US10004296B2
An article of footwear including a fastening system is disclosed. The fastening system is adjustable and includes portions that can be directly attached to the article. The article can include elements that are capable of distributing tension over the article. The article may include a fastener and one or more tensile elements.
US10004293B2
The present method for producing a crosslinked product include the steps of: melt molding an ethylene copolymer (A) or a resin composition containing the ethylene copolymer (A); and carrying out crosslinking; wherein the ethylene copolymer (A) contains a constitutional unit derived from ethylene and a constitutional unit derived from an α-olefin having 3 to 20 carbon atoms, and satisfies the following requirements (1), (2) and (3): (1) a vinyl group content per 1,000 carbon atoms as measured by 1H-NMR is from 0.06 to 1; (2) a ratio MFR10/MFR2.16 is from 8.5 to 50; and (3) a density d is from 850 kg/m3 to 920 kg/m3. The present method for producing a crosslinked product is capable of providing a crosslinked product having a good moldability and an excellent mechanical strength. Further, the present method is capable of providing a foamed product which is light weight and excellent in mechanical strength, with an excellent productivity; as well as providing crosslinked molded articles whose dimensional variations between individual products are small.
US10004271B2
An exemplary atomizer includes a housing, a conductive part at an end of the housing, a mouthpiece with an air outlet, a liquid chamber, and at least one heating element. The liquid chamber is in the housing and configured for storing tobacco liquid. The at least one heating element is electrically connected to the conductive part. The heating element includes a liquid carrier and a heating part integrally formed with the liquid carrier. The liquid carrier has a micro porous structure. The liquid carrier is in contact with the tobacco liquid. The liquid carrier is configured for absorbing the tobacco liquid, and the heating part is configured for heating the tobacco liquid to form aerosol.
US10004268B2
An electronic cigarette is provided, comprising a electronic cigarette body, wherein, the electronic cigarette body includes a atomization assembly configured for atomizing tobacco tar, a battery assembly configured for supplying power to the atomization assembly, an airflow sensing assembly configured for sensing a smoking action, and a control module configured for controlling the battery assembly to supply power to the atomization assembly based on a smoking signal sent by the airflow sensing assembly; a receiving space is formed between the atomization assembly and the battery assembly; a lamp assembly electrically connected to the battery assembly is received in the receiving space; a light transmission portion is provided on a side wall of the electronic cigarette body that corresponds to the receiving space, and is configured to transmit lights emitted from the lamp assembly to the outside of the electronic cigarette body.
US10004262B2
An electronic cigarette and a method for supplying a constant power therein, the electronic cigarette comprises an atomizer with a heating wire. The electronic cigarette also comprises a power supply module for supplying power to the heating wire to heat the heating wire, and further comprises a microprocessor, a detecting module connected to the microprocessor, and a voltage adjusting module. A preset constant power can supply to the heating wire of the atomizer in the electronic cigarette, so that a consistent heating power can be applied to each of the electronic cigarettes produced in batch production, and smoke amount and flavor of each of the electronic cigarettes are more consistent, thereby better meeting demands of consumers.
US10004256B2
A smoking article (10, 20) comprises a flavor release segment (12). The flavor release segment (12) comprises a plug of fibrous material circumscribed by a substantially air impermeable wrapper and a plurality of solid menthol particles distributed within the plug of fibrous material. The fibrous material comprises randomly oriented fibers. Preferably the smoking article (10, 20) comprises a mouthpiece (4), wherein the mouthpiece (4) comprises the flavor release segment (12).
US10004253B1
This invention is related to a method for improving the health condition of crustaceans grown in captivity and consequently the survival rate, as well as their color, by the incorporation of a carotenoids concentrate obtained from a natural source to the feed of crustacean species, in order to improve the health condition of such aquatic animals. The improved health condition results in a noticeable gain in biomass and in a more attractive color.
US10004250B2
A machine for the production and dispensing of chilled food products comprises a tank containing an evaporator which forms part of a refrigerating circuit of the machine and a motorized mixer which rotates coaxially with the evaporator, with evaporator and mixer which project inside the tank through a rear sealed opening thereof, the tank being moreover provided at the front with a tap for dispensing the product through a dispensing outlet arranged above a dispensing zone intended to house a container for receiving the product. A shell of the opening type is arranged so as to enclose at least partially the tank and form a covering for at least partial thermal insulation of the tank from the external environment.
US10004248B2
The invention provides a beverage production machine having an apparatus for recognizing a package. The apparatus comprises two resonant tank circuits, each comprising a coil and a capacitor; two electronic circuits for detecting changes in coil impedance; a means for generating a signal which is indicative of the changes; and means for controlling the beverage production machine according to the signal. The machine also comprises a holder for supporting the package. The package for use in the machine comprises a base unit having a compartment which contains tea material, and a rim with a projecting lip; conductive material associated with the package having two edge sections situated on opposite sides of the compartment; and a lid attached to the base unit around the rim, the central portion of the lid comprising at least one perforated line. The invention also provides a method of recognizing the package.
US10004243B2
A composite particle having a fluorinated surface and a discontinuous layer of gold nanoparticles disposed on the fluorinated surface, articles that include such particles, and methods of using the particles and the articles for removal of ethylene.
US10004235B2
The present invention relates to a method for the control and the treatment of post-harvest diseases in fruits and vegetables by means of simultaneous and combined application of (i) a first formulation, which is aqueous or in the form of an emulsifiable concentrate, which comprises a plant extract and is applied in the form of an aqueous solution and (ii) a second formulation, in the form of an emulsifiable concentrate, soluble liquid or concentrated suspension, which is applied as an aqueous solution, selected from amongst: a plant-strengthening formulation that contains at least one phosphite salt; a fungicidal formulation that contains at least one synthetic fungicide of the phosphonate family, preferably ethyl phosphonic acid salts; or a combination thereof. Each formulation may be a different composition or form part of a single composition. A further subject matter of the present invention is therefore said composition for post-harvest protection of fruits and vegetables which is constituted by the combination of the aforementioned components.
US10004230B2
Methods for the generation of non-equilibrium solutions of peroxyacetic acid are disclosed. These methods comprise introducing triacetin and aqueous hydrogen peroxide to water, mixing, and then adding an aqueous source of an alkali metal or earth alkali metal hydroxide. Triacetin is converted rapidly and with a high conversion rate into peracetic acid. These methods produce solutions with a high level of peracetic acid.
US10004226B2
Stabilized liquid agrochemical compositions are provided that comprise flowable, aqueous dispersion concentrates comprising a) a continuous aqueous liquid phase; b) at least one dispersed, solid phase comprising a dispersion of polymer particles having a mean particle size of at least one micron, wherein the outside surfaces of the particles comprise a colloidal solid material and wherein the particles have at least one agrochemically active ingredient distributed therein, optionally a non-porous particulate mineral that acts as a diffusion barrier to slow the release of the active ingredient, and optionally at least one non-cross-linkable mobile chemical such that the extraction of this chemical from the disperse phase renders it porous in a manner that allows the active ingredient to diffuse out. The colloidal solid is used to stabilize the polymenzable resin in an emulsion state during preparation.
US10004222B2
Ice recrystallization inhibitor (IRI) compounds and methods for cryopreserving umbilical cord blood are provided. The compounds are unsubstituted, mono-substituted, or di-substituted aryl-aldonamides. The methods include fractionating whole umbilical cord blood to generate a fraction comprising hematopoietic stem cells, mixing the hematopoietic stem cells with at least one IRI compound to form an IRI suspension, and freezing the IRI suspension.
US10004221B2
Described are systems for (a) monitoring real-time animal activity in an area of interest using computer aided image comparison of a real-time image of the area and reference images of animals of interest and (b) providing informed alerts to a user.
US10004213B2
A fishing rod with convenient devices for measuring a length and a weight of a fish, includes a display; a weight sensor, a measuring control unit, including a processor, a non-transitory memory, an input/output, a weighing manager, a communication manager, and a data bus; a measuring assembly, including an assembly body, an axle, a spring-loaded mechanism, and a retractable hook connector; a weighing hook, and a cavity for storing the weighing hook, wherein the retractable hook connector, is configured to show a length between a lower end of the fishing rod and a lower end of the weighing hook. The retractable hook connector can be a retractable tape measure or a retractable cord.
US10004209B2
A device for launching an object which includes a flexible shaft having a distal end and a proximal end and a handle located at the proximal end sized to enable a user to grip the device while launching an object. An object gripping claw is located at the distal end of the flexible shaft, the gripping claw including first and second flanges which together define a capture volume for an object, the first flange being a stationary post and the second flange being a flexible web extending from the flexible shaft, the second flange being sufficiently flexible to deform in retaining an object within the capture volume and to release an object for launching when the flexible shaft is swung in a forward circular path.
US10004207B2
A livestock feed wagon includes a frame, a feed container which is fitted on the frame, in particular provided with a feed mixer, a gripper construction having a movable arm construction and a gripper fitted thereon for grabbing an amount of animal feed from a pile of animal feed, and a weighing device. The weighing device is arranged and configured to weigh a grabbed amount of animal feed by determining a change in the weight of at least the feed container and the gripper construction with the grabbed amount of animal feed. As a result thereof, it is possible to determine both the total loaded weight in the feed container and the weight of a grabbed chunk of animal feed using the same weighing device, so that the chunk, if it is either too heavy or too light, can be returned prior being unloaded, if desired.
US10004206B2
A rectangular shaped animal trapping cage with one side of the cage configured in two segments that can be swung toward the inside of the cage and locked to facilitate the immobilization of sheep and goat sized animals.
US10004192B2
The invention provides seed and plants of tomato line FIRKL12-4121. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, and tissue cultures of tomato line FIRKL12-4121 and to methods for producing a tomato plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another tomato plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.
US10004191B2
The invention provides seed and plants of pepper hybrid DR1908PB and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of pepper hybrid DR1908PB and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a pepper plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another pepper plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.
US10004188B2
A growing system for providing fluids to a plurality of growing assemblies using only a single pump and fluid source. The growing system generally includes a single fluid source such as a reservoir from which fluids are drawn by a single pump. A main manifold connected to the pump outlet splits the fluids drawn from the fluid source into a plurality of feeder pipes. Each of the feeder pipes provides fluid to a separate growing assembly; with the present invention providing support for a plurality of growing assemblies. Each growing assembly comprises an inlet manifold for receiving the fluids, a plurality of growing pipes for providing the fluids to a plurality of planters, and a drainage device for discharging fluids back into the fluid source for further use.
US10004187B1
The hydroponic growing system may include a gutter assembly configured to manage flow of a liquid solution to one or more components of the hydroponic growing system. Further, the hydroponic growing system may include at least one growing trough movably engaged to the gutter assembly and configured to hold one or more plants. Moreover, the hydroponic growing system may include an automation assembly movably engaged with the at least one growing trough and configured to move the at least one trough from a first position on the gutter assembly to a second position on the gutter assembly via one or more engagement devices.
US10004183B2
An apparatus and method are described for a moisture sensor. For example, one embodiment of an IoT device comprises: An Internet of Things (IoT) device comprising: a moisture sensor to detect a moisture level; an IoT communication interface and/or radio to wirelessly connect the IoT device to a network; a set of pins, pads, and/or probes to electrically couple the moisture sensor to conductive elements of one or more moisture sensor attachments; and an enclosure surrounding the moisture sensor and IoT communication interface and/or radio, the enclosure having one or more connection elements formed thereon to fixedly couple one or more moisture sensor attachments to the enclosure, thereby electrically coupling the set of pins, pads, and/or probes of the moisture sensor to the conductive elements of the moisture sensor attachments.
US10004182B1
A mushroom compost leveling apparatus includes a panel with a bottom edge where the panel is vertically suspended in a mushroom compost receptacle leaving a gap between the bottom edge and the floor of the receptacle. The panel reciprocates from side to side as mushroom compost is conveyed under the panel. Optionally, the panel includes vanes extending outwardly from a first face surface, and a rake outwardly and downwardly extending from the panel at or near the bottom edge. Optionally, a pair of wheels are mounted for rotation either to the first face of the panel or to a rail of a frame to be isolated from the panel, and the wheels each include paddles that push compost toward the side edges of the mushroom compost receptacle as the wheels are rotated. Optionally, the leveling apparatus is removably attached to sleeves depending over sidewalls of the compost receptacle, and a roller assembly is removably attached to such sleeves downstream of the leveling apparatus.
US10004173B2
A seed delivery system for use in a seeding or planting machine that removes the seed from a seed meter by capturing the seed therefrom. The delivery system then moves the seed down to a lower discharge point and accelerates the seed horizontally rearward to a speed approximately equal to the forward travel speed of the seeding machine such that the seed, when discharged has a low or zero horizontal velocity relative to the ground. Rolling of the seed in the trench is thus reduced. Furthermore, as the seed only has a short drop from the outlet to the bottom of the seed trench, the seed has little vertical speed to induce bounce. The delivery system uses a brush belt to capture, move and accelerate the seed. By capturing the seed and moving it from the meter to the discharge, the seed is held in place relative to other seeds and the planter row unit. As a result, the seeds are isolated from row unit dynamics thereby maintaining seed spacing.
US10004171B2
The present invention relates to an assembly which includes: a chassis for a mobile land vehicle, in particular an agricultural or public works vehicle; at least two half-crossmembers (21) mounted telescopically on the chassis; wheel mountings (27) pivotably mounted on each one of said half-crossmembers; steered wheels rotatably mounted on said mountings; and a device for controlling the direction of the wheels. The assembly is characterized in that it includes means (39, 41, 47) designed, for a certain position of two half-crossmembers, to increase, upon the pivoting of the wheels, the opening of the said wheels relative to the opening of the wheels resulting from the same pivoting and another position of the two half-crossmembers.
US10010019B2
An electronic module with EMI protection is disclosed. The electronic module comprises a component with contact terminals and conducting lines in a first wiring layer. There is also a dielectric between the component and the first wiring layer such that the component is embedded in the dielectric. Contact elements provide electrical connection between at least some of the contact terminals and at least some of the conducting lines. The electronic module also comprises a second wiring layer inside the dielectric. The second wiring layer comprises a conducting pattern that is at least partly located between the component and the first wiring layer and provides EMI protection between the component and the conducting lines.
US10010001B1
A circuit board comprises a third conductive circuit layer, a third insulating layer, a first insulating layer, a first conductive circuit layer, a substrate, a second conductive circuit layer, a second insulating layer, a fourth insulating layer, and a fourth conductive circuit layer in that order from top to bottom. The circuit board defines at least one first conductive hole and at least one second conductive hole. Each one of the first conductive hole comprises a first conductive blind hole, and a third conductive blind hole aligned with and electrically connected to the first conductive blind hole. Each one of the second conductive hole comprises a second conductive blind hole, and a fourth conductive blind hole aligned with and electrically connected to the second conductive blind hole. A method for making the circuit board is also provided.
US10009977B2
A control device of a luminaire includes a controller for controlling operation of the luminaire, which assumes a certain target lighting level as a response to a triggering local input signal. Through a communications module the device is configured to receive indication messages from the other devices. An adaptation module adjusts the operation of the control means in accordance with received indication messages. A relationship strength is determined, pertinent to a particular other device and indicative of regularity at which triggering local input signals have been observed after first receiving an indication message from said other device. The controller is reprogrammed to make the luminaire assume a preparatory lighting level as a response to receiving an indication message from said other device, the preparatory lighting level being dependent on the determined relationship strength.
US10009975B2
Light sources (1) such as retrofit light emitting diode tubes comprise light circuits (11) with light emitting diodes (12) and feeding electrodes (13, 14), terminals (21-24) for exchanging signals with ballasts (2, 3) or supplies (4, 5), and filament circuits (31, 41) for coupling the terminals (21-24) and the feeding electrodes (13, 14). The filament circuits (31, 41) comprise switch circuits (32) and trigger circuits (33) for in response to presences of frequencies in the signals bringing the switch circuits (32) into conducting modes to introduce relatively low impedances in the filament circuits (31, 41). In non-conducting modes the switch circuits (32) introduce relatively large impedances. This way, in case the light source (1) is connected to a high-frequency ballast (2), the switch circuit (32) is triggered and the light source (1) is normally activated. In case the light source (1) is connected to mains (4) or an external direct-current driver (5) or an electro-magnetic ballast (3), the switch circuit (32) is not triggered, and the light source (1) is not activated and protected against damage.
US10009972B2
Multiphase lighting fixtures having one or more light emitting diode (LED) light sources are provided. In one example implementation, a light fixture includes one or more light sources, such as LED light sources and a power conversion circuit. The power conversion circuit includes a phase shifting transformer for implementing a phase shift between output phases of secondary windings thereof, a multi-phase rectifier having a first rectifier and a second rectifier connected in parallel for converting a multiphase input power to a rectified output or a six-pulse configuration, a zero sequence blocking transformer for reducing harmonic distortion, an interphase transformer for further reducing harmonic distortion, and a current regulator for providing a constant DC current output to the one or more light sources. In some example implementations, the DC rectified output has a voltage ripple of less than about 7%, or less than about 3%.
US10009971B2
Lighting apparatus includes a first string of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) having a first terminal coupled to a current source and configured to produce a first correlated color temperature (CCT) and a second string of LEDs having a first terminal coupled to the current source and configured to produce a second CCT different from the first CCT. The lighting apparatus further includes a current control circuit coupled to second terminals of the first and second strings of LEDs and configured to vary a proportionality relationship between current levels in the first and second strings of LEDs responsive to variation in a current provided by the current source to the first terminals of the first and second strings of LEDs. The current control circuit may include a current mirror circuit and a control circuit configured to selectively enable and disable the current mirror circuit.
US10009969B2
A control module is able to be installed with electrical devices, such as, for example electrical loads (e.g., lighting loads) and/or load regulation devices. The control module may determine whether an LED driver for an LED light source is responsive to one or more of a plurality of control techniques. The control module may be able to automatically determine an appropriate control technique to use to control the connected LED driver and/or LED light source. The control module may sequentially attempt to control the LED driver and/or LED light source using each of the plurality of control techniques and determine if the LED driver and/or LED light source is responsive to the present control technique. The plurality of control techniques may include one or more analog control techniques and one or more digital control techniques.
US10009967B2
A backlight unit includes a light source part, a DC/DC converter, and a light source driving circuit. The DC/DC converter receives an input voltage and provides a driving voltage to the light source part. The light source driving circuit receives an analog voltage, generates a clamping voltage on the basis of the analog voltage, and generates a main driving signal applied to the DC/DC converter on the basis of the analog voltage and the clamping voltage. The light source driving circuit decreases a duty ratio of the main driving signal when the analog voltage is equal to or lower than a reference voltage.
US10009961B2
The present disclosure relates to a substrate support and a heating assembly comprising heaters for controlling the temperature uniformity of a susceptor of the assembly and a substrate, which may be used for thin film deposition on a substrate such as semi-conductor wafer, and a method of using the same is provided for improved temperature uniformity of a susceptor and a substrate heated by the heating assembly.
US10009960B2
A cooktop includes a plurality of heating elements, a user interface for inputting a power level, a detection assembly for detecting a position and size of at least one cookware element, and a control unit designed to combine a plurality of heating elements into a heating zone depending on the detected size and position of the cookware element and to operate the heating elements of the heating zone with a total heat output. In order to ensure a reproducible total heat output, the control unit is designed to calculate a bottom surface of the cookware element from the measurands of the detection assembly and to determine the total heat output depending on power level and bottom surface.
US10009958B2
A transparent pane having an electrically heatable coating and at least one coating-free zone that can be used, for example, as a communication window, is disclosed. The electrically heatable coating is connected to two collecting electrodes, such that a supply voltage applied to the electrodes generates a heating current that flows via a heating field formed between the collecting electrodes, the heating field containing the coating-free zone whose zone-edge is formed, at least in sections, by the heatable coating. Other implementation details include subdivision of one of the two collecting electrodes into separated subregions, each connected, via an electrical supply line, to an additional electrode. In one case, the electrical supply line runs, at least in sections, in the coating-free zone, in a coating-free edge strip, in a subregion of the coating outside the heating field, and/or in the zone-edge. Methods for producing the transparent pane are also disclosed.
US10009943B2
A method for controlling disconnection during a call, and a terminal are provided. The method used during the call made between a first terminal and a second terminal includes the following steps that: the first terminal detects a hang-up event generated by a hand-up operation of a local user; the first terminal determines whether or not the second terminal is a controlled terminal included in a preset controlled terminal list; and the first terminal ignores the hang-up event and rejects to send a disconnection message to a network side if the second terminal is a controlled terminal included in the preset controlled terminal list.
US10009928B2
A method can be used for facilitating a random access procedure between a first transceiver and a second transceiver within a cell. The first transceiver selects a signature sequence from a set of signature sequences, incorporates the signature sequence into a signal, and transmits the signal to the second transceiver. The set of signature sequences being obtained from a Zadoff-Chu sequence with zero correlation zone.
US10009921B2
Disclosed is a method for requesting data from a set of remote units in a network, the method comprising: defining an Asynchronous Ubiquitous Protocol, the Asynchronous Ubiquitous Protocol comprising a schedule of a plurality of time slots, each time slot defined by a distinct start time and end time pair; broadcasting transmitting instructions to the set of remote units, the transmitting instructions comprising the Asynchronous Ubiquitous Protocol and selection instructions for selecting a time slot from the Asynchronous Ubiquitous Protocol to use for data transmission; and, receiving data transmitted from a remote unit in the set of remote units in accordance with the transmitting instructions.
US10009919B2
A terminal apparatus performs transmission and/or reception in units of subframes, and receives the control signal arranged in accordance with a predefined format having a predetermined size in bits and comprising one or more sets of bits each containing one or more bits from a base station; wherein within the format, a first set of bits is intended for one or more terminal apparatus and a second set of bits distinct from the first set of bits is intended for other terminal apparatus; and wherein transmission and/or reception by the terminal apparatus in a subsequent subframe is determined by the said set of bits of the control signal.
US10009908B2
Methods of operating a wireless terminal may be provided. A high-speed indication may be received for a cell of a network node indicating that the cell is adapted to operate in a high-speed environment, and operation of the wireless terminal may be adapted to communicate through the cell of the network node in the high-speed environment responsive to receiving the high-speed indication. Methods of operating a node of a wireless communication network may also be provided. Communication service may be provided through a cell to a plurality of wireless terminals in a high-speed environment, and a high-speed indication may be transmitted through the cell to one of the plurality of wireless terminals, with the high-speed indication indicating that the cell is adapted to operate in a high-speed environment.
US10009907B2
A method for a serving base station determining a modulation and coding selection (MCS) of a terminal in a wireless communication system, according to the present invention, comprises the steps of: determining uplink interference from neighboring cells; determining a signal-to-interference plus noise ratio (SINR) based on a reply signal indicating whether data transmitted by the terminal is successfully received and the interference information; and determining the MCS based on the SINR information and the reply signal. According to the present invention, an MCS level can be determined according to a channel status of a receiver by accurately determining interference from nearby cells, thereby improving data transmission/reception efficiency.
US10009906B2
A processing device: obtains first observations of interference performed during at least one first journey for at least one first portion of a path; obtains second observations of interference performed during the first journey(s) for a second portion of said path; obtaining third observations of interference performed during a second journey for said first portion(s); estimating the interference expected to be encountered on said second portion during said second journey, by combining the obtained first, second and third observations such that the part of the third observations related to interference induced by wayside interferers is substantially compensated by the first observations and the part of the second observations related to interference induced by on-board interferers is substantially compensated by the first observations.
US10009903B2
A method and apparatus for efficiently measuring downlink interference in a Distributed Antenna System (DAS)-based Long Term Evolution Advanced (LTE-A) system with a plurality antennas distributed within the service area of each evolved Node B (eNB), through the use of a Channel Status Information Reference Signal (CSI-RS) method and a muting method, is provided.
US10009900B2
A network node (310) comprising a radio frequency communications interface (230) and a controller (210), said network node (310) being configured to service at least one first radio frequency communication device (320) being configured for both network communication and for device-to-device communication with a second radio frequency communication device (325), wherein said controller (210) is configured to determine if a restriction of a scheduling policy is necessary for said first radio frequency communication device (320), select a scheduling policy accordingly. The controller is further configured to allocate communication resources according to said selected scheduling policy to said first radio frequency communication device (320). The scheduling policy is one which enables simultaneous network communication and device-to-device communication in said same transmission time interval (A, B, C, D, E) or one which enables either network communication or device-to-device communication in said same transmission time interval.
US10009897B2
An object of the invention is to provide a mobile station apparatus, a base station apparatus, a communication system, a mobile station apparatus capability notification method, and an integrated circuit, which enable uplink transmission timing support information of the mobile station apparatus to be effectively notified to the base station apparatus. The mobile station apparatus that is connected to the base station apparatus by aggregating a plurality of cells of which frequencies are different from each other transmits capability information in which information related to an uplink transmission timing supported by the mobile station apparatus is associated with the plurality of frequencies supported by the mobile station apparatus, to the base station apparatus.
US10009895B2
A transmission method executed by a transmission device, the transmission method including performing a plurality of transmitting processes in accordance with a plurality of transmitting patterns, each of the plurality of transmitting processes including transmitting a plurality of signals for a plurality of directions in parallel by forming a plurality of beams corresponding to the plurality of directions, each of the plurality of transmitting patterns being defined a combination of directions to be transmitted in parallel, receiving a result of a determining from a reception device, the determining including determining whether or not, for each of a plurality of receiving processes, the at least one signal satisfies a predetermined condition, each of the plurality of receiving processes including receiving at least one signal transmitted from the transmission device, and selecting a transmitting direction for the reception device from the plurality of directions based on a result of the determining.
US10009888B2
A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) receives a downlink subframe having multiple component carriers, each component carrier having control information encoded in a physical data control channel (PDCCH). The WTRU performs a blind decoding of control information in a first PDCCH located within a first component carrier to obtain a location of a second PDCCH located within a second component carrier, where the location of the second PDCCH is relative to a location of the first PDCCH as control channel element offset. The WTRU decodes the second PDCCH at the obtained location.
US10009887B2
A method for operating a wireless device within a cellular network having at least two base nodes and providing common channels and at least one downlink non-common channel. The wireless device decodes at least one common channel and the downlink non-common channel, and performs the steps of determining a value relative to the total amount of resources provided by one of the base nodes, determining a value relative to the amount of resources provided by the one base node for the common channels out of the total resources, determining a value relative to the amount of resources suitable of being received by the wireless device, calculating the share of usable resources in comparison to said total resources excluding common resources, and adapting the operation of the wireless device within the cellular network in dependence of the calculated share of usable resources.
US10009882B2
According to one disclosure of the present specification, when a machine type communication (MTC) device is located in a coverage-expanded area of a base station, the MTC device repeatedly receives system information (for example, system information blocks (SIBs) of a first type) on several subframes and then combines and decodes the received SIBs, thereby improving a decoding success rate.
US10009879B2
From a base station, a user equipment receives a mixed data signal transmitted in a format in which multiple data signals are transmitted with different downlink transmission powers such that the multiple data signals are not orthogonal to each other, multiple control signals corresponding to multiple user equipments, and information indicating an identifier of another user equipment. The user equipment determines an aggregation level of the subject user equipment. The user equipment uses the identifier of the other user equipment to attempt descrambling of one control signal among multiple control signals corresponding to an aggregation level higher than or equal to the aggregation level of the user equipment, and if the descrambling is successful, the user equipment uses the control signal to demodulate the non-orthogonal data signal.
US10009878B2
A communication system includes a transmitting communication device (310) and a receiving communication device (320). The transmitting communication device (310) determines a control element, e.g., a control element of a Media Access Control protocol, associated with one of the carriers and provides the control element with an identifier specifying the carrier the control element is associated with. The transmitting communication device (310) sends the control element with the identifier on one of the carriers to the receiving communication device (320). The receiving communication device (320) receives the control element and determines, from the identifier received with the control element, the carrier the control element is associated with. Further, the receiving communication device (320) determines, on the basis of parameters indicated by the control element, a data transmission property of the carrier the control element is associated with.
US10009876B2
A method for determining an adapted resource pattern to be applied by an access node (204a), the resource pattern comprising time-frequency resource units is described. The method is performed by the access node (204a) and comprises determining (229) information indicative of a resource usage of resources of the access node (204a) reserved for at least one terminal (206) servable by the access node (204a), and receiving (244), from at least one further access node (204b), information indicative of a resource usage of resources of the at least one further access node (204b) reserved for at least one further terminal servable by the at least one further access node (204b). The method also comprises determining (248) an adapted resource pattern to be applied by the access node (204a) based on the determined information in relation to the received information. Further, related methods for the at least one further access node, the related access node and the related at least one further access nodes, a communication system, computer programs and computer program products are described. Therefore an optimally balancing of a throughput of terminals servable by an access node and a throughput of other terminals servable by at least a further access node can be enabled in a coordinated, dynamic and efficient way.
US10009870B2
Embodiments provide a method for reporting location information of user equipment, and an apparatus. A master access node is provided, including an obtaining module, configured to obtain location information of user equipment, where the location information of the user equipment includes serving cell information of at least one secondary access node of the user equipment. The master access node also includes a sending module, configured to send the location information of the user equipment to a core network node, where the location information is used by the core network node to determine a control policy for the user equipment according to the location information of the user equipment.
US10009868B1
Method, systems, and computer-readable media for receiving, from an application instance operating on a client device, information that indicates a client device identifier, a wireless proximity beacon identifier, and a proximity of the identified client device to the identified wireless proximity beacon. From the received information, a determination is made whether the proximity of the identified client device to the identified wireless proximity beacon satisfies a threshold proximity. Based at least on the determination, an action is determined that the application instance operating on the identified client device is permitted to perform while the proximity of the identified client device to the identified wireless proximity beacon satisfies the threshold proximity. Information is transmitted to the identified client device that enables the application instance operating on the identified client device to perform the action.
US10009865B2
A method for improving reliability of Voice over LTE (VoLTE)/Video over LTE (ViLTE) calls includes detecting, by a User Equipment (UE) camped on a first Radio Access Technology (RAT), a problem with a radio connection on the first RAT at a first time. After detecting the problem with the radio connection, the UE blocks Non-Access Stratum (NAS) registration on a second RAT in a time period between the first time and a second time later than the first time. The second RAT is different than the first RAT.
US10009857B2
A method and apparatus for transmit a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) with a lower Additional Maximum Power Reduction (A-MPR). A target power (PPUCCH_TARGET) can be set to power control a PUCCH transmission. A first maximum device output power (PCMAX_L1) can be computed for transmitting a first PUCCH RB in a first slot of a subframe. A second maximum device output power (PCMAX_L2) can be computed for transmitting a second PUCCH RB in a second slot of a subframe. A first difference in power can be determined by subtracting the target power (PPUCCH_TARGET) from the first maximum device output power (PCMAX_L1). A second difference in power can be determined by subtracting the target power (PPUCCH_TARGET) from the second maximum device output power (PCMAX_L2). A PUCCH RB can be transmitted in a slot of a subframe only for the PUCCH RB of the first and second PUCCH RB's with a lower A-MPR than the other of the first and second PUCCH RB's A-MPR when at least one of the first difference in power and the second difference in power is negative and the difference between the maximum of the first difference in power and the second difference in power and the minimum of the first difference in power and the second difference in power is greater than a threshold.
US10009856B2
A method and apparatus for transmit a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) with a lower Additional Maximum Power Reduction (A-MPR). A first A-MPR to apply to a transmission power can be ascertained at a device for a first resource block of a PUCCH transmission. A second A-MPR to apply to a transmission power can be ascertained for a second resource block of a PUCCH transmission. A difference between the first A-MPR and the second A-MPR can be determined. A PUCCH resource block can be transmitted in a slot of a subframe only for the PUCCH resource block of the first and second resource blocks with a lower A-MPR of the first A-MPR and the second A-MPR when a magnitude of the difference between the first A-MPR and the second A-MPR is greater than an A-MPR difference threshold.
US10009844B2
A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may receive configuration indicating that it is configured for a short DRX cycle. The WTRU may stop discontinuous reception (DRX) timers that are running and that are related to uplink and/or downlink transmissions during a DRX time period. The WTRU stops the DRX timers in response to receiving a medium access control (MAC) control element signal from an eNode-B. Based on a DRX MAC control element, the WTRU may enter a short DRX cycle. Based on a DRX MAC control element, the WTRU may enter a long DRX cycle.
US10009831B2
A method and apparatus for communicating system information, such as SIBs, from a base station to a terminal in a wireless network such as an LTE network. The base station is configured to broadcast the system information in accordance with a standard which defines a range of allowable values for characteristics of the broadcast. A restricted range of values for the characteristics is defined as a strict subset of the range of allowable values, and repeated broadcasts of the system information are configured in accordance with the restricted range of values. The terminal uses knowledge of the restricted range of values to facilitate reception of multiple repetitions of the broadcast. The terminal then combines the multiple repetitions to facilitate recovery of the system information.
US10009825B1
A relay wireless device is configured to function as a relay on behalf of a donor access node. The relay wireless device determines a preferred donor access node from among a plurality of candidate donor access nodes based on a comparison with a number of thresholds for reliable and efficient provision of services to end-user wireless devices via the relay wireless device. Any access node that meets the threshold requirements is added to a list of candidate donor access nodes. The candidate donor access node that best meets the thresholds may be selected as the preferred donor access node, and a connection request submitted to the preferred donor access node.
US10009815B2
A node of a radio access network, RAN, receives, from a WLAN Termination, WT, an Extended Service Set Identifier, ESSID, and/or a Basic Service Set Identifier, BSSID, for one or more WLAN access points controlled by the WT. The node maintains a mapping between the ESSIDs and/or the BSSIDs and corresponding WLAN access points of the WT. Responsive to receiving a measurement report from a UE, the measurement report indicating an ESSID and/or a BSSID, the node associates the UE with a WLAN access point, based on the maintained mapping. An interface may be established between the node and the WT.
US10009814B1
A multi-mode mobile station includes a first interface for communicating with a first wireless network, such as a wireless wide area network (WWAN), and a second interface for communicating with a second wireless network, such as a wireless local area network (WLAN). While the multi-mode mobile station has a first connection with the first wireless network, the multi-mode mobile station establishes a second connection with the second wireless network. When the second connection is established, the second wireless network transmits an acknowledgement signal to the multi-mode mobile station. In response to the acknowledgment signal, the multi-mode mobile station disables the first connection with the first wireless network and powers down the first interface.
US10009813B2
Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and/or methods of Lawful Interception (LI). For example, a device may communicate a message addressed to an Evolved Node B (eNB) over a cellular communication core network, the message including a Lawful Interception (LI) Information Element (IE) indicating that content corresponding to one or more User Equipment (UEs) connected to the eNB is to be subject to LI.
US10009810B2
In implementation of “RRC diversity” in a handover procedure between cells under different radio base stations (eNB), “HO command” is transmitted in a handover destination cell at an appropriate timing. A handover method of the invention includes: a step A of causing a radio base station (eNB #1) to transmit “HO command” to a mobile station (UE); a step B of causing a radio base station (eNB #10) to start transmission of the “HO command” to the mobile station (UE) based on a scheduling start instruction from the radio base station (eNB); and a step C of causing the radio base station (eNB #1) to repeat transmission of the “HO command” to the mobile station (UE) at a predetermined cycle for a period until the detection of a scheduling stop trigger.
US10009806B2
A method includes optimizing a handover behavior of a mobile radio communication network including at least a first base station and a second base station. The method includes (a) performing a handover of a UE from the first base station to the second base station; (b) adding an information element representing a property of the UE to a report message including information about the performed handover; (c) forwarding the report message from the second base station to the first base station; and (d) optimizing the handover behavior of the mobile radio communication network based on the added information element. Further, it is described a base station which is configured for carrying out the described handover behavior optimization method.
US10009805B2
In a wireless communication system comprising a mobile terminal and at least two access points, each access point is adapted to provide data communication with the mobile terminal within a service area of the access point through a wireless interface over a selected one of a number of channels. A method of controlling selection of an access point comprises controlling one or more further access points having service areas adjacent or overlapping with a service area of a first access point, to which a first mobile terminal is associated, to send probe request messages to the first mobile terminal, and determining, for each of the one or more further access points and from a response received from the first mobile terminal in response to the corresponding probe request message, a respective first value representing a quality of a connection between the respective access point and the first mobile terminal. Selected ones of the one or more further access points are controlled to accept a future association request from the first mobile terminal, while the not selected access points are controlled to reject a future association request from the mobile terminal.
US10009804B2
A method and a related radio network node for configuring neighboring cell relations of a cell. The method is performed in a radio network node of a wireless communication system serving wireless devices in the cell. The method comprises monitoring a rate of wireless device accesses in the cell, and configuring neighboring cell relations of the cell based on the monitored rate of wireless device accesses in the cell.
US10009794B2
System and method embodiments are provided for traffic engineering (TE) in software defined networking (SDN). The embodiments enable a complete end-to-end TE solution between a user equipment (UE) and a source/destination across a radio access network (RAN). In an embodiment, a method in a network component for TE in a SDN includes receiving TE information from a first core network component in a core network, a RAN component, wherein the RAN is communicably coupled to the core network, wherein the TE information includes a TE objective; and determining a TE decision between at least one UE and a second core network component in the core network according to the TE information and the TE objective, wherein the TE decision comprises information for at least one end-to-end path solution between the at least one UE and the second core network wherein the path traverses the core network and the RAN.
US10009787B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide an access method and system, a user equipment, and a network side device. The method includes: receiving, by a user equipment, a first message that carries an identifier of a second network access point, where the second network access point can perform air interface offloading on a first network in which a user equipment is currently located; and when the first message carries identifiers of a plurality of second network access points, selecting, by the user equipment, one second network access point from the plurality of second network access points according to first auxiliary information, and accessing the selected second network access point. By adopting the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention, an access delay can be effectively shortened, and access efficiency can improved, thereby effectively implementing offloading.
US10009775B1
Example implementations relate to network deployment of devices. For example, a non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions executable by a processing resource can determine a plurality of deployment thresholds of a plurality of devices, wherein the plurality of deployment thresholds are associated with a type of the plurality of devices. The instructions can cause the processing resource to monitor deployment data associated with the plurality of devices to identify a device with a deployment outlier. The device with the deployment outlier is a device with deployment data that is outside a deployment threshold of the device. The instructions can cause the processing resource to adjust the deployment threshold of the device based on the monitoring.
US10009764B2
Methods and apparatuses for providing controlled switching of electronic access control clients (e.g., electronic Subscriber Identity Modules (eSIMs)) without requiring network access are set forth herein. In one embodiment, a method for swapping of subscriptions and/or profiles for without network supervision that prevents possibly malicious high frequency switching is disclosed. For example, a secure element included in a mobile device can be configured to issue, to a security module included in the mobile device, a request for the security module to carry out an authentication of a user of the mobile device. Upon determining, based on results received from the security module, that the authentication is successful, the secure element can generate one or more credits in accordance with the results, where each credit of the one or more credits can be used to carry out an eSIM management operation within the secure element.
US10009761B2
A method, comprising: receiving an encrypted segment of media data with an encrypted segment key over a unidirectional over-the-air (OTA) broadcast channel; providing an attestation request to an authenticator; receiving an attestation response from the authenticator based on an interaction with hardware to authenticate a user; decrypting, after receiving the attestation response, the encrypted segment of media data using a segment key to generate a decrypted segment of media data, wherein the segment key is based on the encrypted segment key.
US10009760B2
A method for providing a communication device with credentials to enable it to access communication resources provided by a network operator, the method comprising storing, on the communication device, an indication of (i) an identity associated with the communication device; and (ii) an identity associated with a provisioning agent, transmitting, from the communication device to a communication network, a registration request that identifies the communication device and the provisioning agent, the provisioning agent providing, in response to the registration request, credentials to enable the communication device to access communication resources provided by a network operator and transmitting said credentials from the communication network to the communication device.
US10009759B2
A machine-readable code is received at a first server and decoded to obtain a device ID and a first provider ID that identifies a device provider providing the second electronic device. At least one of the machine-readable code or the device ID is transmitted to a second server. A subscribed service that can be activated on the second electronic device is determined based on device metadata of the second electronic device and service metadata of the subscribed service. A first message is transmitted to a mobile device of a user associated with the second electronic device for a permission to activate the subscribed service on the second electronic device. In response to a second message received from the mobile device, the device metadata and the service metadata are transmitted to a third server to request the third server to activate the subscribed service on the second electronic device.
US10009751B2
Embodiments are directed to a virtual mobility anchor network element to receive, from a packet gateway (PGW) node, a request for an internet protocol (IP) address for a mobile device, establish an IP address for the mobile device; and provide the IP address to the PGW node in response to the request for the IP address for the mobile device. The virtual mobility anchor network element is configured to receive IP traffic from a network location; determine a target destination for the IP traffic based on a destination IP address, the destination IP address comprising the second IP address; and forward the IP traffic to the PGW node associated with the destination IP address. The virtual mobility anchor network element is also configured to receive IP traffic from the PGW node; determine a target destination for the IP traffic; and route the IP traffic to the target destination.
US10009745B2
A secure short-distance-based communication and enforcement system validates users in a validation and enforcement area and can check if users in the validation and enforcement area have been validated. A visual object can be displayed on an enforcement computer and a mobile device of a user in the in the validation and enforcement area to determine if a user is validated. The visual object may be periodically changed.
US10009740B2
A method enables a portable communication device to redirect a call initiated from the portable communication device and to execute a visual interactive voice response application for interfacing with a user. The method includes screening calls initiated from the portable communication device by a communication application resident on the portable communication device, and redirecting a call initiated from the portable communication device when the screening determines that the call matches predetermined criteria. The method also includes authenticating an account corresponding to the portable communication device that initiated the call by communicating with a service provider communication network, and executing a visual interactive voice response application that visually interacts with the user of the portable communication device upon authentication of the account by the service provider communication network.
US10009736B1
A first access point including a physical layer (PHY) module, a parameter module and a medium access control (MAC) module. The parameter module is configured to, via the PHY module, negotiate a first parameter with a second access point. A basic service set of the first access point overlaps a basic service set of the second access point. The first basic service set includes stations. The second basic service set includes one or more of the stations. The MAC module is configured to receive a first frame. The PHY module is configured to, based on the first parameter and during a joint transmission of the first frame by the first access point and the second access point, transmit the first frame to the stations according to a first address while the second access point transmits the first frame to the one or more stations according to the first address.
US10009733B2
A method and system for determining a position of a mobile device in an indoor environment by an access point is provided. The method includes obtaining identity information of the mobile device. The method includes extracting signal characteristics of the mobile device corresponding to the identity information. Further, the method includes determining the position of the mobile device based on the signal characteristics of the mobile device. The position of the mobile device is determined based on the signal characteristics of the mobile device received from a plurality of access points along with the information of the plurality of access points such as location information and identity information of the access points. The determined position is sent to the mobile device. The access point implements robust multipath mitigation algorithms while determining the position of the mobile device as there is no battery power limitation at the access point.
US10009730B2
It is presented a method for providing data to a wireless device in a cellular communication network comprising a plurality of radio cells. The method is performed in a data provider device and comprises the steps of: predicting a set of potential future locations of the wireless device; predicting future data transfer capacity at the set of potential future locations; and preloading data to the wireless device at a first time when an expected transfer capacity is greater than a desired data transfer capacity, and when a data transfer capacity at a second time after the first time is predicted to be less than a desired data transfer capacity.
US10009722B2
A wireless communication device includes a transmission portion, an information acquisition portion, a storage portion, a selection portion, and a transmission control portion. The transmission portion transmits information. The information acquisition portion acquires location information for the wireless communication device that includes a received signal strength of a signal that is transmitted from a base station in the vicinity. The storage portion stores, in association with specific location information, regulating information that regulates the transmission from the transmission portion of the information that corresponds to the location of the wireless communication device. The selection portion selects from the storage portion the regulating information associated with the location information acquired by the information acquisition portion. The transmission control portion controls, based on the regulating information that was selected by the selection portion, the transmission from the transmission portion of the information that corresponds to the location of the wireless communication device.
US10009720B2
Method for monitoring the presence of a mobile station in at least one special area, wherein a radio communication defining device transmits one radio distinctive defining signal that define the special area by its coverage, the mobile station processes a signal received in order to determine whether or not it is defining signal and more precisely a distinctive one that defines the special area, the mobile station sends an updating signal to a mobile telephone network, the network routes the updating signal to special operating means that adapt the value of an operating parameter. According to the invention, the special area is associated to the mobile station by transmitting to the mobile station a checking data used by the mobile station for determining whether or not the defining signal received is distinctive defining signal.
US10009718B2
A sign-in method includes: determining whether a target terminal is located in a sign-in area to obtain a first determination result; when a sign-in condition is satisfied, changing a status of a user corresponding to the target terminal to a signed-in status, wherein the sign-in condition comprises at least: the first determination result indicates that the target terminal is located in the sign-in area.
US10009716B1
A system including at least one smart device. The at least one smart device includes one or more programmable elements. The at least one smart device is configured to receive one or more customization instructions from a user device. The at least one smart device configures the one or more programmable elements in response to the customization instructions. Communicating between the user device and at least one smart device provides a seamless and integrated experience based on preferences or suggestions from user data analysis.
US10009707B2
Interworking LWM2M and OMA DM protocols is disclosed. A new DDF MO enables adding LWM2M object definitions to DM Servers and Gateways. This MO allows a DM Server/Gateway to accept newly defined MOs, such as LWM2M Object definitions. New procedures are defined for registering DDF documents to the newly created DDF MO. A new registration interface is added in the GwMO protocol to allow an LWM2M Server to register end devices to a DM gateway. A protocol translation mechanism bridges the gap between non-RESTful to RESTful protocols, such as OMA DM and/or GwMO to LWM2M.
US10009699B2
A method for diagnosing sealing properties of microphone and/or loudspeaker seals in an electronic device. Sealing properties of the microphone and/or loudspeaker seals are diagnosed by comparing a representation of a total impulse response signal associated with certain stimuli with a representation of a predetermined reference total impulse response signal associated with the electronic device.
US10009698B2
A transcutaneous bone conduction device includes magnets secured to housing of an external portion of the device. The magnets can be disposed within the housing, or secured to an external surface thereof. The magnets are disposed about a shaft that delivers vibrational stimuli to a recipient so as to evenly deliver the stimuli.
US10009688B2
A communication system for communicating with at least one loudspeaker is described where the loudspeaker is connected to audio equipment over standard two-wire speaker wire operable to carry an audio signal. The communication system includes a master node in electrical communication with a signal path carrying the audio signal between the audio equipment and the loudspeaker, the master node also including an interface with the audio equipment, a data encoder operable to encode data signals, a data transceiver operable to place the data signals onto the audio signal at frequencies above audio frequencies. The communication system also includes at least one slave node in electrical communication with the audio signal and each loudspeaker, the slave node including a data transceiver operable to receive data signals from the master node, a data decoder, and an interface able to communicate with the loudspeaker.
US10009685B2
In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, a method may include using an adaptive filter system to estimate a response of an electrical characteristic of a loudspeaker based on an error between a first electrical parameter of the loudspeaker and a second electrical parameter of the loudspeaker and adding a non-zero delay to the first electrical parameter relative to the second electrical parameter prior to calculation of the error such that the adaptive filter system captures a truncated non-causality of the electrical characteristic.
US10009683B2
The present disclosure relates to a display device for generating sound by directly vibrating a display panel thereof, which includes a display panel connected to a surface of the display panel and configured to display an image; and a sound generating actuator, which is fixed to a support structure of the display panel and attached to the display panel to directly vibrate the display panel. In the display device, the progressing direction of the sound coincides with the image output direction in the display device. Therefore, sound localization or sound output characteristics of the display device or set apparatus can be improved, and a separate speaker is not required, the mechanism of the set apparatus can be easily designed, and a thickness thereof can be easily reduced.
US10009671B2
Method and apparatus of an optical routing system (“ORS”) capable of automatically discovering intra-nodal fiber connections using a test channel transceiver (“TCT”) are disclosed. ORS, in one embodiment, includes a set of reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer (“ROADM”) modules, intra-nodal fiber connections, add-drop modules, and a test module. The ROADM modules are able to transmit or receive optical signals via optical fibers. The intra-nodal fiber connections are configured to provide optical connections. The add-drop modules are able to selectively make connections between input ports and output ports. The test module containing TCT is configured to identify at least a portion of intra-nodal connections of the ROADM via a test signal operating with a unique optical frequency.
US10009661B2
Methods and apparatus for performing dynamic compensation for delays over extant infrastructure within a content-based network. In one embodiment, the network comprises a cable network, and the infrastructure comprises that nominally used for on-demand (OD) services such as VOD. The method includes periodically or situationally assessing variable delays within the system associated with functional commands (such as “trick mode” commands), and dynamically compensating for these variable delays in order to improve the accuracy and timeliness of the user's trick mode command. This approach increases user satisfaction, and obviates the issuance of additional compensatory trick mode commands that only further degrade the performance of the network.
US10009660B2
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for transceiving media content through the Internet. A media transmitting method according to one embodiment of the present invention transmits media content through the Internet, and comprises the steps of: configuring the media content with a plurality of representations; dividing each of the plurality of representations into a plurality of segments; dividing each of the plurality of segments into a plurality of sub-segments; generating a plurality of time reference values corresponding to each of the plurality of sub-segments; and transmitting any one of the representations, wherein the representation being transmitted comprises the plurality of time reference values. According to the one embodiment of the present invention, media content can be seamlessly played back due to switching a bit stream when the state of a network changes.
US10009657B2
An image display apparatus is disclosed. The image display apparatus includes a display panel, a backlight unit including a plurality of light sources to output light to the display panel, an image receiver to receive multiple images from a plurality of image sources, and a controller to perform control to display the multiple images received from the image receiver and to independently perform local dimming on each of the multiple images according to multiple image display input, and thus performs local dimming for each multiple image during display of the multiple images.
US10009655B2
A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium to receive requests for a content from user devices located within a service area; transmit the content to the user devices; collect consumption data; analyze the consumption data; determine whether an on-demand, Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS) session is triggered based on an analysis of the consumption data; generate trigger data based on the analysis; store network provisioning profiles pertaining to the service area, wherein each network provisioning profile includes at least one unique network provisioning parameter and value relative to the other network provisioning profiles; select one of the network provisioning profiles based on a match between the trigger data and the at least one unique network provisioning parameter; and set up the on-demand, MBMS session based on the one of the network provisioning profile.
US10009654B2
An apparatus includes a plurality of packetizers, a buffer, and an interface. The plurality of packetizers includes a first packetizer and a second packetizer. Each of the plurality of packetizers is configured to receive media content from a corresponding media source. The buffer is coupled to the plurality of packetizers and is configured to concurrently receive first content from the first packetizers and second content from the second packetizers. The interface is configured to provide the first content from the buffer to a display device and to provide the second content from the buffer to the display device responsive to a media selection request received from the display device.
US10009648B1
To provide audience measurement services without requiring broadcasters to install additional watermarking equipment, a small video capture device may receive a video signal viewed by an audience member, the signal including embedded closed captioning data, and may decode and transmit the closed captioning data to an audience measurement server. The measurement server may receive the data and compare the received data to a database of closed captioning text to identify matches. The database may be populated via one or more additional capture devices receiving local or national broadcast signals, or with data separately provided by broadcasters. When a match is found, the measurement server may determine that the audience member is watching a program having the corresponding closed captioning. Dynamically generated confidence scores may allow for reliable identification of audience members of content, even with very short closed captioning data lengths.
US10009644B2
A computer system or method may be provided for modulating content based on a person's brainwave data, including modifying presentation of digital content at at least one computing device. The content may also be modulated based on a set of rules maintained by or accessible to the computer system. The content may also be modulated based on user input, including through receipt of a presentation control command that may be processed by the computer system of the present invention to modify presentation of content. Content may also be shared with associated brain state information.
US10009636B2
A method is performed using a smart TV, which receives from a television signal source device a television signal feed encoding primary television content and then presents that content. The smart TV receives data via the computer network, including first data representing a to-be-replaced portion of the primary television content and second data representing secondary television content. Using the second data, the smart TV automatically presents the secondary television content in place of the to-be-replaced television content. The method includes the smart TV: (a) automatically monitoring, during presentation of the secondary television content, the television signal feed and comparing it with the first data; and (b) automatically altering presentation of the secondary television content in accordance with a user-control action with respect to the television signal source device, in response to detecting any difference between the television signal feed and the first data indicative of that user-control action.
US10009633B2
Systems, devices, methods, and computer readable media are provided for distributing data with multi-tiered encoding. For example, a system for transmission of data streams to endpoints is provided that includes: encoders, each encoder configured to encode a data stream according to at least one encoding parameter; virtual transmitters organized into groups based on at least one transmission characteristic; each group of virtual transmitters configured to receive encoded data from an associated one of the encoders; each virtual transmitter of the plurality of virtual transmitters configured to transmit the encoded data to an associated one of the plurality of endpoints; and at least one controller configured to monitor transmission characteristics of the plurality of virtual transmitters and to adjust membership of the virtual transmitters in the plurality of groups based on the monitored transmission characteristics. The system may be further configured for synchronization, uni/bi-directional communication, etc.
US10009632B2
A device configured to code video data includes: a memory configured to store video data, and at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to: code information indicating whether a block from a current picture will flicker. A determination of whether the block from the current picture will flicker is based on the block in the current picture in a display order and a collocated block from a next picture in the display order.
US10009624B2
A candidate list construction unit selects a plurality of blocks each having one or two pieces of motion information containing at least information about a motion vector and information about a reference picture from a plurality of neighboring encoded blocks of an encoding target block and constructs a candidate list containing candidates of the motion information used for the motion compensation prediction from the motion information of the selected blocks. A selected candidate generator generates a new candidate of the motion information by combining the motion information of a first prediction list derived by the first motion information deriving unit and the motion information of the second prediction list derived by a second motion information deriving unit.
US10009615B2
The present invention concerns a method of encoding an image, the image comprising a plurality of coding elements made of blocks of pixels, each block of pixels being encoded according to a coding mode out of a plurality of coding modes, the method comprising for each block of pixel to be encoded determining the coding mode to be used for the encoding of a given block of pixels by sequentially evaluating some coding modes in the plurality of coding modes; wherein the method comprises evaluating Inter coding modes and fast IBC coding modes; and no residue-test is conducted between the evaluation of the Inter coding mode and the evaluation of the fast IBC mode. Accordingly, some good predictors may be found more rapidly and the whole encoding process is speed up.
US10009605B1
Embodiments relate to determining characteristics of a display panel by using capturing images through multiple filters where the multiple filters include at least two filters that collectively enable replicating of a color matching function. At least two filters of the multiple filters have transmission profiles that correspond to the same color matching function (x color matching function) in different wavelength ranges. Image capturing devices capture the display panel through respective filters. The captured images are processed to the display characteristics of pixels or regions of the display panel.
US10009595B2
A calibration method of a stereo camera includes transmitting a group of system parameters of the stereo camera to a server; downloading calibration pattern corresponding to the group of system parameters from the server; calculating a plurality of camera calibration parameters corresponding to the stereo camera according to the calibration pattern; and executing an image rectification operation on a left eye image capture unit and a right eye image capture unit of the stereo camera according to the plurality of camera calibration parameters, respectively.
US10009593B2
A device and a method for obtaining densitometric images which comprise at least one radiological device, at least one depth sensor, and image processing means, which combine the radiological absorption information from the set of recorded radiological images obtained with the radiological systems with the distances of the traversed material, provided by the three-dimensional reconstruction of the objects obtained by means of the depth sensors.
US10009572B2
The present invention relates to a method for enhancing media content of a picture (303), wherein the method comprises: filming a scene (102); taking a picture of said scene (106); storing said taken picture and a video (111), the taken picture being associated with said stored video. Said stored video corresponds to a video captured during the filming of said scene, a start or an end of said stored video being function of a time when said picture is taken.
US10009567B2
A group selection circuit includes an input block suitable for receiving a last column select signal of a previous column switch group and a last column select signal of a current column switch group; and a group selection block suitable for generating a group select signal that is activated from a first edge of the last column select signal of the previous column switch group to a first edge of the last column select signal of the current column switch group, in response to an output signal of the input block.
US10009566B2
The present technology relates to a comparator circuit, a solid-state imaging apparatus, and an electronic device which enable to improve a frame rate. A comparator compares an analog signal with a reference signal, an amplification stage amplifies output of a comparing unit and has different output change speeds in normal rotation and in reverse rotation, and a switch circuit fixes an input node or an output node of the amplification stage to a predetermined voltage in a predetermined period before a comparing operation by the comparator so that the amplification stage operates in a change direction having a higher output change speed. The present technology can be applied to a comparator circuit provided to an A/D converter of a CMOS image sensor.
US10009556B2
A digital camera includes a plurality of channels and a processing component operatively coupled to the plurality of channels. Each channel of the plurality of channels includes an optics component and a sensor that includes an array of photo-detectors. The processing component is configured to separately control an integration time of each channel, where a first integration time of a first channel is less than a second integration time of a second channel. The processing component is also configured to combine data from the plurality of channels to generate an image.
US10009554B1
In general, embodiments of the invention relate to a method for capturing video frames. The method includes obtaining a depth-data frame of an environment using a depth-sensing camera and an infrared illuminator, where the environment is illuminated by an illumination pattern emitted by the infrared illuminator, obtaining, an infrared illuminator parameterization for the illumination pattern emitted by the infrared illuminator, obtaining a desired frame exposure time, based on a desired frame exposure, determining, based on the infrared illuminator parameterization and the desired frame exposure time, an actual frame exposure time, and after determining the actual frame exposure time, obtaining a frame of the environment using the actual frame exposure time using the infrared illuminator with the illumination pattern.
US10009550B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for synthetic imaging. In one aspect, a method includes receiving from each digital camera respective imaging data, each digital camera having a viewpoint that is different from the viewpoints of each other digital camera and having a field of view that is overlapping with at least one other digital camera; for a synthetic viewpoint that is a viewpoint that is within a geometry defined by the viewpoints of the digital cameras, selecting respective imaging data that each has a field of view that overlaps a field of view of the synthetic viewpoint and generating, from the selected respective imaging data, synthetic imaging data that depicts an image captured from a virtual camera positioned at the synthetic viewpoint.
US10009549B2
Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to apparatuses, systems and methods involving imaging providing pixel intensity ratios using circuitry. According to an example embodiment, an apparatus includes a photosensor array having an array of sensors and a circuitry. Each sensor of the photosensor array provides a signal value for a pixel that is indicative of an intensity of light detected. Further, the circuitry responds to the signal values from a plurality of sensors of the photosensor array, by converting signals indicative of a ratio of pixel intensity values to a digital signal that characterize at least an edge of an object corresponding to or associated with the intensity of the detected light. The circuitry provides digital signals, each indicative of a ratio of pixel intensity values, for respective sensors of the photosensor array.
US10009548B2
A lens apparatus attached to and detached from an image pickup apparatus includes a diaphragm unit, a driver configured to drive the diaphragm unit, and a lens controller configured to communicate with the image pickup apparatus to which the lens apparatus is attached, and to control the driver based on aperture driving instruction information or aperture stop time request received from the image pickup apparatus. The lens controller is configured to send to the image pickup apparatus time information necessary to drive the diaphragm unit according to the aperture driving instruction information or aperture stop time request, during a period that starts when the driver starts driving the diaphragm unit and ends when the driver stops driving the diaphragm unit.
US10009544B2
An image capturing apparatus, comprises: an image capturing unit configured to generate image data of an object; an adding unit configured to add additional information, including first region information for specifying a first pixel region of the image data, and second region information for specifying a second pixel region included in the first pixel region, to the image data; a transmission unit configured to transmit the image data to which the additional information is added; and an image processing unit configured to extract from the image data, which is received via the transmission unit, the first pixel region and the second pixel region specified by the additional information obtained by receiving the image data, and to perform predetermined image processing on the extracted first pixel region and second pixel region.
US10009543B2
A method for displaying self-taken images. The method comprises: acquiring a self-taken image; receiving selection information relating to the processing method of the self-taken image, said processing method being mirror image processing or non-mirror image processing; and, on the basis of the selection information, carrying out the corresponding processing of the self-taken image and displaying the processed image. Also disclosed is an apparatus for displaying self-taken images. The embodiments may enhance the efficiency of displaying self-taken images.
US10009542B2
Embodiments described herein may help to provide methods for sharing and viewing part of an environment of a computing device, such as a head-mountable device (HMD). An example method involves: (a) determining a still photo panorama of an environment, (b) receiving a video stream of a first portion of the environment from a video camera on a sharing device, (c) determining a registration data stream, where the registration data stream indicates a location and an orientation of the video stream within the still photo panorama of the environment; and (d) transmitting the video stream and the registration data stream to one or more viewing devices.
US10009540B2
It is inconvenient for a user that a UI for inputting a virtual focus position at the time of refocus and a UI for inputting a focus position at the time of image capturing exist separately from and independently of each other. An image processing device comprising a generation unit configured to generate combined image data obtained in a case of capturing an image with a second set value different from a first set value used in capturing an image with an image capturing device by using a plurality of pieces of captured image data obtained by the image capturing device, wherein the image capturing device is capable of capturing image data from a plurality of viewpoint positions and includes an operation unit for setting a set value of an image capturing parameter, and wherein the first and second set values are set via the operation unit.
US10009536B2
The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces. In some examples, the electronic device transitions between user interfaces for capturing photos based on data received from a first camera and a second camera. In some examples, the electronic device provides enhanced zooming capabilities that result in visual pleasing results for a displayed digital viewfinder and for captured videos. In some examples, the electronic device provides user interfaces for transitioning a digital viewfinder between a first camera with an applied digital zoom to a second camera with no digital zoom. In some examples, the electronic device prepares to capture media at various magnification levels. In some examples, the electronic device enhanced capabilities for navigating through a plurality of values.
US10009534B2
An electronic device comprising: a memory; a display; a camera; and at least one processor operatively coupled to the memory, configured to: acquire a preview image by using the camera; display the preview image on the display; identify a plurality of areas in the preview image that satisfy a predetermined condition; and modify a focus detection area associated with the camera to include the plurality of areas.
US10009528B2
A camera module with no PCB that instead has a lens actuator/housing that has circuitry on a bottom surface thereof for direct electrical connection to a mobile electronic device. The housing further has a recess formed in the bottom surface thereof to receive an image sensor. The circuitry is three-dimensional in that it includes a first set of contact pads on one planar surface for connection to the mobile electronic device, a second set of contact pads on a planar surface within the recess for connection to the image sensor, and conductive traces that connect each of the contact pads of the first set with an associated one of the contact pads of the second set by having the trace follow a path from the first planar surface, along a intersecting third planar surface to the second planar surface.
US10009525B2
A camera may be mounted under a display in an electronic device. The display may include a polarizer layer, a color filter layer, and a thin-film-transistor layer. A layer of material such as a glass insert may be attached to an edge of the display. Openings may be formed in the layers of the display and the insert to accommodate the camera. A sleeve structure may be mounted within an opening. The camera may include lens structures formed from a stack of lens elements. One or more layers of the display may be interposed within the lens structures. The glass insert may be mounted within a notch in the color filter layer and thin-film transistor layer or along a straight edge of the color filter layer and thin-film transistor layer. The edge of the color filter layer may be recessed with respect to form a mounting shelf for the insert.
US10009506B2
An image forming system includes: an image-data transmission unit that transmits image data; and an image-data receiving unit that receives the image data, the image-data transmission unit being connected to the image-data receiving unit through a transmission path having lanes used for a color machine, at the time of image data transmission, the image-data transmission unit adding an error check code to image data, and transmitting the image data to the image-data receiving unit, in a first unit of the image data, the image-data receiving unit calculating an error check code in the first unit, comparing the calculated error check code with the error check code transmitted, and when the calculated error check code disagrees with the error check code transmitted, transmitting an error to the image-data transmission unit, and when the image-data transmission unit receives the error, the image-data transmission unit retransmitting image data corresponding to the error.
US10009504B1
Disclosed herein are methods and systems for processing a number of references mentioned in a document. A job request including a document for processing from a user is received. The document is at least one of a hardcopy document and a digital document. A multi-function device prompts the user to select a reference processing option when the user wants at least one reference of the document to be processed. Based on the selection of the reference processing option one or more references mentioned in the document are determined. Based on the determined one or more references, a referred content information for each of the one or more reference is searched. Then the referred content information along with one or more options including at least one of a print option, a save option and a send option are presented to the user.
US10009498B2
A printing apparatus to which a remote terminal is connectable via a communication line such as the Internet includes a communication interface configured to perform data communication with the remote terminal, and a communication module configured to control the communication interface. At a power supply restart after a power shutdown state, the communication module transmits information of the power supply restart to the remote terminal.
US10009497B2
A network communication apparatus equipped with an auto-shutdown function, which is improved in the convenience of a user concerning auto-shutdown control performed in a case where the apparatus is connected to a telephone line. The network communication apparatus includes a network port for connecting to the telephone line, and communicates with an external apparatus via the telephone line. Shutdown processing for stopping power supply to the apparatus is executed when a time period set by a user elapses without receiving a user's operation. If to cause the shutdown processing to be executed is selected by the user, and also connection of the network port to the telephone line is detected, the user is notified that the auto-shutdown cannot be executed.
US10009484B2
There is provided a terminal device. An image acquiring unit acquires a processing apparatus image serving as an image of a data processing apparatus. A display unit displays a request screen used for requesting a data processing apparatus to process data. At least one of processing apparatus images acquired by the image acquiring unit and at least one of data images indicating data that is requested to be processed are displayed on the request screen. In response to an operation of an operator of designating one of the processing apparatus images and one of the data images on the request screen, a request for processing the data indicated by the designated data image is transmitted to the data processing apparatus indicated by the designated processing apparatus image.
US10009481B2
A method of allocating access to alternative access networks may include: inputting, by one or more parties, needs for alternative network access and representative values for satisfying the needs; and allocating, by providers of alternative network access, alternative network access to the one or more parties based on the stated needs and values.
US10009475B2
In an audio teleconference mixing system, of the type mixing a first plurality of audio uplink input streams containing audio information including sensed audio and associated control information, to produce at least one audio downlink output stream for downlinking to at least one conference participants, wherein the audio uplink input streams potentially can include continuous transmission (CTX) and discontinuous transmission streams (DTX), a method of mixing multiple current audio uplink streams together to produce the at least one audio output stream, the method including the steps of: (a) determining a verbosity measure indicative of the likely importance of each current audio uplink streams; (b) where at least one current audio uplink stream can comprise a CTX stream, utilizing at least one CTX stream in the mix to produce at least one current downlink output stream.
US10009474B1
A method and apparatus of sharing documents during a conference call data is disclosed. One example method may include initiating a document sharing operation during a conference call conducted between at least two participants communicating during the conference call. The method may also include transferring the document from one of the two participants to another of the two participants, and recording at least one action performed to the document by the participants during the conference call.
US10009473B2
A method, computer-readable storage device and apparatus for enabling a mobile endpoint device to be a hub for a conference call are disclosed. For example, the method connects to the conference call, broadcasts a signal to at least one slave mobile endpoint devices to join the conference call over a personal area network, receives a pairing request from the at least one slave mobile endpoint device over the personal area network, accepts the pairing request and connects the at least one slave mobile endpoint device to the conference call via the master mobile endpoint device over the personal area network, wherein both the master mobile endpoint device and the at least one slave mobile endpoint device have two-way communications with the conference call and conference call controls.
US10009469B1
Disclosed are a method and apparatus of receiving and processing customer support calls. The calls may be initiated from a mobile/wireless device via a call function or via a mobile device application. An example method of operation may provide receiving a call from the mobile device at a call processing server configured to route the call to an appropriate destination. The call processing server may perform identifying a purpose associated with the call and transmitting the call to the message redirect call processing module responsive to identifying the purpose of the call as a request for customer service support. Also, the server may also perform creating a redirect message instructing the mobile device to initiate a customer service support application that operates via a data network, and transmitting the redirect message to the mobile device.
US10009465B1
A system includes one or more memory devices storing instructions, and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to perform steps of a method for providing customer sentiment depiction. The system may receive customer information and session information and generate a customer sentiment estimate. The system may then receive an indication of a detected customer voice characteristic and generate an updated customer sentiment estimate that may be transmitted to a customer service terminal for display.
US10009464B2
A system for complex interaction recording, comprising a recording management server that operates on a network-connected computing device and records communications, a record server that operates on a network-connected computing device and presents records for review and interaction by a human user, and an interaction evaluation server that operates on a network-connected computing device and identifies interactions segments and groups them into complex interactions, and a method for recording complex interactions comprising the steps of loading an interaction, identifying segments within the interaction, grouping segments into a complex interaction, and sending the resulting complex interaction as output.
US10009460B2
Systems and methods for recording a communication session between a customer and an agent of a customer center communication system are provided. In this regard, a representative method comprises: configuring a communication component of the customer center communication system to enable recording of a media stream associated with the communication session; transmitting the media stream over a network based on the configuration of the communication component; receiving the media stream over the network; and recording the received media stream.
US10009458B2
A device may receive, from a network device, call information associated with a call. The call may be from a calling party device. The call may appear to be intended for a destination device. The call information may be received, from the network device, based on the network device having routed the call. The device may determine, based on the call information, that the call appears to have been forwarded to a called party device that is different from the destination device. The device may determine, based on the call information, a forwarding characteristic for the call. The device may determine that the forwarding characteristic satisfies a criterion. The device may send an output message based on the forwarding characteristic satisfying the criterion to support responding to call forwarding activity that has the forwarding characteristic.
US10009457B2
A processing device identifies comparison subjects comprising a first subject and a second subject. The processing device builds a first network of a first profile of the first subject and a second network of a second profile of the second subject, wherein the first network and the second network are multi-degree connections networks. The processing device the first network and second network to produce a similarity score. The processing device examining first-degree connections between the first network and the second network and accounting for centralities that rely on information about the first network and the second network. Responsive to the similarity score exceeding a similarity threshold, indicating the first profile and the second profile correspond to a common profile for the first subject and the second subject.
US10009450B1
A computer-implemented method, computer-readable media, and wireless device that automatically determines whether an application requires a virtual input mechanism are provided. The wireless device includes a virtual machine and database. The virtual machine executes the application and parses code associated with the application to determine whether a virtual input mechanism is necessary. The database stores metadata that indicates whether the type of input needed for the application is touch or key.
US10009447B2
An electronic apparatus is disclosed. An electronic apparatus comprises a panel, a piezoelectric vibrator, a component, and a cushioning material. The panel is located on a surface of the electronic apparatus. The piezoelectric vibrator is located on an inner surface of the panel. The component faces the piezoelectric vibrator. The cushioning material is located between the piezoelectric vibrator and the component such that a gap is formed between the piezoelectric vibrator and the cushioning material.
US10009444B2
The present disclosure provides a server having a processor-readable storage medium comprising a set of instructions for protocol request processing; and a processor in communication with the storage medium. The processor is configured to execute the set of instructions to provide a communication with a customer terminal through an online platform; receive a second protocol request sent from the customer terminal; determine if the server is processing a first protocol request sent from the customer terminal prior to the second protocol request; process the second protocol request when the server is not processing the first protocol; and discard the second protocol request when the server is processing the first protocol.
US10009443B1
A first server is instantiated within a tenant domain serviced by a cloud service provider. The first server includes a first network adapter and a second network adapter. The first network adapter is configured to be controlled by the cloud service provider. The second network adapter is configured to be controlled by the tenant. The first network adapter is operably coupled with an interconnection network infrastructure operably coupled with a cloud service provider infrastructure. The second network adapter is operably coupled to a first port group controlled by the tenant. The first server is configured to host and execute an application accessible through a remote display protocol. Local security and group policy configurations are applied to the first server. Related methods, techniques, apparatuses, systems, non-transitory computer program products, and articles are also described.
US10009441B2
A distributed data-based concurrent processing by a control terminal obtaining data block information corresponding to a submitted operation; a task processing terminal sending a task processing request to the control terminal; the control terminal finding a data block that is unassigned and is distributed in the same server where the task processing terminal is distributed, and assigning the found data block to the task processing terminal. The control terminal determines a server having the fewest data blocks that are being processed by the task processing terminal and assigning an unassigned data block to the task processing terminal on the determined server if the data block that is unassigned and is distributed in the same server where the task processing terminal is distributed is not found. The task processing terminal processes the data block assigned by the control terminal according to a flow.
US10009437B2
The present disclosure relates to communication formats and more particularly, to media delivery by preferred communication formats. In one illustrative embodiment, communications between an originator and receiver can be converted into a format preference based on the receiver's context. The context can refer to device type, application usage, time of day, location and user role. The originator can be free to choose their desired format of communication and the recipient can be equally free to choose the best suited format to receive the message. In outgoing communications, the receiver can use their own defined format and the communications can be converted into the originator's chosen format. Media format conversion can be performed unilaterally, for example, the first person can send an email which can be translated to speech for the second person who responds by voice which can be received as voice by the first person.
US10009429B2
The invention relates to a method for communication within a pre-determined location, which establishes a relationship between a physical space or premises defined by its geographical position and a virtual space created in a server and which replicates the information contained in said physical space. The method is configured such that a user in possession of a mobile device with an interface application for accessing the server must first enter (101) the server through the application. Subsequently, the position of the user is detected (102) and a query is sent (103) to the server, such that: if there are multiple rooms, one is listed (104) and selected (105) by the user; and if there is only one room, the data associated with said room are consulted (106) directly in the server, the data are displayed (107) to the user, the user data are consulted (108) in the server and the user data are displayed (109) to the client.
US10009423B2
Aspects include for performing an initialization sequence by a first device to execute synchronous input/output (I/O) commands across a synchronous I/O link. The initialization sequence includes posting, by the first device, a first acknowledgement in response to a register area corresponding to a second device being updated with first information according to a first synchronization sequence, the first information comprising a worldwide node name of the second device and posting, by the first device, a second acknowledgement in response the register area being updated with second information according to a second synchronization sequence, the second information comprising mailbox information. The initialization sequence also includes performing, by the first device, a third synchronization sequence to provide a worldwide node name of the first device; and performing, by the first device, a fourth synchronization sequence to provide a status area address.
US10009422B1
Backup management based on client device statuses is described. A system determines whether a backup operation is requested for a client device. The system determines whether a status of the client device indicates that the client device is available for the backup operation in response to a determination that the backup operation is requested for the client device. The system executes the backup operation for the client device in response to a determination that the status of the client device indicates that the client device is available for the backup operation.
US10009417B2
A method for wireless grid computing includes: receiving feedback of a computing resource state (“CRS”) and channel quality information (“CQI”) from at least one candidate terminal; determining at least one parallel work execution terminal to execute the wireless grid computing among at least one terminal based on the feedback of the CRS and the feedback of the CQI; and assigning parallel processing work of the wireless grid computing to the at least one parallel work execution terminal. Such wireless grid computing method may be performed using a base station or a terminal.
US10009412B1
A method for distributed file transfers with high performance and reliability includes creating, on a first Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) server, a global cache, where the global cache is used to store up to a first portion of a data file. The method further includes storing, on the first TFTP server, in the global cache, one or more continuous data blocks that have exceeded a defined first request rate threshold, where the one or more continuous data blocks make up a subset of the data blocks of the first portion of the data file. The method further includes predicting, on the first TFTP server, a next data block in the data file to be stored in the global cache and in response to predicting the next data block, storing, on the first TFTP server, the next data block in the global cache.
US10009404B2
Methods and systems for providing an enterprise class virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) are provided. Aspects of the VDI include providing support for multiple simultaneous virtual private networks (VPNs), video calls, and for operatively connecting to a selected connected device within a personal workspace through a single sign on procedure. A teletype (TTY) function can also be provided using normal or VPN connections. The VDI can comprise or be incorporated into a thin client device, a telephone, a headset, a keyboard, a mouse, or a monitor.
US10009399B2
Streaming assets to an asset streaming client is described. An asset streaming system is configured to generate a request to retrieve at least a portion of an asset. The asset streaming system is part of an asset streaming client and integrated in an operating system abstraction level with the operating system or in an abstraction level beneath the operating system abstraction level. An asset provider system can receive the request that is generated by the asset streaming system and provide the portion of the asset to the asset streaming system. The asset streaming client can then exploit the portion of the asset.
US10009392B2
A method and system for monitoring the system health and/or integration of networks of a collaboration conferencing system of a telecommunications network is provided. In particular, a monitor system is provided that is associated with a telecommunications network to automate connection to a collaboration conferencing bridge that utilizes a plurality of collaboration conferencing systems. Through the automation of connecting to the conferencing bridge that is hosting the collaboration conference, the system may determine if one or more of the systems of the collaboration are underperforming when compared to performance standards for the systems. The connectivity or health information of the conferencing system may thus be measured and provided to a system administrator to identify the issues within the collaboration system to remedy to the detected issues.
US10009363B2
Certain embodiments involve selecting metrics that are representative of large metrics datasets and that are usable for efficiently performing anomaly detection. For example, a data graph is generated that represents metrics datasets having values for respective metrics. Each node in the graph represents a respective metric, and each edge between nodes represents a respective correlation between a given pair of the metrics datasets. The nodes are grouped into clusters. For each cluster, a principal component dataset is determined and a representative metric is selected using the principal component dataset. A principal component dataset is a linear combination of metrics datasets (or standardized versions of the datasets) represented by a cluster. The representative metric for each cluster is the metric whose dataset was the greatest contributor to the principal component (e.g., the most heavily weighted metric in the linear combination). An anomaly detection is performed on the selected representative metrics.
US10009357B2
A method for generating a data frame is disclosed which contains a user data block with the message and a code block. To generate the code block, a first data record is initially coded by means of a first coding algorithm in order to calculate a first code word. Subsequently, the message is transformed. By using the first code words thus generated and the transformed message, a second code word is subsequently calculated by using a second coding algorithm. The data frame comprises the second code word but not the first code word.
US10009351B2
The system and method of the present invention to provide at least one cloud-based things access and management system (things-system) for things lifecycle management, for a plurality of things' owners (manufacturer, store, end-user, etc.) having a thing's owner account (owner-account) with a things webpage associate to a thing's unique identification code (UID) which is stored in the owner-account for predetermined purpose, including thing's ownership rights to transfer, access, verify, transmit, control, interact, broadcast, etc. relating to the things-system applications, such as things to things (machine to machine), data exchange, including Internet of Things application.
US10009343B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, an apparatus, and a system for authenticating a fully homomorphic message, where the method includes: acquiring a message authentication key, where: the message authentication key includes a public key, a first character string, and a second character string; the first character string is a character string that consists of 0 and 1 and has a length of n; the second character string is a character string that consists of 0 and 1 and has a length of n; generating an authentication fingerprint corresponding to each bit of to-be-computed data; sending a computation request to a server; receiving an authentication fingerprint corresponding to the computation result; and performing correctness authentication on the computation result according to the received authentication fingerprint, which effectively reduces an amount of computation in a verification process.
US10009341B1
A keyboard includes a plurality of keys, a plurality of keyboard components coupled to the keys, and one-time password (OTP) generation hardware integrated with at least some of the keyboard components, where actuating at least one of the keys causes a one-time password to be generated. The OTP generation hardware may be actuated with a dedicated button on the keyboard, by pressing a button on the keyboard that is otherwise used for pairing the keyboard to a device, or by pressing a specific sequence of keys on the keyboard. The keyboard may maintain state information to cause input by the user for OTP generation to be provide to the OTP generation hardware instead of to a device paired with the keyboard. The keyboard may also include a display that is part of the keyboard, where the display shows the one-time password generated by the OTP hardware.
US10009339B2
In one embodiment, a processor includes: a first die including at least one processor core to execute instructions and a non-volatile storage to store an identifier to be provisioned into the processor during manufacture; a second die to couple to the first die, the second die including a wireless circuit and a second non-volatile storage; and a wireless interface to couple to the second die to enable wireless communication with a wireless device. The processor may be disabled if the identifier is not stored in the second non-volatile storage. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10009337B1
A first request is received from a first user to revoke an access right of a second user of a first tenant for accessing data of a second tenant, where the first tenant is a parent tenant of the second tenant. In one embodiment, in response to the first request, a first role of the first user within the second tenant and a second role of the first user within the first tenant are determined. A first and second access privileges of the first role and second role of the first user, respectively, are determined to allow the first user to revoke the access right to the second tenant. In response to the first user having a revoke privilege in the first and second tenant, the first user is allowed to remove the second tenant from the first tenant.
US10009321B2
A method (500) performed by at least one server for processing a data packet from a first computing device to be transmitted to a second computing device is disclosed, in which the data packet includes a message encrypted using a first encryption key to form an encrypted message, identification data of the second computing device encrypted using a second encryption key to form encrypted identification data, and encrypted first and second encryption keys. The method comprises decrypting (504) the encrypted second encryption key; decrypting (506) the encrypted identification data using the decrypted second encryption key; and transmitting (508) the data packet based on the decrypted identification data, wherein the encrypted message and first encryption key are arranged to be undecryptable by the server to permit end-to-end encryption communication between the first and second computing devices. A related system is also disclosed.
US10009317B2
Methods, systems, and media for producing a firewall rule set are provided herein. Exemplary methods may include: receiving metadata about a deployed container from a container orchestration layer; determining an application or service associated with the deployed container from the received metadata; retrieving at least one model using the determined application or service, the at least one model identifying expected network communications behavior of the deployed container; and generating a high-level declarative security policy associated with the deployed container using the at least one model, the high-level declarative security policy indicating at least an application or service with which the deployed container can communicate.
US10009315B2
Global remappable addresses can be announced from multiple points across the Internet or other public networks. A global address can be mapped to one or more internal addresses for a provider, such that when traffic is received to a given network location the provider can determine whether the traffic is to be processed in the current network location or a different network location, as may be determined using a static process or a dynamic process based on any of a number of factors. If the traffic is destined for a different network location, the traffic can be remapped and forwarded to that network location over a public or private network. Once the traffic is in the determined destination network location, the traffic can be remapped and delivered to the ultimate destination. The remappings and destination network locations can be adjusted at any time, based on any of a number of factors, without significant risk of dropping traffic.
US10009305B2
An exemplary method processes an electronic communication received by a first end-user communication device, where the electronic communication comprises a digital packet having a header segment and a user data segment. A determination is made whether the received user data segment contains a first label that identifies a corresponding enhanced services application program stored in memory of the first end-user communication device. On identifying a first label, a determination is made whether the received user data segment contains a first command that identifies a corresponding action to be taken by the first enhanced services application program. On determining the existence of a first command, the first enhanced services application program causes a first action corresponding to the first command to be executed on the first end-user communication device.
US10009294B2
A system and method for limited the processing of interrupt-causing messages within a communication device. A user is able to set various values for dictating the bounds of a leaky bucket processor. The leaky bucket maintains and monitors a count, and dictates whether message processing is permitted or prohibited based on the count. When a message is processed, the count is decremented. When a predetermined time passes without processing a message, the count is incremented. If the count ever reaches a predetermined low threshold value, message processing is prohibited for a predetermined time On the other hand, if the count returns to a predetermined high threshold value, processing is permitted.
US10009284B2
A device may receive a request for a particular service from a user device. The device may determine a priority class associated with the service. The device may determine, based on the priority class, quality of service requirements associated with providing the service. The device may determine, based on the quality of service requirements, one or more cloud resources for providing the service to a user of the user device. The device may allocate the one or more cloud resources to provide the service to the user.
US10009283B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and device for processing information. The method includes: determining a current network state during instant messaging between the first device and a second device; when it is determined that the current network state is abnormal, caching first voice data received from a user of the first device; and when it is determined that the current network state becomes normal, sending the first voice data to the second device.
US10009281B2
A Radio Base Station (RBS) and a method performed by the RBS comprises receiving a frame F1 from a network node, the frame having a sequence number N. If the last received frame F0, prior to the received frame F1, has a sequence number lower than N−1, then starting a first timer T1 having a predefined length in time and temporarily storing the received frame F1. If a subsequent frame F2 having a sequence number lower than N and higher than the sequence number of frame F0 is received, then the received frame F2 is stored. When all frames having a sequence number between the sequence number of frame F0 and N have been received during the predefined length of the first timer T1, then forwarding the stored frames and/or received frames to the UE in the order of the sequence numbers.
US10009278B2
A method for designing a Network Function Virtualization (NFV) architecture includes accepting a definition of multiple Virtual Network Functions (VNFs), and of one or more packet types having respective occurrence probabilities, wherein each packet type is associated with a respective subset of the VNFs that are to be applied to packets of that packet type. Information on multiple available physical computers, each capable of running only a partial subset of the multiple VNFs, is further accepted. The VNFs are allocated to the physical computers by applying an optimality criterion to definition and the information.
US10009277B2
Communication apparatus includes a plurality of interfaces configured to be connected to a Layer-3 packet network and to serve as ingress and egress interfaces to receive and transmit packets from and to the network. Routing logic is coupled to process respective Layer-3 headers of the packets received through the ingress interfaces and to route the packets via the egress interfaces to respective destinations indicated by the Layer-3 headers. Congestion detection logic is coupled to identify a flow of the received packets that is causing congestion in the network and a Layer-3 address from which the flow originates, and to direct the routing logic to route a backward congestion notification message (CNM) packet via one of the egress interfaces to the identified Layer-3 address.
US10009273B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to a Lookup and Decision Engine (LDE) for generating lookup keys for input tokens and modifying the input tokens based on contents of lookup results. The input tokens are parsed from network packet headers by a Parser, and the tokens are then modified by the LDE. The modified tokens guide how corresponding network packets will be modified or forwarded by other components in a software-defined networking (SDN) system. The design of the LDE is highly flexible and protocol independent. Conditions and rules for generating lookup keys and for modifying tokens are fully programmable such that the LDE can perform a wide variety of reconfigurable network features and protocols in the SDN system.
US10009270B1
A Software-Defined Networking (SDN) switch includes external network ports for receiving external network traffic onto the SDN switch, external network ports for transmitting external network traffic out of the SDN switch, a first Network Flow Switch (NFX) integrated circuit that has multiple network ports and that maintains a first flow table, another Network Flow Switch (NFX) integrated circuit that has multiple network ports and that maintains a second flow table, a Network Flow Processor (NFP) circuit that maintains a third flow table, and a controller processor circuit that maintains a fourth flow table. The controller processor circuit is coupled by a serial bus to the NFP circuit but is not directly coupled by any network port to either the NFP circuit nor the first NFX integrated circuit nor the second NFX integrated circuit.
US10009268B2
A method to transmit and receive a packet in a bridge of a communication system is provided. The method includes receiving a first packet from a first network. The method also includes converting a medium access control (MAC) layer source address of the received first packet into a MAC address of the bridge. The method further includes transmitting the address-converted first packet to a node of a second network.
US10009265B2
A communication control apparatus for switching a communication route from a first apparatus to a second apparatus based on apparatus identification information identifying the second apparatus, the communication control apparatus including: a table storage unit configured to store the apparatus identification information; a storage unit configured to store communication information of communication to the second apparatus with which the communication is performed; and a control unit configured to determine whether or not the control unit stores the apparatus identification information of the second apparatus starting the communication in the table storage unit based on the communication information stored in the storage unit and an information amount of the apparatus identification information capable of storing in the table storage unit.
US10009254B2
A method in a flow controller for selecting optimal path is provided. A plurality of potential flow paths in the network for a particular pair of source and destination switch ports is determined in a flow controller. A plurality of cost factors associated with each of the plurality of potential flow paths is identified. Individual cost values are determined for each of the identified plurality of cost factors for each of the plurality of potential flow paths by multiplying the identified cost factors by a stratification factor. A single cost value for each of the plurality of potential flow paths is determined based on the determined individual cost values. One of the potential flow paths is selected in the flow controller for the particular pair of source and destination switch ports based upon the determined single cost value.
US10009248B2
Resources used by a plurality of applications that are located in system memory can be managed by monitoring usage statistics for the plurality of applications running on a hardware platform. Usage statistics for a particular application that are outside of a usage threshold profile can result in the creation of an on-demand profile that specifies a set of resources used by the particular application and a set of destination inputs mapped to the particular application. The destination inputs can be mapped to a management module. At least some of the resources of the set of resources used by the particular application can be released. Using the management module, an access to an input of the set of destination inputs can be detected. In response, resources of the set of resources can be allocated to the particular application.
US10009241B1
Monitoring performance data associated with a content player is disclosed. Information relating to the state of a content player is obtained on a time driven basis. At least a portion of the obtained information is reported, via a communications interface, to a content distribution monitoring server.
US10009239B2
A distributed network traffic flow monitoring system is provided. The system includes a plurality of network packet flow collector devices for receiving netflow packets associated with a traffic flow activity data at a network connection. The traffic flow activity data includes one or more transmissions between particular source and destination IP addresses. The system further includes a network packet flow coordinator device connected to the plurality of network packet flow collector devices and configured to aggregate probabilistic information related to the traffic flow activity data from the one or more of network packet flow collector devices and to estimate cardinality of the traffic flow activity data based on the aggregated probabilistic information.
US10009238B2
A cloud management system is described herein that provides the ability for an application to span two or more clouds while allowing operation, management, and troubleshooting of the distributed application as a single application. The system provides infrastructure that communicates across datacenters for execution and for centralizing knowledge of instances of an application that are running at different locations. The infrastructure provided by the system monitors both the application and connections between the clouds, with intelligence to know if issues are within the application or because of the connection between the clouds. The system coordinates management functions across multiple cloud platforms/locations. Thus, the cloud management system creates a single monitoring and troubleshooting interface and knowledge and execution fabric across multiple clouds so that applications spread across multiple clouds can be monitored, managed, and debugged more easily.
US10009235B2
Systems are provided for using a message spinning engine to create and/or manage messaging queues in a distributed network using virtualized servers. An abstraction layer formed by virtualized servers may enable the message spinning engine to seamlessly transition messaging queues while minimizing the likelihood of exceeding the parameters of existing service level agreements. The message spinning engine may include a service mapping module to maintain mappings between source business applications and virtualized servers, a product bridge to implement message encapsulation for communication between different messaging queue products, and a messaging queue monitoring console to analyze performance and capacity of physical services and messaging services and accordingly adjust levels of service for source business applications.
US10009230B1
A peering relationship among two or more network appliances is established through an exchange of control messages among the network appliances. The peering relationship defines a cluster of peered network appliances, and at each network appliance of the cluster traffic flow state information for all the network appliances of the cluster is maintained. Network traffic associated with traffic flows of the network appliances of the cluster is managed according to the state information for the traffic flows. This managing of the network traffic may include forwarding among the network appliances of the cluster (i.e., to those of the appliances handling the respective flows) at least some of the network traffic associated with one or more of the traffic flows according to the state information for the one or more traffic flows. The traffic flows may be TCP connections or UDP flows.
US10009227B2
A network service provisioning system may generate a data structure for configuring hardware and implementing an information system based on user responses to dynamically branching prompts. The provisioning system may generate an initial process map for the information system based on the user's responses and a determined information processing task. As described further herein, the provisioning system may break the initial process map into one or more sub-processes and proceed to individually optimize the sub-processes utilizing parallel process on a plurality of worker nodes. The provisioning system may apply a master template based to the intermediate process map to generate one or more optimization recommendations for the intermediate process map. Once a final optimized process map is generated by the provisioning system, the provisioning system may provide the optimized process map to an automatic orchestrator system for configuring and implementing the information system represented by the optimized process map.
US10009226B2
A network switching system and method and a computer program product for operating a network switch are disclosed. The network switch includes a multitude of input ports and a multitude of output ports. In one embodiment, one processing device is assigned to each of the input ports and output ports to process data packets received at the input ports and transferred to the output ports. In one embodiment, the method comprises creating an intermediate adjustable configuration of processing devices functionally between the input ports and the output ports, and assigning the processing devices of the intermediate configuration to forward the data packets from the input ports to the output ports to obtain a balance between latency and synchronization of the transfer of the data packets from the input ports to the output ports. In an embodiment, software is used to create and to adjust dynamically the intermediate configuration.
US10009218B2
For a network with host machines that are hosting virtual machines, a method for facilitating BUM (broadcast, unknown unicast, and multicast) traffic between a hardware switch (e.g., ToR switch) and the host machines is provided. The network has a set of host machines configured as a cluster of replicators for replicating BUM traffic from the hardware switch to the host machines. A set of network controllers establishes failure-detection tunnels for links between the hardware switch and the replicator cluster. The replicator cluster informs the set of controllers of a change in the membership of the replicator cluster to initiate an update to the active failure-detection sessions. The set of network controllers communicates with the replicator cluster and a ToR switch to establish bidirectional forwarding detection (BFD) sessions between one or more replicator nodes in the replicator cluster and the ToR switch.
US10009215B1
Consistency groups of federated data centers can be transitioned between active/active multi-writer and active/passive single writer operational modes. In the active/passive single writer mode one or more hosts in a first data center have Write access to a distributed storage resource, but a host in a second data center does not have Write access to that distributed storage resource. In the active/active multi-writer mode hosts in both the first and the second data center have Write access to the distributed storage resource. The active/passive single writer mode is used as a default mode. The active/active multi-writer mode is used when needed for scheduled or unscheduled but qualified events which require mobility, e.g., moving virtual machines or cluster groups.
US10009212B2
A method implemented in a first peer entity communicating with a second peer entity using a predetermined protocol includes receiving a first packet from the second peer entity. The method further includes identifying an instruction field included within the first packet, the instruction field indicating a predetermined function to be performed by the first peer entity. The method further includes determining whether the predetermined function can be performed by the first entity. The method also includes transmitting a second packet to the second peer entity indicating whether the first entity performs the predetermined function.
US10009209B2
A method for operating a device includes determining adaptation criteria for a waveform to be transmitted by a transmitting device over a communications channel towards a receiving device, and adjusting a generalized multi-carrier multiplexing parameter (GMMP) of the waveform in accordance with the adaptation criteria. The method also includes transmitting an indicator of the adjusted GMMP to at least one of the transmitting device and the receiving device.
US10009208B1
An OFDM transmitter spreads original data symbols with a complex-valued spreading matrix derived from a discrete Fourier transform. Spread data symbols are mapped to OFDM subcarriers. Spreading and mapping are configured to produce a transmitted spread-OFDM signal with a low peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) and orthogonal code spaces. In MIMO systems, the complex-valued spreading matrix can comprise a MIMO precoding matrix, and the code spaces can comprise MIMO subspaces. In Cooperative-MIMO, a combination of low code-space cross correlation and low PAPR can be achieved.
US10009205B2
Provided a CPG scheduling method and system. The method includes that: peak cancellation components generate and send a CPG calling request to a CPG scheduling component; the CPG scheduling component configures at least one CPG to the peak cancellation component corresponding to the CPG calling request from a CPG sharing resource pool to generate at least one cancellation pulse according to a scheduling strategy and the CPG calling request; and the CPG scheduling component receives the at least one cancellation pulse generated by the at least one configured CPG according to the CPG calling request, and transmits the at least one cancellation pulse to the peak cancellation components corresponding to the CPG calling request to implement peak cancellation processing. By implementing the present disclosure, the problem of incapability in accomplishing all peak cancellation tasks of a peak cancellation component of a certain stage in the related art is solved.
US10009204B2
A node and an access node and methods therein for handling random access is disclosed. A method in a node for random access in a wireless network comprises, determining a set of sub-carrier shifts, wherein each sub-carrier shift indicates a shift with respect to a starting position in frequency domain for transmitting a random access preamble. The method further comprises selecting a sub-carrier shift from the set of sub-carrier shifts. The method further comprises transmitting a random access preamble to an access node, wherein the random access preamble is transmitted according to the selected sub-carrier shift.
US10009203B1
A digital receiver includes a memory buffer and circuitry. The memory buffer stores samples of an input signal having a sampling rate Fsi. The circuitry includes P filter-families that each includes N filters derived from a prototype Low-Pass Filter (LPF) whose stopband frequency depends on an output sampling rate Fso=α·Fsi. The circuitry is configured to set a sampling time according to Fso, to select, based on the sampling time, multiple filter-families out of the P filter-families, and to construct, based on the N filters in each of the selected filter-families, N interpolated filters that are each aligned to the sampling time. The circuitry is further configured to calculate N filtered samples by applying the N interpolated filters to the samples in the memory buffer, and to generate a sample for an output signal of a frequency-slice of the input signal, by digitally down-converting the N filtered samples.
US10009201B2
A wireless terminal and a receiver are provided that include a first amplifier configured to receive and amplify a first radio frequency (RF) input signal, and configured to output a first RF output signal corresponding to a first carrier included in a first frequency band. The receiver also includes a first sub amplifier configured to, when a mode signal indicates a first mode, receive a first internal signal from the first amplifier, amplify the first internal signal, and output a second RF output signal corresponding to a second carrier included in the first frequency band.
US10009199B2
A data reception device includes: an equalizer circuit that shapes a waveform of an input signal according to a set gain value; a CDR circuit which recovers a plurality of clock signals having different phases in one cycle from the input signal after being subjected to the waveform shaping performed by the equalizer circuit; an oversampler which performs sampling of the waveform-shaped input signal in synchronization with the plurality of clock signals and recovers a plurality of input data from the waveform-shaped input signal; and a calibration control unit which determines whether the oversampler correctly recovers the input data based on a result of the sampling performed by the oversampler, and generates a control signal to set the gain value of the equalizer circuit based on a determination result when it is determined that the input data is not correctly recovered.
US10009195B2
An equalizer and method is implemented to improve the performance of a communication system based on multi-level amplitude modulation schemes. The equalizer may include a linear equalization circuit including a plurality of time delayed taps and configured to receive an input signal and generate an output signal. The equalizer may further include a nonlinear circuit configured to receive signals from at least a portion of the time delayed taps and generate at least a portion of a difference between the signals, the output signal based at least in part on the difference.
US10009191B2
A transmitter for use in a cable modem termination system includes a data processing module that generates a plurality of OFDM symbols from a data packet. A probe symbol generator generates a probe symbol, as one of a plurality of probe symbol types. The probe symbol is selectively inserted within the plurality of OFDM symbols, at a pre-defined probe symbol interval.
US10009182B2
A method and system configured to produce a cryptographic signature on a message, under a key, at a user computer wherein the key is shared between the user computer, which stores a first key-share, and an authentication computer, which stores a second key-share and a first authentication value. The user computer encodes the message to produce a blinded message, produces the first authentication value from a user password and a secret value, and produces a second authentication value by encoding the first authentication value and a nonce. The authentication computer uses the nonce to determine if the first authentication value is correct and, if so, encodes the blinded message using the second key-share to produce a partial signature. The user computer produces a signature on the message under the key by encoding the partial signature and the message using the first key-share and an unblinding function.
US10009181B2
The present invention generally relates to systems and methods for extending a chain of trust beyond the DNS. Some embodiments provide a verifier with the ability to validate a chain of trust starting with the trust anchor at the DNS root all the way to a service or object of interest outside the DNS.
US10009178B2
The present disclosure describes systems and methods for managing network traffic using biometrics. A server may store a first value N, a primitive root modulo N, and a plurality of verification codes generated using the primitive root modulo N to the power of a hash function result of a respective portion of a first biometric template acquired from the user during enrollment. The sever may receive a request to connect to the server, from a client operated by the user. The client may use a first offset identifier from the server to identify a first portion of a second biometric template acquired from the user, and generate a first value corresponding to a common exponentiation function. The server may generate a second value corresponding to the common exponentiation function. The server may determine that the user is authenticated if the first value from the client matches the second value.
US10009176B2
An authentication token using a smart card that an organization would issue to its customer, the smart card having a processor for executing a software application that is responsive to a user input to generate a one-time password as an output. The smart card co-operates with an interface device for inputting the user input and displaying the one-time password. The authentication token may be used in combination with a remote authentication server for validation of the password and hence authentication of the user.
US10009168B2
An encryption system and method has processors and a memory system, the memory system configured to hold at least one macroblock, an encryption key, and machine readable instructions for encrypting the macroblock. The instructions include instructions for dividing the macroblock into at subblocks by rows and encrypting the rows, for dividing the macroblock into subblocks by columns and encrypting the columns, and for performing a combining cipher of the first, second, third and fourth cipher blocks to produce a final ciphertext of the macroblock. In alternative embodiments, the macroblock is divided in a third, or fourth dimension in addition to rows and columns. In embodiments, ciphertext is chained by using it ciphertext as part of a key for later macroblocks of a sequence, or propagated into later sequences of macroblocks.
US10009167B2
A device, a circuit and a method are disclosed herein. The device includes a data receiving circuit and an oscillating signal generator. The data receiving circuit is configured to output a first output signal, a second output signal, and a phase error signal according to an oscillating signal and a modulated signal, in which the phase error signal indicates a phase difference between the oscillating signal and the modulated signal. The oscillating signal generator is configured to delay a phase of a first reference signal according to the phase error signal, to generate the oscillating signal.
US10009166B2
A hybrid clock data recovery circuit includes a linear phase detector configured to generate a recovered data signal by sampling an input data signal in response to a clock signal, and to generate up and down signals having a pulse width difference that is linearly proportional to a phase difference between the input data signal and the clock signal. An arbiter is configured to generate a bang-bang up signal representing that a phase of the input data signal leads a phase of the clock signal and a bang-bang down signal representing that the phase of the clock signal leads the phase of the input data signal based on the up and down signals. A digital loop filter is configured to generate a digital control code based on the bang-bang up and down signals. A digitally controlled oscillator is configured to generate an oscillating frequency of the clock signal in response to the digital control code, and to adjust the oscillating frequency of the clock signal in response to the up and down signals.
US10009157B2
A method and apparatus for transmitting data in a wireless communication system is provided. An evolved NodeB (eNB) configures a first power for a first modulation and a second power for a second modulation. A modulation order of the second modulation is higher than a modulation order of the first modulation. The eNB transmits data to at least one of a first user equipment (UE) with the configured first power or a second UE with the configured second power. The configured first power may be greater than the condifued second power. Accordingly, a proactive cell range expansion (P-CRE) may be implemented for the first modulation.
US10009155B2
For determining time and frequency resources, a first device performs: obtaining groups of time and frequency resources of the wireless communications network so as to form a redrawn grid; allocating time and frequency resources according to the redrawn grid and to a frequency hopping criteria; and providing signalling information representative of the time and frequency resources that have been allocated according to the redrawn grid. In order to determine which time and frequency resources of the initial grid to be used for performing said transmissions, a second device performs: obtaining the signalling information so as to determine the time and frequency resources that have been allocated according to the redrawn grid; and applying a predetermined pattern mask onto the determined time and frequency resources that have been allocated according to the redrawn grid.
US10009153B2
A method and system of creating, transmitting, receiving and interpreting a subframe structure used in the communication between a base station and a device with mobile communication functionality is provided for use during communication on an unlicensed frequency spectrum. The system and subframe structure provides for the truncation of OFDM symbols within one or more subframe structures that often contain downlink control information and a method for determining a new location of the truncated downlink control information within the subframe structure.
US10009152B2
Rate-less multiple access schemes for wireless networks uses physical layer, rate-less codes to enable grant-free, contention-based, random access and grant-based, contention-free, non-orthogonal multiple access in uplink or downlink channels.
US10009143B2
A method of link adaptation is described including establishing, using a first serving point, a multi-user full duplex mode wherein the multi-user full duplex mode enables a downlink to a first wireless device and an uplink from a second wireless device. The first serving point requests from the first wireless device a first channel quality indicator indicating channel quality between the serving point and the first wireless device in a full duplex time period and a second channel quality indicator indicating channel quality between the serving point and the first wireless device in non-full duplex time period. The full duplex mode is evaluated using the first and second channel quality indicators. At least one parameter of the full duplex mode is adjusted based on the evaluating.
US10009132B2
Time stamp replication within wireless networks is described. In an embodiment, a wireless station receives an input time stamp and uses this input time stamp to generate an output time stamp. The wireless station transmits the output time stamp to wireless stations in one of a number of groups which make up the wireless network. The output time stamp is generated to compensate for delays between receiving the input time stamp and transmitting the output time stamp such that output time stamp which is transmitted at a time T corresponds to the value that the input time stamp would have had if it had been received at time T (and not at a time earlier than T). This may, therefore, reduce or eliminate independent time stamp errors and jitter caused by multiple disparate systems and processes.
US10009130B1
A system includes a first source interface, a second source interface, a content mixer, a first communication interface (CI), and a second CI. The first source interface and the second source interface are configured to receive a first audio signal (FS) and a second audio signal (SS), respectively. The content mixer is configured to generate a portion of a terrestrial broadcast stream (TBS portion) that includes the FS and the SS. A first segment of the FS overlaps a second segment of the SS. The content mixer is configured to generate a portion of an internet radio stream (IR portion) corresponding to the TBS portion. The IR portion includes the first segment and omits the SS. The first CI is configured to send the TBS portion to a terrestrial radio station. The second CI is configured to send the IR portion to a content replacer. Other aspects are also disclosed.
US10009128B2
Provided is a method for reporting a channel state, on which an interference cancellation performance is reflected, in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention. The method may include: receiving, from a serving cell, a configuration for a channel state information (CSI) process (hereinafter, referred to as “enhanced CSI process”) for reporting the channel state on which the interference cancellation performance is reflected; receiving a signal at a CSI-interference measurement (CSI-IM) resource according to the enhanced CSI process; and calculating a value of the reporting of the channel state on which the interference cancellation performance is reflected, by removing an interference signal, which is from a specific interference cell among one or more interference cells.
US10009125B2
[Problem] To provide a monitoring system capable of monitoring, without stopping operations for a long period of time, a change of the characteristics of an apparatus to be subjected to characteristic measurement, to which high frequency signals are inputted. [Solution] A signal to be monitored and a reference signal are inputted to an input unit 11, and the input unit inputs one of the inputted signals to an apparatus 15 to be subjected to characteristic measurement. On the basis of an output signal of the apparatus 15 and the reference signal in the cases where the reference signal is inputted to the apparatus, an input/output characteristic calculation unit 12 calculates the input/output characteristics of the apparatus 15. On the basis of calculation results obtained from the input/output characteristic calculation unit 12, a correction result generating unit 13 generates a correction result signal that indicates the results obtained by correcting an output signal of the apparatus 15 in the cases where the signal to be monitored is inputted to the apparatus. On the basis of the correction result signal generated by the correction result generating unit 13, a failure determining unit 14 determines whether the apparatus has a failure.
US10009122B2
A method and system for measuring a device under test are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of implementing a measurement system is provided. The method includes providing a plurality of nodes, each node including a combination of a communication tester configured to generate a communication signal and a channel emulator configured to emulate a channel, and providing a user interface configured to enable a user to control at least one of the plurality of nodes.
US10009121B2
According to methods of performing a passive inter-modulation distortion (“PID”) test, a first excitation signal and a second excitation signal are applied to a device under test, where at least one of the first and second excitation signals is a spread spectrum excitation signal. An output signal is received that includes a PID signal generated from mixing of the first and second excitation signals. At least a portion of the output signal is de-spread. A characteristic of the PID signal may then be measured.
US10009118B2
A body-coupled communication apparatus (100) comprises a coupler arrangement (10) comprising a plurality of couplers (11,12,13) configured to couple signals (S) between the apparatus (100) and a body (200). Signal electronics (20) are configured to process and/or generate the signals depending on an operational mode (OT,OR,OW) of the apparatus. A routing network (40) is configured to provide variable routing of the signals (S) between the signal electronics (20) and the couplers (11,12,13) thereby providing a selection between distinct coupling modes (CT,CR,CW) of the coupler arrangement (10). A mode selector (30) is configured to switch the apparatus (100) between the operational modes (OT,OR,OW) and control the routing network (40) to select between the distinct coupling modes (CT,CR,CW) based on the operational mode (OT,OR,OW) of the apparatus.
US10009115B2
The present invention provides a simple means of demodulating optical signals, e.g. wideband M-ary orthogonal. The demodulator comprises an optical processor and a comparison module. The optical processor transforms M input optical signals into 2 log2(M) intermediary optical signals and the comparison module determines the logical representation of the input data based on log2(M) binary comparisons of the optical power of the intermediary signals. Example embodiments may be reconfigurable to receive optical signals using M-FSK, M-PPM, M-PolSK, and hybrid M-ary orthogonal modulation formats. Example embodiments also offer small size, weight and power consumption for both free-space and fiber optic environments as well as improved receiver sensitivity and reduced electron bandwidth requirements.
US10009113B2
An optical transmitting device includes: a symbol determining circuit that determines one base from a plurality of bases for each input of plain text corresponding to one symbol and determines a modulation position of the symbol according to the plain text and the base; a shift circuit that randomly shifts the modulation position within a signal identification region set based on the base; and a modulator that modulates light emitted from a light source, according to a shifted position shifted by the shift circuit.
US10009110B2
An apparatus in a passive optical network (PON) is configured to modify a preamble of a data packet to include channel bonding information. The apparatus may further fragment the data packet into a plurality of data frames and transmit the fragmented data frames through multiple channels. The channel bonding information may be used to identify different channels and to identify data frames transmitted through each channel.
US10009107B2
A system includes an optical transceiver configured to transmit/receive at least one optical feed and a beam separator configured to separate the optical feed into a plurality of optical beams, and spatially combine the optical beams into the optical beam. The system also includes a dichroic mirror optically coupled to the beam separator and configured to reflect the optical beams, and allow beacon signals to pass therethrough. A position sensitive detector of the system optically couples to the dichroic mirror and is configured to sense an incidence position of each beacon signal allowed to pass through the dichroic mirror, and output a position error for each optical beam based on the sensed incidence positions. The system also includes a multi-axis optical steering system configured to direct each optical beam based on the corresponding position error outputted from the position sensitive detector and a corresponding transmit/receive target.
US10009104B2
An uplink signal scheduling method, a processing device, and a system. The method includes when uplink signals sent by at least one transmit device are received, preprocessing the uplink signals, to generate a data over cable service interface specification (DOCSIS) frame, where the DOCSIS frame includes at least two uplink signals, and each uplink signal of the at least two uplink signals corresponds to one uplink wavelength, and when it is detected that a signal conflict exists in the DOCSIS frame, creating at least two signal groups according to the uplink signals, and allocating, to the at least two signal groups, uplink signals that have a same uplink wavelength and cause the signal conflict, and performing scheduling on the uplink signals according to the signal groups that have undergone allocation.
US10009103B2
A microwave-frequency source at frequency fM comprises: a dual optical-frequency reference source, an electro-optic sideband generator, an optical bandpass filter, an optical detector, a reference oscillator, an electrical circuit, and a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO). The sideband generator modulates dual optical reference signals at v2 and v1 to generate sideband signals at v1±n1fM and v2±n2fM. The bandpass filter transmits sideband signals at v1+N1fM and v2−N2fM. The optical detector generates a beat note at (v2−N2fM)−(v1+N1fM). The beat note and a reference oscillator signal are processed by the circuit to generate a loop-filtered error signal to input to the VCO. Output of the VCO at fM drives the sideband generator and forms the microwave-frequency output signal. The resultant frequency division results in reduced phase noise on the microwave-frequency signal.
US10009097B2
Methods and apparatuses for optical communications are provided. By way of example, an optical transceiver includes a processing device coupled to a memory, an optical subassembly, and a programmable device. The optical subassembly is configured to receive and modulate a first signal carrying high speed user data for transmission to a remote device over an optical link. The programmable device is coupled to the processing device and configured to receive data relating to digital diagnostic monitoring information (DDMI) of the optical transceiver from the processing device, perform forward error correction encoding on the DDMI data to produce a remote digital diagnostic monitoring (RDDM) signal, and send the RDDM signal to the optical subassembly as a second signal to modulate for transmission. The optical subassembly is configured to current modulate the second signal on the first signal to produce a double modulated optical signal for transmission to the remote device.
US10009095B2
An optical communications network has an interconnecting node (100) coupled in between at least one hub node (130) and at least first (140) and second (150) access nodes, to provide working and protection optical paths. The interconnecting node has a working wavelength selective switch (110) to select which working wavelengths are coupled. A corresponding protection wavelength selective switch (120) is also provided for the protection wavelengths. In the event of detection of a fault, protection switching (230) is carried out at the access node and the hub node without altering the selections made by the wavelength selective switches in the interconnecting node. Thus protection schemes across the interconnecting node for more than one access node can be handled. By not needing to alter wavelength selections at the interconnecting node during protection switching operation, the complexity and thus costs can be reduced.
US10009091B2
A wireless communications system comprises a transmitting terminal, transponding repeaters located on moving airborne platforms, and receiving terminals located in a first coverage area and a second coverage area. The transmitting terminal comprises a preprocessing unit to receive information data streams, perform a wavefront multiplexing transformation on the information data streams, generate at least a first and a second wavefront multiplexed information data streams, and transmit the first and second wavefront multiplexed information data streams to the receiving terminals via the transponding repeaters. The transponding repeaters include first and second transponding repeaters, each of the transponding repeaters having an antenna array, the first transponding repeater having a first antenna array, receiving and relaying the first wavefront multiplexed information data stream to a first coverage area, the second transponding repeater having a second antenna array, receiving and relaying the second wavefront multiplexed information data stream to a second coverage area.
US10009078B2
Disclosed is a MIMO system including a transmitter and a receiver, in which an overall BER characteristic is improved. The transmitter (1) maps data, distributed among transmit antennas, onto an IQ plane to generate carrier symbols, and then, applies an inter-polarization interleave processing in a time direction to the carrier symbols between the transmit antennas, to generate OFDM signals. Receiving the OFDM signals, the receiver (2) demodulates the OFDM signals to generate complex baseband signals, and after that, applies a first deinterleave processing in a time direction to the complex baseband signals to generate time deinterleaved data. Further, the receiver (2) applies a MIMO separation processing to the time deinterleaved data to generate a plurality of sets of MIMO separated data and applies a second deinterleave processing between the receive antennas to the plurality of sets of MIMO separated data, so as to generate carrier symbols.
US10009074B2
An electronic device including circuitry configured to cause receipt of a first reference signal and determine first transmission weight information based on the received first reference signal. The circuitry is configured to cause receipt of a second reference signal and determine second transmission weight information based on the received second reference signal. The second reference signal is weighted. The circuitry is further configured to cause transmission of the first transmission weight information according to a first period and the second transmission weight information according to a second period. The first period is different from the second period. Further, the second transmission weight information is determined and transmitted after the first transmission weight information is transmitted.
US10009068B2
The subject technology discloses configurations for determining, at a first computing device, if a second computing device is within a predetermined distance of the first computing device. The subject technology then establishes, at the first computing device, a wireless near field communication (NFC) connection with the second computing device. Information for configuring a wireless tethering connection with the second computing device is then transmitted over the wireless NFC connection. Further, the subject technology receives, over the wireless NFC connection, confirmation that the wireless tethering connection has been configured.
US10009066B2
A communication system for transmitting electrical power and data between a first end of a transmission line and a second end of the transmission line comprises, at the first end: a DC supply means for supplying direct current to the transmission line; first switching means for switching the DC supply means; and a first modulator for operating the first switching means. At the second end, the system comprises an energy storage means for storing and supplying DC power; second switching means for switching power from the energy storage means; and a second modulator for operating the second switching means.
US10009063B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving, by a network element of a distributed antenna system, a reference signal, a control channel and a first modulated signal at a first carrier frequency, the first modulated signal including first communications data provided by a base station and directed to a mobile communication device. The instructions in the control channel direct the network element of the distributed antenna system to convert the first modulated signal at the first carrier frequency to the first modulated signal in a first spectral segment. The reference signal is received at an in-band frequency relative to the control channel. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10009060B2
The disclosure provides a switchable filtering circuit and the related operation method, in particular related to a filtering circuit which can be used for Bluetooth system and wireless local area network system. By using a first switch, a hybrid filtering circuit and a second switch, the received mode and transmitted mode between these two systems is realized. Moreover, the frequency responses and the bandwidth adjustments can be controlled according to the plurality of switchable resistors, the plurality of switchable capacitors and the shared and switchable resistors within the hybrid filter circuit. Moreover, the effects of high operated freedom of the circuit and the circuit size reduction can be achieved.
US10009059B2
Provided is a high frequency module capable of reducing the IMD. During the transmission/reception operation based on W-CDMA, control signals VSWCC, VTRXCC are output as Hi signals from a control logic. Consequently, transistor T1 is turned ON, and transistors T2, T3 are respectively turned OFF. When the transistor T1 is turned ON, the voltage output from an operational amplifier is output as the signal VVSW to a control terminal, and the control signal VTRXC is output as a Hi signal. The signal VVSW is of a voltage level that is lower than that of the control signal VTRXC. The control signal VTRXC is a signal for turning ON a transistor circuit Q1, and the signal VVSW is a signal for supplying a DC voltage to the antenna potential. It is thereby possible to reduce the ON resistance of the transistor circuit Q1 and improve the IMD characteristics.
US10009055B2
An antenna assembly includes a looped but open metallic antenna and a flat ceramic antenna within the loop of the metallic antenna. The metallic antenna includes a first end portion and a second end portion at two ends. The ceramic antenna is surrounded by the metallic antenna. The first end portion is connected to the ceramic antenna and the second end is a free end, and the output power of wireless signals thusly radiated is increased at given frequencies.
US10009049B2
A signal booster device comprises at least one first antenna for communicating with a mobile, at least one second antenna for communicating with a base station, at least one amplifier and at least one power detector. The signal booster device adjusts a gain between the at least two antennas by altering an amplification factor. A normal operation gain is achieved by setting the amplification factor to a first amplification factor. An oscillation is detected by determining at least one first signal power, increasing the operation gain of the signal booster device by setting the amplification factor to a second amplification factor wherein the second amplification factor is higher than the first amplification factor, determining at least one second signal power, correlating the at least one first signal power with the at least one second signal power; and determining whether a status of the signal booster device is oscillation or normal based upon the result of the correlation.
US10009045B2
A decoding method, a memory controlling circuit unit and a memory storage device are provided. The decoding method includes: performing a first type decoding operation for a first frame including a first codeword to obtain a second codeword. The method also includes: recording error estimate information corresponding to the first frame according to an execution result of the first type decoding operation. The method further includes: updating the first codeword in the first frame to the second codeword if the error estimate information matches a first condition; and performing a second type decoding operation for a block code including the first frame.
US10009043B2
Technologies for providing efficient error correction with half product codes include an apparatus having a memory to store data and a controller to manage read and write operations of the memory. The controller is to obtain, in response to a write request, data to write to the memory. The controller is further to encode the data with a half product code to define a matrix that includes at least one matrix element based on a soft decision error correction encoder algorithm and at least one other matrix element based on a hard decision error correction encoder algorithm. Additionally, the controller is to write the half product code to the memory.
US10009039B1
A system may comprise a high-pass filter having an input for receiving an input signal, an output for generating an output signal, a capacitor coupled between the input and the output, a switched-capacitor resistor coupled between the output and a reference voltage, and control circuitry configured to control the reference voltage to cancel current leakage into a circuit coupled to the output. The input, the output, the capacitor, and the switched-capacitor resistor may be arranged to generate the output signal as a high-pass filtered version of the input signal and the high-pass filter may be configured to operate in a plurality of modes comprising at least a high-impedance mode and a low-impedance mode in which the resistance of the switched-capacitor resistor is significantly smaller than the resistance when in the high-impedance mode.A system may include a plurality of processing paths having a first path configured to generate a first digital signal based on an analog input signal and a second path configured to generate a second digital signal based on the analog input signal, the second path having a high-pass filter for filtering the analog input signal prior to the analog input signal being processed by the remainder of the second path, and the high-pass filter having a corner frequency. Control circuitry may be configured to determine frequency-dependent weighted proportions of the first and second digital signals to be combined into an output digital signal based on a characteristic of the analog input signal. Frequency-dependent weighted proportions may be such that the digital output signal includes spectral content of the first digital signal below the corner frequency to account for spectral content of the second digital signal below the corner frequency being filtered.A system may include an input for receiving an input signal, an output for generating an output signal, a capacitor coupled between the input and the output, a variable resistor coupled to the output and having a plurality of modes including a first mode in which the variable resistor has a first resistance and a second mode in which the variable resistor has a second resistance, and control circuitry configured to determine a difference between the input signal and the output signal and switch between modes of the plurality of modes when the difference is less than a predetermined threshold.
US10009024B2
A driving device includes a driving primary circuit, an isolating transforming circuit, and at least one driving secondary circuit. The isolating transforming circuit is coupled to the driving primary circuit. The at least one driving secondary circuit is coupled to the isolating transforming circuit. The driving primary circuit receives a control signal and a power signal. The driving primary circuit generates a driving pulse signal according to the control signal and generates a power pulse signal according to the power signal. The driving primary circuit transmits the driving pulse signal and the power pulse signal to the at least one driving secondary circuit through the isolating transforming circuit. The at least one driving secondary circuit receives the driving pulse signal so as to generate a driving signal, and the at least one driving secondary circuit drives a power semiconductor switch unit according to the driving signal.
US10009010B2
A resonant circuit includes a resonator having a resonant frequency and an anti-resonant frequency, an inductor connected in series to the resonator, an inductor connected in parallel to the resonator, and a series circuit in which a variable capacitor is connected in series to an inductor (15). The series circuit is connected in parallel to the resonator. The anti-resonant frequency closest to the resonant frequency of the resonator is moved toward higher frequencies or lower frequencies of the resonant frequency on a frequency axis with a variation in the capacitance value of the variable capacitor. With this configuration, a resonator device and a high-frequency filter are provided, in which the relationship between a transmission frequency band and a reception frequency band on the frequency axis is applicable to a variety of multiple communication bands.
US10009008B2
A bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonator includes a substrate having a top side surface and a bottom side surface. A Bragg mirror is on the top side surface of the substrate. A bottom electrode layer is on the Bragg mirror, and a piezoelectric layer is on the bottom electrode layer. A top dielectric layer is on the piezoelectric layer, and a top electrode layer is on the top dielectric layer. The bottom side surface of the substrate has a surface roughness of at least 1 μm root mean square (RMS).
US10009007B2
A bulk acoustic wave resonator includes a substrate, a first electrode and a second electrode disposed on the substrate, and a piezoelectric layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. At least one of the first electrode and the second electrode includes an alloy of molybdenum and tantalum.
US10009001B2
Method of forming a termination angle in a titanium tungsten layer include providing a titanium tungsten layer and applying a photo resist material to the titanium tungsten layer. The photo resist material is exposed under a defocus condition to generate a resist mask, wherein an edge of the exposed photo resist material corresponds to the sloped termination. The titanium tungsten layer is etched with an etching material, wherein the etching material at least partially etches the photo resist material exposed under the defocused condition, and wherein the etching results in the sloped termination in the titanium tungsten layer.
US10008997B2
A filter generator (100) generates a filter on the basis of band information (frequency) and gain characteristics (gain value) set by a user. The filter generator (100) obtains weighting factor information on the basis of the band information selected by the user and calculates a gain difference between a gain value used in a preceding filtering process and the new gain value selected by the user. The filter generator (100) then obtains a correction gain by multiplying the weighting factor information by the gain difference and generates a filter by multiplying a coefficient of the filter used in the preceding filtering process by the correction gain.
US10008992B1
An amplifier may include a final output stage switchable among a plurality of modes comprising a mode which is enabled by coupling an output driver to an output of the final output stage and a preconditioning circuit coupled to the output of the final output stage. The preconditioning circuit may be configured to precondition at least one of a voltage and a current of the output of the final output stage prior to coupling the output driver to the output of the final output stage to limit audio artifacts caused by switching the final output stage to the mode or may be configured to perform a switching sequence to switch between a first mode and a second mode of the plurality of modes, such that at all points of the switching sequence, output terminals of the output of the final output stage have a known impedance.
US10008990B2
According to an embodiment, a method of operating an acoustic device includes buffering, by a buffer circuit, a first electrical signal from an acoustic transducer to produce a second electrical signal, receiving a feedback signal at a supply circuit, and comparing the feedback signal to a first threshold. The feedback signal is based on the first electrical signal. The method further includes, based on comparing the feedback signal to the first threshold, switching between a first mode and a second mode, supplying a first supply voltage to the buffer circuit during the first mode, and supplying a second supply voltage to the buffer circuit during the second mode. The first supply voltage is different from the second supply voltage.
US10008987B1
A low noise amplifier (LNA) reduces matching and switch noise. The LNA includes a main radio frequency signal path, an auxiliary radio frequency signal path and a phase shifter. The main path includes a first transistor and an inductor. The inductor is positioned between an input port of the LNA and the first transistor. The first transistor receives an input radio frequency signal via the inductor and provides a first amplified signal based on the input radio frequency signal. The auxiliary radio frequency signal path provides a second amplified signal for a noise cancellation mode based on the input radio frequency signal. The phase shifter applies a phase shift to an output signal of the LNA based on the first amplified signal and the second amplified signal.
US10008982B1
A radio frequency (RF) wave generator includes a nonlinear transmission line and a pulse generator. The nonlinear transmission line has in order an input section, a magnetic section, and an output section. The magnetic section includes a nonlinear magnetic material. The pulse generator is configured to provide an input pulse to the input section which is converted to an RF wave by the nonlinear transmission line. A waveform of the input pulse is such that the generated RF wave is parametrically amplified.
US10008958B2
The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a capacitive micro-machined transducer (100), in particular a CMUT, the method comprising depositing a first electrode layer (10) on a substrate (1), depositing a first dielectric film (20) on the first electrode layer (10), depositing a sacrificial layer (30) on the first dielectric film (20), the sacrificial layer (30) being removable for forming a cavity (35) of the transducer, depositing a second dielectric film (40) on the sacrificial layer (30), and depositing a second electrode layer (50) on the second dielectric film (40), wherein the first dielectric film (20) and/or the second dielectric film (40) comprises a first layer comprising an oxide, a second layer comprising a high-k material, and a third layer comprising an oxide, and wherein the depositing steps are performed by Atomic Layer Deposition. The present invention further relates to a capacitive micro-machined transducer (100), in particular a CMUT, manufactured by such method.
US10008946B1
A primary-side regulated (PSR) current control system under a LLC topology includes a voltage polarity converting circuit, a current signal sampling circuit, a current cross-over detecting circuit, a zero current detecting circuit, and a current integrator circuit. The voltage polarity converting circuit obtains a voltage signal from the primary side of a LLC transformer and outputs a positive-voltage signal, and the current integrator circuit then obtains a current input signal outputted by the current signal sampling circuit, a zero-crossing current point outputted by the current cross-over detecting circuit, and a zero current condition outputted by the zero current detecting circuit, and raises the minimum current level of the current input signal to the zero-crossing current point based on the zero-crossing current point and the zero current condition, and generate and integrate a current integration waveform to create an output current, so the LLC transformer directly obtains, at the primary side, the output current for controlling secondary-side output load conditions.
US10008934B2
A DC-DC power converter is described having a power converter input for receiving a supply voltage; a power converter output for outputting a converted supply voltage; a reference input for supplying a reference value; a switch capacitor power converter coupled to the power converter input and the power converter output and comprising at least one switchable capacitor controllable by at least two non-overlapping clock signals; a controller coupled to the switch capacitor power converter, and the power converter output. The controller is configured to generate at least two non-overlapping clock signals and to vary the non-overlapping time duration dependent on the voltage and/or current value of at least one of the power converter output, the reference input, and the power converter input.
US10008924B1
An integrated circuit power factor controller includes a feedback input terminal for receiving a feedback signal representative of an output voltage, a control terminal for receiving an error signal and adapted to be coupled to a compensation network, a drive terminal for providing a drive signal and adapted to be coupled to a transistor, and a pulse width modulator. The pulse width modulator is coupled to the feedback input terminal, the control terminal, and the drive terminal, and provides the drive signal having a duty cycle formed in response to the feedback signal. The pulse width modulator includes a line sensing multiplier having a first input for receiving the error signal, a second input for receiving the drive signal, and an output for providing a multiplied signal, and the pulse width modulator further provides the drive signal in response to the multiplied signal.
US10008918B2
A system is disclosed which provides the minimization of peak-to-peak output voltage ripple in multi-phase DC-DC switching converters, with two or more different value inductors (asymmetric inductors), by the optimization of phase-shifting determined by the inductance on each phase. An object of the disclosure is to ensure both the AC accuracy of the output voltage and the efficiency of the DC-DC switching converter is increased. The output voltage ripple improvement is shown to be dependent on the duty-cycle. Another object of the disclosure is to minimize the total inductor current ripple and improving the efficiency of the DC-DC switching converter by reducing the capacitor loss. Still another object of the disclosure is to minimize the output voltage ripple in the multi-phase DC-DC switching converter by ensuring the sum of the inductor current vectors is equal to zero.
US10008910B2
Certain embodiments are directed to devices, methods, and/or systems that use electrical machines. For example, certain embodiments are directed to an electrical machine comprising: at least one stator at least one module, the at least one module comprising at least one electromagnetic coil and at least one switch, the at least one module being attached to the at least one stator; at least one rotor with a plurality of magnets attached to the at least one rotor, wherein the at least one module is in spaced relation to the plurality of the magnets; and the at least one rotor being in a rotational relationship with the at least one stator, wherein the quantity and configuration of the at least one module in the electrical machine is determined based in part on one or more operating parameters; wherein the at least one module is capable of being independently controlled; and wherein the at least one module is capable of being reconfigured based at least in part on one or more of the following: at least one operating parameter during operation, at least one performance parameter during operation, or combinations thereof. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
US10008895B2
The inverter-integrated electric compressor integrally incorporates an inverter device, and comprises a UVW busbar that conducts three-phase alternating current power converted by an inverter circuit on a circuit board to a glass terminal that penetrates an inverter housing section. The UVW busbar being configured of three long thin plate-shaped conductive material busbars, one end of each being provided with a connector terminal that is connected to the glass terminal, are the three conductive material busbars being housed in and integrated with a resin case. A section of each of the conductive material busbars in at least one location in the length direction thereof is adhered and fixed to the resin case side, using adhesive.
US10008891B2
A rotor with permanent magnets comprising: a stack of laminations forming the core of the rotor having an axis, housings spaced evenly apart on the circumference of the rotor and located in the core of the rotor, some of which receive at least one element in the form of a permanent magnet held radially and axially inside the housing between an inner axial part of the housing and an outer axial part, the inner axial part of the housing comprising two concave portions and a protruding portion extending axially according to the axis, the protruding portion being radially closer to the inner axial face of the magnet than the two concave portions. Moreover, recesses are provided in the core and positioned between the housings on a trajectory successively linking the protruding portions of consecutive housings.
US10008889B2
Disclosed here are wireless power delivery systems including one or more wireless power transmitters and one or more power receivers. Disclosed here are methods of using self-test software for fault detection in wireless power receivers. The methods include the analysis of one or more system operational metrics to evaluate the status of wireless power receivers. The results of the tests may be sent to wireless power transmitters to further analysis; all test results ultimately are sent to the operator of the wireless power delivery system.
US10008888B2
Provided is a wireless power transmission system. The wireless power transmission system includes a power supply unit generating amplified power; a wireless power transmission unit receiving and converting the amplified power into wireless power; a wireless power reception unit receiving and converting the wireless power into charging power; and a charging unit receiving the charging power, wherein the charging unit includes a battery to store the charging power and the power supply unit includes a power detection unit identifies the charged state of the battery based on the amplified voltage and amplified current of the amplified power.
US10008886B2
A wireless power transmission system includes a transmitter configured to transmit power waves including printed circuit boards where a printed circuit board and antenna boards, where each antenna board comprises one or more antenna elements, at least one antenna board resides on a printed circuit board, and the at least one antenna board is connected with a power feeding line. The transmitter further includes a heat sink attached to the at least one printed circuit board, wherein placement of the heat sink with respect to the at least one antenna board comprising the one or more antenna elements and shape of the heat sink is configured such that the heat sink operates as a reflector to direct wireless power waves transmitted from the at least one antenna board in a pre-determined direction.
US10008883B2
Power feed device (100) supplies power to storage battery (152) mounted on vehicle (150), through power receiving unit (154) of vehicle (150). Power supply unit (104) performs preliminary supply to power receiving unit (154) while sequentially changing a frequency, and performs main supply with power larger than in the preliminary supply. Power supply-side controller (103) acquires frequency characteristics associated with power supply coil (104a), and specifies a resonance frequency based on the acquired frequency characteristics. Power supply-side controller (103) determines whether or not to supply power to power reception coil (154a) based on a frequency difference between resonance frequencies.
US10008874B2
Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, systems and/or methods of wireless power transfer. For example, an apparatus may include a controller to control a Wireless Power Transmitter (WPT) to transmit a sequence of probes during a detection period, to detect a Wireless Power Receiver (WPR) based on a detected induced load on the WPT during transmission of probe of the sequence of probes, and, upon detection of the WPR, to control the WPT to transmit a wireless charging signal to the WPR.
US10008869B2
The present invention relates to a supply network component for a supply network for a network medium, comprising at least one contact unit for contacting a further supply network component of the supply network, a functional group having at least one functional unit, and at least one coupling unit for coupling the at least one contact unit to the functional group, wherein the at least one contact unit has a communication interface for communicating with a further supply network component of the supply network and a transport interface for transporting the network medium to a further supply network component. The present invention furthermore relates to an energy storage block comprising a plurality of the proposed supply network components.
US10008867B2
A battery charger for electronic devices and an electronic device are disclosed. In one embodiment, a battery charger housing forms a portion of an outer device shell or a protective case cover. Capacitors are located within the battery charger housing that include opposing spaced plates having contact segments thereon. An output power increasing, electrically resistive fluid is held within and partially fills an enclosed chamber that is boundaried by the contact segments. In response to movement of the electronic device, induced relative motion between the output power increasing, electrically resistive fluid and contact segments varies the fluid-contact segment contact within the enclosed chamber, thereby inversely alternating the capacitance between the pair of capacitors and triboelectrically generating an electrical charge. An electronic circuit, which is coupled to the opposing spaced plates, is configured to transfer the electrical charge to a battery associated with the electronic device.
US10008845B2
The present disclosure provides cable glands having an entry portion, an elbow portion and an exit portion. The entry portion includes an entry component. The elbow portion is physically coupled to the entry portion and includes a locking collar, a snap ring and a union elbow. The exit portion is physically coupled to the elbow portion and includes a middle nut, a rubber seal, a seal clamp and a back nut.
US10008842B1
A brace for an electrical box including a rod, a sleeve, at least one mounting plate, an adjustment mechanism connecting the rod and the sleeve, and wherein the adjustment mechanism permits at least two rates of relative movement between the rod and the sleeve. The adjustment mechanism may be a threaded insert.
US10008838B1
A cable pulling device (1) having a capstan (6) extending from one side of a housing (11) that attaches to a boom (10) of a backhoe (5) via a quick coupling (8). The capstan is located on an external side of the housing in an offset and exposed manner that allows a rope (19) to be wrapped over and/or around the capstan. By pulling on the rope, an operator is able to control tension on the capstan, thereby allowing the capstan to provide a pulling force on the cable or one or more electrical wires being pulled through the conduit.
US10008830B2
An extender for connecting a high-voltage source to a spark plug has a spring adapted to electrically connect with the high-voltage source and the spark plug, a tube having said spring positioned within an interior passageway thereof, and a boot affixed over an exterior of the tube. The boot is formed of a material having a rigidity less than a rigidity of a material of the tube. The boot has a first end adapted to be connected with the high-voltage source and a second end adapted to be connected to the spark plug such that the spring is in direct electrical connection with the spark plug and the high-voltage source. The tube has one end that is spaced inwardly of the first end of the boot and an opposite end of the spaced inwardly of the second end of the boot.
US10008828B1
Embodiments of the present disclosure may relate to a hybrid silicon distributed feed-back (DFB) laser, wherein light is to propagate through the DFB laser along a length of the DFB laser. The DFB laser may include a mesa with a current channel that extends from the first side of the mesa to the second side of the mesa. At a first location along the length of the DFB laser, the current channel may have a first width and/or the mesa may have a second width. At a second location along the length of the DFB laser, the current channel may have a third width and/or the mesa may have a fourth width as measured in a direction perpendicular to the length of the DFB laser. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US10008825B2
The disclosure provides an optical module. In the optical module, emitters of a first PNP type triode and a second PNP type triode connected with a power source are high-level always, when a bias pin of a laser transmitter driver chip is high-level, bases of the two PNP type triodes are both high-level and in an OFF state, no current flows to the bias pin and a laser transmitter, and the laser transmitter does not emit light; when the bias pin of the laser transmitter driver chip is low-level, the bases of the two PNP type triodes are both low-level and in an ON state, the current flows to the bias pin and flows from a positive terminal of the laser transmitter, and the laser transmitter emits light.
US10008806B2
A lever-type connector includes a housing and a lever movably attached to the housing. The lever includes a side plate provided along a side surface of the housing, and an operation portion connected to the side plate. A boss is provided on the side surface of the housing. The side plate of the lever has an elongate hole into which the boss is inserted to restrict a moving range of the lever. An engagement stepped portion is provided at one end of the elongate hole. The engagement stepped portion is recessed on its outer side. The boss has an engagement projection provided at its distal end portion. The engagement projection extends along the elongate hole. The engagement stepped portion and the engagement projection engage with each other in a state in which the lever has been moved in a direction that separates the housing from a counterpart housing.
US10008803B2
A connector for a camera includes a first connector housing accommodating a first terminal, and a second connector housing accommodating a second terminal connected to the first terminal. The first connector housing includes a flange configured to be contact with a terminal-edge surface of a camera housing which is assembled, a first fitting portion fitted in the second connector housing and disposed at a shifted position shifted from one surface side of the flange, and a locked portion disposed on a surface facing in a first direction orthogonal to a fitting direction. The second connector housing includes a second fitting portion fitted to the first fitting portion, a locking arm locking to the locked portion, and a locking protective wall including a projecting protective wall projecting to a front side in the fitting direction which protects the locking arm.
US10008783B2
A surface-layer conductive plate having an opening is disposed on a first surface of a dielectric substrate. A radiation electrode is disposed inside the opening on the first surface of the dielectric substrate. A ground conductive plate is disposed on a second surface of the dielectric substrate, the second surface being opposite to the first surface. Interlayer connection members are disposed so as to surround the opening as seen in a plan view. The interlayer connection members electrically connects the surface-layer conductive plate to the ground conductive plate and defines a cavity that causes electromagnetic resonance to occur. A reactance element is configured to cause an impedance that a side face of the cavity exhibits with respect to an electromagnetic wave propagating in the cavity to include a reactance component.
US10008775B2
A first antenna element is indirectly coupled to communication signals via a coupler that is located within a same volume of a body. A second antenna element is proximate to and adjacent the first antenna element. The first antenna element is configured to operate in a first frequency range and the second antenna element is configured to operate within a subset of the first frequency range concurrent with or simultaneously to the first antenna element. The coupler can operate to couple multiple antenna elements operating at different frequencies within the same volume of the body.
US10008774B2
A method and apparatus for processing a terahertz frequency electromagnetic beam are disclosed. For example, the method receives the terahertz frequency electromagnetic beam via a metamaterial having a plurality of addressable magnetic elements, where a resonant frequency of each of the plurality of addressable magnetic elements is capable of being programmably changed via an adjustment, and activates selectively a subset of the plurality of addressable magnetic elements to manipulate the terahertz frequency electromagnetic beam.
US10008771B2
The present invention discloses a phase shift system that is used for changing phases of signals transmitted to at least two radiation elements, comprising at least two phase shifters providing signals to the radiation elements, the phase shifter having a phase shift part used for moving so as to change phases of signals passing through the phase shifter. The system further comprises a phase shift drive device that is connected to the phase shift part of each phase shifter for synchronous linkage of all the phase shift parts, such that the phase shift parts move at different velocities to form a differential continuous phase distribution among the signals of the radiation elements. Through the above mode, the present invention can form a phase shift system with a relatively high number of ports by combining a plurality of phase shifters, and all the ports can form the differential continuous phase distribution.
US10008770B2
Embodiments include methods for calibrating sensors of one or more sensor arrays. Aspects include accessing one or more beamforming matrices respectively associated to the one or more sensor arrays. Source intensity estimates are obtained for a set of points in a region of interest, based on measurement values as obtained after beamforming signals from the one or more sensor arrays based on the one or more beamforming matrices, assuming fixed amplitude and phase of gains of sensors of the one or more sensor arrays. Estimates of amplitude and phase of the sensor gains are obtained based on: measurement values as obtained before beamforming; and the previously obtained source intensity estimates. The obtained estimates of amplitude and phase can be used for calibrating sensors.
US10008768B2
An electrically capacitively shielded component housing for a mobile radio antenna has an opening region which is shielded with respect to HF radiation by a shielding cover or plate. The contact or anchoring cover segments of the shielding cover or plate are arranged against the component and/or reflector housing immediately adjacent to and in parallel with the contact or anchoring housing segments. An insulating layer is interposed, and the planar contact or anchoring housing segments and the planar contact or anchoring cover segments are oriented parallel to or at an angle to an insertion or mounting direction (E) and/or a central axis (Z) extending through the component and/or reflector housing, at an angle α where 0°≤α<90°.
US10008766B2
Provided is a touch screen and a terminal. The touch screen includes a touch layer, a conducting layer and a substrate layer which are laminated and matched in sequence, wherein an antenna radiating body, and an antenna signal line and a ground feeder line which are connected with the antenna radiating body are arranged on the conducting layer. The terminal includes the touch screen.
US10008765B2
An antenna structure includes a metallic member, a radiating portion, and a meander portion. The metallic member defines at least one slot and is divided into a first metallic portion and a second metallic portion by the at least one slot. The radiating portion is electrically connected to the first metallic portion and is configured to feed current to the first metallic portion. The meander portion is configured to activate a low-frequency mode of the antenna structure and maintain high-frequency characteristics of the antenna structure. The second metallic portion is spaced apart from the first metallic portion and is grounded. The meander portion includes a first end and a second end. The first end of the meander portion is electrically connected to the first metallic portion, and the second end of the meander portion is grounded.
US10008754B2
A metal-air battery may include a housing, at least one cathode disposed in the housing between an air space and an electrolyte space, and at least one metal anode disposed in the electrolyte space. The battery may also include an air path leading through the housing from an air inlet to an air outlet of the housing, both of which may be fluidically connected to the air space, and an air supply device for generating an air flow which may follow the air path and act upon the cathode. The battery may further include an electrolyte path leading through the housing from an electrolyte inlet to an electrolyte outlet of the housing, both of which may be fluidically connected to the electrolyte space, and an electrolyte supply device for producing an electrolyte flow which may follow the electrolyte path and act upon the anode and the cathode.
US10008748B2
An alkaline electrochemical cell having an anode including electrochemically active anode material, a cathode including electrochemically active cathode material, a separator between the anode and the cathode, and an electrolyte. The electrolyte includes a hydroxide dissolved in water. The separator in combination with the electrolyte has an initial area-specific resistance between about 100 mOhm-cm2 and about 220 mOhm-cm2.
US10008745B2
A secondary battery capable of improving high-temperature characteristics is provided. The secondary battery includes a cathode, an anode and an electrolytic solution. A separator provided between the cathode and the anode is impregnated with the electrolytic solution. A solvent of the electrolytic solution includes a main solvent such as a cyclic carbonate which includes halogen and a sub solvent such as carbonate dimer.
US10008741B2
A sulfide-based crystallized glass for an all-solid secondary battery has a sulfide that includes Li2S and P2S5, wherein the sulfide-based crystallized glass consists of 1 to 5% by mole of Li3BO3. A method for manufacturing the sulfide-based crystallized glass comprises steps of mixing (1) 75 to 80% by mole of Li2S and 20 to 25% by mole of P2S5, and then mixing (2) 95 to 99% by mole of obtained mixture at (1) and 1 to 5% by mole of Li3BO3 with a mechanical milling method, and subjecting the mixture thus obtained to a heat-treatment process.
US10008738B2
A nanoconfined metal-containing electrolyte comprising a layer of enclosed nanostructures in which each enclosed nanostructure contains a liquid metal-containing electrolyte, wherein said enclosed nanostructures are in physical contact with each other. Metal-ion batteries containing the nanoconfined electrolyte in contact with an anode and cathode of the battery are also described. Methods for producing the nanoconfined electrolyte are also described.
US10008734B2
Provided is a fabricating apparatus for a secondary battery, the fabricating apparatus including: a base material supplier configured to supply a base material; a winder configured to wind the base material through a mandrel; and a controller configured to control a base material supply amount of the base material supplier and a mandrel rotation amount of the winder, wherein the controller is further configured to store a profile of the base material supply amount with respect to the mandrel rotation amount, and to synchronously control the base material supply amount and the mandrel rotation amount based on the profile.
US10008730B2
Disclosed is an alternative fuel fueling station useful for fueling both electrical and hydrogen alternative fuel vehicles simultaneously. The alternative fuel fueling station includes a solid oxide fuel cell, an electrical conduit, and a compressed hydrogen conduit, such that the alternative fuel fueling station can fuel both the electrical and hydrogen alternative fuel vehicles simultaneously.
US10008726B2
A process for forming a metal supported solid oxide fuel cell, the process comprising the steps of: a) applying a green anode layer including nickel oxide, copper oxide and a rare earth-doped ceria to a metal substrate; b) firing the green anode layer to form a composite including oxides of nickel, copper, and a rare earth-doped ceria; c) providing an electrolyte; and d) providing a cathode. Metal supported solid oxide fuel cells comprising an anode a cathode and an electrolyte, wherein the anode includes nickel, copper and a rare earth-doped ceria, fuel cell stacks and uses of these fuel cells.
US10008725B2
A metal-oxygen cell capable of improving cycle performance is provided. The metal-oxygen cell 1 includes a positive electrode 2 that contains an oxygen storage material and uses oxygen as an active material, a negative electrode 3 that uses a metal as an active material, and an electrolyte layer 4 sandwiched between the positive electrode 2 and the negative electrode 3 and containing an electrolyte solution, effecting cell reactions of the positive electrode 2 on a surface of the oxygen storage material. The positive electrode 2 contains a conductive polymer that is capable of suppressing permeation of oxygen and conducting metal ions and covers at least a part of the surface of the oxygen storage material.
US10008713B2
Apparatus and techniques are described herein for providing a bipolar battery plate such as can be included as a portion of an energy storage device assembly, such as a battery. The bipolar battery plate can include a silicon substrate. A first metal layer can be deposited on a first surface of the rigid silicon substrate, and a different second metal layer can be deposited on a second surface of the rigid silicon substrate opposite the first surface. The first and second metal layers can be annealed to form a first silicide on the first surface and a different second silicide on the second surface of the rigid silicon substrate.
US10008703B2
In a configuration where an annular thin portion 50 is formed integrally with a lid main body 4 by coining, a bulging portion 6 is formed integrally with the lid main body 4 so as to bulge out from the lid main body 4, and the annular thin portion 50 is provided in a flat portion 61 of the bulging portion 6.
US10008701B2
A battery is provided comprising a plurality of cylindrical type cells. Three cylindrical cells may be arranged in a triangular configuration with an electrical isolation spacer positioned between the three cylindrical cells, and a casing may be wrapped around the cells to restrict relative movement of the cells forming a cell group. Multiple cells groups, separated by electrical isolation spacers, may be electrically coupled via bus bars and arranged to form a cell module, where multiple cell modules may be included in the battery, and where the cell modules may be electrically coupled via inter-module connectors.
US10008695B2
A flexible display device includes a display module and a window member disposed on the display module. The window member includes a base film, elastomer patterns disposed on one surface of the base film, and a hard coating layer disposed on the one surface of the base film to cover the elastomer patterns.
US10008692B2
A display apparatus includes: a first substrate; a second substrate disposed facing the first substrate; a display portion disposed on a surface of the first substrate facing the second substrate, the display portion including a plurality of light-emitting areas; a sealing member disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, the sealing member bonding the first substrate and the second substrate; and a first black matrix disposed between the sealing member and the first substrate.
US10008691B2
An array substrate and manufacturing method thereof, display panel and display device are disclosed. The array substrate includes a display region and a packaging region surrounding the display region. The packaging region is provided with a packaging planarization layer, the packaging planarization layer includes a plurality of packaging planarization units, and each of the packaging planarization units is formed as a ring shaped pattern in the packaging region and configured to surround the display region.
US10008680B2
An iridium complex and a nitrogen-containing tridentate ligand are provided. The iridium complex is represented by below formula: wherein R1 and R1′ are each independently substituted or unsubstituted C1-C12 alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted C6-C12 aryl, or —CmF2m+1, m is an integer of 0 to 3; R2 and R2′ are each independently hydrogen, substituted or unsubstituted C1-C12 alkyl, or substituted or unsubstituted C6-C12 aryl; p and p′ are each independently 0 or 1; R3, R3′, R4 and R4′ are each independently hydrogen, fluorine, substituted or unsubstituted C1-C12 alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted C1-C6 alkoxyl, or substituted or unsubstituted C6-C12 aryl; q and q′ are each independently an integer of 0 to 3; r and r′ are each independently an integer of 0 to 4; X1 to X7 are each independently carbon or nitrogen; A is —O—, —CH2—, or —CR2—, R is methyl, ethyl, or propyl; and a is 0 or 1.
US10008677B2
Compounds are provided that comprise a ligand having a 5-substituted 2-phenylquinoline. In particular, the 2-phenylquinoline may be substituted with a cycloalkyl containing group at the 5-position. These compounds may be used in organic light emitting devices, in particular as red emitters in the emissive layer of such devices, to provide devices having improved properties.
US10008674B2
An organic light emitting diode including a first compound represented by one of Chemical Formulae 1-A to 1-D and a second compound represented by Chemical Formula 2:
US10008673B2
The present invention relates to compounds of the formula (1) or (2) and to the use thereof in electronic devices, and to electronic devices which comprise these compounds. The invention furthermore relates to the preparation of the compounds of the formula (1) or (2) and to formulations comprising one or more compounds of the formula (1) or (2).
US10008670B2
A method of peeling a laminate according to the disclosure includes: forming a first adhesive layer on a first substrate, the first adhesive layer having adhesive force that satisfies the following Expression (1) and one or both of the following Expressions (2) and (3); firmly attaching a second substrate onto the first adhesive layer; forming a first functional layer on the second substrate; and peeling off the first substrate from the second substrate. A < x 2 L 2 + 4 x 2 · ( σ max - 6 E · h L 2 · x ) ( 1 ) B ′ < C - ρ hg ( 2 ) 1 = r r - d · d ( 2 r - d ) ( 3 )
US10008669B2
The fabrication and characterization of large scale inverted organic solar array fabricated using all-spray process is disclosed, consisting of four layers; ITO-Cs2CO3-(P3HT:PCBM)-modified PEDPT:PSS, on a substrate. With PEDPT:PSS as the anode, the encapsulated solar array shows more than 30% transmission in the visible to near IR range. Optimization by thermal annealing was performed based on single-cell or multiple-cell arrays. Solar illumination has been demonstrated to improve solar array efficiency up to 250% with device efficiency of 1.80% under AM1.5 irradiance. The performance enhancement under illumination occurs only with sprayed devices, indicating device enhancement under sunlight, which is beneficial for solar energy applications. The semi-transparent property of the solar module allows for applications on windows and windshields, indoor applications, and soft fabric substances such as tents, military back-packs or combat uniforms, providing a highly portable renewable power supply for deployed military forces.
US10008667B2
Phase change memory cells, structures, and devices having a phase change material and an electrode forming an ohmic contact therewith which includes carbon and tungsten doped with nitrogen are disclosed and described. Such electrodes have a low contact resistance with the phase change material and a high thermal stability from room temperature to temperatures needed for programming operations.
US10008664B2
Some embodiments include methods of forming memory cells. Such methods can include forming a first electrode, a second electrode, and a memory element directly contacting the first and second electrodes. Forming the memory element can include forming a programmable portion of the memory element isolated from the first electrode by a first portion of the memory element and isolated from the second electrode by a second portion of the memory element. Other embodiments are described.
US10008649B2
A light emitting diode chip includes a semiconductor layer sequence having an active layer that generates electromagnetic radiation, wherein the light emitting diode chip has a radiation exit area at a front side and a mirror layer at least in regions at a rear side situated opposite the radiation exit area, a protective layer is arranged on the mirror layer, the protective layer includes a transparent conductive oxide, the mirror layer adjoins the semiconductor layer sequence at an interface situated opposite the protective layer, first and second layers, the first and second electrical connection layers face the rear side of the semiconductor layer sequence and are electrically insulated from one another, and a partial region of the second electrical connection layer extends from the rear side of the semiconductor layer sequence through at least one perforation of the active layer in a direction toward the front side.
US10008645B2
There is herein described a low power consumption high brightness display. More particularly, there is described an integrated LED micro-display and a method of manufacturing the integrated LED micro-display.
US10008636B2
A light-emitting device is provided. comprises: a light-emitting stack comprising an active layer emitting a first light having a first peak wavelength λ nm; and an adjusting element stacked on and electrically connected to the active layer, wherein the adjusting element comprises a diode emitting a second light having a second peak wavelength between 800 nm and 1900 nm; wherein a forward voltage of the light-emitting device is between (1240/0.8λ) volt and (1240/0.5λ) volt, and a ratio of the intensity of the first light emitted from the active layer at the first peak wavelength to the intensity of the second light emitted from the diode at the second peak wavelength is greater than 10 and not greater than 1000.
US10008624B2
A photovoltaic device and method include a crystalline substrate and an emitter contact portion formed in contact with the substrate. A back-surface-field junction includes a homogeneous junction layer formed in contact with the crystalline substrate and having a same conductivity type and a higher active doping density than that of the substrate. The homogeneous junction layer includes a thickness less than a diffusion length of minority carriers in the homogeneous junction layer. A passivation layer is formed in contact with the homogeneous junction layer opposite the substrate, which is either undoped or has the same conductivity type as that of the substrate.
US10008621B2
Embodiments related to controlling of photo-generated charge carriers are described and depicted. At least one embodiment provides a semiconductor substrate comprising a photo-conversion region to convert light into photo-generated charge carriers; a region to accumulate the photo-generated charge carriers; a control electrode structure including a plurality of control electrodes to generate a potential distribution such that the photo-generated carriers are guided towards the region to accumulate the photo-generated charge carriers based on signals applied to the control electrode structure; a non-uniform doping profile in the semiconductor substrate to generate an electric field with vertical field vector components in at least a part of the photo-conversion region.
US10008620B1
The method of making a gallium antimonide near infrared photodetector is a physical vapor deposition-based method of forming a thin film of gallium antimonide (GaSb) on a mica substrate for use as a photodetector for light in the near infrared range. Following physical vapor deposition (PVD) of the thin film of GaSb on the mica substrate, a pair of spaced apart electrodes is attached to the thin film of GaSb, thus forming the gallium antimonide near infrared photodetector.
US10008618B2
A method for forming a back contact on an absorber layer in a photovoltaic device includes forming a two dimensional material on a first substrate. An absorber layer including Cu—Zn—Sn—S(Se) (CZTSSe) is grown over the first substrate on the two dimensional material. A buffer layer is grown on the absorber layer on a side opposite the two dimensional material. The absorber layer is exfoliated from the two dimensional material to remove the first substrate from a backside of the absorber layer opposite the buffer layer. A back contact is deposited on the absorber layer.
US10008617B2
A co-extruded multi-layer biaxially oriented polyester film comprising a primary polyester layer and a dissimilar secondary polyester layer adjacent to the primary polyester layer, wherein the primary polyester layer and the secondary polyester layer each comprise a glycidyl ester of a branched monocarboxylic acid, wherein the monocarboxylic acid has from 5 to 50 carbon atoms, and wherein said glycidyl ester is in the form of its reaction product with at least some of the end groups of the polyester; and use thereof as a component of a photovoltaic cell.
US10008614B1
A dual channel transistor includes a first gate electrode, a second gate electrode, a first gate insulation layer, a second gate insulation layer, a silicon semiconductor channel layer, and an oxide semiconductor channel layer. The first gate insulation layer is disposed on the first gate electrode. The silicon semiconductor channel layer is disposed on the first gate insulation layer. The oxide semiconductor channel layer is disposed on the silicon semiconductor channel layer. The second gate insulation layer is disposed on the oxide semiconductor channel layer. The second gate electrode is disposed on the second gate insulation layer.
US10008612B2
The disclosure provides a method of manufacturing a thin film transistor on a base substrate by patterning an active layer comprising a metal oxynitride, and treating the active layer with a plasma comprising oxygen.
US10008595B2
A method for producing a semiconductor device includes a first step of forming a fin-shaped semiconductor layer on a semiconductor substrate and forming a first insulating film around the fin-shaped semiconductor layer; a second step of forming a pillar-shaped semiconductor layer and a first dummy gate formed of a first polysilicon; a third step of forming a second dummy gate on side walls of the first dummy gate and the pillar-shaped semiconductor layer; a fourth step of forming a side wall formed of a fifth insulating film around the second dummy gate, forming a second diffusion layer in an upper portion of the fin-shaped semiconductor layer and a lower portion of the pillar-shaped semiconductor layer, and forming a metal-semiconductor compound on the second diffusion layer; a fifth step of forming a gate electrode and a gate line; and a sixth step of depositing a sixth insulating film, forming a third resist for forming a contact hole on the pillar-shaped semiconductor layer, etching the sixth insulating film to form a contact hole on the pillar-shaped semiconductor layer, removing the third resist, depositing a second gate insulating film, depositing a second metal, etching back the second metal, removing the second gate insulating film on the pillar-shaped semiconductor layer so as to form a metal side wall on a side wall of an upper portion of the pillar-shaped semiconductor layer, and depositing a third metal so as to form a contact that connects an upper portion of the metal side wall to an upper portion of the pillar-shaped semiconductor layer.
US10008593B2
A semiconductor device includes a well region of a first conductivity type, having a first depth, formed in a substrate. A source contact region of a second conductivity type is formed in the well region. A drift region of the second conductivity type, having a second depth greater than 50% of the first depth, is formed in the substrate adjacent to the well region. A drain contact region of the second conductivity type is formed in the drift region. A gate electrode is formed on the substrate between the source contact region and the drain contact region. The drain contact region is spaced apart from the gate electrode and the source contact region is adjacent to the gate electrode. Furthermore, a method of fabricating a semiconductor device is also provided. The method includes performing a multi-step implantation process to form a drift region.
US10008590B2
A semiconductor device is provide that includes: a semiconductor body having a first surface, an inner region, and an edge region; a pn junction between a first semiconductor region of a first conductivity type and a second semiconductor region of a second conductivity type, the pn-junction extending in a lateral direction of the semiconductor body in the inner region; a recess extending from the first surface in the edge region into the semiconductor body, the recess comprising at least one sidewall; a dielectric filling the recess. In the dielectric, a dielectric number, in the lateral direction, decreases as a distance from the first sidewall increases.
US10008588B2
The amount of water and hydrogen contained in an oxide semiconductor film is reduced, and oxygen is supplied sufficiently from a base film to the oxide semiconductor film in order to reduce oxygen deficiencies. A stacked base film is formed, a first heat treatment is performed, an oxide semiconductor film is formed over and in contact with the stacked base film, and a second heat treatment is performed. In the stacked base film, a first base film and a second base film are stacked in this order. The first base film is an insulating oxide film from which oxygen is released by heating. The second base film is an insulating metal oxide film. An oxygen diffusion coefficient of the second base film is smaller than that of the first base film.
US10008586B2
A patterned stack of a first silicon-germanium alloy nanowire, a second silicon-germanium alloy nanowire, and a silicon-containing nanowire is formed on a substrate. After formation of a first dielectric isolation layer around the patterned stack, a disposable gate structure can be formed. End portions of the second silicon-germanium alloy nanowire are removed to form first cavities underlying end portions of the silicon-containing nanowire. Dielectric nanowires are formed in cavities concurrently with formation of a gate spacer. After recessing the first dielectric isolation layer, a second cavity is formed by removing the first silicon-germanium alloy nanowire. The second cavity is filled with a second dielectric isolation layer, and raised active regions can be formed by a selective epitaxy process. After formation of a planarization dielectric layer, the disposable gate structure and the remaining portion of the second silicon-germanium alloy nanowire with a replacement gate structure.
US10008584B2
The upper end of a gate electrode is situated below the surface of a semiconductor substrate. An insulating layer is formed over the gate electrode and over the semiconductor substrate situated at the periphery thereof. The insulating layer has a first insulating film and a low oxygen permeable insulating film. The first insulating film is, for example, an NSG film and the low oxygen permeable insulating film is, for example, an SiN film. Further, a second insulating film is formed over the low oxygen permeable insulating film. The second insulating film is, for example, a BPSG film. The TDDB resistance of a vertical MOS transistor is improved by processing with an oxidative atmosphere after forming the insulating layer. Further since the insulating layer has the low oxygen permeable insulating film, fluctuation of the threshold voltage of the vertical MOS transistor can be suppressed.
US10008582B2
Structures for spacers of a field-effect transistor and methods for forming such spacers. A mask layer has a feature separated from a vertical sidewall of a first gate structure by a space of predetermined width that exposes a top surface of a semiconductor body. A spacer is formed adjacent to the vertical sidewall of the first gate structure. The spacer has a first section in the space and a second section. The first section of the spacer is located vertically between the second section of the spacer and the top surface of the semiconductor body. The first section of the spacer extends through the space to the top surface of the semiconductor body, and the first section of the spacer fully fills the space.
US10008573B1
A high-voltage metal-oxide-semiconductor transistor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a gate structure, a first drift region, a first isolation structure, a drain region, and a first sub-gate structure. The gate structure and the first sub-gate structure are disposed on the semiconductor substrate and separated from each other. The first drift region is disposed in the semiconductor substrate and disposed at one side of the gate structure. The first isolation structure and the drain region are disposed in the first drift region and separated from each other. A part of the first drift region is disposed between the drain region and the first isolation structure. The first sub-gate structure is at least partially disposed on the first drift region disposed between the drain region and the first isolation structure, and the first sub-gate structure is electrically connected to the drain region.
US10008568B2
Structures and formation methods of a semiconductor device structure are provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a gate stack over a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor device structure also includes a source/drain structure over the semiconductor substrate, and the source/drain structure includes a dopant. The semiconductor device structure further includes a channel region under the gate stack. In addition, the semiconductor device structure includes a semiconductor layer surrounding the source/drain structure. The semiconductor layer is configured to prevent the dopant from entering the channel region.
US10008555B2
Disclosed are an organic light emitting display device and a method of manufacturing the same, which reduce a loss of light emitted from an organic light emitting device, increase a lifetime of the organic light emitting device, and decrease consumption power of the organic light emitting display device. The organic light emitting display device includes a first electrode disposed on a first substrate, a bank disposed on the first electrode for dividing a plurality of emission parts, an organic light emitting layer disposed on the first electrode and the bank, a second electrode disposed on the organic light emitting layer, and an encapsulation layer disposed on the second electrode. The encapsulation layer fills a space between adjacent banks, and a refractive index of the bank is lower than a refractive index of the organic light emitting layer and a refractive index of the encapsulation layer.
US10008549B2
There is provided an organic light emitting device having a lower substrate, a first electrode formed on lower substrate, an organic emission layer for emitting white light formed on the first electrode, a second electrode formed on a first part of the organic emission layer; and a third electrode formed on a second part of the organic emission layer, wherein the third electrode has a different light transmittance rate than the second electrode, and wherein the first part of the organic emission layer corresponds to at least one of a red subpixel region, a green subpixel region and a blue subpixel region, and wherein the second part of the organic emission layer corresponds to a white subpixel region.
US10008547B2
A display device which can perform external correction in parallel with display operation is provided. The display device includes pixels arranged in a matrix and a reading circuit provided outside the pixels. The pixels each include a light-emitting element and a transistor that supplies a current to the light-emitting element. In this display device, in the case where all of a plurality of specific pixels are displayed in black, variation in current characteristics of a driving transistor is corrected by reading out data on current characteristics of the driving transistor included in a predetermined pixel among the plurality of pixels in an address period.
US10008534B2
In a microelectronic package, a first wire bond wire is coupled to an upper surface of a substrate. A first bond mass is coupled to another end of the first wire bond wire. A second wire bond wire is coupled to the upper surface. A second bond mass is coupled to another end of the second wire bond wire. The first and second wire bond wires laterally jut out horizontally away from the upper surface of the substrate for at least a distance of approximately 2 to 3 times a diameter of both the first wire bond wire and the second wire bond wire. The first wire bond wire and the second wire bond wire are horizontal for the distance with respect to being co-planar with the upper surface within +/−10 degrees.
US10008524B2
A solid-state image pickup unit includes: a substrate made of a first semiconductor; a substrate made of a first semiconductor; a photoelectric conversion device provided on the substrate and including a first electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer, and a second electrode in order from the substrate; and a plurality of field-effect transistors configured to perform signal reading from the photoelectric conversion device. The plurality of transistors include a transfer transistor and an amplification transistor, the transfer transistor includes an active layer containing a second semiconductor with a larger band gap than that of the first semiconductor, and one terminal of a source and a drain of the transfer transistor also serves the first electrode or the second electrode of the photoelectric conversion device, and the other terminal of the transfer transistor is connected to a gate of the amplification transistor.
US10008504B1
Some embodiments include a memory array having rows of fins. Each fin has at least one channel region. Each channel region extends from a first source/drain region to a second source/drain region. The channel regions within each row of fins include first channel regions and second channel regions. Wordline configurations extend along the rows of fins. Each wordline configuration has a first wordline component operated in tandem with a second wordline component. The first wordline components electrically couple with only the first channel regions and the second wordline components electrically couple with only the second channel regions.
US10008503B1
Some embodiments include a memory device. The device has a fin with a first source/drain region, a second source/drain region and a channel region. The first source/drain region extends to a first height. The second source/drain region extends to a second height less than the first height. The channel region extends along a trough between the first and second source/drain regions. A charge-storage device is over the first source/drain region. A first sense/access line is along a sidewall of the fin and is spaced from the channel region by dielectric material. A second sense/access line is over the second source/drain region. An uppermost surface of the second sense/access line is beneath an uppermost surface of the first source/drain region. Some embodiments include memory arrays, and some embodiments include methods of forming memory arrays.
US10008494B2
A semiconductor component, which includes a substrate, an interfacial layer disposed on the substrate, a first metal gate structure and a second metal gate structure disposed on the substrate. The first metal gate structure includes a first high-k dielectric layer disposed on the interfacial layer, and a first metal gate layer disposed on the first high-k dielectric layer. The second metal gate structure includes a second high-k dielectric layer disposed on the interfacial layer, a third high-k dielectric layer disposed on the second high-k dielectric layer, and a second metal gate layer disposed on the third high-k dielectric layer.
US10008491B1
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to low capacitance electrostatic discharge (ESD) devices and methods of manufacture. The structure includes: a first structure comprising a pattern of a first diffusion region, a second diffusion region and a third diffusion region partly extending over a first well; and a second structure comprising a fourth diffusion region in a second well electrically connecting to the first structure to form a silicon controlled rectifier (SCR) on a bulk region of a substrate.
US10008482B2
Light emitting assemblies comprise a plurality of Light Emitting Diode (LED) dies arranged and attached to common substrate to form an LED array having a desired optimum packing density. The LED dies are wired to one another and are attached to landing pads on the substrate for receiving power from an external electrical source via an interconnect device. The assembly comprises a lens structure, wherein each LED die comprises an optical lens disposed thereover that is configured to promote optimal light transmission. Each optical lens has a diameter that is between about 1.5 to 3 times the size of a respective LED die, and is shaped in the form of a hemisphere. Fillet segments are integral with and interposed between the adjacent optical lenses, and provide sufficient space between adjacent optical lenses so that the diameters of adjacent optical lenses do not intersect with one another.
US10008479B2
A semiconductor device and a method of manufacture are provided. In particular, a semiconductor device using blocks, e.g., discrete connection blocks, having through vias and/or integrated passive devices formed therein are provided. Embodiments such as those disclosed herein may be utilized in PoP applications. In an embodiment, the semiconductor device includes a die and a connection block encased in a molding compound. Interconnection layers may be formed on surfaces of the die, the connection block and the molding compound. One or more dies and/or packages may be attached to the interconnection layers.
US10008478B2
The present disclosure discloses a fabrication method for wafer-level packaging, comprising: forming a first photoresist on a first chip and a plurality of first openings at the first photoresist to expose a functional surface of the first chip, forming an under-bump metal layer on the functional surface exposed through the plurality of first openings, and removing the first photoresist; connecting a functional solder bump of a second chip to the under-bump metal layer on the first chip; forming a filling layer between the first chip, and the second chip; and forming a connecting member on the first chip, wherein a solder ball is disposed at a top surface of the connecting member, and an apex of the solder ball is higher than a top surface of the second chip.
US10008476B2
A semiconductor package comprising: a base substrate; a first semiconductor chip unit attached to the base substrate and including at least one first semiconductor chip; a second semiconductor chip unit stacked on the first semiconductor chip unit and including at least one second semiconductor chip; at least one third semiconductor chip disposed between the first semiconductor chip unit and the second semiconductor chip unit and having an area smaller than that of the at least one first semiconductor chip and that of the at least one second semiconductor chip; and an insulating material layer disposed between the first semiconductor chip unit and the second semiconductor chip unit to surround at least a portion of the at least one third semiconductor chip and having a thickness larger than that of the third semiconductor chip.
US10008473B2
The present disclosure relates to a ring-frame power package. In this regard, the ring-frame power package includes a thermal carrier and a ring structure. The thermal carrier has a carrier surface. The ring structure includes a ring body that is disposed over the carrier surface of the thermal carrier so that a portion of the carrier surface is exposed through an interior opening of the ring body. The ring-frame power package also includes a power package lid that is disposed over the ring body. The power package lid includes a cavity in communication with the interior opening of the ring body. In this manner, the power package lid covers and protects semiconductor devices and corresponding wires encased by the ring-frame power package.
US10008471B2
A bonded product is obtained by applying a silver paste containing silver nanoparticles having an average primary particle diameter of 1 to 200 nm, and performing firing. A diameter of a crystallite of the bonded product on a (111) plane of Ag when heated at 250° C. for 10 minutes in an inert atmosphere is 65 nm or larger.
US10008468B2
Packaged microelectronic devices and methods for manufacturing packaged microelectronic devices are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a packaged microelectronic device can include a support member, a first die attached to the support member, and a second die attached to the first die in a stacked configuration. The device can also include an attachment feature between the first and second dies. The attachment feature can be composed of a dielectric adhesive material. The attachment feature includes (a) a single, unitary structure covering at least approximately all of the back side of the second die, and (b) a plurality of interconnect structures electrically coupled to internal active features of both the first die and the second die.
US10008458B2
The present technology relates to a semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the semiconductor device capable of realizing impedance control of the semiconductor device.An input/output wiring line 23 and a ground wiring line 22 are such that through glass vias are provided so as to form a strip line structure by blasting or electric discharge machining and thereafter metal films are formed on a surface and a rear surface. It is possible to configure the semiconductor device with the impedance control by adjusting a conductor diameter of the input/output wiring line 23 and an insulating layer thickness between the input/output wiring line 23 and the ground wiring line 22. The present technology may be applied to the semiconductor device.
US10008455B2
Radio-frequency (RF) devices are fabricated by providing a field-effect transistor (FET) formed over a an oxide layer formed on a substrate layer and removing at least a portion of the substrate layer to form an opening exposing at least a portion of a backside of the oxide layer, the opening being positioned to enhance RF performance for one or more components of the RF device.
US10008454B1
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor die having a top side and a bottom, active side. During assembly of the semiconductor device, a metal film is sputtered over the top and side surfaces of the die, and then a mold compound is formed over the metal film. The metal film can provide both heat dissipation and EMI shielding. The device may be assembled using a wafer level assembly process.
US10008443B2
The invention provides chip packaging and processes for the assembly of retinal prosthesis devices. Advantageously, photo-patternable adhesive or epoxy such as photoresist is used as glue to attach a chip to the targeted thin-film (e.g., parylene) substrate so that the chip is used as an attachment to prevent delamination.
US10008437B2
An electronic component device, includes: a lead frame including a terminal portion, the terminal portion including a columnar electrode and a metal plating layer, wherein the metal plating layer is formed on a lower surface of the electrode and a portion of a side surface of the electrode; an electronic component mounted on the lead frame to be electrically connected to the terminal portion; and a sealing resin that seals the lead frame and the electronic component, wherein another portion of the side surface of the electrode is embedded in the sealing resin and the metal plating layer is exposed from the sealing resin.
US10008436B2
A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate; a wiring layer provided on a front-surface side of the semiconductor substrate; a through-via that penetrates through the semiconductor substrate from a back-surface side of the semiconductor substrate and is coupled to a wire included in the wiring layer; and a stress relaxation part that protrudes toward a through-via side and is disposed on a section in the wire and coupled to the through-via, the stress relaxation part including at least one insulating portion containing an insulating material having a smaller thermal expansion coefficient than a material of the through-via.
US10008435B2
A semiconductor device including a semiconductor chip and a heat dissipation unit (heat sink) is configured as follows. The heat dissipation unit (heat sink) includes a resin tape, and a fin constituted of a graphite sheet and protruding from the resin tape. The fin, including graphene, is disposed on the semiconductor chip such that the graphene is disposed in a direction crossing a surface of the semiconductor chip. The heat dissipation unit is a rolled body in which the graphite sheet and the resin tape are layered and rolled. Thus, by use of the graphene as a constituent material of the fin, thermal conductivity is improved, whereby a heat dissipation characteristic is improved. Furthermore, since the fin is protruded from the resin tape, an exposed area of the fin is increased, and accordingly, the heat dissipation characteristic can be improved.
US10008425B2
Integrated circuits and methods of manufacturing such circuits are disclosed herein that feature metal line-via matrix insertion after place and route processes are performed and/or completed for the integrated circuit's layout. The metal line-via matrix consists of one or more additional metal lines and one or more additional vias that are inserted into the integrated circuit's layout at a specific point to lower the current and current density through a first conductive path that has been determined to suffer from electromigration, IR-voltage drop, and/or jitter. Specifically, the metal line-via matrix provides one or more auxiliary conductive paths to divert and carry a portion of the current that would otherwise flow through the first conductive path. This mitigates electromigration issues and IR-voltage drop along the first conductive path. It may also help alleviate problems due to jitter along the path.
US10008424B2
A method for measuring and/or acquiring layer thicknesses and voids of one or more layers of a temporary bonded wafer stack on a plurality of measuring points is provided. A sequence of the method includes an arrangement of a measurement means for measuring and/or acquiring the layer thicknesses and voids of the layers of the wafer stack at the measuring points relative to a flat side of the wafer stack. The sequence further includes an emission of signals in the form of electromagnetic waves by a transmitter of the measurement means, and a receiving the signals which have been reflected by the wafer stack by a receiver of the measurement means. The sequence also includes an evaluation of the signals which have been received by the receiver by an evaluation unit.
US10008417B1
A method of forming multiple vertical transport fin field effect transistors (VT FinFETs) having different channel lengths, including, forming a vertical fin on a first region of a substrate and a vertical fin on a second region of the substrate, forming a cover block on the vertical fin on the second region of the substrate, forming a first bottom source/drain on the first region of the substrate, wherein the first bottom source/drain covers a lower portion of the vertical fin on the first region, removing the cover block, and forming a second bottom source/drain in the second region of the substrate, wherein the second bottom source/drain is below the surface of the substrate, wherein the second bottom source/drain does not cover a lower portion of the vertical fin on the second region.
US10008414B2
A FinFET includes a semiconductor layer having a fin structure that protrudes out of the semiconductor layer. The fin structure includes a first segment and a second segment disposed over the first segment. A dielectric layer is disposed over the semiconductor layer. The first segment of the fin structure is surrounded by the dielectric layer. A metal layer is disposed over the dielectric layer. The second segment of the fin structure is surrounded by the metal layer. The dielectric layer has a greater nitrogen content than the metal layer. The first segment of the fin structure also has a first side surface that is rougher than a second side surface of the second segment of the fin structure.
US10008413B2
Disclosed herein is a method for dicing a wafer, the method comprising forming a molding compound layer over each of one or more dies disposed on a wafer, the one or more dies separated by scribe lines, the molding compound layer having gaps over the respective scribe lines. The wafer is separated into individual dies along the gaps of the molding compound in the scribe lines. Separating the wafer into individual dies comprises cutting at least a portion of the substrate with a laser. Forming the molding compound layer comprises applying a stencil over the one or more dies and using the stencil to form the molding compound layer.
US10008409B2
A method for fabricating semiconductor device includes the steps of: forming a dielectric layer on a substrate; forming a stop layer between the dielectric layer and the substrate, wherein the stop layer contacts the substrate directly and the dielectric layer covers the top surface of the stop layer; forming an opening in the dielectric layer, wherein the dielectric layer comprises a damaged layer adjacent to the opening; forming a dielectric protective layer in the opening; forming a metal layer in the opening; removing the damaged layer and the dielectric protective layer to form a void, wherein the void exposes a top surface of the substrate; and forming a cap layer on and covering the dielectric layer, the void, and the metal layer.
US10008403B2
An apparatus and method are described that use a cylindrical drum type vacuum drum and allows accurately registered, high resolution laser patterning of thin films on discrete lengths or flexible substrate material that are unwound from an unwind reel and after processing are rewound onto a rewind reel. Length compensator units are provided either side of the drum to accommodate variations in the length of the substrate due to differential rotation of the drum and the unwind and rewind reels.
US10008402B1
A vertical wafer boat includes a top plate, a bottom plate, three support posts, and wafer support parts. The support posts include a first and a second support posts arranged in right and left sides of a starting end side of a wafer inserting direction, and a third support post arranged in a center of a terminal end side of the wafer inserting direction. The wafer support parts include a first, second and third wafer support parts protruding in the horizontal direction from side surfaces of the first, second and third support posts, respectively. A total of horizontal sectional areas of the first wafer support part and the first support post, or the second wafer support part and the second support post, and a total of horizontal sectional areas of the third wafer support part and the third support post have a specific relationship.
US10008388B2
The present disclosure generally relates to methods of removing oxides and oxide-containing layers from the surfaces of substrates. In one aspect, a method of processing a substrate comprises positioning a substrate in a process chamber, the substrate having an oxide layer thereon; introducing one or more process gases to an interior of the process chamber; ionizing the one or more process gases; exposing the oxide layer to the one or more ionized process gases, wherein the process chamber is maintained at a pressure less than about 50 mTorr during the exposing, and the substrate is maintained at a temperature within a range of about zero degrees Celsius to about 30 degrees Celsius during the exposing; and removing the oxide layer from the surface of the substrate.
US10008385B1
Methods of forming a sacrificial gate cap and a self-aligned contact for a device structure. A gate electrode is arranged between a first sidewall spacer and a second sidewall spacer. A top surface of the gate electrode is recessed to open a space above the top surface of the recessed gate electrode that partially exposes the first and second sidewall spacers. Respective sections of the first and second sidewall spacers, which are arranged above the top surface of the recessed gate electrode, are removed in order to increase a width of the space. A sacrificial cap is formed in the widened space.
US10008382B2
The present disclosure involves forming a porous low-k dielectric structure. A plurality of conductive elements is formed over the substrate. The conductive elements are separated from one another by a plurality of openings. A barrier layer is formed over the conductive elements. The barrier layer is formed to cover sidewalls of the openings. A treatment process is performed to the barrier layer. The barrier layer becomes hydrophilic after the treatment process is performed. A dielectric material is formed over the barrier layer after the treatment process has been performed. The dielectric material fills the openings and contains a plurality of porogens.
US10008378B2
A sealed high intensity illumination device configured to receive a laser beam from a laser light source and method for making the same are disclosed. The device includes a sealed cylindrical chamber configured to contain an ionizable medium. The chamber has a cylindrical wall, with an ingress and an egress window disposed opposite the ingress window. A tube insert is disposed within the chamber formed of an insulating material. The insert is configured to receive the laser beam within the insert inner diameter.
US10008377B2
A mass spectrometer system can include an ion source, a vacuum chamber; a mass analyzer within the vacuum chamber, a transfer tube between the ion source and the vacuum chamber, a transfer tube heater, and a vacuum pump. The mass spectrometer system can be configured to reduce the pump speed of the vacuum pump in response to receiving a transfer tube swap instruction; lower the temperature of the transfer tube to below a first threshold; operating the vacuum pump at the reduced pump speed while the transfer tube is replaced with a second transfer tube; heating the second transfer tube to a temperature above a pump down temperature; and increasing the pump speed of the vacuum pump after the temperature of the second transfer tube exceeds a second threshold.
US10008351B2
A control system for a wireless power switch without a NEUTRAL wire comprises a wireless controlled power switch with both terminals connected between a LINE wire and a switch wire of a switch box without the NEUTRAL wire; a power acquiring device having two power input terminals respectively connected to the LINE wire and the switch wire of the switch box; and a wireless automation control device receiving an output voltage of the power acquiring device as the required power, the wireless automation control device controlling open or close of the wireless controlled power switch according to wireless control signal wirelessly. Specifically, a load device is connected between the switch wire and the NEUTRAL wire, and impedance between the two power input terminals of the power acquiring device is substantially larger than impedance of the load device.
US10008347B1
Electrical switches with pivotable toggle portions having replaceable fuses mounted in the toggle portions, and a removable cover/boot protecting the fuse. The electrical switches can have an activation component that closes and opens contact points or a single contact point within switch housing. The activation component can include a front end and a rear end. The rear end can be within the switch housing and the front end can protrude from the switch housing. The front end of the activation component can include a fuse slot. A fuse may be placed in the fuse slot and removed from the fuse slot. A rubber cover or boot, and the like can be removably attachable to the outside of the fuse slot to protect a fuse within the fuse slot. Flush mount and surface mount panels can be used with the electrical switches having replaceable fuses.
US10008337B2
There are disclosed activated carbon for use in an electric double-layer capacitor electrode, the carbon being capable of improving rate characteristics and float characteristics of the electric double-layer capacitor electrode, and a method for manufacturing the activated carbon. The method for manufacturing the activated carbon for use in the electric double-layer capacitor electrode, comprising the steps of: grinding a carbon raw material to adjust an average particle diameter of the carbon raw material into a range of 1 μm to 15 μm; mixing the carbon raw material whose average particle diameter has been adjusted, with an alkali activator to obtain a mixture; and an activation treatment comprising heating the mixture under an atmosphere of an inert gas and then under an atmosphere of a mixed gas of the inert gas and water vapor.
US10008336B2
A dye-sensitized solar cell (DSC) element includes at least one DSC. The DSC includes a first base material having a transparent substrate, a second base material facing the first base material, an oxide semiconductor layer provided between the first and second base materials, and a sealing portion connecting the first and second base materials. One transparent substrate is provided for the at least one DSC, and a coating layer covering a light receiving surface, which is opposite to the second base material, of the transparent substrate and transmitting light is provided on the first base material. The coating layer includes an annular peripheral portion, and a center portion provided at the inner side of the peripheral portion. An average thickness of the peripheral portion is smaller than a maximum thickness of the center portion, and the coating layer has a refractive index higher than that of the transparent substrate.
US10008334B2
An electrochemical capacitor includes a first electrode connected to a positive terminal of a power source during the charge of the electrochemical capacitor and a second electrode connected to a negative terminal of a power source during the charge of the electrochemical capacitor. The first and the second electrodes each have a carbon material. The electrochemical capacitor further includes a porous separator to separate the first and second electrodes and to be impregnated with an almost neutral aqueous electrolyte situated between the two electrodes. The neutral aqueous electrolyte has a salt formed by a metallic cation and an anion.
US10008332B2
In an embodiment, a capacitor body 11 of a multilayer ceramic capacitor 10 has, at a position adjoining a lower height-direction surface f6, a tapered part 11a whose width gradually decreases toward the lower height-direction surface f6 over the entire length of the part. Also, the first external electrode 12 and second external electrode 13 have, at their two ends in the width direction, engagement parts 12a, 13a that wrap around onto the width-direction outer surfaces f3a, f4a of the tapered part 11a, respectively. The multilayer ceramic capacitor, after it has been mounted on a circuit board, can mitigate the phenomenon of the first external electrode and second external electrode separating from the capacitor body without reducing the benefit of capacitance increase.
US10008313B2
In a cryostat, in particular for use in a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system, and a method for reducing heat input into such a cryostat, an insert is provided that is adapted to be inserted into an opening of the cryostat. The insert is adapted to provide one or more passageways for a cryogen through the opening by defining at least one space between the outer surface of the insert and at least one part of the inner surface of the opening. This space allows the cryogen to pass over the part of the inner surface of the opening.
US10008311B2
This invention relates to a magnetic composite powder, a method of preparing the same and an electromagnetic noise suppressing film comprising the same. The magnetic composite powder and the electromagnetic noise suppressing film can effectively suppress unwanted electromagnetic waves emitted by various parts of an advanced digital device having high performance characteristics in terms of speed, frequency and functionality.
US10008309B2
A hybrid cable is provided that transmits both electrical power and optical signals. The hybrid cable has a transverse cross-sectional shape with multiple lobes and a generally circular outer boundary. At least some of the lobes surround and insulate the electrical conductors. The lobes surrounding the electrical conductors can be torn away from the remainder of the cable while continuing to insulate the electrical conductors.
US10008306B1
A cable includes a transmission cord having two connecting terminals formed on two opposite ends thereof, two connectors respectively mounted on the two connecting terminals of the transmission cord, two end caps mounted on the transmission cord and respectively connected with the two connectors, and at least one demagnetizing layer mounted on the two connectors and received in the two end caps. The transmission cord includes a conducting wire, an insulating layer wrapped around the conducting wire to insulate the conducting wire, and a protective layer wrapped around an outer face of the transmission cord. The at least one demagnetizing layer is made of graphene to prevent the electromagnetic waves of the ambient environment from interfering with the signal transmission of the transmission cord.
US10008298B2
A radiation-shielding curtain (20) of the kind used at the conveyor entrance and exit openings of a radiographic inspection system or irradiation system is composed of a large number of straight, slender, vertically suspended rods (21) which have a convex outwardly rounded cross-sectional profile and a smooth low friction surface.
US10008292B1
A memory auto repairing circuit including: a decoding circuit, a latch enable circuit and a first latch circuit, wherein the decoding circuit is arranged to compare a first input address with a plurality of fail addresses to generate a control signal; the latch enable circuit is arranged to selectively generate a first enable signal at least according to the control signal; and the first latch circuit is arranged to receive the first input address, and store the first input address when the first enable signal is received by the first latch circuit; wherein when the control signal indicates that the first input address is identical to one of the plurality of fail addresses, the enable signal is prevented from being transmitted from the latch enable circuit to the first latch circuit.
US10008291B2
A controller includes an internal memory to store an address and a memory control unit operatively coupled with the internal memory. The memory control unit includes logic to identify a malfunctioning address of primary data storage elements within an external memory device, the external memory device being another semiconductor device separate from the controller, store the malfunctioning address in the internal memory, and transmit, to the external memory device, a command to initiate a repair of the malfunctioning address using redundant data storage elements and an indication of an address associated with the malfunctioning address.
US10008288B2
A power loss test apparatus for a non-volatile memory device includes a test-board including at least one socket into which at least one test target non-volatile memory device is inserted, a micro controller that determines whether to supply power to the test target non-volatile memory device based on current consumption information or operating state information of the test target non-volatile memory device, and a tester that performs a power loss test for the test target non-volatile memory device based on whether the power is supplied to the test target non-volatile memory device.
US10008281B2
A method of operating a programmable read-only-memory (ROM) cell unit having a series coupled CMOS NFET and CMOS PFET device formed on a semiconductor layer located on top of a buried dielectric layer, the buried dielectric layer formed on top of a cell substrate, and each NFET and PFET device having a respective gate, drain and source terminals. The method includes applying a first bias voltage to the cell substrate; and applying a second bias voltage to a drain terminal of the PFET device with respect to a source of the PFET, the second bias voltage sufficient to enable electron trapping at the buried dielectric layer associated with that cell, the injected electron carriers trapped at the buried dielectric layer providing a stored charge representative of a logic bit value at the unit cell that is physically undetectable and is configured to be read electrically.
US10008280B1
Described herein is a ROM architecture featuring a ROM bitcell without a transistor, a ROM architecture wherein the bitcell device gate goes to a column address and the local bitline is sensed per row per mux, a ROM architecture wherein the bitcell device gate goes to the column address and the full row of bitcells is enabled by a row enable signal, and a ROM architecture wherein the bitcell device gate goes to the row address and the full column of bitcells is enabled by a column enable signal. The presently described architectures provide large advantages in terms of PPA.
US10008271B1
A memory device and associated techniques for reducing charge loss in a select gate transistor. A dummy memory cell is weakly programmed using a hot electron injection type of disturb to reduce the movement of holes toward the adjacent select gate transistor in a common charge trapping layer. The weak programming can occur in a program loop, e.g., in a transition between a pre-charge phase and a program phase, or in an erase loop, just after the erase of dummy and data memory cells. The weak programming does not involve a time penalty since it is concurrent with other operations. The disturb can be provided by increasing the control gate voltage of the dummy memory cell and/or decreasing the control gate voltage of the select gate transistor.
US10008266B1
A semiconductor memory cell includes a floating body region configured to be charged to a level indicative of a state of the memory cell; a first region in electrical contact with said floating body region; a second region in electrical contact with said floating body region and spaced apart from said first region; and a gate positioned between said first and second regions. The cell may be a multi-level cell. Arrays of memory cells are disclosed for making a memory device. Methods of operating memory cells are also provided.
US10008258B2
A circuit can be used, for example, with a multi-supply memory device. The circuit includes a first conductor and a second conductor. A first transistor has a current path coupled between the first conductor and the second conductor. A second transistor also has a current path coupled between the first conductor and the second conductor. A pulse generator circuit has an input coupled to a control terminal of the first transistor and an output coupled to a control terminal of the second transistor.
US10008247B2
A memory device has a burst length “b”, performs “k” core accesses per command, and receives a command, where “b” is an integer of at least 2 and “k” is an integer of at least 2 and at most “b”. The memory device includes a memory cell array including a plurality of bank groups, a plurality of bank group control units respectively corresponding to the plurality of bank groups, each of the bank group control units configured to generate a multiplexer control signal for selecting part of data read from a corresponding bank group, and a multiplexer configured to sequentially output data read from the plurality of bank groups according to the multiplexer control signal output from the plurality of bank group control units. Data items included in output data of the multiplexer have a same time space.
US10008243B1
Example implementations are directed to a system to generate keyframes describing the temperature output state of thermal output devices during the synchronous playback of video material. This additional haptic output channel augments the existing audio and video channels. Example implementations provide a manual keyframe authoring interface and an architecture for playing back video with a thermal output channel. Example implementations also involve an automatic keyframe generation method for thermal output accompanying a video, and provide a temperature profile function to enable rapid changing between temperature values for thermal output devices that use open-loop control.
US10008239B2
Disclosed is a method of automated script generation with integrated video production; said method comprising assembling a script comprising a series of steps for a video production; —communicating the series of steps of the video production to a central, production management application; associating a digital input output device with a video acquisition device; communicating selected ones of the steps in production to said digital input output device; actuating said video acquisition device so as to give effect to said selected ones of said steps; communicating at least video content thus acquired by following said steps to said production management application; integrating said video content thus acquired with content derived by giving effect to others of said steps thereby to produce resultant video output content. Also disclosed is a system of automated script generation with integrated video production; said system including a server; a plurality of content contributors; each operating a content acquisition device and operable according to the above methodology.
US10008238B2
The invention provides a system, method and device—for inserting digital footage into a digital cinematographic template. The system includes a mobile device, storage means on the mobile device for storing a digital cinematographic template, video recording means on the mobile device for recording and capturing personal cinematographic footage, digital isolation means on the mobile device for isolating specific sections of captured personal cinematographic footage, digital extraction means on the mobile device for extracting the isolated sections of the captured personal cinematographic footage, and digital insertion means on the mobile device for inserting the extracted footage into the stored cinematographic template.
US10008236B2
An optical disk includes a disk management information area in which predetermined information is recorded in advance, and a recording system area in which information for identifying a recording system of the optical disk recorded in a predetermined position within a non-data area included in a recordable area is recorded. A method for accessing the optical disk is decided based on disk management information and the information for identifying a recording system.
US10008225B2
An embodiment relates to a magnetic sensor device, comprising a magneto-resistive structure. The magneto-resistive structure comprises a magnetic free layer configured to spontaneously generate a closed flux magnetization pattern in the magnetic free layer. The magneto-resistive structure also comprises a magnetic reference layer having a non-closed flux reference magnetization pattern. The magnetic sensor device further comprises a magnetic biasing structure configured to generate a biasing field in the magnetic free layer, the biasing field having a non-zero magnetic biasing field component perpendicular to the reference magnetization pattern.
US10008218B2
A system and method of blind bandwidth extension. The system selects a prediction model from a number of stored prediction models that were generated using an unsupervised clustering method (e.g., a k-means method) and a supervised regression process (e.g., a support vector machine), and extends the bandwidth of an input musical audio signal.
US10008215B1
Systems and methods for capturing and/or storing audio content are provided. A content queue stores a first portion of the audio content in a first buffer. The first portion of the content is codec-encoded. While codec-encoding the first portion, the content queue stores a second portion of the content in a second buffer. After codec-encoding of the first portion is complete, the second portion is codec-encoded. While codec-encoding the second portion, a third portion of the audio content is stored in a buffer other than the second buffer.
US10008212B2
An audio beacon system, apparatus and method for collecting information on a panelist's exposure to media. An audio beacon is configured as on-device encoding technology that is operative in a processing device (e.g., cell phone, PDA, PC) to enable the device to encode an environmental sound and transmit it for a predetermined period of time. The acoustically transmitted data is received and processed by a portable audience measurement device, such as Arbitron's Personal People Meter™ (“PPM”), or other specially equipped portable device to enable audience measurement systems to achieve higher levels of detail on panel member activity and greater association of measurement devices to their respective users.
US10008206B2
Verifying a user, such as, but not limited to, a user who answered questions for an unproctered test for employment. A representation of a transition pattern is stored (200). Time series voice data is received from a user responding to a sequence of questions (72) having multiple levels of difficulty. The transition pattern in the voice data (200) is based on a plurality of comparisons (503) of subsets (500) of the voice data corresponding to responses to questions having one or more different levels of difficulty. A further transition pattern (200) is determined from voice data in the same way but based on a shorter sequence of questions (78). The user is verified based on a comparison (78) of this further transition pattern to a previously stored transition pattern.
US10008202B2
Method and systems are provided for interpreting speech data. A method and system for recognizing speech involving a filter module to generate a set of processed audio data based on raw audio data; a translation module to provide a set of translation results for the raw audio data; and a decision module to select the text data that represents the raw audio data. A method for minimizing noise in audio signals received by a microphone array is also described. A method and system of automatic entry of data into one or more data fields involving receiving a processed audio data; and operating a processing module to: search in a trigger dictionary for a field identifier that corresponds to the trigger identifier; identify a data field associated with a data field identifier corresponding to the field identifier; and providing content data associated with the trigger identifier to the identified data field.
US10008194B2
Systems, methods, and devices for providing interactive striking objects (e.g., drumsticks) and performing actions in response to striking motions of the striking objects are disclosed. In some embodiments, the systems and methods provide an interactive drumstick, which includes a lighting display located at a tip portion of the interactive drumstick, a motion detector contained at least partially within the drumstick, a processor and memory contained at least partially within the drumstick, and an interactive system stored within the memory of the drumstick. The interactive system includes a striking motion module that determines striking motions of the drumstick with respect to a virtual percussion instrument based on accessing information measured by the motion detector, and a display module that causes the lighting display to present a certain type of illumination based on the striking motions determined by the striking motion module.
US10008187B2
Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a percussion instrument comprising a wood upper section, a stone core, a wood lower section, and a plurality of lug bodies. The wood upper section is coupled to the wood lower via the plurality of lug bodies. Each of the plurality lug bodies restrains the wood upper section from moving relative to the wood lower section. The stone core is held in position by the wood upper section and the wood lower section.
US10008180B2
Improved methods are provided for calibrating color on a color display coupled to a computer, which are useful for obtaining calibrated data in a virtual proof network for enabling different color devices to render consistent color. Methods involve user interactions with screens on the display to set color display parameters. An apparatus is also provided for calibrating a sensor which may be used for measuring color of a display in one or more of these methods.
US10008178B2
An apparatus, methods, and systems for multi-color projection or display for video or lighting applications. One aspect of the present invention comprises an algorithm for utilizing at least four primary light sources to represent a projected pixel color. The algorithm and associated system can be applied to both a natively monochromatic light source or traditional light sources filtered for their colored components. The algorithm can be used for either color sequential or parallel modes of operation. The algorithm takes input pixel data represented in a universal color coordinate system, performs a color transform, and disperses the results among parallel display devices or sequentially to a single device such that each pixel is presented by the combination of four or more primaries.
US10008174B2
A fan-out circuit including a plurality of first fan-out lines is provided. At least one of the first fan-out lines includes a first upper segment, a first upper connection part having one end connected to the first upper segment, a first intermediate segment having one end connected to the other end of the first upper connection part, a first lower connection part having one end connected to the other end of the first intermediate segment, and a first lower segment connected to the other end of the first lower connection part. At least one of the first upper segment, the first intermediate segment and the first lower segment has a zigzag structure.
US10008170B2
The present invention proposes a GOA circuit and a display device adopting the same. The GOA circuit includes thirteen transistors and a first capacitor. The GOA circuit can be driven in 2D and 3D driving modes to prolong charging time of each pixel. Each two GOA circuit units share a set of Nth stage start pulse signals, Nth stage gate pulse signals and eight clock pulse signals. Because the charging time of each pixel is prolonged, the display device can show images with better display quality.
US10008169B2
An object is to provide a driving method of a liquid crystal display device with a low power consumption and a high image quality. A pixel includes a liquid crystal element and a transistor which controls supply of an image signal to the liquid crystal element. The transistor includes, in a channel formation region, a semiconductor which has a wider band gap than a silicon semiconductor and has a lower intrinsic carrier density than silicon, and has an extremely low off-state current. In inversion driving of pixels, image signals having opposite polarities are input to a pair of signal lines between which a pixel electrode is disposed. By employing such a structure, the quality of the displayed image can be increased even in the absence of a capacitor in the pixel.
US10008166B2
A GOA circuit includes multiple GOA circuit units, each of which includes a pull-down holding module to hold the voltage level of the second control node during the non-scanning period, so to keep the scan signal at a low voltage level. The GOA circuit unit uses a first transistor and a second transistor, operating along with a first clock signal and a second clock signal, so that a pull-down holding module continues outputting signals so to turn on the pull-down module when the scan signal is in the period that does not need to output pulses. Therefore, during the period when the scan signal does not need to output pulses, the pull-down module is still turned on and pulls down the voltage level. The present disclosure solves the problem that the pull-down holding module cannot operate continuously, and improves the stability in outputting scan signals of GOA circuit units.
US10008155B2
Provided is a gate driving circuit. The gate driving circuit includes an ith modulation circuit and an ith line selection circuit (where i is a natural number greater than 1). The ith modulation circuit outputs an ith modulation voltage to an ith line selection circuit based on received first to third control signals. The ith line selection circuit includes a memory transistor that is turned on or turned off according to a level of the received ith modulation voltage.
US10008148B2
The image processing apparatus according to the present disclosure may include a reception module configured to receive three-color source data from the outside, and acquire a minimum value of the three-color source data; a data conversion module configured to convert the three-color source data into four-color data including a fourth color, and output the four-color data, a value of data of the fourth color in the four-color data being determined in accordance with the minimum value of the three-color source data and a first ratio of the data of the fourth color; a calculating module configured to calculate display values of the four-color data; and an adjustment module configured to control the data conversion module to adjust the first ratio of the data of the fourth color in accordance with the display values of the four-color data calculated by the calculating module.
US10008146B2
A source driving circuit is provided. The source driving circuit includes a digital-to-analog conversion module configured for converting raw image data into gray-scale image data; an optimization module configured for obtaining an optimal output sequence of the gray-scale values in pixel units for each row in a display panel and outputting the gray-scale values of each pixel in pixel units corresponding to data lines by following the order of the optimal output sequence to form a first image data; and a buffer module configured for enhancing a load driving capability of the first image data outputted by the optimization module.
US10008143B2
In a scan driver including a plurality of stages configured to supply scan signals to scan lines, the scan driver includes: an i−1th stage configured to supply an i−1th scan signal to an i−1th scan line while controlling a node Qi−1 (i is a natural number) in response to a first clock signal, a third clock signal, and a control voltage; an ith stage configured to supply an ith scan signal to an ith scan line while controlling a node Qi in response to a second clock signal, a fourth clock signal, and the control voltage; and a controller connected to the i−1th stage and the ith stage, and configured to supply the control voltage.
US10008129B2
A system quantifying clinical skill of a user, comprising: collecting data relating to a surgical task done by a user using a surgical device; comparing the data for the surgical task to other data for another similar surgical task; quantifying the clinical skill of the user based on the comparing of the data for the surgical task to the other data for the other similar surgical task; outputting the clinical skill of the user.
US10008125B2
Multi-user portable electronic devices for improving reading ability and/or comprehension for a plurality of subjects are provided. The multi-user portable electronic devices may include a pitch shifter circuit configured to generate frequency altered auditory speech feedback (FAF) signals corresponding to respective auditory speech signals received from respective active microphones, and to transmit the respective FAF signals to the plurality of subjects while one or more of the plurality of subjects are respectively reading aloud, to improve the plurality of subjects' reading ability and/or comprehension. The multi-user portable electronic devices may also include a switch configured to activate the microphones selectively, serially. Related methods and systems are also described.
US10008124B1
A method and system provides security for remotely administered tests to examinees at respective remote locations by providing, with a head mounted image capture device for each examinee, video and data signals representing a series of images including both the forward field of view of the examinee and the examinee's eyes. The video and data signal are transmitted to a central sever which logs the data and makes it available in real time to a proctor. The image capture device may be any head mounted device equipped with one or more cameras arranged to provide the necessary images of the examinee's field of view and eyes and may comprise a frame for eyeglasses, a resiliently flexible head attachment clamp, or any device that may be secured to the examinee and support a camera or cameras having suitably directed viewing fields.
US10008121B2
The disclosed embodiments illustrate method and system for managing a dispatch of vehicles based on generation of a dispatch schedule. The method includes generating a dispatch schedule for one or more vehicles at one or more time instants based on a first demand for the one or more vehicles along a route. For a current time instant, the method includes predicting a second demand for the one or more vehicles at each of the one or more stations, at time instants subsequent to the current time instant, based on a current demand. The method further includes updating the dispatch schedule by varying the count of vehicles to be dispatched from the first station based at least on the second demand. Further, the method includes transmitting a notification to a computing device installed in each of the one or more vehicles.
US10008120B2
A method for monitoring a vehicle in a parking facility, the vehicle being transferred by its driver to a parking facility operator in a transfer zone, and subsequently being parked a parking space and, after unparking, being transferred to the driver again in a pick-up zone, the vehicle being at least visually monitored during the entire stay in the parking facility with the aid of a monitoring infrastructure assigned to the parking facility, the data being recorded, and the data being provided to the driver. A computer program and a system, which are configured to carry out the method, are also described.
US10008106B2
A self-configuring sensor and method of operation of the sensor is described. In one embodiment, the self-configuring sensor comprises a first sub-sensor for determining a first status of a door or window, a second sub-sensor for determining a second status of the door or window, a wireless transmitter, a memory for storing processor-executable instructions, and a processor coupled to the first sub-sensor, the second sub-sensor, the wireless transmitter and the memory for executing the processor-executable instructions that cause the sensor to monitor the first and second sub-sensors for detecting changes in a first sub-sensor state and a second sub-sensor state, respectively, and determine an installation configuration based on the changes in the first sub-sensor state and the second sub-sensor state, the installation configuration comprising a type of hardware where the self-configuring sensor has been installed.
US10008104B2
An output interface circuit for a security panel. The output interface circuit includes an output switch for activating one or more output devices in response to a control signal from a port controller. The output interface circuit also includes an overload detection circuit for deactivating the one or more output devices in response to determining that a magnitude of a voltage associated with the one or more output devices exceeds an overload threshold voltage. The overload detection circuit comprises a protection switch for rendering the output switch non or less conductive thereby preventing damage to the output switch and possibly deactivating the one or more output devices when the voltage associated with the one or more output devices exceeds the overload threshold voltage.
US10008103B1
An apparatus includes a wireless transceiver, a card reader and a processor. The wireless transceiver may be configured to communicate wirelessly with an annunciator, a hall light box and a server computer. The card reader may be configured to read identification numbers from cards. The processor may be configured to initiate transmission of an alarm message to the annunciator, the hall light box and the server computer in response to an event, illuminate an alarm indicator in response to the event, receive an authorized identification number that cancels the event from the card reader, initiate transmission of a cancellation message with the authorized identification number to the annunciator, the hall light box and the server computer in response to cancellation of the event, and extinguish the alarm indicator in response to cancellation of the event. The alarm indicator may changes color over time until the event is canceled.
US10008081B2
Manufacturing a batch is provided which includes a plurality of items of an electronic device, the items including a plurality of corresponding main modules having a same functional structure substantially identical for the items. The method includes defining at least one security electric circuit, of an enclosure component for enclosing each item, adapted to protect the item from tampering, the security electric circuits having individual configurations substantially different among the items, for use in forming the security electric circuit with the corresponding configuration on each enclosure component. Additionally, the method includes determining one or more electric characteristics of each security electric circuit for use in configuring a monitoring circuit of the corresponding main module, the monitoring circuit being adapted to the corresponding security electric circuit for detecting the tampering, according to the electric characteristics of the corresponding security circuits.
US10008080B1
The locatable pacifier is a locating device. The locatable pacifier is adapted for use with a pacifier. The locatable pacifier comprises the pacifier, a control system, a personal data device, and a wireless communication link. The control system is installed within the pacifier. The control system is tethered to the personal data device using a wireless communication link. Should the locatable pacifier become lost, the personal data device can be used to initiate the operation of a control system to generate visible and audible signals identifying the location of the locatable pacifier.
US10008079B2
A wristwatch-type notification apparatus that displays information by using indicating hands includes a display section that drives and rotates one or more of the plurality of indicating hands to notify a user of time information and a notification section that notifies the user of event information representing that a pre-specified condition is satisfied by moving, on the basis of a trigger produced in accordance with the event information, an indicating hand to a display position specified in accordance with the type of the event information associated with the trigger and causing the indicating hand to make reciprocating motion in the forward and reverse directions over a range including the display position.
US10008077B2
A gaming machine that provides an operation unit, a display unit that displays a plurality of symbols in a determination area, changes and stops a plurality of symbols displayed on the display unit according to an operation of a player received from an operation unit, and a control unit that pays a payout according to the symbol stopped inside of the determination area, a control unit displays an object that shows a symbol inside of a virtual three-dimensional space that extends a column of the determination area in a depth direction on the display unit, aligns a plurality of objects in a depth direction in a non-determination area and the determination area, and changes a plurality of symbols by moving the plurality of objects along in a depth direction.
US10008076B2
A card game monitor manages play of a game with a video feed of casino table game play. A dealer deals a game using a card-handling device that randomizes and dispenses cards, which may be grouped into sets of hands by the card-handling device. A card recognition system recognizes card information including rank and suit of each card dispensed by the card handling device while each card is under control of the card-handling device. A camera captures a video feed of casino table game play, which is transmitted to a computing device operated by a player. A control system receives the card information from the card recognition device and manages control of the game using hand information associated with players. Player action elections from the computing device are displayed to a dealer The player provides a player action through the computing device, which is used to facilitate play of the casino table game.
US10008071B2
Disclosed are methods, apparatus, and systems implementing techniques for using a central determination system with multi-play gaming machines having sub-games and with gaming machines having a base game and a bonus game. A seed value is provided for each of the games (i.e., each of the sub-games or the base game and the bonus game). This ensures that all possible game outcomes may be displayed for each of the games.
US10008067B2
A system for authorizing a financial transaction of a financial presentation device such as a credit or debit card being presented from a customer to an online merchant. The system includes a peripheral device having a processor configured to generate a dynamic verification value for the card which changes for each financial transaction, and to transmit the dynamic verification value to a user computer via an I/O interface during an online transaction. The system also includes an authentication computer having a memory for storing information used to generate a comparison verification value, a communication device for receiving the dynamic verification value originating from the peripheral device, a processor and an authentication module executable by the processor adapted to generate the comparison verification value using information stored in memory. The authentication computer determines whether to authorize the financial transaction based on whether the comparison verification value matches the received dynamic verification value.
US10008064B2
A measuring device for measuring magnetic properties in a vicinity of the measuring device, in connection with a sensor line having sensor elements, includes a magnetization device for generating a magnetic field substantially homogeneous in a region of the sensor line, the field direction of the magnetic field, in the region of the sensor line, being at an angle of greater than 0° and less than 90° to the direction of the sensor line.
US10008063B2
A secure access control method is provided that uses secure access control readers having radiocommunication associated to a microcontroller in connection with a remote processing unit and radiocommunication mobile terminals carried by a user. The method includes emitting an announcement signal having security parameters defining access conditions to mobile terminals that determines and evaluates the power of each signal, notifying the mobile terminal of an access action by the user on the mobile terminal or close reader, and translating it by an access pass. If the access pass and/or access conditions are met, a radiofrequency connection is established and inhibits the emission of the announcement signal by said close reader, and passes into an authentication phase.
US10008056B2
Systems, methods, apparatus, and computer program products are provided for identifying assets (e.g., mobile assets and/or personnel assets). In one embodiment, a mobile asset can be uniquely identified from RFID tags. In another embodiment, mobile assets and personnel assets can be identified from captured image data. After identification, it can be determined whether the asset (e.g., mobile asset and/or personnel asset) is authorized for one or more activities and a corresponding perceivable indication can be generated.
US10008051B2
A method of detecting a fault in a bleed air system of an aircraft having multiple engines is disclosed. The method includes transmitting a bleed air flow rate from multiple engines, determining a difference between the transmitted bleed air flow rates to define a difference value, and determining, by a controller, a fault condition with the bleed air system based on the difference value.
US10008047B2
A system of properly displaying chroma key content is presented. The system obtains a digital representation of a 3D environment, for example a digital photo, and gathers data from that digital representation. The system renders the digital representation in an environmental model and displays that digital representation upon an output device. Depending upon the context, content anchors of the environmental model are selected which will be altered by suitable chroma key content. The chroma key content takes into consideration the position and orientation of the chroma key content relative to the content anchor and relative to the point of view that the environmental model is displayed from in order to accurately display chroma key content in a realistic manner.
US10008026B2
Image rendering apparatus for rendering an image from a set of image data representing a volume, the apparatus comprises a rendering unit configured to perform a sampling process that comprises determining values of opacity for a plurality of sample positions along a specified path through the volume; at least one of a) determining values of color/grayscale for the plurality of sample positions along the specified path, b) determining gradient values for a plurality of gradient positions along the specified path; and determining whether there is a transition to or from a high opacity state, and if there is a transition to or from a high opacity state modifying at least pad of the sampling process, wherein the rendering unit is further configured to process the determined values of opacity, color/grayscale and/or gradient to determine a pixel value for a pixel of the image.
US10008018B2
A system and method for improving the readability of content wherein content is organized into segments which are each displayed on a respective row on the display device. Each of the segments are made up of characters such as letters and punctuation. The text in a particular row, the reading row, on the display device is displayed differently than the text in the other rows. Each row is consecutively displayed in the reading row until the user has seen each segment of the content presented in the reading row. User are able to configure the display of the reading row text and text in other rows independently.
US10008014B2
A tool is provided via a user interface for a digital media application that supports digital illustrations. The tool combines operations to create different types of segments for a drawing shape and covert between types of segments. The tool is configured to analyze the drawing to recognize segments that are straight, arc, or curved portions of the drawing path. For segments recognized as curved, the segments are represented as Bezier curve segments. For segments recognized as straight, the segments are represented as line segments. Additionally, line segments are associated with handle elements operable to convert the line segments to regular arc segments. Responsive to manipulation of a handle element for a particular line segment, the tool computes a corresponding regular arc and converts the line segment into a regular arc segment.
US10008008B2
A method and system for assigning colors to an image or part thereof, the method comprising: selecting a sequence of colors for assignment to the image or part thereof; determining a minimum intensity IMIN within the image or part thereof; determining a maximum intensity IMAX within the image or part thereof; and determining relative intensity values RIV(i) for each pixel or voxel i according to; (I) where I(i) is an intensity of pixel or voxel /, and ƒ is a preselected function (such as to re-arrange the normalized values); and assigning colors to at least some pixels in the image or part thereof based on the relative intensity values and an order of each of the colors in the sequence.
US10008006B2
A control method includes acquiring a first image, determining whether the first image is a transmission target to another computer, when the determining determines that the first image is an image as the transmission target, (1) executing detection processing of detecting a reference object from the image, (2) generating image information of a superposition image in which a content image corresponding to the reference object detected by the detection processing is superimposed over the image when the reference object is detected from the image, (3) transmitting the image information to the other computer, and (4) acquiring a second image which is photographed after the first image for next determining, and when the determining determines that the first image is not the image as the transmission target, acquiring the second image for the next determining rather than the detection processing and the generating of the image information.
US10008004B1
A method of establishing a 3D saliency model based on 3D contrast and depth weight, includes dividing left view of 3D image pair into multiple regions by super-pixel segmentation method, synthesizing a set of features with color and disparity information to describe each region, and using color compactness as weight of disparity in region feature component, calculating feature contrast of a region to surrounding regions; obtaining background prior on depth of disparity map, and improving depth saliency through combining the background prior and the color compactness; taking Gaussian distance between the depth saliency and regions as weight of feature contrast, obtaining initial 3D saliency by adding the weight of the feature contrast; enhancing the initial 3D saliency by 2D saliency and central bias weight.
US10008003B2
A process generates a lookup table to estimate spatial depth in a visual scene. The process identifies subsets of illuminators of a camera system with image sensors and illuminators. The image sensors are associated with multiple pixels. For each pixel, and for each of multiple depths from the pixel, the process simulates a virtual surface at the depth. For each subset of the subsets of illuminators, the process simulates illumination of the virtual surface from the subset and determines an expected light intensity at the pixel from light reflected from the virtual surface due to the simulated illumination. The process forms intensity information from the expected light intensity determined for the pixel for each of the depths and each of the subsets. The process constructs a lookup table comprising the intensity information. The lookup table associates the intensity information for each pixel with the respective depth and the respective subset.
US10007997B2
A system and method to segment an image captured from an image capture device of a high content imaging system includes an image acquisition module that receives the image captured by the image capture device. A coarse object detection module develops a coarse segmented image, wherein each pixel of the coarse segmented image is associated with a corresponding pixel in the captured image and is identified as one of an object pixel and a background pixel. A marker identification module selects at least one marker pixel from the pixels of the coarse segmented image, wherein each marker pixel is one of a contiguous group of object pixels in the coarse segmented image that is furthest from a background pixel relative to neighboring pixels of the group. An object splitting module that comprises a plurality of processors operating in parallel that associates each object pixel of the coarse segmented image with a marker pixel, wherein a distance based metric between the object pixel and the marker pixel is less than the distance based metric between the object pixel and any other marker pixel in the coarse segmented image.
US10007995B2
A method for obtaining a model of an object surface from a plurality of images of said object, wherein the object is illuminated with one or more illumination sources, the method comprising: •—obtaining a set of images each comprising an array of pixels and representing similar views of an object, wherein the similar views are obtained under different illumination conditions; •—defining a model function that expresses the known pixel intensity values of the images in terms of the following unknown model components: •—a first model component (A) representing the albedo of the object at each pixel location and being the same for the plurality of images and being an albedo value; •—a second model component (L) representing an intensity of illumination for each image and being an illumination source intensity value being the same for all pixels of each image; •—a third model component (V) representing a specific illumination direction and being different for each image and being an illumination vector and being the same for all pixels of each image; •—a fourth model component (N) representing surface normal directions of the object surface at each pixel position and being the same for all images and being a normal vector; •—performing one or more sequences of minimization operations to minimize a difference function between the pixel values obtained from the set of images and pixel values calculated using said model function, each minimization operation being performed by allowing one of said model components (A, L, V, N) to vary while the others remain unchanged; •—outputting the fourth model component (N) as said model of the object surface.
US10007993B2
An inspection device 1 includes an inspection table 2 on which an inspection target T which is a set of a plurality of solid drugs O is placed, a vibration unit 3 that vibrates the inspection table 2, an imaging unit 4 that acquires an image of the inspection target T, which is placed on the inspection table 2, in a first direction along the inspection table 2, and a control unit 5 that determines whether the solid drugs O in the inspection target T overlap each other, based on inspection target information including appearance information of each of the drugs forming the inspection target T and the image of the inspection target T in the first direction, and operates the vibration unit 3 in a case in which it is determined that the solid drugs O overlap each other.
US10007989B2
To acquire information relating to a vessel wall thickness by: acquiring interference signal sets of a plurality of frames including interference signal sets corresponding to a plurality of frames forming an image of the same cross section of an fundus; generating 3-D tomographic image data on the fundus from the interference signal sets of the plurality of frames; generating 3-D motion contrast data in the fundus from the interference signal sets corresponding to the plurality of frames that form the same cross section; extracting a vessel from the fundus based on the 3-D tomographic image data or the 3-D motion contrast data; detecting a coordinate of an outer surface of a vessel wall of the vessel based on the 3-D tomographic image data; and detecting a coordinate of an inner surface of the vessel wall of the vessel based on the 3-D motion contrast data.
US10007986B2
In an embodiment, a method converts two images to a transform representation in a transform domain. For each spatial position, the method examines coefficients representing a neighborhood of the spatial position that is spatially the same across each of the two images. The method calculates a first vector in the transform domain based on first coefficients representing the spatial position, the first vector representing change from a first to second image of the two images describing deformation. The method modifies the first vector to create a second vector in the transform domain representing amplified movement at the spatial position between the first and second images. The method calculates second coefficients based on the second vector of the transform domain. From the second coefficients, the method generates an output image showing motion amplified according to the second vector for each spatial position between the first and second images.
US10007983B2
The present disclosure relates to an image processing method including the following steps: receiving a deformation or displacement image; defining a meshing of the deformation image; assigning a respective pair of unknown variables to each node of the meshing; detecting one (or more) node(s) located at the boundary between two different materials of the body studied; enriching the node(s) detected; calculating a basic matrix for each basic cell of the meshing; assembling the basic matrixes in order to obtain an overall structural matrix; calculating a resilience image of the body based on the overall structural matrix.
US10007976B2
An image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a first frequency image generating circuitry, a second frequency image generating circuitry, a signal detecting circuitry, and a display image generating circuitry. The first frequency image generating circuitry performs, on an object pixel of processing, processing based on a pixel value of a neighboring pixel positioned close to the pixel to generate first frequency image data including a specific contrast component and a first frequency component on image data. The second frequency image generating circuitry performs processing of subtracting the first frequency image data from the image data to generate second frequency image data including a second frequency component. The signal detecting circuitry detects a linear signal derived from a linear structural object from the second frequency image data. The display image generating circuitry generates a display image according to the linear signal detected.
US10007974B2
A method of enhancing an image includes constructing an input histogram corresponding to an input image received at a focal plane array, the input histogram representing a pixel intensity distribution corresponding to the input image and performing an analytical operation on the input histogram to produce a modified cumulative distribution, wherein the analytical operation is a function of camera temperature. The input image is transformed using the modified cumulative distribution to produce an enhanced output image corresponding to the input image, wherein at least a portion of the input image is enhanced in the output image. In addition to or in lieu of the non-linear operation, the binning edges of the input histogram can be adjusted based on at least one of camera temperature and sensitivity state to construct an adjusted cumulative distribution.
US10007967B2
A system access a reference frame and temporally adjacent frames. For each portion of the reference image frame, the system calculates a pixel distance value between the portion of the reference image frame and a corresponding portion of each temporally adjacent image frame. If the pixel distance value indicates a potential ghosting artifact, the system computes a set of spatial noise reduction values for the image portion. Otherwise, the system computes a set of temporal noise reduction values for the image portion. The system blends the sets of computed spatial noise reduction values and the sets of computed temporal noise reduction values, and generates a modified reference image frame based on the blended set of noise reduction values.
US10007959B2
A residential subdivision layout for high density developments is disclosed which includes placing residential buildings on lots in a configuration such that the front facade of the residential buildings faces a common area, preferably a green space, while the rear facade of the buildings includes a vehicle garage entrance and faces a vehicle passageway. A private courtyards are included between residential buildings on adjacent lots, preferably, on forward portions of the lots between residential buildings such that the courtyards are near, and within visual sight of the common area, but separated from it by a privacy barrier, such as a fence or shrubbery. Preferred configurations not only provide a usable and private outside areas in view of a common space, but create openings between the buildings that allow natural light to enter the interior of the buildings through windows adjacent to the courtyards.
US10007956B2
The technology disclosed describes systems and methods for delivering software trial demonstrations that are customized, with features identified as interesting to a software demonstration candidate, by mining biographical and behavioral data of the candidate. The technology further discloses systems and methods for the customization of trial demonstrations with software usage stories that reflect a software demonstration candidate's interests, identified by analyzing mined biographical and behavioral data about the candidate.
US10007955B2
Some embodiments provide a system that generates different customized decks of cards with each deck being customized for a different user with a condensed and filtered set of business data that is relevant to that user. The customizations are based in part on monitored user behavior and user interactions with the cards. Cards identifying businesses that the user has viewed for the most amount of time, recommended to others, approved, or positively reviewed or rated are assigned high values. Cards identifying businesses that the user has viewed for the least amount of time, rejected, or negatively reviewed or rated are assigned low values. The system then continually updates the deck to remove cards identifying business with the lowest values while adding cards identifying businesses that resemble other businesses with assigned high values.
US10007954B2
Managing an initial post on a website includes identifying an initial post on website where the initial post is for an event, identifying a related post that describes the event after the event occurs, and updating the initial post to include content of the related post.
US10007930B2
The present invention provides an approach to invoke advertisement(s) in a VU. Specifically, an advertisement is virtually associated with a user of the virtual space. The advertisement will then be visually referenced in the VU, and optionally distinguished/highlighted (e.g., using visual effects such as colors, icons, flashing icons, etc.). The advertisement will be invoked in response to a trigger occurring in the VU user in the). Once invoked, an action associated with the advertisement will be executed. The present invention can also allow for advertising user to be compensated for allowing their asset(s) to be associated with advertisement(s). Such compensation can be in the form of credits associated with the VU being provided to the advertising user and/or compensation to be provided to the user outside of the VU (e.g., in the real world in the form of money, gift certificates, goods and/or services, etc.).
US10007926B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for characterizing websites and viewers, for predicting GRPs (Gross Rating Points) for online advertising media campaigns, and for pricing media campaigns according to GRPs delivered as opposed to impressions delivered. To predict GRPs for a campaign, systems and methods are disclosed for first characterizing polarized websites and then characterizing polarized viewers. To accomplish this, a truth set of viewers with known characteristics is first established and then compared with historic and current media viewing activity to determine a degree of polarity for different Media Properties (MPs)—typically websites offering ads—with respect to gender and age bias. A broader base of polarized viewers is then characterized for age and gender bias, and their propensity to visit a polarized MP is rated. Based on observed and calculated parameters, a GRP total is then predicted and priced to a client/advertiser for an online ad campaign.
US10007922B2
A financial transaction system includes a computer readable storage medium and a processor in communication with the computer readable storage medium. The processor is configured to receive a financial transaction request message from a payment device reader, and parse the financial transaction request message. The financial transaction request message includes a cardholder response to an offer to enroll in a loyalty program of a commercial entity. The processor is further configured to store the cardholder response in the computer readable storage medium.
US10007918B1
A method of performing a customer service operation with user interface (UI) element widgets is disclosed. The method comprises an application of an evaluation server receiving inputs that are responses to a survey of a user of a workstation. The method comprises the application determining a personality type and a technical ability level of the user. The method comprises the application receiving a request for a widget, wherein the widget provides the functionality to complete the user request that is related to an issue that the user wants to resolve. The application automatically selects a widget from a plurality of widgets based on the type of user request and the technical ability level of the user. The application then transmits the widget to the user.
US10007914B2
Detection of fraud in financial transactions is facilitated. A financial transaction is initiated by a user, and based on the financial transaction, information is obtained by an electronic device of the user. Using the information, the electronic device evaluates a set of rules personalized for the user; the set of rules to be used to determine whether the financial transaction is to be approved for the user. The electronic device provides an initial indication, based on the evaluating, of whether the financial transaction is to be approved.
US10007904B2
It is presented a security server arranged to set up communication between a merchant device and a customer payment application. The security server comprises: a receiver arranged to receive a first message comprising a customer identifier, an application identifier and a security token; a determiner arranged to determine whether the merchant device is authorized; a transmitter arranged to send a second message to the merchant device, the second message indicating that the merchant device is authorized to effect payment; and a channel establisher arranged to set up a secure channel between the merchant device and the customer payment application in a secure element being adapted to be comprised in a mobile communication terminal, wherein all communication between the merchant device and the customer payment application is controlled by the security server. Corresponding methods, merchant device, computer programs and computer program products are also presented.
US10007892B1
Capacitive sensors may be used to gather information, such as the presence of objects at an inventory location, such as a shelf. Two or more adjacent capacitive sensors operating at the same time may interfere with one another. Described are techniques to prevent this interference by using seed values to initialize pseudo random sequencing of an order in which capacitive sensors are in operation. The capacitive sensor, or a portion thereof, may be also be used as an antenna. Selection of an initial tuning network for use by the antenna may be determined based on output from the capacitive sensor.
US10007880B2
A method, system and computer-usable medium for performing cognitive computing operations comprising receiving streams of data from a plurality of data sources; processing the streams of data from the plurality of data sources, the processing the streams of data from the plurality of data sources performing data enriching for incorporation into a cognitive graph; defining a cognitive persona within the cognitive graph, the cognitive persona corresponding to an archetype user model, the cognitive persona comprising a set of nodes in the cognitive graph, links among the set of nodes being weighted to provide a weighted cognitive graph; associating a user with the cognitive persona; and, performing a cognitive computing operation based upon the cognitive persona associated with the user.
US10007867B2
Systems and methods of identifying entities are disclosed. In particular, one or more images that depict an entity can be identified from a plurality of images. One or more candidate entity profiles can be determined from an entity directory based at least in part on the one or more images that depict the entity. The one or more images that depict the entity and the one or more candidate entity profiles can be provided as input to a machine learning model. One or more outputs of the machine learning model can be generated. Each output can include a match score associated with an image that depicts the entity and at least one candidate entity profile. The entity directory can be updated based at least in part on the one or more generated outputs of the machine learning model.
US10007865B1
A learning method for acquiring a bounding box corresponding to an object in a training image from multi-scaled feature maps by using a CNN is provided. The learning method includes steps of: (a) allowing an N-way RPN to acquire at least two specific feature maps and allowing the N-way RPN to apply certain operations to the at least two specific feature maps; (b) allowing an N-way pooling layer to generate multiple pooled feature maps by applying pooling operations to respective areas on the at least two specific feature maps; and (c) (i) allowing a FC layer to acquire information on pixel data of the bounding box, and (ii) allowing a loss layer to acquire first comparative data, thereby adjusting at least one of parameters of the CNN by using the first comparative data during a backpropagation process.
US10007861B1
The method and system may be used to provide an indication of a color value for a particular siding sample and to color match a specific siding product to the color value of the siding sample. The system receives a digital image of a siding sample and a desired color value to be matched. A color query module plots this desired color value as a desired color point in a multidimensional color space together with a plurality of color reference points. Each color reference point represents the color value of an existing siding product. The system determines a “distance” between the desired color point and each plotted color reference point within the color space and identifies the siding product associated with the color reference point that is located the shortest distance to the desired color point within the color space.
US10007860B1
The techniques described herein may identify images that likely depict one or more items by comparing features of the items to features of different regions-of-interest (ROIs) of the images. For instance, some of the images may include a user, and the techniques may define multiple regions within the image corresponding to different portions of the user. The techniques may then use a trained convolutional neural network or any other type of trained classifier to determine, for each region of the image, whether the region depicts a particular item. If so, the techniques may designate the corresponding image as depicting the item and may output an indication that the image depicts the item. The techniques may perform this process for multiple images, outputting an indication of each image deemed to depict the particular item.
US10007859B2
A system and method that is able to recognize a user's natural superimposed handwriting without any explicit separation between characters. The system and method is able to process single-stroke and multi-stroke characters. It can also process cursive handwriting. Further, the method and system can determine the boundaries of input words either by the use of a specific user input gesture or by detecting the word boundaries based on language characteristics and properties. The system and method analyzes the handwriting input through the processes of fragmentation, segmentation, character recognition, and language modeling. At least some of these processes occur concurrently through the use of dynamic programming.
US10007857B2
The present invention relates to a method for the three-dimensional detection of objects in which two images of a scene are detected and mutually corresponding objects in the images are identified by means of a correlation process. A binarization scheme which compares randomly selected point pairs with one another is used in the correlation process. The point pairs are fixed by means of a plurality of iterations.
US10007856B2
The disclosure concerns processing hyperspectral or multispectral images. Image data comprises a sampled image spectrum represented by first values for each pixel location representative of an intensity associated with a wavelength index. A processor determines for each pixel location second values based on a measure of similarity between pixel locations with respect to the first values such that two pixel locations that 5 are similar with respect to the first values are also similar with respect to the second values. The processor then stores for each pixel location the determined one or more second values associated with that pixel location on a data store. This way, the image data is made suitable for applications, such as clustering or displaying, while pixels that are similar in the input image are also similar in the output data. This means that a 10 structure between the pixels in the input image is preserved.
US10007855B2
A system and method, which enables precise identification of characters contained in vehicle license plates, container I.D, chassis I.D, aircraft serial number and other such identification markings. The system can process these identified characters and operate devices, such as access control operations, traffic systems and vehicle and container tracking and management systems, and provide records of all markings together with their images.
US10007850B2
A system for event detection and reporting has primary sensors for producing raw data from observing the proximate area, one or more processors for the primary sensors, for processing the raw data to produce output, a centralized controller to which each of the processors is connected, for receiving the output, a security network for communicating between the sensors, the controller, and one or more remote terminals, the security network having an alarm, and a plurality of auxiliary sensors for providing secondary sensor information to the one or more processors wherein the controller provides an alarm to the remote terminals through the security network if an event has occurred. A method of event detection has the steps of receiving a control command, alarm message and sensor information, determining if an event has occurred, and sending alarm messages and filtered sensor information to remote terminals if an event has occurred.
US10007842B2
A same person determination device, a same person determination method, and a control program of a computer of the same person determination device capable of determining whether persons are the same persons even when there are similar faces are provided. It is determined whether there are a plurality of approximation and non-approximation relationships in which a feature amount of one face of one image approximates to a feature amount of one face of the other image (YES in step 28), and the feature amount of the one face of the one image does not approximate to feature amounts of all other faces other than the one face of the other image (YES in step 29) (step 31). In a case where there are the plurality of approximation and non-approximation relationships, the one face of one image and the one face of the other image are determined to be of the same person.
US10007841B2
A facial recognition solution is disclosed that includes adding a specified numeric pixels to an edge area of a digital image to acquire an enhanced digital image and then performing a facial recognition process on the enhanced digital image to determine a human face from the digital image.
US10007836B2
A bird detection device equipped with: a captured image acquisition unit that acquires a captured image; a bird candidate image extraction unit that extracts a bird candidate image, which is a candidate bird image, from the captured image; and a bird detection determination unit that, on the basis of the time required for the bird candidate image to move in accordance with the size of the bird candidate image in the captured image, determines whether a bird has been detected. The bird detection determination unit also can determine whether a bird has been detected on the basis of the degree of change in the shape of the bird candidate image for a prescribed time interval.
US10007825B2
A positioning system for positioning a to-be-positioned device includes three or more reference objects each providing individual unique feature information associated with a two-dimensional coordinate. A positioning device includes an image capturing unit obtaining image data of three of the reference objects, and a processing unit obtaining, based on the image data, three pixel positions corresponding respectively to the three reference objects in the image data, obtaining the two-dimensional coordinate of the location of the three reference objects, and estimating a positioning coordinate of the to-be-positioned device using a triangulation positioning method based on the three pixel positions, a focal length used for obtaining the image data and the two-dimensional coordinates.
US10007812B1
In an approach to managing a quick response code branding device and management of a quick response code branding device, one or more computer processors receive one or more quick response code configuration parameters. The one or more computer processors determine one or more program instructions corresponding to the one or more quick response code configuration parameters based on one or more task-specific factors. The one or more computer processors send the one or more program instructions to a quick response code branding device. The one or more computer processors receive quick response code branding device status data. The one or more computer processors determine whether the quick response code branding device status data meets the one or more quick response code configuration parameters.
US10007809B1
One embodiment provides a document management system comprising a storage system to store one or more encrypted documents, at least a first portion of a first encrypted document encrypted using a first encryption key, and an encryption key manager to manage a set of encryption keys for the documents on the storage system, the encryption key manager further to discard the first encryption key to provide secure removal of the portion of the encrypted document.
US10007807B2
Methods and systems for managing I/O requests in a secure storage appliance are disclosed. One method includes receiving a plurality of I/O requests at the secure storage appliance, each I/O request associated with a block of data and a volume, each volume associated with a plurality of shares stored on a plurality of physical storage devices. The method further includes storing a plurality of blocks of data in buffers of the secure storage appliance, each of the blocks of data associated with one or more of the plurality of I/O requests. The method also includes associating a state with each of the blocks of data, the state selected from a plurality of states associated with processing of an I/O request. The method includes determining the availability of a resource in the secure storage appliance, the resource used to process an I/O request of a buffer, and, upon determining that the resource is available, applying the resource to a block of data in the buffer and updating the state associated with the block of data.
US10007797B1
In one embodiment, a system and associated processes for transparent client-side cryptography are provided. In this system, some or all of a user's private data can be encrypted at a client device operated by the user. The client can transmit the encrypted user data to a content site that hosts a network application, such as a social networking application, financial application, or the like. The content site can store the private data in its encrypted form instead of the actual private data. When the content site receives a request for the private data from the user or optionally from other users (such as social networking friends), the server can send the encrypted user data to a client associated with the requesting user. This client, if operated by an authorized user, can decrypt the private data and present it to the authorized user.
US10007796B2
A device to apply a digital fingerprint to a digital signal comprises a means of intercepting or acquiring a signal, a storage element and a processor for executing computer implemented program code components in the storage element to effect the methods. The methods include transforming a plurality of signal samples onto a discrete orthonormal basis and ranking the transformed samples according to their magnitude. The n largest principal components of the ranked transformed samples are optionally permuted to generate a re-ordered set of principal components, which are then altered by a marking angle. The marked principal components and unmarked non-principal components are converted and combined and applying an inverse of the transform function to the combined principal and non-principal components to generate a fingerprinted digital signal. Methods to prepare the signal for marking, recover the digital fingerprint and verify the distributor and/or recipients of the signal are also disclosed.
US10007774B2
A biometric data detection device includes a biometric authentication sensor electrically connected to a data processing terminal through a connecting member, a housing that houses the biometric authentication sensor, a window portion that acquires biometric data to be authenticated by the biometric authentication sensor and that is formed in the housing, and an attachment member that is rotatably provided at the housing and that renders the housing rotatable in a state in which the housing is attached to the data processing terminal.
US10007772B2
An electronic system utilizes a method (500) for authenticating access to a multi-level secure environment. According embodiments, the system stores (501) fingerprint data for at least one authorized human user of the system. The fingerprint data for each authorized user includes copies of fingerprints for two or more fingers of the user. Some time after storing the fingerprint data, the system senses (503) one or more fingers of an individual who is attempting to use the system and compares (505) the sensed finger data to the stored fingerprint data. When at least some of the sensed finger data matches copies of fingerprints in the stored fingerprint data, the system determines (509) a quantity of matching fingerprints. The system then determines (525) a security level for the individual based on the quantity of matching fingerprints and provides access (527) to particular functionality of the system based on the determined security level.
US10007771B2
A method for operating a mobile device includes generating a user interface at a processor. The user interface includes one or more virtual objects. The method also includes changing a configuration of the one or more virtual objects. The method further includes monitoring a mannerism of a user of the mobile device. The mannerism is affected by a change in configuration of the one or more virtual objects. The method also includes performing a function based on the mannerism.
US10007767B1
An extensible servicing hosting platform is provided that supports the design, build and concurrent deployment of multiple web accessible services on a services hosting platform. The services hosting platform comprises a services hosting framework capable of hosting multiple service applications, each of which may be shared by multiple tenants that each customize their use of a particular application service by extending the application service to exploit run time platform services within a service execution pipeline. The services hosting framework may easily be leveraged by applications to decrease the time associated with developing, deploying and maintaining high quality services in a cost effective manner.
US10007758B2
Medical patient monitoring devices that have the capability of detecting the physical proximity of a clinician token are disclosed. The medical patient monitoring devices may be configured to perform a selected action when the presence of a clinician is detected. The selected action may be dependent upon an attribute of the circumstances surrounding detection of the clinician.
US10007755B2
A data architecture for use within a cognitive information processing system environment comprising: a plurality of data sources, the plurality of data sources comprising a public data source and a private data source, the public data source comprising publicly available healthcare information, the private data source comprising privately managed, company specific healthcare information; and, a cognitive data management module, the cognitive data management module accessing information from the plurality of data sources and providing the information to an inference and learning system.
US10007748B2
This disclosure relates generally to electronic design automation using high level synthesis techniques to generate circuit designs that include safety features. The algorithmic description representation can be specified in a first language and include at least one programming language construct associated with a first safety data type. Compiling the algorithmic description may involve identifying the at least one construct, accessing a first safety data type definition associated with the first safety data type, and generating a second representation of the circuit design based on the algorithmic description representation and the first safety data type definition. The second representation can be provided in a second language and include at least one safety feature for a portion of the circuit design associated with the at least one construct.
US10007736B2
A processor of an electronic device can implement methods that facilitate navigating a webpage. The methods may include: receiving (602) data for a target webpage and storing (604) the target webpage data to a processor readable storage medium of the electronic device and determining (606) whether the target webpage's uniform resource locator (URL) was selected from a search results page generated by a search engine executing a search string. If the target webpage's URL was selected from a search results page, performing (650) a particular action. The particular action can include steps of: searching (851) the stored target webpage data for one or more instances of one or more parts of the search string, prioritizing (852) the one or more instances, and resizing (858) one or more parts of the target webpage having the one or more instances with the highest priority.
US10007735B2
Systems, devices, and process are provided for tailored interpersonal communication platform management. This can include tailoring interpersonal communication methodologies across a selection of network supported interpersonal communication platforms including one-on-one social media, broadcast social media, email, SMS, and VoIP, etc. for a user, and among and between the user and enrollees or participants in one or more of various ICPs.
US10007725B2
Disclosed are various embodiments for analyzing searches of verbal media content associated with media content features. Custom abridgements of media content features may be generated based on user interest in a plurality of portions of the media content feature following the plurality of verbal media content searches. A recommendation for a portion of a media content feature may be sent to a first client based on an expression of interest by a second client in dialog featured in the portion of the media content feature but in a secondary language. The first client may be determined based on an association between the first client and the secondary language. A product can be recommended to a client based on a dialog search query, where the dialog of a media content search result contains a reference to the product or a similar product.
US10007723B2
The disclosed technology generally relates to methods for identifying audio and video entertainment content. One claim recites network server comprising: an input for receiving data representing audio uploaded to said network server; memory for storing the data representing audio; one or more processors configured for processing the data representing audio to yield fingerprint data; memory for storing fingerprint data; one or more processors configured for: determining whether the fingerprint data incurs a potential match with the stored fingerprint data, the potential match indicating an unreliability in the match below a predetermined threshold; and issuing a call, upon a condition of unreliability in the match, requesting at least a first reviewer and a second reviewer to review the data representing audio; an interface for receiving results from the first reviewer and results from the second reviewer; and one or more processors configured for weighting results from the first reviewer differently than results from the second reviewer, and determining whether to allow public access to the data representing audio based at least in part on weighted results. Of course other combinations and claims are provided.
US10007722B2
A method, system and computer program product for improving the engagement of the user in collaboration activities. A collaboration mechanism detects a request to select an artifact (community, file) by a user in a communication system. The collaboration mechanism analyzes the communication system for collaboration activities (e.g., postings) related to the selected artifact to determine a list of related artifacts. The collaboration mechanism then determines the collaboration activities for each artifact in the list of related artifacts. The collaboration mechanism then analyzes the determined collaboration activities for each artifact in the list of related artifacts to form a collaboration summary (summary of the collaboration activities) for each artifact which is presented to the user. As a result of presenting such a collaboration summary to the user, the user is more likely to engage in collaborative activities with other artifacts since they are related to the artifact selected by the user.
US10007714B2
Ongoing management for pre-planned handling of digital presence is provided. A service such as a management service monitors continuously monitors digital assets of an asset owner hosted at external resources. A change to the digital assets retrieved from the external resources is analyzed in response to a detection of the change. The change is processed to reclassify the digital assets into asset categories. The digital assets and the asset categories are matched to suggested actions and suggested trigger events. The suggested actions include operations to dispose of the digital assets in case of an incapacitation of the asset owner. A notification is transmitted to an asset manager to prompt the asset manager to review the updates to the digital assets, the asset categories, the suggested actions, and the suggested trigger events.
US10007713B2
There are provided systems and methods for performing metadata extraction and management. Such a system includes a computing platform having a hardware processor, a system memory, and metadata extraction and management unit stored in the system memory. The system is configured to extract multiple metadata types from a media asset, and to aggregate the multiple metadata types to produce an aggregated metadata describing the media asset. The system is further configured to transform the aggregated metadata into at least one database entry identifying the media asset, and to map the at least one database entry into a graphical database so as to relate the media asset to at least one other media asset represented in the graphical database.
US10007708B2
Techniques of providing visualization suggestions are disclosed. In some example embodiments, a current visualization of at least a portion of data of a dataset is determined to be displayed to a user in a graphical user interface of a device, a plurality of visualization candidates is generated based on an application of transition rules to the current visualization, a corresponding score for each one of the plurality of visualization candidates is generated based on a corresponding level of data variance for the data of the corresponding visualization candidate, a ranking of the plurality of visualization candidates is generated based on the scores, at least one of the plurality of visualization candidates is selected based on the ranking, and a plurality of selectable visualization suggestions corresponding to the selected visualization candidates is caused to be displayed to the user in the graphical user interface of the device.
US10007702B2
An embodiment relates to a method for processing an input query comprising: building an event processing framework based on the input query by converting operators of the input query into building blocks of the event processing framework.
US10007697B2
A location search device is provided. The location search device includes a storage in which character string information indicative of a location is divided into three or more search hierarchical levels according to units of division of the search hierarchical levels. The location search device searches for a location by references the character string information in a predefined search sequence of search hierarchical levels to sequentially identify a division on each search hierarchical level based on a character string input from a user. When the location search device accepts a user input designating a search hierarchical level that is reached by moving backward the predefined search sequence of the search hierarchical levels, the location search device regresses to the designated search hierarchical level and re-identify a division.
US10007681B2
A system, method, and computer-readable medium for extracting the samples from big data to extract most information about the relationships of interest between dimensions and variables in the data repository. More specifically, extracting information from large data repositories follows an adaptive process that uses systematic sampling procedures derived from optimal experimental designs to target from a large data set specific observations with information value of interest for the analytic task under consideration. The application of adaptive optimal design to guide exploration of large data repositories provides advantages over known big data technologies.
US10007679B2
Multimodal data mining in a multimedia database is addressed as a structured prediction problem, wherein mapping from input to the structured and interdependent output variables is learned. A system and method for multimodal data mining is provided, comprising defining a multimodal data set comprising image information; representing image information of a data object as a set of feature vectors in a feature space; clustering in the feature space to group similar features; associating a non-image representation with a respective image data object based on the clustering; determining a joint feature representation of a respective data object as a mathematical weighted combination of a set of components of the joint feature representation; optimizing a weighting for a plurality of components of the mathematical weighted combination with respect to a prediction error between a predicted classification and a training classification; and employing the mathematical weighted combination for automatically classifying a new data object.
US10007660B2
Methods and systems are provided for contextual language understanding. A natural language expression may be received at a single-turn model and a multi-turn model for determining an intent of a user. For example, the single-turn model may determine a first prediction of at least one of a domain classification, intent classification, and slot type of the natural language expression. The multi-turn model may determine a second prediction of at least one of a domain classification, intent classification, and slot type of the natural language expression. The first prediction and the second prediction may be combined to produce a final prediction relative to the intent of the natural language expression. An action may be performed based on the final prediction of the natural language expression.
US10007655B2
It is enabled to arrange transaction targets by using variations of attribute into a table and cause the table to be displayed. An information processing apparatus determines, for a transaction target group identified based on a user operation related to search for transaction targets, whether or not there are two or more attribute values for each attribute item. The information processing apparatus associates an attribute item where it is determined that there are two or more attribute values with tables, rows, or columns. The information processing apparatus identifies a transaction target having an attribute indicated by an attribute value corresponding to a cell from among the transaction target group for each cell. The information processing apparatus causes a table in which each cell includes display information indicating the identified transaction target to be displayed.
US10007654B2
A method and apparatus for form processing is provided, requiring little to no data entry. Upon receiving an electronic notification containing a form, a validation server extracts an electronic contact address from the electronic notification. The validation server then applies a template associated with the sender's electronic contact address to a document to extract information necessary to generate an electronic form comprising machine parsable data. The sender is then granted access and prompted to validate the electronic form. The sender entity validates the electronic form by making any necessary changes or revisions and by submitting the editable web form. The form's parsable content is then stored directly as data in a database. In some embodiments, the validation server may accept the electronic validation with additional revision information. In these embodiments, the revision information may be applied to future forms received from the sender. Optionally, the revision information may also be used to create a new version of the template specifically associated with the sender's electronic contact address.
US10007652B1
An aspect of the present invention relates to a method for dynamically constructing a pre-populated note template comprising receiving a context from a user and determining whether there are any note templates that match an initial criteria including the received context. A note template is then loaded based on the determination of matching note templates. If there are one or more sections in the loaded template, for each section in the loaded template, determine if there are any forms for the section that match the context. A pre-populated Note template is then loaded including any matching forms.
US10007636B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a microcontroller device having a microprocessor, programmable memory components, and programmable analog and digital blocks. The programmable analog and digital blocks are configurable based on programming information stored in the memory components. Programmable interconnect logic, also programmable from the memory components, is used to couple the programmable analog and digital blocks as needed. The advanced microcontroller design also includes programmable input/output blocks for coupling selected signals to external pins. The memory components also include user programs that the embedded microprocessor executes. These programs may include instructions for programming the digital and analog blocks “on-the-fly,” e.g., dynamically. In one implementation, there are a plurality of programmable digital blocks and a plurality of programmable analog blocks.
US10007634B2
Methods for implementing mini-mezzanine Open Compute Project (OCP) plug-and-play Network PHY Cards and associated apparatus. In accordance with one aspect, the MAC (Media Access Channel) and PHY (Physical) layer functions in one or more communication protocol stacks are split between a MAC block in a Platform Controller Hub (PCH) or processor SoC and a PHY card installed in a mezzanine slot of a platform and including one or more ports. During platform initialization operations, configuration parameters are read from the PHY card including a PHY card ID, and a corresponding configuration script is selected and executed to configure the PHY card for use in the platform. The configuration parameters are also used to enumerate PCIe devices associated with physical functions and ports supported by the PHY card.
US10007632B2
Computing device interface connectors for PCI compliant devices and other devices are disclosed. According to an aspect, an apparatus includes a PCI compliant device residing on a computing device. Further, the apparatus includes another device such as a network controller sideband interface (NCSI) compliant device residing on the computing device. The apparatus also includes an interface connector being communicatively connected to the PCI compliant device and the NCSI compliant device.
US10007629B2
A system is disclosed in which the system may include multiple bus switches, and multiple processors. Each processor may be coupled to each bus switch. Each processor may be configured to initiate a transfer of data to a given bus switch, and detect if a respective link to the given bus switch is inoperable. In response to detecting an inoperable link to a first bus switch, a given processor may be further configured to send a notification message to at least one other processor via at least a second bus switch and to remove routing information corresponding to the inoperable link from a first register. The at least one other processor may be configured to remove additional routing information corresponding to the inoperable link from a second register in response to receiving the notification message from the given processor.
US10007626B1
A technique evaluates moving a logical unit of storage (LUN). The technique involves adding, while a host accesses a production LUN on a source array, a test LUN on a target array. The technique further involves duplicating host input/output (I/O) requests from the host to form a first set of the host I/O requests for processing on the production LUN on the source array and a second set of the host I/O requests for processing simultaneously on the test LUN on the target array. The technique further involves performing, while the first set of the host I/O requests are processed on the production LUN and the second set of the host I/O requests are processed simultaneously on the test LUN, a performance evaluation on the target array to assess a performance outcome of moving the production LUN from the source array to the target array.
US10007624B2
An electronic device comprises one or more control inputs to receive a control signal indicating the beginning of a first critical program section of a program that is running in a system; a counter to be incremented from an initial counter value in response to receipt of the control signal; one or more output signal generators to generate the signal for disabling program interrupts; and an output to output the signal for disabling program interrupts.
US10007618B2
Disclosed is an address translation system. The processor includes a first address translator circuit and a second address translator circuit, coupled to a first functional unit and a second functional unit, respectively. The first address translator circuit translates a first original address to a first translated address and the second address translator translates a second original address to a second translated address as first-level address translation services (ATSs). An arbiter circuit is coupled between the first and second address translator circuits and a memory management circuit. The memory management circuit translates addresses as a second-level ATS when requested by at least one of the first address translator circuit or the second address translator circuit.
US10007611B2
Embodiments relate to saving data upon loss of power. An aspect includes sizing a write cache buffer based on parameters related to carrying out this emergency data save procedure. A computer program product for allocating a write cache on a storage controller includes retrieving, at run-time by a processor, one or more operating parameters of a transfer logic used in a power-loss save of the write cache. The one or more operating parameters include an instance-specific process speed of the transfer logic which is retrieved as bin data. A size for the write cache on the storage controller is determined, based on the one or more operating parameters. A write cache, of the determined size, is allocated from a volatile memory coupled to the storage controller.
US10007605B2
A computing system to compress an array using hardware-based compression and to perform various instructions on the compressed array is generally described. The computing system may receive an instruction adapted to access an address in an array. The computing system may determine whether the address is compressible. If the address is compressible, then the computing system may determine a compressed address of a compressed array based on the address. The compressed array may represent a compressed layout of the array, where a reduced size of each compressed element in the compressed array is smaller than an original size of each element in the array. The computing system may access the compressed array at the compressed address in accordance with the instruction.
US10007603B2
A nonvolatile memory device includes a mat including a plurality of memory blocks, an address decoder configured to select one of the memory blocks in response to an address, an input/output circuit including first and second page buffers configured to program a plurality of data pages into a single physical page of the selected one of the memory blocks or store the plurality of data pages read from the single physical page of the selected one of the memory blocks, and a control logic configured to perform a dumping operation at an other one of the first page buffers and second page buffers when a data input operation or a data output operation is performed at one of the first and second page buffers of the input/output circuit. The input/output circuit includes a plurality of page buffers. The plurality of page buffers include the first and second page buffers.
US10007597B2
A system may scan a version control repository to detect a first code and/or a first file written for a first test framework. The system may create a first test case in an SOR in response to detecting the first code and/or the first file. The system may scan the version control repository to detect a second code and/or a second file written for a second test framework with the second test framework being different from the first test framework. The system may create a second test case in the SOR in response to detecting the second code and/or the second file.
US10007594B2
Mechanisms are provided for evaluating test cases for testing a software product based on a requirements change. The mechanisms analyze a test case corpus to identify a plurality of first relationships between elements of test cases in the test case corpus and generate a test case relationship model based on the identified plurality of first relationships. The mechanisms receive a proposed requirements change to change one or more requirements of the software product and then perform a search of the test case relationship model to identify test case relationships corresponding to the proposed requirements change. The mechanisms identify a subset of test cases affected by the proposed requirements change and generate an output specifying the identified subset of test cases.
US10007582B2
Methods, computing systems and computer program products implement embodiments of the present invention that include mirroring, in a distributed storage system having multiple storage nodes, data on the storage nodes. Upon the distributed storage system detecting a loss of communication with a given storage node, a log including updates to the data stored in the given storage node is recorded and, the recorded updates can be applied to the given storage node upon communication with the given storage node being reestablished. In some embodiments, the distributed storage system may be configured as a software defined storage system where the storage nodes can be implemented as either virtual machines or software containers. In additional embodiments, upon detecting the loss of communication, a redistribution of the mirrored data among remaining storage nodes is initiated upon detecting the loss of communication, and the redistribution is rolled back upon reestablishing the communication.
US10007566B1
A message ordering and idempotency enforcement process utilizing at least one computing device ensures the ordered processing of asynchronously received messages and avoids reprocessing of messages that have already been successfully processed, the process receives a message identified by entity ID, message sequence number and content. The process identifies the message according to the entity ID, message sequence number and content and selects selected views of data from a view data repository applicable to the message and then inserts the message in a buffer according to message sequence number for execution of messages in message sequence order. The process then recording the last message processed according to message sequence number for an entity ID within each selected view in the view data repository.
