952591B2
An interface includes a human machine interface (HMI) to provide a visualization of current and future states of a mission associated with one or more unmanned vehicles. A time specifier provides input to the HMI to specify a current time or a future time for the visualization of the current and future states of the mission. A prediction engine generates predictions of the current and future states of the mission for the visualization based on the current time or the future time specified by the time specifier.
US09952579B2
A control system CPU card includes a control CPU chip having a first core and a second core, and a main memory for storing information. A standby system CPU card includes a standby CPU chip having a first core and a second core, and a main memory for storing information. An I/F performs communication to allow the CPU cards to share the information. In the control system CPU card, when the first core is normal, the first core performs control calculation and outputs a calculation result. When the first core is abnormal, the second core is switched to a control core, to perform control calculation and continue output of a calculation result. When the cores are both abnormal, system switching is performed from the control system CPU card to the standby system CPU card.
US09952573B2
Devices and methods are provided for generating and/or displaying a graphical user interface used to control an energy-consuming system, such as a heating, ventilation, or air conditioning (HVAC) system. Such an electronic device may include, for example, a processor that generates the graphical user interface and an electronic display that displays the graphical user interface. The graphical user interface may include a menu formed from discrete display elements that, owing to the way in which the discrete display elements are shifted into and out of view on the screen, appear to be spatially related to one another.
US09952565B2
An apparatus includes a plurality of power distribution control output channels operatively coupled to at least one power source, and comprising an access control input from an access control device, and a control output for a controlled device. A controller receives an access control input signal for each power distribution control output channel and provides a control signal to each power distribution control output channel such that each power distribution control output channel provides a control output signal according to requirements of a corresponding controlled device. The controller can individually isolate one or more power distribution control output channels from the at least one power source such that the control output signal is removed from the corresponding controlled device, while any other power distribution control output channels coupled to the same power source continues to operate without interruption.
US09952557B2
A device for producing a subwavelength hologram. The device comprises a metasurface layer attached to a substrate. The metasurface layer includes an array of plasmonic antennas that simultaneously encode both wavelength and phase information of light directed through the array to produce a hologram. The wavelength is determined by the size of the antennas, and the phase is determined by the orientation of the antennas.
US09952555B2
Disclosed is a cartridge attachable/detachable to/from an apparatus body of an image forming apparatus. A bearing member for pivotally supports a rotation member has an engaged portion that is arranged at a part on one end side of the cartridge in a direction of a rotational axis of the rotation member and engaged with an engaging portion provided in the apparatus body. An engagement state between the engaged portion and the engaging portion is maintained until at least a coupling of the rotation member is coupled to a driving shaft provided in the apparatus body in a process of attaching the cartridge to the apparatus body. A movement of the bearing member to at least the other end side in the direction of the rotational axis with respect to the apparatus body is restricted when the engaged portion and the engaging portion are put into the engagement state.
US09952544B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion for forming an image, a human presence sensor for detecting presence of a human body adjacent the apparatus, and a controller capable of executing an adjustment process operation for the image forming portion when a first predetermined number of prints are produced. When the human presence sensor detects a human body in the neighborhood of the apparatus, the execution of the adjustment process operation is deferred to reduce the waiting time necessitated by the adjustment operation, but if a second predetermined number of prints are produced, the image forming operation of the image forming portion is interrupted, and the deferred adjustment process is executed.
US09952536B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion having a first feeding member to feed developer in a first chamber, a second feeding member to feed the developer in a second chamber; and a control portion to execute a plurality of modes by suspending image forming. A first mode circulates the developer in a condition in which a ratio of a rotational speed of the developer bearing member to a rotational speed of the first and second feeding members is decreased as compared to that in forming the images; and a second mode increases the ratio of the rotational speed of the developer bearing member to the rotational speed of the first feeding member as compared to that in forming the images. The second mode is executed after the first mode and before resuming the image forming operation.
US09952535B2
A developer cartridge may include: a first gear having a small-diameter gear portion and a large-diameter gear portion; and a second gear including: a first columnar portion centered on a second axis; a second columnar portion having a smaller diameter than the first columnar portion; a first engagement portion extending along a portion of a peripheral surface of the first columnar portion and engageable with the small-diameter gear portion; a second engagement portion extending along a portion of a peripheral surface of the second columnar portion and positioned closer to a housing than the first engagement portion in an axial direction and engageable with the large-diameter gear portion; and a protruding portion protruding in the axial direction and rotatable together with the first engagement portion and the second engagement portion. The second engagement portion may engage the large-diameter gear portion after the first engagement portion engages the small-diameter gear portion.
US09952531B2
The present disclosure provides developing member superior in triboelectric charge imparting ability to a toner. The developing member includes a substrate and a surface layer, the surface layer containing alumina particles and a resin, the surface layer having protrusions on the surface thereof. Each of the protrusions containing the alumina particles, part or all of the alumina particles being exposed at the surfaces of the protrusions, and the resin being interposed among the alumina particles.
US09952527B2
Techniques for liquid electrography printing are described herein. In at least some examples herein, a liquid electrographic printer includes a charging element for charging a photo imaging plate (PIP). A light source irradiates light onto the charge element. The irradiated light is to heat the charge element to a selected temperature.
US09952511B2
Lithographic apparatuses suitable for, and methodologies involving, complementary e-beam lithography (CEBL) are described. In an example, a blanker aperture array (BAA) for an e-beam tool is described. The BAA is a non-universal cutter.
US09952510B2
A thinner composition includes propyleneglycol C1-C10 alkylether, C1-C10 alkyl C1-C10 alkoxy propionate, and C1-C10 alkyl lactate, thereby is it possible to improve applicability of a photoresist while remarkably reducing an amount of the used photoresist, as well as having excellent solubility and EBR property to various photoresists, BARCs and underlayers.
US09952509B2
The present invention relates to a pattern forming method including: forming a film using an actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition that includes a (A) resin which has an increase in the polarity by the action of an acid, and thus, has a decrease in the solubility in a developer containing an organic solvent, a (B) compound capable of generating an acid upon irradiation with specific actinic ray or radiation, and a (C) solvent, exposing the film, and developing the exposed film using a developer including an organic solvent, in which the resin (A) has a structure in which a polar group is protected with a leaving group which decomposes to leave by the action of an acid, and the leaving group is a group represented by the following General Formula (I).
US09952506B2
A liquid discharge apparatus includes: a container divided by a dividing member into a first chamber configured to contain a first liquid to be discharged from a discharge port and a second chamber configured to contain a second liquid; a supply unit configured to supply the second liquid into the second chamber in accordance with decrease of the first liquid contained in the first chamber; and a measurement unit configured measure flow of the first liquid into the second chamber.
US09952499B2
A mask fabricating method includes dividing an outline of a design layout into segments, setting comparison areas with respect to an evaluation point corresponding to each of the segments, for each segment, calculating an overlapping area between the design layout and each of the comparison areas, classifying the segments into groups based on the calculated overlapping areas, wherein segments having a characteristic of the same overlapping area are included in a first group, calculating bias values for each of the segments, obtaining a representative bias value for each group, for each group, assigning the representative bias value obtained for that group to each of its segments, updating the design layout based on the segments with their assigned representative bias values, and fabricating a mask based on the updated design layout.
US09952495B2
A virtual field-of-view frame or reference window in a field of view of a stereo camera, and projected in a reduced manner by left and right shooting lenses to form an image on each of a left and right image pickup devices. Standard image data and stereoscopic video data is sent. The standard stereoscopic video data is displayed on a display screen having positions of left and right screens exactly matching each other and having the position and size for reproducing and displaying the reference window as a reference dimension display equivalent to the reference window, simultaneously with left and right polarizations. With eyeglasses for field-of-view separation left and right videos are separately viewed.
US09952492B2
A projection-type display device includes: a plurality of light sources that emit light beams with different colors; a projection unit that projects light beams based on image information among light beams emitted from the plurality of light sources onto a projection screen; and a light source control unit that selectively performs first control or second control as defined herein.
US09952488B2
A projector includes a base, a light module secured on the base, and a cover secured on the light module. The light module includes a bracket, and the cover includes two securing members. The bracket and the securing members define a plurality of through holes to reduce the weight of the bracket and the through holes. The securing member is equipped with a hook, and the hook is elastically deformed to be engaged with the bracket.
US09952487B2
A projector includes a casing having a top plate and a bottom plate, an optical engine disposed in the casing and between the top and bottom plates, and a plurality of heat sinks disposed around the optical engine. The top plate and the bottom plate have a plurality of top holes and bottom holes, respectively. Each heat sink has a plurality of fins and a plurality of air channels formed between the fins, wherein the top holes are aligned and communicate with the bottom holes through the air channels straightly.
US09952482B2
There is presented an optical apparatus comprising first and second photon pair sources configured to convert at least one pump light photon into a first and second correlated signal and idler photon pairs. In one example, the apparatus is configured to use one of the signal and idler photons from the first correlated photon pair for controlling the conversion of the pump light photon in the second photon pair source. The apparatus may configured such that, at least one of the signal and idler photons from the first correlated photon pair is output from the first photon pair source onto an optical path wherein at least one of the signal and idler photons from the second correlated photon pair is output from the second photon pair source onto the optical path. A method is also provided for outputting one or more photons using the optical apparatus.
US09952476B2
An array substrate and a display device are provided. The array substrate includes a plurality of data lines; a plurality of gate lines; and a plurality of sub-pixel units defined by the gate lines and the data lines intersecting each other. The sub-pixel unit includes a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode respectively disposed on two sides of the gate line and a common electrode disposed between the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode. At least a first compensation electrode is connected to at least a side of the common electrode, at least a part of projection of it on a plane having the first pixel electrode overlaps the first pixel electrode; and/or at least a second compensation electrode is connected to a side of the first pixel electrode, and at least a part of projection of it on a plane having the common electrode overlaps the common electrode. The display device can have a wide viewing angle.
US09952473B2
A display device including: a display panel which displays an image with light, including: a substrate including: first and second light blocking areas extending in first and second directions, respectively, and a pixel area at which the image is displayed, defined by the first and second light blocking areas which intersect each other; a first shielding line and a data line spaced apart from each other on the substrate at the first light blocking area; a gate line at the second light blocking area to intersect the data line; and a thin film transistor connected to the data and gate lines. The shielding line includes a protrusion protruding toward the data line, the protrusion being overlapped by the thin film transistor. The shielding line is in a same layer of the display panel as the data line among layers disposed on the substrate of the display panel.
US09952470B2
A color film substrate comprises a underlying substrate, a shading layer on the underlying substrate and photo spacers on the shading layer. The photo spacer comprises a top surface, a bottom surface and side surfaces for connecting the top surface and the bottom surface, and the top surface comprises at least one inclined face portion unparallel to the bottom surface.
US09952469B2
A method of manufacturing a liquid crystal device having a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other with a liquid crystal layer interposed therebetween, and a sealing member formed in a peripheral portion of at least one of the substrates. The method includes forming the sealing member, disposing the liquid crystal layer inside the sealing member, and bonding the first substrate to the second substrate. In forming the sealing member, a ring-shaped portion that seals the liquid crystal layer inside the sealing member, a first sealing layer and a second sealing layer that face each other to be separated from each other are formed. In the bonding of the first substrate to the second substrate, a junction portion is formed in which the first and second sealing layers are pressed and joined outside the sealing member so as to form the ring-shaped portion.
US09952463B2
A touch panel for narrowing bezel region and a touch display device using the same is disclosed. The touch panel includes a first transparent substrate, a first conduction layer, a transparent optical glue layer, a second transparent substrate and a second conduction layer from bottom to top. A bezel region of the first transparent substrate is provided with first conduction pads respectively connected with second conduction pads respectively through first conduction wires. The second transparent substrate is provided with third conduction pads. The second transparent substrate is penetrated with penetrating holes respectively arranged over the second conduction pads and respectively neighboring the third conduction pads. A third conduction layer is arranged on the third conduction pads and fills the penetrating holes. The second conduction pads are respectively connected with the third conduction pads through the third conduction layer in the penetrating holes.
US09952459B2
An electronic device including a transparent cover, a transparent film, a display module, a side frame, and a base frame is provided. The transparent film is adhered to the transparent cover. The display module is adhered to the transparent film, such that the transparent film is disposed between the transparent cover and the display module. The transparent film extends to the side frame and is bonded with the side frame. The base frame is connected to the side frame. By extending the transparent film to the side frame and bonding the transparent film with the side frame, the transparent film is capable of stopping liquid, thereby archiving a waterproofing effect. A method for assembling an electronic device is also provided.
US09952452B1
Apparatuses, systems and methods for wearable devices such as eyewear are described. According to one embodiment, the wearable device includes a body, electronics, and a connector. The body is configured to hold one or more optical elements, the body being disposable between a collapsed condition and a wearable condition in which the device is wearable by a user to hold the one or more optical elements within user view. The electronics are carried by the body. The connector is configured to enable establishment of an electrical and/or electronic connection with the electronics via the connector, the connector being housed by the body such that the connector is substantially obscured from view when the body is in the wearable condition, and such that the connector is exposed for connective access when the body is in the collapsed condition.
US09952442B2
An illumination system includes a phosphor to emit light in a wavelength band ΔλPHOSPHOR, a second light source to emit light at a second wavelength λ2 within an absorption band of the phosphor, a third light source to emit light at a third wavelength λ3 and a fourth light source to emit light at a fourth wavelength λ4. A controller drives the second, third and fourth light sources. A first dichroic optical element: 1) directs light from the phosphor to an optical output of the system, 2) directs light from the third light source to the optical output, and 3) directs light from the fourth light source to the optical output. A second dichroic optical element: 1) directs light from the third light source to the first dichroic optical element, and 2) directs the light from the fourth light source to the first dichroic optical element.
US09952434B2
The invention pertains to devices and methods that allow a subject having a diseased retina to see a more complete image of the subject's field-of-view. The invention provides a device comprising one or more windows comprising a plurality of optical components that redirect the light transmitting through the regions of the windows corresponding to the non-functional areas of the retina onto the functional areas of the retina in a manner such that the subject perceives a more complete field-of-view through the functional areas of the retina. The invention also provides a device comprising one or more cameras, a microprocessor, and one or more display screens, wherein the microprocessor comprises an algorithm programmed to remove portions of the image corresponding to non-functional areas of the subject's retina and compressing the portions so removed into the areas of the image corresponding to the functional areas of the subject's retina.
US09952425B2
An optical device includes: an optical portion that has a light incident surface on which light is incident; a movable portion that supports the optical portion; a shaft portion that supports the movable portion so that the movable portion is oscillatable; and a fixing portion that is connected to the shaft portion, wherein the fixing portion has a thickness greater than the shaft portion and includes a portion of which an end not connected to the shaft portion serves as a free end.
US09952417B2
Among other things, a method comprises imaging a sample displaced between a sensor surface and a surface of a microscopy sample chamber to produce an image of at least a part of the sample. The image is produced using lensless optical microscopy, and the sample contains at least blood from a subject. The method also comprises automatically differentiating cells of different types in the image, generating a count of one or more cell types based on the automatic differentiation, and deriving a radiation dose the subject has absorbed based on the count.
US09952415B2
A trenched-substrate based lens manufacturing method includes depositing lens material on a first side of a substrate, wherein the first side of the substrate has a plurality of trenches. The method further includes shaping a plurality of lens elements from the lens material. The method includes shaping the plurality of lens elements, on a respective plurality of surface portions of the first side, by contacting a mold to the first side. Each of the surface portions are adjacent a respective one of the trenches. Additionally, the method includes accommodating an excess portion of the lens material in the trenches. A lens system, manufactured using this method, includes a substrate with a planar surface and a trench embedded in the planar surface. The lens system further includes a lens element molded on the planar surface adjacent to the trench.
US09952411B2
An optical image lens system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element and a sixth lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface. The second lens element, the third lens element, and the fourth lens element have refractive power. The fifth lens element with positive refractive power is made of plastic, and has a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface, wherein the surfaces thereof are aspheric. The sixth lens element with refractive power is made of plastic, and has a concave image-side surface, wherein the image-side surface thereof changes from concave at a paraxial region to convex at a peripheral region, and the surfaces thereof are aspheric.
US09952403B2
A method for producing a mirror comprising a plurality of optical surfaces, the method comprises: a step of producing elements, step of assembling the elements with each other from the rear, a step of fixing the elements from the rear onto a supporting structure of the mirror, and a step of polishing subsequent to the step of fixing the elements in order to obtain the optical surfaces of the mirror and correct the residual positioning defects of the optical surfaces and polish them.
US09952395B2
An optical cable and method for forming an optical cable is provided. The cable includes a cable jacket including an inner surface defining a channel and an outer surface and also includes a plurality of optical fibers located within the channel. The cable includes a seam within the cable jacket that couples together opposing longitudinal edges of a wrapped thermoplastic sheet which forms the cable jacket and maintains the cable jacket in the wrapped configuration around the plurality of optical fibers. The method includes forming an outer cable jacket by wrapping a sheet of thermoplastic material around a plurality of optical core elements. The method includes melting together portions of thermoplastic material of opposing longitudinal edges of the wrapped sheet such that a seam is formed holding the sheet of thermoplastic material in the wrapped configuration around the core elements.
US09952393B2
A light guiding structure is provided. The structure includes an anodized aluminum oxide (AAO) layer and a fluoropolymer layer located immediately adjacent to a surface of the AAO layer. Light propagates through the AAO layer in a direction substantially parallel to the fluoropolymer layer. An optoelectronic device can be coupled to a surface of the AAO layer, and emit/sense light propagating through the AAO layer. Solutions for fabricating the light guiding structure are also described.
US09952384B2
An optical diode (1) comprising an optical wave guide for guiding light, preferably of a light mode, with a vacuum wavelength λ0, wherein the optical wave guide has a wave guide core (2, 3, 14) with a first index of refraction (n1), and the wave guide core (2, 3, 14) is surrounded by at least one second optical medium which has at least one second index of refraction (n2), wherein n1>n2 applies, wherein the wave guide core (2, 3, 14) has at least in sections a smallest lateral dimension (7) which is a smallest dimension of a cross section (6) perpendicular to a propagation direction (5) of the light in the wave guide core (2, 3, 14), wherein the smallest lateral dimension (7) is greater than or equal to λ0/(5*n1) and less than or equal to 20*λ0/n1, wherein the optical diode (1) additionally comprises at least one absorber element (10, 11, 15, 16) which is arranged in a near field, wherein the near field consists of the electromagnetic field of the light of the vacuum wavelength λ0 in the wave guide core (2, 3, 14) and outside of the wave guide core (2, 3, 14) up to a standard interval (12) of 5*λ0, wherein the standard interval (12) is measured starting from one surface (8) of the wave guide core (2, 3, 14) forming an optical interface and in a direction perpendicular to the surface (8). The invention provides that the at least one absorber element (10, 11, 15, 16) for the light of the vacuum wavelength λ0 has a strongly different absorption for left circular polarization (σ−) and for right circular polarization (σ+).
US09952381B2
A light source device according to the present invention includes a light guide plate, a light source opposed to one end face of the light guide plate, a casing with one face being open, which houses the light guide plate and the light source and a frame member fitted onto an edge of the casing, the casing includes a contact part directly or indirectly being in contact with the one end face of the light guide plate at a side of the light source, and the frame member includes an elastic contact part being in contact with the other end face of the light guide plate while being elastic, at a side opposite to the light source.
US09952380B2
A backlight unit that allows a slimmer design for a display device is presented. The backlight unit includes: a bottom chassis; a bracket accommodated in the bottom chassis and positioned at an edge of the bottom chassis; a light source unit including a substrate fixedly positioned on the bracket and a light source mounted on the substrate, the light source protruding toward a bottom of the bottom chassis; and a light guide plate disposed in the bottom chassis and transmitting light from the light source.
US09952357B2
The present invention relates to a high resolution optical system.The optical system of the present invention includes, sequentially from an object side, a first lens having a positive refractive power and an object-side surface convex toward the object side; a second lens having a negative refractive power and an upwardly concave upper surface; a third lens having a positive refractive power; a fourth lens having a negative refractive power; a fifth lens having a positive refractive power and an upwardly convex upper surface; and a six lens having a negative refractive power and an upwardly concave upper surface.
US09952342B2
In order to acquire seismic data relative to an underground area beneath the sea, seismic waves are emitted in an emission direction forming an angle θ with the vertical using at least one seismic source submerged at a depth d. A seismic signal is collected following the emission of the seismic waves and the propagation of same underground with a view to processing same. In one embodiment of the method, in order to overcome the major problem linked to the depth limit encountered by seismic sources, the processing of the seismic signal comprises a summation of a plurality of terms including the seismic signal and the seismic signal delayed by ΔT=2d·cos θ/V, in which V is the speed of propagation of the seismic waves in water.
US09952339B2
Provided are an X-ray apparatus and a method of operating the same. An embodiment provides an X-ray apparatus that displays position information regarding a plurality of X-ray detectors and a method of operating the same. The X-ray apparatus includes a plurality of X-ray detectors, a plurality of mounts to which the plurality of X-ray detectors are mounted, and a work station. The plurality of X-ray detectors include light emitting elements that emit light of colors different from one another, the plurality of mounts include a plurality of light detectors that sense colors of light emitted by the light emitting elements and are disposed apart from one another, respectively. The workstation includes a controller that obtains positional information regarding the plurality of X-ray detectors based on colors of light sensed by the light detectors respectively included in the plurality of mounts.
US09952330B2
A computer readable medium containing processor executable instructions configured to perform the steps of (i) monitoring a positional accuracy of location information calculated based on signals received from GNSS satellites, (ii) if the positional accuracy passes a quality check, using the location information to continuously perform a calibration of data received from one or more sensors and (iii) if the positional accuracy does not pass the quality check, cease the calibration of the data received from the sensors, wherein dead reckoning information is calculated from the data received from the sensors.
US09952321B2
The inventive imaging method consists in generating a mechanical wave having shearing and compressional components in a viscoelastic medium and in determining the movement parameter of said viscoelastic medium at different points during the propagation of said mechanical wave. Said method comprises a correction stage when the movement parameter is processed for eliminating errors caused by the compressional component of the mechanical wave.
US09952314B2
Disclosed herein are a method and device for sensing a road environment based on a frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar. A method for detecting a road environment based on the FMCW radar includes the steps of: the FMCW radar performing a first scan to acquire a first frequency spectrum of beat signals, and shifting the first frequency spectrum based on first velocity information of a vehicle on performing the first scan; the FMCW radar performing a second scan to acquire a second frequency spectrum of beat signals, and shifting the second frequency spectrum based on second velocity information of the vehicle on performing the second scan; acquiring correlation information between the shifted first frequency spectrum and the shifted second frequency spectrum; and comparing the correlation information with a set threshold value and detecting the road environment.
US09952313B2
A Radar Calibration Processor (“RCP”) for calibrating the phase of a stepped-chirp signal utilized by a synthetic aperture radar (“SAR”) is disclosed. The RCP includes a periodic phase error (“PPE”) calibrator, first non-periodic phase error (“NPPE”) calibrator in signal communication with the PPE calibrator, and a second NPPE calibrator in signal communication with the first NPPE calibrator.
US09952307B2
A combined electro-mechanical adaptive antenna tracking system for wireless communication between transmitters and receivers moving relative to each other is described. This system enables one or more antenna transceivers on a moving object, such as a high altitude unmanned aerial vehicle (HALE UAV), to simultaneously track one or more separate antenna transceivers on the ground, such as multiple customer premises equipment. The antennas on the moving object are constructed with multiple-subsection phased arrays or may have multiple horns on one rotation axis. Adaptive tracking control logic is applied to synchronize electrical switch and/or mechanical rotation and electrical beamforming for the moving transceivers to track multiple ground transceivers. In one advantageous aspect, an off-the-shelf horn antenna can be used and rotated around only one axis, thereby eliminating the need for expensive two dimensional movement actuators such as gimbals and the need for tracking multiple ground based receivers.
US09952306B2
In accordance with an example embodiment, an apparatus comprises a first receiver configured to receive a first partial radio map and a second partial radio map, a processor configured to compare the first partial radio map and the second partial radio map, and the processor further configured to determine to replace the first partial radio map with the second partial radio map based at least in part on a result of the comparison.
US09952304B2
A method including: receiving a synchronization signal and collecting a rolling shutter image of a modulated light on a sensor, determining a primary frequency from the rolling shutter image, and comparing the primary frequency to an expected primary frequency image to determine a directional movement related to a vehicle.
US09952299B2
In a method and magnetic resonance (MR) system to determine an MR relaxation time (for example a T1, T2 or T2* relaxation time) in the heart muscle in a magnetic resonance examination, a determination an annular slice image region of the heart muscle of the left heart chamber in MR image data with the use of an automatic image segmentation. Multiple sub-regions within the slice image region are automatically determined. Each sub-region respectively includes multiple pixels of the annular slice image region of the heart muscle of the left heart chamber. An MR relaxation time is determined automatically for each of the multiple sub-regions and associated with the corresponding sub-region. A characteristic MR relaxation time in the heart muscle is determined by a statistical analysis of the multiple MR relaxation times that are associated with the multiple sub-regions.
US09952294B2
There are disclosed magnet arrays and methods for generating magnetic fields. In embodiments magnet arrays comprise a plurality of polyhedral magnets arranged in a lattice configuration and at least partly enclosing a testing volume, the magnet array having an associated magnetic field with a designated field direction {circumflex over (v)}, wherein the magnetization direction {circumflex over (m)} of an individual polyhedral magnet located at a displacement vector {right arrow over (r)} from an origin point in the testing volume is determined by the formula: {circumflex over (m)}=(2({circumflex over (v)}·{right arrow over (r)}){right arrow over (r)}−({right arrow over (r)}·{right arrow over (r)}){circumflex over (v)})/{right arrow over (r)}·{right arrow over (r)}. In embodiments the arrays are comprised in magnetic resonance machines. In embodiments the polyhedral magnets are truncated cubes or are rhombic dodecahedra.
US09952279B2
A three-dimensional integrated circuit testing apparatus comprises a probe card configured to couple a device-under-test of a three-dimensional integrated circuit with an automatic testing equipment board having a plurality of testing modules, wherein the probe card comprises a plurality of known good dies of the three-dimensional integrated circuit, a plurality of interconnects of the three-dimensional integrated circuit and a plurality of probe contacts, wherein the probe contacts are configured to couple the probe card with testing contacts of the device-under-test of the three-dimensional integrated circuit.
US09952269B2
A method and system of a method of measuring complex dielectric constant and permeability includes directing two polarizations onto a material under test and measuring one or more values of reflection coefficients. Further, the method includes integrating a p-wave reflection coefficient and a s-wave reflection coefficient and calculating, based on the measured one or more values of the reflection coefficients in association with a Brewster's angle, one or more of a complex dielectric constant and permeability.
US09952267B2
The present invention relates to a novel means and a novel method for detecting a capacitance connected to AC power, which detect a sensor capacitance on the basis of a charge sharing phenomenon occurring due to a difference between voltages applied to a sensor capacitor and an auxiliary capacitor connected to a detection system when an AC voltage applied to the detection system alternates. According to the present invention, since the sensitivity of a signal detected by a detection system is improved, a magnitude and a change amount of a sensor capacitance are stably acquired.
US09952263B2
A method and apparatus for monitoring an AC line for impedance change. In one embodiment, the method, includes superimposing a tone on an AC current coupled to the AC line, wherein the tone is a higher frequency than an AC voltage waveform on the AC line; applying a correlation over a sampled AC voltage waveform, obtained by sampling the AC voltage waveform, to generate a correlated signal; and determining whether at least one change in characteristic of the correlated signal occurs.
US09952260B2
A power detection circuit includes an input end for receiving an AC input signal, a rectifier for converting the AC input signal into a rectified signal, an output end for outputting the rectified signal, at least two voltage clamp circuits, each for providing an electrical path between the output end and a reference voltage end when the rectified signal is greater than a threshold voltage of the voltage clamp circuit. A threshold voltage of at least one of the voltage clamp circuit is different from a threshold voltage of another clamp circuit.
US09952259B2
An apparatus and method for determining initial rotor position in a stationary state of an electric machine. The apparatus and method for determining initial rotor position in a stationary state of an electric machine include: a power supply module being used for supplying power at least to a motor; a switch circuit being used for switching motor power supply modes, wherein each power supply mode corresponds to a different electrical angle; a feedback circuit detecting a motor winding current and generating a corresponding feedback signal to feed back to a controller; and the controller determining a rotor angle on the basis of currents passing through the motor in different power supply modes, wherein the controller performs the following operations: (a) weighting and then comparing fed-back current values of currents passing through the motor in different power supply modes; (b) based on a maximum current value and current values for two power supply modes before and after the power supply mode corresponding to the maximum current value, calculating a position angle PA corresponding to the position of the maximum current value by using a similar triangle approximation method.
US09952238B2
The present invention relates to a method of preparing analyses of total blood samples and to a device that is useful for implementing the method, said samples being conserved in tubes including at least one identification means for identifying the sample, the device comprising: at least one compartment constituting a said storage zone for storing said tubes before and after analysis; and at least one said read means for reading said identification means of said tubes; and at least one preparation zone for preparing said blood samples prior to analysis and including means for verifying and/or treating said tubes containing said samples, and in particular at least one agitator means for agitating said tubes; and at least one access zone giving access to at least one automatic analyzer of total blood, said access zone enabling a said tube to be placed in said analyzer; and robotic gripper and displacement means controlled by an automatic controller and suitable for taking hold of and replacing said tubes individually in said storage zone and for conveying them in at least three directions XYZ between said storage zone, said preparation zone and said access zone giving access to said analyzer, said analyzer preferably being connected to and/or controlled by said automatic controller.
US09952237B2
Described are systems, devices, and methods which related to various aspects of assays for detecting and/or determining a measure of the concentration of analyte molecules or particles in a sample fluid. In some cases, the systems employ an assay consumable comprising a plurality of assay sites. The systems, devices, and/or methods, in some cases, are automated. In some cases, the systems, devices, and/or methods relate to inserting a plurality of beads into assay sites, sealing assay sites, imaging assay sites, or the like.
US09952236B2
Disclosed is a method for monitoring a generative fabrication process in which a component is formed in an installation space from a multiplicity of layers by using a three-dimensional data model and a following layer is fixed to a preceding layer by means of a high-energy beam. The method comprises detecting the component at least optically and detecting the installation space thermally during layer application. Also disclosed is a device for carrying out the method.
US09952234B2
A method for determining a physical property of a biological sample. The method comprises the steps of: acquiring a set of preliminary calibration signals of a first lot of a reagent using an automatic analyzer with a first photometry module; acquiring a reference set of signals of the first lot of the reagent using a calibration analyzer with a second photometry module; determining a set of module specific components by subtracting the reference set of signals from the preliminary calibration signals; acquiring a lot specific set of signals of a second lot of the reagent using the second photometry module; determining a lot calibration for the first photometry module using the set of module specific components and the lot specific set of signals; acquiring a measurement signal of the biological sample using the first photometry module and the second lot of the reagent; and determining a physical property of the biological sample using the measurement signal and the lot calibration.
US09952226B2
The present disclosure provides methods and compositions that find use in facilitating a diagnosis of inflammatory liver disease in a subject. The methods and compositions generally involve detection of eotaxin-3 (E3) levels, either alone or with levels of eotaxin-1 (E1), and optionally, with levels of CCL22 and, further optionally, with levels of IL15. These levels can be used to facilitate a diagnosis of a liver disease of at least one of autoimmune hepatitis (AIH), primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC), and primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), and/or to facilitate a differential diagnosis between AIH, PBC, and PSC. The methods and compositions of the present disclosure also find use in facilitating treatment decisions for a subject.
US09952220B2
The invention provides biomarkers and combinations of biomarkers useful in diagnosing lung diseases such as non-small cell lung cancer or reactive airway disease. Measurements of these biomarkers are inputted into a classification system such as a support vector machine or AdaBoost to assist in determining the likelihood that an individual has a lung disease. Kits comprising agents for detecting the biomarkers and combination of biomarkers, as well as systems that assist in diagnosing lung diseases are also provided.
US09952216B2
Herein are described a set of novel specific human enhancers for specific forebrain cell types used to study and select for human neural progenitor cells. This approach enables the ability to generate interneurons from human ES, iPS and iN cells, making them available for human transplantation and for molecular/cellular analyzes. These approaches are also directly applicable to generating other neuronal cell types, such as cortical and striatal projection neurons, which have implications for many human diseases.
US09952215B2
A method of analyzing an exosome is provided for detecting abnormality in a cell, including: (a) a step of preparing an exosome from a sample; (b) a step of bringing the exosome prepared in the step (a) into contact with a first antibody to a protein which exists on the surface of the exosome as an antigen and forming a first antibody-exosome complex; and (c) a step of measuring a zeta potential of the first antibody-exosome complex.
US09952210B2
A microchip solution sending system may include a flow passage assembly that is at least provided with a fine flow passage that is provided with a detection region including a formed reaction field to which an antibody that reacts with a specific antigen is fixed; and a micro pump that is connected to the flow passage assembly and that is configured to send a specimen material solution that includes the specific antigen in a reciprocating manner. The specimen material solution that has been sent may pass through the detection region in a repetitive manner in the case in which the micro pump sends the specimen material solution in a reciprocating manner.
US09952209B2
Magnetic-optical iron oxide-gold core-shell nanoparticles are disclosed. Methods for making and using the nanoparticles are also disclosed.
US09952205B2
Exemplary systems, methods and non-transitory computer-accessible mediums are provided for generating a mosaic image of a large area of tissue with microscopic resolution by acquiring a plurality of rectangular-shaped long strips of images of the tissue and stitching the strips together along their lengths.
US09952195B2
The present application is directed, at least in part, to a process for forming droplet interface blayers (DIBs). In one or more embodiments, a housing is produced wherein the housing includes at least one aperture that comprises a cis portion and a trans portion, at least one cis electrode receptacle and at least one trans electrode receptacle, wherein the cis electrode receptacle is operatively connected to the cis portion, and the trans electrode receptacle is operatively connected to the trans portion. In at least one embodiment, the number of cis and trans electrode receptacles equals the number of apertures. Electrodes are treated with a buffer and then inserted into each of the cis and trans electrode receptacles.
US09952191B2
This invention provides a method of ranking a characteristic of a liquid sample by providing a test container [11] having a viewing port [16] to liquid contained therein and through which electronic image data of a defined body of liquid sample [20] in the container can be captured. This data is compared with an electronic data model containing comparison data with which the captured electronic image data can be compared to provide a ranking. The image is captured and the image data is electronically compared with the comparison data to provide a characteristic ranking of the sample.
US09952190B2
A method for localizing the source of air pollution that includes receiving pollution data from a network in communication with at least one air pollution sensor that is connected to at least one motor vehicle in a stationary position. Each stationary motor vehicle of the network is positioned at a different air pollution measurement location. The method may further include determining from the pollution data an origin of an air pollutant using an air pollution model provided by a pollutant source localization device including at least one hardware processor.
US09952183B2
Disclosed is a composite focusing wedge for ultrasonic non-destructive testing/inspection. The composite wedge comprises a base made of machined or cast material, and a lens made of a material which is cast in liquid form and subsequently solidifies. The acoustic velocity in the base material is less than that in the lens material. The castable lens material conforms exactly to a convex machined or cast surface of the base, thereby forming a concave lower surface of the lens. A flat ultrasonic probe is coupled to a planar upper surface of the lens. The minimum distance between the lower concave and upper planar surfaces of the lens is less than one acoustic wavelength in the lens material. The ringdown time of reverberations between the two surfaces is then sufficiently short that there is no interference between the reverberations and signals from sub-surface flaws in the object being tested.
US09952168B2
Provided is an impedance measuring device for biological samples including one or a plurality of biological sample holding units configured to hold a biological sample, an applying unit configured to apply an AC voltage to a pair of electrodes in contact with the biological sample held by the biological sample holding unit, a measuring unit configured to measure an impedance of the biological sample obtained by an AC voltage being applied to the biological sample by the applying unit, and a measurement condition control unit configured to control a measuring time and/or a measuring frequency in the measuring unit.
US09952166B2
Systems and approaches for silicon germanium thickness and composition determination using combined XPS and XRF technologies are described. In an example, a method for characterizing a silicon germanium film includes generating an X-ray beam. A sample is positioned in a pathway of said X-ray beam. An X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) signal generated by bombarding said sample with said X-ray beam is collected. An X-ray fluorescence (XRF) signal generated by bombarding said sample with said X-ray beam is also collected. Thickness or composition, or both, of the silicon germanium film is determined from the XRF signal or the XPS signal, or both.
US09952165B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for performing back-reflection energy-dispersive X-ray diffraction (XRD). This exhibits extremely low sensitivity to the morphology of the sample under investigation. As a consequence of this insensitivity, unprepared samples can be analyzed using this method. For example, in a geological context, whole rock samples become amenable to analysis. A composite diffraction spectrum can be produced using information from different recorded spectra in different energy sub-ranges. The composite spectrum excludes fluorescence signals that would otherwise obscure the diffraction signals.
US09952164B2
Various of the disclosed embodiments contemplate systems and methods that compensate for the limited dynamic range of certain X-Ray detector systems, such as CAT-Scan detector systems. In some embodiments, the system alternates between different photon emission flux values and then gives more consideration to an attenuation value associated with a more favorable detection flux. In this manner, different object densities may be accounted for and may be more properly imaged despite the particular characteristics of the X-Ray system.
US09952157B2
Methods for reliable identification of low-contrast lesions within a tissue of a subject comprise delivering an excitation signal to the tissue, wherein the excitation signal is selected to stimulate tissue to produce autofluorescence and/or reflectance. The autofluorescence and/or reflectance is detected, and ratiometric images are produced based on the autofluorescence and/or reflectance images. An imaging system is provided which is configured to carry out such methods, irradiating tissue at a various possible excitation wavelengths, such as UV excitation wavelengths below 300 nm, to elicit fluorescence from specific native fluorophores.
US09952154B2
An atomic interferometer and methods for measuring phase shifts in interference fringes using the same. The atomic interferometer has a laser beam traversing an ensemble of atoms along a first path and an optical components train with at least one alignment-insensitive beam routing element configured to reflect the laser beam along a second path that is anti-parallel with respect to the first laser beam path. Any excursion from parallelism of the second beam path with respect to the first is rigorously independent of variation of the first laser beam path in yaw parallel to an underlying plane.
US09952149B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for determining physical properties of a specimen in a portable point of care device are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method includes placing a specimen onto an active surface that includes a plurality of microposts extending outwards from a substrate, wherein each micropost includes a proximal end attached to the substrate and a distal end opposite the proximal end and generating an actuation force in proximity to the micropost array that compels at least some of the microposts to exhibit motion. The method further includes detecting light that is emitted by an illumination source and interacts with the active surface while the at least some microposts exhibit motion in response to the actuation force, measuring data that represents the detected light interacting with the active surface, and determining at least one physical property of the specimen based on the measured data.
US09952144B2
A capillary absorption spectrometer and process are described that provide highly sensitive and accurate stable absorption measurements of analytes in a sample gas that may include isotopologues of carbon and oxygen obtained from gas and biological samples. It further provides isotopic images of microbial communities that allow tracking of nutrients at the single cell level. It further targets naturally occurring variations in carbon and oxygen isotopes that avoids need for expensive isotopically labeled mixtures which allows study of samples taken from the field without modification. The process also permits sampling in vivo permitting real-time ambient studies of microbial communities.
US09952136B2
A cytometry system having a computing system. The system includes a plurality of lasers controlled by the computing system to emit laser light. Each laser is spatially separated along a flow stream path. A detector system configured to receive light pulses from the plurality of lasers. The detector system being coupled to sampling circuitry. The computing system is configured to operate each of the plurality of lasers to independently emit laser light with respect to one another according to time of flight intervals along the flow stream path.
US09952134B2
An analytical instrument for cellular analysis of cellular particles tagged with elemental tags, such as lanthanide-based elemental tags. The analytical instrument has a sample introduction system for generating a stream of particles from the sample. An inductively coupled plasma ionization system atomizes and ionizes particles in the stream as they are received. The instrument has an ion pretreatment system and a mass analyzer. The ion pretreatment system is adapted to transport ions generated by the ionization system to the mass analyzer. The ion pretreatment system can filter out low mass ions, such as using a high-pass mass filter or a bandpass mass filter, to allow the elemental tags to pass therethrough. The mass analyzer is adapted to measure the amount of at least one element in individual particles from the stream by performing mass analysis on the ions from the atomized particles. The instrument can be adapted to measure the amount of many different tags, for example at least five different tags, at the same time to facilitate multi-parametric analysis of cells and other particles.
US09952133B2
A particle analyzer, comprising a source of a beam of pulsed optical energy; a detector comprising a number of spectral detection channels to detect optical signals resulting from interactions between the beam and particles in a sample (such as, e.g., fluorescence signals), and to convert the optical signals into respective electrical signals; optical paths from the source to the sample and from the sample to the detector; a flowcell connected with the optical paths and with a flow path for a suspension of particles; a signal processing module capable of: receiving the electrical signals from the detector; mathematically combining individual decay curves in the signals into a decay supercurve; allocating individual components of the supercurve to discrete bins of predetermined time constants; and quantifying the relative contribution of individual components to the supercurve; a particle sorting actuator; an actuator driver; and at least one particle collection receptacle.
US09952131B2
A measurement device includes: a mass measurer that measures a mass of particles in gas; a humidity changer that changes a humidity of atmosphere to which the particles are exposed; and a calculator that calculates information indicating a correlation of the mass with respect to the humidity.
US09952124B2
A system for taking exhaust gas samples from internal combustion engines includes an exhaust gas duct comprising an outflow cross section and an exhaust gas inlet. The exhaust gas duct communicates with an exhaust gas source via the exhaust gas inlet. An air duct takes in ambient air via a filter. The outflow cross section is concentric in the air duct. A mixing zone is arranged downstream of the outflow cross section. A dilution tunnel has an exhaust gas/air mixture flow therethrough. An annular orifice is arranged downstream of the outflow cross section in the dilution tunnel. A flow deflection device is arranged upstream of the annular orifice and downstream of the outflow cross section. The flow deflection device deflects the exhaust gas/air mixture so that it departs from a center axis of the dilution tunnel immediately downstream of the flow deflection device in an axially symmetrical manner.
US09952122B2
An electronic test plate includes a test plate comprising plurality of wells, each well configured to contain a substance to be analyzed. Sensors are arranged to sense characteristics of the substance and to generate sensor signals based on the sensed characteristics over time. The sensors are arranged so that multiple sensors are associated with each well. At least one sensor of the multiple sensors senses a characteristic of the substance that is different from a characteristic sensed by another sensor of the multiple sensors. Sensor select circuitry is arranged on a backplane disposed along the test plate. The sensor select circuitry is coupled to the sensors and enable the sensor signals of selected sensors to be accessed at a data output of the backplane.
US09952117B2
Methods for determining strain on turbine components include providing a turbine component comprising a plurality of strain sensor reference features disposed along the turbine component separated from one another by a plurality of first distances at a first time, reading the plurality of strain sensor reference features at a second time to determine a plurality of second distances between the plurality of strain sensor reference features, and comparing the plurality of second distances to the plurality of first distances to determine a plurality of non-linear strain measurements between the plurality of strain sensor reference features.
US09952093B2
An ultraviolet index measuring method and apparatus includes preparing a first photosensor having spectral response only in a first section of a wavelength between 250 nm and 298 nm, a second photosensor having spectral response only in a second section of a wavelength between 298 nm and 328 nm, and a third photosensor having spectral response only in a third section of a wavelength between 328 nm and 400 nm. An output signal of the first photosensor, an output signal of the second photosensor, and an output signal of the third photosensor are calibrated using spectral irradiance of reference solar light. First photocurrent of the first photosensor, second photocurrent of the second photosensor, and third photocurrent of the third photosensor are measured under a measurement environment. An ultraviolet index is calculated using the first photocurrent, the second photocurrent, and the third photocurrent under the measurement environment.
US09952089B2
An optical sensing module includes a substrate, a cover, a plurality of light-emitting chips, a light-receiving chip, and a plurality of encapsulants. The cover is disposed on the substrate. A plurality of first chambers and a second chamber are formed between the cover and the substrate. The cover has a plurality of light-emitting holes communicating with the first chambers, respectively, and a light-receiving hole communicating with the second chamber. The light-emitting chips are disposed on the substrate and in the first chambers, respectively. The light-receiving chip is disposed on the substrate and in the second chamber. The encapsulants fill the first and second chambers and enclose the light-emitting chips and the light-receiving chip, respectively. Hence, characterized in that: the light-emitting chips and the light-receiving chip are disposed on the substrate, and the light-emitting chips emit light beams in different colors to enhance light emission efficiency.
US09952086B2
A liquid level detector includes a casing having a first regulatory section and a second regulatory section, a float that has its upward and downward displacement restricted by contact with the first regulatory section or the second regulatory section, a magnet body that is held by the float, and a switch mechanism that is switched between an on-state and an off-state. A first distance from a switching plane to the first regulatory section and a second distance from the switching plane to the second regulatory section are both longer than a length from one magnet end face to a bottom end section.
US09952085B2
A multiturn pulley liquid level sensor device for measuring a liquid level in a well and in a container, comprising a mechanical float which is fastened to a fastening rope and which can slide up and down. The fastening rope is installed on one or more pulleys, and as the float moves up and down, the pulley rotates back and forth. One pulley is mechanically coupled to one digital absolute magnetic rotation encoder device, and the encoder device is used for monitoring the total rotation angle of the pulley in real time. By way of using an algorithm, the total rotation angle of the pulley is converted into a distance from the bottom to calculate the height of a liquid level. A multiwheel encoder has two reading types, i.e., one is an electrical signal reading type, and the other is an optical signal reading type. The electronic output of said encoder may be used as input to an industrial control system, or be sent via communications link to a remote or the internet. The precision of the level measurement is determined by the number of encoder wheels. A mechanical gear or belt can adjust the total number of pulley turns corresponding to the full range of liquid level measurement.
US09952083B2
A method and a system for evaluating a content of a bin, the method may include (a) transmit multiple acoustic pulses by multiple acoustic transceiver arrays towards different areas of an upper surface of the content when the acoustic transceivers are positioned at different locations; wherein the multiple acoustic transceiver arrays are connected to a device that is moved according to a movement pattern between the different locations; receive by the multiple acoustic transceiver arrays multiple echoes of the multiple acoustic pulses; process by the multiple acoustic transceiver arrays the multiple echoes to provide multiple estimates of the different areas; associate with the multiple estimates of the different areas timing information indicative of a timing of the receiving of the multiple echoes to a computer; and obtain by an acoustic based location device, location information readings related to locations of the device at multiple points of time.
US09952076B2
Apparatus and methods are described for automatically performing set-up steps for flow cytometry operations. The invention provides for the spatial determination of a flow stream and the subsequent automatic alignment of analysis devices and/or collection vessels. The automatic determination of flow stream properties provides for the automatic configuration flow cytometer parameters.
US09952075B2
A magnetic flowmeter for measuring flow of a process fluid in a pipe includes a magnetic coil disposed adjacent to the pipe configured to apply a magnetic field to the process fluid. First and second electrodes are disposed within the pipe and electrically coupled to the process fluid and configured to sense an electromotive force (EMF) induced in the process fluid due to the applied magnetic field and flow of the process fluid. Input circuitry is coupled to the first and second electrodes and provides an output related to the sensed EMF. Diagnostic circuitry coupled to the input circuitry is configured to identify a saturation related condition and responsively provide a diagnostic output. In another embodiment, saturation prevention circuitry prevents saturation of the input circuitry.
US09952070B2
An apparatus that determines an immersion risk of a mobile terminal user, includes an immersion determination unit configured to determine whether the user is immersed in a mobile terminal based on data of the user, and calculate an immersion frequency based on a result of the determination. The apparatus further includes an immersion risk determination unit configured to calculate a degree of the immersion risk based on the immersion frequency, and determine whether the immersion risk is present based on the degree of the immersion risk.
US09952067B2
The disclosed technology may include systems, methods, and apparatus for optical measurements. A method is provided that includes receiving, by first and second Extrinsic Fabry-Perot Interferometer (EFPI) sensors, respective portions of interrogation light. The first EFPI sensor is responsive to a measurement stimulus and both the first EFPI sensor and the second EFPI sensor are responsive to a common mode stimulus. The method includes detecting a measurement signal and a first common-mode signal responsive to receiving altered interrogation light from the first EFPI sensor, the measurement signal corresponding to the measurement stimulus. The method includes detecting a second common mode signal responsive to receiving altered light from the second EFPI sensor. The method includes producing a measurement output signal, the measurement output signal representing a difference between the second common mode signal and a combination of the measurement signal and the first common-mode signal, and outputting the measurement output signal.
US09952061B2
Detecting fraud in resource distribution systems includes determining a meter of a resource in a resource distribution system exhibits a characteristic indicative of fraud and increasing a collection frequency of measurements of a usage of the resource of the meter per unit of time.
US09952057B2
A method of processing positioning data to create map data is disclosed, the map data including a plurality of navigable segments representing segments of a navigable route in the area covered by the map with each segment being arranged to have speed data associated therewith. In at least one embodiment, the method includes processing the speed data to categorise the speed data into a plurality of time periods for the navigable segment with which the speed data is associated; and averaging the speed data within each time period in order to generate a measured speed profile for the navigable segment.
US09952056B2
Systems and methods for geocoding coordinates of users, vehicles and destinations on a map, and to identify when a transit vehicle deviates from a system generated driving route are disclosed. As the transit vehicle travels along the route, its actual path of travel may be compared to an optimal driving route generated by the system to obtain route deviation data. The route deviation data and/or road network data may be filtered to remove data noise and further analyzed to build a profile of a driver operating a transit vehicle. A digital signature identifying at least one pattern of behavior and/or operating characteristic associated with a specific driver operating a vehicle is further developed, and may be used to allow a system administrator of a vehicle fleet to filter out, or filter for, specific driver types based on driving behaviors that may be suitable for a particular operation.
US09952050B2
An information remote notification device is provided. The information remote notification device includes an orientation sensor configured to detect an oriented direction of the information remote notification device, a communicator configured to acquire sensor information from an external terminal device, and a notifier configured to notify the sensor information corresponding to the oriented direction detected by the orientation sensor. The sensor information is obtained by transmitting and receiving a detection signal and includes at least information obtained from a direction corresponding to the oriented direction detected by the orientation sensor.
US09952048B2
A terminal apparatus, a method and a system for setting up a destination and providing information are provided, in which the terminal apparatus includes a communicator which is configured to communicate with other terminal apparatuses, an input unit which is configured to receive a user command, a display which is configured to display a list including at least one item which corresponds to at least one of the other terminal apparatuses, and a controller which is configured to control the communicator to transmit destination information to a first terminal apparatus which corresponds to a selected item that is selected from among the at least one item included in the displayed list via the input unit. Accordingly, a user is provided with routes to the destination, without having to input address or name of the intended destination on his own terminal apparatus.
US09952045B2
A calibration gauge having plane symmetry is set in a position other than a rotation center of a rotary table. The calibration gauge is measured while the rotary table is driven to rotate. Offset of a measurement axis is determined based on a phase pattern of the rotary table when a stylus head detects the calibration gauge.
US09952043B2
A device identifying a cyclic movement type of a physical system from a set of possible cyclic movements types includes: a movement sensor providing an observation data sequence concerning the physical system; a storage storing at least one statistical hidden-state Markov model; and a computer programmed to analyze the observation data sequence and select one cyclic movement type based on the stored statistical model. The storage includes least one statistical hidden-state Markov model for each possible cyclic movement type and the computer is programmed to analyze compatibility of the observation data sequence with each possible cyclic movement type based on the statistical model associated with this cyclic movement type. The computer is further programmed to provide a sequence of hidden states of the statistical model associated with the selected cyclic movement type, based on the observation data sequence and the statistical model associated with the selected cyclic movement type.
US09952039B2
A system for measuring reflected optical distortion in a contoured panel having a specular surface includes a conveyor for conveying the panel in a first direction, at least one display projecting a preselected multi-phase non-repeating contrasting pattern, and at least one camera, each one of the cameras uniquely paired with one of the displays. The system may also include a control programmed to execute logic for controlling each of the cameras to acquire the desired images, and logic for analyzing and combining the data acquired by the cameras to construct a definition of the surface of the panel, and logic for performing one or more optical processing operations on the surface data to analyze the optical characteristics of the panel.
US09952035B2
A proximity sensor which is capable of facilitating a measure against crosstalk for different sets is provided. The proximity sensor includes a light emitting device, and a light receiving device including a plurality of light receiving parts, wherein the light receiving device has a function of arbitrarily selecting any of the plurality of light receiving parts.
US09952034B2
An optical interferometric system for measurement of a full-field thickness of a plate-like object in real time includes two light sources, two screens, two image capturing devices, and an image processing module. The light sources radiate incident lights toward a reference point on the plate-like object in respective directions to produce respective interference fringe patterns (IFPs). The image capturing devices capture light intensity distribution images respectively of the IFPS imaged respectively on the screens. The image processing module calculates a fringe order at the reference point according to the light intensity distribution images, and obtains a full-field thickness distribution of the plate-like object according to the fringe order.
US09952022B2
An armored vehicle includes: a basic armored vehicle having a predetermined basic external armor; a modularized armor structure exchangeably attached to the basic external armor; and an unmanned aerial vehicle loaded on the modularized armor structure. The modularized armor structure includes: an unmanned aerial vehicle loading section configured to load the unmanned aerial vehicle; an armoring material structure formed of armoring material; and an attaching section used to exchangeably attach the modularized armor structure to the basic armored vehicle.
US09952020B2
In a method for visually adaptively camouflaging objects, the background and/or the surroundings in front of which and/or in which the object is situated are/is detected by means of a camera or a sensor array. The background and/or the surroundings thus detected are/is reproduced as an image (3) in a device for camouflaging the object.
US09952018B2
The invention relates to a device for event representation in duel shooting.Known devices have the disadvantage that, in order to practice duel shooting, it is always necessary to modify a shooting range.The aim of the invention is to create a device for duel shooting which does not require complicated modification of a shooting range.This aim is achieved according to the invention in that a visualizing unit is provided for representing events, which is positionable within the range of perception of the marksman's eye.
US09952001B2
The Re-Corable Coaxial Hose System allows temperature control to be added around material-carrying tubing in both new and existing dispensing systems. The jacketing system seals around the material-carrying tube and allows a thermal transfer fluid to be circulated in the resulting annular space so as to change the temperature of the material being dispensed. Because the system is comprised of a series of tubing and hoses it is flexible and can be routed around corners and through wire tracks and can be used in both manual and robotic applications. Because the seals around the material-carrying tube can be released and subsequently re-sealed, the internal material-carrying tube can be replaced, defined as “re-coring” the hose assembly.
US09952000B1
A heat pipe assembly that includes at least one axial groove heat pipe and at least one porous media heat pipe. The porous media heat pipe may be embedded into a flange of the axial groove heat pipe, or embedded into a wall of the axial groove heat pipe, or embedded into another bore of the axial groove heat pipe. The evaporator of the at least one porous media heat pipe may be located remotely and can accept a high heat flux, while a condenser of the at least one porous media heat pipe is attached to the axial groove heat pipe.
US09951997B2
Shell-and-tube heat exchangers that utilize one or more foam heat transfer units engaged with the tubes to enhance the heat transfer between first and second fluids. The foam of the heat transfer units can be any thermally conductive foam material that enhances heat transfer. In an embodiment, a liquid distribution unit is employed that sprays a fluid to maximize the energy transfer through the use of large surface/volume ratio of the sprayed fluid. The spraying can be used in combination with or separately from the foam heat transfer units. Also, the tubes can be helically twisted around the liquid distribution unit so that the sprayed fluid impinges on the tubes. The shell-and-tube heat exchangers described herein are highly efficient, inexpensive to build, and corrosion resistant. The heat exchangers can be configured as an evaporator, a condenser, or for single phase cooling or heating thermal transfer applications.
US09951995B2
A gas/liquid heat exchanger comprises a stack of flat tubes, defining liquid flow passages. Spaces between the flat tubes define gas flow passages, with the sides of the core having an irregular comb-like arrangement. The heat exchanger further comprises a housing having side covers over the sides of the core, and being spaced from the sides of the core. The core has at least one portion of reduced width, so as to provide channels extending throughout the height of the core. The heat exchanger further comprises a pair of side seals at least partly received in the gap between the side cover of the housing and the core, and more particularly in the channels along the sides of the core. The side seal extends throughout the height of the core and has a thickness which is greater than that of the gap.
US09951993B2
A dental oven comprising a firing chamber for the heat treatment of dental restoration parts. The firing chamber is connected to a negative pressure source via a suction line. A valve arrangement is located between the firing chamber and the suction line with the aid of which the suction line is closable towards the firing chamber in order to maintain a negative pressure in the firing chamber. The suction line between the valve arrangement and the negative pressure source is ventilatable via an ambient air connection.
US09951986B1
The cooler with integrated ice-maker is a combination cooler and icemaker that takes the accumulated water created in a cooler from melting ice and recycles the accumulated water back into ice. The cooler with integrated ice-maker comprises a cooler, a removable drip shelf, a pump system, and an icemaker.
US09951981B2
Methods and system for managing lubricant within a vapor compression heat pump are presented. In one example, lubricant may be flushed from selected areas of a heat pump to other areas of the heat pump where lubricant is desired. The lubricant may be flushed in full flushing mode or in a partial flushing mode.
US09951979B2
Electrical energy storage and discharge system for storing electrical energy as thermal energy includes a heat pump cycle with first working fluid, a water steam cycle with second working fluid, a first thermal storage system with first thermal fluid, a second thermal storage system with second thermal fluid, an electrical heater member and a power regulating member, fluidly connected to each other. The system includes fluidly connected first cold and hot storage tanks, and the system includes fluidly connected second cold and hot storage tanks. The electrical heater is operably connected to the system between the tanks. The power regulating member is electrically connected to one or more electrical sources to regulate excess electrical energy, partially, to the electrical heater, and partially, to the heat pump cycle.
US09951960B2
Method of operating a gas burner of a gas cooking appliance and gas burner and gas cooking appliance
A gas burner (2) including a gas injector (3), a gas supply line (4) connected to the gas injector (3) so as to feed gas to the gas injector (3), and a single automatic gas valve (5) installed in the gas supply line (4) upstream the gas injector (3) so as to control gas supply to the gas injector (3). During ordinary operational modes, the single automatic gas valve always is in an open status not exceeding a preset upper opening limit. During temporary boost operational modes the automatic gas valve is in an open state exceeding the upper opening limit.
US09951954B2
A method of lining a turbofan casing (30) with an array (32) of liner modules (34), including the steps of: providing a liner module (34); and providing a coupling element (48) on the casing for interlocking engagement with the liner module to maintain the liner module in position relative to the casing; and interlockingly engaging the liner module (34) and coupling element (48) by progressive movement of the liner module relative to the coupling element.
US09951939B1
An LED light includes a holder, a power supply electrically connected to the holder, a body electrically to the power supply, a connecting plate connects the power supply with the body, and a heat sink connected with the connecting plate. The heat sink includes a first cooling fin, a second cooling fin and a third cooling fin. The second cooling fin connects between the first and the third cooling fins. The first and the third cooling fins each include a rotational axis, and the connecting plate includes a pair of grooves to engage with a corresponding rotational axis. The first and the third cooling fins rotate relative to the second cooling fin via rotating the rotational axis, an angle within 180-360 degree is formed between the first and the third cooling fins and the second cooling fin. The configuration of heat sink may improve the heat radiation effects.
US09951931B1
A LED lamp includes a lamp head and a lamp body mounted to the lamp head. The lamp body includes a first main body and two second main bodies. The first main body includes a first upper cover, a first lower cover, a first elastic element, and a second elastic element. Each of the second main bodies includes a second upper cover, a second lower cover. The first elastic element is mounted between the first upper cover and the second upper cover, and the second elastic element is mounted between the first lower cover and the second lower cover. When the LED lamp is in an open state, the second main bodies relative to the first main body are unfolded; when the LED lamp is in a closed state, the second main bodies relative to the first main body are folded.
US09951929B2
Presented is a design of modular LED lighting fixture whereby the steps of light directing and light redirecting are independent, but cooperative, so to promote a compact fixture design with low effective projected area (EPA), good thermal properties, and a selectable degree of glare control. A lighting system employing a plurality of said fixtures is highly customizable yet has the potential to be pre-aimed and pre-assembled prior to shipping, which reduces the potential for installation error while preserving the customized nature of the fixtures.
US09951925B2
A light emitting device includes a reflective sheet having a light reflecting face; a plurality of oblong flexible substrates; and a plurality of light emitting sections disposed at intervals on a face of each of the flexible substrates. The plurality of the flexible substrates comprises a first group of flexible substrates that are lined up at intervals in a first direction and a second group of flexible substrates that are lined up at intervals in a second direction such that the flexible substrates of the second group intersect the flexible substrates of the first group. The first group and the second group are layered in a thickness direction and adhered to at least one face of the reflective sheet so as to expose the plurality of light emitting sections.
US09951924B2
An LED illumination apparatus includes a substrate, a light source disposed on the substrate, a cover unit covering the light source, and a reflector extending from the inside of the cover unit to the upper surface of the substrate, such that light generated by the light source illuminates an area below a bottom surface of the substrate.
US09951920B2
A vehicle lamp control system is provided which can not only restrict a semiconductor light emitting element from being deteriorated or damaged by sunlight and but also maintain an illumination efficiency of the semiconductor light emitting element. The vehicle lamp control system includes a projection lens, semiconductor light emitting elements disposed near a rear focal point of the projection lens and emit light towards the projection lens, a movable shade which can move between a shading position where the movable shade cuts off light emitted from the semiconductor light emitting elements to be incident on the projection lens and a non-shading position where the movable shade does not cut off light emitting elements to be incident on the projection lens, and a headlamp control unit which executes a control in which the movable shade is moved to the shading position with the semiconductor light emitting elements left switched off.
US09951915B2
The invention relates to a planar strip light for installation in a plasterboard construction, wherein the strip light comprises an optical unit which has a reflector and an LED panel, wherein the light-emitting side of the LED panel is arranged at the edge of the reflector and substantially perpendicular to the reflector in order to reduce the installation depth of the strip light, and wherein the strip light comprises fasteners for its direct fastening to the plasterboard construction.
US09951912B2
A lighting apparatus for emitting polarized white light, which includes at least a first light source for emitting primary light comprised of one or more first wavelengths and having a first polarization direction; and at least a second light source for emitting secondary light in the first polarization direction, comprised of one or more secondary wavelengths, wherein the first light and the secondary light are combined to produce a polarized white light. The lighting apparatus may further comprise a polarizer for controlling the primary light's intensity, wherein a rotation of the polarizer varies an alignment of its polarization axis with respect to the first polarization direction, which varies transmission of the primary light through the polarizer, which controls a color co-ordinate or hue of the white light.
US09951896B2
A pipe coupler for coupling a first pipe to a second pipe comprises: a body; a first flange and a second flange; and a gasket. The body, first flange, second flange, and gasket are dimensioned to have an assembled condition. The gasket, first flange, and second flange are coaxial. The gasket is axially sandwiched between an inboard face of the first flange and an inboard face of the second flange. The body encircles the gasket, first flange, and second flange and has a first portion axially outboard of the first flange and a second portion axially outboard of the second flange.
US09951893B2
A flexible pipe comprising a tubular layer comprising a polymer that is crosslinked to a greater degree at an outer region of the tubular layer than at an inner region of the tubular layer, wherein the outer region is defined by the outer surface of the tubular layer to a depth of 5% of the total thickness of the tubular layer and the inner region is defined by the inner surface of the tubular layer to a depth of 5% of the total thickness of the tubular layer.
US09951891B2
The invention relates to an apparatus for making a multilayer composite pipe. The multilayer composite pipe comprises an innermost layer (2) made of plastic. The pipe has a seamless metal layer (4) or a metal layer (4) having an axial, non-overlapping seam. The outer surface of the metal layer is treated for changing its outer appearance. There-after a transparent outermost layer (8) is provided on the outer surface of the metal layer. The structure of the pipe is such that the pipe can be permanently bent to certain angles without significant spring back.
US09951888B2
A line separating/management device for an agricultural system includes multiple recesses that each receive a respective line and each is formed on a peripheral edge of a body of the line separating/management device. The line separating/management device also includes an opening extending through the body along a longitudinal axis of the line separating/management device, wherein the body surrounds the opening along a circumferential axis of the line separating/management device, wherein the opening receives another line. The line separating/management device further includes a fastening structure having a concave surface formed on the peripheral edge of the body, wherein the fastening structure receives a fastener to secure a further line to the concave surface.
US09951886B2
An arrangement for retrieving a laydown head to a surface vessel from a pipeline end section that is secured to a pipeline termination skid at the seabed. The arrangement is detachably mountable to the pipeline termination skid and comprises a base frame configured to bear against the pipeline termination skid when the arrangement is mounted to the pipeline termination skid; and one or more rigid supporting units provided on the base frame for supporting the laydown head from below, each supporting unit comprising an upwardly directed seat for receiving the laydown head and an actuating device for moving the seat in the vertical direction. Embodiments of the present invention also relate to a system comprising such an arrangement and a pipeline termination skid, and a method for retrieving a laydown head by means of such an arrangement.
US09951884B2
A temperature control valve includes a main body, a metal valve assembly and a thermoelectric chip unit. The main body has a first inlet and a first outlet. The metal valve assembly is movably disposed in the main body and includes inlet and outlet ends, the metal valve assembly has a closed end engaged with the main body and an operating end operable from outside of the main body to operate the metal valve assembly, and the operating end is operated to control the first inlet, the first outlet, the inlet end and the outlet end to communicate or non-communicate with one another. The thermoelectric chip unit has a first end abutting against the closed end and a second end and is disposed on the main body, one of the first and second ends is a cold end, and the other is a hot end.
US09951879B2
A valve includes a lower valve housing, a diaphragm, and an upper valve housing. A top surface of a piezoelectric pump is bonded to a bottom surface of the lower valve housing. A circular hole portion is provided in a central portion of a region of the diaphragm that opposes a projecting portion of the lower valve housing. The diaphragm is bonded to the upper valve housing and the lower valve housing, and a divided interior of a valve housing configures a first lower valve chamber, a second lower valve chamber, a first upper valve chamber, and a second upper valve chamber. A groove is located in a wall portion of the upper valve housing that opposes the diaphragm in the first upper valve chamber.
US09951878B2
The invention relates to a thermostat valve for a combustion engine, comprising a housing which comprises several connections, and comprising a hollow valve body which comprises a shell surface which is ball-shaped at least sectionally, which valve body is mounted in the housing rotatable about a rotational axis by a rotational drive, wherein the valve body comprises at least one main opening and at least one control opening, wherein at least the control opening is limited by the shell surface and can be selectively brought into overlap with one of the connections of the housing by rotating the valve body, wherein the shell surface comprises at least one deepening in relation to the surrounding surface of the shell surface adjacent to the at least one control opening limited by the shell surface, wherein the deepening is provided such that upon rotation of the valve body, in order to bring the at least one control opening into overlap with one of the connections of the housing, fluid can flow through the deepening between the connection of the housing and the control opening already before an overlap between the at least one control opening and the connection of the housing.
US09951872B2
A mechanical face seal includes a seal ring, the seal ring including an inner circumferential surface, an outer circumferential surface, and a generally annular body extending between the inner and outer circumferential surfaces. An annular flange projects radially from the annular body to an outer perimeter of the flange and a sealing band is on the annular flange. A slot may extend radially into the seal ring from the inner circumferential surface of the seal ring. A cooling channel may be in and extend generally circumferentially through at least one of the annular body and annular flange.
US09951870B2
A wiper for the sealing arrangement of a cylinder arrangement having a cylinder and a piston rod, having a support lip facing in the direction of the space that is to be sealed off, and a wiper lip facing towards the surroundings, as well as a holding element from which the support lip and the wiper lip protrude, wherein the free end of the wiper lip is bent in the direction of the piston rod.
US09951855B2
A cam follower is constituted by an outer ring which has an outer track surface in its inner circumference; a stud which has an inner track surface opposed to the outer track surface, a flange portion abutting on one side of the inner track surface, a side plate fitting portion and a mounting shaft portion abutting on another side of the inner track surface in this order, and a fiber flow formed continuously from the flange portion to the inner track surface along their outer circumferences; rolling elements which are arranged between the outer track surface and inner track surface; and an inner side plate which is pressed into the side plate fitting portion to work with the flange portion for limiting axial movement of the outer ring and the rolling elements.
US09951853B2
A product may include a power source and a power transmission system. A coupling may be connected between the power source and the power transmission system. An engagement mechanism in the coupling may selectively provide a connection between the power source and the power transmission system. A damper may be included in the engagement mechanism through which the connection may be communicated. The damper may comprise a number of coils and may have a first end connected to the power source through the engagement mechanism and may have a second end connected to the power transmission system.
US09951840B2
A method and an assembly for absorbing energy during an overload event. An energy absorber reduces loads on an object being transported on a loading unit during a single overload event, which introduces such a high degree of energy that there is an overwhelming likelihood the object would be damaged without an energy absorber. Measurement values on the current state of the loading unit are sensed. A control device determines an overload event and a damping of the energy absorber is set to a high value after the detection of the overload event. The damping is maintained for a specified prolonged time period and controlled dependent on the measurement values during the overload event to increase the load for objects during the specified time period initially to a specified threshold load and after the specified time dependent on the measurement values detected during the overload event.
US09951839B2
A preloading device for a piston valve of a vibration damper includes a spring element which is fitted by an inner diameter onto a radially inner centering device which serves for inner centering of the spring element in the installed state of the preloading device. To provide a preloading device for a piston valve by which a reliable inner centering of a spring element can be ensured but which can be placed with low expenditure on assembly at the same time, the spring element is axially fixed at the centering device via retaining means in that the retaining means at least partially enclose the spring element axially on both sides and are rigidly connected to the centering device in each instance.
US09951836B2
The present invention relates to a shock absorber system for a vehicle comprising a main unit (100) adapted to be deformed in the event of an impact with a first energy level and a secondary unit (200) shorter in length than the main unit (100), adapted to be subjected to loads as a complement of the main unit (100), after a first deformation phase of the main unit (100), when the system receives an impact with a second energy level greater than the first, the secondary unit (200) being configured to orient the resultant of a force applied on a downstream structure (30) in a direction not parallel to the longitudinal axis of this downstream structure.
US09951834B1
The disclosure includes a system for indicating wear of a brake pad attached to a vehicle. The system can include a pad holder, a brake pad mechanically coupled to the pad holder, and a sensing device coupled to the brake pad and located at least partially within the cavity. The sensing device can include a first electrode and a second electrode embedded within the sensing device. The first electrode and the second electrode can measure electrical resistivity of an electrically conductive material located within the sensing device. The electrical resistivity can indicate a thickness of the internal portion of the brake pad after the internal portion has been eroded by the rotating portion of the wheel.
US09951829B2
A selectable one-way clutch includes an engagement mechanism. The engagement mechanism is configured to be switched between an engaged state and a disengaged state. The engaged state is a state in which relative rotation between a first and a second members in one of a positive rotational direction and a reverse rotational direction is restricted. The disengaged state is a state in which the relative rotation between the first member and the second member in both of the positive and the reverse rotational direction is permitted. The electronic control unit is configured to apply torque to the one of the first member or the second member by using a motor such that relative rotation in the other one of the positive or the reverse rotational direction is generated between the first member and the second member when the engagement mechanism is switched from the engaged state to the disengaged state.
US09951824B2
A self-engaging clutch includes an input member, and intermediate member, and an output member. The input member is coupled to a prime mover and includes clutch protrusions. The output member is coupled to an output and includes an output clutch. The intermediate member includes a first side that is engaged with the input member and a second side that is engageable with the output member. Upon rotation of the input member, the intermediate member displaces toward the output member to engage the output member thereby allowing torque to be transferred from the input member to the output member.
US09951819B2
The invention relates to a slewing bearing that includes an inner ring, an outer ring, at least one row of rolling elements arranged between the rings in order to form an axial thrust that transmits axial forces, and at least one row of rolling elements arranged between the rings in order to form a radial thrust which can transmit radial forces. The slewing bearing further includes a sensing probe for detecting a relative displacement between the inner ring and outer ring and/or cracks, the inner ring having a through hole in which the sensing probe arranged. The through hole has a probe positioning element provided with a positioning portion and a support portion on which the sensing probe is supported so as to face the outer ring.
US09951811B2
A bearing includes a bearing pad for supporting a rotary component and a housing attached to or formed integrally with the bearing pad. The housing includes a flexible column extending towards the bearing pad for providing the bearing pad with an airflow. The column supports the bearing pad from a location inward of an outer periphery of the bearing pad along an axial direction of the bearing. With such a configuration, a resistance of the bearing pad along a radial direction of the bearing is less at the outer periphery than a resistance of the bearing pad along the radial direction proximate the column.
US09951808B2
A bearing assembly can include a top retainer; a middle retainer having a first concave spherical surface; a bottom retainer having a second concave spherical surface; a spherical ball member; and an elastomeric member coupled to the first concave spherical surface, the second concave spherical surface, and an outer surface of the spherical ball member.
US09951802B2
An assembly device is disclosed for attaching first and second hollow frame members together. The assembly device includes a hollow base member having a top wall, four sidewalls and an open bottom surface. The base member also has a hollow tube positioned therein. The assembly device also includes first and second hollow coupling members projecting outward from a top wall and a side wall of said hollow base member. Each of the first and second coupling members has four sidewalls and one or more cavities formed therein. The cavities allow an expandable adhesive that is placed therein to contact the inner periphery of one of the first and second hollow frame members once the first and second hollow frame members are slid onto one of the first or second coupling members. The expandable adhesive will hold the first and second hollow frame members secure to the assembly device.
US09951797B2
Provided is a work machine including: a variable-displacement pump 2; an actuator 5 driven by a hydraulic fluid delivered from the pump 2; a flow control valve 4 of an open-center type that controls a flow rate of the hydraulic fluid supplied to the actuator 5; a bleed-off line 8a connecting the actuator flow control valve 4 to a tank 6; a bleed-off flow control valve 8 disposed in the bleed-off line 8a; an operating device 3 that specifies operation of the actuator 5; a bleed-off control device 14 that controls a degree of opening of the bleed-off flow control valve 8 in accordance with an amount of manipulation of the operating device 3; and a pump control device 15 that controls, in accordance with the degree of opening of the bleed-off flow control valve 8, a pump flow rate by correcting a reference pump flow rate that is based on the amount of manipulation of the operating device 3. The work machine with this configuration can save energy while at the same time inhibiting an occurrence of a sense of strangeness or discomfort in particular operation.
US09951793B2
A compressor housing may include a shroud portion which is axially spaced from an inlet portion and configured to at least partially surround the compressor wheel. The compressor housing may be further configured to include a recirculation cavity which is formed between an exterior surface of the shroud portion and an interior surface of the compressor housing. Furthermore, a recirculation slot may define an airflow pathway between the recirculation cavity and the compressor wheel. Additionally, the compressor housing may include an angled shroud support extending radially through the recirculation cavity from the exterior surface of the shroud portion to the interior surface of the compressor housing. The angled shroud support may be spaced an axial distance away from the recirculation slot to reduce turbulence in the airflow as the airflow moves from the recirculation cavity to the compressor wheel.
US09951787B2
In an impeller for a fluid energy machine with a hub and a plurality of rotor blades which are mounted on the hub and around which a medium may flow through the fluid energy machine and which form a blade duct between two neighboring rotor blades with a blade duct length which extends in the axial direction of the impeller, wherein each rotor blade is connected to the hub via a first transition region with a first curvature and via a second transition region with a second curvature and with a straight conical blade duct bottom of the blade duct formed between the first transition region and the second transition region.
US09951783B2
This centrifugal compressor is provided with an impeller mounted on a main shaft rotating around an axis line, and a vane device for adjusting the flow rate of a fluid in an inflow flow path to the impeller. The vane device includes: a plurality of vane main bodies provided at intervals in a circumferential direction, wherein a mounting angle of the plurality of vane main bodies is changed by rotating the shaft portion; a plurality of link members which is rotated along with the shaft portion; a drive ring which is formed with an annular shape centered on the axis line and is moved in a moving direction along a rotation locus of the link member, and a drive mechanism which is connected to the drive ring and transmits a force in a tangential direction to the drive ring.
US09951779B2
A subsea boosting module for use with an alternating current (AC) power system includes a housing defining at least one interior chamber. A fluid pump is disposed within the interior chamber. An electric motor is disposed within the interior chamber and drivingly coupled to the fluid pump. A plurality of power components is disposed within the interior chamber to deliver power to the electric motor.
US09951776B2
A compressor intake mixer system for internal combustion gas engines having a compressed charge bypass system comprises a bypass charge and fuel pre-mixer connected in line with the charge bypass system to reduce pressure gradient between the high pressure bypass charge and the low pressure fuel. A single volume main mixer is connected to the compressor inlet downstream of the pre-mixer to mix the flow of premixed charge and air and provide a mixed gas to the compressor inlet. Thus a need for a separate volume for a fuel mixer and a bypass mixer is eliminated and a single volume is provided at the compressor inlet. The locational constraint of necessarily locating the volumes at the compressor inlet is also obviated by providing a pre-mixer.
US09951774B2
A rotary compressor includes: a vertically-positioned airtight compressor housing, in an upper section of which a discharge unit of a refrigerant is provided and in a lower section of which an inlet unit of the refrigerant is provided and lubricant oil is stored; and a lubricating mechanism supplying lubricant oil stored in the lower section of the compressor housing to a sliding portion of a compressing unit through a vertical lubricating hole and a horizontal lubricating hole of a rotation shaft. The horizontal lubricating hole of the lubricating mechanism is formed between the same direction as an eccentric direction of an eccentric portion provided on the rotation shaft and causes an annular piston of the compressing unit making an orbital motion in a cylinder and a 80° phase shifted direction from the same direction as the eccentric direction in a direction opposite to a rotation direction of the rotation shaft.
US09951770B2
A valve seat has an inner passage and outer passages. A suction valve member has first passages and a first projection portion that guides, to the first passages, the fuel that flows from a pressure chamber at the time of valve opening. Therefore, an action force by the dynamic pressure applied to the suction valve member in the valve closing direction is reduced. An action force by the pressure of fuel that flows into pressure equalization grooves counterbalances the action force by the dynamic pressure of the suction valve member. Therefore, self-closing by the dynamic pressure can be inhibited, and the maximum output of an electromagnetic driving unit can be reduced. Fuel flows through a passage radially outside the suction valve member and the first passages. A fluid passage area is securable even when a lift amount of the suction valve member is small.
US09951761B2
A pressure pulse dampener for a compressor system is disclosed herein. The pulse dampener includes a housing having inlet passageway and an outlet passageway. A radially expanding annular passageway is formed downstream of the fluid inlet. A toroidal passageway is formed downstream of the annular passageway, the toroidal passageway being configured to direct fluid in a generally circumferential path around the central body. A connecting passageway is formed through the central body to provide fluid communication between the toroidal passageway and the fluid outlet.
US09951760B2
Drive mechanism for rotary compressor or pump that consists of a casing (1) formed by two housings where two diametrically opposed cylinders (2), where the pistons (3) slide, are coupled, each of the pistons being attached by means of a connecting rod (5) to the end of a lever (4) which pivots about the other end (9), located on the periphery of the casing (1) and is forced by the journal of a crankshaft (6) that slides along a slot (7), made in the central area of this lever, and is operated by an external mechanism, the whole assembly being able to rotate about the crankshaft, which remains static and coupled to the structure or support and generates a linear piston cycle at each revolution.
US09951758B2
An actuator includes a drum defining a longitudinal axis and having axially opposed first and second end portions that are rotatable relative to one another about the longitudinal axis. A shape memory element is wrapped around the drum and extends from the first end portion of the drum to the second end portion of the drum to actuate relative rotation of the first and second end portions of the drum about the longitudinal axis by activation of the shape memory element.
US09951750B2
A rotor blade may generally include a shell forming an outer skin of the blade, with the shell defining a chordwise curvature. The rotor blade may also include a spar cap extending within the shell along a spanwise direction of the blade. The spar cap may be formed from an assembly of pre-cured laminate plates. In addition, the rotor blade may include an interior shelf positioned directly between the shell and the spar cap. The interior shelf may include an outer surface extending adjacent to the shell and an inner surface opposite the outer surface. The outer surface may define a curved profile generally corresponding to a portion of the chordwise curvature of the shell and the inner surface may define a planar surface along which the spar cap extends in a chordwise direction of the blade. The interior shelf may correspond to a pre-fabricated insert for the blade.
US09951749B2
A system and method for reducing the operational noise of a blunt trailing edge of a wind turbine blade is described. The system involves increasing the trailing edge solid angle at the blade trailing edge by providing a wedge element or projection adjacent the trailing edge of the blade, the wedge element acting to provide improved mixing of the suction side and pressure side flows at the blunt trailing edge, thereby reducing the strength of vortex shedding at the trailing edge and the associated operational noise.
