US09985298B2
An activation apparatus of fuel cell stacks, which automatically performs activation and performance evaluation processes on the fuel cell stacks when the fuel cell stacks have entered a frame, includes i) a connector connection assembly configured to connect a plurality of connector probes to cell terminals of the fuel cell stack, ii) an output cable connection assembly configured to connect positive (+) output cables to the first side of the fuel cell stack, and iii) a fluid supply pipe connection assembly configured to connect negative (−) output cables to the second side of the fuel cell stack and to connect a fluid supply pipe to the manifold of the fuel cell stack.
US09985297B2
A durability test device that examines durability of a membrane electrode assembly used for a polymer electrolyte fuel cell includes: a voltage application device that applies a voltage from one surface of the membrane electrode assembly to the other surface thereof; a current measurement device that measures a current flowing from the one surface to the other surface by the application of the voltage; and a control section that controls the voltage application device to apply the voltage to the membrane electrode assembly while sweeping the voltage over a plurality of consecutive voltage regions in such a manner that a first sweep rate of the voltage to be applied in the first voltage region in which a measured current value includes a peak caused due to carbon oxidation is set lower than that in the second voltage region that does not include the first voltage region.
US09985294B2
A battery includes an anode, an electrolyte, and a cathode. The cathode includes a current collector having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, a first material layer comprising sub-fluorinated carbon fluoride (CFx), and a second material layer comprising silver vanadium oxide (SVO) bonded to the first material layer. The first material layer comprising CFx may also be bonded to a third material layer comprising SVO, and the third material layer is bonded to the first surface of the current collector.
US09985291B2
The present invention relates to a cathode active material for a lithium-sulfur battery and a method of preparing the same, and more particularly, to a cathode active material for a lithium-sulfur battery comprising: an amphiphilic polymer comprising hydrophilicity parts and hydrophobicity parts; and a sulfur-carbon composite, and a method of preparing the same. When a lithium-sulfur battery is prepared using the cathode active material, there is an effect which may enhance the electric conductivity in an electrode, cycle characteristics and capacity.
US09985282B2
A positive electrode active material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to an example of an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a lithium composite oxide as a main component. The ratio of a number of moles of Ni in the lithium composite oxide to a total number of moles of metal elements in the lithium composite oxide other than Li is larger than 30 mol %. The lithium composite oxide includes particles each including aggregated primary particles having a volumetric average particle size of 0.5 μm or more and at least one element selected from W, Mo, Nb, and Ta is dissolved in the lithium composite oxide.
US09985273B2
A preparation method of a three-dimensional nanosized porous metal oxide electrode material of lithium ion battery, which soaks a dried polymer colloidal crystal microsphere template in a metal salt solution as a precursor solution for a period of time, and obtains a precursor template complex after filtration and drying; heats the precursor template complex to a certain temperature at a low heating rate and keeps the temperature, and then obtains the three-dimensional nanosized porous metal oxide electrode material of lithium ion battery after cooling to room temperature. A metal oxide electrode material is manufactured, with the three-dimensional nanosized porous metal oxide electrode material thereby improving the ionic conductivity of the negative electrode material of lithium ion battery, and shortens the diffusion path of the lithium ions during an electrochemical reaction process, and improves the rate discharge performance of lithium ion battery greatly.
US09985270B2
A single-electrode battery subassembly includes a separator comprising an electrolyte. The separator has a first surface and an opposing second surface. A single electrode is disposed over the first surface of the separator. A removable, electrically inert substrate disposed on the second surface of the separator.
US09985268B2
A battery module includes a housing configured to hold prismatic battery cells within a space defined by four interior walls of the housing. The housing includes a first interior wall that includes partitions extending upwards from a bottom of the housing and a second interior wall that includes partitions extending upwards from the bottom of the housing. The first interior wall faces opposite the second interior wall. The partitions disposed on the first interior wall and the partitions disposed on the second interior wall define slots between adjacent partitions, where each of the slots increases in width between the adjacent partitions from the bottom of the housing upwards. Each of the slots is configured to retain one of the prismatic battery cells.
US09985263B2
The present invention is preferably directed to a polylactam ceramic coating for a microporous battery separator for a lithium ion secondary battery and a method of making this formulation and application of this formulation to make a coated microporous battery separator. The preferred inventive coating has excellent thermal and chemical stability, excellent adhesion to microporous base substrate, membrane, and/or electrode, improved binding properties to ceramic particles and/or has improved or excellent resistance to thermal shrinkage, dimensional integrity, and/or oxidation stability when used in a rechargeable lithium ion battery.
US09985252B2
Provided is an organic light-emitting device including: a substrate; an anode on the substrate; an organic layer on the anode and including an emission layer; a cathode on the organic layer; an optical auxiliary layer on the cathode; and a capping layer on the optical auxiliary layer, wherein, in a visible light region, the optical auxiliary layer has a lower refractive index and a higher absorption coefficient as the capping layer.
US09985249B2
Display devices using feedback-enhanced light emitting diodes are disclosed. The display devices include but are not limited to active and passive matrix displays and projection displays. A light emissive element disposed between feedback elements is used as light emitting element in the display devices. The light emissive element may include organic or non-organic material. The feedback elements coupled to an emissive element allow the emissive element to emit collimated light by stimulated emission. In one aspect, feedback elements that provide this function include, but are not limited to, holographic reflectors with refractive index variations that are continuous.
US09985236B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel and a variable resistance area. The display panel includes a foldable area, a non-foldable area, and a folding axis. The variable resistance area may overlap the foldable area and includes a first resistance part and a second resistance part. The first resistance part has a first resistance when the display panel is folded with a curvature greater than a first curvature and a second resistance different from the first resistance when the display panel is folded with a curvature less than the first curvature. The second resistance part has a third resistance when the display panel is folded with a curvature greater than a second curvature and a fourth resistance different from the third resistance when the display panel is folded with a curvature less than the second curvature. The second curvature may be greater than the first curvature.
US09985235B2
An organic light emitting diode according to an example embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; an emission layer between the first electrode and the second electrode; and an electron injection layer between the second electrode and the emission layer. The electron injection layer includes a first halogen dipole material based on a transition or post-transition metal I, and a second halogen dipole material based on a metal having a work function of 4.0 eV or less.
US09985233B2
A light-emitting element that includes a fluorescent material and has a high emission efficiency is provided. A light-emitting element in which a delayed fluorescence component due to TTA accounts for a high proportion of emissive components is provided. A novel light-emitting device with a high emission efficiency and a low power consumption is provided. A light-emitting element includes an anode, a cathode, and an EL layer. The EL layer includes a light-emitting layer including a host material and an electron-transport layer including a first material in contact with the light-emitting layer. The LUMO level of the first material is lower than that of the host material. The proportion of a delayed fluorescence component due to TTA is greater than or equal to 10 percent of the light emission from the EL layer. The proportion of the delayed fluorescence component due to TTA may be greater than or equal to 15 percent of the light emission.
US09985232B2
An organic electroluminescence device utilizes a novel combination of one or more biscarbazole derivative compounds as the phosphorescent host material in combination with an organometallic phosphorescent material as a dopant in the light emitting region of the device, where the biscarbazole derivative compounds are represented by a formula (1A) or (2A) below: where A1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted nitrogen-containing heterocyclic group having 1 to 30 ring carbon atoms; A2 represents a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic hydrocarbon group having 6 to 30 ring carbon atoms, or substituted or unsubstituted nitrogen-containing heterocyclic group having 1 to 30 ring carbon atoms; X1 and X2 each are a linking group; Y1 to Y4 each represent a substituent; p and q represent an integer of 1 to 4; and r and s represent an integer of 1 to 3; and the organometallic phosphorescent material is a compound having a substituted chemical structure represented by the formula (4A): where each R is independently selected from the group consisting of H, alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, alkylaryl, CN, CF3, CnF2n+1, trifluorovinyl, CO2R, C(O)R, NR2, NO2, OR, halo, aryl, heteroaryl, substituted aryl, substituted heteroaryl or a heterocyclic group; M is a platinum group metal; Ar′, Ar″, Ar′″ and Ar″″ each independently represent a substituted or unsubstituted aryl or heteroaryl substituent on the phenylpyridine ligand; a is 0 or 1; b is 0 or 1; c is 0 or 1; d is 0 or 1; m is 1 or 2; n is 1 or 2; m+n is the maximum number of ligands that can be coordinated to M, and wherein at least one of a, b, c, and d is 1 and when at least one of a and b is 1 and at least one of b and c is 1, at least one of Ar′ and Ar″ is different from at least one of Ar′″ and Ar″″.
US09985228B2
A flexible display is bent in an intermediate region such that a first region and a second region overlap each other. A spacer is disposed inside a bend of the flexible display. The spacer includes a front-side region overlapping the first region, a back-side region overlapping the second region, and a guide region overlapping the intermediate region and regulating the bend. The spacer includes, in the front-side region, a first step and a first bottom surface recessed below the guide region. The spacer includes, in the back-side region, a second step and a second bottom surface recessed below the guide region. An interval between a second reinforcing film and a second raised surface located at the second step is larger than an interval between a first reinforcing film and a first raised surface located at the first step.
US09985227B2
A display device is disclosed. In one aspect, the display device includes a substrate, a first light-emitting area allocated over the substrate and configured to display a first image, and an outer area surrounding the first light-emitting area and including a pad area. The outer area includes a second light-emitting area configured to display a second image independently from the first image of the first light-emitting area.
US09985210B2
Provided is an organic electronic material which is excellent in storage stability in the case as an ink composition, and able to prepare, at a high yield, an organic electronic element capable of reducing the driving voltage and of being driven stably for a long period of time, and an ink composition including the organic electronic material. The organic electronic material is characterized in that it contains at least an ionic compound represented by the following general formula (1), and a compound including a charge transporting unit, and the ink composition including the material.[In the general formula (1), Ra to Rc each independently represent a hydrogen atom (H), an alkyl group, or a benzyl group, and N is not bonded to an aryl group. A represents an anion.]
US09985209B2
A method for testing lifetime characteristics of a display panel in which a plurality of pixels each including a light-emitting element (an organic EL element) are arranged in a matrix, includes: setting a first light-emitting region including a plurality of pixels; setting a non-light-emitting region including all pixels adjacent to the first light-emitting region; setting a second light-emitting region including pixels which are not included in the first light-emitting region and the non-light-emitting region; and testing the lifetime characteristics of the display panel by causing the pixels in the first light-emitting region and the pixels in the second light-emitting region to emit light at different luminance levels without causing the pixels in the non-light-emitting region to emit light.
US09985197B2
A piezoelectric material, comprising: a piezoelectric self-assembling monolayer of oligopeptides; a conductive surface; and a substrate, wherein the conductive surface is located between the piezoelectric self-assembling monolayer of oligopeptides and the substrate. A touch sensitive device, comprising: a first piezoelectric material, comprising: a piezoelectric self-assembling monolayer of oligopeptides containing a dipole moment; a conductive surface; and a substrate; a second piezoelectric material, comprising: a piezoelectric self-assembling monolayer of oligopeptides containing a dipole moment; a conductive surface; and a substrate, wherein the oligopeptides making up the self-assembling monolayer of the first and second piezoelectric materials, respectively, have the same amino acid sequence but have an equal and opposite dipole moment.
US09985191B2
An LED package structure includes a ceramic substrate, a ceramic board, a light-emitting unit, a first adhesive layer, a second adhesive layer, and a cover. The ceramic board having a thru-hole is disposed on the ceramic substrate. The light-emitting unit is disposed on the ceramic substrate and is arranged in the thru-hole of the ceramic board. The first and second adhesive layers are disposed on the ceramic board, and the second adhesive layer covers the first adhesive layer. The cover is fixed on the ceramic board by the first and second adhesive layers. Thus, the shearing force of the LED package structure of the instant disclosure is increased by having the first and second adhesive layers, which are connected to each other.
US09985190B2
Embodiments are related to systems and methods for fluidic assembly, and more particularly to diodes offering orientation control properties in a fluidic assembly system.
US09985184B2
An optoelectronic device comprises a substrate; a groove on the substrate; a plurality of semiconductor units on the substrate and separated by the groove, wherein each semiconductor unit comprises a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer, and an active region interposed between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer; a connecting part crossing the groove for connecting two of the plurality of semiconductor units, wherein the connecting part comprises one end on the first semiconductor layer and another end on the second semiconductor layer; a first electrode comprising a plurality of first extensions jointly connected to the one end of the connecting part; and a second electrode comprising a plurality of second extensions jointly connected to the another end of the connecting part, wherein an amount of the plurality of first extensions is different from an amount of the plurality of second extensions.
US09985180B2
A light emitting diode chip including a substrate and a light emitting diode element layer is provided. The substrate has a growth surface and a plurality of microstructures on the growth surface. An area of the growth surface occupied by the microstructures is A1 and an area of the growth surface not occupied by the micro-structures is A2, such that A1 and A2 satisfy the relation of 0.1≤A2/(A1+A2)≤0.5. The light emitting diode element layer is disposed on the growth surface of the substrate.
US09985177B2
An ultraviolet light emitting semiconductor chip, its use in a LED, and methods of its fabrication are disclosed. The semiconductor chip can include a buffer layer of AlxGa1-xN, where 0
US09985176B2
Disclosed is a light emitting diode using light of a short wavelength band. The light emitting diode includes a first conductivity type semiconductor layer having a front side and a back side, a second conductivity type semiconductor layer having a front side and a back side, an active layer formed between the back side of the first conductivity type semiconductor layer and the front side of the second conductivity type semiconductor layer, a first electrode electrically connected to the first conductivity type semiconductor layer, a second conductivity type reflective layer formed on the back side of the second conductivity type semiconductor layer, and a reflective part formed on the second conductivity type reflective layer to reflect light of a short wavelength band and light of a blue wavelength band and electrically connected to the second conductivity type semiconductor layer. The second conductivity type reflective layer includes DBR unit layers. Each of the DBR unit layers includes a low refractive index layer and a high refractive index layer adjacent to the low refractive index layer. The low refractive index layer and the high refractive index layer include AlxGa1-xN (0
US09985174B2
Disclosed herein are multi-layered optically active regions for semiconductor light-emitting devices (LEDs) that incorporate intermediate carrier blocking layers, the intermediate carrier blocking layers having design parameters for compositions and doping levels selected to provide efficient control over the carrier injection distribution across the active regions to achieve desired device injection characteristics. Examples of embodiments discussed herein include, among others: a multiple-quantum-well variable-color LED operating in visible optical range with full coverage of RGB gamut, a multiple-quantum-well variable-color LED operating in visible optical range with an extended color gamut beyond standard RGB gamut, a multiple-quantum-well light-white emitting LED with variable color temperature, and a multiple-quantum-well LED with uniformly populated active layers.
US09985168B1
Group III nitride based light emitting diode (LED) structures include multiple quantum wells with barrier-well units that include III nitride interface layers. Each interface layer may have a thickness of no greater than about 30% of an adjacent well layers, and a comparatively low concentration of indium or aluminum. One or more interface layers may be present in a barrier-well unit. Multiple barrier-well units having different properties may be provided in a single active region.
US09985166B2
A system to configure a conductive pathway and a method of forming a system of configurable conductivity pathways include a photosensitive layer that becomes conductive based on photoexcitation, and a light source layer deposited over the photosensitive layer, the light source layer selectively providing the photoexcitation to the photosensitive layer. The system further includes a controller to control the light source layer, the controller illuminating a portion of the light source layer corresponding with a user input image to photoexcite the photosensitive layer and configure the conductive pathway in the photosensitive layer according to the image.
US09985157B2
An optical energy transmission system having an energy-emitting unit is provided. The energy-emitting unit has a laser radiation source for generating an energy-transmitting laser beam and an aiming device for aligning the energy-transmitting laser beam relative to an energy-receiving unit which includes an optical/electrical converter, which converts the energy of the energy-transmitting laser beam into electrical energy. The converter has at least one converter element having a plurality of surfaces which reflect the energy-transmitting laser beam and which are arranged relative to one another such that the impinging energy-transmitting laser beam is deflected by one of the reflective surfaces to another one of the reflective surfaces. At least some of the reflective surfaces are formed by a conversion unit which reflects one part of the impinging laser beam and absorbs the other part thereof in a photovoltaic element, and in the process converts the optical energy into electrical energy.
US09985152B2
An alloy composition for a subcell of a solar cell is provided that has a bandgap of at least 0.9 eV, namely, Ga1-xInxNyAs1-y-zSbz with a low antimony (Sb) content and with enhanced indium (In) content and enhanced nitrogen (N) content, achieving substantial lattice matching to GaAs and Ge substrates and providing both high short circuit currents and high open circuit voltages in GaInNAsSb subcells for multijunction solar cells. The composition ranges for Ga1-xInxNyAs1-y-zSbz are 0.07≤x≤0.18, 0.025≤y≤0.04 and 0.001≤z≤0.03.
US09985146B2
A photoelectric conversion device of an embodiment has a substrate, a bottom electrode on the substrate, a light absorbing layer on the bottom electrode, an n-type layer on the light absorbing layer, a transparent electrode on the n-type layer, and an oxide layer on the transparent electrode. nA and nB satisfy the relation 100/110≤nB/nA≤110/100. nA is the refractive index of the transparent electrode. nB is the refractive index of the oxide layer.
US09985129B2
A high-voltage MOS transistor includes a semiconductor substrate, a gate oxide layer on the semiconductor substrate, a gate on the gate oxide layer, a spacer covering a sidewall of the gate, a source on one side of the gate, and a drain on the other side of the gate. The gate includes at least a first discrete segment and a second discrete segment. The first discrete segment is not in direct contact with the second discrete segment. The spacer fills into a gap between the first discrete segment and the second discrete segment.
US09985117B2
Described herein is a FinFET device in which epitaxial layers of semiconductor material are formed in the source/drain regions on dielectrically isolated fin portions. The fin portions are located within a dielectric layer that is deposited on a semiconductor substrate. Surfaces of the fin portions are oriented in the {100} lattice plane of the crystalline material of the fin portions, providing for good epitaxial growth. Further described are methods for forming the FinFET device.
US09985108B2
An electrode comes in ohmic contact with an AlGaN layer. A semiconductor device SD has a nitride semiconductor layer GN2, and an AlxGa(1-x)N layer AGN (hereinafter referred to as “AlGaN layer AGN), and Al electrodes DE, SE. in the AlGaN layer AGN, 0
US09985105B2
The invention provides a method for fabricating a semiconductor device, including: forming a dummy gate on a substrate, forming an inter-layer dielectric layer (ILD) on the dummy gate and the substrate, forming a metal layer on the upper surface of the dummy gate, removing the dummy gate to form a trench in the inter-layer dielectric layer (ILD), conformally forming a gate dielectric layer in the trench, conformally forming a first conductive type metal layer on the gate dielectric layer, anisotropic etching the first conductive type metal layer and the gate dielectric layer over the metal layer to form a gap in the inter-layer dielectric layer (ILD), and filling a second conductive type metal layer in the gap.
US09985102B2
The present invention discloses methods to create higher quality group III-nitride wafers that then generate improvements in the crystalline properties of ingots produced by ammonothermal growth from an initial defective seed. By obtaining future seeds from carefully chosen regions of an ingot produced on a bowed seed crystal, future ingot crystalline properties can be improved. Specifically the future seeds are optimized if chosen from an area of relieved stress on a cracked ingot or from a carefully chosen N-polar compressed area. When the seeds are sliced out, miscut of 3-10° helps to improve structural quality of successive growth. Additionally a method is proposed to improve crystal quality by using the ammonothermal method to produce a series of ingots, each using a specifically oriented seed from the previous ingot. When employed, these methods enhance the quality of Group III nitride wafers and thus improve the efficiency of any subsequent device.
US09985096B2
A method of forming a punch through stop region in a fin structure is disclosed. The method may include forming a doped glass layer on a fin structure and forming a masking layer on the doped glass layer. The method may further include removing a portion of the masking layer from an active portion of the fin structure, and removing an exposed portion the doped glass layer that is present on the active portion of the fin structure. A remaining portion of the doped glass layer is present on the isolation portion of the fin structure. Dopant from the doped glass layer may then be diffused into the isolation portion of the fin structure to form the punch through stop region between the active portion of the fin structure and a supporting substrate.
US09985093B2
There is provided a trench-gate type semiconductor device that can prevent breakdown of a gate insulating film caused by a displacement current flowing into a protective diffusion layer at a portion of a trench underlying a gate electrode at a turn-off time and simultaneously improves a current density by narrowing a cell pitch. The semiconductor device has a gate electrode 7 embedded into a trench 5 penetrating a base region 3. The gate electrode 7 is disposed into a lattice shape in a planar view, and a protective diffusion layer 13 is formed in a drift layer 2a at the portion underlying thereof. At least one of blocks divided by the gate electrode 7 is a protective contact region 20 on which the trench 5 is entirely formed. A protective contact 21 for connecting the protective diffusion layer 13 at a bottom portion of the trench 5 and a source electrode 9 is disposed on the protective contact region 20.
US09985089B2
Vertical metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitors include a metal conductor including a sidewall; a high k dielectric layer on the sidewall of the metal conductor; and a vertically oriented metal layer on the high k dielectric layer. Also disclosed are methods for fabricating the vertical MIM capacitor, wherein a single patterning/mask process can used to fabricate the vertical MIM capacitor structure.
US09985086B2
There is provided a flexible display having a plurality of innovations configured to allow bending of a portion or portions to reduce apparent border size and/or utilize the side surface of an assembled flexible display.
US09985081B2
An organic light-emitting display that includes a substrate comprising a pixel area, a thin film transistor arranged within the pixel area, a wiring electrically connected to the a thin film transistor, an insulating layer covering the thin film transistor and the wiring, a pixel electrode arranged over the insulating layer, a pixel-defining layer having an opening that exposes the pixel electrode, an opposite electrode facing the pixel electrode and an organic emission layer interposed between the pixel electrode and the opposite electrode, the insulating layer having a first region that is overlapped by the pixel electrode and a second region that is not overlapped by the pixel electrode, the second region being thicker than the first region to reduce parasitic capacitance between the opposite electrode and the wiring.
US09985080B2
An OLED device and a method of manufacturing the same, the OLED device including a substrate having a pixel area and a transmission area; a pixel circuit on the pixel area; a first electrode on the pixel area and being electrically connected to the pixel circuit; a first organic layer extending continuously on the pixel area and the transmission area and covering the first electrode; an emitting layer selectively on a portion of the first organic layer on the pixel area; a second organic layer extending continuously on the pixel and transmission areas and covering the emitting layer; and a third organic layer selectively on the transmission area, the third organic layer including a non-emitting material that has a different transmittance from that of the emitting layer; and a second electrode extending continuously on the pixel area and the transmission area and covering the second and third organic layers.
US09985077B2
The present invention relates to a serial module of organic solar cells and the method for manufacturing the same. The structure comprises a transparent conductive layer composed by a plurality of conductive blocks, an active layer having notches on the periphery, and a metal layer composed by a plurality of metal blocks. The active layer according to the present invention is a complete layer except the notches on the periphery for exposing a portion of the transparent conductive layer. The metal blocks can contact the conductive blocks of adjacent organic solar cell via the exposure areas and thus connecting the organic solar cells in series. The present invention can improves the power generating efficiency of organic solar cells in a limited space, which is beneficial to the development of promotion of future organic solar cells.
US09985076B2
A conjugated polymer layer with a built-in diode is formed by providing a first metal-chalcogenide layer over a bottom electrode. Subsequently, a second metal-chalcogenide layer is provided over and in contact with the first metal-chalcogenide layer. The first metal-chalcogenide layer has a first conductivity type and the second metal-chalcogenide layer has a second conductivity type. The plane of contact between the first and second metal-chalcogenide layers creates the p-n junction of the built-in diode. Then a polymer layer is selectively deposited on the second metal-chalcogenide layer. The second metal-chalcogenide layer provides ions to the polymer layer to change its resistivity. A top electrode is then provided over the polymer layer. An exemplary memory cell may have the following stacked structure: first electrode/n-type semiconductor/p-type semiconductor/conjugated polymer/second electrode.
US09985073B2
A semiconductor device including: a first semiconductor layer including a first region and a second region adjacent to the first region; a first insulator layer provided above the first semiconductor layer; an intermediate semiconductor layer, having an n-type conduction, provided above the first region of the first semiconductor layer and above the first insulator layer; a second insulator layer provided above the intermediate semiconductor layer; a second semiconductor layer provided above the first region of the first semiconductor layer and above the second insulator layer; a sensor formed in the second region of the first semiconductor layer; a contact electrode connected to the intermediate semiconductor layer; and a circuit element formed in the second semiconductor layer.
US09985068B2
There is provided a solid state imaging device including a pixel including a photoelectric conversion unit that generates and accumulates a charge according to a received light amount, a charge accumulation unit that accumulates the generated charge, a first transfer transistor that transfers the charge of the photoelectric conversion unit to the charge accumulation unit, a charge holding unit that holds the charge to read out as a signal, and a second transfer transistor that transfers the charge of the charge accumulation unit to the charge holding unit, in which a gate electrode of the first transfer transistor is formed to be buried up to a predetermined depth from a semiconductor substrate interface, and the charge accumulation unit is formed in a longitudinally long shape to be extended in a depth direction along a side wall of the gate electrode of the first transfer transistor to be buried therein.
US09985064B2
A solid-state imaging device includes: a semiconductor substrate provided with an effective pixel region including a light receiving section that photoelectrically converts incident light; an interconnection layer that is provided at a plane side opposite to the light receiving plane of the semiconductor substrate; a first groove portion that is provided between adjacent light receiving sections and is formed at a predetermined depth from the light receiving plane side of the semiconductor substrate; and an insulating material that is embedded in at least a part of the first groove portion.
US09985062B2
An image sensor includes a substrate that further includes a sensor array and a heat spreading layer on a surface of the substrate. The heat spreading layer may include one or more of a synthetic diamond layer, a graphene layer, or a diamond-like carbon (DLC) layer. The heat spreading layer enables substantially uniform distribution of heat through at least a portion of the sensor array. Such substantially uniform heat distribution may enable substantially uniform dark current in the portion of the sensor array, thereby reducing a probability of dark shading in the portion of the sensor array. The portion of the sensor array may include an active pixel sensor area. The portion of the sensor array may include an optical black sensor area.
US09985058B2
A dual band infrared and ultraviolet radiation detector having an ultraviolet radiation detector embedded within a pair of IR anti-reflection layers wherein a first one of the infrared anti-reflection layer reflects ultraviolet energy passing through from the semiconductor, ultraviolet radiation detector back to the semiconductor, ultraviolet radiation detector.
US09985036B2
In a semiconductor device, a first active region has a first Σ-shape, and the second active region has a second Σ-shape. When a line that is perpendicular to the substrate and passes a side surface of a first gate electrode in the first region is defined as a first vertical line, when a line that is perpendicular to the substrate and passes a side surface of a second gate electrode in the second region is defined as a second vertical line, when a shortest distance between the first vertical line and the first trench is defined as a first horizontal distance, and when a shortest distance between the second vertical line and the second trench is defined as a second horizontal distance, a difference between the first horizontal distance and the second horizontal distance is equal to or less than 1 nm.
US09985022B2
An electronic device can include a first transistor including a first gate electrode; and a second transistor including a second gate electrode. The first and second transistors can be electrically connected in a parallel arrangement, wherein the transistors have one or more different characteristics. For example, gate length, barrier layer thickness, gate-to-drain distance, leakage current, on-state electron density, or the like may be different between the transistors. The difference in characteristics can help to reduce degradation and improve the lifetime of the first transistor.
US09985019B2
A semiconductor structure includes a first high-voltage MOS device region having a first light doping region in a substrate. The conductive type of the substrate is similar to that of the first light doping region. A first well is in the substrate. The first well substantially contacts a side of the first light doping region and does not extend under the first light doping region. The conductive type of the first well is opposite that of the first light doping region. A first gate stack is disposed on a part of the first light doping region and a first well. A first heavy doping region is disposed in the first well and the first light doping region at two sides of the first gate stack. The conductive type of the first heavy doping region is opposite that of the first light doping region.
US09985018B2
A high TCR tungsten resistor on a reverse biased Schottky diode. A high TCR tungsten resistor on an unsilicided polysilicon platform geometry. A high TCR tungsten resistor between two parallel polysilicon leads on remaining contact etch stop dielectric. A high TCR tungsten resistor embedded in a intermetal dielectric layer above a lower interconnect layer and below an upper interconnect layer. A method of forming a high TCR tungsten resistor on a reverse biased Schottky diode. A method of forming high TCR tungsten resistor on an unsilicided polysilicon platform geometry. A method of forming high TCR tungsten resistor between two parallel polysilicon leads on remaining contact etch stop dielectric. A method of forming high TCR tungsten resistor embedded in a inter metal dielectric layer above a lower interconnect layer and below an upper interconnect layer.
US09985014B2
Minimum track standard cell circuits for reduced area are provided. In one aspect, a minimum track standard cell circuit employs a first high aspect ratio voltage rail disposed over a first one-half track and configured to provide a first voltage (e.g., VDD) to the minimum track standard cell circuit. A second high aspect ratio voltage rail is disposed over a second one-half track substantially parallel to the first high aspect ratio voltage rail. The second high aspect ratio voltage rail is configured to provide a second voltage less than the first voltage (e.g., VSS) to the minimum track standard cell circuit. The minimum track standard cell circuit employs multiple tracks disposed between the first and second one-half tracks. The number of tracks can be limited based on particular factors. Minimizing tracks reduces area compared to conventional standard cell circuits.
US09985013B2
A method includes coining solder balls of a bottom package, wherein top surfaces of the solder balls are flattened after the step of coining. The solder balls are molded in a molding material. The top surfaces of the solder balls are through trenches in the molding material.
US09985010B2
An integrated package may be manufactured in a die face up orientation with a component proximate to the attached die by creating a cavity in the mold compound during fabrication. The cavity is created with an adhesive layer on the bottom to hold a component such that the top surface of the component is co-planar with the top surface of the attached die. This may allow backside grinding to take place that will not damage the component because the top surface alignment between the attached die and the component prevents the depth of the cavity from extending into the portion of the package that is ground away.
US09985008B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor package includes providing a lower semiconductor package including a lower package substrate, and a lower dummy ball and a lower solder ball on a top surface of the lower package substrate, providing an upper semiconductor package including an upper package substrate, and an upper dummy ball and an upper solder ball on a bottom surface of the upper package substrate, joining the upper dummy ball to the lower dummy ball at a first temperature to form a solder joint, and joining the upper solder ball to the lower solder ball at a second temperature to form a connection terminal.
US09985006B2
The present disclosure provides a method of manufacturing a structure. The method comprises: providing a substrate; forming an interconnect layer over the substrate; forming a plurality of conductive pads over the interconnect layer; forming conductive pillars over the interconnect layer; disposing a first semiconductor die over the conductive pads, the semiconductor die being spaced apart from the conductive pillars; and bonding a second semiconductor die with the conductive pillars.
US09985005B2
An electronic package includes an interposer, a die attached to a first side of the interposer, an embedded electronic package attached to a second side of the interposer, an encapsulation compound, a set of vias providing electrical paths from a first side of the electronic package to the interposer through the encapsulation compound, and a redistribution layer electrically redistributing the set of vias to form a set of interconnect-pads. Either the die or the embedded electronic package, or both, are electrically connected to the interposer.
US09985000B2
Stacked semiconductor die assemblies with die support members and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a semiconductor die assembly can include a package substrate, a first semiconductor die attached to the package substrate, and a support member attached to the package substrate. The support member can be separated from the first semiconductor die, and a second semiconductor die can have one region coupled to the support member and another region coupled to the first semiconductor die.
US09984992B2
In a vertically integrated microelectronic package, a first microelectronic device is coupled to an upper surface of a circuit platform in a wire bond-only surface area thereof. Wire bond wires are coupled to and extends away from an upper surface of the first microelectronic device. A second microelectronic device in a face-down orientation is coupled to upper ends of the wire bond wires in a surface mount-only area. The second microelectronic device is located above and at least partially overlaps the first microelectronic device. A protective layer is disposed over the circuit platform and the first microelectronic device. An upper surface of the protective layer has the surface mount-only area. The upper surface of the protective layer has the second microelectronic device disposed thereon in the face-down orientation in the surface mount-only area for coupling to the upper ends of the first wire bond wires.
US09984991B2
In order to reduce crosstalk between analog and digital signals, a circuit device includes a vibrator element, a semiconductor device, and a package. In the semiconductor device, an analog pad is provided along a first side facing in a first direction when the semiconductor device is seen in plan view. In addition, a digital pad is provided along aside facing in a second direction opposite to the first direction, that is, a second side facing the first side. In the package, an analog terminal which is connected to the analog pad is provided on a first side of the package facing in the first direction. In addition, a digital terminal which is connected to the digital pad is provided on a second side of the package facing in the second direction.
US09984984B1
A semiconductor element mounting board includes: a circuit conductor disposed on the insulating board, a plurality of semiconductor element connection pads connected to the circuit conductor, a semiconductor element mounted on a surface of the insulating board, a first capacitor and a second capacitor disposed on a surface or an inside of the insulating board, and a first conductor path configured to connect the first capacitor between the semiconductor element connection pads, and a second conductor path configured to connect the second capacitor between the semiconductor element connection pads; and an inductance of the first conductor path is smaller than an inductance of the second conductor path, and capacitance of the first capacitor is smaller than capacitance of the second capacitor, and an internal inductance of the first capacitor is smaller than an internal inductance of the second capacitor.
US09984975B2
A method for forming an interconnect structure includes forming a dielectric layer overlying a substrate, forming an opening in the dielectric layer, forming a metal-containing layer overlying the opening in the dielectric layer, forming a conformal protective layer overlying the metal-containing layer, filling a conductive layer in the opening, and performing a thermal process to form a metal oxide layer barrier layer underlying the metal-containing layer.
US09984974B1
A method for fabricating semiconductor device first includes providing a substrate and a shallow trench isolation (STI) in the substrate, in which the substrate includes a first metal gate and a second metal gate thereon, a first hard mask on the first metal gate and a second hard mask on the second metal gate, and a first interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer around the first metal gate and the second metal gate. Next, the first hard mask and the second hard mask as mask are utilized to remove part of the first ILD layer for forming a recess, and a patterned metal layer is formed in the recess and on the STI.
US09984973B2
Pretreatment is carried out in a first chamber. Then, a mixed gas of titanium tetrachloride and hydrogen is supplied into a second chamber. At this time, conditions are set such that partial pressure of the titanium tetrachloride is higher than 3 Pa. The conditions are set such that the product of the partial pressure of the titanium tetrachloride and supply time is greater than 800 Pa·second. The titanium tetrachloride continues to be supplied into the second chamber to form a titanium film under prescribed temperature conditions in a plasma atmosphere. The temperature conditions are set such that temperature is higher than temperature at which titanium silicide is formed and lower than temperature at which a metal silicide film agglomerates. A titanium nitride film is formed in a third chamber.
US09984970B1
An improved standard cell chip, library and/or process ensures that there is adequate spacing between TSCUT jogs and nearby gate contacts to avoid inadvertent shorts/leakages that can degrade manufacturing yield or performance.
US09984964B2
An integrated circuit includes a first conductive line on a first metal level of the integrated circuit. The integrated circuit further includes a second conductive line on a second metal level of the integrated circuit. The integrated circuit further includes a slot via electrically connecting the first conductive line with the second conductive line. The slot via overlaps with the first conductive line and the second conductive line. The slot via extends beyond a periphery of at least one of the first conductive line or the second conductive line.
US09984963B2
A memory stack structure including a memory film and a vertical semiconductor channel can be formed within each memory opening that extends through a stack including an alternating plurality of insulator layers and sacrificial material layers. After formation of backside recesses through removal of the sacrificial material layers selective to the insulator layers, a backside blocking dielectric layer is formed in the backside recesses and sidewalls of the memory stack structures. A metallic barrier material portion can be formed in each backside recess. A cobalt metal portion can be formed in each backside recess. Each backside recess can be filled with a portion of a backside blocking dielectric layer, a metallic barrier material portion, a cobalt metal portion, and a metallic material portion including a material other than cobalt.
US09984953B2
A semiconductor assembly includes a stack with a semiconductor module and a cooler, wherein the semiconductor module is provided in contact with the cooler. A clamping assembly is adapted to exert a force on the two sides of the stack. The stack is provided with a through hole between the two sides thereof and a part of the clamping assembly including an electrically conductive part which extends through the through hole of the stack. Thereby, a compact mechanical arrangement is provided while obtaining improved electrical properties, such as lower inductance and more even current distribution.
US09984951B2
Methods for producing multilayer heat sinks utilizing low temperature sintering processes are provided. In one embodiment, the method includes forming a metal particle-containing precursor layer over a first principal surface of a first metal layer. The first metal layer and the metal particle-containing layer are then arranged in a stacked relationship with a second metal layer such that the precursor layer is disposed between the first and second metal layers. A low temperature sintering process is then carried-out at a maximum process temperature less than a melt point of the metal particles to transform the precursor layer into a sintered bond layer joining the first and second metal layers in a sintered multilayer heat sink. In embodiments wherein the sintered multilayer heat sink is contained within a heat sink panel, singulation may be carried-out to separate the sintered multilayer heat sink from the other heat sinks within the panel.
US09984950B2
Disclosed is a semiconductor package including: a base substrate provided with at least one cavity and made of a metallic material; at least one semiconductor chip mounted in the cavity; and a heat dissipating member arranged in a gap between an inner surface of the cavity and the semiconductor chip.
US09984947B2
A fingerprint sensor device and a method of making a fingerprint sensor device. As non-limiting examples, various aspects of this disclosure provide various fingerprint sensor devices, and methods of manufacturing thereof, that comprise an interconnection structure, for example a bond wire, at least a portion of which extends into a dielectric layer utilized to mount a plate, and/or that comprise an interconnection structure that extends upward from the semiconductor die at a location that is laterally offset from the plate.
US09984944B1
Wafers, chips, or dies that contain fill cells with structures configured to obtain in-line data via non-contact electrical measurements (“NCEM”). Such NCEM-enabled fill cells may target/expose a variety of open-circuit, short-circuit, leakage, or excessive resistance failure modes, including GATECNT-tip-to-side-short and/or GATECNT-tip-to-side-leakage failure modes. Such wafers, chips, or dies may include Designs of Experiments (“DOEs”), comprised of multiple NCEM-enabled fill cells, of at least two types, all targeted to the same failure mode.
US09984941B2
A semiconductor material stack of, from bottom to top, a first semiconductor material having a first lattice constant and a second semiconductor material having a second lattice constant that may or may not differ from the first lattice constant and is selected from an III-V compound semiconductor and germanium is provided. The second semiconductor material of the semiconductor material stack is then scanned using an atomic force microscope (AFM) operating in a tapping mode to provide an AFM image of the second semiconductor material of the semiconductor material stack. The resultant AFM image is then analyzed and crystal defects at a topmost surface of the second semiconductor material of the semiconductor material stack can be measured.
US09984936B1
A method includes forming a sacrificial gate and a stack of materials above a semiconductor substrate, forming a trench in each of the source/drain areas of the device, wherein each trench extends into the semiconductor substrate, forming an empty space under the sacrificial gate structure, the empty space being vertically positioned between the stack of materials and the semiconductor substrate, wherein the empty space is in communication with the trenches, performing a conformal deposition process so as to deposit a conformal layer of a device isolation material adjacent at least the sacrificial gate while at least partially filling the empty space and substantially filling the trenches, and performing a recess etching process to remove at least portions of the conformal layer positioned adjacent the sacrificial gate, thereby defining a recessed upper surface of the device isolation material.
US09984930B2
A method for processing a carrier may include: forming a plurality of structure elements at least one of over and in a carrier, wherein at least two adjacent structure elements of the plurality of structure elements have a first distance between each other; depositing a first layer over the plurality of structure elements having a thickness which equals the first distance between the at least two adjacent structure elements; forming at least one additional layer over the first layer, wherein the at least one additional layer covers an exposed surface of the first layer; removing a portion of the at least one additional layer to expose the first layer partially; and partially removing the first layer, wherein at least one sidewall of the at least two adjacent structure elements is partially exposed.
US09984929B1
The invention relates to a method comprising providing a substrate with a channel layer, forming a gate stack structure on the channel layer and forming a raised source and a raised drain on the channel layer. The method further comprises depositing in a non-conformal way an oxide layer above the gate stack structure, the raised source and the raised drain. A first void above the raised source and a second void above the raised drain gate are created adjacent to vertical edges of the gate stack structure. The method further comprises etching the oxide layer for a predefined etching time, thereby removing the oxide layer above the raised source and the raised drain, while keeping it at least partly on the channel layer. Contacts are formed to the raised source and the raised drain. The invention also concerns a corresponding computer program product.
US09984925B2
A semiconductor device, including a first fin-type pattern; a first gate spacer on the first fin-type pattern, intersecting the first fin-type pattern, and including an upper portion and a lower portion; a second gate spacer on the first fin-type pattern, intersecting the first fin-type pattern, and being spaced apart from the first gate spacer; a first trench defined by the first gate spacer and the second gate spacer; a first gate electrode partially filling the first trench; a first capping pattern on the first gate electrode and filling the first trench; and an interlayer insulating layer covering an upper surface of the capping pattern, a width of the upper portion of the first gate spacer decreasing as a distance from an upper surface of the first fin-type pattern increases, and an outer sidewall of the upper portion of the first gate spacer contacting the interlayer insulating layer.
US09984921B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming grooves in a first dielectric layer on a substrate, the first dielectric layer including a first part between the grooves, forming a first barrier layer and an interconnect layer in each groove, recessing the interconnect layer and the first barrier layer, forming a capping pattern on the recessed interconnect layer, etching at least a portion of the first part by a first etching process, sequentially etching the capping pattern and the at least a portion of the IMD part by a second etching process to form a trench, conformally forming a second barrier layer in the trench and on the recessed interconnection layer, and forming a second dielectric layer on the second barrier layer not to fill the trench such that an air gap is formed in the trench.
US09984917B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device in accordance with various embodiments may include: forming an opening in a first region of a semiconductor substrate, the opening having at least one sidewall and a bottom; implanting dopant atoms into the at least one sidewall and the bottom of the opening; configuring at least a portion of a second region of the semiconductor substrate laterally adjacent to the first region as at least one of an amorphous or polycrystalline region; and forming an interconnect over at least one of the first and second regions of the semiconductor substrate.
US09984909B1
The present application discloses methods, and systems for laser-scribing a solar panel and the solar panels. The method for laser-scribing the solar panel may comprise: capturing consecutively images of parts of a first line on the solar panel, the first line having a pre-designed shape; acquiring location information of each of the captured images of the first line; and laser-scribing parts of a second line on the solar panel consecutively, according to the acquired location information of the first line, so that the scribed second line has the pre-designed shape of the first line and maintains a fixed distance from the first line.
US09984905B2
An interface station of a coating and developing treatment system has: a cleaning unit cleaning at least a rear surface of a wafer before the wafer is transferred into an exposure apparatus; an inspection unit inspecting the rear surface of the cleaned wafer whether the wafer is exposable, before it is transferred into the exposure apparatus; wafer transfer mechanisms including arms transferring the wafer between the units and a wafer transfer control part controlling operations of the wafer transfer mechanisms. When it is determined that a state of the wafer becomes an exposable state by re-cleaning in the cleaning unit as a result of the inspection, the wafer transfer control part controls the wafer transfer mechanisms to transfer the wafer again to the cleaning unit.
US09984904B2
An interface station of a coating and developing treatment system has: a cleaning unit cleaning at least a rear surface of a wafer before the wafer is transferred into an exposure apparatus; an inspection unit inspecting the rear surface of the cleaned wafer whether the wafer is exposable, before it is transferred into the exposure apparatus; wafer transfer mechanisms including arms transferring the wafer between the units and a wafer transfer control part controlling operations of the wafer transfer mechanisms. When it is determined that a state of the wafer becomes an exposable state by re-cleaning in the cleaning unit as a result of the inspection, the wafer transfer control part controls the wafer transfer mechanisms to transfer the wafer again to the cleaning unit.
US09984903B2
A treatment cup cleaning method is provided, which includes: a rotating step of rotating a substrate rotating unit with a substrate being held by the substrate rotating unit; a cleaning liquid supplying step of supplying a cleaning liquid to an upper surface and a lower surface of the substrate and causing the cleaning liquid to scatter from a peripheral edge of the substrate to be applied to an inner wall of a treatment cup in the rotating step, whereby the cleaning liquid is supplied to the inner wall of the treatment cup; and a scattering direction changing step of changing a cleaning liquid scattering direction in which the cleaning liquid scatters from the peripheral edge of the substrate in the rotating step and the cleaning liquid supplying step.
US09984885B2
A non-volatile memory device may include a first well of a first conductive type formed over a substrate, a second well of a second conductive type formed over the substrate to contact the first well, a trench formed over the substrate on a border formed by the contact of the first well and the second well, and a memory gate having a memory layer formed over a surface of the trench, and a gate electrode formed to fill the trench over the memory layer.
US09984883B2
A method for adjusting a threshold voltage includes depositing a strained liner on a gate structure to strain a gate dielectric. A threshold voltage of a transistor is adjusted by controlling an amount of strain in the liner to control an amount of work function (WF) modulating species that diffuse into the gate dielectric in a channel region. The liner is removed.
US09984882B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor structure includes providing a substrate, forming an interface layer on the substrate, and then performing a first annealing process on the interface layer under a nitrogen-containing environment to form a nitrogen-containing layer from a top portion of the interface layer. The first annealing process also deactivates non-bonded silicon ions and oxygen ions in the interface layer. The method further includes forming a high-k dielectric layer on the nitrogen-containing layer, and performing a second annealing process on the high-k dielectric layer to allow nitrogen ions in the nitrogen-containing layer to diffuse into the high-k dielectric layer to reduce a density of active oxygen vacancies in the high-k dielectric layer. Finally, the method includes forming a gate electrode layer on the high-k dielectric layer.
US09984869B1
A method is for forming a nitride or oxide film by plasma-assisted cyclic deposition, one cycle of which includes: feeding a first reactant, a second reactant, and a precursor to a reaction space where a substrate is placed, wherein the second reactant flows at a first flow ratio wherein a flow ratio is defined as a ratio of a flow rate of the second reactant to a total flow rate of gases flowing in the reaction space; and stopping feeding the precursor while continuously feeding the first and second reactants at a flow ratio which is gradually reduced from the first flow ratio to a second flow ratio while applying RF power to the reaction space to expose the substrate to a plasma. The second reactant is constituted by a hydrogen-containing compound or oxygen-containing compound.
US09984864B2
The invention relates to the operation of ion mobility spectrometers based on gases pushing the ions over electrical field barriers, preferably in combination with mass spectrometers, and relates to trapped ion mobility spectrometers (“TIMS”). The invention proposes to accumulate and to scan the ions of a selected range of mobilities by using a long and flat electric field ramp created by additional voltages. By a voltage supplied at the beginning of the flat ramp, the lowest mobility of the mobility range of ions to be collected can be selected. By the difference of the voltages at the beginning and the end, the width of the mobility range is determined. The spatial zoom advantageously can collect considerable more ions of interest than a temporal zoom without severe losses by space charge effects, and more ions can be detected in the mass-mobility map.
US09984858B2
Methods of etching and smoothening films by exposing to a halogen-containing plasma and an inert plasma within a bias window in cycles are provided. Methods are suitable for etching and smoothening films of various materials in the semiconductor industry and are also applicable to applications in optics and other industries.
US09984852B1
An apparatus for performing charged particle spectroscopy, comprising: A source, for producing a pulsed beam of charged particles that propagate along a beam path; A specimen holder, for holding a specimen at an irradiation position in said beam path; A detector arrangement, for performing energy-differentiated detection of charged particles that traverse said specimen, wherein, between said source and said detector arrangement, said beam path successively traverses: An energizing cavity, for applying a time-dependent accelerating field to said beam; A primary drift space; Said irradiation position; A temporal focusing cavity, for converting an energy differential in said beam into a time-of-flight differential; A secondary drift space.
US09984848B2
A multi-beam lens device is described, which includes: a first beam passage for a first charged particle beam formed along a first direction between a first beam inlet of the first beam passage and a first beam outlet of the first beam passage; a second beam passage for a second charged particle beam formed along a second direction between a second beam inlet of the second beam passage and a second beam outlet of the second beam passage, wherein the first direction and the second direction are inclined with respect to each other by an angle (α) of 5° or more such that the first beam passage approaches the second beam passage toward the first beam outlet; and a common excitation coil or a common electrode arrangement configured for focussing the first charged particle beam and the second charged particle beam. Further, a charged particle beam device as well as a method of operating a multi-beam lens device are described.
US09984846B2
An emitter containing a metal boride material has an at least partly rounded tip with a radius of 1 μm or less. An electric field can be applied to the emitter and an electron beam is generated from the emitter. To form the emitter, material is removed from a single crystal rod to form an emitter containing a metal boride material having a rounded tip with a radius of 1 μm or less.
US09984837B2
A kit incorporating a multi-configurable push-button subassembly for installing an emergency stop/deactivate alarm station which can be configured to operate in any of a momentary (depress and immediate reverse bias return) resetting of a previously inwardly depressed push-button, a latching turn-to-reset for the push button, or a latching key-to-reset for (outwardly) resetting the push button following initial depressing of the same in response to a determined alarm condition. The push button subassembly is integrated into an overall alarm station assembly including a gang box body and attachable backing plate, within which existing switch and wiring components are integrated. A cover attaches over the assembly and both exposes and shields the push button from inadvertent depressed triggering in particular from a side location.
US09984834B2
A method of manufacturing keycaps, each keycap having a top and a skirt, includes: providing a first jig having a plurality of positioning units; arranging correspondingly a plurality of keycaps onto the plurality of positioning units; attaching a first film including an ink layer and a first release layer to the plurality of keycaps by using an out-mold transfer technique, such that the first film covers respective upper surfaces of the tops and respective side surfaces of the skirts of keycaps; removing the first release film; laser-engraving the ink layer; and forming a protection layer on the laser-engraved ink layer. A keycap manufactured by the method of the present invention is also disclosed.
US09984828B2
There is provided a multilayered ceramic capacitor, including: a ceramic body; an active layer including a plurality of first and second internal electrodes; an upper cover layer; a lower cover layer formed below the active layer, the lower cover layer being thicker than the upper cover layer; first and second external electrodes; at least one pair of first and second internal electrodes repeatedly formed inside the lower cover layer, wherein, when A is defined as ½ of an overall thickness of the ceramic body, B is defined as a thickness of the lower cover layer, C is defined as ½ of an overall thickness of the active layer, and D is defined as a thickness of the upper cover layer, a ratio of deviation between a center of the active layer and a center of the ceramic body, (B+C)/A, satisfies 1.063≤(B+C)/A≤1.745.
US09984827B2
A capacitor component includes a body including a plurality of dielectric layers having a layered structure, and first internal electrodes and second internal electrodes alternately disposed with respective dielectric layers of the plurality of dielectric layers interposed therebetween, a first external electrode formed on a first surface and a second surface of the body opposing each other, and connected to the first internal electrodes, and a second external electrode formed on at least one of a third surface and a fourth surface of the body connecting the first surface to the second surface and opposing each other, and connected to the second internal electrodes. The capacitor component is divided into a plurality of capacitor units each including a portion of the first internal electrodes and a portion of the second internal electrodes, and the plurality of capacitor units include a first capacitor unit and a second capacitor unit.
US09984825B2
A dielectric material includes a barium titanate based base material main ingredient and an accessory ingredient. In a fine sintered structure of the dielectric material, crystal grains in which a content of Ca is less than 2.5 mol % are first crystal grains, crystal grains in which the content of Ca is 4.0 to 12.0 mol % are second crystal grains, and a ratio of an average size of the first crystal grains to an average size of the second crystal grains is in a range of 1.6 to 2.2.
US09984821B2
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes an active region including a plurality of dielectric layers, and first and second internal electrodes alternately disposed with each of the dielectric layers interposed therebetween; and upper and lower cover regions including at least one ferromagnetic layer and disposed on and below the active region, respectively.
US09984820B2
A Z-directed capacitor according to one embodiment includes a body having top, bottom and side surfaces, a cross-sectional shape that is insertable into a mounting hole in a printed circuit board, and a plurality of stacked support members. Each support member includes an annular plate mounted on a surface thereof. A first conductive side channel and a second conductive side channel are formed in the side surface and extend along a top-to-bottom dimension of the body. A first set of the annular plates electrically contact the first conductive side channel but not the second conductive side channel and a second set of the annular plates electrically contact the second conductive side channel but not the first conductive side channel. A third conductive side channel is formed in the side surface, extends along the top-to-bottom dimension of the body and is electrically separated from the annular plates.
US09984819B2
A spiral inductor formed in a vertical plane relative to a planar surface of a substrate includes a plurality of through holes disposed in the vertical plane and spaced apart from each other, a metal interconnect structure on the top surface, and a redistribution layer on the bottom surface and having at least one bottom metal layer. The metal interconnect structure and the redistribution layer are connected to each other through the plurality of through holes to form the vertical spiral inductor. The thus formed vertical spiral inductor has a significantly reduced surface area comparing with lateral spiral inductors.
US09984816B2
A hand-held power tool rechargeable battery is provided as including a housing, at least one rechargeable battery cell, and an inductive charging unit, which includes at least one coil core and an inductive charging coil for charging the at least one rechargeable battery cell. It is provided that the inductive charging unit is accommodated detachably in the housing.
US09984814B2
A wireless power transmitter includes a source resonator configured to wirelessly transmit power via magnetic coupling with a target resonator; and an impedance adjusting unit configured to adjust an impedance of the source resonator using a plurality of impedance-matching bars located in the source resonator.
US09984805B2
An inductor component has a plurality of layers of spiral wirings a magnetic composite body directly or indirectly covering the plurality of layers of spiral wirings and made of a composite material of a resin and a metal magnetic powder with an average particle diameter of 5 μm or less an internal electrode embedded in the magnetic composite body with an end surface exposed from an outer surface of the magnetic composite body, the internal electrode being electrically connected to the spiral wirings, and an external terminal disposed on the outer surface of the magnetic composite body and electrically connected to the internal electrode.
US09984804B2
A coil component includes a magnetic body including first and second coil patterns respectively disposed on first surfaces of two substrates spaced apart from each other and having cores and third and fourth coil patterns respectively disposed on second surfaces of the two substrates; and first to fourth external electrodes disposed on outer peripheral surfaces of the magnetic body and connected to the first to fourth coil patterns, respectively. A gap member is disposed between the two substrates while being located in at least one of upper and lower regions of the magnetic body in a thickness direction.
US09984802B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a headphone or speaker assembly that contains two or more audio components that are configured to be magnetically coupled together by use of a complementary magnetic pole configuration in the headphone or speaker assembly to provide one or more useful functions. These useful functions may include elements that are able to sense that the two or more audio components are in contact with each other, or are at least proximate to each other, so that their audio playback capability can be suspended while they are in this unused state. A sensor located within one of the components can detect a change in the magnetic field and generate an electronic signal indicating a clasped condition.
US09984796B2
An insulating system having improved partial discharge resistance includes an insulating tape around a conductor. The tape is a mica tape joined to a carrier. The tape is impregnated with a synthetic resin, and is interspersed with a nanoparticulate filler, present bimodally, in the form of two fractions of the filler differing in particle size and fraction size. An adhesion promoter may be in the resin.
US09984784B2
The present invention relates to a glass frit, a conductive paste composition comprising the glass frit, and a solar cell fabricated using the conductive paste composition. The glass frit of the present invention comprises SiO2, PbO, and at least one selected from the group consisting of Al2O3, ZrO2, ZnO, and Li2O. Further, the conductive paste composition of the present invention comprises a silver (Ag) powder, a lithium titanium oxide, a glass frit, a binder, and a solvent. The conductive paste composition of the present invention can be used to provide a solar cell having low contact resistance to enhance photoelectric efficiency.
US09984783B2
Invention provided for efficiently transmitting energy to a target for producing an overall effective result for applications comprising power transmission and communications. Wherein, first, a source of electromagnetically intense coherent radiation and an interferometer produce a beam of electromagnetically neutralized radiation. The neutralized beam comprises forward propagating photons or forward propagating electrically charged particles which have associated forward traveling waves which superimpose and destructively interfere to an extent, and have oscillatorily time-varying electromagnetic fields which cancel to a corresponding extent. Then, second, the electromagnetically neutralized beam is coherently transmitted through transmission apparatus to a target which then, third, utilizes the transmitted beam. Wherein, the adverse electromagnetic interaction of the neutralized beam with electrically charged particles comprised in the transmission apparatus and the adverse electromagnetic effects of transmitting energy are eliminated in direct proportion to the destructive interference in, and the respective intensity eliminated from, the neutralized beam during transmission.
US09984778B2
A nuclear power plant includes a nuclear reactor containment structure housing a nuclear reactor, a pressure vessel containing condensed water therein and having a receiving space located lower than a bottom of the containment structure, a release pipe connecting the containment structure to the pressure vessel such that water vapor and fission products generated in the containment structure in the event of an accident is capable of flowing into the pressure vessel, and a recovery pipe connecting the pressure vessel to the containment structure such that the condensed water received in the pressure vessel is capable of flowing into the containment structure. When a level of the condensed water received in the pressure vessel is higher than a water level in the containment structure, the condensed water flows from the pressure vessel toward the containment structure by a water head difference.
US09984776B2
A fuel assembly for a nuclear power boiling water reactor including a fuel channel defining a central fuel channel axis, fuel rods, each having a central fuel rod axis, at least 3 water channels for non-boiling water, each water channel having a central water channel axis and each water channel having a larger cross-sectional area than the cross-sectional area of (the average) fuel rod. The fuel rods include a first group of full length fuel rods and a second group of shorter fuel rods. The fuel assembly comprises 3 or 4 fuel rods which belong to said second group and which are positioned such that the central fuel rod axis of each of these 3 or 4 fuel rods is closer to the central fuel channel axis than any of the water channel axes of the water channels.
US09984772B2
A computer-implemented method for predicting answers to questions concerning medical image analytics reports includes splitting a medical image analytics report into a plurality of sentences and generating a plurality of sentence embedding vectors by applying a natural language processing framework to the plurality of sentences. A question related to subject matter included in the medical image analytics report is received and a question embedding vector is generated by applying the natural language processing framework to the question. A subset of the sentence embedding vectors most similar to the question embedding vector is identified by applying a similarity matching process to the sentence embedding vectors and the question embedding vector. A trained recurrent neural network (RNN) is used to determine a predicted answer to the question based on the subset of the sentence embedding vectors.
US09984765B2
A method includes: examining, by a test engine, whether a first bit of a memory array is functional; in response to the first bit being not functional, storing, by the test engine, address information of the first bit into a memory device; and retrieving, by an assist circuit trimming (ACT) circuit, the address information of the first bit from the memory device to selectively activate at least a first one of a plurality of assist circuits associated with the first bit.
US09984756B2
In an embodiment of a memory device including a matrix of memory cells wherein the memory cells are arranged in a plurality of memory cells strings each one including at least two serially-connected memory cells, groups of at least two memory cells strings being connected to a respective bit line, and wherein said memory cells are adapted to be programmed into at least a first programming state and a second programming state, a method of storing data comprising exploiting a single memory cell for each of the memory cells string for writing the data, wherein said exploiting includes bringing the single memory cell to the second programming state, the remaining memory cells of the string being left in the first programming state.
US09984752B2
A memory system and method is provided. The memory system includes a non-volatile memory, a memory interface, and a code processor. The code processor generates a likelihood value for a first read bit, which is read from a first memory cell, from among read bits contained in a codeword read by the memory interface from the non-volatile memory. For example, the likelihood value can be based on the value of the first read bit and on the value of a second read bit read from a second memory cell adjacent to the first memory cell so as to decode the codeword using the generated likelihood value.
US09984743B2
There is provided, for example, a write assist circuit for controlling the voltage level of a memory cell power supply line coupled to an SRAM memory cell to be written in the write operation. The write assist circuit reduces the voltage level of the memory cell power supply line to a predetermined voltage level, in response to a write assist enable signal that is enabled in the write operation. At the same time, the write assist circuit controls the reduction speed of the voltage level of the memory cell power supply line, according to the pulse width of a write assist pulse signal. The pulse width of the write assist pulse signal is defined in such a way that the greater the number of rows (or the longer the length of the memory cell power supply line), the greater the pulse width.
US09984738B2
Apparatuses and methods for refreshing memory cells of semiconductor device are described. An example apparatus includes: a memory cell array including a plurality of memory groups each having a plurality of memory cells, the memory groups being selected by mutually different addresses; a first control circuit periodically executing a refresh operation on the memory groups in response to a first refresh command; and a second control circuit setting a cycle of executing the refresh operation by the first control circuit. The second control circuit sets the cycle to a first cycle until executing the refresh operation to all the memory groups after receiving the first refresh command, and the second control circuit sets the cycle to a second cycle that is longer than the first cycle after executing the refresh operation to all the memory groups.
US09984734B2
Integrated circuits may include partial reconfiguration (PR) circuitry for reconfiguring only a portion of a memory array. In some applications, partial reconfiguration may be performed during user mode. During partial reconfiguration, write assist techniques such as varying the power supply voltage may be applied to help increase write margin, but doing so can potentially affect the performance of in-operation pass gates that are being controlled by the memory array during user mode. In one suitable arrangement, ground power supply voltage write assist techniques may be implemented on memory cells that include p-channel access transistors and that are used to control n-channel pass transistors. In another suitable arrangement, positive power supply voltage write assist techniques may be implemented on memory cells that include n-channel access transistors and that are used to control p-channel pass transistors.
US09984732B2
Voltage monitors include a predelay cell having an input responsive to a first clock signal. This cell is configured to generate a predelayed clock signal at an output thereof. A serially-connected string of data delay cells is provided, which has an input responsive to the predelayed clock signal. A serially-connected string of clock delay cells is provided, which has an input responsive to a second clock signal that is synchronized to the first clock signal. A plurality latches are provided. The latches have respective data inputs, which are responsive to first periodic signals generated at respective outputs of the serially-connected string of data delay cells, and respective clock/sync terminals, which are responsive to second periodic signals generated at respective outputs of the serially-connected string of clock delay cells. The latches enable loading of a delay code value, which indicates power supply voltage variation.
US09984728B2
Various embodiments identify differences between frame sequences of a video. For example, to determine a difference between two versions of a video, a fingerprint of each frame of the two versions is generated. From the fingerprints, a run-length encoded representation of each version is generated. The fingerprints which appear only once (i.e., unique fingerprints) in the entire video are identified from each version and compared to identify matching unique fingerprints across versions. The matching unique fingerprints are sorted and filtered to determine split points, which are used to align the two versions of the video. Accordingly, each version is segmented into smaller frame sequences using the split points. Once segmented, the individual frames of each segment are aligned across versions using a dynamic programming algorithm. After aligning the segments at a frame level, the segments are reassembled to generate a global alignment output.
US09984717B2
The optical information recording device includes a light source configured to emit a laser beam, an optical element configured to divide the laser beam into the reference beam and the signal beam, an angle control unit configured to control an angle of incidence of the reference beam on the optical information recording medium, and a phase control unit configured to control a phase of at least one of the signal beam and the reference beam in a recording period, wherein the angle control unit controls an angle interval so that a position of a 1st null of an adjacent page of the signal beam is fixed, and wherein the phase control unit controls the phase of the signal beam or the reference beam so that a phase difference between the adjacent pages is a predetermined value.
US09984712B1
The magnetic tape device includes: a magnetic tape; and a servo head, in which a magnetic tape transportation speed of the magnetic tape device is equal to or lower than 18 m/sec, the servo head is a magnetic head including a tunnel magnetoresistance effect type element as a servo pattern reading element, the magnetic tape includes a non-magnetic support, and a magnetic layer including ferromagnetic powder and a binding agent on the non-magnetic support, the magnetic layer includes a servo pattern, and a contact angle with respect to 1-bromonaphthalene measured regarding a surface of the magnetic layer is 48.0° to 53.0°.
US09984705B2
Methods and systems are provided for receiving by a first electronic device audio content, determining audio quality of the received audio content, which includes measuring and/or estimating quality related parameters associated with the received audio content, and communicating the quality related parameters to a second electronic device, from which the audio content was transmitted. The quality related parameters may be used to control audio related functions in the second electronic device. The audio related functions may comprise noise reduction, noise suppression, cancellation, distortion reduction, equalization, compression, enhancement and/or audio rate conversion. Determining the audio quality of the received audio content may be based on one or more noise related thresholds. The quality related parameters may be communicated to the second electronic device over a dedicated control channel setup between the devices.
US09984702B2
A method includes estimating a spatial coherence between a first diffuse sound portion in a first microphone signal and a second diffuse sound portion in a second microphone signal. The first microphone signal is captured by a first microphone and the second microphone signal is captured by a second microphone which is spaced apart from the first microphone in a known manner. The method further includes defining a linear constraint for filter coefficients of a diffuse sound filter, the linear constraint being based on the spatial coherence. The method also includes calculating at least one of signal statistics and noise statistics over the first microphone signal and the second microphone signal. The method also includes determining the filter coefficients of the diffuse sound filter by solving an optimization problem concerning at least one of the signal statistics and noise statistics while considering the linear constraint for the filter coefficients.
US09984701B2
Systems and techniques for removing non-stationary and/or colored noise can include one or more of the three following innovative aspects: (1) detection of an unwanted target signal, or component thereof, within an observed signal; (2) removal of the target (component) from the observed signal; and (3) filling of a gap in the observed signal generated by removal of the unwanted target (component). Removal regions, frequency bands, and/or regions of the observed signal used to train the gap filler can be adapted in correspondence with local characteristics of the observed signal and/or the target signal (component). Related aspects also are described. For example, disclosed noise detection and/or removal methods can include converting an incoming acoustic signal to a corresponding machine-readable form. And, a corrected signal in machine-readable form can be converted to a human-perceivable form, and/or to a modulated signal form conveyed over a communication connection.
US09984696B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for coding and decoding a digital audio signal. Decoding includes: decoding according to an inverse transform decoding of a previous frame of samples of the digital signal, which is received and coded according to a transform coding; and decoding according to a predictive decoding of a current frame of samples of the digital signal, which is received and coded according to a predictive coding. The predictive decoding of the current frame is a transition predictive decoding which does not use any adaptive dictionary arising from the previous frame. At least one state of the predictive decoding is reinitialized to a predetermined default value, and an add-overlap step combines a signal segment synthesized by predictive decoding of the current frame and a signal segment synthesized by inverse transform decoding, corresponding to a stored segment of the decoding of the previous frame.
US09984691B2
According to embodiments described herein, a circuit includes an interface circuit configured to be coupled to a transducer and a detection circuit. The interface circuit is configured to provide a digital output signal to a signal input terminal of a processing circuit. The detection circuit is configured to receive the digital output signal and provide a low power enable signal to a low power enable terminal of the processing circuit. In the various embodiments, the digital output signal is based on a transduced signal from the transducer and the low power enable signal is determined by comparing the digital output signal with a first threshold.
US09984687B2
An image display device, a method for driving the same, and a computer readable recording medium are provided. The image display device includes a speech acquirer configured to acquire a speech query associated with a query created by a user, a display configured to display a query list composed of candidate queries having the same as or similar semantic as the acquired speech query, and an operation performer configured to perform an operation related to the query selected from the displayed query list.
US09984684B1
A language processing system collects similar queries and respective responses and aggregated by responses. Incorrect responses are determined and filtered by the aggregation. The remaining responses are then used to query a high precision system for attributes of entities specified by the queries. The attribute type is determined from the responses of the high precision system, and corresponding parse rules are generated. The parse rules are then associated with an operation that yields a response that specifies an attribute of the attribute type.
US09984675B2
A method of operation beamforms a plurality of microphone outputs to obtain a plurality of virtual microphone audio channels with at least one audio output channel and at least one audio control channel. The method performs voice recognition on the audio control channel to detect voice commands for controlling audio output channel attributes, and adjusts an audio channel attribute in response to detecting a voice command. Adjusting an attribute of the audio channel may be accomplished by, for example, controlling one or more parameters of an adjustable beamformer. The detected voice commands for controlling audio channel attributes may include voice commands for controlling audio sensitivity zooming, panning in a specified direction, focusing on a specified direction, blocking a specified direction, mixing a narrator's voice, blocking a narrator's voice, or reducing background noise. An apparatus that performs the method of operation is also disclosed.
US09984669B2
The present invention provides a reed for an electronic musical instrument and an electronic musical instrument in which determination of lip position is not susceptible to the influence of noise and the like. In one embodiment of the present invention, an electronic musical instrument is provided with a reed and a plurality of sensor electrodes in the reed, arranged next to one another from a tip side of the reed towards a base side of the reed, each of the sensor electrodes having a center portion projecting towards the tip side of the reed. The lip position of the performer is determined in accordance with the output from the plurality of sensors.
US09984667B2
A guitar stand which is capable of being mounted onto the side handle of an amplifier, while also being capable of being mounted onto a multi-guitar adapter and an amplifier connector. The multi-guitar adapter and guitar stand can be attached onto the side handle of the amplifier. The multi guitar amplifier is capable of having a first and a second guitar stand mounted onto it while attached to an amplifier. The amplifier connector attaches onto the top of an amplifier and is capable of having a single guitar stand mounted onto it.
US09984665B2
An electrically amplified stringed instrument including an elongated stringed arrangement including a first end and a second end having a first string device including a first set of strings extending between the first end and the second end of the stringed arrangement and a second string device including a second set of strings extending between the first end and the second end of the stringed arrangement, where the first string device and the second string device are arranged substantially side by side so that a cross section of at least some of the strings of the first set of strings increases towards the second string device and so that a cross section of at least some of the strings of the second set of strings increases towards the first string device, the first string device including at least one first amplifying means arranged at the first end of the elongated stringed arrangement and the second string device including at least one second amplifying means arranged at the second end of the elongated stringed arrangement, where the stringed arrangement is mounted on a body and connected to the body through a pivotal joint.
US09984658B2
An electronic device may include a display and control circuitry that operates the display. The control circuitry may be configured to daltonize input images to produce daltonized output images that allow a user with color vision deficiency to see a range of detail that the user would otherwise miss. The daltonization algorithm that the control circuitry applies to input images may be specific to the type of color vision deficiency that the user has. The daltonization strength that the control circuitry applies to the image or portions of the image may vary based on image content. For example, natural images may be daltonized with a lower daltonization strength than web browsing content, which ensures that memory colors such as blue sky and green grass do not appear unnatural to the user while still allowing important details such as hyperlinks and highlighted text to be distinguishable.
US09984657B2
Disclosed are a page display method and apparatus, which relate to the display field. The method includes: rendering a current page to be displayed to obtain a page image; acquiring gray values of pixels in the page image; determining a display mode according to the acquired gray values, the display mode including a white mode and a black mode; judging whether the display mode matches a screen light-emitting type, the screen light-emitting type including backlight light-emitting and self light-emitting; and performing color inversion processing on the page image and displaying the processed page image when the display mode does not match the screen light-emitting type.
US09984656B2
A signal converting method includes: receiving RGB signals; enhancing color of a red component, a green component, and a blue component of the RGB signals to convert the RGB signals into RGBY signals; and outputting the converted RGBY signals. The signal converting method may enhance the saturation of the red component, the green component, and the blue component of the RGBY signals, such that the components of each of the colors are more vivid and more balanced.
US09984653B1
Aspects of the disclosure provide a method for reducing video latency. The method includes decoding compressed video data into video frames and storing the video frames in a frame buffer for subsequent display by a display interface, logging decoding ending times of video frames and display times of video frames to generate a latency history over a first window of time, and adjusting a display rate of the display interface based on the latency history over the first window of time in order to change waiting times of video frames, the waiting time of a video frame being a difference between the decoding ending time of the video frame and the display time of the video frame.
US09984650B2
A display apparatus includes a printed circuit board (PCB). A power management integrated circuit (PMIC) is mounted on the PCB and is configured to generate first to fourth gate clock signals and first to fourth inversion gate clock signals. A phase of the first gate clock signal partially overlaps a phase of the second to fourth gate clock signal. Each of the first to fourth inversion gate clock signals has a phase opposite to that of a respective one of the first to fourth gate clock signals. A gate driver generates a plurality of gate signals based on the first to fourth gate clock signals and the first to fourth inversion gate clock signals and applies the plurality of gate signals to a plurality of gate lines. A display panel is connected to the plurality of gate lines.
US09984645B2
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display and a driver. The display is configured to display an image. The driver is configured to execute driving for displaying the image on the display in a display period to display the image, and execute driving different from the driving for displaying the image on the display, in a non-display period subsequent to the display period.
US09984643B2
A data driver includes a first data voltage generator, a data converter and a second data voltage generator. The first data voltage generator is configured to generate a first data voltage based on first pixel data and configured to output the first data voltage to a first data line, the first pixel data being generated based on a first gamma curve. The data converter is configured to convert second pixel data to first converted pixel data, the second pixel data being generated based on the first gamma curve, the first converted pixel data being generated based on a second gamma curve different from the first gamma curve. The second data voltage generator is configured to generate a second data voltage based on the first converted pixel data and configured to output the second data voltage to a second data line.
US09984642B2
A shift register, a driving method thereof, a gate driver circuit and a display device. The shift register includes: a precharge module, a reset module, a control module, a first pull-up module, a second pull-up module, a first pull-down module and a second pull-down module. The present disclosure can adopt one shift register to drive two rows of gate lines, reduce the number of transistors, reduce the circuit cost, eliminate the noise at output ends of the shift registers, and improve the operation stability.
US09984641B2
A gate protection circuit includes: a clock signal generator to generate a plurality of gate clock signals; a gate driver to output gate signals based on the plurality of gate clock signals, the gate driver including a plurality of gate driving circuits cascaded to each other; and a monitoring line configured to transmit a feedback signal based on the plurality of gate clock signals via the plurality of gate driving circuits to the clock signal generator. The clock signal generator is to block generation of the plurality of gate clock signals in response to the feedback signal.
US09984639B2
A display panel subsystem adaptively employs one of three types of input offset voltage cancellation modes based on an analysis of gray level values of sub-pixels for each row un a frame of image data. The system selects a candidate row within a selected group of rows and applies a first chopper mode to each sub-pixel in the candidate row. Under a row-based mode, the system applies a second chopper mode to each sub-pixel included in a row having gray level values matching the candidate row. Under a per-column row-based mode, the system applies the row-based mode on a per-column basis. Under a sub-pixel-wise mode, for each column, the system changes a chopper mode applied to a sub-pixel in a subsequent row relative to the last state of the chopper mode in a row having the same gray level value as a corresponding sub-pixel in the subsequent row.
US09984636B2
Provided if a display device including a liquid crystal panel, a common voltage generator configured to generate a common voltage, and a common voltage compensator. The liquid crystal panel includes gate lines, data lines, pixels, and a common electrode. The pixels include first pixels and second pixels. The first pixels and the second pixels are respectively disposed in pixel rows adjacent to each other, respectively constitute different columns, are connected to the same gate line, display the same color, and receive data voltages having different polarities. When a boundary of a pattern included in image data, extending in a first direction, lies between the first pixels and the second pixels, the common voltage compensator is configured to compensate the common voltage.
US09984619B2
A display device according to an embodiment includes a display panel, a driver, a power supply unit, and a power control unit. The power control unit may control the power supply unit in synchronization with a driving period of a device driving the display panel, and control one or more of synchronization signals of a scan driver, a data driver, and a timing controller and a switching frequency of a power generation transistor of the power supply unit to be synchronized.
US09984618B2
An active matrix light-emitting diode display screens, and in particular those with organic diodes is discussed. The display screen includes an active matrix of pixels, each pixel including a light-emitting diode, a control MOS transistor for applying a variable voltage or current to the anode of the diode, a selection transistor for applying a variable analog voltage representing a relative level of luminance of the pixel in the image, to the gate of the transistor, during a write phase of this pixel, a storage capacitor for maintaining this voltage on the gate of the transistor outside the write phase. A mean luminance attenuation circuit including a switch for periodically connecting one of the electrodes of the diode, preferably the cathode, to one or other of two fixed potentials, and a switch control circuit for switching with a variable duty cycle according to the desired attenuation.
US09984612B2
Provided is an image display device having a see-through-type display capable of suppressing decrease in visibility when background is visually recognized through a screen. The liquid crystal panel is driven such that chromaticity and a color temperature of source light are approximated to chromaticity and a color temperature of ambient light that have been measured by a color illuminance sensor attached to the display, the source light being transmitted through a region through which the ambient light is originally to be transmitted and having luminance lower than luminance of source light emitted from the light source. With this, in a region through which background of the liquid crystal panel can be seen, transparency seems to be increased and a viewer is able to see the background more easily.
US09984609B2
A display device is disclosed. In one aspect, the display device includes an image source configured to generate image data comprising red, green, and blue data and a color-weakness determiner configured to generate color vision deficiency data comprising color-weakness information. The device also includes a color-weakness compensator configured to generate compensation data based on the image data and the color vision deficiency data and a display portion comprising a plurality of pixels each configured to emit light based on the compensation data. Each of the pixels includes first and second sub-pixels configured to emit light having a light-emitting color based on an electric field applied to the first or second sub-pixel and a third sub-pixel configured to emit light having a predetermined light-emitting color.
US09984608B2
System and method for improving displayed image quality of an electronic display that displays a first image frame by applying a first voltage to a display pixel and a second image frame directly before the first image frame by applying a second voltage to the display pixel. A display pipeline is communicatively coupled to the electronic display and receives first image data corresponding with the first image frame, where the image data includes a first grayscale value corresponding with the display pixel. Additionally the display pipeline determines an inversion balancing grayscale offset based at least in part on the first grayscale value when polarity of the first voltage and polarity of the second voltage are the same and determines magnitude of the first voltage by applying the inversion balancing grayscale offset to the first grayscale value to reduce likelihood of a perceivable luminance spike when displaying the first image frame.
US09984607B2
Circuits for programming, monitoring, and driving pixels in a display are provided. Circuits generally include a driving transistor to drive current through a light emitting device according to programming information which is stored on a storage device, such as a capacitor. One or more switching transistors are generally included to select the circuits for programming, monitoring, and/or emission. Circuits advantageously incorporate emission transistors to selectively couple the gate and source terminals of a driving transistor to allow programming information to be applied to the driving transistor independently of a resistance of a switching transistor.
US09984602B2
A decorative illumination recording sheet that includes: a resin base; and a white layer that is disposed on the resin base and contains a white pigment and a binder, in which a colorant different from the white pigment is contained, and in a case where an average transmittance in a wavelength range of 400 nm to 700 nm is represented by Tv and an average transmittance in a wavelength range exceeding 700 nm, but not exceeding 800 nm is represented by Tr, Tv and Tr satisfy relationships expressed by the following Formulae (1) and (2), a method of manufacturing the decorative illumination recording sheet, a decorative illumination image sheet, a method of manufacturing the decorative illumination image sheet, and a decorative illumination signboard. 40.0%≤Tv<50.0% (1) 40.0%≤Tr<50.0% (2)
US09984599B2
A ceiling clip for mounting a sign or display includes a spool portion on which is wound a cord that is selectively unwound to a desired length and attached in a line clip for suspending the sign or display from the cord. The ceiling clip includes first and second flanges wherein the second flange is shaped to fit into a channel. The second flange is tapered for insertion into the channel and is of a width to frictionally engage the channel. Multiple ceiling clips may be inserted into the channel. The channel has magnets, hooks, interlocking cleats, or other mounting means that engage a mounting location to mount the channel, ceiling clips, and the sign or display at the mounting location with a single mounting motion. The channel may be mounted or unmounted using a gripper on a pole.
US09984591B2
A model for practicing surgical procedures which involve the cutting of skin and or tendons. A covering representing skin is stretched around a frame. A band can be added which represents tendons or ligaments. An elongated rod assists in maintaining the position of the covering and the band. Once the covering and band is cut, a new covering and new band can be placed on the frame.
US09984588B1
This is a method of showing to a person a visual change to his or her current human body shape. Historical data is used to show how human body shapes change in response to change in weight and measurement of the bodies. A user takes a picture of his or her current body and then selects points on the picture where change is desired in response to desired weight change. The user then views a picture of how his or her desired change will look on his or her current body shape by altering the picture using the historical data.
US09984586B2
A method and device used to improve flying education, and reduce pilot student hazard when passing from simulators to the real aircraft, by introducing an intermediary stage where a simulator and a model radio-controlled aircraft with similar features as original is used in a system with many participants, an instructor, flight monitors, command center, mission control, audience located remotely and taking part in the same action via internet telecommunication. The simulator is used to measure biometric parameters of the pilots, certify them, and also for gaming, having fail-safe procedures embedded. System contains a flight-monitoring network, using both goniometry and radar devices, placed on surface and airborne, using these devices as signal repeaters for extensions of communication. The system may be used in missions dangerous to human crews, and by the complexity of simulation it improves the flying, as well as to improve the piloting of RC aircrafts.
US09984581B2
A piloting assistance method for avoiding an obstacle with a rotorcraft flying along a current speed vector (Vect0). An alert is generated by using a speed vector of the rotorcraft referred to as a “calculation” speed vector (Vect1) in order to determine whether the rotorcraft might impact an obstacle. During a correction stage and at each calculation iteration, the calculation speed vector (Vect1) is determined using a horizontal component and a vertical component, the vertical component being a function of a current vertical speed of the rotorcraft relative to the ground corrected with a corrective term, the corrective term being a function of a product of a current path speed of the rotorcraft multiplied by the derivative of the path speed.
US09984577B2
A device comprises display means and means for calculating and memorizing the positions of points forming patterns being capable of being updated by an operator, the position, orientation and the form of a pattern being defined by a set of technical parameters. Each pattern comprises a set of control points, the function of a control point being, by virtue of its movement, to modify at least one technical parameter, a trajectory pattern modification being carried out through an interaction in which the operator moves at least one control point.
US09984561B1
A method to modify activation information operatively stored in a remote location, the activation information is configured to be transmitted in an activation transmission generated by an appliance control device of a vehicle for remote activation of one or more appliances, the information modification method conducted through the support of a modification module having aspects incorporated into a mobile computing device, server, and a telematics unit of the vehicle is herein presented. The method includes the steps of: receiving a command to modify the activation information at the mobile computing device; transmitting the command from the mobile computing device to the remotely located server; receiving the command at the server; transmitting the command from the server to the remotely located telematics unit; receiving the command at the telematics unit; and modifying, via the telematics unit, the activation information prior to access by the appliance control device.
US09984557B2
Systems and methods of increasing the efficiency and accuracy of a walk test in a fire alarm system are provided. Some methods can include receiving one or more walk test result signals from a system in a region, the signals indicative of one or more triggered input devices in the system and one or more activated output devices in the system, identifying one or more output devices in the system configured to be activated responsive to the one or more triggered input devices, comparing the activated output devices to the output devices configured to be activated, and transmitting a signal indicative of results of the comparing. Additionally or alternatively, some methods can include visually displaying or audibly emitting an indication of the results of the comparing.
US09984552B2
A system and method are described for alerting a user that an area they have entered or are about to enter has a restriction on carriage of a firearm. Methods include detecting the presence of a firearm within an intelligent article of luggage, detecting the current geographic location, comparing the current geographic location to a set of restricted carriage locations, and presenting an alert.
US09984549B2
Embodiments of a system and methods for using a sensing attached to footwear are generally described herein. A device may include an accelerometer to measure a force, a transceiver to: send information about the force to an external device, and receive a response from the external device, the response indicating whether the force exceeded a threshold and occurred within a specified timing window around a sensory output. The device may include feedback hardware to generate feedback when the response indicates that the force fell below the threshold or occurred outside the specified timing window.
US09984548B2
There is provided a method and device (2) for providing an alarm (7) on request of a person (1). The person is wearing the device that is attached with attachment means (3, 4, 5) to the wrist or other part of the body. A pulling force (6) of the person acting on the device causes a change in an electrical characteristic of a component (301) included in the device. The change of the electrical characteristic is measured and when detected will result in an activation of the alarm.
US09984543B2
An acoustic array system for anomaly detection is provided. The acoustic array system (100) performs a scan (or a progressive scan of frequencies) of a given volume by transmitting one or more signals, and receives one or more reflected signals from objects within the volume. The reflected signals are then amplified and converted to a set of digital signals. Features of the set of digital signals are extracted both in time and frequency domains. The acoustic array system (100) further performs a comparison of these set of digital extracted features with the reflected signals via machine learning techniques. Based on the comparison, the acoustic array system detects one or more anomalies.
US09984542B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products for generating alerts by matching audio signatures from trusted smart devices are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes converting one or more captured audio signals originating from a given area of a given environment to one or more audio signatures, wherein the one or more audio signatures correspond to one or more pre-defined user actions within the given environment; comparing the one or more audio signatures to one or more audio signatures associated with one or more user devices authorized to access the given area of the given environment; generating, based on said comparing, an alert upon a determination that the audio signatures do not exceed a threshold level of similarity with respect to the audio signatures associated with the one or more user devices authorized to access the given area; and outputting the alert to one or more of the user devices authorized to access the given area of the given environment.
US09984537B2
A method of gaming comprising: selecting a plurality of symbols for display at a plurality of display positions, the selecting being performed by selecting from a set of symbols including one or more modifiable symbols, each modifiable symbol adapted to receive a modifier; determining whether a corresponding modifier is a available for each selected modifiable symbol; modifying each selected modifiable symbol in respect of which a positive determination is made by adding the modifier to the modifiable symbol; and determining whether to make an award based on the plurality of symbols as modified.
US09984536B2
A spinner bingo game system and method is disclosed. A spinner bingo game wherein a winning player can win a first prize for winning the game by covering the game-ending pattern, win a larger secondary progressive prize for covering a single-colored secondary pattern portion of the game-ending pattern, and/or win an even larger tertiary progressive prize for covering the single-colored secondary pattern where a spinner element is also pointing to the same color.
US09984535B2
A method and system for providing a fantasy competition, in which the method includes determining a set of real-world players eligible for scoring in a fantasy competition; assigning a value for each of the real-world players; determining a salary cap for the fantasy competition; randomly assigning real-world players to a team roster; performing a draft in which the participants select real-world players who were not randomly assigned to a team roster; randomly assigning one or more real-world players to a taxi squad; receiving an indication of the real-world players assigned to the active roster; determining whether the combined value of the real-world players assigned to the active roster exceeds the salary cap; and performing a fantasy competition in which a score for each team roster associated with a participant is based on the performance, in one or more real-world events, of the real-world players assigned to the active roster.
US09984524B2
An access control system is provided that enables a network operations center to manage and control access to a plurality of remote sites and to verify servicing of the remote sites. Individuals in possession of electronic programmable keys can be provided opening codes to activate their keys while in the field, and to enable the keys to access one or more electronic locks located at the remote sites. Usage information associated with the utilization of the electronic programmable keys at the remote sites is stored on the electronic programmable keys. A lock attendance code is generated by the keys to verify attendance at the remote locations. The lock attendance codes are then transmitted to the network operations center where they are decoded to verify servicing of the remote sites.
US09984520B1
A system that allows an end-user to locate and gain access to a private facility, such as a restroom or other resource, without requiring that the end-user interact with any facility personnel. A mobile application allows a user to identify and proceed to a location where a private facility is available. When a user arrives at the location, the mobile application communicates with access control devices at the location to notify facility personnel of the user's presence and unlock doors or otherwise remove safeguards preventing general public access to the private facility.
US09984519B2
A method and system for optically detecting a user. A sequence of patterns of radiation reflected from an object in a room may be captured by a device. The patterns of radiation may be infrared radiation emitted from the device. A sequence of variations between the captured sequence of patterns of radiation and the emitted sequence of patterns of radiation may be determined and object characteristics of an object may be determined based upon the sequence of variations. The object characteristics may be a sequence of dimensions of the object and a sequence of locations of the object. The method may determine the first is a user based upon the determined object characteristics and a room profile. The room profile may include a plurality of object characteristics of one or more objects in the room.
US09984518B2
A system for compliance monitoring of a user of a monitored location is provided. The system includes at least one checkpoint monitor installed in the monitored location and a system server at a monitoring center being configured to be in communication with each checkpoint monitor via a network. Each checkpoint monitor includes a checkpoint server and being configured to monitor access to the monitored area. Each checkpoint monitor is configured to perform an authentication process to authenticate both an assignment status and an activity status of a user and transmit the resulting data to the system server.
US09984517B2
A system and method for determining entry to a secured area at a checkpoint, wherein the method can comprise the steps of receiving by an Access Control Operations Center (ACOC) server from a checkpoint computer a request for entry and identification data, and requesting one or more records from one or more public records databases. The method can also comprise receiving by the ACOC server the records from the one or more public record databases, and performing a keyword search on the one or more records using one or more predetermined keywords to find hits on the one or more predetermined keywords. Moreover, the method can comprise excluding false hits from the hits. Furthermore, the method can comprise sending by the ACOC server to the checkpoint computer a directive to deny the request for entry if any of the hits remain after excluding the false hits.
US09984515B2
A method of automatically performing a search based on user interest detected in a vehicle is provided. A user interest of a user in a vehicle is detected by examining sensor information from one or more sensors in the vehicle. A search is automatically performed for items relevant to the user interest. A user interface in the vehicle is then caused to display the items relevant to the user interest.
US09984514B2
A computing device for a vehicle fluid replacement monitoring system is provided. The computing device includes one or more processors for controlling operation of the computing device, and a memory for storing data and program instructions usable by the one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to execute instructions stored in the memory to receive an indication of a “fluid-empty” condition in a fluid reservoir; receive an indication of a “fluid-present” condition occurring in the fluid reservoir after the “fluid-empty” condition; acquire, responsive to receiving the indication of the “fluid-present” condition, information relating to the “fluid-present” condition; and store, in a memory, the information relating to the “fluid-present” condition.
US09984494B2
Architecture that summarizes a large amount (e.g., thousands of miles) of street-level image/video data of different perspectives and types (e.g., continuous scan-type data and panorama-type data) into a single view that resembles aerial imagery. Polygons surfaces are generated from the scan patterns and the image data is projected onto the surfaces, and then rendered into the desired orthographic projection. The street-level data is processed using a distributed computing approach across cluster nodes. The collection is processed into image tiles on the separate cluster nodes representing an orthographic map projection that can be viewed at various levels of detail. Map features such as lower-level roads, that are at lower elevations than higher-level roads, and are hidden by higher-level overpassing roads, can be navigated in the map. With the summarized data, the maps can be navigated and zoomed efficiently.
US09984486B2
A method of voice information augmentation including displaying a picture and identifying an object to be augmented in the picture. The method also includes receiving the voice information and establishing a mapping relationship between the voice information and the object to be augmented. The method accurately represents the content of the picture by augmenting the different objects in the picture with the different voice information.
US09984484B2
A computer-implemented system and method for cluster spine group arrangement is provided. A set of spine groups each having one or more spines of clusters and at least one singleton cluster is obtained. Unique spine groups are identified within the set and placed in a center of a display. At least a portion of the remaining spine groups in the set are placed to extend radially from the unique spine groups in the display center.
US09984480B2
The present disclosure is directed to generating enhanced curves that are aesthetically pleasing. To create enhanced a curve that is aesthetically pleasing, a curve enhancement system uses non-uniformly scaled cubic variation of curvature (CVC) curves. For example, the curve enhancement system non-uniformly scales a curve in a spline. Based on the scaling, the curve enhancement system can generate CVC curves having the desired end point constraints. Then, using the end point constraints, the curve enhancement system can inversely downscale the non-uniform scaled curve while maintaining the end point constraints from the CVC curves to achieve an enhanced curve in the spline.
US09984478B2
Digital Breast Tomosynthesis allows for the acquisition of volumetric mammography images. The present invention allows for novel ways of viewing such images to detect microcalcifications and obstructions. In an embodiment a method for displaying volumetric images comprises computing a projection image using a viewing direction, displaying the projection image and then varying the projection image by varying the viewing direction. The viewing direction can be varied based on a periodic continuous mathematical function. A graphics processing unit can be used to compute the projection image and bricking can be used to accelerate the computation of the projection images.
US09984456B2
A method for labeling vessel branches forming first and second vessel systems. A 3D image is segmented to obtain vessel branches. First and second root points are then determined. Starting from the first root point, the vessel branches are traced to derive a tracing path and a break point is determined, that separates the tracing path into two portions. A region of interest in the 3D image is determined with respect to the break point, in which center lines are assigned to the first or second vessel system. A 3D cutting structure is generated based on distances measured from points on the center lines to the 3D cutting structure. Graph representations are constructed for the first and second vessel systems. The vessel branches are labeled with different labels based on the graph representations.
US09984449B2
A restoration filter generation device which generates a restoration filter for performing a restoration process on luminance system image data, the restoration process being based on a point-image distribution in an optical system, the luminance system image data being image data relevant to luminance and being generated based on image data for each color of multiple colors, the restoration filter generation device including an MTF acquisition device which acquires a modulation transfer function MTF for the optical system; and a restoration filter generation device which generates the restoration filter based on the modulation transfer function MTF, the restoration filter suppressing an MTF value of image data for each color of the multiple colors to 1.0 or less at least in a region of a particular spatial frequency or less, the image data for each color of the multiple colors corresponding to the luminance system image data after the restoration process.
US09984445B2
A tone mapping unit applies tone mapping to a block of pixel values. In each of a plurality of iterations, one or more lines of pixel values are processed based on information relating to pixel values of at least one previous line of the block which have been processed in at least one previous iteration. The information is used to determine one or more tone mapping relationships which is/are used to map the pixel values of the current line to tone-mapped pixel values. Furthermore, the information is updated based on the pixel values of the current line and stored for use in processing pixel values of a subsequent line of pixel values of the block in a subsequent iteration.
US09984443B2
A camera for polarimetric, multispectral imaging is described. Such cameras are used in photonics, computational imaging and multispectral imaging in which both multispectral and polarimetric sensing modalities are used simultaneously for detection, recognition and identification. The camera enables multiple spectral images to be recorded simultaneously using polarizing beamsplitters and mirrors to divide the image according polarimetric and spectral bands. These multiple, polarized images are recorded on a single focal plane array (FPA) simultaneously. An image processor allows for the resolution of the subsequent image to be improved.
US09984437B2
A registration system and method includes a configurable device (104) having one or more moveable features (122) such that movement of the moveable features can be determined relative to a reference to define a specific configuration of the configurable device. An imaging system (110) has a display on which the configurable device is viewable. A processing device (112) is configured to register the configurable device with a coordinate system of the imaging system based on the specific configuration of the configurable device.
US09984434B1
The present disclosure describes techniques for removing unnecessary processing stages from a graphics processing pipeline based on the format of data passed between the stages. Starting with a stage at a middle point in a pipeline, formats of data that are input to and output from the middle stage may be compared to each other. If the formats match, the middle stage may be removed from the pipeline. Thereafter, the format of data input to a pair of middle stages of the pipeline and output from the pipeline may be compared and, if they match, the middle pair may be deleted. This process may repeat until a middle pair is found where no match occurs between the input and output format. The remaining stages of the pipeline may be retained. In cases where a pipeline is not symmetrical, the formats of data at each node may be compared to each other. If a node possesses a format that does not match the format of any other node, then the stages between the node and its closest endpoint in the pipeline may be retained.
US09984429B2
The present disclosures relates generally to image signal processing and encoding signal within imagery. One claim recites a method comprising: obtaining data representing captured imagery, the captured imagery depicting packaging including digital watermarking, the digital watermarking including an orientation signal that is detectable in a transform domain; generating a n-dimensional feature set of the data representing captured imagery, the n-dimensional feature set representing the captured imagery in a spatial domain, where n is an integer great than 13; using a trained classifier to predict the presence of the orientation signal in a transform domain from the feature set in the spatial domain. Of course, other claims and combinations are provided too.
US09984424B2
Populating a new community for a social network includes receiving metadata associated with a new community for a social network, determining, based on the metadata, at least one similar community related to the new community, utilizing the at least one similar community as a template to populate the new community with content, tags, and membership, and maintaining the at least one similar community and the new community by creating, reading, updating, and deleting (CRUD) the content, the tags, and the membership.
US09984420B1
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for pricing an insurance premium based on telematics data. The system includes a communications interface and a business logic processor in communication with the communications interface. The communications interface receives telematics data collected by a telematics acquisition device. A business logic processor determines an insurance quote for a user based on the received telematics data, vehicle data, and vehicle owner data. The communications interface transmits the insurance quote to the user of the vehicle.
US09984415B2
An insurance policy management computing system (201) stores a legally-binding insurance policy as a read-only document including the complete policy history. To facilitate revisions to the policy, the computing system (201) provides an opportunity (202) to revise an insurance policy and recalls (203) the currently legally-binding insurance policy. Since the legally-binding insurance policy is a read-only document, the computing system (201) uses the legally-binding policy to generate an editable version that is a complete copy of the legally-binding policy. Once the editable version of the insurance policy has been generated, the input revisions can be incorporated into the policy and then, the revised version of the insurance policy is saved as a read-only, now-current version of the insurance policy. The new legally-binding insurance policy has a new creation and effective dates of the various policy elements. To evaluate the insurance policy, the most recently bound legally-binding insurance policy is accessed and that document contains the currently effective policy, as well as the policy history.
US09984414B2
A system for facilitating freight transactions that includes a secure portal for receiving users' (carriers, forwarders, shippers, and market makers) data that includes orders and capacity postings between destinations. The system also includes a back-end modules configured for collecting capacity/shipping volume data to generate forecast data, managing derivative contracts, determining best possible routing given the orders and capacity postings, breaking the best possible routing into component segments that is then traded as derivative contracts, providing report, managing settlement and clearinghouse functions, and receiving risk assessment about the forecast data. The system further includes an interface layer for facilitating communications between the portal and the back-end modules. The system moreover includes a contract and capacity management module configured for enabling the carriers and the forwarders to strategically position their capacity. The system yet also includes a real time integration layer configured for enabling external systems to interact with the system.
US09984408B1
Disclosed are various embodiments for facilitating a cooperative shopping session. A mobile computing device establishes a session with a remote computing device. Product data is displayed by the mobile computing device in association with the session. The product data is shared with the remote computing device in association with the session. The mobile computing device receives an indication of a user interaction with the product data at the remote computing device. The mobile computing device displays the user interaction with the product data in conjunction with the product data and in association with the session.
US09984401B2
A price check system may receive a vehicle identification number (VIN) or determine the VIN via an image from a mobile price check application. The price check system may determine if build data is available for a vehicle associated with the VIN and, if build data is available for the vehicle, determine one or more prices for the vehicle based on the build data and provide same to the mobile price check application. If build data is not available for the vehicle, the price check system may prepare and send a request to the mobile price check application to obtain configuration information on the vehicle from a user of the mobile price check application. The price check system may then determine one or more prices for the vehicle based on the configuration information and provide same to the mobile price check application in real time or substantially real time.
US09984396B2
Disclosed is a system and method for directing a customer to one of a plurality of checkout lanes in a retail store. The system includes a checkout lane selection module that is in communication with each of the plurality of checkout lanes. The checkout lane selection module is part of a computing device, such as a server, that may be resident in the retail store, or remote from the retail store. The checkout lane selection module receives lane status information from each of the plurality of checkout lanes. And the checkout lane selection module receives customer information from a customer profile and from the customer's shopping basket. The checkout lane selection module provides the customer a preferred lane selection, and/or details about each checkout lane so that the customer can make an informed choice about which checkout lane to use.
US09984391B2
A social networking website logs information about actions taken by members of the website. For a particular member of the website, the website generates socially relevant ads for the member based on the actions logged for other members on the website to whom the member is connected (i.e., the member's online friends). The advertiser associated with the social ad may compensate the social networking website for publishing the ad on the website. When presenting a member with a social ad, the website may optimize advertising revenue by selecting an ad from the received ads that will maximize the expected value of the social ad. The expected value may be computed according to a function that includes the member's affinity for the ad content and the bid amount. The technique is also applied for providing socially relevant information off the social networking website.
US09984381B2
A system detects and manages customer interactions with a product being presented at a physical location. A customer tracking device detects a customer within a predefined distance of a product during a first time period. A product motion sensor detects a movement of the product while the customer is within the predefined distance of the product during the first time period. One or more processors identify and record a first price of the product during the first time period. The customer tracking device further detects the customer within the predefined distance of the product during a second time period. One or more processors further determine a second price of the product during the second time period, and then determine a lower price of the product by comparing the first price with the second price. A price transmitter transmits the lower price to the customer during the second time period.
US09984371B2
Methods of de-tokenizing secure payment tokens are disclosed. A method according to some embodiments includes receiving a request from an issuer to de-tokenize a secure payment token associated with a transaction conducted using a mobile terminal, generating a metric indicative of a risk of de-tokenizing the secure payment token, comparing the metric indicative of the risk of de-tokenizing the secure payment token to a predetermined threshold, and transmitting a response to the request to de-tokenize the secure payment token, wherein the response is based on the comparison of the metric indicative of the risk of de-tokenizing the secure payment token with the predetermined threshold.
US09984370B2
A system and method to support identity theft protection and, in particular, to a system and method for supporting identity theft protection as part of a distributed service oriented ecosystem in Internet protocol (IP) multimedia subsystem (IMS) and non-IMS networks. The system includes an identity session initiation protocol (SIP) application server configured to act as a security assertion markup language (SAML) bridge, which allows an SIP enabled device or a non-SIP enabled device to attach to a telecommunications service provider network. A user may accept or reject an authorization request using the SIP enabled device or non-SIP enabled device.
US09984369B2
A method of identifying target video content is provided. The method includes accessing content metadata of a video content item at a content storage. The method also includes determining at least one content signature based on the video content item and determining whether the video content item includes target content based at least partially on the content signature and the content metadata.
US09984367B2
Payment of non-settlement currencies includes developing a non-settlement currency exchange separate from a financial institution unwilling to assume risks in converting non-settlement currencies. The non-settlement currency exchange includes a predictive model to provide an estimated currency exchange rate. Schemes are provided where a merchant may share currency exchange profit and/or currency exchange losses with a financial institution. The exchange rate may be persisted in subsequent related financial transactions such as a refund, a chargeback, and/or a representment.
US09984364B2
An illustrative method, system, and device for communicating a message over a network between a trusted service manager and a mobile device having a security element includes the steps of: providing a message having a header field and a message field; providing a number in the header field that is unique to the mobile device; providing a message in the message field, the message coming from the mobile device if communicated from the mobile device to a trusted service manager and coming from the trusted service manager if communicated from the trusted service manager to the mobile device; and providing a messaging protocol that enables the network to distinguish between a message having the unique mobile device number in the header field and a message that is without the unique mobile device number in the header field.
US09984363B2
Generally described, the present disclosure relates to communications and more particularly, to a system providing relevant services to transient devices in wireless networks and methods thereof. In one illustrative embodiment, a Unified Communications and Collaboration (UCC) client on a device can be synchronized with a network so that the device can appear as a local entity. The UCC client can facilitate exchange of data to ease the integration of the device into the local environment. After being synchronized, the UCC client can seek out available assistance from the local network and provide it to the user. Typically, the data retrieved from the local network pertains to the current location. The local network can be used to provide wireless service to mobile devices in order to remove them from their carrier network, including providing a local breakout via a Private Branch Exchange (PBX).
US09984354B1
Systems involving a plurality of cameras with clocks may not remain time synchronized during operation. Described in this disclosure are techniques for synchronizing one or more of the clocks of a plurality of cameras or the images produced by the plurality of cameras. In one implementation, a timestamp projector produces an optical timestamp encoding data indicative of timing. One or more cameras may acquire images of a scene that include the optical timestamp. The images may be processed to recover the data indicative of timing. This data may be used to set the clock of the camera, set timestamps associated with the images for subsequent use, and so forth.
US09984350B2
Improved methods, systems, and apparatus are described for determining a location using chaining triangulation for one of a plurality of nodes in a wireless node network having a server. A first of the nodes determines a location of the first node, and transmits the location of the first node to the server. A second of the nodes determines a location of the second node, and transmits the location of the second node to the server. The server receives the locations of the first and second notes, and infers a location of a third of the nodes. Thereafter, the server triangulates the location of the one node based upon a determined distance of the one node to each of the locations of the first and second nodes and a determined distance of the one node to the inferred location of the third node.
US09984346B1
A system and method for evaluating, scoring, and encouraging group performance towards a common goal is disclosed. In an embodiment, individuals of a group have an incentive to encourage other group members to drive better and achieve an improved overall driving score for the group. A group driving score is determined based on the driving performances of members of the group. The group may establish a driving score goal and work toward achieving that goal using real-time group reinforcement communications.
US09984345B2
According to some embodiments of the present invention there is provided a computerized method for visually modifying a rule. The method may comprise receiving a rule and two or more data records, the rule comprising two or more computation instructions and each one of the data records comprising one or more physical location value. The method may comprise displaying a simulation comprising visual objects, each of the visual objects showing a result of applying the rule to one of the data records, and displayed on a computerized display at a position corresponding to the physical location value of the data records. The method may comprise receiving a marking from a user of one or more of the visual objects on the computerized display. The method may comprise modifying the computation instructions to produce a modified rule, based on the markings, and sending the modified rule.
US09984342B2
Data relevant to a predefined data object of a set of predefined data objects can be extracted from a unit of date received at a recurring revenue management system. The extracted relevant data can be populated to an instance of the predefined data object. One or more relationships between the instance of the predefined data object and at least one other instance of the predefined data object or a second predefined data object. The defining occurs based on a set of parameters associated with the predefined data object and content of the extracted data. An opportunity can be generated for a sale or renewal of a recurring revenue asset based at least in part on the one or more relationships, and the generated opportunity can be presented to a user. Related methods, systems, and computer program products are also described.
US09984337B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for providing distributed learning over a plurality of parallel machine network nodes by allocating a per-sender receive queue at every machine network node and performing distributed in-memory training; and training each unit replica and maintaining multiple copies of the unit replica being trained, wherein all unit replicas train, receive unit updates and merge in parallel in a peer-to-peer fashion, wherein each receiving machine network node merges updates at later point in time without interruption and wherein the propagating and synchronizing unit replica updates are lockless and asynchronous.
US09984334B2
Anomalies in real time series are detected by first determining a similarity matrix of pairwise similarities between pairs of normal time series data. A spectral clustering procedure is applied to the similarity matrix to partition variables representing dimensions of the time series data into mutually exclusive groups. A model of normal behavior is estimated for each group. Then, for the real time series data, an anomaly score is determined, using the model for each group, and the anomaly score is compared to a predetermined threshold to signal the anomaly.
US09984331B2
A vehicle accident detection method and system is provided. The method includes receiving location coordinates associated with a location of an occurring vehicular accident. Data associated with possible causes of the vehicular accident is received from sensors. Traffic related rules associated with a geographical location are retrieved and analyzed with respect to the data. Parameters associated with at least one vehicle involved in the vehicular accident and a possible cause are determined via execution of programming logic and transmitted to additional systems. The possible cause for the vehicular accident is determined from all possible causes based on matching current and historical accident circumstances. Additionally, weighting factors may be available and adjusted over time for accurate accident detection. A possible cause comprising a greatest weighting factor may be used to identify a most likely cause.
US09984324B2
One embodiment provides a system comprising a memory device for maintaining deterministic neural data relating to a digital neuron and a logic circuit for deterministic neural computation and stochastic neural computation. Deterministic neural computation comprises processing a neuronal state of the neuron based on the deterministic neural data maintained. Stochastic neural computation comprises generating stochastic neural data relating to the neuron and processing the neuronal state of the neuron based on the stochastic neural data generated.
US09984320B2
A multi-smartcard may include: a support; a touchscreen disposed on the support configured to receive an input operation from a user including a first input operation and a second input operation; and a processor configured to generate a first user interface (UI) of card information corresponding to the input operation applied to the touchscreen and instruct the touch screen to display the first UI, and to receive the first and second input operations, wherein the processor is configured to change the card category in response to receiving the first input operation and change the card type in response to receiving the second input operation.
US09984313B2
Embodiments herein provide computer-implemented techniques for allowing a user computing device to extract financial card information using optical character recognition (“OCR”). Extracting financial card information may be improved by applying various classifiers and other transformations to the image data. For example, applying a linear classifier to the image to determine digit locations before applying the OCR algorithm allows the user computing device to use less processing capacity to extract accurate card data. The OCR application may train a classifier to use the wear patterns of a card to improve OCR algorithm performance. The OCR application may apply a linear classifier and then a nonlinear classifier to improve the performance and the accuracy of the OCR algorithm. The OCR application uses the known digit patterns used by typical credit and debit cards to improve the accuracy of the OCR algorithm.
US09984302B2
A computer-implemented method for detecting a presence of an object-of-interest in a system is provided. The method includes imaging the first object-of-interest including an identifier, wherein the imaging generates a first set of image data and determining the portion of the image data including the identifier based on a predetermined location. The method further includes dividing the portion of the image data including the identifier into at least two segments Next, the presence of the object-of-interest is determined by determining if intensity values within each segment exceed a presence threshold.
US09984297B2
An object detection device may include: a candidate object selection unit suitable for selecting candidate objects from a stereo image transmitted from moving cameras; a global motion estimation unit suitable for estimating global motions representing movement of the moving cameras from the stereo image; and an object determination unit suitable for detecting a moving object from the stereo image based on the candidate objects and the global motions.
US09984293B2
Video and corresponding metadata is accessed. Events of interest within the video are identified based on the corresponding metadata, and best scenes are identified based on the identified events of interest. A video summary can be generated including one or more of the identified best scenes. The video summary can be generated using a video summary template with slots corresponding to video clips selected from among sets of candidate video clips. Best scenes can also be identified by receiving an indication of an event of interest within video from a user during the capture of the video. Metadata patterns representing activities identified within video clips can be identified within other videos, which can subsequently be associated with the identified activities.
US09984292B2
A speaker device with a processing unit and a storage device for controlling the operation of the speaker device also has a speaker unit and a connection module. The processing unit adjusts the speaker unit to operate in a first sound mode based on the first frequency characteristic of the speaker unit, and detects whether the connection module is communicatively coupled with a sound device having a second frequency characteristic. The processing unit switches the speaker unit from the first sound mode into a second sound mode based on the comparison between the first frequency characteristic and the second frequency characteristic.
US09984276B2
A group-verification fingerprint identifying method includes: simultaneously receiving fingerprint input operations from multiple users via a multi-finger fingerprint sensor of a fingerprint identifying apparatus for multiple fingers; generating a fingerprint combination corresponding to the fingerprint input operations; retrieving a registered fingerprints combination; generating a comparison result via comparing the fingerprints combination with the registered fingerprint combination. A more complicated verification mechanism can be provided to enhance security of identification via using group-verification and fingerprint identification.
US09984275B2
A fingerprint sensor having electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection includes a first ESD protection electrode and a second ESD protection electrode. The first ESD protection electrode is connected to an ESD protection circuit for providing an ESD path, where the first ESD protection electrode and a fingerprint sensor electrode array are formed in a same layer of the fingerprint sensor. The second ESD electrode is connected to the first ESD electrode via multiple conductive via.
US09984260B2
An IC tag issuing apparatus for writing identification data to IC tags, the IC tags arranged in multiple rows aligned as an IC tag continuous body, and issuing the result, the IC tags issuing apparatus including second antenna units arranged to face each row of the IC tags arranged in multiple rows, respectively, and functioning as a plurality of writing row antenna units for writing the identification data to the IC tags by the electromagnetic induction method and a third antenna unit arranged at a downstream side in the conveyance direction of the IC tag continuous body from the second antenna unit and functioning as an electric-wave type antenna unit for writing the identification data to the IC tags by the electric wave method and constituted to write the identification data by using the third antenna unit to the IC tag in which the identification data could not be written by using the second antenna unit.
US09984249B2
A computing device includes a network interface, a storage controller, a sharing tool and a protection service. The network interface communicatively couples the computing device to one or more computing devices. The storage controller is configured to access a plurality of digital payloads. Each of the digital payloads is associated with a plurality of access tags including content tags and context tags. The sharing tool is configured to share, with a recipient computing device via the network interface, a selected digital payload. The protection service configured to automatically control sharing of the selected digital payload with the recipient computing device based on determining that a prospective recipient associated with the recipient computing device has a work designation or a personal designation that is inconsistent with one or both of a context indicated by the context tags and a content indicated by the content tags.
US09984247B2
Accessing a password-secured computer software application by acquiring an input password, generating at a first computer an output password from the input password using password generation data, where the output password differs from the input password, and providing the output password to a second computer as part of a request to access a password-secured computer software application using the output password, where the password-secured computer software application is accessible using the output password, and where the password-secured computer software application is inaccessible using the input password.
US09984243B1
In electronic document access control, a document controller receives a document access request from an access device. The request is to access an electronic document previously stored in a datastore coupled to the document controller. The request includes a current location of the access device, and the electronic document is associated with an access location attribute. The document controller compares the current location of the access device with the access location attribute associated with the electronic document. In response to a match between the current location and the access location attribute, the document controller sends the electronic document to the access device. In response to no match between the current location and the access location attribute, the document controller does not send the electronic document to the access device.
US09984241B2
A method, an apparatus, and a system for data protection. A specific solution is: a proxy server receives outgoing data from a user terminal, where the outgoing data carries an identifier of a user; acquires a user grade and a credit value of the user from a credit server according to the identifier, where the credit value is a violation percentage of historical outgoing data of the user; sends the outgoing data, the user grade, and the credit value to a DLP server so that the DLP server inspects security of the outgoing data according to the user grade and the credit value, and further generates a message including an inspection result; and receives, from the DLP server, the message including the inspection result and uses a policy corresponding to the inspection result to process the outgoing data. The present invention is used during a protection process of outgoing data.
US09984239B2
According to an embodiment, a concealing apparatus includes a concealing processor, a mapping information generator, a tag generator, and a concealed, information output unit. The concealing processor is configured to generate a concealed text by concealing a plaintext with a concealing key. The mapping information generator is configured to generate mapping information that is mapped to a keyword for retrieving the plaintext. The tag generator is configured to generate a tag based on the keyword and the mapping information. The concealed information output unit is configured to output the concealed text and the tag as a pair.
US09984236B2
A client hosted virtualization system (CHVS) includes a processor to execute code, a component, and a non-volatile memory. The non volatile memory includes BIOS code and code to implement a virtualization manager. The virtualization manager is operable to initialize the CHVS, launch a virtual machine on the CHVS, and assign the component to the virtual machine, such that the virtual machine has control of the component. The CHVS is configurable to execute the BIOS and not the virtualization manager, or to execute the virtualization manager and not the BIOS.
US09984232B2
A method and an electronic device are provided for operating a security function. The method includes receiving a request for activation of a security function, confirming whether a security indicator is set, and when the security indicator is set, applying the security indicator to a security function screen image, based on activation of the security function, and outputting the security function screen image to a display of the electronic device.
US09984225B2
A method and system for providing tokenless secure login by visual cryptography. The method includes generating a password sequence and converting the password sequence to a password image. The method also includes encrypting the password image into a first image cipher and a second image cipher. The method further includes transmitting the first image cipher to a first electronic device of a user. Further, the method includes displaying the second image cipher on a second electronic device of the user. Moreover, the method includes enabling decryption of the password image by matching the first image cipher and the second image cipher using an image capture device on the first electronic device. The system includes a plurality of electronic devices, communication interface, memory, and processor.
US09984215B2
A method of obtaining password data for entry to an application running on a device. The method may include running a password manager application on a device. The password manager application may identify one or more applications installed on the device. The password manager application may display the identified applications on a display of the device. The password manager application may receive a user selection of a displayed application. The password manager application may determine whether an entry exists for the selected application in a memory associated with the password manager application. If no entry exists, the password manager application may generate an entry comprising password data for the selected application. If an entry exists, the password manager application may retrieve password data relating to the selected application.
US09984211B2
A clinical information management system including a patient sensor system that collects data of a patient, a hospital information system that displays the data, a clinical server that processes the data from the patient sensor system and determines whether the patient is in need of assistance, and a monitoring apparatus. The clinical server transmits a message to the monitoring apparatus based on the data.
US09984210B2
A method for performing a job list of radiographic recordings indicated in a radiographic information systems includes communicating the job list to a mobile apparatus, e.g. a smartphone, whereby, in a first step, a peer-to-peer communication is set up between the radiographic information system and the mobile apparatus by a Near Field Communication technique, whereupon the job list is transmitted to the mobile apparatus via a WIFI peer-to-peer communication. A radiographer then completes the job list by using, inter alia, a self-triggering direct radiographic panel and a radiographic generator.
US09984209B2
An example method includes presenting, by a computing device, a range of available parameter values for the therapy parameter via a circular track, indicating, by the computing device, a present parameter value for the therapy parameter via the circular track, and receiving, by the computing device, via a user interface (UI), user input specifying a target parameter value for the therapy parameter, indicating, by the computing device, the target parameter value in conjunction with the present parameter value via the circular track, receiving by the computing device, via the UI, user input activating an adjustment from the present parameter value to the target parameter value, and in response to receiving the user input activating the adjustment, controlling, by the computing device, the medical device to adjust the therapy parameter value from the present parameter value to the target parameter value.
US09984208B2
Disclosed herein is a framework for facilitating a medical emergency workflow. In accordance with one aspect, a code cart is paired with a computer system. The code cart may include tracking tags attached to the code cart and cart items. The computer system may include a data collector for scanning the tracking tags and an application. The application may be executable by a processor to perform steps including receiving, from the data collector, information associated with the code cart and one or more selected cart items, and updating a medical emergency record based at least in part on the received information.
US09984204B2
A monitor/defibrillator (100) is described having an optical image sensor (114) such as a barcode reader or an optical character reader for accurate and timely entry of information during a medical treatment event. The barcode reader or optical character reader enables a one-step capture of patient identifying information, administered therapeutic substances, equipment and other event information. The information is decoded by the monitor/defibrillator and entered into system memory for later use.
US09984196B2
A method comprises identifying a semiconductor device layout region comprising a first n-type metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) device having a first pair of face-to-face diodes adjacent to a second n-type MOS device having a second pair of face-to-face diodes and adding a dummy device between a first body contact of the first n-type MOS device and a second body contact of the second MOS device.
US09984188B2
A method of forming a mixed mode response from a single ended mode input includes modeling a first voltage controlled current source based on relative values of a vpositive input signal and a vnegative input signal and modeling a second voltage controlled current source based on relative values of the vpositive input signal and the vnegative input signal. A method of forming a single ended mode response from a mixed mode input modeling a first voltage controlled current source based on relative values of a vDIFFin input signal and a vCOMMin input signal and modeling a second voltage controlled current source based on relative values of the vDIFFin input signal and the vCOMMin input signal, the second voltage controlled being connected to ground through a second terminating impedance that is equal to the reference impedance (Z0).
US09984186B2
An electronic computer-aided design tool includes a design module and a printed electronics printer coupled to the design module. The design module determines one or more design specifications for an electronic device. The printed electronics printer produces one or more printed electronics prototypes of the electronic device based at least in part on at least on at least one of the design specifications. In some embodiments, the electronic computer-aided design tool includes a prototype testing unit that tests prototypes made by the printed electronics printer.
US09984184B2
The present invention relates to a biological network analysis device and a method therefor. The biological network analysis method includes receiving biological data from an external server, extracting biological information from the received biological data to generate a biological interaction database, storing the generated biological interaction database, receiving input of a plurality of biological objects for a simulation, and performing a simulation by setting each of the biological objects to a node and automatically and generating a Boolean role based on the generated biological interaction database. Accordingly, the biological network analysis method conveniently designs a biological network and simulates the biological network based on biological interaction information by generating the biological interaction database.
US09984183B2
A method of identifying and classifying social complex behaviors among a group of model organisms, comprising implanting at least one RFID transponder in each model organism in said group of model organisms; enclosing said group of model organisms in a monitored space divided into RFID monitored segments; RFID tracking a position of each model organism by reading said at least one RFID transponder in each model organism over a period of time; capturing a sequence of images of each model organism over said period of time; and calculating at least one spatiotemporal model of each model organism based on time synchronization of said RFID tracked position of said model organism with said sequence of images.
US09984165B2
Methods, search platforms, systems, and storage media for handling queries in a database system. The database system includes at least one client and at least one search platform. The search platform maintains pre-collected search results which are associated which confidence factors. A confidence factor indicates a probability of the associated pre-collected search result being valid. The search platform receives a query indicating at least one search criterion to the search platform. The confidence factors associated with the identified pre-collected search results are utilized to increase the mean probability of pre-collected search results returned to the client. For example, pre-collected search results complying with the at least one search criterion and being associated with confidence factors having values exceeding a given threshold are returned to the client.
US09984164B2
Computer systems and methods allow users to annotate content items found in a corpus such as the World Wide Web Annotations, which can include any descriptive and/or evaluative metadata related to a document, are collected from a user and stored in association with that user. Users are able to annotate and view their annotations for any document they encounter while interacting with the corpus, including hits returned in a search of the corpus. Users are also able to search their annotations or to limit searches to documents they have annotated. Metadata from annotations can also be aggregated across users and aggregated metadata applied in generating search results.
US09984163B2
A method, system and computer program product may identify information of interest to form identified points of interest using a report specification, create a master detail relationship using the identified points of interest, apply an order to the identified points of interest, apply annotations to the identified points of interest, apply highlighting to the identified points of interest, generate an enhanced report specification based on at least the order, annotations, or highlighting of the identified points of interest, and execute the enhanced report specification.
US09984161B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for authorship accountability in a blog search engine. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for authorship accountability in a blog search engine is provided. The method includes receiving a search engine query specifying both query terms to query blog content and also authorship criteria for authors of blog content in respective entries of a results set returned by the search engine query. The method additionally includes evaluating the authorship criteria for each author of corresponding blog content returned by the search engine query and computing a relevance for each entry in the results set based upon the evaluated authorship criteria. Finally, the method includes presenting in order of relevance a listing of blog content corresponding to the results set.
US09984159B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on non-transitory computer storage media. One of the methods is performed by a computer system and includes receiving data representing first keywords selected by a user to constitute a first group of keywords and data representing distinct second keywords selected by the user to constitute a second group of keywords; determining first characteristics of each of the first keywords and second characteristics of each of the second keywords; identifying a common characteristic, common to both the first characteristics and the second characteristics; identifying third keywords that have the common characteristic, wherein all of the third keywords are neither first keywords nor second keywords; obtaining one or more metrics associated with the first, second, and third keywords; and outputting data to enable rendering, on a computing device, a graphic presentation about the first keywords, the second keywords, the third keywords, and the metrics.
US09984153B2
A music play method includes detecting at least one group of dynamic parameters of an electronic device and obtaining detected dynamic parameters. Once a music playlist of the electronic device is determined to be adjusted according to the detected dynamic parameters, the music play is adjusted according to the detected dynamic parameters and an adjusted music playlist is obtained.
US09984140B1
A database service may store data on behalf of clients in multiple replicas on respective computing nodes in different availability zones. The service may employ a lease based protocol to select a master replica for a replica group that does not depend on an external service, but is managed by client processes executing on the database hosts themselves. To assume the role of a primary (writable) master for a database table, a master host may acquire a lease by updating a lease record for the table that is maintained in a consistent data store. If the master host fails to renew the lease within a pre-determined lease period, it may revert to read-only mode, and a secondary master host, having determining (based on the lease record) that the primary master no longer holds the lease, may assume the role of primary master by acquiring the lease and making itself writable.
US09984137B2
A system, method and program product for prioritizing visual objects for a configurable interface. A system is provided that includes a computer system having: a grouping system for defining a group of members and for assigning weights to members of the group; a behavior analysis system for collecting behaviors of the members of the group; and a prioritization system that prioritizes visual objects based on the collected behaviors and weights assigned to the members of the group.
US09984123B2
Embodiments for reducing resource consumption of a similarity index in data deduplication by a processor. In a similarity index of a deduplication system configured to process snapshots, only a latest generation of repository data is represented in the similarity index where a single latest representative value of an index entry of a snapshot is maintained in the similarity index. Implicit deletion is applied in the similarity index such that the similarly index entry is not removed or overwritten until a change with associated data of the similarity index entry is detected. A subset of bytes of the representative value is maintained in a similarity index entry thereby reducing an input/output (I/O) load on the similarity index of the deduplication system.
US09984121B2
A computer-implemented method for determining a query execution plan based on transaction state may include determining that a first set of database values in a database table are in a committed transaction state and that a second set of database values in the database table are in an uncommitted transaction state. In response to the determining, the first set of database values may have a first set of statistics generated and the second set of database values may have a second set of statistics generated. The first and second set of statistics may be for use in determining a query execution plan.
US09984119B2
There are provided a method, a computer program product, and a system for maintaining a materialized view defined on a relation of a relational database. The method includes the step of performing content-based filtering on the relation to identify an update to the relation as being irrelevant with respect to the materialized view.
US09984117B2
The present invention provides an M2M data processing method. The method includes: receiving a registration request sent by an M2M device; obtaining a filled capability model according to a capability model and capability information of the M2M device after authentication on the registration request succeeds, where the capability model includes three types of capabilities: a communication capability, a control capability, and a measurement capability, each capability is divided into multiple subentries, and the filled capability model describes at least one subentry corresponding to three types of capabilities of the M2M device; updating an overall capability model according to the filled capability model, where capability information of all registered M2M devices managed by an M2M service platform is recorded in the overall capability model in a type division manner of the capability model.
US09984115B2
A messaging augmentation system comprises a message input module that receives a text, audio or video message from a user. A parsing module parses the message into at least one message fragment, a matching module compares each of the message fragments with a database of stored clips to identify matching clips, and a delivery module delivers the matching clips to the user to augment the message being sent to a recipient. Each stored clip includes an audio portion, and the clip database further includes, for each clip, caption data that includes text captions of the audio message, and corresponding file location data. Preferably the system is distributed over a network, such that the message input module is resident on a client device of the user, and the matching module is resident on a server.
US09984113B2
A method of constructing a plurality of downloadable files from an application file and a plurality of transcripts. The application file stores data blocks and implements an application. Each of the transcripts stores at least one order in which at least a portion of the data blocks of the application file were accessed by the application when executed previously. The transcripts are combined into a combined transcript storing at least one combined order comprising a combined portion of the data blocks. The data blocks of the combined portion are arranged in a data structure having an origin. A first set of data blocks within a predetermined distance from the origin is stored in at least one initial execution file. A second set of data blocks outside the predetermined distance from the origin is stored in downloadable sequence files.
US09984107B2
A system for joining modeled data with new data sources. Modeled tabular data containing categorical and metric data is received. New data containing structured or non-structured data is received. The new data is indexed and data clusters and/or data facets are identified. Data clusters and data facets are also identified within the received modeled data. A textual query from a user is received and semantically indexed into keywords. Data clusters and data facets within the new data are matched to the keywords in the indexed query. Data clusters and data facets within in the modeled data are matched to the keywords in the indexed query. A table is generated containing the modeled data and matching data clusters and data facets from the new data.
US09984105B2
Automatically discovering application components that populate a user interface element may be provided. A directed graph may be built from an application code implementing a backend layer of an application. A code element in the application code may be identified that matches an input element of a user interface of the application. A data store element of a data store implementing data layer of the application may be identified that matches the input element. For the input element, a map of trees may be built tracing through the directed graph based on the code element and the data store element that are identified. The map of trees may be grouped based on at least matching of annotations of the trees in the map, a similarity of begin and end points of the trees in the map and matching of the end points of the trees in the map.
US09984103B2
An industrial control system stores three types of models. Models of a first type are associated with models of a second type. When a model of the first type is associated with a model of a third type, the set of models of the second type that are associated with the model of the first type is established. The industrial control system can provide an indication of the set of models of the second type. The industrial control system also establishes the set of models of the first type that are associated with the set of models of the second type. The industrial control system provides an indication of the set of models of the first type. In some embodiments, the industrial control system is a recipe management system and the models of the first, second, and third types are capability models, equipment models, and recipe models.
US09984095B2
Methods and systems for handling lock state information between a first storage system node and a second storage system node coupled via a network link are provided. The second storage system node stores lock state information at a storage device previously managed by the first storage system node and notifies the first storage system node of a storage device location where the lock state information is stored. The second storage system node then transfers ownership of the storage device to the first storage system node that copies the lock state information from the storage device location to a memory location managed by the first storage system node. The first storage system node uses the lock state information to reconstruct any locks for storage space presented to a client and then processes client requests for reading and writing information at the storage device.
US09984094B2
A computerized system and method provides for sharing digital assets among multiple different organizations in a multi-organization system, and further providing that one or more of localized digital assets can be assembled using digital assets, templates and rules specified by different organizations. Further, the various organizations can contribute and share digital assets with organizations, while controlling the localization of the asset with brand or other information both as specified by the provider organization and as specified by the user organization.
US09984091B2
In a compression processing storage system, using a pool of compression cores, the compression cores are assigned to process either compression operations, decompression operations, or decompression and compression operations, which are scheduled for processing. Only decompression operations are assigned to the plurality of compression cores having an idle status, where the idle status represents those of the plurality of compression cores that have yet to process any of the compression operations, decompression operations, and decompression and compression operations during a predetermined threshold period.
US09984088B1
Techniques to provide access to file system information are disclosed. In various embodiments, an indication that a user input associated with creating a local copy of a file system object has been received is received at a file system client. The file system client determines that a user-driven pre-fetch option has been set with respect to the file system object. The file system client pre-fetches content data associated with the file system object, based at least in part on the determination that the pre-fetch option has been set with respect to the file system object.
US09984081B2
A method for distributing tables to a cluster of nodes managed by database management system (DBMS), is disclosed. Multiple data placement schemes are evaluated based on a query workload set to select a data placement scheme for the cluster of nodes. Tables, used in join operations in the workload set, are selected for evaluation of data placement schemes. Query execution costs for the workload set are generated based on estimating a query execution cost for each data placement scheme for the tables. The data placement scheme that has least costly estimated execution cost for the workload set is selected as the data placement scheme for the cluster of nodes managed by DBMS.
US09984078B2
A method for writing a file from an application of a host onto a tape includes sequentially receiving records forming the file from the application, adding a predetermined number of segments of dummy data (dummy records) subsequently to the plurality of records forming the file such that the records of the file and records of a subsequent file are not included in the same data set, interposing the dummy records between a final record of the file and a head record of the subsequent (next) file, to thereby construct at least one data set that is adjacent to one data set and does not include the records of the file, and writing a data set including the records of the file, a data set (dummy data set) including the final record of the file and the dummy records, and a data set including the subsequent file, onto the tape.
US09984075B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating suggested search queries. One method includes receiving, during a search session, a request for a suggested search query; in response to receiving the request for the suggested search query, identifying an entity that is associated with an item of media content; generating a suggested search query based on the identified entity; and providing data that causes the generated suggested search query to be presented in a user interface.
US09984074B2
An information processing apparatus includes a registration unit and a notification unit. The registration unit registers a document onto a designated registration destination if a condition for registration is satisfied when the registration of the document onto the registration destination is requested. The notification unit provides a notification of identification information for identifying the document to multiple destinations if the registration of the document is not performed. When the registration of the document identified based on the identification information notified by the notification unit is requested, the registration unit registers the document onto the registration destination if the condition for the registration is satisfied.
US09984073B2
An electronic method for course selection. The method includes identifying at least one user motivation associated with at least one user, identifying at least one course recommendation based on the at least one user motivation, and displaying the at least one course recommendation to the user on a display device. In some cases the method may include receiving an input from the user associated with the at least one course recommendation. The method may also include enrolling the user in a course based on the input received in association with the course recommendation.
US09984067B2
A consistent meaning framework (CMF) graph including a plurality of nodes linked by a plurality of edges is maintained in data storage of a data processing system. Multiple nodes among the plurality of nodes are meaning nodes corresponding to different word meanings for a common word spelling of a natural language. Each of the multiple word meanings has a respective one of a plurality of associated constraints. A natural language communication is processed by reference to the CMF graph. The processing includes selecting, for a word in the natural language communication, a selected word meaning from among the multiple word meanings based on which of the plurality of associated constraints is satisfied by the natural language communication. An indication of the selected word meaning is stored in data storage.
US09984066B2
An automated system that extract relevant structural and functional features from a patent document and carries out operations on patent documents to determine degree of overlap. The degree of overlap can then be used by the system to determine novelty and obviousness of a patent document.
US09984061B2
Mechanisms are provided, in a first computing device, for sharing content of communication sessions. The mechanisms establish a first communication session between the first computing device and a second computing device. The first computing device is operated by a first user and the second computing device is operated by a second user. The apparatus establishes, in response to content of the first communication session indicating subject matter for which additional information is desired by at least one of the first user or the second user, a second communication session between the first computing device and a question and answer (QA) system. In response to an input by the first user requesting sharing of information, the first computing device automatically copies a portion of content of the first communication session to the second communication session as an input question submitted to the QA system.
US09984060B2
Linguistic analysis based correlation of distinct events is provided. In examples, trouble shooting tickets may be received over a time period. A linguistic analysis may be performed on one or more portions of the one or more comments using a linguistic model and a similarity score may be computed for one or more keywords within the one or more portions of the one or more comments based on criteria associated with each of the keywords. The similarity score for each of the keywords may be compared to a validation threshold and if the similarity score for a subset of the keywords within a trouble shooting ticket exceeds the validation threshold, the trouble shooting ticket may be validated as associated with the incident. If a number of trouble shooting tickets are validated as being associated with the incident exceeds a service outage threshold, an alert may be issued for the service outage.
US09984053B2
Techniques are disclosed for replicating the appearance of typographical attributes and text adornments in digital publications. Content in a fixed layout format is converted into a standard digital publication format by applying a tag to each word of the content. Each tag includes a CSS letter spacing attribute that is calculated based on the effective width of each glyph forming the word in the fixed layout format, and the default width of the same glyph in the digital publication format. In this manner, the corresponding word is rendered in approximately the same space in both the fixed layout and digital publication formats.
US09984051B2
Elements within HTML based applications may be logically related; however, HTML does not have built-in support for indicating these relationships, such as parent-child relationships. Instead, relationships among HTML elements are not utilized or are incorrectly inferred based on nesting of HTML elements within an HTML document. As a result, when creating a DOM for an HTML document, the hierarchy of elements in the DOM tree is based on coded locations of elements within the HTML document rather than logical relationships among elements. To allow for indication of logical relationships, a hierarchical identifier attribute may be used in conjunction with the HTML id attribute. For example, two elements may include a hierarchical identifier of “person” with base identifiers of “name” and “address”.
US09984050B2
A method, system and a computer program product are provided for collecting ground truth data by activating a ground truth collection browser plugin with a designated toolbar button to receive answer data from a webpage which includes user-selected data passage and source data from the webpage for automatic loading into a ground truth submission window along with user input question data corresponding to the answer data so that the user input question data, source data, and answer data from the ground truth submission window may be stored as ground truth data.
US09984043B2
A method and apparatus for estimating a position distribution of radiation emission The method and apparatus include obtaining a time difference between radiations detected by a pair of detectors, and creating a probability distribution function (PDF) indicating the probability of where the radiations actually were or may have been emitted. The PDF may be created based on the time difference and timing resolutions of the pair of detectors.
US09984034B2
Computing devices are often designed in view of a particular usage scenario, but may be unsuitable for usage in other computing scenarios. For example, a notebook computer with a large display, an integrated keyboard, and a high-performance processor suitable for many computing tasks may be heavy, large, and power-inefficient; and a tablet lacking a keyboard and incorporating a low-powered processor may improve portability but may present inadequate performance for many tasks. Presented herein is a configuration of a computing device featuring a display unit with a resource-conserving processor that may be used independently (e.g., as a tablet), but that may be connected to a base unit featuring a resource-intensive processor. The operating system of the device may accordingly transition between a resource-intensive computing environment and a resource-conserving computing environment based on the connection with the base unit, thereby satisfying the dual roles of workstation and portable tablet device.
US09984023B2
A system according to one embodiment includes at least two socket servers each having a plurality of sockets, each socket being configured to receive a processor, and a plurality of adapters coupled to the serial computer expansion buses, the adapters being configured to enable communication between the processors of different ones of the socket servers. Each of the socket servers have at least one serial computer expansion bus coupled to each of the sockets thereof.
US09984022B2
Methods and apparatus to identify a communication protocol being used in a process control system are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a process control device including a port to be in communication with a bus, the process control device to receive a first signal at the port and a second signal at the port, the process control device including a protocol detector to compare the first signal to reference communication protocols to identify the first signal as being associated with a first communication protocol, the protocol detector to compare the second signal to the reference communication protocols to identify the second signal as being associated with a second communication protocol, the first communication protocol being different than the second communication protocol, the processor to process the first signal based on the first communication protocol and the second signal based on the second communication protocol.
US09984020B2
Method and apparatus for implementing an optimized credit return mechanism for packet sends. A Programmed Input/Output (PIO) send memory is partitioned into a plurality of send contexts, each comprising a memory buffer including a plurality of send blocks configured to store packet data. A storage scheme using FIFO semantics is implemented with each send block associated with a respective FIFO slot. In response to receiving packet data written to the send blocks and detecting the data in those send blocks has egressed from a send context, corresponding freed FIFO slots are detected, and a lowest slot for which credit return indicia has not be returned is determined. The highest slot in a sequence of freed slots from the lowest slot is then determined, and corresponding credit return indicia is returned. In one embodiment an absolute credit return count is implemented for each send context, with an associated absolute credit sent count tracked via software that writes to the PIO send memory, with the two absolute credit counts used for flow control.
US09984015B2
In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, a computing system is provided. The computing system includes a first bus controller to control X bus lanes, a second bus controller to control Y bus lanes, a 2-to-1 X lane multiplexer, and a Y lane system component, where Y>X>0. X lanes from the first bus controller are coupled to the 2-to-1 X lane multiplexer. X lanes from the second bus controller are coupled to the 2-to-1 X lane multiplexer, and Y-X lanes from the second bus controller are coupled directly to the Y lane system component. In addition, X lanes from the 2-to-1 X lane multiplexer are coupled to the Y lane system component.
US09984014B2
The present invention provides a technique for further improving the processing efficiency in a semiconductor device that arbitrates data transfer between a plurality of bus masters and a plurality of bus slaves.A bus control circuit controls data transfer in an address bus and a data bus between a plurality of bus masters and a plurality of bus slaves. The bus control circuit obtains access information representing the bus slave that each of the bus masters accesses on the basis of address signals output from the bus masters. The bus control circuit obtains busy information representing whether or not each bus slave is in a busy state. In the case where the bus masters compete with each other when accessing a bus slave, the bus control circuit arbitrates access from each bus master to the bus slave that is not in a busy state in accordance with the priority set for each bus master on the basis of the access information and the busy information.
US09984011B2
A multi-rank memory bus architecture is provided in which an active DRAM is unterminated and an inactive DRAM terminates to increase the data eye width at the active DRAM.
US09984008B1
An authentication mechanism for dynamic self-provisioning of a magnetic tape cartridge library by a plurality of users for community accessed data storage. Authenticating a host computer and/or users of the host computer for accessing and processing data on a magnetic tape cartridge.
US09984005B2
A method for secure processing of encrypted data within a receiver includes receiving a packet of encrypted compressed data and allocating a region of memory for storing a decrypted version of the packet of encrypted compressed data. The allocation is in response to, and after, reception of the encrypted compressed data. A size of the region of the memory allocated is equal to a size of the packet of encrypted compressed data that is received. The method further includes modifying a configuration of an access authorization filter for defining access rights to the allocated region, decrypting the packet of encrypted compressed data, and storing, in the allocated region, the decrypted compressed data of the packet. The aforementioned allocation, modification, decryption, and storage steps are repeated in response to each new reception of a packet of encrypted compressed data so as to dynamically modify the configuration of the access authorization filter.
US09984001B2
A memory system may include a plurality of first and second memory devices each comprising M-bit multi-level cells (MLCs), M-bit multi-buffers, and transmission buffers, a cache memory suitable for caching data inputted to or outputted from the plurality of first and second memory devices, and a controller suitable for programming program data cached by the cache memory to a memory device selected among the first and second memory devices by transferring the program data to M-bit multi-buffers of the selected memory device whenever the program data are cached by M bits into the cache memory, and controlling the selected memory device to perform a necessary preparation operation, except for a secondary preparation operation, of a program preparation operation, until an input of the program data is ended or the M-bit multi-buffers of the selected memory device are full.
US09983998B2
Techniques for using a cache to accelerate virtual machine (VM) I/O are provided. In one embodiment, a host system can intercept an I/O request from a VM running on the host system, where the I/O request is directed to a virtual disk residing on a shared storage device. The host system can then process the I/O request by accessing a cache that resides on one or more cache devices directly attached to the host system, where the accessing of the cache is transparent to the VM.
US09983996B2
Technologies for managing cache memory of a processor in a distributed shared memory system includes managing a distance value and an age value associated with each cache line of the cache memory. The distance value is indicative of a distance of a memory resource, relative to the processor, from which data stored in the corresponding chance line originates. The age value is based on the distance value and the number of times for which the corresponding cache line has been considered for eviction since a previous eviction of the corresponding cache line. Initially, the age value is set to the distance value. Additionally, every time a cache line is accessed, the age value associated with the accessed cache line is reset to the corresponding distance value. During a cache eviction operation, the cache line for eviction is selected based on the age value associated with each cache line. The age values of cache lines not selected for eviction are subsequently decremented such that even cache lines associated with remote memory resources will eventually be considered for eviction if not recently accessed.
US09983995B2
A cache and a method for operating a cache are disclosed. In an embodiment, the cache includes a cache controller, data cache and a delay write through cache (DWTC), wherein the data cache is separate and distinct from the DWTC, wherein cacheable write accesses are split into shareable cacheable write accesses and non-shareable cacheable write accesses, wherein the cacheable shareable write accesses are allocated only to the DWTC, and wherein the non-shareable cacheable write accesses are not allocated to the DWTC.
US09983989B1
A set of test cases is executed on a base code to produce a baseline result and on a changed code to produce a new result. From the baseline result and the new result, a first subset of tests cases is determined that are failing with the changed code but were not failing with the base code. A set of code blocks is determined in the changed code that includes those code blocks that are referenced by the first subset of test cases. A second subset is formed from the first subset by disregarding an unchanged code block that has remained unchanged from the base code to the changed code. A remaining code block is shortlisted for investigating based on a ranking of the remaining code block, which uses a number of test cases in the first subset of test cases that reference the remaining code block.
US09983981B1
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for implementing optimal regression test strategies. In use, one or more functional testing entities are identified to be utilized to determine a scope associated with at least one regression test to be performed. The at least one regression test to be performed is associated with at least one change made to a functional system based on multi-dimensional modelling. Additionally, source code is mapped to the one or more functional testing entities, the source code being associated with the functional system. Further, a multi-dimensional impact score is calculated for each of the one or more functional testing entities resulting from the at least one change made to the functional system, based on the mapping of the source code to the one or more functional testing entities. Moreover, an output is generated showing impacted functional testing entities based on the multi-dimensional impact score for each of the one or more functional testing entities.
US09983979B1
A method for matrixing of software environments is provided. The method includes receiving a selection of a plurality of aspects of a task environment for an application and executing the application in a task environment selected from a set of all possible combinations. The method includes selecting a next task environment from the set of all possible combinations, based on a result of executing the application in the task environment and reducing a matrix search scope, responsive to a failure in the executing the application in the task environment. The method includes repeating the executing, the selecting and the reducing until one of the matrix search scope as reduced, is less than or equal to a completed search scope, or the set of all possible combinations of the plurality of aspects of the task environment is in the completed search scope.
US09983978B1
Performing a query over a trace of program execution. A method includes receiving a query expression targeted at least a portion of a trace of program execution. A data structure that represents the query expression is built. The data structure has a plurality of data elements representing concepts and operations of the query. Based on the data structure, an order for evaluating the data elements is identified. The plurality of data elements is evaluated. Based on the evaluation, at least a portion of a result set is conveyed for consumption.
US09983974B2
Method, computer program product, and system for dynamic tracing, including monitoring a log file, wherein the log file comprises events, wherein an event comprises an event code and an event time stamp, receiving a ranking and rating table (“table”), wherein the table comprises one or more error codes and a ranking for each of the one or more error codes, matching the event code with an error code of the one or more error codes, calculating a rating for the error code, comparing the calculated rating to a rating threshold, enabling an information capture level based on the rating threshold of the calculated rating, in response to enabling the information capture level, copying events from the log file into an abbreviated log file, wherein the copied events include the error code for the calculated rating, creating an alert indicating a changed information capture level, and resetting the dynamic tracing.
US09983960B2
An initial remote region of a first remote storage device of a remote storage system not matching a corresponding local region of a local storage device of a remote local system is detected. A subsequent remote region on the remote storage system—matching the initial remote region is identified. Data in the initial remote region is replaced with data from the subsequent remote region.
US09983959B2
The techniques and/or systems described herein implement erasure coding to generate various chunks for a data collection (e.g., data chunks and at least one encoding chunk). The chunks are then distributed and stored within an individual group (e.g., a pod) of storage units, where a pod of storage units is determined based on characteristics that affect an amount of time it takes to recover a data collection or to restore lost data.
US09983955B1
A computer-implemented failure monitoring system and method are used with at least one server and with a plurality of resource servers. The system includes a computer storage device that stores one or more failure parameters indicative of one or more failure conditions. The system further includes one or more computer processors that include a monitoring component, an analysis component, and a throttling component. The monitoring component obtains information regarding service requests transmitted by the at least one server for which corresponding responses have not been timely received. The analysis component compares the information to the one or more failure parameters and determines whether at least one failure condition exists. The throttling component selectively inhibits transmission of service requests corresponding to the at least one failure condition while the at least one failure condition exists.
US09983942B1
A technique for providing access to a data object serving as a target of snapshot-shipping replication includes taking a system snap of the data object after completion of each of multiple snapshot-shipping updates. In response to receiving a request to take a user snap of the data object, a data storage system redirects the request to a previously generated system snap, so that the data storage system takes the user snap of the system snap rather than taking the user snap of the data object itself.
US09983938B2
Aspects extend to methods, systems, and computer program products for locally restoring functionality at acceleration components. A role can be locally restored at an acceleration component when an error is self-detected at the acceleration component (e.g., by local monitoring logic). Locally restoring a role can include resetting internal state (application logic) of the acceleration component providing the role. Self-detection of errors and local restoration of a role is less resource intensive and more efficient than using external components (e.g., high-level services) to restore functionality at an acceleration component and/or to reset an entire graph. Monitoring logic at multiple acceleration components can locally reset roles in parallel to restore legitimate behavior of a graph.
US09983936B2
According to certain aspects, a system includes a client device that includes a virtual machine (VM) executed by a hypervisor, a driver located within the hypervisor, and a data agent. The VM may include a virtual hard disk file and a change block bitmap file. The driver may intercept a first write operation generated by the VM to store data in a first sector, determine an identity of the first sector based on the intercepted write operation, determine an entry in the change block bitmap file that corresponds with the first sector, and modify the entry in the change block bitmap file to indicate that data in the first sector has changed. The data agent may generate an incremental backup of the VM based on the change block bitmap file in response to an instruction from a storage manager, where the incremental backup includes the data in the first sector.
US09983933B2
Embodiments include accelerating capture of a system dump at system failure in a computer system. A method includes capturing a system snapshot that includes data from real memory frames of the computer system and storing the system snapshot in a storage. The method also includes monitoring periodically a change between the data in the system snapshot and a current state of the real memory frames of the computer system and updating the system snapshot according to the changed real memory frames based on a rate of change of the real memory frames. Further, in response to encountering the system failure, the snapshot is updated based on a delta between the system snapshot and the current state of the real memory frames. The snapshot on the storage is used as the system dump. The present document further describes examples of other aspects such as systems, computer products.
US09983927B2
Methods and apparatuses for enhanced protection of data stored in a non-volatile memory system involve a controller capable of adapting to the failure of one or more non-volatile memory devices in the memory system. The controller stores data in the form of page stripes, each page stripe composed of data pages, and each data page stored in a different non-volatile memory device. The controller also detects failure of a non-volatile memory device in which a data page of a particular page stripe is stored, reconstructs the data page, and stores the reconstructed data page in a new page stripe, where the number of data pages in the new page stripe is less than the number of data pages in the particular page stripe, and where no page of the new page stripe is stored in a memory location within the failed non-volatile memory device.
US09983922B2
A device includes a memory device and a controller. The memory device includes read/write circuitry and a plurality of memory dies. The controller is coupled to the memory device. The controller is configured to, responsive to determining that at least one storage element of a first die of the plurality of memory dies has a characteristic indicative of an aging condition, increase the temperature of the first die by performing memory operations on the first die until detecting a condition related to the temperature.
US09983905B2
Apparatus for real-time execution of ultrasound system actions includes processor and memory to store instructions. Execution of the instructions causes processor to receive a task list including task actions that include next task action in task list. Next task action includes task instructions. Processor determines whether next task instruction in next task action is a timed instruction that includes a timestamp field having a time value indicating a time at which next task action is to be executed, and a hardware-enable field indicating hardware elements required to be available before execution of timed instruction. If next task instruction is not a timed instruction, processor may execute next task instruction. If next task instruction is timed instruction, processor determines whether time value has expired. If time value has expired, processor signals an error has occurred, and if time value has not expired, processor waits for time value. Other embodiments are described.
US09983903B2
Systems and method for a task scheduler with dynamic adjustment of concurrency levels and task granularity are disclosed for improved execution of highly concurrent analytical and transactional systems. The task scheduler can avoid both over commitment and underutilization of computing resources by monitoring and controlling the number of active worker threads. The number of active worker threads can be adapted to avoid underutilization of computing resources by giving the OS control of additional worker threads processing blocked application tasks. The task scheduler can dynamically determine a number of parallel operations for a particular task based on the number of available threads. The number of available worker threads can be determined based on the average availability of worker threads in the recent history of the application. Based on the number of available worker threads, the partitionable operation can be partitioned into a number of sub operations and executed in parallel.
US09983901B2
The present disclosure relates to dynamically adjusting shard allocation during parallel processing operations. One example method includes determining a target completion time for a batch data processing job of an input data set performed by a plurality of tasks, each of the plurality of tasks processing a different input shard including a different portion of the input data set; identifying a first task having an estimated completion time greater than the target completion time of the batch data processing job; and splitting the first input shard into a first split input shard and a second split input shard different from the first split input shard, the first split input shard including a first portion of the first input shard, and the second split input shard including a second portion of the first input shard different from the first portion.
US09983900B2
An access data collector collects access assignment data characterizing active access assignment operations of a hypervisor in assigning host computing resources among virtual machines for use in execution of the virtual machines. Then, a capacity risk indicator calculator calculates a capacity risk indicator characterizing a capacity risk of the host computing resources with respect to meeting a prospective capacity demand of the virtual machines, based on the access assignment data.
US09983898B2
An approach for generating a deployment pattern for reuse after the deployment of a set of virtual machines and related application artifacts in a networked computing environment (e.g., a cloud computing environment) is provided. In a typical embodiment, information associated with one or more previously provisioned application environments is derived and, after analyzing the information, a deployment pattern is created in the form of tangible artifacts which may be reuse for further deployments without the need to trace back the original procedures used to deploy the previously previsioned application environment.
US09983892B2
A mobile application development system includes a developer portal that receives a first application from a first developer and provides a routing library to the first developer for incorporation into the first application. An offline analysis system executes the first application and, during execution, monitors a sequence of user interface (UI) events initiated by an operator starting from an initial state and proceeding to a first state. The offline analysis system stores the sequence of UI events as a first data structure corresponding to the first state. The routing library includes instructions that, subsequent to installation of a copy of the first application in a user device, receive a link from an operating system of the user device identifying the first state and, based on the first data structure corresponding to the first state, replay, in order, each UI event from the sequence of UI events to the first application.
US09983890B2
A reference configuration is defined in a main software by a set of reference data vectors, each reference data vector referring to a technical aspect of said product. A reference data vector comprises at least one configuration parameter and/or at least one constraint to be verified by a value assigned to a configuration parameter of a reference data vector. User data vectors are instantiated on the basis of a subset of reference data vectors of the reference configuration and define a user configuration.A software synchronization module 111 running on one said user terminal in the context of an auxiliary software generates at least one value for a parameter associated to a configuration parameter in the main software. The value is assigned to associated configuration parameter of at least one user data vector instantiated in the main software. A compliance check is performed relatively to constraints defined in the main software for the associated configuration parameter. An indicator representative of a result of the compliance check is sent to the software synchronization module 111. A consistency check is performed by comparing values assigned to a same configuration parameter in at least one first modified data vector of the first user configuration and in a second modified data vector of the second user configuration.
US09983885B2
A system. The system includes a BIOS system comprising a first memory device configured to store data associated with a computer system, wherein the first memory device is a non-volatile random-access memory device. The system further includes a second non-volatile memory device configured to store a set of instructions for execution by a processor during initialization of the computer system. The set of instructions comprises at least one instruction configured to read a data value stored in the first memory device.
US09983873B2
Embodiments of systems, apparatuses, and methods for performing in a computer processor mask bit compression in response to a single mask bit compression instruction that includes a source writemask register operand, a destination writemask register operand, and an opcode are described.
US09983872B2
An apparatus performs an operation on a register, and then conditionally selects either that register or a further register on which no operation has been performed. The apparatus includes a decoder that decodes a conditional select instruction that specifies a primary source register, a secondary source register, a destination register, a condition, and an operation to be performed on a data element from the secondary source register. A data processor is responsive to the decoded conditional select instruction and the condition (i) having a predetermined outcome to perform the operation on the data element from the secondary source register to form a resultant data element and to store the resultant data element in the destination register, and (ii) not having the predetermined outcome to form the resultant data element from the data element from the primary register and to store the resultant data element in the destination register.
US09983858B1
A computer-implemented method for generating code for real-time stream processing, where data is streamed in tuples, and where each tuple has a timestamp and a value. One or more processors receive source code. The source code includes: code to be applied in a sequential series to one or more tuples; a definition of a size of a sequence of tuples to be processed as a processing window; and a size of a sequence of earlier tuples that a current tuple depends upon as a dependence window. Processor(s) generate the code for real-time stream processing by: buffering received time sequence tuples in a buffer in accordance with the processing window and the dependence window; and converting the code to be sequentially applied to the one or more tuples into code for buffered tuples with a loop construct.
US09983855B1
A system for use in displaying software components to a user is described herein. The system incudes a memory device that includes a plurality of data repositories including at least one software component data file associated with a software component including corresponding software code and object data. The server computer is configured to access a data repository of the plurality of data repositories and retrieve the at least one software component data file, execute the corresponding software code and object data and generate and display a component display website including a component display area associated with the corresponding software component. The server computer is also configured to render a code display area within the component display area and display the corresponding software code within the code display area, and render a demonstration area within the component display area and display a demonstration image within the demonstration area.
US09983853B2
The embodiments are related to a log framework for controlling data sampling at client devices based on a lifecycle of a product. A product can be an application executing on a client device and/or a feature of the application. The sampling of data depends on a lifecycle of the product. For example, data may be sampled at a higher rate during a launch phase of the product, e.g., as more data may be required to analyze the behavior of the product, and then may be decreased to a lower rate when the product matures. Similarly, for a product that is in an experiment phase for a specified duration, data may be logged during the experiment phase, e.g., at a constant sampling rate, and then the logging may be terminated at the expiry of the experiment phase, thereby saving resources, e.g., processing capacity, storage capacity of the client device.
US09983852B2
Techniques for specifying and implementing programs. A graphical program is created in a graphical specification and constraint language that allows specification of a model of computation and explicit declaration of constraints in response to user input. The graphical program includes a specified model of computation, a plurality of interconnected functional blocks that visually indicate functionality of the graphical program in accordance with the specified model of computation, and specifications or constraints for the graphical program or at least one of the functional blocks in the graphical program. The specified model of computation and specifications or constraints are useable to analyze the graphical program or generate a program or simulation.
US09983847B2
An apparatus for receiving audio data from a nomadic device is provided. The apparatus comprises a first portable speaker for being operably coupled to the nomadic device. The nomadic device receives first information indicative of a first crossover frequency for the first portable speaker and determines the first crossover frequency based on the first information. The nomadic device transmits the audio data to the first portable speaker in accordance to the first crossover frequency. The first portable speaker is configured to playback the audio data at the first crossover frequency.
US09983823B1
A leader replica of a replica host group of a distributed storage service is configured to replicate the leader replica and its associated one or more secondary replicas to create a duplicate host group comprising a duplicate leader replica and one or more duplicate secondary replicas. The leader replica may appoint the duplicate leader replica or another host as the leader of the duplicate host group. The leader replica may assign a subset of database keys to be served by the duplicate host group and forward data requests directed a key of the subset of keys assigned to the duplicate host group. The leader replica may further update a global key table of the distributed data storage system to direct data requests associated with the subset of database keys to the duplicate leader replica.
US09983822B1
The method generates a first deduplication map (DDM) level of a DDM pyramid. The DDM pyramid identifies locations of data stored in the persistent storage resource of the deduplication system. The method further determines a first false positive rate target for a first index summary (IS) level of an index pyramid based on a memory footprint for the first IS level and an aggregate false positive rate target for the index pyramid. The first IS level accelerates lookup into the first DDM level. The first false positive rate target indicates a rate that a hit for a value found in the first IS level is not found in the first DDM level. The method also generates the first IS level with a first false positive rate based on the determined first false positive rate target.
US09983812B1
According to one embodiment, a secondary primary storage system monitors replicated data received from a primary storage system, where the primary storage system provides primary storage services to a host device and the second storage system operates as a redundant storage system. In response to determining that no replicated data has been received from the primary storage system over a first predetermined period of time, the secondary primary storage system determines an amount of read/write data requests have been received from the host device for a second period of time. The secondary primary storage system transitions into a second primary storage system in response to determining the amount of read/write data requests received from the host exceeds a predetermined threshold.
US09983803B2
Technical solutions are described for shifting wearout of an array of storage disks in a storage system. In an aspect, a method includes staggering completion of maximum number of writes for each storage disk in the array. The method also includes copying data from a storage disk in the array to a replacement disk and redirecting a request to access the data from the storage disk to the replacement disk. The method also includes, in response to passage of a predetermined duration of time since copying the data from the storage disk to the replacement disk, copying the data from the replacement disk to the storage disk and directing the request to access the data from the storage disk back to the storage disk.
US09983789B2
Apparatuses, methods, and program products are disclosed for pointing to at least one key on a software keyboard. By use of a processor, a keyboard is displayed on a display device. At least one indicator that emphasizes at least one key of the keyboard is displayed. The at least one indicator may be at least one of a band, a pointing mark, and circles gradually decreasing in size.
US09983781B2
Seat state correction systems, methods, and programs access suitable figure information in which a suitable figure and a state of a seat of a vehicle are correlated with each other. The systems, methods, and programs acquire a suitable figure that suits a current state of the seat on the basis of the accessed suitable figure information, the acquired suitable figure representing a recommended driving posture for a user seated on the seat and display, on a touch panel display, an image that indicates the acquired suitable figure. The systems, methods, and programs receive figure correction information through contact on the touch panel display, the figure correction information indicating a correction of the displayed suitable figure and correct the state of the seat on the basis of the accessed suitable figure information so as to achieve a state of the seat corresponding to the corrected displayed suitable figure.
US09983769B2
Transitioning browser tabs from one contextual environment to another contextual environment may be provided. A user interface having a set of tabs may be presented. A context may be defined for the set of tabs and stored. One or more of the tabs in the set may be changed and a new context defined for the changed tabs and stored. A plurality of such additional contexts may be defined and stored. The set of tabs may be adjusted based on a selected browser tab context.
US09983768B2
A computer-implemented method, system, and program product for selecting tabulated data are provided, which include: displaying a tabulated data structure on a computer display, the tabulated data structure including a plurality of data fields; receiving a user input indicative of a selection of one of the data fields; searching the tabulated data structure to generate at least one set of data fields, the data fields in each set sharing a relationship with the user-selected data field; and highlighting the at least one set of data fields in the displayed tabulated data structure, in which each of the highlighted sets of data fields is user-selectable.
US09983766B2
Embodiments relate to systems and methods providing a flip-though format for viewing notification of messages and related items on devices, for example personal mobile devices such as smart phones. According to an embodiment, an unread item most recently received is shown in full screen on the mobile device. While the user is viewing this item, the device will automatically retrieve and load into a cache memory, the next most recently received item. When the user is done viewing the item most recently received, the user can swipe a finger across the touch screen to trigger a page flipping animation and display of the next most recently received item. Embodiments avoid the user having to click back and forth between a list of notifications/links and corresponding notification items.
US09983761B1
A method and computer program product for intercepting and blocking the mouse move and resize events on mobile devices transmitting remote application. The remote access client installed on the mobile device send the coordinates of user's touches to remote computer. The remote access agent, running on a remote host, blocks the consequences of user finger (or stylus) actions performed on a captured window of the remote application. The method defines the areas and elements of a captured remote application window that are not affected by the move/resize commands emulated by a mobile device user. This functionality is implemented by a control-agent component running on a remote host for receiving and processing the commands from a mobile device and for transmitting video stream and some metadata about remote applications to the mobile device.
US09983754B2
A touch panel sensor includes a substrate and an electrode having a detection electrode and an extraction electrode connected to a detection electrode. The electrode, in any cross-section thereof in the thickness direction, includes a metal layer which occupies at least part of the cross-section. The metal layer of the detection electrode and the metal layer of the extraction electrode are formed integrally at a joint between the detection electrode and the extraction electrode. The detection electrode includes a conductive mesh having conductive wire arranged in a mesh pattern, the conductive wire having a height of not less than 0.2 μm and not more than 2 μm and a width of not less than 1 μm and not more than 5 μm. The conductive wire of the conductive mesh each have a base surface on the substrate side, and a flat top surface located opposite to the base surface.
US09983743B2
An array substrate and a display panel. The array substrate includes: a plurality of data lines and a plurality of scan lines; at least one sub-pixel unit defined by the data lines and the scan lines; and a plurality of touch electrodes, comprising drive electrodes and touch sensing electrodes intersecting the drive electrodes; wherein, in a touch phase, at least one of the touch electrodes is electrically connected with the corresponding data line, so that a driving signal is transmitted to or a sense signal is received from the at least one of the touch electrodes via the corresponding data line electrically connected with the at least one of the touch electrodes.
US09983740B2
An apparatus and a method of manufacturing the apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises: a first electromagnetic shielding layer; a second electromagnetic shielding layer; at least one sensing layer, positioned between the first electromagnetic shielding layer and the second electromagnetic shielding layer, comprising an array of touch sensors and multiple traces for connecting the touch sensors to touch sensing circuitry; and at least one electromagnetic shielding wall, extending from the first electromagnetic shielding layer to the second electromagnetic shielding layer, for shielding one or more of the multiple traces from conductive user input objects.
US09983739B2
A touch-sensor structure includes a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, insulating isolation portions, and an intermediate conductive layer. The first conductive layer includes first conductive units, connection lines and second conductive units. Each connection line connects to two first conductive units. The second conductive layer includes bridge lines. Each bridge line is electrically connected to two second conductive units. The insulating isolation portion is disposed between the connection line and the bridge line. The intermediate conductive layer is at least disposed at an overlapping position between the bridge lines and the second conductive units to isolate the first conductive layer from the second conductive layer. The intermediate conductive layer electrically connects each bridge line to the corresponding second conductive units.
US09983738B2
A method is disclosed for determining detecting a conductive object and determining the type of object and the type of contact that object has with a touch sensitive surface, the method comprising measuring capacitance on a plurality of mutual capacitance sensors, each mutual capacitance sensor corresponding to a unit cell in an array of unit cells. After mutual capacitance is measured a peak unit cell is identified based on the measured capacitances and a matrix sum of a plurality of unit cells surround the peak unit cell is calculated. The value of the peak unit cell and the matrix sum are then compared to a range and a contact type determined based on the comparison.
US09983735B2
A touch system is disclosed herein. The touch system includes detecting units and a control unit. The detecting units are disposed around a detecting area, and form a plurality of scan lines therebetween. The control unit is configured to detect first crossing points according to a transmission status of each of the scan lines, to delete ghost points of the first crossing points according to a first scan line having a first slope value of the scan lines to generate second crossing points, and to divide the second crossing points into groups to output touch points.
US09983733B2
In general, embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for a touch display panel and a touch display device including a touch display panel. The touch display panel includes: a substrate, and a common electrode layer located on the substrate. The common electrode layer includes multiple touch electrodes insulated from each other. Each of the touch electrodes is electrically connected to a driving circuit via at least one touch lead. A part of the touch electrodes are divided into multiple sub-electrodes by touch leads adjacent to the divided touch electrodes. The sub-electrodes of each of the touch electrodes are electrically connected to each other via at least one bridge, to reduce parasitic capacitances between the touch leads and the touch electrodes and alleviate an influence from the parasitic capacitances on touch performance.
US09983732B2
A touch sensing device may include: a pre-processing unit configured to reduce common signal noise and frequency components higher than a preset cut-off frequency from a pair of signals outputted from a touch panel, in response to a driving signal; and an attenuation unit configured to attenuate a frequency of a preset frequency region in an output signal of the pre-processing unit, and output a sensing signal.
US09983719B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide a display capable of improving the detection sensitivity and position resolution even when an input tool has contacted or approached boundary portions of drive ranges or end portions of the display region. The driving electrode driver performs scanning operations for supplying driving signals to one driving electrode or N1 (N1≥2) number of driving electrodes disposed at an end portion on one side of an array. Next, the driving electrode driver repeats scanning operations for supplying the driving signals to the selected N2 (N2≥2) number of driving electrodes a plurality of times by shifting each of the selected N2 number of driving electrodes N3 number by N3 number. N3 is less than N2.
US09983718B2
A signal to be used to propagate a freely propagating signal through a propagating medium with a touch input surface is sent. The freely propagating signal has been allowed to freely propagate through the propagating medium in a plurality directions to a plurality of receivers on multiple axes of the propagating medium. A received signal detected due to a touch input object contacting the touch input surface is received. The received signal includes the freely propagating signal that has been disturbed by the touch input object. At least a portion of the received signal is compared with one or more reference signals of one or more touch input object types. Based at least in part on the comparison a location of the touch input object contacting the surface is determined.
US09983709B2
Disclosed is a system and method for tracking a user's eye using structured light. The structured light system is calibrated by training a model of surface of the user's eye. A structured light emitter projects a structured light pattern (e.g., infrared structured light) onto a portion of the surface of the eye. From the viewpoint of a camera, the illumination pattern appears distorted. Based on the distortion of the illumination pattern in the captured image, the eye tracking system can determine the shape of the portion of the user's eye that the structured light is incident upon. By comparing the determined shape of the portion of the user's eye to the model, the orientation of the eye may be determined. The eye tracking system or elements thereof may be part of a head-mounted display, e.g., as part of a virtual reality system.
US09983693B2
A method for driving user interface elements on a graphical display of a mobile device based upon spatial motion input applied to a sensor unit. Motion data, which is generated by one or more motion sensors on board the sensor unit and corresponds to the spatial motion input applied to the sensor unit, is received on a data processor of the mobile device. A filter is applied to the received motion data to minimize rapid fluctuations therein. Velocity values and position values are generated based on a discrete integration of the filtered motion data. A balance between acceleration and deceleration of the sensor unit is detected, based upon an evaluation of the velocity values from a beginning of the spatial motion input and velocity values during deceleration. A deceleration response is output to the graphical display to correspond to the detected balance between acceleration and deceleration of the sensor unit.
US09983692B2
A method for determining an orientation of a photosensor of a controller with respect to a projector is described. The method includes generating, by a beam generator of the projector, a beam. The method further includes modifying a direction of travel of the beam using a micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) mirror that moves in a pattern, detecting the beam, calculating a time at which the beam is detected, and determining based on the pattern and the time an orientation of the beam to determine the orientation of the photosensor.
US09983691B2
The described technology is directed towards a button repeat system that allows different repeat behaviors (e.g., interval times between repeats) to be customized for any view (user interface element) and for any button. A designer specifies an interval set comprising interval times to use in an associated view to repeat a button that is pressed and held. Using global information across views, a button that is pressed and held may continue to repeat as focus changes among views. The repeating may continue without needing to reset to the first interval time of the interval set of each view as focus changes, so that, for example, a rapidly repeating button does not appear to change its repetition rate as focus changes among views.
US09983688B2
A protective cover may include a first cover part configured to be opened to expose a front surface of the electronic device and to be closed to conceal the front surface of the electronic device; a second cover part rotatably coupled to the first cover part and detachably arranged on a rear surface of the electronic device; and an input device detachably provided in the first cover part.
US09983681B2
Method and apparatus for displaying screen in response to event related to motion of external object
A method and an apparatus for displaying a screen in response to an event related to a motion of an external object, are provided. The method includes generating an event signal in response a motion of an external object being sensed, sensing a movement of the external object relative to an apparatus based on the event signal, and displaying a screen based on the movement of the external object.
US09983676B2
A user interface device includes a flexible layer comprising a touch surface configured to receive a touch by a user, a plurality of haptic cells covered by the flexible layer, each haptic cell comprising a haptic output device, a sensor configured to sense an amount and/or rate of deformation of the flexible layer when a user touches the touch surface, and a processor configured to receive an output signal from the sensor, generate a haptic control signal based on the output signal from the sensor, and output the haptic control signal to at least one haptic output device of the plurality of haptic cells to cause the haptic output device to deform an associated haptic cell in response to the sensed deformation of the flexible layer.
US09983672B2
One illustrative electrostatic actuator disclosed herein includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a first insulation layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, a first resilient material between the first electrode and the second electrode, a third electrode, a second insulation layer between the second electrode and the third electrode, and a second resilient material between the second electrode and the third electrode. The first electrode and the third electrode receive power from a power supply and responsively generate a first polarity. The second electrode receives power from the power supply and responsively generates a second polarity that is opposite the first polarity. The first polarity and the second polarity generate a first attractive force between the first electrode and the second electrode and a second attractive force between the second electrode and the third electrode. The electrostatic actuator may be part of a user interface.
US09983670B2
A computer network implemented system for improving the operation of one or more biofeedback computer systems is provided. The system includes an intelligent bio-signal processing system that is operable to: capture bio-signal data and in addition optionally non-bio-signal data; and analyze the bio-signal data and non-bio-signal data, if any, so as to: extract one or more features related to at least one individual interacting with the biofeedback computer system; classify the individual based on the features by establishing one or more brain wave interaction profiles for the individual for improving the interaction of the individual with the one or more biofeedback computer systems, and initiate the storage of the brain waive interaction profiles to a database; and access one or more machine learning components or processes for further improving the interaction of the individual with the one or more biofeedback computer systems by updating automatically the brain wave interaction profiles based on detecting one or more defined interactions between the individual and the one or more of the biofeedback computer systems. A number of additional system and computer implemented method features are also provided.
US09983669B2
A system for transmitting signals between a body of a living being and a virtual reality space includes a mount and a base configured to be affixed to respective first and second bony members of the body on a distal side and a proximal side, respectively, of a joint. An elongate, flexible strip is affixed at a first end to the mount and at a second end to the base. A sensor disposed on the base is configured to generate a displacement signal indicative of displacement of the strip in response to movement of the first bony member relative to the second bony member. The system further includes a display and a controller configured to receive the displacement signal and to control movement of a virtual representation of the body on the display responsive to the displacement signal and feedback of interaction in the virtual space to the living being.
US09983668B2
Examples are directed to a gaze detector using reference frames in media. One example includes inserting reference frames between frames of media presented on a display at a first frequency, analyzing images of reflections of the reference frames, and determining a portion of the media that is being viewed by a user based on the reflections of the reference frames from a user.
US09983654B2
An electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device may include a data provider that stores at least one piece of data for calculating a current consumption value according to each application type; and a processor that changes a data collection period according to a power state of the electronic device, collect data from the data provider, calculates the current consumption value according to each application type based on the power state of the electronic device based on the collected data, and displays the calculated current consumption value according to each application type on a display.
US09983653B2
A central control apparatus for controlling facilities, a facility control system including the same, and a method of controlling facilities may be provided. The central control apparatus may include a control unit performing control on facilities or equipment. The control unit may include a data collection module configured to collect prediction environment data including weather information of a control target region, a system setting module configured to set information of at least one facility in the control target region, and an energy use amount simulation module configured to model the at least one facility, based on the information of the at least one facility, set at least one control scenario applicable to the at least one facility, and simulate consumption power of the modeled at least one facility that operates according to the at least one control scenario.
US09983640B2
An assembly for fixing a plugin unit in an installation cage of a computer system includes a holding rail with a support surface that fixes the holding rail in a guide rail of the installation cage; and two holding pins that engage in lateral fastening openings of the plugin unit and fix the guide rail to the plugin unit, wherein each holding pin is mechanically coupled with the holding rail via a damping element, and the assembly is formed integrally, wherein each damping element is molded to the corresponding holding pin and the holding rail in a non-detachable manner by an injection molding method.
US09983637B1
In some implementations, a computing device includes a first housing coupled to a second housing by hinges. The first housing includes a first display device and a first set of components. The second housing includes a second display device and a second set of components. The hinges include (1) leaves coupling the first housing to the second housing, (2) knuckles to position the first housing at an angle between about 0 degrees to about 180 degrees relative to the second housing, and (3) conduits through which cables are routed between the first housing and the second housing. At about 180 degrees, the first housing is adjacent and sufficiently close to the second housing that the first and second display device provide a nearly contiguous surface. The cables communicate signals between the first set of components in the first housing and the second set of components in the second housing.
US09983632B2
A laptop computer may include a base, a lid, and a cover. The base may include a keyboard on a first side of the base. The lid may be hingedly attached to a first end of the base. The lid may include a display on a first side of the lid. The hinged attachment of the lid to the base may enable the lid to rotate from a first lid position in which the display faces the keyboard, to a second lid position in which a second side of the lid faces a second side of the base. A hinged attachment of the cover to the base may enable the cover to rotate from a first cover position, in which a first side of the cover faces the keyboard, to a second cover position in which a second side of the cover faces the second side of the base.
US09983630B2
A consumer electronic product includes at least a transparent housing and a flexible display assembly enclosed within the transparent housing. In the described embodiment, the flexible display assembly is configured to present visual content at any portion of the transparent housing.
US09983626B2
An all-in-one smart tablet PC and the assembly method thereof are disclosed. The all-in-one smart tablet PC includes: a screen, a glass, an infrared touch module, a rear shell and a plurality of screen supports; each of the screen supports is provided with a groove, with the glass inserted into the groove and matching the groove; each of the screen supports is further provided with a slot, with the infrared touch module positioned into the slot and matching the slot; a supporting tab is provided on a side of the screen support, and a screen frame is formed by the supporting tabs of the screen supports joined together end to end; the screen is installed within the screen frame and the rear shell is installed onto the back of the screen. By the technical solution of the present disclosure, the quality and the qualified rate of the product are improved; meanwhile, no positioning blocks are used during the whole assembly process, which saves cost and improves the assembly efficiency, and is able to meet the requirements for large-scale and modular production.
US09983620B1
In some implementations, a cover may be attached to or detached from a computing device. For example, individual cam locks of a plurality of cam locks embedded into a computing device may be placed in an open position. Individual pins of a plurality of pins fastened to the cover may be aligned with a corresponding cam lock of the plurality of cam locks. The individual pins may be inserted into the corresponding cam locks. The individual cam locks may be moved from the open position to a closed position, causing the cover to be attached to the external surface of the computing device. The cover may include a curved portion that causes the cover to apply pressure to the outer surface of the computing device when the plurality of cam locks are in the closed position.
US09983617B2
An integrated circuit configured to detect a variation in a supply voltage using a phase of an input clock signal dependent on the variation in the supply voltage may include a clock delay circuit configured to delay the input clock signal output from a clock generator using each of different delay cell chains and generate a first delay clock signal and a second delay clock signal; and a phase controller configured to control a first phase so that a difference between the first phase and a second phase is 180 degrees, the first phase being a phase of the first delay clock signal, the second phase being a phase of the second delay clock signal.
US09983616B2
An array of ultrasonic transducers can be controlled to produce a steerable beam. Beam steering can be skewed by buffer delays in the distribution of a clock signal. The skew can be at least approximately linearized by distributing the clock signal in a diagonal fashion across an array of buffers corresponding to ultrasonic transducer controllers. Potential error in beam steering that can arise from clock skew can be corrected based on the linear tilt.
US09983614B1
A reference circuit includes a bandgap core circuit and a cascode amplifier. The bandgap core circuit includes a first bipolar junction transistor (BJT), a second BJT having a control electrode coupled to a control electrode of the first BJT, a first resistor coupled to the first BJT and the second BJT, and a second resistor coupled to the second BJT. The cascode amplifier circuit includes a first branch coupled to the first BJT and a second branch coupled to the second resistor.
US09983608B2
An output module for programmable controller includes an output common output circuit that supplies load current to each of the load output circuits, and the control circuit controls ON/OFF of the output common output circuit in accordance with an instruction from the higher-level device.
US09983600B2
Disclosed are a method of correcting a control logic of a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) catalyst and an exhaust system. The control logic may be adapted to calculate an injection amount of a reducing agent for the SCR catalyst at the least. The method may include detecting input variables including temperature of the SCR catalyst and exhaust flow rate, discretizing the input variables, standardizing the discretized input variables, determining whether the discretized input variables are within a correction range, and correcting the control logic of the SCR catalyst if the discretized input variables are within the correction range.
US09983595B2
A method and apparatus for self-calibrating control of gas flow. The gas flow rate is initially set by controlling, to a high degree of precision, the amount of opening of a flow restriction, where the design of the apparatus containing the flow restriction lends itself to achieving high precision. The gas flow rate is then measured by a pressure rate-of-drop upstream of the flow restriction, and the amount of flow restriction opening is adjusted, if need be, to obtain exactly the desired flow.
US09983588B2
A system is described for presenting information relating to lifting and moving a load object with a vehicle. Upon the lifting, a dimensioner determines a size and a shape of the load object, computes a corresponding spatial representation, and generates a corresponding video signal. During the moving, an imager observes a scene in front of the vehicle, relative to its forward motion direction, and generates a video signal corresponding to the observed scene. The imager has at least one element moveable vertically, relative to the lifting. A display renders a real time visual representation of the scene observed in front of the vehicle based on the corresponding video signal and superimposes a representation of the computed spatial representation of the load object.
US09983584B2
A method of developing a flight path for precision flying over an area of interest, the method including, in an electronic processing device, determining coordinate and elevation data relating to an area of interest, using the coordinate and elevation data to determine a flight path including precision paths corresponding to precision flying trajectories and non-precision paths interconnecting at least some of the precision paths, and generating path data at least partially indicative of the flight path, the path data being useable in generating control signals for at least partially controlling operation of the aircraft, in use.
US09983580B2
A plurality of air data may be collected by a sensor within a data center. The plurality of air data is received by a processor. At least a portion of the received plurality of air data corresponding to at least one zone within the data center may be determined to satisfy a threshold. Coordinates of a geographical location associated with the zone that includes the sensor may be transmitted to a robotic filter. The robotic filter can be dispatched to the transmitted geographic location to filter the zone.
US09983578B2
A remote operator station may include a seat. A first and a second input device may be disposed on the seat. An interface device may be discretely arranged with respect to the remote operator station and may include an interface processor in communication with a machine. The interface processor may be configured to remotely control non-movement features and function of the machine. An electronic control module may be in communication with, at least, the first and second input devices. The electronic control module may be configured to: receive input signals from one of the first and second input devices; process the input signals; and communicate wirelessly processed input signals to a machine for remote operation thereof.
US09983577B2
A method for monitoring degradation of an onboard device of an aircraft, implemented by a computer, the degree of degradation of the onboard device being defined by an abnormality score formed by the counting of occurrences of abnormalities noted by a control system of the device, the monitoring method comprising a step of comparing an abnormality score obtained for an observation sequence of given length (n, t) with a decision threshold (ks) and a step of issuing an alarm in the event of the decision threshold (ks) being reached or exceeded, the decision threshold (ks) being determined automatically for a given probability of alarm Pa, corresponding to the probability that an alarm will be issued during the monitoring method whereas the onboard device is sound, by means of the following steps: a step of obtaining an abnormality score (r) on at least one reference sequence corresponding to flights of the aircraft without degradation and with a length (m, tc) equal to a plurality of lengths (n, t) of observation sequences; a step of adjusting a discrete probability law making it possible to find the abnormality score (r) obtained on the reference sequence; a step of calculating the decision threshold (ks) such that, by applying the adjusted discrete probability law during the previous step to an observation sequence having the given length (n), the probability of an abnormality score higher than or equal to the decision threshold (ks) occurring is less than the given alarm probability Pa, or an elementary probability that is a function of Pa in the case where a confirmation strategy is used.
US09983575B2
Systems and methods to graphically display process control system information are disclosed. Some example methods include monitoring process variables in a process control system, determining a current state of a first one of the process variables, and determining a trend associated with the first process variable. Some such examples further include generating a first graphic representative of information associated with the first process variable, the information comprising the current state of the first process variable and the trend of the first process variable. Some example methods also include rendering the first graphic via a display.
US09983573B2
To decode a file name set to a PLC to the same name even if a plurality of external devices using different character-code sets are connected to the PLC, the PLC includes a system unit that actuates the control file using a multilingual character-code set A, a character-code conversion table that associates character codes relating to a plurality of character-code sets with one another for every character, and a character-code management unit that converts description of the name of the control file between the description relating to the multilingual character-code set A and that relating to the local character-code set A using the character-code conversion table when the name of the access-target control file is transferred between the external device using the local character-code set A and the system unit.
US09983571B2
A remote control station that accesses one of at least two different robots that each have at least one unique robot feature. The remote control station receives information that identifies the robot feature of the accessed robot. The remote station displays a display user interface that includes at least one field that corresponds to the robot feature of the accessed robot. The robot may have a laser pointer and/or a projector.
US09983563B2
A method for controlling a machine tool in which a main spindle on which a tool is mounted and a table holding a workpiece are moved relative to each other by two or more translation axes that are not perpendicular to each other and at least one rotation axis. In the method, an error in a position of the tool with respect to the workpiece due to a geometric error is corrected to calculate a command value for controlling the translation axis. The method includes a conversion step of converting the error and a correction value for correcting the error by performing a homogeneous coordinate transformation from a workpiece coordinate system to the imaginary Cartesian coordinate system, and a correction value calculation step of calculating a correction value in a command value coordinate system of the translation axis by performing a homogeneous coordinate transformation of the correction value.
US09983561B2
The invention relates to a method of controlling a gear cutting machine having at least one tool for cutting gears into a workpiece clamped in a workpiece mount, wherein the machine control carries out a three-dimensional collision monitoring during the gear cutting machining.
US09983555B2
The present invention relates to a distributed fault-tolerant control system for a modularized wind turbine or wind power plant system comprising sub-assemblies, the control system comprising 1) fault-tolerant control means adapted to generate control set-points and/or data values, said fault-tolerant control means being distributed in sub-assemblies in accordance with the modularization of the wind turbine or wind power plant system, and 2) fault-tolerant communication network for transmitting control set-points and/or data values at essentially the same time to a plurality of nodes in the distributed control system, said plurality of distributed nodes being capable of selecting a valid transmission package out of two or more transmission packages provided on the fault-tolerant communication network.
US09983553B2
An object of the present invention is to provide an autonomous system that realizes expected operation in a form in which the soundness of the operation can be proved to a third party in adaptation to an external factor that dynamically varies and to enhance a working ratio in autonomous operation. The autonomous system is provided with a function for dynamically leading a satisfiable combination of a requirement for the soundness of operation and expected operation on the basis of the information of operating environment acquired via exterior world measurement means, a function for generating control logic for realizing the expected operation, a function for recording the control logic, the requirement for sound operation and the expected operation, and a function for presenting the record in a form in which the third party can read the record.
US09983552B2
A system composed of a servicing device and a field device having at least one sensor unit for determining and/or monitoring at least one process variable. At least one electronics unit, which has an evaluation unit, wherein the evaluation unit receives measurement signals from the sensor unit and evaluates such with reference to the process variable, and at least one switch element actuatable contactlessly from outside of the field device. The servicing device is embodied to modulate the switch state of the switch element for transmission of field device specific data to the electronics unit. Furthermore, a field device, a servicing device and a method for communication between field device and servicing device are claimed.
US09983542B2
A process cartridge comprises a photosensitive drum and a developing roller. A coupling member is provided adjacent to one axial end of the developing roller. The coupling member includes a driven portion, and an intermediary portion configured and positioned to engage with the driven portion. The intermediary portion is also configured to be movable relative to the driven portion in a direction crossing the axis of the developing roller while maintaining engagement with the driven portion. The coupling member further includes a driving portion configured and positioned to receive a driving force for rotating the developing roller. The driving portion is also configured to engage with the intermediary portion, and to be movable relative to the intermediary portion in a direction crossing the axis of the developing roller while maintaining engagement with the intermediary portion.
US09983528B2
A printing system obtains a print job, analyzes the obtained print job, and imposes print pages to a total of four surfaces of a print target sheet including two surfaces on each of front and back in accordance with a bookbinding format of the analyzed print job. As for an imposition method, if the bookbinding format of the print job is particular two fold bookbinding for which processing of two-folding a sheet and bonding a plurality of two-folded sheets is performed, imposition is performed while reserving a glue surface not to print out of the four surfaces of the print target sheet.
US09983526B2
A fixing device includes a heat source; a fixing member looped into a generally cylindrical shape to rotate in a circumferential direction thereof and partially heated by the heat source and to heat a surface of a recording medium bearing an unfixed toner image to fix the unfixed toner image thereon in a fixing process; a rotary pressing member disposed facing the fixing member to form a nip therebetween, through which the recording medium is transported in a transport direction; and a rotation driver to rotate one of the fixing member and the pressing member. In a case in which the fixing member is halted for a reason other than the fixing process while power of the fixing device is on, electric power is not supplied to the heat source and the fixing member is rotated by a predetermined amount or more after the fixing member is halted.
US09983522B2
A fixing device includes a cylindrical film, a planar heater, a heat conduction member, a supporting member, a limiting member for limiting heater end portions with respect to a generatrix direction of the film so as to prevent the end portions from moving in a heater thickness direction relative to the supporting member, and a pressing member. A fixing device state is switchable between a first state in which a press-contact force in the nip is enough to fix the toner image and a second state in which the press-contact force in the nip is smaller than the press-contact force in the first state. A surface where the supporting member opposes the heat conduction member has a shape such that with respect to the generatrix direction, a central portion of the film is projected toward the pressing member to a greater extent than an end portion of the film.
US09983518B2
An intermediate transfer belt, configured to receive a toner image formed by developing a latent image formed on an image bearing member with a toner, includes a base layer and an elastic layer. The elastic layer has an irregular surface formed with spherical particles, and the spherical particles include flexible particles having 0.1 MPa to 30 MPa of compressive strength and 15% to 50% of restoring ratio at the time of 10% deformation. Image forming apparatus. Image forming method.
US09983512B2
A toner conveyance device includes a downward passage, a reciprocating member disposed in the downward passage, to move in a vertical direction in which the downward passage extends, a conveyance passage communicating with a lower end of the downward passage and extending in a direction crossing the vertical direction, a conveyor to rotate in the conveyance passage around an axis extending along the conveyance passage to transport the toner, and a flexible member projecting from a bottom of the reciprocating member toward the conveyance passage. The flexible member extends in the axial direction of the conveyor and moves together with the reciprocating member. When the reciprocating member is at a lowest position, a lower end of the flexible member opposes a portion of the conveyor downstream from an upper end thereof in a rotation direction thereof.
US09983511B2
A developing apparatus for developing an electrostatic latent image formed on an image bearing member includes a developer carrying member, first and second accommodation chambers to accommodate developer, and a feeding screw provided in the first accommodation chamber to feed the developer. In addition, a developer accommodation portion accommodates the developer to be supplied to the first accommodation chamber and is sealed by a sealing member. A controller executes an operation in a mode in which after the developer accommodating portion starts to be unsealed at the sealing member, the feeding screw is initially rotated for a predetermined period in a direction opposite to a normal direction in which the feeding screw is rotated during the image forming operation, and after elapse of the predetermined period, the feeding screw is rotated in the normal direction.
US09983499B2
A discharging member includes an electrically conductive knit fabric, a support member, and a first magnet member. The conductive knit fabric is knitted into a cylindrical shape with use of yarn formed by twisting together a plurality of metal fibers. The support member is cylindrical shaped and inserted in the conductive knit fabric. The first magnet member is placed inside the support member. With the conductive knit fabric grounded or with a voltage applied to the conductive knit fabric, the discharging member is placed in noncontact with a discharged member in such a fashion that the first magnet member is opposed to the discharged member with the support member and the conductive knit fabric interposed therebetween.
US09983495B2
An electrostatic image developing toner including a toner particle, wherein the toner particle contains a vinyl resin which is a polymer of a vinyl monomer having an acid group, a polyester resin, at least one of aluminum (Al) and magnesium (Mg), and tin (Sn), and when net intensities of Al, Mg and Sn in the toner particle measured by fluorescent X-ray analysis are respectively expressed as IAl, IMg and ISn, a ratio (IAl+IMg)/ISn is within a range of 0.5 to 2.5.
US09983483B2
An illumination system of a microlithographic projection exposure apparatus includes a light source to produce projection light beam, and a first and a second diffractive optical element between the light source and a pupil plane of the illumination system. The diffractive effect produced by each diffractive optical element depends on the position of a light field that is irradiated by the projection light on the diffractive optical elements. A displacement mechanism changes the mutual spatial arrangement of the diffractive optical elements. In at least one of the mutual spatial arrangements, which can be obtained with the help of the displacement mechanism, the light field extends both over the first and the second diffractive optical element. This makes it possible to produce in a simple manner continuously variable illumination settings.
US09983471B1
A laser light source includes a laser light source module, a light converging module, first and second lens sets, a color wheel, and a light tunnel. The laser light source module emits a first light. When passing the light converging module, the first light converges in a second direction perpendicular to the travel direction of the first light and does not converge in a third direction perpendicular to the second direction and the travel direction. The first light becomes a parallel beam after passing the light converging module. Then, the first light enters the first lens set. The color wheel receives the first light passing the first lens set, partially transforms the first light into a second light, and partially reflects the first light. Then, the first and second light pass the first and second lens sets. Then, the light tunnel collects the first and second light.
US09983467B2
A phosphor wheel includes: a substrate having a first main surface, a second main surface opposite to the first main surface, and an open portion; a phosphor layer provided on the first main surface; and a fin provided on the second main surface. The fin is nearer a center of the substrate than the phosphor layer is, and the open portion is located between the phosphor layer and the fin.
US09983463B1
A mount and method of manufacturing same is disclosed. The mount includes a mouthpiece for holding the mount in a user's mouth, a video connector piece for mounting a camera to the apparatus, and a connector that structurally secures the mouthpiece and the video connector piece. This provides for a near eye-level point of view while providing hands-free operation.
US09983462B2
An adjustable camera enclosure is provided. In one aspect of the present disclosure, the adjustable camera enclosure includes a housing including a hollow interior defining a longitudinal axis and at least one aperture in a wall of the housing; a beam disposed through an end of the housing into the hollow interior of the housing such that the beam is disposed along the longitudinal axis, where the housing is slidable over the beam along the longitudinal axis to extend and retract the housing relative to the beam; a camera disposed within the hollow interior of the housing, where a lens of the camera is oriented to the at least one aperture of the housing in a direction away from the housing; and a base coupled to the beam, where the base is rotatable about the longitudinal axis to rotate the beam and the housing about the longitudinal axis.
US09983460B2
A light source suitable for being thrown or projected into an airborne trajectory for the purpose of illuminating a subject or environment; and a throwable light source capable of receiving a signal over a wireless network in order to illuminate a subject in synchronization with a throwable camera on the network; and throwable light sources capable of receiving respective signals over a wireless network in order to illuminate a subject in synchronization with a throwable camera on the network.
US09983454B2
The driving device used for drive control of a driven device having driven elements arranged to commonly receive a common voltage at common terminals and individually receive drive signals at data terminals has: a drive voltage-producing circuit which produces drive voltages; a driver circuit which accepts input of the drive voltages produced by the drive voltage-producing circuit and outputs, as drive signals, signals selected from the drive voltages according to drive data from data output terminals in parallel; and a common voltage-producing circuit which produces a common voltage to output from a common-voltage-output terminal. In the driving device, the drive voltage-producing circuit detects a change in the common voltage output from the common-voltage-output terminal, and changes the drive voltages in the direction of the change.
US09983451B2
The present invention provides a method of reworking an array substrate including a gate metal layer, a gate insulation layer (G1), a semiconductor layer, a source/drain metal layer, a lower passivation layer, a common electrode layer, an upper passivation layer, and a pixel electrode layer sequentially formed therein. By using a rework mask protecting a jumping passivation hole area in reworking the pixel electrode layer, the method can maintain the electric connection between the common electrode layer and the rework pixel electrode pattern in the jumping passivation hole area even after the pixel electrode rework process, to thereby reduce the occurrence of failure and the reduction of throughput due to the rework process.
US09983443B2
A display device may include a floating electrode, a common-voltage electrode, a transistor, and a pixel electrode. The floating electrode may be electrically floating. The common-voltage electrode may be electrically connected to a voltage source. The pixel electrode may be electrically connected to the transistor. A first portion of the pixel electrode may overlap neither of the floating electrode and the common-voltage electrode in a direction perpendicular to at least one of the pixel electrode and an image display side of the display device. A second portion of the pixel electrode may overlap the common-voltage electrode. A third portion of the pixel electrode may overlap the floating electrode.
US09983439B2
According to one embodiment, a wavelength converter includes a microlens which condenses excitation light, a reflective layer which is opposed to the microlens and includes an aperture, and a wavelength conversion element which is opposed to the microlens via the reflective layer, absorbs the excitation light, and emits emission light whose wavelength is different from that of the excitation light.
US09983421B2
A component mounting line includes a first and a second component mounting devices. The first component mounting device adheres anisotropic conductive members to a region of a part of one side and a region of the other side of the substrate, temporarily crimps electronic components onto the region of the part of the one side and the region of the other side to which the anisotropic conductive members are adhered, and mainly crimps the electronic components onto the region of the other side. The second component mounting device adheres the anisotropic conductive members to remaining regions of the one side of the substrate, temporarily crimps the electronic components onto the remaining regions of the one side to which the anisotropic conductive members are adhered, and mainly crimps the electronic components onto the region of the part of the one side and the remaining regions of the one side.
US09983420B2
In the optical device, a ring-resonator modulator, having an adjustable resonance (center) wavelength, optically couples an optical signal that includes the carrier wavelength from an input optical waveguide to an output optical waveguide. A monitoring mechanism in the optical device, which is optically coupled to the output optical waveguide, monitors a performance metric of an output optical signal from the output waveguide. For example, the monitoring mechanism may monitor: an average optical power associated with the output optical signal, and/or an amplitude of the output optical signal. Moreover, control logic in the optical device adjusts the resonance wavelength based on the monitored performance metric so that the performance metric is optimized.
US09983418B2
An eye-mountable device includes an enclosure material shaped to be removably mounted over a cornea and to permit eyelid motion when the enclosure material is so mounted. The eye-mountable device also includes a tactile sensor system, including one or more pressure-sensitive sensors, disposed within the enclosure material and coupled to output a signal in response to pressure applied to the one or more pressure-sensitive sensors by a user. A controller is disposed within the enclosure material and electrically coupled to the tactile sensor system to receive the signal and, in response to the signal, control at least one other piece of circuitry in the eye-mountable device.
US09983416B1
An eyeglasses temple includes a curved section and a support section coupled to the curved section. The curved section includes a metal member, upper and lower plastic members for wrapping the metal member, and a connector installed to an inner side of the support section and proximate to an eyeglasses frame. The metal member is made of a flexible iron material, the upper and lower plastic members are made of silicone and nylon respectively, and the support section is made of nylon. With the metal member made of a flexible iron material, the upper plastic member made of silicon, the lower plastic member made of nylon, and the support section made of nylon, the eyeglasses temple has a higher strength, and provides a friction between the eyeglasses temple and a wearer's ear to prevent the eyeglasses from sliding down or falling out from the wearer's nose bridge and ears.
US09983409B2
According to one of aspects, a display device includes: a display unit configured to three-dimensionally display an object by displaying images respectively corresponding to both eyes of a user by being worn; a detection unit configured to detect a real body that operates the object; and a control unit configured to change the object according to movement of the real body, and perform order processing for ordering a product corresponding to the object.
US09983399B2
Provided are systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with depth-resolved spatial-domain low-coherence quantitative phase microscopy for high-throughput analysis of 3D nanoscale architectural alterations in unstained tissue and cells. A spatial-domain low-coherence quantitative phase microscopy apparatus includes a drOPD mapping module, a transmission phase imaging module, and a bright-field and transmission phase imaging module. The drOPD mapping module includes a reflection-mode low-coherence spectral interferometry for drOPD mapping of unstained tissue. The transmission phase imaging module includes transmission quantitative phase imaging of unstained and stained tissue and produce an image registration reference. The bright-field and transmission phase imaging module includes bright-field imaging of H&E-stained tissue for nuclei identification and pathology correlation.
US09983397B2
Certain aspects pertain to aperture-scanning Fourier ptychographic imaging devices comprising an aperture scanner that can generate an aperture at different locations at an intermediate plane of an optical arrangement, and a detector that can acquire lower resolution intensity images for different aperture locations, and wherein a higher resolution complex image may be constructed by iteratively updating regions in Fourier space with the acquired lower resolution images.
US09983393B2
A catoptric imaging device for drill measuring comprising a laser guide, an imaging unit for converting optical image into image information, and processing the image information to obtain a drill measure, a catoptric assembly including a first conical surface, and a second surface including a frustoconical surface, wherein the first surface is arranged relative to the laser guide to reflect a cone beam onto an cross section of the drill to be measured, and wherein the smallest diameter of the frustoconical surface is larger than the largest diameter of the first surface to receive the cone beam reflections and reflect them towards the imaging unit, and wherein the imaging unit is arranged to receive an optical image from the frustoconical surface reflections to obtain a drill measure.
US09983380B2
A camera module including a fixing unit including a hole formed therein; a moving unit including at least one lens, and configured to linearly move in the hole of the fixing unit; and a driving unit configured to drive the moving unit. Further, the driving unit includes a corresponding magnet arranged in the inner surface of the hole of the fixing unit; a moving coil surrounding the outer surface of the moving unit; and a fixed coil arranged in the fixing unit and configured to receive from the moving coil a current or voltage variable based on a distance with the moving coil.
US09983378B2
A grommet adapted for insertion into a cable hanger includes a generally C-shaped main body formed of a polymeric material and having a longitudinal axis. Such a grommet can be securely held by a cable hanger.
US09983374B2
Techniques for WDM Mux/DeMux on cable and methods of making the same are described According to one aspect of the present application, a unit designed to provide multiplexing or demultiplexing (Mux/Demux) functions is implemented on cable. In other words, the Mux/Demux unit is coupled by a multi-fiber cable to a system (e.g., a system rack for router or switch that has multiple pluggable transceiver slots).
US09983372B2
An optical apparatus includes: a semiconductor optical device integrating an optical coupler, an optical element, and an electrical circuit; and a printed circuit board including a main body and a metal piece. The body has first and second openings. The first opening, the metal piece and the second opening are arranged in a direction of a first axis. The first and second openings extend from the front and back faces of the body along the direction to the first and second faces of the metal piece, respectively. The metal piece is supported by the body. The semiconductor optical device is mounted on the first face of the metal piece in the first opening. The body has a supporting face connecting the first side of the first opening with the second side of the second opening and supporting the second face of the metal piece in the first opening.
US09983368B2
An optical waveguide device includes a wiring substrate, a first cladding layer formed on the wiring substrate, a base protective layer formed on the first cladding layer and formed into a certain pattern, a core layer formed on the first cladding layer and the base protective layer, a recess portion having an inclined surface and formed from the core layer to the base protective layer, an optical path conversion mirror formed on the inclined surface, and a second cladding layer formed on the first cladding layer and the core layer. A refractive index of the base protective layer is smaller than a refractive index of the core layer. A width of the base protective layer is equal to or greater than a width of the core layer.
US09983364B2
An interferometric measurement method aims at calculating angular misalignment between fiber and ferrule axes for single fiber ferrules. The misalignment is measured by scanning side surface of reference fiber inserted into the ferrule and side surface of the ferrule. For single fiber connectors and ferrules, the method also aims at calculating fiber core concentricity and ferrule circularity and for single fiber connectors, end face angle of polish. The concentricity, the circularity and the angle of polish are measured by scanning side surface of the ferrule and end face of the connector or ferrule. Interferometric data from the side surfaces of the reference fiber and the ferrule, or from the end face of the connector or ferrule and the side surface of the ferrule, is gathered during one scanning session—either one simultaneous scan or several scans without moving or re-inserting the connector or ferrule.
US09983361B2
GRIN-lensed, tuned wedge waveguide termination and method of reducing back reflection caused thereby
A GRIN-lensed, tuned wedge waveguide termination, a method of reducing back reflection to a waveguide caused by the GRIN-lensed, tuned wedge waveguide termination and a terminated optical fiber. In one embodiment, the GRIN-lensed, tuned wedge waveguide termination includes: (1) a GRIN lens subassembly including a GRIN lens having a pitch greater than a quarter pitch such that a primary beam propagating through the GRIN lens subassembly forms a waist and (2) a tuned wedge subassembly bonded to the GRIN lens subassembly and having a length selected such that the tuned wedge subassembly ends at least proximate the waist, the tuned wedge subassembly further having a bevel angle selected to reduce a back reflection into the waveguide.
US09983358B2
An optical signal routing device may include a first lens, second lens and a wavelength division multiplexer (“WDM”) filter positioned between the first and second lenses. The WDM filter may reflect a signal of a first wavelength with a first attenuation and pass the first wavelength signal attenuated by at most a second attenuation to the second lens, the first attenuation exceeding the second attenuation by a first predetermined amount. The WDM filter may reflect a signal of a second wavelength different than the first wavelength with at most a third attenuation, the first attenuation exceeding the third attenuation by at least a second predetermined amount. The device may further include a reflector positioned to reflect the first wavelength signal reflected by the WDM filter toward the WDM filter with at least a fourth attenuation, the fourth attenuation exceeding the second attenuation by at least a third predetermined amount.
US09983356B2
In one embodiment, the invention relates to an apparatus for increasing the repetition rate in a light source. The apparatus includes a first optical coupler comprising a first arm, a second arm and a third arm; a first mirror in optical communication with the second arm of the first optical coupler; and a first optical delay line having a first end in optical communication with the third arm of the first optical coupler and a second end in optical communication with a second mirror, wherein light entering the first arm of the first optical coupler leaves the first arm of the first optical coupler either delayed by an amount (τ) or substantially undelayed.
US09983353B2
A strip of sacrificial semiconductor material is formed on top of a non-sacrificial semiconductor material substrate layer. A conformal layer of the non-sacrificial semiconductor material is epitaxially grown to cover the substrate layer and the strip of sacrificial semiconductor material. An etch is performed to selectively remove the strip of sacrificial semiconductor material and leave a hollow channel surrounded by the conformal layer and the substrate layer. Using an anneal, the conformal layer and the substrate layer are reflowed to produce an optical waveguide structure including the hollow channel.
US09983340B2
An optical assembly includes a light emitting panel member having opposite sides and at least one input edge for receiving light from at least one light source, and a pattern of individual optical deformities on or in at least one of the sides for producing a light output distribution from a light emitting surface area of the panel member. Different sets of the optical deformities within the pattern each having at least one surface that is shaped or oriented to extract light propagating through the panel member in respective different directions from multiple regions of the light emitting surface area of the panel member.
US09983337B2
An LED display apparatus includes a plurality of light emitting diodes; a first microlens array disposed at an upper side of the plurality of light emitting diodes, the first microlens array comprising a plurality of first microlenses which corresponds to the plurality of light emitting diodes one-to-one and is configured to combine light received from the plurality of light emitting diodes into light bundles; and a second microlens array disposed at an upper side of the first microlens array, the second microlens array comprising a plurality of second microlenses, a number of which is larger than a number of the first microlenses included in the first microlens array, each of the plurality of second microlenses configured to cause a convergence of light that has propagated through the first microlens array.
US09983330B2
A method for making a log of material properties in a plurality of beds from an instrument utilizes steps such as estimating material properties for said plurality of beds and/or estimating positions for a plurality of bed boundaries and/or estimating orientations for said plurality of bed boundaries wherein the bed boundary orientations are individually variable. The estimated positions, orientations, and/or material properties can be utilized to compute the log.
US09983327B2
A magnetic nanoparticle suitable for imaging a geological structure having one or more magnetic metal or metal oxide nanoparticles with a polymer grafted to the surface to form a magnetic nanoparticle, wherein the magnetic nanoparticle displays a colloidal stability under harsh salinity conditions or in a standard API brine.
US09983321B2
The invention discloses a safety inspection detector and a goods safety inspection system. The safety inspection detector at least comprises a circuit board, a first housing, a second housing, a detection module and a connecting interface. The detection module and the connecting interface are mounted on the circuit board. The first housing is pressed and connected to a first surface of the circuit board, and the second housing is pressed and connected to a second surface of the circuit board. The first housing and the second housing can hermetically wrap the detection module and electronic devices on the circuit board, but bypass the connecting interface to realize leading-out and connection with related interconnected cables by utilizing the connecting interface. The housings can be used for sealing and protecting sensitive electronic devices in the detector, thus being moisture proof and preventing interference.
US09983317B2
A signal processing device for detecting a weak signal in an input signal. The device includes first and second pulse detectors and a determining circuit. The first pulse detector adds noise to the input signal, and processes the noise-added signal using a first threshold, to thereby output a first signal having a first pulse waveform component, which corresponds to an interval in which a level of the noise-added input signal exceeds the first threshold. The second pulse detector receives the input signal in parallel with the first pulse detector, and processes the input signal using a second threshold, to thereby output a second signal having a second pulse waveform component, which corresponds to an interval in which a level of the input signal exceeds the second threshold. The determining circuit determines whether each of the first and second pulse waveform components conforms to the weak signal.
US09983310B2
A position measurement apparatus includes a measurement head, a controller and a light transmission section. The measurement head includes a light projecting lens and a light receiving lens. The controller includes a light emitting section, a light emission circuit controlling the light emitting section, a light receiving section, and a pixel data processing circuit detecting a position of light received in the light receiving section, and outputting positional information to a calculation section calculating a position of an object to be measured. The light transmission section includes an optical fiber transmitting light from the light emitting section to the light projecting lens, and an image fiber with incidence and emission end faces, in which end faces of plural cores are two-dimensionally arrayed in the incidence end face and the emission end face, the image fiber transmitting light converged by the light receiving lens to the light receiving section.
US09983307B2
A method for providing information about at least one object in a surrounding area of a motor vehicle of a vehicle fleet is provided. The information in the motor vehicle is detected and, together with position data of the motor vehicle is transmitted and provided to a traffic information collection device. The information having at least one first geographic location of the object and a second geographical position of the object is provided and the second geographical position is determined and provided depending on the first geographical position.
US09983306B2
A system and method for providing target selection and threat assessment for vehicle collision avoidance purposes that employ probability analysis of radar scan returns. The system determines a travel path of a host vehicle and provides a radar signal transmitted from a sensor on the host vehicle. The system receives multiple scan return points from detected objects, processes the scan return points to generate a distribution signal defining a contour of each detected object, and processes the scan return points to provide a position, a translation velocity and an angular velocity of each detected object. The system selects the objects that may enter the travel path of the host vehicle, and makes a threat assessment of those objects by comparing a number of scan return points that indicate that the object may enter the travel path to the number of the scan points that are received for that object.
US09983291B2
Methods, apparatuses, and devices are disclosed to estimate a position of a mobile device using, for example, beacon signals transmitted using virtual access points utilizing a single, physical transceiver. Determination that beacon signals emanate from a single, physical transceiver may be based, at least in part, on a similarity among acquired beacon signals conveying identifiers, such as media access control identification (MAC ID) addresses and/or basic service set identifiers (BSSIDs), and on measurement of beacon signal characteristics, such as received signal strength at a mobile device and/or round trip time between the mobile device and the transceiver.
US09983286B2
A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system, method and/or computer readable medium is configured reduce specific absorption rate (SAR) in Fast Advanced Spin Echo (FASE) or Single-shot Fast Spin Echo (SS-FSE) imaging used, for example, in non-contrast magnetic resonance angiography (NC-MRA) techniques like fresh blood imaging (FBI). Within RF pulse sequences used to acquire echo data, the refocusing flip angles may be varied in the phase encode direction, and/slice encode direction, such that the refocusing pulse (or pulses) that map echo signals to the k-space center region larger refocusing flip angles than refocusing pulses used to generate echo signals that map to other areas of k-space. In some instances, the TR interval also may be varied for RF pulse sequences such that central K-space have a longer TR than the slices further towards the ends.
US09983281B2
MRI apparatus includes a first radio frequency (RF) communication unit, a second RF communication unit, an image reconstruction unit and a table for loading an object. The first RF communication unit obtains a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) signal detected by an RF coil device, and wirelessly transmits a digitized NMR signal via an induced electric field. The second RF communication unit receives the NMR signal via the induced electric field. The image reconstruction unit reconstructs image data based on the NMR signal. The table includes a supporting unit which detachably supports the first RF communication unit to the second radio communication unit so that an interval between the first and second RF communication units enables RF communication via the induced electric field.
US09983267B2
The invention relates to a DC-DC converter which is designed to supply a low-voltage network comprising a low-voltage battery and a battery sensor circuit with a low voltage, having a pulse generation device which is designed to feed electrical pulses into the low-voltage network in order to test the low-voltage battery using the battery sensor circuit.
US09983264B2
A multiple defect diagnosis method includes: receiving a gate-level netlist of a chip, a plurality of test patterns and a plurality of test failure reports; deriving a plurality of seed nets from the gate-level netlist according to the plurality of test patterns and the plurality of test failure reports; utilizing a processor to compute similarity between the plurality of seed nets, and accordingly merging the plurality of seed nets to obtain a single seed net tree; and deriving at least one suspected seed net according to the single seed net tree.
US09983258B2
A method for testing using an automated test equipment (ATE) is disclosed. The method comprises capturing a radio frequency (RF) signal using a digital port on automated test equipment, wherein the RF signal is transmitted from a device under test (DUT) to be tested by the automated test equipment. It also comprises sampling the RF signal at a high sampling rate using a digital channel associated with the digital port. Further, it comprises generating a discrete signal using results from the sampling. Finally, it comprises determining a frequency and amplitude of the RF signal using the discrete signal.
US09983255B2
A test fixture for testing a material according to a particular test procedure. A metallic base and four non-conductive side panels are affixed along a periphery of the base to form an internal cavity, and a non-conductive top cover is hingedly connected to one side panel. A metallic bottom electrode has an upper surface for holding a test material and a lower portion installed into a first aperture in an upper surface of the base. A metallic top electrode has a lower portion with a lower surface for contacting the test material and an upper portion extending out of a cover aperture in the top cover when the lower surface is in contact with the test material. A voltage source is coupled to perform the testing via a terminal on the base and the upper portion of the top electrode.
US09983251B2
A grounding monitoring device is disclosed herein. In a described embodiment, the grounding monitoring device comprises a wrist strap comprising a first conductive portion for providing a first discharge path between a human arm and a ground; and a second conductive portion electrically isolated from the first conductive portion for providing a different second discharge path between the human arm and the ground. The grounding monitoring device further comprises a bipolar control voltage generator for applying a first voltage at a frequency f0 to the first conductive portion and an opposite second voltage at the frequency f0 to the second conductive portion; and an electrical circuit for: receiving a first total signal from the first conductive portion; receiving a second total signal from the second conductive portion; and forming an output signal based on a differential and common mode gains of the electrical circuit. The grounding monitoring device further comprises a comparator for comparing a portion of the output signal that corresponds to the frequency f0 with a first threshold value; and comparing a portion of at least one of the first total signal and the second total signal that corresponds to the frequency f0 with a second threshold value; wherein an alarm signal is activated depending on the comparisons made by the comparator.
US09983248B1
Power distribution infrastructure is incrementally deployed and commissioned to enable incremental infrastructure deployment to support incremental changes in computing capacity in a data center, where interaction between infrastructure being commissioned and installed computer systems is mitigated. Power distribution system commissioning includes coupling busway stub segments to a downstream end of the power distribution system and operating load banks, coupled to each busway stub segment, to simulate the power distribution system supporting electrical power consumption by multiple sets of computer systems through the busway stub segments. A power busway, installed via coupling busway segments to a busway stub segment, is commissioned while electrically isolated from the power distribution system via coupling a load bank and secondary power distribution system to opposite ends of the busway and operating the load bank to simulate the power busway supporting electrical power consumption by a set of computer systems, via reserve power, throughout the busway length.
US09983240B2
A circuit configured to sense the driving current of a motor, the circuit comprising: a driver configured to generate a driving current for a motor; a first current sensor configured to sense the driving current thereby forming a first sensed current; a second current sensor configured to sense the driving current thereby forming a second sensed current, the second current sensor being more thermally stable than the first current sensor; a comparator configured to compare the first sensed current and the second sensed current below a threshold frequency to generate a thermal calibration output; and a calibrator configured to calibrate the first sensed current by the thermal calibration output to form a sensed driving current.
US09983237B2
A lightning current measuring device is provided with: a polarized light separation element which separates light output from a sensor fiber into horizontal and vertical components having orthogonal planes of polarization, a Faraday rotation angle calculation unit calculating a Faraday rotation angle through arc-sine processing of a digitized signal of the difference between the horizontal and vertical components converted to a signal through photoelectric conversion after separation by the polarized light separation element, amplifiers which amplify the horizontal and vertical components converted to a signal through photoelectric conversion after separation by the polarized light separation element, a Faraday rotation angle calculating unit which calculates a Faraday rotation angle based on a digitized signal of the difference between the amplified horizontal and vertical components, and current value conversion units converting current values based on the calculated Faraday rotation angles.
US09983230B2
A probe pin according to an embodiment of the present invention has a two-piece structure consisting of a pogo pin part and a barrel part, in which the pogo pin part includes an upper plunger having an outside contact point at an upper end, a lower plunger having an outside contact point at a lower end, and a spring portion composed of one or more springs and connected to a lower end of the upper plunger and an upper end of the lower plunger; and the barrel part has a cylindrical shape surrounding a portion of the pogo pin part and has a barrel-fixing spring portion protruding on an outer side of the barrel part to apply elasticity outward.
US09983218B2
The present application relates to indole and indoline derivatives of formula (I), (II), (III), (IV), (V), or (VI) wherein a, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, U, V, W, X, Y, and Z are as defined in the specification. The present application also relates to compositions comprising such compounds, and methods of treating disease conditions using such compounds and compositions, and methods for identifying such compounds.
US09983196B2
Methods to determine drug hydrophobicity and to quantify changes in drug hydrophobicity that optimize drug function by means of differential scanning calorimetry of an endothermic phase transition of a base protein-based polymer, specifically of an elastic-contractile model protein, to which is attached the drug to be evaluated for its hydrophobicity in terms of the change in Gibbs free energy for hydrophobic association, ΔGHA have been developed. Also described herein is the preparation of nanoparticles comprised of protein-based polymers, specifically of elastic-contractile model proteins, designed for the binding and desired release rate of a specific drug or class of drugs. Further described herein is a means of targeting the drug-laden nanoparticle to a cell by means of decorating the nanoparticle surface with a molecular entity that selectively binds to the diseased cell or disease causing organism, e.g., by decorating the drug-laden nanoparticle surface with synthetic antigen-binding fragment to an up-regulated receptor characteristic of the diseased cell.
US09983195B2
Described are three-dimensional, engineered, biological breast tissues, adipose tissues, and tumor models, including breast cancer models.
US09983187B2
The present invention is a system for the extraction and quantification of tetraprotic naphthenic acids present in oils, precursors of the formation of calcium naphthenates, which are potential formers of deposits, causing of damage to pieces of equipment used in the oil production industry.
US09983186B2
An optical computing device including a detector having a non-planar semiconductor structure is provided. The detector may include one or more structures having structure characteristics that may be optimized to respond to and weight predetermined wavelengths of light radiated from a sample that are related to characteristics of the sample. The detector may include an array of the one or more structures, wherein each of the structure units may be individually addressable to program or tune the detector to respond to and weight a spectra of light and generate an output signal based on the weighted spectra of light that is proportional to the characteristics of the sample.
US09983179B2
In order to provide a gas chromatograph in which any adverse effects on a reduction reaction unit that are caused by the degradation of a reduction catalyst, and any adverse effects on an analyzing unit are prevented, a gas chromatograph is provided with: a column that, by causing a sample gas to pass through itself, is able to separate constituents for measurement that are contained in the sample gas; an oxidation reaction unit that uses an oxidizing gas to oxidize the sample gas that has passed through the column so as to create an oxidation sample gas; a reduction reaction unit that uses a reducing gas to reduce the oxidation sample gas created by the oxidation reaction unit so as to create an oxidation reduction sample gas; and an analyzing unit that analyzes the sample gas.
US09983170B2
A method is provided for analyzing a sample using capillary electrophoresis. According to the method, an electrophoretic liquid filling step is performed for filling a capillary tube with an electrophoretic liquid. In an introducing step, a predetermined amount of sample is introduced to an introducing tank linked to the capillary tube. In a flow step, performed after the introducing step, the sample is caused to flow in the introducing tank, thereby generating a shear flow at a link portion between the capillary tube and the introducing tank. In an electrophoresis step, electrophoresis is performed in the capillary tube while the sample is continuously supplied.
US09983167B2
The present disclosure outlines a device having a multi-channel potentiostat circuit and a microcontroller for controlling the multi-channel potentiostat circuit. The multi-channel potentiostat circuit includes a counter electrode, a reference electrode, and a first switch between the counter electrode and the reference electrode. The multi-channel potentiostat circuit also includes a plurality of measurement circuits coupled to respective second switches. The microcontroller can configured to provide a first signal to the multi-channel potentiostat circuit to control the first switch, wherein a state of the first switch changes an operating mode of the multi-channel potentiostat circuit. The microcontroller is also configured to provide a second signal to the multi-channel potentiostat circuit to control at least one of the second switches to couple at least one of the plurality of measurement circuits to a working electrode.
US09983164B1
An electrochemical sensor assembly is disclosed. In some implementations, the electrochemical sensor assembly comprises at least one electrochemical sensor/cell including a substrate with a cavity formed on a first side of the substrate, an ionic conductor is disposed within the cavity, and a lid assembly positioned over the cavity. The lid assembly may include a plurality of electrodes and a gas permeable region positioned over the plurality of electrodes, where the plurality of electrodes include a working electrode configured to react a molecular species when the molecular species is received through the gas permeable region. The lid assembly may be sealed to the substrate with a bonding layer disposed between the lid assembly and the substrate. The bonding layer may be curable with light or thermally curable at a suitably low temperature to avoid thermal damage to the ionic conductor.
US09983162B2
The present invention is directed to an electrochemical sensor involving an electrode and a coating that surrounds the electrode, the coating comprising a structural component, a water immiscible solvent, a resistance decreasing component, and an ion exchange component, wherein the coating selectively partitions an electrochemically active drug from a fluid or vapor sample whereby an electrochemical signal within the coating can be measured using the electrode. Devices and methods for using this electrochemical sensor are also disclosed.
US09983153B2
A method for real time on-stream analysis of oil sands composition is disclosed comprising the steps of detecting a moisture content of an oil sands stream using a microwave transmission analyzer, detecting an elemental composition of the oil sands stream using a prompt gamma neutron activation analyzer and calculating a content of hydrocarbons, clays and sands in the oil sands stream. The total clay amount in the oil sands stream is based on the detected gamma spectra of several elemental components of the oil sands stream, such as sodium, magnesium, potassium, calcium and iron.
US09983147B2
A system and method for prognostic health monitoring of thermal barrier coatings is provided. The system may comprise monitoring a thermal barrier coated gas turbine engine component, and measuring the infrared radiation emitting from the component. The measured thermal radiation data may be analyzed and compared to known material thermal radiation data in order to determine the health of the thermal barrier coating. The compiled comparison results may be compared against a historical statistical study to then determine the overall health of the thermal barrier coating. The system may comprise generating a health monitoring alert in response to the health of the thermal barrier coating indicating an imminent failure.
US09983146B1
Aspects of the disclosure relate to systems and techniques for inspecting seals for high altitude balloons. In one example, a system may include a reflective surface, a translucent material on the reflective surface, and a movable light source configured to move along the reflective surface and provide light to the reflective surface. The light is provided such that it is reflected from the reflective surface and through the translucent material in order to backlight a balloon envelope seal for inspection. A method for inspecting a balloon envelope seal may include placing balloon envelope material on a table, forming a seal between portions of the material, moving a light over the seal, shining light onto a reflective portion of the table below the seal to backlight the seal, and inspecting the seal using the backlighting of the seal.
US09983145B1
A test probe card detection system includes a linear scanning lens module, a CCD microscope module, a CCD image adjustment module, and a computer. The CCD microscope module adjusts and confirms a scanning optical focal length of a test probe card to be tested. The linear scanning lens module scans all areas data of the test probe card and stores the scanned all areas data in a database. The all areas data is compared with a coordinate file in order to detect defected pins of the test probe card. The CCD microscope module confirms and obtains data of the detected defected pins of the test probe card. The data of the detected defected pins is sent to the CCD image adjustment module and are shown on the computer. The defected pins include pins having surface oxidation, wear, damage, and breaking; lacking of pins; and deflected pins.
US09983143B2
A cooling apparatus includes a container configured to contain a coolant within a space. The apparatus further includes a cooling block positioned substantially within the space and having a high heat capacity such that the space not occupied by the cooling block is filled with a coolant to a level at or below the top of the cooling block, and a placement structure having high thermal conductivity positioned on top of the cooling block and outside of the space. A method for cooling an object is also provided, which includes inserting a coolant into a container configured to contain the coolant within a space, and placing the object on a placement structure outside the space. For this method, the placement structure has a high thermal conductivity and is coupled to a cooling block, the cooling block having a high heat capacity and positioned substantially within the space.
US09983138B2
A method for determining whether a sample includes a nitrate-based explosive comprises receiving the sample and selecting an area of interest on the sample. Then, at least a portion of the area of interest is interrogated with an optical source to produce a spectrum with an amplitude. The amplitude of a first portion of the spectrum is compared to a first predetermined threshold to determine if the sample includes a nitrate. After determining that the sample includes a nitrate in the area of interest, the amplitude of a second portion of the spectrum is compared to a second predetermined threshold to determine if the sample includes a secondary indicator. Then, an indicator is activated based on the determinations.
US09983137B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a safety protection device for Raman spectroscopy detection and a Raman spectroscopy detection system including the safety protection device. The safety protection device includes: a detection cavity including a cavity body, the cavity body having an opening end through which a sample to be detected is allowed to be placed into the detection cavity; and a cover configured to cover and engage the opening end so as to form, together with the detection cavity, an explosion proof container defining a space for receiving the sample to be detected, the detection cavity further includes a detection opening formed in the cavity body such that a Raman detection probe is allowed to be inserted into the space through the detection opening so as to detect the sample.
US09983136B2
The invention provides a method for obtaining sample specific signatures. The method comprises of irradiating the sample at a predefined location with an electromagnetic radiation of specific wavelength; selectively capturing a certain component of the scattered electromagnetic radiation to obtain a plurality of profiles; and filtering the profiles to obtain a sample specific signature. The invention provides an apparatus for obtaining sample specific signatures.
US09983129B2
Disclosed are methods, systems, and apparatuses for rapidly detecting a cellular interaction, such as ligand:receptor interactions. For example, the disclosed methods and systems can be used to detect a cellular interaction within 15 minutes to 75 minutes. This allows cells to be used as biosensors to detect cell activating agents in a sample.
US09983128B2
A first output light beam (L2) that originates from a total internal reflection at a detection surface (111) of a total internal reflection TIR chamber (110) and a second output light beam (L2′) that comes from the interior of an inspectable chamber (120, 220, 320, 420, 520, 620) are both received within an observation region (OR). Preferably, these output light beams are detected with the same light detector, e.g. an image sensor (12). A total internal reflection at the TIR chamber and reflected light from inside the inspectable chamber are both directed to the same observation region (OR). This is for example enabled by different inclinations of the windows encountered by the first and the second output light beams, by different optical elements (407) in the paths of the output light beams, and/or by light scattering surface structures (122, 223, 322, 422, 522, 622) in the inspectable chamber.
US09983125B2
The present invention relates to a system for detecting terahertz radiation, a camera device, and a method for detecting terahertz radiation.
US09983123B2
The invention relates to analytical chemistry, in particular, to the spectral absorption analysis with a differential method of measuring concentrations of mercury and benzene vapors.The invention is aimed at creation of an absorption analyzer, which allows to determine the content of mercury and benzene in the carrier gas, with improved analytical performance for benzene.The aim is achieved with an absorption analyzer, which comprises optically coupled components: a photodetector, an analytical cell, a modulator of radiation polarization and a spectral lamp containing a discharge cavity located between magnet poles and connected with means of electric discharge excitation, buffer gas and mercury placed into the spectral lamp, as well as a gas system connecting a sampling port of the analyzer with an input port of the analytical cell by gas communications, wherein the gas system comprises at least three gas channels connecting the sampling port of the analyzer to the input port of the analytical cell via a gas channels selector, while at least one of these gas channels comprises means for removing the benzene from the gas stream, at least one comprises means for removing mercury from the gas stream, at least one is permeable for mercury, at least one is permeable for benzene and at least one has different permeability rates for mercury and benzene.
US09983121B2
A device and method for tracking a spectral response. The device and method including inputting light to a waveguide medium having a plurality of perturbation sensors disposed in a spaced relationship in the waveguide medium; receiving a plurality of signals reflected from the plurality of perturbation sensors; retrieving from the received signals, data representing a plurality of signal values, each signal value comprising at least a magnitude value and a wavelength value; identifying within the plurality of signal values, at least a first signal value and a second signal value, being in an overlap state; estimating, for at least some of the plurality of perturbation sensors, an expected signal value; associating each expected signal value with a respective signal value from the plurality of signal values; updating each expected signal value with the associated signal value.
US09983103B2
A gas sample extraction assembly for controllably accessing gas in a gas sample container includes a coupler body having a coupler bore and a coupler end for engaging the gas sample container; an upper member having an upper member bore; a biasing member disposed between the upper member and the coupler body; and a stem having a first portion coupled to the upper member bore and a second portion disposed in the coupler bore, the stem being movable relative to the coupler body between a first axial position and a second axial position, wherein the biasing member is configured to bias the stem in the first axial position.
US09983099B2
An ion mobility spectrometer analytical instrument, including an ion mobility spectrometer, a swab interface, and a desorber assembly. The desorber assembly includes a heat transfer device configured to heat a desorber, as well as a supply configured to direct gas through the desorber. The instrument further includes a drift tube, high voltage device arrayed, at least in part, proximate to the drift tube, wherein the high voltage device is configured to change a polarity of a voltage applied to the drift tube and have an absolute voltage of about 500 to 1500 volts. The instrument further includes a reactant supply unit adapted to supply reactant during a sample substance analysis, and a control unit.
US09983096B2
Systems and methods for monitoring fuel actuation system health are described herein. A method for monitoring fuel actuation system health may comprise: moving a metering valve from a first position to a second position; detecting a first travel distance of the metering valve; storing the first travel distance of the metering valve to memory to generate a first travel distance history; and determining a level of degradation of the fuel actuation system based on at least the first travel distance history.
US09983078B2
Methods and apparatus for analyzing effects of friction on process control devices are disclosed herein. An example method includes determining, by executing an instruction with at least one processor, a first value corresponding to friction associated with at least one of an actuator or a process control device to be operated by the actuator; determining a second value indicative of an effect of the friction on operation of the process control device via the actuator based on the first value corresponding to the friction and a first threshold value; and changing a force input to move a plug of the process control device 1) a distance or 2) a distance within a time period when the second value satisfies a second threshold value.
US09983066B1
A system for high sensitivity, high time resolution detection of an arbitrary spontaneous emission is disclosed. The system may use a local oscillator (LO) for generating an LO input optical signal, and an linear optical mixer for receiving and mixing the input optical signal and an arbitrary spontaneous emission. The 2D detector generates a first component output and a second component. A subsystem receives the component outputs and produces first and second dispersed spectrum output signals. At least a first ultra-high speed camera is used for imaging one of the first or second dispersed spectrum output signals.
US09983062B2
A photoelectric conversion element is realized in which the movement direction of electrons in the element changes according to the wavelength of light to be converted. A photoelectric conversion unit includes an active layer on which light to be converted is incident, an intermediate layer that is arranged on the active layer on a side opposite to the side on which the light to be converted is incident, and a reflection layer that is arranged so as to oppose the active layer with the intermediate layer interposed therebetween. The active layer includes a plasmonic material, which is a material in which plasmon resonance occurs due to a reciprocal action with the light to be converted. The intermediate layer has both a semiconductor property and transparency with respect to the light to be converted. The reflection layer has reflectivity with respect to the light to be converted.
US09983059B2
Disclosed is a spectroscopy device, including an analysis zone for receiving a sample; at least one light-emitting diode arranged to emit a light beam towards the analysis zone, having a luminous intensity spectral profile in a working wavelength interval; unit for varying with time the luminous intensity spectral profile emitted by the diode in the working wavelength interval of the diode; a detector, arranged to receive, during a variation with time of the luminous intensity spectral profile emitted by the diode, the light beam emitted by the diode and having crossed the analysis zone, and supplying a detection signal of the light beam emitted by the diode and received by the detector, in the form of a signal which depends on at least one characteristic representative of the luminous intensity spectral profile of the light-emitting diode. Application to derivative spectroscopy.
US09983057B2
An optoelectronic arrangement includes an optoelectronic semiconductor chip, a wavelength-converting element and a detector component, wherein the optoelectronic arrangement is configured to emit light with a first peak wavelength and to emit light with a second peak wavelength, the first peak wavelength is in the visible spectral range and the second peak wavelength is in the non-visible spectral range or the first peak wavelength is in the non-visible spectral range and the second peak wavelength is in the visible spectral range, and the optoelectronic arrangement emits the light whose peak wavelength is in the non-visible spectral range into a target area, and the detector component is configured to detect light backscattered from the target area and the peak wavelength of which is in the non-visible spectral range.
US09983053B2
An optical sensor device includes a light emitter for emitting, to a living body, lights having two wavelengths and blinking at a predetermined frequency, and a light receiver for receiving the lights from the living body. The light receiver outputs first and second detection signals corresponding to the respective wavelengths. A filter circuit extracts, from the first and second detection signals, modulation signals that are obtained with amplitude modulation of signals of the predetermined frequency. The modulation signals are amplified by a post-amplifier and are taken into an arithmetic processing unit after being converted to digital signals by an AD converter. The arithmetic processing unit calculates DC components and AC components of the first and second detection signals by employing the modulation signals converted the digital signals.
US09983051B2
A fastening structure of a brittle-fracturable panel material includes a first fastening flange, a second fastening flange, and a light transmission window panel made of a brittle-fracturable panel material, wherein the light transmission window panel is nipped between the first fastening flange and the second fastening flange, and both fastening flanges are air-tightly fitted and fastened.
US09983042B2
An embodiment of the invention provides a liquid-level sensor to detect liquid-level information of a liquid to be tested in a container. The sensor includes an electrode, a sensing circuit, an amplifier and a controller. The electrode is disposed on the outer surface of the container, comprising a first electrode and a second electrode. The sensing circuit is coupled to a first electrode and a second electrode, and receives a clock signal to generate a first voltage signal and a second voltage signal. The amplifier receives the first voltage signal and the second voltage signal to output an output voltage. The controller acquires liquid-level information of the liquid to be tested according to the output voltage and a voltage-volume table.
US09983038B2
A housing defines a bypass passage and a sub-bypass passage. The bypass passage draws a part of air flowing through an interior of a duct. The sub-bypass passage is branched from the bypass passage to draw a part of air flowing through the bypass passage. A flow sensor is equipped in the sub-bypass passage to cause heat transfer with air, which passes through the sub-bypass passage, and to generate an electric signal according to a flow quantity of air in the duct. An intake-air temperature sensor is configured to measure a temperature in the duct. A moisture sensor is configured to measure a humidity in the duct. The flow sensor and the multiple sensors are equipped in the sub-bypass passage and are located along a direction of flow of air in the sub-bypass passage.
US09983036B2
A measurement control section of a flow meter device causes a measurement block dividing section to divide a sampling cycle Tc into three or more, for example, four measurement blocks Tb of an equal length and causes the flow measuring section to measure the flow of a fluid in each of the measurement blocks Tb. A flow calculating section of the flow measuring section calculates an average value of flow values obtained in all of the measurement blocks in each sampling cycle Tc, as a flow value in each sampling cycle Tc. This configuration allows a flow meter device which employs an inverse transit time difference method, such as an estimation gas meter, to more effectively lessen the influence of a pulsation and to perform flow measurement with higher accuracy.
US09983032B1
A sensor system includes first and second capacitive sensors. An excitation circuit, coupled with the sensors, applies an excitation voltage to each of the sensors. The excitation voltage is characterized by a first, second, and third excitation voltage components, wherein the second and third excitation voltage components have opposite polarities. A capacitance-to-voltage (C/V) converter, electrically coupled with the sensors, generates a differential-mode output signal in response to the first excitation voltage component applied to the sensors, and the C/V converter generates a common-mode output signal in response to the second and third excitation voltage components applied to the sensors. A signal processing unit, coupled with the C/V converter, extracts a sense signal from the differential-mode output signal, extracts a diagnostic signal from said common-mode out signal, and detects a fault condition in the sensor system when a difference between the sense and diagnostic signals is outside a preset limit.
US09983027B2
A proximity sensor may be mounted below a display cover layer in an electronic device. The proximity sensor may have a light source that emits light and a detector configured to detect reflections of the emitted light from nearby external objects. The light emitted from the light source may pass through a lens along an axis towards external objects. The light source and the detector may be mounted in a proximity sensor housing having openings that are aligned with the light source and the detector. A reflector may be mounted to the proximity sensor in a configuration that bridges the opening over the light source. The reflector may be formed from a strip of metal or a strip of prism structures. Some of the light from the light source reflects from the reflector at a non-zero angle with respect to the axis and enhances proximity sensor performance.
US09983025B2
A motion sensor constituted of: a housing; a rotating member secured to the housing and arranged to rotate about a rotation axis of the rotating member responsive to motion of the housing across a surface; at least one bipolar magnet secured to the rotating member so as to rotate about the rotation axis of the rotating member with the rotation of the rotating member; and a transducer secured to the housing and juxtaposed with the rotating member, the transducer arranged to vary its output voltage in response to changes in magnetic field caused by the rotation of the at least one bipolar magnet.
US09983022B2
An onboard control device that is installed at a vehicle acquires land mark information including position information of a landmark which can be recognized on a road in which the vehicle is estimated to travel by a camera, a landmark image for recognition, a recognition evaluation value that represents ease of the recognition successfully performed and so on, and selects a landmark to be a subject for recognition based on the recognition evaluation value included in the landmark information. The onboard control device further evaluates the recognition results of the landmark to be a subject for recognition, and transmits the recognition results to the server with the landmark image recognized by the camera. The server aggregates the recognition evaluation results of the landmark and the recognized images and reflects them in the recognition evaluation values for the landmark information and landmark images to be transmitted to the onboard control device.
US09983019B2
A method is provided for operating a navigation system of a motor vehicle for searching for possible destinations, wherein a processing device of the navigation system is used: to receive a search input from a user, to search a first database and a second database for suitable database entries in each case on the basis of the search input and in this case to provide a first and a second results list of suitable database entries. The first database stores database entries that indicate geographical regions, and the second database stores database entries that indicate road names and/or special destinations. For each road name and/or special destination the second database indicates a reference to at least one geographical region. The processing devices determine entry pairs that each contain a database entry from the first results list and a database entry from the second results list as the possible destinations.
US09983014B2
A travel route guide device includes a travel route calculation unit that calculates a travel route from a current position to a destination based on current position information, destination information, and a remaining amount of power of an electric vehicle, and information on a remaining power amount recovery facility. The travel route guide device includes a region division unit that divides a region including the travel route calculated by the travel route calculation unit into a plurality of local regions. The travel route device includes a constraint condition determination unit that determines a constraint condition for a monitoring variable. The travel route device includes a recalculation determination unit that monitors the monitoring variable corresponding to the local region including a position of the electric vehicle, and requests the travel route calculation unit to calculate the travel route when a value of the monitoring variable deviates from the constraint condition.
US09983011B2
Systems and methods for indicating an emergency exit path upon detection of a fire in a building structure. The systems and methods may include detecting a signal indicating presence of the fire in the building structure and determining an evacuation situation is present based on a risk assessment. In response to determining the evacuation situation is present, the systems and methods may include mapping the emergency exit path out of the building structure based on an identified location of the fire and an identified location of a person in the building structure, and operating a plurality of lighting devices in the building structure to indicate the emergency exit path out of the building structure.
US09983008B2
A navigation system as described herein comprises a processing resource configured to receive destination data representative of a destination, to determine an expected travel time to the destination, and to determine a departure time in dependence upon the expected travel time to the destination, and an output device for providing the departure time to a user.
US09983007B2
We have disclosed systems and methods for portable performance monitoring of an individual during a physical activity. The systems and methods may include a portable sensor component configured to be carried by the individual during the physical activity and configured to obtain movement data for the athlete individual during the physical activity. The systems and methods may also include a portable output component configured to be carried by the individual during the physical activity and configured to provide an output to the individual during the physical activity. The systems and methods may further include a portable processing component in communication with the portable sensor component and the portable output component, where the portable processing component is configured to be carried by the individual during the physical activity. The portable processing component may be configured to identify movement of the individual during the physical activity.
US09983005B1
Methods and apparatus optically measure acceleration, without Sagnac-effect corruption, without requiring slow light and without moving parts. Each optical accelerometer includes at least one measurement cell and at least one reference cell. Two optical signals traverse the cells in opposite directions around a figure-8-configured optical path and then interfere to produce an output signal. The reference cells have different indices of refraction than the measurement cells. Acceleration differentially affects speeds of the optical signals traversing the measurement and reference cells through differentially affecting the indices of refraction of the measurement and reference cells. These differences are evident in changes in the interference in the output signal, thereby enabling measurement of the acceleration. Several embodiments, including optical bench, vertical slab multi-pass, toroidal prism, planar waveguide, cylindrical waveguide, wound waveguide and optical fiber, are described.
US09982999B2
An interferometric method for profiling the topography of a sample surface comprises: (i) a first interferometric profiling step at a first magnification M1 to produce a map comprising pixels with planar (X,Y)-coordinates corresponding to the area of the sample surface, (ii) identifying pixel(s) which meet or exceed a Cut-Off Threshold, and meet or exceed a parameter NNAP; (iii) identifying pixel(s) for which no z-coordinate has been recorded; (iv) generating a Low Magnification Frame File (LMFF) which comprises the (X,Y) coordinates of the pixels derived from steps (ii) and (iii); (v) a second interferometric profiling step at a second magnification M2, wherein M2>M1, wherein only selected regions of the sample surface are analysed, said selected regions comprising the features associated with the (X,Y)-coordinates of the pixels in the Low Magnification Frame File; and further comprising a step selected from: (vi) analysing the output of the second interferometric profiling step to differentiate between an intrinsic defect and an extrinsic defect; (vii) assessing whether said sample surface meets one or more quality control standard(s) and/or one or more target property or properties; and (viii) assessing whether said sample surface is suitable as a surface for subsequent coating.
US09982998B2
A vehicle wheel alignment system and method is provided for performing a rolling wheel axis of rotation and wheel spindle point calculation every time an alignment is performed. Embodiments include an aligner having a target fixedly attachable to a wheel of the vehicle; a camera for viewing the target and capturing image data of the target; and a data processor. The data processor receives the image data from the camera, and determines a vector pointing from the target origin to a wheel spindle point based on the captured target image data, when the vehicle is rolled while the wheel is on a substantially flat surface such that the wheel and target rotate a number of degrees. The data processor is further adapted to calculate an alignment parameter for the vehicle based at least in part on the wheel axis of rotation and the coordinates of the wheel spindle point.
US09982995B2
A series of structured lighting patterns are projected on an object. Each successive structured lighting pattern has a first and second subset of intensity features such as edges between light and dark areas. The intensity features of the first set coincide spatially with intensity features from either the first or second subset from a preceding structured lighting pattern in the series. Image positions are detected where the intensity features of the first and second subset of the structured lighting patterns are visible in the images. Image positions where the intensity features of the first subset are visible are associated with the intensity features of the first subset, based on the associated intensity features of closest detected image positions with associated intensity features in the image obtained with a preceding structured lighting pattern in said series. Image positions where the intensity features of the second subset are visible, between pairs of the image positions associated with intensity features of the first subset, with intensity features of the second subset between the intensity features associated with the pair of positions. The associated intensity features in a final structured lighting pattern of the series are used to identify the intensity features of the final structured lighting pattern for the determination of 3D surface position information.
US09982993B2
The present invention provides a measurement apparatus for measuring a shape of a surface of an object, including a probe configured to be scanned on the surface of the object, a plurality of reference members configured to be arranged in a scanning direction of the probe, a plurality of detection units configured to be provided at different positions of the probe in the scanning direction and each configured to detect a distance from a reference member which has been selected from the plurality of reference members in accordance with a position of the probe in the scanning direction, and a processing unit configured to obtain shape information of the surface of the object by obtaining position information of the probe based on at least one of detection results of the plurality of detection units while scanning the probe.
US09982987B2
A method for determining measurement conditions of a roughness sensor having at least one measuring needle, a computer program product and a measuring device for carrying out the method are provided. The measuring needle is positioned on a surface in a rest state and rests on the surface without being moved. Measurement signals are recorded in the rest state. A signal line of the roughness sensor is electrically grounded and measurement signals are recorded in the grounded rest state. Further, a method for measuring a roughness of a workpiece surface by the roughness sensor is provided in which the measuring needle is guided along a surface section of the workpiece surface to be measured and moved in a measurement direction (x-direction). The movement of the measuring needle in a plane (yz-plane) perpendicular to the measurement direction is recorded during the movement of the measuring needle along the workpiece surface.
US09982986B2
A system and method for creating and utilizing a construction aid for the construction of a mechanical structure is provided. Specifically, the disclosure may provide a visually transparent or semi-transparent, adhesive template capable of conforming to objects having curved and/or flat surfaces including indicia marked on portions thereof indicating, for example, the location, size, and type of fasteners to be used, or other construction information, is provided. The indicia may be comprised of lines and symbols of differing size, shape and color, as well as verbiage for additional assembly instructions. The adhesive template may be either visually or mechanically indexed to the mechanical structure.
US09982984B2
A tape measure marking attachment assembly includes a mount including a housing that has a top side, a bottom side, a front side, and a rear side. The top side has a slot extending downwardly therein that releasably receives and frictionally engages a tab of a tape measure. A receiver is positioned on the mount. A marking element is releasably engaged to the receiver.
US09982982B2
An automatic ammunition reloading system includes an actuation assembly in communication with a control system. The actuation assembly is joined to a reloading press by attaching to a control lever of the ammunition press so as to put the reloading press in operative relation with the actuation assembly. The control system receives input from a control lever position sensor to sense an extremity position of the control lever and to determine an actuation distance of the control lever for a full stroke of the reloading press. The control system controls operation of the actuation assembly so as to oscillate the control lever through the actuation distance.
US09982976B1
The present invention teaches an arrowhead of foam, having a front aperture leading to a front cavity: the front cavity is either an injectable paint cavity or a partial spherical shape, the aperture formed by the bisection of the cavity with the front end of the arrowhead and smaller in diameter than the cavity. The cavity diameter may be such that the resilience of the foam secures a paintball therein. The rear end of the arrowhead has a second aperture dimensioned and configured to secure an arrow shaft therein on a threaded connector. The arrowhead has a shock absorber mechanism and other details which provide for extreme cushioning of impact.
US09982967B2
An impact penetration resistant laminate comprises a plurality of alternating layers of (i) non-fibrous ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene monolayers and (ii) a thermoplastic adhesive, the adhesive having a basis weight of no greater than 5 gsm and a zero-shear-rate viscosity, determined from an oscillating disc rheometer in a frequency sweep between 0.1 rad/s and 100 rad/s, conducted per ASTM D 4440 at 125° C., and calculated from fitting to a Carrea-Yasuda four parameter model, of at least 1500 Pa-s, wherein (a) at least 90 percent of the monolayers are arranged such that the orientation of one monolayer is offset with respect to the orientation of an adjacent monolayer, and (b) the modulus of elasticity through the thickness of the laminate is at least 3 GPa.
US09982948B2
According to the present invention, a heat exchanger comprises a plurality of coolant tubes; a plurality of fins contacting the plurality of coolant tubes, wherein each of the plurality of fins comprises: a plurality of fin parts spaced apart from each other; an upper fin part connecting part connecting respective upper portions of the plurality of fin parts with each other, the upper fin part connecting part contacting one of the plurality of coolant tubes; a lower fin part connecting part connecting respective lower portions of the plurality of fin parts with each other, the lower fin part connecting part contacting another one of the plurality of coolant tubes; an upper opening formed at an upper portion of each of the plurality of fin parts; a lower opening formed at a lower portion of each of the plurality of fin parts; an upper protrusion protruded from an upper portion of each of the plurality of fin parts, the upper protrusion contacting the first coolant tube; and a lower protrusion protruded from a lower portion of each of the plurality of fin parts, the lower protrusion contacting the second coolant tube. Accordingly, the present invention provides increased productivity without the need of a separate pipe expanding process.
US09982943B2
A continuous heating furnace includes a furnace main body, a conveyance unit configured to convey a baking object W in the furnace main body, a plurality of heating sections heated by combustion, each having a first radiation surface configured to be heated by combustion and transfers heat to the baking object conveyed by the conveyance unit and arranged in the conveyance direction of the baking object in the furnace main body, and a cooling preheater having a second radiation surface configured to receive radiant heat from the baking object when being opposite to the baking object conveyed by the conveyance unit and a gas flow path configured to preheat a gas used for combustion in the heating section by the heat from the second radiation surface.
US09982942B2
A hand dryer comprising a universal brushed AC blower vacuum motor, one or more resistive circuits of a heating element, and a universal voltage controller that selectively alternates the configuration and the electrical connection of the resistive circuits, in response to a detected input voltage is disclosed.
US09982939B2
A dispenser on refrigerator including a touch pad-type of lever for dispensing water supplied from a water purifier. The dispenser includes a main body, an ice discharge port, an ice guide, an ice discharge lever and a water discharge port. A PCB substrate is mounted on the front side of the ice guide. The touch pad-type lever is mounted on the PCB substrate and configured to receive a user request for discharging water and accordingly control a state of the water discharge port. The refrigerator also ice maker coupled to the dispenser, and detectors for detecting the amount of ice and water contained in the ice maker and the water purifier respectively. The touch pad on the touch pad-type of lever can display the amount of ice and water contained in the ice maker and the water purifier respectively.
US09982938B2
A method for controlling a refrigerator may comprise controlling at least one of a temperature and humidity of at least one storage area of the refrigerator based on first storage information, receiving, from a second refrigerator different from the refrigerator, second storage information of the second refrigerator, and controlling at least one of the temperature and the humidity of the at least one storage area of the refrigerator based on the received second storage information.
US09982918B2
A heating medium supplied to an evaporator is used to heat lubricant oil in a screw compressor before the screw compressor starts up, and no additional heater for heating the lubricant oil in the screw compressor is required. When the screw compressor operates, the heating medium discharged from the evaporator after the evaporator is heated by the heating medium, is used to cool the lubricant oil. The lubricant oil heated by a lubricant oil heat exchanger is directly injected into a motor and a screw rotor so that introduction of a liquid refrigerant into a compressive chamber is reduced when the screw compressor starts up later. The lubricant oil introduced into the motor is discharged toward a lubricant oil storage portion before the screw compressor starts up so that the liquid refrigerant is prevented in advance from being introduced into the screw rotor when the screw compressor starts up.
US09982910B2
A system includes a tank containing a fluid to be heated; a U-shaped pipe disposed proximate a bottom of the tank, a majority of the extent of the U-shaped pipe being disposed within an interior of the tank; a catalyst unit embedded within the U-shaped pipe, the catalyst unit comprising a catalyst wrapped, natural gas filled, perforated pipe that is configured to enable a catalytic reaction on its exterior; a vent pipe attached to the U-bend pipe which allows air to circulate; and mechanical controls disposed proximate the U-shaped pipe configured to vary temperature output.
US09982904B2
An air conditioning system includes an electrically run air conditioner with a compressor, a storage battery that charges and supplies electric power, a demand receiver, an air-conditioning controller, and a charging controller controlling charging of the storage battery. The demand receiver receives a demand pertaining to a power consumption of the air conditioner during a predetermined period. The air-conditioning controller stores operation-associated information pertaining to operation of the air conditioner and controls the air conditioner. The air-conditioning controller causes the air conditioner to perform precooling and/or reduce the power consumption of the air conditioner in the predetermined period based on the demand and an amount of charge of the storage battery. The charging controller control the charging of the storage battery so that the storage battery reaches, at the start of the predetermined period, a state of charge determined based on the demand and the operation-associated information.
US09982903B1
A heating, ventilation, or air conditioning (HVAC) system for a building includes, a chiller, a heat exchanger separate from the chiller, and a controller. The chiller is configured to provide mechanical cooling for a cooling load in the building when the HVAC system operates in a mechanical cooling state. The heat exchanger is configured to provide free cooling for the cooling load in the building when the HVAC system operates in a free cooling state. The controller is configured to predict outside air temperature and transition the HVAC system from operating in the mechanical cooling state to operating in the free cooling state in response to a determination that the predicted outside air temperature will be less than the free cooling temperature threshold for at least the minimum free cooling time.
US09982900B2
A blower assembly of an HVAC system may include an electrically-conductive plating applied to an inner surface of a blower housing, a first electrode attached to the electrically-conductive plating at an inner wall of the blower housing via an electrically-conductive RTV silicone, and a second electrode attached to the electrically-conductive plating at an outer wall of the blower housing via an electrically-conductive RTV silicone. The first electrode may pass a current through the electrically-conductive plating of the blower housing to the second electrode that may act as an ohmic heater and provide a thermal energy discharge which may exchange heat with an airflow flowing through the blower housing as a result of operating the blower assembly.
US09982895B2
The invention is directed to a baking oven door 2 and baking oven 1. A camera 10 is mounted inside the door 2 and coupled to a heat sink 8 constituting an outer cover of the door 2.
US09982886B2
A system for providing combustion air and fuel gas to a premix burner includes a premix engine, a premix burner in fluid communication with an outlet of the premix engine, an exhaust flue, a flue gas recirculation line in fluid communication with the flue and an inlet of the premix engine, and a fresh air line in fluid communication with a source of fresh air and the inlet of the premix engine. A flue gas flow restrictor is installed in the flue gas recirculation line, and a fresh air flow restrictor is installed in the fresh air line. The flow restrictors are sized so that the premix engine, in operation, draws recycled flue gas and fresh air from the recycled flue gas line and fresh air line, respectively, in a predetermined proportion.
